Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 95

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Chapter 95
‘No one will give it to me. No one can.’
The Orca Family Matriarch’s greed and obsession had already awakened.
An obsession directed toward those within my fence. Through this journey, they had already crossed that line.
No, I had simply refused to acknowledge it because of my desire to return to Seoul.
From the moment she treated me without prejudice, the fence’s gate had been open.
I rose from my seat watching the Handmaidens giggle and laugh.
‘Father’s conversation with the Knight seems like it will take a while.’
I wasn’t feeling down, but I wanted to be somewhere quieter.
Fortunately, there was a rock at some distance away, and I sat there.
Seeing Father glance at me once before looking away, it seemed as long as I remained in his sight, it was fine.
‘Ah, the weather is nice.’
When I return now, how should I live?
‘This isn’t something a three-year-old should be worrying about.’
I know it absolutely isn’t.
Father said I could rest for a while, but it was a question I desperately needed to answer.
Having lived for sixty-some years, I know myself well.
I am someone who needs a purpose.
And I needed it to forget the pain that still hasn’t healed.
I opened my mouth while gazing at the sky.
“How long are you going to keep staring like that?”
Slowly turning my gaze, Bellus stood there, having approached at some point.
In truth, I had sensed his presence, but I simply hadn’t bothered to turn around.
“Stop staring from the carriage. You’ll bore a hole through my face.”
“I wasn’t staring.”
“Fine, let’s say you weren’t. Just stop looking.”
“….”
Though I had improved somewhat, my sensitive state remained, so irritation seeped slightly into my voice.
I wasn’t in the mood to speak while being mindful of my Eldest Brother.
“Or what, are you trying to pick a fight to settle things between us?”
“You couldn’t defeat me in your current state.”
“How would you know? Have we even tested it?”
I smiled crookedly.
“And brother, if I need to, I won’t choose my means and methods. What does that matter for winning? If necessary, I’ll bring my own side into it. Could you possibly defeat Father?”
I gestured toward Father with a nod of my head.
“If you can say something like that, why were you like that until yesterday afternoon?”
“What, was I feeling down?”
“Yes.”
“Maybe. Did you suddenly start caring? Were you worried?”
“Yes.”
I had meant it as sarcasm, not expecting an actual answer.
Yet a blunt response tumbled out, and I faltered.
I stopped swinging my legs against the rock where I sat and straightened my posture.
“What do you gain by lying?”
“I’m not lying.”
Bellus spoke with a cool, measured tone.
“What would I gain by lying, as you say?”
“….”
Since his words held truth, I stared at him intently, suppressing my cynicism and anger.
Now that I thought about it, he had been oddly evasive throughout this entire journey.
“Make one thing clear. Are you an enemy or an ally? You have no intention of becoming an ally, do you?”
“Why would you think I don’t?”
“Then would you give up the position of Matriarch? If I wanted to become Matriarch?”
His blue eyes gazed at me intently.
My older brothers always had subtly different expressions, even when staring at me identically.
Clearly he was the Eldest Brother I met in the fourth cycle, yet why did I occasionally glimpse the face I saw in the third cycle?
I wanted to know the reason now.
“You’re searching for a goal right now, aren’t you?”
His words pierced through my state with uncanny precision, but I showed no reaction.
Revealing surprise here would only work against me.
“That look on your face says ‘how did you know.’ I simply had a time like that myself.”
“…You?”
“Why wouldn’t I be imperfect?”
A man who acknowledged his own deficiency felt unfamiliar.
“I saw in you the same expression I once confirmed in a mirror. Seeing this, it seems you and I truly are siblings.”
As Bellus stepped closer, I clenched my fists tightly.
When I grew quietly wary, he advanced no further.
“My advice: if you need something to focus on, become Matriarch.”
“What?”
“Challenge for the position of Matriarch.”
What was he saying now?
I couldn’t help but furrow my brow again.
“Are you telling me to become your rival? While you stand beside me—older, perfect successor that you are? So I should challenge and die, is that it?”
A crooked smile tugged at my lips, while Bellus remained serene.
“That’s a strange thing to say. You’ve been talking about perfection since earlier… where is an orca born perfect from the moment of birth? We’re all imperfect. Among us, the one who appears perfect in the Orca Family Matriarch’s eyes is simply chosen as the next Matriarch.”
