Seoul Object Story
Chapter 208: The Labyrinth (2)

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Deep into the sea of hot chocolate in the Garden of The Mini Reaper, the Blue Reapers and the Yellow Reaper were gathered together and doing something in the Blue Reaper’s home.

< I need doll costumes that can give me courage. >

< I need a hat… >

The Blue Reapers were hesitantly wiggling their fingers and telling the Yellow Reaper something. They couldn’t express it strongly, so they spoke with a shy expression. Because of that, the characters which were drawn were very small.

The Yellow Reaper listened to the Blue Reapers’ request with an awkward smile. After that, the Yellow Reaper quickly created 10 new Golden Reaper doll costumes.

They were Golden Reaper doll costumes that smiled brightly with a confident expression. In addition, it also had witch hats attached to the heads.

The Blue Reapers were able to receive customized Golden Reaper doll costumes which were made specially for them, but they were too embarrassed to even try to wear them.

Among them, one brave Blue Reaper tightly closed its eyes, took off its hat and clothes, and began to put on the doll costumes.

< …!? >

The other Blue Reapers looked at the brave Blue Reaper with admiration before blushing and turned their heads away.

The Blue Reaper tightly closed its eyes and put on the doll costumes, and soon it felt extremely embarrassed and tried to cover its body with its hands before drawing characters in the air.

< !!! >

Then, it quickly took off the doll costumes and put its clothes and hat back.

< I need doll costumes that I can wear while wearing clothes…! >

Then it conveyed its new request to the Yellow Reaper while keeping its hat pressed down tightly.

The yellow reaper looked as if it had encountered an extremely difficult request, but soon it found a solution and made a wrinkled smile as it created new doll costumes. It was a type of costume that could be worn through heads while still wearing their hat and clothes.

The doll costumes were quite different from the appearance of the Mini Reaper, so it was hard to call them doll costumes.

That’s probably why the Blue Reapers looked at the doll costumes and made expressions as if asking if they were really effective.

When humans see it, you will be a Golden Reaper.

The Yellow Reaper covered its mouth with both hands and laughed. It assured the Blue Reapers that when humans saw them, they would look like a Golden Reaper.

< Thank you so much. >

< Thank you… >

The Blue Reapers then surrounded the Yellow Reaper with extremely grateful expressions and repeatedly thanked it. And then, 10 Blue Reapers wearing Golden Reaper’s cloaks flew into the sky on brooms.

The destination was where their precious human was.

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Inside the containment room where the Golden Reaper puddings were flying around, a soft TV sound could be heard.

It was news about the ‘Red Lightning Island’, a gigantic Object in Japan.

[ The ‘Red Lightning Island’, which could not be observed by satellite, was briefly observed due to a collision with an Object called Cloud Fish a while ago. ]

On the TV, a translated screen of a video broadcast in Japan was playing with the voice of an announcer speaking in a calm voice in the background. What was playing on the TV was a Cloud Fish swimming across the sky at high speed and colliding with a cloud barrier surrounding the island.

The Cloud Fish was hit by the red lightning and disappeared in an instant, but the collision caused a hole in the barrier that had been blocking the sky over the island.

[ Just like that, the barrier that had been blocking surveillance disappeared due to interference between Objects. Because of that, the cause of the disappearance incident that had been occurring in Japan was discovered. ]

Through the round hole, it could be seen that there were numerous people wandering around. Even though the hole was repaired quite quickly, since it was a ‘Gigantic’ and ‘special’ Object, it was constantly monitored by Japanese satellites.

The news was comparing and analyzing the photos of the missing people with the blurry images on the screen. Then, they announced that evidence that some of the missing people from all over Japan were staying on that island had been found.

Wow, the satellite image quality is really good.

While watching the news, I was more impressed by the advanced performance of the satellite than by the Object that caused the missing people phenomenon from all over Japan.

By the way… That Cloud Fish must have been a Cloud Fish that was carrying a Mini Reaper who pursued natural encounters.

Seems like the Mini Reaper’s standards for an unexpected meeting with its precious human seemed higher than I thought. To think it would go all the way to Japan to find its precious human…

The Golden Reapers who were gathered next to my bed were jumping around with both hands in the air while watching the TV screen.

Little Sibling!

There were a large number of Golden Reapers who were waiting for their turn to work at the pudding factory.

Now that I thought about it, the number of Golden Reapers had increased significantly while I wasn’t paying attention. Up until the Mapo-gu incident, the number of Golden Reapers barely covered all the residents of Mapo-gu, but now, it had increased so much.

It was hard enough to distinguish Golden Reapers, but it’s going to get even harder now…

Anyway, why did their number suddenly increase so much?

Was it because the number of precious humans had increased, or was it because the Golden Reapers had absorbed a lot of firewood from humans?

The Golden Reapers usually consume very little firewood, but at the same time, their firewood absorption efficiency was very poor, which was a bit disappointing, but I felt like I figured out the reason.

Could it be because they used most of the emotions they absorbed to multiply the numbers of Golden Reapers?

While I was thinking so, the TV was still talking about Japan’s special-grade Object.

I was curious about the Mini Reapers who had gone all the way to Japan for the fateful meeting, but it was a bit too much of a hassle to go all the way there.

Well, if it’s dangerous, they would call me anyway.

After organizing my thoughts like that, I grabbed a pudding that the Golden Reapers had made and changed the TV channel to something else.

