Chapter 27

I tucked the harpoon into the vines I tied around my waist. For the past few days, Enoch has been catching fish himself, but he seems busy today, so I had to come forward.

“Where do you think the fish you’ve eaten for the past few days came from?”

“W-Wait, did I hear wrong? Margaret Rose Floné hunting fish?”

I was too lazy to answer Kayden’s repeated question, so I just nodded my head.

“Crazy. Are you going to catch fish with that harpoon? Are you really a noble lady?”

“That’s discrimination. Can’t a noble lady hunt fish?”

“Even I, as a nobleman, also don’t hunt fish, especially with a harpoon like that.”

I was emotional and asked back, but I admitted that my question was strange.

That’s true. Which noble would go hunting for fish? It’s with a harpoon, too. Even if I thought about it, it made no sense. However, no matter how noble a person is, he will definitely do anything if his survival is at stake.

“Anyway, I want to stop eating fish, but there doesn’t seem to be any animals to hunt nearby.”

I think it’s time to move to another place. We had to find an environment with a little bit more food resources.

As I was thinking about it, Enoch came back just in time.

Enoch returned with a bunch of coconuts in his hands, and when he found Kayden, he frowned.

He roughly put the coconut in the cave, came back, took my hand, and let go of it from Kayden.

“Obviously, I kept him tied up.”

At Enoch’s murmuring, I found a piece of cloth hanging from Kayden’s right wrist. It seems that he left Kayden tied in the cave.

“Don’t come near Margaret.”

Enoch blocked my way again and looked at Kayden.

“Now he treats me like a germ.”

Kayden murmured, but neither I nor Enoch responded.

I said to Enoch, “Don’t tie him up again. I asked him to do something.”

At my words, Kayden stuck out his lower lip and responded with a sulky look.

“I’m not going to do it.”

“Then there’s no rice.”

“How much firewood should I bring?”

Kayden gave up quickly and came over to me.

I told him to get some firewood for this evening and tomorrow morning.

“I’ve wanted to ask you before, Margaret, because you’re really different from the Margaret Rose Floné I know.”

Suddenly Kayden asked, “Are you someone else?”

I could not readily deny that statement.

Kayden looked at my face. Of course, he was immediately stopped by Enoch.

Enoch took good care of me like a mother wolf takes care of her baby. And I don’t mind being protected by him.

“That’s because you don’t know Margaret well. Because you don’t know Margaret’s true self.”

Enoch said to Kayden in a sarcastic tone.

What? After all, even Enoch wouldn’t know my true self. It was funny.

Hearing Enoch’s words, Kayden looked back at me with a frown on his forehead and folded his arms.

“What is your true self?”

This time Enoch also looked back at me. As I looked at the two men with hopeful gazes, my heart became heavy. What’s wrong with you guys? It’s too much.

“Uh……um, like a grizzly bear?”

Of course, I was joking, but Enoch and Kayden looked at me as if they didn’t understand what I was saying.

Anyway, in the novel, Kayden lives alone because he hates group life, no matter how much he likes the female lead.

But now, I don’t know why he doesn’t leave and stays in the cave.

Moreover, Enoch was the one who despised me the most, followed by Kayden, and now both of them were kind to me.

I have a good feeling. I hope that kindness will continue as it is.

With that thought in my mind, I turned my back on Enoch and Kayden and went hunting.

Fortunately, while I was hunting, Kayden did everything I told him to do. He even caught two rabbits with Enoch.

“I feel like my head has gotten clearer. My condition is really good,” said Kayden excitedly.

He said to me with a bright smile. It seems that physical labor is effective in opening the flow of mana.

‘Yeah, that’s much better than dangerously hunting monsters.’

I took a seat in front of the cave and started skinning the rabbit. Kayden approached me and asked with a surprised face,

“You…… Can you do something like this?”

I only glanced at Kayden and continued skinning the rabbit without a word. Meanwhile, Enoch was preparing a barbecue.

“Do you need my help?”

I shook my head at Kayden’s question.

“It’s okay. Help Enoch prepare the dinner.”

It is hard to skin a large animal such as a wild boar alone. However, small animals such as rabbits and squirrels were easy.

Of course, this is also something that an ordinary noble lady would never be able to do.

Kayden wandered around me with a look of disbelief as he watched what I was doing.

“I…… I’ll go prepare dinner.”

After watching me skillfully skin the rabbit, he quietly went to help Enoch.

I finished skinning the rabbits faster than Enoch and Kayden prepared the dinner. I yawned as I watched them cut the wooden skewers.

‘I’m bored.’

Staying still doesn’t suit my personality, so I ended up walking around the cave to clean it.

Kayden, who accidentally saw me, had a really weird face.

“I think my eyes are weird, Your Highness. Do noble ladies also clean up?”

Hearing Kayden’s words, Enoch smiled as if he saw something familiar.

“I realized after living together with her for a few days that she is not an ordinary noble lady.”

A proud smile crossed Enoch’s lips when he said that.

At first glance, he was like a father boasting about his daughter who won first place at the gifted academy.

How did Enoch become like this?

I shook my head as I saw Enoch with a proud face.

Anyway, the cleaning was done perfectly and we ate a full meal after a long time.

***

The next day, we finally decided to move.

Kayden knew the location of a large river.

Enoch unexpectedly agreed with his opinion that it would be better to build a residence near the river rather than the beach.

There was an advantage of being able to fish in the sea near the shore, but there was no special advantage other than that.

However, the reason we, Enoch to be precise, did not give up to stay near the shore was that we feared that a ship might pass by on the shore.

But it’s already been almost a month since we woke up on this island.

Now, it is a time when survival became more important than waiting for rescue, and we decided to change the rules of life in a direction that prioritizes survival but does not give up on rescue.

As a bonus, we also had to find information about Alea.

I packed my stuff diligently.

All I had to take was a harpoon, a bamboo barrel, and a string made by Kayden.

I also took a piece of the dress that turned into a mop piece. On this uninhabited island, every single piece of cloth is precious.

I decided to make the coconut bowl again when I find a new place to live.

“Kayden, are you going too?”

At my question, Kayden made a sad face at once.

“Why do you only ask me such a question? Prince Enoch is also going, why can’t I?”

I was terribly perplexed at Kayden’s question and glanced at Enoch over his shoulder.

Enoch smiled with satisfaction as he packed his stuff.

“Why are you asking something obvious? There was no room for you to get in between us in the first place.”

“If there’s no ‘room’, I can make it myself. Margaret, can you give me a ‘room’ too?”

Kayden and Enoch looked at me at the same time.

While I packed my stuff, I let out a tired sigh as I looked at the two men.

‘Oh, should I just leave both of them?’