I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 69

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Chapter 69

 

“Bishop, do you think Margaret has disappeared?”

 

“Well. If that’s not the case…”

 

If that’s not the case, then ‘she might be dead’. Luzef swallowed his words as he looked at the giant tarantula.

 

Luzef couldn’t hide his confusion either. He didn’t even want to think about the latter possibility.

 

Margaret dying? That couldn’t happen. She wouldn’t have died. She shouldn’t have.

 

“Aren’t those footprints?”

 

Luzef discovered something at the edge of the cliff and approached closer.

 

It was too dark to see clearly, but at first glance, they looked like human footprints.

 

“Judging by the size, they seem to be Lady Flone’s.”

 

Luzef quietly followed the footprints with his eyes. There were small footprints and larger ones. The other set clearly seemed to be Kaiden’s.

 

He had an ominous feeling. Luzef stared at the footprints, not wanting to understand this terrible situation.

 

“…It looks like they fought against magical beasts.”

 

The footprints led toward the dead tarantula, and there were traces of extremely violent movement.

 

Following the movement of the footprints, Luzef saw that they ended at the very edge of the cliff.

 

It didn’t seem like they had moved voluntarily. As if they had been struck by something and blown away, the tracks ended right there without any traces going forward or to the side.

 

“Did you see this, Your Highness? This couldn’t be…”

 

Luzef hurriedly crouched at the edge of the cliff and looked down below.

 

It was a dizzying height. If they had been struck by something and blown down below, they would have died instantly.

 

Enoch stood beside Luzef with his arms crossed, quietly looking down at the bottom of the cliff.

 

Rustle.

 

Then the sound of something moving came from the grassland. It was impossible to tell if it was just the wind or a magical beast.

 

Luzef felt chills for a moment and turned to look at Enoch.

 

“Your Highness, it would be better if you returned. It’s dangerous to stay here any longer.”

 

However, Enoch didn’t move at all. It was questionable whether he had even heard his words. Luzef anxiously kept looking behind them.

 

Fortunately, it must have been the wind, as no further movement was visible from the forest.

 

Enoch was still standing at the edge of the cliff. Even when Luzef approached, he showed not a trace of emotional disturbance.

 

Luzef didn’t want to stay even a moment longer in this place with the magical beast’s corpse, but he didn’t have the confidence to return alone either.

 

In the end, he stood quietly beside Enoch.

 

* * *

 

Margaret had disappeared.

 

Whether she had left of her own accord or had met with an accident, both possibilities were enough to drive him mad.

 

His stomach churned.

 

Inexplicable hot emotions flowed uncontrollably through his chest like lava.

 

His hand holding Margaret’s bag strap trembled finely.

 

His heart was beating with anxiety and impatience, and he couldn’t control it. He felt like he would suffocate from the helplessness that consumed him. It was difficult to breathe.

 

Archbishop Luzef spoke to him from beside him, but he couldn’t hear what he was saying at all.

 

Beyond the vast river, behind the dense bushes, a large mountain ridge was visible. Above the mountain ridge, the night sky was filled with stars.

 

And among them, a large moon that brightly illuminated the dark night held its place.

 

That sight looked just like Margaret.

 

‘I must have really gone crazy over Margaret.’

 

Now I’m even thinking of Margaret while looking at the moon.

 

“Honestly, I don’t understand why Your Highness stubbornly refuses to marry or even get engaged to me. I have what Your Highness lacks, don’t I? Pure noble bloodline.”

 

Margaret’s words from the past echoed in Enoch’s ears.

 

“Now that you’ve become Crown Prince, marriage is even more important, isn’t it? You need to solidify your position. You should be grateful that I, the Young Lady of Duke Flone, like Your Highness.”

 

Even though she was born with the noble status he had always yearned for and longed for, she could only speak in such a manner. That was Margaret of the past.

 

Though she said she liked him, her attitude toward him showed not even a hair’s worth of respect for him.

 

Come to think of it, had there ever been anyone who respected him until now? Probably not. That’s why he had to be perfect.

 

‘But if it’s Margaret now…’

 

The woman he met again after coming to this island didn’t care about his status, or even her own status. The current her pursued the essence of a person, not their outward appearance.

 

Perhaps she might be the noble and strong person he had been searching for.

 

Enoch furrowed his brow, recalling Margaret’s face, then soon let out a pained groan and closed his eyes.

 

“I’m going crazy.”

 

He tightened his grip on the bag.

 

“Do you think both of them are still alive?”

 

Archbishop Luzef quietly expressed his doubt.

 

“They’ll be alive.”

 

Enoch muttered as if hypnotizing himself.

 

Archbishop Luzef, who had been looking at Enoch with hopeful eyes, quickly hardened his expression and let out a sigh.

 

Enoch tidied up his spot and scanned the surroundings, answering nonchalantly.

 

“Margaret will return. If not, I’ll search every corner of this island to find her.”

