I Reincarnated Into a Healing Game… and It’s a Zombie Apocalypse?! - Chapter 63

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Episode 63

Outskirts of the Capital.

Damian walked with drooping shoulders, trudging along.

He chewed on a piece of hard, stale bread and muttered bitterly.

“It’s already been 5 days since I came out to find food, and I’m still empty-handed.”

After the zombie incident, the world had completely turned upside down.

The land and water were contaminated black, making it impossible to drink or grow anything, so people who couldn’t obtain food began to go mad.

It had become a world where blood was shed over a single small can, and even families were sold out.

At least he could survive a few more days thanks to the food Nana had given him as rent payment, but the problem was the number of people.

Including Nana’s group and his hiding siblings, there were nine people in total. No matter how much they had, it would obviously run out quickly.

So he had come out to find food himself, but the results were disastrous.

Empty hands.

Empty bag.

And sighs bursting forth.

When he pushed open the old door and entered, a familiar voice greeted him.

“Oh? Damian’s here?”

“Sister?”

Damian’s eyes widened.

To be precise, it was because of Wina and Brody, who were playing happily with his siblings behind Nana.

‘What’s this situation?’

They were the people who had saved him at the train station, but that didn’t mean he could completely trust them.

So before going out, he had clearly instructed the children.

“Keep playing hide-and-seek like usual. You absolutely must not be discovered. Got it?”

But.

“Big brother!”

“Big brother was playing outside all by himself, that’s not fair!”

“Damian! The fairy sister says she’s going to fairyland tomorrow! Can’t we go together too?”

His mind went blank as his siblings chattered and rushed toward him.

Far from hiding, they were laughing and chatting with strangers.

He thought he should scold them harshly, but seeing his siblings’ faces after so long, he couldn’t bring himself to speak.

Then, Nana smiled brightly and spoke.

“Damian, we’re moving tomorrow. I’d like you and your siblings to come with us, what do you think?”

“Moving? Where to?”

“Royal Imperial Ground.”

Damian’s expression hardened.

There was no way he wouldn’t know that name. That place was hell.

Working until his hands cracked, barely able to get a sip of water, let alone sleep.

That place where he was treated like a dog by nobles, not treated as a human, and sometimes treated like a toy for their amusement.

As those nightmarish memories surfaced, cold sweat ran down his spine.

‘Why there of all places? Could these people also be in cahoots with the managers? Were they actually pretending to save me to drag me back to the farm?’

Anxiety and suspicion gradually filled his mind.

“But that Royal Imperial Ground, you see.”

She grinned.

“It’s become my farm now.”

“What?”

“It’s true. It became my land through a very legal(?) method. Right now, the nobles… no, the tenant farmers are plowing up the grass and creating new farmland.”

“Wh-what?!”

Damian stared wide-eyed, unable to continue speaking.

Using nobles as tenant farmers?

No, before that, royal property had become her land?

For someone who had lived his entire life as a commoner, it was unimaginable.

‘Is this sister really crazy?’

It was absurd, but Nana’s face didn’t have the madness typical of crazy people. Rather, her playful smile held an strangely firm conviction.

“…Fine. If what you’re saying is true, I’ll go alone first to check, and if it’s real, then I’ll bring my siblings too.”

“Good, deal made.”

Nana smiled brightly and clapped her hands.

Damian still didn’t lower his guard.

He wanted to believe that they had truly saved him. However, in a world like this, trust always came with a price, so he couldn’t believe blindly.

…And if anything happened, he could somehow escape if he was alone.

But that was unnecessary worry.

The next day.

Damian was certain this was the most confusing moment of his short life.

“My goodness. Sister’s words were actually true.”

Just moments ago, he had witnessed an unbelievable sight.

The nobles who had once given him nightmarish times were covered in dirt, plowing fields.

Farm tools in their hands, clods of earth under their feet.

Those who had treated commoners worse than livestock and worked them like animals were now doing the work that those animals used to do.

“Why is this actually real?”

No, more than that, those arrogant nobles were obediently working? They were people who would refuse even if they died?

“They can’t defy me.”

As if answering Damian’s inner thoughts, Nana replied, and the system immediately displayed a message window as if it had been waiting.

【Landlord’s Privilege</p】

The landlord can designate humans on their land as tenant farmers.

Tenant farmers must perform labor duties and cannot leave the farmland without the landlord’s permission.

