I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 147

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Chapter 147
The people around us exchanged knowing glances between me and Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid.
“I’m quite good at conveying things.”
Kaiden, seated to my right, leaned forward noticeably and stared intently at both me and Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid.
I thought this was starting again and tried to brush it off, but Kaiden continued.
“My end will be with you, so I can’t yield to anyone else. Even if it’s their last moment.”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid didn’t respond to Kaiden’s words. I turned his statement over in my mind, my feelings complicated.
I hated discussing endings. It felt as though it might truly become the final one. So I said nothing.
Then Yuanna Lucy asked me.
“What about Margaret Rose Flone?”
Even Kaiden, who had been staring at Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, turned his attention back to me. All eyes focused on me, and I could only blink stupidly.
And for good reason—I had nothing to say.
“Margaret Rose Flone?”
Yuanna Lucy tilted her head with a puzzled expression and called out to me.
“…I don’t have one. You know my situation.”
“Ah…”
Yuanna Lucy belatedly grasped the meaning of my words. An apologetic emotion gradually spread across her face.
And without needing further explanation, no one asked me any unnecessary questions. That understanding and silence felt strangely uncomfortable.
I am Margaret Rose Flone, yet I am not Margaret Rose Flone.
My very existence is ambiguous, so I don’t even know how to introduce myself, much less how to convey my final words.
In the end, I remained silent throughout.
* * *
After that, we walked for nearly two days straight. We arrived at Jenas’s Cabin in the dead of night.
I expected fog to shroud the area around the cabin. Before, it had engulfed us in confusion to prevent us from approaching it.
But to my surprise, the view before the cabin was clear—not a trace of fog in sight. As if waiting for our arrival.
According to Asdal, there were no Magical Beasts nearby that Jenas could borrow eyes from. The seal on the Magical Beast Mother Body seemed to be working effectively.
Based on the fog’s range, Anata’s Mana appeared to be effective only within a thirty-meter radius of the cabin.
So we positioned ourselves at a distance beyond her Mana’s reach and made thorough preparations. After checking our supplies once more, we decided to hide near the cabin and wait until daybreak.
Asdal continuously checked whether any Magical Beasts were approaching, and Kaiden had set up a defensive Barrier.
To be safe, we didn’t light a Campfire. Nestled among the bushes, we assigned Night Watch duties and settled in for the night.
The First Night Watch fell to me.
A quiet night with everyone asleep.
Chirp, chirp—
Only the sound of grass insects filled the Forest. I gazed quietly at the light from Jenas’s Cabin before looking up at the Night Sky.
Stars filled the heavens completely. It was a beautiful night sky.
In Korea, such a sky was rare to see. Now, Korea—a place I could never return to—stirred a brief longing within me.
Then I heard the sound of someone treading through the Grassland. Startled, I turned my head, and there stood Kaiden.
“Margaret Rose Flone. Did I frighten you? I’m sorry.”
He apologized with an awkward expression and carefully sat beside me. I looked at him with a bewildered face. Kaiden’s brilliant Silver Hair caught the Moonlight, shimmering beautifully.
“Aren’t you sleeping? You should rest for tomorrow.”
Kaiden stared at me in silence for a moment, his eerie red eyes unnervingly still. I couldn’t fathom what thoughts occupied his mind.
Then again, Kaiden had always been that way—impossible to read.
After gazing at me for a long while, he let out a soft chuckle and turned his head away.
“I can’t sleep.”
I understood that feeling well. Before major events—tests, interviews, anything significant—sleep simply wouldn’t come.
Kaiden now sat quietly beside me, his gaze drifting toward Jenas’s Cabin. I joined him in watching the flickering light dancing within the cabin’s windows.
“Margaret, do you know why I’m unmarried by choice?”
Kaiden asked me in a low voice, his tone carrying an unusual gravity that didn’t suit him.
‘That’s right. I never thought about it. Margaret, will you get engaged to someone?’
‘If I survive, I probably will.’
‘Don’t get engaged. Let’s just live unmarried together.’
I recalled a conversation we’d had before. Even without that exchange, I already knew his commitment to remaining unmarried stemmed from the aftermath of the experiments he’d endured.
“I can’t build a family. Having children is… difficult for me.”
“Ah…”
Faced with an answer I hadn’t anticipated, I found myself unable to add anything further. Kaiden smiled, as if understanding my reaction.
“I have considerable regrets about this experiment. Moreover, until now, I’ve harbored little attachment to life itself.”
He spoke as if making a confession, laying bare his thoughts with measured, deliberate words—a tone entirely unlike his usual demeanor.
As I listened quietly, my heart trembled with unease. I couldn’t understand why he kept saying things so unlike himself, and it felt ominous.
I wished he would have said nothing at all.
We would all be safe. Surely.
Yet contrary to my hopes, Kaiden continued speaking.
“But for the first time, I found myself wanting to anticipate a future with you. That’s what makes me so angry.”
Kaiden turned his head and looked directly at my face. I met his gaze in return.
His red eyes traced carefully across my features, as if committing every detail to memory.
“If something happens to me, grieve for me. I have no one else who would.”
The moment those words reached me, something caught in my throat and breathing became difficult. I couldn’t respond, only staring at his face as if entranced.
