I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 32

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Chapter 32

Compared to Enoch, I wasn’t particularly good at making fire, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t do it.

First, I cut some thoroughly dried bamboo and split it in half. I drilled a small hole in one piece of split bamboo, put tinder underneath, and flipped it over. Then I vigorously rubbed the other piece on top like sawing. This was to create sparks through the pressure and the back-and-forth friction motion of the wood.

After sawing like that for a while, smoke came from below, and I blew air into the bamboo hole. When I saw sparks, I removed the bamboo and continued gently blowing on the tinder.

“Bring me some dry leaves. Really dried ones, quickly.”

Luzef, who had been watching what I was doing in a daze, hurriedly moved to get dry leaves.

I used them as secondary tinder to turn the sparks into fire.

“Good heavens.”

Luzef clapped with a dumbfounded expression.

“You watched carefully, right? Next time, Bishop, you’ll be doing it.”

Like a student listening well to their teacher, Luzef nodded vigorously.

In the end, I made a fire and grilled some fish for him, and also shared purified water.

But this guy, after eagerly eating the fish and drinking the water, showed no intention of going home.

To make matters worse, he voluntarily cleaned up the tree branches he’d used to eat fish and even started cleaning.

“Um, can’t I stay here?”

“Don’t you remember calling me a witch? Have some conscience.”

At my words, Luzef shut his mouth tight again. Even when I told him to get lost and go home, he stubbornly held out until Enoch and Kaiden arrived.

It was natural that chaos ensued when Enoch and Kaiden discovered him.

Watching their squabble reminded me of when Kaiden had settled into our cave.

This is ominous. This route seems somehow familiar.

But the sun was setting, and we couldn’t just drive Luzef away into the night where magical beasts roamed, so we decided to let him stay just one night.

“You little lackey. Don’t think about coming in, just guard the front of the house. You priests are good at that kind of thing. Guarding.”

Kaiden growled as he drove away Luzef, who was trying to enter the cabin with us.

Luzef glared at Kaiden with anger reaching the top of his head, but in the end couldn’t make any rebuttal.

Still, he couldn’t wander the forest at night, so he seemed determined to endure somehow.

“But outside is dangerous, so…”

When I suddenly started speaking, Luzef looked at me with a face full of expectation and emotion.

However, unfortunately, I had no intention of satisfying his expectations.

“Sit at the entrance and keep watch. If you give off human scent from outside, magical beasts might swarm here.”

Luzef looked at me with a face full of despair, and Kaiden burst into laughter.

Anyway, since moving to the riverside, we encountered magical beasts less frequently at night, and the frequency of wolf howls had definitely decreased.

Do magical beasts not come down to the waterside?

When I woke up in the morning, Enoch had picked a bamboo container full of blueberries.

I was sitting in front of the cabin, brushing my teeth with a chewing stick I’d newly made a few days ago.

Seeing this, Luzef tilted his head with a curious expression.

“What is that?”

Enoch and Kaiden each sat on either side of me, chewing their own wooden sticks to clean their teeth.

“It’s teeth brushing.”

After cleaning my teeth with the tree branch and rinsing with water, I asked Luzef.

“Ah, by any chance, Bishop, don’t you brush your teeth?”

At my question, Luzef just blinked with a flustered expression.

Thinking about it again, it’s really strange – whether it’s because of the magic cast on this island or what, nobody smells bad. Still, not brushing teeth feels gross.

I first cut a thin tree branch about the length of a forearm and about 1cm wide. Then I had Luzef chew the end of the wood.

The wood’s fiber stimulates saliva production, and saliva neutralizes food particles. So you can clean your teeth with the part split into fibers like this.

“Simple, right?”

At my question, Luzef nodded while chewing the stick.

“Hey, lackey. Now get going.”

While eating blueberries for breakfast, Kaiden gave Luzef a hint.

He looked at Luzef’s appearance with disdain, his face twisted in a sneer.

“It might be different if I hadn’t met Lady Flone yet. But I’ve already met her, so how can I live without the Young Lady now? I won’t go.”

Luzef said something strange, but I just kept eating blueberries regardless.

Today would be good to explore the path to the bunker. Since I found the map with the bunker’s location, finding the way there should be a piece of cake, right?

“Stop fooling around and go find your god. Why isn’t your god responding? That makes sense. There is no god.”

“Are you finished talking?!”

“Did it seem like I was finished? No. Think about it, if there was a god, would we have fallen here?”

