I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 233

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Side Story 18
The man introduced himself as Kaiden.
He told me my name was Margaret, and that we were husband and wife.
He also said we were stranded on this Remote Island and unable to escape, living here instead.
I crouched before the Campfire, clutching my hungry belly as I spoke.
“I’m starving.”
“Wait a moment.”
Kaiden butchered a mountain Rabbit he had caught. It seemed Rabbits lived even in this cold winter Forest.
I sat before the Campfire and quietly ate the Rabbit Meat he had prepared for me.
Unsurprisingly, it bore no seasoning whatsoever, so the taste was dreadfully bland.
“Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid was always good at seasoning.”
I spoke the words thoughtlessly, then tilted my head in confusion.
‘Who is Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid?’
Lost in thought, I glanced up and nearly dropped the Meat in shock.
Kaiden, whom I thought was sitting far away, was now right beside me, staring intently at my face.
“Darling, surely your memories haven’t returned, have they?”
He called me by an unfamiliar term and asked the question.
“No, that name just came to me. Do you know someone named Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid?”
At my question, Kaiden regarded me with an expressionless face for a moment, then shrugged.
“It’s not an important name.”
If it’s not important, why do I remember that name?
Though puzzled, I simply accepted it since my husband said so.
Kaiden was handsome and tender. Above all, I could feel throughout my entire being that he loved me deeply.
Cough.
Then he suddenly coughed up Blood.
I was startled and set down the Meat I’d been eating, moving closer to him.
“Are you alright? What’s wrong?!”
Crying out in alarm, he wiped the Blood from his hand and laughed.
“Ah. I’m fine. It seems time is running short.”
At those words, my heart sank.
“Don’t tell me… are you terminally ill?”
Cough.
At my question, Kaiden coughed. This time it wasn’t Blood, but rather a dry cough that seemed to come from embarrassment.
Soon after, he clutched his belly and burst into laughter.
‘No, if it’s not true, just say it’s not. Don’t embarrass me like this.’
I scratched the back of my head and returned to my seat. Kaiden gazed at me with a radiant smile.
“Rather than that, will you keep calling me ‘you’? Call me ‘dear.’ We’re husband and wife, after all.”
“Um… well… d-dear?”
Feeling somewhat awkward, I deliberated for a long moment before finally uttering the term ‘dear.’
“Perfect. I wish time would stop right here.”
Do I share Kaiden’s feelings? Do I also wish that time would stop because I love him so much? It seems that way, but….
We’re husband and wife, so I must feel the same way he does, right?
“But you said we’re married. How did we meet?”
“That is….”
Kaiden trailed off, seeming flustered. A faint suspicion crept into my mind, so I asked him something else.
“Do we have a child?”
“Yes.”
This time, Kaiden answered without hesitation.
“What?”
Kaiden smiled naturally, as though he had never been caught off guard. Attractive dimples were carved deeply into his cheeks.
I couldn’t believe it, so I pressed him again.
“We have a child?”
“Of course we do. You’ll see once we escape from here.”
“What’s our child’s name?”
“Eun-ji. He’s our son.”
“Eun-ji? That’s quite an unusual name.”
“…You named him.”
I fell silent, at a loss for words. My naming sense was truly terrible. I felt a pang of guilt toward the child.
“More importantly, dear, Eun-ji has been asking for a little brother every time.”
Kaiden gently grasped my chin. He slowly lowered his head toward me.
“Shall we give Eun-ji a sibling?”
His breath tickled the edge of my lips.
In the moment I thought his lips were about to meet mine—
Boom—
Suddenly, a tremendous thunderous sound erupted from outside the cave, and the ground trembled.
“What… what is that?”
As I recoiled in shock, Kaiden coughed up blood onto the ground again. I grabbed his shoulder in alarm.
“K…. Honey!? Are you alright?”
I began to call him by his name, but then I suddenly remembered how he had seemed displeased by my form of address, so I quickly corrected myself.
At that, a smile spread across Kaiden’s lips. He wiped the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand and looked at me with undisguised joy.
“Say it again.”
“What?”
“Honey.”
“This isn’t the time for that—there’s blood….”
“I want to hear it.”
“…Honey?”
Kaiden pulled me into his arms, holding me so tightly I could barely breathe. He looked truly happy—so happy that his joy seemed to overflow into me.
So when I couldn’t bring myself to pull away and simply remained nestled in his embrace—
Haah, haah.
Suddenly, rough breathing echoed from behind us.
“I knew this would happen.”
Then, hearing that familiar voice whisper into my ear, I pushed Kaiden away and turned my head.
At the Cave Entrance stood a man drenched entirely in crimson blood.
‘Who is he?’
His voice was undoubtedly familiar, yet I had no idea who he was.
The man bore a menacing appearance, as though he had emerged from the depths of hell itself.
In his right hand he held a Spear, and in his left, the severed head of a Wolf.
