I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 53

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Chapter 53

 

What, is he really trying to seduce me or something?

 

But for that to be the case, his emotions weren’t showing at all as he maintained quite a dry expression.

 

I swallowed a sigh and answered.

 

“It’s a good idea, but you haven’t forgotten the reason we need to stay here, have you? The key the Saint found. We need to find out information about the key. It’s the only clue we have to escape from here.”

 

Enoch let out a deflated laugh with a disappointed face. He straightened his body and shook his head as if there was no helping it.

 

“You really only know survival.”

 

I shrugged my shoulders.

 

“We should hurry and hunt before the sunset.”

 

Then I deliberately turned my head with a nonchalant attitude and looked around the surroundings. Looking at Enoch whose thoughts were unreadable, I said.

 

“There’s a valley right in front of us, shall we go catch some fish?”

 

Enoch reluctantly nodded and turned his steps.

 

Not far from the cabin was the valley where we had been bathing.

 

Since the current was fast, it was better to hunt with spears, fish traps, and nets rather than fishing rods.

 

Fortunately, since Enoch and I had been hunting with spears all this time, catching freshwater fish wasn’t too difficult.

 

Actually, Enoch was ‘also’ good at hunting. This was the first time I was directly seeing him hunt, but I really couldn’t tell what this man couldn’t do.

 

I first drained the blood from the fish Enoch caught and simply processed them, then twisted them onto tree branches and hung them on the spear.

 

“Let’s only fish until today, and from tomorrow we need to make snares to hunt land animals.”

 

I should ask Kaiden to make a bow too.

 

Since Kaiden could make anything in no time, he would surely be able to procure similar materials and make a bow and arrows.

 

Enoch, who hadn’t answered for a while to my words, opened his mouth.

 

“Tomorrow Lord and I will go hunting, so you should rest.”

 

“How can I do that? Everyone is busy.”

 

If Kaiden and Enoch hunted instead of me, it would be comfortable for me, but everyone has their own roles.

 

“Margaret, you can do that. You’ve worked hard until now.”

 

Enoch stroked my head with a gentle touch.

 

“Don’t run away because it’s hard. Rest.”

 

I didn’t answer Enoch’s words. The phrase “don’t run away” seemed to have some bite to it, making me break out in cold sweat.

 

He told me to rest comfortably, but I think it would still be better for me to do my part as much as possible.

 

The person who holds the key to this novel and has the right to receive all that favor from the male leads isn’t me. It’s Yuanna.

 

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“Young Lady knows how to process fish too? Were you perhaps oppressed growing up in House Flone? I thought you were a thorny rose, but you’re like a tough weed. Very pleasing to see.”

 

I was processing fish in the kitchen when Asdal, who had gathered mushrooms as I instructed, approached and started being annoying. Ugh, how bothersome.

 

Thunk!

 

I finally got irritated and stabbed the stone knife into the kitchen table.

 

Asdal was startled and stepped back two paces from me. Even Kaiden and Luzef, who were sitting in the living room grabbing each other’s collars and fighting for some unknown reason, were surprised enough to turn and look at me.

 

I sighed and glared at Asdal.

 

“If you don’t want to starve, get out of the way.”

 

Asdal blinked his eyes and stared at me blankly, then belatedly pointed at himself with his finger.

 

“Young Lady, did you just say that to me?”

 

I pulled out the stone knife that was stuck in the table and nodded.

 

“Shall I say it again?”

 

Saying that, I stabbed the stone knife into the wooden table even harder than before.

 

Crack! Split.

 

Along with the sound of the wooden table splitting, the stone knife was deeply embedded in the table.

 

“You’re in the way, so move.”

 

At my words, Asdal looked back and forth between the stone knife and my face with a flustered expression and quietly slipped away backwards.

 

While scratching the back of his head,

 

“I thought Young Lady was a scoundrel, but you’re not a scoundrel, you’re like a very feisty cat. Why are you so sensitive? Anyway, it’s probably food that our Crown Prince brought, but the wrong person is taking credit.”

 

He said such nerve-grating things as he went out to the living room.

 

It was a childish remark, but I had actually caught more fish than Enoch to begin with. And I never took credit for it.

 

Asdal went out to the living room and looked back at me in the kitchen with a sly smile.

 

“Lady Flone. Let me give you one piece of advice. I can see that Young Lady is quite more amusing than I thought. But if you act like that in group living, it’ll be Young Lady who gets into trouble.”

 

Unfortunately, Enoch wasn’t in the cabin right now either. He had gone out for reconnaissance.

