Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 4

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Episode 4

Crunch.

A light green sprout was mercilessly trampled under the man’s foot. However, the man didn’t even realize what he had stepped on and simply stared at the brown earth spread before him with cold eyes.

Whoosh.

A wind blowing from somewhere pulled off the robe he had been wearing. Soft-looking black hair and violet eyes close to light purple were revealed.

Long eyelashes that cast shadows and a sharply carved nose bridge were exposed. His emotionless, cold face made him appear even more frigid, but he was certainly the owner of an extraordinary appearance rarely seen anywhere.

‘I thought all the land on this continent had rotted black, but there’s still land that hasn’t died.’

The man, who had only lived in the barren Northern Lands, inwardly admired the warm and cozy-looking earth. To him, land was either a place where grass grew to feed sheep and horses, or a place to conquer.

It was a rural village he had come to by chance while tracking that creature’s traces. Like the various villages he had passed through, it was a ruined village of death where no one lived.

And yet such fertile land existed in such a place. Moreover…

The man frowned at the intense sunlight and created shade with his arm.

‘The skies everywhere else are filled with gray storm clouds, but only this place has the sun shining and blue skies. Is this just a coincidence? No, that can’t be. How could it be a coincidence that only one area has no storm clouds?’

Just as the man was about to take another step forward to investigate what was going on.

Thud.

At the sound of something rolling and falling to the ground, he turned around to see a woman with apricot-colored hair standing there.

“A survivor of this place? Perfect timing. I have something to ask. This place is…”

“My coffee beans…”

“What?”

“What you’re stepping on.”

Only then did the man realize what he had been stepping on and lifted his foot. Where the man had been standing, coffee bean sprouts lay pitifully broken. He had trampled them so forcefully that the coffee beans looked like they had no strength left to stand up again.

Though no emotion showed on his face, the man was quite flustered inside. Meanwhile, Nana strode toward the man.

“Get out of the way! How long are you planning to keep stepping on it?! No. Move over there. Don’t step on the crops behind you!”

When the man awkwardly stepped aside at Nana’s vigor, she immediately sat down and examined the crops the man had trampled.

“Ugh. You trampled them mercilessly. Not just the coffee beans, but the spinach and cauliflower that were almost ready for harvest! I even used the S-grade compost I had been saving to grow these and carefully watered them…!”

As she said, everywhere the man had passed was ruined. The spinach had already departed for the afterlife, and the cauliflower had been miserably crushed long ago.

“To so mercilessly murder these small, precious golden sprouts that were eating nutrients well and growing vigorously…”

“Um, is it okay…”

“Does this look okay to you?!”

She jumped up from her spot and shouted. Any joy or bewilderment at meeting a normal person after so long had disappeared long ago when she discovered her precious crops had been trampled.

To Nana, the crops weren’t just plants. After the world became like this, Nana was the only person left alive in this area. She had been staying inside the house avoiding zombies, powerlessly waiting only for death.

But the land that had been filled only with death became fertile as she awakened as a farm owner. As the land bloomed with life again, her will to live also came alive. It was natural that all the farm’s crops looked like beloved golden sprouts to her.

But for some unknown stranger to not only enter someone else’s land but trample golden sprouts upon first meeting. Nana’s anger had no choice but to grow sky-high.

“Excuse me. Do you happen to have a hobby of trampling plants?!”

“No.”

“Then do you only look ahead when walking? Or do you have no feeling in your feet? Can’t you feel anything under your feet?”

“No…”

“Then why did you walk toward the side with crops that haven’t grown properly yet, leaving a perfectly good path beside you? Do you know how hard I worked to grow these? No, before that, unauthorized people can’t enter farmland without the farm owner’s permission! What’s going on here? Ah, more importantly, what about my crops? Isn’t there a plant revival skill among farm owner skills? Can’t plants regress?”

The man looked at Nana with strange eyes for a moment as she muttered incomprehensible things, getting angry then sad, gesturing with her hands and feet in the air while fuming. From the situation, this woman seemed to be the village’s only resident.

And he had entered the woman’s land without permission and messed up the field she was cultivating. Though it was unintentional, he had indeed committed rudeness, so he approached her once more to apologize politely and then state his purpose. That’s when it happened.

“Pay with your body.”

“What?”

At the same time as those words, a message window popped up in front of Nana.

【Would you like to hire Hidden Character: $#%@#$ (You must find out the hidden character’s name yourself) as a farm worker?】

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Meanwhile, a message window similar to the one that appeared to Nana also appeared before the man, Ishanka.