Thud.
The man hurled the Wolf’s head carelessly against the Cave wall, then brushed the blood from his hands with casual flicks.
Golden Eyes that shone brilliantly as the sun fixed upon me with crystalline clarity.
From the beginning, he had seen only me—his gaze steady and unwavering, serene and composed.
‘What is this? Why is he staring at me like that?’
I found myself somewhat flustered as I returned his gaze.
Thud, thud.
The man walked toward me, each step deliberate and measured, his bearing radiating an overwhelming presence that commanded instant submission.
With an expressionless face, he came to stand before me.
Then Kaiden, who had been beside me, clicked his tongue and wrapped his arms around me from behind.
“Long time no see, Lord. If you value your hands, I suggest you release Margaret.”
“She is my wife.”
“Margaret. Is. Lord’s. Wife.”
The man recited Kaiden’s words in a clipped, measured tone. Then his gaze shifted slowly until it settled upon me.
The man’s Golden Eyes regarded me in silence—from above to below, a somewhat authoritative composition, yet his gaze itself was infinitely tender.
Then Kaiden sighed and shrugged his shoulders.
“Once we leave here, Margaret will forget everything anyway. Your Highness as well. And so will I.”
Having said this, Kaiden looked at me gently, then pressed a soft kiss to my cheek.
His expression carried a certain detachment.
“It was fun because it was the last time. It was entertaining, like playing house.”
The last time? Playing house?
“Since you and I now live in different worlds, I’ll wait patiently for my next life as you said.”
I didn’t understand what he meant, but Kaiden seemed to harbor no lingering attachments.
Yet the way he looked at me remained unchanged—as though he still loved me.
As I fumbled for a response, the black-haired man who had drawn near asked me a question.
“Margaret, are you alright?”
The man even knew my name.
“Ah. Well….”
I hesitated, glancing uncertainly before stealing a look at Kaiden.
“Darling, what on earth is all this….”
“Darling?”
My words were cut short by his counter-question, and I lifted my head again.
The menacing man drenched in blood tilted his head slightly and repeated the term of endearment I had just uttered.
“So you were having fun with Margaret while she’s lost her memories.”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s menacing gaze turned toward Kaiden.
“This matter won’t be easy to overlook. Can Lord guarantee that similar incidents won’t repeat themselves?”
“Hmm. Are you asking for a promise that I won’t draw two people into my unconscious mind again?”
“Promise me until the Hibernation ends. This space is unstable, and Margaret could get hurt.”
“You’re the one who awakened the unconscious mind in the first place. Why did you have to propose to Margaret right in front of me? What else would make the unconscious version of me emerge?”
‘That man tried to propose to me?’
So that’s why the unconscious version emerged… Wait, what is he even talking about?
Wasn’t my husband supposed to be Kaiden?
“…I didn’t expect such a reaction. My apologies.”
“If you want a promise, then pay the price. Now that I think about it, I’m reluctant to hand over my Margaret to Your Highness so easily.”
I couldn’t understand what these men were saying. I was so confused that I didn’t even know where to begin asking questions.
The conversation continued.
“Think of it as a sort of test.”
That’s when Kaiden snapped his fingers.
As if someone in the air had grabbed the man’s Collar with tremendous force, he was hurled out of the Cave.
It happened in an instant.
I watched as the man dragged outside the Cave landed stably on the Snowy Field without any panic.
“Kyaaah!”
Soon after, Wolves rushed toward the man, and I let out a startled Scream.
“Hey, shouldn’t we help that person?”
Judging by the atmosphere, it seemed I shouldn’t call Kaiden “dear” anymore, so I decided not to use that term.
As expected, Kaiden laughed with eyes that showed he had no attachment to titles.
“This is just one of the trials needed to move forward. Even the real Kaiden would have done the same.”
“A trial to move forward?”
He really did speak in such ambiguous terms.
Yes, just like Jenas.
‘Wait, who is Jenas?’
My head felt like it was splitting, so I squeezed my eyes shut.
“Look at that.”
Following Kaiden’s gesture, I turned my gaze back outside the Cave.
The black-haired man was surrounded by Wolves for a while, his form completely obscured.
Just as I was about to fidget with worry,
Fwoooosh—!
Crack!
With a brilliant flash of light, a horizontal Trajectory was drawn, and all the surrounding Wolves’ Bodies were cleanly bisected. It was an overwhelmingly tremendous display of power.
“Tsk. This much isn’t enough. I’ll need to summon more.”
While Kaiden muttered such incomprehensible things, the man strode back into the Cave.
“Is that enough now? I should take my future wife with me.”
Future wife? Me? His?
“Margaret, I am the man who will become your husband. Not that mage.”
The black-haired man extended his hand toward me.
I felt somewhat confused, so I looked at the hand he offered me, then turned back to regard Kaiden once more.
So which of these two men was actually my true husband?

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