I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 208

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Chapter 208
Ptooey.
Kaiden spat blood onto the floor and slowly rose to his feet. His clothes were completely torn, and there wasn’t a single unblemished spot on his body.
With his battered form, Kaiden approached me.
“Margaret.”
His parched voice cracked and splintered. He asked me weakly with an exhausted expression.
“You said to dissolve the soul servitude contract, right?”
I was so overwhelmed with emotion that I couldn’t speak, so I quickly nodded. Then he spread both arms wide and took a step back from me.
“I’ll do it now.”
Kaiden’s face was etched with firm resolve. I gripped the Flare tightly again.
“I’m going to fire Mana at you. It’ll be a direct hit and it’s going to hurt. But I’ll try to control it.”
Kaiden’s expression showed he had roughly grasped what I was about to do.
“I can endure pain.”
He straightened his posture, positioning himself to better receive the Flare I would fire. Soon, tilting his chin upward with his eyes closed, he opened his mouth.
“Dissolve.”
Hearing the simple contract dissolution incantation, I fired a Mana bullet toward him. A pure white beam of light shot from the Gun Barrel of the Flare directly at Kaiden’s heart.
As the beam of light flew in a perfectly straight line through the air and struck Kaiden’s chest with a direct hit, an enormous burst of radiance immediately engulfed his entire body.
“Ugh.”
Kaiden let out a short groan and staggered back a few steps from the impact.
The beam of light that pierced through his torso expelled all of Jenas’s sand-grain-like souls that had been scattered inside, casting them violently out of his body.
Behind Kaiden’s back, countless azure granules burst forth like a fountain, not a single one remaining.
It was a sight both wondrous and eerily beautiful.
The expelled granules clustered together in midair, then flew toward a Rock and embedded themselves in it relentlessly.
Crash—!
With the sound of the Rock shattering, Dust briefly obscured my vision.
A brief silence fell.
As the Dust cleared, I could see what had pooled together like water droplets beginning to reshape itself.
Moments later, a Man with a human form collapsed on the Floor and let out a groan.
“Ugh.”
Silver Short Hair. I couldn’t see his face, but everyone among us knew who that Man was.
Finally.
Finally, I had separated Jenas from within Kaiden’s body.
Seeing this, Eun-ji rushed toward me and clung to my waist.
“Eun-ji wants to eat! That bad mister smells like an ugly Stone! Eun-ji wants to eat!”
Eun-ji pointed at Jenas and spoke. Archbishop Luzef, covered in blood and looking disheveled, looked surprised upon seeing Eun-ji.
“Wait, is this little one the Young Lady’s pet?”
“That’s right. Eun-ji, you should eat the ugly Stone first.”
I answered Archbishop Luzef and spoke to Eun-ji. I was anxious that Jenas might regain consciousness and counterattack.
As expected, Yuanna Lucy, who had been observing the situation, also chimed in.
“Everyone, shall we hurry? I’m about to begin the purification process.”
When Yuanna Lucy and I persistently questioned him, Archbishop Luzef withdrew a Magic Stone from his pocket and handed it to Eun-ji.
Eun-ji immediately transformed into a serpent and swiftly swallowed the Magic Stone.
Gawk—
After digesting the Magic Stone, Eun-ji licked her tongue happily while gazing up at me. At that moment, a subtle luminescence began to shimmer across her body.
“Huh?”
Her body, gradually expanding in size, grew to dimensions that would require three adult men to encircle.
I watched as Eun-ji’s Silver Scales progressively sharpened into crescent shapes, hardening like a Dragon’s scales.
An aura of overwhelming presence emanated from her. Soon, she opened her massive maw and unleashed a magnificent Pillar of Fire, displaying her formidable power.
She had evolved to the next stage.
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Where did it all go wrong?
Including Margaret in the Test Subject roster?
Planning the Experiment Island?
Walking the path of a Mage, something he had despised so deeply?
I don’t know. Regardless, this situation made no sense whatsoever. Jenas crawled across the Floor, his form constructed from countless grains of soul compressed together.
At the end of his gaze, he could see the Gate leading out of the Island. And something caught on the tips of his fingers as he crawled across the ground.
He lowered his gaze to discern what was snagging him. Something glimmered and shone between the Dirt Ground.
He couldn’t fathom why such curiosity seized him in this urgent moment.
Jenas brushed away the soil with his hand and confirmed the identity of the gleaming object. As he dug into the Dirt Ground, a hand—unmistakably human—emerged. Within the palm lay a Jewel, its color dulled and fractured. More precisely, it was a Pendant.
