Seoul Object Story
Chapter 235: Jade Wall: Epilogue (2)

Thud-! Thud-!

A basketball-sized colored Hungry Ghost was pulling a large cart diligently, making rhythmic footsteps. Then, the Hungry Ghost and the cart slowly approached me.

Looking at the old cart rattling as it slowly approached me, I realized that there was nothing special about it, but I felt a little strange.

I felt anxious that the cart would carry me somewhere.

I turned my head and looked to my side, and there, I found the White Hungry Ghost who seemed to have no thoughts.

“Kyu!”

Rather, it seemed happy to see a friend who had come after a long time.

Well, it was impossible for the colored Hungry Ghost or the white Hungry Ghost to carry me on a cart and abandon me far away, so it was a pointless thought. However, my heart still felt uneasy for no reason, so I crouched down and reached out to gently pat the white Hungry Ghost’s back.

The white Hungry Ghost is kind, so it wouldn’t carry me on a cart and abandon me in Seoul Forest, right?

But when I gently smiled and patted its back, the white Hungry Ghost tensed up with a very surprised expression on its face.

Then, it glanced at me with the corner of its eyes and began to check my mood.

Its expression seemed to be saying, ‘What kind of crazy thing is this madman trying to do?’

Its expression was so unpleasant that I dug into its back with the hand I was stroking it with and ate the piece of its flesh.

“Kyuhihing.”

I was stroking the white Hungry Ghost to cheer myself up, but I ended up eating it again.

Of course, the White Hungry Ghost’s expression was always similar, but I’d recently been able to read its expression.

Since I’d been harassing the White Hungry Ghost so often, I’d now reached a point where I could read its expression!

To think I would be able to tell the White Hungry Ghost’s expression even when I still couldn’t do so to the Black Reaper and Golden Reaper…

I somehow felt like I was disqualified as a mother, but there was nothing I could do.

In the first place, how do you even tell apart twins with slightly different personalities and behaviors?

It was Yerin who was strange as she could tell who was who even though there were millions of twins!

As I continued to eat the White Hungry Ghost, the colored Hungry Ghost arrived in front of me.

Then, the alchemist’s younger sister ran out from the cargo area of the cart with an anxious look on her face.

“My sister is strange! Please help her!”

Her sister suddenly lost consciousness, then she started telling me, who couldn’t understand what she was saying, various stories.

That’s how the younger sister’s story began, then, she told me about the alchemist’s strange behavior when they visited Seoul Forest.

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The younger sister and the alchemist, who had once been surrounded by zombies that had their beans eaten and almost died because of them, were once again wandering around to find ingredients for the ‘suppressant.’

“The Golden Reaper has gone somewhere.”

Unfortunately, they had to part ways with the Golden Reaper who had defeated the zombies.

The Golden Reaper suddenly appeared in the forest and instantly chopped up all the zombies, and then chased the fleeing Orange Reaper and disappeared somewhere.

When the Golden Reaper first appeared, it had a friendly expression on its face as it looked at the Orange Reaper. However, when it saw the Orange Reaper slowly moving away, it started chasing the Orange Reaper with an extremely angry expression as if realizing something.

After parting ways with the Mini Reapers, the younger sister and her big sister were trying to achieve their purpose of coming to Seoul Forest.

“There are no ingredients at all. It’s a fairly common specimen, but why is it so rare?”

However, even after wandering around for a while, the herb collection effort was not going well.

“What kind of herb is it, Unnie?”

“It’s a herb called Herb of Severance. It looks quite unique.”

When the little sister asked curiously, her older sister showed her the herb she needed with an expression that didn’t seem to be expecting much.

It was a medicinal herb with a distinctive color and shape, so it seemed easy to find.

Then, as I slowly looked around, I saw a huge amount of ‘Herb of Severance’ growing all around me.

?

Was it just grass that looked similar to ‘Herb of Severance?’

That should be the case, right?

There were so many of them, so there was no way my sister couldn’t find them.

In order to learn the difference between the similar grasses and the Herb of Severance, the little sister pulled out a few of the grasses I found and showed them to her sister.

“Unnie, Is this the Herb of Severance?”

However, the expression of her big sister when she carefully examined the grass she pulled out was different from what she expected.

“This is indeed the Herb of Severance. You found something I missed. Where did you find it?”

“?”

Something felt strange.

“Unnie, this Herb of Severance, there are so many of them around here that there’s no place that doesn’t have them.”

That’s strange.

With so many of them growing, was her sister playing a prank on her?

But when her sister heard that, she shut her mouth tightly with a very serious expression and started to think deeply about something.

After thinking about it for quite some time, her sister raised her head and said with a small smile.

“From now on, I have to do something else, so could you fill this basket with the ‘Herb of Severance?’”

“Okay.”

It was a smile that made her feel uncomfortable, but she just nodded and started collecting the many Herb of Severance that had sprouted around her.

In the meantime, her sister opened the notebook she usually used as if she was going to do something, but she just opened it and did nothing.

She was just mumbling in a voice so small that it was hard to hear.

“This is a big deal. The distortion of perception is already appearing. It it distorting my perception so that I can’t see the Herb of Severance and can’t create the suppressant? Soon, I will not be able to recognize the Herb of Severance itself…”

The little sister couldn’t understand it properly, but it seemed like an incredibly serious situation.

