I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 267

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Part 2
(Side Story)
Episode 25
…my body lifted into midair about ten centimeters before hitting the floor.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid had grabbed the back of my neck.
Thanks to him, I dangled helplessly from his grip and managed to avoid a collision between my lips and the ground.
“Thank you.”
I composed myself, rising to my feet and brushing dust from my clothes.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid studied me with a suspicious gaze.
“Why?”
“Just now….”
“What?”
I widened my eyes innocently and turned his question back on him. He fell silent, his lips pressing together.
A kiss with Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid would have to wait. Sigh.
The aftereffects of the landslide had finally ceased entirely—I felt no more tremors beneath my feet.
I reopened the Camping Trailer door and began searching through the equipment inside.
“Come here first. Let’s get our gear on.”
I fastened a head lantern onto my forehead first, then gestured to Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid.
His brow furrowed.
“What in the world is that bizarre contraption?”
“It emits light. It’s called a lantern.”
I switched on the head lantern. Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s eyes widened momentarily before returning to their usual state.
“Are you asking me to wear one as well?”
“Only if you want to.”
As I reached to remove the head lantern, he seized my wrist.
“I was merely asking. I never said I disliked it.”
He spoke with deliberate emphasis on each word.
I shrugged and handed him the head lantern.
He examined it carefully in his hands, then awkwardly placed it on his head like a crown.
“No, that’s not how you wear it….”
Rather than explain, I realized it would be faster to help him myself, so I took the head lantern back from him.
“Come closer.”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid approached reluctantly.
“Bend down a bit.”
As I pressed on his shoulders, he lowered his head toward me. Our faces drew near.
I secured the head lantern’s strap firmly across his forehead and adjusted the length.
After positioning the lantern body properly at the center of his head and switching it on, the light illuminated.
“You just press this button.”
I pointed to the switch button on my own head lantern, then took his hand and pressed the switch button fixed to his forehead for him.
“There we go.”
“….”
“Why aren’t you answering….”
The silence had grown so heavy that I lowered my head to meet Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s gaze.
Only then did I realize how dangerously close his face had become. His breath tickled the tip of my nose.
His golden eyes locked with mine.
A suffocating silence hung between us.
His gaze swept slowly across my face, traveling downward with deliberate care.
His eyes fixed upon my lips.
My fingertips trembled.
I must be nervous. When I collapsed against him, feigning a mistake about attempting a kiss, I hadn’t thought anything of it.
“But now that the moment is here….”
He spoke carefully, his voice low and strained as it reached my ears.
“But now that the opportunity has presented itself, seeing that you do nothing at all, it seems it was all a lie.”
“…What? What are you talking about?”
At my question, his face drew even closer.
Our lips were nearly touching, and startled, I pulled away from him.
“This. This right here.”
He pressed his thumb against his own lips as he spoke.
“You said we should kiss, yet when the opportunity comes, you do nothing.”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid straightened from his bow and let out a soft laugh. It almost seemed as though he were mocking me for being ridiculous.
I had nothing to say. After all, it was I who had frozen in panic the moment it came to pass.
As composure returned, indignation surged within me.
I jumped up at once and cried out.
“Let’s do it again. Kiss me.”
“Missed opportunities do not return.”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid turned away coldly, his walls firmly in place.
I grabbed his wrist.
“Madam. This is troublesome.”
There was something oddly strange about the way he addressed me as “madam” while saying such things.
This man was clearly my husband, yet it felt as though I were doing something wrong.
I cleared my throat and gestured with my chin toward the interior of the Camping Trailer.
“Right, yes. Well. Never mind that. Come along. We need to select the other equipment.”
At my words, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid finally turned back to face me.
I carefully examined the equipment.
“First, I should change into different shoes.”
There were many varieties of shoes. Of course my size was available, but why were there so many types of men’s shoes as well?
“What is your shoe size?”
Instead of answering my question, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid bent down and picked up a pair of sneakers.
“This one. I believe it will fit.”
They were lightweight mountain climbing boots in size 280.
But he found himself in another predicament—the laces of his sneakers.
Right. These shoes wouldn’t exist in this world, so it made sense that he’d struggle with how to tie them.
“Wait a moment. Let me tie them for you.”
“….”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid didn’t refuse. It seemed he wouldn’t even claim he could do it himself, not even as empty words.
I knelt on one knee and sat before him. His leg flinched.
It happened so fleetingly that I wondered if it had actually moved at all.
‘But he definitely seemed startled.’
This direct reaction from Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid was unprecedented, and I felt secretly pleased.
Then a hologram window materialized in midair.
[Target: Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid]
[Affection toward the user: ▲33.1%]
I couldn’t tell if it had risen from the headlamp incident earlier or just now. But good is good, right?
I knelt at his feet and quietly tied his shoe laces, then prettily tied the ribbons before looking up.
As I did, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, who had been looking down, met my eyes and calmly extended his hand to me.
“Thank you, madam.”
I quietly took his hand and stood up.
What? That’s it? Just “thank you”? There was no other reaction. That’s strange.
As I thought this and examined his face, I noticed his neck had flushed a deep crimson.
His facial complexion remained unchanged, but his neck was bright red. Even his earlobes were flushed.
When exactly did he become embarrassed?
Was it embarrassing because I tied his shoes the way one would for a child? Or was it awkward because I knelt down?
What was it?
“…Are you perhaps embarrassed?”
At that, all the color drained from Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s skin. It was startling.
He straightened his expression and looked at me.
“That couldn’t possibly be the case.”
I tilted my head in confusion and uneasy began selecting the remaining equipment.
I put on a fleece-lined hoodie, pulled on gloves, placed a rope and a knife in my pockets one each, and grabbed a hip bag to fill with a first aid kit.
I divided hot boiled water into two small tumblers and also brought a lighter.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid gazed at me throughout with an enigmatic expression. It was a familiar look, so I wasn’t particularly flustered.
In any case, I closed the camping trailer door and grabbed the key ring.
Then, relying on the headlamp’s light, I ventured deeper into the cave.
No matter how inhuman Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s physical abilities were, it would take several days to break through the rock-blocked entrance.
So if there was an easier path, it would be better to find it.
“Let’s not waste time wandering around for long. Just one day. Let’s explore for only one day.”
That was Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s suggestion.
I agreed and began exploring the cave.
The area near the entrance was neither particularly narrow nor wide. But as I walked forward, the space gradually expanded.
It was vast enough to send shivers down my spine.
‘This cave looks similar to that creepy tree cavern.’
The one located on the Eastern North Island—that grotesque Magical Beast Mother Body tree that seemed to have tens of millions of human faces attached to it.
“System. Can you explain this cave to me?”
I’d been calling out to the System so often under my breath that even Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid had stopped reacting, simply casting me a glance that said ‘she’s doing something strange again’ before ignoring me.
For my part, I was grateful for that.
In the meantime, a holographic window materialized in midair.
[Analyzing request…]
[Analysis complete]
[Current location: Alea Island Southwestern Underground Structure. Unconfirmed zone.]
An underground ‘structure’—not a cave, but a structure. The terminology struck me as odd.
[Classification: Underground structure classification impossible. This structure does not exist in the database.]
[Detecting biological signals…]
[Detection complete]
[Detected organisms: 4 individuals]
[Confirmed human organisms: User ‘Margaret Rose Flone’, Companion ‘Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’]
[Other signals: Unknown species detected. 2 individuals. Form unidentifiable. May not be human]
[※※※WARNING※※※]
[Detection signals are irregular. Continuous loss of target signals occurring.]
What? What does that mean?
Two more biological signals detected besides me and Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid?

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