Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 30

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Episode 30

 

“I’m sorry.”

 

“….”

 

“The day I woke up, I shouldn’t have said that to you. No, even if I said those things because I didn’t know anything, I should have at least chased after you and apologized afterwards. It’s late, but I’ll apologize now. I’m really sorry.”

 

“…They say when people start doing things they don’t usually do, it’s time for them to die. Are you sure you’re completely recovered?”

 

“Do you really have to say something like that in a situation like this?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“….”

 

Sam was at a loss for words at such a decisive response.

 

“I’m kidding.”

 

Nana took the bundle of wildflowers Sam offered. Kids usually give gifts when they apologize, and sure enough, this little brat was doing exactly the same thing.

 

“I don’t know who taught you to do such a thoughtful thing, but I should thank them.”

 

“Your lover taught me.”

 

“Huh? I don’t have a lover though?”

 

“That black-haired man isn’t your lover? Then what was that last time?!”

 

“What do you mean ‘that’? Didn’t I tell you last time to speak properly if you have something to say?”

 

As Nana’s brow was about to furrow menacingly again, Sam hurriedly waved his hands.

 

“No, that man was stroking your head last time.”

 

“Stroking? Ah, you must mean when there was a leaf stuck in my hair. But were you there then?”

 

“…I saw it on the way to the library.”

 

How leisurely he ran away. I should have caught him when I saw him then.

 

Meanwhile, Sam was confused in his own way. Not lovers? The way that man looked at her was strangely intense. How else could someone look at the opposite sex with such eyes if they weren’t lovers!

 

“Anyway, Isha isn’t my lover but a worker on my farm, and we’re not in that kind of relationship.”

 

Sam understood immediately.

 

Ah, she doesn’t know anything. Still focused on only one thing she likes and unable to look around her surroundings.

 

Even when she was with Ash, whenever something happened at the farm, she’d run off without looking back. Who’s calling who a wild boar….

 

Sam sighed and continued speaking.

 

“Anyway, that person told me. To make sure I apologize. That fixing a broken relationship starts from there.”

 

Watching Sam speak with a serious face, Nana was momentarily dazed.

 

It was true that she didn’t like Sam. But that didn’t mean she hated him like a parent’s enemy.

 

He was just someone whose personality and direction didn’t match hers.

 

You can’t be friends with everyone, and not everyone needs to like you. If that’s the relationship, there’s no need to force a connection.

 

That was a lesson she learned painfully during her Song Nana days, getting worn down by people and relationships at work.

 

But Sam didn’t seem to think that way.

 

Perhaps it was because of the loneliness of being left alone after the world collapsed like this and the people he relied on disappeared.

 

So maybe he wanted to get along with Nana now.

 

But whatever the reason, what was clear was that Sam was sincere.

 

Even if he didn’t want to laugh and be close friends, at least he didn’t want to be awkward or hurtful like before.

 

Nana could feel that.

 

‘…He was more complex than I thought.’

 

Unexpectedly, Nana felt like she had just glimpsed a little into Sam’s heart.

 

With a somewhat awkward and somewhat embarrassed expression, she scratched her cheek.

 

“You know. I don’t hate you that much. I was just drawing a line because our personalities seemed too incompatible. No one can get along with everyone. Both you and I were just like that.”

 

“But you never had a good expression whenever you talked to me.”

 

“When someone only picks mean things to say, who would respond with a smile?”

 

“….”

 

“Still, knowing how to apologize and even saying you want to fix the relationship is admirable. Alright. I’ll accept your apology.”

 

‘That should be enough talking.’

 

Nana thought so to herself. However, Sam was still standing there. It seemed like he had more to say.

 

Nana crossed her arms and looked at him sideways.

 

“What else do you want to say?”

 

“Let me stay here.”

 

“No.”

 

“You said to speak properly if I want something!”

 

“I said to speak, not that I’d listen.”

 

“Why can’t I stay here?! You’re still not completely over being angry, right?”

 

“No, it has nothing to do with what happened then.”

 

“Then why not?”

 

Nana looked at Sam with an even more sullen face than before. Sam flinched for no reason even though he hadn’t done anything wrong.

 

“Do you know how to plow fields?”

 

“No.”

 

“Cooking?”

 

“Madam Paisley… no, Aunt Paisley did it for me, so I don’t know how.”

