Episode 15
1Although we know that the bear is a male and should be referred to as a ‘he’, but he could be confused with Kyle. So, I referred to the bear as ‘it’ throughout the chapter.Kyle thought that the rabbit would turn around for a moment and go towards the bear, then she would soon sense the danger of the beast and run away.
Since she was in heat, she happened to be attracted to a male who was looking for a female, and he had no doubt that if she saw a bear up close, she would run towards him, urinating in fear.
However, contrary to his expectations, Brody ran up to the bear, which was dozens of times bigger than her, and snooped around, coming right in front of it.
Then, without any fear, she even greeted him first.
Kyle wondered if he should drag her away at that moment and couldn’t help but feel anxious.
But strangely, the bear showed no reaction even when it saw the rabbit snooping in front of it. It didn’t give her any attention and returned to what it was doing.
What on earth was it so preoccupied with that it would ignore the prey in front of it who was begging it to eat her?
Because the bear was obscured by ice, Kyle moved to a place where he could clearly see the bear.
Of course, it wasn’t out of the woods. There was no benefit in making it aware that a wolve nearby was competing for the same food.
As its alertness increases, it become sensitive to everything around it and become aggressive.
If his presence was revealed, the rabbit close to the bear could be in danger.
Kyle shifted his position and looked closely at the bear beyond the ice floe.
And soon, he learnt why the bear did not eat the rabbit.
The bear was eating right now.
In short, It was not hungry. Normally, large carnivores like wolves and bears do not prey on small, agile animals like rabbits unless they are really hungry.
This is because hunting takes a lot of stamina, and even if you go through all the trouble to catch it, there isn’t much meat to eat.
Only then did Kyle feel a little relieved. Even so, he didn’t let his guard down and did not take his eyes off the rabbit.
Even though the bear was currently eating, it was very strange that it would leave its prey that had rolled in on her own paws.
If it were him, he would have biten off the back of the rabbit’s neck for dessert, even if he wasn’t hungry.
He couldn’t understand the bear leaving the rabbit alone even though she was within reach and it could catch her with just a paw outstretched.
In addition, he couldn’t understand that crazy rabbit, chattering like a sparrow and jumping around in front of the bear.
The rabbit was so excited that she circled around the bear and pricked her ears as if asking for its attention, just like she did when she first saw Kyle.
While the bear was eating, it slowly raised its head as if it noticed the rabbit moving around it.
But even after seeing the rabbit, it did not catch her but instead talked to her.
During the conversation, it showed its teeth to the rabbit as if it had lost its temper, but it did not chew or tear the rabbit’s neck with its teeth.
The crazy rabbit ran around it, snickering at the bear’s teeth, then motioned for the bear to look at her and started back tumbling.
Ha, Kyle was so shocked when he saw that that he let out a laugh.
“Is she doing the back tumbling now?”
It was absurd. He couldn’t believe she was performing a back tumbling stunt in front of another animal, that wasn’t him.
He felt quite bad.
She claimed that she only showed it to him, but it was all nonsense.
Kyle didn’t wait for the rabbit anymore and turned around.
There was no need to watch the rabbit, who was doing back tumbling to show that she was happy to meet another male.
Now, he really felt like it wasn’t his business whether she was caught by a bear and eaten or not.
He went into the forest alone. But still, he was a little worried, so he looked back again as he left.
But the rabbit still didn’t come. Kyle was annoyed at himself for worrying about the rabbit so much that he abandoned the rabbit and went on his own.
Still, he couldn’t help but feel anxious, so he sat under a rock and waited for the rabbit under the pretense of taking a break when he normally wouldn’t have taken a break at that time.
He stared at the path where his footprints were visible.
Slowly, his mind started to become confused. It was all so bad that he even had ominous thoughts.
He wondered if she would fall for this bear like this **** rabbit fell for him.
It was such a crazy rabbit that the thought of it being quite possible contributed to his anxiety.
Of course, he was reassured that she would have to come to him eventually since he had the rabbit’s bag, but what if she came back and said, ‘I can’t travel with you anymore because I’m dating that bear’..… From his perspective, it would be no different from lightning falling on his head.
While Kyle was trying to catch his breath because of his anxious imagination, his fluffy ears suddenly perked up.
In the distance, along with a clattering sound, he could hear the sound of a someone running across the snow field.
Kyle got up to check who the runner was and saw the tips of the pointed ears of the rabbit that was running towards him.
And as he felt relieved, he immediately sat back down and pretended not to see anything.
The rabbit came hopping towards him from afar. There was a very large piece of meat in her mouth, so big that it almost covered the rabbit’s head.
The rabbit ran with the piece of meat in her mouth, but she must have gotten tired, so she left the piece of meat in the snow for a while and caught her breath.
