I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 123

—————

This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com

—————

Chapter 123
Following Eun-ji, who had entered first, I stepped into the room and began examining it carefully.
Canned goods were stacked on the shelves. Fruit cans, corn, tuna cans, and ham cans as well.
I picked them up with delight.
My stomach growled loudly—I hadn’t eaten in days.
I was nearly moved to tears, but first I checked the expiration dates on the cans.
“Wait, what’s the point of checking expiration dates? I don’t even know how much time has passed.”
However, considering the last date I was in Korea, most of these cans still had more than three years remaining.
Whether it was coincidence or not, they seemed to have arrived on This Island around the same time as me.
Yuanna Lucy in the Original Work clearly didn’t know how to open canned goods, so she must have gone without food.
Whoever organized this room didn’t seem to know how to eat these either.
“What’s in the Bunker?”
“Food Supply and Daily Necessities…?”
“Can they still be eaten? Wouldn’t they have spoiled?”
“They should be fine to eat. I don’t need food, so I just left them.”
No, wait. Recalling my memories, Jenas definitely knew there was Food Supply in the Bunker.
If Anata could read Korean Script, she might have read the letters on the cans and known they were Daily Necessities.
Regardless, my hunger was severe, so I decided to eat these.
As I opened the cans and ate hurriedly, tears suddenly welled up.
‘I wish I could let Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid and Kaiden taste this too.’
I wanted to try the other cans, but I held back. It would be better to share the rest with Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid and Kaiden.
I took out a small Backpack from the Daily Necessities on the shelf and filled it with cans.
I packed Tissues and mouthwash, Candles, and even a Knife that looked excessive. I looked around to see if there was anything else worth taking, but unfortunately there wasn’t. I wished there was another pile of Grenades like the one I’d found before.
As I slowly surveyed the room, I gazed at a neat Bed placed in one corner.
‘I want to lie down.’
I couldn’t even remember when I last slept on a Bed.
Come to think of it, Jenas’s Cabin had a Bed too. The Beds in the Third Floor Room were neatly arranged, yet I had to sleep on the First Floor Floor.
“Wait, Jenas slept in a Hammock though.”
This damn curse word.
Thinking of Jenas, I ground my teeth for a moment, then set my Bag down on the Floor and carefully sat on the Bed. Just for a moment, just to sit.
There was no Blanket, but the Bed was incredibly soft. The Mattress was really good. I sat on the Bed and gazed at the closed Room Door.
‘Huh? Did I close the Room Door?’
I couldn’t remember, but I must have. I was probably too focused on eating to remember.
With that thought, I slowly stretched my legs and lay down. I wanted to compare it to the Mattress I had at home since this one seemed better.
Eun-ji, who had been on the Floor, crawled up onto the Bed. Then she coiled up near my pillow and yawned. She must have been exhausted too.
Watching her doze off and close her eyes, I too felt drowsiness wash over me, and I simply lost consciousness.
* * *
For the first time in a long while, I fell into a peaceful, undisturbed sleep on a soft Bed.
Perhaps because of that, I dreamed vaguely of the days when I lived as Lee Jin-ju. Those days when I was unremarkable, drifting apart in a way that made it difficult to fit into society.
My presence among people was always faint. It felt as though I had been abandoned in this vast society.
So I tried working as a scout instructor, optimized for group living, but it was the same. There was no one who truly saw me or remembered me as a person.
“Jin-ju? Ah… Lee Jin-ju, you were in our department, weren’t you?”
Even at the camping company where I’d struggled to find employment, I was treated as if I didn’t exist. It was the same even when I was handling major projects.
I’d always wondered about it. Why couldn’t I fit in like other people? It felt as though I didn’t belong to this world.
Then one day, I happened to find a novel on the street called “More Important Than Survival”.
I had an intuition that something about it resonated with my essence. There was this strange pull to it.
The day I picked up that novel from the street was nothing special. Yet that book I found on that unremarkable day was extraordinarily special.
On the pavement where the book had fallen, there were mysterious patterns drawn, and a bluish light was emanating from those patterns.
The problematic book was placed right on top of it.
‘Right. Now I remember.’
It was such a remarkable phenomenon that I couldn’t forget it—so how had I completely forgotten about it?
The light emanating from the ground disappeared the moment I picked up the book. As if it had been waiting for that very instant.
That’s how I ended up reading a novel on the street out of nowhere. At that moment, I was so curious about the book’s contents that I couldn’t help but read it right away.
And absurdly enough, while I was reading the book, a falling signboard hit my head and I met a tragic death.
I don’t know where that book went after that. I don’t know where it came from either.
