I Reincarnated Into a Healing Game… and It’s a Zombie Apocalypse?! - Chapter 85
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Chapter 85
Nana’s cold response made Ishanka’s eyes waver slightly.
His hands tightened with force. He desperately grabbed Nana’s arms with both hands.
“Please… don’t joke around.”
His voice was low and trembling.
“This kind of joke isn’t funny.”
Nana felt a sharp pain in her chest.
Ishanka looked like an abandoned child.
The sight of him clinging to her with eyes filled with fear.
It broke her heart.
But Ishanka had a fiancée.
Someone who would marry him soon.
In the end, she would be the one abandoned.
Could she become a second wife?
No, she didn’t want that.
Sharing the man she loved with another woman.
It was absolutely unacceptable.
Besides, this man probably doesn’t truly love me.
This too would just be a passing emotion.
“What about the other one, we were just being friendly…”
Nana frowned as remnants of the past surfaced again.
What am I to him, that he’s desperately clinging to me like I’m a toy he doesn’t want to lose.
Ding!
【System error recovery in progress.】
【Error recovery complete. System has been activated normally.】
The system notification sound rang out for the first time in so long it sounded unfamiliar.
But Nana was so focused on the current situation that she couldn’t even hear that mechanical sound.
“You’re the one playing games.”
Nana’s voice trembled.
“I don’t want to be played by your games anymore. Stop bothering people and go back to where you belong.”
Each word she uttered pierced her own heart.
She suppressed the feeling of her heart constricting and her throat burning, hoping he would quickly return home.
Because only then would this pain end.
Frowning tightly to keep from crying, Nana tried to pass by him as he stood there dumbfounded. However, Ishanka’s hand grabbed her arm again.
“Stop being so stubborn…”
Nana was about to genuinely get angry when she suddenly stopped.
He was crying.
With his usual expressionless face showing no emotion, tears were just rolling down drop by drop.
“I-Isha…”
Nana swallowed her breath.
In that moment, Ishanka pulled her forcefully into his arms.
“I won’t let you go.”
His voice was low and firm.
“You just said I was fired, right? So I won’t listen to you anymore.”
“W-wait…!”
Nana tried to say something, but faster than that, Ishanka struck the back of her neck with the edge of his hand.
As Nana’s consciousness gradually faded, her vision swayed as if collapsing.
The last thing she saw was Ishanka’s face, crying yet somehow smiling with relief.
* * *
When Nana opened her eyes, she saw an unfamiliar ceiling.
Wooden beams and the cloth covering them faintly revealed their outline in the darkness.
Realizing this was an unfamiliar space, Nana was startled and tried to sit up.
“You’d better not get up. You’re naked under the blanket.”
A calm voice came from nearby.
Startled, she turned her head to see Ishanka lighting a fire by the fireplace.
Wait, hold on.
Naked?
At that moment, the sensation of the blanket against her body became vivid. She was indeed covered with a thick fur blanket over her bare skin, wearing nothing at all.
“You, you…”
“Let me say in advance, I had no impure intentions.”
Ishanka said calmly.
“Your clothes were all soaked from the snow, so I had no choice. Leaving them on could have been life-threatening due to hypothermia.”
As if his words were true, Nana’s dripping wet clothes were spread out near the fireplace.
“I apologize for the rudeness without your consent, but I turned my head away while undressing you, so don’t worry.”
His words were true.
Though he felt like he was going crazy from every sensation at his fingertips, touching an unconscious person would be something only a beast would do. Ishanka gritted his teeth and only prioritized her life.
“Then why are you fully dressed?”
“So I can chase after you anytime if you try to escape.”
“…”
I’m joking.”
He slightly raised the corners of his mouth as if trying to force a smile.
“There’s only one set of men’s clothes in this tent.”
Nana closed her eyes briefly and opened them again.
Escaping without proper clothes? She’d bet the farm’s corn that she’d freeze to death within 5 minutes if she went out like this.
Nana adjusted the blanket covering her and sat up.
