Seoul Object Story
Chapter 211: The Labyrinth (5)

The next morning, I was hiding in the ventilation shaft on the way to the security room with a cheerful expression. I was really looking forward to how the prank I had prepared for the Blue Reaper using the Golden Reapers since yesterday would turn out.

It’s here!

After waiting for a few minutes, I saw the Blue Reaper who was disguised as the Golden Reaper enter the security room with a cute gait. It was a gait that I had become quite accustomed to, perhaps because I had seen it several times.

After confirming that the Blue Reaper had entered the security room, I slowly passed through the thick wall, exposing only my face, and secretly peeked into it.

When I looked inside the security room, I saw the Blue Reaper, slightly embarrassed, being harassed by the Golden Reapers.

Weird Golden Reaper!

Weird Reaper!

The Golden Reapers were jumping around and running around as if they had found something interesting when they saw the Blue Reaper moving differently from the other Golden Reapers.

Although their numbers were relatively small compared to the Golden Reapers in the courtyard, they were still numerous enough that it was hard to see the security room clearly.

The security room was originally a particularly unpopular place for the Golden Reapers, so the Blue Reaper looked extremely flustered. Of course, the reason so many Golden Reapers came into the security room was because of me.

I had told the Golden Reapers who were wandering around the Garden of the Mini Reaper with bored expressions: ‘There’s a mysterious Golden Reaper in a place protected by extremely thick walls, the security room deep inside Sehee Research Institute!’

I lightly and subtly threw out information like that as I passed by.

The Golden Reapers who heard it shouted ‘Treasure hunt!’ and started walking around every corner of Sehee Research Institute.

Of course, the Golden Reapers had no idea where the security room was, but they enjoyed it because it was even more mysterious.

Now, if those Golden Reapers notice the Blue Reaper’s disguise, the Blue Reaper would run away, right?

Hihihihi.

I didn’t feel like this when I saw the other Mini Reapers, but for some reason, when I saw the Blue Reaper trying to become close to the human, I felt like interfering with them for no reason.

However, the Golden Reaper’s reaction was a little different from what I expected.

Little sibling!

When they realized that the Blue Reaper was inside the cloak, the Golden Reapers cheered as if they had figured out the answer to the riddle.

That’s strange.

Usually, when someone finds out that their little sibling is disguised like that, shouldn’t they have the itch to take off the cloak?

The Golden Reaper started to eat the snacks prepared in the security room with satisfied expressions while the Blue Reaper sat down again and started to stare at the security room staff.

Looking at it, I couldn’t wrap my head on why the Blue Reaper liked it so much. Moreover, My perfect prank ended up like this.

I felt a little hurt, so I decided to do something myself.

Time acceleration!

I accelerated time in my phantom form and moved quickly toward the Blue Reaper.

The Golden Reapers, who had fallen victim to my pranks many times, quickly sensed the shift in time speed and turned their head in surprise. Then, they also started to accelerate time with very nervous expressions, but it was meaningless.

This time, the target is not you guys!

My target, the Blue Reaper, was so absorbed in its precious human that it didn’t even notice me approaching.

As my hand gradually moved over the Blue Reaper’s cloak, the Golden Reapers started to run towards me with expressions like, ‘How could you do that to our little sibling!’

Hehe, I won this time!

As soon as I held the Blue Reaper’s wrapping cloth tightly in my hand, I released the time acceleration.

Then, the time that had been flowing slowly started to flow normally.

The Golden Reaper’s footsteps as they ran towards me.

The Blue Reaper’s surprised expression because its cloak was suddenly removed.

At the sudden commotion, the security staff turned their heads towards the Mini Reapers. The Golden Reaper clung to my fist and tried to get the cloak back, but there couldn’t be a Mini Reaper stronger than me except for the Black Reaper who could become bigger than me.

Pow-! Pow-!

The Golden Reapers were furious at me for bullying their younger sibling and were glaring at me, but I was just waiting for the Blue Reaper’s reaction.

When the eyes of the Blue Reaper, whose cloak had been taken off by me, and the security guard met, the Blue Reaper pulled its hat down low and didn’t know what to do.

Then, the Blue Reaper’s body shook as if it was boiling.