Now that I think about it, that was definitely a Magic Circle.
‘A Magic Circle…?!’
My eyes flew open at the sudden realization.
And my gaze met with the red eyes right in front of my face.
A woman with pure white silver hair and eyes as red as blood was pressing her face close to mine, staring at me.
“Ahhhhhhh!”
I bolted upright from the bed and stumbled backward. Eun-ji, who had been sleeping at the head of the bed, was startled and spun around in place.
I sat up on the bed, pressed my back against the wall, and scanned my surroundings. But the woman I had just seen had vanished like a mirage.
“What was that?”
With a bewildered expression, I got down from the bed and searched the room, but there was no one there.
Then I noticed that the Room Door was open.
‘Did I sleep with the door open?’
No. The door was definitely closed before I went to sleep. A chill ran down my spine as I stared at the open door, frozen in place.
‘Come to think of it, that woman from just now had silver hair and red eyes.’
By appearance, she matched someone from the Rohade Family. And if she was a woman, there was a possibility she was Anata, whom Kaiden said he saw at Jenas’s Cabin.
‘Wait, no. No, that can’t be right. According to Kaiden, Anata was sealed alive in Jenas’s Cabin. She couldn’t possibly appear here…’
I clutched my head and pondered this strange phenomenon.
Now that I think about it, even when I was at Jenas’s Cabin, I saw ghosts like this. Didn’t someone in black clothing lead me to Jenas’s room?
Even when I was captured by Magical Beasts and dragged outside the Cabin, I saw a mysterious shadow through the window of the “Room of Rest”.
From that “Room of Rest” where Anata is sealed.
Could it be…?
While sealed, could Anata be separating her body and soul, then sending her soul to another location?
If she were trying to avoid Jenas’s notice and convey some message to someone else, it would be entirely plausible.
However, since she’s been sealed in the Room of Rest and has become something akin to a Guardian Deity, such things might be possible within Jenas’s Cabin’s territory, but this place was very far away from the Cabin.
Sssss—
At the sound Eun-ji made, I suddenly looked down.
Eun-ji, who had been at my feet, glanced up at me, then crawled toward the partially open Door. Then she looked back at me and gazed at the open Door again.
It seemed like she was telling me to go out.
“Alright, let’s go out and check. First, let me gather my things.”
I slung the Cross Bag over my shoulder and shouldered the Bag containing Daily Necessities and canned goods, then left the Room with Eun-ji.
Since going up to the upper floor seemed pointless, I decided to explore the lower floor again. The one below that I hadn’t been able to check yesterday because I was too frightened.
“But has it already been two days since I came to this Basement?”
Without a Window where I could see the Sky, my sense of time had completely vanished—I couldn’t tell if a day or two days had passed.
‘Are Enoch and Kaiden looking for me?’
Perhaps they’d gone through the motions of searching a few times before giving up. They had no reason to risk danger searching for me anymore.
Kaiden understood Magical Power Control, so he could manage his emotions on his own, and Enoch could now perfectly control his Berserker State.
So the two men no longer needed me.
“That’s a little disappointing.”
My chest felt a slight ache, but I pushed the feeling aside and descended the Stairs.
I passed through the area where the skeletons had left traces of breaking through the Stone Wall and continued downward.
Torches continued to burn on the Stone Wall, and I discovered the name “Alea” carved into various places on the Stone Wall.
Since the name Alea had been carved everywhere Jenas’s touch had reached, it seemed certain that this Bunker was created by him.
Soon the Stairs ended, and I stood on flat Floor.
The lowest level was dark because there were no Torches. I took out Candles and a Lighter from my Bag, then lit the Candle wick with Fire.
At the end of the rectangular space like a Room, there were two Doors. The right Door had the letters “Return” inscribed on it, and the left Door had a Magic Circle carved into it.
I took a few steps to get closer to the Doors.
Suddenly, light seeped out from beneath my feet.
A Magic Circle was carved in the center of the rectangular space, and I was now standing on it. Beneath my feet lay a book that I hadn’t noticed until just moments ago.
“What? This is….”
It was the novel “More Important Than Survival.”
I picked up the book. My memory was hazy, but it was worn and thick, resembling the book I had read long ago.
In that instant, the book pages fluttered and light burst forth. It was an intense, brilliant light so bright it was difficult to open my eyes properly.
After a long while, the light faded and my Visibility returned completely. I was in a different place.
To be precise, the location was the same, but it felt as though I were in a different time period.
The two Doors and the Magic Circle drawn on the Floor were identical. Torches burned on the walls, and before my eyes, two women crouched on the Magic Circle.
A woman with Silver Hair and Red Eyes, and Yuanna Lucy with reddish-brown Short Hair.
Wait, Yuanna Lucy?

—————

This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com

—————