I Reincarnated Into a Healing Game… and It’s a Zombie Apocalypse?! - Chapter 80

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Episode 80

Nana stood frozen in front of the door for a long time.

The scene before her eyes, the words piercing her ears.

Everything felt unreal like a nightmare.

‘…Oh, did I forget that I left laundry hanging out to dry?’

Looking at the sky, it seemed like it might rain. I should hurry back.

She tried to turn around pretending nothing was wrong. But as soon as she took a step, the emotions she had suppressed surged up as if about to burst.

Nana fled from the manor as if escaping.

* * *

“What the hell is this?”

Ishanka roughly swatted away Murakka’s arm wrapped around his neck as if brushing off disgusting insects. Murakka, who was almost thrown to the floor, lost her balance and staggered.

“You and I have nothing to do with each other now. How did you get in here?”

“Nothing to do with each other? Everyone in the tribe knows. You and I will soon…”

“That’s your delusion. Not the truth.”

Ishanka brushed off his clothes as if disgusted. At that blatant contempt, Murakka’s expression twisted, but she soon put on a shameless smile like a mask.

“Calm down, my Aibanu. I brought gold for you. Please accept this and…”

“Who.”

“What?”

“Who dared to tell you to call me that without my permission?”

Ishanka’s voice dropped low.

When his emotionless eyes pierced through her, all color drained from Murakka’s face. Even so, she didn’t back down and arrogantly lifted her chin.

“Your words are too harsh. I came here to help you! Unlike that powerless Kingdom woman. Think about what I can give you!”

“Help.”

Ishanka laughed bitterly.

“With that mouth that insulted my sister, you dare say you’ll help me?”

Murakka’s eyes wavered.

“Th-that’s a misunderstanding! Ateruna was rude first, so as a chieftain’s daughter, I was trying to teach her…”

“Teach?”

Bang!

Ishanka slammed the desk and shot up. An overwhelming sense of intimidation choked Murakka’s breath.

“In Nanuk, what matters isn’t gold or bloodline. It’s people. Trash that treats beastfolk like animals and divides them into classes has no right to set foot on my land.”

“…!”

“I’ve already finished talking with the Vilona Chieftain. I’m rather curious. Does he not know about your rude behavior right now, or does he know and just let it be?”

Murakka’s face flushed red and blue with shame. Unable to pretend to be elegant anymore, she spat back with venom.

“You’re insane. You’re so crazy about that Kingdom bitch that you can’t think straight…! Fine, good. I’ll make you regret abandoning me until you’re pounding the ground!”

Even at her furious shouting, Ishanka sat back down in his chair as if bored and picked up documents. His gaze was already running over the papers.

“Haven’t you left yet? I don’t have time to listen to more barking.”

Complete disregard. Being treated like she was invisible, Murakka’s entire body trembled with shame. Standing there any longer would only make her more miserable.

“…I will never forget this humiliation.”

Bang! After roughly slamming the door shut, Murakka bit her lips until they bled. Venom filled her bloodshot eyes.

‘Fine, Ishanka Aibanu Nanuk. Go ahead and keep acting cold. Let’s see if you can maintain that expression when that woman you cherish is crushed under my feet.’

* * *

Nana returned inside Rosha’s house, closed the door, and leaned her back against it.

Rosha must have gone out as the interior was quiet.

She walked to the middle of the room and sat down in front of the unlit fireplace.

‘It’s strange. Isha didn’t say anything. He was just by my side.’

Right, when she thought about it coldly, they were nothing to each other. She had fluttered alone, given meaning alone, and believed it was special all by herself.

She found herself unbearably ridiculous for holding onto an unconfirmed relationship and being happy thinking ‘maybe we’re having a thing.’

Nana had never once asked Ishanka ‘what are we to each other?’

It was she herself who had cowardly kept her mouth shut because she didn’t have the confidence to handle the answer that would come back.

“What about the other one, we just acted friendly a bit…”

A dark history buried in the depths of her memory suddenly raised its head.

It was the same back then too. She had hoped alone, fluttered alone, and ultimately crumbled alone. Nothing had changed. Nana was still stupid and a fool with no learning ability.

“…Ha.”

Even a hollow laugh wouldn’t come out. Nana pulled a blanket with her hands and wrapped it around her shoulders.

‘Let’s stop. One dark history is enough.’

Nana hugged her knees and curled up. On this terribly cold night, the only one who could protect herself was her own pitiful self.

* * *

Nana had been intentionally avoiding Ishanka lately.

She would deliberately leave the house when he was supposed to come, or go out early in the morning and not return until late at night.

She thought doing so would make her heart feel a little more at ease.

