I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 252

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Part 2
(Side Story)
Episode 10
I quietly stopped walking and subtly moved to stride alongside Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid.
“Excuse me. Where are you from?”
“….”
“I come from a different dimension. There’s an Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid in the dimension where I live too.”
“….”
“Ah. I’m not trying anything funny, so please don’t misunderstand.”
I attempted a joke to lighten the mood, but the atmosphere only grew colder.
Indeed, such humor was far too light for someone who despised me. I knew it well.
Yet without resorting to this, it seemed Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid would never lower his guard.
After all, my purpose was to kiss Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid and reclaim the soul fragment of my husband—so as long as I achieved that, it shouldn’t matter….
It shouldn’t matter, right?
Now that I thought about it, no one had explained to me what effects my possession of this world’s Margaret Rose Flone would have on the other people here.
But if this world would disappear once I reclaimed the soul fragment, did I really need to worry about such specific concerns?
And as I sank deeper into such thoughts, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid finally opened his mouth.
“Madam, I’m curious what you’re pondering so intently.”
How could formal speech be so oppressive? Why did his politeness sound like anything but respect? Cold sweat beaded on my skin.
“That… I was thinking that perhaps I’ve lost my memory?”
“You certainly do appear to be a different person.”
At his response, I nodded in agreement and clapped my hands together. Yes. That was it.
It seemed the only way to ease his vigilance was to emphasize that I was different from the original Margaret Rose Flone.
It appeared that Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid would never willingly offer his lips to the legendary witch Margaret Rose Flone.
The legendary witch was undeniably a parallel version of me, but since I didn’t know that, I would deny it.
“The Prince of Asdal told me. About our relationship.”
“…The Prince of Asdal? Are you referring to Prince Hestia? He was here?”
Ah, that’s right. Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid would have no information about this Island whatsoever.
He might have interrogated me as to whether I was responsible for something, just as I had experienced in the past, yet why was he saying nothing about it?
And Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid immediately saw through my doubt.
“There’s nowhere to escape to anyway. Not here.”
He said it.
Though his words lacked context, I understood their meaning.
A rat trapped in poison, as they say.
It felt like he already knew this was a Deserted Island.
Well. That works out fine for both of us. Let’s see who the real rat in the poison is.
This time, I wanted to seek some advice, so I opened the transmission data.
[Diego Bastian Vilterheim: So the Empress felt this way in the past. Even I find it frustrating.]
[※
Connection Status
is unstable, so only partial text data is being
received
※]
Oh. Diego, usually so taciturn, spoke up for the first time. He understood how frustrating it must have been when I was misunderstood in the past.
My goodness. The day has finally come when someone understands how I feel.
[Kaiden: I’m sorry, Margaret. Looking at it objectively, you really are pitiful.]
[Prince of Asdal: I think I’m the one who owes the greatest apology here. I’m sorry, Margaret.]
[Rosemary: No. What have you all done to our sister?]
[※
connection status
is unstable, so only partial text data is being
received
※]
No. It’s nice that they understand my feelings, but how am I supposed to convince these people?!
I wanted practical advice, but the unstable connection prevented me from receiving a proper response.
I sighed, took a deep breath, and chose my words carefully.
“The Prince of Asdal asked right away if I kidnapped him. Aren’t you curious about how I escaped?”
“You said you lost your memory.”
“That’s right.”
“Then there’s nothing more to ask.”
Huh? Really?
The way he said that actually frightened me more. Even Enoch in the past hadn’t been this lenient.
‘I need to be careful.’
To successfully steal Enoch’s lips, I needed to read his reactions carefully.
Calling it stealing makes me sound like a lip thief, but I’m a righteous thief trying to save a life, so surely God will understand.
For now, since I can’t discern his true intentions, let’s move past this.
I thought he’d come at me like he wanted to kill me, but he didn’t, so how fortunate am I.
“First, we need to find the Prince of Asdal.”
“Your ex-husband?”
Enoch raised an eyebrow and asked me.
My husband is Enoch, so when he asked like that, I felt something… quite strange.
I nodded reluctantly.
“He saved me from a wolf pack and became bait instead. I need to find him. I owe him a debt.”
“….”
Enoch fell silent again.
Since I couldn’t tell what he was thinking anyway, let me set that aside and focus on finding the Prince of Asdal for now.
Once we have another shared goal, I’ll naturally grow closer to Enoch.
But a few seconds later.
“Are you certain this is the right path?”
I heard Enoch’s persistent questioning. He seemed quite frustrated. There was even some irritation in his voice.
How foolish of me to expect we might grow closer now that we share a common goal.
“Well, I wouldn’t know for certain. I can only speculate.”
*Grrrrowwwl.*
Then I understood why Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid was irritated. His stomach was producing an even more violent growl than the Prince of Asdal’s had.
“….”
“….”
“…How long have you been starving?”
“….”
“Don’t tell me it’s been since you first woke up on this Island?”
“…By my estimation, that appears to be approximately when it began.”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid answered with composure.
His stomach was making such a racket, yet his face remained perfectly serene—what good was that?
I had no choice but to retrieve my keyring.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid regarded my keyring with a puzzled expression.
This was a Magical Tool that Kaiden had specially crafted, usable only in other dimensions and impossible to open except by me. So I could use it without worry—that’s what he meant!
The moment I opened the keyring, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s expression twisted into something sinister.
“How peculiar. It appears that Mana doesn’t function on this Island, yet you alone seem capable of wielding it, madam.”
“Ah. You can’t, can you? Because Mana doesn’t work on this Island. This is fine, though. I told you—I came from another dimension.”
*Ha.*
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid let out a hollow laugh.
He slowly traced the shape of his lips with his fingers while staring directly at me.
For some reason, I felt compelled to offer an explanation.
“I told you—I’ve lost my memory. I’m Margaret Rose Flone from another dimension.”
“It certainly appears that you’ve lost your mind, madam.”
“Aren’t you hungry? Won’t you eat?”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid folded his arms and nodded slightly, as if to say he was watching what I would do.
I nodded in the same manner and gestured toward the interior of the trailer.
“Come inside. If you don’t follow me, I’ll assume you’re so excited that you want to kiss me.”
At my words, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s expression crumpled.
With a menacing look, he followed me inside and issued a warning.
“Madam, please refrain from such revolting remarks.”
He was being far too courteous about it.
I could already imagine the chaos this scene would cause if seen in the Original Dimension.
I absolutely had to keep the transmission function disabled for now.
Well, I had been thinking it was time to stop making such jokes anyway. Even if he is my husband, the Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid before me has no history of our shared relationship….
“You said that if I raise his favorability above a certain threshold and kiss him, I can obtain a soul fragment. So what happens next? What becomes of that world’s Enoch?”
“Everything in that world will be deleted. Of course, His Majesty the Emperor will retain all those memories.”
“Will the other people I’ve made contact with also disappear?”
“Margaret, the parallel world itself is a replicated world. I still need more research, but since it’s a world born from His Majesty’s scattered soul fragments, the world itself will likely be deleted afterward.”
I recalled the conversation I had shared with Kaiden.
A duplicate world created when fragments of Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s soul scattered.
Those words embed themselves deep within my chest.
‘I mustn’t give my heart too freely to the people of this world.’
I only needed to remember my Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid.
Even if I quarreled with this world’s Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, my husband would remember everything anyway. It was bearable.

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