Seoul Object Story
Chapter 239: Broken Moon (1)

Deep inside the Object Management Room inside a research institute under the Object Association, there was an Object that gave off a strong smell of evolution fluid that resembled petroleum. Most of its body was black and rotting away, but its shell was still purple.

At that moment, a voice was heard outside the containment room where the hermit crab was.

“That thing is going to die soon, isn’t it?”

The hermit crab, whose body had seemed to be rotting away due to evolution fluid since it was first discovered, was now in a state where it could barely move.

“But why don’t we just dispose of those Objects?”

The man in the Object researcher’s uniform looked around at the Objects that filled the surroundings and said so. A lot of Objects around him were black and rotten, contaminated with evolution fluid.

They’re not particularly valuable and not hard to get rid of, yet they’re still being contained and preserved like this. It was quite unusual for the Object Association to do this.

“That means the upper echelons of the Association are interested in this ‘evolution fluid’.”

“But most of the research on evolution fluids failed, right? It seems like they concluded that it wasn’t very useful….”

“That’s why we’re not touching it anymore and just containing it. Just disposing of it is a waste, and it’s also a bit of a hassle to study it. A hassle.”

Since a considerable amount of time had passed since the Gwanak-gu evolution fluid incident, most of the contaminated Objects had been destroyed. And among the few remaining contaminated Objects, the hermit crab was rapidly deteriorating.

“It looks like the hermit crab will die soon. We should prepare for disposal.”

“Then, I’ll prepare it in advance.”

As the two researchers who had been chatting like that left the containment room area, darkness and silence began to fall in the containment room area.

At that moment, the purple hermit crab opened its eyes wide and began to look up at the sky.

[ Last mission. ]

In the eyes of the hermit crab that could no longer function properly, a memory from long ago was coming to mind.

It was a memory of a girl with blue hair laughing.

Then, the purple hermit crab burned all of its last strength and moved its body.

Far away from Korea, far away.

To the middle of the snowy fields of Russia.

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The Golden Reaper who had eaten its mother’s candy was walking with a very happy expression.

In the hand of the Golden Reaper who was smiling brightly, there was a large snack.

The softest marshmallow in the Garden of the Mini Reaper.

The transparent sugar powder looked like an obsidian of the black sugar dessert.

The chocolate powder is from the deepest part of the hot chocolate sea.

The most fragrant chocolate in the stick cookie forest.

It was a candy made with the most delicious things from the Garden of the Mini Reaper, filled with the sincerity of the Golden Reaper.

It was a candy made to replace the candy it ate without even knowing that its mom wanted to eat it.

It was a candy made with gratitude and an apology to Mom.

Mom would like it, right?

The Golden Reaper held the giant chocolate candy with both hands toward the sky and looked forward to how its mom would react.

Mom?

However, the moment the Golden Reaper found the Gray Reaper, the chocolate candy that  it had worked so hard to make fell to the floor with a thud.

It wasn’t because it stumbled or because its hand slipped. Rather, because it saw a scene where the Gray Reaper handed over the candy to another Golden Reaper.

It was supposed to be a candy that there were only two of in the world!

The ominous thought that it was all Mom’s scheme came to mind, but the Golden Reaper began to sneak up and eavesdrop on the situation in order to confirm the truth.

Mom doesn’t like it very much. It’s okay if I don’t eat it.

Its mom was sending the same will it had sent to it.

‘!’

The Golden Reaper was in shock.

Why did mom…

In the Golden Reaper’s mind, the Gray Reaper’s credit rating dropped by one level. Now the Gray Reaper’s credit rating dropped from ‘Normal Object Grade’ to ‘Harmful Object Grade’.

A ‘thud’ could be heard from behind the Golden Reaper, who was too shocked to move.

When the Golden Reaper turned around, another Golden Reaper, who had brought a transparent candy, dropped the candy and made a blank expression.

You too?

When the Golden Reaper came to his senses and asked, the Golden Reaper, who had arrived late, nodded.

And the two Golden Reapers ran towards the Gray Reaper with angry expressions.

When the Gray Reaper saw that, it ran away somewhere, leaving only a ‘ugh’ will behind.

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Thump-! Thump-!

