Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 33

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Chapter 33
Shouldn’t I be the one wearing a look of surprise? What was he doing here?
Agenor gazed at me with that same bright, almost obsessive expression I’d seen the last time.
“Why did you come down in a palanquin?”
“A palanquin?”
Agenor nodded.
“So you’ve already built subordinates in your class?”
The Lugaluba Twins weren’t exactly subordinates, but.
Since I was the boss of that class anyway, it was close enough that I didn’t bother correcting him.
“Why are you here?”
“I came to this place.”
“That’s not what I’m asking.”
Why was someone who should be at the Intermediate Institution here?
“Actually, I’m curious about something.”
“What?”
“Which number subordinate am I?”
“Cough, what?”
“Can’t you make me the first one?”
Eyes that gleamed with excessive brightness turned toward me.
Those blue eyes made me flinch.
“Or, what would I need to do to become the first? Ah, would beating up the ones before me work?”
“Do you have no conscience right now?”
Was he trying to fight with kids?
As I recalled the age of the Lugaluba Twins, I was horrified.
Then Agenor quickly changed his expression.
“Oh, so you’re saying I shouldn’t bully them?”
“If you bully them, you’re dead to me.”
“Gasp, then I want to try—”
“Want to get expelled?”
“No way. I was joking!”
I paused for a moment, seriously wondering if this guy had always been like this, and then.
I concluded that yes, he had always been like this.
I didn’t expect him to reveal his true nature this quickly.
Even thinking about it again, it was absurd.
I had thought this kind of conversation with Third Brother would happen after he’d established himself at the Intermediate Institution.
“So why did you come here?”
While the Intermediate Institution and Junior Institution were said to be adjacent, they weren’t that close.
The distance was deliberately maintained so that students from the Intermediate Institution couldn’t easily bully those from the Junior Institution.
“I’m going to see the Teacher anyway.”
Agenor lowered his voice. I didn’t know why he was lowering it, but I nodded along.
“Right?”
“We’re meeting at the same time anyway.”
“So?”
Agenor smiled beautifully and brightly.
Only with this face did he resemble an ordinary child.
“I wanted to go together.”
“Really?”
It seemed I had become rather dull. I couldn’t understand what this fellow was scheming at all.
Why not just go separately?
In any case, since I had come here, I decided to go by carriage.
* * *
“Ah, that’s probably because they follow different successors.”
Unexpectedly, Agenor himself cleared up one of the light concerns I had been pondering.
It wasn’t a particularly serious matter.
Like the reason why the Orca Family children in the class suddenly split into two groups.
This too came up as Agenor asked me various things.
‘When the Retainer appeared together with Agenor, he seemed very surprised, didn’t he?’
There was a reason I ultimately didn’t chase Agenor away.
There was no reason to drive away someone who had sought me out.
‘I wonder if this will reach Grandmother’s ears.’
It was news I wanted to reach Grandmother’s ears.
Since it was famous that my three older brothers were self-reliant and didn’t cooperate with each other, this would probably be fresh news.
Besides, the Retainer had witnessed Agenor struggling beside me enough—there was nothing more to say.
“I know one faction follows Lord Baian. The other must be Sorte, right?”
“That’s right.”
Baian was the eldest son of the eldest uncle. Sorte was the eldest son of the youngest uncle.
They were bitter rivals.
‘From my perspective, they’re six of one, half a dozen of the other.’
Though Sorte, being weak-willed, might be marginally better than Baian, whose methods were cruel and who only bullied the weak.
But Sorte was never the caliber to become a true branch.
“The family council is coming up soon.”
Agenor spoke lightly, saying the Intermediate Institution had a similar atmosphere.
“What are you going to do? What time will you go?”
“What?”
“Huh? Aren’t you going to the family council?”
I was somewhat taken aback.
Agenor’s expression suggested he thought I would attend the family council. His eyes held not a shred of doubt.
“Even if I do go, this would be my first time attending?”
“Ah, I see. You need an introduction then?”
There it is. This time his eyes suggest the introduction will proceed without issue.
…I really can’t get used to this.
“More than that, I’m curious about something too. Did a lot of promising prospects disappear right before the family gathering?”
