Seoul Object Story

As the cute looking cloud fish lunged at her with sharp teeth, the blonde girl sent fires from her mouth and burned the cloud fishes. Engulfed in fires which were far stronger than back when she first became a vampire, the cloud fish couldn’t hold out for even a moment and turned to dust.

However, the situation still didn’t look good. The blonde girl looked exhausted, and the Black Agent wasn’t much of a help in this kind of situation. They just stood back to back against a sturdy stone wall.

As they fought an endless stream of cloud fishes, time passed. One thing for sure was that it hadn’t been that short.

Above the exhausted blonde girl and the Black Agent, the Red Reaper was also fighting the cloud fishes. With a bright expression, it stretched its arms out to the left and right and spun around, shooting fire and burning the surrounding in the process.

Even though some cloud fishes approached it at a rapid pace and tried to bite it with its sharp teeth, it couldn’t bite the Red Reaper who was floating around, pushed by the wind caused by the cloud fish.

It was truly one-sided violence!

“It’s fortunate that the Red Reaper is here with us. I didn’t know it would help us this much because in my dream, it trapped me.”

The Black Agent looked at the blonde girl’s complexion and lightly expressed his agreement.

Haa…Haa…

The blonde girl’s skin was already flushed red as she let out a heavy breath.

Looking at her state, the Black Agent expressed his worry.

“Young Miss, are you okay?”

The blonde girl nodded and looked at her hand that had turned slightly transparent before answering.

“I’m fine. In fact, I feel like my body has become lighter.”

As if to prove her statement, the blonde girl moved more actively than before and easily burned the cloud fishes that were rushing toward her.

As the battle continued, the blonde girl’s gaze suddenly glued to the entrance of the village.

“Young Miss?”

“Ahjussi. Something makes me feel weird.”

The blonde girl had an ambiguous expression on her face, as if she didn’t know how to put what she felt into words. It seemed like she was happy, but also confused.

As yellow lights suddenly flickered in the fog, the blonde girl’s feelings became even more chaotic. Soon after, an Object with gray skin tore through the fog and arrived at the empty lot.

It was an Object that looked harmless but had enormous presence.

It was the Gray Reaper.

Plop-! Plop-!

As the Gray Reaper walked out with a confident gait and looked around with an indifferent expression, the blonde girl could feel that the cloud fishes were intimidated by it. In an instant, the cloud fishes’ movement became dull as if they were in fear.

Moreover, even though they were fighting, all of the cloud fishes’ nerves were focused on the Gray Reaper.

“Young Miss?”

Even though the presence the Gray Reaper exude was so overwhelming that it felt like it even pressed down the air, the Black Agent was still looking at the blonde girl with a worried expression.

However, what the blonde girl felt was not the presence or the pressure.

“Ahjussi, I feel strange for some reason.”

Longing.

Friendliness.

That kind of feeling was filling her.

Just why?

If she had to call the name of those feelings…

“M…Mom?”

An unexpected word flowed out of the blonde girl’s mouth.

*********“M…Mom?”

Words that sounded like something which a mini reaper would say flowed out from the mouth of the girl who was staring at me.

Mom?

When I heard that, the blonde turned into a half-mini-reaper. Wait. Even though she’s a small girl, she’s still bigger than me, so should I call her a big reaper?

She didn’t feel like this the last time I saw her, so why did she suddenly turn like this?

I could guess a few reasons for that change.

It could be that it simply took a long time to turn into a half-mini-reaper,

Or,

It had something to do with the Orange moon.

Or,

it could be that it had something to do with the fact that I put that heart inside the girl.

When I looked up at the sky, I could see the Orange moon was already half-blackened. The blue moon back then held out for quite some time, so why was this moon so weak?

I stretched out my hands to the sides and called out the mini-reapers.

We have the new youngest here. Go help them.

The Golden and Black Reapers ran out with excited faces after seeing the Red Reaper.

At the same time, the Blue Reapers looked around before spreading to every corner of the village.

The Navy Reaper… didn’t come. Well, it’s probably sleeping.

Even though there were quite a large amount of Cloud Fish in the sky, as soon as the Golden Reaper shot the Black Reaper who transformed into the shape of a ballista, they became helpless.

Looking at that, I left the job of handling the Cloud Fishes to the mini reapers and walked towards the blonde girl.

When I arrived in front of her and looked at her closely, the blonde girl was definitely taller than me.

Was she about 130cm?

By the way, it’s really strange. How could a human turn into a mini reaper?

The faint connection between me and her became stronger as we faced each other.

The Blonde Girl looked down at me with a confused face, then suddenly ran over and hugged me.

“Young Miss?”

The Black Agent’s bewildered voice could be heard second after the girl’s sudden move.

“Ah, it’s warm.”

I felt my firewood slowly flowing into the girl’s body as she said those words.

The firewood began to fill up inside the girl’s body, which had almost no firewood even though she was a mini reaper.

Then, the girl spoke in a low voice.

“I don’t know why, but I feel like I should call you ‘Mom.’ I also feel warm and happy.”

Well, it’s probably because most of the firewood that was inside my body came from Yerin.

