Chapter 31
“Huh? A small stone? Do you have no pride?”
“Yes. I have none.”
“…….”
After a week of training, Agenor acknowledged it.
His current self could withstand Pierre’s training.
However, that was only possible because his age was well over eight years old.
He didn’t have as much talent, grit, or mental strength as Calypso, and especially, he lacked her endurance.
In fact, the greatest strength of this third killer whale was his ability to acknowledge and accept.
“I will become stronger within my limits, Master.”
Calling his father Master? He could do that.
He just had to do it. What was the problem since he was being trained?
“You know your place.”
“I’ve survived well thanks to this quick wit.”
Furthermore, Pierre seemed not to view Agenor’s servile power of acceptance unfavorably.
Indeed, even if it were impossible, stubbornly trying to do it while harboring only an inferiority complex would only make things annoying for Pierre.
“*Huff, huff*. It’s, it’s over, right……?”
“Yes. Switch.”
Feeling Calypso approaching, Agenor quickly dashed toward the fountain.
There was a cleanly folded towel on top of the fountain, and ice water was floating inside the fountain.
Agenor grabbed the towel elegantly.
At the same time, a stream of water created by the boy lifted the ice water from inside the fountain into the air.
The place Agenor reached by moving his feet was in front of Calypso, who came walking sluggishly.
“Little sister, you worked hard!”
At the sight of him, whose voice had even changed, Calypso opened her eyes blankly despite being tired.
‘Him, what’s wrong with him, is he crazy?’
Until the day before, he looked like he had lost his soul.
Calypso had let it go, thinking it was probably because Pierre was pushing him hard. But what do you know? Now, a star-like light that wasn’t there before was lingering in those blue eyes.
‘……What is it? Madness?’
They were blue eyes where one could feel even madness, no, even obsession.
Calypso felt cold sweat rising in addition to her profuse sweating.
She had seen these eyes before.
“You won, step over me and go.”
Yes, it was when she had thoroughly stepped on Agenor to the point where he couldn’t even challenge her anymore.
It was during the final battle between herself and her third brother. Since that day, Agenor cleanly acknowledged her as the Head of the Family and followed her until his death.
……It’s the eyes from that time.
‘No, why on earth?’
Calypso was uncharacteristically flustered. Why?
She hadn’t stepped on Agenor like back then, and she hadn’t had a proper battle since the first time?
Rather, because she was young, she even flinched and stepped back at the gaze that was even more intense than back then.
Unaware of this, Agenor diligently held out the towel and ice water.
‘An obedient killer whale.’
Wasn’t that a feat that could only be achieved by beating them up?
For now, Calypso took the towel and ice water.
Because she needed them.
“Amazing. Truly amazing!”
“Huh? Uh-huh?”
“You couldn’t be more amazing!”
However, even though she took them, as Agenor kept approaching, her legs naturally moved backward.
No, it wasn’t that she lacked the confidence to win, but it was burdensome in a different sense.
It felt like seeing a cult member in front of a station that you can’t win against……
“Stop.”
Surprisingly, Pierre blocked him slightly. Calypso thought that if he hadn’t, she might have tripped and fallen on her butt from being so dazed.
Pierre restrained him, but Agenor’s momentum did not break.
Rather, fitting Pierre’s restraint, he stopped in his place obediently and just stared at his younger sister with sparkling eyes.
“Little sister. You are truly amazing.”
This, is it not the third brother, but did someone put a machine with a recording function there?
Why is he only repeating the same words.
Then Agenor clasped both hands together as if praying.
It was a familiar gesture.
‘Third brother……. He had that posture whenever he had something to ask, right?’
Only then did Calypso understand the excessive admiration from before.
Of course, he had something to ask.
“Little sister, um, I don’t know how to say this. There’s…… one favor, can you grant it?”
“What is it?”
Even so.
It was an incomprehensible, excessive reaction, but her brain, whose thinking function had dropped due to training, tried hard to let it pass naturally.
“I really hope you grant it.”
As expected, he couldn’t throw away the killer whale temperament; he called it a favor, but his tone was close to coercion.
Calypso finally relaxed and laughed.
“Just say it for now. Let me hear it.”
“Yes. Actually, I was captivated by your training.”
“What?”
“You are truly amazing.”
Perhaps because she had experience gaining great power in a previous life, Calypso, to whom her current achievement didn’t quite hit home, tilted her head and nodded.
