I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 99

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Chapter 99

 

With my resolve firm, I slowly stepped down the stairs.

 

The stairs weren’t deep. I reached the door quickly without going down many steps.

 

It wasn’t directly the basement, but rather it seemed I would only reach the basement after opening the door and going inside.

 

Light leaked in from behind me, and thanks to that, I was able to read the sign written on the basement door.

 

【Door】

 

“Door?”

 

Of course it would be a door. Usually wouldn’t words like basement or storage be written there?

 

I felt puzzled as I quietly turned the door handle.

 

Click, click.

 

I had expected it to some degree, but the door wouldn’t open. Should I ask Jenas? He probably won’t tell me, but I should at least try when he returns home.

 

I quietly walked back up the stairs. Worried that Jenas might come back sooner than expected, I looked around and checked outside the window once before going up to the second floor.

 

The second floor still had that terrible stench. I covered my nose and walked down the second floor corridor. There were stairs leading to the third floor at the end of the second floor corridor.

 

I walked slowly down the corridor with a tense expression. Even though it was a time when the morning sunlight was shining strongly, the second floor corridor was dim and dark.

 

There were only two windows in the corridor and even those were very small.

 

As I had observed yesterday, all the room doors were open, and there was nothing particularly unusual.

 

When I came up to the third floor like that, I discovered one strange door next to the stairs as soon as I climbed up.

 

“What’s this?”

 

A strong stench was coming from that place.

 

I hesitated for a moment. Was opening this door really the right thing to do? Right or wrong aside, I was honestly scared.

 

‘I absolutely hate horror.’

 

I swallowed dry saliva and roughly wiped the sweat that had formed on my palms on my clothes. Then with a very tense expression, I slowly grabbed the door handle.

 

Click, click.

 

The door was firmly locked. I don’t know why that was so reassuring.

 

I sighed and stepped back, then discovered a sign written on the door. It was covered in dust, so I roughly swept away the dust with my hand.

 

【Room of Rest】 Sealed

 

Those words were written on the sign on the door.

 

“Room of Rest? Sealed?”

 

Very suspicious.

 

“Why are there so many suspicious things here.”

 

I felt unnecessarily creeped out, so I quickly turned around and looked around the third floor.

 

Fortunately, the third floor was much brighter than the second floor. There were many large windows in the corridor, so sunlight was streaming in completely.

 

But just because the view was bright didn’t mean the eerie atmosphere was diminished. Somehow the third floor seemed colder than the second floor.

 

To feel cold in this tropical climate. And at a time when the sun was up, no less. Somehow I felt so creeped out that my hair stood on end.

 

I calmly surveyed the corridor. The third floor, like the second floor, was full of trash on the floor and was very messy.

 

“Damn it, all the room doors here are closed.”

 

I took a deep breath for a moment. Opening closed doors required tremendous courage. I couldn’t know what might be waiting for me inside.

 

There were a total of four room doors.

 

The first room was completely empty with no bed, no wardrobe, nothing at all.

 

While I felt relieved, I also worried that I might not obtain any useful information at this rate.

 

“I hope there’s at least some information somewhere…”

 

I took a deep breath in front of the second door and grabbed the door handle.

 

Thud.

 

I froze at the sound that came from inside the door. Damn it, what the hell was that sound.

 

I quietly removed my hand from the door handle. I absolutely couldn’t open this door. In the end, I decided to skip the second room.

 

And it was when I was opening the third door and confirming there wasn’t much inside.

 

CRASH!

 

“Ah, shit! That scared the hell out of me!”

 

The second door burst open violently, and I was so startled that I ended up collapsing to the floor.

 

My heart nearly jumped out of my mouth. I placed my hand on my chest and took deep breaths while checking if my heart was okay.

 

I could see the second door wide open in my field of vision.

 

I instantly froze completely and couldn’t move. Fear overwhelmed my mind and my body began trembling uncontrollably.

 

I felt like I understood why horror movie protagonists can’t immediately run away when faced with crisis situations.