And Jenas knew to whom this Pendant belonged. A thousand years ago, he had personally crafted it—an object imbued with the Magic Power of successive Magic Tower Masters.
‘Anata.’
Jenas recognized that the hand holding the Pendant was Anata’s.
The visage of his sister, whom he had walked beside for a thousand years, wavered before him.
A thousand years ago, Jenas had been persecuted for being a non-Mage. In truth, he was not without Magic Power—he simply had tremendous Magic Power pooled within his body.
Anata harbored guilt, believing that had she recognized this truth even slightly sooner, he would not have suffered persecution.
Thus, his sister lived for a thousand years with blood on her hands, all for Jenas’s sake rather than her own.
After living such a life, she ultimately showed affection to a Test Subject, betrayed him, and met a miserable death.
Blood cannot lie—following her to the end, he too paid the price for showing kindness to a Test Subject, meeting his own ruin.
Ah.
This cannot be—
How have I lived all this time—
Ahhhhh—!
How did I endure a thousand years—!
As despair threatened to consume him, Jenas’s vision caught sight of a fist-sized orb rolling across the Floor. It appeared to have slipped from the pocket of Kaiden’s Robe.
Magic Power accumulated over a thousand years through Experiments.
He slowly extended his hand and grasped the orb. From the orb now resting in his palm, pale Smoke began seeping out in wisps.
Yes. If I cannot possess it wholly, then I shall destroy it all. That was always the intention from the beginning.
Jenas released the Magic Power he had accumulated over a thousand years.
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We watched silently as Jenas crawled across the Floor.
The evolved Eun-ji wagged her tail with delight, then turned to look at Jenas. Her eyes sparkled with an expression that suggested she wanted to devour him on the spot.
Jenas, who had been crawling across the ground, suddenly stopped. He then dug through a pile of dirt, discovered something, and began emitting strange cries.
The dark aura that enveloped him—was it influenced by the Magic Stone he had absorbed? The sky began to fill with darker storm clouds than before.
Thunder and lightning raged violently.
Watching the long line carved across the sky deepen further, Yuanna Lucy spoke urgently toward Eun-ji.
“Eun-ji, eat him!”
However, Eun-ji, with her tongue hanging out, looked at Yuanna Lucy before glancing at me and gauging my reaction. I nodded and spoke to Eun-ji.
“Yes, Eun-ji. Eat him.”
Only then did Eun-ji crawl toward Jenas with delight. As the massive Dragon approached, Jenas sensed the threat.
He, who had been in human form, distorted his shape. He became a mass of Blue Light, floating upward into the Sky.
I watched as whitish smoke spread from within the Blue Light mass that I presumed to be Jenas.
‘What is that?’
Briefly, something like a bead became visible between the Blue Light. The smoke appeared to be emanating from that bead.
Grrrrr—
A bizarre sound began to echo from the Sky.
The bead that had been emitting smoke suddenly began to glow. The Blue Light presumed to be Jenas contracted briefly along with the bead rotating brilliantly with light.
Sensing the threat from this display, Eun-ji hesitated. Seconds later, a massive Pillar of Light erupted from the bead, shooting upward into the Sky.
“Damn it, that’s Magic Power accumulated over a thousand years through Experiments.”
At that moment, Kaiden, who had been collapsed on the ground, rose to his feet with Archbishop Luzef’s support and spoke.
“…What?!”
That damned Jenas never stops causing trouble until the very end.
The towering Pillar of Light struck the Sky, which now bore a long horizontal fissure.
Boom—
A thunderous sound, as if the Sky itself were collapsing, reverberated through the entire atmosphere. I covered my ears and lowered my upper body.
It felt as though the Magic Flow had changed. The moment that thought crossed my mind, as expected—
“Ugh.”
The Imperial Army Knights and Mages standing nearby fell to their knees and collapsed to the ground. As if gravity itself were pulling them down, they remained pinned to the Floor, unable to rise.
It appeared that as the Dimensional Gate collapsed, the Magic Flow was also destroyed.
This phenomenon was surely not limited to those on the Island. It was likely affecting the entire Continent beyond the Island.
Only Yuanna Lucy and I remained unaffected by the Magic Flow disruption, standing unharmed.
Jenas, now in human form again, appeared in my field of vision. My mind was consumed entirely by hatred toward him—I could not think of anything else.
