Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 6

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Episode 6

The next morning, Nana woke up with a disheveled face and couldn’t help but let out a deep sigh the moment she opened her eyes.

Q. A worker has joined the farm. But the worker seems like a crazy bastard with a knife who has anger management issues. What should you do in this case?

1. Abandon the farm and run away.

2. Fire the worker with the knife.

3. Just try making him work.

Number 1 is out. How could I abandon the farm I worked so hard to build! If anyone should leave, it should be the worker. How could the farm owner leave! But choosing number 2 won’t work either since I can’t fire him. I can’t fire him until 3 months pass. It’s not even an option, it’s mandatory. This damn shitty game.

Then in the end, I have no choice but to select number 3. No, it’s not even a choice. This is all there is. Ugh, I really hate this.

Nana sighed and opened the job settings window in the corner of the system interface.

【Access Settings: Anyone】

This was something she had discovered by chance yesterday while clicking around various parts of the system interface looking for a way to immediately kick out Ishanka. The text in the settings window was simple, but Nana’s feelings looking at it were complicated.

‘I should have known about this beforehand… No, they should have told me in advance that I needed to set this separately!’

Feeling betrayed by the system, Nana looked out the window. Unlike her mood, a bright morning sky greeted her. Somehow she felt even more depressed.

‘But if he’s a farm worker, then I’m the employer. Then wouldn’t there be skills related to that?’

Like giving commands, or maybe giving commands. Nana opened the skill window that she usually kept deactivated and looked to see if there were any skills related to employing workers.

“Let’s see. Worker, worker… ah, found it!”

I knew it would be there! There’s no way a farm owner wouldn’t have skills to manage workers! Nana read the description for “Give Commands” among the detailed skills subdivided next to the skill labeled “Worker Employment.”

【The farm owner can give commands to workers. If your worker slacks off instead of doing assigned work or tries to rebel against the farm owner, you can forcibly give commands. Workers who receive commands will be restricted in their actions and must carry out the farm owner’s commands unless the farm owner withdraws the command. If your worker tries to run far away, try using forced return. As long as a worker works on the farm, they cannot defy the farm owner.】

A ray of hope appeared on Nana’s face, which had been gloomy and dying just moments before. The world hasn’t abandoned me after all. Even if he’s a crazy bastard with a knife, I just need to command and control him! Indeed, there is an employer above the creator. Long live employers!

Now that she knew how to control the crazy bastard with a knife, Nana had nothing more to fear. She simply washed her face at the washbasin in her room, changed into clothes suitable for work, and confidently opened her door.

The crazy bastard with a knife… no, the worker, who she thought would still be sleeping, was already awake contrary to Nana’s expectations.

Yesterday she had been too distracted by the anger over the trampled sprouts and the sight of a man suddenly approaching with a knife to look properly, but now that she was relatively more composed than yesterday, she could tell at a glance.

‘Wow, my goodness. Amazing. He’s really handsome.’

He was just wearing ordinary shirt and pants, leaning against the wall looking out the window, but he looked like a pictorial. No, even decent models would kneel before this man.

When Nana started playing the game in reality, she had stayed up all night customizing Adrien, the player character she was now possessing. Thanks to that, she didn’t regret entering this game.

A face that was pretty to look at every day never got boring. She was confident that nowhere in the game would there be a prettier appearance than this.

But that man was in another class. Due to the game’s nature, main NPCs and romance targets all tended to be good-looking, but that man was exceptional even among them. It would be understandable to say he was created by grinding the souls of 100 famous character designers.

To think that someone with such looks was a crazy bastard who might pull out a knife and cause chaos anytime, anywhere. What a waste of a face.

‘But I have means to control workers.’

Nana glanced at the skill window located at the bottom, ready to immediately give a command if the man pulled out his knife again, and cleared her throat with a “ahem.”

From a distance, of course.

I mean, no matter how much I can control him with commands, if I get too close, my neck might go flying before I can even use the skill. Securing my safety comes first. Yeah, that’s right.

At the sound of her throat clearing, Ishanka, who had been gazing out the window, turned his head toward Nana.

“You’re awake.”

“Yes. Good morning, right? But why are you suddenly using formal speech?”

“Aren’t you my employer? A worker can’t speak informally to their employer.”

“You had that kind of common sense too?”

Nana grumbled quietly, then suddenly came to her senses and shook her head slightly.

“Right. Well… In any case, since you’ve become a farm worker, you’ll need to do farm work.”

Nana tensed up to her fingertips, ready to subdue him immediately if he pulled out his knife saying ‘How dare you make me work?’, but Ishanka just nodded with a calm expression.

