I Reincarnated Into a Healing Game… and It’s a Zombie Apocalypse?! - Chapter 45

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Episode 45

 

“Sorry I’m late!”

 

Sam, who hadn’t shown his face all day until evening, finally appeared around the time dinner was being prepared.

 

“Wh-what is that, Your Highness?”

 

Brody, who was setting bowls on the table, looked puzzled at the basket wrapped in cloth that Sam was carrying.

 

“This? A masterpiece made with my invention.”

 

When Sam pulled back the cloth, eight large bottles filled with transparent liquid were revealed in the basket.

 

“I realized you all must have had a hard time coming all this way here, but I haven’t properly served you even a cup of tea.”

 

Hey, anyone would think you’re the host of this house.

 

“So I prepared this. Let’s see, these four are green grape wine, two are peach wine, and this one is…”

 

Watching Sam excitedly take out the bottles, Nana suddenly felt suspicious. She had tried using the alcohol-making machine Sam made before as a test.

 

The alcohol made with it was surprisingly delicious. It tasted much better than the expensive wine she had accidentally drunk in her previous world.

 

But if she had to point out one drawback,

 

“Where did you get the ingredients to make that?”

 

The waste of ingredients was enormous – about 10 boxes of apples were needed to make one bottle of alcohol.

 

No matter how much the farm didn’t worry about food shortages, there was no benefit in wasting crops. Especially in a situation like now when half the fields were destroyed.

 

That’s why she had stored the alcohol made back then to drink only on special occasions…

 

“Oh, the ingredients were scattered all over the fields?”

 

Unlike Sam’s innocent face as he spoke, the room was enveloped in silence.

 

“Y-Your Highness, surely you didn’t…”

 

Nana’s hectopascal kick was faster than Brody’s question about whether he had taken crops without permission.

 

“It wasn’t enough that you ruined the fields, now you’re even stealing?! Don’t you have any conscience, openly calling me a thief?! Hey! Does being a prince mean everything?! Do you think being a prince means you can take other people’s things as you please?!”

 

“What, what?! Why are you suddenly acting like this?!”

 

“No! Nana! Please spare at least the face!”

 

“Let go! Let go of this! I can tolerate other things, but I can’t tolerate theft!”

 

“You’ve never tolerated anything in the first place!”

 

“Shut up!”

 

“Your Highness, please! If you just stay still, we can get through this halfway, please be quiet!”

 

Nana was enthusiastically beating up Sam, Sam was getting beaten up frantically, and Brody was trying hard to calm down the rampaging Nana,

 

“So ‘Your Highness’ means a person who can’t do work and only causes trouble in this place. Kekeke.”

 

Wina, who was watching the scene, was interpreting the meaning of ‘Your Highness’ strangely,

 

“Even if you are the Crown Prince, such heinous acts…”

 

Lucas, who had been helping with farm work under the scorching sun for several days, was already on Nana’s side, and Ishanka calmly brought food from the stove and set it on the table.

 

It was truly an enjoyable night.

 

The farm members began their dinner after the commotion had somewhat settled down.

 

Of course, not everyone had dinner together in perfect condition. Brody was sweating profusely from stopping the excited and rampaging Nana, and Sam was… well, as you can see.

 

“I’ve never been beaten like this even by Abamama… Hey, you know this is a crime of insulting royalty, right?”

 

“Do you know what becomes most meaningless when the world turns into chaos? Status. And as I’ve told you before, past status means nothing on my farm. But if you’re going to keep harping on about being royalty, then leave here. I won’t stop you.”

 

Sam looked like he didn’t understand what he had done wrong.

 

Everything that grows on this land belongs to the royalty. This was the principle of the world he had learned all his life.

 

Although he was an academy graduate and had lived hiding his identity as Brody’s nephew, experiencing more outside life than other royalty, he couldn’t completely reform his innate way of thinking.

 

Could the absolute authority instilled from childhood easily disappear just from some outside experience?

 

Nana wasn’t unaware of these circumstances.

 

She just had no intention of being lenient.

 

To Nana, crops were beings with deep meaning that went beyond simple plants.

 

When the world was eroded by zombies and only waiting for death, the crops gave Nana the will and hope to survive. They played a role beyond just providing food.

 

Therefore, even if the god of this world came, they couldn’t carelessly touch Nana’s crops.

