Chapter 36
If he goes into Berserk state, I'll be in trouble too, so I had to make him work more actively.
"Hey Margaret, you said 'in the future'....... I was talking about what we need to do right now."
"Isn't hunting something we need to do now? You might want to keep moving your body in the future. Why don't you take charge of it?"
To Kaiden's question, I nodded brightly and answered.
Kaiden stared at my face for a moment.
"You... you're just taking this opportunity to make me the meal duty person, aren't you?"
"Did you notice?"
When I asked with a smile, Kaiden shrugged his shoulders in an exaggerated motion and sighed.
"I asked first, so I'll just play along. But in return."
He came closer. Then he slowly bent his waist towards me.
His face came close to mine. When our eyes met, he smiled prettily.
He tilted his head and tapped his cheek with his finger.
"Give me a kiss here."
"If you don't want to, I'll just go hunting myself."
As I was answering so sharply, Enoch's voice broke into our conversation.
"Lord seems to talk too much. Do you want to never use that mouth again?"
Enoch pushed Kaiden away from me with a very firm and decisive motion.
'Enoch's tone is getting rougher, isn't it? Or is it just my imagination?'
Kaiden, who had been caught off guard and pushed back powerlessly, looked at Enoch with a dumbfounded expression.
"That's a bit harsh, isn't it?"
Kaiden seemed about to retort in an angry voice.
I saw madness seeping into his eyes and jumped up from my seat.
The two men looked at me at the same time.
If Kaiden, who can't control his emotions, and Enoch, who goes into Berserk state when he sees blood, clash, a major disaster will occur.
I put my finger on my lips, then put that finger on Kaiden's cheek.
"Okay? Don't misunderstand, I didn't do it because I wanted to. Now, go hunting."
Both Enoch and Kaiden stared at me blankly. As if they couldn't believe what had just happened.
Kaiden, who came to his senses first, looked at me with a pretty smile. In contrast to Kaiden, who had a satisfied expression, Enoch looked a little angry.
"Margaret."
I thought Enoch's nagging was about to start, so I hurriedly ran away.
"I'll go fish hunting. Enoch, please relight the fire."
I felt the gazes of the two men piercing my back, but I didn't look back.
'Kaiden wouldn't go into Berserk state like Enoch, would he? Should I run away now?'
I seriously thought about that and pressed my temples. My head is throbbing.
'Still, if I control the flow of Mana, Kaiden probably won't go into Berserk state...'
Right now, if I wasn't here, there would be no one to stop Enoch's seizures or control Kaiden's madness.
"Margaret, I'm worried about you too."
"But Margaret, whatever the reason, my feelings are what make me interested in you. So I'll decide that. That lecture just now was a bit presumptuous."
I recalled the words the two men had said to me not long ago.
'Why did you say such things that make people's hearts complicated...'
I would have rejected them comfortably if they had confessed, but what is that ambiguity?
I had been living without thinking much about it, but after hearing those words, I started to care about the two of them for no reason. I can't help but sigh.
'Let's think about it later, later. Hunting is more important for now.'
After hunting fish in the water for a long time, I prepared to make charcoal.
These days, Kaiden and Enoch often hunted wild animals, so we were able to get enough protein.
But the problem was that it was difficult to grill meat with ordinary firewood.
'It burns easily, or it doesn't cook well.'
So today I decided to make charcoal.
I dug a pit and put in thin twigs that could be used as kindling. And I also put in short wooden firewood to make charcoal.
"What are you doing?"
Enoch, who came to me as I was stacking firewood in a pyramid shape and lighting a fire, asked.
"I'm making 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 would have been happy if I had done something great and received praise, but this is nothing really...
"It's very easy to make."
I've done it a lot when I went camping. Enoch, who was staring at my face with his arms crossed, quietly recited.
"When we return to the Empire, I must meet Duke Flone."
I nodded roughly at his words as if he was determined. Let's postpone that problem for now, as it's still far away.
"I'll light the fire, so do something else. You'll hurt your wrist."
Enoch snatched the wooden stick in my hand and sat quietly next to me.
