I Picked Up an Abandoned Villain in the Polar Region

Episode 4

 

Actually, unlike what I said, the road from Asgar to Knohen was not that much of uncivilized road.

Brody’s father, a mapmaker, was also a man who traveled alone from the continent of Asgar to the continent of Knohen.

There was only one reason why Brody was holding the hem of Kyle’s pants.

To stop him from going back and dying. With the compassion that once cheered him on as a devoted reader.

Of course, the other person could never have known this.

In the end, Kyle let her go because she did not give in to multiple threats.

If it had been his natural temperament, he would have been so annoyed that he would have killed him, but since threats didn’t work, he seemed to have decided to appease her.

But Brody had the intention of never giving in, no matter how he tried to persuade her.

“Hey, wake up.”

“I told you to wake up.”

“Get up and eat some of this.”

Brody grabbed Kyle’s limp body and shook it.

Kyle Roden had not been able to eat or drink for three days now and was dying.

She gave him handfuls of the crowberries she had worked so hard to gather and dug up some moss, but he didn’t put any of them to his mouth.

Of course, wolves are animals that can survive without starvation for up to 7 days.

But that also means that if he were to starve for 7 days, it was obvious that he would not be able to endure it and would start eating the rabbits that rolled around in front of him.

Brody climbed on top of his body, which was ten times bigger than hers, and jumped around like she was on a trampoline, and even pulled his tail.

Still, Kyle didn’t move. He might get so angry that he might bite me.

It seemed like he really intended to die like this. At this point, Brody’s heart began to weaken.

Finally, on the fourth day.

Brody made up her mind and approached the dying Kyle.

Kyle was lying face down with his chest on the floor. She went between his paws and sat down in the same position across from him.

The distance was close enough for the wolf’s black nose to touch the rabbit’s pink nose.

She quietly looked at Kyle, who was pretending to sleep. Even in the midst of the awkwardness, his handsome face caught her eye first.

Even though he turned into a wolf, his handsome appearance could not be hidden.

Additionally, the scent of the wild male became stronger than before.

For her who was in heat, the three days she spent with that wonderful male were almost like hell.

Even though she tried to suppress it, her instinct kept pushing her, telling her that she had to catch and eat that wolf.

“Hmm.”

Brody put her dark thoughts out of her head.

Now was not the time to be imagining things like this.

You had to save him. And in order to save him, you must guide him to the continent of Knohen.

However, if Kyle is taken to the Knohen Continent, it will ultimately end up killing him.

As long as the male protagonist Abel exists, he will be abandoned by the female protagonist when he returns.

In fact, the best way was for him to make up his mind about the heroine.

Then, even if he is abandoned by Zelda, he won’t try to kill the male protagonist Abel, and he won’t end up dying himself.

So, should I help him put his mind in order while heading to the continent?

But by what means?

How do you dissuade a crazy, obsessed man from trying to kill his rival brother just because he was abandoned by a woman?

Brody was lost in thought as she tapped the floor with her front paw.

But, funny enough, the solution to this turned out to be quite simple.

As she was worrying, she looked down at her front feet, and then her attention quickly shifted away from her worries.

The stream of thoughts that followed were like this.

Those paws are really cute to me. It may be more so in other people’s eyes.

Wait, wouldn’t that make me cute in the eyes of this wolf bastard?

When her thoughts reached that point, Brody lifted her head as an idea flashed through her mind.

Then if I was cute, wouldn’t I be able to change this tough wolf’s heart?

Without thinking too hard, all I would have to do was seduce him with my devilish cuteness.

Fortunately, Kyle Roden was a virgin who did not know women yet because he was obsessed with Zelda.

So all I have to do was open his eyes and let him know that the world is wide and there are many women for him to love.

She is one of those many women.

The corners of Brody’s mouth drew an arc as she found the answer.

She tapped Kyle’s nose with her devilish paw, feeling her idea was good.

“Hey.”

“…….”

Kyle still had his eyes closed.

Brody knew he was pretending to sleep, so she kept calling him.

“Wake up.”

“…….”

There was still no answer. In the end, Brody struck a turning blow with the intention of seeing how long he would continue to ignore her words.

“I’ll take you home, so wake up.”

For a moment, his ears perked up. And slowly his eyes opened.

It was the first time I saw an his eyes in a few days. I was offended that he had been ignoring me even though he could open his eyes like this, but I gave up and continued talking.

“I will be your guide.”

His eyes narrowed, as if he was suspicious of the sudden favor.

In response, Brody put a condition on it, as if to prove her intentions were sincere.

“There is a condition instead.”

“A condition?”

“Go out with me.”

 

***

 

Over the past three days, Kyle had felt the urge to kill the rabbit in front of him thousands of times.

Maybe tens of thousands of times.¹Wel…I think this is not good for their relationship in the future:⁠-⁠*

It was the first time in my life except for my younger brother, Abel, that I felt this much desire to destroy someone.