Then one day.

“This is a white wolf that Ishanka caught in this hunt. He said he wanted to give it to you as a gift.”

Rosha smiled gently and held out the fur. Nana hesitated for a moment, then reluctantly accepted it.

She went into her room, closed the door, and quietly spread out the fur, stroking it with her fingertips.

It was soft and warm.

She briefly closed her eyes at the feeling of the white fur seeming to embrace her palm. But soon a bitter emotion crept up from somewhere in her chest.

‘Why is he giving me something like this? When he has a fiancée?’

Questions chased each other in her head.

Then suddenly she remembered the words she had heard in front of the study.

“…Even if you take that Kingdom woman as a concubine, I can understand with a broad mind. We’re going to be king and queen.”

Polygamy was allowed in this world.

Then was the reason Ishanka showed her a flirtatious attitude even while having a fiancée because he thought it was fine to take her as a concubine?

The moment she reached that thought, Nana gritted her teeth. Anger beyond sadness bloomed in her heart.

‘That might be common here. But not for me.’

Was it because of her memories of living as Song Nana in modern times? No, whatever the reason, it didn’t matter.

She absolutely could not tolerate sharing the man she loved with another woman.

With that thought, the white wolf fur in her hands became disgusting to look at.

‘What is this? Is this some kind of gift for a concubine candidate?’

An impulse to grab the fur and throw it forcefully to the floor surged up.

But in the end, her hands didn’t move.

‘…What fault does the fur have?’

Nana sighed deeply and carefully folded the fur, pushing it into a corner of the closet.

Nana was so sad that the feelings toward Ishanka remaining in one corner of her heart, like the fur folded away in the closet, wouldn’t be easily erased.

* * *

Lately in Saharte, there was only one name on everyone’s lips the most.

Murica Vilona.

From the children’s mouths, in the chatter of women baking bread, even among the haggling merchants, it was all talk about her.

“Murica Vilona came to Saharte?”

“If Bilona merges with Nanuk, the royal power will be strengthened even more, right?”

“I caught a glimpse of her last time, and she’s quite a beauty.”

Nana covered her ears and ran away. The liveliness of the town square and the warmth of the kiln were poison to her right now.

Only when she climbed to the highest hill, where people’s gazes couldn’t reach, did she finally feel like she could breathe.

A night when cold snow flurries danced in the air.

Nana hugged her knees and looked down at the city lights spread out below her feet.

‘How foolish.’

Murakka and Ishanka.

It wasn’t as if the world had collapsed over just one name. It was merely the end of an unrequited love, yet her heart felt as heavy as if a thousand pounds of lead were hanging from it.

Nana hugged her knees.

A hollow laugh escaped her at the emptiness that penetrated to her bones. Getting excited alone, getting hurt alone, and ultimately collapsing alone. What exactly was love supposed to be?

She buried her face deep between her knees. Today, her only goal was to endure this bitter night.

If she kept resigning herself like this, someday this heart would grow numb like developing calluses.

‘Yes. That’s what will happen. So I’ll be fine.’

When Nana came down from the hill, it was already quite late at night.

In the quietly sleeping village, only the sound of Nana’s footsteps crunching through the snow could be heard.

When she finally reached Grandma Rosha’s house and carefully opened the gate to step into the yard, her foot suddenly slipped and her body swayed.

Just as she was about to fall to the ground, warm arms firmly caught her.

Nana looked up with surprised eyes.

“Isha?”

“Are you alright?”

“Why are you here…?”

“I was waiting for you.”

Nana’s heart began to stir again.

The heart she had barely managed to calm was causing a commotion once more.

She tried to act composed and spoke in a calm voice.

“It’s late tonight, so let’s talk tomorrow.”

However, Ishanka didn’t quietly step back.

“Why have you been avoiding me lately?”

Her heart seemed to drop with a thud and she felt like she couldn’t breathe, but she tried to act as if nothing was wrong.

“I haven’t been avoiding you. I was just busy.”

“Did I do something wrong to you? If that’s the case…”

“No. It’s not that.”

Nana cut off his words decisively.

“I’ve been really busy lately. So busy that I don’t even know what people are talking about.”

It was a lie.

She knew that better than anyone.

“What were you so busy with?”

Ishanka’s voice dropped a little.

“How busy were you that even the tip of your nose is this red…”

When his hand approached her cheek, Nana was startled and quickly turned her head away.

“…It’s not something you need to worry about.”

Then Ishanka’s voice flowed low and trembling.

“How can I not worry? You are…”

But at that moment, Nana’s head snapped up. Various emotions tangled together and surged up to her throat.

“What are you to me?”

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