I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 111

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Chapter 111

“I picked it up at Jenas’s Cabin.”

I lied with some confidence. This much is okay, right! It was a bit heartbreaking that my secret trump card, which I had planned to keep hidden until the very end, was being exposed like this.

Anyway, since Jenas, the person I needed to be most careful of, already knew the location of the bunker, there was no point in hiding it.

“What’s this?”

Kaiden pointed his finger at the marking that said “bunker” and asked.

“I don’t know exactly either. Wasn’t the supply location we saw on the Saint’s map somewhere around this area?”

“Right. I think it was something like that.”

Enoch, who was sitting beside us, also looked at the map following our lead and added a comment.

“At least it’s certain that the place marked on the map is the closest. How about we go there first? Then we should look for the Saint.”

While listening to Enoch’s words, I suddenly remembered the magical beast I had seen earlier. It seemed like it was definitely looking for something.

‘The magical beasts like me…’

If the magical beasts really consider me a delicacy and follow me around to attack, then because of me, other people might also be exposed to danger.

Maybe I’m like a ‘bug’ to everyone on this island. My presence causing all causality to go awry.

‘But even so, there’s no particular solution.’

I let out a sigh.

Right. Until some other solution comes up, it would be better for us all to travel together after all.

‘Is it true that the ‘Escape Gate’ will open after a year passes?’

If so, we’ll probably need that key the Saint has.

I had a feeling that gate might be at Jenas’s Cabin. Because that suspicious ‘door’ I saw in the basement of Jenas’s Cabin kept bothering me.

But I couldn’t tell Enoch and Kaiden about that. If I did, wouldn’t I inevitably have to tell them that I’m a possessor and this place is inside a novel I was reading?

‘Besides, how could I tell them that you two were originally supposed to end up with Yuanna!’

While I was lost in such thoughts, I felt a piercing gaze on my face, so I lifted my head. Enoch and Kaiden were staring intently at my face.

“What?”

Enoch remained silent with his arms crossed, while Kaiden spoke to me with an amused expression.

“You really have such varied expressions.”

“Me?”

I stroked my cheek and tilted my head. Since I had been thinking all sorts of thoughts just now, I must have unknowingly made a strange face.

“Margaret, will you still meet me even after we escape the island?”

Kaiden suddenly asked a random question. I couldn’t grasp the point of the question and wrinkled my nose.

“We’ll have to get out first to know that, won’t we?”

“Ah, I want to escape from this island quickly.”

After hearing my words, Kaiden sighed and leaned against my shoulder, resting his head on it. Enoch, whom I thought would get angry, left Kaiden alone more quietly than expected.

Perhaps noticing that I was looking at him with a puzzled expression, Enoch sighed and answered.

“It would be better to stay quiet up here. It seems we’ll have to spend the night in the tree anyway.”

At Enoch’s words, I looked around the thick wooden post with a troubled expression. It was a sturdy and thick tree that wouldn’t shake even with three adults sitting on it, but I was still anxious.

As I kept fidgeting restlessly, Kaiden, who had been leaning against the wooden post, straightened up and asked me.

“Should I hold you? Are you anxious?”

“Wouldn’t that be even more unsettling?”

“Come over here and lean against me. Like yesterday.”

Enoch then patted the space between his legs as he spoke. Kaiden looked back and forth between me and Enoch with a confused expression, then belatedly understood what he meant and scowled fiercely.

“Ah, damn it. If that’s how it is, Margaret, sleep with me tonight.”

“Hey. That line sounds really weird?”

“Let’s sleep together.”

Kaiden wrapped his arm around my waist and rubbed his cheek against my shoulder, acting like a cat. Of course, he was soon stopped by Enoch.

Kaiden looked at his wrist caught by Enoch and stared at him intently. The two men engaged in a silent battle of nerves with me between them.

I let out a tired sigh.

“Should I go down?”

“Sorry, Margaret.”

“I apologize. I made you uncomfortable.”

Watching the two men quickly apologize without a moment’s hesitation and move away, I let out an even deeper sigh. Wasn’t this exactly how we’d end up becoming magical beast food while being distracted?

Indeed, if everyone was going to survive, survival over romance!

I made that resolution once again.

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Enoch gave up his spot, so I leaned against the wooden post and fell asleep.

