I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 151

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Chapter 151
Jenas’s body was crumbling like grains of sand. And as it scattered on the wind, it was absorbed into Kaiden’s form.
The more Jenas was absorbed into Kaiden’s body, the more Kaiden’s vision grew hazy.
It appeared as though Jenas was fragmenting his soul like sand to seize control of his body.
‘Damn it, who was the bastard who gave me this cursed earring?’
Ah, that’s right. I remembered now. It was an earring gifted by Herald, his half-brother who had been persecuted by the Rohade Family as dirty blood.
I had thought Herald would be free from the entanglements of the Rohade Family.
‘I was careless.’
Kaiden clenched his teeth and swallowed his rage.
‘I won’t die until I’ve destroyed every last one of those damned bastards.’
He would have his revenge. His life could not begin and end with the Rohade Family.
‘Even in a tiger’s den, you can survive if you keep your wits about you.’
Margaret Rose Flone’s voice echoed in my ears.
Yes. All I had to do was keep my wits. I would stay sharp and find a way out.
At some point, the light faded from Kaiden’s red eyes.
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The last thing I remembered was the nonsense Jenas had left behind.
‘I wanted to have a proper conversation with you in my true form, but circumstances don’t allow it. Shall we slip away somewhere private?’
That bastard and his ridiculous schemes.
Jenas must have kidnapped me. So I was now inside his cabin?
Perhaps I was trapped in the Room of Rest where Anata had once been sealed.
I lay on the floor, staring up into the darkness above. I couldn’t even tell if what I was seeing was truly a ceiling. It was just dark—an endless, abyssal void.
My body wouldn’t move. It seemed I was bound by magic.
But I had lost even the will to solve the problem, so I lay there helplessly.
I’m exhausted.
All I had ever wanted was to survive.
Ever since I opened my eyes in Margaret Rose Flone’s body on this island, I had acted as though ‘survival’ was the greatest goal of my life.
But looking back now, it all seemed futile.
‘—What’s the point of surviving?’
Everything felt meaningless. An overwhelming sense of helplessness crashed over me, stealing away my will to live.
Yuanna Lucy had the key, so Anata must have used it to open the sealed door and escape, right?
Either way, it was a relief. At least we were one step closer to escape. I just hoped that trying to save me alone wouldn’t ruin everything.
Hiss—hiss—
I tilted my head slightly as I lay there. Eun-ji was coiled up asleep on my belly.
“That snake is really something, no matter how many times I see it. A magical beast imprinted on a human.”
Then a quiet voice came from the darkness.
“You startled me.”
The voice wasn’t unfamiliar. But it wasn’t Jenas’s—it was Kaiden’s voice, one I knew well.
‘What’s happening?’
Thump, thump. I heard footsteps approaching me.
Damn it. Don’t come. Don’t come.
“Ah. Your body must be quite uncomfortable.”
Snap.
With the sound of someone snapping their fingers, fire suddenly blazed up from the floor. It seemed Candles had been arranged in a circle around me.
“Get up. You should be able to move now.”
The moment those words reached my ears, my body suddenly felt at ease.
Just as he said, I could finally move my limbs properly. As I slowly pushed myself up, I realized I had been lying on a Magic Circle.
Candles were densely arranged around the Magic Circle, matching exactly the description Kaiden had once given me of the Room of Rest.
Surely not….
“This is a place called the Room of Rest. Cozy, isn’t it?”
Cozy my ass. It’s eerie.
Only then did I lift my head and look at the man standing before me.
I had naturally assumed it would be Jenas mimicking Kaiden’s voice, but standing right in front of me was truly Kaiden.
“Kaiden?”
As I expressed my shock with a questioning look, he placed a Chair in front of the Magic Circle. Then he sat down with his legs crossed and looked down at me arrogantly with his arms folded.
“Ah, let me introduce myself properly. I am Zenas Igran Rohade. I am the founder of the Rohade Family and the Great Mage who created this Island a thousand years ago.”
That wasn’t what I was curious about.
“What did you do to Kaiden!?”
“I consumed him.”
“What!?”
“More precisely, he’s sleeping here. He probably won’t wake up. Ever.”
Kaiden—no, Jenas wearing Kaiden’s face—answered while pressing his finger firmly against his Chest.
This must be what they meant by one’s thoughts coming to a complete halt. Like a broken machine, my hands trembled and I let out a scream.