Then she picked up the piece of meat again and ran eagerly, following Kyle’s footsteps.
When she arrived at the bottom of the rock, she placed the meat down in front of him and started to lose her temper, not even breathing properly and huffing.
“I told you to wait over there! Why did you come this far alone!”
The rabbit sat down, tired of following the footsteps of Kyle, who had left her alone.
Her small white body, was struggling to breathe and shaking.
Kyle looked at the piece of meat she brought. Could it be that she got it from the bear that was eating earlier?
To feed him?
As he looked at her with puzzled eyes, the rabbit, who was taking deep breaths, took a piece of meat and put it down in front of him and said.
“Oppa Bear was eating so I asked for a little bit of meat, and he gave it to me. He gave it to me because I’m so, so cute.”
The rabbit smiled with a harmless face and shyly held her ears. It was like she was intoxicated with herself for being so cute.
Kyle, on the other hand, listened to her words and wondered what kind of nonsense this was.
It felt the rabbit was so cute that it shared its food with her.
This place was the wild. No matter how cute and adorable the other person is, when a herbivore you’ve never seen before comes and asks for food, does it make sense to not kill it and eat it and instead share your own food with it?
It was a suspicious logic that he could not understand. So, Kyle immediately bared his teeth and said.
“Stop talking nonsense and speak the truth.”
“What are you talking about? It’s the truth!”
The rabbit wailed saying she was unfairly accused.
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In conclusion, what Brody, the rabbit said was true.
Kyle seemed to be ignorant and wary, and didn’t know that polar white bears often travel with small foxes.
Of course, it wasn’t the bear that was following the fox, but the fox was the one following the bear, and the reason was to drive on the bear’s cocktails.
But, the bear did not threaten or chase the fox.
There were two reasons.
One reason was because it was difficult to catch a small and agile fox, as Kyle thought, and its meat was not tasty, and the other reason was ‘because it was cute’.
The white bears of the Asgar continent liked small and cute things, and were very weak towards them. Brody also knew this, so she ran towards the bear.
When she actually saw the bear she had only heard about in stories, she thought it was fascinating and cool, but the moment she saw the meat in front of the bear, she couldn’t come to her senses.
Seeing that raw meat reminded her of Kyle, who hadn’t eaten in days.
So, she ran to the bear, telling Kyle to wait, and continued to look around the bear, staring blankly at it eating meat.
The bear looked up to see what was happening when the rabbit, who had been chattering around excitedly, suddenly looked at it with her shoulders slumped.
The sight of the small rabbit with black, round eyes looking at the bear was absolutely cute.
But the words that came out of her mouth next were not cute at all and got on the bear’s nerves.
‘I…… Oppa Bear. Can you please share some of that meat with me?’
The bear immediately exposed its teeth and threatened her.
However, Brody, who had already become immune to such threats due to Kyle, was not surprised at all.
Rather, she even performed the back tumbling trick in front of the bear, saying that she would show it something amazing.
The bear, who had been angry for a moment, was surprised to see the rabbit doing a fascinating stunt in front of it.
The bear couldn’t take its eyes off the rabbit until the stunt was over, and when the performance was over, it even clapped and stopped eating.
This was possible because the bear she met did not have a particularly vicious personality.
In the end, the bear threw her a piece of meat to appreciate her performance.
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“It’s seal meat. Oppa even taught me how to catch seals. That’s why I was late.”
After hearing all of this, Kyle thought he knew why bears had the image of being stupid.
And his pride was hurt as he had to eat the meat she got from that stupid bear by performing tricks.
Kyle was very hungry, but he refused to eat the meat she brought.
“Are you telling me to eat the meat you got from making yourself a joke? Never, I am not eat it.”
Brody worked hard to get it for him, but when she saw Kyle rejecting it for some trivial reason, she sighed.
She crossed her arms and looked down at Kyle, who was lying face down on the floor, with a pitiful expression.
“Are you in a position to refuse eating for something like that now? If I were you, I would have already gone to the bear and said, ‘Oppa,’ to get it.”
“Say whatever you want.”
“Okay, eat quickly! Be considerate to me who worked so hard to bring it!”
Brody shouted, opening his closed eyelids with her front paws.
“I told you to eat quickly! If you don’t eat, I won’t go with you.”
That was the magic sentence that could make him do anything.
As soon as she finished speaking, he reluctantly got up and ate the seal meat.
The meat tasted good. Even though it was his first time eating its meat, it appealed to him, so he put the piece of meat in his mouth, chewed it quickly, and swallowed it.
He could feel the rabbit beside him smiling, as if she was happy to see him eat like this, but he ignored her out of embarrassment.
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TL:
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