I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 2

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Chapter 2

2. To Be Abandoned on This Damn Island

“First, we should climb the mountain. It would be good to check the terrain from a high place. If it’s inland, we can look for nearby houses or villages, and if it’s an island…”

If it’s an island, we’ll see the horizon.

Enoch trailed off as if he didn’t even want to consider the latter possibility.

I walked along the beach with my wrist held by him and looked up at the sky.

The sun had tilted considerably.

Climbing the mountain at this hour wasn’t a good idea. If the sun sets while we’re climbing, we’d likely get stranded.

Most importantly, monsters come out at night, which would also be a problem.

Enoch, who had been glaring at me murderously just moments ago, had softened his demeanor considerably.

He was beginning to realize that there wasn’t much I could do in this place.

“It would be better to climb the mountain tomorrow. We can’t have the sun setting while we’re climbing.”

Fortunately, Enoch understood my words immediately.

“I didn’t know the Young Lady was capable of such rational thinking.”

I frowned at Enoch’s words.

Was that a compliment or an insult?

“As the Young Lady says, we’ll climb the mountain tomorrow. For now, it would be better to look around the area a bit more.”

True to someone who had rolled around battlefields, his situational awareness was very quick.

Well, Enoch was a man who became crown prince purely through ability, despite being a prince born from the body of a commoner maid.

He had achieved countless feats on the battlefield, suppressing all his other brothers to claim the position of crown prince.

As described in the novel, he was a truly ruthless person who never knew how to retreat.

Such a man had gone mad with obsession and madness toward the female lead when he came to the deserted island.

…Wait, am I really okay being alone with this man?

It’s still before he goes crazy for the female lead like in the novel, so it should be fine… right?

Anyway, he finally let go of my wrist. I massaged my captured wrist and let out a sigh of relief.

We walked along the beach again.

After walking along the beach for a while, I stopped in place. Enoch, who was walking ahead, felt puzzled and turned to look at me.

“What’s wrong?”

Instead of answering his question, I stood on the beach and looked at the mangrove trees glimpsed between the palm trees.

Mangroves mainly grow in brackish water regions.

‘The presence of mangrove trees means fresh water flows nearby. Should we go into the forest after all?’

Then I cupped my chin and opened my mouth with the face of a cold philosopher lost in contemplation.

“The beach seems to end here. I think we really need to make a decision now.”

A massive cliff blocked the end of the sandy beach. The path was cut off here.

Enoch seemed to have the same thought, silently following my gaze to look into the dark forest.

“We need to find a place to sleep before the sun sets.”

I nodded in agreement with Enoch’s words.

So we decided to look for a place to hide for the night. If necessary, we would prepare a sleeping place on the beach where we first woke up.

Actually, in situations like this, it would be faster to move separately, but Enoch wouldn’t let me out of his sight.

What if we can’t prepare a sleeping place before the sun sets? At that thought, my lips went dry. We needed to hurry.

A while later, we were searching through the forest near the beach.

Awoooo-!

A wolf’s howl came from somewhere. Instantly, I got goosebumps from head to toe.

‘Could it be a monster…? No way, right?’

My heart pounded violently. That’s impossible. I thought monsters only appeared at night?

The surging fear made me feel like my blood was draining.

“Could this be a wolf…”

It was the moment I turned to Enoch to ask if it might be a wolf’s howl.

From the forest that had no signs of life, came the sound of bushes being violently pushed aside.

The sounds that had been heard consecutively from afar quickly closed the distance. And in an instant, they got close.

My hands became drenched with sweat from tension.

Thud thud thud thud thud.

The eerily fast approach left no time to grasp the situation.

The moment I thought I saw eyes glinting briefly through the tall bushes,

Thwack!

Something huge leaped high into the sky, drawing a large semicircle. And it fell straight toward me, opening its mouth wide!

It was a wolf-type monster.

