I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 57

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Chapter 57

 

When I made such a spirited proposal, Enoch stopped me.

 

“Alone with that guy? It’s a waste of time.”

 

“Well now, treating me like trash right to my face is quite amusing.”

 

Asdal laughed. I don’t know what he finds so entertaining all the time.

 

He was suspicious yet positive, annoying yet strangely funny, so I found the existence called Asdal quite confusing myself.

 

Enoch, who grabbed my hand with a face full of worry, glared fiercely at Asdal.

 

“Enoch.”

 

I patted his shoulder. Enoch turned to look at me with a stubborn face. The worry directed at me still hadn’t disappeared.

 

I smiled at him and pulled out a flare from my pocket to show him.

 

“Don’t worry too much. I’ll shoot it if things get bad.”

 

Enoch’s face was full of dissatisfaction, but he didn’t object to my intentions anymore.

 

“I haven’t said I’d go with the Young Lady yet, have I? Do you want to go with me that badly?”

 

Asdal spoke to me with a deliberately nonchalant face, shrugging his shoulders.

 

“Yes. It’s a promise Your Highness made directly.”

 

Royalty is generally sensitive about ‘promises.’ They think there’s nothing more dishonorable than breaking a promise. That’s why they don’t make promises carelessly in the first place.

 

Asdal looked bewildered when I said so readily that I wanted to go with him.

 

He always acts so naturally, so I don’t know why he’s so flustered.

 

“If you don’t want to, I’ll go with the Saint.”

 

“I’ll go.”

 

Only then did Asdal accept the proposal. He seems displeased with the idea of Yuanna, whom he protects and cherishes, doing menial work.

 

‘Actually, thinking about it, this is so unfair. I’m not someone who does menial work either. Margaret is also a noble!’

 

Is Asdal and Diego’s protection of Yuanna really just due to simple guilt, as Yuanna said?

 

Certainly, it didn’t seem like the light emotion of falling for her at first sight and embracing her with love.

 

Suddenly, I became curious about what had happened between Yuanna, Asdal, and Diego.

 

‘I need to find out soon.’

 

I stopped Enoch from saying he’d come along and gathered the spear for catching fish and the basket to bring the fish back in.

 

Then I diligently packed weapons into my cross bag. Flares and flare bullets, and even bombs.

 

Of course, our noble prince didn’t pack anything, but he did have enough royal manners left to carry the basket for me.

 

I headed to the valley with Asdal like that.

 

We didn’t say a word to each other the entire way, but since we weren’t close enough to chat affectionately, I didn’t mind.

 

As I recalled, in the Langrid Empire, when it came to swordsmanship skills alone, Enoch was undoubtedly first, followed by Diego. And Asdal was a hidden master skilled enough to spar with Enoch and Diego.

 

More precisely, Asdal was a talent who excelled more in archery than swordsmanship.

 

Even if his survival skills were zero, he had talent in physical strength and archery, so couldn’t he be good at spear throwing too?

 

But my expectations were spectacularly dashed. Asdal couldn’t even handle a spear properly.

 

Unable to watch him stand awkwardly in front of the valley, constantly making clumsy motions as he thrust the spear down, I finally threw out a comment.

 

“Do you know how to throw a spear?”

 

At my question, bewilderment flashed across Asdal’s face, but he quickly retorted.

 

“…Of course. I’m a man who knows how to throw spears devastatingly well. The fish must have all run away, startled by my handsome appearance. You should step back, Young Lady.”

 

Only his mouth was alive. Moreover, his wordplay was at a similar level to mine. Meaning it was terrible.

 

Asdal pushed me away after saying such absurd words. I was pushed back helplessly and stared blankly at his back.

 

‘Fine. Let me see just how well you do.’

 

How nice that I can rest during this time.

 

I hummed a tune and sat on a nearby rock, watching what Asdal was doing.

 

After thrusting the spear into the water for a long time, Asdal finally missed his footing and fell over.

 

“Damn it!”

 

The refined Asdal cursed and struck the water surface with his fist.

 

But the spray that shot up from the reaction drenched him, making him look even more pitiful.

 

“Are you okay?”

 

When I ran to him in surprise, he seemed embarrassed and blushed while rambling incoherently.

 

“I was trying to check how cold the water was.”

 

“…If you go a little further, there’s deep water. Shall I dip you in?”

 

“Cough. It seems a bit cold too.”

 

Asdal calmly got up from his spot. He was completely soaked.

 

Is this what they call looking like a drowned rat? My facial muscles twitched. I tried my best not to laugh and extended my hand to him.

 

“Get up.”

 

Asdal looked at my outstretched hand with a somewhat bewildered gaze, then refused the help and got up by himself.

 

I looked at his completely empty basket and sighed.

