Seoul Object Story

Chapter 178: The Cult: Epilogue (3)



[ Are you an alchemist? ]

The Object wearing an upside down doll head asked me if I was an ‘alchemist’. Moreover, it was in a language nobody knew.

Yerin seemed to be confused since it was the first time she heard the language and what language it was.

The girl hiding behind the doll head Object also looked flustered.

“Sister, why are you suddenly like that?”

The girl poked the doll head’s back and spoke softly, but the doll head didn’t move at all and just stared at me.

Whenever this situation came up, I always did the same thing.

Ignore it!

Because my concept wasn’t just an Object that couldn’t speak or understand speech, but an Object that couldn’t communicate!

Hihihi.

Anyway, that doll head wasn’t hostile to humans, but rather gave off a friendly vibe toward humans, which was a little strange. The Blue Lizard and the Ghost Cat were pretty friendly Objects toward humans, but that doll head seemed to be much more friendlier.

In particular, for a human girl it protect by standing in front of her.

Probably because of that, the eyes of the mini reapers who filled the containment room widened as they sat the Object with shining eyes, as if they were seeing something strange.

After that, the doll head continued to say strange things to me.

[ The eyes of the fog salamander and the wings of a frog. ]

[ The heart of the sea and the breath of air. ]

[ White flowers and the roots of darkness. ]

[ Crystalized moonlight and the tail of the lizard that does not decay. ]

What she said was like the name of materials that would be used in alchemy in a fantasy novel. No. Since it asked me whether I was an alchemist or not, were they real alchemy materials names?

Since it was a world where Objects were running wild and free, it seemed like alchemist and alchemy was a real thing, so I was a little interested.

Alchemy, magic, sword, and adventure!

Even though my heart was already non-existent, it was a word that had enough allure to make my non-existent heart beat.

[ You really don’t know? ]

The woman who had a doll’s head turned over spoke softly in a slightly sullen voice.

The doll’s head muttered, ‘Lastly…’ and took out something large from her bag.

It was so heavy that the floor made a ‘thud’ sound when she put it down.

Then, the heavy items appeared in front of me with heavy steps.

It was a Hungry Ghost painted in a variety of colors.

Oh…

Ohhh…!

It was a colorful Konpeito1 Hungry Ghost!

Because it looked delicious, I became curious and I jumped up from my seat. Then, I ran to the colorful Hungry Ghost and tried to hug it, but I couldn’t even lift it.

It was so heavy!

The slowly waving antennae looked delicious, so I tried to bite it, but it turned out to be just hard rock.

If I didn’t have physical immunity, it was a rock so hard that it would hurt my teeth.

Disappointing.

In order to heal my disappointment, I called a large white Hungry Ghost into my arms and bit it without mercy.

Kyuhiinng-!

As I ate the soft and fluffy white Hungry Ghost, my heart warmed and I felt comfortable.

As expected, the white Hungry Ghost was delicious!

I threw the white Hungry Ghost to the floor and jumped into Yerin’s arms again.

In the meantime, the doll-headed woman looked extremely disappointed.

Did it wish I was an alchemist?

The girl who seemed to be the Object’s younger sister held a Golden Reaper in one hand and spoke with an excited expression, unlike her older sister.

“Look at this Unnie! It’s cute!”

With a worried expression on its face, the Object watched its younger sister tickle a Golden Reaper with her finger and play with it.

“Chew on this again.”

Then it handed something that smelled like medicine to the younger sister. It looked like medicine made by humans, but it was an Object. It felt more like an Object than all the advanced Object tools made in the United States.

Was it because it was an Object that it could make something like that?

Or was it because it was an alchemist that it could make something like that?

“If you get a headache, you have to take another one, so tell me right away. Got it?”

“Okay.”

I became a little interested in alchemy.

*********What language was it?

The language the tattooed woman spoke to Reaper was quite elaborate for a self-made language. The accent was unique, and it wasn’t copied from the structure of any language I knew.

Was it some kind of minority language that I didn’t know?

I couldn’t figure it out even after comparing it to all the languages I could remember.

However, the Reaper definitely knew the language. The antenna that didn’t respond to anything except English or Korean stood up in my mouth as if it was startled.

Om nom nom-!

While thinking about this and that, I held Reaper in my arms and fed it some pudding.

Thud-!

While I was feeding Reaper, a loud noise echoed in the containment room. I looked around to see the colored Hungry Ghost that the tattooed woman had taken out was thumping and moving around inside the containment room.

Maybe because it looked exactly like the Hungry Ghost, the mini reapers came over to it with curious expressions before hitting it.

Jab-! Jab-!

The mini reapers pounded it with their fists and giggled with a happy expression. It was as if they were saying, ‘Tough!’

But strangely, it seemed to be treated better than the white Hungry Ghost.

The Red Reaper who would always breathe fire as soon as it saw the white Hungry Ghost was just tilting its head and looking amazed when it saw the colored Hungry Ghost.

And when the white Hungry Ghost and the colored Hungry Ghost who was wandering around came face to face, they both opened their mouths and made surprised expressions.

When one of them opened its mouth, the other one also opened its mouth. And when one of them moved its feet, the other one also moved its feet in the same way.

The Hungry Ghosts looked exactly like mirror images.

Then, the Hungry Ghost with a surprised expression on its face was staggering around in the exact same way as its mirror image.

