I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 55

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Chapter 55

 

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Enoch actually thought that among the people gathered in the cabin, the most suspicious person wasn’t the Saint who had picked up the key, but Margaret.

 

She knew how to use magical tools she’d never seen before with ease, and her survival skills were far too excellent for a noble young lady.

 

She was too different from the Margaret that Enoch knew. It was as if someone else had possessed her body.

 

“Enoch, are you alright?”

 

At Margaret’s call, Enoch quietly raised his head.

 

Her brilliant blue eyes came into view. Margaret was looking at him with a face full of worry.

 

“You don’t like duck meat.”

 

The fact that he didn’t like duck meat was something only his aide and personal chef knew.

 

When he and Margaret were alone together in the cave, he had forced himself to eat it because there was nothing else, but he had never shown his distaste.

 

So how did Margaret know that…

 

Perhaps it was because she had changed like a completely different person. While on the island, he sometimes forgot. That Margaret was the woman who had been obsessively infatuated with him.

 

“You really know everything about me.”

 

“There’s nothing I don’t know about Your Highness.”

 

Margaret responded cheekily.

 

Enoch looked troubled as he rested his chin on his hand and stared at her intently. Yes, it was troubling. Because even this version of Margaret was starting to look cute to him.

 

I really must be going crazy.

 

Margaret acted as if she would leave their side at any moment, yet sometimes she acted like she knew everything about Enoch.

 

If he asked her to leave together, just the two of them, she would probably pretend not to know again. How confusing.

 

After pondering for a moment, Enoch said to her.

 

“Margaret, if you keep acting like that, I’ll get confused again. I might think you want to leave with me, just the two of us.”

 

“…What?”

 

At Enoch’s words, Margaret’s expression changed strangely as she looked at him.

 

It was a face that said she couldn’t believe what she had heard. Perhaps she was a little flustered too.

 

“My goodness, how surprising. Of all people, for you to say such a thing. Your fever must not have gone down completely yet.”

 

Then, belatedly, Enoch recalled what she had said.

 

Could it be that Margaret still didn’t believe that he was worried about her?

 

If so, it would make sense why she wasn’t clearly revealing her feelings now and was hiding her true thoughts like this.

 

“I’m very curious whether your feelings are the same as they were in the past.”

 

So he deliberately brought up such a direct question. At that timing, Kaiden appeared, picking his ear.

 

“I think I just heard some nonsense?”

 

“That’s what I’m saying. Anyone watching would think His Highness Enoch has feelings for Lady Flone. The reality is the opposite.”

 

Archbishop Luzef added his words grumblingly. Kaiden nodded with a sour expression.

 

“Ah- that was in the past.”

 

Kaiden’s reaction was quite irritating. By definitively saying “that was in the past,” he seemed to want to emphasize that Margaret’s feelings weren’t like that now.

 

Enoch felt an uncharacteristically petty emotion surge toward Kaiden, who interfered and opposed him at every turn.

 

The person who had been with her from the beginning on this island was Enoch himself. He thought that between Margaret and him, there was a bond that others didn’t know about.

 

“Margaret, what’s your ideal type? If you like faces, I’m not bad looking either.”

 

Kaiden cheekily placed his hand on Margaret’s shoulder. Unable to bear it, Enoch grabbed Kaiden’s wrist.

 

He had agonized dozens of times, tens of thousands of times before making contact with Margaret, but for Kaiden, it was always easy and casual.

 

“Be careful, Lord. If your conduct is light, you’ll easily fly away. Your right arm seems too light, as if it doesn’t want to stay attached to your body.”

 

Enoch’s gaze was fixed on Kaiden’s right arm wrapped around Margaret’s shoulder.

 

It was a murderous look, as if he would forcibly separate Kaiden’s body and arm at any moment.

 

Kaiden shrugged as if dumbfounded and moved away from Margaret.

 

“What a complicated way to tell me to back off.”

 

Kaiden looked Enoch up and down with an exasperated expression.

 

“I’m fine, Enoch. But I’m more worried about over there… Wait a moment.”

 

Margaret answered nonchalantly and walked toward the fireplace where Diego, Archbishop Luzef, and Yuanna were gathered.

 

Enoch quietly got up and followed behind her.

 

“Are you doing well? It doesn’t seem like anyone here knows how to cook, so I came over.”

 

Margaret asked Yuanna.

 

Yuanna’s head turned toward Diego standing beside her. Diego was closing his eyes, unable to look directly at the dead duck.

 

Yuanna sighed and pointed at him.

 

“Well, it doesn’t seem like we’re doing very well.”

 

“I’ve tried cooking before. I can do it.”

 

“You can’t even handle the ingredient preparation. The others probably can’t cook either anyway. I’ll do it.”

 

At Margaret’s firm answer, Yuanna raised a question.