“Well, I’m not sure.”
I asked him what Rayla had told me.
It’s not that I didn’t know, but most of the information I had came after becoming the family head.
Since this situation was unprecedented, I was asking to confirm.
“If you’re asking whether many disappeared before the family gathering, then yes.”
“But why do you say it like that?”
“But if they disappeared, they weren’t promising prospects to begin with, right?”
Agenor tilted his head.
“Even I, Eldest Brother, and Second Brother—there were always plenty of people challenging us before the family gathering. But we all participated without issue.”
I nodded slowly.
“That’s a fair point.”
“Right?”
Agenor grinned widely.
“See, my sister’s easy to talk to. And don’t worry.”
Agenor’s hand came up over my head.
I grimaced at the unfamiliar sensation.
“You’re going to make me do things for you, aren’t you?”
….
“You absolutely have to make me do things.”
His sparkling eyes were full of mischief.
A beautiful young boy, but he too proved to be an orca who enjoyed fighting.
I grimaced and grabbed Agenor’s hand, twisting it.
“Don’t push your luck.”
“Ow, ow, ow, ow! I surrender, I surrender!”
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Though Rayla had offered her own advice, my conversation with Agenor made me realize something.
There was no need to worry too much.
So I went to the Educational Institution, came home, and then went to Father for training.
Several days passed peacefully.
I came to understand something new again.
‘Just because there’s no need to worry doesn’t mean I can stop worrying entirely.’
Looking at the people who appeared before me, I thought hard about what to do.
“Um, excuse me. That right there is the new comrade!”
To explain the situation unfolding before my eyes, I need to rewind about ten minutes.
Today, like any other day, I had finished my lessons and was coming down the stairs with the help of the twins.
Agenor hadn’t come around since I told him a few days ago that he was being annoying and to stop visiting.
The moment I finished greeting the twins and was about to part ways, a dark shadow rushed forward and surrounded me and the twins.
I quickly hid the twins behind me, but these twins weren’t the type to be concealed by my frame.
I narrowed my eyes to slits.
And there it was.
Among those shadows stood Caron, whom I hadn’t seen in ages.
But that wasn’t all.
“Ah… y-yes! That young boy!”
“That’s him! Yes, that’s him!”
There were two more familiar faces.
I didn’t recognize them at first and tilted my head in confusion before finally remembering.
“How could the Family Head have approved this? If we let him live, he’ll surely become an obstacle to Lord Baian’s future.”
They were definitely the two branch family members who had come all the way to where I lived trying to kill me.
And finally.
I stared at the one standing confidently at the very front.
‘Huh, I didn’t expect to see him so soon.’
He was certainly massive, standing alone in his enormous frame.
Moreover, his sleek hair symbolized direct lineage. Though his silver hair was somewhat sparse, the white streak near his crown was vivid.
Only his eyes differed from mine—pitch black.
This was the Eldest Brother of my uncle. Currently the most promising successor candidate. Baian.
“That one?”
Baian made no effort to hide his contemptuous expression as he looked at me.
“Ha, you’re telling me you lot lost to something this tiny?”
I replied to Baian with indifference.
“Tiny? Save that for what’s dangling between your legs. Where are you bringing that land stench from? You’re dumber than a jellyfish, kid.”
“Huh?”
A brief smile flashed across Baian’s face.
“Interesting. I couldn’t tell just from hearing about it… but indeed.”
A cruel expression gradually settled over Baian’s features.
Like an orca toying with a leopard without eating it. Like a cat playing with a mouse.
“Fun. You can actually speak.”
The expression of someone watching something pathetic.
“The Matriarch didn’t take interest for nothing, did she?”
At the same moment, I lightly dodged the hand flying toward me and instead seized it, wrenching it with all my strength.
“If it were just words, would the Matriarch have taken any interest? Idiot.”
Baian threw me back with brutal force.
His wrist was already turning red.
“L-Lord Baian!”
“Lord Baian! Oh no, are you alright?!”
He said nothing, but the branch family members beside him made a ridiculous fuss.
It wasn’t even funny—I could only let out a hollow laugh.
‘I didn’t think I’d see this happen so soon.’

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