【Would you like to become a farm worker in Sweet Little Village?】

Though he had fought many wars for his age and seen all sorts of things, this was the first time he had witnessed such a strange phenomenon. Was it magic? But the authority of the magic tower had long since fallen to the bottom, so no new magic appeared anymore.

‘Then this is… new black magic?’

Instantly, the memories that tormented him daily covered Ishanka’s vision.

Corpses lying in pools of blood, unimaginable that they had been alive just moments before.

“Mom… Dad…”

Himself crying while holding onto his parents’ corpses that would no longer wake up no matter how much he shook them.

“Useless things… something more noble and fresh… Yes. Someone like you…”

And that man’s face he could never forget.

Ishanka’s face, which had been filled with apologetic feelings just moments before, was now filled with hatred and hostility due to the detestable nightmare awakened by the word black magic.

Nana was in a state where she couldn’t notice his changed atmosphere because her vision was blocked by the translucent message window.

“Do you know how hard it is to grow crops in this ruined world? Especially coffee beans are even harder to grow and are precious crops! Work here and compensate!”

“Seeing how much you care about mere plants, these must be crops used for evil magic.”

“What? What kind of nonsense is that?!”

Instead of apologizing, what is this… Nana was dumbfounded and lowered the message window. And soon her eyes and mouth fell wide open.

Ishanka was approaching Nana while emanating a murderous aura, having already drawn the sword from his waist.

‘My, my goodness. There’s a crazy bastard here who draws a sword when told to repay ruining someone’s field with labor? And what’s that? Why is there sword energy around the blade?’

She seemed to have gotten involved with the wrong person. He was a troublemaker who had sent her small, precious, carefully raised golden sprouts to the afterlife, but if that opponent was beyond a troublemaker and was actually crazy, that changed things.

Since ancient times, they said you shouldn’t mess with crazy people. Nana quietly met his eyes while scanning the system window.

【Would you like to banish Hidden Character: $#%@#$ (You must find out the hidden character’s name yourself) from the farm?】

Just as Nana was about to quickly press the accept button.

“Meow meow meow meow.”

Tan-bbang came walking toward Nana with something in his mouth, his cream-colored long fur fluttering.

Arriving in front of Nana, Tan-bbang put down the large, plump mouse he had been carrying and meowed as if asking to be praised.

“Huh? Tan-bbang? Thanks for catching the mouse, but now isn’t the time for… Ah! The crazy bastard with the sword!”

That bastard might even lay hands on Tan-bbang! Nana quickly moved her hand toward the accept button on the message window to chase away the crazy man before he could attack.

However, just before her hand could reach it, the banishment message window that had been floating normally disappeared, and soon a new message appeared before her eyes.

【Hidden Character: $#%@#$ (You must find out the hidden character’s name yourself) has been recruited as a worker. Character automatically added to party members.】

What, what?! No way! No matter how heartbreaking it was to lose the golden sprouts, I can’t use a crazy bastard with a sword as a worker! Fire him! Fire him!

She quickly entered the party window and selected fire worker. But the message that returned betrayed Nana’s expectations.

【Farm workers cannot be fired immediately. You can fire them after the 3-month probation period.】

This is ridiculous. How can this be?! I’m the farm owner! If the farm owner doesn’t like someone, they fire them. Wasn’t this a Western classical-style farming game?! But why does the modern world concept of a probation period appear here?! This damn game, this trash game! No waaaay!

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“This damn trash game that doesn’t even maintain historical accuracy! Fix the bugs instead of doing this! The management is usually garbage, but where does it make sense to recruit a crazy bastard with a sword as a worker! Ah, I should have chased him away as soon as he came in. What is this!”

Nana, who had been venting her frustration by hitting her pillow, fell asleep from exhaustion after crying.

This damn game… let me fire him… As Nana talked in her sleep while groaning, the farm cat Tan-bbang, who had been beside her, jumped down from the chair next to the bed and walked to the living room.

“What the hell are you doing?”

When did he get so close? Tan-bbang was startled by the voice coming from right beside him, his tail puffing up with a pop.

“Tan-bbang? You’ve been up to quite interesting things.”

Ishanka, who had been standing quietly in the darkness, roughly grabbed Tan-bbang by the scruff of his neck.

“Meow… meow…”

Caught in the large hand and dangling in the air, Tan-bbang looked at Ishanka and cried pitifully, but his face became even colder instead of softening.

“There’s no use trying to deceive me. Show yourself, Ateruna.”

Before Ishanka’s words were even finished, with a popping sound, Tan-bbang’s form changed into a young girl.

She was the one he had been searching for desperately on this dead continent, even abandoning his duties.

“What is this supposed to be, big brother!”

It was Ateruna, Ishanka’s youngest sister.

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