I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 155

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Chapter 155
By forcibly unraveling the Magic Formula, the mana wavelengths became hopelessly entangled. Jenas coughed up a mouthful of dark blood.
Success had been within reach. All I needed to do was watch everyone trapped by the Magic Circle I created slowly perish.
But then—
A thousand years of preparation, a grand plan that had been on the verge of completion, shattered in a single moment. Because of Margaret Rose Flone.
No matter how mad I was, I couldn’t believe I’d made such a mistake.
I had never doubted that I could kill them all with my own hands. Just as I always had.
That’s why I hadn’t hesitated to unseal the Pendant, saving its power for after opening the dimensional gate, to dominate that dimension itself.
If only I could have foreseen this outcome, I would have unsealed the Pendant first.
Everything stemmed from my arrogance.
“This… this is unbelievable. Margaret Rose Flone, what have you done to me?!”
As Jenas shrieked, Margaret Rose Flone startled and glared at him.
“Stop your nonsense and let go!”
“Damn it…! How did you do this to me?! How… how?!”
Margaret Rose Flone struggled in his arms before slamming her forehead hard against his. Though he released her from his embrace, Jenas remained dazed by the impact.
What was this emotion?
Hoping she wouldn’t die in that moment of falling.
Until just moments ago, I hadn’t cared what happened to her life. She was someone I would kill anyway in the end… but.
This couldn’t be. This couldn’t happen.
[Thank you for saving Margaret Rose Flone, you fool.]
Kaiden’s voice echoed in my mind.
At the same time, fine grains of sand scattered from his body. The sand particles dispersed in midair, gathering into a rounded mass that took human form before rolling across the floor.
As the mana became severely tangled and Jenas’s control weakened, Kaiden reclaimed his body.
Jenas was thrown back, rolling across the floor with a groan. Kaiden, now conscious, rushed toward him at great speed.
A sharp sound.
Intense pain erupted from my chest.
Jenas stared blankly at the Dagger embedded in his heart.
[Never meet Test Subjects directly. You’ll psychologically synchronize or synchronize with them. The moment that happens, it’s over. You won’t be able to kill them.]
Only then did Anata’s words become painfully real.
I was different from Anata. A thousand years of time had never been difficult for me.
I had been certain of that.
When I met Yuanna Lucy, it was nothing, so why now…?
Jenas’s vision blurred and flickered, fading completely, yet his eyes held fast to Margaret Rose Flone’s face as she glared down at him.
He burned into his sight the face of the one who had destroyed in a single moment the grand dream he had prepared for a thousand years, the goal now within reach.
That was his end.
* * *
Jenas was dead.
Confirming that his breath had ceased, Kaiden hurriedly searched for me. When our eyes met, his face bore traces of tears.
“Margaret Rose Flone! Thank goodness you’re safe. Thank goodness. I… you… you…”
He pulled me into a tight embrace and buried his face in my shoulder. His entire body trembled faintly. He finally fell silent, unable to continue.
That’s what I should be saying. I’m so relieved that Kaiden returned safely. I was so worried about him. The shock from when Jenas appeared in Kaiden’s body still felt vivid.
My eyes burned with tears as I pulled him into a tight embrace and stroked his back. I couldn’t hold back the sobs that welled up, wiping away my tears.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid came rushing toward me, gasping for breath. He checked my condition briefly, then looked at Kaiden’s battered face before exhaling a sigh of relief.
With his large hand, he patted my head in silence, then turned away to confirm Jenas’s death once more.
Jenas was truly dead.
I couldn’t believe that vicious human was actually gone. Only after a long time passed and I realized he wasn’t moving did we all finally relax.
It’s over now. Truly over.
Strangely, Jenas’s final expression as he looked at me remained etched deeply in my mind. Why had he worn a face that seemed to feel betrayed by me?
I picked up the Pendant with the Magic Tower Masters’ Mana sealed within it from the floor.
“Cough.”
At that moment, the Prince of Asdal, who had been lying collapsed, coughed up blood.
Kaiden had been holding me when he lost consciousness as if all his strength had been drained.
I came to my senses and hurriedly gathered my party. Diego hoisted the collapsed Kaiden onto his shoulders. Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid supported the Prince of Asdal as he got up.
Everyone’s condition was serious. We needed to find Yuanna Lucy soon and receive Healing.
Eun-ji, who had transformed back into a small Baby Snake, quickly clung to my arm.
I hurriedly searched for the location where Yuanna Lucy and Anata were. According to the Prince of Asdal, they had decided to find the Exit and leave the Door open.
The Exit.
At that moment, a conversation I’d had with Jenas suddenly came to mind.
‘This Island opens a Gate to the Langrid Empire on a one-year cycle. Anata and I received new sacrifices whenever that Gate opened. It hasn’t been a year since you all arrived on this Island yet. What do you think happens when you forcibly open a closed Gate before the cycle is complete?’
‘What happens?’
‘Questions end here.’
What if that Gate was the one Yuanna Lucy’s party had gone to find…?
No, actually, it seemed certain. It had to be that Gate.
In the Cabin, the only thing that could be called an ‘Exit Gate’ was the one in the Basement.
Only then did I understand why Jenas had given Yuanna Lucy the Master Key.
