I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 36

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Chapter 36

10. Suspension Bridge Effect

I couldn’t quite remember how we had moved after defeating the anaconda and avoiding the poison gas.

I knew that I had been carried like a bundle of luggage on Kaiden’s shoulder as we fled somewhere into the forest…

My blurry vision slowly came into focus.

The first thing I saw was a broad, large tree leaf. As the leaf swayed in the gentle breeze, I could see the clear blue sky through the gaps.

I slowly sat up.

For a moment my head spun and I fell back again, letting out a sigh.

When I slightly turned my head toward the presence I felt beside me, soft silver hair came into view. Then Kaiden’s entire face, with his eyes gently closed, filled my vision.

I carefully shook his shoulder. Even so, he didn’t open his eyes. I couldn’t tell if he was deeply asleep or if he had collapsed and couldn’t wake up.

‘What on earth happened?’

Enoch was lying next to Kaiden. I quietly placed my finger under their noses to check if they were breathing.

Fortunately, both of them seemed to be breathing steadily, so I finally felt relieved.

We were lying huddled together under the roots of a giant tree, with large tree leaves covering the entrance under the tree roots.

It seemed someone had covered us with tree leaves so we wouldn’t be exposed to mountain beasts or magical beasts.

I moved the tree leaves aside and crawled out from under the tree roots.

As I tried to stand up, I heard the sound of something dull rolling across the dirt ground.

Thud, thud-thud, thud. Coconuts were rolling around on the ground.

When I slowly raised my head, Archbishop Luzef was looking at me with a surprised face.

“Lady Flone…?”

Ah, Archbishop Luzef seems to be safe, fortunately.

‘But why does he look so surprised?’

He plopped down in front of me and stared at me blankly. It seemed his legs had given out.

“Are you… alright?”

He asked me hesitantly. I nodded obediently while turning my stiff neck for a moment.

“How long was I asleep? I’m fine except for being a little dizzy. I feel refreshed, probably because I slept well.”

As soon as I finished speaking, teardrops fell onto Archbishop Luzef’s pale white cheeks. Tears flowed endlessly from his clear gray eyes.

I was momentarily flustered watching the teardrops falling from the tip of his chin.

“Thank goodness. You woke up after two days, Young Lady. It was probably the effect of the poison gas.”

“…What? Two days?”

When I asked back in surprise, Archbishop Luzef nodded with a forlorn face while shedding tears.

“Both Lord and His Highness the Crown Prince have been hovering between life and death, unable to wake up for two days now.”

He soon wiped his tears with the back of his hand and sniffled.

Even in this situation, seeing such a pure beauty like that made me feel sorry and want to offer him a handkerchief.

“I… I really thought everyone was going to die… and there was nothing I could do…”

It seemed Kaiden and Enoch weren’t just sleeping but had really collapsed.

Surprised, I examined their condition again.

Their bodies had many small wounds, and the deeper wounds were wrapped with pure white cloth.

Archbishop Luzef must have given them first aid. Well, he was a priest, so he would have learned basic healing arts.

“I couldn’t tell what medicine was what in your medicine bottle, Young Lady. I only gave first aid with the knowledge I had…”

Only then did I notice the first aid kit placed by Enoch and Kaiden’s heads.

Next to it was also the wooden box containing flame bombs.

When I placed my hand on Kaiden’s cheek, I felt a slight fever. It was probably the fever that had been raging initially going down a bit. I hoped his condition was improving.

I checked Enoch’s fever too and confirmed he also had a slight fever, then looked back at Archbishop Luzef. He was busily gathering the coconuts that had fallen on the ground.

“Why didn’t you return to the group?”

Archbishop Luzef looked at me resentfully with a choked-up face.

His gaze seemed to say how could I ask such a question, so I was a little flustered.

Why so intensely…

“How could I leave injured people behind? Everyone is hovering between life and death like this.”

Only then did I realize again that he was a good priest who served God.

