Chapter 45

I shrugged my shoulders toward Kayden, turned to Arthdal, and added,

“Oh, but there may be poisonous mushrooms, you can’t eat carelessly, so please show me beforehand.”

Then Yuanna pulled out some mushrooms and pushed them out to me.

“Is this okay?”

She usually used to say a lot of strange things, but she was also like an excellent student who did what she was asked to do enthusiastically.

I nodded, confirming that it was the same ox tongue mushroom that I had.

“Yes. It’s edible. Please look for more of these.”

At my words, Yuanna nodded her head with a determined face.

Yuanna went back to Diego’s side as before, had a conversation with him, and started looking for the mushroom together.

No, I will correct it. She showed Diego the mushroom that she had shown me and had him search for mushrooms that looked exactly the same.

She was also a student who handed over the homework she had to do to someone else.

‘I have to live like that, too.’

Arthdal ​​was still doing nothing, leaning obliquely on a wooden pole and observing us.

“What have you been eating all this time?”

I dug for mushrooms and asked Yuanna, who was not far away. Yuanna looked lost in thought for a moment and then sighed and replied,

“I mainly lived by collecting fruits or shellfish I picked up from the river. It was really hard. Ah! I caught a rabbit once, too.”

At her words, Arthdal ​​smiled and responded,

“I caught the rabbit.”

“Then what’s the point? There was no one who could skin the rabbit, so we eventually couldn’t eat it.”

In response to Yuanna’s reply, Arthdal closed his mouth with a look as if he had intervened for no reason. While listening to their conversation, I wondered and tilted my head and asked a question.

“Can’t you do it, Sir Diego? Normally, when you go out for a monster subjugation or battle, don’t you go camping?”

Diego, who was quietly collecting mushrooms next to Yuanna, stopped moving. Yuanna glanced at him and burst into laughter.

“Sir Diego can’t handle cute things. He loves rabbits and squirrels so much.”

……huh?

“He’s too scared to see gruesome things. I don’t know why he became the Knight Commander.”

Diego’s face flushed red as Yuanna sighed and shook her head.

“That, that’s a misunderstanding.”

“Is that so?”

Yuanna answered dryly, and Diego bit his lip without answering anything. He seems to have thought that it was better.

From what I’ve heard, it seems that he really doesn’t have the ability to survive, but I wonder how he survived until now.

“I heard you don’t know how to make a fire, how did you eat the shellfish?”

“Ah, I accidentally picked up the embers and used them to survive for a few days before it rained.”

“Yes……? Embers……?”

Did she pick up embers from this rainforest? As expected, the female lead seems to be allowed to do anything.

“I happened to smell something burning while taking a walk, so I went there and found that the dry leaves were on fire. It was my luck.”

At the words Yuanna added, I was lost in thought with my chin on the back of my hand. This is a tropical area, so the humidity is high, but dry leaves in this forest……

Could it be because this is a place where the sun shines all the time?

In any case, we collected enough fruits and mushrooms and returned to the hut.

In the meantime, Ruzef shared the purified water and made a fire to boil the mushrooms in the water.

Diego and Yuanna ate the mushrooms without thinking. And Arthdal, who was still suspicious of me, carefully ate the mushroom.

“Before we talk about our future plans…… Should we introduce ourselves first?”

“Is there anyone here who doesn’t know each other’s names?”

Arthdal responded to me sarcastically. It was unexpected, but I lightly ignored what he said. He looks like XX, but he’s higher than me, so I’ll be patient.

Yuanna carefully said, “It seems that all the main characters of the Empire and the Kingdom have gathered, right?”

Enoch kept his arms crossed and stood by, and Arthdal ​​quarreled with me again.

“Well, it seems so. But in the case of Young Lady Floné, rather than the main character…… the word celebrity is more suitable.”

“Pfft, Margaret is no ordinary celebrity. She is a mad dog. Ha ha ha!”

Kayden burst into laughter at Arthdal’s words. I glared at Kayden with an annoyed face. I don’t know whose side he is on.

“You better shut up. You’re crazy, too.”

“Oh, that’s right. We are a crazy couple. We look great together,” Kayden replied happily.