The limits of mental power, the side effects of objectification, the resistance to suppressants, and suicide.

At first glance, it sounded like a very serious story, so the little sister just hurriedly started collecting the spores.

There must be something going on.

“Unnie, I’ve collected them all.”

“Yes, thank you.”

Her sister smiled kindly without even looking at the basket.

She wanted to ask what was going on, but she couldn’t do so because her smile looked so tired.

Was it because her worried expression was showing on the outside?

“Then, let’s go back now.”

Her older sister smiled slightly and patted her head, but strangely, she didn’t feel okay. Even after they returned with a bunch of Herb of Severances, her older sister’s strange behavior didn’t stop.

Her sister couldn’t see the Herb of Severances she had sorted anymore.

There was a mountain of them right in front of her, on the table!

“Listen slowly. First, put the Herb of Severance in a bowl….”

As if she was afraid to open her eyes, her older sister tightly closed her eyes and began explaining how to make the ‘suppressant.’

She usually said it was dangerous and never let her touch the alchemy tools, but now she was telling her how to make a potion and asking me to make it for her.

When she finished making a bunch of potions, her older sister, with a relieved expression, said this.

“Thank you. And when I take this medicine, go to the Gray Reaper. The Gray Reaper who destroys Objects hostile to humans.”

Then, my sister swallowed a mountain of the suppressant pills she had been taking once a week and handed me a book with a very sleepy expression.

“Haha. This was supposed to be a birthday present, but I ended up giving it to you early.”

“This is an alchemy textbook for you. It’s still unfinished, but study alchemy while looking at this book. There will definitely come a time when you need it.”

Her older sister’s expression as she turned the pages of the alchemy book she had made for the younger sister was like an old man giving his will.

After saying all she wanted to say, her older sister fell into a deep sleep as if she had collapsed.

*********

That’s how the younger sister’s story ended.

After hearing that, I looked closely and saw that the alchemist, who had been a harmless Object, was starting to give off a little bit of a harmful aura.

By the way, why did she tell me in words?

I was pretty sure that my acting as an Object who couldn’t understand human speech was perfect, but lately, it seemed like there were more and more people who were sure that I could understand what they were saying.

By the way, did she really bring her here because she thought I could solve it?

Judging from what the alchemist said, it seems like she expected me to kill her….

Gray reaper that destroyed hostile Objects.

An alchemist who had turned into a hostile Object.

What if those two meet?

The alchemist would be torn to pieces!

I hesitated because I thought it would be too much to kill the alchemist in front of her little sister, but then I realized that I had felt the aura the alchemist gave off somewhere.

It was the energy of the space where the red monster disappeared to, the energy of the color universe.

Could it be that the aura caused her to turn into a harmful Object?

As I had that thought for some reason, I moved the alchemist and her group to the Garden of the Mini Reaper.

I did so because I remembered that the red monster didn’t recognize the garden and couldn’t easily enter.

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I impulsively put the alchemist group into the Garden of the Mini Reaper, but the alchemist still hadn’t come to her senses.

It was clear that it had something to do with the color universe, but there was no change.

The Golden Reapers who were close to the little sister were just running towards the little sister with bright faces. However, she just refused the advance of the Golden Reapers, saying that she didn’t really want to play right now.

However, whether it was because of the Golden Reapers’ mind corruption  or because she wanted to be comforted, she eventually allowed them to stick to her.

The Golden Reapers sat on the little sister’s shoulder with a slightly gloomy expression and patted her cheek.

In the meantime, the little sister tried to hold onto hope, even if it was forced.

The Golden Reapers who were stuck to the little sister’s cheek were lightly biting her cheek, perhaps because of the aftereffects of playing mummy.

When the Golden Reapers started nibbling, the little sister smiled faintly as if it tickled her. Well, when the Golden Reaper bit, it felt like something soft was brushing against you, so it’s strangely ticklish.

I knew it well because these days, when I ignored the Golden Reaper and watched TV, they just stuck to me and started nibbling on me.

It was ticklish enough that I had to stop watching TV for a moment and play with them.

The little sister and the Golden Reapers, who were having a cute fight, suddenly started staring at me.

It was the little sister who started it.

Staring at me with the expectation that I could cure the alchemist.

Then, the Golden Reapers also stared at me and started sending me their will.

Cheer up, Mom!

Hmm.

No matter how much they told them to cheer up, there seemed to be no solution other than killing the alchemist and turning her into cookie a human. Besides, since not 100% of the Objects I killed were revived in the garden, there was a risk of her actually dying.

Bang-! Bang-!

While I was pondering like that, something began to approach me with a loud noise.

It was the giant jelly pig carrying a house that seemed to be three stories high.

It was something new to me, even though I often play in the Garden of the Mini Reaper.

When the jelly pig stopped in front of us and bent its knees, stairs came down from the structure on its back. And what came down from those stairs were two butler Hungry Ghosts who dressed neatly.

They were also carrying a stretcher to transport a patient.

?

Ignoring me, who was bewildered by the situation that I couldn’t understand, the butler Hungry Ghosts began to move the sleeping alchemist onto the stretcher.

???

What the heck?

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