Seoul Object Story
Chapter 237: Jade Wall: Epilogue (4)

In a containment room of a research institute which was originally a house which had lacking facilities compared to a real research institute, various experimental equipment was scattered on the desk, and numerous papers and notes were attached to the walls.

However, among all of that, there were bags of hardtack scattered here and there, making the room look very messy.

[ Are you saying that the number of victims is quite small compared to the scale and danger of the zombie outbreak? ]

[ Yes. There have been many similar Object accidents in other countries, but the number of victims we suffered are clearly less than them. ]

Inside the room, the sound of something being chewed could be heard along with the sound of a small TV. It was the sound of hardtack being gnawed by a small mouth. The sound of hardtack being gnawed continued without pause, as if the owner of the lips had no interest in the story on TV at all.

[ The cause was identified as the ‘Golden Reaper’. ]

[ In particular, in Mapo-gu and Songpa-gu, where the Golden Reaper could be seen in large numbers, there was almost no damage. ]

An interesting scene unfolded on the TV screen that softly illuminated the dark room.

A news studio where the announcer and invited panelists were sitting. Among the panellists, there was an ‘Object expert’ who was sitting there. And on the desk, there was a transparent cage with something sparkled golden inside.

When the camera zoomed in on the cage, the identity of the golden sparkle was revealed. It was a Golden Reaper.

It was busy rolling around, playing with a rubber ball inside the cage.

[ So that’s the ‘Golden Reaper’?. This is the first time I’ve seen an Object this close. Is it really safe? ]

When the announcer spoke in a slightly reluctant tone, the expert declared that it was safe and opened the cage door.

At that moment, the Golden Reaper jumped up onto the desk. Then, it started running around on the desk as if it was the main character. Looking at the Golden Reaper, who looked like a small animal or a harmless baby, the other panelists couldn’t hide their excitement.

The announcer, who had been a little hesitant before, let down his guard and slowly stroked the Golden Reaper as it approached him.

It should be a program that invited several experts to analyze the current situation, but it soon turned into a show of Golden Reaper antics.

In the meantime, the woman who was watching the TV turned her head toward the Golden Reaper with a pleased smile.

“Look! Your friends are on TV!”

But the Golden Reaper, who was gnawing on a piece of hardtack, wasn’t very interested. It didn’t even look at the TV and just sat back on the woman. It just kept taking a bite of the hard biscuits and looked at its precious human.

When its eyes met with its precious human, the Golden Reaper smiled happily.

Seeing that it didn’t seem to care at all about who was on TV, the woman chuckled and slowly stroked the Golden Reaper in her arms. The woman, who had been looking haggard from anxiety, had regained her color and smiled happily like the Golden Reaper, perhaps because of the Golden Reaper’s influence.

By the way, the land prices in Mapo-gu and Songpa-gu are going to go up a lot.

Now that the cute and lovely Golden Reaper was on TV, it seemed like it would climb even higher than before.

Not only were they cute and lovely, they were also a dependable protector against hostile Objects.

It was obvious that anyone would think that way.

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The alchemist’s younger sister was having a nightmare.

Lying on the bed, she was sweating profusely while her hands flailed around as if she was trying to grab the air.

“U-Unnie!”

A terrible scene was playing out in her dream.

It was a dream where her sister, who was stabbed all over her body with a bread knife and bleeding profusely, glared at her to express her resentment.

“You killed me.”

“The blunt bread knife slowly dug in!”

The younger sister mumbled in a small voice at the older sister’s cry of bloody tears.

I’m sorry.

The younger sister kept apologizing to her older sister and cried loudly. In the meantime, her body in the real world also shed tears.

The Golden Reaper, who must have felt pity for her, ran over to her as it passed by. Then it grabbed her hand that was trying to grab the air and tightly hugged one of her fingers. It was as if it was trying to warm her pale fingers with the warmth of her heart.

Feeling that warmth, the younger sister’s expression began to relax. Then, the content of her dream also began to change little by little.

The blue fog that had spread like the afterlife began to disappear as if melting in the morning sunlight. The scenery that was revealed when the fog cleared was a mysterious forest made of cookies, sweets, and chocolate.

A tree-shaped stick candy filled with chocolate.

A lump of whipped cream that looked like a rock on the ground.

On top of that whipped cream were a lot of colorful sprinkles.

It felt like a fairy forest in a fairy tale with the bright sunlight shining down. Not only that, the figure of her older sister who had been expressing her resentment towards her had also disappeared without a trace.

“Unnie? Where are you?”

Her older sister suddenly disappeared, so the younger sister went out to look for her, pushing through the stick candy tree.

After a few minutes of searching in such a hopeless mood, she was finally able to find her older sister. She was smiling brightly with a joyful expression, riding a white horse which looked like it was made of hard, clear sugar, just like ice. Moreover, she was swinging two giant candy canes wildly like a hammer.

She looked so happy that even the younger sister couldn’t help but smile.

But as she got closer, she started to see more and more strange things.

“U-unnie?”

The bread knife was still stuck in her sister’s body even though she was smiling brightly. However, instead of blood, strawberry jam was flowing out from where the bread knife was penetrating.

