I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 148

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Chapter 148
As that thought crossed my mind, I found myself deeply worried about Kaiden.
Before heading to the Cabin with Yuanna Lucy, I turned to Kaiden with a parting word.
“Be careful. If you get hurt, I won’t forgive you.”
Kaiden, who had been standing with an indifferent expression, tilted his head slightly and looked down at me.
“Wish me luck. Then I think I’ll be safe.”
“I’ll be praying for you.”
“Not that kind of thing.”
He lowered his head and pressed a kiss to the ends of my hair.
I flinched reflexively, then was surprised. I had expected him to kiss my cheek outright.
Noticing the meaning in my expression, he smiled. Dimples appeared beautifully in his cheeks.
“I want to be remembered as a gentleman at the end.”
“Margaret. We need to go.”
With Kaiden’s words, Yuanna Lucy called out to me. I nodded and waved at Kaiden.
As he watched us leave, Prince of Asdal offered a parting word.
“Please, be careful.”
At his warm words, both Yuanna Lucy and I smiled and nodded.
“Margaret.”
“Margaret.”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid and Kaiden called my name simultaneously, then glared at each other’s faces.
“Be careful.”
“Be careful.”
They spoke the same words once more in unison, then glared at each other again.
Yuanna Lucy, watching us with an exasperated expression, grabbed my hand and pulled me along.
“Let’s really go now.”
I was pulled along by Yuanna Lucy’s hand while waving at the two men.
“You two be careful as well.”
The two men, who had been glaring at Yuanna Lucy with displeased faces, looked at me and their expressions brightened radiantly as they nodded. The stark contrast was so amusing that I let out a hollow laugh before belatedly turning my head away.
After returning to our designated position, hidden among the Grassland, Yuanna Lucy grumbled.
“I’m so sorry we became close to Margaret so late.”
“Pardon?”
“Well, isn’t it? I always wanted to become close to Margaret, but in the end, those dark-haired men became closer again.”
Yuanna Lucy pouted her lower lip and spoke as if discontented.
“I don’t have any friends.”
“I’m honored that you would consider me a friend.”
At my response, she smiled beautifully. That bright smile made her look like an innocent girl.
Smiles are contagious. So is good energy.
Thanks to that, I found myself smiling alongside her, forgetting that our lives now hung in the balance.
* * *
Jenas, who had been sitting before Anata, rose from his seat.
“Everyone seems to have gathered.”
Anata, bound to the chair, narrowed the space between her eyebrows and stared at him.
“How would you know that? You said there aren’t enough Magical Beasts left to borrow eyes from.”
“It’s not that. I can feel the Mana. Right in front of the Cabin.”
Anata bit her lower lip firmly. She was anxious. She couldn’t fathom what he was planning.
“This is the final Experiment. We can’t afford to fail. That’s why I need to intervene directly.”
As I thought about how close we were to success in this long Experiment spanning a thousand years, even I couldn’t completely hide my excitement.
A very long time ago. I discovered a dimensional rift by pure coincidence.
While researching and investigating this phenomenon I’d never seen before, I learned that the wavelength flowing from the dimensional gap was affecting the world I inhabited.
I was convinced I could reverse-engineer that wavelength and control it perfectly. So I resolved to open the dimensional Gate, but it proved far more difficult than expected. It required an excessive amount of Mana.
Immersed in my research, I discovered something crucial one day. When humans sensed a threat to their lives, their Mana amplified by more than a hundredfold compared to their normal capacity.
This was such a monumental discovery that it could compress what would take tens of thousands of years to accumulate Mana and open the dimensional Gate into merely hundreds of years.
Of course, I never anticipated it would still take this extraordinarily long.
Jenas asked Anata with slightly flushed cheeks, his eyes gleaming.
“I think it’s best to open the Mana now. I can’t bear to wait. I’ll suppress them all at once. I’ll kill everyone except one.”
“You know the Mana can’t be opened until the Experiment ends, right? We designed it ourselves. And don’t you know the principle is not to intervene directly in the Experiment?”
At Anata’s words, Jenas laughed.
There were various reasons why they didn’t intervene directly in the Experiment.
The first was that the Test Subjects needed to feel a threat to their lives in an Extreme Environment without the aid of Mana.
The second was,
‘Never meet the Experimenters directly. You’ll psychologically synchronize or synchronize with them. The moment you do, it’s over. You won’t be able to kill them.’
It was for none other than Jenas and Anata themselves—the Designers.
Moreover, there were quite a few troublesome rules they had created while conducting the Experiment.
At Anata’s sharp question, the excitement drained from Jenas’s face. He turned cold and spoke to her with an eerie, emotionless expression.
“That principle was already broken, Anata. The moment you intervened directly.”
Anata’s space between her eyebrows furrowed in an instant.
“Even so, it’s impossible to modify the Island’s system to our convenience now.”
“If we can’t modify it, we can destroy it instead. Destroy it and make Mana opening possible.”
“How?”
“I have something extraordinary that can partially collapse the system. You’ll see soon enough.”
Anata’s eyes widened in surprise.
“Wait, are you perhaps…!”
