I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 61

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Chapter 61

 

He moved a little closer to me.

 

“No matter how I look at it, this dangerous egg that’s clearly from a demon beast – why is it only friendly to you? It’s too strange. And how did you know the method to pierce mana flow? Why did you hide the reason and help us?”

 

Kaiden narrowed his eyes and studied my expression. As if he intended to see through all my inner thoughts.

 

“That’s… everyone was looking at me suspiciously, so I just didn’t say anything unnecessary. But wait. Kaiden, we don’t have time for this. The sun is setting.”

 

I quietly pointed to the sky. Just as I said, the sunset was beginning. It was the time when demon beasts appeared.

 

“I’m fine. What about you? Should we spend the night here together? I’m actually not that afraid of dying.”

 

Kaiden leaned his face toward me. There was madness in his eyes, and it seemed he really intended to stay here until I told the truth.

 

“It’s been strange all along. There wasn’t just one or two things. Margaret, tell me what exactly you’re hiding.”

 

Kaiden said again. I struggled desperately to pull my hand free from Kaiden’s grip, but it wouldn’t budge.

 

‘Should I take out a flare? I could distract him for a moment and escape.’

 

I had that thought as I placed my hand on my cross bag. Then, over Kaiden’s shoulder, I met the sharp gaze of a beast’s eyes.

 

“Trying to escape alone? All you think about is running away, right? You planned to abandon us from the beginning.”

 

“W-wait.”

 

I was so startled that I tried to push him away. But he told me not to play tricks and gripped me even tighter.

 

Kaiden firmly grasped my hand.

 

Then, the shadow of a demon beast emerged from the forest.

 

“That’s not it, behind you…!”

 

Kaiden turned his head following my gaze to look into the forest.

 

Just then, long legs covered in thick fur stretched out from between the bushes. It gave me chills.

 

Pushing through the bushes, a tarantula with a massive body revealed itself. It seemed to be at least three times the size of my body.

 

I met the gaze of eight eyes attached to a body covered in black fur. My hair stood on end. I was frozen in place with tension, unable to even move.

 

“Damn.”

 

Kaiden was also looking at the tarantula demon beast with a bewildered expression.

 

Then, the tarantula quickly moved its body toward Kaiden.

 

“Danger!”

 

I pushed Kaiden away with strong force, then took out a bomb from my pocket and pulled the pin.

 

Then I took position, aimed at the tarantula’s body, and threw it.

 

BOOM!

 

The giant tarantula’s body was shattered and its legs collapsed as it crumpled to the ground.

 

The problem was what came next.

 

Clatter clatter clatter clatter.

 

Spiders that were smaller than the giant tarantula but still medium-sized began swarming toward us continuously.

 

“We’re screwed.”

 

I took another step back with a heart full of despair. That was definitely the tarantula that Yuanna’s group had encountered.

 

Kaiden drew his short sword and grabbed my arm, pulling me close to him. We couldn’t move back any further. The place where we were standing was a cliff.

 

I opened my cross bag and took out a bomb. Then I checked how many bombs were left. Only two remained.

 

It was regrettable that I couldn’t bring many bombs because the cross bag was small. The silver lining was that I had brought all the flare ammunition.

 

“Don’t come out, it’s dangerous.”

 

Kaiden blocked my way and gripped his dagger tighter.

 

Past the giant tarantula’s corpse, there were a total of five spiders surrounding us.

 

The tarantula’s long legs were covered in fluffy fur. They writhed as they watched us, seeming ready to advance at any moment.

 

Below their bodies covered with densely packed black eyes, sticky-looking mucus was dripping down from what appeared to be their open mouths.

 

Sharp pincers that looked like venomous stingers clicked together, as if they were savoring the taste.

 

‘Damn it. I want to pass out. I hate spiders so much.’

 

I gripped two bombs in both hands and pulled the pins with my teeth.

