I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 12

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Chapter 12

‘Damn it!’

As if those words were a signal, I immediately turned around and started running.

I was caught in trouble. I had encountered the male lead I absolutely had to avoid.

That man was Male Lead 5 from the novel 【More Important Than Survival】, Kaiden Blake Rohade.

‘He was my favorite male lead when I read the novel, but he’s crazy, so I absolutely never wanted to meet him in reality!’

If Enoch was the person who hated Margaret the most in the original work, then Kaiden was the most threatening person to her.

Margaret ultimately met her death at Kaiden’s hands. Other male leads also participated in the murder, but he was the one who decisively killed Margaret.

Life is definitely made up of shitty timing!

I ran frantically through the bushes to avoid Kaiden. Unfamiliar scenery flashed by quickly.

It was dangerous since I was running without a clear destination. I could accidentally encounter wild beasts or fall off a cliff without seeing it.

However, my mind was filled with nothing but the thought that I had to escape from Kaiden.

“Wait!”

Kaiden’s shout came from behind me.

It wasn’t that I had forgotten the fact that I could accidentally encounter the male leads. Still, such a sudden encounter was confusing.

I was eventually caught by Kaiden and after struggling, I rolled on the ground with him. He climbed on top of me and restrained me with both hands.

“Hey, stay still for a moment!”

I was struggling violently when I got hit in the cheekbone by a pendant that fell from his robe.

“Ow!”

I snapped back to my senses.

“Are you okay?”

Kaiden carefully examined my face.

Only then, with my wrists still held, I picked up the pendant that had struck my cheek. It was a metal pendant crafted with a shining sun as its motif.

Judging by its considerable weight, my cheekbone that got hit by this would probably bruise. It was numb and hurt like hell.

Kaiden, who had been quietly observing my face, furrowed his brow and tilted his head.

“I feel like I’ve seen this face somewhere before.”

I deliberately avoided his gaze and kept my mouth shut. I tried to put strength in my wrists, but they wouldn’t budge because of Kaiden’s monster-like strength holding me.

“Definitely familiar.”

Kaiden scanned my face for a long time. His blood-red eyes were eerie, giving him an overall frightening atmosphere.

An uncomfortable silence continued.

“Ah, sorry. That must have been hard, right? Get up.”

Kaiden belatedly got off me and helped me sit up. Of course, he still held my arm tightly without letting go.

“Please understand. I suddenly met a woman who looks like nobility in this remote area – anyone would find it suspicious.”

Kaiden smiled and asked for my understanding. Rationally, I understood, but I was still angry.

For now, he didn’t seem like someone who had met the female lead. He clearly looked like he was alone without any companions.

Clink.

As he moved his head, the sound of earrings clashing could be heard.

The earring on his right ear caught my eye. That earring that was frequently described in the original work.

Since childhood, after being kidnapped by the Temple and experimented on, he became unable to control his mana without the earring.

When it was revealed that the kidnapped boy was the second son of the Rohade Family, society was in an uproar, but Marquis Rohade made some kind of deal with the Temple and the incident was absurdly covered up.

Only Kaiden became an unfair victim.

Anyway, because of that past, he hated his family and the Temple. He would go around overturning all experiments conducted by the Temple and sponsored by his family.

Margaret happened to promote and sponsor the ‘Love Potion’ experiment conducted by the Temple during that time.

Because of this, Kaiden came to the Flone Duchy and caused trouble, but Margaret still didn’t bend her will and forced the experiment to continue.

Kaiden came to hate Margaret because of that incident.

“I don’t know, I can’t remember where I’ve seen this face.”

After a long while, Kaiden finally took his eyes off my face and showed a charming smile as he spoke.

Fortunately, he doesn’t seem to remember Margaret’s face.

“But you’re really pretty.”

…Wouldn’t someone in their right mind be unable to say such things in this situation?

If it were me, I would have first said ‘I didn’t know there was anyone else here besides me’, ‘How the hell are you here’, or ‘Who are you’.

