I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 112

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Chapter 112

“He’s probably with Diego. Since the Prince and the Saint are remaining on the South Island, there’s the highest possibility he’ll try to meet with them.”

Kaiden nodded at Enoch’s words and continued.

“Or he might come to the place marked with a star on the map. I think that cabin we were searching for might be the place marked with a star on the map.”

I had personally confirmed that Jenas’s Cabin was located at the place marked with a star on the map.

“What if our paths cross?”

“What’s there to worry about? We’ll just go our own way. He wasn’t part of our group from the beginning anyway.”

Kaiden spoke very nonchalantly.

“If you put it that way, Lord wasn’t part of our group either.”

Enoch, who had been silently walking ahead, spoke in a quiet voice. Then Kaiden got flustered and said he was also part of our group, and once again the two men’s war of nerves began.

I decided to treat their bickering as noisy background music from now on.

‘It’s more bothersome to stop them.’

After walking like that for quite a while, my stamina was greatly depleted and I became hungry.

Come to think of it, I hadn’t eaten anything proper since Jenas’s Cabin until now. There were no valleys nearby wherever we went, so I had only filled my stomach with fruits as a temporary measure.

“Kaiden, aren’t you hungry?”

“Huh? Oh, right. I’m hungry. It’s getting quite difficult.”

Kaiden must not have eaten anything all day while inside the fog. Then Enoch stopped walking.

“There seems to be something over there.”

I looked in the direction Enoch was pointing. At the bottom of a low hill, I could see huge piles of leaves as tall as a person. As if they were covering something important.

Enoch blocked me as I tried to move and shook his head firmly with a resolute expression.

“Margaret, you stay here. Lord?”

“Yes, yes, of course I’ll keep Margaret with me.”

Kaiden wrapped his arms around my waist from behind and rested his chin on my shoulder.

Seeing this, Enoch made a displeased face, but as if he had no choice, he drew his long sword and turned his back.

Both of them had become much more overprotective since I fell into the river and went missing. But since it wasn’t uncomfortable yet, I obediently stood with Kaiden as Enoch said.

Enoch slowly approached and cleared away the leaves. And in the revealed spot, there was a small cave.

“Huh?”

“What’s this? It looks like someone was living here.”

When I exclaimed in surprise, Kaiden also lifted his head and muttered.

Someone had been living here. I wasn’t sure if it was good or bad that traces of someone having lived remained scattered throughout the island. I couldn’t tell whether they had escaped or died.

‘Or it could be that Jenas moved his dwelling during the thousand years he lived here.’

Enoch completely cleared away the leaves and bent his waist slightly to examine the inside.

The small cave hollowed out beneath the hill wasn’t very deep, and its width was about the size where four adults could lie down inside.

“Since the stamina depletion from hunger is serious, it would be good to recover here today.”

Enoch said to us after looking around inside and coming back out.

“It should be fine if we set up a barrier and sleep inside.”

Both men nodded simultaneously at my words. So we decided to unpack our luggage here for today.

“Margaret, it’s messy so wait a moment.”

Just as I was about to enter the cave, Enoch blocked my way. Then he and Kaiden began earnestly cleaning the cave together.

I watched the scene with some fascination. Margaret was of course nobility too, but Enoch was the Crown Prince of the Empire and Kaiden was the Magic Tower Master.

‘They’re good at cleaning.’

It wasn’t a joke – the two men were really excellent at cleaning. I wasn’t sure if it was because they were naturally meticulous personalities.

They swept out the dust and dirt that had been in the cave and created a space to lie down, then laid out tree leaves and moss to make a comfortable sleeping area.

“Margaret, are you feeling alright? Sit here.”

Kaiden carefully looked after me and brought me inside. Anyone watching would think I was injured or something.

“I’ll go hunting. It would be best for Lord to stay here and protect Margaret.”

Enoch stood at the cave entrance holding his sword and spoke. Kaiden held my hand and drew a magic circle in the air while nodding. I looked at Enoch with a worried expression.

“Be careful. Magical beasts come out during the day too.”

At my words, Enoch smiled faintly and nodded.

“You don’t need to worry.”

“Right, that monster-like guy doesn’t seem worth worrying about.”

Kaiden completed the magic circle in an instant and spoke to me while infusing it with mana. Enoch glanced at Kaiden and went out to find prey.

