I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 284

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Part 2
(Side Story)
Episode 42
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I received unexpected information from Kaiden in the Original Dimension.
It concerned a crystal stone.
“It’s definitely not from our world. I don’t know the exact details either, but what’s certain is that His Majesty the Emperor was searching for the origin of this crystal stone.”
“It seems his soul was fragmented when he attempted to access that place, believing it derived from a newly emerged alternate dimension.”
“The problem is that this crystal stone, which possesses destructive power capable of triggering natural disasters, wants you. Not in a good way. I can sense this intuitively. Perhaps His Majesty the Emperor also heard the crystal stone’s message and sensed the danger.”
He said he couldn’t bring a full sample of the crystal stone because it seemed far too dangerous for me.
However, since he was curious about its reaction upon contact with me, he couldn’t refrain from showing it entirely, so he shaved off a piece the size of a fingernail and gave it to me.
Fortunately, there were no adverse effects, so I placed it inside the seal badge Kaiden had created for me.
I would be safe while it remained inside.
“Is this the way we should go?”
Yuanna Lucy turned back to ask me.
I nodded.
We were heading toward Jenas’s Cabin.
I couldn’t quite believe that I was escaping the Island so easily, so simply. The memories of my past struggles came flooding back.
Upon discovering the cabin we had arrived at, I couldn’t hide my shock.
It was drenched in blood. More than that, the cabin was half-collapsed—whatever battle had occurred here had been fierce.
“What on earth happened here?”
Kaiden kicked aside the debris of the cabin scattered across the floor, surveying the surroundings.
The cabin was devastated.
I gazed at the ruined structure with a strange sense of detachment. There was something almost hollow about it.
So it could crumble this easily. Of course, that was thanks to Kaiden, who had become a transcendent being.
“This man… could it be…?”
Just then, Yuanna Lucy discovered a person trapped beneath the collapsed cabin debris.
It was a man with silver hair.
The Prince of Asdal approached to check if the man was still breathing, then shook his head.
“He’s dead.”
After confirming the man’s face, he narrowed the space between his eyebrows. And not far away, I could also see a woman with silver hair.
She too had stopped breathing. It must be Anata.
“But isn’t this the man who pretended to be a child and got thoroughly beaten by the Half-Emperor? The one who even imprisoned our former lady in the basement?”
“What? Lady Margaret Rose Flone was imprisoned?”
Upon hearing the Prince of Asdal’s words, Yuanna Lucy asked in shock, and Young Kaiden, Archbishop Luzef, and Diego Bastian Vilterheim, who were hearing this news for the first time, also appeared startled.
Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, who had apparently fought Jenas, stood silently beside me without saying a word.
So the Prince of Asdal, who had witnessed the scene, provided the explanation instead.
I left them behind and searched my memories to find the basement door.
Between the collapsed cabin debris, I could see the stairs descending into the basement. It was exactly as I remembered it.
At that moment, a holographic window appeared, and data from the Original Dimension poured in.
[Yuanna Lucy: My Trauma is about to activate.]
[Archbishop Luzef: This is a place I never wished to see again, yet here we are. The Empress must be suffering greatly.]
[Prince of Asdal: It appears the parallel dimensions lack a transcendent being like our Kaiden. Considering we were the only ones who endured that ordeal.]
[※
Connection Status
is unstable, so only partial text data is being
received
※]
Everyone seemed lost in contemplation at the sight before us.
I turned away from the cascade of text data and began clearing away the debris of the Cabin.
To reach the Basement, I had to remove the collapsed Wooden Boards and Pillars.
“Would you all like to come this way?”
As I spoke, I lifted one of the large Wooden Boards. It was heavier than I expected. Ugh.
I immediately set the Wooden Board down and turned to look behind me. Enoch, Kaiden, Prince of Asdal, Archbishop Luzef, and Diego came into view.
Right. Why was I clearing this away when I had five strong men here?
“Come now. Would you all mind lifting this?”
