Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 29

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Episode 29

The first place Nana and Ishanka went to look for Sam was the general store.

A place where Sam would feel safe.

They naturally thought it would be the general store where he used to live.

But as if mocking her expectations, the general store had collapsed miserably, leaving only an open field in its place.

“Even if he missed the general store, he probably wouldn’t come to ruins like this, right?”

“Do you happen to know anywhere he frequently goes?”

At Ishanka’s question, Nana tried hard to remember Sam’s usual haunts.

But as you know, Nana had only focused on Ash, who was her target character. There was no way she could properly remember other characters’ movement patterns.

I should have at least looked at Sam’s strategy guide properly once.

She pressed her temples while making groaning sounds, but still no proper information came to mind.

Then Ishanka walked past Nana and strode toward a certain spot.

“He’s probably at the place we discovered before. As you know, the village has all collapsed and is in poor condition. That means he won’t feel safe wherever he goes. But he stayed in that basement for a long time. That means it’s the safest place for him.”

“But wasn’t Sam trapped in the basement?”

“It doesn’t seem to be exactly like that.”

Ishanka’s steps, which had been heading toward one place without hesitation, suddenly stopped. There was a suspicious iron door with patterns similar to the floorboard patterns.

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Sam quickly got up from his spot and tried to escape through another entrance, but Ishanka was already standing guard there.

“So there was indeed one more passage leading here besides the library. And this passage is probably connected near your old house.”

“How, how did you…?”

“Secret passages are old-fashioned and common escape routes.”

With Nana on one side and Ishanka on the other, his escape routes were blocked. Sam was at a loss for how to get out and could only roll his eyes around in place.

“Tell me honestly, even now.”

“What, what?”

“The reason you’re holding out without taking the potion. No matter how much of an idiot you are with a mouth of disaster, you weren’t the type to be this stubbornly weird.”

“Mouth of disaster? Are you talking about me?”

Sam made an expression as if no one had ever said such things to him before, just stammering “you, you,” but Nana cleanly ignored his reaction.

“Whatever. Tell me honestly right now. Then I won’t try to force you to drink the potion. I need to know why you’re acting like this so I can change my behavior, right?”

Sam’s mouth twitched as if he was hesitating to say something. Watching Sam waver, Nana gave a cold final warning.

“If you don’t speak by the count of three, I’ll tie you up and make you drink it. One, two, three…”

“You’ll abandon me once I’m completely healthy!”

Question marks filled the air above Nana’s head as she watched Sam suddenly shout. Sam poured out the thoughts he had been hiding like rapid fire with a face that had given up on everything.

“I’m not a complete idiot either. I’m truly grateful that you saved me and nursed me back to health. But honestly, you and I weren’t that close. And, and after what I said to you that day I woke up, would you want to stay with me? Right now you’re keeping me because I’m a patient and you have no choice. You’re not heartless enough to throw a sick person outside. But you’d want to kick me out as soon as I recover, right?”

“…”

“Actually, I liked being at your farm. After hiding in this basement where not a ray of sunlight enters, when I came to your farm, I felt for the first time how precious and beautiful sunlight and clear skies could be. So I didn’t want to leave. I also wanted to stay at your… your farm.”

Perhaps embarrassed by what was coming out of his own mouth, Sam buried his face in both arms and tried to hide his reddened face. But his bright red ears couldn’t be completely hidden.

“Sam…”

As Nana took one step closer to Sam, Sam, who had been burying his face in his arms, slowly raised his head.

And his jewel-like green eyes widened.

“You put people through all this trouble for such a trivial reason?”

Because Nana’s face was twisted with an expression as if she had seen something absolutely terrible.

If you thought that blushing your handsome face and clinging while saying ‘Don’t abandon me!’ would move me to say ‘You fool, it’s not like that. Why would I do that? You’re my precious… whatever,’ then you’re gravely mistaken, you wild boar!

“Ishanka!”

When Nana called his name, Ishanka tied Sam up tightly with rope as if he had been waiting. His professional, faster and more thorough skills than anyone else’s were admirable.