Her older sister had turned into a donut with strawberry jam that she loved.

This is a nightmare.

It was definitely a nightmare.

The younger sister woke up from the dream because of the ridiculous situation.

The first thing she saw when she woke up was the scene of the Golden Reaper getting extremely angry and beating the Gray Reaper.

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Yaaaaaaaawn~

Too late at night when my drowsiness was threatening to take control of my body.

I was watching the Mini Reapers’ suspicious ritual in the large auditorium located in the center of the Jelly Pig Hospital, holding back my drowsiness.

The ritual order that followed clear rules.

The Mini Reapers were wearing religious and gorgeous attire.

The ritual tools that implied their own style and culture.

Just looking at it, I could tell that it was a unique ritual that the Golden Reaper had heard about or imagined. However, It was too elaborate to say that it was the result of their imagination, but it was also a style that did not exist on Earth to say that they had picked it up from somewhere.

On a large circular altar, the alchemist, the blonde girl, and the Black Agent were lying. The Mini Reapers were circling around them, throwing firewood little by little into the altar.

During the ritual, the Mini Reaper who ran out of firewood rushed towards me. And then, just like what I did with Yerin, they hugged me tightly, filled up their firewood, and returned to the altar again.

When I looked at the ritual with my barely opened eyes, I could finally see who had told them about the ritual. The golden reaper who had forgotten the order of the ritual in the middle was running up to a Black Reaper and asked it for the order.

Seems like the ritual was too long and complicated for the Golden Reaper to remember.

On the other hand, the younger sister of the alchemist was fidgeting with an anxious expression.

“It will be okay, right? No… No… It will be okay.”

Hmm, was it because I changed her dream into something pleasant with the ability of the Golden Tree? The Golden Reaper who noticed that I had manipulated the dream got really angry, but I found it a  little unfair.

The younger sister woke up from her nightmare quickly and was happy. It was because of the happy and fun dream that I had given her.

It was a win-win dream where everyone was happy!

I suddenly felt so wronged again that I tied the hair of the Golden Reapers sitting on my lap with each other.

Hihihi.

While I was tying up a bunch of Golden Reapers’ hair, the ritual ended. However, the girl and the agent were still asleep. Next to them, a gloomy-looking Red Reaper was slowly stroking the girl’s cheek.

However, unlike the girl and the agent who continued to sleep, the alchemist opened her eyes.

“Unnie!”

Looking at the alchemist’s bewildered expression, it seemed like she was trying to analyze the situation. However, the younger sister just seemed happy that his sister had woken up.

When I looked, the traces of the color universe that was on the alchemist’s body before had disappeared. Moreover, I felt that she had turned into a being tied to the garden, like the Jelly Oig and the Sugar Flamingo.

If I cut the alchemist’s body now, it might become a roll cake just like the agent.

I checked the alchemist’s condition and went straight back to the containment room.

I was too sleepy to stay there any longer.

*********

I opened my eyes to a sudden sense of emptiness while sleeping on the warm containment room bed.

Then I saw an endlessly spreading space. It was a space I remembered seeing a while ago. It was a universe full of colors that the red monster had been sucked into.

There were no stars at all in the place, just a space where colors flowed chaotically.

Like paint sliding across a glass surface, the colors that filled the space flowed here and there as if they were sliding. It was an ominous yet beautiful space that was hard to see anywhere else.

However, even this mysterious space had a trap. Just looking at it was harmful, it was burning the firewood in my chest.

But it was such a magical space that made me want to keep looking at it.

As I continued to look like that, I noticed a being lurking in the colors.

In a space where colors never mix like water and oil, there were huge beings floating among the colors. It was giant monsters with all sorts of shapes.

Monsters without fixed shapes.

Those monsters flowed all around the place in the flow of colors.

I stood on the gray-colored ground and looked up at those monsters.

Is this a dream?

A space that was a dream but not really a dream.

That’s how I felt about this mysterious space.

The monsters floating above seemed uninterested in anything.

When will this dream end? Will it end once all of my firewood is used up?

While observing the characteristics of the monsters floating around, my eyes met with a certain monster.

At that moment, the monster that had been floating aimlessly stopped swimming and started staring at me.

And then the monster slowly started to approach me.

For some reason, I felt like I shouldn’t let that monster approach me, so I tried to turn my head away, but I couldn’t turn my head as if I was caught by something.

I couldn’t take my ‘eyes’ off the monster.

I had to force my head to turn, but I didn’t have enough firewood.

I only needed enough firewood to ‘Clench’ the space!

I had used up too much firewood while looking at the universe.

!

But at that moment, a warm warmth and a brilliant beam of light began to pour down from behind me.

Golden light filled with firewood.

When I turned my head, a huge ring of light was shining in the golden beam of light.

*********

When I woke up, I was taken by surprise. The warmth and comfort I felt from behind my back was none other than Yerin’s embrace.

The moment the identity of the golden firewood was revealed, it felt like a mystery had been solved.

But at the same time, new questions arose inside my head.

What on earth was that ring of light?

What did it have to do with Yerin?

Was it just a dream, or did it have some deeper meaning?

My mind was filled with curiosity.

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