At my words, they all exchanged bewildered glances and began moving the Wooden Board without question.
“This one too.”
I pointed to another Wooden Board,
“And this as well.”
I gestured to another Wooden Post.
After a while of this, Kaiden and Archbishop Luzef, sensing something amiss, voiced their complaints.
“Wait. Are you seriously just standing there without lifting a finger while ordering us around?”
“Are we your servants?”
“Aren’t you a servant? You’re a Servant of God, after all.”
At my tasteless wordplay, Archbishop Luzef shot me a look of exasperation.
It was the expression of a new employee who had just heard their department head’s dad joke.
In any case, he shook his head as if unwilling to engage further.
Whatever the case, as long as it got resolved, that was fine.
In any case, the Stairs leading down to the Basement came into view.
I stood atop the Stairs and gazed at the Door below. The Basement Door remained intact.
Once I left this place, I might be dragged straight back to Prison.
“That won’t happen.”
Hearing my worry, Kaiden firmly denied it.
“His Majesty the Emperor—no, that foolish Young Kaiden won’t allow it to happen that way. Even if it does come to that, wait and see. He’ll definitely come to get you out. Personally, no less.”
In truth, I had anticipated this to some degree. Enoch’s favorability toward me was currently high.
But I was curious how Kaiden, who couldn’t even see, knew that.
“I can see it all. It’s written all over your face.”
That’s what he said.
I glanced back at Enoch standing behind me.
He stood motionless, arms crossed, his face utterly expressionless.
No smile, no anger—just that blank, menacing, eerie visage that made my skin crawl.
And this was Enoch’s default expression. The fact that Kaiden could read such nuance from that frozen mask was remarkable.
“Enoch. If we escape from here, will you send me back to prison?”
At my question, he simply stared at me.
How embarrassing—why wouldn’t he answer?
Silence, they say, is consent.
So even with his affection at such heights, his fundamental nature remained unchanged. Though given his past, that was hardly surprising.
“Did you not make me Crown Prince, madam?”
That was when Enoch finally spoke.
Why was he suddenly bringing up the Crown Prince?
“That position held no value for me. Yet I became Crown Prince regardless. Do you know why?”
A subtle shift crossed Enoch’s expression as he spoke.
He looked somewhat weary as he dragged a hand across his face before continuing.
“To send you back where you truly belonged. That is why I became Crown Prince.”
Enoch was calling that place a ‘prison.’
How strange. His affection rating totaled 94.8%, yet looking at him now, that number seemed utterly impossible.
So one’s words and true feelings could diverge to such a degree.
“This is the exit?”
Yuanna approached and peered over curiously.
“Madam, did that bastard kidnap us to this island then? How do we prove that?”
I had been watching Enoch quietly, but Yuanna’s question forced me to turn away.
“I know how to find the culprit. I also know how to clear my name.”
And at my words about clearing my name, everyone stopped and looked at me.
The air grew colder.
Archbishop Luzef spoke with a chilling tone.
“Your name? That’s absurd.”
“Come on. What’s so funny about that? I’m a transmigrator, and a Kaiden from a parallel dimension showed up—that’s far more ridiculous.”
Archbishop Luzef immediately fell silent.
The more I thought about it, the more I resented this world’s Margaret Rose Flone. How had she even survived like this?
I understood all too well the anguish, the fury at the world, the hunger for vengeance that consumed such a person. Because I was her now.
Yet I still could not comprehend what she had done.
“In any case, once we’re outside, I’ll give you information. About that man called Jenas, about this kidnapping, and about the Peony Faction that orchestrated the experiments. As for clearing my name—if you’re curious, you can investigate it yourselves.”
I pulled out a palm-sized notebook I had prepared earlier and waved it.
Everyone’s eyes immediately fixed on it with curiosity.
“I’ll give it to you once we leave this place.”
With that, I descended the basement stairs and, after taking a deep breath, opened the basement door.

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