And as I had expected, it started to write something in the air.

< Please hide m… >

However, before it finished writing, the Blue Reaper stopped and began to stay still.

I can do it.

A will filled with that aspiration slowly leaked out from the Blue Reaper.

Then, it slowly raised its head and began to stare intently into the eyes of its precious human.

Without avoiding eye contact, straight ahead.

When the Blue Reaper saw its appearance reflected in the precious human’s eyes, the blue grim reaper smiled happily toward its precious human.

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The sound of men’s footsteps echoed next to the already dying campfire. It was the sound of footsteps of the men who were filled with greed for items, gradually approaching the girl.

The girl, who knew nothing, was sleeping happily, holding the sword tightly in her arms.

“I’m sorry. But in a labyrinth-like this, it’s better to die in one strike, so don’t be too resentful.”

The man muttered in a low voice and swung the dagger with all his might toward the girl’s heart.

Thud-!

However, the dagger, which had been moving forward powerfully as if it was slashing at its mortal enemy, was caught by something just before it touched the girl’s skin.

The black sword melted like a shadow and grabbed the dagger. And then a black shadow began to fill the room.

The sword in the girl’s arms had completely melted and disappeared. At the same time, the dying campfire was also engulfed in shadow.

“W-what is it?”

“Another strange phenomenon?”

The three men stood back to back and began to look around in all directions at the sudden strange phenomenon.

Greed.

The shadow began to rise as if it had volume, and rose high enough to touch the ceiling of the labyrinth.

Hypocrisy.

Inside the shadow, the stained white teeth of the beast and the eye of the beast’ were emitting an ominous white light.

Betrayal.

The rising shadow gradually took shape, and took on an ominous shape with long arms.

Crackle-!

The shadow, which was staring at the men while clashing its sharp teeth, ignited a white flame from its heart.

At the same time, white flames flowed down like blood from its eyes that were forcibly open from the shadow.

It looked ominous, as if it were tears.

Traitor!

The men who saw that unrealistic sight were terrified and tried to run away, but they couldn’t move even a single step.

The shadow had already entangled the men like a spider web.

The men had become nothing more than prey caught in the web.

The giant shadow picked up the men one by one and began to chew them with its large mouth.

Crunch-!

Crack-!

Crack-!

Their bones and flesh broke and a miserable and painful scream rang out, but the shadow, which resembled the ominous curtain of the night, ate all the sounds, making it like they let out no sound.

Then, the shadow that had eaten all the men disappeared as if it had been an illusion and returned to the campsite. Only the men who had prepared the campsite disappeared as if they had been erased.

But there was something else that had changed besides the presence of the men.

The pommel of the black sword in the girl’s arms had changed from a warm yellow to an ominous white color.

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In a place where the walls, floor, and even the ceiling were made of flowing sand which made it feel like it was in the middle of a river of flowing sand, a large ring of light existed, drawing a clear white line.

On the floor beneath where the ring of light was floating, the flowing sand took on a certain shape.

Countless rooms and monsters made of sand.

It felt like a miniature of a labyrinth.

Peering down at that miniature was an old man who was sitting with his eyes closed on a high chair.

The old man, with his eccentric and rigid appearance, was nailed to numerous sand stakes and firmly fixed to the chair.

Then, the space made of flowing sand that had remained calm for years suddenly began to shake. The fluid yet stable space lost its shape and began to shake haphazardly.

It started with the miniature. The sand piles that had vividly recreated the labyrinth began to scatter and distort haphazardly.

At the same time, the light which was emitted by the ring of light floating in the air began to grow stronger while the sands that made up the space fell down with a rustling sound.

It was a moment where it seemed as if the space itself would collapse.

However, when the old man who had his eyes closed opened his eyes and began to look down at the miniature, the vibrations of the space that had been shaking haphazardly stopped.

As the man’s eerie gaze that came from his eyes, which were filled with sand instead of eyeballs, looked down, the miniature began to take the shape of the labyrinth again.

But this time, it also showed the appearance of the Black Reaper that had transformed into a gigantic one And its cruelness of chewing up men.

The old man, who had been staring at the Black Reaper silently, did not think of falling even when the Black Reaper turned back into a sword.

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