Enoch and Kaiden each tied themselves to the wooden post in different positions and slept with only their upper bodies leaning against it.

I opened my eyes at the dim feeling of the sun rising.

We couldn’t keep sleeping in trees, avoiding magical beasts like this forever.

‘It would be good to find the source of the magical beasts and conduct monster extermination.’

If we did that, wouldn’t Jenas also be unable to continue using the Eyes of Magical Beasts to monitor us?

Eun-ji, who had been curled up asleep on my lap, drowsily opened her eyes and lifted her head. I gently stroked Eun-ji’s head while calmly surveying the surroundings.

Enoch and Kaiden seemed to be sleeping soundly despite the uncomfortable position, probably because they couldn’t sleep yesterday.

I took out the notebook with someone’s diary from my cross bag. Then I carefully went through the notebook again. I hadn’t been able to examine it closely in the cabin because I was worried Jenas might return.

As I had expected since I had skimmed through it at the time, there were even more memos that were illegible due to the cursive handwriting.

However, I discovered one phrase written among them and gasped in surprise.

-Anata, thank you.-

Anata? Wasn’t Anata Jenas’s sister? I had thought that maybe Jenas’s sister had written this diary, but apparently that wasn’t the case either.

Then, could Yuanna be the owner of the diary, as my intuition suggested, even though there was no evidence?

‘But saying it’s Yuanna really doesn’t make sense. This diary seems to be about things that happened in the past, but Yuanna woke up on the island around the same time as us.’

Suddenly, I thought that the ‘place she told me about’ mentioned by the notebook’s owner might be the bunker. The ‘she’ mentioned here might be Anata.

Then, I saw Enoch stirring and getting up with a rustling sound.

“Are you awake?”

I folded the notebook and gave him a bright smile. He was washing his face dry with a tired expression when he startled and looked at me.

Then he burst into laughter with a voice still hoarse from just waking up.

“Margaret.”

“Yes?”

“I just called out to you.”

“Yes…?”

“Because you’ve been smiling so prettily since this morning.”

He rubbed his face again and spoke casually, then massaged his neck as if it was stiff. His expression was so direct that I was momentarily speechless and closed my mouth.

“Mmm.”

Just then, Kaiden also yawned and got up.

“Ah, this is really uncomfortable.”

While Enoch looked unbothered, Kaiden complained that the sleeping area was too uncomfortable.

However, since I also strongly agreed that the sleeping area wasn’t good, I joined him in complaining.

“Oh, I picked this up at Jenas’s cabin. Would you like to read it? It’s not very helpful, but.”

I held out the notebook I was carrying toward Enoch. Enoch looked at the notebook with some thought, then stared directly at my face.

He must have definitely seen this notebook when I took out the emergency medicine last time.

Yet he didn’t say anything about it – was he waiting for me to speak up myself?

“Who wrote this? And who is this ‘she’ mentioned here? It seems like one of Jenas’s companions. Master key? Is this that key the saint had?”

While Enoch remained quiet, Kaiden took the notebook first to examine it and asked me. I calmly explained what I had deduced.

“I don’t know who the owner of the notebook is, but I think the ‘she’ mentioned here is probably Anata. And the ‘place she told us about’ mentioned here seems to be the location marked on the map.”

I rested my chin on my hand and sighed. After belatedly receiving the notebook from Kaiden and examining it, Enoch responded.

“All the more reason we should go find the location on the map.”

“This is really full of mysteries. Well, let’s go for now. We need to properly uncover what this island’s secret is and how we’re supposed to escape.”

Kaiden answered Enoch’s words with a sigh-like response, and I nodded as well.

“Then let’s depart.”

And so we moved again to find the location where the bunker was. I was walking while unfolding the map when I noticed Kaiden moving empty-handed and asked.

“Kaiden, where’s your bag though? I think the remaining bombs were in there.”

“Ah, won’t that lackey pick it up? I threw it there and left. I can’t swim while carrying a bag.”

At Kaiden’s nonchalant words, I recalled the weight of the bag. I think that was heavier than expected – would Luzef really be able to carry it?

“Where did you arrange to meet the Bishop?”

“Huh? We didn’t arrange to meet though?”

At Kaiden’s words, I was at a loss for words and closed my mouth.

Luzef would have a hard time surviving alone. Even if not others, shouldn’t we take care of Luzef? I was a bit worried about that guy.

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