Chapter 11
Since Laila’s permission had been granted, I was skipped ahead, but I couldn’t enter that class immediately.
It was because that class happened to have gone out for external activities.
So, I decided to go back early today, and I was on my way to find Pierre.
‘But why is this man always by the fountain no matter when I come?’
While harboring doubts, I excitedly chattered away, explaining my dignity at the educational institution today.
This mean father did not stop making me submerge or run laps in between.
“What is there to be excited about? Eventually, if you cannot handle the power of water, you will be weeded out there.”
“Wow…… Master, your expression is truly a gem.”
“A gem?”
“It’s not a swear word! You know? A gem, I mean a jewel.”
I said this while diligently repeating squats.
“And I’m not that incompetent, you know? Look. Master, have you ever seen a three-year-old with such good endurance? In a little while, I might even be able to crush rocks.”
“Truly strange.”
Pierre furrowed his brows slightly.
It was an expression of seeing something mysterious.
“To think that your physical abilities alone improve while you cannot create water.”
Indeed. That was a mystery to me as well.
I could feel my body getting stronger day by day, but it was still difficult to create water, which is the most basic ability.
Why is that?
“Don’t worry, Master. I won’t go around getting beaten up anywhere.”
“I wonder.”
“Huh?”
It seemed like Pierre muttered something, but it wasn’t audible.
Pierre stood up from his spot just like that.
“Follow me.”
“Huh? Where to?”
“There is something I need you to do.”
Something to do? I tilted my head.
Because since we met, this was the first time we were doing something other than training.
‘Gasp, could this be a green light? A dramatic bonding between father and daughter?’
The 4th life of being possessed in a childcare novel!
Could it be that I can finally see a family that falls for ‘Papa’……!
Or so I thought.
I faced a situation that far missed my expectations.
“Excuse me, Master……. What is this?”
What spread before my eyes was the sight of a room in a mess.
‘No, I didn’t think I’d be able to enter here…….’
Even when Pierre told me to follow him, I thought we were going to some grand training hall.
I wondered if he was trying to start more earnest training now that he has a disciple.
But the place we arrived at was, surprisingly, the building where Pierre resided.
The buildings located to the west were generally all shabby, but this building where Pierre lived sparkled as if it alone were new.
‘It looked like the only decent house in the middle of ruins that were about to collapse.’
Then again, even if he lived quietly, it was a building where a person as strong as the head of the current Killer Whale family resided.
‘Because Grandmother—this family—used to give appropriate rewards to those who possessed power.’
Grandmother probably thought even this was not enough and hoped Pierre would feel it was cramped and return to the main house, but fat chance of that.
Killer Whales are generally very stubborn.
There were many who would die before doing something they didn’t want to, and Grandmother and Dad were no different in that regard.
Anyway, it was good that I got to enter the building where my father lives, but…….
‘Why am I seeing such a sight?’
That was it. Not only did Pierre bring me to the building he lives in, he headed for the best room.
The best room was, of course, the bedroom where he resided.
Surprisingly, this bedroom was…… a huge mess.
A total mess to the point of wondering why he lives like this!
‘……Surely in my previous life, one of the subordinates said that Pierre likes clean things?’
I looked around the room with an absurd expression and then looked at Pierre.
“Master, is this by any chance a pigsty?”
“How unpleasant. To use a metaphor of a land animal.”
Ah, Father, are you a land animal hater too? Suddenly I feel a sense of kinship.
I apologized readily.
“Sorry, sorry. I was just so flustered……. Anyway, what is this messy room? The doctor fish might think it’s trash and eat it up.”
Despite my blunt impression, Pierre did not get angry.
Instead, he only said one thing.
“The place you will clean.”
“Ah, cleaning……. What? What did you say?”
“I said it is the place you will clean.”
What is this father saying right now.
He’s telling me to clean this dirty room?
I looked at the items scattered in the room and raised my head again.
‘Looking closely…… only the bed he sleeps on is perfectly clean?’
That was it.
