I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 232

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Side Story 17
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I opened my eyes in Kaiden’s embrace.
Upon waking, I desperately hoped this was all a dream, but it wasn’t.
Blinking with a hazy gaze, I heard Kaiden’s voice.
“Margaret, you’re awake?”
“You didn’t sleep at all?”
“Time felt too precious to waste.”
“Precious time for what?”
“You’re cold, aren’t you? Let’s stay like this a bit longer.”
He answered my question with another question, pulling me closer into his embrace.
And suddenly, words Kaiden had spoken came back to me.
“The Crown Prince doesn’t like you, Margaret. Do you really think he’d marry you?”
That wasn’t like me. Why was I letting such words bother me?
‘Your confidence was always your charm, Margaret. Don’t lose your nerve—get a grip on yourself.’
But separate from that, I became curious about this man called Kaiden.
“Why are you here, Lord? Creating an entire space of unconsciousness like this?”
“To manage power I couldn’t otherwise handle. I need to restructure my body to match that power.”
“This is the first I’m hearing that Great Mage Kaiden has become a transcendent being?”
“Once we leave here, you’ll understand.”
Would I wake from this dream once we left?
But I was so cold, so exhausted. All I wanted was to return home quickly.
The problem was that the man beside me showed no intention of doing so.
“Let’s stay like this a bit longer. You’re cold.”
Kaiden embraced me from behind, pressing his face against my shoulder. As his warm breath touched my skin, warmth spread through me.
As his body pressed against mine without the slightest gap, I felt a change unlike anything before.
“Lord, right now….”
And the moment I spoke, my vision suddenly shifted.
Kaiden nuzzled against my nape as he spoke.
“Pretend you don’t notice, unless you’re willing to help.”
So I decided to pretend I didn’t notice.
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“Wait, Lord. Is that really true? We might never find a way back? You said satisfying the real one would do it! Isn’t this a scam?”
At my outcry, Kaiden slumped dejectedly into a corner of the Cave.
“Where did you learn to act so irresponsibly pitiful! Come here right now!”
“Pope Luzef.”
“Pope Luzef…? Not Archbishop Luzef?”
“Ah. Your memory stopped there. I keep forgetting.”
“Stop saying things I can’t understand. If you don’t know how to get back, come here and help me start a fire. I’m freezing to death.”
I gathered the frozen Tree Branches scattered in front of the Cave and attempted to start a fire. Or rather, I tried to.
Yet for some reason, I couldn’t think of any method at all.
‘Have I ever even known such a primitive skill?’
She couldn’t understand her own actions—moving as though kindling a fire were second nature to her.
“Do you really need to make a fire? You could just hold me instead.”
“…You still need to eat, don’t you? Unless you want to see how irritable a scoundrel young lady becomes when she’s starving, stop talking nonsense and think about preparing a meal.”
At that, Kaiden’s expression became peculiar.
“You don’t know how to make fire? Hunting either?”
“I’m Lady Flone.”
Moreover, I was the young lady of a prestigious Duke’s House. How on earth was I supposed to make fire in this wilderness?
Above all, the fact that I still hadn’t found a way to leave this place frustrated me terribly.
‘I need at least some hint. This is too hopeless.’
And though I hadn’t told Kaiden, my original memories were gradually disappearing.
I was slowly forgetting who my family was, how I had lived.
“Margaret who can’t make fire—how strange that is.”
“Ah. But there is something I can do.”
Kaiden’s eyes sparkled as he looked at me. His gaze was intensely curious about my answer.
So I stretched my arm out from beneath the Cloak draped over my shoulder and made a gesture of tying something with my hands as I spoke.
“I’m quite good at tying up unconscious men with Rope. I’ve even researched knots that absolutely won’t come undone.”
In fact, during the Fireworks Festival in the past, I had subdued and bound a man beneath the Lamberson Bridge.
‘But why did I capture that man back then?’
Even that memory was gradually fading and disappearing. As Margaret searched her memories, Kaiden spoke.
“Why on earth would you… You don’t mean.”
Then he spread both arms to cover his chest. Wait, that’s—!
“I studied it for self-defense!”
“It’s fine. Tie me up, Margaret. If it’s you, I’ll let myself be bound obediently. Do whatever you want. I’ll endure anything.”
“You pervert Mage, get your head straight.”
I shook his shoulder irritably, patting it repeatedly. Kaiden laughed and shook his head.
“I know how to hunt. I can make fire too.”
He finally rose from his seat. Then he stood at the Cave Entrance and turned back to look at me.
“I learned it from you.”
“From me?”
As I repeated his words, I gained more certainty about the assumption I’d been making all along.
Though I still couldn’t believe it,
“…I really have lost my memories.”
