I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 88

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Chapter 88

 

I watched Diego and Yuanna pass by me, then looked up at Kaiden who was still standing at the front door.

 

He hadn’t looked particularly decent before, but now he looked even more disheveled.

 

Running his hand through the back of his hair and frowning irritably, he looked down at me and let out a sigh.

 

“Margaret, I really had a hard time.”

 

He truly looked exhausted. Behind us, I could hear the sounds of welcoming Diego and Yuanna along with boisterous noise.

 

Kaiden’s head turned slightly toward over my shoulder.

 

“I thought about just abandoning those bastards and coming back, but I endured it thinking of you. So praise me.”

 

Looking at Kaiden’s pitiful eyes, it seemed his claim of having a hard time wasn’t just an exaggeration.

 

He examined my complexion with a worried face.

 

“Did any strange red flowers bloom here by any chance? Are you okay?”

 

It didn’t seem like a question simply concerned about my health. He stared at me intently as if searching for some kind of trace, grabbing both my cheeks and turning my face this way and that.

 

I realized that the ‘strange red flower’ he was talking about was Tentationem. It seemed their group had also discovered Tentationem.

 

Suddenly my ankle felt ticklish, so I looked down. Eun-ji, who had crawled along the floor, wrapped around my ankle and then poked her head out as if playing peekaboo, looking up at me.

 

I smiled and bent down at the waist. Then I picked up Eun-ji, placed her on my shoulder, and pointed to her as I spoke.

 

“She ate all of that.”

 

At my words, Eun-ji proudly raised her head and snorted. Then deep relief bloomed on Kaiden’s face as he looked at Eun-ji with a momentarily dazed expression.

 

“You weren’t poisoned. Thank goodness.”

 

“Huh? But I was poisoned though?”

 

“What?”

 

Kaiden turned pale at my words and gaped. I cheerfully rolled my shoulders and laughed.

 

“I was tied up for about a day and then I got better.”

 

“Ti-tied up?”

 

Was being tied up really that shocking? What exactly is he imagining? I asked Kaiden with a puzzled face.

 

“What about your side? Where did you discover the flower? What were the symptoms like? Are you really okay now?”

 

“Oh, were you talking about that flower?”

 

Just then, Yuanna, who had finished greeting Prince of Asdal from afar and returned, asked me. I nodded and looked back and forth between her and Kaiden.

 

“Don’t even get me started. Diego Bastian Vilterheim and I got poisoned and it was absolute chaos. When it was severe, even tying us up didn’t help. Physical contact made it somewhat better, so Lord had a hard time.”

 

At Yuanna’s words, I recalled the original story content where the protagonists were poisoned by Tentationem and going crazy.

 

‘Physical contact with Kaiden…’

 

I became very curious about what kind of physical contact it was. But both of them seemed to have no intention of talking about that part in detail and passed over it without much explanation.

 

‘What is it, are they really hiding something because something happened?’

 

However, whether he knew of my curiosity or not, Kaiden sighed and brought up a different topic.

 

“When the two of them got better they’d get poisoned again, and when they got better they’d get poisoned again, so I suffered like hell. I was fine because I have poison resistance to all poisons.”

 

Somehow I felt like some profanity had been muted in between. It probably wasn’t my imagination.

 

“That flower has the characteristic of rapidly reproducing and increasing its numbers when it comes into contact with human body temperature. It seems to gather seeking human energy even without necessarily touching body temperature.”

 

At Kaiden’s words, I finally realized how much they must have suffered.

 

We at least had the barrier of the cabin, but they would have been completely exposed in the wilderness without even such protection.

 

“We didn’t inhale the flower pollen strongly, so we were fine. Eun-ji ate all the flowers that were blooming around the cabin.”

 

I looked at Yuanna with a sympathetic expression and patted her shoulder.

 

“You’ve been through a lot.”

 

“Let’s talk about the details when we’re all gathered together.”

 

She smiled brightly, then went back to Diego and Prince of Asdal who were gathered in the kitchen area.

 

I turned to look at Kaiden.

 

“You’ve been through a lot too.”

 

Then I lifted my heels slightly to stand on my tiptoes and patted Kaiden’s head.

 

Kaiden opened his eyes wide and looked at me. Soon he smiled with his eyes gently curved.

 

“Why?”

 

“Because I like this after all.”

 

Kaiden grabbed my wrist and lowered his head, placing it under my hand.

 

“Do it more.”

 

“What?”

 

“Pat me more, it feels good.”

 

Kaiden closed his eyes just like a cat and rubbed his head against my hand with a pleased expression.

 

For some reason, his cheeks were slightly flushed as he wore a happy smile.

 

I slowly patted his head. His soft silver hair wrapped around my palm. It felt quite ticklish.

 

Then a large hand stretched out from behind me.

 

When I turned my head slightly, I saw Enoch standing with an expressionless face, ruffling Kaiden’s hair in my place.

 

And quite roughly at that.

 

“Huh? Margaret, this hurts a bit.”

