I Picked Up an Abandoned Villain in the Polar Region

Episode 21

 

Hair as white as snow. A small face with dense facial features. Among them, the only thing that reminded him of the rabbit was her black, round eyes….

The small woman who had been looking up at Kyle with those eyes suddenly slowly lowered her gaze.

Kyle, who was following her gaze, soon blinked when he saw his front paw at the end of it.

His front paw was resting on the woman’s chest. Even though her upper body was covered in her long hair, it was impossible not to know where he had stepped.

His blood ran cold.

Kyle was so shocked that he froze.

After a while, the sound of the woman sneezing woke him up.

“Achi!”

Kyle finally came to his senses, pushed Brody, the woman in front of him, and ran away in fear.

“Aaaah!”

Brody, who was lying naked in the cold snow, screamed.

Kyle paid no heed to the screams and ran away alone, breathing heavily. His heart was racing so hard.

He shouted at Brody.

“What the hell is that body?”

“I don’t know! I guess I was so surprised that my transformation was cancelled!”

Brody also answered belatedly in a confused voice. Her voice was so similar to when she was a rabbit that Kyle turned around thinking she had transformed into a rabbit again.

Then, he encountered the thin, white woman’s back visible through the long hair and hurriedly turned his head again.

He was as irritated as he could be.

“Get rid of that body quickly! How long are you going to stay like that!”

He was a wolf who could only get angry when he was embarrassed. Meanwhile, a couple more sneezes were heard from Brody.

“Ugh, it’s so cold!”

“So, quickly transform into a rabbit!”

“I can’t transform back! It’s so cold that my body doesn’t listen!”

“What nonsense is that!”

Kyle was so angry that he unconsciously turned his head to threaten Brody.

However, his face, which had been burning with enthusiasm to stomp the rabbit, sank coldly upon seeing the scene unfolding before his eyes.

Brody had already returned to being a rabbit. She was so cold being naked that she sneezed twice a while ago and quickly became a rabbit again.

She, after returning to being a rabbit, was diligently grooming her body with her small tongue, wiping away the moisture.

While Kyle was speechless at the sight, Brody acted out loud, not realising that she was being watched.

“It’s so cold I feel like I’m going to die!”

“…..”

“Aaaah! Save Brody! My body is gradually freezing!”

Actually, there was only one reason she was doing this. She thought it was funny to see Kyle flustered when he saw her body earlier, so she decided to make fun of him.

Brody, who had just completed her transformation, didn’t even feel particularly cold.

As she was born in the harsh cold of Asgar, her body was covered in a double layer of fur, and unlike her outer fur, her inner fur was so dense that not even a drop of water could properly enter it.

Brody was excitedly shouting Kyle’s name, but when she heard no response from him for a while, she raised her head feeling strange.

At that moment, she made eye contact with Kyle, who was looking down at her with his blue eyes.

Brody’s body stiffened. The only thing that moved was her eyeballs.

“……”

Kyle looked at Brody in silence.

In his heart, he wanted to throw her back into the river for making fun of him.

However, when he saw her soaking wet after falling into the water, his angry heart slowly calmed down.

He sighed and approached Brody. He looked at Brody’s wet head, which was cowering as if expecting him to be angry, and carelessly licked it.

He was following the rabbit’s grooming routine. But of course, after he did that, he felt like there was hair on his tongue, so he spit it out.

“Uh…?”

Brody, who received the unexpected grooming, raised her head in surprise.

Kyle, feeling embarrassed, turned around, but Brody asked him in an incredulous voice.

“What did you just do?”

“I wiped it dry.”

Kyle responded bluntly, as if to block any misunderstanding. Nevertheless, Brody’s impressed expression still remained.

“Oh my god…”

Brody must have been so moved that the wolf, who didn’t like being touched, came up with his own paws and wiped her fur dry, as she held both of her front paws together and look up at him, with her watery eyes shining.

“Can you do it again? Somewhere other than the head this time.”

By ‘elsewhere’ she was referring to her body. Kyle growled at the sight of the rabbit playing her sinister pranks, thinking that she had finally regained her senses.

“Stop talking nonsense. If you have warmed up, come quickly.”

When Kyle went ahead, Brody clicked her tongue as if it was a pity, shook her body, and followed after him.

“By the way, Kyle.”

“What.”

“Did you see my body earlier?”

“I didn’t see it.”

It was an answer that came out at the speed of light. These words clearly revealed how embarrassed he was.

“Ah, even though you saw it all…”

As if mocking his lie, Brody exaggeratedly covered her chest with her crossed front paws and gave him a sinister look.

Kyle looked back at her in annoyance, but before he knew it, his gaze shifted to the part she was covering.

