Chapter 64
In fact, if one were to pick the most suspicious person among those gathered in the cabin, it would be Margaret rather than the Saintess with the Key.
She knew how to use Magical Artifacts she had never seen before with ease, and her survival skills were too outstanding for a noble lady.
She was far too different from the Margaret that Enoch knew. It was as if someone else had possessed her.
“Enoch, are you alright?”
At Margaret’s call, Enoch quietly raised his head.
Her jewel-like, clear blue eyes came into view. Margaret was looking at him with a face full of concern.
“You don’t like duck meat, do you?”
The fact that he didn’t like duck meat was something only his aide and personal chef knew.
When he and Margaret were living together in the cave, he had forced himself to eat it because there was nothing else to eat, but he had never shown it.
But how did Margaret know that…?
Was it because she had changed so much, as if she were a different person? While on the island, he sometimes forgot. That Margaret was a woman who obsessively liked him.
“You really know everything about me.”
“I know everything about Your Highness.”
Margaret playfully agreed.
Enoch frowned as if troubled, propped his chin on his hand, and stared at her intently.
He thought he couldn’t understand her at all.
Seeing how she knew everything about him and took such good care of him, it seemed like the feelings she had for him in the past were still there, but sometimes it seemed like she could leave without any regrets, which confused him greatly.
Enoch pondered for a moment before saying to her.
“Margaret, it’s troubling when you confuse people like this.”
“…Yes?”
Margaret’s expression changed strangely as she looked at him at Enoch’s words.
It was a face that couldn’t believe what she had heard. Perhaps she was a little embarrassed.
“Oh my, you’re really being so new to this. For you to say that, of all people, it seems like your fever hasn’t gone down yet.”
Then, belatedly, Enoch recalled what she had said.
Could it be that Margaret still didn’t believe that he was worried about her?
If so, then it was understandable why she wasn’t clearly expressing her feelings and was hiding her true intentions like this.
“I’m very curious if your heart is still the same as it was in the past.”
So he deliberately brought up such a direct question.
At that moment, Kaiden appeared, picking his ear.
“I think I just heard the Crown Prince talking nonsense?”
“It’s not nonsense. Everyone knows about Lady Flone’s ardent unrequited love for Enoch.”
Luzef added, grumbling. Kaiden nodded with a sullen expression.
“Ah—it was like that in the past.”
Kaiden’s reaction was quite irritating. By stating definitively that ‘it was like that in the past,’ he seemed to want to emphasize that the current Margaret was not like that.
Enoch felt an unlike-himself petty emotion surge towards Kaiden, who was constantly interfering with him.
‘As if you know Margaret.’
Enoch was the one who had been with her from the beginning on this island. He thought that a bond that others didn’t know about had formed between Margaret and him.
“Margaret, what’s your ideal type? If you like faces, I’ve got a face too.”
Kaiden once again said something irritating and put his hand on Margaret’s shoulder.
Unable to bear it, Enoch grabbed Kaiden’s wrist.
He hesitates dozens, hundreds of times before touching Margaret, but for Kaiden, it was always easy and casual.
“Don’t you dare touch her.”
Margaret’s eyes widened as if surprised at Enoch’s heavy voice, which seemed to suppress his anger.
Kaiden shrugged his shoulders as if dumbfounded and moved away from Margaret.
“I’m okay, Enoch.”
Margaret answered so nonchalantly, then smiled and walked towards the fireplace where Diego, Luzef, and Yuanna were gathered.
Enoch stealthily got up and followed her.
“Are you doing well? I came because it seems like there’s no one who knows how to cook.”
Margaret asked Yuanna.
Yuanna’s head turned to Diego, who was standing next to her. Diego couldn’t bring himself to look straight at the dead duck and had his eyes closed.
Yuanna sighed and pointed at him.
“Well, it doesn’t seem like he’s doing well.”
“I’ve cooked before too. I can do it.”
“You can’t even prepare the ingredients. And since everyone else is a noble, they probably haven’t cooked before, of course.”
At Margaret’s firm answer, Yuanna raised a question.
“It’s strange. I’m meeting Lady for the first time, but it seems like you know us very well.”
At Yuanna’s words, Enoch felt a discomfort as if a thorn was stuck in his throat.
He thought that he was the only one Margaret was interested in. That’s why he thought she knew everything about him.
