I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 29

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Chapter 29

Since it would be troublesome for me if he went crazy, I had to make him work more actively.

“Um, Margaret, you said ‘from now on’… I was talking about what needs to be done right now.”

“Hunting is also something that needs to be done right now, isn’t it? You might want to keep moving your body in the future too. Try taking charge of it once.”

I answered Kaiden’s question while pretending to know nothing.

Kaiden stared intently at my face for a moment.

“You… you’re just trying to make me do meal duty because you think this is a good opportunity, aren’t you?”

“Did you catch on?”

When I asked with a smile, Kaiden shrugged his shoulders with exaggerated movements and sighed.

“Since I asked first, I’ll just let myself be fooled. But in return.”

He came closer. Then he slowly bent his waist toward me.

His face suddenly came close right in front of my nose. When our eyes met, he smiled prettily with his eyes.

He tilted his head at an angle and tapped his cheek with his finger.

“Give me a kiss here.”

“If you don’t want to, I’ll just do the hunting myself.”

I answered sharply and stood up, but Enoch’s voice cut between us.

“Lord talks too much. Do you want to never be able to use that mouth again?”

Enoch pushed Kaiden away from me with very firm and decisive movements.

‘It seems like Enoch’s way of speaking is getting rougher, but maybe it’s just my imagination?’

Kaiden, who had been pushed back helplessly while off guard, looked at Enoch with a bewildered expression.

“Isn’t that too harsh?”

Kaiden retorted with a voice full of anger. At that moment, seeing madness flash in Kaiden’s eyes, I jumped up from my seat in surprise.

Both men looked at me simultaneously.

If Kaiden, who couldn’t control his emotions, and Enoch, who went on rampages at the sight of blood, clashed, it would be a complete disaster.

I touched my finger to my lips, then pressed that finger to Kaiden’s cheek.

“There, satisfied? I didn’t do it because I like you, so don’t misunderstand. Now go hunting.”

Both Enoch and Kaiden stared at me blankly, as if they couldn’t believe what had just happened.

Kaiden, who came to his senses first, looked at me with a pretty eye-smile. In contrast to Kaiden’s satisfied expression, Enoch looked a bit angry.

“Margaret.”

Sensing that Enoch’s nagging was about to begin, I hastily made my escape.

“I’ll go do some fish hunting. Enoch, please relight the fire.”

I felt the two men’s gazes piercing my back, but I didn’t look back.

‘Kaiden won’t go on a rampage like Enoch, will he? Should I run away even now?’

I seriously considered such thoughts and pressed my temples firmly. My head was throbbing.

‘Still, if I regulate the flow of mana for Kaiden, he probably won’t rampage…’

For now, without me, there was no one to stop Enoch’s seizures or control Kaiden’s madness.

“Margaret, I’m also concerned about you.”

“But Margaret, becoming interested in you is my emotion regardless of the reason. So I’ll decide that. That lecture just now was a bit presumptuous.”

I recalled the words the two men had said to me recently.

‘Why did they have to say such unsettling things…’

If they had just confessed, I could have comfortably rejected them, but what was with that ambiguity.

I had been living without much thought, but after hearing those words, I started becoming conscious of both of them. I sighed involuntarily.

‘I’ll think about it later, later. Hunting is more important right now.’

After spending a long time fish hunting in the water, I prepared to make charcoal.

These days, Kaiden and Enoch often brought back wild animals they hunted, so we could get sufficient protein.

But the problem was that regular firewood had many difficulties when it came to grilling meat.

‘It either burned easily or didn’t cook well.’

So today I decided to make charcoal.

I dug a pit and gathered thin small branches suitable for tinder inside it. I also put short wooden logs inside to make charcoal.

“What are you doing?”

Enoch approached me as I was stacking the firewood in a pyramid shape and lighting a fire.

“I’m making charcoal. Oh, charcoal is…”

“I know what charcoal is. I’m just curious if there’s anything you can’t do.”

Enoch didn’t seem to be joking. I scratched my cheek in embarrassment. It would be different if I had done something amazing and received praise, but this really wasn’t much…

“It’s super easy to make.”

I had done it many times when camping. Enoch, who had been staring intently at my face with his arms crossed, quietly murmured.

“When we return to the Empire, I must meet Duke Flone.”

I nodded vaguely at his words, which sounded like he was making a resolution. For now, that problem was still far from being imminent, so let’s postpone it.

