I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 5

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Chapter 5

“Don’t tell me… you stayed awake the whole time?”

Enoch didn’t answer. It seemed he really hadn’t slept a wink.

“You can’t waste your energy like that. We don’t know how long we’ll have to go without food, so what are you doing burning calories?”

Even with my practical advice, Enoch remained unmoved.

“I haven’t decided yet whether the Young Lady is someone I can trust.”

His tone was calm, but his eyes scanning me were sharp.

And yet he took off his jacket and covered me with it – I’ve never seen someone whose words and actions were so inconsistent.

I had woken up around dawn.

However, Enoch still didn’t know that monsters only appeared when it was dark.

That’s probably why even now with the sun up, he remained tense with his shoulders stiff.

Of course, it’s not like I wasn’t nervous either. But monsters would appear frequently from now on, and I couldn’t cower in fear every time.

Growl.

While thinking this, my stomach suddenly made a loud noise.

Enoch stopped organizing his spot and looked at me. I smiled awkwardly.

Now that the tension was gone, I somehow felt even hungrier. I had managed to solve my thirst with coconuts, but the problem was hunger.

“Should we go look for something to eat?”

I felt like I was going to die of hunger.

“Are you talking about hunting?”

“We don’t have time for hunting. Let’s do fruit gathering.”

“Fruit…?”

Enoch asked back with a puzzled face. Then he looked at the broken coconut shells rolling around nearby.

I pointed to the coconut palm right behind our temporary shelter.

“Do you see those small fruits hanging on that coconut palm? Those are acai palm fruits that are edible. I thought we could gather those.”

Acai palm fruits have many hard seeds and little edible parts, so they’re actually far from enough to provide the calories we need.

But there wasn’t much food we could get right now. I should be grateful we found acai palms that bear fruit all year round.

If we went a bit deeper, we might be able to gather blackberries or wild strawberries, but we’d have to search around for quite a while to find where the fruits grow, so it was too much for right now.

“Are they really edible fruits? I’m not sure if I can trust the Young Lady.”

“Then starve. I’m going to eat.”

I answered simply while preparing to climb the tree. Enoch looked flustered again.

He blocked me when he saw me gathering and tying up my dress.

“What are you doing?”

“I need to climb the tree. To pick the fruits.”

I answered while looking up at the coconut palm. Enoch followed my gaze with a puzzled expression, gauging the height.

“If we just hit the tree, they’ll fall down. Do you really need to climb up? It looks dangerous.”

“Do you know how sturdy coconut palms are to just hit them and make things fall? And acai palm fruits are such small fruits…”

I shook my head and prepared to climb the tree.

“I’m not a worker ant, and I can’t just spend forever collecting fallen fruits. I’ll just cleanly climb up myself! I’ll break off entire fruit branches.”

Enoch still had a face that said he couldn’t understand my words and gently pushed me aside.

Then he lightly shook his fist and struck the coconut palm.

A tremendous roar echoed. Not only the tree but even the ground vibrated.

I stared blankly at the sight of fruits falling down like rain from the sky.

Enoch looked at me with a relaxed face.

“Is this how you do it?”

I nodded like an idiot at his question and clapped. With this amount, we could just sweep up the fruits.

“That’s amazing, I admit it. More efficient than a worker ant.”

I gave him two thumbs up in praise. Enoch looked secretly pleased.

Enoch, who had just said he couldn’t trust me, sat next to me and obediently consumed the fruits.

However, after chewing the fruit, he frowned with a disappointed expression.

“It doesn’t taste good. And there’s not much to eat.”

Wouldn’t nothing suit Enoch’s taste?

The juice itself wasn’t bad. It’s just that there wasn’t much edible part, as he said.

“This is all we can get right now, so what can we do.”

When I spoke as if telling him not to complain about side dishes, Enoch blushed in embarrassment and shut his mouth tight.

I guess after we come back from the mountain, we’ll have to try fishing.

After consuming the fruits, we organized our spot and prepared to climb the high mountain.

The nearest mountain looked very high and steep, so we had to prepare thoroughly.

Actually, preparation only meant tidying our clothes and finding sturdy tree branches that could be used for various purposes.

Having to navigate through this jungle forest wearing a frilly dress and flat shoes…

This was ridiculous.

Enoch must have had the same thought, as he put his hands on his hips and looked at me with an annoyed expression.

“It would be better for the Young Lady to just wait here.”

As he said, that might have been better. But…

“How can I trust Your Highness? Even if the situation were reversed, Your Highness would have come along.”

Enoch didn’t deny it and kept his mouth shut.

I wasn’t really sure whether I would be helpful to him or not. But even though Enoch had roamed battlefields, this would be his first time being stranded.

Moreover, even though he was born to a commoner, he was royalty born in the Imperial Palace, so he probably had never done this kind of wilderness exploration.

I couldn’t call myself a survival expert, but wouldn’t I be more familiar with this kind of situation than Enoch?

“Fine. But if a dangerous situation arises, I can’t guarantee I’ll definitely save the Young Lady.”

“I know.”

Enoch stared at me silently, then nodded and turned his back.

We decided that Enoch would lead and I would follow behind. I walked looking at Enoch’s back.

It was a bit difficult trying to gather the frilly dress hem with my hands to prevent my bare legs from showing as much as possible.

Did I make a mistake saying I’d follow?

But it was also very important for me to see with my own eyes and assess the situation.

Since Enoch considered Margaret a suspect, he probably wouldn’t share all the information he knew.

I couldn’t be certain he would really guarantee my life either.

‘Right. Let’s endure and follow along. I can do this!’

As we went deep into the forest, it was a dense forest lush with green.

There was no room to step, filled with all kinds of grass and bushes, making it somewhat difficult to clear a path.

We walked using the wooden stick Enoch brought to part the grass, but our movements inevitably became sluggish.

“Are you okay.”

Enoch looked back at me with a somewhat tired face.

I nodded while panting.

“It’s bearable.”

Like me, Enoch wasn’t sweating much either. Moreover, there was no stuffy sweat smell or wet clothes smell.

Was it because they were characters in a novel? Or was it due to the characteristic of being an island where time doesn’t pass?

Or maybe it was because it was an island where neither mana nor divine power could be used.

Whatever it was, it was fortunate that our bodies didn’t smell.

“Good attitude.”

Enoch sighed with a relieved expression.

Even an ordinary adult man would find it difficult to maintain his sanity in this situation.

Moreover, the person I had possessed was Margaret. A noble Young Lady who had never gotten a drop of water on her hands.

Enoch had good reason to worry.

He seemed convinced that Margaret had changed, but didn’t seem to suspect she was a completely different person.

“If it weren’t for this dress and flat shoes, I would have done more than my share.”

Enoch didn’t respond and walked silently.

Eventually, we climbed onto the mountain trail at the foot of the mountain. Looking at the direction the sun had risen, it still seemed to be morning.

Judging by the height of the mountain, it looked to be about the size of Bukhansan. We should be able to reach the summit around lunchtime. I’ve never climbed Bukhansan dressed like this before.

Enoch seemed curious about how I was silently following without complaint, as he kept turning around to check on me.

He looked exactly like an owner checking to see if his pet dog was following well, so I couldn’t tell if this was a good reaction or not.

What was really fortunate was that we hadn’t encountered any wild beasts or monsters that could threaten our lives yet.

Right, it would be too difficult to have our lives threatened on the second day of being stranded.

Anyway, we safely reached the summit of the mountain, but the problem lay elsewhere.

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