Seoul Object Story
Chapter 290: Doll Expo (8)

The Color Universe filling the sky and the purple foreign god that appeared.

Looking at this third foreign god I’ve met, I couldn’t help but wrinkle my nose.

This one’s disgustingly ugly.

The first red foreign god was pretty horrible too, but this one is truly hideous.

Dozens, hundreds of arms with thin, grimy-looking membranes.

Quite different from the human forms they’d taken until now.

Would be nice if they were all neat and tidy like the blue foreign god.

I kept pondering while looking up at that gross thing.

Mini Reaper Garden unavailable.

Can’t summon invariants.

No Yerin nearby.

No matter how I thought about it, proper fighting seemed impossible.

At least I can still summon Halos, that’s something.

I sighed while looking down at the three Halos in my hand.

Of course, sighing out of human habit didn’t actually produce any breath.

No matter how I thought about it, I should probably retreat first and come back with invariants…

The ability blocking the Mini Reaper Garden probably doesn’t cover the whole Earth.

Given the foreign god’s power, all of Seoul’s firewood might die in an instant, but putting some distance between us was definitely the logical solution.

Still, should try fighting first.

If I run without even trying, Golden Reaper will smack me.

Thinking this, I first put on the ability nullification Halo.

Sehee Research Institute, on the outskirts of Songpa-gu.

When the Association Doll incident broke out, a small number of Golden Reapers took turns popping out to patrol.

Then a doll with a somewhat unfamiliar glow slowly approached.

Click. Click. Click.

The doll appeared with footsteps commonly heard from cheap dolls.

Though not particularly large or fast-moving, its softly glowing purple appearance seemed somehow special.

!

Usually, Golden Reapers would’ve immediately jumped out to punch Golden Reaper-shaped holes in the doll’s body, but this was an emergency.

They had to approach as carefully as possible.

Warriors with light sabers normally handled these situations, but unfortunately, the warriors weren’t around.

Some had gone abroad to find their attached humans, while others were already scattered across Seoul saving people.

Then one brave Golden Reaper stepped forward.

After exchanging glances with other Golden Reapers, it charged at the purple doll for a headbutt.

A powerful attack using ghost form-overlap!

And like other dolls, the purple doll collapsed helplessly with a Golden Reaper-shaped hole.

!!!

But the Golden Reapers couldn’t help but flinch in shock.

Even the physically immune Golden Reaper had mutually annihilated in the overlap.

This is bad!

What do we do?

The Golden Reapers couldn’t help but panic.

The purple doll slowly began regenerating the wound in its heart, but with the Mini Reaper Garden blocked, the Golden Reapers couldn’t be replenished.

The Golden Reapers slowly set down their helmets and spears that would get in the way of fighting.

Then they looked at each other with grave expressions.

Their eyes showed determination to block the doll even if it meant painfully sacrificing parts of their bodies.

Mother, please win quickly!

The Golden Reapers gazed blankly in the direction where the giant purple monster had appeared, sending small wishes to Mother.

A sky full of beautiful starlight though moonless.

Soft, luxurious grass.

Though there weren’t any snacks, somehow it was a scene that put Golden Reapers’ hearts at ease.

!

The Golden Reaper who had been blankly staring at the sky in such scenery quickly came to its senses.

The Golden Reaper that had mutually annihilated with the purple doll had opened its eyes in Mini Reaper Valhalla.

Must get back quickly!

Even if the connection between Mini Reaper Garden and Sehee Research Institute was cut, there must be a way.

Crossing through the door connecting Valhalla and Mini Reaper Garden, vast marshmallow plains came into view.

Coming out to the shallow parts of Mini Reaper Garden through the marshmallow plains, quite a rowdy atmosphere filled the air.

In the shallow parts of Mini Reaper Garden that had once connected to the courtyard, Golden Reapers and siblings were gathered making a commotion.

No way!

Humans are in danger!

Most noticeable were the purple siblings who had been searching for attached humans in Italy.

