I Reincarnated Into a Healing Game… and It’s a Zombie Apocalypse?! - Chapter 86

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Chapter 86

I stared at the system window silently for a while.

A conversation?

What kind of conversation am I supposed to have in this situation?

That moment back then. It was a decisive moment that needed no explanation.

I saw it with my own eyes, so what more words were needed?

Ding.

Then, as if reading her inner thoughts, a System Message appeared once again.

【There might be something you didn’t properly hear from Ishanka.</p】

If you don’t know what it is, go with the direct approach.

That’s all the hints you get.>

“This damn Quest always says what it wants and ends.”

Nana grumbled quietly.

Still, she felt somewhat glad that the system had spoken to her again after so long.

But clearing up misunderstandings? That was still hard to accept.

The memory of that day was too vivid.

That moment when Murica Vilona was embracing Ishanka.

And the shameless declaration that followed.

“Even if you take that Kingdom woman as a concubine, I can understand with a generous heart. We’re destined to become king and queen after all.”

“…It still pisses me off just thinking about it.”

Spouting such words as if she was doing some kind of favor. I should have hit her more last time.

But strangely, something kept bothering her.

What if I really was misunderstanding? What if what I saw that day wasn’t everything? What if Ishanka and Murakka really had nothing between them?

If that were the case, shouldn’t I at least hear his words directly once before making a judgment?

Nana silently closed her eyes, then slowly opened them. And she turned her body toward Ishanka.

It wasn’t easy to move while being held so tightly, but she managed to twist her posture forcibly and somehow succeeded in looking at him.

However, seeing his face sleeping soundly made her even more frightened.

If she asked properly and the words she heard back then weren’t a misunderstanding, and he really intended to keep her as a concubine, Nana wouldn’t be able to bear it.

But even so, she had to speak now.

Rather, if she honestly said she had no intention of becoming a concubine and ended the relationship, perhaps Ishanka might let her go.

If he still wouldn’t let her go… then she’d act crazy and properly obsess over him from her side.

Originally, people hold on tighter when rejected, but get tired when clung to.

Obsession must be removed with obsession.

“Isha! Ishanka, wake up.”

Nana urgently shook his shoulder.

The wrinkles on his forehead that had slightly furrowed in his sleep soon smoothed out, and his closed eyelids slowly lifted.

His pale violet eyes looked at her, hazily focusing.

“I, I have something I want to ask you. Last time…”

“Is this a dream…”

Ishanka’s whisper was so quiet that even Nana couldn’t be sure she heard it properly at first. But soon his arm carefully pulled her closer. Nana swallowed her breath.

The breath gently brushing against her forehead.

His face moved slowly, grazing along her hair. Ishanka’s body heat, contrasting with the cold air, pressed hotly against her chest.

In his broad embrace, nearly 180cm tall, Nana’s heart fluttered like a small bird inside.

When she twisted her body in his arms that gave her no chance to escape, Ishanka’s arms tightened around her even more strongly.

“W-wait a moment…”

His breath, now closer, tickled her cheek, and she could feel his body heat from his face that had come breathtakingly close.

The moment their breaths touched and their chests, arms, entire bodies touched like a warm wall, Nana couldn’t bear it anymore.

“Isha! Don’t fall asleep again and wake up! I told you I have something to ask you!”

A cry mixed with embarrassment burst out.

Ishanka’s eyelids slowly opened.

His faintly wavering pale violet eyes looked at her.

“…It wasn’t a dream?”

At his whisper-like low voice, Nana buried her head deeply to hide her face that had heated up to her earlobes.

“Adrien, I’m sorry. I have a habit of hugging pillows or something when I sleep…”

Ishanka explained, but the distance between them was still close. The warm heat and soft breath tickled her skin, making her heart race.

“I, I understand that. But could we separate for a moment and talk?”

Nana tried to sit up, but no matter how hard she tried, her body wouldn’t separate from Ishanka as if stuck with glue.

“Um, Isha. Could you loosen your arms?”

