I Thought It Was a Healing Farming Game - Chapter 67

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I thought this was supposed to be a healing farming game.
Chapter 67

Whoosh—
The sound of rain and wind battering the window had driven sleep clean away.
‘The rain’s coming down hard…… Wait, did I close all the windows?’
With the storm raging so fiercely, I found myself worrying whether the chickens in the Chicken Coop would be all right.
I dragged myself out of bed, feeling along the wall to switch on the light.
I peered outside. The landscape that had bustled with life during the day lay cold and still, like an amusement park locked up for the night.
I made a circuit of the house, checking that every window was properly shut.
Then I retrieved an Umbrella and a Lantern from the wardrobe and headed for the Chicken Coop.
The entrance was drenched by the driving rain, but fortunately the downpour hadn’t reached the huddled hen in the back.
“You all right?”
Only after confirming the hen was in good condition did I relax and straighten up.
As I turned to head back inside, a faint human presence mingled with the sound of the wind.
‘Someone’s out there?’
Crunch, crunch.
The sound of footsteps in rain-soaked earth.
I stood still, listening intently.
“That direction……”
I raised the Lantern, shining its light toward where the sound came from.
“That’s toward Siard’s House.”
Why would there be sounds from that direction at this hour?
‘Could something have happened because of the downpour?’
A tree falling and crushing his house, the way one had some time back.
As worry and anxiety took root, my imagination spiraled without restraint.
Siard collapsed and unable to get up. Siard trapped in mud, his legs stuck fast.
Injured and with no one to help him, left in dire straits……
“No!”
Panic seized me. I gripped the Lantern tightly and bolted toward the sound.
Rain lashing down through the Umbrella soaked my body, but I didn’t care.
“Huff, huff.”
Through the curtain of rain, Siard’s House gradually came into view.
As I approached the front yard, a pre-lightning flash suddenly blazed, illuminating the surroundings in stark white.
In that instant, I caught sight of a large man cloaked entirely in black from head to toe, wielding a shovel and tearing at the earth.
I stopped dead in my tracks.
At the same moment, the man’s digging ceased.
He turned his head, but his face remained hidden beneath the hood of his Cloak.
The sound I’d heard earlier must have been him excavating the earth with his shovel.
At the man’s feet lay something split open and crimson, crushed and rolling through the rainwater.
I stood motionless, my lips moving soundlessly. My breath leaked thinly into the cold dawn air.
I couldn’t tear my gaze away, nor could I simply turn and flee.
After what felt like hours but was only seconds, I took a breath and was turning to run when—
“Miel.”
A voice soft as cotton candy called out to me.
As the man pulled back his Cloak, eyes that gleamed in the Lantern light were revealed, along with hair as pure white as snow.
“What are you doing here?”
Only then did I recognize the man as Siard.
I breathed heavily, lowering the Lantern to shine it at his feet.
The object rolling across the earth was a Tomato, split open from hitting the ground.
The crushed Tomato, mixed with rainwater, stained the earthen ground a deep red.
“A Tomato……”
The moment I understood what it was, all my tension drained away, and my legs went weak.
“Haa……”
As I sank into a crouch, Siard came straight over and caught me.
“Are you all right?”
“What on earth are you doing with tomatoes in the middle of the night?”
“The heavy rain snapped all the tomato stalks, so I was rushing to clean them up when—”
“Ah….”
I’d nearly fainted, thinking I’d stumbled upon another gruesome accident scene.
Siard caught my arm and helped me to my feet.
“And what brings you out on such a dark night, Miel?”
“The rain… it woke me up.”
“Didn’t I give you tea leaves?”
“I drank them every day and ran out. With all this rain, I wanted to check on the Chicken Coop, and then I heard sounds coming from your house, so I came to see. I thought maybe something had happened to you.”
“I see.”
“I was worried something might be wrong!”
“I’m sorry for alarming you. The walk here wasn’t frightening, was it?”
“Still, if you were in trouble, I needed to help you….”
As the tension drained away, my voice wavered without my meaning it to.
Siard set the shovel down and peeled off his soiled gloves.
Then he approached me and carefully sheltered my rain-soaked head with his palm.
“There’s nothing to worry about. Please, set your mind at ease.”
His voice—warm and tender—seemed to seep through the cold air.
“Yes… I made a silly mistake and got myself completely drenched for nothing.”
My rain-soaked body shivered with cold, trembling all over.
“Achoo!”
A loud sneeze burst out, and Siard immediately removed his Raincoat and draped it across my shoulders.
Then he guided me toward the entrance.
“Come inside.”
Stepping into the house, warm air enveloped my chilled frame.
I relaxed my hunched shoulders and let out a sigh of relief. Siard handed me a thick towel and pointed toward the bathroom.
“I’ll finish gathering the tomatoes outside, so please go wash up.”
“But you’ll be cold too… Achoo!”
Siard lifted his wrist to show me. The Abalone Bracelet I’d given him hung there.
“I’ll be fine. This bracelet has a Temperature Regulation Function built in.”
“Oh… thank goodness, achoo!”
“Go on into the bathroom now. I’ll lay out a change of clothes for you.”
“Th-thank you.”
I rubbed my goosebumped arms briskly as I hurried into the bathroom.
I let the warm water wash away the chill that had seeped into my bones.
Siard’s bewildered expression as he’d noticed me while gathering tomatoes came to mind. I felt embarrassed for no reason.
‘I guess I’ve been on edge ever since that incident.’
I sniffled and let the warm water stream over me.
‘And I almost misunderstood Siard of all people. How ridiculous.’
As soon as I stepped out of the bathroom, I dried off my body and hair with the thick towel.
I was careful to dry my hair thoroughly so I wouldn’t catch a cold.
I’d changed into dry clothes and finished drying my hair completely, but Siard still hadn’t returned.
Worried, I peered out the window, then looked around the house.
That’s when I noticed Siard’s bedroom door standing half-open.
‘Why is it open?’
Now that I thought about it, I could freely enter Siard’s room now.
‘I reached Affinity Level 3 and unlocked it, but I’ve been too busy to look inside until now.’
Curious, I poked my head through the gap in the door to peek inside.
The interior was exactly as neat and orderly as Siard himself. Everything was organized with meticulous care.
Every drawer had a label, and Medicine Bottles were arranged by shape and color in perfect rows.
“I’ve never seen anyone this organized before.”
Even items of similar length, color, and shape were sorted and lined up with precision.
The flawless neatness might have seemed obsessive to some, but….
‘Siard works in medicine, so the cleaner the better, right?’
My trust in Siard was absolute.
After all, someone attentive and meticulous would naturally be more thorough in observing a patient’s condition.
I was about to close the door again after looking around his spotless room when—
Clink.
A sound like metal striking metal came from behind the door.
‘What was that?’
As I turned back from the door in bewilderment, a broad key ring caught my eye.
Keys with name tags hung from the ring in a neat row.

[Herb Field]
[Clinic]
[Office]

“Wait—this is Kaies’s, isn’t it?”
There was even a card-shaped key among them, the kind used to open Kaies’s Office.
‘A duplicate, then.’
So they were closer than I’d thought—that’s what I’d assumed in that moment.

[Basement]

I tilted my head and looked down at the key ring.
“A basement?”
The fact that there was a basement I’d never even known existed stirred something in me—a memory just on the edge of breaking through.

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