I Thought It Was a Healing Farming Game - Chapter 94

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I thought it was supposed to be a relaxing farming game.
94

‘They really hide things everywhere.’

Twins’ Sketchbook 6/10

This time too, the sketch showed a new visitor.
I worked through the scrawled writing beneath the drawing.

[This woman is strange]
[She doesn’t care about us]
[She’s very interested in other villagers]
[Don’t want to get close. Strange.]

‘What’s strange about her?’
It seemed like more than just disliking that she didn’t show interest in them.
Even after reading to the end, I couldn’t decipher the Twins’ meaning, so I flipped the page over.
On the back, instead of a drawing, just a single line sat alone.

[Priam has become strange too]

As I reread that sentence, blinking slowly.
“Miel. Where did you go?”
A voice calling for me came from outside the door.
I quickly stuffed the sketchbook page into my Inventory and rushed out.
“I’m over here!”
After that, the four of us spent a joyful time playing various games.
After laughing and making noise for a while, time flew by like an arrow, and when I came to my senses, the sun was already sinking low on the horizon.
“Ah—we had so much fun. Let’s play again next time with this group!”
“Yeah. You have to come over again, Miel.”
As I climbed into the carriage, I felt a mixture of satisfaction and drowsiness.
‘It feels good to play while using my body, but I’m exhausted.’
Priam too seemed a bit deflated. I watched him with a smile.
“Tired, Priam?”
“Not really… it’s just that I have to say goodbye to you when we arrive.”
“Ha ha! You’re like a puppy with separation anxiety. How cute.”
At my playful laugh, Priam’s lips curved up to match.
“Then will you raise me?”
“Hmm, maybe. But I don’t have the capacity to care for myself yet, so wait a little longer.”
“Okay, I’ll wait.”
Trading easy banter with Priam, we arrived at the house before I knew it.
“Miel……”
Priam looked at me with glistening eyes. As if someone were forcibly tearing us apart.
“We can see each other anytime. You know that, right?”
With Priam giving a quiet nod, the carriage door closed.
I went straight home and took a refreshing shower.
“Ah—that felt good.”
After pouring myself a glass of chilled juice from the refrigerator and drinking it, I burrowed into the blankets in my fluffy state.
As the tension drained away, my entire body went limp.
“Haaaah……”
I lay blinking up at the ceiling.
That last sentence written on the back of the sketchbook kept circling through my mind.
‘Priam has become strange…?’
Strange—what on earth could have happened?
‘That female visitor must have done something to Priam.’
The difference between how Priam behaved in the game and how he was acting now must have something to do with that visitor.
‘I thought uncovering things one by one would answer my questions, but…….’
The deeper I dug, the stranger the mysteries became.
I turned over everything I’d found so far, jotting notes onto the paper piece by piece.

[Siard’s basement.
Prison? Severely ill patients? I have no idea why they’re locked in Siard’s basement specifically. Are they people with mental problems?]
[The Twins’ Sketchbook.
Records of past visitors’ actions. Judging by what’s come up so far, it looks like a list of people who’ve done something wrong? There are also ball-jointed dolls modeled after their appearances.]

After writing it all down, I pressed through the Hidden Quest list just in case.
Maybe something more would come up.
As my finger kept moving, the scroll in the description window slid downward.
“Huh?”
I thought the reward was the last line of text.
Suddenly, a document icon with a lock appeared at the very bottom.
When I pressed the icon, my finger bounced back with a short vibration.

You can view this after discovering all clues.

“After finding all the clues…….”
I murmured softly, lost in thought.
Something told me everything I’d been wondering about was locked inside that file.
How I got here in the first place, whether I could ever return to reality.
I scrolled back up and read through the quest description once more.

Discover the Village’s Secrets!

What had seemed only suspicious at first now felt like the only key that could unlock every mystery.

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The bell chimed softly.
“Welcome. Are you here to see the owner?”
“Oh, I was just planning to grab lunch before heading back up.”
In the quiet afternoon, well past the lunch rush, I sat at a table and waited for my order to arrive.
That’s when my eyes caught on a set of stairs beyond the counter, leading down into the basement.
‘……Siard’s basement had those suspicious people locked away.’
Could there be something hidden down there too, something Kaies was concealing?
Come to think of it, when I used to work part-time at the Tavern before, I’d noticed people coming and going from the basement and found it strange.
‘What on earth is that place?’
I glanced toward the busy kitchen, then quietly rose from my seat. Moving quickly, I placed my foot on the staircase leading down.
I’d descended a few steps when
The door swung open.
I flinched at the sudden sight of it.
Someone came out, pushing the door with the tip of their foot, and trudged up the stairs with a greeting.
“Hello, Princess.”
It was Kaies, of all people.
“……Hello.”
“What are you doing here?”
Kaies studied my feet, planted midway up the staircase, with keen interest.
“Oh. I was just curious what was down there…….”
“You’d be better off not going down there, Princess.”
He closed the distance between us in one stride, then turned me around by my shoulders with both hands.
“Come on.”
My attempt at sneaking a peek ended in disappointment.
“Okay.”
What on earth was down there that made him say I wouldn’t like it?
Given Kaies’s personality, I might end up seeing something even worse than what Siard would show.
‘Ugh.’
Just imagining it made my body tremble. But at the same time, his resistance only strengthened my conviction.
‘If he’s going to such lengths to stop me, there must be something important down there.’
When I returned to my seat, he sat across from me with his legs crossed.
“You’re really that curious?”
“Oh. Is it that obvious?”
Kaies, accepting a cup of coffee from the staff member, gestured at my face with his chin. “You wear everything on your face, princess.”
Kaies showed no sign of heading back to the office.
If he’d gone upstairs right away, I might have tried sneaking back down after finishing my meal — a shameless trick, but still.
“Today’s menu is ready.”
The food arrived on cue. Today it was roasted smoked duck breast.
“We hollowed out the interior and stuffed it with sweet butternut squash cream, cheese, and nuts, then roasted it whole in the oven. The inside will be moist and tender.”
“Thank you — I’ll enjoy it!”
With the plate before me, my concerns dissolved into thin air.
I sliced through the crispy skin with my knife, revealing the succulent meat beneath. As I cut it into manageable pieces and transferred them to my plate, I asked Kaies, “Would you like some? Have you eaten yet?”
“I’m fine.”
He shook his head, then spoke matter-of-factly: “The basement has…”
I paused mid-dip of the duck in the butternut cream, my ears perking up.
“…only men who like to fool around down there.”
“Men?”
My eyes widened. Men, out of nowhere?
“Yeah. The atmosphere is rough and crude — it’s not a place fit for someone like you.”
His words only kindled my curiosity further, but I nodded obediently.
“I suppose you’re right.”
“Right. Don’t go wandering into noisy places. Stay here.”
Kaies lingered in front of me until I finished eating, and we ended up heading back to the office together.
“By the way — have you ever mentioned to Priam that I visit the office often?”
“No. Why?”
“Priam seems to know that I come here frequently. But I haven’t run into him at the Tavern in all this time…… How would he have found out?”

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