I Thought It Was a Healing Farming Game - Chapter 73

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I thought it was supposed to be a healing farming game.
Episode 73

The mouthful was enormous, but I couldn’t refuse their kindness, so I opened my mouth wide.
Spaghetti packed both cheeks full. I felt like a hamster.
‘How do they manage to chew and swallow all of this?’
While I struggled and mumbled, the Twins slurped up their spaghetti strands and emptied their lunch containers.
They even speared two meatballs at a time on their forks, eating with gusto.
‘They eat well. That makes me happy.’
I know fine food comes out of the Mansion every day, but it feels good knowing they enjoy something I made with my own hands.
Soon the Twins had polished off every lunch container and sprawled out diagonally. They looked like a satisfied cat after a full meal.
“Don’t lie down right away. Understood?”

Twins’ Affinity +30
Twins’ Affinity Level 4 achieved
You can now access all rooms in the Mansion.

A lock clicked open—the sound effect echoed in my ear.
‘Level 4 already?’
Even though I hadn’t seen them as often as the other residents, I felt quite proud.
‘I’ll have to visit more often from now on.’
After we finished eating, we played a round of tag to help with digestion, and then started a game where we drew pictures based on words to guess what they were.

[A mouse protecting cheese from a cat]

“Uhhhhh….”
It was difficult. To convey dynamic action, I sketched a giant cat’s shadow looming behind the mouse.
I was so focused on drawing with my pen that I didn’t look up until I’d finished.
The Twins were still sprawled on the carpet, drawing away.
I gathered up the scattered papers and crayons to tidy things up, stealing glances at the drawings scattered across the floor.
‘They drew a lot in the game too. I wonder what these are?’
Some looked like portraits, while many made no sense at all.
A massive figure painted pitch-black, a small rectangular bed drawn in a small square space, a person lying on their side in red….
“Hmm.”
The crooked, clumsy lines looked like drawings from kindergarteners.
‘The Twins are probably older than that, but they always seem so childlike.’
Among them was also a drawing of a Doll with articulated joints. You could tell they’d studied the real thing closely and tried hard to copy it.
‘How adorable.’
While I was organizing the scattered room with a smile playing at the corners of my mouth, the Twins set down their crayons in unison.
Then they lifted the papers with their drawings high in the air.
“Miel. We finished.”
“Really? Let me see.”
I examined the pictures they held out, switching between them.
“Eun-yu’s is… um… a hippo that escaped from the sea?”
“No.”
“Then a bear?”
I spent a long time struggling with this highest-difficulty drawing game, but ultimately failed miserably.
As we continued guessing at their drawings, the conversation naturally shifted to the Twins’ preferences.
“So do you both have the same tastes?”
“Tastes. Same.”
“Really? There’s nothing different between you?”
“There are flavors we prefer more.”
“Really? What kind?”
“I prefer meat.”
“I prefer chocolate.”
“Then let’s try this.”
It was a test where I’d name a specific food, and they’d nod if they liked it, or shake their head if they didn’t.
“Steak!”
“Carrots!”
“Spaghetti!”
“Grilled lobster!”
Both of them responded identically without hesitation. My eyes lit up with delight.
“This is so amazing! What does it feel like to have someone with exactly the same tastes as you right here beside you?”
“It’s just the same.”
Yu-eun said it casually, munching on jelly as she spoke.
‘But they seem so close together, and I’m jealous…….’
As an only child, I couldn’t help but envy them for having a sibling they could do everything with.
After playing like that for hours on end, the afternoon had slipped away before I knew it.
I finally got to my feet and said so.
“Oh, look at the time. I should be heading out now.”
The moment the words left my mouth, Yu-eun and Eun-yu’s movements stopped dead.
The two of them stared up at me as I stood, and spoke in unison.
“Why are you leaving?”
“What? Well, I’ve been here since morning playing with you… we ate spaghetti, played games, drew pictures.”
“What are you going to do?”
“I was planning to check on the Vegetable Garden! The corn harvest is coming up soon.”
“We don’t like it.”
I was startled to see Eun-yu answer so bluntly, her face expressionless.
“You don’t like it? You don’t like corn?”
Yu-eun tossed down the Doll she’d been holding and grabbed a fistful of my sleeve.
“Don’t farm.”
“Play with us.”
The two of them spoke almost in perfect synchrony.

