I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 275

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Part 2
(Side Story)
Episode 33
The moment those words left his lips, a profound sense of loss settled over Margaret Rose Flone’s face.
Her eyes, once deep and clear as a pristine lake, became hollow and vacant.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid found himself shaken by the unmistakable pain etched across her features.
She laughed—a hollow sound—then released the hand that had been suppressing the Margaret without the key ring and rose from her seat.
“I understand. You’re not my husband. You’re not the Enoch I love. Of course you wouldn’t care.”
Margaret Rose Flone laughed with utter resignation, as though she comprehended everything.
“I forgot for a moment too. We’re strangers. Strangers who despise each other with a terrible intensity.”
And the instant those words escaped her lips, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s heart plummeted to the depths of the earth.
A crushing impact struck him, as though a heavy weight had been fastened to his chest and dragged him down into darkness.
He had known from the beginning. Known who was real.
Yet he had tested her anyway. The price was catastrophic.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid narrowed the space between his eyebrows, gripped by the sharp, throbbing pain in his heart.
“I can’t do this. I’m leaving.”
And Margaret Rose Flone declared her strike.
* * *
The moment I hit the floor, I activated Battle Mode. Thanks to that, my enhanced combat ability allowed me to land gracefully despite the fall.
It was a falling technique, and the fact that it works even when plummeting from great heights feels like an absurdly overpowered ability.
In any case, aside from minor cuts, my body remained unharmed.
“System. You’re still there, right? Activate Transmigrator Survival Mode for me.”
[Transmigrator Survival Mode activating…]
[7%]
[30%]
[89%]
[Activation complete]
[⚠ System Warning]
[Abnormal life form detected]
[Target: Unidentifiable. Mutant Creature]
The moment I activated Transmigrator Survival Mode, the Mutant Creature was immediately detected. And in that same instant, an Unknown Creature burst forth from the bushes before me.
It was unmistakably the same creature that had emerged from the Underground Water.
Unlike when I had seen it hours ago, its limbs were now quite human-like in appearance.
Yet its eyes remained beneath the skin tissue—until our gazes met, at which point they bulged outward.
It was a grotesque sight.
The moment our eyes locked, the creature’s body began to transform violently.
It reshaped itself as though fitting dislocated bones back into place.
Its grotesquely twisted limbs began to straighten in sequence—arms, legs, and finally its face.
As I watched it take on a human form, I realized a chilling truth.
It resembled me.
“System. What is that thing?”
A holographic window materialized in response to my question.
[Analyzing request…]
[Analysis complete]
[Target organism’s biometric pattern and unique data match user ‘Margaret Rose Flone’ at 63%.]
[Estimated cause: Mutant Creature bodily fluid sample contacted user (5 hours prior)]
[Target is mimicking user’s physical contours, proportions, and biometric signals.]
I recalled the moment upon seeing the system’s analysis.
When Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid slashed that thing with his Sword, its blood had splattered across my body.
“Tell me how to respond.”
The system answered.
[Analyzing request…]
[Analysis complete]
[Target: Unidentifiable. Mutant Creature]
[Weaknesses: Extreme high temperature, high-frequency vibration]
[Standard attacks prove ineffective against target. For additional recommended responses, consult manual.]
[Recommended responses:
1. Immediately elevate body temperature. Target organism recognizes ‘hypothermia signal’ human organisms as prey. Above a certain temperature threshold, you will be excluded from its detection range.
2. Avoid direct engagement
3. It is vulnerable to high temperatures. Should unavoidable combat occur, immediately seek methods to elevate temperature and attack.]
These were the same countermeasures I had confirmed earlier.
But in reality, I couldn’t use them. The creature had attacked me first.
“Give me other response options. Activate Transmigrator Survival Mode.”
Transmigrator Survival Mode activation was certainly a cheat ability.
Using it carelessly carried the drawback of causing me to act against my will, just as when the Prince of Asdal and the Wolf had attacked me, so I had to be cautious.
[Transmigrator Survival Mode activated]
[Emergency analysis in progress…]
[Analysis complete]
[Target replicated user’s body, behavioral patterns, and memories, but failed to replicate ‘System’ and ‘Battle Mode output state’ data.]
While I conversed with the system window, the Mutant Creature—now a perfect copy of Margaret Rose Flone—approached me.
“What are you?”
It questioned me.
I furrowed the space between my eyebrows.
“…What?”
“Why did you replicate my appearance? What is your true identity?”
This clone was turning the tables, demanding answers from me. Then, without warning, it grabbed my hair.
“Ugh! What?! Let go!”
I grabbed its hair in return.
I considered activating Battle Mode but held back for now—I needed to analyze its behavioral patterns.
And that was when Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid appeared.
It seemed that the creature’s sudden grab at my hair and rampage was all because of Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid.
An intentional chaos meant to cloud his judgment.
More cunning than I expected. It had replicated not only my behavioral patterns but my memories as well—it was genuinely unsettling.
‘So this is what passes for an experimental subject in Jenas.’
The relational dynamics were even more hardcore than mine, and so too was Jenas’s Experiment.
[The target has replicated the user’s body, behavioral patterns, and memories, but failed to replicate ‘System’ and ‘Battle Mode Output State’ data.]
I recalled the System’s guidance from moments before.
The creature had replicated all of my memories, but it could not replicate my System.
Which meant it could not access ‘Battle Mode’ as I could.
When I asked for a method to counter it, that answer was the System’s way of telling me to leverage Battle Mode and the System itself against it.
‘Battle Mode’ was already active. I awakened the senses I had been suppressing.
In an instant, the flow of air shifted.
The air itself hadn’t truly changed—my bodily perception had simply become acute.
Then I saw it. Where its weakness lay.
A single strike to that point would render it helpless. I knew it instinctively.
So I swiftly subdued it and turned to Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid.
“Enoch, choose. Quickly.”
But at my question, his face grew weary.
That was not the reaction I had anticipated.
“Choose? Why should I?”
His cynical reply left me bewildered.
“I have no interest in which of you is real.”
Ah.
Ah, ah…
Ah, ah, ah… I see.
This man does not love me. All this time, I had mistaken him for my true husband.
‘Perhaps he simply hasn’t awakened to his love yet. He loves me too. He must, because he is my husband.’
Such a grand delusion I had harbored.
“I understand. You are not my husband. You are not the Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid I love. So you wouldn’t care. I forgot too, for a moment. We are strangers. Strangers who despise each other bitterly.”
The more I spoke, the deeper the doubt consumed me.
All the accumulated fatigue crashed down at once, and with it came a devastating loneliness, an emptiness, a yearning.
“I can’t do this. I want to go back.”
So I declared my strike.
In that moment, a holographic window materialized in midair. The System.
[Target: Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid]
[Target’s Favorability Toward User: ▲80%]
What had I done to push his favorability to the threshold already? Wasn’t what he just said an attitude of complete indifference?
A hollow laugh escaped me.
I asked him, utterly dumbfounded.
“I dislike you.”
[Target: Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid]
[Target’s Affection Toward User: ▲82.8%]
“I hate this so much.”
[Target: Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid]
[Target’s Affection Toward User: ▲85.1%]
I was hurt, so I wanted to hurt him in return. I wanted to vent my frustration.
Yet this man wasn’t wounded at all—he was actually growing fonder of me.
The absurdity of it all made my anger surge uncontrollably.
“Bring my husband back!”
[Target: Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid]
[Target’s Affection Toward User: ▲87.3%]

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