Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 20

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Episode 20

As the sun began to set, the farm was being dyed in the red glow of twilight.

In the fields, zombies were still working silently.

Leveling the fields with rakes, digging out weeds with shovels, walking back and forth along the ridges without a word as they finished their day.

In the middle of that peaceful yet bizarre scene—there was a figure sprawled out on the sofa.

It was Tan-bbang, who had returned from being a cat to human form. Real name: Ateruna.

“Why the hell haven’t these humans come back yet when they left together during the day?”

She grabbed a handful of corn chips and tossed them into her mouth while muttering to herself with a face full of complaints.

It wasn’t exactly worry, but closer to irritation. However, a strange uneasiness was blooming in one corner of her heart.

Ateruna mobilized her characteristic sharp intuition and analytical skills to think of several possibilities.

First.

Both of them were taken down by zombies.

It was the most plausible scenario, but she immediately shook her head.

‘No. If that really happened, this farmland would have turned black again. This place is peaceful and fine, unlike before.’

Second.

The two of them secretly went out to have fun.

It was entirely possible. It was annoying, but I sometimes go out for walks alone too.

“But even so, they’re way too late.”

As that thought led to another, her discomfort grew.

Third.

Could it be that the two of them fell for each other and eloped?

“Puhahahaha! No, that’s really ridiculous.”

Ateruna, who almost spat out her corn chips, held her stomach and laughed.

“My brother? With the butler? Running away? Really? Abandoning the farm and me?”

Even as she spoke, it was such an absurd imagination that she couldn’t believe it herself—but still, why was it slightly annoying?

Just then, a familiar sound reached her ears.

From far away, the sound of something murmuring.

At first she thought it might be tree branches hitting each other in the wind, but the sound grew closer, and soon she was certain.

‘This is zombies.’

She jumped up from the sofa and ran to the window.

In the distance, dozens of zombies were approaching the farm in a line.

“Not just one or two, but with that many… they really got them?!”

Shocked, Ateruna ran toward the front door. However, just before opening it, she stopped.

“Right, I need to transform.”

If she went out in human form, the zombies would immediately attack her.

Ateruna quickly transformed into a cat and slipped out through the cat door.

And at that moment, she froze.

The scene unfolding before her eyes was beyond imagination.

In front of the house.

Dozens of zombies lined up in formation.

And in front of them, Nana waving her hand with a bright smile and Ishanka with an expression as if he had given up on everything.

Tan-bbang’s cat eyes widened enormously.

‘What the hell did you guys go and do?!’

From the day the Eastern Forest was declared farmland, Nana’s farm changed noticeably.

【Due to the revival of the Eastern Forest, all surrounding wild animals return to the forest.</p】

The Eastern Forest is declared farmland and belongs to Adrienne Rogueton.

Adrienne Rogueton can add animals from the Eastern Forest to the farm if desired.>

“No need. Let’s just all live well on our own.”

Even animal lovers reach their limit when their territory gets ravaged daily. Nana was no exception.

Fortunately, the revived forest instinctively drew animals to it, and the wild animals that had been disturbing the farm naturally stopped coming.

Occasionally a few birds would circle the farm, but that much became a meal in Ishanka’s hands.

“Tonight’s dinner is roasted grouse.”

【The bird’s name has been identified.</p】

[Grouse] is registered in the animal encyclopedia.

Experience points are given to Adrienne Rogueton.>

A bird meat party plus experience points. Now even wild animals were just another resource.

But the biggest change that came to the farm was something else.

Thud thud.

Swish swish.

Swoosh.

It was zombies making all these sounds of plowing fields, sowing seeds, and watering.

The moment the Eastern Forest became Nana’s land, even the zombies that had occupied it began following her commands.

With the few workers from before increasing to dozens, the farm’s efficiency literally exploded.

Nana sipped watermelon juice with a bright smile.