Sam was bewildered by what happened in an instant and turned his head this way and that. Nana took one more step forward.

“So what you’re saying is that you enjoyed doing nothing and having others wait on you so much that you threw tantrums about the medicine someone carefully made for you, saying it tasted bad, and threw it away as you pleased. Right now.”

“No, why are you twisting my words like that…”

“If that’s not it, then speak properly!”

Sam’s body flinched and shrank at Nana’s intensity.

“You’re always like this, aren’t you? Even when you speak like crap, you want others to understand you perfectly and consider your feelings. You probably don’t do it on purpose. Even when you spoke like that, the people around you probably understood your intentions and accommodated you. You obviously look like a spoiled, immature attention-seeker who was raised with constant coddling.”

This was also the decisive reason why Nana didn’t like Sam. Using the excuse of having a prickly and arrogant personality, he would carelessly throw out words that could hurt others, then later make excuses saying he did it because he liked them or was embarrassed.

To Nana’s eyes, he looked like a snotty elementary school kid bullying a girl he liked, which she found absolutely pathetic and disgusting.

It’s not like he’s giving both the disease and the cure – acting annoying to your heart’s content and then thinking all your previous words are forgiven just because you throw in a bit of affection? Gap moe my ass. If it weren’t for the setting that he was Ash’s friend, he was the type of person she wouldn’t even bother with.

Sam seemed dizzy from the experience of not just having his flesh separated from his bones but having his bones completely shattered, as he couldn’t retort to her words as usual and just gaped his mouth.

“If you want something, express your intentions properly and have a conversation with the other person. Don’t throw tantrums like a child throwing toys at their mother.”

Seriously, how old are you that I have to teach you this too? What a troublesome million-gold piece. But that would soon end too.

Nana grabbed Sam’s chin with one hand. And with the other hand, she ruthlessly shoved the funnel she was holding into his mouth.

“Mmph! Mmph mmph!”

“What am I doing? I’m personally tending to a patient who refuses medicine out of concern for his health. You should know how lucky you are to meet someone with such a spirit of sacrifice like me.”

Nana pulled out a potion of a hideous color from her inventory.

“Mmph, mmph mmph!”

“It’s different from the promise? Promises are meant to be broken.”

In short, it was a fake, you little rascal!

Nana poured the potion into the funnel with a splash.

The hideous-colored potion flowed down through the funnel that was properly stuck in his throat all the way to his esophagus. His internal organs cried “Emergency! Emergency!” and threw a fit at the potion that entered after so long.

Perhaps due to the potion’s effect, Sam’s consciousness gradually drifted away from reality. The sight of Nana wearing a wicked smile was Sam’s last memory of that day.

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From that day on, Sam became much more docile. Sometimes he would unconsciously frown when he saw the potions Nana had mixed, but when he spotted the funnel in her other hand, he would gulp down the medicine on his own as if nothing had happened.

And on a day like any other, a System Message appeared with a ding along with fanfare.

【You have completed the Emergency Quest: ‘Possess the Angel in White.'</p】

Sam’s Life Gauge: ■■■■■■■■■■

Wow. You’ve filled it completely without any gaps. As a success reward, 1 million gold will be given to Adrienne Rogueton.

*You have recovered Sam’s Life Gauge faster than the expected period. You are a true angel in white. As an additional reward, you gain experience points and your farm’s farmland expands by 50m.>

1 million gold plus land and experience points – it was worth saving a person’s life. Nana was wearing a very pleased smile while looking at the number of gold coins drawn below the status window after the last update.

Knock knock.

The person knocking on the door said nothing, but Nana had an idea who it was.

“Come in.”

The person who opened the door and entered was Sam, as expected.

“How’s your body?”

“Much better.”

Of course it would be, considering who took care of you.

While Nana was nodding with satisfaction at her own nursing skills, Sam spoke with the gravity of someone who had made a big decision.

“You said before. If I have something to say, I should say it properly.”

“I did.”

“But before that, there’s something I need to say to you first.”

Sam suddenly extended one hand that had been behind his back toward Nana. In his hand was a bunch of wildflowers.

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