Seoul Object Story
Chapter 206: A Full Moon: Epilogue (4)

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An old man was slowly walking down the hallway of the research center, making regular noises with his cane. Behind the old man, many men with association badges and suits trailed.

The president of the Korean Object Association, Oh Muryong, suddenly appeared at the Sehee Research Center.

Watching the president appear with a crowd of people, Yerin whispered to Sehee in a small voice

“What is going on, Sehee Unnie?”

“I don’t know. I think it’s probably related to the Golden Reaper appearing in Mapo-gu?”

Even the always optimistic Sehee looked a little worried. It was understandable for her to be worried since snack pinwheels appeared in Mapo-gu while the Golden Reapers were spreading mind corruption around.

The Sehee Research Institute members, including Sehee, greeted Oh Muryong, who had come close to them, but Oh he just ignored them and passed by without even looking at them.

The moment Sehee made a bewildered expression at Oh Muryong’s action, the person who said he was the secretary of the association president spoke to her.

“Hello. Director Lee Sehee of the Sehee Research Institute.”

The man gave her a polite greeting and handed over his business card and started talking as soon as she received the business card. What came out from his mouth was a story related to Mapo-gu and the Golden Reaper.

It was a story that she had expected to be discussed, but she still found it a little strange. Usually, when there was a problem of one kind or another, the association would send an official document to ask them to attend a hearing at a certain date in the association. If it was a little serious, something like a search and seizure would be conducted.

However, the person who said he was the secretary of the association president did not ask for responsibility at all, but instead gave her some kind of compliments. For some reason, it seemed like he was wasting time by listing meaningless words.

Furthermore, the association president, as if this kind of business talk had nothing to do with him, left everything to his secretary and stood a little distance away, looking at the courtyard indifferently.

If he was going to do that, why did he come here in person?

However, Sehee thought it was understandable if he had come to see the cute mini-reapers.

However, judging from the unusually fierce reactions of the emotionally sensitive Mini Reapers, it seemed that he did not come to see them.

The association president who came for no reason and the secretary who wasted time with meaningless words…

It felt like they had another purpose.

After looking at the courtyard for a while, Oh Muryong banged his cane on the marble floor loudly and slowly started to turn around.

“Director Lee Sehee. Thank you for your cooperation despite our sudden visit.”

The secretary, who had been talking about taxes and association subsidies, quickly finished his story and started to follow Oh Muryong.

What on earth was going on?

Sehee turned his gaze toward the courtyard that Oh Muryong was looking at out of curiosity, but the courtyard was just filled with Mini Reapers walking around.

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Inside the car, as they left Sehee Research Institute, Oh Muryong sat on the passenger seat with his eyes closed.

“Hm…”

At the same time, he let out a low hum.

Seeing Oh Muryong, the secretary asked cautiously.

“Did you find what you were looking for, President?”

Upon hearing that, OH Muryong slowly opened his closed eyes, took out the rocket pendant from his bosom, and looked at it.

“I don’t know. But still, prepare it,”

“I understand.”

The secretary bowed deeply and answered OH Muryong’s instructions.

The pendant OH Muryong was looking at contained a picture of a blonde girl smiling brightly.

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Plop-! Plop-!

I was slowly walking around the Garden of The Mini Reaper in order to play my prank. My target was the Yellow Reaper.

However, it was harder to find than I thought.

I should have caught it right away instead of enjoying the play when I first found it…

There were so many Mini Reapers walking around in doll costumes that it’s hard to find the Yellow Reaper. After all, it’s not like I could stop every single one of them and strip them…

Without any proper method, I decided to just wandering around the Garden of The Mini Reaper. But then, I came across strange Golden Reapers. They were a duo of Golden Reaper with button eyes and real Golden Reaper playing together.

Plop-! Plop-!

The two Golden Reapers were slowly walking across the marshmallow land. They were having fun just holding each other’s hands and walking around while looking at each other and smiling.

Then. their speed gradually increased, and eventually they started running at a considerable speed. The button-eyed Golden Reaper and the Golden Reaper ran with really excited expressions and raised both hands in the air.

The button-eyed Golden Reaper were acting exactly like the real Golden Reaper, so they blended in without any awkwardness. There’s no way a Golden Reaper would wear golden reaper doll costumes, but from the action it did, it seemed like a Golden Reaper was inside the costume.

So I was sure.

‘Inside that button-eyed Golden Reaper who was obsessed with acting like a Golden Reaper, there should be a ‘Yellow Reaper’!’

I slowly approached and grabbed the button-eyed Golden Reaper, and it greeted me with both hands raised as if to say, ‘Wow, it’s Mom!’

It really acted like the Golden Reaper.

I smiled meaningfully and opened the zipper on its back.

It was a prank I came up with because it didn’t reveal its true form.

