I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 255

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Part 2
(Side Story)
Episode 13
“I’m not sure.”
I chose an answer that was neither denial nor affirmation.
The suspicion that I had kidnapped everyone was something I’d experienced in our world before, so it felt familiar.
“Then how did you escape from prison?”
“What about Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid? What were you doing right before you opened your eyes here?”
“After leaving the prison, I boarded a carriage. It seems I lost consciousness approximately thirty minutes later.”
“There were no escort knights?”
“There were.”
“Then you were kidnapped? Everyone’s calling me some legendary witch or whatever, but I can’t use Magic. You know that, right?”
“….”
Truth be told, I didn’t know whether this world’s Margaret Rose Flone could use Magic or not.
However, I recalled that the Prince of Asdal had once asked when I’d learned to use Magic, so I improvised an answer. Judging by the reaction, it seemed to work.
“I can’t even use Magic, yet I supposedly escaped from that heavily guarded Solitary Prison, broke through the escort knights, kidnapped Your Highness Crown Prince from inside a moving carriage, and brought him to this remote area? Does that sound plausible to you?”
“You could have hired a Mage….”
“Then how do you explain the Great Mage Kaiden sitting over there?”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid closed his mouth with a serious expression and quietly observed Kaiden.
Kaiden turned to look at us the moment his name was mentioned, breaking away from his argument with Yuanna Lucy.
I continued speaking.
“It doesn’t make sense. I’m in the same situation. How am I here when I was in prison? Isn’t my escape even more implausible? Shouldn’t I be the one suspecting you instead? What if you kidnapped me to make my death more painful?”
“Then how do you explain that keyring? You’re the only one with such a useful Magical Tool. In this Forest where Mana doesn’t even work.”
Kaiden questioned me. It seemed they still didn’t realize this place was an Island.
“I came from a different dimension. I brought this from that world.”
“So you’re saying you’re not Margaret Rose Flone? You don’t seem like it, but what couldn’t a wicked witch like you do? I can’t just believe that.”
“I’m Margaret Rose Flone from a different dimension. Strictly speaking, I came from a parallel world.”
Kaiden seemed to understand what a parallel world was, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s thoughts were unreadable, and Yuanna Lucy didn’t understand my words at all.
In any case, they looked at me like I was insane. With suspicious eyes that suggested my mind had finally broken.
“…What’s a parallel world? I don’t understand what you’re saying at all.”
To Yuanna Lucy’s question, neither Kaiden nor Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid responded.
Silence fell once more.
Whoooosh—
The late afternoon wind blew, and only the sound of Tree Leaves colliding filled the silence.
After a long silence, Kaiden finally spoke.
“Fine. Let’s assume that’s true for now.”
Let’s assume that’s true—even such an answer felt like significant progress, yet the questions continued.
“Why did you come here?”
“To find a fragment of Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s soul. The Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid in our world has a soul fragment in the one here.”
Everyone turned to look at Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid simultaneously.
I shrugged. Whether they believed me or not was their prerogative.
Kaiden continued his barrage of questions.
“Are you certain? How would you even recover it?”
“With a kiss of love?”
“…What?”
I turned away from Kaiden’s stunned expression and directed my question toward Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid.
“Now that I’ve explained, would you demonstrate it?”
His eyebrow twitched upward.
“What are you referring to.”
“A kiss.”
Cough, cough.
Yuanna Lucy broke into a fit of coughing. She hadn’t even been drinking water—apparently she’d choked while swallowing.
Kaiden raised both hands in surrender.
“The more I listen, the more absurdly insane this becomes. I was actually taking it seriously. Well, there we have it.”
“For once, the Lord is making sense.”
“Ah. I couldn’t care less about the Saint’s opinion, nor do I appreciate it.”
When Kaiden responded tersely to Yuanna Lucy’s remark, she flipped him off. Kaiden returned the gesture in kind.
Regardless of their antics, I clutched my head in frustration.
That last comment about kissing had utterly undermined the credibility of everything I’d said before. Damn it.
“Anyway, Lady Margaret Rose Flone. Stop pretending to be virtuous and act like you normally do.”
“…Yes, what?”
