Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 38

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Episode 38

 

“What’s wrong? Are you hungry? There are leftover empanadas filled with venison at home, so eat those.”

 

“Really? No, that’s not it!”

 

The large empanadas made with tender venison were Sam’s favorite food. His face immediately brightened.

 

Sam, who was about to rush home right away, suddenly snapped back to his senses. What he was about to say was far more important than eating empanadas.

 

“Wait, I have something to show you. Follow me to the workshop.”

 

Nana followed Sam to his workshop, which was also the warehouse she had lent him entirely. The warehouse that had been an empty space was now filled with unfamiliar machine parts.

 

“Did you move all the parts from that basement here?”

 

“Most of them, yes. Anyway, I made a new invention, want to take a look?”

 

What Sam held out was an object with a metal handle attached to a small wooden box. Nana could tell what it was at a glance.

 

“Hey, you… this is…”

 

“Do you know what it is?”

 

“It’s a coffee grinder!”

 

Nana’s heart raced with excitement seeing the invention she had wanted most since the freezer he made. In the past, she used to grind coffee beans directly with a millstone, but lately she had almost given up because cleaning was too bothersome.

 

“I never thought you’d make this. How did you think to make this?”

 

“That’s what I want to ask you.”

 

Sam’s eyes turned sharp.

 

“This is something that was just recently made in the Grinnish Principality. It’s still a prototype that hasn’t even been commercialized, and only my professor, me, and a few students know the blueprints. So how did you recognize it immediately?”

 

Nana froze completely. It was a mistake. She had too naturally mentioned information that no one from this world should know.

 

She tried to use the traditional trustworthy phrase she had once used to convince Ishanka to smooth over this situation.

 

“Just in case you’re thinking of it, the nonsense about God telling you won’t work. For someone who claims to speak God’s words, you had exceptional knowledge about machine operating principles and circuits. That’s not something you can know just because God simply told you verbally.”

 

He’s usually pretty dense, but he’s sharp at times like this.

 

Sadly, Sam’s interrogation didn’t end there.

 

“You also called my failed invention a ‘freezer’ last time and took it, right?”

 

“That… was something useless to you anyway, wasn’t it? So I was going to use it effectively…”

 

“Even then, before I told you what it was for, you had the look of someone who definitely knew what it was used for.”

 

Nana decided to just keep her mouth shut. As they say, if you don’t speak, you’ll at least get by. Though it seemed already ruined.

 

“When I think about it, there wasn’t just one or two strange things. The Adrien I knew didn’t know anything about mechanical engineering. But you seem like someone who already knew what this tool was?”

 

He took a step toward Nana. Their gazes clashed in mid-air.

 

“I’m grateful that you saved me and took me in. But I need to know this.”

 

His voice lowered.

 

“What exactly are you?”

 

* * *

 

If Nana’s current feelings were to be summarized in one line, this phrase would fit best.

 

I’m probably screwed.

 

There was nothing wrong with what Sam said.

 

The inventions he made were unfamiliar and fascinating objects to people of this world, but they weren’t strange to Nana at all.

 

During her time living as Song Nana, she had seen them so commonly, and there were even things she had directly made during middle and high school science lab classes.

 

Since she knew the basic principles, she could even give advice – South Korea’s public education was truly great. Though here it created a troublesome situation.

 

‘Do I have no choice but to tell the truth?’

 

Nana couldn’t think of any plausible excuse. And even if she managed to get by with lies, falling into a cycle of lies where she’d need more lies to support those lies could bring unmanageable consequences later.

 

While Nana hesitated with her answer, Sam threw out a comment with a face full of suspicion.

 

“Why are you taking so long? Don’t tell me you’re a dark mage? Is this disaster something you brought about, so you can’t speak?”

 

Sam probably didn’t have any great malice. He just thoughtlessly pressed her because he wanted to hear an answer quickly. But having no malice didn’t excuse thoughtless remarks.

 

Smack-!

 

So Nana kicking Sam’s shin was self-defense.

 

“Ahhh! Hey, you…!”

 

“There are things people should and shouldn’t say. If you’ve never heard this once in your life, then the people around you raised you wrong, and you should engrave in your bones the lesson that words shouldn’t be spoken carelessly.”

 

To summarize, if he continued living like that, he’d have no excuse even if he got stabbed instead of just kicked in the shin.

