I Reincarnated Into a Healing Game… and It’s a Zombie Apocalypse?! - Chapter 48

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Episode 48

 

A louder voice than expected burst out of her mouth. Nana hurriedly covered her mouth with both hands. Fortunately, Ishanka didn’t wake up, perhaps sleeping deeply.

 

She let out a sigh of relief that Ishanka didn’t get up immediately, but she couldn’t feel at ease. And for good reason…

 

Disheveled blankets, clothes scattered on the floor, and Ishanka sleeping quietly beside her.

 

It looked like an advertisement screaming ‘we did something’ to anyone who saw it.

 

‘Aaahhh! A drunken mistake. This was an atrocity I never committed in my past life! No, it can’t be. It’s impossible. Let me think carefully.’

 

Nana tried to calm her confused mind and desperately searched for her last memory before blacking out.

 

“Aaahhh! My neck!”

 

“Aaahhh! My alcohol!”

 

“Stop talking nonsense and quit making a scene, you drunkard!”

 

…Why are all the memories I can recall things like this?

 

Isn’t there a more important memory? Like the memory right before the room got into this state, or at least something in between… Wait?

 

What she hadn’t properly noticed in her confusion finally caught her eye.

 

Though very wrinkled and disheveled, she was at least properly clothed. In contrast, Ishanka’s upper body exposed outside the blanket was bare. The situation seemed strange somehow.

 

‘Could it be… did I assault him?’

 

A wave of self-loathing crashed over her as she couldn’t deny that possibility. If so, it would be an even bigger problem. An employer and worker drinking and making a one-night mistake. And in the way where the employer assaulted the worker.

 

But this was still just her speculation.

 

To know the exact circumstances, she’d have to lift the blanket, but she couldn’t muster the courage.

 

The moment she lifted this blanket, it felt like the inflammatory headline ‘Employer and Worker, Relationship Coercion Using Power Dynamic’ would become fact.

 

Her head became complicated with all sorts of thoughts. After pondering for a while, Nana raised her head. Her eyes became determined as if she had resolved something.

 

‘Let me cure this hangover first, then think!’

 

In an already confusing situation, if she was hungry too, her head wouldn’t work properly. This absolutely wasn’t sneaking away. It was a strategic retreat.

 

* * *

 

After safely escaping enemy territory(?), the hangover began to hit gradually.

 

She couldn’t feel it while in Ishanka’s room because she was too shocked, but as the tension left her body, the first thing she felt was headache and nausea from the hangover.

 

‘I really need to cure this hangover first. My stomach feels like it’s burning to death.’

 

She desperately wanted cool bean sprout soup. But there was no way bean sprout beans existed in this world. Settling for making tomato stew instead, Nana’s steps toward the kitchen stopped abruptly in front of the living room.

 

“What is all this?”

 

Her eyes widened like lanterns at the scene spread out in the living room. The living room was literally a spectacle.

 

Bottles rolling on the floor were just the beginning – Sam was sprawled on the sofa, Brody had his face buried in a bucket and couldn’t get up, and Lucas had half his torso hanging out the window.

 

From the looks of it, the three had apparently gathered late yesterday for a hearty second round.

 

Sam was one thing, but even Uncle Brody and Lucas…

 

Nana put aside her complicated feelings and sighed as she picked up an empty bottle rolling on the floor.

 

“They emptied all that strong liquor. Terrible, just terrible.”

 

Lucas, sensing human presence, groggily raised his body.

 

“Ah, good morning, young lady…”

 

You don’t look good at all though?

 

If she was in a half-dead state, these guys looked like zombies who had died and come back to life. If you lined them up with the zombies gathered in the Eastern Forest, you wouldn’t be able to tell them apart.

 

“Yesterday was… very rude of us, uurgh!”

 

Lucas’s complexion suddenly turned pale. Nana instinctively realized. That’s the look right before re-examining what you ate yesterday!

 

“Greetings are done, so hurry to the bathroom!”

 

“Sor, sor, sorry…”

 

“Quickly!”

 

Lucas ran to the bathroom following Nana’s advice. As she expected, sounds of re-examining yesterday’s meal echoed from afar.

 

‘Ah… life, really.’

 

Nana squeezed her eyes shut at the clear and pure sounds echoing through the house. Taking comfort in the fact that at least it wasn’t spilled on the floor, she approached Sam sprawled on the sofa. But Sam’s condition wasn’t much different.

 

“Save me. My head hurts so much. Someone please cut off my head…”

 

‘I could tell from when you were pouring that strong liquor down your throat.’

 

Tsk tsk tsk. She clicked her tongue and felt very sorry and pitiful for Sam’s state, but that was all. It was a disaster he brought upon himself, so he’d have to solve it himself.

 

As Nana was about to head back to the kitchen, she heard someone coming down from the second floor and felt a chill down her neck.

 

Currently, the only people who could come down from the second floor were either Ishanka or Wina.

 

Thud thud-.

