Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 40

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Episode 40

 

A slight blush rose on Ishanka’s usually calm face. If you looked closely, even his earlobes were bright red. Anyone could see he was a man embarrassed after giving flowers to the woman he liked.

 

But fortunately or unfortunately, a message window that suddenly appeared in front of Nana perfectly blocked Ishanka’s face. Moreover, the content was enough to capture Nana’s attention.

 

【You have received a gift from hidden character: Ishanka. It’s not common for a hidden character to give gifts. Experience points are awarded to Adrienne Rogueton for experiencing a new event.】

 

【Your job skill has increased by 1 level due to experience points. Just keep doing what you’re doing. Have a pleasant farm life!】

 

They’re giving experience points just for receiving a flower crown? Thank you very much.

 

Nana was busy marveling at the experience points that came as a bonus with the flower crown.

 

“…Don’t you like it?”

 

Seeing Nana just staring at him silently, Ishanka felt somehow anxious. Should he have taken more time to make it with prettier flowers?

 

Nana, who had been distracted by the message window and hadn’t paid attention to Ishanka, suddenly snapped back to attention at his voice.

 

“Oh, no. No! I was just surprised for a moment by this unexpected experience points—I mean, gift!”

 

She naturally closed the message window while bringing her hands to her head. She carefully removed the flower crown Ishanka had made without damaging it.

 

“This is my first time receiving such a gift. It smells so good and it’s beautiful.”

 

She wasn’t lying. The flower crown with delicate small flowers and large, vibrant flowers as accents was truly beautiful.

 

“I always thought you were good with your hands, but I didn’t know you could make things like this too.”

 

“When I was young, I was in charge of decorating our home with flowers. Going out to the meadow every day to pick wildflowers was part of my daily routine.”

 

Ishanka’s mother especially loved flowers. To make his mother happy, he would pick wildflowers to decorate flower pots or make flower crowns and necklaces to give to his mother. The reward was his parents’ bright smiles and praise.

 

It was a daily routine he could never return to, and he thought this skill would never be useful again.

 

“If you’d like, I’ll make one for you every day.”

 

Nana quite liked that suggestion. But she soon shook her head.

 

“No. I prefer looking at living flowers rather than picked ones. So I’ll come here often.”

 

This is a secret place only we two know about, so don’t tell anyone. Nana added playfully.

 

A secret place only we two know about.

 

Ishanka felt strangely excited and his heart pounded. The heat he had barely cooled down seemed to rise again, so he hoped Nana walking ahead wouldn’t turn around. His current state probably looked quite unseemly.

 

And Nana granted his wish. She was busy running to the zombies who were working with bare hands because their hoes and watering cans had broken from wear, giving them new hoes and watering cans.

 

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Late summer rain arrived with the sound of raindrops pattering against crop leaves.

 

Rain was a natural nutrient supplement full of rich nutrients for plants, and gave farmers a break from hard farm work.

 

Of course, all the direct farm work on Nana’s farm was done by serfs called zombies, but even Nana wasn’t such a cruel farmowner as to make zombies work in the rain.

 

Actually, since they were already dead, getting rained on wouldn’t have any adverse effects, but the sight of zombies working with pickaxes and pitchforks in the rain was… quite horrifying.

 

Not wanting to see such visually unpleasant scenes, Nana had gathered the zombies in the most overgrown area of the Eastern Forest where they could shelter from the rain.

 

Nana was enjoying a languid afternoon watching Tan-bbang lying on her lap and purring.

 

But then suddenly a system alarm sounded.

 

Ding! Ding!

 

【Three unidentified humans are wandering around the farmland boundary. Will you permit their entry?】

 

This was the first popup window to appear since changing the entry setting from “anyone” to “only those permitted by the farmowner.” Nana’s eyes blinked wide as she looked at the message window.

 

‘There are living people around the village?’

 

The system sometimes made Nana angry, but it never lied.

 

So the content of this message window must be true. The appearance of new characters besides Sam and Ishanka was secretly welcome, but also suspicious.

 

Right now, this world was struck by the disaster of a zombie apocalypse. What was most important in a zombie apocalypse? Food.

 

Especially in a world like now where it was hard for even a single blade of grass to grow except for Nana’s farm, food had value equal to gold.

 

Were these unidentified people just poor survivors, or raiders? Would it be okay to let them into the farm?

 

Nana pondered while tapping her lips with her finger, but quickly came to a conclusion.

 

‘Let’s go see them together with Isha.’