Or like Enoch, I might ask ‘Is this your doing?’

But Kaiden didn’t ask any of the questions I expected.

“Why did you run away?”

He asked me with eerily glowing eyes.

I decided to keep my mouth shut. I didn’t want to accidentally attract his attention or get on his nerves by opening my mouth.

“Can’t you speak? That’s strange, you definitely screamed just a moment ago.”

He seemed to want me to open my mouth somehow. I tensed up seeing his red eyes gleaming with madness.

‘He’s not going berserk like Enoch, is he?’

As I remember, in the original work, his Magic Control Earring breaks. Right after waking up on the island.

Thanks to that, his mana couldn’t circulate properly in his body and stagnated, causing problems. He would suddenly suffer from high fever, and sometimes couldn’t control his emotions seriously.

And the only person who could calm him down was Yuanna. Of course, the method was the same as Enoch’s case.

…Love, what else.

Anyway, while I was lost in thought, he suddenly leaned his head toward me.

Hot breath tickled my sensitive ear.

“Or do you not want to talk to me? Even if you don’t want to, you’ll have to. If you really won’t, shall I make you open your mouth?”

“…What do you want.”

I had no choice but to open my mouth. At my question, Kaiden finally smiled sweetly.

He was the owner of a very gorgeous appearance. Maybe because of his bright hair color, his untamed gaze, as much as his sharp eyes, looked like a wild animal that hadn’t been tamed.

Kaiden’s gaze slithered down over me like a snake again.

“Your voice is pretty too.”

“I’m pretty in general anyway. But why are you speaking informally?”

At my counter-question, Kaiden shrugged as if it didn’t matter.

“This is more friendly. You speak informally too.”

Why should I be friendly with you!

But he didn’t seem to have any intention of using honorifics.

Although Kaiden had a ‘I’m the only one in heaven and earth’ style, we still haven’t introduced ourselves, so using honorifics would be proper.

With Enoch, I couldn’t speak informally because we knew each other’s status, but Kaiden was different.

Well, since he spoke informally first, wouldn’t it be fair for me to do the same?

“Let this go.”

“No.”

However, Kaiden didn’t seem to particularly care whether I spoke informally or not.

“But no matter how I look at you… you seem to resemble someone I know quite a lot.”

Kaiden examined me thoroughly with the gaze of observing something curious.

Well, Kaiden’s visit to the Flone Estate to request Margaret to stop sponsoring experiments was quite a long time ago.

And even that, because Margaret flatly rejected Kaiden’s request and immediately disappeared, the time they actually faced each other was just a brief moment.

It wouldn’t be strange if he didn’t remember her face.

“Who are you?”

I threw a question to prevent him from thinking deeper.

“Kaiden Blake Rohade.”

Kaiden looked down at me with a charming smile that showed his dimples.

“Do you know who I am?”

“No.”

Since he asked, I firmly shook my head.

He quietly examined my face and tilted his head, then suddenly stopped moving and looked straight into my eyes. I avoided his gaze with an ominous feeling.

“Ah, wait. I remember. You look a bit like the crazy Young Lady of the Langrid Empire, don’t you?”

A lunatic? Who’s calling who that right now!

“Don’t you know it’s rude to say such things in front of someone?”

“Are you really Lady Flone?”

I furrowed my brow, pondered for a moment, then shook my head and decided to deny it for now.

Then Kaiden smiled as if pleased.

It didn’t seem like he was pretending not to recognize my face even though he did. However, at Kaiden’s next words, I held my breath.

“Really? That’s a relief. I really hate that woman quite a lot.”

Kaiden spoke playfully, but hearing it made me feel like my blood was running cold.

This was on a completely different level from Enoch’s threats. Kaiden was someone who could actually kill me.

I was feeling threatened and tensing up.

“Huh? But…”

He suddenly tilted his head and buried his nose in my nape.

“You smell sweet, that’s strange.”

Hot breath tickled my nape.

He was pressed so close that it almost felt like his lips were touching.

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