CHAPTER 1
The room was filled with dolls, and in front of a large mirror stood a little baby rabbit.
A small white rabbit, the size of a palm, brought its trembling front paws up to the mirror.
Tap. Its fluffy paws touched the smooth surface of the mirror.
As if trying to confirm its reflection in the mirror, the rabbit’s mouth widened into a triangular shape as it touched the mirror.
“It’s a disaster.”
With its white whiskers trembling, the little rabbit lost its balance and fell backward.
Showing its fluffy belly, the rabbit, only the size of a clenched fist, covered its eyes with its front paws and kicked its feet in frustration.
“I messed up; I really messed up!”
Uttering a whimpering sound, the rabbit cried out, but its reality as a rabbit remained unchanged.
Also, the fact that it had been reincarnated into a novel as a character destined to die, X-tra, remained unchanged.
***
The adorable youngest princess of the wolf humanoid family, Chloe Arus, recalled her past life through a twist of fate and destiny combined.
Chloe, who turned seven years old this year, knew that her mother would feel sad when spring came.
“I should make a bouquet of flowers for her. Then Mom will smile brightly.”
With that thought in mind, Chloe slipped away from the eyes of her maids and ran to a secluded garden.
“Oh, a rabbit!”
But just as Chloe reached for a forget-me-not, she was enthralled with the rabbit cage outside the dining room.
“Oh, you are all so cute. Do you want to come to my room?”
In an instant, the rabbits, as if understanding Chloe’s words, all stood up.
“You understood what I said?”
The biggest white rabbit, standing on its hind legs, perked up its ears.
“Wow, everyone, come to my room...!”
Before Chloe finished her sentence, the big rabbit led the others and rushed to their hiding place.
“...How mean. You don’t have to dislike me that much.”
It was when Chloe pouted her lips in disappointment at the rabbits’ cold rejection.
Ping! A sound similar to a trumpet’s cry rang in her ears.
Chloe looked up and saw a magnificent eagle soaring near the sky and clouds with its wings spread wide.
It was a moment when she thought that the bird flying in the sky was wonderful.
The eagle lowered its head and looked at Chloe.
Looked at Chloe. It was not an illusion.
The sharp eyes of the eagle met Chloe’s turquoise eyes directly.
At the moment she was convinced that what reflected in those eyes was herself, Chloe witnessed the eagle suddenly descending vertically.
Chloe instinctively knew that the giant eagle was targeting her.
I have to run.
Chloe’s subconscious whispered to her. She quickly scanned her surroundings, but the wolf family’s territory was an open plain.
There was not a single place where Chloe could hide.
Unknowingly trembling, Chloe discovered the rabbit pen when a large shadow covered her head.
Chloe was engrossed in one idea when she saw the dark eyes of the bunnies staring at her from their hiding place.
“Get into the rabbit pen!”
At the moment of that intense thought, a bright light burst out from the rabbit pen.
The eagle, narrowly missing its prey, screeched loudly and fiercely, shaking the rabbit pen’s iron bars with its talons.
Frustrated, it tried to insert its beak into the iron bars. After sensing the resistance, the predator retracted its wings.
Once the predator left, leaving only a single brown feather behind, the rabbits cautiously emerged from their hiding place.
However, among them, the tiniest rabbit couldn’t bring itself to leave, shivering in fear.
Thump!
Seeing the youngest rabbit’s uncomfortable appearance, the leader rabbit thumped the floor with a troubled expression.
But the young rabbit paid no attention, lying down with a despondent gaze. “I’m a rabbit.”
Seeing the baby rabbit’s belly exposed between the brown hay, Chloe’s eyes welled up with tears.
Moreover, my true identity is actually an extra who triggers the war in the novel, X-tra, Part 4!
***
“I messed up! I messed up!”
Recalling her past life, Chloe rolled on the furry carpet and pounded the floor with her front paws.
The memories from her past life rushed in like a flood as soon as she awakened as a rabbit, and they were horrifying.
Parents who never loved her until the day she died.
The days she struggled to survive in neglect and abuse
And finally, collapsing from exhaustion and never waking up...
“It was such a cruel life.”
Covering her eyes with her small front paws, Chloe shivered uncontrollably.
But the cruelty wasn’t limited to her past life alone.
“Why is this happening to me?”
Chloe had no problem with being reborn into the novel she loved so much,
But...
“Why do I have to die again with such a fate?”
Chloe could no longer contain her emotions; she buried her face in the carpet and sobbed.
In the novel, Chloe Arus, the daughter born between the wolf and lion families due to a strategic marriage, was just a minor issue.
“At that time, it was just a strategic marriage, and maybe that’s why their relationship wasn’t good.”
Lying on her back, Chloe let out a long sigh.
“The strategic marriage between the wolf and lion families...”
Chloe lifted her other paw.
“And the result was a rabbit.”
Of course, it was natural for their relationship not to be good!
Why did it have to be Chloe Arus who was reincarnated as a rabbit?
It was when Chloe was sulking, covering her face with her front paws.
“Is my daughter still sleeping? If she’s sound asleep, I’ll just go back.”
Chloe’s rabbit ears perked up upon hearing her mother’s voice from afar.
“I must not get caught!”
Sensing the danger, Chloe quickly darted into the bushes.
A moment later, the door burst open, and a striking beauty with silver hair entered Chloe’s room.
“Chloe, are you taking a nap?”
“Oh, no!”
Chloe, who had just succeeded in transforming into a human, gasped for breath and crawled out from under the blanket.
“Just, uh, I was just thinking for a moment, huh?”
But as soon as she breathed a sigh of relief, Chloe’s eyes widened at the sight of the man standing behind her mother, Melisa.
“Uncle?”
It was her uncle Blake, who had left for the border area to resolve the conflict.
“Uncle, when did you...?”
“No matter how busy I am, I can’t miss the day when our Chloe chooses her birthday dress! Come here, Chloe! Let me see how much you’ve grown. Give me a hug!”
Blake smiled grandly and opened his arms as if to embrace her.
But just remembering her past life, Chloe felt a strange sense of unfamiliarity with her uncle and hesitated.
“Chloe?”
Seeing the unusual behaviour of the child, Blake and Melisa looked confused and blinked their eyes.
“Chloe, is something wrong?”
“Uh, no!”
She must not get caught. Chloe hurriedly walked towards her uncle.
But Blake and Melisa’s expressions had already turned serious.
“Why, my daughter? Is something hurting you?”
“Who made my niece upset like this? Who was it?”
Helplessly looking at the concerned adults, Chloe’s mind wavered.
“Mom and Uncle are different from my past parents.”
A glimmer of hope blossomed in Chloe’s heart.
“Even if I tell them I woke up as a rabbit, maybe they’ll accept me? Even as a rabbit, won’t they love me?”
She pondered whether to speak or not when her uncle’s large hand gently covered her little head.
“Hey, what’s with the little frown in your head?”
There was warmth in Blake’s voice as he scratched the top of her split ears.
“Rabbits are caught for what?”
Chloe grabbed Blake’s flowing mane, demanding an answer.
“Are the wolves and lions you eat friends, too? Ha ha ha! A rabbit and a wolf as friends—isn’t that interesting? Right, Melisa?”
Melisa laughed as if she found Blake’s not-so-funny joke amusing.
But Chloe’s lips remained unmoved.
In her mind, an image of a baby rabbit roasting over a bonfire appeared.
And the sight of her laughing and playing with her mother and uncle around it.
“Rabbit, save me.”
Chloe collapsed like a limp doll.
Her small shoulders started to shake.
“C- Chloe! What’s wrong? Is there something hurting you?”
“Save the rabbit.”