The wind brought back memories from earlier and he was very embarrassed. To hide this, he bared his teeth and barked harshly at her.

Brody, startled by Kyle, who was almost ready to bite her, fell backwards and landed on her buttocks.

“Oh my, you surprised me! what’s the matter!”

She shouted at Kyle, who reacted hysterically. And, Kyle screamed even louder.

“It’s because you’re talking bullshit!”

“No, what kind of bullshit did I say? It’s true that you saw my body!”

“Don’t be ridiculous! I didn’t see it!”

Due to the nature of being a shapeshifter who becomes naked every time the transformation is released, it was often inevitable that she would see the naked body of others.

So Brody was just joking around, but Kyle strangely insisted that he didn’t see Brody’s body.

In the end, the two people left the riverside behind and argued over whether he had seen it or not.

And Kyle, who insisted that he had not seen her until the end, refused to talk to her at all until the evening.

In fact, there were two reasons why Kyle was so stubborn about not seeing Brody’s body.

The first was just embarrassment, and the second was because of a certain feeling of rejection that came from that embarrassment.

Until now, Kyle has not regarded Brody as a colleague, she was just a mating-crazy ‘female rabbit’, in the realm of the opposite sex.

Unfortunately, that was the case before.

However, the incident at the river earlier made him face the fact that Brody was also a normal person and a ‘woman’ just like him.

Kyle was embarrassed by the fact he had just realized, and at the same time felt a sense of rejection.

He also didn’t know why, there were parts of him that insisted that he didn’t see what he saw, like an adolescent boy.

However, as time passed and the journey continued until evening, he entered his burrow.

Kyle discovered what had been bothering him all along: his rejection of identifying the rabbit as a woman.

It was a kind of guilt.

Even when Brody turned into a human, her body was really small, just like when she was a rabbit.

He thought that women had long bones, so no matter how small they were, they were on a different level as wolves, who were over 170 centimeters tall.

However Brody was so small and delicate that the first time he saw her, he thought she was a forest fairy from a fairy tale.

It was so hard to believe that he went on this difficult journey with her with a body like that.

Also, no matter how much she teased him to the point of annoyance, did he really kick, bite and throw such a small and weak woman?

When he thought about that, his conscience pricked him belatedly.

Moreover, as he remembered how she was incredibly touched by the fact that he had just licked her head, he started to feel uncomfortable as he reflected on how unkind he had been to the rabbit.

“Kyle.”

Brody’s voice came from the entrance of the den. He heard her a while ago, but he was ignoring her because he was busy thinking about this and that.

“Are you still angry?”

“……”

“Uh. Just pretend you didn’t see it, don’t be angry.”

When Brody saw that Kyle was too lost in thought to answer, she quickly crawled into the den that she had dug next to him.

Then, after a while, she pushed her face into the small hole in the wall between her and Kyle’s den and spoke again.

“I won’t play around with that anymore either. Okay?”

Only then did Kyle raise his head, look at Brody who was sticking her head in his den, and was constantly trying to comfort him.

He did not know how to handle weak animals. To be precise, he didn’t know how to take care of and protect them.

This is because in the wild where he, a predator, lived as the master, the weak were merely prey or beings to be stepped on.

So, he had never once considered the position of the weak….

Today, for the first time, Kyle put himself in Brody’s shoes.

And that thought made him change his mindset and behavior a little bit.

He said this to Brody, who was still sticking her head in his hole as if she wouldn’t move until she heard an answer.

“…I’m not angry, so go and sleep.”

Brody chuckled, as if she finally felt relieved. Kyle laughed as he saw a wide smile blooming on her face.

She seemed to be in a better mood as the atmosphere relaxed, so she thrashed around and broke through the wall.

Then, she ran to him and hugged him, telling him to sleep well.

“Sleep well, honey.”

In an instant, the smile that remained on Kyle’s lips was completely erased.

At some point, he started to become annoyed at her for crossing the wall and hugging him sneakily.

If it had been any other time, he would have already bitten her with his mouth or kicked her off.

But instead of doing that, Kyle just got up from his seat.

It was a newly invented method to shake her off without shocking her. It was annoying, but clearly effective.

Because of this, Brody, who had been leaning in his arms, slipped to the floor and bit her lips.

“Okay. You can go.”

Brody shook her snow-covered buttocks and crossed the hole again, gambling, “I won’t give you a chance anyway.”

Kyle sat down again only after she returned to her den.

Brody’s mumbling could be heard from beyond the wall, where only the debris of snow remained.

Kyle, who was trying to fall asleep, wanted to scold her to be quiet, as per his usual temperament, but kept his mouth shut instead.

He didn’t know how long this patience would last, but he closed his eyes, telling himself to endure it at least for today.