“This is the life of a great landowner. They don’t eat, don’t sleep, don’t complain—absolute perfection.”

Tan-bbang, who was eating grilled fish beside her, also quietly nodded.

Of course, she was shocked at first too.

After seeing the bizarre horde of zombies entering the farm in a line, she holed up inside the house for days without coming out.

But even after several days, the zombies showed no signs of slaughter and just silently focused on farm work.

In that repetitive daily routine, Tan-bbang eventually convinced herself.

‘Right. You don’t have to be alive to farm.’

And so the farm where zombies worked was becoming a familiar daily life for everyone.

Meanwhile, Ishanka was on his way back from hunting in the Eastern Forest as usual today.

Now that there were plenty of workers, he no longer needed to do farm work, and instead had the justification that he needed to keep moving so his body wouldn’t stiffen.

But whenever he brought back something he caught, Nana and Tan-bbang’s reactions went beyond simple hunting to festival-level excitement.

It’s a meat party!

People who catch meat are good people!

People who grill meat are good people!

Among Ateruna pretending to be a cat, Nana who only knew how to eat when it came to meat, and Ishanka—former(?) minority ethnic king, current butcher and hunter—the person in charge of meat naturally became Ishanka.

From preparation to cooking, and even making jerky or smoking leftovers for storage, he wasted nothing. He was truly a capable worker.

And so today too, the farm’s day was unchanged. The zombies who had become the farm’s true workers plowed fields, planted seedlings, and harvested fruit today as well.

Nana was also happily passing by the edge of the spinach field.

Among the zombies pulling weeds, a familiar silhouette passed by.

At that moment, Nana’s steps stopped.

‘…No way.’

She couldn’t just pass by carelessly.

A face she had hoped more than anyone would be alive.

Just one person—someone she wanted to meet alive again somehow.

She swallowed and approached through the weed patch.

In front of a zombie harvesting spinach, Nana’s face turned pale.

Brown hair, someone who used to smile like a gentle large dog—my target character.

“…Ash.”

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At the edge of the Eastern Forest, Nana sat on a small tree stump and muttered blankly.

“I had completely forgotten.”

The thought she had tried to avoid while living frantically after the world collapsed and working the farm. The possibility that Ash had also become a zombie.

She lifted her head and looked at the figure standing quietly under the tree.

Brown hair that had lost its luster, unfocused eyes.

A face that no longer smiled warmly like before, nor made eye contact.

Even so, Nana recognized him immediately.

He was Ash.

In fact, she had already known it in one corner of her heart.

The devastation of that day and the village where people had disappeared.

She had simply hoped until the end that he would remain human.

“…Ash.”

She called his name, but only silence returned.

Nana commanded him to sit by the tree next to the stump.

Then she turned her back.

She couldn’t make him do farm work now that he had become a zombie.

The next day.

Ash sat silently in his spot just like yesterday.

“…Come here.”

His steps in response to the command were slow but without hesitation.

Seeing him up close made it even more certain.

The smile she had loved most was nowhere to be found.

“Smile.”

Ash’s shoulders trembled slightly.

But his expression remained the same.

Not a corner of his mouth, not a glimmer in his eyes wavered.

“Smile! Ash, please smile! Please…”

At first it was a command.

Gradually it became desperate like a prayer.

Nana collapsed to the ground as if crumbling.

He just stood there with the same expressionless face.

“Smile like that time, like before.”

Her words trailed off with sobs and she sat there for a long while.

The forest was quiet as if holding its breath.

Nana slowly stood up.

“…Go back and sit down.”

Ash turned around without a word.

With heavy, quiet steps, he shuffled back toward the tree stump.

Nana left the forest with her bitter lips pressed tightly together.

Time passed.

The farm continued to operate.

Zombies tilled the fields, Ishanka went out hunting, and Tan-bbang returned with mice in his mouth.

“Meooow…”

However, Nana, who had always sat in that spot to welcome Tan-bbang, was not there.

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