“Huh? A small stone? Don’t you have any pride?”
“Yes. I have none.”
“…”
After a week of training, Agenor admitted it.
He could now endure Pierre’s training.
But that was only possible because he was well over eight years old.
He had no talent like Calypso, no physical strength, and especially no patience.
In fact, Agenor’s greatest strength as the third sperm whale was his acceptance and adaptability.
“I will become stronger within my limits, Master.”
Calling his father “Master”? Well, why not? He’s the one giving the training.
“Seems you understand the subject.”
“I’ve survived with this insight.”
Moreover, Pierre didn’t view Agenor’s humble adaptability negatively.
After all, there was no need to force himself to do something he didn’t want to do. Agenor would only become annoyed.
“Phew, phew. It’s over, right…?”
“Yes. We’ll switch.”
Sensing Calypso approaching, Agenor swiftly rushed to the fountain.
On the fountain’s edge, neatly folded towels awaited, and inside the fountain, icy water danced.
Agenor gracefully grabbed a towel.
Simultaneously, the boy’s water stream rose from inside the fountain and floated the icy water into the air.
Where Agenor reached after taking a step was right in front of the tired Calypso.
“You did well, little sister!”
Even in her exhaustion, Calypso blinked in surprise at his changed voice.
“What’s wrong with him? Is he crazy?”
Until now, his mind seemed absent.
Perhaps it was because Pierre had pushed him so hard that Calypso let it slide. But now? There was a star-like gleam in his blue eyes, unseen until now.
‘…What is it? Madness?’
Even madness or rather obsession, could be felt in those bright blue eyes.
Calypso felt a cold sweat breaking out on top of her sweat.
She had seen those eyes before.
‘He won, step on me and go.”’
Yes, when he had put down Agenor helplessly, during his final battle with his third older brother. Since that day, Agenor had acknowledged him as the leader and followed him to the death.
…Those eyes from back then.
‘No, why now?’
Calypso was bewildered. Why?
He hadn’t put Agenor down like that, and they hadn’t had a proper battle since the first time.
Perhaps it was because it was even more difficult than before, but I flinched at the intensified gaze and took a step back.
Agenor, who didn’t know this, diligently offered a towel and ice water.
‘A well-behaved whale.’
Wasn’t this a triumph that could only be obtained by beating it down?
Calypso received the towel and ice water for now.
Because it was necessary.
“Amazing. Truly amazing!”
“Huh? Uh?”
“You can’t be this amazing!”
But even after receiving this, Calypso involuntarily stepped back as Agenor kept approaching.
No, it’s not that he didn’t believe he could win, but it was burdensome in a different sense.
It felt like looking at an unbeatable opponent at a weird station…
“Stop.”
Surprisingly, Pierre gently stopped him. If Pierre hadn’t intervened, Calypso thought he might have been stunned or even bitten his lip.
Pierre stopped him, but Agenor’s momentum didn’t waver.
Instead, in accordance with Pierre’s restraint, he quietly stood in place and stared at his younger sister with shiny eyes.
“Younger sister. You’re really amazing.”
Wait, didn’t someone bring a machine with a recording function instead of the third brother?
Why are you repeating the same words?
Then, Agenor clasped his hands together like a prayer.
It was a familiar gesture.
“Younger sister… Wasn’t that the posture he took every time he had a request?”
Only then did Calypso understand the excessive admiration earlier.
So, he did have something to ask for.
“Younger sister, um… Can I ask you something?”
“What is it?”
No matter what, that’s how it is.
It was an excessive reaction that he couldn’t understand, but his brain, which had lost its ability to think due to training, tried to smoothly pass it off.
“I really hope you’ll listen.”
Once again, the demeanor of a whale seeking help was closer to coercion.
Calypso finally relaxed and smiled.
“Just go ahead and say it. Let me hear it.”
“Yeah. Actually, I was fascinated by your training.”
“What?”
“You’re really amazing.”
Perhaps because he had experienced obtaining great power in the previous episode, Calypso, who couldn’t objectively assess his current achievements, nodded with a grin.
“…Well, thank you.”
That’s right. Calypso couldn’t objectively judge how amazing he was right now.
