Episode 39
Brody’s tearful eyes were stained with hurt and betrayal.
Even a person who had done nothing wrong would feel guilty, so how much worse must it be for someone who had done something wrong.
Shiloh stopped, unable to approach Brody any further.
And then he avoided her gaze and blamed Brody.
“You are so naive.”
But to Brody, his hesitation now seemed like a show of weakness.
She said as the sadness had gradually subsided and only the anger from the betrayal remained.
“Shut up, you ***** scammer.”
Shiloh looked at her in shock at the harsh words that came out of her mouth.
Brody, on the other hand, glared at him with a venomous look, her eyes filled with tears.
Her small body trembled with betrayal. She roughly rubbed her eyes with her forelegs as if trying to calm herself down, then opened her mouth.
“So what you’re saying is, you’ll kill me to turn back time?”
“That’s right.”
Shiloh admitted it meekly. Brody burst out laughing again, dumbfounded.
He was such a shameless person. The moment she realized that fact anew, she felt like a fool for not realizing his true nature until now.
Brody regretted it. She shouldn’t have just ignored Kyle’s feelings, who was wary and displeased with Shiloh.
Meanwhile, Shiloh, feeling guilty after seeing Brody’s tears, softened his attitude and abandoned his previous behavior of being an emotionless psychopath.
He returned to his normal face like the days they spent together and spoke to Brody.
“I’m sorry. But there’s nothing I can do about it.”
But it was something Brody would have been better off not hearing.
Wasn’t the excuse that he couldn’t help it something she’d heard from Jacob too?
This was already the second time Brody had heard that excuse. After hearing it twice, she was starting to get annoyed.
She wanted to yell at him to stop talking nonsense, but she held it back.
In times like these, rather than being consumed by emotions, she should use this to her advantage to help her overcome the situation.
The first thing she started was stalling.
Maybe Kyle would come looking for her when he noticed her disappearance.
No matter how much they fought, she was still useful to him. The thought was bitter, but Brody quickly turned to Shiloh and snapped.
“Tell me what makes it inevitable.”
Her purpose was to continue the conversation.
Luckily, Shiloh was able to communicate now, so they had to talk before he got too aggressive.
Brody was not comfortable revealing this, but she continued speaking in a nervous voice to Shiloh, who was not paying attention.
“You’re mistaken. Even if you kill me, time won’t turn back unless I want it to. Not just want, but ‘desperately’ want it to turn back.”
Of course, if he had a magic stone that could take away someone’s unique ability, it would be a different story.
In that case, it would be possible for him to turn back time using the magic power in the stone even without her will
However, these magic stones were not easy to obtain as they belonged to the realm of black magic.
She believed that Shiloh didn’t have something like that too. She could tell just from the shock he showed when he heard Brody’s words.
“Is that… true?”
Brody answered by just looking at him without saying a word.
Shiloh sighed with a dejected look on his face and slumped down in his seat.
“Then what have I been doing until now?”
Such nonsense.
Brody desperately resisted the urge to answer and asked.
“Why on earth did you want to turn back time?”
Of course, she wasn’t curious about the reason at all.
Did she have to know how great the con artist’s reasons for wanting to kill her were?
She decided to endure this as hard as she could because there was nothing better than telling a story to kill time.
Shiloh, who had no way of knowing Brody’s feelings, seemed to have changed his strategy after hearing Brody’s words.
He slumped his shoulders with a pitiful expression, as if trying to convince her by telling her his story.
“Actually, I lied to you guys last time.”
“It mustn’t have been just one or two lies.”
Brody quietly mumbled, but Shiloh pretended not to hear it and ignored what was said.
“That’s where I come from. I’m actually from the White Fox Tribe that lives in the Ennea Forest.”
Whether it was the White Fox Tribe or the Red Fox Tribe, it was information of no use to Brody.
She didn’t know why he was talking nonsense when she asked him to tell her why he tried to turn back time.
Just when Brody was starting to get annoyed, this time she heard something from Shiloh that was hard to ignore.
“Shiloh Ennea.”
“…?”
“That’s my name.”
Brody heard those words and looked up at him.
According to the setting seen in ‘Blue Wolf’, those with surnames named after the area, such as ‘Roden’ in Roden’s Valley and ‘Elders’ in Elder’s Canyon, were all the family members or successors of the tribal leader.
In short, if there was a person with the surname ‘Ennea’, their identity was clear.
Either the family of the leader of the White Fox Tribe, the master of this forest, or… the leader’s successor.
Brody’s eyes widened.
At her reaction, as if she had realized something, Shiloh nodded.
“That’s right. I am the successor to the White Fox Tribe.”
