I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 54

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Chapter 54

 

I looked at Archbishop Luzef with a bewildered face at his treating me like a child all of a sudden.

 

Archbishop Luzef, who had shed a layer of contempt toward me, now treated me like his youngest little sister.

 

“Don’t worry about what that hardtack king… no, His Highness the Prince says. So you don’t need to worry about me getting hurt.”

 

When I shrugged and spoke, Kaiden, who had been resting his chin on his hand, patted my head as if I were praiseworthy. No, why is everyone acting like this?

 

I stabbed the stone knife I was holding into the table with a thud.

 

“I don’t need any recognition. If you act annoying again, I’ll just cut off your neck…!”

 

Kaiden glanced around nervously, then obediently pulled out the stone knife and placed it back in my hand.

 

“Margaret has really become violent.”

 

At Kaiden’s muttering, Luzef, who had been keeping his distance from me with a frightened face, nodded vigorously.

 

“Well, the Prince is like that too. With such a nasty temper, isn’t that why he got divorced?”

 

Kaiden clicked his tongue and spoke ill of Asdal.

 

Even the perfect Asdal had some flaws, and that would have been his ‘former wife.’

 

“That’s rude to say, Kaiden. And isn’t it a bit ambiguous to call it a ‘divorce’? You know what happened to his former wife.”

 

At my words, Kaiden blinked with a face that showed he didn’t understand.

 

“…I don’t know, what happened?”

 

“…You didn’t know?”

 

She was executed. On charges of attempted murder of Prince Asdal.

 

Asdal had entered into a loveless political marriage, as is typical for marriages between royalty and nobility, but his former Crown Princess wasn’t just without love.

 

Her purpose for marriage was to assassinate Prince Asdal.

 

It turned out she was the lover of Asdal’s half-brother. Asdal had married her without knowing anything.

 

“It was such a shocking incident that it made headlines even in the Langrid Empire.”

 

Luzef muttered and sighed. Then Kaiden looked back and forth between the two of us as if he couldn’t understand.

 

“What, I’m the only one who doesn’t know.”

 

They said he didn’t come out for several years after hibernation, staying holed up in his research laboratory, and it seems that was true.

 

“It’s better that you don’t know.”

 

I nodded in agreement with Luzef’s words.

 

Come to think of it, Luzef didn’t marry because he’s a cleric, and Kaiden is a non-marriage advocate, perhaps due to experiencing many hardships. It’s probably a choice possible because he’s the second son of the Marquis Rohade family. Plus, he’s an Archmage.

 

“Except for His Highness the Prince, none of us are married.”

 

“That’s right. You and this lackey aside, the Crown Prince is a bit pitiful. After rotting away on battlefields the whole time, just when he could finally enjoy life, he came here?”

 

“Indeed.”

 

I answered Kaiden’s words with a complicated expression.

 

Enoch was drafted as a military commander at a young age and spent a full 5 years on battlefields.

 

Moreover, after achieving victory, it took another 2 years to surpass all his brothers and ascend to the position of Crown Prince.

 

He became Crown Prince through such hardship, but before he could even enjoy that position, he was dragged to this remote island.

 

All three men are well past marriageable age, yet each has their reasons for not having a woman. Isn’t this perfect as male lead specifications in a novel?

 

Anyway, I could understand why Luzef treated me like a child. While I, Lee Jin-ju, am twenty-seven, Margaret was twenty-two.

 

The marriageable age in the Langrid Empire starts from 20, so Margaret was also in her prime.

 

A family of Margaret’s status would have already arranged an engagement, but the reason she’s still single is because of Enoch. She had wanted to become Crown Princess by any means.

 

“Young Lady, you haven’t gotten engaged yet either, have you? Well, Young Lady is the youngest among us, isn’t she?”

 

Luzef asked me. There was even subtle expectation in his eyes as he looked at me, which made me a bit flustered. What is he expecting?

 

For now, I nodded reluctantly in affirmation.

 

“I haven’t gotten engaged yet, but I’m also a noble Young Lady of marriageable age. I’ll pass on being treated like a child.”

 

Kaiden looked at me with surprised eyes, as if he hadn’t expected the words ‘marriageable age’ to come out of my mouth.

 

“That’s right. I didn’t think of that. Margaret, are you going to get engaged or something?”

 

“If I return alive, I probably will?”

 

“Don’t get engaged. Just live unmarried with me.”

 

“I’ll handle it myself, so mind your own business.”

