I Picked Up an Abandoned Villain in the Polar Region

Episode 56

 

This was because they were people who believed only in their own strength and always picked on Kyle.

Kyle clenched his teeth, letting go of the pain and anger.

He wiped the blood flowing from his forehead and looked at his father with cold eyes and grinned.

“I just responded to Baldwin’s children who were arguing without knowing their place. Is that wrong?”

It was indeed wrong. There was nothing that would provoke the landowner’s anger more than hunting livestock on their territory.

So, Kyle’s father couldn’t help but get angry because he was acting so shamelessly as if he didn’t know that.

“You should have endured it! We’re barely maintaining peace, but if you keep acting like this, what good is the peace that comes out of my mouth? Do you always feel better when you trash my words like this?”

There was only one reason why his father insisted on making peace with Baldwin.

Because he was afraid of Erbe. So he wanted to make sure they got help from the lions when he fought later.

But Kyle never thought they would help him when he was in trouble.

From ancient times, it has been said that insolent lions were not to be trusted.

“It was my father who taught me to bite the one who touches me. I just did as I was taught.”

“You should have done it when the time was right! You’re already that old and can’t even tell right from wrong? This time, it was fortunate that your younger brother was close to the youngest son of Ascal Baldwin and explained the situation to him. Otherwise, those guys would have risen up already!”

Kyle clenched his fists as his father brought up his younger brother again.

He could never get used to having to endure humiliation and embarrassment in front of his younger sibling.

No, the more he suffered, the more his rebellious spirit grew.

Kyle clenched his teeth as his father told him to be grateful to his brother. Then he spoke as if spitting out the words.

“No matter what you say, my mind will not change. If they touch me, I will bite them, and if they cause trouble, I will repay them with a much greater humiliation. So next time, Father, send Abel to make a fuss.”

Ignoring his father’s yelling from behind him, Kyle kicked away the remains of the ink bottle that had fallen at his feet and left the room.

“Ha.”

Kyle’s body was shaking as he left the room and sighed.

He was seething with anger at his father’s actions.

He wanted to fight back more, but no matter what he said, it wouldn’t work, so he could only hold his anger inside.

He couldn’t even remember when he started living such a frustrating life.

When he was very young, he was afraid of his father.

This was especially true because his father was always strict with him.

But as Kyle grew up, he started to feel uncomfortable with his father’s oppression, and so they kept clashing, and now their relationship had completely deteriorated.

He thought that as he got older he would be free from being treated like this, but that wasn’t the case.

No, it actually got worse.

This treatment began to worsen after he turned twenty.

His life was thrown into turmoil when his once quiet younger brother Abel began to slowly come into focus.

His younger brother, who was weak when he was young, became stronger as he got older. His growth was dazzling day by day.

It was even faster than the growth shown by the successor, Kyle, and his father, who was more surprised than anyone else, was moved by Abel’s growing strength.

But he hoped his children would not end up like him.

He hoped that his children would not live in fear of having their brother taking their place, causing an irreparable rift between them, leading to a life of vengeance and enmity.

So, he whipped Kyle harshly to make him stronger than his brother.

But the whipping only made Kyle tired, while his younger brother grew up day by day.

Then Abel made his presence felt completely to the people at the autumn harvest festival held when he was twenty years old.

At that time, the elders gathered the young men of Roden who had undergone the coming-of-age ceremony and held a traditional ‘survival’ competition.

The person chosen as the leader in the competition had to lead his team members into the rugged mountains and fields where it was difficult to obtain food and drink.

Then they had to go to the place designated by the elders and bring the items they had designated.

In short, this competition was a race where the one who ‘survived’ until the end won.

Naturally, Kyle and his younger brother Abel also participated in this competition.

It was the first official event Abel attended after becoming an adult.

While Kyle was the leader from the beginning and led the team, Abel was a member of a different team that was competing with them.

However, the person who ultimately won this competition was not Kyle, who had all the expectations of the wolf pack on his shoulders, but his younger brother Abel, who was extremely weak and gentle.

The reason was none other than this.

Kyle survived with only one thought in mind: winning, and that’s how he went into the competition.

As a result, he was unable to take his team members into account and continued on the journey forcefully, leaving his team members who had dropped out behind and marched through the journey alone.

He caught his own prey and ate it alone. He was an overbearing and selfish leader who did not allow anyone to climb up to him.

So, after all the hardships, he crossed the finish line first, but none of his teammates remained.