“Act like you usually do. Just go ahead and mock me. Why are you being so polite? It’s boring. I want you to act like a madwoman.”
What on earth was this woman saying.
My pupils dilated in shock, and Kaiden clicked his tongue disapprovingly.
“Margaret, this is your fault. You’re the one who opened her eyes to something strange. Take responsibility. You raised the Saint into a pervert.”
“What do you mean raised. I’m not a child. Shouldn’t you be the one who was raised into a pervert by the Lady over ten years?”
“Hey. Let’s be accurate with our words. The one raised into a pervert is the Crown Prince. I was simply imprisoned. This one was a plaything.”
Everyone’s gaze turned toward Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid once more.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, who sat atop a rock with his arms crossed, remained utterly unmoved by the attention directed at him.
With a weary expression, he crossed his legs and nodded toward Kaiden.
“I’m not in the mood to humor jokes, so don’t talk to me.”
An awkward silence fell once again.
It was a remark that suggested a fractured personality, yet coming from Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, it felt entirely natural.
After all, he was the Crown Prince, and the aura he possessed was so overwhelming that no one dared to contradict him. Not even Kaiden.
As expected, Kaiden, accustomed to this, asked without further comment, turning to me.
“…So. What’s your plan for sleeping arrangements?”
“Sleeping arrangements?”
Grateful for Kaiden’s change of subject, I answered his question seriously.
“How have you all been sleeping these past few days?”
“I just slept in the trees.”
“I slept under the rocks.”
Kaiden and Yuanna Lucy answered in turn. As expected, a pitiful response came back.
“If I provide you with sleeping arrangements, what will you do for me in return?”
“What do you want?”
Truth be told, if my objective hadn’t been Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s kiss, I would have taken everyone and escaped right then and there.
Seeing Kaiden and Yuanna Lucy from our world, I had more than enough willingness to save these children of this world.
But now, rather than escaping, I had to stay glued to Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s side and achieve my objective.
And there was no way they’d listen if I asked them to leave Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid behind and step aside.
“You’ll do everything I want?”
“Yes. You have to pay the price.”
“What if I tell you to become my doormat?”
“…We’re already your doormat anyway.”
“You already have what you want, madam. We’re yours anyway, aren’t we?”
Kaiden and Yuanna Lucy tilted their heads in confusion.
“Don’t play games, you fools. What kind of doormat sends their master to the gallows?”
Then both Kaiden and Yuanna Lucy fell silent. They had nothing to say and even avoided eye contact.
These are people I can’t trust.
“Let’s write a covenant.”
“A covenant?”
At Kaiden’s counter-question, I smiled and pulled out a notebook and pen from my pouch.
“Write: ‘I hereby absolve Margaret Rose Flone of all her crimes.’ That’s asking for the death sentence to be withdrawn.”
Admittedly, this covenant would be useless to me, but it was a kind of safety measure.
“Listen, Margaret Rose Flone. That’s enough. You don’t need it. The math doesn’t work out. Once we return to the Empire, you’ll have to go back to the gallows.”
“I agree with Lord’s opinion. I have no intention of selling my long-cherished wish for mere sleeping arrangements.”
Yes. This was what I hoped to hear.
If killing me was their wish, they could have easily achieved it right here and now.
But they hadn’t gone that far. What they truly desired wasn’t simply my death.
I smiled without hesitation and spoke.
“You clearly said you didn’t need it, didn’t you?”
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Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid pondered deeply over the ‘parallel world’ that Margaret Rose Flone had mentioned.
Unlike Kaiden and Yuanna Lucy, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid already knew about the different world she spoke of. Unfortunately.
In that world, he was an Emperor. And he was also Margaret Rose Flone’s husband.
He possessed the memories of Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, Margaret Rose Flone’s husband. It wasn’t him, but at the same time, it was him.
If asked when he recalled those memories, it was from the moment she manipulated the keyring to open the camping trailer for meal preparation just moments ago.
When those memories first flooded in, it was confusing, but soon they naturally synchronized with him.
He wondered what kind of memories they were, but hearing Margaret Rose Flone’s story again, he understood. They were the memories of Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid she knew—her husband’s memories.
Sigh.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid wiped his face with a dry hand.
‘Why do I have these memories in the first place?’

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