I Reincarnated Into a Healing Game… and It’s a Zombie Apocalypse?! - Chapter 50

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Episode 50

 

“Actually, that day, I was planning to get Brody and Sir Lucas completely drunk and then show them the four zombies. Usually when people have alcohol in them, they naturally accept even the most ridiculous things, right?”

 

“Wait, so that’s why you suddenly brought alcohol that day? That’s why you made such strong liquor?”

 

“That was because I really thought high-proof alcohol was good alcohol…”

 

“…”

 

Nana didn’t say anything, but her expression already had ‘Even so, how could you think of that? Getting them completely drunk to introduce zombies? Isn’t this guy secretly insane?’ written all over it.

 

“Ahem! Anyway, I was going to do that… but after hearing Brody’s story, I couldn’t bring myself to do it.”

 

Sam continued speaking while deliberately avoiding Nana’s expression.

 

“And after that day, I thought a lot. About what I should do, how I should do it. While thinking continuously like that, the fact that I’m royalty suddenly came to mind.”

 

He raised his head as if recalling something.

 

“The Queen Mother once told me before. That without subjects there would be no royalty, so royal power and status should be used for the people.”

 

Sam turned his head toward Nana. A seriousness she hadn’t seen before had settled on his face.

 

“So I’m asking you, Adrien. Won’t you come to the Capital City with me?”

 

At the sudden proposal, she closed her mouth. How many seconds passed? She moved her lips as if to speak. But before she could say anything, someone grabbed her wrist as if snatching it.

 

“I, Isha?”

 

As Nana stammered in confusion, Ishanka took advantage of the gap to lift her up and sling her over his shoulder.

 

“Ishanka?!”

 

Nana screamed as if in shock.

 

“Sorry to interrupt your conversation, but excuse me for a moment.”

 

Sam approached to stop this, but Ishanka was already moving quickly while carrying Nana.

 

“…”

 

Sam silently glared at Ishanka’s retreating figure with eyes mixed with indescribable emotions.

 

* * *

 

“What are you doing? Put me down.”

 

“…”

 

“Put me down. I’ll walk on my own.”

 

“Then you’ll avoid me again, won’t you?”

 

Nana was about to say she wouldn’t, but closed her mouth. Thinking about how she had been avoiding Ishanka all this time, she could understand why he wouldn’t believe her words.

 

Eventually Nana gave up struggling and drooped over his shoulder like a sack of flour.

 

Ishanka, carrying the drooping Nana, walked steadily somewhere without showing any sign of difficulty.

 

How long had they walked? The place where his steps stopped was the flower-covered hill they had visited together before.

 

Ishanka carefully set Nana down on the ground and grabbed her shoulders.

 

“Now tell me.”

 

At his question, Nana’s heart began beating rapidly.

 

‘What had to come has come.’

 

The words she had prepared in her head seemed to be getting mixed up and about to spill out. She tried to open her mouth pretending nothing was wrong, but couldn’t meet his gaze.

 

“Wh-what?”

 

“What I did wrong.”

 

He asked with his usual serious face.

 

There was no anger or irritation toward the other person in it. He was just waiting. Until she would tell him the reason with her own mouth.

 

Nana’s heart began to swirl.

 

“If there’s something… you’re angry about with me,”

 

“No! That can’t be!”

 

Nana shouted reflexively without realizing it.

 

“No… You didn’t do anything wrong. This is all because I’m indecisive and pathetic… Sigh, yes. This wasn’t a problem I should have solved just by avoiding it.”

 

She raised her downcast gaze to meet Ishanka’s eyes.

 

“When we drank a few days ago, you probably remember. When I poun-, pounced on you.”

 

“…”

 

“To pounce first and then avoid you. Thinking from your perspective, it was such a trashy thing to do, but I was only thinking about my own situation and didn’t think at all about how you must have felt. I’m really sorry. So.”

 

Determination settled on Nana’s face.

 

“I’ll take responsibility!”

 

“What?”

 

“I know too. That it’s too selfish to do this now after avoiding you all this time. But I can’t help it. Avoiding you like this is something I can’t do to you. So taking your purity, and everything that happens after that! I’ll take responsibility for it all!”

 

Nana beat her chest determinedly and resolved inwardly. Yes, this wasn’t something to avoid like this.

 

When I saw trash male leads in novels, I cursed them so much, but I was acting like that. I really shouldn’t have done that.

 

“This happened because of my mistake. You have no fault in this matter at all. So you don’t need to worry about it anymore! Even if someone blames you, just say nothing happened between us…”

 

“No, wait wait. Did you perhaps misunderstand that something like that happened between us that day?”

