Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 32

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Episode 32

 

“Huh?”

 

“Welcome to my farm. Not that you’re… unfamiliar. It’s the disaster’s mouth I see every day.”

 

“I don’t know what you’re suddenly talking about, but does that mean I can stay on your farm?”

 

“Of course. You can take all the parts here and make whatever you want. But you can’t make anything I don’t want.”

 

“What kind of weird condition is that?”

 

“It means don’t waste parts on useless things.”

 

At Nana’s blunt words, Sam pouted and grumbled in response.

 

“There’s no such thing as a useless machine in this world.”

 

“So you don’t want to stay on the farm?”

 

“The client’s word comes first. Yes, of course.”

 

“Where did you learn to say things like that?”

 

“When I was studying at the academy in Greenwich, the professors often…”

 

【30 seconds remaining.】

 

Ah, this isn’t the time to be doing this with him! Hire worker! Hire worker!

 

【Would you like to hire the character with secrets: Sam Lindberg as a farm worker?】

 

At the same time a message window appeared in front of Nana, one also appeared in front of Sam.

 

“Huh? Something strange appeared in front of me? Is it magic? Let’s see, Sweet Little Village’s…”

 

“You don’t need to read that carefully. Just stamp your seal quickly!”

 

【Not much time remaining. 10, 9…】

 

“But the professors said when making contracts, you should carefully read the manual and contract terms before signing…”

 

“Ah, I’m suddenly changing my mind. I’ll have to go to the farm alone.”

 

“But would someone as generous and merciful as you put in unfavorable terms?”

 

Sam’s hand reached toward the accept button without any hesitation.

 

【Special Event: ‘Precious Talent Brought Through Delay 2’ completed.</p】

Greenwich mechanical parts, three bundles of premium rare parts, and experience points have been awarded to Adrienne Rogueton as rewards.>

 

【Character with secrets: Sam Lindberg has been recruited as a worker. Character automatically added to party.】

 

【Used the privilege to own Sam’s inventions as a special Quest completion reward. The freezer now belongs to Adrienne Rogueton.】

 

It was the moment when generous and merciful employer Nana received a heap of rewards and gained another farm worker.

 

* * *

 

Just as Sam officially joined as a farm worker, Ishanka finished building Nana’s house. The timing was perfect.

 

So now Nana, Ishanka, and Sam could live in a more spacious and comfortable house instead of temporary quarters.

 

This was truly fortunate for Ishanka, who had been sleeping alongside patient Sam, and Nana, who had been sleeping on the small bed that Ishanka had fixed.

 

But before entering the house, an unexpected problem arose.

 

“Aaaahhh! Walking corpses!”

 

Sam had fallen into shock and terror upon seeing the farm zombies.

 

It wasn’t unreasonable. The livestock barn was far from the farm. When Sam had fled toward the library, he had taken a long detour around the area rather than crossing through the farm to avoid being caught.

 

As a result, Sam, who had been eating and sleeping in the temporary quarters at the livestock barn, was only now encountering the zombies who had become farm workers for the first time.

 

“What, what are you doing?! Run away quickly! If you get bitten by those things…!”

 

“Ah… Sam, it’s okay.”

 

“What, what’s okay? Are you also a walking corpse? Did you deceive me?”

 

Nana’s face twisted at Sam’s rambling words.

 

“Even if this idiot is in shock from seeing a zombie horde, that’s no excuse for spouting nonsense without a filter! Hey, look carefully. If those were ordinary zombies, would we be standing here perfectly fine right now?”

 

Sam, who had been in a panic state, seemed to regain some sense from Nana’s scolding and slowly raised his head to look toward where the zombies were.

 

As Nana said, the zombies weren’t attacking them or even paying attention to them. The zombies were simply working hard according to farm owner Nana’s orders, pulling weeds, watering, and fertilizing.

 

Nana answered Sam, who was still looking at the farm with an expression that showed he couldn’t properly grasp what situation this was.

 

“Honestly, it might be a bit hard to get used to… The farm zombies can’t commit acts of violence on my land and absolutely follow my orders as the farm owner. So you don’t need to worry about being bitten or attacked by zombies.”

 

“Zombies? Farm owner…? Come to think of it, why is all this land brown? When the walking corpses were approaching, all the land had withered and turned black.”

 

“I’m surprised you’re only asking about that now. It’s a long story, but since you’ve become a worker here, you should know. Listen carefully.”

 

Nana explained to Sam about the abilities she had gained. Of course, laying the groundwork about being able to communicate with gods, as she had told Ishanka before, was included.

 

“…So you can communicate with gods, and with the ability the gods gave you, you can purify the land and control those walking… no, what your god calls zombies… Ha. Anyway, you can control those things?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“That’s impossible.”

 

“Why is it impossible?”