“I have no intention of explaining in detail, so don’t ask.”
Jenas cut off her words sharply and donned the Mage Robe.
Anata gritted her teeth and glared at Jenas. Nevertheless, he paid her no mind and continued muttering eagerly to himself.
“I’ve spent a thousand years hoping only for the success of this Experiment. What if the ending turns out to be anticlimactic?”
At his words, Anata shot back with a voice filled with anger.
“Then stop now.”
“If that were possible, I wouldn’t have remained here for a thousand years. Anata, is that easy for you?”
Of course it wasn’t easy at all. Anata bit her lower lip firmly.
Even after living a thousand years, there remains attachment to life. Such is humanity.
Jenas sighed as he observed her.
“How indecisive. You wait here. I’ll handle it myself.”
* * *
I was about to use Mana to lure Jenas out, but as if he had been waiting, he emerged from outside the Cabin.
The boy who opened the Cabin door and walked out with leisurely, unhurried steps was unmistakably Jenas.
He walked toward Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, Kaiden, and Prince of Asdal.
“I’ve been waiting.”
Jenas slowly surveyed the party, then furrowed the space between his eyebrows with a dissatisfied expression.
“But where are the others?”
He scanned the surroundings thoroughly. It seemed he was looking for me, Yuanna Lucy, and Archbishop Luzef.
I confirmed once more that Archbishop Luzef, hidden in the Grassland, wasn’t visible, then retrieved a Flare.
It was fortunate that Yuanna Lucy and Prince of Asdal had brought a Supplies bag with extra Ammunition; otherwise, I would have had to discard the Flare.
They had even remembered the shape of the Flame Bomb I carried and brought it along, which gave me great reassurance.
I confirmed the Bomb inside my Cross Bag once more, then lifted Eun-ji, who was peering from the Floor, onto my shoulder.
“Damn, of all times, all the important ones are nowhere to be seen.”
At that moment, Jenas’s voice pierced my ears.
Important ones?
“Would it be alright to leave them to their own devices?”
Jenas asked, looking at Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s party. What did that mean?
“Stop spouting nonsense and tell us how to leave This Island.”
At Kaiden’s response, Jenas burst into laughter.
“That wasn’t a question expecting an answer, was it?”
At the mockery, Kaiden spat out a curse.
Observing the situation, I headed toward the back of the Cabin with Yuanna Lucy.
Crack!
Boom!
The sound of Trees breaking came from in front of the Cabin. Dull thunderous sounds erupted everywhere, as if Battle had begun.
Yuanna Lucy, who opened the Window on the Cabin First Floor and entered, turned to look at me.
“Margaret Rose Flone?”
I, whose attention had wandered for a moment, finally grasped her hand and quickly entered the Cabin.
The interior of the Cabin was dark despite the daytime. The eerie Aura still lingered. Eun-ji, resting her head on my shoulder, looked around with curious eyes.
“The Room of Rest is on the Third Floor.”
I spoke to Yuanna Lucy, who was examining the First Floor. She turned to look at me and nodded.
Yuanna Lucy gripped an Axe in her hand, while I retrieved a Flare, checked the Cylinder, and carefully climbed the Stairs.
“Saint, you have the Key, don’t you?”
Upon reaching the Second Floor and surveying the area, I asked Yuanna Lucy just to be sure. She pulled a Key from her pocket, showed it to me, and smiled.
“Don’t worry.”
I released a sigh of relief.
The Room of Rest would certainly be Sealed, so I needed to find a way to open the Door by considering various possibilities. The Master Key was one of them.
Flash! Boom, crash!
Suddenly, thunder and lightning struck from the clear sky.
I startled and peered out the window. What was happening outside?
Flash, flash—kaboom!
The lightning striking the same spot repeatedly resembled the moment Archbishop Luzef had sealed the Magical Beast Mother Body.
‘Could it be….’
I rushed to the window and looked outside. The front yard of the Cabin had descended into chaos, and Jenas was nowhere to be seen.
“My goodness, it seems the Archbishop has awakened?!”
Yuanna Lucy, peering out from the opposite window, spoke to me. I ran toward her direction and looked outside.
Between the bushes, I caught a glimpse of blue hair. Soon, a man slowly rose to his feet. Archbishop Luzef had finally awakened.
“Saint, please go upstairs first. There’s a Room of Rest on the Third Floor. I’ll go to the Archbishop. He won’t understand the situation, and if he gets captured by Jenas….”
“I understand. Don’t worry about me. Please take care of the Archbishop.”
Yuanna Lucy, grasping my words at once, squeezed both my hands firmly and nodded.
I gazed at her bright face for a moment. There was no time for this, yet I couldn’t bring myself to let go of her hands.
I pulled her into an embrace.
“Thank you. For saving me again. I realize I’ve never properly expressed my gratitude.”
I held her like that for a brief moment, then released her.
When I looked at her again, her eyes were glistening with tears.
“We’ll meet again downstairs.”
At Yuanna Lucy’s words, I nodded. And so we exchanged a brief farewell and parted ways.
I could only hope that everyone remained safe in their respective positions.

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