Perhaps to forget their anxiety, the purple siblings kept squabbling endlessly.

Besides them, it was full of Golden Reapers and siblings who had scattered across the world searching for attached humans.

Mini Reapers pounding at the unopening void, shedding sparkling tears.

The recently revived Golden Reaper also sat down nearby with a gloomy expression.

Sehee Research Institute is in danger. Mother’s attached humans are in danger.

Sniff.

But the mini Reapers could only sit and wait endlessly.

A usually busy Seoul road was wrapped in darkness, unlike normal.

The streetlights that usually lit the road were twisted and broken, leaving only moonlight to softly illuminate the darkness.

Through that darkness, Qing and the Italian siblings were running quickly.

Actually, they’d entered Korea quite a while ago.

They came to see Sehee Research Institute and the mini Reapers.

But taking their time like tourists, slowly coming up from Busan, they’d only arrived in Seoul about 6 hours ago.

Each Korean city had such strong characteristics that just looking at interesting things took way longer than expected.

Every city had fascinating Object-related systems, and harmful Objects were scattered everywhere.

A dangerous journey, but full of sightseeing!

To Qing’s group, the cities were so different from each other that it felt less like one country and more like a federation of city-states.

The incompetent and corrupt Object Association probably had a big hand in how things turned out this way.

“Do we still have further to go?”

The Italian sister asked the Purple Eyepatch Reaper sitting on her head.

The Purple Eyepatch Reaper shook its head as if to say there was still far to go.

Why do we keep heading toward Seoul’s outskirts?

Qing wondered, watching the Purple Eyepatch Reaper leading the group from the front.

Even now, people must be getting hurt and dying, but Purple Eyepatch Reaper kept heading toward Seoul’s outskirts.

Though they dealt with dolls they encountered and saved humans along the way, they didn’t spend much time on rescue activities, seeming to just endlessly try to leave Seoul.

Even though it plays too many pranks, it still cares about and protects humans…

Qing felt slightly uneasy but calmed herself by looking down at the Crown Orange Reaper in her arms.

Hop.

At some point, Purple Eyepatch Reaper jumped down lightly to the ground.

Swish.

With a soft sweeping sound, shadows spread endlessly around Purple Reaper.

And from the shadow-filled flat ground, shadow-made poles began to rise.

As the long poles were completed, four branches began to sprout from them.

What was completed was a large pinwheel made of shadows.

“A pinwheel?”

It seemed like something they’d seen before.

“Brother, I think we saw this in Italy.”

They remembered seeing this pinwheel shape at the ‘Golden Reaper Meeting Plaza’.

Making that small pinwheel must have taken considerable effort, as Purple Eyepatch Reaper collapsed in exhaustion.

Then Crown Orange Reaper landed beside Purple Eyepatch Reaper, reached out to the air, and slowly began turning.

As if trying to spin the pinwheel with telekinesis.

The pinwheel began to turn slowly.

Spin.

Spin spin.

Spin spin spin.

As the slowly turning pinwheel reached a certain speed, a sweet fragrance began to spread around.

Pop.

At that moment, a golden antenna suddenly protruded from the perfectly smooth shadow surface.

That antenna gradually rose above the surface, and below it, a Golden Reaper’s puzzled face began to appear.

The emerged Golden Reaper looked around with a ‘where am I?’ expression.

And as soon as it realized this was Seoul, it dove back in with a startled expression.

Pop pop pop.

Seconds after the Golden Reaper disappeared, countless golden antennae sprouted like grass across the smooth shadow surface.

Charge!

Charge!

And with overflowing enthusiastic will, Golden Reapers and mini Reapers began surging up from the ground.

Golden Reapers rushing toward Seoul like a golden wave.

Warrior Golden Reapers running at high speed with light sabers.

Black Reapers gathering and transforming into giants.

Purple Reapers standing in a circle around the pinwheel, reinforcing it.

An army of mini Reapers several times larger than those struggling in Seoul began pouring in toward the city.