 

‘Shit, I’m scared!’

 

But fortunately, nothing burst out through the open door. Only cold air circulated through the corridor, and I slowly got up from my spot.

 

It seemed like a strong wind had blown the door open. I thought it would be better for my mental health to just believe that.

 

‘But I suppose I should examine the inside of the room.’

 

I gripped the wooden knife tightly in my hand and slowly approached the second door. Then I cautiously poked my head out from outside the door and looked inside.

 

Inside the room were one bed, one wardrobe. And there was also a desk placed in front of the window.

 

The room wasn’t dark since it had a window too, but somehow it gave off an extremely eerie atmosphere.

 

While the other rooms had been messy and full of trash, this room was extremely tidy. It just had some dust settled on it, but it looked like a room someone had been living in.

 

While looking around inside, I discovered something that had fallen in front of the desk. It looked like a notebook. The noise I heard earlier seemed to have been made when that thing fell to the floor.

 

I brushed my chest and slowly entered the room. Even though sunlight was shining and the room was bright, the air was cool and desolate.

 

“Is it a diary?”

 

I slowly picked up the notebook and opened it. It was full of dirt and dust, so I roughly brushed off the dust with my hand and skimmed through the written contents.

 

Inside the notebook were notes written in someone’s elegant handwriting. And among the illegible letters, there was a sentence that clearly caught my eye.

 

I should die.

 

I felt chills for a moment and hesitated while turning the page. There was another piece of writing below it.

 

Everyone is dead. Must I live? I don’t think I can escape from the island. Forever. This isn’t living.

 

Who wrote this? Did Jenas write it? Or was it his dead companions that Jenas mentioned? I quietly turned the diary page.

 

I feel like I’m gradually losing myself. So I decided to keep a record. Of everything I’ve experienced so far.

 

This diary I’m reading doesn’t seem to be the record notebook the writer mentioned. There seems to be a separate book where records were kept…

 

I quietly turned to the next page.

 

Thanks to Jenas, the poison was completely healed. The reason we had been going crazy all this time was because of that red flower. Because of Tentationem.

 

Thud.

 

I dropped the notebook I was holding onto the floor. And I stared blankly at the fallen notebook.

 

I hadn’t misread it. First, it was certain that the writer of this text wasn’t Jenas. And the writer clearly mentioned being poisoned by Tentationem.

 

Strangely, I kept thinking of the original novel.

 

The writer mentioned that ‘the reason we had been going crazy was because of Tentationem.’ My memory was hazy, but I definitely remembered Yuanna speaking in a similar tone in the original novel.

 

-The reason we were going crazy was all because of this flower.-

 

I think there was a line like that. I don’t know why I remembered it, but perhaps that’s why the sentence written in the notebook gave me a strange sense of déjà vu.

 

I slowly picked up the notebook again. And carefully turned to the next page.

 

She told me a way to reverse everything. And I received a key from her. She said it was a key that could open all doors.

 

‘She? Who is she?’

 

Could this key be the same as the very key that Yuanna has?

 

I keep thinking of Yuanna. Strangely.

 

I hurriedly turned the page.

 

Today I’m going to leave to find the place she told me about. I plan to rest there. I think I’ll be able to finish the book I’m using for records there too.

 

I turned to the next page again.

 

What’s more important than survival is not forgetting that I am me. I deeply engraved in my heart those words she said to me.

 

My legs gave out.

 

I ended up sitting down on the floor while still holding the notebook.

 

‘What’s more important than survival.’

 

During my Lee Jin-ju days, it was the title of someone’s practice novel that I had picked up on the street. Could this really be a coincidence?

 

‘Who is this ‘she’ that the writer mentioned?’

 

There were circumstances, but there was no definitive evidence to confirm that the owner of this notebook was Yuanna.

 

‘Since I don’t have time, let me take this with me for now.’

 

I crumpled the notebook into my cross bag. And as I turned around, I saw someone’s collar flash past through the open door.

 

‘…Shit.’

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