I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 45

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Chapter 45

 

I shrugged my shoulders toward Kaiden and then looked back at Asdal as I added,

 

“Ah, but there might be poisonous mushrooms, so you can’t eat just anything. Please make sure to show them to me first.”

 

Then Yuanna, who was beside me, picked a few mushrooms and held them out to me.

 

“Are these okay?”

 

She usually said strange things, but she was enthusiastic about completing assigned tasks, just like an honor student.

 

I confirmed they were the same tongue mushrooms I had picked and nodded.

 

“Yes. These are edible. Please look for more like these.”

 

Yuanna nodded earnestly with a determined expression.

 

Yuanna returned to Diego’s side and seemed to have a conversation with Diego about the mushrooms, then they began searching for mushrooms together again.

 

No, let me correct that. She was showing Diego the mushrooms she had shown me and making him find mushrooms that looked exactly the same.

 

She wasn’t an honor student, but rather a slacker who made others do her homework for her.

 

‘I should live like that too.’

 

Asdal seemed quite shocked from earlier, clutching one of his arms and muttering like a ghost, “My arm almost got cut off.”

 

“What have you been eating to survive?”

 

I asked Yuanna, who was not far away, while picking mushrooms. Yuanna looked thoughtful for a moment, then sighed and answered.

 

“We mainly survived by gathering fruits or picking up shellfish by the waterside. It was really difficult. Ah! We did catch a rabbit once.”

 

At her words, Asdal, who had regained his energy, smiled and replied.

 

“I was the one who caught the rabbit.”

 

“So what? There was no one who could butcher animals, so we couldn’t eat it in the end.”

 

At Yuanna’s retort, Asdal closed his mouth again with an expression that suggested he shouldn’t have interfered. He didn’t even break even.

 

Listening to their conversation, I tilted my head in confusion and asked.

 

“Can’t Diego do butchering? Don’t you usually camp when you go out for monster subjugation or combat?”

 

Diego, who had been silently gathering mushrooms beside Yuanna, stopped moving. Yuanna glanced at him and burst into laughter.

 

Aren’t Kaiden, Asdal, and Yuanna all people in high positions who should maintain dignity? I don’t know how they can laugh so refreshingly like that.

 

“Diego has a weakness for cute things. He loves rabbits and squirrels too much.”

 

…What?

 

“I don’t know what kind of knight he is. He’s never been to a battlefield, right? Must be an honorary position.”

 

When Yuanna sighed and shook her head, Diego’s face turned bright red.

 

“It’s, it’s a misunderstanding. If the situation required it, I would do it. And combat with people is completely different from animals.”

 

“Is that so?”

 

Yuanna gave a half-hearted response, and Diego couldn’t make any rebuttal and closed his mouth. He seemed to think that was better.

 

Hearing the story, they really seem to have no survival skills, so I wonder how they’ve survived until now.

 

“I heard you don’t know how to start a fire, so how did you manage that?”

 

“Ah, we coincidentally found some embers and survived for a few days with those until it rained.”

 

“Yes…? You found embers…?”

 

Now I’m hearing about finding embers in this tropical rainforest. As expected, the female lead can do anything.

 

“We were coincidentally walking through the forest when we smelled something burning, so we went to look and found dry tree leaves on fire. It was divine luck.”

 

At Yuanna’s additional words, I rested my chin on my hand and fell into thought. It’s a tropical region with high humidity, so dry fallen leaves in a forest like this…

 

Well, since it’s hot, if it was a place where the sun shone well, that might be possible?

 

Anyway, we gathered sufficient amounts of fruits and mushrooms and returned to the cabin.

 

Meanwhile, we shared the water that Archbishop Luzef had purified and lit a fire. Then we put mushrooms and water in coconut bowls and boiled them.

 

Diego and Yuanna inhaled the mushrooms in a state of mindless bliss. And Asdal, who was still looking at the mushrooms with suspicious eyes, carefully tasted a bite.

 

Asdal, who was chewing the mushrooms thoughtfully, opened his eyes wide. He looked back and forth between the mushrooms and me with disbelieving eyes.

 

Soon he swallowed the mushrooms hurriedly without hesitation.

 

Watching that scene, I spoke up.

 

“Before we talk about future plans… shall we introduce ourselves first?”

 

“It seems like all the major figures from the Empire and Kingdom have gathered, doesn’t it?”

 

Yuanna asked back.

 

Enoch maintained his observant attitude with his arms crossed, while Asdal swallowed the mushrooms he had been chewing and said.

 

“Well, it seems so. But in Lady Flone’s case, rather than being a major figure in an important position… she’s a celebrity.”

 

There seemed to be no malice at all. He was really just stating facts purely, but it feels a bit…

 

“Pfft, our Margaret isn’t just any ordinary celebrity. Her nickname is ‘madwoman.'”

 

At Asdal’s words, Kaiden burst into laughter.

 

I glared at Kaiden with an annoyed expression. I can’t tell whose side he’s on.

 

“Don’t interfere and just keep your mouth shut instead. You’re a madman too.”

