I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 97

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Chapter 97

 

Maybe everyone thinks I’m dead and won’t even look for me.

 

Actually, the fact that I’m alive and not dead was truly miraculous.

 

‘Well, Kaiden and I did survive falling off a cliff.’

 

But when we fell off the cliff, it was a deep place with calm waters. It wasn’t a wide river like the one flowing through the center of the island.

 

‘This time I fell into a big river when the suspension bridge broke, and it was definitely a spot with fast currents, so how am I still alive?’

 

Well, there should be more than just one or two strange things about this island. So many inexplicable things have happened that it’s impossible to even reason through them.

 

I once again recalled that Jenas had lived for a thousand years. Surely I don’t have to endure a thousand years too, right?

 

“You must have had a hard time not going crazy for a thousand years.”

 

I encouraged Jenas while keeping my gaze fixed on the fireplace. Jenas’s gaze touched the side of my face.

 

After staring at me intently for a while, he asked me.

 

“…Do I look like that?”

 

I nodded my head.

 

“Yeah. I don’t know what’s going on inside, but I think just appearing that way is already amazing.”

 

There’s also Kaiden who looks crazy just at first glance. I slightly turned my head to look up at him lying in the hammock.

 

The beautiful boy with no expression was still blankly staring back at me.

 

“What did you do on this island for a thousand years?”

 

At my question, Jenas looked up at the sky as if contemplating.

 

“I didn’t have time to be bored.”

 

It seems he has no intention of telling me what he did. I forcibly swallowed down the ominous assumptions about Jenas that kept coming to mind.

 

“Did you find out anything about the island? If you’ve been here for a thousand years, you must have discovered something. Why we were kidnapped here, whether there’s really no way to escape.”

 

“There isn’t.”

 

“What?”

 

I was shocked by Jenas’s firm answer and frowned deeply.

 

“There isn’t? Not even one thing?”

 

At my question, Jenas calmly nodded his head.

 

“Nothing. Don’t have hope.”

 

I couldn’t quite understand what he meant. Wasn’t there an escape gate that opened every year on this island?

 

But I couldn’t directly bring up that topic with someone whose identity was unknown.

 

I sighed with a somewhat frustrated feeling and said to him.

 

“There has to be a cause for there to be an effect. If there was a way in, there must definitely be a way out. You just haven’t found it.”

 

As I spoke, my emotions unknowingly became somewhat intense. So I ended up confronting Jenas point by point.

 

“Giving up everything without knowing why you woke up on this island, saying there’s no way to escape, is too foolish. Did you spend a thousand years so complacently?”

 

As I spoke, I got choked up and my voice rose a little. But Jenas looking at me was still calm. He spoke to me in a very composed voice.

 

“You don’t know how I spent those thousand years.”

 

I couldn’t accept his words.

 

“Right, I don’t know. I haven’t lived for a thousand years, so how would I know? It might sound ridiculous to you, but I won’t give up.”

 

Saying that, I gritted my teeth. And I spoke again to Jenas who was looking at me like I was some strange creature.

 

“I want to live.”

 

At my words, Jenas tilted his head.

 

“You’re alive now.”

 

“As long as I’m trapped on this island, I’m putting my life on hold, not living it.”

 

He looked at me with wide eyes as if surprised. Soon, something that could be called an expression appeared on his face.

 

The corners of his eyes curved beautifully. He smiled at me with his eyes.

 

Perhaps because he was a gorgeous beautiful boy, his prettily smiling face seemed to radiate light.

 

“That’s an interesting thing to say.”

 

Jenas murmured slowly and smiled again. I stared blankly at his smile before coming to my senses.

 

“I have to go find my companions. I’m planning to leave tomorrow. Everyone must be looking for me.”

 

“Do you really have to go? You’re hurt.”

 

“Yes. But I still have to go. Want to come with me?”

 

“No.”

 

Jenas tilted his head back to look at the ceiling and lay down leisurely. I watched him and suddenly remembered the bunker map.

 

The reason I hadn’t told Enoch’s group about the bunker was because I wanted to keep it as a kind of Plan B for myself in case the story developed like in the original.

 

But now that I’d met Jenas, I thought such things would be meaningless. If he’d lived on this island for a thousand years, he must surely know about the bunker.

