I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 64

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Chapter 64

 

I suddenly came to my senses and looked around, changing the subject.

 

“Were you on your way to the cabin?”

 

Kaiden, who had been staring at me intently, ran his hand through his hair as if troubled and let out a sigh.

 

“Yeah. But I need to know where we are first. I’m roughly moving based on the cliff’s position, but…”

 

“How long was I asleep?”

 

“When I woke up, it was midday. You seemed to be sleeping so deeply that I didn’t wake you.”

 

At Kaiden’s words, I deliberately forgot about what had happened earlier. Then I started walking with him again.

 

“You did well. It would have been easy to get our bearings if I had my bag, but that’s unfortunate.”

 

“What do you mean?”

 

“I drew an island map. It was in the bag I was carrying around.”

 

Since we won’t be able to find it anyway, what’s the point of talking about it. There are bombs left at the cabin, but the flares are too precious to lose.

 

“It would have been nice to have the flares too. If we shot them into the sky, they definitely would have been visible from the cabin, right?”

 

When I muttered this, Kaiden sighed, asking what we could do about something already lost.

 

The cliff where we presumably fell was the largest and highest in the vicinity, so it was visible at a glance even from far away.

 

I crouched down and drew movement lines on the ground.

 

“Kaiden, let’s think about this. Assuming the distance from here to that cliff is 5 kilometers…”

 

Kaiden sat down following me and quietly watched the calculations I was writing on the ground.

 

“What’s a kilometer?”

 

‘Damn, the measurement system is different.’

 

I searched through Margaret’s memories desperately, but Margaret had no interest in mathematics.

 

I sighed and continued my explanation, roughly glossing over it.

 

“I’m trying to calculate the distance and time from here to there. What if that cliff isn’t the one we fell from? If we drifted downstream for a while after falling in. Then we’d have to go back to the original location.”

 

“You want to move efficiently. I understand. I’ve been thinking, and from the river to here, we moved roughly 3,000 steps. Since I walked while carrying you, it probably took about 30 minutes.”

 

I watched him calculate the time and distance.

 

“We need to recalculate the time to go back.”

 

Kaiden began earnestly calculating time with his finger on the dirt ground.

 

“If that cliff isn’t the one we fell from, it would take at least two days, or possibly more, to get back to the cabin.”

 

“If that cliff is the right one, it would take a day, right? Then we should first secure a day’s worth of food supply.”

 

At my words, he nodded, dusted off his hands, and stood up.

 

“For now, we need to find a place to sleep.”

 

Kaiden said to me while looking at the setting sun. I followed Kaiden’s gaze and looked up at the sky.

 

“Enoch must be worried.”

 

This had happened before. When I disappeared, Enoch had searched for me all night.

 

This time would surely be no different from then.

 

Enoch, who had completely erased his distrust of me, was always favorable toward me without any confusion.

 

“It seems I cannot live without you on this island.”

 

“So Margaret, I need you. So please stay by my side. Don’t leave.”

 

I recalled the words Enoch had said to me before.

 

He really was like a dog that gets anxious when separated from its owner, becoming so restless without me that he couldn’t think normally.

 

“I should hurry back. Enoch is waiting.”

 

I was saying such things while walking absentmindedly behind Kaiden.

 

“Margaret.”

 

Kaiden called my name in a low voice.

 

“Do you like the Crown Prince, or do you like me?”

 

There was a nuance mixed with tremendous jealousy, so I was a bit puzzled.

 

“Why are you asking something like that?”

 

“I’m just curious, hm? Answer me.”

 

Kaiden even stopped walking and asked me as if urging for an answer.

 

“I like Luzef.”

 

I deliberately mentioned the name of someone who wasn’t even among the choices in a playful tone. And it was clearly a light joke, but…

 

“That bastard, I didn’t like him from the start.”

 

Kaiden took it seriously. He was even excessively angry. I looked at Kaiden with a bewildered face.

 

Whether he knew my feelings or not, Kaiden seriously grabbed my shoulders and asked again.

 

“What’s so good about that bastard? Margaret, tell me.”

 

Kaiden’s pretty face was twisted menacingly.

 

I just stared blankly like an idiot at his eerily red eyes blazing like fire.

 

“Wow… I can’t even joke with you.”

 

“What?”

 

Kaiden didn’t understand my words and blinked his eyebrows. Ugh. I shook my head.

 

“I was wrong. I shouldn’t make jokes like that anymore.”

 

Kaiden still had a face that didn’t understand my words. Seeing signs that he might bring up Luzef again, I forcibly changed the subject.

 

“Is it right to look for the cliff? There might be other shortcuts.”

 

Kaiden, who had been staring at me intently, ruffled his hair and turned his head.

 

“No, going to the cliff is better. If we try to find another path, there are too many possibilities. And we might be able to find your bag from the top of the cliff.”

 

I also sighed following Kaiden.

 

“We’re really no different from stragglers.”

 

The sky was already getting dark.

 

“Damn it.”

 

Kaiden cursed again.

 

First, we decided to look for a place to spend the night. Fortunately, we found a suitable spot without wandering around for long.

 

There was a space to hide under the roots of a giant tree, and we decided to spend tonight there.

