I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 206

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Chapter 206
[Surprised? Ha…. Now I finally feel like giving this a proper try.]
Kaiden let out a dry laugh.
It was a situation where even breathing felt overwhelming. Yet in these circumstances, the mere fact that Kaiden maintained consciousness without slipping into a comatose state was nothing short of a miracle.
Now Jenas had bound Kaiden with an incantation, and through a soul-binding contract, Kaiden had bound Jenas in return.
They had each placed constraints upon the other.
At that moment, Jenas felt his right Earring growing scorching hot, as if it were burning away, and he froze in place.
[Do you know why I’ve kept wearing that cursed Earring all this time?]
Even when the Pope had forced Jenas to surrender his body, Kaiden could have escaped through the contract if he’d wanted to. But he hadn’t.
He needed an opportunity. He had been waiting for the moment when Jenas let his guard down, when he could suppress him in a single strike.
[When you took control of my body, I tried to control you as well.]
“Do you really think that’s possible? This Earring was crafted by me, our young lord.”
Jenas asked in bewilderment.
True to his words, the Earring contained Jenas’s Magic Power, and when he suppressed Kaiden through the incantation, that power certainly took effect.
However, the Earring served another purpose beyond that—it helped the ‘Magic Power’ within Kaiden’s body circulate smoothly and harmoniously.
Most importantly, it was a Mana Auxiliary Device that had resonated with Kaiden’s nerves for years.
No matter how much Jenas claimed to have crafted the Earring, it was Kaiden who had worn and used it directly all this time.
The method of reading the Magic Flow through the Earring, the way to adjust its movements to match Kaiden’s body—the true ‘master’ of this flesh, Kaiden himself, knew these better than anyone.
Kaiden gathered all the scattered Magic Power within his body into one concentrated mass.
He had kept the Earring on all this time for this very moment. Solely for this.
[You wouldn’t understand, having never possessed a proper body for a thousand years. I know my own body better than anyone.]
When Magic Power accumulated excessively within the body, the flesh could not withstand it and would rupture.
Therefore, when Magic Power stagnated instead of flowing, the Earring, detecting the danger, automatically entered a state of Loss of Control to regulate it.
In this state, the Earring could not be operated manually. In other words, Jenas could no longer recite the incantation to control Kaiden.
Kaiden watched the massive concentration of Magic Power surge and tremble. The external pressure—the Earring’s power—was straining with all its might to disperse the concentrated Magic Power.
Seeing that sight, he could not hide the smile on his lips. Kaiden spoke toward Jenas.
[This place is your tomb, you cursed bastard.]
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The explosion had damaged various parts of the Island, yet Magical Beasts continued to emerge among the wreckage.
We stood in a circle with our backs pressed together, breathing heavily.
I pulled spare Ammunition from my flight jacket pocket and loaded it into the Cylinder. I could have used Magic Bullets, but I needed to conserve my Magic Power for emergencies.
After loading a Flare, I pulled the lever down. Then I aimed at the weakened Magical Beasts gathering around us and pulled the Trigger.
Whoosh—!
Red Smoke obscured the strange forms of the charging Magical Beasts.
Boom! Bang!
The bodies of the Magical Beasts shattered and exploded into fragments. I wrinkled my nose at the wafting Stench, then turned my back and aimed at the next target, pulling the Trigger.
In the distance, I could see Eun-ji with her body swollen, devouring the Magical Beasts.
Beside her, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid wielded his Sword without hesitation. As he drove the Sword into the Dirt Ground, the electric current wrapped around the Blade flowed through the earth, instantly annihilating roughly ten Magical Beasts that had been rushing toward him.
Thanks to Enoch and Eun-ji handling a hundred enemies each, the Monster Extermination seemed as though it would end soon.
Yuanna Lucy swung her Axe down, crushing the head of a Fish Magical Beast that had rushed toward me.
And I kicked away a grotesque Magical Beast rushing toward her exposed side, then fired a Flare.
Boom! Bang!
After confirming the fragmented Magical Beast’s flesh burst apart, I asked her.
“Saint, why do you use an Axe instead of Divine Power?”
“To relieve stress.”
Yuanna Lucy answered thus, bringing her Axe down on the head of an approaching Magical Beast, then kicked the head away with her foot. Absolutely exhilarating.
“I thought I could live peacefully once I escaped this Island.”
Yuanna Lucy, who had swung her Axe once more in response to my murmur, turned her back against mine and laughed.
“I had the same dream. But reality is still hell.”
We shared a brief, weary laugh and moved again.
“Those coming from over there seem to be the last!”
Protected by Langrid Knights, Prince of Asdal sensed the Magic Flow fluctuating around us and reported to our group.
“Behind the Half-Emperor! Damn, one moment of carelessness and you’re done. Saint, watch ahead!”
Though somewhat noisy, I couldn’t tell Prince of Asdal to be quiet since he was greatly helping the Companions by reading the Magic Flow.
Suppressing the Magical Beasts didn’t take long. Because we could use Magic and Divine Power, we didn’t struggle against them as we had in the past.
The number of surviving Magical Beasts wasn’t large, and those remaining appeared weak, as if they hadn’t eaten anything in a while.
As the number of Magical Beasts decreased and the end came into view, Yuanna Lucy looked up at the Sky. The sun was setting.
“It’s time. Now I really need to begin the ‘purification’ work. I don’t know what the Lord’s plan is, but I can’t wait any longer.”
Kuuuuong—!
