I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 21

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Chapter 21

I didn’t answer for now.

I still hadn’t fully grasped what kind of person he was, and I didn’t want to provoke him in any way.

“You’re smarter than I thought. If you had said Margaret back then, I really don’t know what I might have done.”

Perhaps because he was speaking with a smile, those words sounded both like a joke and sincere. So I couldn’t gauge his true intentions.

“Of all people to meet first on this island, it had to be Margaret… That’s a bit suspicious, isn’t it?”

This time too, I didn’t answer and remained silent.

I wish he would openly suspect and despise me like Enoch does, but Kaiden is completely unreadable.

“But it’s strange. You clearly have the same face as before, so why do you feel completely different?”

For now, I decided to observe him calmly. In any case, he was still bound. And he didn’t seem to have any intention of being more threatening toward me.

“The current you is kind of my type… Ugh!”

Suddenly Kaiden was struck by something and knocked to the side.

I looked up in surprise to see Enoch standing there. It seemed he had kicked Kaiden.

“Margaret. Come here.”

Enoch extended his hand toward me. Without hesitation, I took Enoch’s hand, stood up, and quietly retreated behind him.

Right, it would be better to leave dealing with an unrestrained human like Kaiden to Enoch.

It seemed Enoch had kicked Kaiden right in his injured chest area. Blood was seeping through the bandages after I had gone to the trouble of treating him.

But this time I wasn’t going to treat him again. I was annoyed.

Kaiden grimaced and groaned in pain before glaring at Enoch.

“Lord, it’s been a while.”

Enoch gave Kaiden a bland greeting.

‘Lord’ was a title used to address an archmage. It was like adding ‘Sir’ to knights.

Kaiden, who had been sitting with his face contorted in pain, looked back and forth between me and Enoch. Then he soon burst into hollow laughter.

“Ha, Your Highness looks quite pleased?”

Kaiden slowly got up from his seat and leaned against the cave wall.

Soon he clicked his tongue in annoyance.

“Crown Prince Enoch protecting Lady Flone… I’m seeing all sorts of strange things in my lifetime.”

Kaiden showed no sign of being intimidated by Enoch.

“Watch your words, won’t you? Margaret is the one who treated your wounds.”

At Enoch’s retort, Kaiden looked at me with an incredulous expression.

“Margaret treated my wounds?”

It was understandable that he’d be surprised. Even if an ordinary noble lady had treated wounds it would be surprising, but for ‘Margaret’ to have treated wounds…

And Enoch suddenly brought up a different topic and expressed doubt.

“Margaret, have you ever given Lord permission to use your name?”

“No…?”

I hid behind Enoch, peeking out only my head to look at Kaiden as I denied it.

“How utterly rude.”

Enoch answered with a displeased expression. However, Kaiden remained nonchalant. He rather answered as if Enoch asking such a question was strange.

“When we don’t even know what will happen to our lives, is observing etiquette important?”

Enoch had a cold expression that suggested he wouldn’t be swayed no matter what Kaiden said.

“Right. It’s not important right now. But it will be different if we survive and get out.”

Only then did Kaiden close his mouth. He looked back and forth between me and Enoch again, then clicked his tongue and sat down.

I asked him, looking at his disgruntled face.

“How did you get that wound?”

Kaiden had removed both his robe and shirt, and the body visible beneath the bandages was surprisingly solid for a mage.

‘As expected of a male lead from a dark novel.’

He glanced over his wound and sighed.

“How did I get it… I was attacked by a monster. You know this island is full of monsters, right?”

Then he ran his hands through his hair, stared intently at me, and smiled.

“Well, as long as you’re okay, that’s what matters.”

Those words “as long as you’re okay” were meaningful. I thought I had given Kaiden the slip that day, but maybe that wasn’t the case?

I suddenly speculated that the ‘loud roar’ I had heard when facing the monster might have been a sound Kaiden had intentionally made.

Come to think of it, I had been unconscious in the middle of a forest where monsters roamed, yet I was unharmed.

