I Thought It Was a Healing Farming Game - Chapter 85

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I thought it was a Healing Farming Game.
85화

I’d planned to search for the Twins while they hid and use the opportunity to explore the Mansion, but the children shook their heads.
“Why? Don’t you feel like playing Hide and Seek today?”
“I want to stay next to Miel.”
“Oh, my.”
The corners of my mouth lifted. Unable to hide the softness blooming in my chest, I broke into a grin, and both children crawled over and flopped down on top of me.
With both of them piled on, the weight was considerable, but it was all the heaviness of love and affection.
“Don’t go anywhere.”
“O-okay.”
“I wish you wouldn’t disappear, Miel…….”
At those words, I blinked and looked down at the Twins.
If this had been before, I wouldn’t have understood what they meant and would’ve tilted my head in confusion first, but now something clicked into place.
Watching the residents I’d grown attached to vanish one by one, perhaps these children had grown anxious about when I might leave too.
“Were you lonely?”
“No.”
But whether my assumption was wrong or not, the Twins’ answer came with an odd composure.
“Because we like Miel.”
“Miel has to stay here.”
It echoed what they’d said before, but the nuance was entirely different.
As if they’d already decided the answer between themselves.
“Thank you, you two.”
Still, they wanted to stay with me because they liked me. That must be it.
The children had grown up with that yes-to-everything indulgence, like a pampered princess and prince, so they had stubborn streaks too.
Their faces gazing up at me from close by looked just like fairies sprung from a storybook.
“You two are going to be such beautiful young people when you grow up! Already this pretty.”
The Twins, with their doll-like eyes, blinked and tilted their heads inquisitively.
“You want us to grow up?”
“Hm? I don’t know. Growing up would be nice, and now is nice too. I like everything about you both.”
I hugged them tight with both arms.
“But could you shift over just a little bit……? I can’t breathe.”
The Twins rolled to the side and snuggled against me.
After they drifted peacefully to sleep, I lay staring at the Ceiling and sank into thought.
If I were given a chance to return to reality, what should I do?
I’d given these residents so much affection. As the time I spent with them accumulated, the very thought of leaving them behind made my chest tighten.
‘It would be so lonely…….’
Even if I opened my eyes again in a hospital, it didn’t feel like it would bring only joy.
Even if I woke with a healthy body, there was no one besides my grandmother to welcome me home.
‘Grandmother…….’
But thinking of her made my heart waver. I missed her.
I wanted to rush to her side, brag that I was healthy now, and pour out all the childish affection I’d been unable to show her until now.
With my mind in turmoil, I couldn’t lie still.
I carefully raised myself without waking the sleeping Twins.
After gently draping a Blanket over both children, I began tidying the scattered space.
I thought that if I kept moving, the unsettled feeling might settle a little.
As I put away toys one by one, a piece of Paper wedged in the corner caught my eye.
“Oh dear. To leave it here like this…….”
I unfolded the crumpled Paper.
‘Is this a drawing?’
Below a picture drawn in Crayon was a single line of uneven handwriting.

[Bad Mister]

Bad…… Mister?
I rolled my eyes to examine the drawing.
Next to a large man with a fierce appearance, the Twins were drawn small and meager.
Yet something about the man’s face and clothing felt familiar.
Like that doll they’d played with long ago, the one holding a bottle and bellowing at the top of its lungs.
Just as I was folding the paper away with an uneasy feeling, words scrawled on the next page caught my eye.

[He yelled really loud at us]
[He tried to hit us]

“What?”
A startled sound escaped my lips.

[Bad people should be punished]

Beside that brief sentence lay another drawing—the man bound tight with rope.
“…….”
My eyes widened sharply.
That image too resembled how they’d wrapped the doll with wire during their play.
I hastily searched the surroundings and seized another sheet of paper.
This one also bore a drawing and what looked like a title—a short sentence.

[The older siblings we play with]

Just as written, another pair of siblings appeared beside the Twins—both with dark hair and dark eyes.

[They come to play every single day]
[They said they were siblings like us]

At first it read like a heartwarming story, but as the pages progressed, the handwriting grew rougher and rougher.

[They come every single day, but now they only play with us for a little bit]
[We asked them not to leave and they got angry]

‘Did the Twins cling to them so much they found it annoying?’
In that moment of sympathy, my gaze froze on the next line.

[A lot of our jewels have gone missing]

I gasped and examined the drawing, then checked the back of the paper.
Only the Twins were drawn this time. Beneath their eyes, blue teardrops were sketched in crayon.

[Kaies said we’ll never see them again]
[So sad]
[We only have each other as siblings]

With a grave expression, I stared quietly at the Sketchbook.
Ding!

Hidden Quest
– Twins’ Sketchbook Quest (2/10)

The question mark in the Hidden Quest vanished, replaced by the word “Sketchbook.”
“The Sketchbook…… so that’s it.”
A picture diary drawn by the Twins in their Sketchbook.
It seemed to be the clue that could reveal the children’s past.
I combed through the surroundings thoroughly but found only one more page.

– Twins’ Sketchbook Quest (3/10)

‘I searched the whole room and only found three pages. Are the rest in another room?’
After gazing down at the Twins sleeping soundly, I carefully stepped into the Hallway.
I opened the door to the adjacent room. The Maid passing by didn’t stop me.
While searching every corner of the room, I found a piece of Sketchbook paper lying beneath the curtain.
‘Here too—just lying in some corner? It’s not like we’re on a treasure hunt.’
I crouched down and picked up the paper.

– Twins’ Sketchbook Quest (4/10)

Then I read through the handwriting, clearly written in a fury.

The new woman asked for my dress
When I said no she took it
It was a dress I treasured
Yueun got angry instead of me
Bad person

Beside the text was a drawing of a woman opening Yueun’s wardrobe and carrying away an armful of dresses.
“Ugh…”
I exhaled heavily and flipped the paper over. On the back was a drawing of a doll.
“What’s this?”
I squinted and checked the front of the paper again.
Comparing the drawings, the doll was wearing one of the dresses the woman had taken.
“I feel like I’ve seen this doll somewhere before.”
I muttered to myself. As memory stirred and clarity struck, I pushed off from the ground and headed toward the room with the dolls.
The moment I flung open the door, countless dolls resting on the Display Cabinet turned their gaze toward me.
‘Looking at them again… they really do look like actual people.’
An unsettling chill ran through me. I swallowed dryly and stepped toward the Display Cabinet one pace at a time.
After scanning the Display Cabinet, I found a doll with features identical to the one in the drawing.
My heart sank. Struggling to calm my racing pulse, I looked back and forth between the drawing and the doll again and again.
“I’m sure of it…”
I murmured unconsciously.
All the people drawn on the paper appeared to be visitors who had come to Node before I arrived.
They must have harmed the Twins or stolen something, then been driven out by Kaies.
So then—had the Twins asked for dolls made to look like those people out of longing for them?
‘But that raving man had nothing about him worth missing…’
Every time I looked at the dolls densely packed in the Display Cabinet, my arms prickled with gooseflesh.
‘Just how many people have come and gone through here?’
At a rough count, there had to be over a hundred.
In that moment, someone behind me suddenly grabbed my hand.
“There you are.”

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