‘What’s the meaning behind the Master Key anyway? He wouldn’t have simply given a key that opens all Doors just to open the Bunker.’
‘Could it be a contingency measure in case his Plan fell apart?’
‘Then using that Key to open ‘something’ could be a Trap as well.’
Our prediction had been correct. The real reason Jenas had given a Master Key that opens all Doors must have been this.
If any of us discovered the Door in the Basement, he wanted us to use Yuanna Lucy’s Key to open it.
When I think about why Jenas did this, there’s only one answer. Opening the Door is connected not only to the destruction of the Island but also to our deaths.
This Island contains various routes to death, and the Key was probably one of them.
‘What happens when you forcibly open a closed Gate?’
His words continued to nag at me uncomfortably.
“…We need to hurry! We have to meet her before the Saint opens the Door to the Basement!”
I shouted to my party and rushed toward the Basement’s Entrance.
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I barely found the Basement Door among the Debris of the collapsed Cabin.
Yuanna Lucy stood in front of the Door and looked back at Anata. Anata nodded silently. It was a signal to open the Door.
Yuanna Lucy swallowed dryly for a moment, then pulled the Key from her pocket. It was the same Key that had opened the Room of Rest where Anata had been sealed.
Before the regression, the Master Key that Jenas had given to her.
‘There shouldn’t be any problems, right?’
Then, suddenly, a question Margaret had asked before came to mind.
‘Is she really someone trustworthy?’
I had thought she was trustworthy. That hadn’t changed even now. Hadn’t Anata sacrificed herself without hesitation, prepared to be sealed by Jenas?
Yet still, I kept wavering.
“I know you’re suspicious, but this really is the Exit.”
As if reading her thoughts, Anata sighed and spoke.
It was when Yuanna, who had been hesitating for a long time, inserted the key into the door handle.
“Saint!”
Margaret’s voice rang out, breaking through the debris of the Cabin. Yuanna brightened upon seeing her.
“Margaret! I’m so relieved you’re safe!”
“Thank you for worrying about me. Oh, and please wait a moment before opening the door. Jenas said something that’s been bothering me.”
Margaret, who had rushed over breathlessly, had a Baby Snake coiled around her forearm—even smaller than usual.
“Anata, you said this door opens once every year, right?”
“That’s correct.”
Anata nodded in affirmation to Margaret’s question.
“I asked Jenas if there was a way for the Saint, whose soul is bound to this Island, to escape as well. He said it might be possible if the Island were destroyed. And then he told me the method to destroy the Island, but….”
Margaret pointed at the firmly sealed door.
“He turned it around and asked me instead: ‘What do you think would happen if you forcibly opened a door that only opens once every year?'”
“What could that mean?”
Yuanna furrowed the space between her eyebrows. Margaret shrugged and carefully withdrew the key from the door handle.
“Saint, this key. Jenas gave it to you before turning back time, didn’t he?”
“Ah. Yes…. That’s right.”
“Why would Jenas specifically give you a Master Key that could even open the Exit?”
“…!”
“I think this is a trap. If you use the key to forcibly open the door before a year has passed, the Island will be destroyed.”
“If the Island is destroyed, we can escape from here, so isn’t that good?”
“The problem is that Jenas said it. The context of the conversation was also strange. It doesn’t seem like just the Island would be destroyed. Anata, you really don’t know anything?”
At those words, all eyes—Archbishop Luzef’s, Yuanna’s, and those of the others who had followed behind Margaret—turned toward Anata.
“What…?”
Anata blinked her eyes in surprise. Looking at her, Yuanna’s face was filled with deep betrayal.
“Anata, you really don’t know anything?”
“Jenas deceived even me and set a trap? That can’t be. It can’t be….”
Anata pressed her forehead with an expression of disbelief.
She fell silent for a moment, lost in thought, then suddenly looked at Yuanna.
“Why did Jenas specifically give you that key, and why didn’t he retrieve it? If it’s him, he probably expected some interesting ‘variable.’ He wanted you to open the door, believing it was the Exit, filled with hope. Just like now.”
“…!”
“Of course, whether you open the door or not doesn’t matter to him…. It was simply a gift for his own entertainment.”
Upon hearing those words, Yuanna furrowed her brow with an expression of incomprehension.
“If we open the Exit, the Island will be destroyed, won’t it? That wouldn’t benefit Jenas at all.”
“This Gate is interlocked with the Island’s entire system like gears. If you forcibly open such a Gate, the Island will naturally be destroyed. Will only the Island be destroyed? It will affect the Test Subjects connected to the system as well.”
“Ah….”
“There’s a high possibility you all died with only your Magic Power remaining. It was the final Experiment, after all. The Island’s destruction isn’t much of a blow to Jenas. What matters to him is effectively extracting the Magic Power and Divine Power you possess and opening the dimensional Gate.”
Yuanna Lucy’s expression turned eerie as she dropped the Key she’d been holding in her hand to the Floor.
Thud.
Everyone’s gaze tilted toward the Key that had fallen to the Floor.
At that moment, Anata suddenly asked.
“Wait, but what about Jenas?”
“He’s dead.”
At Margaret Rose Flone’s response, Anata’s Complexion visibly turned pale.

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