 

“It’s strange. This is my first time seeing you, Young Lady. But sometimes you seem to know us well.”

 

At Yuanna’s words, Enoch felt an uncomfortable feeling, as if a thorn was stuck in his throat.

 

He had thought Margaret only paid attention to him. So he thought that’s why she knew everything about him.

 

But apparently, that wasn’t a feeling only he had experienced.

 

An inexplicably disappointing emotion washed over him. He still couldn’t understand the reason.

 

“What…? That’s not it, you said you couldn’t do it before. And since you’re all nobles, you naturally wouldn’t have experience cooking.”

 

At Margaret’s rebuttal, Yuanna finally nodded with an understanding expression. Then she soon tilted her head as if still suspicious and asked Margaret.

 

“But Lady Flone is also a noble.”

 

Margaret replied as if it was nothing.

 

“I’m a bit peculiar. I’m an eccentric, famously so.”

 

And at her answer, Kaiden, who was nearby, nodded as if in agreement.

 

“Ah, right. Margaret wasn’t an ordinary eccentric.”

 

Archbishop Luzef added.

 

“You should have seen Lady Flone when she was obsessed with love potions.”

 

“Love potions? Ah, right. There was such an incident.”

 

“How do you know about that, Lord?”

 

“She said she was sponsoring experiments, so I went to the Flone Estate and caused a ruckus.”

 

Cough. Margaret dry-coughed and glanced at Kaiden.

 

This was a fact Enoch didn’t know. That Margaret and Kaiden were acquainted in such a way.

 

Kaiden, who had been conversing with Archbishop Luzef, suddenly scowled fiercely and glared at the Archbishop. A menacing atmosphere flowed instantly.

 

“Now that I think about it again, I’m pissed off. Servants of God experimenting on people? You goddamn servants of God.”

 

When Kaiden spat curses at Archbishop Luzef, the Archbishop grabbed his collar with a fierce expression.

 

“Are you finished talking?”

 

“Does it look like I’m finished? You don’t seem to know what shame is, do you?”

 

“Stop it, Lord!”

 

The voices of Archbishop Luzef and Kaiden gradually grew louder. Watching them, Margaret sighed, and Enoch also watched without any particular intention of stopping them.

 

This wasn’t the first or second time that a conversation between these two men had turned into a fight.

 

“Please stop, both of you. You’re in the way, so everyone please move aside.”

 

Yuanna, who had been quietly watching the tension flow between them, called for attention.

 

Finally, Margaret shook her head and brought the wooden board with the duck and the stone knife in front of herself.

 

Enoch also followed her and sat in front of the fireplace.

 

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Kaiden and Luzef seemed exhausted after fighting for quite a while. Luzef grumbled as he walked over and plopped down beside me.

 

The cabin fell quiet for a moment.

 

Kaiden was busy giving advice while watching what Diego was doing, apparently displeased with something.

 

“What? That’s not how you do it.”

 

Kaiden stood in front of the dining table where Diego was standing and began nagging while pointing at the butchered duck.

 

“You didn’t remove the organs, did you? You need to take out the organs first!”

 

Yuanna, who had been helping Diego from the side, glanced around and then slowly backed away, probably finding it bothersome.

 

“Make an incision from the belly toward the tail. Ah, that’s not it… Ugh, forget it. Move aside.”

 

Eventually pushing Diego away, Kaiden grabbed the knife. Then he butchered the duck very skillfully.

 

Somehow it seemed like Kaiden’s tenacious survival skills were starting to resemble mine, but that must be my imagination…?

 

“No, Lord. Why do you keep speaking informally? Please use honorifics.”

 

Diego protested with a somewhat displeased expression. Kaiden stared intently at Diego while butchering the duck.

 

Perhaps because his eyes were bright red, whenever he stared at someone like that, it was utterly chilling.

 

Diego also furrowed his brow, so he too must have sensed the cold chill in Kaiden’s gaze. Well, Kaiden isn’t called a madman for nothing.

 

“Well, if that’s what you prefer, I’ll do so. Lord Diego.”

 

When Kaiden answered nonchalantly, this time Luzef, who was sitting beside me, became angry and shifted his hips.

 

“Why, why with me…?!”

 

Kaiden ignored Luzef’s outcry and cut the gutted duck into large chunks with his knife.

 

Diego watched this quietly, then asked with an incomprehensible expression.

 

“Lady Flone is one thing, but aren’t you also nobility, Lord? How exactly are you so skilled at this sort of thing?”

 

“I’ve done it a lot. I’m a mage, you know. I do a lot of experiments and such.”

 

I could tell from the part about “doing a lot of experiments and such” that he was speaking jokingly.

 

Though Kaiden was a mage, he despised experiments involving living creatures.

 

However, Diego, who couldn’t know this, looked at Kaiden with a horrified expression.

 

But Kaiden offered no further explanation and simply continued cutting silently.

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