 

“Ah, that’s right. We match quite well. A crazy couple.”

 

Kaiden replied as if he was enjoying himself.

 

“I’m not as crazy as you are.”

 

“Who would believe that.”

 

“Enoch would understand.”

 

I looked back at Enoch with hope. As expected, my savior Enoch took my side.

 

“Only Lord is the crazy one. How dare you treat Margaret as the same level as you.”

 

That’s Enoch for you. I smiled brightly at him. Enoch looked at me and let out a small laugh.

 

I looked back at Kaiden triumphantly.

 

“See?”

 

“The Crown Prince is jealous because we’re a crazy couple. Don’t be fooled, Margaret. You are a madwoman.”

 

“…Do you want to die?”

 

Archbishop Luzef buried his face in his palms and avoided our gaze as if this kind of conversation was now familiar to him. He seemed embarrassed by us.

 

Yes, I admit it. Me aside, but especially Kaiden would be embarrassing anywhere.

 

Yuanna and Diego looked at us with bewildered expressions. Asdal had an expression that suggested he found our conversation interesting.

 

“You certainly don’t look like nobles. You even speak like back alley vagrants sometimes. Your free-spirited nature is quite pleasant to see.”

 

He calls us back alley vagrants but says it’s pleasant to see? I can’t tell if what Asdal says is an insult or a compliment.

 

“Both of you were born with the blood of nobles among nobles. How enviable.”

 

Yuanna responded to Asdal’s words on our behalf. It didn’t sound sarcastic, but it didn’t seem like she said it out of real envy either.

 

And in fact, she wasn’t wrong. The status of House Flone was comparable to imperial authority.

 

And the Marquis Rohade family where Kaiden was born and raised was also a conservative traditional noble faction.

 

The Langrid Empire was so dominated by mages that it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say mages founded it, and the Rohade family’s influence was correspondingly great.

 

To explain simply, the representative family of civil officials was Duke Flone’s house, the military representative was Diego’s family, the Marquis Vilterheim house, and the family that could be called the representative of arts and commerce was the Marquis Rohade house.

 

The fact that figures like Margaret and Kaiden emerged from such distinguished families could really be called mutations.

 

Yes, in a way, we are a well-matched pair as Kaiden said. A crazy pair.

 

“Let me introduce myself properly. I’m not a madwoman, I’m Margaret Rose Flone.”

 

I stood up from my seat, grabbed the torn and disheveled hem of my dress, bent my knees, and gave a graceful greeting.

 

Margaret’s etiquette was perfect. She had dreamed of becoming Crown Princess, and to make a good impression on various people, she needed to polish her exterior.

 

Even though she was a madwoman, she was a young lady from a prestigious family who received high-quality education, so if she put her mind to it, she could do anything above the basic level.

 

Kaiden, who had been quietly watching my greeting, mumbled in admiration.

 

“Why didn’t you greet us like that? I want to see you greet me so prettily too.”

 

“Please be quiet, Kaiden. It’s embarrassing in front of people I’m meeting for the first time.”

 

I gritted my teeth and answered Kaiden, then sat down.

 

The Saint looked at us and smiled, then stood up, placed her palm on her chest, lifted her robe hem, and bowed her head to me. It was a cleric’s greeting.

 

“It’s an honor to meet the Young Lady I’ve only heard about in rumors. I’m Yuanna Lucy.”

 

Those who stood up and observed proper etiquette were Yuanna and me, as well as Archbishop Luzef and Diego, while the rest greeted us while seated.

 

“Does anyone have any idea how we all ended up on this island?”

 

As expected, Yuanna took the initiative and started the conversation.

 

In reality, the highest-ranking people here were Enoch and Asdal, but both seemed to have no desire to take the lead.

 

Especially in Enoch’s case, far from taking the initiative, he seemed busy putting mushrooms in my bowl from the side.

 

Enoch answered that he was working, I was enjoying tea time at the manor, Kaiden was on his way to turn the Temple upside down, and Archbishop Luzef was offering prayers when they opened their eyes to find themselves here.

 

The others weren’t much different from us. Diego said he was doing sword training, Yuanna was praying at the Temple, and Prince of Asdal was taking an afternoon nap when he woke up to find himself here.

 

Prince of Asdal, who had been resting his chin on his hand while staring intently at me, opened his mouth.

 

“Young Lady, you’re quite fascinating. Just as much as you are suspicious. As I mentioned earlier, among all of us, you’re the only one who hasn’t risen to an important position.”

 

Prince of Asdal looked at me intently with a thoughtful expression before asking.

 

“Young Lady, do you really know nothing? You seem like the type of person who would follow the Half-Emperor here even knowing something.”

 

“…Are you crazy? To a deserted island?”

 

At my retort, everyone made strange expressions and stared intently at me. Even Enoch and Kaiden.

 

What was maddening was that I couldn’t refute it. Damn it. Margaret really would seem like the type to follow Enoch even knowing the truth.

 

If it meant she could be alone with Enoch on a deserted island.

 

I really have nothing to say, nothing at all.

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