Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 33

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Episode 33

 

The time when Ishanka and Sam left the farm. Nana also had something else to do.

 

【Party members Kku-kku and Kka-kka have completed their exclusive Quest ‘Eggs are good protein.’ Kku-kku and Kka-kka gain experience and level up. Now they can lay 4 unfertilized eggs each day. The Farmowner also gains some experience.】

 

There were only six eggs in the basket, but Nana was satisfied with just that.

 

Eggs only needed to be enough to eat. Even though there were many workers on the farm, only two people actually ate… no, now with Sam included, it was only three.

 

Still, 6 eggs should be enough for the three of us to eat. No, starting tomorrow it’ll be 8, right?

 

Nana opened the chicken coop door and waited for the chickens to come out. Kku-kku and Kka-kka familiarly emerged from their nests made of hay piles and walked around clucking.

 

Watching the chickens stroll across the lawn, shaking their fluffy feathers, Nana couldn’t help but smile.

 

She could actually have the zombies do this kind of work. But Nana deliberately collected the eggs herself every day.

 

The reason was simple.

 

First, because the chickens were afraid of zombies.

 

As a result of lovingly caring for them since the early days of the apocalypse, Kku-kku and Kka-kka regarded Nana as something like a mother hen.

 

Having zombies that only looked human but had no emotions wandering around in front of these children seemed somehow harmful to their well-being.

 

So she decided to just do it herself every day. Well, it wasn’t hard work anyway.

 

And second, because they were cute.

 

On a sunny day, fluffy chickens waddling around on the peaceful farm.

 

This time spent watching them was the ultimate healing time for Nana.

 

“It would be even better if there were chicks too.”

 

Nana looked suspiciously at the system window for no reason.

 

It wouldn’t be difficult to give her a fertilized egg or something through quest rewards or gacha-like things.

 

She could ask Sam to make an incubator, so all that remained was the system’s consideration.

 

Just as she was seriously considering shaking down the system to get a fertilized egg, she heard someone approaching from not far away.

 

“Meow meow meow meow.”

 

It was Tan-bbang, another healing-focused party member. In Tan-bbang’s mouth was a very large and plump mouse hanging limply.

 

【Party member Tan-bbang has completed the exclusive Quest ‘Country Mouse Hunting.’ The Farmowner also gains some experience.】

 

Tan-bbang set the mouse down in front of Nana and meowed as if asking to be praised quickly. Nana didn’t disappoint Tan-bbang’s expectations.

 

“Oh my, oh my, our Tan-bbang. You brought another big catch today. Where do you keep catching these things every day? Our Tan-bbang would definitely win first place if there was a country mouse hunting contest. Should we try entering the world championship?”

 

The more Nana’s praise continued, the more Tan-bbang straightened his body as if saying ‘Hurry up and praise me more, human servant.’ It was truly a magnificently cat-like appearance.

 

“But you know, Tan-bbang has been doing farm quests the longest, so why isn’t his level going up?”

 

It was something she said without much thought, but at those words, Tan-bbang—Ateruna’s ears twitched slightly.

 

He wasn’t sure exactly what she meant, but somehow he felt anxious that his human servant might have noticed he was different from the other animals.

 

‘Did she figure it out?’

 

Discrimination against beastfolk still existed.

 

Although slavery had disappeared now, old perceptions didn’t disappear easily.

 

Even if they spoke of equality on the surface, there were still many who looked down on beastfolk as inferior to humans deep inside.

 

‘But I like this current state. I like my human servant, and I like this farm too…’

 

So he didn’t want to lose this peace.

 

Ateruna even sincerely thought it would be okay if he didn’t return to being human, if that’s what his human servant wanted.

 

Just as his eyes were growing darker with such thoughts—

 

“But that’s okay.”

 

Nana casually picked him up.

 

A soft embrace. Warm body temperature. And ticklish cheek touches.

 

“Actually, you don’t have to catch mice! You’re cute just by existing!”

 

At those words, Ateruna’s eyes widened.

 

Nana’s voice speaking as if it were so natural, her smiling face made his heart surge once again.

 

“Cats are love in themselves!”

 

As she spoke, Nana buried her face in Tan-bbang’s belly and blew raspberries, making “bububu” sounds.

 

Ateruna shook his head in a daze. This emotion was too familiar yet also strange to know what to call it.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“So you were here.”

 

A shadow suddenly fell over Nana.

 

It was Ishanka.

 

“Oh, Isha. Were you looking for me? Did something happen on the farm?”

 

“No, that’s not it. I’ve moved all of that new man’s belongings to the warehouse he’s using.”

 

Ishanka, who was completely ignorant about machinery, had thrown everything in without any sense of organization and left, while Sam, who arrived later, was currently crying out in shock and despair in the warehouse.

