Seoul Object Story
Chapter 201: A Full Moon (10)

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In the middle of Mapo-gu, where ominous moonlight was shining down, there was a small one-room apartment which had a warm atmosphere. It was not large, but the atmosphere created by the softly shining lights and cute furniture created a contrast with the ominous night streets. The lights were emitting a calming light, and the wallpaper reflected the light from the lamp into soft colors.

Although the room was sufficiently warm, a woman was sitting on a soft sofa while hugging a blanket. She had created a fortress of blankets, and she was locked in there, sitting in front of a noisy TV while drinking a little warm beverage.

A loud noise was coming from the TV, but the woman was not even paying attention to the TV, she was only focused on the snacks and golden objects on the table.

“It’s warm isn’t it?”

The woman made a cheerful expression as she put a small knitwear on the Golden Reaper. The Golden Reaper also smiled happily at the woman who was smiling happily.

At the same time, a broadcast was playing on TV, telling people to be especially careful because the Golden Reaper was acting strangely.

[ Reports about Golden Reaper’s dangerous behavior continue to be reported. ]

[ There are increasing cases of Golden Reapers melting in a bad way or glaring with hostile eyes. ]

[ It is a very dangerous sign when a friendly Object behaves differently than before, so please be as careful as possible. ]

As always, the broadcast was stimulating fear, saying that the Golden Reaper might become dangerous. Even though the woman thought the Golden Reaper was safe, whenever she saw a broadcast like this, her heart started beating faster and she felt uneasy.

When the Golden Reaper saw the woman’s anxious behavior, he held her finger tightly and looked up at her with a worried expression. Then, the woman felt her uneasy feeling go away and slowly stroked the Golden Reaper who was looking up at her with concern.

“You guys are cute! Why did people say so about you?”

The woman placed the Golden Reaper on her palm and started feeding them snacks one by one. As she continued to feed it, amazed at how the Golden Reaper, which was as small as the palm of her hand, was eating so many snacks, she heard the sound of something climbing on the table.

Plop-! Plop-!

A Golden Reaper who looked exactly like the Golden Reaper who was wearing a knitwear was slowly walking toward her, although it was a little expressionless.

When another Golden Reaper appeared, the Golden Reaper who was wearing a knitwear jumped down from the table in surprise and faced the new Golden Reaper.

Tilt-!

The Golden Reaper who wore a knitwear tilted its head with curiosity on its face, to the point where it felt like a question mark was floating above its head.

Who is it?

I’ve never seen it in the Garden of the Mini Reaper.

Every time the Golden Reaper who wore knitwear moved with curiosity, the newly appeared Golden Reaper followed its actions like a reflection.

“Wow, you really look exactly the same.”

Watching the two identical Golden Reapers move in the same way, the woman could only be amazed.

In the meantime, the Golden Reaper who wore knitwear kept emitting will, asking, ‘Who are you?’, but the newly appeared Golden Reaper simply followed its actions as if it didn’t hear the will.

The Golden Reaper, who had been following the actions of the Golden Reaper who wore knitwear, slowly began to walk toward the human.

However, the Golden Reaper who wore a knitwear blocked its path and shook its head back and forth. It was as if it was saying, ‘You should not pass!’

Looking at that, the woman thought that the Golden Reaper was quite possessive.

“Since you both are Golden Reapers, you should get along well!”

The woman placed the Golden Reaper, who was blocking the other Golden Reaper from approaching her, on her palm and spoke as if scolding him.

The Golden Reaper couldn’t understand what the woman was saying, but it could feel that it was reproaching it and lowered its head with a sullen expression.

“Come here!”

The woman who was sitting on the sofa clapped her hands, spread her arms, and waited for the new Golden Reaper to come to her. The Golden Reaper, who had been looking up at the woman, lowered his head and smiled happily. It was a strange smile that stretched so far that the corners of his lips reached its ears.

Just as she felt, ‘Something’s strange!’, the Golden Reaper with the strange smile quickly ran towards the woman. In that Golden Reaper’s hand was a lightsaber that scattered an ominous yellow light.

“!”

At that moment, the Golden Reaper wearing a knitwear jumped up and was stabbed by the lightsaber instead.

Rip-!

The knitwear that was pierced by the high-temperature light sword instantly burned, and the Golden Reaper whose heart was pierced looked at the woman with an urgent expression as if saying, ‘Run away quickly!’

And then, it began to emit a light so intense that made it difficult for anyone to open their eyes from its entire body. It was a light so intense that it could be seen anywhere in Mapo-gu, but it had a warmth that wanted to protect humans.

Thud-!

The Golden Reaper, which had been emitting a lot of light, fell to the ground like a corpse and fell limp. The fake Golden Reaper grimaced like a walnut and expressed its anger when its surprise attack failed.

“Ah… No. Reaper!”

The woman lifted the limp Golden Reaper with a helpless expression, but the Golden Reaper just lay still with its eyes tightly shut as if it was dead.

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Were the Golden Reapers want to impeach me?

I kept my eyes tightly shut as if I was dead to see what was going on, but the Blue Reaper was even more flustered than me and started to write something on the air.

< Heal it quickly! Please! >

< Protect us! Please! >

As the string disappeared, a healing mist settled on my body, and the water droplets began to push away the Golden Reaper who had stabbed me.

If It succeed, it’s a coup!

The red reaper followed the will I whispered in its ear every day, and its exuded red will with a confident expression. Of course, its expression was too bright, it seemed like it didn’t understand what I meant. Still, it instinctively knew that I would never die like this, so it picked up its red hammer and sickle and began to confront the Golden Reaper.

