Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 70

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Chapter 70
This Snake had definitely mentioned a Lake.
Was this a metaphor? It meant I needed water as much as a Lake contained.
Surely it couldn’t mean literally the amount of water filling an actual Lake….
Seeing the Snake’s eyes growing dim, I grew desperate.
“Teacher! Could you possibly create a Lake?”
Even as I thought it was absurd, I wondered if Father could manage it.
‘When I was the Matriarch, I definitely… parted the sea once.’
I had never created water the size of a Lake, but I knew all too well what kind of latent potential the power of water possessed.
“A Lake, I suppose it would depend on where and how large you need it to be.”
“…You can really do it? No, I mean, even the minimum would be fine. How long do you think it would take?”
In that brief moment of waiting for Father’s answer, I felt an inexplicable anxiety wash over me.
“This place isn’t near the sea. So it will take some time. I’ll need to dampen the soil with water and dig a basin first.”
“What about pouring it down like a waterfall?”
“That would also take time to generate the water. Can that Snake endure it?”
That was true. Even I had summoned rain during droughts or created large quantities of water before, though not Lake-sized amounts. But those tasks had taken considerable time.
‘If Father can’t do it, there’s no way that bastard Bellus could manage it.’
So what should I do?
Then my gaze happened to fall upon the carriage.
“…Teacher, there’s a Forest nearby, right? Then there might be something like a Lake?”
“There might be, but since I can’t fly to look for it, it would be difficult to find quickly.”
“No, there’s a way to find it quickly.”
Soon after, the Handmaidens and Misa were called from the carriage.
Perhaps they had been preparing for bed, as Eiya and Misa held my nightclothes and blanket in their hands.
I approached Misa with quick strides.
“Misa, can you find a Water Source? No, you can, right? It’s urgent right now.”
“Yes? Noble Lady, what are you suddenly saying….”
“Please. I’m asking you this once.”
I recalled the memory from the day Misa first appeared where I lived.
My subordinate had definitely said this.
“Ah. Commander, our unit has someone who’s particularly good at finding Water Sources. Her name is ‘Misa’, and though she’s an incomplete Beastkin, she finds them remarkably well.”
In this present life where I didn’t even think about the ‘M’ in Matriarch, I had thought it was a talent I didn’t need.
“Misa, you’re a Goby Beastkin, right?”
“Yes? Yes…!”
An incomplete Beastkin refers to one with either no special ability or an extraordinarily exceptional one.
A special ability is ultimately a characteristic from when one was an animal that remains and manifests even in human form.
However, when an animal’s instinct remained stronger, the special ability would often become maximized.
“But this Misa girl was particularly unusual—she’s a shark hybrid? A combination of a small fish and a shark… it’s quite a rare combination. So it seems she had been hiding it?”
And Fish Beastkin who live only in clean water, upon becoming human, naturally gained the ability to locate water.
While Beastkin like Baian, specialized in combat such as orcas or certain aquatic predators, openly disregarded small Fish Beastkin.
What saved them in that battle was the small fish beastkin’s abilities—the flounder’s concealment I’d witnessed earlier, and Misa’s talent for locating water sources.
‘I ended up learning Misa’s secret unintentionally.’
The imperfect beastkin I mentioned earlier typically emerged from mixed-blood unions between different species.
Just like Misa here.
“The child I met today and who helped me is dying. Please, help her.”
“…Noble Lady.”
Misa, who had gone pale with hesitation, soon spoke with a determined expression.
“I’m an imperfect beastkin. Is it really alright for me to help?”
An imperfect beastkin was ultimately a mutation in this world.
In the animal kingdom, mutations were typically shunned or ostracized.
“What does that matter? As long as you help, I don’t care about anything else. Besides, knowing you’re an imperfect beastkin doesn’t change who you are to me.”
“….”
Misa pressed her lips together firmly, then nodded.
“I’ll search for her.”
Her eyes glistening with tears.
Watching Misa close her eyes, I suddenly recalled what that dolphin bastard had said in a previous cycle.
“The Matriarch herself rose from the bottom as an underdog, so perhaps that’s why her simple words touch people’s hearts so deeply. Is it because she came from nothing?”