But Abel was different.

Even though Abel went as a team member, he encouraged his teammates from the rear so that no one would drop out. Whenever he had food, he always shared it with those who had less to eat than him. He took care of his teammates first and himself last.

So when he finally got to the finish line, He became the leader of the team and brought everyone back safely without a single person dropping out.

At that time, the elders unanimously gave the championship trophy to Abel, who returned with everyone, rather than Kyle, who arrived first but survived alone.

And from this point on, people started to say that Abel had the qualities of a better leader than Kyle and that he should be chosen as the successor.

His father was also very disappointed in Kyle because of this, resulting in him comparing Kyle to Abel whenever he had the chance and suffocating him.

Even if he did something slightly wrong, he would bring up his younger brother and embarrass Kyle in front of him.

Just like right now.

Kyle roughly rubbed the blood from his forehead.

As he was suppressing his anger like that, the door to the room he had closed opened and his younger brother Abel came out.

Kyle completely ignored his presence.

But Abel approached Kyle, handed him a handkerchief, and asked with a worried face.

“Brother, are you okay?”

Abel respected his brother since he was little, and always treated him affectionately even when his brother ignored him.

But Kyle hated that even more.

Abel’s loving nature was also evidence that, unlike him, he was raised with love from his parents.

That’s why he hated his good intentions even more.

Kyle grumbled, slapping away the arm holding out the handkerchief.

“Don’t pretend to care. Aren’t you enjoying this situation right now?”

Abel furrowed his brow as if hurt by his brother’s sharp reaction, but he still spoke to Kyle with a gentle gaze without being discouraged.

“You know that’s not true.”

Unlike Kyle, who was out and about since childhood, Abel was raised by his loving mother.

He grew up staying by his mother’s side, who lived quietly at home after she became seriously ill, so his father couldn’t help but love him, as he resembled his mother.

With just his parents and Abel, his family was perfect.

So Kyle became even more jealous and hated Abel.

He approached his younger brother, whose mere presence always turned him extremely angry, and scolded him.

“Stop acting so disgusting in front of me and scram.”

However when he turned away coldly, ignoring his younger brother’s face that was being crushed by the verbal abuse…

Someone’s voice broke into the increasingly cold conversation between the brothers.

“Kyle. You’re here.”

Just then, a woman walking towards them in search of Kyle came into their sight.

She was a beautiful woman with luscious dark brown hair and clear blue eyes like a lake.

“Zelda.”

Kyle called her name first. At the same time, he turned his gaze out of habit to check his younger brother Abel’s reaction.

Abel couldn’t take his eyes off Zelda, but then slowly and belatedly looked away.

The corners of Kyle’s mouth went up when he saw Abel like that.

It was a well-known fact that Abel loved Zelda Arsha.

Zelda, who had been walking with a dignified appearance, looked at Abel beyond Kyle, then quickly looked back at Kyle.

Then Kyle, who couldn’t see her gaze directed at his younger brother, ignored Abel’s presence and led Zelda down the hallway, walking with her there.

“Why did you come looking for me?”

“I heard the elders sent your servant, Brother Oswald, to the border of Elder’s Canyon at their morning meeting.”

Although young, Zelda was trusted by the council enough to occasionally attend meetings in place of her elder parents.

As the most perfect woman in the group, she was intelligent and talented, and possessed great strength.

That’s why people naturally thought she would become the next successor’s wife.

Originally, it was an unspoken rule that the strongest and most capable woman in a pack would become the leader’s wife.

It was also the greatest honor for the woman.

So, although Zelda Arsha was not engaged to Kyle, it was almost a given that she would become Kyle’s wife unless a more outstanding woman appeared.

Kyle also thought of Zelda as the woman he would one day have.

No, he thought he had to. If only for the sake of the guy who was staring blankly at them from behind.

Zelda, who was reporting what she heard from the elders’ meeting, looked surprised when she saw the wound on Kyle’s forehead.

“Are you okay? You’re bleeding.”

“It’s nothing.”

Kyle answered nonchalantly, but his heart said otherwise.

Zelda was the only person who cared about him.

Whenever his father and others tried to shake him, Zelda always showed her faith in him through silence.

Even though people kept saying unpleasant things here and there and annoyed him, Zelda never did that.

So Kyle loved Zelda, who believed in him. He thought he loved her.

And she also felt the same way as him. He was sure of it.

He had no doubt that she would be by his side for the rest of his life.