I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 152

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Chapter 152
“…What? Wait, hold on…!”
Jenas walked slowly toward me as I stood upon the Magic Circle, and I hastily spread both arms to stop him.
He raised his eyebrows with a displeased expression, looking down at me with arrogance.
“Why. Do you have something to say?”
“Are you saying you’re going to kill me right now?”
“You were going to die anyway. Why are you suddenly afraid? It’s fine. I’ll end it quickly.”
Startled, I threw out another question rapidly.
“Wait! Hold on. Wait a moment. Kaiden…! Is Kaiden really dead?”
“Death would be better. Didn’t I tell you? I consumed him. He’ll never awaken from this place.”
Jenas pointed to his chest once more as he answered.
At his despairing response, my mind went blank. I struggled to compose my emotions and brainwashed myself.
‘It’s okay. He’s not dead yet. As long as he’s not dead, that’s what matters. So pull yourself together.’
* * *
Jenas narrowed the space between his eyebrows and quietly observed Margaret, who was groaning.
Trapped within the Magic Circle, Margaret resembled a cute canary in a birdcage. No matter how much she racked that small head of hers, there would be no answer.
A faint smile seeped across his face, shadowed red by candlelight. His deep voice resonated through the room.
“Stop wasting energy on pointless scheming.”
As he spoke, Margaret lifted her head and looked at him. A flash of displeasure appeared in her sparkling blue eyes. Jenas accepted her hatred toward him with ease.
Margaret, wearing a troubled expression, spoke carefully.
“…You asked why people from that other world don’t open the dimensional gate, right? That world has no Magic. Unlike your imagination, it’s not Magic but engineering technology that’s highly advanced.”
Margaret’s words captured his interest. A world without Magic? How could such a world even exist?
Jenas nodded with an expression indicating he was willing to listen to Margaret’s story seriously. As if urging her to continue.
Margaret bit her lower lip, gauging his reaction before continuing.
“Opening my head won’t help. Direct experience and feeling cannot be compared to fragmented memories. You absolutely cannot adapt to that world without me. Think about it carefully. You need me.”
Even as she told him he needed her, the sight of Margaret glaring at him with barely contained rage was quite entertaining. He almost wanted to torment her further just to see her tears.
This was a type of sadism Jenas had never experienced before. In fact, it was his first time taking this much interest in someone, his first time finding conversation enjoyable.
Jenas stroked his chin and gazed quietly at Margaret’s face. She was desperately trying to persuade him because she didn’t want to be killed, but she made no attempt to hide her hostile expression toward him.
‘How adorable.’
It would indeed be a shame to kill her outright.
As he gazed at her, Jenas couldn’t suppress his smile. Unaware that he wore such an expression, he spoke to Margaret in an deliberately arrogant tone.
“Unfortunately, Margaret. I have no intention of adapting to the world beyond dimensions. I simply need to conquer it completely.”
Margaret’s eyes trembled fiercely as she glared at him. Jenas, arms crossed, savored the disturbance crossing her face. Then he dragged a chair close and sat right beside Margaret.
Seeing him do this, Margaret’s expression became flustered.
Setting aside his subjective impressions, Margaret possessed genuinely beautiful features. Yet this strange emotion Jenas felt toward Margaret naturally did not stem from such external factors.
Perhaps it was because he heard she had visited another dimension. She truly felt special to him.
“In a thousand years, I’ve never seen anyone like you.”
At Jenas’s offhand remark, Margaret’s face crumpled.
“You really have a way with words. Didn’t you have friends a thousand years ago either?”
“Friends? Why would I need such a thing? Hmm. But if your purpose is to waste time with this pointless conversation, you’ve succeeded. It’s garbage talk since there’s so little of value, but this isn’t entirely bad.”
I found myself so captivated by her presence that I was willing to postpone my duties just to continue our conversation.
Margaret, infuriated by his response, unleashed a torrent of profanities that were barely fit for utterance. Jenas listened to her curses with evident amusement, letting them pass through one ear and out the other.
Desiring to prolong their exchange, he decided to shift the topic slightly.
“By the way, how did you resolve the poisoning last time?”
“You XX… What?”
“The Tentationem Flower. You seemed severely poisoned. Did your party handle it?”
Margaret, who had been cursing moments before, suddenly fell silent with a troubled expression, as though trying to grasp the intent behind his question.
Jenas recalled the last time he had seen her. When they met in the Bunker, she was already gravely poisoned by the Tentationem Flower.
The sensation of her pulling him close, refusing to let go, and pressing her face against his nape remained vividly fresh in his memory.
‘Don’t go, please…’
As he recalled her voice pleading so desperately, his mood became somewhat peculiar.
“What good would that do you?”
Margaret was glaring at him with a defiant pout. The more she resisted with such a rebellious gaze, the more curious he became.
Jenas, observing her quietly, made a proposal.
“If you answer me, I’ll reward you by answering one of your questions in return.”
“Enoch and Kaiden detoxified me. Don’t ask anything more than that.”
Margaret answered swiftly, as though she had been waiting for this, and fixed him with a challenging stare. Upon hearing her response, Jenas found himself recalling the moment he had left her in front of Enoch and Kaiden.
‘I should have just taken her with me then.’