“….”
“It wasn’t a proposal made for no reason. Calypso Aquasiadel.”
For the first time, a troubled expression crossed Bellus’s face.
“When you reach my age someday, if you at that same age are stronger than I am now, I intend to follow you.”
This time, I couldn’t help but blink.
…Did this bastard take some kind of drug?
“What scheming? No, I’m tired of even saying such things. I’ll tell you one thing.”
I pointed at Bellus with my short fingers.
“The me from back then will definitely defeat you as you are now.”
“Then that’s even better.”
Bellus smiled faintly.
It was incomprehensible.
Yet that bastard Bellus, just as he had done at the Elementary Institution and at the Dragon Duke’s Castle, turned away without hesitation the moment his words ended.
An attitude as if fighting wasn’t even necessary.
Once again, I was left standing there bewildered.
‘No, it wasn’t completely useless information.’
It was absurd.
But on the other hand, a different thought took root in a corner of my heart.
‘The Matriarch.’
I needed something to focus on now.
I wasn’t sure if it was because we were truly siblings, but his words had kindled a spark in my chest.
‘If I’m going to stay in this place and live a new life.’
Simply becoming the Matriarch wouldn’t be enough.
I didn’t want to repeat the same cycle of three lifetimes.
If I’m going to stay here… I…
‘I want to seek revenge.’
I wanted to show the Orca Family Matriarch, who abandoned me three times, what kind of person her granddaughter had become.
That your judgment was so deeply flawed.
You were wrong, and I was right.
The only thing I regretted in my previous cycle was that I returned to the family only after she died.
Because the person I wanted to show had disappeared.
And…
“You must be the culprit.”
“Isn’t she a woman who deserves to die?”
“Father, it’s this woman! She’s the one who tormented me!”
In my first cycle, the second, and the previous one.
Those people who destroyed my life.
“Ahahaha, let’s all die together, Calypso Aquasiadel!”
I had never had the chance to seek revenge on the main and supporting characters of this story.
Especially against the Imperial Crown Prince who sent the Dragon Duke into a rampage in my previous cycle.
If I could repay what they had done.
I had given up on it simply because I had to return, because I could go back home.
Because it was a grudge without meaning if I were to return.
But now it had become something I no longer needed to abandon.
Then… I should do it.
‘So these ones are different from the ones in the third cycle?’
What does that matter?
I turned my head to look at Ekion.
At the Dragon Duke, blinking meekly among the handmaidens.
‘The essence hasn’t changed.’
If I hadn’t stepped forward, could Ekion’s life even be called a life?
Ekion, you’re truly a blessing. You’re making my revenge righteous, aren’t you?
When I had a goal, I became solid.
My form, rushing toward that single objective, was no different from an orca gliding toward its prey.
We are predators. We do not miss our quarry.
How long had I been lost in thought?
When I lifted my head, Father had drawn near.
Glancing at the carriage visible over his shoulder, it seemed to have been fully repaired.
I looked up at the sky, tinged faintly with orange, and felt startled.
‘What? When did time pass like this?’
“The carriage is all fixed?”
“Everything was repaired about an hour ago.”
“Why didn’t you call me?”
“There was no reason to disturb you.”
I extended my hand.
Father’s stream of water surged up as if it had been waiting, lifting me into the air.
It was a sensation so comfortable now that I’d feel empty without it.
“So, have you finished thinking?”
“Ah, yes.”
“I suggested rest and told you there was no need to think, and only a day has passed, yet you already have the look of someone who’s found their answer.”
“Wow, Father. That’s impressive. How did you know that?”
I’m confident in my poker face, but after Bellus, now Father too?
Do I need more practice?
“It’s not particularly difficult.”
“Really? Everyone else couldn’t tell.”
“Who said it was difficult to read your expression?”
“There were some.”
My former colleagues. And my subordinates.
I gazed with longing at the Aquasiadel Territories drawing near.
You must be there.
‘I had tried to give you up, but things will be different now.’
And in this life, I will meet you again.
“Father.”
Held gently in his embrace, I spoke while looking toward the Aquasiadel Territories instead.
There is no sun that rises eternally.
The sun rising over the sea must yield its place to the moon, and the Matriarch, too, must step down with age.
But that is not the way I desire.
“There is someone I wish to seek revenge upon.”

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