I Thought It Was a Healing Farming Game - Chapter 54

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I thought this was supposed to be a healing farm game.
Episode 54

While I was buzzing with excitement at the thought of buying new items, Siard served food onto my plate from beside me.
“If there’s anything else you’d like, please let me know.”
“Oh, thank you!”
As I accepted the dish, I suddenly noticed a bandage on his hand.
“Siard, did you hurt your hand?”
Looking closer, there were small wounds not just on his palm but on the back of his hand too—marks that looked like he’d been cut and scraped multiple times by something sharp.
“Ah. I seem to have injured myself while harvesting medicinal herbs. It should heal quickly once I apply some salve.”
“Oh dear…….”
Those beautiful hands.
As I gazed at the wounds with concern, a memory surfaced—a time when I’d harvested medicinal herbs together with him.
‘Didn’t we wear gloves when collecting herbs back then? How could he have gotten scraped up that badly?’
It was a bit strange, but I didn’t press further and simply cautioned him with worry.
“Next time, use thicker gloves, Siard.”
“……I suppose they were sharper than I expected. I’ll be more careful going forward.”
“Yes, please do. Don’t hurt yourself.”

Siard’s Affinity +10

“I shall do so.”
After the conversation ended, I tried to focus on eating when I witnessed something suspicious across the table.
Plop, plop.
The Twins were removing every tomato from their plate.
No matter how much you dislike vegetables, you shouldn’t play with your food.
“What’s wrong? Don’t you want to eat the tomatoes?”
Yu Eun nodded without hesitation. Eun Yu also pushed the tomatoes aside and said, “Don’t want even one.”
“Not even one.”
“Then don’t throw them away—give them to me.”
I offered my plate and received all of the Twins’ tomatoes.
As a farmer, I couldn’t bear to see perfectly good crops go to waste.
I was popping tomatoes into my mouth when Kaies set down his utensils with a soft clink.
“Not hungry, Kaies?”
“I’m done.”
“Already? Won’t you be hungry later……?”
“I don’t really like feeling too full.”

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‘Why are people here so particular about their appetites……?’
One was a picky eater, the other ate sparingly.
After setting down his utensils, Kaies left the table entirely and headed for the sofa. Then he flopped down.
He seemed intent on resting his eyes while everyone else finished eating.
“Kaies, you should digest first. Would you like me to get you a blanket?”
When I asked with concern, Kaies, who had settled back against the sofa, shot back, “Am I a child?”
Am I a child?
Kaies waved his hand dismissively and closed his eyes.
The long meal finally wound down, and empty plates were gradually cleared away. The residents began to rise from their seats.
“Should we unwrap the birthday gifts now?”
“Priam, come on and show us one by one what you got!”
Before the words even finished, everyone had moved to the living room and piled gift boxes onto the table.
“Thank you all so much! Just having you here to celebrate with me makes me truly happy.”
As I watched Priam smile with such joy, the expression on every resident’s face softened. Mine did too.
‘I wonder what gifts the other residents prepared?’
That’s when one resident called out.
“Pick out the one that catches your eye first!”
“Sure.”
Priam lifted a gift with eager interest. Even among the ornate wrapping paper, a black box stood out unmistakably.
“A black box?”
Kaies, draped lazily over the back of his chair, raised a hand.
“That one’s from me.”
“Where on earth did you find black wrapping paper?”
“It suits my taste.”
As Priam unwrapped the gift, a small potion bottle emerged from inside.
‘A potion?’
It was a slender flask of a potion, crowned with an ornate golden stopper.
“The effects are written on the card,” Kaies said tersely. The pink liquid sloshing inside the flask seemed oddly familiar.

‘What is this?’
I stared intently trying to place it, but no description appeared.
‘I’m certain I’ve seen a potion this color before…….’
As I thought back, the Love Potion I’d glimpsed aboard the Trading Ship came to mind.
‘Surely not.’
Could that actually be the Love Potion?
‘The color is far too identical.’
The bottle shape was different, yet something about it felt eerily similar.
I hesitated and approached Kaies. Sensing my presence, he turned and spoke.
“What?”
“Oh, no…… I was just curious what kind of potion it is. Could you tell me?”
“Where’s the fun if you know everything?”
His calm voice made my eyes dart with unease.
Even if, by some chance, my suspicion were correct.
There was no way Priam would use such a potion.
At the very least, knowing that the recipient was Priam, I chose to trust him.
“Thank you, Kaies.”
Priam smiled brightly and set the box aside.
Next, he began opening the other gifts one by one.
When several complete novel series appeared in succession, the two townspeople who had prepared gifts bristled.
“What? We got you the same thing!”
“I said I’d buy the books first!”
The townspeople, who seemed like siblings, began their petty squabble.
“It’s fine. The contents are different, aren’t they? I’ll have plenty to read all summer. Thank you both.”
As Priam hugged the books to his chest and expressed genuine joy, the argument ended at once.
Watching this, I gazed at my own gift box with a trembling heart.
‘Will he be happy with my gift?’
I’d chosen something suited to Priam’s taste, yet I felt anxious wondering if it might not be to his liking after all.
“This gift here…….”
Priam picked up the gift placed at the very front. I raised my hand lightly and spoke.
“That’s from me! The one with the flowers is a letter, so read it later, okay?”
“Really? Thank you…… The flowers are beautiful.”
Priam, holding the letter envelope and a single flower, brought the bloom to his nose and breathed in its fragrance.
“Can I open the gift now, Miel?”
“Of course, go ahead!”
Priam carefully undid the string.
“The wrapping is cute too.”
Priam smiled faintly as he withdrew the contents, turning the object over in his hands.
“It’s a diary!”
Priam’s expression brightened.
I already knew that keeping a diary was his hobby.
“……Wait? There are two of them?”
Priam tilted his head in confusion as he discovered another diary deeper in the gift box.
“Priam, open one of the diaries.”
The moment my words left my lips, Priam opened the diary to its first page.
Priam’s gaze fixed on the title at the very beginning. He spoke slowly.
“Exchange Diary?”
I nodded, my heart trembling as I began to explain.
“Right, so you write in a diary, and then you exchange it with someone else to read. You can leave comments and impressions for each other too.”
“An exchange diary? I’ve never done anything like this before…….”
“Since there are two diaries, you just give one to whoever you want to share it with, and you both write in them!”
I added that they should feel free to choose, since writing with me might feel like a burden.
Priam’s eyes gleamed as he looked down at the diary.
In the next moment, he clutched the gift to his chest and bounded toward me like an eager puppy.
“Miel! Let’s do it together!”
I hadn’t expected him to agree so readily.
“Really? You don’t mind doing it with me?”
“I want to do it with you, Miel.”
His answer, without a moment’s hesitation, moved me deeply.
I nodded eagerly and accepted his proposal.
“Perfect! Then let’s write together.”

Priam’s Affinity +20

After the gifts had been opened, everyone began bustling about.
“Come on, let’s all clean up together! It’ll be too much for Priam to do alone.”
I joined in, hurrying to carry away the empty plates, when I spotted Kaies and Siard deep in conversation by the corner.
“……there’s no harm in it. There is precedent for such things, is there not?”
“I know, I know.”
The atmosphere between them seemed unusually grave, and I found myself drawn to listen.
‘What are they talking about?’
As I drew closer, my eyes met Kaies’s. Siard’s gaze followed his, and he turned to look at me.

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