We lowered the large tree leaves that had been covering the front of the cave, then went inside and settled in. Eun-ji, who had been wrapped around my shoulder, wriggled down and coiled up on the floor.

“I wonder who used to live here?”

I finally looked around the cave calmly and spoke. Kaiden was in the middle of splitting a coconut with his dagger that he’d brought from under a nearby coconut palm. He glanced at me and opened his mouth.

“Maybe Jenas lived here? Before he built that cabin.”

I received the coconut from him and drank while nodding.

“That’s possible. Or there might have been other survivors before us. If this really is an island for experiments, we might not be the first people to come to this island as test subjects. This island has existed for a whole thousand years after all.”

At my words, Kaiden, who had been drinking coconut water, paused. He looked back at me with a creepy expression. I shrugged and continued speaking.

“The cabin on South Island, and traces of human habitation like this – they might all have been made by people who were kidnapped to this island like us.”

“That’s so plausible it gives me chills.”

Kaiden answered with his brow deeply furrowed.

With those words, we fell silent for a moment. We were each lost in thought.

‘What kind of experiment could it be? What’s the purpose?’

While I was having such thoughts, I heard Kaiden’s voice and turned to look at him.

“You know, Margaret. What I said last night wasn’t a joke.”

His face was uncharacteristically calm and composed.

“If we escape from the island… will we be the same as we are now?”

And unexpectedly, he asked a rather sentimental question. It was a question I had always wanted to ask him.

When the suspension bridge effect disappeared and we returned to daily life and regained our reason, everything might change.

So I answered while excluding emotions as much as possible.

“My answer is the same. We’ll have to get out to know, right?”

I am Margaret, and I am not Margaret.

If I escape from the island, causality might apply and I might die. I can’t predict at all what will happen on this island from now on either.

But if I could really become Margaret…

“Still, I hope it stays the same as now. That everyone doesn’t change.”

At my words, Kaiden stared intently at my face with surprised eyes for a moment. Soon he made a deflated laughing sound and turned his head.

“I’d like to be with you unchanged too. Just like now.”

Kaiden looked at me and smiled broadly. Those words were good to hear. They just were. Somehow, they were words that brought great comfort.

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Enoch caught two large birds. Thanks to that, we were able to have a rather satisfying dinner that day. It was very convenient since Eun-ji lit the fire for us without needing to use the lighter.

“Margaret, rest comfortably.”

After finishing our meal, I was about to tidy up when Enoch suddenly stopped me.

“That’s right, Margaret. Rest a bit.”

Kaiden also pushed me away as if agreeing with Enoch’s words.

I hadn’t done any cave cleaning, sleeping area preparation, or meal preparation – nothing at all – yet Enoch and Kaiden made sure I didn’t exert myself and took rest instead.

Even though they were the ones who had been fighting magical beasts and struggling in the fog the whole time and must have been more tired, they never showed it once.

‘I feel sorry.’

I wondered if there was anything I could help with, but then thought that just truly resting comfortably and recovering my stamina would be helping them, so I cleared my mind and was lying down in the cave when it happened.

CRASH–!

In the middle of the night, a tremendous roar from somewhere startled me awake as I bolted upright. Enoch and Kaiden, who had been diligently cleaning in front of the cave, also seemed surprised as they looked toward the forest.

“What is it? A magical beast?”

At my startled muttering, Enoch and Kaiden quickly grabbed their respective swords. They blocked in front of me and watched the forest warily.

Just in case, I searched for my cross bag and took out a flare. Eun-ji quietly crawled over to me and wrapped around my arm.

“Is the barrier still safe?”

At my question, Kaiden glanced at the floor and nodded.

“Don’t worry, it won’t break easily.”

That was at least reassuring. Like that, we all held our breath and glared at the dark forest.

Aaaaah!

A man’s scream came from very far away. The scream that sounded small gradually grew closer.

“What is it? It sounds like a familiar voice.”

Kaiden tilted his head and muttered.

And we soon learned the identity of that not-unfamiliar voice.

Through the moonlight shining into the darkness, it seemed like water-colored hair was fluttering briefly.

A man wearing bishop robes that were filthy with grime appeared.

It was Archbishop Luzef.

He was running toward our direction with all his might. Behind him, Diego was following, then stopping to deal with the swarming magical beasts, then running after Luzef again while fighting the magical beasts.

“Isn’t that the lackey?”

“It seems to be.”

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