The teacher was in a similar situation, so it became a fact known only to Agenor.”
Here’s the translation of the Korean text you provided into English:
“So, here’s the thing. I have two older brothers. Ah, do you know that too?”
“Yeah, I know.”
Was there any doubt? Agenor’s face lit up with a bright smile at Calypso’s response.
Since there was no need to hide their hair here, Calypso’s unmistakable straight hair fluttered about like a clear symbol of their direct lineage.
And when Agenor, who resembled Pierre quite a bit, smiled, Calypso paused for a moment.
Was this what it felt like when Dad smiled broadly?
“The name of the second older brother is Atlan.”
“Yeah, I know. So?”
“You have to take care of the second brother too.”
“Yeah… What?”
Calypso, who had been answering in a nonchalant manner while lost in thought for a moment, stopped in his tracks.
What did they just say?
Basic knowledge that should be known here.
Certainly, Pierre and his three brothers were undoubtedly brothers, but there was no brotherly love among them at all.
Instead, they regarded each other as rivals who might need to be bested someday.
“It should be possible for you, of all people.”
And Agenor had no particularly warm feelings for his immediate elder brother, Atlan.
That impulsive, hot-blooded guy? Compared to his immensely talented and great sister, who had only recently begun to arouse his affection, he was nothing more than an insignificant creature with fins on his back.
Agenor’s face was filled with a bright smile.
“Break him to the point of no return.”
I can’t be the only one.
* * *
“Choo-woo-woo-woong! The train is leaving! Choo-woo-woo-woong!”
“Chi-chi-po-po! We’re departing!”
It’s break time.
Although it was the most outstanding class, Alpha, in the educational institution, break time was as noisy as any kindergarten.
Of course, a few whale guys who pretended to be adults would sit there all prim and proper.
But on the other hand, Bellu, who was busy playing with the train, had no time to play like the mischievous twins, Lugaruba.
After all, they were kids at the peak of their physical vitality.
Especially since they were big and lively kids.
Among such kids, I stood out alone.
Especially when I looked at the Lugaruba twins who played together so well.
“Yeah, typically, for ordinary siblings…”
Don’t they get along like that? Well, even if the Lugaruba twins are exceptionally close because they’re twins.
Still, isn’t it nice in its own way?
“Break him to the point of no return.”
Those words I heard three days ago were firmly stuck in my head.
That’s right.
It had already been three days, but that crazy statement still occupied my mind.
“I know that my brothers are crazy, lunatics who can’t be reasoned with.”
There are complicated reasons for that.
‘Did I not know my brothers well enough?’
In the previous episode, we, as siblings, didn’t have the affectionate or amicable relationships typical of ordinary siblings, or a doting younger sister. There were no such emotions.
We were perfect soldiers.
We had a ruthless showdown before, and at the end, we had clean resolutions. That kind of relationship.
But even though we weren’t affectionate or typical sibling material, we had our own form of affection. Isn’t camaraderie a form of affection?
“You have to live.”
“Live…”
“Since you’re not hurt, get up quickly. Understand?”
Later on, this would become the kind of affection that would make my brothers sacrifice even their lives for me.
Thinking about this, even though we might not be close right now, I thought there was a certain level of affection among siblings, and it wasn’t so bad.
Was I wrong?
In reality, in the previous episode, we hadn’t had any interaction due to our reunion after becoming adults.
I didn’t know what had happened between my brothers, whether they had affection for each other, or whether they had any feelings between siblings.
However, when I returned and saw their appearances, it wasn’t bad.
“Yeah, they didn’t seem to have such a bad relationship with each other.”
Let’s observe quietly. Whales in this place are hierarchical animals.
In that case, maybe when I returned in the previous episode, their ranks had already become clear, so was that the reason?
“In that case, right now might be when they were fighting fiercely.”
Agenor, being the first-born Belrus, was left out, and it might have been a time when his relationship with the second-born Atlan was particularly bad.
“After all, at this age, second-borns tend to have difficult relationships.”
On the other hand, it was also puzzling.
“Is it okay to just attribute it to them not getting along, growling and grumbling, during this time?”
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