“I’m not holding on though.”

He showed one arm as if feeling wronged.

Wait, don’t tell me…

At the thought that flashed through her mind, Nana hurriedly opened the system window.

【※ The two cannot separate until the Quest is completed.】

So that’s what it meant…

Nana tried to pull away from Ishanka, but strangely, the more she moved, the closer she seemed to get to him instead.

Ishanka, who had been quietly watching this, calmly embraced her and slowly stroked Nana’s back with one hand, speaking in a low, calm voice.

“Calm down. First, shouldn’t we figure out why this is happening?”

His soothing touch was surprisingly gentle and careful. Nana soon stopped her struggling movements and quietly leaned into his embrace.

Ishanka, who had been waiting for Nana to calm down, opened his mouth.

“Do you happen to know the reason? Why this phenomenon occurred?”

Nana hesitated for a moment without taking her eyes off his chest area, then slowly lowered her gaze.

“…My ability returned.”

“Ability? The ability your god gave you?”

“Yeah. And there’s one que- I mean, one demand from the god. The god told us to have a sincere conversation. Until then, we’ll stay stuck together like this…”

Her face was flushed red after finishing her words.

Ishanka seemed lost in deep thought for a moment, then gently pulled Nana’s hand and placed it on his chest. The heartbeat pulsing beneath his skin was clearly felt against her palm.

“If you doubt my sincerity, please put your hand here and ask me any question. It will be more accurate than words about what emotions I’m facing you with.”

Nana swallowed at the feeling of heat reaching her fingertips. Her trembling hand shook slightly over his heart.

But soon gathering her resolve, she brought up the words she hadn’t been able to ask.

“The day you returned from hunting, I went to see you.”

Nana’s voice was quiet but clear. Ishanka’s pulse wavered slightly beneath her palm.

“And I saw you and Murica Vilona embracing, and I heard what that woman said. That she could understand with a generous heart even if you took a Kingdom woman as a concubine. So I’m asking. Were you planning to keep me as a second wife?”

A brief silence.

Though it was a carefully asked question, it was a wound that had been crouched in one corner of Nana’s heart for a long time.

Ishanka pressed his forehead with one hand and let out a deep breath.

“So that’s why you’ve been avoiding me since that day.”

Nana said nothing. But silence soon became an answer.

Ishanka lifted his head and looked at Nana with unwavering eyes.

“I’ll tell you the conclusion first. Murica Vilona and I will not marry. We’ve already broken the engagement and that’s the end of it. I have no intention of being involved with her again.”

His words were firm and unwavering. But Nana still couldn’t let go of the doubt remaining in her heart and asked.

“Then why were you going to marry her?”

“It was a political marriage. We proceeded after weighing each other’s benefits and deeming it appropriate. The moment I learned what she did to my sibling, all of that ended.”

Sibling…

Nana thought of Ateruna.

Tan-bbang, who was both a farm cat and a cat beastman.

She could guess without asking what kind of attitude she would have shown toward Ateruna.

It was too obvious how someone filled with human-centered supremacist consciousness would have looked at beastmen.

“The most important thing in Nanuk is people. Whether human or beastman, regardless of origin or blood. I cannot be with someone who can’t even accept that.”

Firmness was evident at the end of his words. His gaze was steadily directed at Nana without wavering. Those words weren’t excuses or evasion. They were unwavering conviction, like a decision made long ago.

“Then all the rumors circulating in society are…”

“It’s all lies. I don’t know who spread such words or with what intention, but there isn’t a single truth in any of it.”

Ishanka’s heartbeat remained steady and calm. There was no falsehood in his firm tone. As his sincerity was conveyed through his fingertips, Nana steeled her heart.

She could no longer hesitate.

Having come this far, she had to ask even if she feared the answer.

In the suffocating tension, Nana lifted her head to look directly at his face. A small tremor spread from deep within her chest, but she gathered her courage and parted her closed lips.

“Then what kind of person am I to you?”

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