chapter_0556
by admin556 – Please Save the Horned Rabbit
556 – Please Save the Horned Rabbit
With eyes wide in shock and mouth agape, Levinas pressed the rewind button on the remote.
Woooo-!
The Animal King animation rewound at ten times the speed, and the shocking scene replayed.
It was the moment when the hero Horned Rabbit leaped toward the enemy’s executive, Count Dracula.
“······!”
Seeing the hero Horned Rabbit fall off the cliff with Count Dracula, Levinas widened his already large eyes even further.
The area below the cliff was none other than a lava zone.
Splash-!
The animation ended with the hero Horned Rabbit and Count Dracula falling into the lava.
More precisely, it ended with the scene of the hero Horned Rabbit falling into the lava while his comrades screamed in horror.
Woooo-!
Woooo-!
Woooo-!
Levinas rewound the animation three times.
The ending of this episode was shockingly hard to believe.
[To be continued in the next episode.]
The animation ended with a black screen, but Levinas could only stare blankly at the television.
“Levinas···?”
“······.”
After a long time of watching television, Levinas stood up with his head bowed.
His slumped shoulders and the way he trudged toward the bedroom made him look somewhat empty.
“Horned Rabbit?”
“Levinas?”
The children cast worried glances at Levinas’s powerless figure.
Even Bomi, who had been playfully running away with Haneul’s mechanical arm, stopped her antics.
“Gyeoul, what’s wrong with Levinas?”
“Well, the hero Horned Rabbit died in the Animal King···”
“What?!”
We all knew how much the hero Horned Rabbit meant to Levinas.
The hero Horned Rabbit was, quite literally, a hero to Levinas.
For such a being to fall into lava and die a terrible death…
The sense of loss and shock must have been immense.
“Horned Rabbit!”
Gaeul, having overheard our conversation, ran to the bedroom where Levinas was.
Was Gaeul going to comfort Levinas?
We hurriedly followed Gaeul into the bedroom.
“······.”
Levinas lay despondently on the bed.
Not wanting to show his face, he covered it with his hands.
Gaeul lay down next to Levinas.
Seeing Levinas’s hidden profile, she giggled, but Levinas showed no reaction.
Still, our Gaeul did not give up and crawled over to the other side, giggling.
“Horned Rabbit.”
“······.”
“Horned Rabbit?”
“······.”
Even though Gaeul called out, Levinas did not respond.
However, no one thought Levinas was being unreasonable.
Even if it was just a cartoon, losing an object of admiration must be incredibly hard.
“···Gaeul, do you want some snacks?”
Gaeul went to the kitchen and returned with a handful of snacks.
Even after placing the snacks around the prone Levinas, there was no reaction.
Nonetheless, our Gaeul did not give up.
She placed her beloved ant doll and some carrots around Levinas.
We watched Gaeul and placed items that Levinas might cherish around the bed.
I placed a drawing I made with Seol using colored paper and crayons.
“Meow?”
Seol, who was lying on top of Levinas’s head, licked Levinas’s long rabbit ears.
I decided to step outside the bedroom while watching Levinas.
“Hey, guys, let’s step outside for a bit.”
“What about Levinas?”
“Let’s give him some time alone for now. Sometimes, everyone needs their own time.”
It would be tough, but I believed Levinas would get through it.
After all, he had family.
Had we waited about ten minutes?
“Ugh···”
As expected, Levinas soon came out of the bedroom.
In his arms were all the items we had given him.
Thanks to that, Levinas looked quite proud and unyielding.
“Nom nom.”
Seol, sitting on Levinas’s head, was munching on a carrot.
It seemed Seol was also a great comfort to Levinas.
“Levinas, are you okay now?”
“Yeah···! The hero Horned Rabbit sacrificed himself for his comrades···! There’s no reason to be sad···!”
“I see.”
It was sad, but I felt proud of how bravely he was coping.
When I approached Levinas and hugged him tightly, Seol climbed from Levinas’s head to mine.
“Nom nom.”
Crunch crunch-
Bomi picked up Seol, who was munching on a carrot from above.
While pulling Seol’s cheeks and playing, Bomi glanced at Levinas and said,
“But I want the hero Horned Rabbit to be alive. He’s really cool.”
“That is···”
Oh dear.
Was Bomi just being playful when she said that?
I looked at Bomi with a worried heart.
Then Bomi opened her laptop and said,
“Let’s go to where they make the cartoon and protest to bring him back.”
“Protest?! Can we really do that?!”
“Yeah. Protesting is a legitimate thing anyone can do.”
“Wow! That’s right! Protesting is a legitimate thing!”
Levinas’s ears perked up.
Seeing Levinas looking lively was nice, and Bomi began to giggle as she checked her laptop.
“The animation company is… in Japan?”
“Japan?!”
“Yeah. It’s a different country across the sea.”
“A different country?!”
Levinas’s ears drooped again at the thought of such a faraway place.
Were we really going to have to give up on the protest?