“I’m not as crazy as you are.”

“Who would believe that?”

“Enoch.”

I turned to Enoch with hope. As expected, my savior Enoch took my side.

“You are the only one who is crazy, Lord. How dare you treat Margaret like you.”

As expected from Enoch. I smiled brightly at him. Enoch also looked back at me with a smile.

I turned to Kayden with a triumphant face.

“See?”

“We are a crazy couple, so the Crown Prince is jealous. Don’t be fooled, Margaret. You are crazy.”

“……do you want to die?”

As if now familiar with this conversation, Ruzef buried his face in his palms and avoided everyone’s gaze. I think he’s embarrassed.

Yeah, I admit it. Me too, but I’m especially embarrassed for Kayden.

Yuanna and Diego looked at us with confused faces. On the other hand, Arthdal looked at us with a face full of contempt.

He said, “Each line is so vulgar. Are the two of you really nobles?”

Isn’t Arthdal the rudest and uncultured here? I just shrugged. Kayden also shrugged after me and winked at me.

“Both of you were born with the noblest blood among the nobles. I envy you.”

Yuanna responded to Arthdal’s words instead of us.

It felt like the word ‘I envy you’ had a thorn in it. It sounded like an irony, not because she was really envious. Because she didn’t seem to admire the nobility.

There was nothing wrong. Because the status of the Floné family was comparable to the imperial family.

And the Rohde family, where Kayden was born and raised, was also a conservative orthodox aristocrat. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Langridge Empire was built by wizards, the power of the wizards was strong, and the influence of the Rohde family was great.

To put it simply, the representative family of civil servants was the Floné family, the representative of the military officers was the Diego family, the Marquis of Wilterheim, and the family representative of the arts, sports, and commerce was the Marquis of Rohde.

The fact that people like Margaret and Kayden came from great families is really surprising.

Yes, in a way, as Kayden said, we are a great couple. A crazy couple.

“I will greet you properly. I’m not a maniac, I am Margaret Rose Floné.”

I got up from my seat, grabbed the hem of my torn and messy dress, bent my knees, and greeted politely.

Margaret’s etiquette is perfect. She also dreams of becoming the Crown Princess so she needs to polish her shell[1] to look good to many.

[1] Looks good only on the outside.

Even if her personality is like that of a mad dog, she has a high-quality education because she is the daughter of a prestigious family.

Kayden, amazed at my greeting, was still chewing the mushrooms.

“Why didn’t you say that to me? I want to see you greet me so beautifully.”

“Please be quiet, Kayden. I’m greeting people I’m seeing for the first time.”

I clenched my teeth and answered Kayden, then sat down.

The Saintess looked at us and smiled, rose from her seat, put her hands on her chest, then lifted the hem of her robe, and bowed her head to me. It was a priest’s greeting.

“It is an honor to meet Young Lady, whom I had only heard of through rumors. I am Yuanna Lucy.”

We gave names one by one, like elementary school students who were assigned to a new class and introduced themselves.

It was me, Yuanna, and even Ruzef and Diego who got up and greeted each other with etiquette, the rest sat down while greeting.

“Does everyone know why and how we got to this island?”

Again, Yuanna took the initiative and started a conversation.

In fact, the people with the highest ranks here were Enoch and Arthdal, and neither of them seemed to want to take the initiative.

In particular, Enoch was busy putting mushrooms in my bowl, far from taking the initiative.

At that time, Enoch was working, I was having tea in the mansion, Kayden was going to overturn the temple, and Ruzef was praying, and when we opened our eyes, we were already here.

The rest were no different from us. Diego was practicing swordsmanship, Yuanna was praying in the temple, and Arthdal was taking a nap and was already here when he woke up.

They were all dressed in uniforms. It was only me and Arthdal ​​who were wearing indoor clothes.

Arthdal, who rested his chin on the back of his hand, opened his mouth while looking at me.

“I’m a little suspicious of you, Young Lady Floné. Even if you didn’t kidnap us directly, weren’t you related to something? You are the most suspicious person here.”

Here we go again. I rubbed my temple and looked at Arthdal ​​with a tired face.