“Watch your words!”

The two men’s voices gradually grew louder.

My ears hurt, so I frowned for a moment, and Enoch, who seemed to have been watching me, quietly spoke up.

“Both of you stop it. Don’t make noise in front of Margaret.”

Maybe there’s magic cast on the word Margaret?

I suppressed a hollow laugh seeing Kaiden and Luzef quietly shut their mouths and watch my reaction.

Looking at those two, I organized the empty bamboo container and stood up.

Then I tied tree branches around my waist, tucked in the stone axe, held the spear in my hand, and looked back at Kaiden and Luzef.

“I’m going out for reconnaissance.”

Since we came to a new shelter, we needed to explore the surroundings. It was very important to figure out if there were any dangers and if there was anything we might need nearby.

Luzef looked at me like I was something very strange and contorted his face.

“I can never get used to the Young Lady’s bizarre appearance no matter how much I see it.”

That must be a mandatory line for male leads meeting me for the first time. Is it on some required dialogue list?

This time, neither Kaiden nor Enoch responded to Luzef’s words. Enoch didn’t answer because he was preparing for hunting, and Kaiden seemed too lazy to answer.

Luzef didn’t give up and threw out one more question.

“Are all noble young ladies originally as adaptable as Lady Flone?”

As if that could be true. Of course, I was also too lazy to answer, so I let Luzef’s question go in one ear and out the other.

“Kaiden, send Archbishop Luzef back while I’m gone.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll give him a good beating and chase him away.”

“Can’t you let me stay a little longer?”

Kaiden and Luzef answered my words simultaneously, but their voices overlapped so I couldn’t hear what they said.

However, since asking again was also bothersome, I just decided to depart.

From the noisy sounds behind me, it seemed the two were fighting again.

Meanwhile, Enoch gathered his weapons and followed behind me.

I looked back at Enoch following me with a puzzled expression.

“Do you have something to say to me?”

“Today is my hunting turn.”

He quietly answered my questioning gaze.

“Wasn’t Kaiden always the one hunting?”

At my question, Enoch looked at me and burst into laughter.

“Didn’t you complain that Lord only brings back birds?”

Saying it like that makes me sound like a child complaining about side dishes.

“I never complained…”

I just said that since we kept eating only birds and fish, I was really getting tired of it and we should catch some meat.

Of course, I didn’t tell Kaiden to go catch it. I also said I would make traps myself to capture game like wild boar within a day or two.

“I’ll catch at least a rabbit.”

At Enoch’s suggestion, I looked at him with sparkling eyes.

“Really?”

Enoch, who was rolling up his jacket sleeves with an indifferent expression, nodded.

Perhaps because the cabin was noisy due to Kaiden and Archbishop Luzef, Enoch seemed relatively dignified and majestic. Well, he is the Crown Prince after all.

Ever since I decided to call him ‘Enoch’ instead of ‘Your Highness,’ I keep forgetting that fact.

If we escape this Remote Island and return to the Empire, what will become of our relationship?

“But why do you keep following me? I’m on my way to do reconnaissance.”

“I thought it would be good to hunt while following you.”

Enoch’s words made me a little troubled.

Because I was planning to part ways with Enoch and go alone to find a path to North of the River.

Enoch’s face darkened slightly as he noticed my trouble that I couldn’t completely hide.

“Do you dislike going together with me?”

“That’s not it…”

I eventually let out a sigh.

“No. Let’s go together.”

There’s nothing I can do. I’ll have to give up on finding the bunker location today.

I didn’t want to arouse suspicion, and I couldn’t tell even Enoch about the bunker.

This was truly my last resort for survival.

I walked behind Enoch while rummaging through my dress pocket.

The flare was safely stored in my pocket.

Neither Kaiden nor Enoch had asked me to give them the flare.

I also had no reason to give what I found to them, so I was keeping it myself.

I had brought the bunker map before departing, and fortunately it was also safely in my pocket.

While I was rummaging through my pocket like that for a while, I ended up bumping my face into Enoch’s chest as he had stopped walking.

So it was his chest, not his back.

That means Enoch had been watching me busily rummaging through my pocket the whole time.

Realizing this made me feel a bit deflated. Am I kind of an idiot…?

Enoch’s face was cold and hard. And he always had that perfect face with no room to penetrate.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“I know you’re preparing to leave.”

At Enoch’s sudden words, I momentarily lost my words and closed my mouth.

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