I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 59

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Chapter 59

 

Enoch clicked his tongue and wrapped his arm around my shoulder, pulling me closer to him.

 

Thanks to that, I moved a bit farther from Asdal. Somehow I felt like I was being protected by Enoch.

 

“Does he think Margaret is his maid? To think such a fellow is the crown prince, I’m deeply worried about the future of Hestia Kingdom.”

 

“Your words are harsh. Hiding behind a woman isn’t something shameful. And the Young Lady isn’t just any ordinary woman.”

 

Asdal, who said that, looked at me and raised his eyebrows. With eyes that seemed to say, “I’m right, aren’t I? I did well, didn’t I?”

 

Rather, because he was being so abnormally obedient, I felt like I couldn’t understand Asdal’s true intentions even more.

 

Enoch looked at Asdal with a calm face, then burst into laughter.

 

“Ah, sorry. I have an allergy to being polite with ungentlemanly people.”

 

“Pfft.”

 

Yuanna, who had been watching the conversation between the two men with great interest from a distance, burst into laughter.

 

Asdal’s eyebrows twitched. When he turned around, Yuanna hurriedly turned her head away, pretending not to know.

 

Asdal, with a face that said ‘something seems to be seriously tangled up,’ apologized to me for now.

 

“Right. I wasn’t being gentlemanly. I have dignity as royalty to maintain. I apologize, Young Lady.”

 

Hmm, he’s like a condescending boss style, but seeing that he does apologize, he doesn’t seem to be completely lacking in common sense.

 

“But I’d like you to catch the bug. Please. The Young Lady can do it.”

 

“You can’t even catch bugs? Then you’d faint if a monster appeared.”

 

“That’s different from bugs. And that thing is a bit strange to be called just a simple bug.”

 

“Your Highness seems to think I’m omnipotent right now, but I hate bugs too, you know? Especially ones with many legs or ones without legs… ugh…”

 

Just imagining it was disgusting. When I shuddered, Enoch’s hand holding my shoulder also tensed slightly. He looked very displeased.

 

“Your Highness Asdal.”

 

Yuanna, who had been watching the situation, approached and called out to Asdal.

 

“Stop bothering Lady Flone and come here. You said you’d help grill the fish.”

 

“I did…?”

 

Asdal asked back with a bewildered face, even shrugging his shoulders.

 

Yuanna was quick-witted. When she made eye contact with me, she smiled sweetly, and somehow I even felt like there was a halo shining behind her.

 

I felt enchanted by her smile. This must be why all the Male Leads fell for her, right?

 

“The bug will leave if we open the window.”

 

At Yuanna’s words, Asdal finally gave up on catching the bug and approached her.

 

“Margaret.”

 

As I was watching them move away toward the kitchen, Enoch pulled me close again.

 

I looked up at him while almost being embraced by him. My eyes met his deep golden eyes.

 

“I’d prefer if you didn’t go hunting alone with the Prince anymore. I’m worried.”

 

“Ah… don’t worry. I don’t think that’ll ever happen again.”

 

The hunting trip with Asdal left me with the nickname ‘Landmine-dal.’

 

‘It was terrible.’

 

I shouldn’t carelessly offer to teach someone hunting in the future.

 

To avoid facing a catastrophe where I end up gaining life experience instead while trying to give someone else life experience.

 

As I was shuddering while thinking of Landmine-dal, I heard Enoch’s low voice by my ear.

 

“Promise me.”

 

His calm gaze seemed to hold turbulent emotions somehow.

 

‘Like burning flames.’

 

Enoch placed his hand on my cheek and slowly lowered his head. Soon his forehead touched mine.

 

“Margaret, promise me.”

 

His voice, exhaled like a sigh, was somehow so hot that I held my breath for a moment.

 

I was often bewildered whenever Enoch said things like this. More precisely, it would be right to say that Enoch’s interest in me was a bit fascinating.

 

‘I’ve never harbored such passionate emotions.’

 

Actually, I’ve never received or given interest and affection. So I don’t really know what shape it takes.

 

Enoch looked cold like a withered branch, like winter snow wind, but in reality he was always a passionate person.

 

At least that’s how he looked to me.

 

Perhaps Enoch and I are people with completely opposite tendencies. Since the person whose heart was actually like a withered branch was me.

 

“I’ll promise.”

 

I said while looking straight into his eyes.

 

“I don’t really want to do things Enoch dislikes.”

 

There’s no need to do that. There’s no need to deliberately do things he dislikes.

 

While I was touching foreheads with Enoch, the cabin door opened and I made eye contact with Kaiden, who was entering with an armful of firewood.

 

“Margaret…!”

