I Thought It Was a Healing Farming Game - Chapter 90

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I thought it was a healing farming game.
Episode 90

Invisibility Potion: 14 minutes remaining

‘Why, why is Siard already…?’
My mind gone blank, I watched Siard pass by me and approach the man causing the disturbance.
The man, upon noticing him, shook the iron bars more violently.
“Open this! Open it now! Send me back!”
“Aren’t you tired?”
Siard replied calmly and pulled on a pair of gloves.
Then he stopped before the man, positioning himself with one iron bar between them.
“I already told you everything! All of it! What more could you possibly want from me? Just let me go, just me, and that’s all you need to do!”
Though the man screamed at the top of his lungs, Siard opened his bag with perfect composure, as though he couldn’t hear a word.
Inside lay various medical supplies arranged in neat order.
Siard withdrew something from it and answered without any particular concern.
“That won’t be possible.”
“Ahhh!”
The man slammed his head hard against the iron bars.
Bang!
I squeezed my eyes shut and covered my ears with both hands.
“Give it back! Give it back!”
The man grabbed the iron bars with both hands and shrieked until his voice broke.
“Send me home!”
Wait.
Replaying what I’d just heard, I cracked my eyes open and looked between the two of them.
Send him home?
“I’m not sure you have a home left to return to.”
“You… you demons! Have no fear in this world!”
The man, consumed with rage, thrust his face between the bars.
Siard looked down at him without the slightest tremor of emotion.
The man stretched his arm through the bars, clawing at Siard’s clothing and trying desperately to grab hold of him.
“You’ll receive divine retribution, all of you, divine retribution…!”
Something glinted in the man’s hand as he raised his arm.
A glass shard.
Before I could even react, the shard drove deep into Siard’s palm.
“…!”
I nearly cried out.
Siard glanced down at his palm where the glass was embedded, then seized the man’s throat with eyes gone cold as winter.
“Urgh…!”
With his other hand, he drew a syringe.
The man thrashed and scratched at Siard’s arm, but he didn’t so much as blink—simply tilted his head, his gaze settling on the man’s nape.
The needle sank into the man’s neck.
My legs gave out beneath me, and I collapsed to the floor.
The small sound I made was drowned out by the man falling backward and hitting the ground with a stiff thud.
My hands trembled uncontrollably, my vision shaking violently.
I couldn’t comprehend what I’d just witnessed.
Contempt flickered in the violet eyes that gazed down at the fallen man.
Siard withdrew the needle and discarded the gloves he’d been wearing as though they were filthy.
Then he nudged the man’s leg with the tip of his shoe.
“How could you receive divine retribution?”
A voice soft as cotton candy rang quietly through the basement.
“I’m not even human.”
With that murmured afterthought, silence fell absolute—the hush of death.
‘What am I looking at right now?’
Is the person before my eyes truly the Siard I’ve always known?
I collapsed onto the floor, raising my trembling hand to cover my mouth slowly.
‘No sound, no breathing, I can’t—’
Even knowing I was invisible, fear gripped me. My eyes darted toward my status window.

Invisibility Potion: 10 minutes remaining

My heart sank.
It was about time I left.
I held my breath and watched Siard’s movements intently.
Siard pulled out a large glass shard lodged in his palm and pressed gauze firmly against the wound.
“Hah…”
His brow furrowed as he exhaled a long, weary breath.
When he poured disinfectant directly onto the cut, I found myself wincing involuntarily.
After finishing his first aid, Siard stepped into the barred enclosure and pressed his hand beneath the collapsed man’s nose.
Once he’d confirmed the man was breathing, he moved toward the patient in the adjacent room.
‘What do I do? He’s planning to stay longer.’
I knew the safest time to move would be after Siard left.
But I didn’t have that much time.

Invisibility Potion: 8 minutes remaining

Time was critically short.
At this rate, the potion would wear off right in front of Siard.
I glanced at the iron door. It wasn’t fully shut—there was a gap just wide enough for a couple of fingers to slip through.
Beneath it lay the key I’d dropped.
In that brief moment, a thousand possibilities flashed through my mind.
‘Grab the key and get out fast.’
The copy would disappear with time, but I had to minimize the risk of being caught.
Even if the door made a sound, as long as it didn’t swing wide open, Siard might chalk it up to a draft.
Having made my decision, I carefully pushed off the wall, taking pains not to step on anything.
It was hard enough to keep my balance on legs drained of strength, but I clenched my teeth.
Stumbling without a sound, I moved toward the iron door.
‘Slowly. Slowly…’
I tensed every nerve, catching both my own footsteps and each small movement Siard made.
Arriving at the door, I held my breath, retrieved the key and tucked it away, then carefully pushed the door open.
Creak—
The door opened with a small scraping sound.
I saw Siard turn his head toward me from far down the corridor.
At that same moment, I squeezed myself through the narrow gap and slipped out.
Thump, thump.
My heart hammered as though it would burst from my chest.
I had the fleeting illusion that our eyes had met through the crack.
Freezing in place, Siard stared in my direction for a moment, then looked away.
‘I wasn’t… seen.’
I climbed the stairs in silence, one step at a time, and desperately escaped the basement.
Sweat beaded on my palms. As I finally reached Siard’s room, peaceful birdsong drifted in.
Bright sunlight streamed through the window, bathing the room in warmth as if nothing had ever happened.
It felt like waking from a terrible nightmare into reality.
Nothing felt real.
I stumbled out of Siard’s house and ran without direction.
I had no room for other thoughts—I just crossed streets and kept running, on and on.
“Huff, ha, ah—!”
Even with breath climbing to my throat, I couldn’t stop.
I have no memory of how my legs carried me home.
By the time the cold wind cleared my muddled mind, I was already at my door.
My head spun and my vision blurred.
The moment I rushed inside, I slammed the door shut.
I stood there gasping for a while, then poured myself water with shaking hands and drank.

Invisibility Potion: 1 minute remaining

She barely steadied herself before collapsing onto the sofa, cradling her face in both hands.
“Haah…….”
Not long after, her transparent hands gradually regained their natural color.
Even as time passed, her heart would not settle. She exhaled in quick, shallow bursts before wrapping her arms around her confused head.
The acrid smell of that herb still seemed to cling to every part of her body.

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Two days later, at the Tavern.
“Hello, princess.”
Kaies sat across from her, resting his chin on his hand as he studied her face.
“Hello…….”
“Why does your complexion look worse than last time?”
She set down the food she’d been pushing around her plate to answer.
“I suppose I’ve been busy planting new seedlings.”
Upon hearing her reply, Kaies gestured to a server and pointed to her bowl.
“Bring another one.”
Moments later, an identical dish arrived.
She’d thought he meant to share a meal, but instead Kaies slid the bowl toward her.
“Huh?”
“Eat more.”
“What? No, I only ordered one bowl…….”
She’d been eating out so frequently lately that she was trying to economize.
“Eat. It’s on me.”
Her mouth fell open and she inhaled sharply in surprise.
“Whoa……!”
“Is that really such a shocking thing?”

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