Seeing that, the Golden Reapers also faced each other and started playing a mirror image game. They laughed happily with the same expressions as their counterparts and waved their arms and legs.

It was nothing special, but the mini reapers seemed to really enjoy it and were really excited.

Oh, what should I do with the odd-numbered mini reapers?

As expected, the Red Reaper, who didn’t have any siblings who looked exactly the same as it, was lying on the table with a sullen face.

Then, a Golden Reaper that had its hair tied in twintails appeared next to the Red Reaper before giggling and helping the Red Reaper up.

Even though its hair was tied in twintails and its skin was painted red, I could tell just by looking at its expression that it was the Golden Reaper.

The Golden Reaper, who was dressed like a Red Reaper, and the Red Reaper smiled brightly and enjoyed the mirror image game.

I wondered if Reaper would want to play too, but when I turned my head to check, Reaper had an indifferent expression that showed no interest at all.

Since I felt a bit annoyed, I rubbed its soft cheeks.

*********The tattooed woman and her younger sister, who had finished exploring under the pretense of visiting Sehee research institute, were walking back home while looking at the setting sun.

“Unnie, did you find what you wanted?”

The younger sister looked satisfied after playing with the Golden Reaper to her heart’s content.

“I don’t know. At first, I thought it was a failure, but after a while, I think it might have pretended not to know on purpose.”

No matter what data she looked up, she found that Gray Reaper couldn’t understand letters or speech, so if the Gray Reaper was really an alchemist, it must mean that it was intentionally lying about it language skills.

If it was really an alchemist, it was truly an admirable performance.

To think an alchemist was trying to bite off the Guardian’s antenna with their teeth…

If the other side was serious about deceiving her to that extent, it would take a lot of preparation to reveal its identity.

“I’ll have to go a few more times to find out exactly. If I set up a more elaborate trap, It might fall for it.”

“Really?”

The younger sister smiled brightly at the story of going to meet the Golden Reaper again.

“Then let’s make some snacks like pudding and take them with us. The Golden Reapers will really like If we bring even small snacks as gifts!!”

The woman looked a little uneasy at the sight of her younger sister who was very happy.

That’s strange. I’m sure I’ve been giving her a lot of mind corruption blocking drugs, but she seems to have become mentally corrupted.

Looking at her cheerful younger sister, the woman thought she had to improve the potion a little more once she returned to their house.

*********Late evening when the Golden Reapers were asleep.

The ‘Cute Puppy’ took advantage of the gap in the door to leave its containment room and slowly walk around the dark hallway of the research institute.

The Cute Puppy often went on these ‘late night walks’, and it was possible because the security team member that felt sorry for the Cute Puppy had left the door slightly open.

The Cute Puppy arrived in the backyard with a sad expression and looked up at the cold moonlight floating in the sky.

Whimper-!

The cute puppy, exhaling heavily, began to trudge back to his kennel.

To its ‘plastic’ kennel.

On the way back to the containment room, the cute puppy’s eyes caught a glimpse of a newly-built underground room. For some reason, it felt like it absolutely had to visit that underground room.

After going down the slightly dark stairs, a large recreation area came into view. The construction of the large recreation area seemed to be almost finished. Some workers were seen here and there, working late into the night to finish the final touches.

However, the Cute Puppy did not notice any people or facilities walking around. It could not take its eyes off the large golden statue that adorned the center of the recreation area.

Trickle-! Trickle-!

The cute puppy shed tears at that moment.

My… My kennel was here.

And those tears gradually turned red, like tears of blood.

Grrrr-!

The Cute Puppy’s size gradually grew. When it grew as big as a house, it kicked the ground with all its might.

“T-that?”

The surprised voices of the laborers who discovered the Cute Puppy as big as a house rang out. The Cute Puppy’s eyes, filled with deep sorrow, burned with anger and filled with a desperate feeling of ‘If I can’t have it, I’ll destroy it.’

As the Cute Puppy started to run to destroy everything in sight, a huge number of Golden Reapers who had been helping the laborers jumped out and started to glare at the Cute Puppy.

The golden reapers, who had a rare angry expression, glared at it, but the puppy, who was trapped in its own world due to his anger, did not notice their gaze.

The puppy eventually opened its teeth at the laborer who was closest to it.

However, its reckless charge was fruitless. It ended up with a lot of Golden Reaper-shaped holes in its body.

Thud-!

The Cute Puppy collapsed in a tattered state, proving the futility of its rebellion. It slowly closed its eyes as it looked at the blood seeping out of its body.

Wishing to be reborn as a really cute puppy in its next life.

*********In a Garden of the Mini Reaper, always filled with a sweet smell, the Cute Puppy opened its eyes again, seeing a beautiful garden with soft marshmallow land and warm hot chocolate ocean waves.

The Cute Puppy, who had been an Object but was tied to a body, now felt like it had transcended the life and death of the body. Its current body was made up of white, fluffy cotton candy while its eyes and nose were made up of hardened chocolate chips.

It was reborn as a really cute cotton candy puppy.

An immortal Object that was cute and would never die!

The cute puppy looked back at its new body and smiled with satisfaction.

Unfortunately, ominous shadows were gradually looming around the resurrected puppy. A group of Golden Reapers with mischievous expressions were gathering around the puppy.

    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konpeit%C5%8D
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