“I’ll light the fire, so do something else. You’ll hurt your wrist.”

Enoch took the wooden stick from my hand and sat down obediently next to me.

Now that he had gotten the hang of it, he could light fires quickly with increased speed. He put fire to the small piece of firewood placed inside the firewood pyramid.

After checking that it had reached high temperature by looking at the color of the flames, I used the ash we had collected to firmly fill the holes in the firewood pyramid.

“We can check it in about an hour or two.”

Enoch nodded at my words.

“By the way, is there no news about Diego?”

“He seems to have moved his dwelling recently too. There was no other particular news.”

Enoch still hadn’t said he would join them. I wondered why.

Maybe it would be better to meet the Female Lead quickly. But on the other hand, I also had feelings hoping not to meet her.

‘I don’t understand my own heart either.’

Let’s just quietly wait for the right time.

By the time Kaiden returned from hunting, the charcoal was complete.

He approached the front of the cabin carrying a small bird and opened his eyes wide when he saw the charcoal.

“Margaret, you made charcoal too? Wow, now I can really say it. You’re not nobility, are you?”

At Kaiden’s question, which seemed to have become a habit, I shrugged my shoulders and glared at him.

“Do you think you act like nobility?”

“No, I’ve never thought of myself as nobility, so it’s fine.”

He was so confident that I had nothing to say. Damn it. I should have spoken that confidently too.

“Enoch and I will prepare dinner, so go wash up. You worked hard.”

At my words, Kaiden shook his head with a bright smiling face.

“I’m not going to wash up.”

“What? Why? That’s dirty.”

“You even gave me a kiss, so it would be too wasteful to wash it off right away.”

“When did I ever kiss you?”

Could that even be called a kiss?

I was asking back in bewilderment when it happened.

Enoch, who had been quietly sitting next to me lighting the charcoal, stood up.

He approached Kaiden with leisurely steps.

Kaiden stepped back in surprise at his face suddenly coming close.

“What, what is it?”

While Kaiden was flustered, Enoch rubbed his cheek with his hand in an unhesitating motion.

Then black charcoal messily smeared on Kaiden’s left cheek where I had pressed with my finger earlier.

“Shit, what the hell are you doing?”

Kaiden swatted away Enoch’s hand, showing his displeasure. He had no idea what state his cheek was in.

“You have something dirty on your cheek. Don’t act annoying in front of Margaret and go wash up.”

Enoch answered in a very calm voice and turned back to me. When our eyes met, a languid smile spread across his lips.

‘What, why is he smiling so sexily like that.’

While I was staring blankly at his alluring smile, he sat down next to me and was examining the lit charcoal.

‘Come on, get it together.’

I forced myself to snap out of it and turned my head away.

Then I spoke to Kaiden, who was making rude gestures behind Enoch’s back.

“Kaiden, stop doing that and go wash up. You’ve got charcoal powder all over your cheek.”

“What…?!”

Kaiden touched his cheek with a flustered expression. When black powder came off on his palm, he cursed.

Watching him rush frantically to the riverside, I couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

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The next day, I took my spear and went to the river to hunt fish.

I should ask Kaiden to make me a fish trap soon.

I was getting tired of always going into the water to hunt while wearing this dress.

‘I really want to find some modern clothes.’

My dress was messy, but Enoch’s uniform was equally tattered.

‘In the original story, Yuanna definitely changed into pants and a t-shirt she found on the island… There were shoes like walkers too.’

It wasn’t just one or two items, but quite a lot of clothes were supposedly hidden throughout the island.

‘It’s not like it’s a survival game looking for supplies. Finding modern items hidden on the island is a strange picture no matter how I think about it.’

Just like a game.

I was having such thoughts while fish hunting and coming out of the river water.

A rustling sound came from the nearby bushes. If it wasn’t an animal sound, it seemed like the sound of a person moving.

I pretended nothing was wrong and removed the three fish skewered on my spear, setting them down on the ground.

Then I gripped the spear properly in my hand and threw it just like that.

I threw it slightly off from the direction where the sound came from, and heard a piercing scream.

I picked up the flare I had briefly set down by the riverside to go into the water and walked toward where the sound came from.

“Damn it! What kind of behavior is this, Lady Flone!”

There, Archbishop Luzef, whom I had met before, was sitting ungracefully on the ground glaring at me.

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