I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 184

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Chapter 184
“This is a gift.”
A gift? I accepted the pouch from Kaiden with a puzzled expression and examined its contents. Then I gasped in surprise and looked back at his face.
“How did you even…!”
Kaiden scratched his cheek, looking embarrassed.
“Jenas remade it in my research laboratory.”
Inside the pouch were flare ammunition.
I had thought that since Jenas had personally modified the ammunition itself, he might be able to remake it.
I examined the ammunition carefully, then suddenly felt a wave of doubt about why I was so pleased to see these newly made rounds.
What was I doing, delighting at ammunition when I wasn’t even going to become a Magical Beast hunter?
“But will there be any occasion to use these? We’re not on the Island anymore.”
“Who knows. We don’t know. Just keep them until everything is over.”
“Hmm. It seems you can now handle Jenas as you please.”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, who had been quietly observing the situation, asked Kaiden a question. Kaiden looked at Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid and me as if he had much to say.
“That XX did something to Margaret Rose Flone…”
He trailed off and ran his hand roughly through his hair.
“Never mind. That’s not important. Let’s go now.”
And uncharacteristically, he pushed Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid and me away.
“Huh? Oh. Well, I’m still grateful for this. I’ll use it well.”
Even if I wasn’t sure when I’d use it. At my expression of gratitude, Kaiden smiled softly and bid me farewell.
What was Kaiden trying to say at the end? Now that he’d left it unfinished, only curiosity remained.
* * *
Ugh.
Jenas lay on his back, uttering painful groans. He couldn’t move even a single finger.
Being branded with a hot seal was nothing. Compared to the agony of having one’s soul torn apart, it was trivial. Not a single day passed without him thinking about how he had ended up in such a humiliating and miserable situation.
‘Who else could it be? That damned Margaret Rose Flone.’
Margaret Rose Flone, Margaret Rose Flone. He chewed on that irritating name dozens of times a day.
If he hadn’t brought Margaret Rose Flone, who had drifted near the Cabin, to him back then, if he hadn’t taken an interest in Margaret Rose Flone, things wouldn’t have come to this point.
He wanted to erase Margaret Rose Flone from his memory. But now was not the time for such thoughts.
After a long while, he regained his senses and spoke to Kaiden.
[About that Archbishop. If it were me, I would have tortured him. What’s wrong with torturing him and killing him if things go wrong? No one would know anyway.]
Kaiden, standing before the window and gazing up at the gloomy sky, showed no reaction to Jenas’s words.
[Young Master, should I kill that Bishop bastard for you instead?]
“Shut up.”
[Those idiots. Not knowing their place, they’re trying to lay hands on my achievements without me. They’re nothing without me, yet they dare.]
This was Jenas’s response upon hearing that the Peony Faction members in Kaiden’s body wanted to resume their experiments.
Kaiden was well aware that Jenas’s arrogance stemmed from his genius and formidable abilities. Even to Kaiden, who had grown up hearing himself called a genius, Jenas was a difficult entity to contend with.
[It’s pathetic. None of them know what true fear really is.]
“What is true fear then.”
[Well. I help you because of the constraints. Don’t think I’ll show you any more consideration than that, Young Master.]
Jenas gave an evasive answer. Here was someone whose soul was enslaved to Kaiden, yet he spoke of consideration. Still, something about the end of our conversation left me unsettled.
I recalled Margaret’s past complaints about him. Jenas was impulsive, seeming on the verge of revealing something important, yet never quite delivering what truly mattered.
Jenas ultimately said nothing more.
Kaiden, for his part, felt no concern about the Peony Faction’s schemes or their plans. They seemed like such a pathetically foolish group, just as Jenas had suggested.
Rumble, crack.
Just then, through the window, I saw a massive thunderclap followed by lightning splitting into seven branches as it struck down. Kaiden fell into deep contemplation at the sight.
Lately, these strange lightning bolts seemed to keep striking. It was probably just my imagination.
* * *
The Archbishop remained sealed within the Magic Tower. And likely, he would remain sealed there until all of this was over.
I’d heard they provided only the bare minimum of water needed to sustain life. It was no different from how one treated a prison inmate.
‘Self-inflicted,’ I thought.
My birthday was roughly two weeks away, and Kaiden and Enoch had agreed to visit the Flone Territory in four days. It was to set up a Barrier in preparation for an attack by the Peony Faction.
The birthday party would be held not in the Capital Beneton, but at Duke Flone’s estate. It was time to return to the territory as the social season in the Capital was drawing to a close.
Besides, my parents insisted that a grander celebration could be held at the Duke’s Castle.
So we decided to leave Beneton tomorrow, and tonight was my last evening at the Capital Manor.
I sat leisurely on the sofa in my room and opened a package that had arrived for me.
It bore Yuanna’s name. After untying the bound string and tearing open the yellowed paper, I found a small box carefully wrapped inside.
I didn’t need to open it to sense what it was. It seemed to be the Magic Stone she had obtained. Carefully unwrapping it and opening the box, I found exactly two Magic Stones inside.
And I discovered a small note enclosed with the package.
[I thought it best to send the Magic Stones as soon as possible, so I’m sending them ahead. I’ve placed a Magic Seal and Location Tracking on the package, so don’t worry.]
I couldn’t believe she’d sent the Magic Stones so quickly. As she said, it was best to find and destroy them as fast as possible. So I intended to feed them to Eun-ji right away.
Eun-ji circled around my feet with curious eyes, tilting her head as if asking why I was doing this.
Suddenly, I wondered if it was truly safe for Eun-ji to consume the Magic Stone.
She was a child who couldn’t speak—what if she was in pain but couldn’t tell me?
