Seoul Object Story
Chapter 218: The Labyrinth (12)

A crying girl, a Black Reaper with a slitted neck, a black sword, and a man who suddenly appeared and died.

The moment I saw the scene, I realized it was a fantasy. It was probably a fantasy created by reading my I want to go on an adventure! thoughts.

My goal was to have a stimulating and fun adventure, but I didn’t want an adventure this spectacular…

What I wanted was an adventure that consisted of only enjoyable things, minus the hardships and adversities of a traditional adventure story!

But the fantasy that unfolded before my eyes was disappointing. Even excluding the fact that it was an unpleasant scene, it was still disappointing.

Let’s say that it’s possible for the middle-aged man I saw at the entrance to the labyrinth to suddenly appear. After all, He could have followed me into the labyrinth.

Let’s also say that the decapitation of the Black Reaper, who boasts physical immunity, makes sense. After all, there could be a trap with the space tearing properties or a monster that teared space in the labyrinth.

But it’s so weird that there’s a black sword and a Black Reaper at the same time.

The girl had a black sword in her hand, yet there was another Black Reaper?

It’s so weird!

As I thought so, the scene began to distort little by little. The scenery that was so realistic began to become shallower and shallower. And the moment that shallowness exceeded a certain level, the world began to crumble.

After the world collapsed, what I saw was thick fog and a girl standing in front of me, speaking worriedly.

“Are you okay?”

The girl who was always a bit reluctant to approach me was now holding my hands tightly while making a worried expression. Moreover, I could also understand the Japanese that the girl was speaking for some reason.

The moment I heard and understood the Japanese, I realized it.

Ah, it’s still an illusion.

Realizing that I was still in an illusion, I used the power of the Golden Tree to look beyond the illusion.

On a ground filled with fog, the girl was lying on the bed that the Black Reaper had transformed into, as if she had fallen asleep. Next to her, I saw myself lying on the floor as cold as ice, sleeping miserably.

Why don’t I have a bed!

I felt a little disappointed because I felt like as a mother, I was being treated too harshly by my child!

On top of that, the Black Reapers that made up my armor had returned to their Mini Reaper forms, they were busy slapping my cheeks.

They were slapping my cheeks with expressions as if saying, Get up quickly!

For some reason, when I saw those expressions, I didn’t really want to get up.

It didn’t seem like an emergency, so I could take my time getting up.

Of course, it wasn’t because I didn’t have a bed!

It’s really not because of that!

When I lifted my head after using the Golden Tree’s ability, the girl grabbed my hand and smiled brightly.

“Let’s go. Let’s go on an adventure quickly!”

To me who already knew it was a fantasy, those words sounded like a really fun adventure had been prepared for me.

Hihihihi!

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The sound of sparrows chirping.

The warmth of a warm bed.

The appetizing scent of delicious toast.

These were the things the girl had always dreamed of.

The girl was slowly waking up, but she was trying to force herself to sleep more in order to hold on to this happy warmth and dream a little longer. However, despite her efforts, the sunlight streaming through the curtains made her open her eyes.

“Huh?”

She thought she would return to the cold labyrinth when she opened her eyes, but the labyrinth had disappeared without a trace.

What she saw was the sight she had always dreamed of.

Home.

She turned her head to look at the calendar, and it was the day after she had been sucked into the labyrinth.

“So, everything is just a dream…”

The girl felt a complicated feeling and shed some tears. The dog meat uncle, the ramen shop lady, and everyone else who had been kind to her were all just a dream.

On the other hand, she found it natural. After all, as an ordinary person as her, being swept away by such a special Object, just didn’t make any sense.

The girl wiped away her tears with her forearm and tried to smile brightly.

“Come down!”

At that moment, her mother’s voice was heard calling for her from below.

“Yes!”

The girl tried to push aside her regret and answered cheerfully.

It was the beginning of her ordinary and happy daily life.

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Following the girl’s lead, I continued to walk, step by step. As the fog gradually cleared, an unfamiliar landscape began to unfold. It was a wide-open landscape, unlike before.

A cliff with a cold wind blowing like a blade and a cold winter sea spitting out the rough sound of waves below.

There’s also a huge bridge on top of the cliff, endlessly extending toward the cliff on the other side.

On the other side of that bridge, I could see a splendid spring city. Even from afar, green grass and colorful wildflowers were growing in the city on the other side. It had a completely different atmosphere from the surroundings where the snow rose to the sky and bare winter trees grew towards the ground in the sky.

“Wow, I didn’t know there was a place like this in the labyrinth!”

The girl who was leading me was also amazed. Her eyes shined with curiosity, as she kept saying that she was seeing it for the first time.

As I slowly walked on the bridge and approached the city, the weather began to change. The weather that seemed capable of even freezing the seawater gradually became mild weather. The cold wind that blew as if it were scratching my skin also became a gentle breeze that gently caressed me.

It felt like every step I took on the bridge brought me one step closer to spring.

As I walked into the spring city, a completely unexpected sight unfolded. The wild grasses along the road were swaying in the breeze, and the spring sun was warmly shining down on the pure white buildings. And in that city where spring was in full bloom, countless people were walking around noisily, not hiding their laughter.

Talking about ordinary, it was indeed a medieval fantasy city that could be called ordinary. But there were definitely some odd parts scattered around the city.

First of all, the people were unusual.

“Adventurer! Have you decided on a place to stay? There’s a really quiet and clean inn. How about it?”