 

But those sounds didn’t reach this place, which was quite far from the workshop.

 

Ishanka quietly sat down next to Nana.

 

The lawn where sunlight gently shone down. On it, Kku-kku and Kka-kka were slowly digging through the dirt looking for earthworms.

 

A little later, Kka-kka lifted her head proudly with a plump earthworm in her beak.

 

Beyond the grass, the lake sparkled in the sunlight.

 

The scene was peaceful, like a page from a fairy tale rather than a zombie apocalypse.

 

The two people looked at the scenery without saying anything for a while.

 

Ishanka was the first to speak.

 

“But why do you keep using formal speech with me, employer?”

 

It was quite an unexpected opening line.

 

“Huh? Oh, that’s… I told you before. I’m more comfortable this way.”

 

“But you speak casually to that man, don’t you?”

 

“That man? Oh, you mean Sam?”

 

Nana smiled awkwardly and shrugged her shoulders.

 

“Well, I’ve known him for a while, and the way he acts is so childish, I guess I naturally treat him casually.”

 

“Haven’t we known each other for quite a long time too?”

 

At Ishanka’s words, Nana tilted her head.

 

It had already been three months since he came to the farm.

 

It was a time that could be considered short or long.

 

But today’s Ishanka seemed more serious than usual somehow.

 

Could there be some other meaning behind his words?

 

“Or should I try acting like a child too?”

 

Uh… huh? What is he saying? No, wait, surely not…

 

“But I don’t really remember how I acted when I was young.”

 

“Huh?”

 

“Instead, I remember this. I called people older than me ‘noona.'”

 

To say such things with that calm voice and that handsome face.

 

But there was no playfulness in his eyes. Even his serious face was handsome, which was worse for her heart.

 

“May I call you noona instead of employer?”

 

“Kuhehek, kek kek.”

 

Suddenly Tan-bbang started coughing as if something was stuck in his throat, then quickly escaped from Nana’s arms and ran away somewhere.

 

“Ta, Tan-bbang!”

 

“Leave him be. He probably wants to cough up a hairball.”

 

Nana wanted to escape from this situation too. Should she say she felt like coughing up a hairball too and go throw up?

 

While Nana was having such ridiculous thoughts, Ishanka quietly called her “noona.” Nana’s face turned bright red.

 

Of course you are younger than me, but to call me noona with that face, with that beauty!

 

I love it so much! No, I love it so much! I love it so much my heart might hurt!

 

But wait a minute.

 

“Um, do you want me to speak casually to you too, Isha?”

 

There was no answer, but Ishanka’s silence was more powerful than any response.

 

“I don’t understand. Even though Isha is a worker on the farm, I’ve never treated you like a subordinate, have I? And isn’t formal speech more pleasant to hear?”

 

“I felt a sense of distance. The way you treat Sam and me is so different.”

 

‘Well, Sam is an irresponsible fool I hired through a shocking event, and you’re a competent, responsible, and reliable worker. Of course my attitude toward you would be different…’

 

“Besides, you seemed more cheerful when talking with that man.”

 

“What’s cheerful about it!”

 

Nana shot up from her seat. She felt wronged.

 

“When I talk with Sam, honestly, stress builds up inside me. Sometimes I really get the urge to sew that mouth of his shut!”

 

“Then are you happier when you’re with me?”

 

This time Nana became serious.

 

She reflected on the time she had spent with Ishanka.

 

At first, he was definitely a crazy guy with a knife, and she started with wariness rather than trust, but before she knew it, he had become the most reliable and comfortable presence to her.

 

“Yes. I’m much more comfortable, fun, and happy when I’m with Isha.”

 

At those words, Ishanka’s face brightened brilliantly for the first time.

 

Even more radiantly than when he had received the Ion Araf before.

 

‘Ah, that’s cheating. Don’t smile with that face!’

 

Her heart pounded. It was more dangerous than before.

 

But Ishanka didn’t stop there.

 

“In that case, please speak casually to me from now on. I want to become closer than we are now. If you’d like, shall I call you sister instead of employer?”

 

“Aaah! Fine! I got it! Isha! I’ll speak casually to you! I really will! Got it?!”

 

“Yes, please do that.”

 

“But! You don’t call me employer either. Call me Nana. Casually.”

 

“That… I’ll consider it.”

 

He subtly pressured me to speak casually to him, but when it comes to himself, he dodges around? Nana grumbled and walked boldly toward the livestock barn.

 

Ishanka, who had been watching the direction Nana disappeared, quietly murmured a single word.

 

“…Nana.”

 

Then he lowered his head as a red tinge spread across his face.

 

As a side note, Tan-bbang, who had been watching the entire scene from afar, apparently avoided Ishanka for a while afterward, looking at him like he was rotten fish.

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