I had forgotten since he did this and that with the female lead in the novel.

Taking care of three injured people for two days would have been quite difficult work. Moreover, all three were poisoned and hovering between life and death.

Kaiden and Enoch had suffered serious injuries and their lives were in danger, but seeing that they were still safe, it seemed Archbishop Luzef had taken quite good care of them.

“You worked hard. And thank you.”

At my words, Archbishop Luzef’s face contorted greatly, and he shed tears again.

Grumble.

Then the sound of thunder came from his stomach. I was surprised by the loudness and asked him.

“Don’t tell me you’ve been starving for two days?”

He blushed and hesitated before shaking his head.

“I filled my stomach with fruits like wild strawberries and blueberries.”

I knew it would be like that.

After recovering my strength a bit more, I went to catch fish from a nearby valley.

I too hadn’t eaten anything for two days, so when I came to my senses a bit, hunger hit me and I was in great pain.

After telling Archbishop Luzef to light a fire, I went to catch fish, but Archbishop Luzef was still struggling, unable to light a fire even by then.

“You still can’t light a fire? I taught you how to light a fire last time.”

At my question, Archbishop Luzef couldn’t answer with a troubled face and fumbled around.

“Well… seeing it and actually doing it are different, aren’t they?”

Archbishop Luzef fidgeted with both hands and answered in a shrinking voice. Poor thing.

I eventually had no choice but to light the fire myself, make a campfire, skewer the fish on tree branches and grill them. Only after feeding the golden-brown grilled fish to Archbishop Luzef could I rest.

“What exactly were those magical beasts about?”

I sat in front of the campfire, catching my breath for a moment, and asked Archbishop Luzef.

He remained silent for a while with a very depressed expression, then finally opened his mouth much later.

“I don’t know exactly either. While Lord and I were arguing and packing our luggage in the cabin, His Highness the Crown Prince urgently called us to come out, so when we went out…”

He put his hands together as if praying and rested his chin with a serious face.

“I saw those creatures wandering around the corpse of the magical beast that died the day before, so maybe the magical beasts flocked because of that corpse… At least that’s my guess.”

“Kaiden said the magical beast he killed the day before was eating something, right? Do you know what it was?”

“From what I remember, it seemed like it was preparing something rather than eating something.”

“Preparing what?”

“Well. Maybe it was trying to hatch an egg or something.”

Trying to hatch an egg. That makes some sense.

Bishop Luzef didn’t know anything more than that, so it seemed I’d have to hear more detailed circumstances from Enoch.

I was very worried about Enoch and Kaiden, so I ended up not sleeping and staying up all night with Archbishop Luzef, examining their wounds.

And fortunately, the next day, Kaiden opened his eyes first. As soon as he opened his eyes, he looked for me first.

At that time, I was in the middle of making sandal-like shoes by braiding thinly cut tree branches (actually slippers), when large hands reached out from behind me and embraced me.

“Margaret.”

I was so surprised that I ended up breaking the tree branch.

‘Damn it, I almost finished making it.’

Hot breath touched my shoulder. Soft hair tickled against my bare skin.

“Margaret…”

At Kaiden’s pitiful voice, I turned around to sit facing him. He was looking at me with a dazed expression, probably because he had just woken up.

“I didn’t know you were awake. Are you feeling alright?”

He soon lowered his head and rested his forehead on my shoulder. He seemed to just lean against me and rest in that position for a long time without saying anything.

Right. He just woke up so he might be disoriented. I left him alone quietly.

“You’re not really Margaret, are you.”

But then he suddenly said something out of the blue and calmly raised his head.

I had only thought of his red eyes as blood-colored, but now they seemed to shine beautifully like rubies.

My body stiffened at his words, and I couldn’t give any response.

“To me, you really seem like a different person.”

His large hand caressed the nape of my neck, then his fingers tangled through the hair at the back of my head.

His face came a little closer. The tips of our noses lightly touched.

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