 

Unlike Wina’s quick and light footsteps, these were heavy and regular. It was Ishanka’s footsteps. Even riding a super-speed train, it was definitely Ishanka’s footsteps.

 

As the footsteps got closer, her throat tightened and her heart pounded.

 

What should I say when we meet? I don’t remember anything that happened yesterday. It was just a mistake, so let’s pretend it never happened, like stepping in poop?

 

It was the kind of line only a trashy male lead from a terrible drama would say. The thought of having to say that with her own mouth was the most embarrassing thing ever.

 

At the sound of footsteps getting closer to the living room, Nana ran outside without looking back. And at the same time, Ishanka entered the living room. The timing was absolutely perfect.

 

“…What a spectacle.”

 

Ishanka frowned at the living room that looked like a storm had passed through. After looking around briefly, he soon approached Sam, who was struggling in hangover agony.

 

“Do you know where Nana went?”

 

“Don’t know. She’s over there. Over there…”

 

Watching Sam point at empty air with his finger, Ishanka concluded.

 

“…Just go to sleep.”

 

Meaning you shouldn’t ask questions to someone pickled in a hangover. He left Sam groaning with his hangover and looked around other places after leaving the living room, but Nana was nowhere to be seen.

 

‘Where did she go so early in the morning? She can’t be feeling well because of what happened yesterday.’

 

While Ishanka was worrying about Nana like this.

 

Nana was crouched inside the chicken coop.

 

* * *

 

“I came here because I was afraid I’d be spotted if I went to the farm, but…”

 

What kind of behavior is this when I’m not even a criminal who committed treason and ran away? Self-loathing washed over her.

 

As she sat there feeling dejected, Kku-kku and Kka-kka clucked and expressed their affection by sitting next to her or trying to climb onto her lap. In their own way, the chickens were comforting her depression.

 

“Sniff, Kku-kku. Kka-kka.”

 

She hugged Kku-kku and Kka-kka tightly as they climbed onto her lap with a choked expression.

 

“What are you doing here?”

 

“Kyah!”

 

At the sudden voice from outside, she almost threw her precious chickens into the air. As the owner of the voice bent down, their eyes met with Nana’s. It was Wina.

 

“You, you, you scared me. You should have made some noise.”

 

“I just got here too. I was surprised myself. Can I come in too?”

 

When Nana gave permission in a dazed voice, Wina entered the chicken coop and plopped down next to Nana.

 

“It’s bigger and cozier than I thought. Is this your villa, sister?”

 

“No, it’s a chicken coop.”

 

“So people here use chicken coops as villas too.”

 

Wina hummed and nodded her head. What is she convincing herself of alone?

 

“Sister, you were totally amazing yesterday. Do you remember?”

 

“Huh? Uh, uh what… what, what was?”

 

Nana stammered at Wina’s question that came straight at her without any warning.

 

“You don’t remember, do you?”

 

“Why did you ask when you already knew…”

 

“I wondered if you might remember. There were so many fun things yesterday.”

 

“Why are you making that ‘your sister was awesome’ expression?”

 

“What kind of expression is that?”

 

“There is such a thing.”

 

“Oh, but Uncle Isaac was looking for you earlier?”

 

“Eeeeeeeeaaahhhhh!”

 

Nana let out a shriek and bolted upright from her seat. Kku-kku and Kka-kka, who had been sitting on her lap, clucked and fluttered lightly in the air.

 

“If, if he comes looking for me! Tell him you didn’t see me!”

 

Without even waiting for Wina’s response, Nana shot out of the chicken coop like an arrow.

 

“…He’ll find you just fine on his own without me saying anything.”

 

Wina sighed as she watched Nana’s retreating figure, not realizing there were only a few places to hide on the farm.

 

* * *

 

But contrary to Wina’s expectations, Nana was surprisingly good at avoiding him.

 

“Ah, Adrien was here….”

 

“Oh. No. There. Are. Weeds. In. That. Spot.”

 

Anyone could see it was terrible acting as she read like she was reciting from a textbook and fled like an arrow.

 

“Adrien. The wild boar we caught this time has been smoked well, would you like to taste….”

 

“I, I’ve decided to become a vegetarian from now on. So give it to someone else!”

 

She ran away with nonsensical excuses.

 

“Adrien….”

 

“No, Uncle Brody! The scissors are all dull!”

 

“Huh? What are you talking about? I sharpened them just a few days ago….”

 

“Oh my, what are you saying? Look at this blade. It looks like it would have trouble cutting even a grape vine. Don’t be considerate and should have told me sooner. Come here quickly! I’ll give you a new one!”

 

Sometimes she used other people as excuses to run away, but whatever the case, she avoided him well.

 

“Does Nana have something to be angry with me about?”

 

Whether Ishanka’s insides were burning up or not.

 

“What could she be angry about? It would be nice if she’d at least tell me the reason.”

 

“Meow.”

 

Tan-bbang, who was grilling bread across from him, looked at his blood relative complaining to him like he was looking at a rotten pollack.

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