I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 253

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Part 2
(Side Story)
Episode 11
‘Just collect all the soul fragments. I’ll make sure to extract every last bit of compensation from Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid for all this suffering!’
After steeling myself with that resolve, a sudden thought made me open my mouth in a whisper too quiet for Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid to hear.
“System, is there a way to prevent the Original Dimension from watching this place? I have privacy too, and I don’t want them seeing me… doing my business, you know?”
The real reason I was asking was because I was worried my colleagues from the Original Dimension might witness the scene when I carried out that particular task.
No matter how you frame it as a kiss, it’s still embarrassing.
[Analyzing request…]
[User observation data automatic transmission to Original Dimension
: Active status]
[You can set specific time periods or specific activities to ‘observation prohibited’ to deactivate the automatic transmission function.]
[Would you like to deactivate the automatic transmission function?
yes/no]
Oh. So there was a deactivation feature.
“Yes!”
Thank goodness.
[Command: Privacy Mode on]
[Termination command: Privacy Mode : off]
Simple enough.
“Privacy Mode off.”
I didn’t need Privacy Mode activated right now, so I should turn it off.
* * *
Kaiden ran his hand through his hair with an exhausted expression.
His eyes were hollow. All he’d eaten for days was Blueberries, which said everything.
As Kaiden pushed through the Bushes, he spotted a woman emerging from the opposite side, parting the Bushes as well.
It was the Saint with greenish-brown hair—Yuanna Lucy.
Having already encountered her several days ago, Kaiden immediately frowned.
Yuanna Lucy’s expression darkened just the same.
Without any hesitation, the two exchanged middle fingers at each other before going their separate ways.
‘I’d rather starve to death than move together with that woman.’
That woman wasn’t human—she was a Beast.
After pushing through the Bushes for some time, Kaiden witnessed an unexpected sight.
‘Wait, Margaret Rose Flone is here? No. The Crown Prince is here too? What is this?’
Kaiden’s mouth fell open at the sight his own eyes were showing him, unable to believe it.
Margaret Rose Flone was using Magic.
She was utilizing a Magical Tool.
Mana shouldn’t work on this Island, should it?
Even he, a Great Mage, couldn’t use Mana right now—how could that damned Witch be casting Magic? Did that even make sense?
More than anything, why was a death row inmate here?
“My, what on earth is that delicious smell?”
Yuanna Lucy, who had arrived at some point without my notice, swallowed hard and peered beyond the bushes.
* * *
Why was I, now an Empress, still butchering bird meat in the wilderness?
I stabbed beneath the jaw with my knife to drain the blood. After that, I planned to hang the bird from a tree branch for about three minutes to let more blood drip out.
‘First, I’ll cover the spilled blood with soil to mask the scent.’
The Magical Beasts on this island went mad at the smell of blood.
Then I retrieved a portable burner, set a pot on it, drew water from the nearby stream, purified it with a water purification filter, and poured it into the pot.
After briefly blanching the bird to remove the blood, I plucked out every single feather.
It’s easiest if you brush against the direction of the feathers, removing the large ones first and then the down.
Next, I removed the innards—but I’d rather not describe that part, so I’ll skip it.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, who had been purifying water as I instructed, stopped what he was doing and simply stared at me in silence for a long moment.
‘Any seven-year independent cook with an interest in cooking could do this. What’s the fuss?’
Though I had no reason to do such things now as an Empress, my body remembered and moved through the motions from seven years of cooking alone in my apartment as Lee Jin-ju.
Margaret Rose Flone, the legendary witch, surely never did such things.
It was remarkable. Enoch in our original world had worn that exact same expression when I butchered fish.
In any case, after rinsing with salt water and patting dry, I began the serious preparation work.
I separated the wings and legs, then split along the breastbone to separate the breast meat.
The parts with bone were for stew, while the lean meat was for roasting.
I gazed quietly at the butchered meat on the cutting board, contemplating what dish to prepare.
Could I find something to substitute for ‘those ingredients’?
I looked around, examining materials that could replace vegetables.
After an hour of rummaging through the bushes, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, unable to bear watching any longer, asked me.
“Allow me to do it instead, madam. What do you need?”
Ignoring his question while continuing to search through the bushes, I held up the foraged vegetables and exclaimed.
“It’s fine! I found everything!”
I would substitute yams and bamboo shoots for potatoes and carrots to provide starch and texture, and replace onions with wild grass stems that could give aroma and sweetness.
‘The rest I can handle with versatile sauces!’
I handed them over to Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid.
“Go wash these thoroughly at the stream.”
Then I immediately returned to my spot and began cooking.
‘Let me make the sauce base first.’
I added soy sauce and water, then a bit of sugar and vinegar, along with chili powder and coconut oil, and mixed it all together.
Just then, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid returned.
I took the wild grass stems from him, chopped them, and added them to the sauce.
Ah, what a wonderful aroma.
I coated the pot with coconut oil and added the prepared meat, stir-frying until the surface turned golden brown.
Then I added the wild grass stems and mushrooms, set the timer for one minute, and continued frying.
Beep-beep-beep-beep-
As the timer chimed, I turned it off.
“I’ve never seen a Magical Tool like this before, madam. I haven’t encountered such designs even during the Romallizan Battle….”
Hearing Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s murmur, I realized that the Romallizan Battle existed in this world too.
Whether in this world or that one. Damn those Peony Faction members.
Anyway, I then removed the yams and bamboo shoots I’d been boiling in another pot and substituted them for potatoes and carrots.
‘The aroma is undeniably that of perfect braised chicken.’
I portioned the finished dish into individual bowls.
While I cooked, I noticed Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid examining the Korean camping equipment with curiosity as he set the table according to my instructions.
I placed each portion onto the table he had prepared.
Since I’d made quite a large quantity, even after portioning into bowls, there was enough for two more servings—enough for another meal.
Grrrrrowwwwl—
An enormous stomach growl echoed from somewhere.
I glanced at Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid in surprise, but he sat silently before the table with an expressionless face.
To anyone’s eyes, he was clearly the culprit, yet his face revealed no hint that such a sound had come from his belly.
“Eat quickly.”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid stared at my face quietly, then fixed his gaze on the food.
“You have frequently poisoned my food in small, non-lethal doses, madam. Will you claim you don’t remember that as well?”
“…What?”
“Aren’t you the very person who received a death sentence for such acts? Yet you escaped prison, kidnapped me again, and brought me to this jungle—and you expect me to believe you’ve reformed? That would be foolish, would it not?”
Kidnapping again? What do you mean again?
It seemed I had a history of kidnapping him.
In the past I experienced, I had faced similar suspicion after washing ashore on this Remote Island. But that suspicion had been quickly dismissed.
That was because he had recognized that I lacked the capability to actually kidnap him.
“…Good heavens.”
But kidnapping was just the beginning—and on top of that, I’d poisoned his food in small doses?
Frequently, no less?
Did Margaret Rose Flone really do such things?
It was incomprehensible. Even if this was a parallel world, we shared the same soul—I couldn’t fathom that she’d gone to such extremes.
If the Margaret Rose Flone of this parallel world had done such things, it meant my alternate self harbored such tendencies. It was nearly impossible to accept or acknowledge.
“Should I give you another chance? A chance to clear your name and win over those men’s hearts.”
Jenas’s voice kept echoing in my mind.

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