 

If they tried to do anything strange, she could just banish them.

 

Just as Nana was about to put on a raincoat and go look for Ishanka, the front door opened and Ishanka came inside, folding his umbrella.

 

“Oh, Isha. I was just about to go look for you. But where did that umbrella come from?”

 

Unfortunately, Nana’s house didn’t have an umbrella. More accurately, the umbrella that had been in the house was also destroyed when they were bombarded by the meteor gacha last time.

 

“I made it. Even if you have a raincoat, you can easily catch a cold if you keep getting rained on.”

 

As expected, he’s good with his hands. I hired a good worker!

 

“Anyway, this worked out well. There are people outside the farm right now, and I was going to check what purpose they’re loitering around for.”

 

“I’ll get ready and come out.”

 

The farm’s capable worker understood immediately and perceptively. When Ishanka came out of his room, a black longsword was already hanging at his waist.

 

“Let’s go.”

 

“Wasn’t the umbrella in your left hand mine?”

 

Nana pointed with her finger at the umbrella held in his left hand.

 

“This is to lend to the people loitering outside the farm. If they’re people who need help, we can’t let them get soaked in the rain.”

 

‘Oh, that’s right?’

 

Nana nodded at his reasonable words. An umbrella was held over her head and the two naturally walked toward their destination.

 

How long had they walked? The light drizzle suddenly became a downpour and began pouring down on the ground. Ishanka pulled Nana’s shoulder toward him.

 

“Come further inside. Your shoulder is getting wet.”

 

She was wearing a raincoat and this much rain wouldn’t cause much harm.

 

But Ishanka tilted the umbrella close and wrapped around her as if he wouldn’t let a single drop of rainwater touch Nana’s body.

 

Ishanka’s solid body heat was transmitted completely through the raincoat. Only then did Nana realize she was walking almost as if being embraced.

 

‘I’m grateful he’s keeping me from getting rained on, but… aren’t we too close?’

 

From the moment she became conscious of it, she couldn’t move normally as usual. Her face felt hot for no reason and her steps and arms creaked like a broken machine.

 

Ah, let me calm down. Isha is just being purely kind. There couldn’t be any other meaning.

 

But they needed to separate a little. If they kept walking at this distance where their breaths could touch, her heart might really break.

 

Feeling awkward, Nana brushed back her hair for no reason, and raindrops flowed down her cheek.

 

When Ishanka, who had been walking beside her, suddenly stopped, Nana reflexively turned her head.

 

“Huh? Why suddenly…?”

 

Before she could finish speaking, their eyes met.

 

Ishanka’s gaze lingered on her.

 

Raindrops falling down her cheek, the tips of her wet hair, her slightly heated earlobes.

 

It seemed like his gaze was tracing over all of it one by one.

 

‘Wait, what’s this atmosphere?’

 

Her heart fluttered and she felt flustered for no reason.

 

Nana avoided his gaze with an awkward cough and stammered like someone who had been caught doing something wrong.

 

“Um… there… It’s good that you’re keeping me from getting rained on, but it seems a bit uncomfortable to walk. So…”

 

Then before she could finish speaking, her body was lifted up.

 

“Ahhh?! What are you doing?!”

 

Startled Nana screamed. Ishanka had supported under her knees with one hand and lifted her up just like that.

 

Even in the pouring rain, the umbrella remained fixed without a single shake, and Ishanka’s embrace was warm and stable.

 

“You said walking was uncomfortable. This way you’ll be comfortable.”

 

“No! We could just walk a little apart! There’s no need to go this far—!”

 

“Then you’d get rained on.”

 

“I won’t die from getting rained on this much!”

 

“You might not die, but you could catch a deadly cold. So hold on tight.”

 

When Ishanka loosened the arm that had been supporting under Nana’s thighs, her body swayed unstably. Nana screamed briefly and tightly hugged Ishanka’s neck.

 

She heard a low laugh near her ear. Nana made a tearful frown.

 

“I’ll get revenge someday. Just wait and see, Ishanka.”

 

“I’ve never seen anyone scary who says ‘just wait and see.'”

 

“I was going to make your favorite apple pie for today’s snack, but I won’t make it.”

 

“Ah, that’s a bit scary.”

 

Though he said that, he didn’t seem to have any intention of putting Nana down.

 

Nana gave up appropriately and carefully entrusted her body to Ishanka. Not having to walk through the muddy road was much more comfortable than she thought.

 

The downpour that had been beating the ground began to subside at some point.

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