 

Just as he was about to run over to me like an excited puppy, suddenly a tremendous roar echoed inside the cabin.

 

Bang!

 

More precisely, it was a sound from the second floor.

 

“What the…?”

 

Kaiden was startled and drew his dagger. Enoch pulled me and pushed me behind his back, then drew his sword.

 

“Ugh, aaaaah!”

 

Archbishop Luzef’s ear-splitting scream came from the second floor.

 

When we all went up to the second floor, what we saw was a giant leg that had broken through Asdal’s door.

 

It seemed to be the bug Asdal had mentioned.

 

But that bug was…

 

‘Damn, that’s not just a bug, teacher.’

 

Archbishop Luzef, who had sat down in shock after seeing that leg in the second floor corridor, came running to us frantically.

 

“It seems to be the monster Diego said he’d seen before.”

 

At Enoch’s muttering, I recalled the tarantula-type monster that Yuanna’s group had encountered.

 

“It was definitely a small spider… I said it gave off a very suspicious aura.”

 

Asdal, who had appeared behind us at some point, muttered in an incredulous tone.

 

It was fascinating that he had noticed the suspicious aura from a small spider. He must have good instincts.

 

-It seems like

 

they’re evolving.-

 

I recalled Yuanna’s monologue from the original novel. I got goosebumps.

 

Fortunately, perhaps because it had just evolved, the spider died helplessly to Enoch’s sword.

 

We barely managed to move the giant spider’s corpse outside the cabin, but Asdal’s bedroom became unusable. Because of the terrible stench.

 

“How horrible. It brings back nightmares…”

 

Yuanna sat in front of the fireplace with a pale face, muttering.

 

She seemed to be recalling the incident from before. Diego, sitting next to her, silently patted her shoulder.

 

Sleeping on the second floor where the monster had appeared was impossible. Eventually, everyone spread bedding in front of the fireplace.

 

Enoch and Kaiden still took positions on either side of me, and next to Enoch, Asdal and Diego positioned themselves with Yuanna in the middle.

 

Was it my imagination that Archbishop Luzef, lying near the door, looked somewhat lonely?

 

“Now it’s certain that monsters evolve.”

 

Kaiden muttered while lying down with his head resting on his clasped hands.

 

“We need to get off this island.”

 

At my muttering, Enoch, who had lain down next to me, answered like a sigh.

 

“For that, we need to visit the place where you found the key as soon as possible.”

 

Right, we need to go there.

 

“This cabin doesn’t seem safe either.”

 

At my words, everyone who had been lying quietly turned to look at me. I was flustered by their piercing gazes and hurriedly sat up.

 

“Why, why?”

 

At my question, Enoch rubbed the back of his neck and stood up from his seat.

 

“I was thinking the same thing.”

 

“Me too. I don’t know how much longer this cabin will hold out for us.”

 

Kaiden agreed along with Enoch’s response.

 

However, Yuanna sat up and looked back at me, raising a counterargument.

 

“We don’t know what might happen if we go to where the key fell, so losing our excellent base camp carries risks.”

 

At Yuanna’s words, those who had been looking at me turned their heads to focus on her. Yuanna glanced around the group once and continued speaking calmly.

 

“It’s because the spiders evolved, but the monsters themselves still can’t enter the cabin, right?”

 

“That’s true.”

 

When Enoch nodded in agreement with her words, Yuanna smiled slightly and this time spoke to me in a tone seeking agreement.

 

“Let’s go to where the key fell as quickly as possible, then clean up the cabin afterward. We’ll have to leave anyway if we want to scout the entire island. What do you think, Young Lady?”

 

At Yuanna’s question, the gazes that had been directed at her now turned back to me again. They’re going to get whiplash at this rate.

 

With such pointless worries, I nodded my head.

 

“I agree with the Saint as well.”

 

So we agreed to find out the secret about the key as quickly as possible, then leave the cabin, and entered sleep mode again.

 

Somehow, having a plan made me feel much more at ease.

 

I was lying there quietly looking up at the cabin ceiling when Kaiden turned toward me and stared intently at me.

 

Puzzled, I also turned my head toward him. His deep red eyes staring at me were glowing eerily.

 

“Why?”

 

At my question, he gave a sly smile. It was an incredibly charming smile that didn’t match the situation.

 

“Because you’re pretty.”

 

He whispered embarrassing words in a quiet voice that only I could hear. So affectionate and sweet that it was almost heart-fluttering.

 

“You’re so pretty that I keep wanting to have you. Ridiculously so.”

 

What’s this about it being ridiculous.

 

I dismissed it as Kaiden spouting nonsense as usual and just laughed it off.

 

I didn’t know then that it wasn’t nonsense at all.

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