Seoul Object Story
Chapter 205: A Full Moon: Epilogue (3)

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The button-eyed Blue Rapers were flying through the sky on broomsticks.

Realizing that there were many things they could do with the blue reaper doll costumes, it suddenly became popular among the mini reapers.

However, their actions were quite different from what the real Blue Reapers would do.

Instead of sitting quietly on the broomsticks and flying around, they climbed on top of them like they were snowboarding and flew around looking like that.

At the same time, the button-eyed blue reapers were also enjoying a wild game that the real blue grim reapers would never do.

A game similar to jousting.

Each blue reaper doll costume would make a large shield and spear and charge at each other head-on.

A large number of button-eyed blue reapers were flying at high speed on their broomsticks, stabbing their spears at their opponents.

Boom-!

The sound of shields and spears clashing continued to resonate in the sky. And every time that sound rang out, the defeated button-eyed blue reapers would fall from the sky.

To me, it seemed like a game where the outcome was determined purely by luck at the moment of collision, but would it still be fun if they kept doing that?

Mom, let’s play!

At that moment, a 1m tall button-eyed blue reaper next to me pushed a large doll costume toward me and asked me to play with it. I didn’t know what mini Reaper was inside the other button-eyed reaper costumes, but I knew who that 1m-sized one was. It should be a bunch of Black Reapers.

As I received the doll costume that was my size, I thought to myself.

If it was a game determined by luck, wouldn’t I have a higher chance of winning?

I was confident in my luck.

If it wasn’t against the orange reaper who could manipulate odds, I was confident that I could win against other Reapers in the battle of luck.

Okay, let’s do it!

When I received the doll costume and said, “Let’s do it,” the button-eyed blue reaper raised both hands and cheered happily.

There were many other mini reapers, so why was it so eager to play with me?

As I put on the doll costumes, a stuffy feeling started to creep up on me. I thought the doll costumes would be okay unlike when I had to wear other clothes, but it wasn’t the case at all.

Still, I felt a little peculiar. I felt that the things I could do were increasing. And true to my feeling, I could move water to shapes and use magic by writing characters in the air.

The Black Reaper, who was waiting for me to put on the doll costumes, stood on the broom and couldn’t hide its excitement. And then, together with me, it flew into the sky on a broom made of water.

As I stepped on the broom at a moderate height and faced the Black Reaper in a blue reaper costume with a spear and shield in my hands, I felt like I had made a big mistake.

This is hard!

Did everyone fly around like this on such a thin broom?

The spear and shield made of water were heavier than I thought, and it wasn’t easy to keep my balance on the thin stick.

As I staggered on the broom, the giant button-eyed blue reaper facing me smiled bashfully.

It was a smile that expressed just how happy it was to play with me.

But I gritted my teeth and took a stance.

I’m going to win this time!

As I waited with that determination, I heard the sound of water drops bursting.

It was the starting signal.

Then, I fell off the broom at the same time as the collision, and fell to the ground.

Mom, let’s do it again!

Before I knew it, the guy had come next to me, giggling as if it was having fun.

This thing had nothing to do with luck!

It was a game where athleticism was important!

The moment I stabbed my opponent with my spear, I realized that this game had nothing to do with luck.

The movement of the shield that deflected my spear blade skillfully.

The movement deflected the shock caused by the clash of the spear and shield skillfully on that narrow broom.

With such a huge skill gap, I fell miserably from the air.

What was even more annoying was that I tried my best to win, but the Black Reaper was just enjoying it regardless of whether it won or lost.

It was really apparent just by looking at it flying over me and saying, ‘Mom, you’re weak!’

When I took off the stuffy doll costume and told it that I wasn’t going to play with it anymore, the Black Reaper made a very gloomy expression.

Hiing-!

It then let out a sad cry and slowly collapsed.

Melting like a slime, the Black Reaper flowed out from inside the doll costumes.

I should never do a broomstick jousting contest again.

I was stuffing a white Hungry Ghost into my mouth and eating it to vent my anger when I saw a Black Reaper running towards me from afar with a surprised expression.

Mom! Mom’s eyes!

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The words I heard were difficult for even I, a Mini Reaper language understanding master, to understand.

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After the Mapo-gu Golden Reaper incident, many things changed in Mapo-gu. Not only in Mapo-gu, many things in the man’s life also changed, along with his attitude.

When the man left his studio apartment and looked up at the sky, a large pinwheel caught his eye. It was as large as a windmill, which was used for power generation through wind.

That pinwheel was one of the things that had changed in Mapo-gu.

It was still early morning, so the streets were a little chilly. Even though the man was only doing a simple part-time job, he was walking down the street early in the morning to earn money. This would have been unimaginable for the man before the Mapo-gu incident. If it’s the past him, he would have gone to bed by now. But now, the man decided to take even small steps diligently.

After all, the ‘Golden Reaper’ saved his life, so he couldn’t waste it.

“Do you want some pudding?”

“Aren’t you cold?”

The man looked at the people he occasionally saw with bitter eyes. They were happy people who walked around with the Golden Reaper.

Even after the Mapo-gu incident ended, many Golden Reapers still remained in Mapo-gu, but the man had no Golden Reaper.

It’s only natural.

He had made the mistake of throwing the Golden Reaper out of his studio window.

As the man walked slowly, he passed by the pinwheel installed in the middle of the park. The pinwheel was rising from marshmallow land that had eaten up part of the park. It was also a meeting place where people could meet the Golden Reaper who disappeared somewhere to sleep every night.