Taking advantage of the gap, I looked closely at the Golden Reaper, and noticed some strange things. The flames it had gave off a feeling similar to my firewood, but there was no emotion. Moreover, I didn’t feel any connection to that Golden Reaper.

It’s fake.

But since it was such an elaborate fake, the other Golden Reapers would have been easily fooled.

Since it was a fake, there was nothing to be afraid of. I quickly healed the piercing wound, opened my closed eyes, and slowly stood up. As I stood up, the Mini Reapers clung to my face with extremely happy expressions.

The fake Golden Reaper looked extremely shocked, but quickly erased the shock it showed on its face and raised its lightsaber. Its expression was confident, as if it was expressing that it was stronger than me.

Did it refer to my bickering with the Golden Reapers?

Martial arts, sword fighting, running, hide-and-seek.

While we were in Mapo-gu, I played various games with the Golden Reaper to kill time, but I only won a few times.

So did I look weak because of that?

Then I should tell you!

I was taking it easy when I fought with the kids!

I dyed both my hands black and stretched out my hand to clench the space. Then, a black sphere which was made through me burning a huge amount of firewood appeared in the air and began to devour everything.

The fake Golden Reaper tried to block the black sphere with a graceful swordsmanship that seemed to be a direct copy of the First Sword’s swordsmanship, but it wasn’t enough. No matter how much its swordsmanship cut through space, it was not enough to defeat the firewood that had entered the black sphere.

No matter how much an ant learns boxing, it can’t defeat an elephant!

I bit down on my confident smile and tore the fake Golden Reaper to pieces.

< Mom, strong! >

The Red Reaper jumped around in place, rejoicing, while the Blue Reaper was clapping with their fingertips.

So simple.

By the way, are the other Golden Reapers okay?

Since the fake Golden Reaper was more elaborately made than I expected, I thought that ‘the other Golden Reapers might have been fooled.’

Just as I was thinking that, a golden light began to spread out from all over Mapo-gu, piercing the sky. It was a rescue request from the Golden Reapers, asking for help. A signal which as if saying, ‘Humans are in danger!’

As if several suns had fallen on the ground, the light spread out from all directions, and a huge silhouette slowly rose up from the shadows of the street.

Unlike the warm-hearted golden light, the black shadow gave off a gloomy feeling. The huge shadow suddenly rose up to try blocking my path, as if trying to prevent me from paying attention to the other Golden Reapers.

The appearance of the huge shadow, which suddenly popped out from the surrounding buildings, resembled the appearance of the fake Golden Reaper. The only difference was that it was as big as the building and had an ominous black color.

Two golden lights rose from its face, which seemed to be made of smooth shadows. The two golden eyes were shining in the color of the Golden Reaper, but unlike the Golden Reaper, they gave off a strong ominous feeling.

The fake Reaper, whose only part that was shing was its eyes, began to slowly look down at me.

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As I used my blackened fist to clenched toward the giant fake reaper, a black sphere appeared and devoured its upper body without a trace. The giant fake reaper’s attempt to clench its fist and swing it at the surrounding buildings failed just like that.

It was dangerous. The moment the giant reaper’s fist was lightly swung toward the buildings, countless people would die, so it was too dangerous.

If even one person died, I would have to be here for seven days more. Besides, if I failed now, the next seven days would be even harder. If those horrible fake reapers showed up from the first day, I didn’t have the confidence to properly endure the seven days.

Kiieeeekk-!

The giant fake reaper, which regenerated its upper body in an instant, let out a terrible roar that sounded like metal scraping a blackboard. It was a sound that made people nervous. On top of that, that sound was mixed with mind corruption that made people anxious.

It was an extremely effective mind corruption.

Every time that scream rang out, people’s fear and despair poured into me. And as people became more fearful, those fake reapers became more and more terrifying.

At first, they looked exactly like the Golden Reaper, but now only little traces of their imitation of the Golden Reaper remained.

Their mouths gaped open grotesquely.

Their teeth jutted out here and there.

Their skin rotted away, their ribs protruding.

Moreover, the more horrifying they became, the faster, stronger, and more powerful they became.

Now I know for sure. The Yellow Moon was an Object which had a skill to fed on people’s fears and realise them.

What should I do?

Should I move all the people to the Garden of the Mini Reaper?

But I had a gut feeling that that wouldn’t solve it. If there was no one to kill, I had the feeling that the Yellow Moon would move away like the moon in the Snowfield.

Since I used too much ‘Clench’, I was consuming too much firewood. The Golden Reapers were also close to their limits. They were erasing the fake Reapers by overlapping their body with it, but Mapo-gu was too large for them to return to where they died right away after they resurrected.

The Golden Reapers with anxious expressions were popping out from under my feet, but no matter how fast the Golden Reapers were, it took time for them to run around Mapo-gu.

Thankfully, the warrior Golden Reapers led by the First Sword filled the gap. However, the lightsaber that had been overworked blinked as if it would break at any moment, and the only remaining was the First Sword who didn’t need a lightsaber.

It was almost a miracle that not a single human in Mapo-gu had died so far.

Should I give up?

The moment I had that thought, I felt a familiar voice and emotion.

“Reaper! Fighting!”

A familiar silhouette wearing a lab coat.

It was Yerin, who had snuck into the sealed off Mapo-gu.

You’re here, my battery!

I smiled brightly at Yerin.

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