 

Kaiden and Luzef were still holding each other’s collars and staring blankly up at Asdal who had approached nearby.

 

Diego didn’t care at all about Asdal’s behavior. As if only Yuanna was visible to his eyes, he was helping her tend the fire in the fireplace.

 

Well, Diego basically belonged to Enoch’s side anyway, just staying with that group because of Yuanna. Not Asdal’s.

 

“That bastard…”

 

Kaiden spat out a curse and shifted his hips. Since he was about to show insubordination again, I hastily opened my mouth and changed the subject.

 

“Since Your Highness finds it so inconvenient, from now on it would be good to have one person each from your team and our team go out for food.”

 

“Huh?”

 

Asdal looked back at me with a face that didn’t understand my words. Even Diego and Yuanna, who were quietly tending the fire, looked back at me.

 

“You said group living is important. Then we should gather food fairly by dividing up.”

 

“Didn’t I diligently gather mushrooms as Young Lady instructed? I can’t do more. I’m saying I was raised nobly and don’t know how to do such things.”

 

At Asdal’s words, I couldn’t help but let out a hollow laugh. Who was the one taking credit for doing the lowest difficulty task?

 

“Is there anyone here who wasn’t raised nobly? You seem to keep forgetting, but I’m the Young Lady of House Flone.”

 

House Flone had tremendous influence in the Langrid Empire. That meant they also wielded tremendous influence in countries that had relations with the Langrid Empire.

 

When the family name came up, Asdal immediately shut his mouth. It seemed he belatedly realized his mistake.

 

The mutual courtesy we had maintained with the possibility of escaping the island in mind was now reaching its expiration date.

 

It had already been well over two months since we opened our eyes on this strange island, and we didn’t know how much longer we would stay on this island. Because we still hadn’t found a way to escape.

 

That meant we now had to abandon status and dignity for survival.

 

“Anyway, you always make things bigger.”

 

Yuanna sent a look of disdain toward Asdal.

 

“If you refuse, we can’t share food with you.”

 

I crossed my arms and looked at Asdal with disapproving eyes. Asdal seemed flustered by my attitude.

 

All the characters in the novel 【Something More Important Than Survival】 were acquainted with Margaret except for Yuanna. The same was true for Asdal.

 

Because Margaret had as wide connections and large sphere of activity as her high notoriety.

 

Four years ago, when Margaret turned eighteen, she had studied abroad in the Hestia Kingdom for about half a year. That’s when she became acquainted with Asdal.

 

So when it came to Margaret’s true temperament, Asdal would know as well as the other male leads.

 

“Lady Flone, are you confident you won’t regret those words when we get off the island?”

 

Asdal warned me.

 

As he said, after escaping the island, I might regret this.

 

However,

 

“If I die before getting off the island, there’ll be nothing to regret.”

 

At my answer, Asdal seemed to have nothing to say as he didn’t make any more replies and shut his mouth.

 

“So soft. Why are you even bothering to deal with him?”

 

Kaiden, who had somehow approached next to me, sighed and helped finish the fish processing I was doing.

 

Asdal raised both hands as if he was dumbfounded. Looking back and forth between me and Kaiden, he changed his attitude and sighed, then clutched his chest.

 

“I have no allies.”

 

At his lament, Yuanna clicked her tongue.

 

“Did you think you would?”

 

“Everyone is on Lady Flone’s side. My heart feels a bit painful, so I should rest.”

 

Asdal pretended to wipe away tears that weren’t even flowing, like someone who had been rejected in love.

 

Then, without even answering the proposal to divide teams and take turns gathering food, he went up to the second floor.

 

Archbishop Luzef, who had been watching carefully, quietly approached and examined my complexion.

 

“Don’t worry about it. His Highness Asdal wouldn’t have believed whatever the Young Lady said anyway.”

 

At Archbishop Luzef’s words, I thought once again about the person called the Prince of Asdal.

 

‘Asdal is so different from Enoch.’

 

Asdal was noble from birth and had no siblings powerful enough to threaten him.

 

If Enoch was a member of the Royal Family who had climbed up from the bottom, Asdal was royalty who had been at the top of the pyramid from the very beginning.

 

He was a man who had lived arrogantly, never having been broken even once, and believing that was the right way to be.

 

“Perhaps His Highness won’t even be able to acknowledge that the Young Lady has changed.”

 

Archbishop Luzef explained to me in an unusually gentle voice, speaking softly as if comforting a child.

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