Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 25

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Episode 25

 

4. The farm doesn’t need freeloaders.

 

As the heavy wooden door creaked open, a musty smell of dust wafted out from inside.

 

The air was so stifling it was hard to breathe. Nana instinctively covered her face with her hands.

 

The inside of the library was generally dim, but thanks to sunlight streaming through gaps in the collapsed outer wall, visibility was somewhat secured.

 

This place that was once quiet and neat was now ruins.

 

Books soaked in dust were scattered messily on the floor, and where bookshelves had fallen looked like traces of someone having destroyed and left.

 

Old cracks ran across the walls, and the windows were already broken beyond recognition.

 

There were no traces anywhere of anything having lived or stayed there.

 

“If there were people here, there should be some traces at least.”

 

Ishanka said in a low voice.

 

“Doesn’t your employer’s god say anything?”

 

“He only said there were life forms, but didn’t tell me the location. Just that they’re inside, roughly… Kyaah!”

 

When a book that had been precariously placed on a bookshelf fell to the floor with a ‘thud’, Nana reflexively screamed and clung to Ishanka’s arm.

 

“There’s nothing! No life forms or anything! It was just an error! Let’s leave now, quickly!”

 

“Is there something that appears here by any chance?”

 

Ishanka, who had been carefully observing Nana who was unusually frightened, casually threw out a short comment.

 

Did those words hit the mark?

 

Nana’s shoulders flinched and trembled greatly.

 

“This place is in a rather remote location. The building is old too…”

 

Nana looked around and lowered her voice.

 

“I heard this building was constructed during the old Rune Empire era. But back then, this place was an execution ground.”

 

Ishanka’s eyes narrowed slightly.

 

His gaze swept around the surroundings.

 

The closed-off exterior, the strangely oppressive spatial structure.

 

Something felt odd about it, and indeed. So it was a place with such a history.

 

“So there have been rumors since long ago. Stories about the spirits of wrongfully executed prisoners wandering around every night, ghosts organizing books, things like that. Maybe… the life forms the god detected were mistaken for such spirits?!”

 

Nana, who spoke almost shouting at the end, clung even tighter to Ishanka’s arm.

 

Her trembling and clinging appearance was pitiful yet strangely cute.

 

Ishanka touched his forehead and said quietly.

 

“Then let’s call it a day. The sun is setting too, so it won’t be too late even if we come back another time.”

 

“R-right? Then let’s leave now! Right this instant!”

 

It was when Nana was hurriedly nodding as if she had been waiting for this.

 

Bang! Bang! Bang!

 

“Kyaaaaaaaaaah!”

 

Nana, who was already terrified, was startled by the loud noise and hid behind Ishanka’s back. Waah, it’s a ghost! Someone help!

 

“You watch zombies just fine but you’re scared of this.”

 

“I was scared of zombies at first too! I just got used to them from seeing them a lot!”

 

Unlike Nana who was trembling behind his back, Ishanka was utterly composed.

 

“I once participated in war. There were days when today’s blood washed away yesterday’s blood. Do you know what I realized then?”

 

“Wh-what?”

 

“That there are no ghosts in this world. If there were, they would have come for me first.”

 

The path from the Northern Lands down south was sometimes as easy as eating candy, but there were times when crises came. Each time, Ishanka took the lead and tore apart enemies like a demon.

 

The enemy soldiers who died by his hands alone would number in the thousands. Some would have died unjustly. But their souls had never once come looking for Ishanka.

 

Bang bang bang!

 

This time the direction of the sound was clear. It was behind the bookshelf in the left corner.

 

“There seems to be a secret space. Excuse me for a moment.”

 

When Ishanka pushed the bookshelf aside, an old wooden door revealed itself behind it.

 

“Hey there! Who are you?! You’re human, right? Please tell me you’re not a walking corpse!”

 

An urgent voice could be heard from beyond the door. The energy was weak but it was definitely human.

 

“It wasn’t a ghost after all.”

 

When Ishanka said this calmly, Nana seemed relieved as strength left her legs and she sat down.

 

He tried pulling the door handle but it wouldn’t open. It seemed to be locked. Ishanka silently raised one leg.