 

“Laundry?”

 

“Aunt Paisley did that too….”

 

“Cleaning?”

 

“That too….”

 

Sam’s voice, which had been demanding to know why not just moments ago, gradually became smaller.

 

Nana’s expression seemed to have ‘What kind of pathetic human is this?’ written all over it.

 

“Look. I’m not such a heartless person that I’d kick out a sick person like you said. But I’m not kind enough to take in someone who can’t do anything and has no intention of learning. My farm doesn’t need freeloaders.”

 

“Who says I can’t do anything and have no intention of learning?!”

 

Nana looked at Sam with an expression that still hadn’t erased the words ‘What kind of pathetic human is this?’

 

“I’ve seen you several times while going back and forth to the general store, but I’ve never once seen you help with the store work. Even when Uncle Brody was struggling to move lots of goods that came in, you just passed by and slipped into your room.”

 

“That, that was….”

 

“And you said you’ve never cooked, never done laundry, never cleaned while living in that house? No matter how much you’re a nephew, didn’t you ever think to help with housework even once while staying at someone else’s house?”

 

“…That’s women’s work.”

 

“What kind of old noble talk is that? Then did the couples in this village both happen to be women so they shared housework? I’ve often seen even Uncle Brody helping with housework, didn’t that make you think anything?”

 

Sam looked like he had truly never thought about such things even once.

 

‘Wow, he really is nothing but a freeloader. Not even his own child but a nephew being a back-breaker, Uncle Brody must have been a saint to just let it slide.’

 

Nana’s expression had now changed from ‘What kind of pathetic human is this?’ to ‘You’re just a machine that only eats and poops.’

 

Sam avoided Nana’s gaze and hesitantly managed to open his mouth.

 

“…I know how to do something too.”

 

“What?”

 

“…Mechanical engineering.”

 

“What? Speak louder.”

 

“I know how to handle machines!”

 

Sam shouted dramatically, but Nana had a subtle expression that was neither laughing nor annoyed.

 

“There are no machines on my farm though?”

 

“I know how to make them too!”

 

“There are no parts to make machines either.”

 

“I have them. I can show you a prototype if you want.”

 

Knowing how to make machines, this was somewhat unexpected.

 

The Kingdom of Helvetia, the country where Nana lived, was the slowest among kingdoms to adopt mechanical engineering.

 

Even though trust in magic was rock bottom, mechanical engineering was so far behind that they relied more on magic until recently.

 

It was a country where it was hard to find proper mechanical engineers even in the capital.

 

Of course, having machines would naturally be convenient.

 

In the past, she might have been interested.

 

But now Nana was a farmowner who possessed the fantastic labor force called zombies.

 

No matter how amazing Sam could create, it wasn’t very appealing to Nana now.

 

Ding!

 

【Special Quest: ‘The Precious Talent Brought Through Delay’ has occurred.</p】

Follow Sam and go see the inventions Sam has made.

 

Reward: The privilege to have one of Sam’s inventions, 30,000 gold and experience points.

 

*Think of it as going to see a portfolio. Whether to hire him as a worker later is the employer’s choice.>

 

For once, a kind quest had appeared.

 

It wasn’t a quest where I had to lure zombie hordes, nor was it a quest telling me to hire Sam as a worker—just go and look at his inventions.

 

There was no failure penalty either. Hiring him was also my freedom.

 

Why is the system being so kind? Making me anxious? Or Sam, are you really something special?

 

Originally I had no intention of keeping that plant-eater on the farm, but since a quest appeared, I had no choice. I should at least pretend to look and consider it. It’s absolutely not because I’m tempted by the quest reward.

 

“Since you’re so eager to show me, it wouldn’t be right to keep refusing. Fine. Let’s go take a look.”

 

“…Weren’t you dying to kick me out just a moment ago?”

 

“I said I’d look, I didn’t say I’d let you stay on the farm yet.”

 

“You said you wanted to see my inventions, right? We go this way! Let’s hurry!”

 

Sam had lived his life never once reading the room, but after getting instantly killed last time—not satisfied with just getting verbally beaten down, he even had a funnel stuck in his neck—he had learned to read the atmosphere a little.

 

At least when it came to Nana.

 

Indeed, the saying that people need to be put through the wringer to come to their senses was an eternal truth.

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