 

Kaiden looked at me with a face that guessed what I was about to do, then gripped his dagger tighter and lowered his stance. It was to deal with the tarantulas that would bounce out after the bombs exploded.

 

Ah, but what if I detonate all of these and the cliff collapses?

 

But if we just stay like this, we’ll become monster food.

 

‘What should I do…’

 

After agonizing for just a split second, I finally made up my mind.

 

“I don’t know, die this way or die that way!”

 

I threw the bombs one by one toward the tarantulas.

 

BOOM-!

 

BANG!

 

Some of them must have been hit directly by the grenades, as I could see fragmented body parts and green liquid presumed to be blood spraying through the air.

 

Below that, one staggered up and approached, and another looked completely fine as if it hadn’t taken any damage at all.

 

There were still two of them alive.

 

The ground beneath my feet vibrated from the bomb’s aftermath, then the floor began to crack with a splitting sound. It probably wouldn’t hold for long. Sweat formed in my palms.

 

With a tense face, I took out a flare from my cross bag, loaded ammunition into it, and pulled the loading lever. My hands were trembling.

 

“How have I survived this long. It doesn’t make sense to die here.”

 

Though I said that, my trembling voice wouldn’t calm down easily.

 

The tarantulas cautiously approached little by little. As I watched their movements with a tense posture, they suddenly raised their front legs and shot out thread-like spider webs.

 

“Crazy!”

 

Multiple strands of spider web kept shooting out, wrapping around my wrists and then coiling around my waist.

 

“Agh! Why are they only attacking me!”

 

I was immediately knocked to the ground and dragged toward the tarantula.

 

“Margaret!”

 

Kaiden firmly grabbed my wrist and used his dagger to cut through the spider webs. However, the one that had shot out the threads continued to target me. I quickly got up and took out a flare.

 

Then I aimed at the body of the spider pulling the web and pulled the trigger.

 

BANG!

 

The recoil made my body bounce back slightly, but because Kaiden pulled me into his arms, there was no disaster of falling off the cliff.

 

My ears were ringing from the gunshot of the flare.

 

The problem was the other tarantula that had been limping toward us. It had already approached within striking distance.

 

Its long legs rose high into the air. Kaiden rolled on the ground to avoid the legs that were about to strike down.

 

THUD!

 

The impact was so tremendous that the ground was deeply gouged. Then another leg launched an attack.

 

“Damn it.”

 

Kaiden spat out a curse as he pulled me back and swung his dagger.

 

Slash! The leg was cleanly severed. Seeing the thick green liquid flowing from the cut leg made me shudder… ugh.

 

The spider writhed in agony, letting out a piercing shriek of pain.

 

The problem was that in its thrashing, its long legs flailed wildly in all directions, and I, who had been standing behind Kaiden, took a direct hit and was sent flying.

 

It really felt like that moment flowed by in slow motion.

 

I was struck by the spider’s leg and flung out beyond the cliff, floating in midair as I looked down below.

 

A river was flowing far below.

 

Shit… fuck?

 

“Margaret! No!”

 

Kaiden cried out desperately and leaped from the cliff’s edge, reaching his arms out toward me. He pulled me into his embrace and held me tight.

 

We plummeted straight down below the cliff.

 

Splash!

 

Even as we plunged deep beneath the river, Kaiden held my body protectively in his arms and wouldn’t let go.

 

I thought to myself that Kaiden really wasn’t your ordinary madman.

 

Even though he might die himself, the hand he reached out toward me showed not a moment’s hesitation.

 

He had looked at me being pushed off the cliff with such a devastated expression, as if his world was collapsing.

 

It was hard to believe this was the same person who had been suspicious, wary, and pressuring me just moments before.

 

Hadn’t he been distrusting me?

 

And yet he unhesitatingly risked his life for me.

 

I really can’t figure Kaiden out. I have no idea what he’s thinking.

 

Of course, I didn’t have the mental capacity to think any deeper. I had fallen into the river water and my breath was completely cut off, so I lost consciousness right then and there.

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