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As the girl slowly approached the entrance of the labyrinth, she began to hear a commotion and the rustling of gravel. The cobblestone streets surrounding the labyrinth were bustling with the lively shout of street vendors, each stall selling a variety of goods with a tent above them to block the sun.

The street vendor streets, located a little further away from the labyrinth, were filled with the delicious aroma of sizzling meat and the sweet, ripe scent of exotic fruits. The girl usually bought a delicious dish every time she passed by, but today was not the day to do so.

Growl-!

The delicious smell made her stomach growl, but the poor girl forced herself to turn her head away from the source of the smell and head toward the entrance of the labyrinth.

As she went a little deeper, the surroundings began to take on a more ‘labyrinth-like’ atmosphere.

A large jewel that was hard to see when living outside.

An old sword with old but beautiful decorations.

A magical tool that scattered traces of magic.

There was also a stone monument that shone brightly even under the bright sun.

On the stone monument that was twice as large as the girl, the same sentence was written in many languages, including Japanese and Korean.

The girl looked up at the stone monument and read the sentence in her mind.

If you make it through the labyrinth, your wish will come true.

Wish?

It seemed impossible even if it was a special-grade Object, the girl thought.

But just like how the labyrinth city had kidnapped people, it could probably return one person.

The wish that the labyrinth would give her was the girl’s only hope.

The hope that she could return home someday.

That she could make it through the labyrinth and return to her peaceful daily life.

The girl strengthened her resolve in her mind and slowly walked into the labyrinth.

As she entered the labyrinth, the space changed in an instant, and a narrow cubic space appeared before her eyes.

“[ 1P4B ]”

The girl raised her head and read the writing on the ceiling.

She then opened her notebook and checked the map she had previously purchased at the entrance to the labyrinth.

It’s the fourth pattern.

The first floor of the labyrinth of the labyrinth city was a dungeon whose structure changed every time someone entered, it was a maze with countless rooms made of square space endlessly attached to each other.

In a room where a torch was placed on each wall, the girl approached the right wall.

She then pulled out a torch, flipped it over, and stuck it in.

At that moment, the top and bottom of the room flipped over in an instant, and the torch she had flipped over and stuck in disappeared.

The girl who had been standing on the ceiling suddenly fell, but she skillfully flipped over and stood on the ground.

“Whew.”

The girl who did a midair spin took a deep breath, put her hand on the wall where the torch had disappeared into, and pushed it in. Then, the wall that had seemed solid gradually became softer and swallowed the girl.

The girl who came out to the opposite wall was delighted to see the grass growing in the center of the room.

It’s done.

It was a herb that the people of the Labyrinth City called ‘Dungeon Rose’.

It was a herb that was used to make potions to heal wounds for adventurers, so it was in high demand and quite expensive. It was also a rare herb that even the girl who had been to the labyrinth for a long time had only seen it once.

As long as I have this herb, I can pay for my room and eat delicious food!

If she sold this to the dog meat uncle store, she would be able to go to the Labyrinth City Ramen restaurant for the first time in a long time.

The girl felt her mouth watering due to her thinking about food when she’s so hungry.

And when she looked up at the ceiling to check the room number, the girl had a blank expression.

Why?

There was a nameplate there that she had never seen before.

[ 7P9X ]

.

Why did I enter a strange place?

She was sure she had done it correctly.

The girl scoured through the map of the first floor of the labyrinth, but there was no record of a room with the number [ 7P9X ].

Oh no, I can’t find the way out.

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In a room where a red torch was replaced by an ominous green torch, the girl was swinging her already tattered bag around wildly. Of course, the Dungeon Rose she had kept in her bag was also torn and damaged.

“Get away from me!”

The girl’s whole body was dyed in green and she was swinging her bag wildly to keep the eight-eyed wolf from approaching her. Before she encountered the wolf, she had been wandering around in a completely unfamiliar place, making maps, but eventually she encountered a monster.

The girl felt like she was going to cry.

She thought she was lucky to get the rare ‘Dungeon Rose’…

I guess today was an unlucky day after all.

“AHHHHHHHHHH!”

At that moment, the wolf bit the bag and pulled it hard, causing the girl to lose the bag.

She had lost her last tool to protect herself.

At that moment, the wolf bared its teeth and rushed at the girl.

I’m sorry. Mom, Dad.

The girl closed her eyes tightly and waited for her end, but the pain she had been waiting for did not come.

Crack-!

Crack-!

Instead, she heard a strange sound of bones being broken.

When she heard that sound and slowly opened her eyes, the wolf which had been chasing her was right in front of her, with its mouth wide open.

She almost screamed in surprise, but she covered her mouth with both hands and held back her scream.

Crack-!

Something inside the wolf’s body made a sound of being torn and broken. Then, Its limbs twisted in a strange direction.

Before long, something stirred in its head and its eyeballs began to leak out.

Its ribs tore through its stomach, and a black, ominous thorn suddenly appeared on its back before disappearing.

What? What? What is happening?

The girl wanted to look away, but she couldn’t because she thought she would become like the wolf if she did so.

Then, the inside of the leather melted and sank, and finally, the wolf’s head exploded.

And then a bloody black Object popped out from the wolf’s inside, its ominous yellow eyes shining.

The way it raised both arms high seemed to threaten the girl. Then it stretched its hands forward and slowly began to approach.

At that moment, one of the eyeballs that had flown up to the ceiling fell on the girl’s face, and the girl lost consciousness.

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