The man passed by this place every day on his way to work with faint hope, but he never met the Golden Reaper who had saved him again.

The area in front of the windmill was filled with joyful laughter.

The Golden Reaper ran toward the people it was attached to with a bright smile and the people welcomed it. It was something that would never happen to him who had committed such a terrible act.

Even though he came here with hope, it was a place that made him even more miserable.

Today is the last day.

The man thought so because it was too painful to hear the joyful laughter of others. He made up his mind and looked around, but the Golden Reaper he wanted to meet was nowhere to be seen.

In the end, it wasn’t there.

The man turned around with a sad face and took heavy steps.

I won’t be able to see it anymore, but I’ll keep it in my heart and live diligently.

The man said goodbye to the Golden Reaper in his heart.

The moment he turned his back on the windmill and started walking, the morning sun began to rise through the forest of buildings. The light was so dazzling that he covered the sun with his palm.

But then, he heard a familiar sound of footsteps.

The sound of a small human walking like a hamster.

Plop-! Plop-!

Thinking that it couldn’t be happening, he looked towards where the sound was coming from.

There, he could see the Golden Reaper smiling brightly against the sun.

For sure. That’s the ‘Golden Reaper’ who spent time with me.

The Golden Reaper, standing with its back to the sun, seemed to have a bright halo behind it, and it was waving its hand while smiling brightly at the man.

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Following the guidance of the Black Reaper, we arrived at the ‘Unchangeable Black Ball’ located in the Mini Reaper Garden.

It had been a long time since I had been to the place which used to be the cemetery of Black Reapers as well as cumbersome to visit.

The Black Reapers who followed me were crowding around me.

The other Mini Reapers were not interested in the corpses inside the Black Ball, so in the end, only the Black Reapers followed me.

We all held hands and walked together.

The Black Reaper who grabbed my hand was hanging there without even touching the ground with their feet, but it still had a happy expression nonetheless.

I think it felt that it was fun to walk together.

As we slowly walked closer to the giant corpse, I started to feel something strange.

When I arrived at the corpse of the giant Black Reaper and looked down, there were two faint rings of light drawn on its empty eyes.

They were ‘Eyes’.

Probably also feeling something when seeing it, the Black Reapers were slapping their own cheeks in surprise. It felt like they were scared, but I also felt a subtle happy emotion from them.

When I looked down at the corpse, I could clearly see the identity of the strange feeling.

The connection between me and the corpse has become stronger.

I felt that the amount of firewood needed to move the corpse had decreased slightly. If I were to try to move this corpse now, it would probably be easier than before. Of course, it was still impossible to move it properly even now. Even if I hugged Yerin tightly, it would still consume more firewood than I could get.

Since the Black Reapers seemed to be making too much of a fuss, I decided to play a little pranks against them.

I burned a lot of firewood and slowly moved the eyes of the corpse connected to me. I moved it really slowly, making it look like it was looking at the Black Reaper closest to me.

!

The Black Reapers who discovered it jumped high like a startled cat. It was a bit funny to see so many Black Reapers jumping at once.

Hihihi.

The Black Reapers who couldn’t see the pupils looked bewildered while the Black Reapers who saw the pupils move slowly got down from the corpse.

To think the children who could proudly say ‘Mom, you are weak’ could be this scared… Just what had this corpse done?

Whenever the children lost interest, I moved the pupils a little bit and watched the startled Black Reapers, laughing inside.

It was fun because their surprised reactions were so varied.

They jumped up.

They turned round like balls and bounced like rubber balls.

They stuck out their spines like sea urchins.

The Black Reapers reacted in so many different ways.

However, this fun game ended sooner than I thought.

One of the Black Reapers discovered that my firewood was decreasing at an alarming pace. And then it started.

The Black Reapers rushed towards me and started throwing punches at me.

Still, the Black Reapers looked quite relieved when they realized that it was me who moved the corpse.

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In the dark and lonely space inside the < Unchanging Black Ball > with no one and no sign of life after the Gray Reaper and the Black Reapers played happily had all left, there was only one corpse lying there.

In that quiet space, the sound of stones scraping against stones could be faintly heard.

Creak-!

It sounded like a grindstone turning very slowly.

It was an ominous sound coming from a corpse that was already dead.

The eyes that were moving slowly together with the sound stared at the place where the Gray Reaper had disappeared from.

For a long time.

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In the courtyard of Sehee Research Institute where warm sunlight poured down, a considerable number of visitors could be seen feeding pudding to the Golden Reapers in the courtyard, smiling happily.

Since it was not long after the Mapo-gu incident, the courtyard of the Sehee Research Institute was bustling with visitors. The Golden Reapers who ate the delicious pudding took out the pudding they made themselves and ate it together with the humans that fed them or had a good time with them riding on the White Hungry Ghost together.

However, not long after, the peaceful Sehee Research Institute suddenly became busy.

“Get ready quickly. The president of the association is coming!”

“Why is he suddenly coming?”

The Sehee Research Institute security team members started to run around in an unusual manner and started checking the security situation.

Meanwhile, the Golden Reapers seemed to be uninterested in such things, they were only focused on playing with the visitors.

However, when they heard the sound of a hard cane hitting the ground as well as the footsteps, all the Mini Reapers stopped their actions and looked at one place at once.

Gone were their easygoing and relaxed expressions. They all had expressions that looked like they had found an extremely harmful Object.

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