 

If you touch a small farmer’s crops, I’ll really make something of you. Really something.

 

“Just try going back to the capital. I heard from Brody that the royal family is still intact.”

 

“What are you muttering about? Don’t cry and speak up loudly.”

 

“Hey, you really…!”

 

“But is Your Highness stupid?”

 

Wina, who had been quietly watching the situation, suddenly spoke up.

 

“Or is your head not working because you’ve only been in this place? Do you really think Your Highness’s country will be fine? When the entire continent is ruined? I traveled around here and there before meeting Uncle Brody, and there wasn’t a single intact place, and the living people were fighting each other and kill… kill… what was it? Right, murder! They even murdered.”

 

“Wi, Wina.”

 

Brody hurriedly tried to stop Wina, but Wina was faster to open her mouth.

 

“But do you know why people did that?”

 

Wina’s eyes, which usually shone innocently, were now tinged with seriousness.

 

“It was because of food. Since food was scarce, they had to steal from others, so they fought and killed each other. Whether they were lovers, friends, or even family.”

 

“…”

 

“Your Highness should be grateful that Sister Nana ended it with just being angry at you. Try acting the way you did here in other places. It won’t end with just getting stabbed to death, will it?”

 

Sam couldn’t say anything to the words that sharply criticized him.

 

It was natural. No matter how ignorant of worldly affairs this prince was, he could tell that Wina’s words weren’t lies.

 

This world is currently in a state of being directly hit by two great disasters: zombies and soil contamination, which prevents plants from growing and causes extreme food shortages.

 

It was natural for the survivors to fiercely compete over limited food supplies.

 

It was a result that could easily be reached with just a little thought, but life on a farm with fertile land, clear skies, and abundant food had blurred his perception of reality.

 

‘Even so, Sam’s lack of sense of reality is seriously problematic.’

 

Perhaps everyone became thoughtful due to the weight of this newly realized truth, as the dining table was silent except for the sound of utensils clinking.

 

What a mood killer. This really makes me want to drink.

 

The alcohol was right there, her mood was complicated, there was no reason not to drink.

 

Nana unhesitatingly took out a bottle from the basket beside her and twisted the cork.

 

With the sound of the cork popping open, a sharp alcohol scent along with a refreshing fruit aroma slowly spread throughout the dining room.

 

The people who were quietly eating couldn’t help but look up and glance at the bottle.

 

“Nice aroma? At least I’m glad you didn’t make something weird with my crops.”

 

“Well, who made it then. Hmph.”

 

“Right. How fortunate. If you had made food waste with my crops, you would have had to dispose of it all. Like sticking a funnel in your mouth and pouring it in.”

 

“…Sigh. How did I end up like this.”

 

Sam sighed at his situation and poured alcohol into the cup in front of him.

 

Watching Sam, Brody filled his glass with alcohol, and Lucas also filled his glass, and so on, until everyone sitting at the table had their glasses full of alcohol.

 

Wait, stop right there.

 

“Wina. Put down the glass.”

 

Wina filling her glass with alcohol was so natural that she almost got away with it. This sleight of hand is no joke.

 

“But I want to drink too?”

 

Children shouldn’t drink alcohol.”

 

“I’m not a child. In the continent where I live, my age is considered adult.”

 

“How old are you now?”

 

“12 years old!”

 

Nana was almost speechless at Wina’s confident answer.

 

“Even if your continent considers 12 years old as adult, here you have to be 18 to be recognized as an adult. If you came to this place, you should follow the laws of this place, right?”

 

“But…”

 

“Anyway, when you become an adult, there will come a day when you’ll have to drink alcohol sickeningly even if you don’t want to. Save your liver for that time.”

 

“Wow. You just looked exactly like my dad.”

 

“Your father must have drunk enough alcohol to be sick of it too.”

 

“Yes! He said he drank so much alcohol that he’s sick of even looking at it for a while, but it’s troublesome because all his friends like alcohol!”

 

“…Be good to your father when you meet him later.”

 

That much alcohol probably wasn’t drunk for pleasure. Anyway, setting that aside.

 

“Now, I’ll skip the toast. Just drink happily, and if you want to drink more, take it from the basket. We have plenty of alcohol and night anyway.”

 

When Nana gave everyone a toast that didn’t sound like a toast, everyone laughed and drank their alcohol all at once.

 

And everyone except Ishanka collapsed gloriously onto the table.

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