Episode 2
“Is this ‘that’?”
A way of speaking that treats a person like an object. It’s the same as always.
The aide standing next to her bowed his head politely.
“Yes, that is correct. My Lady.”
“The power of water?”
“Well, about that…….”
The aide caught her eye and shook his head.
‘The power of water.’
It refers to the special power passed down through generations in the Killer Whale family.
With this power, aquatic animal shifters could exert one hundred percent of their strength even on land.
It was an incredibly important power for aquatic animal shifters, who had the disadvantage of becoming weaker the further they were from the sea.
Furthermore, the more powerful this force is, the more it allows surrounding aquatic animal shifters to exert one hundred percent of their own strength as well.
Moving forward, when this power reaches its peak, this buff can be distributed to all aquatic animals.
‘I achieved that level.’
In the previous round, I got my hands on a treasure that appears in the original work.
With the help of the treasure, I awakened the power of water and at the same time raised it to the limit, eventually taking the position of the family head and gathering all the aquatic animal shifters to even start a war.
‘Those bastards were the ones who struck us first, saying we smelled fishy.’
Actually, when I read it as a novel, all the aquatic animal shifters were villains that couldn’t be worse to me too.
They tried to kidnap the cute and precious squirrel female lead, or tried to force her to use her healing powers by using drugs. Later, they even tried to kill her.
The Killer Whale shifter family, the final villain family, was no different.
However, once I entered this world, the real thugs were the land animal bastards.
Not content with taking all the good land on the continent for themselves…….
They drove the aquatic animal shifters out to salty land where it was hard to even farm and mocked them.
Did they tell the fish bastards to live on salty fish like themselves to their heart’s content?
‘Even though they themselves smell like animal musk……!’
Our main body is an aquatic animal, but when we are in human form, we have to eat and live just like humans.
In the barren lands, and on the islands, the aquatic animal shifters lived truly fierce lives.
So, I can understand why the kids became more venomous. Yes.
‘Actually, I can’t say that I didn’t have a sense of revenge for the last round.’
Every time, I was sold off to another family before I was even 10 years old.
In the first round, it was the Black Panther family, and in the second round, after making a huge fuss, I got involved with the Imperial Family where the original male lead was.
Even so, I lived as a tool being sold off.
Dying and dying again, I got angry and ran away in my previous life.
I returned after building up my strength, took down my brothers, and became the family head.
‘Damn it, what’s the use of becoming that strong!’
I started a war with the land animal families of the original work that dared to ignore our aquatic animals and almost won……!
‘I didn’t know that the crazy male lead would provoke the Dragon Duke, who was staying quiet, and charge in for a double suicide.’
The cheat key of this world.
The Dragon Duke, who originally plays the role of mediating between land animal and aquatic animal shifters.
‘However, a being that goes berserk once every 10 years.’
The Dragon Duke of the current generation was a person who just wanted to live quietly.
Even in the original work, he had almost no contact with the original female lead or had a presence of just giving wise advice…….
Because the male lead felt like they were going to lose, he provoked this duke, who was living quietly, into going berserk, and everyone met an annihilation ending!
And I made up my mind in the previous round.
This time, I must go back home.
‘I must become the Dragon’s Bride.’
It’s good that I decided that, but……. The first obstacle was staring at me with wide eyes.
Hmm, what should I do to make that grandmother not find me unpleasant right away?
“Tsk, did you bring something useless?”
Grandmother clicked her tongue and spoke in a voice as cold as ice.
“My Lady, the child’s name is……”
“Calypso. I will name her Calypso Aquasiadel.”
“Yes. I will register it as such.”
‘The naming process goes the same way this time too.’
Calypso, a name like a water nymph.
Even though she kicked me out in every round, why did she give me such a precious name?
‘Is it a minimum of conscience or what. Tui.’
I resented my grandmother terribly, but ironically, I now stared at her blankly without any emotion.
The reason I could be like this was because of what one of my vassals said as he died in the previous round.
“……Lady Calypso, the late previous family head…… regretted it until the day she died.”
“Huh? What kind of nonsense is that? Did she go senile before she died?”
The vassal who had served the Killer Whale family for generations was not a person who spoke nonsense.
“Haha, she said that…… she should have gone to see you, at least once……. She said…… she should have brought the family head back again.”
Of course, these words didn’t make me forgive everything about my grandmother, but I was curious.
Just why was she always so anxious to kick me out?
There were many things that were not resolved, and I don’t like it.
In this life anyway, I don’t need any of that, and it was enough just to survive and be sold off as the Dragon’s Bride.
