I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 117

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Chapter 117

I was startled and stepped back.

Then he raised his eyebrows and stopped in place.

“Are you feeling alright? Does your head hurt?”

With a strange, inhuman face, Enoch asked me as usual. I pressed my temples firmly.

It seems like I’m seeing hallucinations.

“I feel terrible. My head hurts terribly too. I’m seeing things.”

At my answer, Kaiden standing next to Enoch was about to open his mouth to respond.

Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.

Heavy footsteps could be heard from somewhere. The dirt ground vibrated faintly.

Everyone who had been looking at me turned their gazes toward the direction of the sound.

“It seems like monsters are approaching.”

At Enoch’s words, Kaiden cursed.

“Damn it, Margaret. We’ll explain later, just cooperate first. We’re going to seal your mana using your mana auxiliary device.”

“What? Why?”

“That’s… we don’t have time to explain. Sorry.”

Kaiden forcibly grabbed my hand with the ring on it.

I was so startled in that moment that I shook off his hand and stepped back.

Kaiden looked at me with a flustered expression.

“…temporarily seal Margaret’s mana…”

He definitely said something like that yesterday.

Was it really not a dream?

“Even if there’s no time to explain, explain anyway. Why are you sealing my mana?”

“It’s… because it’s dangerous for you.”

He spoke as if coaxing a child by giving them candy. It didn’t sound like the truth, but rather empty words meant to calm me down.

“It doesn’t seem like we have time to delay like this.”

Luzef slowly approached me. The headache surged again and Luzef’s face became grotesquely distorted.

Damn, what is this? I keep seeing things.

I frowned deeply and shook my head while stepping back. Then the three men looked at me with bewildered expressions.

“What are you planning to do after sealing my mana?”

“…the most dangerous person might be Margaret…”

“If that’s the case, how about we test…”

“It won’t be too late to kill her after testing…”

If what they said yesterday wasn’t a dream, then they might be trying to test me right now. And if they judge me to be dangerous, they might kill me.

Yes, perhaps I’ve been trusting these men too much all this time. Didn’t these men distrust and dislike me from the moment we first met?

Maybe I’ve been too naive with people like them all this time.

The musty smell grew a bit stronger. I rubbed my forehead, feeling nauseous from the disgustingly dizzying odor.

My head hurt, making me increasingly angry and furious. Feelings of injustice and sorrow came washing over me like waves. Not only was my judgment becoming clouded, but I kept hearing strange auditory hallucinations.

“What’s wrong, Margaret? Wait, what’s this situation? I think there’s some misunderstanding?”

Kaiden looked at me with a troubled expression. I narrowed my brow and sighed from the overwhelming fatigue.

“Right now I can’t believe anything you say. It would have been better if you had explained properly before any misunderstanding arose.”

“That’s not it, Margaret…”

Kaiden took a step toward me, and at that moment, his face transformed into a savage form just like the others.

Horns sprouted from his head, his face elongated forward like a horse, and when he opened his mouth, sharp teeth were menacingly revealed.

I stumbled backward in shock as the creature licked its lips while looking at me.

The men wearing monster masks slowly approached. I pulled out a flare and aimed it at them to prevent them from coming closer.

Three men with horrifyingly frightening faces simultaneously raised their hands.

Watching them, I slowly picked up the bag that had fallen to the floor. Eun-ji, who had been watching cautiously, quickly grabbed onto the bag strap.

Thud.

Thud.

From somewhere, a massive rumbling sound came again. I tensed up at the heavy footsteps that seemed to be searching for something. They were similar to the orangutan magical beast’s steps.

“Margaret, are you okay? You have a nosebleed.”

The monster with Enoch’s voice tried to approach, so I aimed the flare at him.

“It seems the poison gas hasn’t been completely detoxified yet?”

The monster with Kaiden’s voice shouted. His tone was higher than before.

Poison gas? Had I been in a poisoned state? My head hurt terribly and I felt awful, but it didn’t feel like I was poisoned.

I tilted my head with a puzzled expression and rubbed my nose. Just as Enoch said, I really was having a nosebleed. A hollow laugh escaped me.

Was my body breaking down? It wouldn’t be strange. I already felt like both my mind and body had reached their limits.

Maybe the hypothesis I had formed before was correct. All of this might be an experiment pushing us to our breaking point while we’re without mana.

But then, what does the experimenter gain from doing this?

‘Whatever it is, this is hard. I really want to rest now.’

