I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 23

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Chapter 23

I could easily slip and fall to my death if I took a wrong step, but fear and terror were rushing over me so I couldn’t slow down at all.

As the sun began to set, the surroundings started getting dark at an uncontrollably fast pace.

Awoooo!

I broke out in cold sweat at the wolf howls coming from somewhere.

“This is crazy, this is crazy!”

I could hear something rapidly chasing me from behind. I could also hear the sound of bushes bending as if making way and tree branches breaking.

The sounds were getting closer and closer, making me want to just cry.

I had been running downhill for quite a while, but I was still only at the mid-slope. It felt like another blister had burst on my poor feet, but I didn’t have time to worry about such things.

Awoo! Awoo! Awoooo!

The magical beasts chasing me from behind suddenly started sending signals.

Don’t tell me they’re gathering even more magical beasts? I was curious about just how many magical beasts were chasing me, but I didn’t have time to look back.

I’m almost there, so I just need to endure a little more!

At a corner section, I slammed on the brakes with my feet as if sliding, then made a half turn around a huge rock and went down below.

Even without looking back, the presence of the beasts following me was tremendous.

As I continued running downhill like that, in the midst of all this, a person walking leisurely caught my eye.

Wait, a person?

“Move! Move! Get out of the way!”

I screamed at the top of my lungs.

The man turned to look at me very slowly. He didn’t even have time to react. As I brushed past him, I grabbed his wrist and ran together with him.

“Wh-what?!”

The man shouted at me as he ran down the mountain with me. His face had turned pale white, probably from seeing the magical beasts chasing us from behind.

“Why on earth are so many magical beasts gathered like that? Could it be because of that strange magic that exploded in the sky earlier?”

I didn’t know how to respond to the man’s words, so I chose my words carefully. My answer was delayed because I was getting out of breath.

“First of all, you know that magic doesn’t work on this island, right?”

The man nodded at my question.

“So what you saw earlier probably wasn’t magic!”

With the chaotic howling of the beasts behind us, I felt like crying along with them.

It seemed like the magical beasts had indeed gathered like this because of the flare going off.

But if it were a regular flare, it wouldn’t explode so spectacularly like fireworks.

‘How exactly do you modify a flare to make it like this?’

As we reached the end of the descent route, the slope gradually became gentler, but even so, running on an incline wasn’t easy.

The man and I ran as if performing acrobatics, and it was truly amazing that we didn’t fall. I was breathless up to my chin.

At this rate, we’ll be caught soon…!

As I ran roughly, the flare I had put in my dress pocket kept bumping against my thigh annoyingly.

While pushing away tree branches blocking the path ahead and paying attention to the sensation on my thigh, I suddenly came up with an idea to break through this situation.

“I have a good idea! When I give the signal, get down!”

I took out the flare I had just picked up from my pocket. Then I gauged where to stop.

Fortunately, there was a huge rock about 50 meters ahead. I could lean against that.

“What? What on earth do you mean?”

The man asked back with a face that couldn’t understand my words, but I didn’t have time to answer his question.

I immediately loaded the flare and pulled down the hammer. Then I leaned my back against the approaching rock, turned around, and said to the man.

“Get down!”

While the man hastily got down, I shot the flare toward the charging pack of magical beasts.

Red smoke penetrated between the wolf-type magical beasts, at least more than ten of them, and a moment later, a huge firework exploded.

Then, as if a bomb had exploded, the magical beasts in the vicinity were blown away.

I got down next to the man and waited for the fireworks to calm down.

Before long, the fireworks subsided and I could no longer sense the presence of the magical beasts. Only then did I slowly raise my head together with the man.

The magical beasts were completely annihilated. Was that a one-shot kill?

I looked again at what I had just shot. Something that looked exactly like a pistol, but it was a flare. A spectacular firework flare at that!

“Ha, I’m alive.”

I sat down on the spot with a tired face.

“What exactly are you?”

The man glared at me with a face full of irritation. It was an extremely prickly and sharp voice.

I saved his life and he doesn’t even know gratitude. I don’t understand why all the male leads in this novel are like this.

The man had light sky-blue hair like water. Moreover, it was long hair that came down to his chest, and it was so soft and beautiful that he seemed several times prettier than my grimy appearance.

I immediately recognized his identity as soon as I saw his long hair.

He was Archbishop Luzef, one of the Twelve Priests of the Papal Court and recently one of the papal candidates.

Luzef asked me again with an angry face.

“Are you a witch?”

“Do I look like a witch?”

Of course, he had probably never seen flares or fireworks, so he could reasonably think I had cast some strange magic.

But you, in the novel, you never called the female lead a witch no matter how strange the things she used were…!

“Then what are you, what’s your identity?”

“Shall we introduce ourselves first? I saved you and this is how you talk? Do you want to become magical beast food again?”

When I pretended to shoot the flare I was holding toward the sky, Luzef’s face turned pale white.

He seemed to belatedly recognize the fact that I had saved him. After quickly assessing the situation, he answered in his characteristically prickly voice.

“I thank you for saving me, for now.”

What does thanking me ‘for now’ even mean?

Letting his words go in one ear and out the other, I turned the shoulder strap to check inside the bamboo container. I was relieved to confirm that the ammunition pouch was safely inside.

Then Luzef suddenly grabbed my shoulder.

“Wait…”

Then he looked over my face carefully and suddenly pointed at me.

“Are you perhaps Lady Flone?”

Before I could even confirm, he frowned with a displeased face.

“Don’t tell me you followed me all the way here? To ask me to make a love potion?”

A love potion. What nonsense…

Then Margaret’s past memories flashed through my mind.

Margaret had chased after Luzef tremendously, asking him to make something like a love potion with holy water so that Enoch would fall for her.

But when Luzef wouldn’t even listen to her words, she apparently tormented him in all sorts of ways. Eventually, she even incited other priests to pursue ‘love potion’ experiments and even sponsored them.

It was understandable that he would dislike Margaret.

Margaret, why did you live like that! You have too many enemies!

I shamelessly tried to play dumb and pretend not to know.

“It’s not like that. And I’m not Lady Flone.”

I lied so brazenly, but Luzef glared at me as if telling me not to lie.

“Lady Flone. Did you also kidnap me to this island?”

Now he’s even framing me. If I get swayed by his words carelessly, I might really get framed when I meet other people later. Wouldn’t that be too unfair?

I jumped up from my spot and pointed at him.

“I told you I’m not Lady Flone! Why are you so rude? And I almost died too, you know?”

At my scream-like outcry, he got flustered and awkwardly stood up.

“No, Young Lady. Why are you suddenly screaming and making a fuss…!”

“Who’s a Young Lady! I told you I’m not! Listen here, you! You saved your life thanks to me! Right or not?”

“W-well, that’s true, but…!”

At times like this, they say whoever has the louder voice wins.

“Then you should be bowing down saying thank you, I’ll repay this kindness a hundredfold, and that still wouldn’t be enough! Hey!”

I kept my voice raised to the end without being intimidated.

“Keep bowing and saying ‘Thank you~’ until I leave! Got it?”

And when there seemed to be no solution, I had learned that you should run away.

After spouting such nonsense, I immediately fled.

It’s okay, it’s okay. I won’t meet them again anyway.

Please let that be true!

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