Being dragged into this space called the unconscious was absurd enough, but losing my memories on top of that?
And now the few memories I have left are disappearing?
“I really hated you back then.”
“Yes. I still remember when the Lord came to our Manor and threw a tantrum, demanding we stop sponsoring Love Potion research.”
“Right. We were wrong from the very beginning.”
He murmured with a self-deprecating expression, then suddenly looked at me again.
A smile gradually spread across his previously gloomy face. His ruby-red eyes, beautiful as gemstones, sparkled with light.
“That’s why I’m so looking forward to the next life, Margaret Rose Flone.”
He smiled as if the mere thought of that time brought him happiness.
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Haah. Haah.
All Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid could hear was the sound of his own breathing echoing in his ears.
Drip. Drip.
Crimson blood flowed across the pristine snowy field, scattering in grotesque patterns.
The corpses of wolf-type monsters were piled high as mountains. Yet despite this, dozens of magical beasts still surrounded Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid.
The path to Margaret Rose Flone was proving far from easy.
The moment he realized that Kaiden was controlling the wolf-type monsters, he knew she would be safe.
Though his hands had gone numb from the cold, he did not stop.
He wielded a sharp spear fashioned from a sharpened tree branch, resuming his stance.
At the same moment, five wolves rushed forward and leaped high into the air.
Kwaaaaagh!
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid thrust the spear upward, piercing one beast’s head from below. With tremendous force, he swung the impaled wolf, hurling two others away.
Screeeech!
Two wolves that had rushed toward his undefended left side bit into his shoulder and arm.
His left arm was completely torn away.
Thud.
The severed arm fell to the ground. Without hesitation, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid pulled out the spear again and pierced the heads of both wolves that were biting his left arm simultaneously.
Screech!
More wolves rushed at him relentlessly.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s left arm was slowly regenerating.
When ten wolf-type monsters attacked simultaneously, his breath was cut off beneath their onslaught.
But moments later,
His breath returned, and a sharp wolf’s howl echoed from among the wolves surrounding his body.
Screeeeeech!
A thick spear carved through the wolves, spraying blood in an arc.
Crack!
Screech!
All ten wolves were torn apart simultaneously and sent flying.
From among them, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid slowly rose to his feet and calmly surveyed his surroundings. The jungle blanketed in pristine white snow was both beautiful and grotesque.
“Is this an illusion created by the Lord?”
It didn’t appear that Kaiden’s sealing magic at the Magic Tower had been broken.
However, the aura emanating from This Island was far too weak to suggest that a transcendent’s full power had been unleashed.
‘Then it’s reasonable to assume that only my soul and Margaret Rose Flone’s soul have entered his space.’
Given that Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s body had died and revived multiple times, it seemed his physical form was not present in this place.
Cough.
He spat blood onto the ground. His torn innards seemed to be slowly regenerating and finding their proper place.
“Yet the pain remains unchanged.”
Without a body, I shouldn’t feel pain at all, yet Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid experienced the sensation of agony in full measure.
Perhaps it was Kaiden’s sadistic pleasure.
Since arriving here, Enoch had died and been resurrected dozens of times. And he had faced those creatures with relentless, vicious determination.
The more he fought them, the more damage he inflicted upon Kaiden, who had created them.
From the way things were progressing, it seemed the only way to escape this place was if Kaiden himself chose to release them.
Thud, thud.
Crisp, measured footsteps. Military boots pressed firmly against the pristine snow without hesitation.
A two-story Cabin came into view.
The Cabin, upon inspection, was completely empty. Margaret Rose Flone was nowhere to be found.
Standing before the Cabin, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid paused to consider.
Where Kaiden might be hiding with Margaret Rose Flone.
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I had lost all memory.
I couldn’t remember who I was, why I was in this place, or what kind of life I had lived.
I couldn’t even remember my own name.
It was the man before me who told me my name was Margaret Rose Flone.
I asked the man a question.
“Your name is Kaiden?”
The man who introduced himself as Kaiden seemed quite pleased by my question.
“That’s right, Kaiden.”
The man was extraordinarily beautiful. I marveled that such a handsome man could exist in this world.
Lost in admiration, I glanced around at my surroundings.
It was bitterly cold. Was it winter?
Surrounded entirely by a Snowy Field, we sat in a Cave with a Fire burning between us.
“Who are you? Why are we here? What was our relationship?”
At my questions, he fell silent for a moment, as if deliberating. Then he glanced at me cautiously.
Finally, with a look of resolve, he answered.
“We’ve lived here together for a long time.”
In a place like this?
I was bewildered, but if he said so, it must be true. After all, there were only the two of us.
Yet I couldn’t find words for what came next.
“And we’re husband and wife.”

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