 

Just as Enoch finished muttering and turned around to retrace the path they had come from.

 

Spiders the size of human bodies had densely gathered around the cliff, though no one knew when they had assembled.

 

“Aaah!”

 

Archbishop Luzef, apparently quite startled, screamed and collapsed to the ground.

 

Shing.

 

Enoch drew his sword and scanned the endlessly swarming monsters with a tense expression.

 

“This would be a good opportunity for monster extermination.”

 

Monster extermination? Archbishop Luzef looked up at Enoch in confusion.

 

“Wouldn’t it be dangerous with just the two of us?”

 

Though he didn’t know when they had gathered in such numbers, the monsters surrounding and approaching them were tremendous in number. And they kept continuously gathering through the bushes.

 

Enoch carefully surveyed the surroundings and assessed the situation.

 

“I don’t know how those creatures know to gather like this, but if we leave them alone, they might even surround the cabin.”

 

Enoch glanced back and tilted his head slightly as he looked at Luzef.

 

“Fighting on the cliff would be dangerous, so we should move locations. For that, we’ll need provocative bait.”

 

“S-surely you don’t mean me…?”

 

At Luzef’s flustered response, Enoch smiled and slashed his own forearm with his sword. Luzef didn’t even have time to stop him.

 

“Your Highness! What are you doing right now!”

 

Despite his shocked outcry, Enoch answered calmly without wavering.

 

“If the rampage doesn’t stop even after all the monster extermination is finished, stab me with your sword to knock me out.”

 

Leaving those words behind, Enoch moved.

 

‘If you stab wrong with a sword, you might die instead of just getting knocked out!’

 

Luzef screamed internally at Enoch’s ridiculous words but couldn’t move from where he stood frozen. Enoch had already disappeared among the magical beasts.

 

Enoch’s sharp sword blade cut through the air. The blade that glinted momentarily in the moonlight was swung rapidly. Following the sword’s brilliant trajectory, the magical beasts’ green blood scattered like a fountain.

 

Like a person without brakes, Enoch’s movements knew no stopping. He was not in his right mind right now.

 

Goosebumps rose from head to toe, making it impossible to move. Perhaps Enoch had finally gone mad. His sanity would only return when Margaret came back.

 

Overwhelmed by Enoch’s madness, Luzef couldn’t move a single step from his spot and could only watch as he slaughtered the magical beasts.

 

And they spent two days like that. Until Margaret appeared with Kaiden.

 

* * *

 

Eun-ji, who had been wrapped around my forearm, jumped down and crawled along the ground. This little one was definitely faster than me.

 

‘My goodness. Crawling is faster. As expected of a magical beast.’

 

Kaiden also seemed quite amazed by this, running while staring intently at Eun-ji’s rear end.

 

“Does that thing grow too?”

 

At Kaiden’s question, I shrugged my shoulders while running after Eun-ji.

 

“It probably will?”

 

“If that’s really the baby anaconda we saw back then, doesn’t that mean it’ll grow that big?”

 

At his words, I suddenly got goosebumps and stopped walking. Eun-ji and Kaiden both stopped in place and looked at me.

 

“Don’t say things like that. Eun-ji won’t grow that big.”

 

At my words, Eun-ji tilted its head as if it didn’t understand.

 

I approached Eun-ji and stroked its back.

 

“Wouldn’t it be better if it grew that big? Raise it and train it. This little one might catch other magical beasts for us.”

 

Crash! Craaash!

 

A thunderous sound like something collapsing echoed through the forest. I was startled while touching Eun-ji’s back and looked up.

 

“This isn’t the time to be doing this – we should hurry and move again, right?”

 

At Kaiden’s words, I nodded and stood up from my spot again.

 

‘This feels ominous. Enoch didn’t go into rampage mode, did he?’

 

I ran while trying to suppress the anxiety that was surging like waves.

 

After running like that for a while, we stopped in front of a clearing. More precisely, it was a clearing artificially created in the middle of the forest where all the trees had fallen down.

 

The clearing was densely littered with spider corpses.

 

Thick green blood had pooled messily in puddles on the dirt ground. I hastily picked up Eun-ji. The little one had been trying to pass over that thick green blood.

 

Not understanding, it stuck out its tongue and looked up at me. With bright, sparkling eyes, it tilted its head as if asking why I wouldn’t let it go.

 

“What the hell is this…?”

 

Kaiden couldn’t close his mouth and looked around in disbelief. The moment the wind blew, bringing with it a terrible stench, I pinched my nose shut.

 

“Who could have done this?”

 

“Who else could it be.”

 

Kaiden and I were thinking of the same person. Enoch.

 

The only person who could devastate monsters to this extent was Enoch.

 

Bang!

 

Just then, a loud explosion came from not far away.

 

“Your Highness! Please stop! It’s dangerous!”

 

The ear-splitting scream sounded like it came from Diego.

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