Choice
Play with them
Refuse

A Choice appeared before my eyes. Looking at the Twins holding on to me, my heart wavered.
It was hard to refuse and turn away so easily.
‘But the corn farming is important too…….’
Because the Fountain I so desperately wanted was riding on it.
I wrapped both their hands in mine and lowered myself to meet their eyes.
“I’m sorry, you two. But once the harvest is done, I’ll come play more often. How’s that?”
“We don’t like it. We want to play more now.”
“Ah… right now I…….”
“Do you like farming more than us?”
Two pairs of large eyes fixed on me, cold and unwavering.
I coaxed the Twins gently as they clung to me without blinking, relentlessly.
“Come on, that’s not it. You two are more important.”
“Then stay with us.”

Choice
Play with them
Refuse

I stared blankly at the status window, bewildered by what I was seeing.
I’d already chosen refuse, so why were the same choices appearing again?
“Ah…….”
I hesitated for a moment. The Twins’ large eyes blinked at me like Dolls right before my face.
They kept holding on like this, and it felt wrong to refuse again.
“Okay. Let’s play!”
“Really?”
“Yeah! I’ll stay and play more.”
In the end, I gave in to the Twins’ whining.
Either way, even if I went to farm, I’d keep thinking about these two.
I know all too well how lonely it is when there’s no one to play with.
“So what should we play now? We’ve drawn quite enough pictures.”
The Twins answered not with words but by each seizing one of my hands.
Following them as they led the way, I found myself in the Swimming Pool housed within the Annex Building of the Mansion.
“There’s a pool here?”
The moment I caught sight of the water-filled pool, my face brightened.
“Oh, but I don’t have a swimsuit.”
“I’ll get you one.”
A moment later, the household staff brought me a pair of short-sleeved shirts and shorts.
‘Thank goodness it’s not one of those loose, frilly swimsuits the Twins favor… I hope the size fits.’
I tried them on with some misgivings, but they fit perfectly.
Gradually wading into the water alongside the Twins before diving into the pool, I felt a cool, tingling sensation rush up from my toes.
“Ah, this is refreshing! It’s been forever since I’ve gone swimming.”
After splashing about with the Twins for a while, I grew eager to swim and made my way to the far end of the pool.
“Phew! Ah, this is fun—”
The moment I surfaced and wiped the water from my face, I saw a wave bearing down toward me.
A wave the size of a house—something I’d never have expected to see in a pool like this.
“Huh?”
Before I could move or even scream, I was pulled under with a churning rush of water.
‘No!’
My body flipped over several times and I gasped for breath, flailing my limbs in panic, when suddenly someone seized my arm with a fierce grip.
That grip pulled my body smoothly back up to the surface.
“Ugh—phew!”
The moment my face broke the surface, I shook off the water and opened my eyes.
It was Eun-yu who had pulled me up onto the pool ladder.
“Miel.”
“Cough! Goodness, you scared me. There’s an artificial wave feature in here?”
“Frightened?”
“Huh? No, no. Startled, sure, but I’m fine!”
I flashed a quick smile, worried the Twins might fret unnecessarily.
Eun-yu held my arm and studied my face for a long moment, then gazed out toward the distance.
I turned to look where his eyes were fixed. Another artificial wave was building.
“No! No! Wait. How many times is this going to—”
“Rescue you?”
“Wait, we could both get swept under.”
I tried to scramble up the ladder alone, but the hand Eun-yu had clamped on my arm left me unable to move an inch.

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