I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 279

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Part 2
(Side Story)
Episode 37
“Do you believe that love exists as an emotion?”
It was a question Margaret the Legendary Witch—the one I possessed—had once asked Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid in the past.
“I remember what you said when we first met. That you fell for me at first sight.”
The witch Margaret had mocked Enoch’s first love. More than mocked—she had trampled it beneath her heel.
“If that emotion still holds true, would you grant me one request?”
“Die for me. Die before my eyes. Would you slit your own throat? Or perhaps throw yourself off that terrace? Then I’ll believe that such an emotion as ‘love’ truly exists.”
Cackle, cackle, cackle—
Recalling her past words, I squeezed my eyes shut, then opened them again.
I felt as though I was losing my mind. These were my memories. Deeds committed by me in another world.
Yet Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid had not fled despite such humiliation.
Perhaps he had already sensed that Margaret was moving to make him Crown Prince.
“What troubles your thoughts, madam?”
Then a deep, resonant voice pulled me from my reverie.
Like finding one’s way through fog at dawn—the sensation of murky mist parting of its own accord.
When I lifted my gaze, I saw golden eyes shining not like stars, but like the sun itself.
They overlapped with the eyes of the man I had loved.
The same yet undeniably different—was it because their souls were identical? Or was it because he too was a man I loved?
The longer my journey through the parallel dimensions stretched on, the deeper my confusion became.
Would I eventually lose my original self? Would I forget the Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid I had truly loved?
Smack!
I slapped both my cheeks.
Three men stared at me in surprise.
I smiled brightly as though there was no confusion within me whatsoever.
“It’s nothing. I’m just drowsy from eating too much. But I shouldn’t sleep. Shall we clean up and move on?”
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s gaze clung to me persistently. It seemed his eyes had always ended on me.
I was aware of that gaze, yet I left it unattended—all while burning with its intensity in my heart.
That gaze must be directed at the ‘witch’ Margaret. It couldn’t possibly be meant for me.
I shook my head firmly, cutting off the chain of tangled thoughts.
“Then perhaps we should discuss how we might escape this place.”
Once the meal was hastily cleared away, Archbishop Luzef opened his mouth.
I could have told them the truth. But if we escaped the island, I would likely be dragged back to prison immediately.
If that happened, obtaining Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid’s soul fragment would become far more difficult than it already was. That could never be allowed.
“You said we could obtain a soul fragment through a kiss. So what comes next? What happens to that world’s Enoch?”
“Margaret, the parallel dimension itself is a replicated world. I still need more research, but since it was created when His Majesty’s soul fragments scattered, the world itself will likely be deleted.”
A replicated world.
This place was born from Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid and was destined to disappear anyway. So then. So then….
[Innis: Don’t burden yourself with guilt, Margaret. Focus on one thing—finding His Majesty the Emperor’s soul fragment.]
[Yuanna Lucy: It seems I’m needed by Meg’s side. Goodness. Lord going alone like that. It’s too much. Without someone to offer sarcastic remarks beside him, the man just looks depressed.]
[Prince of Asdal: Depressed? The scoundrel’s face is shiny even on the Deserted Island because he eats so well.]
[Rosemary: Our scoundrel’s face has always been shiny. He’s hardly ever gone without food.]
[Prince of Asdal: Indeed. In the past, she was the woman who caught fish and fed us all, so it’s only natural.]
[※
Connection Stability
is unstable, so only partial text data is being
received
※]
I burst out laughing.
Ah, yes. This is my reality. Thank goodness for the communication mode.
Then, suddenly, I recalled a fact I had momentarily forgotten from Yuanna’s remark.
[It seems I’m needed by Meg’s side. Goodness. Lord going alone like that.]
Now that I think about it, didn’t Kaiden Blake Rohade say he was coming to find me? Where is he right now?
[Analyzing request…]
At that moment, the system suddenly began analyzing, though I hadn’t requested anything.
[Analysis Complete]
[Target: Original Dimension Individual]
[Name: Kaiden Blake Rohade]
[Location: Parallel Dimension #01 – Inside Jenas’s Cabin on Alea North Island, detected]
What? He’s in Jenas’s Cabin? Right now?
Then the system window displayed a warning message in red text.
[⚠ System Warning]
[Armed Conflict Detected]
[Kaiden Blake Rohade (Original Dimension Individual)
vs
Zenas Igran Rohade (Parallel Dimension #01 Individual)]
What? On top of that, he’s fighting Zenas?
What was even more shocking was the next warning message.
[※※※Warning※※※]
[Due to the grade difference between the two individuals, dimensional stability is rapidly deteriorating.]
[Parallel Dimension #01 is unable to properly process the existence of the original Kaiden.]
[Initiating Return Protocol to send the original individual back to their original dimension.]
[Time remaining until estimated activation: 29:59:59]
It seems Kaiden didn’t possess the Kaiden existing in Parallel Dimension #01, but rather this problem has arisen instead.
From what I’ve heard, Kaiden is a Transcendent and essentially a guardian of the Original Dimension, so he cannot leave his original dimension for extended periods.
Given this situation, there was no reason not to cross the Suspension Bridge. However, since I couldn’t rule out the possibility of it breaking, I had to find another method.
[Objective 【Find the soul fragments of Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid from the Original Dimension!】 Achievement Rate: 0/5]
Current Location: Parallel Dimension #01 – Alea South Island, in front of the Suspension Bridge]
How long will it take to increase the achievement rate?
Anyway, what matters right now isn’t that—it’s meeting Kaiden.
“Shouldn’t we cross that bridge? I think we need to investigate the other side as well.”
While Archbishop Luzef and Diego Bastian Vilterheim pondered my words seriously, Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid observed the subtle shifts in my expression.
“Why? Why are you doing this?”
“You don’t wish to escape this Island, do you?”
“And what about you?”
His question turned the tables, and now I found myself curious.
He possessed the memories of the Original Dimension’s Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid. If that were true, he would know what I knew.
My purpose, how we escaped this Island in that world, and even who the culprit was that kidnapped us to this place.
Yet he showed no urgency. This contradicted what he’d said about wanting to escape quickly and put me on the gallows.
“I believed we needed to escape this place as soon as possible and place you upon the scaffold.”
He’d made that statement so habitually, and I’d heard it so many times, that it no longer stirred anything within me.
‘But why is he speaking in past tense?’
The answer to my question lay in his next words.
“Now, I simply wish to keep you confined to this Island. Nowhere else.”
What?
Seeing my shocked expression, Enoch merely smiled—a smile so eerie it sent chills down my spine.
“I have no intention of acting on it.”
Then he began patting my head gently.
“Now I understand why people in that world adore you so.”
“…Pardon?”
Bewildered, I could only repeat like a fool: “Pardon?”
[Target: Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid]
[Affection toward User: 93.8%]
[Detailed Emotional Composition:
Affection 15.3%
Loyalty/Protective Instinct 6.5%
Obsession 73%]
The emotional composition remained unchanged. But why was this happening?
‘Come to think of it, when I first opened my eyes here, his affection toward Margaret was nearly nonexistent.’
Was my intuition wrong? Or had Enoch never viewed the Witch Margaret with such conflicted emotions to begin with?

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