I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 26

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Chapter 26

Unlike us who had only traveled between the cave and beach, this question came from my speculation that Kaiden must have wandered around many places.

Kaiden shrugged his shoulders.

“I haven’t seen any people. I’ve only been going around for magical beast hunting anyway.”

“You could just avoid them, so why bother going hunting? It’s dangerous.”

At my question, Kaiden stroked his chin and looked back and forth between me and Enoch with contemplative eyes. It was the look of someone wondering whether to tell us what he was hiding.

He soon made his decision and opened his mouth.

“There’s something I need to find out.”

“…What are you trying to find out?”

“It’s strange. We can’t use mana on this island, yet magical beasts that are based on mana exist here.”

“…!”

Kaiden’s words hit me like a blow to the head.

Why didn’t I think of that?

“There’s more than one or two strange things though.”

Enoch, who had been quiet, answered as if he’d been waiting for this. He continued while pressing his temples firmly.

“I went out for reconnaissance today and saw some words written on the cliff that I couldn’t understand the meaning of.”

Alea

The word Enoch wrote on the ground with a tree branch was none other than English.

Alea.

“Ah, I saw that too. It was also carved on the magical beasts’ bodies.”

Kaiden chimed in agreement.

I suddenly remembered the flare I had picked up on the mountain and hurriedly rummaged through my dress pocket. Fortunately, the flare was still there.

When I pulled out the red flare from my pocket, Kaiden approached me with a face full of curiosity.

“What’s that?”

“I picked this up a few days ago when I went to the mountain… That firework that exploded in the sky. I set it off with this.”

“What, that was you who did that? With this? How?”

Kaiden asked back with a surprised face. Enoch looked at me for a moment with a face that had much to say.

“I wasn’t trying to hide it. I forgot with all the various things happening…”

With Enoch and Kaiden making strange confessions one after another, I had forgotten about the flare incident.

“To think this small object created that firework, how fascinating. How did you do it?”

Kaiden asked me again with a face full of curiosity.

“I didn’t know it was something that shot fireworks either. I was touching this and that when suddenly that thing came out…”

Kaiden persistently took the flare from me and examined the object from various angles.

Enoch, who had been looking at the flare following Kaiden, asked.

“Is it a magical tool?”

“Well, I’m not sure about that.”

I was about to answer that flares are originally used to send rescue signals, but this one seemed to have been modified for a different purpose, then swallowed my words.

It would be strange for me to know the purpose of an object that no one else knows about.

Kaiden opened the cylinder to look at the ammunition, then looked at me with a surprised face.

“This does seem to be a magical tool. There are faint traces of magic formulas carved into it.”

Traces of magic formulas carved in? Wasn’t this a modern object then? I furrowed my brow and looked at the ammunition Kaiden was pointing to.

There seemed to be some scribble-like writing on the ammunition, but it was too small to make out clearly. That’s a magic formula?

Kaiden examined the ammunition from various angles and then continued his explanation.

“This seems to be condensed mana.”

Did someone named Alea modify this modern object? It’s quite a plausible story.

“When I pulled what looks like a trigger, the firework shot out. The important thing isn’t that though… it’s this.”

I showed them the letters spelling Alea written on the side of the flare.

“I told you I learned the Eastern Continent language, right? This reads as Alea, and it seems like a person’s name. Isn’t it probably the name of this magical tool’s owner?”

‘But what does the word Alea mean?’

Is it Latin or Greek? It’s definitely a word I’ve seen somewhere. I think I learned the meaning of that word when I was studying physical education in the past.

I tried hard to rack my brain, but I couldn’t remember at all and gave up. I’ll have to think about it again later.

“Someone other than us definitely lived here before.”

That must be why there’s a cabin and bunker.

“Alea… We can’t rule out the possibility that people lived on this island. There’s also the possibility that they’re still living here.”

Kaiden nodded at Enoch’s speculation.

“The owner of that magical tool might still be alive. The one who kidnapped us might be that person.”

If someone named Alea is the culprit, is this island really an island in Korea or some other country?

Like in movies or dramas, we might be trapped on an island used for experiments and being experimented on.

But if that hypothesis is true, how are people from other worlds that aren’t Earth here?

There were still only mysteries. I couldn’t be certain exactly what it was the name of, but ‘Alea’ was the first direct information I had obtained since waking up on this remote island.

“We’ll need to find more information first. It’s difficult to make an accurate judgment with just this.”

Both Kaiden and I nodded at Enoch’s words.

“Right. We should clean up first. The sun is setting.”

Enoch looked up once at the sky where the sunset was glowing and extinguished the campfire.

After that night, Enoch’s hostile attitude toward Kaiden seemed to have softened a little too.

However, it remained unchanged that whenever Kaiden tried to approach me, Enoch would become sharp and busy being on guard.

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