I Picked Up an Abandoned Villain in the Polar Region

Episode 32

 

“Is our continent that popular? When you actually get there, there’s nothing but snow.”

Brody was surprised that the seemingly ordinary continent of Asgard was so popular among the people of the Southern Continent.

Shiloh answered, looking at Brody, who was flapping her ears, as if he found it cute.

“Because it’s a continent shrouded in mystery, everyone wants to go there. I did too. Of course, I almost ended up in heaven on my way to Asgar.”

Brody giggled at Shiloh’s creepy joke.

Kyle, who was next to her, looked annoyed at that and glared at her from the corner of his eyes.

But Brody continued talking to Shiloh because she didn’t know why he was staring.

She listened to the story of Shiloh’s experiences adrift at sea, and said she felt sorry that despite all his hardships, he was unable to go to Asgar.

“Could it be that the whale did not grant Shiloh’s wish because of our wish to go to the Southern Continent? Otherwise, Shiloh, who wanted to go to Asgar, would not have been brought back to the South.”

“Well… well, the whale has already granted my wish. I’m not sure yet, though.”

Brody looked up at Shiloh, not understanding what he was saying.

If he wanted to go to Asgar, how did his wish come true if he never got there?

“What was your wish?”

Shiloh laughed softly and waved his forelegs.

“There is a saying that If you try to know too much, you will get hurt.”

Brody frowned. What on earth could Shiloh want to do?

She was a rabbit who couldn’t give up quickly once she had a question without hearing the answer so she stared at Shiloh persistently.

But Shiloh, who was more persistent than her, never answered.

Brody finally gave up asking any more questions and ran towards Kyle. She then glanced at Shiloh and whispered.

“Kyle, what do you think Shiloh’s wish was? Why is he hiding it? Something seems fishy.”

It was also an attempt to induce him, who had never participated in conversations until then, to join in the conversation.

But Kyle got annoyed, not knowing the rabbit’s feelings.

“I find it more suspicious that you are curious about that. Why are you curious about that guy’s wish? Do you have nothing better to do? You have a lot of energy left that your head is working so much?”

“No, that’s not it….”

Brody, who had asked a question and received a lot of criticism, mumbled in frustration and opened her eyes wide to glare at him.

She also couldn’t figure out what was causing his judgment to be distorted and biased.

But Kyle just walked away without even noticing her angry gaze.

An enraged Brody kicked her front leg as if punching the air at him.

“Anyway, he’s like an annoying son of a wolf.”

“Actually, even when you look at it from the side, he is a bit annoying.”

It was a playful remark from Shiloh who had been chasing after her. He glanced at Kyle who was leisurely walking on the ice rink alone, then turned to Brody and asked.

“By the way, what on earth is your relationship that you’re traveling together?”

He had a look that clearly revealed the question of how a wolf and a rabbit were alone together.

The pairing of the two was quite novel to Shiloh as well.

Brody answered the question as if it were nothing.

“Kyle and I are lovers. I had some personal reasons to travel and got to meet Kyle, so I became his guide to his home.”

“You are his lover?”

Shiloh looked incredulous at Brody’s answer.

Then, after a while, he lowered his voice and asked Brody about the conclusion he had come up with in his head.

“Have you been threatened by that wolf by any chance? If so, tell me. I can help you.”

“That’s not it.”

Brody chuckled at the seriousness in his voice and waved her forelegs.

Although Shiloh felt slightly relieved by the firm answer and didn’t show any signs of discomfort, he still couldn’t shake off his suspicious expression.

Brody, sensing the gaze, pointed to Kyle and spoke to clear up the misunderstanding.

“Rather, I was the one who asked Kyle out. Can’t you tell just by looking at our interactions? He doesn’t care about me, and I’m just hitting on him.”

Brody was the type of person who would say embarrassing things without any hesitation.

Shiloh looked at Kyle after hearing that, his gaze becoming slightly subtle.

Even in his eyes, it was clear that Brody was more aggressive towards Kyle.

But…was it really that one-sided?

“What?”

Brody, who couldn’t hear his muttering voice properly, asked what he had said.

Then Shiloh, who came to his senses, waved his front paw with a smiling face, saying that it was nothing.

 

***

 

Their journey continued late into the night. As darkness fell, the three dug their own holes to rest.

But unlike on land, the snow was quite hard after being deposited on the ice floe, so it took Brody a long time to dig the hole.

Eventually, she dug a small hole and went to Kyle, who was lying down, and asked him for a favor.

“Kyle, can you help me dig a hole?”

“……”

Kyle didn’t answer. The cold attitude had been there since morning and it seemed to still be there.

As she turned around, Shiloh, who had already finished digging the hole and was throwing the snow aside, poked his head out and asked her.

“Shall I help you?”

“Really?”

Brody opened her mouth wide and clasped her forelegs together, impressed by the unexpected offer. His profile at that moment was like that of an angel.