“That’s all I wanted to say.”
Kaiden rose from his seat without waiting for my reaction, his movements devoid of hesitation.
“You should rest too.”
“I won’t grieve for you…”
Kaiden’s footsteps halted as he turned away. I swallowed my tears and continued speaking.
“I won’t grieve for you. I’ll forget everything. So you have to be safe. If you’re in pain, suffer in front of me.”
My eyes burned with heat. I lowered my head, tears streaming down my face and wetting my feet. Kaiden remained motionless, his steps frozen. After sniffling for a long time, I finally spoke again.
“I’m sorry. The truth is, I’ll be devastated. I won’t be able to function. I’ll live like a wreck. So don’t say things like that.”
“Thank you, Margaret. I really do love you.”
He gently patted my head with affection, then returned to his place without another word.
My chest felt suffocating.
Why did we have to endure such things? Just as Kaiden said, I was consumed by an unbearable anger.
If Jenas were before my eyes, I would have wanted to plunge a knife into his heart immediately—such rage surged within me. I buried my face in my hands and exhaled hot, trembling breath.
Within me coexisted both the hope that tomorrow would come quickly so we could escape, and the fear that tomorrow would never arrive.
At that moment, someone else sat down in the empty seat beside me.
When I lifted my head, it was Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid.
My eyes must have been bloodshot. I hurriedly composed my expression.
“You didn’t sleep?”
At my question, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid nodded slowly without a word. He said nothing upon seeing my disheveled face.
Since my emotions were heightened because of Kaiden, perhaps having anyone sit beside me would be better.
We sat side by side in silence for a long while, gazing at Jenas’s Cabin.
After a long quiet, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid opened his mouth.
“If I cannot escape… there is something I wish to leave with you.”
‘So the words I wish to leave… I will convey them directly. Right before.’
It seemed that his words about conveying them directly were indeed meant for me.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid gazed at me with a heavy expression. His eyes held tenderness. He slowly traced my face with his gaze, then opened his mouth in a soft voice.
“The Suspension Bridge Effect, was it.”
“….”
“Do you still believe in such things.”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid calmly removed a strand of hair clinging to my cheek as he asked me.
I did not answer. He continued as if my response was unimportant.
“It may well be merely a fleeting emotion created by circumstance, as you say. If you wish to deny it, you may. That does not erase the time we have spent together until now.”
At those words, I looked at him with a startled expression for a moment.
My heart fluttered dizzily. My cheeks burned and my mind felt numb.
‘That does not erase the time we have spent together until now.’
At Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s words, I received a new shock. Why had I never thought to consider it that way.
All this time, I had been arbitrarily distorting his feelings, convinced they would surely change.
That’s right. Even if his heart had been momentarily mistaken, the time and memories we shared together do not change.
“Thank you. For saying it that way.”
I meant it sincerely. Because my hollow heart felt slightly filled.
“But why are you leaving your final words with me? Your Highness has many people around you. It seems there are many others who should receive your final words.”
Because Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid was not the type to easily allow others close to him, it was difficult to approach him, yet many people followed him.
He was the Crown Prince who earned the trust of the people and the respect of the Nobility through his exceptional appearance, his bearing more befitting the Imperial Family than Rodban the Deposed Crown Prince who came before him, and his outstanding abilities.
“Did I not say final words.”
At the sound of Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s voice, I looked at his face again.
“Yes?”
“I wanted to leave my final words with someone I care for.”
“…Ah.”
I was captivated by Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s Golden Eyes gazing at me, unable to move an inch.
In that moment, moonlight breaking through the clouds poured brightly over Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s face. Emotions I had never experienced before came pouring down upon me along with the moonlight.
Perhaps it was not Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s face that the moonlight illuminated so brightly, but my own heart.
As I stared blankly at Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s handsome face for a long while, he looked at me with an amused expression and smiled.
“Let me convey my true feelings properly after I escape safely. That will seem more sincere to you.”
“What do you mean… you’ve already said everything…”
“If this place becomes my end, wouldn’t my sincerity become a burden to you?”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid spoke with an expressionless face.
Kaiden had done the same, and now Enoch too—why were they both doing this to me?
My chest felt heavy and suffocated. I placed my trembling hand over my heart, struggling to compose myself before speaking to Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid.
“That won’t happen. We’ll escape together.”
“Yes. It won’t happen.”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid answered with a firm tone, as if to reassure me.
An awkward silence fell between us. But Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid never left my side.
And so he quietly remained beside me until my Night Watch shift ended.
* * *
The next morning.
We decided to split into teams and move according to plan.
The men with combat strength would lure Jenas outside and restrain him, while Yuanna Lucy and I would enter the Cabin with Eun-ji to retrieve Anata.
Since Yuanna Lucy and I had stayed in the Cabin before, we knew its internal layout, making us best suited for a swift rescue of Anata.
Before launching the operation, I cast a Barrier around the Cabin together with Kaiden to neutralize Anata’s Magic Power.
Kaiden mentioned that if her Magic Power proved too strong, the single-use Barrier might fail. Still, it was better than nothing.
Kaiden was the greatest bait to lure Jenas out. It seemed Jenas had considerable interest in his body.

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