Chapter 29

If he goes crazy, I’m in trouble too, so I have to make him work more actively.

“Come on, Margaret…… I’m talking about what I need to do right now.”

“Hunting wild animals is something you can do right now. You can move your body as much as you want.”

At Kayden’s question, I answered with a bright face.

Kayden stared at me for a moment.

“You…… you only want to eat meat right?”

“Did you notice?”

When I asked with a smile, Kayden sighed as he shrugged his shoulders in an exaggerated gesture.

“I was fooled. Then,”

He slowly bowed down to me.

His face was getting closer. When our eyes met, he smiled beautifully.

He tilted his head and tapped his cheek with his finger.

“Kiss me here.”

“If you don’t want to, I’ll just go hunting myself.”

As I answered so sharply, Enoch’s voice suddenly interrupted,

“I think you talk too much, Lord.”

Enoch pushed Kayden away from me with a very determined yet modest gesture.

‘It seems that Enoch’s tone of voice is getting cynical, or maybe I’m mistaken?’

Kayden, who was carelessly pushed back, looked at Enoch with a puzzled face.

“Are you serious?”

Kayden showed signs of anger.

I jumped up from my seat as I saw madness in his eyes.

Two men look at me at the same time.

If Kayden, who can’t control his emotions, and Enoch, who loses his mind when he sees blood, fight, a catastrophe will occur.

I put my finger on my lips and then I put my finger on Kayden’s cheek.

“Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t do it because I liked you, and go hunting now!”

Both Enoch and Kayden looked at me blankly. It was as if they couldn’t believe what had just happened.

Kayden, who came to his senses first, looked at me with a pretty smile. In contrast to Kayden, who had a satisfied face, Enoch had a slightly angry face.

“Margaret.”

I thought that Enoch’s nagging was about to start, so I hurriedly came up with an excuse.

“I’m going to go fish hunting. Enoch, please light the fire again.”

I felt the stinging gazes of the two men behind my back, but I didn’t look back.

‘Kayden won’t go wild like Enoch, right? Should I run away now?’

As I seriously thought about it, I pressed my temple hard. My head is throbbing.

‘But if Kayden manages to control the flow of his mana, he won’t run wild……’

Right now, without me, there was no one to stop Enoch’s seizures, and to control Kayden’s madness.

“Margaret, I care about you, too.”

“But Margaret, whatever the reason, it doesn’t change the fact that I’m interested in you.”

I remembered what the two men had said to me a while ago.

‘Why would you say something like that?’

If you had confessed, I would have easily refused, but what’s with those ambiguous words?

‘Let’s think about it later. First of all, hunting is more important now.’

After fishing for a while in the water, I prepared to make charcoal.

These days, Kayden and Enoch often hunt wild animals, so we are getting enough protein.

But the problem is that there were many difficulties in grilling meat with ordinary firewood.

‘Either it’s easy to burn, or undercooked.’

So today I decided to make charcoal.

I dug a hole and put in thin tinder twigs inside. And I put a piece of wood to make charcoal into it.

“What are you doing?”

Enoch, who approached me stacking firewood in a pyramid shape to make a fire, asked me.

“I make charcoal. Ah, charcoal is—”

“I know what charcoal is. I was just wondering what you can’t do.”

Enoch didn’t seem to be joking. I scratched my cheek in embarrassment. I don’t know if I should be praised for doing something like this. This is really not a big deal……

“It’s super easy to make.”

Because I’ve done it many times when I went camping. Enoch, who was staring at me with his arms crossed, whispered quietly,

“When I return to the Empire, I must visit the Duke of Floné.”

At his resolute words, I roughly nodded my head.

“I’ll light the fire, so do something else. You’ll hurt your wrist.”

Enoch took the wooden stick from my hand and sat quietly next to me.

Because Enoch had a knack for speed, he was able to light the fire quickly. He lit a small piece of firewood placed inside the firewood pyramid.

He looked at the color of the flame and confirmed that it was hot, then he filled the hole in the firewood pyramid with the ashes he had collected.

“We can check it out again in an hour or two.”

I nodded at what Enoch said.

“By the way, is there any news from Sir Diego?”

“He seems to have recently moved, too. Other than that, there was no news.”

Enoch still did not say he would join them. Why?

Maybe it would be better to meet the female lead sooner rather than later. However, on the other hand, there was also a hope in my heart that he would not run into her.

‘I don’t know how I feel either.’

I decided to just wait patiently.

When Kayden returned from hunting, the charcoal was ready.

Kayden came to the front of the hut with a little bird, looked at the charcoal, and rolled his eyes.

“Margaret, did you make charcoal too? Hey, now you can really tell me. You are not a noble, are you?”

I shrugged at Kayden’s question—which seemed to have become a habit—and looked at him.

“Then do you think you are a noble?”

“No, I never thought of myself as a noble.”

He was so proud that I had nothing more to say. Geez.

“Enoch and I will prepare dinner, so go take a bath first.”

At my words, Kayden shook his head with a smile on his face.

“I’m not going to take a bath.”

“What? Why? Dirty.”

“Because you kissed me, it’s such a waste to take a bath right away.”

“When did I kiss you?”

Can you even call it a kiss?

It was embarrassing when I asked such a question.

Enoch, who was sitting quietly next to me and lighting a fire in charcoal, got up from his seat.

He walked closer to Kayden with a leisurely gait.

Kayden startled by his face getting closer and stepped back.

“W-What?”

While Kayden panicked, Enoch rubbed his cheek with his hand in a rough gesture.

Then, black charcoal was smeared on Kayden’s left cheek, which I had pressed with my finger.

“FXXk! What are you doing?”

Kayden slapped Enoch’s hand with a displeased look on his face.

“You got something dirty on your cheek. Don’t be annoying in front of Margaret and go take a bath.”

Enoch answered in a very calm voice and came back to me. When our eyes met, a languid smile appeared on his lips.

‘What, why are you smiling so sexy?’

While I was mesmerized by his bewitching smile, he sat next to me and looked at the burning charcoal.

‘Come on my heart, let’s calm down.’

I struggled to come to my senses and turned my head.

Then I said to Kayden, who was swearing with his finger behind Enoch’s back.

“Kayden, don’t be like that and go take a bath. There was a lot of charcoal powder all over your left cheek.”

“What……?!”

Kayden touched his cheek with a bewildered look on his face. Then, as the black powder stuck to his palm, he spat out swear words.

When I saw him rush to the river, I laughed out loud.

***

The next day, I took my harpoon and went out to the river to fish.

Sooner or later, I’ll have to ask Kayden to make a fish trap.

It was tiring to go into the water and fish with a dress like this every time.

‘I want to find modern clothes quickly.’

My dress was messy too, and Enoch’s uniform was tattered.

‘In the original story, Yuanna is clearly wearing the pants and T-shirt she found on the island…… There are also shoes.’

It was said that not one or two, but quite a lot of clothes were hidden throughout the island.

‘It’s not a survival game looking for supplies. Finding modern objects hidden on the island is a strange concept no matter how I think about it.’

Just like a game.

It was when I came out of the river after hunting fish with such thoughts.

A rustling sound could be heard through the nearby bushes. I don’t know if it’s an animal or a human.

I pretended to be fine and took the three fish caught in the harpoon and put them down on the ground.

Then I fixed the harpoon in my hand and threw it as it was.

I threw it slightly out of the direction of the sound, but I heard a scream.

I picked up the flare gun I had put down for a while near the river to get into the water and walked in the direction of the sound.

“Shit! What is this, Young Lady Floné!”

There, Archbishop Ruzef, whom I had met before, was sitting on the ground, looking at me.