“The first thing to do after waking up on the farm is watering the crops. The sun hasn’t fully risen yet, but if we diligently water from now, we can rest around lunchtime. It’s not completely summer yet, but once afternoon comes, the temperature shoots up and farming becomes burdensome. Anyway, here! I’ll give you this watering can, so could you fill it with water and sprinkle it on the crops?”

“Should I get the water from the well?”

“Well water is used for drinking, and the bucket is small, so it takes time to fill the watering can. There’s a lake nearby, so please fill it there and sprinkle it.”

Ishanka nodded and took the large watering can that Nana handed him.

Nana, who had been tense until the moment she handed over the watering can, almost collapsed from relief when he obediently took the watering can and went outside.

‘I was worried that when he came close, his docility was fake! and he might swing his knife around.’

Fortunately, he didn’t seem to be that much of a crazy bastard. Oh, this isn’t the time for this. I need to go out too.

Nana grabbed the remaining watering can and went outside. Ishanka was already working, having apparently already been to the lakeside.

She sat by the lakeside filling water while secretly glancing at Ishanka.

She watched anxiously, worried that he might suddenly go crazy and break the watering can and trample the crops, but he just silently carried out the work Nana had assigned.

‘I hope he continues to stay docile like that. But wasn’t that man supposed to be a hidden character?’

Nana suddenly recalled the text in the message window that had appeared when she hired the man yesterday.

Did it say that because he’s a hidden character, I have to find out his name directly?

She thought she had glimpsed stories about hidden characters in the MasFarm user community. They were very difficult to meet, and even if you met them, they were very tricky to romance.

‘What was it? I think it said that to meet a hidden character, you first have to save the hidden character’s younger sister…’

At the time, Nana wasn’t particularly interested in information about romance targets other than Ash, so she had only skimmed through information about them and couldn’t remember properly.

If I had known I would possess someone like this, I would have read all the strategy guides posted in the community.

She regretted it belatedly, but it was already in the past.

Nana was sighing and sprinkling the remaining water in the watering can on the beets when she noticed a shadow falling over her head and looked up. Ishanka had approached at some point and was looking at her.

“Waah! What is it?!”

“I’ve finished the work you assigned, employer.”

“Already?”

Nana turned away from Ishanka and surveyed the field. It was exactly as he said.

She hadn’t cultivated a large field since it just needed to be enough for her to eat and live alone. But even so, when Nana did it alone, it would be lunchtime right after watering once.

She checked to see if he had watered carelessly, but water was evenly and uniformly sprinkled on each crop as if measured with a ruler.

“Fa-fast. When did you finish all of it?”

“It wasn’t particularly difficult work, so I finished quickly. Using just one watering can was inefficient, so I used two and finished quickly.”

‘I barely manage to fill one with water and sprinkle it, but he carried and sprinkled with two of those heavy things?’

Nana newly noticed his physique. Unlike Ash, it wasn’t a body forged by labor, but it was an equally sturdy build.

Just his arms revealed by rolling up his sleeves were packed tight with muscle. They were about the thickness of two of Nana’s arms.

“Is there more work you’d like me to do?”

“Originally I was going to eat lunch and rest a bit before pulling weeds… Wait a minute! You have a wound on your arm!”

Nana jumped up and pulled Ishanka’s wrist toward her to examine the wound. A deep scratch from something sharp crossed the inside of his forearm.

“You’re bleeding like this, why didn’t you say anything?”

“I didn’t notice until you made a fuss about it, employer.”

It wasn’t empty bravado. He had a body accustomed to swords and combat.

Moreover, as the incarnation of Aibanu, the god of war, his recovery ability also exceeded human limits. This level of scratch would disappear without a trace in just 2-3 days.

But there was no way Nana could know such circumstances.

She hurriedly went into the house and came out carrying something. It was a first aid kit filled with medical supplies.

“I’ll disinfect it first. It might sting a little.”

“This much is nothing. Just leave it and it will heal on its own.”

When Ishanka tried to pull away the arm Nana was holding, Nana made a stern expression and gripped his arm even tighter.

“Don’t you know that the body is life to a farmer? What if you underestimate a small wound and it gets seriously infected later?!”

“But I…”

“An injured worker is the employer’s responsibility, so stay still. If you keep refusing, I’ll tie you up somewhere and treat you.”

Who was she going to tie up with those tiny hands?

Ishanka was dumbfounded but didn’t resist further and offered his arm.

If he wanted to, shaking off this woman’s touch and getting up would be nothing. But he quietly held his breath like a tamed beast and looked down at her.

She lowered her head to apply medicine. Her white nape came into view defensively.

‘Yeah, go ahead and try.’

The moment she tried any funny business under the pretense of treatment, he could just snap that slender neck.

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