I Picked Up an Abandoned Villain in the Polar Region

Episode 9

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¹WARNING ⚠️: THIS CHAPTER IS GOING TO MAKE YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE SOAR, SO BE PREPARED!

The two people, who had only walked on flat surfaces until now, had become pale in just a few days since they started hiking.

They ended up expending all their remaining stamina as they climbed the mountainside of Rodia.

It was not a high mountain, but the road was very steep. In addition, because of the snow, it was easy to slip down the slope even after going up, so it was impossible not to get tired.

Brody even lost the nerves she felt every day due to being in heat.

Kyle, who had only eaten grass for almost two weeks, began to feel dizzy.

Every time his legs lost strength, Brody worriedly encouraged him to hold on just a little longer.

There was a coast not far below the mountain. Since it was a place next to the sea, there would be things for him to eat, including seagulls.

After reaching the top of the sloping mountain that they had struggled to climb, and going halfway down, they came across small hills with not many trees in sight.

Could it be that the two helpless animals climbed a couple of hills?²It’s strange that they suddenly encountered hills without them noticing a thing from far, so they think it wasn’t the first time and they have walked on hills before.

“…Uh?”

Brody, who still had some energy left, noticed birds sitting at the bottom of a hill and picked up her pace.

They were seagulls that only lived on the coast. Her eyes widened and she quickly hit Kyle’s leg.

“Kyle, wake up. There’s meat over there, meat.”

A gaunt Kyle lifted his head after hearing Brody’s words.

He looked straight at where Brody’s paw was pointing. And the moment he saw his prey, his pupils diluted.

This was an opportunity to hunt after over two weeks.

When Kyle saw this, an unknown source of energy began to circulate throughout his body.

He absolutely could not miss this opportunity. As soon as he saw the flock of birds, he took action.

After lowering his body, he slowly approached where they were.

But in this pure white snow field, his dark blue fur was very noticeable.

Feeling the wind shifting, the birds noticed the approaching dark beast and flew into the air one after the one.

Seeing this, Kyle jumped up and ran towards the flock of birds flying.

He ran at full speed to the point where it seemed like he exerted his last remaining strength.

However, his listless sprint could not overcome the birds’ powerful wings.

The birds easily escaped from him and flew high into the sky, out of reach.

Kyle, who could not catch a single bird, flopped down on the floor as he watched the birds leaving in the distance.

“Kyle, are you okay?”

Brody rushed over and asked, but Kyle didn’t even have the strength to answer.

His vision was spinning. The face of the rabbit that came to him also twirled along with his vision.

At that moment, in the midst of everything going around like that, his instinct to catch and eat that rabbit and his reason to go home clashed fiercely.

Kyle suddenly had brilliant idea as he saw the pocket watch around the rabbit’s neck.

Kyle opened his mouth and looked at the rabbit looking down at him.

“Hey, can you turn back time?”

“Uh…?”

Brody’s face was colored with embarrassment, but Kyle said regardless.

“Use your ability.”

It wasn’t ‘Can you use it?’, it was ‘use it.’

As Kyle was about to die, he could no longer see anything, and an oppressive aura arose from him.

The reason he used this rabbit as a guide in the first place was to make use of it situations like the current one.

Normally, Brody would have resisted his pressure and fought back, but it was different now.

She watched Kyle up close as he struggled to get enough protein for several days.

Because of this, she also knew that he was dying. Ans that’s why she couldn’t rudely refuse his request.

In the end, she was going through this difficult journey with the sole intention of saving him. That was the most important thing on this trip.

‘Saving Kyle Roden.’

Brody hesitated for a moment, then remembered her purpose again and engraved it in her heart.

There was no time for that.

3 minutes from now.

After thinking for a moment, she made her decision and nodded.

“Okay, got it.”

Although she was a little worried about what would happen afterwards… she soon lifted the pocket watch around her neck and put it on her other hand.

Kyle, who was a little curious after seeing the determined eyes of the rabbit next to him, also looked at the watch.

The shaking hands of the clock moved.

The large hand and the small hand slowly moved backwards, and then their speed began to accelerate.

Eventually, as he closed and opened his eyes in a second he didn’t remember, they and everything surrounding them returned to the past.

The clouds that followed the wind had already settled over their heads like before, and their bodies had returned to the place where they had first seen the seagulls.

Kyle raised his head.

He saw the birds in the distance.

He looked at the clock and it was exactly 3 minutes ago.

There was no time to be surprised by the fact that time had turned back.

Before blindly crawling towards the flock of seagulls like before, Kyle rolled around in the snow

After that, he got up covered with white snow all over his body as if to hide his original color.

Brody proposed a cooperative operation in order not to miss the birds this time.

“I’ll go down first. I will drive the flock of seagulls up the hill from below, so you can run in and catch them, understand?”

“Okay.”

Following what she said, Kyle waited for the flock of seagulls to come up and watched Brody going down the hill.

It was the first time he saw her using her head over something like this.

She was a rabbit who always used her brain only to do evil.

After a while, Brody arrived at the bottom of the hill and waved her hand.

It was hard to notice her because of her snow-white fur. It was the same for seagulls.

The seagulls didn’t even notice that Brody was slinking towards them, so they just tilted their heads and pawed at the snow.

Fortunately, Brody approached them without being detected and raised her front paw.

Kyle stood up. It was a signal to prepare.