Now Enoch had gotten the hang of it and was able to light the fire quickly. He put fire to the small pieces of firewood placed inside the firewood pyramid.
After checking the color of the flame and confirming that it was hot, he used the ashes he had collected to firmly fill the holes in the firewood pyramid.
"You can check it in an hour or two."
Enoch nodded at my words.
"By the way, is there any news from Sir Diego?"
"He seems to have moved his residence recently as well. There was no other news."
Enoch still didn't say he would join them. Why is that?
It might be better to meet Yuanna sooner rather than later. But on the other hand, I also had a desire not to meet her.
'I don't know my own heart.'
I decided to just wait quietly for the time to come.
The charcoal was completed around the time Kaiden, who had gone hunting, returned.
Kaiden came to the cabin with a small bird and widened his eyes when he saw the charcoal.
"Margaret, you even made charcoal? Wow, you can really tell me now. You're not a noble, are you?"
I shrugged my shoulders and glared at him at Kaiden's question, which seemed to have become a habit.
"Do you think you're acting like a noble?"
"No, I've never thought of myself as a noble, so it's okay."
He was so confident that I had nothing to say. Damn it. I should have said it so confidently too.
"Enoch and I will prepare dinner, so go wash up. You worked hard."
At my words, Kaiden shook his head with a smiling face.
"I'm not going to wash up?"
"What? Why? That's dirty."
"You even kissed me, so it would be a waste to wash it off right away."
"When did I kiss you?"
Can that be called a kiss?
I was so dumbfounded that I asked back.
It was then that Enoch, who was quietly sitting next to me and lighting the charcoal, got up from his seat.
He approached Kaiden with a leisurely gait.
Kaiden was surprised by his suddenly close face and stepped back.
"Wh-what is it?"
While Kaiden was flustered, Enoch rubbed his hand on his cheek with a bold motion.
Then, black charcoal was smeared messily on Kaiden's left cheek, where I had pressed with my finger earlier.
"What the hell are you doing?"
Kaiden showed his displeasure and pushed away Enoch's hand. He had no idea what his cheek looked like.
"There's something dirty on your cheek. Don't bother Margaret and go wash up."
Enoch, who answered in a very calm voice, returned to me. When our eyes met, a languid smile appeared on his lips.
'What, why is he smiling so sexy?'
While I was staring blankly at his seductive smile, he was sitting next to me and examining the lit charcoal.
'Let's get a grip.'
I tried to pull myself together and turned my head.
And I said to Kaiden, who was giving the finger behind Enoch's back.
"Kaiden, don't just stand there, go wash up. There's a lot of charcoal powder on your cheek."
"What...?!"
Kaiden touched his cheek with a flustered expression. Then, when black powder came out on his palm, he cursed.
I couldn't help but burst into laughter when I saw him running to the river in a hurry.
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The next day, I took a Spear and went to the river to hunt fish.
I should ask Kaiden to make a fish trap soon.
I'm tired of going into the water to hunt while wearing a dress like this every time.
'I want to find modern clothes quickly.'
My dress was messy, but Enoch's uniform was just as tattered.
'In the original story, Yuanna clearly changed into pants and a T-shirt that she found on the island... There were also shoes like boots.'
It was said that quite a lot of clothes, not just one or two, were hidden all over the island.
'It's not like a supply-finding survival game. Finding modern objects hidden on the island is a strange picture no matter how you think about it.'
It's like a game.
I was thinking about such things when I was hunting fish and coming out of the river.
I heard a rustling sound from the nearby bushes. If it wasn't an animal sound, it sounded like someone was moving.
I pretended to be nonchalant and took out three fish that were attached to the Spear and put them on the floor.
Then, I gripped the Spear in my hand and threw it as it was.
I threw it slightly off the direction of the sound, and I heard a scream.
I picked up the Flares that I had temporarily put down in front of the river to go into the water and walked in the direction of the sound.
"Damn it! What are you doing, Lady Flone!"
There, Bishop Ruzef, whom I had met before, was sitting on the floor looking at me pathetically.