Knowing the detoxification method for Tentationem, he indulged in some rather unpleasant speculation, which only soured his mood.
“Now answer my question. If a soul is bound as collateral on this Island, is there truly no way to survive?”
Margaret, pressed against the Barrier of the Magic Circle, posed the question to him. Jenas immediately grasped the reason behind her inquiry.
“I understand what you’re curious about, but such a thing is impossible. The Saint cannot be saved.”
Having said this, he added another remark with a compassionate expression, as though a god were looking down upon humanity with mercy.
“If the entire Island were destroyed, it might become possible. If everything were eliminated, there would be no place left to bind the soul as collateral. But Margaret, how could you possibly destroy the Island, hmm?”
Jenas briefly withdrew a pocket watch from his pocket to check the time. Considerable time had already passed. Though he wished to continue conversing with Margaret, he could not afford further delay.
Yet, seeing Margaret sitting with a look of despair, he felt somewhat uncomfortable simply leaving her, and ultimately added one more remark.
“Actually, there is one way to destroy the Island.”
Her eyes immediately brightened with hope as she looked at him. Though he had broached the subject first, her expression struck him as rather amusing. To think she would harbor hope based on his words alone.
“This Island has a Gate that opens to the Langrid Empire on a yearly cycle. Anata and I would receive new sacrifices whenever that Gate opened. It hasn’t been a year since you arrived on this Island yet. What do you suppose would happen if we forcibly opened the closed Gate before the cycle is complete?”
“What would happen?”
“Questions end here.”
“Damn it, if you’re going to speak, at least finish what you’re saying!”
“You didn’t answer all of my questions either.”
BOOM—!
The moment his words ended, a tremendous thunderous sound erupted, and a violent tremor shook the floor. It seemed a fierce collision had occurred outside the Barrier. Jenas fixed his gaze upon the Room Door.
Someone had breached the Barrier of the Cabin and entered.
“We have a visitor.”
As he slowly rose from his seat, Margaret pounded fiercely against the Barrier.
“Where are you going!”
“To greet our guest.”
“Release me and go.”
“How amusing. Stay here. I’ll protect you.”
“So you’re saying I should stay put until you kill me yourself. If you’re going to spout nonsense, just shut your mouth!”
Margaret’s fierce outcry sent Jenas into delighted laughter. Yes, he would have to keep her alive until the very end. She was too entertaining.
“I’ll be back.”
With those words, Jenas left the Room of Rest, abandoning Margaret within the Magic Circle.
* * *
I thrashed against the edges of the Magic Circle in desperation, but ultimately only exhausted myself before collapsing back onto the floor.
‘Damn Jenas!’
As I lay there cursing him, I felt a weight settle across my abdomen. Something heavy had positioned itself upon my belly.
Glancing down, I found Eun-ji watching me with a dejected expression, coiled atop me.
What would become of Eun-ji?
It didn’t matter if I wasn’t the one to escape. I only hoped Eun-ji would leave this Island, breathe fresh air, and live happily.
“Eun-ji, are you alright?”
At my question, Eun-ji looked up at me with sorrowful eyes. It was the first time I’d seen such an expression on that bright, adorable face.
The creature was deeply dispirited, clearly blaming itself for being unable to help me. My heart ached, so I gently stroked its smooth head.
“It’s okay. There was nothing we could do.”
My comfort seemed to offer little solace. Eun-ji buried its face against my belly and whimpered pitifully for a long while.
Then suddenly, I felt my Magic Power draining away rapidly.
Bewildered by this strange phenomenon, I realized the escaping Magic Power seemed to seep directly into Eun-ji’s body. A soft luminescence was radiating from its form.
“Wait, Eun-ji. What are you doing?!”
My startled cry made Eun-ji lift its head with a confused expression. In the next moment, a blinding light flooded the entire room.
When the light faded and my vision returned, I saw the massive Silver Scales of an enormous Anaconda pressing heavily against my body.
“Ugh.”
As I gasped in pain from the crushing weight on my abdomen, the Silver Scales bristled before moving rapidly. Even through the pain, I stared at it in shock.
Eun-ji had grown to a size that filled the entire room.
Eun-ji itself seemed panicked, scrambling clumsily across the floor.
Due to Eun-ji’s Evolution and growth, several Candles in the Magic Circle had toppled over, and the Magic Circle itself was completely smudged. Yet it shouldn’t have been possible to smudge something drawn with Magic Power.
I swallowed hard and approached the ruined Magic Circle. Then I slowly reached my hand toward the Barrier.
My hand, which should have been blocked by the transparent wall, passed through empty air without any resistance.
‘Good heavens, the Barrier really has disappeared.’
I walked out of the Magic Circle. Eun-ji continued to crawl about the room in confusion.
Perhaps Eun-ji’s Evolution as a Magical Beast had affected the Barrier.
I recalled the unimaginably massive Anaconda I’d encountered when I first arrived on the North Island. If I shared more of my Magic Power with Eun-ji, could it grow to match that creature’s size?
Eun-ji could grow even larger here.
‘Then….’
An excellent idea had occurred to me.
“Eun-ji, would you like to cause some chaos with me?”
The silver Anaconda flicked its tongue happily, its expression radiating pure delight at my words.

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