And the moment her words ended, a tremendous Thunderous Sound erupted from the Northeast of the Island. The ground trembled so violently we could feel it where we stood.
I saw dark clouds gathering overhead in the Sky.
Ominous. This was similar to the Pattern from when those Peony Flower bastards used Magic Stones at my birthday party yesterday.
“Is it Jenas?”
Prince of Asdal rose from his position with a puzzled expression and looked toward the Northeast.
Kuuuong—!
Another fierce Thunderous Sound rang out, and birds fluttered upward into the Sky with a whoosh. It was as I lifted my head to follow the birds’ movement.
Something shot up into my field of vision. A fluttering blue Mage Robe was visible even from a distance.
Eerie lightning struck down behind the man suspended in the Sky.
Ugh. I clutched my throbbing head as the headache arrived with the lightning.
The man who had leaped high into the Sky was descending slowly toward us in an elegant Trajectory.
“Is it Jenas or Kaiden?”
Prince of Asdal murmured with a puzzled expression, watching the man descending from the Sky toward us.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, who had rushed over after fragmenting the last Magical Beast, blocked my path. With his Sword drawn, he called out to me while remaining vigilant toward the man descending from the Sky.
“Margaret, be careful.”
The moment Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s words ended, the man landed before us. He roughly wiped the blood smeared on his lips with his hand and lifted his head.
Jewel-like beautiful Ruby-colored eyes stared directly at me.
It wasn’t Jenas. It was Kaiden.
“Margaret.”
Blood was flowing from his nose.
“Kaiden, you have a Nosebleed.”
Kaiden wiped the space between his eyebrows with his finger at my words, his brow furrowing. Asdal, the only one among us who carried a handkerchief, handed it to Kaiden.
Kaiden’s movements as he reached for the handkerchief were sluggish. His hand trembled as if he were struggling to control his body.
He accepted the handkerchief with difficulty and plugged his nose, then looked at me and answered.
“Right now, I’m suppressing Jenas, but I came because I wanted to ask you for something. Since the Crown Prince and the Saint are here, I thought I could trust you and leave you in their care.”
“What are you talking about?”
I looked up at Kaiden, who was saying such ominous things. He handed the handkerchief back to Asdal and then gripped both my cheeks.
“If I fail to suppress this curse, just kill me.”
“What…? Are you insane? Absolutely not.”
“I’m doing my best, but it’s not easy. Ugh…”
Kaiden trailed off mid-sentence and spat blood onto the floor again, then stepped several paces away from me. He glanced at Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, who stood with a sword drawn in a guarded stance.
“I entrust Margaret to your care.”
“There’s no need to worry about that—just take care of yourself. If you die, I won’t let it slide.”
The moment Enoch finished speaking, gray smoke billowed from Kaiden’s body. The smoke, threaded with yellow electricity, rapidly became a powerful vortex that wrapped around him, swallowing him whole in an instant.
“Kaiden!”
Moments later, Kaiden’s face briefly pierced through the smoke, only to be pulled back into it immediately.
Kaiden’s face appeared and disappeared repeatedly between the wisps of smoke. It seemed he was locked in a fierce struggle with Jenas within his own body.
We could only watch tensely as this unfolded.
Thud!
Soon Kaiden was hurled out of the smoke and crashed to the ground. Deep gouges were torn across his body where he skidded and scraped against the earth.
He struggled to raise his upper body. Wiping the blood from his lips roughly with the back of his hand, our eyes met as he lifted his head.
Those eyes burned like blazing flames.
They belonged to Jenas.
We all watched him tensely. Yuanna stood with both arms extended, ready to unleash her purifying power at any moment.
Jenas muttered.
“Descendant. I cannot go on like this. A thousand years of time cannot be wasted.”
At the same moment, blue flames erupted from Jenas’s earring. Gray smoke engulfed his body once more, and within the churning vortex, his body was flung violently to the ground.
“Just disappear.”
This time, it was Kaiden who answered.
We all stared in confusion. Two souls were battling within Kaiden’s single body.
But this fight will end someday, and I believe Kaiden will absolutely emerge victorious.
If that is the case, then it will be my turn next.
I opened the cylinder of the flare and emptied the ammunition into my jacket pocket. After closing the cylinder, I aimed the flare at Jenas and Kaiden, who were locked in their internal struggle.
‘The fact that I was the only one who could use Magic on Alea Island, and that the island’s system designed by Anata didn’t work on me either. It’s possible that her purifying power won’t work on me either.’
Just as Yuanna had said, my Magic was different from others’, perhaps because I had traveled beyond dimensions.
Furthermore, after Eun-ji imprinted me, I resonate with her. Eun-ji’s Evolution seemed to influence my Magic as well.
Moreover, when I attacked the Pope, I felt that my Magic released through Asdal’s ring could strike far more broadly than expected.
For instance, if I were to shoot Kaiden with enough Magic to envelop his entire body, even a soul fragmented into grains of sand like Jenas could be damaged.
I remember when we escaped the island, the Magical Beast Mother Body fired lightning at Kaiden. His body was unaffected, but it dealt damage only to Jenas.
I intend to use that same method.
That was why I had asked Kaiden to release the soul servitude contract.
The moment Kaiden severed the soul servitude contract, I would strike Jenas’s soul with a Mana Bullet.
I aimed the Flare at the man before me—whether it was Kaiden or Jenas, I couldn’t tell—and focused every ounce of my concentration.
The instant Kaiden seized control of the body,
‘I’ll end this.’
This time, flawlessly.

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