Perhaps only the area around the bed where Pierre would sleep and wake up was clean to an alien degree.
Everything else was a mess itself to the point of wondering why he left it like this!
“Originally, the power of water comes from a calm mindset.”
He was saying something like, do some mind training while cleaning.
What kind of nonsense is this father talking!
‘He still has no realization that I am three years old. Meditation for a three-year-old, does that make sense?’
Age aside…….
“Don’t lie, you said the power of water becomes strongest when you want to hit someone.”
“You know well, don’t you?”
“That’s right, because I’m smart. Is that all? The power of water is also related to the emotional state of a Killer Whale.”
“…….”
Hearing my words, Pierre grabbed his chin and slowly tilted his head.
That…… usually after he makes that face, the training increases?
While I was on guard, my father’s lips opened slowly.
“You sometimes…… speak as if you know that power very well. As if you have used it.”
“…….”
“Though that could not be the case.”
Though it could be the case.
The one who became the absolute best among underwater creatures in my previous life was me, you know?
Since I couldn’t say it like that, I turned my gaze away, pretending to be innocent for the first time in a long while.
The stronger the power, the sharper the intuition becomes.
To divert Pierre’s attention, I reached for an item scattered on the floor.
“So, you’re saying I have to organize this?”
“Neatly.”
“……Cleanly?”
“Of course.”
“Master, I wasn’t going to say this, but is there one person who makes the mess and another person who cleans it?”
“That’s right.”
At the overly confident answer, I quietly lowered my hand.
It was because I very well recognized my father’s gaze, which told me that if I said one more word, I would get a taste of the power of water.
‘It’s certain that the fact I’m three years old has been forgotten in that Killer Whale’s head. It’s certain!’
I grumbled as I approached the nearest object and picked it up.
Then, it was the moment I was contemplating where to put it.
“Use the power of water when you organize.”
“Mmh?”
“You must have realized yourself that you unconsciously distribute and use the power of water for physical strength, stamina, and agility.”
That was true.
Leaving scratches on rocks and having the stamina to not get tired even after running 10 laps could only be explained by having used the power of water.
But I still cannot produce water.
“Among the items here, there are mixed things that you cannot handle with your physical strength anyway.”
“That’s right. I thought Master was really dirty…… actually, I didn’t. I think a person can make a mess.”
I hurriedly changed my words, feeling the familiar pressure.
“If the awakening is not far off, the only way to draw out the awakening is to use power continuously. I am saying we should use this method instead of just running.”
Pierre explained that moving things and putting them in their places uses more senses than one might think. While listening to the explanation, a question arose.
“Master, that sounds exactly like……”
It sounds like you made a mess of this room just to train me.
I soon shook my head.
‘There’s no way.’
Because as soon as he finished the instructions, Pierre went to the bed as if he had been waiting, sat down languidly, and stared out the window.
As if it didn’t matter what I did.
As if he had no interest in me at all.
It was a familiar sight.
Even in the empty lot with the fountain, Pierre would make me run laps and then take that posture.
If one watched quietly, he looked like a person who had no lingering attachments to anything in this world.
As if he might disappear at any moment.
‘Is everyone who is frail and sick like that?’
Even though I am living my fourth life, I have only died from illness once.
Even that was a sudden death from tetanus, so I couldn’t understand the heart of Pierre, who would have been frail and suffering for a long time.
“Master, where do I throw the trash?”
“Over there.”
Pierre pointed somewhere without looking at me.
While I was organizing for a while, I found an item that didn’t suit this room.
It was a snow-white lace handkerchief.
Seeing as there was cherry-blossom-colored lace on the edge, it didn’t look like Pierre’s item.
Because it alone was alien among the other items.
‘Where should I put this?’
I tilted my head over the handkerchief.
Pierre acted like a proper master more than he looked.
He didn’t like making useless conversation during training, and he increased the lap times without mercy.
If possible, I didn’t want to disturb that handsome father who was either lost in thought or spacing out.
“Master, where should I put this?”
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