It was apparent just by looking at the people who were promoting something to me.

Everyone in this city was extremely short, like a child. No matter how much I looked around, there were only people who were slightly smaller or slightly taller than me. Thanks to that, my height which was only about 1m seemed normal.

It wasn’t just their appearance that was unusual. The languages they spoke were also strange.

Korean, Japanese, English, German, French…

All kinds of languages poured out of their mouths. From languages I could understand to languages I couldn’t understand. but for some reason, I was able to understand all of them well.

It was much more comfortable than inferring what people were saying based on their emotions.

I smiled slightly as I was dragged by the hand of a woman who was ushering me to the inn, thinking that it would really be an interesting adventure.

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Flying arrow which shot out as if it would pierce the sky pierced the torso of a white tiger-patterned Tyrannosaurus.

Because of that, the Tyrannosaurus shrank back and let out a painful scream that shook its surroundings.

“Now!”

The elven archer with pointy ears and a height of about 120cm raised his voice at me.

The moment I heard that, I jumped high toward the Tyrannosaurus and stabbed its head with my twin swords.

At that moment, the Tyrannosaurus, which had expended all its strength, collapsed on the ground.

That’s how the 97th-floor boss of the labyrinth, the white tiger-patterned Tyrannosaurus, died.

Before I knew it, I had cleared the 97th floor of the fantasy labyrinth.

This fantasy world was full of things I really liked. I became famous as the ‘Silent Twin Swordsman’, because I never spoke a word. A statue of me, the ‘Silent Twin Swordsman’, was erected in the city.

Moreover, the restaurants in the city only sold pudding, marshmallows, and delicious things.

The boss monsters only consist of Tyrannosaurus, an animal I really liked and which was objectively the coolest.

My companions who went on adventures with me trusted me enough to follow my orders without question. Even when I pull out a chair they are about to sit on or tripped over their leg every day, they still treat me the same.

Mom!

It was really my ideal labyrinth…

Mom!!

It was a really ideal and happy labyrinth…

Mom, wake up!

Then, I heard the urgent cry of the Black Reapers.

Without even thinking about wiping away the tears that were flowing on their own, I just raised both my hands to the sky.

“What’s wrong?”

The wizard of our party, who was the smallest as she stood only at a height of 80cm, was looking at me with a worried expression.

Bye bye, my own happy Tyrano adventure.

I grabbed the air and tore it apart.

Then my happy dream collapsed, and I saw the labyrinth boss, not Tyrano, before my eyes.

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Papapapapa-!

Black arrows fell from the sky with a terrifying force that surpassed the speed of sound.

Because of the power behind the arrows, the solid stone floor scattered like it was blasted by a bomb.

Swoosh-!

However, an urgent ‘swoosh-‘ sound rang out from the black arrow.

The arrow had enough power to pierce through anything but Objects with physical immunity, but it was still useless because it didn’t hit the target.

The target was a giant spider body which was made of ice that was more transparent than glass. On top of that body, A human’s upper body with skin whiter than pure white snow stood.

White stems extending from the human’s body dug into the spider’s body, grotesquely.

Tiring-!

A clear bell sound rang out from the staff the spider human was holding.

It was a bell sound that caused hallucinations to everything, whether it was Objects or humans.

Some of the Black Reapers who were confronting the spider human with fierce expressions stumbled and fell down. They were dragged into a fake Garden of Mini Reaper where their mom didn’t even play a prank and was endlessly kind.

The number of Black Reapers, who were already insufficient to deal with the spider human, became even smaller.

We can’t stop that man spider anymore!

The Black Reapers turned their heads and looked in the direction where their mom was.

Slap-! Slap-!

One Black Reaper was desperately calling for its mom by slapping it, but their mom didn’t wake up.

[ It can’t wake up. ]

[ Ten years have already passed in the dream. ]

[ Those who have been intoxicated by comfortable illusions for so long will never return. ]

The spider human sent out a wave of words without opening his mouth, mocking the Black Reapers.

[ And even if it wakes up, your master, who is faithful to its desires, will never be able to defeat me. ]

A certain Black Reaper paid no attention to such mockery and simply stayed in its place to protect the girl.

At that moment, the sky of the labyrinth suddenly split open, revealing a wall made of sand behind it.

Of course, the traces disappeared in an instant, but the space that had maintained the second floor of the labyrinth was torn apart, even for a moment.

[ A space created by the power of the eyes is being torn? ]

When the spider human looked in the direction of the Gray Reaper in surprise, it saw the figure of the Gray Reaper lying on the ground, its hands reaching out toward the sky.

And as that hand began to turn black, an extremely ominous energy began to spread out from the Gray Reaper.

It was an overwhelming storm of emotions that made anyone who touched it feel extremely sad and regretful.

And then, before it knew it, a monster with its entire body dyed black and firewood burning red slowly rose from the ground.

Seeing a monster with an ominous atmosphere that would make anyone tremble in fear the moment they saw it, the spider human quickly shook the bell.

Tiring-! Tiring-! Tiring-!

But it had no effect on the monster which was wearing a halo on its head and shedding red flames like tears of blood.

[ H-how? ]

The spider human with white flames all over its body was extremely flustered and shook the bell like crazy, but the black monster just walked towards it.

Tiring-! Tiring-! Tiring-! Tiring-! Tiring-! Tiring-!

And then it was compressed into a small Tyrannosaurus shape by the angry monster.

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