Labor duties: cultivation, harvesting, organizing, transportation, etc.

This effect continues until the landlord releases the tenant farmer status.>

I don’t know why it displays this message window so large behind me when others can’t see it anyway.

In any case, thanks to Ishanka and Lucas subduing the nobles, I was able to immediately designate them as tenant farmers.

“Alright, that’s enough sightseeing. Now let’s go get your siblings. I happen to have some children I’d like you to meet.”

Nana led the still-confused Damian toward his home.

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In a golf course that was nothing more than a luxurious playground for the upper class, the most overwhelmingly splendid space was undoubtedly the clubhouse.

Gold-inlaid railings, marble columns, paintings that could be displayed in museums just hanging anywhere.

It could truly be called a space filled with the smell of money and vanity.

And in the annex at the very top of that clubhouse, the children first faced each other.

Damian and his siblings.

And the boys who had been used as servants by the nobles.

Nana called out each child’s name and had them introduce themselves, but the boys’ eyes were still cautious.

Was this okay? Was it alright to be this comfortable?

Nana had told the children a few days ago.

If they wanted to play, they could play to their heart’s content, and if they were tired, they could sleep as much as they wanted.

But the children still couldn’t believe it was real.

Having endured harsh labor for so long without even being treated as human beings, the current situation where they didn’t have to do anything felt strange and awkward.

Whenever the boys made eye contact with Damian’s siblings, they would either bow their heads deeply or look around aimlessly in the air, not knowing where to direct their gaze.

Just then.

“Let’s play hide and seek with me!”

A clear and bright voice broke the awkward silence.

It was Damian’s sister.

The boys all looked at her at once. Before they could even speak, she said again.

“I want to play hide and seek! I really want to! Let’s play!”

“Uh, uhh…?”

“That, that’s…”

The boys trailed off their words as if flustered.

They still seemed uncertain whether it was really okay to play. Unable to watch any longer, Damian’s sister lightly tapped one boy’s shoulder.

“You’re it!”

“Hehehe!”

“I want to play hide and seek too!”

The boy who had been blankly watching the children laugh and run off blinked for a moment, then tapped the shoulder of the boy next to him.

“Got you. You’re it.”

Then he ran like lightning in the direction Damian’s siblings had gone.

The atmosphere instantly became lively.

“Are we really doing this?”

“Really? Really? I don’t know. Let’s run away for now, quickly!”

The boys who came to their senses late also jumped up and ran toward the gardens. And the seeker who came out late stopped at the garden entrance and shouted.

“Hey! How is this fair?!”

Several days passed since then.

Damian’s siblings and the other children became friends surprisingly quickly.

The wide field of the golf course was no longer an extravagant playground for the upper class.

“Hey! Let’s hide over there!”

“No! That’s sister’s farm!”

Behind the children who were chasing each other, running away, and bursting into laughter, there was Nana’s vegetable garden situated on the land that the tenant farmers had plowed.

The sorghum field that had grown lush in an instant thanks to the farmland buff had become the perfect place for children to hide.

Nana, who was watering the potato field, said a word to the children who were pondering where to hide.

“It’s okay to hide as long as you don’t damage the crops.”

Before she even finished speaking, the boys slipped into the sorghum field like the wind.

‘They used to be so restless before, but now they don’t even pay attention to others.’

Nana chuckled and recalled a few days ago.

When Nana first started cultivating the farm, a few boys approached cautiously.

“Um… what should I do here?”

“You don’t need to help. This is my farm. You guys just run around and have fun. That’s your job right now. Now, get out of my area, everyone out.”

‘That feels like just yesterday, but time really flies.’

It was when Nana was finishing watering.

Ding.

Right, I thought it had been quiet lately.

She made an expression of ‘Oh, this is really annoying’ and checked the message window.

【Main Quest: ‘What Kind of Farm is This?’ has occurred.</p】

Adrienne Rogueton, now your time has come.

Destroy that farm that ruthlessly grinds people down, stomp on it, overturn it, and cause a delightful ruckus.

Reward: Large amount of experience, 10 million gold>

【Item shop is temporarily open.</p】

Open period: Until quest completion.>

‘…Anyone who sees this would think my job is a hired thug rather than a farmowner.’

Fine. Whatever.

Let’s properly destroy it once and for all, that so-called farm.

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