I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 40

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Chapter 40

“…What? An escape key?”

I asked back in surprise, but Yuanna didn’t seem inclined to give me an answer.

“You really don’t want to come with me? Not even be friends? Then I’ll have to take the bag.”

“Listen, Saint. What do you mean you have an escape key? Please explain…”

When she reached out to me again, ignoring my words, Archbishop Luzef came running over. He pushed Yuanna aside and blocked my path.

“That’s enough now.”

“Anyone watching would think I’m trying to devour the Young Lady. Your reaction is really hurtful.”

Despite Yuanna’s words, Archbishop Luzef remained motionless, still blocking my path.

Beside us, Kaiden and Diego were still engaged in their physical struggle.

It was impressive that despite fighting like that, neither of them had drawn blood yet.

For Diego to hold up so well against Kaiden with his Monstrous Strength, he must be no ordinary person either.

When the fights showed no signs of ending anywhere, Enoch finally moved.

“Stop it, both of you.”

Enoch grabbed Kaiden by the back of the neck and pulled him back, then drove his fist into Diego’s face.

Diego, struck by Enoch, flew lightly through the air and crashed into a wooden post.

‘…?’

Wait, why is telling them to stop so violent?

Moreover, he sent a large, muscular man flying with a single punch.

I stared at Enoch, speechless.

I knew it already, but both Kaiden and Enoch possessed monstrous strength all the same.

“Stop and get up. Margaret is waiting. It would be troublesome if blood were spilled. My control over my rampage state is still unstable.”

At Enoch’s words, Kaiden grumbled and got up from his position.

Come to think of it, if Enoch saw blood, he would have an episode, so that really would have been a disaster.

‘I was so distracted by Yuanna’s strange talk that I didn’t think of that.’

But the problem was that at that exact timing, Diego returned with blood all over his face.

“You cannot just leave. Please defeat me first.”

Diego seemed to be forgetting the fact that he was the captain of the Langrid Empire’s Imperial Guard.

I could understand that staying on this deserted island with more monsters than people would drive anyone mad, but still, shouldn’t he come to his senses?

I looked back at Enoch with worry and pressed my forehead.

My ominous premonition was never wrong – a faint madness began to swirl in Enoch’s golden eyes as he looked at Diego.

“W-wait…!”

“It’s dangerous. Don’t approach.”

I tried to run toward them in alarm, but Archbishop Luzef immediately stopped me.

“No, that’s not the point…!”

Enoch slowly turned his body.

Diego made a puzzled face, perhaps noticing that his condition was a bit strange.

The Prince of Asdal seemed to have noticed Enoch’s state as well, as he called out to Enoch.

“Hey, Half-Emperor.”

However, Enoch didn’t respond.

A spear caught under Enoch’s feet as he was walking toward Diego. He stopped walking and quietly looked down at the spear caught under his foot.

He didn’t take any action, but somehow that sight felt rather eerie.

Enoch slowly bent his waist and picked up the wooden spear that had fallen to the ground.

“Enoch!”

I called out to him urgently, but it seemed my words didn’t reach him at all.

“Wait, Enoch!”

Enoch still didn’t respond. No, when the anaconda appeared, he controlled himself just fine! Is controlling it also hit-or-miss?

“Y-Your Highness?”

“Why is he acting like that?”

Diego and Kaiden spoke in turn, flustered.

Enoch loosened the top button of his shirt that was constricting his neck with his hand. Then he caressed his nape and tilted his head to one side as if it were stiff.

“There’s blood.”

Enoch smiled as he pointed to Diego’s lips, which were bleeding quite badly.

While Diego touched his lips in confusion, Enoch’s gaze slowly moved downward.

Diego seemed to finally notice Enoch’s episode state.

Not many people knew about Enoch’s trauma. The Emperor of the Langrid Empire, Enoch’s close associates, and Diego, the captain of the Imperial Guard who had a duty to protect the Royal Family.

Only a small number of people knew his secret, and I understood that the Empire had been managing him by appropriately administering sedatives.

So this was also Diego’s first time facing Enoch’s rampage without sedatives.

“Please calm down, Your Highness.”

Kaiden, sensing something strange in Diego’s words, glanced at him once and then looked back at Enoch.

“What, why…”

It was when Kaiden began speaking with a puzzled expression.

Enoch’s leisurely pace suddenly quickened. In the blink of an eye, he approached Diego, grabbed him by the collar, and raised the wooden spear high.