At that moment, the mini reapers rushed toward the blonde girl who had pulled away from me with a blank expression.

The mini reapers looked thrilled to have a bigger sibling.

Leaving the blonde girl who had turned into a mini reaper cocoon, I looked up at the Orange moon.

< Destroy the pearl buried in the ground. >n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Hmm?

The killing conditions were much simpler than I thought.

Was it because it was contaminated with black mucus?

Just as I was thinking that I had to find the location of the pearl, the ground suddenly split open and a large staircase surged up right in front of me.

The entrance to the staircase which was decorated with Orange flames made me feel like the Orange Moon was guiding me.

*********In the office inside The Trinity First Research Institute located in Gangnam-gu, the Director of the Trinity First Research Institute was looking at the monitor with a serious expression.

“I never thought something like this would happen….”

The plan they hatched was flawless. It was a perfect plan to obtain a large quantity of the evolution liquid, the first ever substance that could save humanity from their helplessness against the Objects!

However, when looking at the scene shown on TV, it seemed that the most important aspect of the plan was likely to be ruined.

“Why did the Cloud Fishes attack Sehee Research Institute?”

The core aspect of the plan was simple. It was a complete exclusion of the Gray Reaper. In other words, the intervention of the ‘Gray Reaper’ had to be prevented at all cost.

The Third Research Institute Director’s mass production plan failed due to the Gray Reaper’s interference. Perhaps because the Gray Reaper was also an Object, it didn’t want the ‘evolution liquid’, humanity’s only countermeasure against Objects to be produced.

After that, the Third Research Institute Director tried to physically remove the Gray Reaper, but he failed and died.

So the director of The Trinity First Research Institute put his plan into action and targeted the Orange Moon that the Gray Reaper would have a hard time noticing, but things went terribly wrong.

The Cloud Fishes that lived in Mount Odae attacked Sehee Research Institute.

It was a plan that should not fail. After all, according to the research notes of the Director of the Trinity Third Research Institute, there were a total of seven colored moons in the world. Therefore, there were not many opportunities to mass-produce ‘evolution fluid’.

The director, who had been staring intently at the TV screen and the feed on the monitor that was recorded by a drone with a serious expression, let out a sigh of relief.

“Ha… This is fortunate.”

It seemed that the Gray Reaper had not left for Mount Odar despite the Cloud Whale’s attack.

The Sehee Research Institute captured on TV and the drone he had sent himself were extremely calm. It did not look like a research institute where an Object under its care had escaped.

When he couldn’t see the security team searching for the Gray Reaper after watching the Tv and the feed for a while, the director was finally able to completely relax. Only then did he lean back comfortably on the chair in his office.

The camera of the broadcasting station that had been focusing on Sehee Research Institute a moment ago now focused on the sky.

[ A beautiful river of Cloud Fishes extends to the east starting from Sehee Research Institute. ]

[ A beautiful sight reminiscent of the Milky Way. ]

The announcer’s voice was filled with admiration as she watched the river of Cloud Fishes which was shining and flickering like stars.

Even though the river of Cloud Fishes seemed like a path leading to Mount Odae for some reason, since the Gray Reaper didn’t move, it shouldn’t be a big deal.

When the director turned his head with a relieved feeling, he saw the dusk sky through the window. He got up from his seat, walked to the window, and looked up at the beautiful sky. It was a clear sky with Cloud Fishes flying with the dusk sky as the background.

However, the director of the Trinity First Research Institute felt a little uneasy seeing the Cloud Fishes flying around.

Even though the problem with Sehee Research Institute had been solved and there was nothing to worry about, for some reason, he still felt uneasy in the corner of his heart.

“Am I getting old? I feel uneasy for some reason.”

Because of the unreasonable anxiety, the director drew the curtains to block out the sky. However, without him knowing, countless Cloud Fishes were circling above the curtained office.

It was as if they indicated that the director of the Trinity First Research Institute was there.

*********Step-! Step-!

My footsteps echoed through the stairs which were meticulously made of smooth stone.

As I slowly descended the exotic-looking stairs, fires kept being ignited in the braziers placed on both sides of the walls with every step I took.

When I finally reached the bottom of the stairs, what I saw was a huge temple.

Even though it was built underground, bright light was emanating from the ceiling. In the same ceiling, there was also mosaic painting. It was a painting with a similar atmosphere to the Relic Number 0 that James had shown me.

However, there were many broken parts in the painting, so I simply couldn’t tell what it was about.

In the center of the empty space, there was a completely shattered stone statue of the Black Reaper. However, it had no legs and had long arms.

Probably because it was not properly maintained, the surface was peeling off while the head and both of the arms were broken.

If someone who didn’t know saw it, it would be hard for them to tell that it was a stone statue of the Black Reaper.

The other things were perfectly maintained, so why was the painting and the statue like that?

Beyond the stone statue, there was a huge, unlit brazier and a sphere that looked like a ‘pearl’.

When I looked at the sphere, I strangely remembered what the Black Reaper had said.

< Cut the human's tongue and burn their entire body. >

Near the brazier, there was a dagger with old blood stains on it.