Shiloh laughed as if it was nothing and tried to crawl out of the hole.

“Kyle?”

Kyle, who had just laid down without even responding to her call for help, suddenly came out of the hole.

He walked over without saying a word, stuck his head into the hole Brody had dug, and dug out the snow from the hole.

After Brody’s hole was dug deep, she was taken aback when she saw Kyle storm back into the house without saying a word.

But she quickly smiled bashfully, said good night to Shiloh, and quickly disappeared into the hole Kyle had dug for her.

The cave was more cozy and nice than usual because of how deep it was dug.

Brody, who was feeling good and wiggling her butt, started digging into the wall right next to her.

As always, it was to create a passage leading to Kyle’s cave. Soon, the thin snow wall was dug through, creating a round hole.

When she put her eyes on that hole, she saw a body in the cave next to hers.

Kyle was seen lying down.

Brody made the hole a little bigger by tapping it with her front paw, then stuck her head in and called Kyle.

“Kyle.”

Since they hadn’t talked much all day, she was pestering him to talk a little before going to bed.

Kyle, who had been pretending to sleep, opened his eyes and was startled at first when he saw Brody with her head sticking out of the wall.

But soon, he let out a sigh of annoyance and turned his head away.

In fact, Kyle wasn’t feeling too good all day. Although he was rationalizing it to himself that it was because he was hungry, there were moments when his mood rapidly declined.

It was right when two white fur balls were cuddling together.

The two white furballs were Brody and Shiloh. Annoyingly, even their fur colors were exactly the same.

First of all, he was already annoyed at Shiloh who deceived them while they were in the belly of the whale, but seeing his face that looked like a parasite made him even more annoyed.

The corners of his eyes were also slit, giving him a sly and sneaky look.

Every time they chatted alone, he felt like something was stuck in his throat. Also, the sly voice he had been speaking with was very annoying.

He couldn’t understand what was so good about that guy that that **** rabbit kept yapping with him all day.

Before, she always followed him around, but today she was following that fox everywhere.

Was that **** rabbit all good as long as it’s male? It seemed like a typical behavior of a rabbit in heat.

Anyway, because of this inexplicable irritation, Kyle had been ignoring Brody and just staring at her.

But Brody didn’t know that and still told him about Shiloh without any hesitation, and it got on his nerves.

“Kyle, are you really hungry? Maybe you should have eaten some of that fish that Shiloh Oppa was eating earlier.”

“Shiloh Oppa?”

Kyle frowned in shock when he heard Brody call Shiloh that.

But Brody didn’t take note of Kyle’s shock and answered nonchalantly.

“Ah. Shiloh Oppa is two years older than me. That’s why I decided to call him Oppa.”

When she talked about being ‘two years old’, she showed off her two toes on her front paws and acted cute, but Kyle thought that was even more annoying.

What Oppa! Your Oppa can go die by himself.

He didn’t want to talk to the girl who kept calling that fox “Oppa” anymore, so he got up from his seat and dug the floor with his hind feet.

“Kyle, what’s wrong?”

Brody asked Kyle when she suddenly saw him digging the floor, but Kyle didn’t answer.

He just kept his mouth shut and squinted his eyes, as he began filling the passage Brody had made with his snow.

“What! Why are you doing this! What if you block what I dug up?!”

Brody screamed as her face, sticking out of the wall, was buried in a pile of snow.

But Kyle piled more snow on top, built a thicker wall, and sat back down.

Brody’s disgruntled grunting could be heard from the side burrow where the hole was blocked.

But Kyle ignored it and blew air into his nose.

She says ‘hey, you’ to someone who’s four years older than her, but to someone who’s only two years older than her, she says ‘Oppa’.

Wasn’t it only possible to use that kind of title between very close friends? That **** rabbit.

Kyle, overcome with needless irritation, shut his eyes tightly, ignoring her voice that kept grumbling.

 

***

 

The next day.

After being isolated by Kyle and complaining for a long time, Brody fell asleep. As the sun rose, she woke up to Kyle’s voice waking her up from outside the cave as usual.

“Come out quickly. Before I leave you behind.”

“Hmm….”

Brody woke up from a dream of eating delicious carrots and licked her lips in regret.

When she opened her eyes, she immediately stretched out her two front legs in front and her buttocks backwards.

And like a beautiful rabbit who takes good care of herself, she washed her face diligently and thoroughly and then quickly packed her bag.

However….

“Uh?”

She clearly remembered sleeping with her bag on her head yesterday, but it was now in the corner, wide open near the entrance.

Brody tilted her head.

There’s no way Kyle would have come and searched through it, and he might have been asleep.

Did she rampage through the bag while she was sleeping?

Since she wasn’t the type to sleep very quietly, she thought that was a pretty plausible idea.

Brody, who had quickly gathered her thoughts without much deliberation, packed her bag and headed out of the cave.