Except for the fireplace area, the surroundings were pitch black and nothing was visible.
She could barely make out the thick carpet covering the floor and some animal fur blankets in the corner.
The sound of fierce wind outside still assaulted her ears.
“It looks like we’ll have to stay in this tent until the blizzard stops. Fortunately, someone must have lived here and abandoned it, because there are household items left behind.”
He ladled something from a pot and handed it to Nana.
A savory aroma wafted over.
Her stomach growled.
Until just a moment ago, she had forgotten even her hunger.
“Alright. I’ll eat well.”
Nana accepted the bowl without a moment’s hesitation.
Watching her, Ishanka chuckled softly.
“Just a moment ago you were rejecting me so much.”
“Food is innocent.”
Besides, I need to eat well to be advantageous for escaping later.
Nana muttered to herself while eating the soup.
“If you’re thinking of eating well and then escaping, you’d better give up.”
Ishanka’s voice carried a determination to never let Nana go again.
“As I said earlier, I have no intention of letting you go.”
Nana, who had been bringing the spoon to her mouth, quietly put it down.
“…I don’t understand why you’re doing this.”
Why are you confusing my heart like this when you have someone to get engaged to?
Or is it because you’re a king, you think you can have a second wife?
That makes me feel even worse.
“I…”
Because I love you.
Those words never made it past his lips.
Even if he said them now, she wouldn’t hear them as she tried to run away.
Not now, not yet.
Nana let out a small sigh as she watched him hesitate.
As expected, he can’t bring himself to say outright ‘I want to keep you as a second wife.’
As soon as she finished emptying her bowl, she immediately turned her back and lay down.
With her stomach full, her eyes slowly began to close.
She needed to escape while Ishanka was asleep, so she’d just rest her eyes for a moment.
Rationalizing it that way, Nana slowly closed her eyes.
When Nana opened her eyes, the morning sunlight was gently streaming through the gaps in the tent.
What was supposed to be just a brief rest had turned into deep sleep.
Was I really that tired?
As she tried to sit up, she suddenly felt something strange.
Her body was caught by something. It wouldn’t move.
Nana slightly turned her head. And soon realized.
Ishanka was sleeping while holding her tightly, blanket and all.
“…Hah.”
An incredulous laugh escaped from Nana’s lips.
He said he wouldn’t let me escape, but was this his method?
She carefully tried to slip out of his embrace, but his hold was too firm.
Wrapped completely in the large man’s arms, she couldn’t budge.
After squirming a few times, she eventually gave up.
Suddenly, she could feel his body through the thin fabric.
Ishanka’s body, which never skipped daily training, was as solid as his personality with no soft spots whatsoever.
Does that fiancée of his know too? That his body is this firm?
At that thought, her heart sank for no reason.
In her surge of emotion, Nana wanted to kick Ishanka’s shin, but unfortunately it was impossible while being held from behind.
“Damn it… Nothing’s going right.”
If only the system were working properly, she could have declared the ground where this tent stood as her farm and used ‘Command’ to pry Ishanka off.
Just as she was grumbling internally, she noticed a familiar blinking in the corner of her vision.
‘…What’s that?’
An alarm?
Ever since the system completely broke down from the Prime Minister’s dark magic last time, both quests and status windows had been deactivated, but now the system was responding again.
Could it have been restored?
Nana hurriedly called up the system in her mind.
Ding.
【A Special Quest has occurred.】
“…Really?”
Forgetting her current situation, Nana reflexively opened the message. And her eyes widened at the quest content that appeared.
【Special Quest: ‘You Who Are in Love Are a Coward’ has occurred.</p】
In novels, we often see couples who love each other but become estranged due to misunderstandings, right?
We always shout while watching such scenes.
“Please, you two just talk! You need to communicate!”
This is exactly that situation. What you and Ishanka need most is honest conversation!
At this point, even the Manager is tired. So here’s a quest.
Mission: You two need to talk. Please.
※ Until the quest ends, you two cannot be separated.>
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Damn the manager embodying exactly what I’ve been feeling 😆