I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 118

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Chapter 118

Enoch knelt on one knee and sat in front of Margaret, carefully arranging the strands of hair stuck to her cheek as he asked.

“Poisoned by poison gas? Then isn’t that quite dangerous.”

“If it’s the same symptoms as before, we have no choice but to wait for time to resolve it. It seems recovery happens with rest.”

Hearing Luzef’s words, Kaiden also breathed a sigh of relief. This time their attention turned to Diego.

“Ah, don’t worry about Lord Diego either. I’ve finished disinfecting all his wounds, so he just needs to recover.”

At Luzef’s words, they were relieved again and laid the two patients down comfortably inside the cave. Then they gathered in front of the cave and lit a fire.

Enoch lit the fire and sat in front of it, adding more firewood.

Sitting next to Enoch, Luzef asked.

“What on earth happened?”

“While keeping night watch with Lord Diego, we suddenly heard strange sounds from somewhere. It wasn’t even an anaconda habitat, but we suddenly discovered a group of anacondas moving in perfect coordination looking for something. And some of them suddenly evolved the moment they encountered us.”

Enoch calmly explained the events of last night.

“They didn’t seem to be able to see the barrier, but they moved toward it like ghosts. As if they were detecting some kind of ‘energy.'”

Saying this, Enoch looked back at Margaret with an impassive face. Luzef followed his gaze and looked at Margaret.

“The magical beasts seem particularly aggressive toward Lady Flone. I’m starting to think that maybe the magical beasts are gathering because of her. It seems to be because of the mana she possesses, but what do you two think?”

A long silence fell at Luzef’s question. Enoch and Kaiden said nothing, and only the crackling sound of burning firewood lingered in the air.

After a while, Kaiden was the first to speak.

“Currently, the most likely reason is definitely the mana Margaret possesses. I expressed doubts before, but it was extremely suspicious that only Margaret had mana. At first, I even wondered if she might be a spy wearing Margaret’s mask.”

“That sounds plausible. Lady Flone has certainly changed enough to be called a different person.”

After Luzef finished speaking, Kaiden lowered his voice even more.

“Priest, you don’t know yet, but there’s an Archmage from the Ingram Dynasty era on this island who’s said to have lived for a thousand years. That mage told me it’s not time yet. I don’t know what will happen when the time comes, but Margaret definitely seems to be the key.”

“Lived for a thousand years…!?”

“Lower your voice, Bishop. You’ll wake Margaret.”

Enoch, who had been sitting quietly with his arms crossed, warned Luzef in a low voice. Luzef, meeting his intimidating golden eyes, quietly closed his mouth.

“Her ability to freely handle magical tools is also suspicious. Honestly, the language she calls ‘Alea’ doesn’t seem to be a language used by ethnic minorities in the Eastern Continent either.”

At Kaiden’s muttering, Enoch sighed and spoke again.

“Whether she’s a spy for the experimenter who designed this island or not doesn’t matter. What I believe in is the Margaret of now.”

At his words, Kaiden immediately showed his displeasure.

“Do you think I’m any different? Even for Margaret’s sake, we need to judge objectively. The important thing is we need to know if the magical beasts are really targeting Margaret because of her mana. That’s how we can protect her.”

At his answer, this time Luzef’s eyes widened.

“Is there a way to find that out?”

“We’ll have to think about that from now on.”

“The most dangerous person might be Margaret. So we have to protect her.”

“Protecting her is fine, but how exactly?”

When Luzef spoke as if frustrated, Kaiden, who had been quietly lost in thought, offered an alternative.

“I think it would be good to temporarily seal Margaret’s mana. I don’t know if it’s possible, but let’s test it. Let’s see if magical beasts still gather around Margaret when she has no mana.”

“Lady Flone might not agree to it. And the Young Lady’s mana is necessary for our survival.”

Luzef’s words made sense, but they couldn’t sacrifice Margaret individually for everyone’s survival. Kaiden shrugged and answered.

“If Margaret is really being attacked because of her mana, then even if it’s inconvenient, it’s better for Margaret to have no mana. We’ve survived well without mana all this time.”

“Not having it and then having it is different from having it and then not having it.”

“Hey, you bastard. Are you saying it’s fine for our Margaret to be in danger because of that XX?”

“What are you saying? Of course not.”

“Then shut up.”

