Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 8

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Episode 8

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Nana running out without looking back wasn’t because she was thoughtless, nor was it naturally because she was a dark mage.

She was confident that zombies couldn’t enter her land, and she had a pretty good idea of what that loud noise was.

The commotion had occurred at the livestock barn. Fortunately, since she wasn’t raising cattle or other animals yet, no animals were hurt, but the barn was damaged.

“Why did this damn meteorite have to fall here of all places!”

It had fallen quite thoroughly, as dust was still swirling around where the meteorite had landed. Nana rolled up her sleeves and approached the meteorite. Then a message window appeared before her.

【Suspicious Meteorite with Something Hidden</p】

A meteorite of unknown origin that falls anywhere without warning. Items can be discovered when mined with a pickaxe. If you’re lucky, you can obtain SSS-grade items.>

Among MasFarm users, this large chunk of rock was commonly called the meteorite gacha. This rock really did fall anywhere. Once it even fell on a wheat field right before harvest, giving her a splitting headache.

Still, it wasn’t a completely troublesome item, as it gave SSS-grade items at slightly higher rates than regular gacha.

Now that regular gacha had disappeared due to bugs, this was the only gacha available for obtaining items.

Nana hoped there would be an item valuable enough to compensate for the hole punched in the cattle barn, and swung down the pickaxe she was holding with all her might.

With a cracking sound, the meteorite turned to powder.

【The pickaxe’s durability has reached 0. This pickaxe can no longer be used.】

At the same time, the pickaxe also turned to powder. Nana’s heart also shattered into powder.

“It was my one and only precious pickaxe!”

In this game where you never knew when or where zombies might charge at you, the only safe zone where zombies couldn’t enter was currently Nana’s farm. In other words, because of the zombies, she couldn’t leave the farm, so she couldn’t obtain farming tools from outside.

That’s why she had been conserving and carefully using what she had. Nana mourned the pickaxe that had already turned to dust and examined the spot where the meteorite powder had settled.

【Chamomile herbal tea set and beginner flower seed set have appeared. Congratulations.】

“Congratulations my ass! Is this damn game mocking me!”

Not only had the pickaxe disappeared, but the gacha item was trash too. Nana felt a genuine urge to grab the game operator by the collar and shake them if they appeared before her.

“Employer, are you safe…”

Ishanka, who had belatedly rushed to the livestock barn, was at a loss for words seeing the situation before him.

The barn with a gaping hole in the roof, seed packets and tea leaf packets on the ground, and Nana rolling on the floor in despair.

He wondered if she had been hit by some magic, but he couldn’t sense any magical energy around. That made it even harder to understand what was happening.

“The pickaxe broke…”

“…I don’t really understand what happened, but let’s just be thankful the undead didn’t attack this place.”

“The zombies can’t come here anyway. I didn’t give them permission to enter.”

Are zombies what they call the undead? Do dark mages call the undead zombies? Various questions arose in Ishanka’s mind at his employer’s incomprehensible words, but he decided to set them aside for now. As she said, there didn’t seem to be any undead nearby.

“The roof… I’ll fix it again. With just some lumber, this should be easy to repair.”

“The problem is we don’t have tools to fix the roof.”

Even the tools they had reached the end of their lifespan when their durability hit 0 after fixing the chicken coop last time.

“And we don’t have lumber either…”

It was just a complete disaster. Ishanka decided not to say anything.

“I guess I have no choice but to do what I’ve been putting off. Ugh, I really hate this. I hate it more than going to work on Monday.”

“I don’t really understand what you’re saying, but I can tell you’re feeling very unpleasant.”

“Speaking of which, Worker. Would you like to go to the village with me? Seeing how you were trying to leave the farm alone earlier, you must be good at fighting.”

“Who was it that told me not to go outside because it was dangerous just a while ago?”

She wouldn’t let him go outside earlier, but what’s her intention now? Ishanka was flustered by her quick change of stance, like flipping the palm of her hand.

“I hate it to death, but there are things that must be done. Like cleaning up the mess my boss made, or doing dishes after eating.”

The analogy seemed a bit strange, but it worked out well for him anyway. He also needed to go outside and contact Ezion, who was acting as his representative.

“You asked if I’m good at fighting? To answer that, yes I am. I was going to mention this earlier, but in these times when the world is chaotic with wandering undead, how could I have come here alone if I couldn’t properly handle a sword?”

Are wandering undead what they call zombies? Whatever. It didn’t matter to Nana what they called zombies. What mattered to her was this man’s combat ability.

But before that, did she just hear something incredible?