Still, Abel treated me like an older brother. This rabbit wasn’t even that.

She picked up some unremarkable fruit and told me to eat it, and if I wasn’t going to eat the fruit, she would hold out moss and tell me to eat some grass. She also spoke arrogantly and informally at the end of every word.

Was that all? No.

She screamed into my ear to eat, climbed on my neck and pulled my ears, slided on my back, and even pulled my tail.²If you put it that way, then…I understand. You can eat her now^⁠_⁠^

Every time, my blood boiled inside.

Since I was hungry, I felt like I wanted to catch that rabbit and chew on its bones and eat it.

In most cases, prisoners of the same species do not kill each other to fill their stomachs, but for Kyle, who was angry, this was an exception.

He had forgotten that she had already saved him, and he did not know that she was still saving him, so as each day passed, his desire to catch the rabbit and run over it only increased.

Of course, despite this, Kyle used his superhuman strength to suppress and swallow that murderous intent every time.

Unable to hold back his momentary anger, he attacked Abel as he announced his engagement.

And in the end, he was exiled by the pack and came here, and there was something he learned through this bitter experience.

The fact is that you have to endure in order to get what you want.

If only I had held back my anger that day and made a contribution by first attacking the tiger tribe that was planning to attack later.

If I had done that, I would have been recognized by everyone and Zelda’s heart would have been mine.

However, I could not bear it and ended up being expelled for my actions. So now I know.

I needed that rabbit. So, I had to be patient and not get angry until I won the rabbit’s heart.

Moreover, the rabbit in front of me was no ordinary rabbit.

When I first saw her, I thought she was just a rabbit, but upon closer inspection, I saw that she was the legendary ‘clock rabbit’.

[Clock rabbit. Those who live only in the snow country have the ability to turn back time 3 minutes before at the most desperate moments. When they put their life on the line, they can turn the needle to the near past, to any time they want.]

The rabbit, in the folk tale that I heard about when I was young and had been passed down like a legend, was the one right in front of me.

As soon as Kyle noticed the clock around her neck, he remembered an illustration of a clock rabbit he had once seen in an old book.

And then he realized. That he had discovered a very useful beast.

According to the rabbit, the road to the Knohen continent was no different from a death road.

However, if I go with the rabbit, I will be able to turn back time the moment something dangerous happens.

Thanks to this, they will survive together.

Kyle really wanted to use her as a guide. It was a rabbit that would be a waste to kill just because he was annoyed.

Was there a stronger shield from the danger that I would be facing in the future?

Not only that, but this rabbit was so sympathetic that it even picked up a passerby who was lying on the road.

It was a type of character that was very easy to use.³I am beginning to slightly hate you here, please clear your mind of those thoughts.ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

So Kyle decided to take advantage of the Clock Rabbit’s sympathy.

Seeing himself dying, the Clock Rabbit would compromise and eventually grant his request.

“Hey.”

“Wake up.”

“I will show you the way, so get up.”

Look at that. The old saying that good things come to those who persevere was not wrong.

Kyle made eye contact with the Clock Rabbit and exclaimed in joy. Of course, he reacted indifferently on the outside.

However, when the rabbit, which he thought was just a push over, had given a condition, he flinched a little.

I was nervous because it seemed like she knew how to do calculations on the subject.

And the moment I finally heard her condition, I was completely speechless.

“Go out with me.”

Outside of what I thought, so much so.

It was a condition that was completely beyond my common sense.

Kyle twitched his eyes. It was the only thing that could be done.

I wanted to ask if this was a joke. But no matter how you look at it, the rabbit was sincere.

“I actually quite liked you.”

The rabbit winking at me while saying nonsense that didn’t sound like words was terrifying.

It was also disgusting to see someone burst out laughing, saying, “Hehe,” and that someone was smaller than my head.

I thought I had met a lot of crazy people, including me, in my life.

But this was my first time seeing a beast that went crazy like that.

A rabbit that wanted to associate with a wolf. Was she really crazy?

No matter how many young prisoners these days say crazy things like love and marriage that go beyond the boundaries of species, these words did not apply to him at all.

Moreover, there was a bigger reason why this proposal could not be accepted.

It was the fact that Kyle had a woman he loved.

“I already have a woman in mind.”

However, the rabbit paid no heed to Kyle’s inconsiderate rejection.

“Are you dating now?”

“It’s not that, but….”

“Okay then, that’s it.”

The rabbit spread its front paws and shrugged its shoulders, asking what was the problem.

For Kyle, on the other hand, this was a huge problem.

Zelda Arsha, whom he loved, was the strongest, most beautiful, and perfect woman among them.

How can I leave her like that and date a crazy female from a completely different species? This was ridiculous.

But in the end, all of this was just the situation he was stuck in, and the rabbit in front of him was only giving him two options.

Just like he did.

“Now, choose.”

“……..”

“Are you going to become my lover and go to the Continent of Knohen, or are you going to become a ghost wandering the Asgar Continent?”