So it was like that for everyone.
It seemed that he wasn’t the only special person to her, either in the past or in the present.
“Yes…? That’s not it, you said you couldn’t do it last time. And everyone is a noble, so they probably haven’t cooked before, of course.”
At Margaret’s rebuttal, Yuanna nodded with a face of understanding. Then, she tilted her head as if still suspicious and asked Margaret.
“Lady Flone is also a noble, isn’t she?”
Margaret replied as if it were nothing.
“I’m a bit of an oddball. I’m famous for being eccentric.”
And at her answer, Kaiden, who was nearby, nodded with a face of agreement.
“Ah, right. Margaret wasn’t just any kind of eccentric.”
Luzef added.
“You should have seen Lady Flone when she was obsessed with the Love potion.”
“Love potion? Ah, that’s right. There was such a thing.”
“How does Lord know about that?”
“I went to Flone’s mansion and made a mess because he said he was sponsoring the experiment.”
Cough. Margaret coughed dryly and glanced at Kaiden.
Seeing that, Enoch became uncomfortable again. She wasn’t the type of woman to be intimidated by such words,
‘How dare you dampen Margaret’s spirits.’
Yes. He was the only one who cared about her after all. What could he do but take care of her?
Kaiden, who had been talking to Luzef, suddenly frowned and looked at Luzef. An ominous atmosphere flowed in an instant.
“Now that I think about it, it pisses me off. The so-called servants of God are experimenting on people? These God’s X-like things.”
As Kaiden cursed at Luzef, Luzef grabbed his collar with a fierce face.
“Are you done talking?”
“Does it look like I’m done? You don’t seem to know what shame is?”
“Stop it, Lord!”
Luzef and Kaiden’s voices gradually rose. Margaret sighed as she watched, and Enoch watched without particularly trying to stop them.
It wasn’t the first or second time that the two men’s conversation had turned into a fight like this.
“Stop it, everyone. Please move aside, you’re being a nuisance.”
Yuanna, who had been quietly watching the tension flowing between them, diverted their attention.
In the end, Margaret shook her head and returned to the fireplace, and Enoch also followed her and sat down in front of the fireplace.
Kaiden and Luzef seemed to be tired from fighting for a long time. Luzef grumbled and walked over here, then plopped down next to me.
The cabin became quiet for a moment.
Kaiden was busy giving instructions, watching what Diego was doing, as if he didn’t like something.
“What? That’s not how you do it?”
Kaiden stood in front of the table where Diego was standing and pointed at the prepared duck, starting to nag.
“Didn’t you remove the entrails? You have to take out the entrails first!”
Yuanna, who had been helping Diego from the side, glanced around and then slowly backed away, thinking it would be a hassle.
“Make a cut from the belly towards the tail. Ah, that’s not it… Ha, forget it. Get out of the way.”
Kaiden finally pushed Diego away and grabbed the knife. Then, he very skillfully prepared the duck.
For some reason, Kaiden’s tenacious survival skills seem to be resembling mine, but that must be a delusion…?
“No, Lord. Why do you keep speaking informally? Please use honorifics.”
Diego protested with a somewhat dissatisfied face. Kaiden stared intently at Diego as he prepared the duck.
Perhaps it was because his eyes were bright red, but it was terribly eerie when he stared at someone like that.
Diego was also narrowing his brow, so he seemed to have sensed a cool chill in Kaiden’s eyes as well. Well, it’s not for nothing that Kaiden is called a madman.
“Well, if that’s what you want, I’ll do that. Sir Diego.”
Kaiden answered nonchalantly, and this time Luzef, who was sitting next to me, became furious and fidgeted.
“No, why not to me…?!”
Kaiden ignored Luzef’s shout and cut the entrails-removed duck into large pieces with a knife.
Diego quietly watched the scene and then asked with an incomprehensible face.
“Even if Lady Flone is like that, isn’t Lord also a noble? How are you so skilled at doing something like this?”
“It’s because I’ve done it a lot. I’m a Wizard, after all. I do a lot of experiments.”
I could tell that the words ‘I do a lot of experiments’ were a joke.
Kaiden was a Wizard, but he hated experiments on living creatures.
However, Diego, who didn’t know that, looked at Kaiden with a horrified face.
But Kaiden didn’t give any further explanation and just silently continued to cut with the knife.