“Wait, you came here alone, not with other people? No matter how good you are at fighting, still. How did you think to travel alone in a world like this? The scratched arm wasn’t the problem. Are you hurt anywhere else?”

Seeing Nana genuinely surprised and examining Ishanka’s body here and there, Ishanka was momentarily speechless.

He was someone more accustomed to praise and awe than worry and concern. Those who revered Ishanka as an avatar never worried about him. Why would they need to worry or be concerned about an avatar of a god who was stronger than humans?

But this person before him was worrying about him. It was the first time since childhood. It felt strange, as if he had become ‘human Ishanka’ rather than an avatar.

Could this person be using dark magic while pretending to worry? There was dark magic that could shake people’s hearts.

But most such magic drew out negative emotions in humans, not tickled a corner of the heart like this.

At this point, Ishanka began to feel confused too. Was this person really a dark mage? But hadn’t he seen that strange text panel appear before his eyes when he first came here?

And if not magic, how else could he explain why only this land was fertile? But he couldn’t sense any magical power from this person…

“Worker?”

When Ishanka, who had been lost in thought, suddenly came to his senses, his eyes met with Nana’s, who was standing before him. Her light blue eyes were as clear and clean as the sky above this farm.

Somehow he felt as if his inner thoughts of suspecting her had been discovered. Ishanka pretended to be calm and naturally continued the conversation.

“Didn’t you see my body this morning? There are no injuries.”

“I saw from far away so I couldn’t see properly.”

At that time, Nana and Ishanka were less than ten steps apart. It was close enough to see the sweat flowing down Ishanka’s abs, but Nana decided to be shameless.

“But didn’t you evaluate my body? 1,000 points out of 100.”

“Um… that was…”

Though that shamelessness didn’t last long.

“It was quite a fresh experience. No one had ever evaluated me like that before.”

Unlike Nana, who was flustered and avoiding eye contact, Ishanka calmly shared his feelings from that time.

Whether on the battlefield or during training, it was common for him to take off his shirt in front of others. It wasn’t something to be embarrassed about if someone saw.

But no one had ever evaluated his body like that.

Who would dare to score the perfect physique of Aibanu’s avatar?

But Nana, who mistook his words as sarcasm, covered both cheeks with her hands to hide her reddening face. She hadn’t expected the action she took to avoid being misunderstood as a pervert to come back like this.

Why is the embarrassment my share? Ah, I said it, so it is my share.

“A-anyway, now I understand how strong Worker is.”

Ishanka was strangely bothered by Nana continuing to call him ‘Worker.’ He was the one who deliberately didn’t reveal his name since he was hiding his identity and infiltrating the kingdom.

It shouldn’t matter what he was called, so why was it bothering him? Then, a ball of fur came walking between them with a trot.

“Meeeeh.”

“Oh? Tan-bbang. When did you get here? Did you come because you were worried about me?”

Tan-bbang rolled on the ground as a sign of affection toward Nana. Nana quickly picked up Tan-bbang.

“Oh my, Tan-bbang. The floor is full of dust, so if you roll around, your fine fur will get covered in dust. I’ll play with you later, so for now…”

He wished that voice would call his name as affectionately as it did now. Without realizing it, Ishanka impulsively opened his mouth with that thought.

“Ishanka.”

“Yes?”

“My name. I have a perfectly good name called Ishanka. Not Worker.”

At Ishanka’s sudden self-introduction, Nana couldn’t respond and was blinking when a message window popped up before her with fanfare.

【Congratulations. You have learned the name of hidden character: Ishanka. It’s truly remarkable that a hidden character revealed their own name. Experience points are awarded as a reward.】

【The ‘Land Grabbing’ skill has been unlocked with the experience points just received. ‘Land Grabbing’ allows you to declare specific areas or owned land as agricultural land, and sometimes special quests or hidden quests may be given. Upon quest completion, you can declare that place as agricultural land regardless of the landowner’s wishes. However, penalties may be imposed if the quest fails.】

【Your inventory has been upgraded with the experience points just received. The existing inventory slots have become much larger. The inventory automatically upgrades when a certain amount of experience points accumulates.】

【As a reward for learning the hidden character’s name, the range of agricultural land has expanded by an additional 50m radius.】

The system window that hadn’t batted an eye when Tan-bbang brought tiny bits of experience points was now frantically pouring out notification messages.

‘No way, it’s a hidden character, but they’re giving this much just for learning a name?’

If this much for just a name, how big a reward could she get if she learned other information too?

A suspicious light flashed in Nana’s eyes as she stared blankly at the message window.

Sensing that subtle change, Ishanka felt a chill down his spine for reasons unknown and unconsciously shuddered.

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