Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 2

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Episode 2

If someone asked Nana to describe the current situation in one sentence, she would express it like this.

This is hell.

It wasn’t a simple exaggeration.

Zombies mercilessly biting and tearing at living people.

The screams of neighbors who had been simple and kind.

The sight of those who had become monsters biting and hunting their own friends, family, and neighbors.

Bright red blood soaking the blackened, dead earth.

If this wasn’t hell, then what could it be.

As Nana stood frozen like stone, just staring at that scene, a strange smell reached her nose.

She thought it was extremely foul, fishy, and strange.

And the moment she realized what the smell was, goosebumps rose all over Nana’s body as her frozen form collapsed to the ground with a thud.

“Ugh, uwaaagh-!”

It was the stench of blood. It wasn’t the first time in her life she had smelled blood, but it was the first time she had encountered such a terrible and nauseating odor.

Quickly… I need to run away from here… or I’ll die. Before those things discover me…

Fortunately, the zombies didn’t see Nana who was on the outskirts of the village.

But if she stayed like this, it was only a matter of time before a zombie would discover her.

So she needed to run away quickly, but her whole body was trembling from the horrific scene she had witnessed for the first time, and her legs had lost their strength, causing her to repeatedly try to stand up only to sit back down.

Please, legs! Listen to me. Please!

At that moment, the two young chickens that had escaped from Nana’s embrace came clucking back and burrowed into her arms.

Whether they were cheering her on or felt that her embrace was the safest place in this hellish situation, she couldn’t tell, but Nana gained some strength from their small warmth.

Thanks to that, Nana barely managed to escape and became the sole survivor of Sweet Little Village, but she wasn’t happy about it at all.

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Grumble-.

Her consciousness, which had been wandering through memories, snapped back to reality at her body’s honest expression. Nana sighed and got up from the bed she had been lying on, heading to the kitchen.

Right, even if the world has ended, I still need to eat.

“Cluck cluck cluck-.”

At Nana’s feet, two hens tilted their heads back and forth as if greeting her as she got up. The young chickens she had received as a Quest reward had now become quite plump.

Nana took out chicken feed from her inventory and poured it into the bowl on the floor.

“This is the last of the feed.”

Now the water is almost gone and the food is almost gone too, so how am I going to feed you two? No, before that, I think I’m almost out of food to eat myself.

Unfortunately, the day before the zombies appeared, she had sold most of the harvest she had stored in her inventory.

The food supply situation was not sufficiently secured.

The potatoes that had been left in a corner of her inventory had been eaten long ago, and now what remained was…

Nana sighed and took out the one remaining silver package from the corner of the kitchen cupboard, pouring it into a bowl. The package she carelessly threw on the table had “Emergency Rations” written in large letters.

It was an item given as a beginner’s item, but since there had been no particular need to eat it, it had been left neglected in the corner of the kitchen cupboard. Who could have imagined she would end up eating them one by one like this.

“I want to eat the meatballs that Dorothy made.”

Dorothy, who was famous for having the best cooking skills in Sweet Little Village, often prepared food for Nana, saying she was proud of her for doing her errands (daily Quests) every day.

“I also want to eat the stew that Grandma Marcella made.”

Nana frowned and barely managed to swallow the emergency rations that remained in her mouth.

She knew it too. That she was complaining while being well-fed.

In a world where a zombie apocalypse had arrived, having something to eat and being in a relatively safe indoor space was great fortune. Even if the remaining food was only dry and tasteless emergency rations.

But even so.

“You said it was an error! You said it would return to normal! But why hasn’t there been any change until now!”

Isn’t this just torture with false hope!

Nana irritably touched the system window. But the only message that appeared was.

【System maintenance in progress for normalization.】

The gradient anger that rose due to the endless torture of false hope and tasteless emergency rations was brief, but it had the effect of calming her depressed mood.

“When the hell will this error be fixed?! No, was it even an error in the first place?”

This damn game had been notorious for its terrible management even before she was transported into it. She had started the game knowing this, but now that she was actually inside the game, nothing was more infuriating than the incompetence of the management team.