The heavy footsteps of the Jelly Pig echoed faintly beyond the window.

The vibrations of its huge body should have shaken the entire hospital, but the Jelly Pig’s body absorbed all the vibrations and shocks.

That’s the reason why the hospital had a peaceful atmosphere as always.

A Black Reaper who was working at the hospital stood by the window and watched the Golden Reapers moving around busily.

The Golden Reapers were furious because the Gray Reaper had run away.

The number of Golden Reapers who were fooled by the Gray Reaper alone was over 20.

This many victims in just one day.

It meant that the Gray Reaper had been fooling the Golden Reapers without resting even for a moment.

Why did Mom do that?

The Black Reaper wondered to itself, but it didn’t get any answer.

Unlike the strong mom who had a clear reason, the weak mom often did things for no reason or gain.

When the Gray Reaper could not be found inside the Garden of the Mini Reaper no matter how hard they searched, all the Golden Reapers looked up at the sky blankly.

The Golden Reaper network that was once used to rescue the Gray Reaper from the labyrinth was now being used to track down their mom who had run away after playing a prank.

However, none of the Golden Reapers could find their mom.

At that moment, the Black Reaper looked away from the window and looked around the hospital room. Unlike the outside, the hospital room was completely quiet.

The alchemist who slept more than half the day and the younger sister who took care of her.

And the happy-looking Hungry Ghost.

The Hungry Ghost seemed much more peaceful after the gray reaper disappeared.

It seemed to be because the Gray Reaper who occasionally came to visit and eat it had disappeared.

The White Hungry Ghost was enjoying a peaceful moment with the color Hungry Ghost that had come back after a long time.

It was a small happiness brought by the absence of the Gray Reaper.

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Two small footprints were left on the pure white snow. It was strange footprints made with bare feet without shoes, with living toes.

Even though It felt a little strange for someone to walk on the snow barefoot, I had escaped to Russia to avoid the Golden Reapers who had noticed my prank.

I was buying time to appease the Golden Reaper’s anger and create a milk-shaved ice snowfield.

If I kill a lot of snowfield-related Objects, a snowfield will eventually appear in the Garden of the Mini Reaper.

However, despite the fact that Siberia was sealed off due to the Object incident, no objects were visible at all.

All that I could see was an endless snowfield.

While wandering around the vast snowfield, I was able to discover an Object that had a faint presence. It was a purple Hermit Crab, an Object which had an unpleasant smell of ‘evolution fluid’.

However, it was a Hermit Crab who had already died a long time ago. I didn’t know what the relationship between the snow field and the Hermit Crab was, but since it was already dead, there was no point in searching for it.

The moment I abandoned it and was about to go back to find another Object, I heard a faint sound from inside Hermit Crab’s shell.

?

When I focused my hearing on the Hermit Crab and listened, a language that I couldn’t understand but could understand began to flow out.

[ Broken moon. Repeated past. Twisted ending. ]

It was a riddle that was hard to understand.

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The blue-haired girl who had been walking endlessly on the snowfield exclaimed.

“Look over there. We’ve finally arrived.”

Then she stroked the white guardian that was about as high as her waist.

Then she spoke as if she found it a pity.

“Why are you so hard and rough like stone? It would be nice if you are soft like cotton and fluffy like marshmallows.”

The guardian made of white and hard stone cried as if telling her not to say anything strange.

However, the blue girl just confidently shouted, “Then let’s go!” and went forward towards where the huge city was.

It was a beautiful city with a purple moon shining brightly.

At the same time, it was a sad city where everything would soon collapse.

The girl could clearly see it in her limited foresight.

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A purple moon city covered in darkness.

There, a girl with blue hair was spitting out blood in the darkness of a city alley.

A long blade was piercing the girl’s heart.

The one holding the sword was a ninja wrapped in a stuffy black robe.

How did it end up like this?

The girl felt her body getting colder and colder, and she kept thinking.

The purple moon she had been trying to save had already begun to turn black from the evolution liquid, and the girl was dying without gaining anything.

And the moment the girl took her last breath, the world began to flow back.

A desolate snowy field and a blue girl wandering around it.

It went back to the moment when the White Hungry Ghost was there.

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