 

Bang!

 

The door shook greatly.

 

Bang! Bang!

 

The hinges creaked, and after a few more hard kicks, the door panel fell away revealing the inside.

 

And inside was a gauntly emaciated young man with thick blonde hair and green eyes.

 

“…Sam?”

 

Nana’s eyes widened. An unbelievable face was before her eyes.

 

Sam Lindberg, a romance target from My Sweet Little Farm.

 

A popular character with a prickly and sensitive impression who gradually opens his heart and shows affection as time passes.

 

A person who received tremendous love from users, nicknamed ‘prickly kitten’.

 

“…Adrien?”

 

Sam looked at her with hazy eyes and then collapsed.

 

“What should we do with this person?”

 

Ishanka asked for Nana’s intentions. As a worker, he was asking the employer who was also the first discoverer what to do. Nana sighed as if she had no choice.

 

“We have to take him to the farm. We can’t leave a person in a place like this.”

 

Since Nana, who was smaller and shorter than Sam, couldn’t carry him, carrying him to the farm naturally became Ishanka’s responsibility.

 

‘What on earth happened to him during this time to end up in that state?’

 

Sam was a character who far from enjoying exercise, rarely came out of his house, but he had the basic physique of a healthy adult male. But Sam’s current appearance was like a sack. Even considering that Ishanka’s back was broad, he looked much thinner than usual.

 

Curiosity about wanting to check out the basement where Sam came from peeked out, but it was too scary to go alone. She shook her head vigorously and headed to the farm. She’d come back later with Isha.

 

* * *

 

The two laid Sam on the big bed in the temporary shelter and examined his condition. Seeing him in bright light, his condition was much more serious than what they had seen at the library earlier.

 

His skin was so pale from not seeing sunlight for a long time that it was peeling, and his body was extremely gaunt. If his chest wasn’t rising and falling from breathing, you could believe he was a starved corpse.

 

“But his house and the library are in opposite directions, so how was he there? And what was that secret space?”

 

“Was he someone you knew well?”

 

“Just… we’re from the same village so we greeted each other in passing. We weren’t close.”

 

‘Rather, Ash was close with Sam. Because of that, we met and hung out together a few times, but we didn’t really get along so we often bickered.’

 

Sam was the nephew of the general store owner. The setting was that he lived in the capital and came down to stay in Sweet Little Village, but Nana didn’t know well what he did in the capital or why he came down.

 

Because that was a story you could only learn by romancing Sam, and as mentioned before, Nana wasn’t interested in the circumstances of romance targets other than Ash.

 

“Anyway, he needs to wake up before we can feed him anything…”

 

“I remember seeing herbs in the forest that wake up unconscious people. Since we’ll need to feed him something when he wakes up, I’ll go collect some tree fruits as well.”

 

After Ishanka went outside, only Nana and the unconscious Sam remained in the room. Nana looked at Sam’s haggard complexion and fell deep in thought.

 

If he continued lying unconscious like this, Sam would starve to death within a few days, making his rescue meaningless.

 

Ishanka said he would collect herbs from the forest, but she couldn’t be sure how long it would take him to return, or whether Sam would really wake up with those herbs.

 

First, she needed to feed him something to restore his strength. Should she splash cold water on his face to wake him up? It was when Nana was pondering this.

 

Ding!

 

【Emergency Quest: ‘Try possessing an angel in white’ has occurred.</p】

Please carefully nurse your precious friend Sam until his life gauge is completely filled.

 

Sam’s current life gauge: ■■□□□□□□□□

 

*When the life gauge fills up to 7 bars, Sam’s consciousness will return.

 

Quest success reward: Sparkling freshly made 1 million gold

 

Quest failure: You will earn the resentment of important NPCs in the kingdom.>

 

Nana was blinded by the quest success reward and didn’t carefully look at the failure penalty. No matter how much of a strategy character and popular character he was, just nursing him carefully would give her 1 million gold. And it would be shiny new gold coins at that.

 

“Sam, what are you…”

 

Nana muttered as she pulled back the blanket.

 

Whatever it was, it was fine. Nursing quest, accepted!

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