Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 28

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Episode 28

“What, what are you saying? How could you say such vulgar things…”

“Do you think I’m an idiot? Do you really think I’m asking because I don’t know what you’re doing right now?”

Nana approached with bold, unrestrained steps and snatched the bottle Sam was holding in his hand. Inside the bottle, there was still some liquid of a ghastly color that he hadn’t managed to throw away yet.

Not only had she caught him in the act, but she had also secured evidence. At this point, even if he got on his knees and begged, shedding tears and snot, it would be questionable whether she’d forgive him.

“I told you before. That I didn’t want to eat it. So I didn’t eat it.”

But Sam’s knees seemed too precious to touch the floor over something like this.

“So just because you don’t want to eat it, you throw away the potion I told you to take? Are you a child?”

“Haven’t you ever thought that you’re forcing someone who says they don’t want it to eat it?”

“Haven’t you ever thought that medicine is something you have to take even if you don’t like it? Do you think I’m telling you to take it for my own good? I’m telling you to take it so you’ll get healthy!”

In truth, she was giving him the ghastly potion without caring about taste for her own sake to finish the Quest quickly, but it was also an undeniable fact that Sam had recovered quickly from his bed by taking the potion.

“Ugh, damn it! I’m not even your mother, so why do I have to nag about stuff like this?!”

“Then don’t! I’m already healthy! There’s nowhere that hurts anymore and my body is much better than before. I know my own body better!”

“If you were completely healthy, I would have already…”

The gauge would be full and the Quest would be completed! But she couldn’t say that to someone who wouldn’t understand. Nana was going crazy with frustration.

“Please don’t just throw away what others have done for you like that! Let’s at least maintain basic courtesy, courtesy!”

“When was I ever discourteous?”

“Right now!”

The argument between the two seemed endless. Nana felt like she was about to explode but barely held onto the thread of reason.

“You better watch out. Next time I’ll tie you up and stick a funnel in your throat to pour it down.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Nana slammed the door roughly and left. Bang!

How nice it would have been if this had made Sam behave.

But unfortunately, this was only the beginning.

【Sam’s Life Gauge has decreased.</p】

Sam’s current Life Gauge: ■■■■■■■□□□>

“Aaagh! This bastard threw away the potion again?!”

This time she really would tie him up and stick a funnel in his throat. Actually, Nana already had a large funnel in her hand. Nana was now a dangerous beast. No one could stop her.

The dangerous beast Nana burst open the door. But contrary to Nana’s expectations, Sam wasn’t in the room.

“Where did he go now? Don’t tell me he ran away to avoid taking the potion?”

Nana was beyond incredulous and felt her head throbbing.

I keep calling him a kid, so now he’s really acting like a kid?

Hah… Let me calm down first.

Now isn’t the time to run around catching Sam.

The cost of the additional potions bought because of Sam wasn’t insignificant.

First, she had to sell the harvest to fill the hole in her finances.

That Sam bastard, if it weren’t for the 1 million gold, I’d wring his neck.

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“Employer? Where are you going in such a hurry?”

On the way back from selling the harvest, Ishanka greeted Nana.

“Oh, Isha. Is the house being built well?”

“As you can see. Once we finish the exterior walls, you’ll be able to move in within a few days.”

Nana looked over Ishanka’s shoulder at the house where zombies were working busily. The completely collapsed appearance from before had vanished without a trace, and a pretty two-story house with a green roof had appeared.

“Wow, it’s so pretty. My childhood dream was to live in a two-story house once.”

“Please use the best room on the second floor, employer. I made a second-floor balcony on purpose for that.”

She received stress from Sam and healing from Ishanka. Nana thought it would be nice if Sam resembled even half of this versatile and considerate worker.

“But it seems much bigger than the previous house, am I mistaken?”

“No. Since everything had collapsed and we were rebuilding from scratch, I made it bigger. I added two more rooms on the first floor and expanded the kitchen too. The previous kitchen was inconvenient for cooking, wasn’t it? This time I made the oven bigger and even built a smokehouse.”

Watching Ishanka excitedly explain the kitchen layout, storage design, and facilities for food preservation, Nana was suddenly reminded of the past.

‘…Mom?’

She saw in Ishanka the image of her mother from when she was Song Nana, excitedly rattling off explanations about the iron plate bar, meat-grilling frying pan, and air fryer functions she had installed during a house remodeling. At this point, it seemed like her mother had possessed him.

“But you don’t look very well. Oh, wait a moment.”

Ishanka naturally removed a leaf that was stuck to Nana’s hair. The way he carefully removed it, worried it might get tangled, was as delicate and meticulous as handling fragile glassware.

“I didn’t even know this was stuck in my hair and was running around frantically. Thank you.”

“You must be very busy. Taking care of the man you found at the library must be quite difficult.”

“The difficulty isn’t because of Sam…”

No, wait. Come to think of it, it is because of Sam, right? I’m in this situation because that guy won’t take his potion and keeps throwing it away.

Should I ask Ishanka for advice? Since he’s also a hunter, he’d know well how to catch a wild boar that’s running away, right?

“Actually, I’ve had a troublesome matter recently. So there’s something I’d like to ask you. Isha, what do you do when chasing prey that’s running away?”

Ishanka realized that both the troublesome matter and the prey were related to the man named Sam who was found at the library.

‘A freeloader who does nothing but causes trouble for the employer, I see. Since ancient times, a goat with bad habits needs to be dealt with harshly to come to its senses.’

He smiled thinly and gave detailed advice on how to chase prey, just as the employer wanted.

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A basement’s purpose changes depending on who uses it. For someone, it could be a food storage, for someone else, a secret laboratory, and for yet another, a prison.

And for Sam, it was the only survival space that even zombies couldn’t invade.

Sam was crouched in the middle of the Library Basement.

Around him, cans and bags that had contained emergency food were scattered messily, but like someone who couldn’t see the trash, he just crouched there blankly.

In his mind, a certain memory kept repeating.

In the horrific scene where the ground suddenly turned black and walking corpses attacked people, two people ran frantically to reach a certain point in the dark corridor.

“We’re almost there. Just hang in there a little longer!”

A middle-aged man with a stylishly grown mustache wiped the sweat flowing down his forehead and led Sam.

A few minutes later, they could see their target, a door. The man opened the tightly closed wooden door and pushed Sam inside the room.

“The walking corpses won’t be able to enter here either. Hide here for the time being.”

“How long do I have to hide here… Wait! Where are you going?!”

“My wife is still in the Village. I’ll bring her here, so please wait.”

“…You have to come back. Broderick Lindbergh.”

Broderick Lindbergh smiled, said goodbye, and closed the door. However, the tightly closed door never opened again after that day.

“You said you’d come back…”

His jewel-like green eyes sank into despair.

“What am I supposed to do now, Mister Lindbergh?”

“What do you mean what to do, you have to drink the potion, you runaway wild boar.”

While reminiscing about that desperate moment, Sam was startled by a woman’s voice suddenly heard from behind and turned around. The woman’s identity was Nana.

“How did you get here…!”

“Isha was right. A wild animal that runs away instinctively flees to the place it considers safest.”

Nana looked at the pale Sam while simultaneously glancing at Sam’s Life Gauge floating beside him.

【Sam’s Life Gauge: ■■■■■□□□□□】

This bastard’s foolish behavior had already reduced the gauge by half. Nana suppressed the bubbling anger rising within her.

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