 

It was very similar to the place where Archbishop Luzef had hidden us when we were knocked out by the anaconda’s poison gas.

 

“There are a lot of these in this forest. The place where we were staying didn’t have roots sticking out like this.”

 

I muttered while bringing tree branches and fallen leaves to set up our sleeping area.

 

Then Kaiden, who was laying out the bedding beside me, agreed.

 

“That’s right. It really seems like each area has its own characteristics.”

 

“Huh…?”

 

After hearing Kaiden’s answer, the puzzle pieces connected one after another.

 

Near the cave where we first stayed, only Wolf-type Magical Beasts appeared.

 

Then came anaconda-type magical beasts, and near the cabin, tarantula-type magical beasts appeared.

 

Could this really be a coincidence?

 

“As if someone intentionally set it up that way.”

 

The name Alea kept circling in my mind.

 

“You’re saying someone trapped us here and is conducting experiments?”

 

Kaiden, who was sensitive to the word ‘experiments’, reacted passionately.

 

“We don’t know that yet. The only clue we found was ‘Alea’.”

 

“That damn Alea. Just let me get my hands on them.”

 

Kaiden gritted his teeth.

 

However, it wasn’t certain yet that this was Alea’s doing. It was all just speculation.

 

Moreover, since I, who should have died according to the original story, didn’t die, there was no telling what variables might have occurred.

 

‘It seems like a lot has already changed, but what do I know. I have to survive too.’

 

According to the original story, we could escape the island if we just survived for one year without dying. However, the problem was that we still didn’t even know where the Escape Gate would open.

 

With the key that Yuanna Lucy had, we might be able to escape immediately without waiting for that long year.

 

“But didn’t we see an orangutan magical beast in the area where Wolf-type Magical Beasts lived?”

 

At my observation, Kaiden tilted his head.

 

“That’s right. Was that guy a mutant? But I don’t think we saw any others besides him.”

 

I turned to Kaiden with a serious face and presented a new hypothesis I had thought of.

 

“Originally, the magical beasts’ habitats were divided, but if the boundaries are collapsing because the magical beasts are evolving, that would explain it.”

 

“Or it could make sense according to the hypothesis I mentioned earlier. There are designated magical beast habitats, but someone is intentionally manipulating them.”

 

“True, unlike the other creatures, that orangutan seemed to be searching for people as if it had intelligence.”

 

We were hiding in a rock crevice, but somehow it knew and stopped right in front of it. Recalling that situation, I got goosebumps and shuddered.

 

Just then, my stomach made a loud rumbling sound, announcing my hunger.

 

‘I need to eat something first.’

 

After thinking for a moment, I used Kaiden’s dagger to sharpen a tree branch. Kaiden asked with a puzzled expression.

 

“Huh? What are you trying to do?”

 

“Preparing for hunting.”

 

“At this time of night? Are you crazy?”

 

“I know it’s crazy. But we’ve been starving since yesterday. If we don’t catch some food, it’ll be even harder to move tomorrow.”

 

Kaiden couldn’t argue with my words and got up from his spot. Then he began helping me prepare for hunting.

 

“I think it would be better to make a fish trap. There are limits to catching fish with a spear at night.”

 

“What’s a fish trap?”

 

“It’s a tool for catching fish. I’ll make it, you help me from the side.”

 

At my words, Kaiden nodded and obediently helped make the fish trap.

 

I cut the nearby bamboo with sharp chops. Then I made string from the thinly split pieces and used that string to weave together the thickly cut bamboo to make a fish trap.

 

I picked up the completed fish trap and set out with Kaiden to find the valley.

 

It wasn’t a hallucination that I heard the sound of a stream flowing, as we soon found a wide valley with water flowing through it.

 

“First, I need to put bait in the fish trap, so I’ll have to catch fish with the spear.”

 

One fortunate thing was that the sky was clear today without a single cloud.

 

Since it was a wide valley with no trees blocking the sky, and it received the moonlight directly, I could secure decent visibility.

 

‘It would have been nice to have a flashlight.’

 

With that thought, I tried to catch fish with the spear, but it wasn’t easy without a flashlight.

 

About two hours passed? Fishing is all about persistence, and I managed to catch one crucian carp with the spear for bait.

 

And Kaiden, who had been coming up empty-handed the whole time, looked amazed when he saw the palm-sized crucian carp in my hand.

 

“That education they say House Flone provides, I’m starting to want to receive it too.”

 

I shrugged my shoulders and after butchering the crucian carp, put it inside the fish trap.

 

“I told you, I was an oddball. Everyone has secrets they don’t want to reveal to others.”

 

Kaiden nodded with a face that finally understood. The expression ‘secrets they don’t want to reveal to others’ seemed to convince Kaiden.

 

“That’s true, who would have known that ‘the’ Lady Flone would be well-versed in survival knowledge.”

 

Kaiden muttered while carefully watching me put the fish trap into the valley water.

 

Whether it’s a misunderstanding or not, it doesn’t matter. As long as he’s convinced.

 

I got up from my spot and gestured to him with my head. It meant let’s go back.

 

And when we returned to the place where we had set up our sleeping area, I discovered something glimmering familiarly there.

 

A silver egg was neatly placed under the tree roots.

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