Since in this Killer Whale family, strength rules everything.
“……Grandma.”
I reached out my hand and called for grandmother.
My hand had become smaller than a steamed bun again.
‘Damn it, I’ll have to be at least 10 years old to be sold as the Dragon’s Bride.’
How can I wait that long?
I grabbed the railing with my tiny hands and stood on my tiptoes as much as I could.
“Wait!”
When I moved my chubby cheeks and small lips, grandmother, who was turning away, paused for a moment.
A handsome face turned back to look at me.
“What did you say?”
“Grandma!”
Grandmother frowned sharply as if it were absurd and turned toward the aide.
“Could she originally speak? Who taught her that?”
It was understandable that she was surprised.
Whale shifters were large and strong from birth, but their brain development tended to be slow.
It’s a kind of racial characteristic.
In short, no matter how smart a whale is, it means they live as a so-called ‘idiot’ who can’t even speak for a long time.
Even if they knew how to speak, their pronunciation was slurred.
“Pardon? Yes. Duchess. When children are about 2 years old, they can say simple words……”
“Who said I was talking about an ordinary shifter child? Whale kids are late to speak! Isn’t it common sense that they speak slurred until they are 5 years old? Don’t you go anywhere and call yourself a fish-head. You anchovy.”
“…….”
Oh, grandmother’s sharp tongue. Hearing it after a long time is quite refreshing.
The last “anchovy” wasn’t a derogatory term, but he was called that because that aide is actually an anchovy shifter.
“You. Say it again.”
I stared at grandmother and smiled brightly.
‘Yeah, surprising, isn’t it? I know how to speak properly.’
As much as you want. You old hag.
“Grandma!”
“Heh, it’s not just a level of speaking, but she seems to listen and understand too? How did this happen?”
“Uh, well, I haven’t heard anything specific from the maids or the nanny.”
Of course, because I played innocent in front of them.
Even if I was born again, I couldn’t do something from the time I was a newborn.
The basic characteristics of a whale shifter, no matter how many times you regress.
It’s not easy to overcome the limitations of slow growth or inability to use the tongue in childhood, so I’ve only now gotten the knack for it.
‘It would have been nice if I could have spoken clearly sooner.’
It’s a pity, but what’s past is past. I’m satisfied with the fact that I can start this life a little more cleverly.
Furthermore, the reason whales die suddenly at around one or two years old was also because their immunity was weaker than other shifters.
I also found out while reading the original work, but while whales get powerful strength as they become adults, their childhood was very, very vulnerable.
Of course, the fact that they are stronger than regular shifters when they are young is a separate story. Shall I say they are strong but have a fragile body?
“Did a genius appear among the fish-heads?”
“Fish-head! Grandma! Fish-head!”
“…….”
Grandmother’s expression became peculiar.
It’s an expression that says, “Did she just insult me?”
“Did you just insult me?”
Yes, that’s right. You old hag.
Although I am smiling now, my resentment hasn’t all disappeared.
I confidently shouted once more, pretending not to know on purpose.
“Fish-head!”
Grandmother’s hand grabbed my clothes and lifted me up just like that.
“What a wicked thing.”
Would a kitten being picked up by the scruff of the neck by its mother cat look like this?
It was truly a rough hand.
“Did you dare call me a fish-head?”
If my clothes were to tear like this, it would be a concussion.
Instead of struggling, I let my body go limp.
“To think you’re so small despite having a face that’s a spitting image of that Pierre fellow, your physical condition is at a subpar level.”
“Yes…… usually when they are 3 years old, they are much larger than this.”
“A half-wit without the power of water…… and only brain development is fast. Kid. You understand everything I’m saying right now, don’t you? Can you prove your own usefulness?”
What is she saying. This old hag. Are those words to say to a 3-year-old baby?
When I let out a slight gasp, a look of patheticness brushed past.
“What an incredibly small and fragile body. In this state, will there even be room for sharp teeth to grow?”
Grandmother must have gone through this process with my three older brothers above me, and going back, with her youngest son, my father. Plus other cousins as well.
Since she is the strongest, she was a tyrant and a self-centered human who couldn’t understand the plight of the weak.
“Hmph. Our family has no need for a brain that the body cannot keep up with—”
“Grandma! Prove!”
I reached out my hand and grabbed something, pretending it was a mistake.
“Me, prove!”
Rrip, something was pulled out from my hand. It was grandmother’s pure white hair by her ear. I smiled brightly.
“Grandma, I’m good! Words!”
Hahaha, I’ve always wanted to try this at least once.
You told me to prove it, you old hag!
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