Wouldn’t that be impossible unless someone had stayed by my side protecting me all night?

‘No way, that can’t be right. Kaiden dislikes me too. It seems too self-absorbed to even ask about it.’

Having such thoughts, I took Kaiden’s pendant out of my pocket.

“This is yours, right?”

“Oh… Yeah, it is.”

Kaiden made a reluctant face, then extended his bound hands toward me. I placed the pendant on his palm.

Kaiden stared intently at the pendant, then gave me a bland thanks.

“Thanks. It is important, but I don’t really like it.”

I tilted my head at the incomprehensible words. I hadn’t asked, but Kaiden easily explained the reason.

“This is a magic power container of past Magic Tower masters. To make an analogy, it’s like an urn. When a Magic Tower master dies, their mana is sealed in this pendant. I heard that even the mana of a Magic Tower master from the Ingram Dynasty era, before the Langrid Empire was founded, is sealed inside.”

“You carry around something quite unusual.”

When I was flustered, Kaiden burst into laughter.

“It’s kind of a custom? It’s one of the ghost stories passed down in the Magic Tower, but supposedly the mana of the Magic Tower masters contained here has enough destructive power to blow up an entire country?”

Kaiden put the pendant in his pants pocket. Then he continued nonchalantly.

“But no matter how powerful the mana contained, it’s useless. Only the mage who created this can unseal the mana, and he died a thousand years ago.”

I could see why it was called a ghost story. It was practically an ability that could only be passed down through literature, with no way to verify the facts.

‘But why is he suddenly telling us this story?’

“So now it’s just an object passed down as a symbol and custom of the Magic Tower. When I die, my mana will be sealed here too. It might be more meaningful for my mana to be sealed here rather than pointlessly scattering and disappearing.”

This time Kaiden asked Enoch.

“But how did you two end up here?”

“What about you, Lord?”

Enoch didn’t answer and naturally passed the question back to Kaiden. Then Kaiden opened his mouth with a thoughtful expression.

“I was definitely in the middle of storming the temple…”

Even in this situation, he had been on his way to wreak havoc at the temple.

“Well, it doesn’t matter. I’ll leave once my wounds heal anyway.”

Kaiden winked at me.

“Thanks for treating me, Margaret. It would have been even better if I could have seen you treating me with my own eyes.”

Kaiden seemed to have intentionally called me ‘Margaret.’ Thanks to that, Enoch looked very displeased.

No matter that we’re on a deserted island where we could die at any time, Enoch is still the Crown Prince of the Empire, yet Kaiden really has no sense.

“But you say you’re leaving, where will you go?”

I wondered if I should use formal speech since he revealed he was the Magic Tower master, but I decided to just speak casually as I had from the beginning.

As expected, Kaiden didn’t seem to care whether I spoke formally or casually, running his hands through his hair before shrugging his shoulders.

“Somewhere on the island…?”

What’s that supposed to mean. I thought he knew something – like a bunker, cabin, or door.

Seeing my disappointed face, Kaiden added.

“It’s suspicious that I suddenly woke up in a place like this… It seems like I was warped, and if not, there should be something like an escape gate. So I’m planning to search the entire island.”

An escape gate? I looked at him with wide eyes.

Was he looking for the ‘door’ that would open in a year? He was planning something quite productive.

As expected of a mage, his ability to think in this direction was excellent.

Enoch seemed to have the same thought as me and was lost in contemplation.

“I hadn’t thought about there being an escape gate.”

At Enoch’s words, Kaiden shrugged with an indifferent expression and asked me.

“Margaret, want to come with me?”

As soon as Kaiden said those words, Enoch stepped in front of me, blocking his way.

“What are you trying to do to Margaret again? Stop your nonsense before I throw you out right now.”

Enoch saying that for me was quite reassuring.

Honestly speaking, even if Kaiden asked me to come with him again, I had no intention of following him. Who knows when he might devour me—I’m not foolish enough to follow Kaiden without any fear.

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