 

Kaiden’s face as he frowned without knowing anything was quite cute. I ended up bursting into laughter.

 

“Puhaha!”

 

At the sound of my laughter, Kaiden opened his eyes wide and raised his head. When he spotted Enoch, he froze with a somewhat shocked expression. Then he immediately expressed his anger.

 

“What the hell are you doing!”

 

Enoch and Kaiden grabbed each other’s collars and glared at each other menacingly.

 

I had no choice but to step in directly and mediate between the two.

 

“Stop it.”

 

As soon as I finished speaking, both men let go of each other’s collars. Enoch clicked his tongue and smoothed out the wrinkles in his crumpled shirt.

 

“Margaret.”

 

Kaiden immediately spread his arms like he was acting cute, pulled me into an embrace, and rubbed his face against my shoulder.

 

His cheek rubbed mercilessly against my exposed nape. His firm embrace held me so tightly I could barely breathe.

 

I let out a tired sigh while being held by him.

 

“Enoch, please get him off…”

 

Before I could even finish speaking, Enoch pulled Kaiden away from me as if he had been waiting for it. Then he tied Kaiden tightly to the wooden post standing in the middle of the living room.

 

Seeing Archbishop Luzef, Prince of Asdal, and even Diego all working together to tie him to the post made my heart feel quite troubled.

 

‘Kaiden… How did you become a public enemy? Why did you live like that?’

 

Of course, Prince of Asdal seemed to have joined in just because it looked fun.

 

Anyway, seeing Kaiden become a public enemy made my heart ache.

 

“It’s gotten quite noisy as soon as Lord arrived.”

 

Prince of Asdal muttered as he dusted off his hands and approached me.

 

“Well, it seems like the situation has been roughly sorted out, so let’s proceed with the report.”

 

Rolling down his sleeves, Enoch gestured toward Yuanna with an indifferent expression.

 

“Alright. Would everyone gather around?”

 

Yuanna smiled prettily and stood up from her seat. We naturally gathered in a circle in front of the tied-up Kaiden.

 

With Kaiden’s monstrous strength, he probably could have broken free from the ropes binding him, but it seemed he didn’t want the cabin to collapse from the pillar breaking.

 

I laughed seeing him grumbling while staying obediently tied up.

 

“First, though I did talk about this with Lady Flone earlier, we discovered a flower called Tentationem on our way here.”

 

“What’s Tentationem?”

 

At Yuanna’s words, Prince of Asdal asked back with a puzzled expression. Instead of Yuanna, I answered Prince of Asdal.

 

“It seems to be the name of that red flower that was blooming in front of the cabin. The Bishop and I were briefly poisoned by it, remember?”

 

Only then did Prince of Asdal seem to understand and nodded. I looked at Yuanna again and asked.

 

“That’s what you’re talking about, right?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“But how did you know that flower was called Tentationem? Is it a flower you know?”

 

At my counter-question, Yuanna looked at Kaiden. Then everyone’s gaze also turned to Kaiden, who was obediently tied to the pillar, staring into space and lost in thought.

 

Kaiden belatedly noticed our stares and looked surprised.

 

“What, why.”

 

Yuanna sighed and answered instead.

 

“He said it’s a special poison flower that the Rohade family secretly experimented on and developed.”

 

“What?!”

 

I was so shocked that I ended up shouting my response. However, no one minded. Everyone was looking at Yuanna with equally shocked expressions.

 

This was news to me too.

 

Then, could there be a possibility that the Marquis Rohade family is connected to this island?

 

If it’s a poison flower that was secretly experimented on and developed, it wouldn’t have been leaked to the outside. Isn’t it strange that such a flower exists on this unfamiliar island?

 

Kaiden explained the properties of Tentationem.

 

That flower causes mental abnormalities like excitement and hallucinations, and temporarily makes people lose control.

 

“The Bishop and I didn’t experience anything like hallucinations though.”

 

At my words, Kaiden shrugged his shoulders while still tied up and explained.

 

“When the symptoms aren’t severe, it just ends with excitement along with an intense desire for physical contact. The toxins naturally leave over time. But if the poisoning is severe, you’ll even see hallucinations. The toxins naturally detoxify over time and the episode subsides, but enduring it until then is the key.”

 

Only after hearing his words did I realize why the original work “More Important Than Survival” was a 19+ novel. It was probably because of Tentationem.

 

The reason I hadn’t seen descriptions of Kaiden being poisoned by Tentationem in the original was probably because of this secret.

 

He was someone with poison resistance, so he was usually on the helping side rather than receiving help.

 

“But why did the Rohade family develop such a flower? What were they going to use it for? And why is a flower secretly developed by the Rohade family on this island?”

 

As I expressed such doubts, everyone’s gaze gathered on Kaiden once again.

 

Since it wasn’t a positive gaze, Kaiden, who received the attention, made a somewhat uncomfortable expression.

 

But it was a question that had to be asked. I asked Kaiden again.

 

“Could our kidnapping be connected to your family?”

 

At my barrage of questions, Kaiden seemed flustered and slowly blinked his eyes.

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