Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 57

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Chapter 57
Agenor shows no interest in Father either, but at least he still calls him Father.
Bellus tilted his head.
“I don’t have a father.”
Oh.
…This eldest brother’s lack of filial piety has truly arrived.
‘But I understand.’
What has Father ever done for us? From the moment we were born, he ignored us and neglected everything we did.
What was it like when our Orca Family Older Brother and Younger Uncle were protecting their children and building their forces?
As the eldest, the years of neglect must have been even longer.
“This conversation doesn’t seem like it’ll be short. Are you planning to stay this tense the whole time?”
“….”
“Well, fine. I have one purpose.”
“Go ahead.”
“I want to observe you.”
“What?”
“Just that.”
For the first time, something like vitality flickered across Bellus’s face.
“Depending on the circumstances, I want to support you.”
In that moment, I saw a gentle smile emerge beneath Bellus’s cold impression.
‘What did I just see?’
Did my eyes deceive me?
“I was quite impressed by you at the Family Meeting. At least when I was your age, I wasn’t at that level. That’s why I came. To see if you’re someone worth supporting.”
This is a blatant lie.
‘This bastard wants to support me?’
I’d find it more believable if a seahorse did a somersault.
He was the one who fought me in the previous round without surrendering even as his face was being shattered.
His surrender wasn’t even acceptance—it was more like he broke and broke again, then suddenly threw a tantrum and surrendered.
I remember very well his tremendous obsession toward the position of Matriarch.
He’s the most composed and rational person, but when his eyes go mad, he’s a lunatic who could even overwhelm me.
Instead of panicking, I smiled slightly.
“I see. Brother.”
I responded calmly and stepped forward.
“I misunderstood you. Sorry about that!”
Then I quickly grabbed Bellus’s hand.
He flinched but didn’t pull away.
“Actually.”
I smiled as brightly as I could manage.
“I want to get close to you too, Brother.”
My voice was soft and gentle.
For just a brief moment, the hand of Eldest Brother that I held trembled slightly.
His expression also turned peculiar for an instant.
“And you know, there’s something I want to say—could you lend me your ear for a moment?”
Bellus frowned but slowly bent his upper body to offer me his ear.
I rose onto my tiptoes, pressed my lips close to his ear, and let out a soft laugh.
“Where do you get off with such an obvious ploy, Eldest Brother?”
He tried to pull away, but I had his arm and wouldn’t let him move. I only released him once I’d finished what I had to say.
After stepping back, I smiled as if nothing had happened.
This fool, as if I wouldn’t see through your schemes.
“You’ll support me depending on the circumstances? Really?”
“…Yes. But what?”
“Then you could swear that on the oath of the sea, couldn’t you?”
I tried to cross my plump arms and let out a scoff.
You can’t, can you? You can’t?
Spouting lies that don’t even hold water.
“…Cunning.”
In that instant, a fist came flying at me, and I dodged as if I’d been waiting for it, then grabbed his wrist.
“What nonsense. Your technique is shallow, just like this attack.”
“It’s not an attack. I was just trying to pat my little sister.”
Bellus laughed, baring his teeth. Indeed, Bellus was different from that Baian.
The moment I grabbed his wrist, he released his strength like flowing water and slipped free.
I clicked my tongue inwardly.
Seeing how he acted composed and careful before ultimately throwing a punch, I thought he was still just a child.
The ‘Bellus’ I knew was far more thorough.
Anyway…
‘The age difference is the problem. The age difference!’
The height difference was quite severe.
I frowned and dodged slightly backward.
A stream of water scattered with a splash where I had been standing.
It wasn’t an attack—the water formed a puddle and vanished.
“It certainly seemed like a ploy.”
Bellus acknowledged it without concern.
“But I did come to talk. I have no interest in one-sided violence.”
“…”
“However, now I’m genuinely more curious.”
“Let’s just say this is the last time we see each other today?”
Since I no longer felt like talking, I shook my head and quickened my pace.
But Bellus opened and closed the hand that had held mine, then opened it again. Soon, he smiled slightly.
“Are you going to the Dragon’s Festival this year?”
I stopped mid-stride, searching for an opening. What?
“I’m close with the Orca Family Matriarch. I was there when she received reports.”
I blinked and flinched.
Wait, wait a moment. That…
“Hmm, I’ve become interested in you. I lost. I want to follow you with genuine sincerity.”
Hey, why do your eyes look the same as when we used to fight until blood spilled?
From the moment he spoke like that, Eldest Brother became so obsessed with me that Third Brother might as well not exist.
More precisely, obsessed with my power.
‘He kept showing up saying he’d be my perfect subordinate, so let’s fight every day.’
I felt a discomfort similar to that time.
Naturally, it was never a good sign for me.
‘This bastard, surely not…’
“I should go there too. I’ve become curious why you want to go there.”
As expected! His specialty had activated.
Before becoming my subordinate, he was also a persistent obstructionist after all!
I pretended to be composed to seem undisturbed, but internally I was flustered.
Excuse me? Why are you going there?
“Then I’ll go.”
Hey, hey!
‘No, this can’t happen!’
If I don’t stop this now, it’ll spiral out of control.
But before I could say anything, Bellus was already gone.
I watched his retreating figure blankly before pressing my face into my palm.
“Damn it…”
…I’m ruined.
‘That bastard’s switch is on!’
Should I have provoked him less?’
Is he going to try to interfere with settling into the Dragon Duke’s castle too?
Seeing his slightly crazed expression made me start to worry.
‘But just before, he only looked like he was about to strike immediately.’
If he’d gotten hurt by not responding to the provocation, that would have been worse.
‘Then he might not have been able to go to the Dragon’s Festival.’
I stood blankly in the corridor for a long time, unable to leave.
‘Standing here won’t help anything. Let me go back and think about this.’
As I was about to turn back, someone approached me. Shortly after, I saw a Retainer bowing.
“You’re here, Noble Lady.”
The Retainer who greeted me spoke carefully and respectfully.
“The Matriarch is calling for you.”
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Shortly after, I was inside a massive chamber.
The room, lined in calm black…
It was like witnessing a specimen of the deranged interior design that once trended as an internet meme.
If there had been a refrigerator, I imagined it would be filled solely with unlabeled water bottles.
This catastrophe had occurred because the colors symbolizing killer whales were black and white.
“Good afternoon, Orca Family Matriarch.”
The Orca Family Matriarch sat before a desk so massive I wondered if she could even manage it.
As I greeted her, she naturally lifted the glasses she’d been wearing and placed them on her head.
“Good afternoon.”
Just as I was placing my hand over my heart to offer a proper greeting, a blunt response fell from her lips.
“Sit over there.”
Typical of her—she wouldn’t even acknowledge my greeting properly. I tried to walk obediently toward the sofa to sit.
‘This sofa is ridiculously massive.’
In truth, this Study was not an unfamiliar place to me.
After becoming the Matriarch, I had used it myself.
‘But I refused to keep using the space she had occupied, so I renovated another area and moved there instead.’
I even despised that her chamber was smaller, so I relocated to a larger one.
Back then, I had resented and harbored such bitterness toward her that my competitive spirit burned just as fiercely.
In any case, as I struggled to climb up, my body suddenly lifted into the air before being hurled down.
“Tsk, you’re pathetically small.”
Turning around, I saw the Orca Family Matriarch approaching swiftly before plopping down onto a single-seat sofa.
Then she scrutinized my entire body from head to toe.
“You didn’t seem this small at the Family Meeting. Have you shriveled up like a rice cake in the meantime?”
…How could that possibly be true? This old woman.

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