It was a disappointing feeling.
“But the place that draws the cartoons is in our country. It’s even close.”
“Really?!”
So it’s a Japanese cartoon, but it’s drawn in our country.
Thinking it was a chance, Levinas clenched his fist tightly.
“Levinas will protest!”
**
[Please save the hero Horned Rabbit.]
Levinas boarded the bus holding a sign he had made himself.
The children also made signs for Levinas.
[Guarantee the survival rights of the hero Horned Rabbit!]
[Wishing for the resurrection of the hero Horned Rabbit]
Bomi and Saebyeok made their signs quite stylishly.
∩∩
＼(^_^)／
Gaeul, while writing, seemed to find it too difficult, so she drew a happy Horned Rabbit.
And Haneul made a sad Horned Rabbit doll by hand.
As expected, Haneul had great crafting skills.
“Let’s protest hard and bring back the Horned Rabbit.”
“Yeah!”
We took two buses and walked for ten minutes to arrive at the place where they drew the Horned Rabbit cartoon.
Since we couldn’t enter the building without permission, we protested outside.
“Save the Horned Rabbit!”
“Horned Rabbit!”
“Please save the Horned Rabbit···!”
As we waved our handmade panels above our heads, the attention of passersby turned to us.
“What’s this? Beastmen kids are protesting?”
“Horned Rabbit? What kind of Horned Rabbit?”
“Oh… that’s the animation company.”
“Why is the animation company involved?”
“There’s a Horned Rabbit character in one of the cartoons they’re making, and he fell into lava yesterday.”
“Oh.”
People who saw Levinas’s horns and ears nodded in understanding.
They added a few comments as they passed by.
“If it were me, I would have saved him.”
“I would have saved him too; how could you stand that?”
“Huh? That might be···”
“Shh, you idiot.”
People gathered around us as we protested.
Perhaps because the area in front of the company was crowded, someone who looked like a company employee came down from inside.
We could tell she was a high-ranking person at the company from the employee badge around her neck.
“Kids, what are you doing here···?”
We showed her the signs we had made.
She smiled awkwardly.
“What should I do? The animation is already completed, so it’s impossible to change the story midway.”
“Then, does that mean the hero Horned Rabbit is finished like this?!”
“Um···”
The employee did not give Levinas any answer.
It was understandable that an animation company employee wouldn’t reveal behind-the-scenes information due to contract violations.
As the people watching the protest made playful remarks towards the employee,
“Ugh, save me.”
“Ugh.”
“If it were me, I would have saved him.”
“Ugh···”
The employee scratched her cheek and revealed a hand she had hidden behind her back.
In her hand was a hero Horned Rabbit doll.
“How about you forgive me if I give you this?”
“Not the doll, can’t you save the hero Horned Rabbit instead···?”
“Um··· well···?”
As the employee hesitated, Levinas simply accepted the doll.
Continuing to demand that they save him would only be seen as bad behavior.
“I understand. Levinas won’t whine.”
“Thank you. You have to watch the next episode of Animal King too, right?”
“Yeah···”
The protest ended with Levinas receiving a hero Horned Rabbit doll.
It was a disappointing outcome, but Levinas puffed out his chest.
“That was unfortunate. What should we do?”
“It’s okay! The hero Horned Rabbit will remain a hero for everyone!”
Levinas walked confidently toward the bus stop.
It was sad to see his back trying to hide his disappointment.
**
Next week, on the day of the Animal King animation airing.
Despite the hero Horned Rabbit having fallen into lava, Levinas watched the Animal King animation.
Levinas hoped that the hero Horned Rabbit’s comrades would pay tribute to him.
– Haha, the most troublesome one has died.
As the evil executive laughed while watching the hero Horned Rabbit fall into the lava with Count Dracula,
At that moment, something incredible happened.
Whoosh-!
The lava shot up into the sky, and a red, blazing Horned Rabbit appeared.
It was the hero Horned Rabbit who had made a contract with the fire dragon living in the lava and had become the fire dragon’s warrior.
“Whoa!”
“Wow!”
Levinas, watching the animation, clenched his fists and stood up.
Bomi also admired the tall and cool appearance of the fire dragon as she watched the animation.
“It’s the hero Horned Rabbit of the fire dragon!”
Boom! Boom!
Levinas threw punches into the air.
The hero Horned Rabbit of the fire dragon was on a completely different level from the regular hero Horned Rabbit.
Using the power of the fire dragon, he swept away all the enemies.
Thud-
The animation ended with the hero Horned Rabbit of the fire dragon’s exploits.
After watching this episode’s ending, Levinas collapsed onto the floor.
This time, he showed his face.
“Hero Horned Rabbit of the fire dragon···!”
A happy smile spread across Levinas’s face.
A word from the author (author’s note)
Thank you so much for reading today, PIA1747014585384!
Thank you for the comments and recommendations! They always give me strength!!
Evolution in desperate situations is truly touching!
Just like the evolution of Padakmon…!
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