Jenas knelt on one knee with a strained expression, breathing deeply, and in his hand still glowed that brilliantly luminous bead.
“Margaret.”
Jenas reached out his hand toward me. Of course, he could come no closer.
Gulp.
Eun-ji opened her massive jaws and swallowed him whole. But soon Eun-ji’s jaws opened again, and Jenas reappeared.
He was gripping Eun-ji’s Fangs, barely holding her jaws open. His arms trembled violently.
“Damn it, this cursed snake bastard…!”
Black Smoke began to billow from around Jenas’s body. It appeared to be Poison Gas, and similar purple Smoke began to emanate from within Eun-ji’s jaws as well.
While Eun-ji was unaffected by the Black Smoke emanating from Jenas’s body, Jenas was affected—his Complexion turned ashen.
“…Ugh. This…. This doesn’t make any sense…!”
I watched as Jenas’s grip on Eun-ji’s fangs gradually weakened. Jenas was being overpowered by her strength.
I turned to Yuanna and spoke.
“Anata. Please. Start the purification process.”
Yuanna stretched both hands forward, and brilliant white light flickering in her palms gradually intensified. Seeing this, the reality that this was truly the end finally sank in.
That was when Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid grasped my hand. He moved his body with great difficulty to draw closer to me.
Deep despair was etched across his face. I spoke to him.
“I left letters instead of saying goodbye to my family. Please deliver the message later—tell them there’s a letter in the drawer of my room.”
As I spoke, my throat tightened and I swallowed hard, my mouth dry.
My eyes grew hot. Afraid that tears would spill over, I took a deep breath and continued.
“Saying it directly would be too difficult for me. I don’t think I could bear to leave if I said it aloud. So please forgive me. Tell them I love them so much. Tell them I’m sorry for saying it only now.”
I had a message to convey to Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid as well, but I found myself unable to speak any final words to him.
And unexpectedly, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid—whom I thought would press me for answers—simply gazed at me in anguish without saying a word.
That was strange. It wasn’t like him. This was to be our last moment, so why wasn’t he saying anything?
At that moment, the sky cried out in a deafening wail.
Rumble rumble rumble— Crash!
Kaiden, suffering from the collapsing Mana Flow, moved his body and reached out his hand toward me.
“Wait, Margaret. What is all this? Where are you going?”
Unable to steady himself, he finally dropped to one knee and collapsed. I swallowed the hot sobs rising in my chest and called out to him.
“Kaiden.”
“What? Why? You never said anything like this before. I decided to live again because of you, so what is this? Huh? What kind of ridiculous situation is this?”
“I’m sorry, and thank you. This was the best choice for everyone, and for you.”
He slowly wiped his face dry. His expression showed he couldn’t accept what was happening. Soon, he answered in a steady voice.
“Because I’m weaker than Jenas. That’s why you have to sacrifice yourself like this.”
“That’s not it at all.”
“Margaret, there’s no time.”
But we had no more time for conversation. Yuanna was urging us forward.
Kaiden’s legs gave way beneath him, and he collapsed where he stood. With vacant eyes, he looked up at me.
“No…. Margaret, please….”
He wept. He cried and pleaded with me.
But I had no words to give him.
I didn’t want to go either. If I had my way, I would stay beside the people I love. I was terrified.
I didn’t know what would happen if I crossed the dimensional gate—whether I would die, survive, or something else entirely.
By now, I had no choice.
Jenas, still struggling with all his might to avoid being swallowed by Eun-ji, must have heard our conversation. He cried out to me.
“What are you saying! No! Margaret has to stay here! By my side! No!”
Gugu gugu gugu—
Yuanna, who had begun the purification, opened her mouth.
“Everyone should focus on themselves right now. I don’t think you all truly understand what happens when I perform purification, do you?”
Soon the light of purification left a long tail like a meteor, swirled around her arms, and then became a tremendous radiance that consumed the entire world and filled all of my vision.
Submerged in light so intense I cannot open my eyes, my head throbs relentlessly.
Then Yuanna Lucy’s voice reached my ears.
“Margaret, I will always wait for you. Even for a lifetime.”
The moment Yuanna Lucy finished speaking, I heard the sound of Eun-ji swallowing Jenas.
Gulp.
Aaaaaaah! No! Margaret! No!
Jenas’s screams from within Eun-ji’s mouth grew progressively distant. With that anguished cry as the final sound, my vision flickered slowly.
Soon, my world faded into complete darkness.

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