“I’m really going to starve to death! The land has turned black and plants can’t grow and have all died, I can’t go outside because of zombies, and now I’m out of food too! Later I’ll have to eat even those chickens!”

She had built a barricade in front of the door to keep zombies out and stayed inside the house with only the two chickens she had lovingly raised. Without even these chickens, Nana might have gone crazy from loneliness and suffering.

Letting out the complaints that had been building up inside made her feel newly wronged. She had thought she could escape from the overwhelming reality and enjoy the game world after being transported into the protagonist who was promised to walk only on a path of roses, living well with a romance target she had her eye on.

It wasn’t even a proper romance simulation game, and the body she had been transported into was that of a fallen noble lady.

She had to do farming work every day by completing daily Quests, but for Nana, whose dream had been to return to farming, even that was a source of joy.

“This shitty game that can’t even fix a single error properly! What about my farm! What about my healing life?! If this is how it’s going to be, send me back to my original world!”

I didn’t live so hard in this game world just to starve to death. Even if I had to be transported, why did it have to be into this kind of game! If you were going to transport me, you should have transported me into a fish in an aquarium game instead. At least they could swim freely in the water without any chance of becoming zombies!

Thinking that all that was left for her was to starve to death made her feel so upset that she felt like crying.

At that moment, a loud fanfare suddenly burst in front of Nana, and something popped up.

【Congratulations. You have awakened to the profession: Farm Owner.】

“Awakening? Farm Owner? What is all this about?”

Not fixing the error and now this…

Nana’s face contorted with frustration. She was so dumbfounded that the tears that had been forming disappeared. When she unconsciously touched the message in front of her with her hand, the text in the window changed.

【A new version has been updated for game normalization. Features will be added gradually.】

【Player Adrienne Rogueton of Sweet Little Village has awakened as a Farm Owner. The land owned by the Farm Owner is declared as farmland, and areas declared as farmland will be purified of contamination. Plants within the farmland will grow twice as fast as their original growth rate, and humans cannot trespass on farmland without the Farm Owner’s permission.】

【Passive Skill: ‘Blessed Hands’ has been activated. The Farm Owner can operate outside, and plants that have been touched by ‘Blessed Hands’ will grow 10% faster than their original growth rate.】

【Inventory function has been expanded.</p】

The inventory that was previously only accessible from the storage box inside the house is now automatically linked to all pockets within reach of Adrienne Rogueton.

You can now freely use your inventory anytime, anywhere.>

“Wait, wait. Awakening? Farm Owner? Originally this game had farm management as the default from the beginning without any Farm Owner stuff, right? But now job change? Profession?”

Nana was momentarily dazed by the sudden flood of information.

These were familiar features to anyone who had played games, but they were unfamiliar content within this game.

It was natural.

Although it had high freedom, healing and romance were the main focus, so item power or combat strength weren’t particularly important.

“I guess I really am about to die. I’m even seeing hallucinations.”

Ding!

【Don’t worry. You are perfectly normal.】

I thought it was just a simple System Message, but it actually understands what I’m saying?

【Would you like to declare the place where Adrienne Rogueton currently resides as a farm?】

“…So I really did change professions? But why Farm Owner of all things?”

If I was going to change professions anyway, a combat-related profession suitable for a zombie world would have been better. Out of all those many professions, why did it have to be Farm Owner, which has nothing to do with combat.

My head feels like it’s going to explode. As Nana tried to ignore the popup window while holding her throbbing head, a new message popped up and blocked her view.

【Land declared as a farm will be converted to farmland, purifying all existing contamination. Plants within the farmland will grow twice as fast as their original growth rate, and humans cannot trespass on farmland without the Farm Owner’s permission.】

【Would you like to declare the place where Adrienne Rogueton currently resides as a farm?】

…Like a desperate salesperson. Fix the bugs instead of doing this at a time like this.

Nana touched the accept button with her hand. It was an action done without much thought, thinking there was nothing to lose anyway. But as soon as she accepted, the air around her changed.

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