“That’s complete nonsense!”
Unable to contain myself, I tried to rush out of the Magic Circle and grab his Collar, but there was a Barrier around the Magic Circle as well—I couldn’t get out, blocked by what felt like an invisible wall.
Thud, thud—
Consumed by rage, I pounded against the invisible wall. Jenas watched me with a serene gaze, as if observing a monkey in a zoo.
His face rippled in the firelight. I had no way of knowing what he was thinking.
I knew he was a Great Mage capable of constructing such an incomprehensibly vast Island. But I couldn’t believe Kaiden had fallen so easily.
“I’ve also unlocked your Mana. Actually, I was planning to end the Experiment right away. But something about it felt incomplete. Shall we have a conversation? I’m very curious about many things regarding you.”
“Stop your games and return Kaiden!”
“Your language is always so crude. Not befitting a Noble Lady. In my time, if a Noble spouted curses, they would face punishment.”
“Spare me the talk about a thousand years ago!”
“I was joking. Children these days really have no manners.”
A slanted smile appeared at the corners of his mouth as he observed my angry face.
“Ah, that’s right. Is it because you’re not actually a true Noble?”
Jenas seemed to have also figured out that I had been to another dimension.
“What are you trying to say.”
“I was very curious about who the Test Subject was who used Mana without ever having it unlocked. I wish I had known it was you from the beginning.”
He gazed at me with an intrigued expression.
Every movement and gesture he made sent tension rippling through me.
“Anata too. You as well. How is it that you all deceive me so flawlessly? This is truly disappointing.”
Disappointing? That was rich coming from him.
“You’ve been beyond the dimensional gate?”
Jenas asked me.
I hadn’t expected him to be ignorant of it. Yet even so, I found myself unprepared to answer that question, and I closed my mouth without responding.
“In a thousand years, countless ‘objects’ have passed through the dimensional gate, but never once has a ‘living creature’ crossed over. To discover that the one person capable of such a feat was right before my eyes all this time… I nearly went mad.”
He performed a dry face washing motion, scrutinizing me methodically as though intent on excavating every secret I possessed. I felt exactly like a laboratory rat pinned beneath a researcher’s gaze.
A chill ran down my spine.
It was all the more unsettling because the face before me was Kaiden’s—a face I knew intimately, a face I cherished. Tears threatened to spill over.
What was I supposed to do in this situation?
“I will open the dimensional gate and destroy this world. Then I will seize power.”
Jenas withdrew the pendants of all past Magic Tower Masters from his pocket. At the center of each pendant, carved with a sun symbol, sat a teardrop-shaped amethyst.
I bit at my nails, my mind racing, when suddenly I found myself studying the pendant’s design more carefully.
Now that I thought about it, why had Jenas chosen the sun as the motif for the pendant?
Since ancient times, the sun had symbolized royal authority.
The teardrop symbol of the Magic Tower was encircled by the sun, which represented imperial power. Did this mean the Imperial Family embracing the Magic Tower? What could this signify? Could the Imperial Family have been involved in this experiment?
Or perhaps it was the opposite—Jenas challenging imperial authority. He certainly possessed the capability for it.
Even when the Ingram Kingdom crumbled, the Rohade Family alone survived intact. They could have founded a new kingdom centered on the Rohade line, yet at that time they had merely accepted the rank of Marquis.
The notion that his words about opening the dimensional gate, destroying the world, and seizing power might be connected to his past began to take shape in my mind.
“So, Margaret Rose Flone, before that happens, I’d appreciate it if you’d tell me in detail about that world you visited. From the objects that came through from there, it seems like a world with highly advanced magic. So why didn’t they think to open the dimensional gate and attack our world?”
“…If you want an answer, let Kaiden go.”
“Hmm. Is this how children negotiate these days? It’s so lacking in tension I could yawn.”
“You call that negotiation? Well, if you’ve seen the objects that came from the other world, you’d understand. That world is dangerous. If you open the dimensional gate without me, a thousand years of history becomes worthless scraps. In an instant.”
Jenas stroked his chin, staring intently at my face. After observing me in silence for a long while, he rose from his seat.
“There’s some merit to what you’re saying.”
He acquiesced, then gazed down at me with a leisurely motion, stroking his chin.
“I don’t really need to hear your answer. I can simply open your mind and read your memories—I’ve been wasting time unnecessarily.”

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