 

Kaiden looked at me and smiled prettily with his eyes. Then he tilted his head slightly toward me.

 

“As expected, Margaret is decisive. That’s why I like you.”

 

He whispered in a tickling voice, so I hurriedly covered my ears and backed away from him.

 

Again. He’s showing that unclear affection and meaningless skinship again. He really gets people’s hopes up and then lets them down.

 

“Excuse me, you two. I hope you haven’t forgotten that I’m here too.”

 

Just then, Luzef interrupted our conversation with a very uncomfortable expression.

 

“You could just leave. You have no sense.”

 

“Why should I do that for you?”

 

Then Kaiden glared at him fiercely. Tom and Jerry are starting again.

 

“Let’s stop and finish preparing the meal, shall we?”

 

I placed the fish I had brought on the wooden board and started processing them. Thanks to Asdal, I lost my appetite, but I need to eat something.

 

Luzef and Kaiden exchanged a few more words, bickering, then soon sat quietly beside me and helped with fish processing.

 

Yuanna, who had been talking with Diego in the distance, approached me with a face full of curiosity.

 

“It’s the first time I’ve seen a noble Young Lady process fish so skillfully. How fascinating.”

 

Diego, who was sticking close to Yuanna’s side, sneakily glanced at the fish I had processed. He said he couldn’t watch cute animals being butchered, but fish seems to be okay.

 

Yuanna, who had been quietly resting one cheek on her palm while watching me, smiled and said,

 

“Young Lady really seems to have perfect abilities for serving others.”

 

“Shut up.”

 

Though I answered somewhat harshly, she showed no disturbance. As always, she never seemed intimidated.

 

“I have no desire to become your subordinate, so if you keep spouting such nonsense…”

 

Just as I had shown Asdal, I stopped processing fish mid-way and stabbed the stone knife I was holding into the table.

 

“I won’t stay still.”

 

“You look difficult to subdue, which makes me more motivated. Young Lady seems like she’d be fun to break.”

 

Kaiden reacted intensely to Yuanna’s unhinged words.

 

“Hey Saint, if you keep saying such things, Saint or whatever, it won’t matter.”

 

“Saint, aren’t you being too presumptuous toward Lady Flone?”

 

When Luzef joined in after Kaiden, Yuanna laughed as if she found it amusing.

 

“Look. Those people are all in Young Lady’s grasp. So I just need to get Young Lady then.”

 

Her way of thinking is really strange. It wasn’t common sense, anyway.

 

Well, is there anyone here with common sense?

 

“Saint, don’t try to obtain people so easily.”

 

“Then what?”

 

“There are ways to gain someone’s body and heart completely without necessarily subduing them, so why do you choose methods that make everyone suffer?”

 

“Because I don’t know how. What is it?”

 

“Respect and consideration.”

 

Even I, who lacks social skills, know that much.

 

But since this island seems to have gathered only people with even worse social skills than me, I’ll stay silent.

 

At my answer, Yuanna’s movements stopped for a moment. Her eyes looking at me gradually grew larger.

 

“Respect and… consideration…”

 

She repeated the words I had said, muttering, then asked me back,

 

“How do you show respect and consideration?”

 

“Yeah, I don’t know that either. How do you do it?”

 

This time even Kaiden chimed in.

 

No matter how I think about it, Yuanna and Kaiden seem to be of the same kind. Luzef must have had similar thoughts, as he looked over Kaiden with pitying eyes.

 

I finally threw up my hands.

 

“I don’t know either, so study it on your own. And stop bothering me.”

 

Just then, with perfect timing, Enoch entered the cabin.

 

I couldn’t have been happier to see him. Moreover, surprisingly, he was holding two ducklings in his hands.

 

Kaiden whistled at the sight of the duck, and Archbishop Luzef visibly brightened as he rushed toward Enoch along with me.

 

“My goodness, a duck.”

 

And there was someone who ran to Enoch even faster than I did—it was Yuanna.

 

Just moments ago, she seemed to be seriously contemplating respect and consideration, but upon seeing the duck, she apparently forgot all about it.

 

Well, she probably hadn’t been able to eat proper meals all this time, so I understood her intense reaction.

 

She looked at the duck in Enoch’s hands and threw both hands up in the air, delighted like a child. Just like a daughter rejoicing at the sight of chicken in her father’s hands when he returns from work.

 

Of course, it was a peaceful scene I had never experienced myself, but I imagined this must be exactly what that would look like.

 

In the end, we all prepared the meal together, except for the sulking Hardtack Prince.

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