 

“For the gods to entrust a mission to someone like you, who’s like an unbridled colt…”

 

“Do you want to consume food with your gums instead of teeth?”

 

“It’s strange for them to entrust a mission to such a free spirit. I know there are separate temples and priests who serve the gods.”

 

“I don’t know either. Why I was chosen, why I gained these abilities. Anyway, the conclusion is that those zombies won’t attack us. You can rest assured.”

 

“…Then can I ask one more thing?”

 

“What?”

 

“Have you ever seen Uncle Brody or Aunt Paisley among them?”

 

Darkness fell across Sam’s face. A complex light that was neither sadness nor pain crossed Nana’s face as she watched him.

 

“No, I haven’t.”

 

“…”

 

“Really. I’ve seen a total of four village residents so far. But your uncle and aunt weren’t among them.”

 

Sam nodded silently.

 

Though she couldn’t be certain, at least the fact that they weren’t among the zombies became a ray of hope.

 

The possibility that Brody and Mrs. Paisley might still be alive – with that thought, the darkness that had fallen across Sam’s face gradually lifted.

 

Watching him for a moment, Nana couldn’t gauge what expression she was making. She should tell him this too. She opened her mouth again.

 

“But Ash was there.”

 

“…!”

 

“So I sent him to where he should go, telling him not to wander the world anymore. Same with the others.”

 

Nana smiled as if holding bitter medicine in her mouth, then turned around and entered the newly built house. No one stopped her.

 

Nana gave Sam an entire unused warehouse as his workshop, located farthest from the fields, instead of a bedroom in the house. There was a specific reason for this consideration.

 

Sam’s rejection reaction to zombies was stronger than expected. So strong that if there was a zombie nearby, he would stay frozen in place and wait desperately for Nana to come. And when Nana arrived…

 

“Where did you go! I thought I was going to die of fear!”

 

He would cling to Nana like a puppy who found its owner, whimpering.

 

“I was worried you might never come this way.”

 

“Ah, stop it! Those things won’t eat you, I tell you! Have they ever bared their teeth at you while you’ve been here?”

 

“You never know. You never know when or how those things might change, right? Even machines break down suddenly, so wouldn’t walking corpses be the same?!”

 

“Even the cat has adapted and sleeps so peacefully when zombies pass by, but a grown man… Ugh, so annoying, really!”

 

Sam clinging to her was bothersome. Rather than watching him whine and cling every time, it was better to keep him far away from the zombies.

 

Indeed, once she gave him an entire warehouse, Sam began decorating his castle as if he had never clung to Nana. Thanks to this, peace of mind came to Nana as well. It was a moment that benefited both of them.

 

Sam gradually moved the machine parts lying around in the general store basement to the warehouse.

 

He carried small items by hand, going back and forth several times, but large parts had to be transported in a cart.

 

Actually, most of Sweet Little Village’s land had already been declared farmland by Nana, so the farm and village were connected.

 

So it would have been time-saving and much more efficient to have the zombies move things.

 

But Sam, who was terrified just seeing zombies, would never choose that method.

 

In the end, he repeated the task of loading and carrying what could be moved by cart, but the cart wheel happened to break, and the parts he was trying to move were too large for him to carry alone.

 

So this time, he decided to move the parts from the general store together with Ishanka.

 

“Um… thank you for helping me. The cart wheel was completely broken, so I was in trouble.”

 

“Two people moving together is more efficient than one person, isn’t it? No need to thank me.”

 

“Still, I couldn’t have done it alone without you, Ishanka.”

 

“…”

 

“By the way, how did you end up meeting Nana? That thunder… I mean, it’s surprising that someone who only knew the farm would meet other people…”

 

Ishanka, who had been walking silently, suddenly stopped and turned toward Sam.

 

As the much taller and larger man looked down at him, a strange sense of pressure washed over Sam, and he unconsciously swallowed dryly.

 

A cold aura permeated his light purple eyes.

 

“I don’t recall giving you permission to use my name?”

 

“What? But Nana…”

 

“If I had known we were this close, I wouldn’t have given advice back then and would have let you be sent outside the farm.”

 

“What? I can’t quite hear what you’re saying…”

 

Sam tried to ask again about the whisper-like muttering, but Ishanka ignored his words and continued speaking.

 

“She is my employer. And…”

 

Ishanka took another step closer to him.

 

“Don’t carelessly use your employer’s nickname when you’re just a farm worker.”

 

Sam could instantly feel the wariness and jealousy thickly rising in those cool light purple eyes.

 

“I’ll carry these myself.”

 

Ishanka snatched away the bundle of parts Sam had been holding and quickly walked away.

 

Sam stared blankly at Ishanka’s figure disappearing in the distance for a while before snapping back to his senses.

 

“Adrien, you stupid fool! How does that look like a worker’s gaze to you!”

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