 

“You didn’t catch a single one, I see.”

 

He blushed and kept his mouth tightly shut. Having no choice, I approached him and snatched the spear away. He looked at me with a surprised face.

 

“What are you trying to do?”

 

I neatly took off my sneakers and dipped my feet into the valley water. Then I positioned myself and looked for any fish reflected on the water surface.

 

“At this rate, we’ll be up all night. We can’t starve.”

 

“What do you mean by that…”

 

I adjusted my grip on the spear. And when I saw a fish shimmering on the water surface, I immediately thrust the spear down.

 

Since coming to the island, I’d been catching fish with spears the whole time, so now I was trained enough to hunt with spears easily.

 

When I pulled the spear from the valley water, a fish the size of a forearm was stuck on the spear tip, flapping around.

 

“If I catch a few more like this, we can solve one meal.”

 

I skillfully drained the fish’s blood with a wooden knife and put it in the basket. Then I made eye contact with Asdal, who had been staring at me with a dazed face.

 

“What’s wrong?”

 

He seemed startled and came to his senses, stepping back. Asdal looked back and forth between the fish in the basket and me with an incredulous face.

 

“Did Duke Flone happen to be in the fishing business?”

 

“…Do I have to answer that?”

 

When I asked back in bewilderment, Asdal shut his mouth with an embarrassed face. He seemed to realize he’d said something nonsensical.

 

“By the way, I’m curious why you specifically insisted on hunting with me. There must be a reason. You know I’m suspicious of you, don’t you?”

 

“You said you don’t just distrust me. You distrust everyone. Ah, did you perhaps discriminate against only me?”

 

At my question, Asdal’s eyes widened as if he’d heard an unexpected question. Soon he burst into hearty laughter.

 

“It’s true that you were a bit more special, Young Lady. Madmen naturally become persons of interest, don’t they?”

 

“That damn madman karma. I’m sick of it.”

 

“Looking at you now, you don’t seem to be a madman after all. I’ll acknowledge that.”

 

“I’m honored.”

 

“I don’t know what wind blew to make the Half-Emperor protect you, but that makes it more interesting too.”

 

The way he even smiled naturally seemed to appeal that he held the upper hand in this relationship.

 

“I’m not someone who relies on Enoch protecting me in the first place. If anything, it’s the opposite.”

 

“Young Lady, is the reason you brought me here to appeal that you’ve changed?”

 

I laughed while catching and pulling up another fish with the spear.

 

“What would I gain by appealing to Your Highness that I’ve changed? That kind of thing requires the will to improve the relationship.”

 

Asdal’s eyebrows twitched. He looked at me while stroking his chin as if amused.

 

I simply butchered the fish I’d just caught and put it in the basket.

 

“And know this clearly. I have no intention of improving my relationship with Your Highness.”

 

“…No, why on earth?”

 

Asdal asked back with such a surprised face. If you react like that, it makes it look like you want to improve your relationship with me.

 

“No, then what on earth is the reason? The real reason you brought me here.”

 

“I’m giving you an opportunity.”

 

I shrugged while scrubbing my fishy-smelling hands clean in the valley water.

 

Asdal tilted his head while looking at me, not understanding what I meant. It meant for me to continue speaking.

 

“It’s the perfect opportunity to kill me. Or to frame me with false accusations.”

 

“Are you being serious?”

 

He asked me back as if he was dumbfounded. Of course, I wasn’t being entirely serious. However,

 

“Do you really think I came hunting with Your Highness to make a good impression on you? To be tested by Your Highness?”

 

Asdal didn’t deny it. And without bothering to hide his true feelings, he nodded and asked back.

 

“Wasn’t that the case?”

 

“Well, don’t you think it’s the opposite—that I brought Your Highness here to test you? I wanted to test Your Highness’s survival skills. People who are useless in life-threatening extreme situations aren’t needed.”

 

I deliberately chose cold words that would get under his skin.

 

Asdal looked flustered as if my words had caught him off guard.

 

“If this place weren’t an island, I would have thought the Young Lady’s answer was quite insolent. In fact, the Young Lady doesn’t really match my temperament.”

 

For someone saying we didn’t match, Asdal’s face was calm.

 

Moreover, he was looking at me with an even stronger curiosity than before.

 

But regardless of what his feelings toward me were, the fact remained that he had suspected me, distrusted me, and tried to test me.

 

“That’s right. As Your Highness said. If this were Hestia Kingdom, you wouldn’t have fallen for such shallow tricks of mine.”

 

I didn’t want to engage in any more tiresome psychological warfare with him, so I wanted to end those feelings here.

 

The only things I was interested in were survival and escape.

 

“But Your Highness, this isn’t the kingdom. Please acknowledge that now.”

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