 

“As expected, thinking this way and that isn’t my style. So I’ll tell you two stories. One sounds crazy but is the truth, the other sounds plausible but is a lie. Listen to both and decide which one you want to believe.”

 

Whether Sam was clutching his shin and groaning or not, Nana continued speaking.

 

“I’m actually a spy from Greenwich. I was disguised as a farmer to steal information from the Helvetia Kingdom when I met with disaster.”

 

“What? But Greenwich is a neutral country, how could there be a spy…”

 

“Now. That was the lie, and the truth is.”

 

Nana cleared her throat and opened her mouth.

 

“I actually came here with only my soul from another world. The world I lived in was a place where civilization was highly advanced. It was a world where science developed instead of magic, and that grinder was also a tool commonly seen there. That’s why I recognized it immediately.”

 

Sam forgot the pain in his shin and looked back and forth between Nana and the grinder with a dumbfounded expression.

 

“A soul from another world… How?”

 

“I don’t know either. I was living normally, but one day I went to sleep and woke up inside this gam- I mean, this world.”

 

“No, is that possible? I thought dimensional travel magic was extinct…?”

 

“I told you I didn’t come here by my own will. But you seem to believe this story more than the one about me being a Greenwich spy?”

 

Nana was puzzled. To accept so easily a story that no one would believe. Sam simply answered Nana, who had an expression of incomprehension.

 

“Dead corpses have risen again to attack the living. How many people predicted this? The absurd has already happened. But…”

 

“Yeah?”

 

“You said grinders were common objects in the world you lived in?”

 

“Yeah, that’s right.”

 

At that moment, Sam’s eyes flashed.

 

Nana instinctively narrowed her eyes.

 

This guy, don’t tell me…

 

She pretended not to notice his reaction and spoke casually.

 

“Well, to be honest, in the world I lived in, the tools you made are too everyday objects to be called inventions. That’s why I could naturally give advice about the things you made.”

 

Sam couldn’t hide his amazement at Nana’s words.

 

“Things like this… are common?”

 

Sam recalled the moment when his professor and fellow students admired him when he completed the final sample of the grinder. Everyone had been amazed seeing the completion of the small but precise and uniquely charming grinder.

 

“Right, in the world I lived in, there were amazing devices beyond your imagination that were common. For example, machines that blow cool air like winter wind even on summer days, machines like picture frames that show moving images and sound were used daily. And…”

 

Sam’s eyes grew even wider at Nana’s story. His heart was beating harder than when he first encountered mechanical engineering.

 

The story of the world Nana lived in made him feel like an explorer discovering unknown lands.

 

“Ah, but should I be telling you this? If you want to hear more, paid subscription is required, dear customer.”

 

When Nana pretended to be reluctant and stopped the story at the crucial part, Sam went crazy like a fan who lost their source material.

 

“Take all my money!”

 

Take my money! Sam, a true engineering nerd who had been so absorbed in mechanical engineering that he was going to pursue a doctoral degree, had properly fallen for the new genre of modern civilization, the pinnacle of mechanical civilization.

 

‘Wow, this actually works?’

 

The big fish took the bait she had thrown half-heartedly. She was bewildered, but the initiative had come to her side. She stopped Sam’s action of trying to take out his wallet with her hand, maintaining a composed expression.

 

“I don’t need money, just make me one promise.”

 

“What is it?”

 

“That you won’t tell anyone what I told you, that you’ll keep it absolutely secret. If you properly keep just that, I’ll tell you stories about the modern world that I know.”

 

Sam nodded enthusiastically at Nana’s proposal. At this rate he’ll dislocate his neck. Nana chuckled at Sam’s reaction.

 

It was the moment when a secret between just the two of them was unintentionally created.

 

* * *

 

After spilling everything about coming from another world, her heart felt much lighter.

 

It was a bit puzzling that Sam of all people believed this story, but seeing his reaction, he was like a new fan who got sold on a new genre.

 

And she was the angler who could throw new bait anytime.

 

As long as this relationship lasted, he wouldn’t go around blabbing about Nana’s secret. No, even if he did blab, people would treat him like a crazy person, so it didn’t matter.

 

Thinking that good things are good things, Nana would readily answer whenever Sam occasionally asked about modern civilization.

 

But Nana didn’t know at this time how much Sam would annoy her in the future.

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