***
Long ago, in the western part of the Knohen Continent, the White Fox Tribe and the Red Fox Tribe lived together.
But as the era of abundance came to an end and it became increasingly difficult to find food, conflicts began to arise between those who shared the same food.
And the conflict grew worse and worse until a great war broke out, and the two tribes were finally separated.
The White Fox Tribe, which was relatively weak at the time, went up to the northwestern snowfields where there was not much food, and the Red Fox Tribe used the central western wilderness as their territory, and since then they did not interact with each other and lived as enemies.
But one day, 20 years ago.
The seeds of reconciliation began to sprout between those who had been enemies.
This was the fate that began when Eileen, the successor of the White Fox Tribe, and Rubinus, the successor of the Red Fox Tribe, met and became friends.
The two quickly became close friends as they shared the same goal of becoming witches, But unfortunately, the future of peace they were supposed to bring faded away without ever seeing the light of day.
Rubinus, who wanted to have greater power, dabbled in black magic, and ended up arguing with Eileen, who was aware of the dangers of black magic and opposed it, and they ended up estranged.
Eventually, the two people broke off their relationship due to a clash of values, and the seed of peace that had been growing between them withered.
17 years after this incident.
Eileen, who was raising her soon-to-be adult son as her successor, heard some bad news.
Rubinus joined hands with the black witch Amidal.
There was news that she was planning to capture and take control of the western part of the continent.
Black magic was the practice of destroying the soul to gain power.
Eileen, who still had a friendship with Rubinus, could not stand by and watch her run wild and ruin the West with this power.
So to prevent this, Eileen left for the wilderness of Rubinus.
And after a long duel, she succeeded in neutralizing Rubinus’s powers so that she could not use black magic, but in return she suffered serious injuries.
When Eileen returned to the estate, she was barely alive.
The White Fox Tribe, unaware that Eileen had sealed Rubinus’s black magic, were unable to even take revenge on Rubinus.
However, after three years, the White Fox Tribe learned of this and attacked Rubinus, taking her newborn baby hostage and forcing her to find a way to save Eileen.
But Rubinus didn’t know how to do that either.
And during this time, the White Fox Tribe heard the story of the ‘Clock Rabbit of Asgard’ from an old witch.
The legend of the Clock Rabbits living in Asgard having the ability to turn back time was true.
***
“That’s why I went to Asgard to find that ‘Clock Rabbit’.”
Before he knew it, Brody was sitting on the snow, listening to Shiloh’s story.
She never dreamed that these national events would be intertwined with the reasons for him trying to kill her.
After hearing the full story of the incident, she was speechless for a while, then asked cautiously.
“So this person named Eileen… is your mother?”
“That’s right. She’s been lying in bed for three years. She’s barely hanging on to her life thanks to the medicine the mage gave her… but each day…she is in danger of dying.”
His words, which were overflowing with emotions he never showed before, were choked up mid-sentence.
He seemed to quietly hold back his boiling anger.
Shiloh went to Asgar himself to rescue his mother.
Since he had never been outside his territory, he tried to cross the North Sea by himself on a ferry without knowing the sea conditions.
Then, he was caught in a storm and was eaten by a whale that happened to be passing by.
Shiloh had known the legend of the Wishing Whale since he was a child.
So Shiloh, who saw with his own eyes that it was a whale that had swallowed him, wondered if this whale might be the legendary Wishing Whale that had come to find him after knowing about his wish to go to Asgar.
Otherwise, it would have been impossible to survive in the stomach of a normal whale.
And this suspicion was half confirmed when Brody, a real Clock Rabbit, entered the whale’s belly.
‘Hey.’
‘I’m Brodie, a rabbit from Asgard.’
After coming out of the whale with her, he went into the burrow where Brody was sleeping at night and searched through her bag.
He went through Brody’s pocket watch and books in her bag, and was completely convinced when he saw the clues in the picture that showed her to be the Clock Rabbit.
He knew since then that Brody was the Clock Rabbit he was looking for.
Even though there was an unexpected pitfall called Kyle, Shiloh wasn’t worried.
Although the two of them were lovers, their relationship didn’t seem that strong, and in Brody’s case, it was calculated that if he could just twist things around, it would be possible to pull her in without causing any bloodshed.
Of course, before he made this choice, As a person with normal values and a conscience, the more he became close to her, the more he was tormented by the fact that he had to kill this poor little rabbit.
It would have been easy to not care about Brody’s personality if she had been mean, but she was innocent and lovable.
But no matter how much his conscience tormented him, it was not as great as the pain of losing his mother.
So he couldn’t give up.
Rather than seeing his mother die, he would rather kill this rabbit with his own hands.
He could endure it even if he had to pay for that blood sin for the rest of his life.