Mediating their fight, Enoch asked Kaiden.

“But how do you plan to seal the mana?”

“The mana auxiliary device that His Highness the Crown Prince gave us not only has the function of releasing magical power, but also has the function of controlling it. It controls through the ring to make it look like the mana is sealed inside the body. It temporarily puts her in the same state as us. Then we lure magical beasts to confirm if the test is successful, and then we just kill the magical beasts.”

Enoch, who had been quietly listening to his words, stroked his chin with a troubled expression.

Kaiden waited for his answer. Only after a long while did Enoch open his mouth.

“If that’s possible, I also agree with Lord’s words. It would be good to temporarily seal it and watch the situation. For Margaret’s sake. But still, hearing her opinion comes first, so let’s talk about it again when she wakes up tomorrow.”

At Enoch’s words, Kaiden nodded vigorously.

“Margaret will naturally agree too.”

Of course, they had no idea that Margaret had been listening to that conversation sporadically and misunderstanding it, and that she had been poisoned by the anaconda’s poison gas and lost her reason.

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Breathing was difficult.

After running for a while, I found a large tree and climbed up it. And I caught my breath for a moment on top of it. Eun-ji, who had been rolled up in the bag strap, quietly came down onto my lap.

I wondered where that disgusting moldy smell kept coming from, but it seemed to be coming from my body.

‘This sucks.’

I let out a tired sigh and leaned my back against the wooden post. Was there a problem when I killed the anaconda?

The headache might be because of this smell. I was confused. To the point where rational thinking was difficult.

The burst dam of emotions wouldn’t be repaired and kept flowing down endlessly, pooling in a muddy mess on the floor. It felt like struggling in that thick swamp-like flood of pooled emotions.

I knew in my head that Enoch and Kaiden wouldn’t do anything bad to me, but I kept feeling sad and disappointed.

I didn’t need any of it, I just wanted to run away alone. I only thought about wanting to escape this difficult situation.

I had been trying hard not to let my mind collapse all this time. But at some point, it became old and dull, and eventually crumbled in an instant.

“I want to go home.”

It didn’t have to be my home. I wanted to go to Margaret’s home. Anywhere would be good, as long as it wasn’t this island.

Anywhere would be good, as long as it wasn’t this island where my life was threatened anytime, anywhere.

Even Enoch and Kaiden were unnecessary if they posed a threat to my survival. Cowardly, I even thought it would be fine to abandon everyone in order to survive.

‘I want to live.’

Tears flowed down. Sobbing burst out.

‘I don’t want to die.’

I was crying like that for a while, when Eun-ji, who had been sitting on my lap watching me, wiggled and crawled up my body.

And then suddenly, didn’t she bite my neck?

“Ah!”

Startled, I ended up falling down from the tree. Fortunately, the height wasn’t too high, so I didn’t suffer major injuries.

My neck was stinging, so I put my hand on it. Blood came off on my hand. And it wasn’t red blood, but thick purple blood.

“Damn, what is this.”

Wrapping my neck with my hand to apply hemostasis, I directed my gaze toward Eun-ji who was up in the tree.

As Eun-ji moved back and forth on the tree branch and our eyes met, she immediately opened her mouth wide and spewed out what appeared to be purple gas.

It was similar to the poison gas that had burst out when the anaconda exploded on South Island.

“Poison gas?”

At my puzzled question, Eun-ji jumped excitedly and spun around in circles as if to say yes. Then she wriggled down the tree, climbed up my body with great effort, and wrapped around my neck.

She tapped the spot on my neck where she had bitten me with her head.

“Why…?”

When I asked with a puzzled expression, she went back down to the floor, opened her mouth wide, and spewed out fist-sized purple gas. Then she climbed back up my body and tapped my neck.

I finally understood what Eun-ji was trying to tell me.

“Ah. You’re saying this purple blood is poison gas?”

Eun-ji flicked her tongue and joyfully wrapped around my shoulder, pressing her face against my cheek.

I took out the bandage I had prepared from my bag. As I pressed firmly on my neck, purple blood continued to seep into the bandage. The more purple blood that came out onto the bandage, the clearer my head gradually felt.

The difficult and painful feeling that had made it seem like the world was collapsing just moments ago also gradually improved.

“Ah, was it because of this?”

The reason I couldn’t think rationally.

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