Brody put her front paw down and ran toward the flock of seagulls.

Only then did the startled birds fly up the hill to avoid Brody.

However, because they looked down on the small rabbit and flew low, they ran into Kyle, who was coming down the hill.

Kyle jumped towards the seagulls flying towards him.

“Nice catch!”

Brody jumped up in joy when she saw Kyle biting a seagull.

He gained momentum and belatedly caught one more seagull after chasing the flock.

A total of two birds were caught.

Without even having time to rejoice at the harvest, after finishing the hunt, Kyle immediately bit off the seagull’s neck and ate its body.

Although seagulls appeared large on the outside, they did not have much flesh due to their feathers.

As a result, the hunt was not that satisfying, but Kyle quickly killed the two seagulls without complaining, wondering how long it had been since he had eaten meat.

Brody laughed when she saw it from afar.

It was funny to see him eating so hurriedly, but also sad and pitiful.

With that, he would be able to endure the journey ahead a little longer.

When she thought about that, her heart felt lighter.

Some complicated emotions appeared in her eyes, but she quickly shook them off and ran towards him.

 

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Eating meat for the first time in a long time had helped Kyle not only physically but also mentally.

Unlike previous days, he greeted the dawn with energy.

Meat was meat, but there is one more reason.

Last night, for some reason, Brody didn’t break into his den and just fell asleep.

Normally, she would have been up around the time I was sleeping and slowly breaking through the wall of snow to barge in.

Kyle got up and looked into Brody’s den.

The rabbit was sleeping without caring about anything in the world.

Cool, he sighed when he saw the rabbit sleeping as if it was the middle of the night.

How old was she, did she still need someone to wake her up?

He shook up the limp rabbit with his front foot.

“Hey, wake up.”

An inconsiderate foot hit the rabbit’s body.

The fact that he had been saved thanks to the rabbit yesterday had long since evaporated from his memory.

No, he wasn’t thinking ‘thanks to the rabbit’ in the first place.

So of course he had no feelings of gratitude.

Rather, he was just looking forward to using her again next time.

“Ugh…..I’m sleepy……”

Even when Kyle woke her up, Brody couldn’t get up right away and was listless.

And even though she struggled to get up, she didn’t come out of the cave right away and instead dozed off, leaning against the wall.

Kyle eventually grabbed her by the back of her neck and pulled her out.

“Hey, why don’t you wake up? What are you doing this early in the morning?”

He was in a good mood when he woke up, but when the rabbit started acting annoying, he got irritated.

But even though he was annoyed, Brody was still sleepy and grumpling.

“I’m so sleepy…….”

Kyle, who couldn’t possibly find Brody cute as she rubbed her eyes with her front paws and complained about sleep, kicked her backpack and urged her to quickly stand up and walk.

However, Brody, who was half-asleep, could not walk properly, and as soon as she was kicked, her white glutinous rice cake-like body fell to the floor.

“Ugh…… ”

Brody then laid down, wriggled her feet, and got ready to sleep again.

This really tested Kyle’s patience.

In the end, he barked and threatened Brody.

Startled by this, Brody opened her eyes and looked around.

She had finally come to my senses.

Of course, she just came to her senses, and her procrastination continued for almost half a day.

“It’s too hard…….”

“Kyle……Let’s take a break…….”

She had whined like this before to take a break, but back then it was only once every two or three hours.

Now, and it was not an extravagation, she was holding his leg and whining about it once every 30 minutes.

It was only today that Kyle truly felt what it was like to be devastated.

A thousand fires were burning inside of him, but he held back because he felt like he would kill this rabbit the moment he let them out.

Brody, laid down in front of Kyle, who did not listen to her, not knowing what Kyle was thinking.

Then she started to wriggle her feet again, saying that they should take a little rest.

It would have been much better for her to just stick around him and make a fuss like before.

At that time, she was able to walk on her own feet just fine. She didn’t procrastinate or delay the trip by being needlessly lazy like she did now.

Kyle looked down at the rabbit stretched out in front of him.

Threats don’t work anymore.

Then there was only one way left. It’s the only way to travel with Brody without killing her.

He lifted his foot, then kicked Brody, who was lying in front of him, and threw her forward.

“Kyaa-.”

A white body flew into the air and crashed to the ground.

Kyle walked there and picked up Brody’s body, which was lying on the floor.

The kicking of the can, or rather the kicking of the rabbit, had begun

This rabbit kick was repeated until the day’s journey came to stop.

And when night fell and it was time to go to bed, Kyle, who had been in a bad mood all day, couldn’t stand it anymore and said to Brody, who was drooping.

“There is a limit to how much I can tolerate this nuisance like this. Starting from tomorrow, walk on all fours, before I make you unable to walk at all.”

The backtalk was one of the threatening comments he always made a habit of spewing.

Today, he couldn’t help but feel a lot of emotion as he spoke.

Kyle went into his own hole, leaving Brody curled up on the floor without even digging her hole.

As he was about to curl up and go to sleep, he heard the sound of the rabbit sniffling outside.

It looked like she was crying.

‘What did you do so well to cry.’

Even after hearing that sound, the only emotion Kyle felt was irritation.

Eventually, he closed his eyes as sleep came upon him.

 

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TL:

Aghhhh, I will kill that jerk!

Edit:

Dear readers,

This chapter wasn’t meant to be locked, why did not you tell me😂