I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 60

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Chapter 60

 

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The next day, I woke up early in the morning and went to purify water.

 

But while I was away from the cabin, Asdal apparently searched for me like crazy.

 

Obviously, he must have been looking for me to pester me to do something again. Or to ask me to go hunting.

 

“Where else could one see the rare sight of a noble young lady spear fishing? I’d like to go to the stream together again tomorrow. How about it, Young Lady?”

 

I recalled the ridiculous words Asdal had said last night.

 

If I go hunting with Landmine-dal again, I’m not human. Landmines exist to be avoided.

 

I shuddered and placed the coconut container filled with purified water on the kitchen table. Then I asked Luzef, who was sitting in front of the fireplace.

 

“So where is His Highness Asdal, who was supposedly searching for me like crazy?”

 

“Well…”

 

Luzef, who had been sitting and brushing his teeth, rolled his eyes with a flustered expression.

 

Enoch, who was finishing cleaning up the monster remains and coming down the stairs from the second floor, said to me.

 

“He went for a walk.”

 

“A walk…?”

 

The guy who made such a fuss about how dangerous this forest was went for a walk alone?

 

“He won’t be back for a while.”

 

“What…?”

 

Enoch spoke so nonchalantly that I couldn’t ask any more questions and just closed my mouth. This is strange.

 

Just then, Kaiden burst into the cabin with loud laughter.

 

“Hahaha! Hey, lackey! Did you see outside? Why is the prince up in a tree? He couldn’t get down!”

 

I looked back at Enoch after hearing what he said.

 

“You said he went for a walk.”

 

“…”

 

“Why did His Highness climb a tree?”

 

From what I remember, Asdal had acrophobia. That’s why even in the royal palace, his rooms were only on the first or second floor, not on high floors.

 

“Since he was looking for you so persistently… I just told him where you were.”

 

Enoch answered while avoiding my gaze.

 

“Why would I be in a tree?”

 

“…”

 

“And His Highness Asdal believed that? You’re telling me that noble prince believed those words and climbed a tree? Does that make sense?”

 

“It doesn’t make sense.”

 

Kaiden, who had been listening to our conversation, approached me. He put his arm around my shoulder and looked at Enoch with an expression of pure amusement.

 

“With Prince Asdal’s personality, would he have climbed up there himself? Unless someone knocked him out and put him up there.”

 

“…He was being noisy, so I did it.”

 

Enoch finally confessed to his crime obediently, and I stared at him in bewilderment.

 

He knocked out Asdal and put him up in a tree? Why on earth?

 

“He won’t bother you by looking for you until it’s time to eat, so get some rest.”

 

Enoch answered calmly as if it was no big deal, then patted my head.

 

Then he said he was going hunting, grabbed his sword, and left in a flash.

 

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Finally, it wasn’t until late afternoon that Asdal was able to come down to the ground.

 

I thought he would throw a tantrum, but he had exhausted all his energy overcoming his fear of heights, so he fell asleep as soon as he came down.

 

The sight of him curled up and sleeping in front of the fireplace was even a little pitiful.

 

Tomorrow was finally the day we decided to investigate the place where Yuanna had awakened. Since it was where the important clue called the exit key was discovered, we would need to explore it carefully.

 

I checked my bag several times and finished all preparations in advance.

 

“Margaret.”

 

Kaiden, who was standing at the cabin entrance, called me.

 

“There’s something I want you to look at.”

 

I shouldered my cross bag and stood up, asking him with a puzzled expression.

 

“Something you want me to look at?”

 

“Remember that round egg we saw before? The silver one that looked like a bird’s egg.”

 

He was definitely talking about the small bird egg we had discovered while picking mushrooms with Enoch and Kaiden.

 

“What about it? Didn’t we leave it deep in the forest? Don’t tell me it was really a monster egg?”

 

At my surprised question, Kaiden shrugged and gestured with his chin toward the open door.

 

“It’s not that serious. Just take a look for yourself.”

 

Neither Enoch nor Luzef were in the cabin at the moment. It would have been nice if they could come along.

 

I had no choice but to move with just Kaiden and me.

 

As I looked at Kaiden’s broad back walking ahead, somehow an ominous premonition crept over me.

 

I touched the surface of my cross bag. It was to check if the flares and grenades were properly stored inside.

 

“How far do we have to go?”

 

“I saw it near the cliff.”

