Seoul Object Story
Chapter 245

Even though the Bud Reaper was just humming the melody without any lyrics, the tired Seoah fell asleep as soon as she heard it.

Good night.

The Bud Reaper smiled faintly, as if it was happy, instead of smiling with his usual playful smile. After wishing for its precious human to sleep well, the Bud Reaper clung to Seoah’s cheek and closed his eyes.

“N- no.”

But probably because the stress she got at the institute was too much these days, Seoah’s forehead creased deeply as if she was having a nightmare as she let out a painful groan.

!

Seeing that, the Bud Reaper straightened the sprout on top of its head and made a worried expression.

Then, in order to make its precious human had a pleasant sleep, the Bud Reaper entered Seoah’s dream.

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Seoah was having a nightmare about Sehee Research Institute.

“No! No!”

Missing reports.

Burning facility.

Funds embezzlement.

Object escape.

Loss of CCTV footage.

The association’s sudden order to move the Objects they had and many more.

It was a terrible dream where problems kept occurring no matter how hard Seoah worked. Moreover, all the employees who came to report were researcher Oh Yerin. No, all the workers in Sehee Research Institute became Oh Yerin.

Not only that, all the people Seoah had to report to had changed to Director Lee Sehee.

When she checked the Gray Reaper containment room, there were always dozens of Yerins lying around, eating snacks and getting salaries for slacking. And when she went to report, the director’s office was always empty.

When Seoah was looking at the report with gloomy eyes in that chaotic institute, a huge vibration shook the facility as a huge tree suddenly rose outside the window. It was a huge tree which had a mix of gold and indigo.

The moment the tree rose, the lab started to work properly. All the characters in her dream turned into Bud Reapers. Furthermore, they were all so capable that she didn’t have to do anything.

Because of that, even though it was only in a dream, Seoah was able to spend the vacation she had never had in reality.

When she opened her eyes in the morning, she would walk above the clouds with the Bud Reaper on her shoulder. It would gently grab Seoah’s hair and happily went with her.

In the morning, she went to the beach and built a sand castle on the beach. In the meantime, the Bud Reaper collected seashells and decorated the castle.

At lunchtime, she had a picnic in the forest. When Seoah opened her lunch box, she could see Bud Reaper happily bit into a sandwich inside,

At sunset, Seoah and Bud Reaper lay in the field and watched the sunset. At the same time, she was hugging the Bud Reaper in her arms and smiled happily.

At night, under the stars, the Bud Reaper sang a lullaby to Seoah. It seemed as if it was telling her that it was time to say goodbye.

“Ah, I’m happy.”

In a house in her dreams that no one could visit, surrounded by countless Bud Reapers, she smiled happily. When Seoah fell asleep in her dream, the Bud Reaper lifted its head and began to look into the sky.

There, it saw a large gold and indigo tree pulsating like an alarm.

Mom is calling.

At that moment, the Bud Reaper disappeared from Seoah’s dream and began to fly away.

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I quickly reattached the head which had been cut with my firewood.

“Hmm.”

But then, I caressed my neck and let out a sigh.

I got a scar.

Even though the firewood could do so many miraculous things, since the wound was inflicted by a high-level Object, a scar still remained. It was really a shame that such a large scar was left on the neck of the cute Isekai Yerin.

But still, since it was only a dream about the past, it doesn’t really matter, right?

I stopped stroking my neck and carefully observed the Object standing in front of me. It was an Object that looked completely different from the horrible image reflected in the mirror. It was a that hid its entire body in a cloak while holding a huge scythe, Not only that, instead of a normal head, it had a long stick for head.

The stick Object had the same horrible head that was reflected in the mirror pierced into it. The head was a crude but horrible sculpture made by cutting up a human corpse and pasting it on.

Was it an Object that projected the face stuck on the skewer into the mirror?

The monster that cut off my neck still seemed quite confident after seeing me quickly attaching the neck.

Well, its confidence was not baseless.

After all, In addition to its powerful attack power, I also couldn’t see or sense it properly even with the ‘eyes’ in Yerin’s body. It seemed that the Object’s main tactic was to melt into the air and attack those who were distracted by the mirror.

“Are you… okay?”

The blue girl ran over to me with a white-blazing sword before stroking. She fidgeted as if it’s her own neck which had been cut off, but her expression fell even more when she saw my scar.

The man who was the blue girl’s teacher also stood with white flames wrapped around both of his fists as if protecting the blue girl.

“I’m faine…”

I quietly said that I was okay, and slowly walked forward.

I gathered a bunch of firewood and spread my hands wide, but… no Garden of the Mini Reaper appeared.

So I can’t summon the garden, huh? But, I can cut space, though.

It would have been great if I could have summoned a bunch of Golden Reapers, but it wouldn’t have mattered much even if I couldn’t.