I slowly closed and opened my eyes while carefully looking over the three men.

“I’ve really done my best until now.”

Hollow laughter continued to burst out.

“I’ve thought countless times about escaping and surviving alone.”

My chest rose and fell. As my emotions intensified, my heart began beating rapidly and heat rushed to my head.

I tried to calm down by taking slow deep breaths. Then I looked at the three men and continued speaking calmly.

“You’re men who have disliked, hated, suspected, and tormented me from the beginning. What does affection matter?”

Hah.

With my emotions intensifying, I took a deep breath. My eyes grew hot. Unable to control my fluctuating emotions, tears eventually flowed.

My emotions were strangely uncontrollable.

“Margaret.”

“Don’t move.”

I slightly turned the flare I had been aiming at the monster with Enoch’s voice and this time aimed at the monster with Kaiden’s voice.

I roughly wiped away the tears flowing down my cheeks.

The fact that I’m in such a sensitive state right now is also the result of my efforts to subdue the Anaconda and save everyone.

Since waking up on this island, has there ever been a time when I didn’t put them first?

After enduring all kinds of hardships, now I’m even seeing hallucinations. As I recalled all the troubles I had endured for their sake, a deep sense of doubt washed over me.

“I guess it’s really time to act separately now. I don’t care what the intention was, I hate being used.”

“Margaret, it’s a misunderstanding.”

“I told you, it would have been better if you had explained before the misunderstanding arose.”

“No, there wasn’t time to explain…”

Kuuung-!

At that moment, pushing through the bushes, a magical beast finally revealed itself.

Drip.

This time I felt my nosebleed flowing more. I roughly wiped my nose with the back of my hand and slowly backed away.

Enoch, Kaiden, and Luzef looked back and forth between me and the magical beast with urgent expressions.

The magical beast charged toward us, and I pulled down the hammer of the flare and pulled the trigger.

Bang!

It hit the magical beast’s body and the beast’s body exploded. But the problem was the magical beasts that came rushing in afterward.

My companions tried to approach me but seemed too busy dealing with the charging magical beasts.

In that gap, I quickly turned around and ran.

“Margaret!”

I heard a scream-like shout from behind me, but I didn’t have the mental capacity to consider their condition right now.

Yes, it seems like it’s finally time to go to the bunker alone.

My heart was beating rapidly. I was breathless and my head was still dizzy.

I ran without rest.

And I succeeded in completely shaking off Enoch’s group.

It was a little later that I realized I had been poisoned by the Anaconda’s poison gas.

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The night before the incident,

After defeating the Anaconda magical beast and bringing the collapsed Margaret to safety within the barrier, Enoch looked at the barrier with an anxious expression.

“With Margaret unconscious, I don’t know how long the barrier will continue to function.”

Kaiden, who had carried Diego on his back into the barrier, examined the barrier following Enoch.

“Still, since the barrier reinforcement was done not long ago, it should last until morning.”

While they watched the magical beasts swarming toward the barrier with tense faces, Luzef hurriedly brought a first aid kit and began treating the collapsed Margaret and Diego.

Around the barrier were two corpses of giant Anacondas, and strangely-shaped magical beasts were prowling around the barrier.

They were wandering around the area, sniffing with their noses as if they were looking for something.

Standing inside the barrier and watching them, Kaiden quietly spoke.

“Don’t they seem to be looking for Margaret?”

Enoch nodded as if it was nothing unusual.

“The magical beasts have been doing that for more than a day or two.”

Kaiden looked at Enoch with complicated eyes.

Perhaps I was thinking more rationally than Enoch, I thought to myself.

Enoch was blind when it came to Margaret. And he was obsessed with her. That’s why he couldn’t judge Margaret objectively.

I wasn’t at that level yet. I could die for Margaret, but I wasn’t obsessed with her like Enoch was.

So I thought it might be better for me to make rational judgments about Margaret from now on.

The magical beasts wandered around the barrier for quite a while before gradually disappearing. Only then did Enoch and Kaiden step away from the barrier to check on Margaret’s condition.

Fortunately, Margaret didn’t appear to be injured anywhere, but her complexion looked poor. Archbishop Luzef placed his hand on Margaret’s cheek to check her condition and let out a sigh.

“She seems to be poisoned by the Anaconda’s poison gas. The symptoms are similar to when the three of you collapsed from Anaconda poison gas poisoning on the South Island.”

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