“Are you picking a fight?”
“No, I’m talking about myself—how your words got me hooked.”
A friend and my most trusted ally.
“I’d wager anything that wherever you go, someone will follow you.”
I should have looked at that bastard’s face before we left.
A brief moment of regret flashed through me when Misa opened her eyes.
“This way, this way!”
Father immediately raised the lamp while cradling me in one arm.
In my embrace lay the snake, breathing in ragged, labored gasps.
The snake no longer spoke to me.
‘Remarkable.’
She’s moving without a moment’s hesitation.
I’d seen quite a few beastkin with the talent for locating water sources in previous cycles.
But they would grope their way forward like canines using their keen sense of smell, sniffing at the earth’s scent as they pursued.
Groping and pursuing like that.
But Misa ran without hesitation, as if she knew the exit of this long maze.
“Your maid seems quite talented.”
“…Indeed.”
“You didn’t know? It seemed like you knew everything and were directing her.”
“Ah, well. That is.”
I didn’t realize she was this exceptional.
There was no time to answer. Our speed had increased further.
After traveling like this for some time longer, Misa began breathing in ragged, labored gasps.
“H-here, Noble Lady…”
A path where the trees ended.
The moment Misa stepped aside, beyond her shoulder, past her head, a lake appeared, gleaming brilliantly.
‘Wow…’
It was a lake that sparkled under the moonlight.
Moreover, it was quite vast.
“This isn’t the time for admiration, is it?”
“Right, you’re right.”
Father strode toward the lake and set me down.
I hastily and carefully immersed the snake into the water.
‘Come to think of it, is this a water snake? Or will it drown?’
Contrary to my worries, the horned blue snake opened its gleaming eyes the moment water touched it.
Wait, did its horns just glow for a moment?
It wasn’t my imagination.
Rumble!
The entire lake trembled, and the water was being gradually sucked into the snake.
Since the lake was so enormous, the amount of water being drawn in wasn’t noticeable.
After about ten minutes, then fifteen, and finally thirty minutes had passed, Misa, who had come with me, approached trembling.
“H-Holy Lady… what on earth is that?”
“…I wonder.”
I’m curious too.
‘I’ve never heard of a snake that drinks water like a pig. This is strange.’
Among those who had rushed over, only Father remained unflustered.
Father’s expression was as blank as always.
“Teacher, do you happen to know what that is?”
“I don’t. Animal encyclopedias aren’t my specialty.”
Father fell silent for a moment, then cast his gaze toward me.
“Perhaps knowing such things is also one of Father’s virtues?”
“Huh? What virtue…?”
“Think about it. Would it be helpful?”
“Well, if I knew, it would be helpful, but…”
“I see. So knowing would be helpful.”
“Wait, hold on.”
If I don’t know, I can just look it up in a dictionary or a book. Why would I ask Father…
I don’t usually ask him much anyway—
“My daughter, did you have many things you wanted to ask Father?”
“If so, Father can answer everything you ask~”
“Father is the best, right?”
An unexpected memory surfaced.
I turned my head away with a dejected expression.
By now, the lake’s water level had noticeably diminished.
Within me, the small snake had since been downgraded to a mere snake hatchling.
‘Whether it’s a snake or a pig. How long is this thing going to keep drinking?’
If this continued, it would genuinely drain the entire lake dry.
I felt sorry for all the fish that lived in the lake.
Weren’t they suddenly being robbed of their home?
Even if they weren’t beastkin, the plight of fish was hardly someone else’s concern.
‘This won’t do.’
At this rate, it must have drunk enough to burst. Even if it hadn’t, I had no intention of destroying a perfectly functioning ecosystem.
I was crouching down with the intention of pulling the snake out when it happened.
Bubbles began churning from the water, and then something suddenly shot upward.
Droplets of water splashed against my cheeks.
-Thank you!
Beneath a sky dotted with moonlight, a blue serpent floated serenely.
The horns jutting from its head gleamed silver, catching the moon’s radiance.
Similarly bathed in moonlight, the blue scales shimmered with a luster far different from before.
I blinked and opened my mouth.
“If you’re grateful, then stop eating, you damned pig.”

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