 

“N-no?”

 

Then why did he bring me here?

 

Nana carefully examined Ishanka’s face as he hurriedly interrupted her.

 

The things she had been avoiding earlier began to come into view. On his face, there was no anger or resentment toward the perpetrator who had pounced on him.

 

There was only a reaction of absurdity and bewilderment.

 

At this point, even someone without sense could tell.

 

“…Nothing happened between us that day?”

 

Ishanka nodded.

 

“Yes. That day you seemed unable to sleep deeply because you had drunk a lot. You woke up briefly… acted drunk and then fell asleep again.”

 

It was a simple explanation, but Nana was embarrassed. Especially imagining what events might have been omitted in that very simple word ‘acted drunk’ made her feel not just embarrassed but wanting to hide in a mouse hole.

 

But still, she had to address this.

 

“Then why were you undressed that day?”

 

“My clothes? Oh, that…”

 

Nana swallowed dryly.

 

“You drooled on my clothes while sleeping.”

 

What,

 

“Wh-wh-wh-what?!”

 

At the unexpected words, Nana jumped up.

 

“On top of that, you were gripping my clothes tightly while sleeping, so I had no choice but to take off my shirt. Then I fell asleep without realizing it.”

 

“So you had no choice but to be undressed…”

 

She hadn’t pounced on him, but she had made a big mistake. Nana didn’t know whether to be relieved that she hadn’t taken Ishanka’s purity, or be ashamed that she had slept while gripping someone else’s clothes and drooling.

 

Meanwhile, Ishanka’s eyes narrowed as he watched Nana covering her face with both hands.

 

That night in Nana’s room, a man and woman were lying entangled on the bed.

 

‘This is driving me crazy.’

 

Ishanka looked at Nana sleeping while hugging him tightly like a body pillow and ran his hand through his hair as if washing his face dry.

 

The tension when Nana had climbed on top of him had captivated Ishanka. At her strange gaze, his heart had pounded as if something was about to happen.

 

But when the eyes looking at him slowly closed and she collapsed lengthwise on top of him and fell asleep, Ishanka unconsciously let out a sigh of relief.

 

If she had wanted to do things with Ishanka, would he have been able to maintain his reason to the end? Even asking himself, it wasn’t something he could be certain of.

 

Therefore, Ishanka thought it was rather fortunate. Feeling grateful inside that he hadn’t spent the night with her in that way, he too drifted off to sleep.

 

And Ishanka’s feelings, which he hadn’t properly grasped at the time, had now turned into certainty after several days had passed.

 

Why he had felt bad when he heard that Nana was with Sam, why he thought of Nana differently from other women, and why he couldn’t resist Nana that day – the reasons for all these became clear in his heart.

 

This small woman who had slept defenseless in front of him, who was now covering her face with both hands and silently screaming ‘aaah’ softly.

 

‘At some point, I had fallen in love with you.’

 

He was in love.

 

Enough to be afraid at just the thought of her leaving his side.

 

Thump, thump, thump.

 

The sound of his heartbeat was echoing louder than ever before.

 

* * *

 

Thus, Nana was able to clear her false accusation(?), but she was so embarrassed by her own mistake that it was hard for her to look directly at Ishanka. So she ended up avoiding Ishanka for another while.

 

Although Ishanka felt a bit disappointed by this, unlike last time, he clearly knew the reason this time, so he decided not to be anxious and wait for her to treat him naturally again.

 

It was one day when daily life was passing by like this.

 

“Sam. I have something to tell you.”

 

Sam, like someone who had been anticipating the reason Nana came to find him, said nothing and stopped what he was doing, sitting down on a box nearby.

 

“Yeah. What do you want to say?”

 

“Last time, you asked me if I wanted to go to the capital with you, right?”

 

Sam nodded his head.

 

“Why did you make such a proposal?”

 

“You wanted to rebuild this village, didn’t you? That’s why you went to that gloomy library countless times. If you go to the Royal Palace, you’ll be able to find topographical maps of this region and village blueprints.”

 

As Sam said, Nana had been visiting the Village Library and the mansion where the former village chief used to live whenever she had time, in order to rebuild Sweet Little Village.

 

However, many things had been lost due to the zombie attacks, so there was almost nothing salvageable.

 

“No matter how rural it is, this is also land belonging to the Kingdom. All materials for places belonging to the Kingdom are stored in the capital. There should be materials there.”

 

Sam’s proposal was exactly what Nana needed. But there was one thing that bothered her.

 

“But why are you trying to help me to that extent?”

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