Since it was a kid with the ability to change face, I would have stripped it off quite a few times, but his powers wouldn’t be infinite. If I keep taking the costume off, its true form would eventually be revealed.

Hihihi-!

I took out the mini reaper inside the doll clothes while laughing like that, but something different from what I expected happened.

I expected the Yellow Reaper to struggle because it didn’t want to come out of the doll clothes.

I expected the Yellow Reaper to keep putting on doll costumes no matter how much I took them off.

I expected a reaction like when I took the Blue Reaper’s hat!

But the Yellow Reaper offered little to no resistance and smiled vaguely at me.

It was exuding kindness at me, but it felt like it wasn’t used to smiling at all.

Mom…!

Unlike the other Mini Reapers, the Yellow Reaper had dark circles and a body that was hunched forward. It also had black eyes that didn’t shine.

A Mini Reaper with a gloomy atmosphere had popped out for some reason.

Its gaze that didn’t shine even though it had firewood didn’t leave my face.

I tried to hide the fact that I had failed to play a prank against it and send my will to it.

I was just trying to see your face. Now you can wear the doll costume again.

Then the Yellow Reaper put both hands together in front of its mouth to make a snickering motion. Then, with a ‘pop’ it was already wearing a doll costume.

Yellow button eyes.

Skin made of gray cloth.

An expression that seemed to be somewhat grumpy.

The clothes the Yellow Reaper was wearing this time were Gray Reaper doll costumes.

Then, it made a bunch of Mini Reaper doll costumes the size of its finger, and started walking away.

I laughed a little because the picture looked like a mother duck leading the flock of ducks.

But I couldn’t let it end this way, I had to play another prank.

I looked at the Yellow Reaper with determined eyes as it walked away.

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When I went out to the courtyard to get new prank ideas, I could see the Black Reapers and the Golden Reapers looking up at the sky.

What are you doing?

I approached the mini reapers and asked them, and they answered while still staring at the sky.

Wait!

Cloud fish!

New adventure!

When I combined the thrilling emotions and the story, it seemed like they were waiting for the cloud fish to set off on a new adventure.

I guess the play of the First Sword had some influence on them?

It seemed like the Mini Reapers who had no precious humans were preparing to go on a trip because they wanted to have a meeting like the story of the first sword and its precious human.

As I watched the Mini Reapers preparing to spread out across the country, I felt like my memories from my previous life working at the research institute came out.

Is this really okay?

It felt a little strange because it seemed like I was helping the spreading of Objects, but it didn’t seem bad. After all, they would save people like the first sword. I guess I should think of them as guardian angels spreading out across the country.

As I thought so, the Mini Reaper riding on the cloud fish waved their hands vigorously toward me and spread out in all directions.

Mom!

I waved my hand slightly to the children who were smiling brightly at me.

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A Black Reaper who rode on a cloud fish looked down at the ground under the brightly shining sun.

The mini reapers who had set out on the journey together had already scattered in all directions and were out of sight.

Because of that, the Black Reaper was continuously conveying its will to the cloud fish.

Farther!

The Black Reaper who had been urging it to go so far finally passed through the sea that swayed like hot chocolate and arrived near a completely different land. A land that seemed to float alone in the middle of the swaying sea.

It was the place the Black Reaper had longed for.

The presence of a bad Object on the island was so strong that it could be felt from above the sky. At the same time, it could also feel the emotions of countless humans wandering around that land.

It truly seemed like a land of adventure.

The moment the Black Reaper who rode the cloud fish gradually headed toward the land, looking forward to a new adventure, a red light flashed. It was a red light that turned everything that tried to enter the island into dust.

The Cloud Fish turned to dust the moment it was touched by the red lightning, but the sturdy Black Reaper was fine, unlike the Cloud Fish.

Bi~

The wingless Black Reaper fell from the sky with a startled voice.

Boom!

The Black Reaper smashed into something with a loud crash and was slammed into the flower pot. Then, the Black Reaper, whose upper body was completely slammed into the dirt, suddenly felt worried.

Wouldn’t humans hate it?

The humans would hate it if they damaged something made by them.

As expected, a human’s scream was heard.

“Nooooooo!”

The Black Reaper couldn’t understand what the human was saying, but It could feel the emotion. The despair of a human whose precious thing was shattered.

When the human who approached it pulled itself out of the dirt, the Black Reaper smiled bashfully, hoping that the human would forgive him.

“What… what is this?”

The Black Reaper, who met the eyes of a woman who had a bewildered expression, could feel it.

This human is my ‘Precious Human’!

But the human’s reaction was a little different to what it expected.

“Uaaaaahhh, it’s an Object!”

The human was so surprised by the Black Reaper that she threw it outside.

Bi~

The Black Reaper flew away with a sad face while letting out a pitiful voice.

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