Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 39

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Episode 39

 

Ishanka had been in a very foul mood these past few days.

 

The reason was that he had often witnessed Sam and Nana sticking together lately.

 

It wasn’t strange for a farm worker to accompany his employer. However, Sam usually made tools that Nana requested him to make, or was absorbed in his own research, often holing himself up in his workshop.

 

Nana, for her part, was busy giving orders to zombies, selling harvests, managing the farm, and so on.

 

In short, their only points of contact were when Sam demonstrated machines he had made, or when checking or fixing whether the generator was working properly.

 

Not sticking together all the time like what he was seeing before his eyes now.

 

If he had known the two would become close so rapidly, should he have pretended it was an accident and shot Sam with his bow that day when he ran out of the farm?

 

He unconsciously frowned. The previous incident had sprouted feelings for Nana in his heart, but that was all. The emotions that had now taken their first steps forward often irritated his mood.

 

Looking at it objectively, he didn’t like some guy loitering around the first woman he had been attracted to.

 

This was clear jealousy. However, Ishanka was someone who was obviously outstanding and more accustomed to receiving favor from others.

 

Even the few relationships he had before were for profit calculations, justification, or to avoid troublesome matters, not because he had ever romantically liked someone. Thanks to this, he had always had relationships where the other person clung to him rather than him clinging to them.

 

He was such an outstanding man that he had never experienced jealousy toward others. But the irony occurred where he experienced the emotion of jealousy only after becoming a full adult. It was truly pitiful and pathetic.

 

Ishanka, who had been glaring at the two while pointlessly plucking his bowstring, suddenly stood up abruptly and strode toward where Nana was.

 

* * *

 

“So in the world you lived in, carriages disappeared and you travel with chunks of metal that move only with oil? What principle makes them move? Is that even possible?”

 

Ah shit, I shouldn’t have told him.

 

Nana desperately ignored Sam while suppressing the irritation surging up.

 

At first, Sam had believed Nana’s words and found them fascinating, so she had generously told him about the modern world as if doing him a favor.

 

However, Sam, who had gone beyond being fascinated to becoming a question mark serial killer, continued to follow her around asking about this and that, except for eating and sleeping time.

 

The disaster’s big mouth had now become a disaster’s question mark serial killer. Sam was so oblivious that he persistently followed her around even when Nana openly showed her displeasure.

 

“Why won’t you answer? How is that even possible?”

 

Nana pretended not to notice and moved her steps, but Sam was persistent. Sam, who had been continuously following behind Nana, suddenly grabbed and pulled her arm.

 

“Ah, I don’t know either, damn it!!!!”

 

Finally, Nana exploded.

 

“I’m not a car mechanic and I didn’t study engineering, so how would I know! If you’re so curious, go to that world yourself and find out, you crazy engineer!”

 

“I would have gone long ago if I could! You’re the one being too much. You got a person all excited and now you’re saying it’s bothersome? How can you do this to me?!”

 

“When did I ever get you excited?! I’m the one who’s wronged!”

 

I asked you to keep it secret, not to become a question mark serial killer!

 

Just as Nana was about to say another word in anger, a firm hand suddenly blocked between them.

 

“Let go of that hand.”

 

It was Ishanka.

 

His face as he stepped between Nana and Sam was as cold as winter frost, and his gaze silently pierced through Sam.

 

When Sam flinched and let go of his hand, Ishanka led her outside without a moment’s hesitation.

 

* * *

 

Ishanka felt like his insides were turning upside down.

 

The moment Sam’s reckless approach toward Nana entered his field of vision, his body moved before his thoughts.

 

‘Why is that bastard next to Nana again?’

 

At first, he was just displeased.

 

But as he got closer, the voices of the two people he could hear were not just a simple argument.

 

“…too much… getting a person all excited and then… how can you do this…”

 

It seemed like Sam was confessing to Nana.

 

His usual conduct was the worst, and even his confession was the worst. Seeing Nana’s disgusted expression, it seemed she had rejected him.

 

If the other person says they dislike it, one should gracefully back down. To act so disgustingly like that. If it were him, he wouldn’t have done that to Nana.

 

‘If it were me…’

 

Ishanka’s steps stopped as if nailed to the ground.

 

‘If it were me, what?’

 

A sentence he couldn’t handle himself appeared in his mind.

 

He could swear.

 

Not once, not even once had he thought of Nana as a romantic interest.

 

No, he thought he hadn’t.

 

Of course, he had favorable feelings.

 

But that was just to the extent that she was a somewhat special person different from others.

 

It probably wasn’t romantic feelings.

 

He just, he just wanted her to stay by his side…

 

“Um, Isha?”

 

When Nana tapped his shoulder with her finger, his mind, which had been full of confusion, snapped back to reality.

 

“What’s wrong…”

 

“Isn’t Isha the one with business? You’re the one who brought me here, aren’t you?”