 

As soon as Kaiden finished speaking, all the tall trees disappeared and the view opened up refreshingly. We had just reached the cliff. A wide river spread out between the trees.

 

Kaiden finally stopped in front of the cliff. He pointed to a round egg right in front of the cliff.

 

“Look at this.”

 

The egg was a little different from what we had seen last time. It was definitely a small egg about the size of a finger, but now it seemed to have grown to about the size of Kaiden’s fist.

 

I tilted my head while looking at the bird egg precariously positioned at the edge of the cliff.

 

“What I wanted you to see isn’t just the egg, but also look at the bottom part.”

 

Kaiden pointed to the flowers spread like a nest under the egg.

 

Strangely, all the flowers had their necks broken and were withered. It was as if poison gas was being emitted from the egg.

 

“I guess it’s a monster egg?”

 

“It seems like the same egg we saw back then, but it’s grown. And it’s strange that its location keeps changing. This isn’t where you put it.”

 

At Kaiden’s words, I rested my chin on my hand and nodded.

 

“That’s right, this isn’t the place.”

 

I remember going deep into the forest and placing it between the trees. We didn’t even come to a cliff like this. No, is it even the same egg in the first place?

 

“And there’s a separate strangest part. You touched this egg back then.”

 

“Uh… that’s right?”

 

“I can’t touch it.”

 

Kaiden said that and brought his hand toward the egg.

 

Then suddenly, black smoke began to emanate from the egg. The black smoke wrapped around the egg and distorted into a somewhat aggressive form.

 

When Kaiden’s hand slightly touched the smoke, sparks flew. He quickly withdrew his hand.

 

“Are you okay?”

 

I was startled and grabbed his hand. Kaiden smiled with an expression as if nothing had happened.

 

“I’m fine. You saw it, right? The egg rejects me.”

 

“But it might not be the same egg we saw back then.”

 

“No, it has a similar aura to that one. Even without mana, I can still faintly sense the flow and aura.”

 

Kaiden spoke to me firmly, then made a suggestion.

 

“Want to try touching it?”

 

“Huh?”

 

“It’s okay. Trust me.”

 

Kaiden nodded at me with an unusually serious expression on his face. I looked at him for a moment, then slowly lowered my head.

 

The black smoke emanating from the egg had subsided. Since it was the Great Mage himself saying this, it should be fine, right?

 

I hesitated, then carefully placed my hand on the silver bird egg.

 

“Huh?”

 

Just as Kaiden said, I was able to touch the egg. The aggressive black smoke I had seen just moments before didn’t appear.

 

“Why does it only accept you?”

 

I looked up after touching the smooth egg. Kaiden was staring intently at me.

 

“I don’t know. I have no idea.”

 

I really didn’t understand either, so I seriously pondered it.

 

But after being lost in thought for a while, I felt something strange and raised my head.

 

Then I met eyes with Kaiden, who was staring at me with an expressionless face.

 

“Kaiden?”

 

“It’s definitely strange. Why are you the only exception?”

 

I felt a chill and took a few steps away from him. However, Kaiden approached as much as I had moved away and stared at me intently.

 

He rested his chin on his hand and spoke to me in a serious tone.

 

“Why can you, Margaret, do it when I can’t touch it? Is it because the magic flow is stagnant due to the broken earring? Is it because the wavelength flowing within me is strange? But that started flowing smoothly after I began moving my body as you instructed.”

 

At Kaiden’s words, I fell into thought for a moment. Actually, I didn’t know exactly how to clear the magic flow either.

 

If even Kaiden, the Great Mage called the Sage, didn’t know, how could I?

 

“Right. I only know that circulating energy through physical labor naturally circulates mana as well. I don’t know the exact reason why it works that way.”

 

I rested my chin on my hand and fell into serious thought. The original work only mentioned that ‘physical strength’ had to be expended, with no further explanation.

 

And discovering that magic flow could be controlled through labor rather than physical relations was purely by chance.

 

But could that really be related to touching this bird egg? No matter how much I thought about it, there seemed to be no connection. Kaiden had uncharacteristically missed the point.

 

Why had he suddenly brought up this topic?

 

Then I suddenly thought.

 

‘Had I ever told him that making Kaiden do labor was to help the magic flow circulate smoothly?’

 

I hadn’t. I had never directly told Kaiden about that.

 

I felt chills instantly and couldn’t move a muscle.

 

“Did you figure out why I said this, why I brought you here?”

 

Kaiden smiled as he looked at my expression.

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