The tongue that protruded long between its sharp, dense teeth writhed flexibly like a snake’s body.

Overwhelmed by that grotesque appearance, I couldn’t even scream.

Then Enoch quickly pulled me into his arms.

Using the force of pulling me as momentum, he spun half a turn and nimbly avoided the monster’s attack.

That creature that landed lightly on the ground and growled at us was definitely one of the monsters described in the novel.

I took deep breaths while held against Enoch’s chest.

Enoch tightened his grip on the arm holding me and broke off a thick tree branch nearby.

Not missing that momentary gap, the creature rushed toward us.

‘Damn!’

Fortunately, Enoch’s Agility and Monstrous Strength were beyond imagination. He gripped the Tree Branch with one hand and pierced through the monster’s back, driving it down into the ground.

Boom! With a tremendous roar, the dirt ground vibrated.

Truly befitting a high-level devastated male lead. It was mercilessly monstrous strength. Blood vessels bulged on Enoch’s solid forearm gripping the Tree Branch.

Squeak!

The monster made a pathetic sound unlike its charging momentum and collapsed to the ground.

It seemed to have stopped breathing with no movement at all. Jet-black blood soaked the dirt ground.

Enoch straightened his bent torso while breathing heavily.

I was still held in his arms, panting in shock. Angry blood vessels bulged as if they would burst on Enoch’s forearm.

Well, he killed a monster in one blow with just one hand, and with just a Tree Branch at that… It wouldn’t have been possible with ordinary strength.

Come to think of it, wasn’t Enoch in the original story supposed to have trauma related to blood? Is he okay?

I remember it was war PTSD.

‘What exactly were the symptoms?’

I tried to recall, but perhaps because I was startled by the monster, nothing came to mind.

Eventually giving up on thinking, I looked up at the sky.

In the original work, monsters definitely only appeared at night. But this wolf monster that attacked us appeared even though the sun hadn’t set yet.

‘Why?’

Through the dense bushes, I could see the red sunset sky. Looking around, only where we were was dark due to the massive trees growing thickly.

‘Maybe darkness is the keyword, not night.’

Monsters might be able to move regardless of time as long as it’s dark, and they move most actively at night simply because that’s when darkness lasts the longest.

‘Then it makes sense that a monster appeared at this time.’

Then Enoch pushed me away as if brushing off something dirty and dusted off his hands.

He looked at the dead monster once, then glanced at my face.

“I have no idea what that thing was. Are you alright, Young Lady?”

“…Yes, yes?”

I was dazed and grasped his question a beat late. Then he approached me with a serious expression.

Enoch tilted his head slightly and calmly examined my face.

Soon, his hand touched my cheek.

When his warm body temperature touched my cheek, I instantly held my breath.

This was quite a different reaction from just moments ago when he pushed me away like cleaning off something dirty.

He asked me with a serious expression, as if looking at an injured comrade.

“I’m asking because you look like you’re about to die. Are you alright?”

Perhaps he really was thinking of his own comrades.

“Ah… Yes, I’m fine. Thank you for saving me.”

My voice trembled terribly because the fear hadn’t completely subsided yet.

My face burned with embarrassment.

He stared at me quietly, then frowned as if annoyed.

Then he extended his hand to me.

I stared at his hand blankly, not understanding. So he shook his hand impatiently.

This time it wasn’t forcibly grabbing and pulling my wrist, but an invitation.

Seeing that I had the option not to take his hand, it seemed to be his way of showing consideration.

“Young Lady, you know you’re still a suspect, right? When we return to the Empire, I’ll properly interrogate you about this situation, so you’re not allowed to die without my permission.”

‘Interrogate? What did I do wrong?’

As I hesitated, Enoch glared at me quietly, displeased about something again.

He added like a sigh.

“Hurry up and grab it. It’s dangerous.”

His tone was very irritable.

What is this? This tsundere-like forcefulness that’s annoying but also reassuring.

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