 

Nana’s finger pointed to the wrist that Ishanka was holding.

 

‘My God, what did I just do?’

 

“Ah, no, this is, well, that…”

 

He had brought Nana out because he didn’t like seeing her with Sam, but he was confused about what to say.

 

He who had never lost his composure even in front of thousands of enemy soldiers probably never expected he would be flustered in front of one woman.

 

His mind was disorganized and he couldn’t get his bearings. After a long silence, Ishanka finally squeezed out words.

 

“…I discovered a hill full of blooming flowers nearby. Would you like to go see it together?”

 

It wasn’t even a plausible excuse. A flower field all of a sudden. Was his imagination this poor? He was reflecting on himself when.

 

“Good. I wanted to come out and take a walk anyway, so this works out perfectly.”

 

Nana smiled brightly and readily agreed to Ishanka’s lame excuse.

 

Ishanka didn’t know, but she was actually grateful to Ishanka for helping her escape from Sam, who had become a disaster’s question mark serial killer.

 

The hill with blooming flowers wasn’t far. Not long after they started climbing the hill, blue bellflowers sparkling in the sunlight came into view.

 

When they reached the top of the hill, an exclamation flowed from Nana at the scenery spread before her eyes. The fluttering blue bellflowers, forsythia, cistus, and others looked more like a forest than a flower field.

 

“To think there was a place like this in the farmland… Why didn’t I, the farmowner, know about this?”

 

When she first became a farmowner, the farmland consisted only of the farm and lake.

 

However, now she had declared the entire Sweet Little Village, including the Eastern Forest, as farmland, and the land had gradually expanded so that everything from Nana’s farm to the village had become farmland.

 

Now that the land had grown large enough to be called a major landowner, there might be areas she didn’t remember. But if there had been such a large flower field, she couldn’t have forgotten it.

 

“You might not remember, but this is a place you created.”

 

What does that mean? She tilted her head at the incomprehensible words.

 

“Look over there.”

 

When she turned her gaze to where Ishanka’s finger pointed, she saw two zombies pulling weeds.

 

It wasn’t a strange sight for Nana, who had been using zombies as workers for a long time. But she soon understood what he meant.

 

Those were the zombies Nana had first encountered at the blacksmith.

 

“Ah, the command I gave back then is still…”

 

“Turn all the land except buildings into flower fields!”

 

At that time, Nana had ordered the zombies to turn the farmland, except for buildings, into flower fields.

 

It was a command given just to dispose of the beginner flower seed set that she considered junk items, but that command had, over time, colored this place with flowers.

 

The flower seeds Nana gave grew vigorously in just a few days.

 

True to being for beginners, the growth difficulty was low, and thanks to the farmland buff, the growth speed was twice as fast.

 

The flowers that grew this way spread their seeds over time and took root themselves to sprout again.

 

The flower seed set had already run out, but the flowers were reproducing on their own.

 

It started with Nana’s command, but that was merely a trigger. The fact that this place, which was just an ordinary hill, became a flower field was ultimately thanks to the flowers’ own vitality.

 

“It feels like I’ve received an unexpected gift in return.”

 

Nana smiled brightly.

 

Ishanka blinked his eyes.

 

Nana’s smile shone more brilliantly than the hundreds of flowers before his eyes.

 

Among the flowers swaying in the wind, she alone seemed to be vividly alive.

 

I want to see more of this smile.

 

If I show her other flowers, will she smile even brighter than now?

 

With that single thought, Ishanka’s steps headed deeper into the flower garden.

 

After briefly turning his head to look around, he stopped at a place not far from Nana, drew a dagger from his chest, and carefully began cutting flower stems one by one.

 

His fingertips moved with familiarity and speed.

 

His touch in selecting, weaving, and gathering flowers was somehow skillful.

 

Then, a welcome voice came from behind him.

 

“So you were here?”

 

Nana had somehow approached his side.

 

In her hands was a straw hat filled with wild strawberries.

 

“There were tons of wild strawberries deeper inside. The basket filled up in no time!”

 

She smiled brightly.

 

“Will today’s dessert be wild strawberry pie?”

 

“Yes. I’m thinking of making jam with the leftovers.”

 

“That’s a good idea. I hope this pleases you as much as those wild strawberries do.”

 

He gently lifted what he had been holding in his hands and carefully placed it on Nana’s head, and the fragrance of grass and flowers spread softly.

 

It was a flower crown woven with various colors.

 

“The flowers over here are more suitable for making a crown than those over there. So I just tried making one.”

 

Actually, because I thought it would suit you well.

 

Those words rose to the tip of his throat but ultimately weren’t spoken.

 

The moment he tried to say them, it felt awkward and unfamiliar somehow.

 

It felt like being forced to wear clothes he had never tried on in his life.

 

It wasn’t unreasonable.

 

He was someone who had never spoken sweet words to anyone or given even a single flower to someone.

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