 

It meant I wasn’t the only one who knew about the bunker’s existence.

 

“Then you must know the geography of this island well?”

 

Then, Jenas raised his head again and looked at me. He nodded obediently.

 

“Yes.”

 

“Then…”

 

I carefully began.

 

“Do you happen to know if there’s something like a bunker on this island?”

 

Jenas nodded once more as if he’d received an insignificant question.

 

“Yes.”

 

Right, he should know that much. That’s a relief. At least I can get one useful piece of information.

 

I took out the bunker map from my wet cross bag. Then I remembered the date written at the edge of the map.

 

‘Huh? Wait, come to think of it…’

 

Ingram Kingdom Calendar, Year 666.

 

I stared at the year notation written at the edge of the bunker map.

 

A bunker map that seemed to have been made a thousand years ago. And a magician from the Ingram Kingdom who said he’d lived for a thousand years.

 

‘What is this…? This ominous feeling.’

 

Then, Jenas glanced at the bunker map in my hand and said.

 

“You found it. I didn’t see that one.”

 

‘What?’

 

I swallowed the question that rose to my lips. I felt like I shouldn’t hear his answer that would follow my question right now.

 

‘It sounded like he’d been watching me all this time.’

 

My mind snapped to attention as if cold water had been poured over my entire body. And I remembered what Kaiden had said.

 

“A few days ago when I went out on reconnaissance, I saw a monster watching me.”

 

“Looking at it, it seemed like a wolf-type magical beast. Usually those guys attack us on sight, right? But it just stared at me for a long time and then left. It was like it was monitoring what I was doing.”

 

Could it be? Was it Jenas who had been monitoring us?

 

I decided that I shouldn’t reveal the information I had as much as possible. And I should extract as much information as I can from him.

 

I had a bad feeling about this.

 

I pretended not to have heard his words because I was concentrating and casually asked him.

 

“I’m trying to get to the bunker.”

 

I spread the map on the floor and looked up at Jenas.

 

“Do you know where this place is on the island?”

 

At my question, Jenas slowly climbed down from the hammock. Since he was small and moved slowly, it took quite a while.

 

Ah, right. Calling him a child would be inappropriate.

 

Jenas knelt down in front of the map and stared intently at it.

 

“Here.”

 

Then he pointed to a specific spot with his small finger. It was at the northwestern edge of the island. A place that would require crossing mountains and traveling quite far west from the bunker.

 

“So I did cross over to the North Island.”

 

It was also the spot marked with a star that I had seen on Yuanna’s map.

 

I still don’t know what the star mark on the map actually means.

 

So I couldn’t tell whether Jenas was a kidnapper, an accomplice, or truly a victim like us, but I had a feeling he was connected to the island’s secrets.

 

“Yeah. Here. This is the North Island.”

 

Jenas nodded and said to me. I looked up at Jenas.

 

“Have you been to the bunker?”

 

“I made that map.”

 

I had somewhat expected this. So I wasn’t surprised and calmly accepted the fact.

 

I stared at the map with a slightly frustrated feeling. Actually, he had seemed suspicious from the moment we met, but he didn’t seem to have any intention of doing anything to me…

 

I was about to directly ask him if he was a kidnapper, but then remembered that might actually be a way to provoke him.

 

“What’s in the bunker?”

 

“Food supplies and daily necessities…?”

 

“Are they still edible? Wouldn’t they have spoiled?”

 

“They should be edible? I don’t need food, so I left them alone.”

 

At Jenas’s words, I rested my chin on my hand and nodded. In the original story, there was mention that the bunker was full of food supplies and supply boxes.

 

Jenas wasn’t lying.

 

Since he said he didn’t know about escape methods, there would be no benefit in asking about that.

 

Then what else should I ask? Something I could ask without giving the impression that I suspected him…

 

Grrrrowwwwwl.

 

Just then, my stomach announced my hunger with tremendous volume. I was so startled that I clutched my stomach.

 

Jenas opened his red eyes wide and stared at me, then burst into loud laughter.

 

“Ahaha! Growl! Haha!”

 

Whatever was so amusing, he laughed like a child with a bright face. How embarrassing, damn it.

 

This was the first time since we met that he had shown such strong emotion.

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