As I stepped forward, a laugh leaked out from the stick-headed monster. It was a creepy and horrific sound, like countless ghosts laughing at the same time.

It was the sound of countless heads laughing under their cloaks. It was as if it was mocking me, saying, ‘You will be one of us too.’

Then, the monster pointed at my head with its corpse-like long and dark finger. Its actions felt like it was trying to decorate my head in its style and skewer it in its stick head.

However, Since I was using the body of a young girl from another world, I felt really uncomfortable. After all, a fairly strong Object didn’t even fear me now.

But it would be different if I showed my strength.

How long can it be so confident, I wonder?

I used my ‘eye’ to look at the Object that had recklessly revealed itself.

< Find the true head and destroy it. >

The killing conditions appeared before my eyes in burning golden colour.

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This is problematic.

The blue girl’s master clenched his fists tightly and thought.

That Magic Book is a Magic Book that humans shouldn’t face.

The Magic Book with a skewer instead of a head looked relaxed, as if it had already won, as if it had already captured his group. That was to be expected. After all, it had easily penetrated his disciple’s alchemy.

If it could do that to the alchemy of his disciple, who was born to use perfect alchemy, then an ordinary human would not be able to even deal with it.

Slash-!

The Magic Book slowly cut the ground with its blood-dripping scythe and began to approach them. It was approaching like a messenger of despair.

At that moment, the girl in black and white clothes began to walk forward with a confident gait.

She was a mysterious girl. No, she was an ominous girl.

If it weren’t for the words of the disciple who was capable of predicting the future, the man would never have wanted to be with her.

At first, he didn’t even notice the girl’s existence properly. Even after he learned about the girl’s existence, she would only be there when he spoke to her or acted directly, otherwise, she would often disappear from his consciousness.

It was as if the fact that the girl had ever existed in the world had to disappear, as if she had disappeared from perception and memory without a trace.

Well, seeing that a human body with a decapitated head regenerated in an instant, she must not have been an ordinary human.

At that moment, as if to shatter the man’s thoughts, the eyes of the girl in black and white suddenly began to burn with golden flames.

“!”

Then, a pressure as if a gigantic being had descended upon this land weighed down on him. No, everything.

“Kiiiieeeeeeeek!”

At that moment, the stick-headed monster screamed and started to run away while throwing the heads it had gathered in its cloak in a haphazard manner. It was as if it had seen something terrible.

However, the stick-headed Magic Book eventually failed to properly escape. It was engulfed in golden flames and began to burn fiercely.

The golden flames that extended from the girl dressed in black and white dress burned all the strangely twisted heads.

Just what did that Magic Book see that made it so terrified?

When the man turned his head, he could see his disciple’s face had also become quite pale.

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A strong and ominous smell of petroleum wafted from a temple deep in the city of the purple moon. Inside the temple, a large purple pool resembling obsidian, once called the purple jewel, had turned black.

The countless purple Hermit Crabs living inside it were also rotting black and dying.

“Haha, it’s just as the Master said.”

“To think it even works against the moon!”

“As expected, that moon is also nothing but Magic Book!”\

Around the pool, alchemists in fancy attire were making a fuss while looking down at the rotting pool.

Crackle-!

And then, the purple crystal that illuminated the temple while it floated high inside the temple located underground, began to crack and crumble. It was as if the purple moon was screaming.

However, the sound felt like the sweet scream of a Magic Book to the alchemists.

To them who was listening to the scream of a Magic Book like that,

[ Why are you doing this?! ]

The Purple Moon Magic Book, which once possessed great intelligence, had become the shadow of its past self and become hard to understand.

Then the maddened alchemists raised their heads high and shouted.

“We will stand alone! You are not gods, but Magic Book!”

“We don’t need gods!”

[….]

A brief silence passed, and then the Magic Book that seemed to have saw something pitiful said again.

[ You small, weak, and foolish human. You always make the same mistakes. ]

This time, the Magic Book spoke clearly. However, the purple light of the crystal was fading as if it was burning its last life.

[ I will tell you the name of the god you have forgotten. ]

[ Humans will now have to take responsibility for their own mistakes. ]

At that moment, a strange purple light began to shine down on the entire city. It was a mysterious light that no wall or ceiling could block. That light also left indelible writing which looked like burn marks on every human body it touched.

What was written was the name of the god that everyone had forgotten.

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The moment the purple light descended into the city and the moment the erased name of the god was revealed, dark clouds began to cover the sky.

It was an ominous looking cloud that was so dark that it even obscured the Purple Moon. Thunder and lightning rumbled, and a strong wind began to blow between the buildings. And in that darkness, a gigantic silhouette appeared.

A humongous, truly gigantic monster’s hand began to descend toward the center of the city.

It was the Magic Book of God-slaying.

Or, the object which was more renown as ‘Nameless’.