It all happened in an instant.

“Enoch, stop! Wait, look at me! Look at my face first and then we’ll talk!”

Enoch’s hand, about to plunge the spear down, stopped in mid-air. Fortunately, this time he seemed to respond to ‘my voice.’

It seemed my voice was now sufficiently imprinted that he would respond even when he had lost his reason.

But that was only momentary. Enoch’s hand holding the spear began to move slowly again.

“If you don’t stop there, I’ll leave you behind! By myself!”

I played a very big card. From what I saw last time, this kind of thing seemed to work.

Sure enough, those words seemed quite shocking, as Enoch’s body flinched and this time his movement stopped completely.

For some reason, Diego didn’t try to escape him and just stood there watching quietly. He remained frozen in the same position for quite a while.

However, I could see that his hand gripping Diego’s collar was trembling. He was putting so much force into his hand that veins stood out prominently on his reddened knuckles.

It seemed Enoch himself was also trying to suppress his rampage.

“You’re doing well. You can stop now.”

Enoch finally slowly released his grip on Diego’s collar.

He really could be controlled by voice alone now. It was remarkable progress.

I let out a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, Enoch tilted his head crookedly and wiped the blood from Diego’s lips with his thumb.

“You’re bleeding. It makes me want to see more.”

Hearing those words made my heart flutter. It was also problematic that he said he wanted to see more blood so sexily. Moreover, the other person was a man.

“You’re lucky, Diego. Don’t make me angry. Because on days like today when you bleed, I want to kill you.”

Enoch quietly murmured toward Diego.

Eventually, both of Enoch’s hands came down completely. The spear in his hand fell to the ground and rolled around.

Enoch, who had been staring blankly down at the spear rolling on the ground, slowly turned to look at me with sluggish movements.

His murderous expression was completely erased, showing a much more docile face.

“Since I stopped as you wished, I can assume you won’t abandon me now, right?”

Enoch said such brazen words with a carefree expression.

I thought my heart was going to drop.

He doesn’t know how people feel!

I really thought he was going to kill Diego with that spear. It was even scarier because there seemed to be a similar episode in the novel.

“Thanks to that, it seems I’m not the only one who’s become docile.”

He then thanked me, saying he was grateful. Still, it was a great relief that he returned to his usual self.

Somehow my legs gave out and I sat down on the ground for a moment.

I was looking down at the ground and sighing deeply when it became too quiet, so I lifted my head slightly and saw everyone looking back and forth between me and Enoch with bewildered faces.

Kaiden looked at me with an expression of disbelief.

“What was that just now?”

At Kaiden’s question, I belatedly came to my senses. This wasn’t the time for this!

I immediately loaded a flare and pulled back the hammer, aiming it toward Asdal and Diego.

“You two men over there, put your hands up again.”

Asdal and Diego made reluctant faces. I shook the flare once more as if to urge them.

“Hands up.”

Having seen the power of the flare, they hesitated for a moment but eventually raised their hands.

“Enoch, Kaiden. Come here.”

While keeping the flare aimed at Prince of Asdal and Diego, I gestured to Enoch and Kaiden. They immediately ran toward me with bright faces as if they had been waiting.

Enoch, who had approached my side, immediately grabbed my hand and pulled me away from Yuanna and Archbishop Luzef. Luzef sent a disappointed look toward Enoch who was pushing him away.

“Enoch goes on a rampage when he sees human blood. Could you wipe off the blood? Unless you all want to die a dog’s death.”

As soon as I finished speaking, Diego hurriedly wiped the blood from his face.

Asdal looked at Diego with a bewildered expression, then unnecessarily brushed over his own clean clothes that had nothing on them.

Yuanna just watched the situation with her arms crossed the entire time, looking like she found all this chaos very entertaining.

“What, you didn’t tell us the reason last time either, so that’s why there was all that commotion back then too?”

Kaiden asked while looking at me and Enoch.

I glanced at Enoch’s profile and obediently nodded. The current situation was what it was, after all.

“Hey, Half-Emperor. Since when has it been like that? You never had seizures like that in the old days.”

Asdal looked at Enoch with an expression of disbelief. There was also a sense of betrayal mixed in, as if asking why he hadn’t said anything sooner.

“…It’s war trauma.”

Enoch answered simply while gripping my hand tightly again.

“Ah, you mean the Battle of Romalijan? From the Divine-Demon War?”

Asdal asked back with a knowing air.

Enoch just quietly nodded without saying anything.

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