Her expression suggested that wasn’t the case, but since she’d swallowed one Magic Stone just days ago, I was concerned about pushing her too hard. So I decided to keep them for now.
I sprawled on the sofa, still holding the Magic Stones. I was exhausted.
According to Innis, a tremendous number of letters had arrived requesting invitations to my birthday party.
‘Well, my story was even featured in major headlines in the daily papers.’
I understood their curiosity. The knights who had returned from the Battlefield with me had spread rumors far and wide that Eun-ji was a Divine Beast.
The greatest contributors to this, of course, were Noel and Hyzen.
Beyond that, everyone seemed quite curious about the changed relationship between me, Enoch, and Kaiden.
Sssss—
Lost in thought, I heard Eun-ji calling to me. Lowering my head slightly, I saw her rolling around on the carpet in front of the sofa, looking up at me.
She tilted her head and even tried to look pretty, which was so adorable I couldn’t resist petting her. Getting down from the sofa, I gently stroked her head, and she made a pleased expression, her tongue lolling out as her eyes closed. She was precious.
Kyaak!
But suddenly, Eun-ji bared her fangs sharply. Looking at her in confusion, I followed her gaze and jumped in fright, landing hard on my rear.
A familiar silhouette sat before the window.
“Margaret.”
The voice that hung heavy in the air was Kaiden’s, yet it wasn’t Kaiden’s.
Though they inhabited the same body, when Jenas used it, the presence felt distinctly different.
Jenas sat askew on the window frame, smiling languidly, and there was something eerie about his composure. Not because I had recognized him as Jenas, but because his eyes held no warmth—they did not smile.
“Why are you here?”
I couldn’t fathom why he kept seeking me out like this. Yet he never actually did anything to harm me.
I quickly scooped up Eun-ji and placed her on my shoulder, then retreated warily. But Jenas remained motionless on the sill, simply watching me with those quiet, unblinking eyes, making no move at all.
“I’ve been curious all this time.”
As the candle flame on the nearby side table flickered, shadows danced across Jenas’s face.
Those red eyes fixed upon me looked like the setting sun in the darkness—quiet and burning, like a sun sinking slowly into the horizon. They were red eyes that burned with a heat all their own.
Kaiden’s eyes were brilliant like jewels, always sparkling and luminous, but they held none of this color.
It was strange how different they appeared, even though it was merely a different soul inhabiting the same form.
“I wonder if this time, too, everything will be ruined because of you.”
But his next words jolted me back to reality like a splash of cold water.
“What do you mean by that?”
‘This time, too’?
He swept his hair back from his forehead with an unhurried motion. The gesture exposed the sharp line of his jaw and the slow movement of his Adam’s apple, and I found myself strangely drawn to it.
The atmosphere felt wrong. What was this? Why did he seem so decadent today, of all days?
“When I first brought you to Alea Island, you were clearly nothing more than an ordinary test subject. But then….”
Complex emotions flickered across Jenas’s face as he looked at me. He seemed confused by his own feelings.
“You irritate me. Margaret, you irritate me far too much.”
“….”
“So, do nothing and please just stay quiet. If you keep acting out like that, even you won’t be able to stop me from doing something.”
What did he intend to do if he couldn’t restrain himself? There was nothing he could actually accomplish anyway.
He spoke of irritation, but this was clearly interest. He was continuously showing fascination with me. It must be because I was a soul that had crossed beyond dimensions.
“I have no interest in your feelings. I’m only concerned about Kaiden, who will be hurt because of you, and his wellbeing.”
At my words, Jenas’s eyes trembled sharply. For a moment, it seemed as though he wore an expression of hurt, but it was so fleeting that I couldn’t be certain I had truly seen it.
Then Jenas suddenly dropped down from the window frame. He approached me in one swift motion and lowered his head. His face drew dangerously close in an instant.
A sharp cry escaped me.
Eun-ji, perched on my shoulder, raised her blade edge in alarm, but Jenas paid her no mind. Instead, he tilted my chin up with his finger. His red eyes filled my vision.
He stared directly into my eyes. Though he cast no spell, I found myself frozen, as though bound by chains, unable to move even slightly.
“Why do you treat me so coldly, only me?”
I am the one who, because of you alone, foolishly ruined an experiment spanning a thousand years.
He whispered in a low voice.
His words sounded almost like a plea. But his words kindled a sudden fury within me.
The fact that Jenas was trapped helplessly within Kaiden’s body did not extinguish my anger toward him.
He was the source of all of it—being kidnapped to a mad island without understanding why, facing endless threats to my life, despairing before death, suffering identity confusion with two souls, and even now, unable to find stability upon my return. Jenas was the architect of all this suffering.
The dark and arduous emotions I had endured had merely sunk quietly beneath the surface; they had not vanished.
If someone asked whether everything was fine now that I had reunited with family and could easily dispose of the Peony Faction, my answer would be no. I was not fine.
What happened on that island would remain a deep trauma for me for the rest of my life. It would be a scar that nothing could ever erase.
“Think about everything you’ve done until now. I find it abhorrent that you parasitize and breathe within our Kaiden’s body. If I had the strength, I would kill you with my own hands, and I can only regret that I cannot.”
“How menacing. Is this your way of telling me to reflect on my past days? Well, I will not reflect.”
“I thought as much. Creatures like you—your very existence is a sin.”
At my words, Jenas burst into loud laughter. To hear such an insult and laugh—it was chilling. That bastard was truly, utterly insane.
“Don’t expect too much from the Peony Faction children. I created them. For a thousand years, I have been the greatest in this world, and I remain the greatest.”
Moreover, what gave him such confidence?
Jenas clearly had nothing left that he could accomplish.

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