“……Um, thanks.”
That’s right. Calypso was unable to objectively judge how amazing she currently was.
Since the Master was in a similar situation, it became a fact known only to Agenor.
“So the thing is, I have two older brothers. Ah, do you know them too?”
“Yes, I know.”
How could she not know. At Calypso’s answer, a bright smile appeared on Agenor’s face.
Since he didn’t bother hiding his hair here, his hair, which was like a full symbol of the direct line, fluttered.
And when Agenor, whose face closely resembled Pierre’s, laughed, Calypso paused for a moment.
She thought that if Dad were to laugh broadly, it might feel like this.
“The second brother’s name is Atlan.”
“Yes. I know. And?”
“Please crush the second brother too.”
“Yes…… Huh?”
Calypso, who was answering half-heartedly while lost in thought for a moment, stopped right there.
Him, what did he just say?
Common sense you should know here.
The three brothers under Pierre were certainly brothers, but there was no such thing as brotherly affection at all.
Rather, they only looked at each other as insignificant or as opponents to be toppled one day.
“If it’s you, it will naturally be possible.”
And Agenor didn’t particularly have good feelings toward his immediate older brother, ‘Atlan’.
That violent hot-head? Compared to the amazing and great younger sister with genius talent for whom affection was just beginning to well up, a brother was a person less than the dirt stuck in a fin.
A bright smile appeared on Agenor’s face.
“Please crush him so much that he can never recover.”
I can’t be the only one suffering.
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“Choo-choo-choo! The train is coming! Choo-choo!”
“Chugga-chugga! Departing!”
Break time.
Even though it was the Alpha Class, the most excellent class of the educational institution, break time was noisy, no different from any other kindergarten.
Of course, a few killer whale punks pretending to be adults sat around acting high and mighty.
But mostly, like the beluga twins Luga and Luba who were busy playing train, they were preoccupied with pranking or playing.
Indeed, they were kids at an age when their physical strength was at its peak.
Especially, aren’t they kids with good size and vitality?
Among such kids, I alone was serious.
Especially while watching the Luga and Luba twins who were busy playing so harmoniously.
‘Right, if they are normal siblings…….’
Aren’t they that close? No, even if I consider that Luga and Luba are uniquely better because they are twins.
Still, aren’t they fairly good?
“Please crush him so much that he can never recover.”
The line I heard three days ago was packed inside my head.
That’s right.
Even though three days had already passed, it was a crazy line that still filled my head.
‘I know well enough that the brothers are rascals, psychos, and madmen who shouldn’t be associated with.’
There is a separate, complicated reason.
‘Did I know the brothers too little?’
In the previous life, we siblings weren’t affectionate like normal siblings, nor did we dote on each other like siblings on good terms, or become sister-idiots. There were no such emotions at all.
We were perfect Lord and subjects.
Before that, there was a massive power struggle, and at the end of it, a relationship of clean submission. That kind of relationship.
But even if we weren’t affectionate and weren’t siblings of a normal childcare story, we certainly had our own kind of bond. Aren’t Lord-and-subject bonds and camaraderie also bonds?
“You, you must live.”
“Live……”
“It doesn’t hurt, so quickly dodge. Okay?”
In the end, it was a bond that made the brothers even sacrifice their own lives for me.
Thinking about this, even though we are not close now, I thought the relationship between the brothers would be not bad with its own kind of bond.
Was it my mistake?
In fact, because we reunited after becoming adults in the previous life, I was naturally in a state of having no contact with the brother punks.
I didn’t know what happened between the brothers, or if they were close or bonded among themselves.
However, the sight I saw after returning wasn’t bad.
‘Right. They certainly didn’t seem to have such a bad relationship with each other?’
Wait a minute. Killer whales here are hierarchical animals.
If so, is it because their hierarchy was already clear by the time I returned in the previous life?
‘Then it wouldn’t be wrong to see now as a time when they were in the middle of hitting and fighting each other.’
If Agenor left the eldest, Bellus, alone and only brought up the second, Atlan, it might be a time when his relationship with the second was uniquely bad.
‘Indeed, if it’s the second brother around this time, it’s understandable that the relationship would be bad.’
On the other hand, I was also worried.
‘Can I dismiss this purely as them just having a bad relationship, a time when they squabble?’
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