Seoul Object Story -
Chapter 294: Doll Expo Aftermath (2)
Deep in Sehee Research Institute, Gray Reaper containment room.
Yerin was holding Gray Reaper in her arms, watching an internet broadcast on her phone.
It was a broadcast she briefly saw during the Association Doll rampage.
The guy was lying in bed, wrapped in bandages, like something had happened after ending his broadcast.
[Hello. I wasn’t going to broadcast, but it seems many people were curious.]
Yerin nodded slightly hearing that.
Few people saw the broadcast, but anyone who did would think the same.
[‘Click. Click. Click.’]
Turning the doorknob three times in a steady rhythm, and a voice.
[“Bachelor in 405. Open the door.”]
This pattern matched exactly what James Research Institute announced as the pattern of ‘dollified’ humans.
Plus, the newly launched ‘Object Safety Management Council’ confirmed what James Research Institute announced.
His last broadcast scene left a deep impression on viewers.
The clicking sound in a dark, eerie atmosphere.
And a situation where you could easily guess what would happen next.
Maybe that’s why his broadcast instantly became a hot topic online, with many people capturing that scene and spreading it as memes.
Seems like quite a number of people were curious if the guy survived, so he turned on the broadcast.
[It was a trap by the dolls, as many of you thought.]
[After turning off the broadcast, moving the wardrobe blocking the entrance, and opening the door. There were dolls swarming behind the landlady.]
[At that moment, cold sweat ran down my back, and I thought, ‘Ah, I’m dead now.’]
The guy in bed was telling his story pretty coherently, but Yerin couldn’t focus on it.
Because of something small wriggling in the corner of the screen.
A black face peeking out from behind the bed.
A cute Object that popped out, saw itself on screen, went ‘Ah!’ in surprise, and quickly hid behind the bed again.
It was because of the Black Reaper.
But though the Black Reaper tried to hide, its small black fingers were sticking out above the bed’s headboard.
Maybe it was hanging from the headboard?
The Black Reaper, probably bored of waiting, peeked out its head every 5 seconds.
Because of that, viewers started noticing the Black Reaper’s presence and chatting about it.
[So just before getting caught, I jumped out the window. It was do or die from the 6th floor, but luckily I survived. Huh? Black Reaper?]
The guy saw the chat and turned his head towards the headboard.
The Black Reaper, caught peeking out and making eye contact with the guy, smiled sheepishly.
[Ah, I told it to hide, but it popped out.]
The guy reached out, put the Black Reaper on his palm, and held it towards the phone camera.
[I was going to show you after telling the whole story, but I’ll introduce it now.]
[This is the Black Reaper that saved me when I couldn’t run away with a broken leg!]
The guy introduced the Black Reaper like that, slowly patting its head.
The Black Reaper looked purely happy, probably because the guy was patting its head.
Then the guy pushed the Black Reaper’s face closer to the camera and started bragging.
[See these teeth here? The sharp ones are a bit cute, right?]
Yerin watched that, turned off the broadcast, and rested her head on Gray Reaper’s crown.
“That’s good. Good that guy survived. Good that Black Reaper saved its attached human.”
Though the Black Reaper was smiling innocently like it didn’t know anything, it must have really tried hard to save that guy.
Just imagining how much it struggled to block Association Dolls swarming from all directions was dizzying.
Enjoying the sensation of Gray Reaper’s antennae tickling under her chin, Yerin suddenly told Gray Reaper something that came to mind.
“Come to think of it, something strange happened.”
Gray Reaper’s waving antennae stopped, as if waiting for Yerin to say more.
“When I went home after the Association Doll incident ended, it was a total mess. But strangely, there were piles of smashed dolls inside the house.”
It was hard to think Golden Reaper came and dealt with them, and the traces were too strange to be from White Hungry Ghost.
“I wonder what happened?”
Hearing Yerin’s words, Gray Reaper spun its antennae round and round as if shouting ‘I don’t know either!’
Where Sehee Research Institute meets the mini Reaper garden.
It was closed when the purple foreign god attacked, but reopened when the purple foreign god disappeared.
Likewise, pinwheels around the world started spinning again, beginning to transport mini Reapers wanting to find their attached humans.
The previous incident must have been quite shocking, as mini Reapers were stationed at the boundary between the courtyard and mini Reaper garden.
They probably intend to throw their bodies to keep the boundary from closing if it tries to close for some reason.
My kids having firewood might be quite effective, but it’s uncertain if they could block foreign god-level interference.
I was lying right on the boundary between the courtyard and mini Reaper garden bustling with mini Reapers.
Half and half, left and right.
Lying like this felt a bit weird.
A feeling of slight unease but also curiosity.
Is it because the wind feels different on each side of my skin?
Enjoying the unique sensation at the boundary, I turned my gaze towards the mini Reaper garden and saw spheres floating in the sky.
Black sphere, invariant.
Blue sphere.
And the newly formed purple sphere.
But the purple sphere was translucent like a ghost, invisible to anyone.
Humans obviously couldn’t see it, and even mini Reapers couldn’t.
Plus, it was a bit smaller than the other spheres.
Probably because we killed the purple foreign god before it was complete.
So summoning a purple giant Reaper with that translucent purple sphere was impossible.
I wanted to collect giant Reapers of each color…
A bit disappointing.
Still, there was one thing to look forward to.
That purple sphere was slowly absorbing firewood and gradually growing in size.
And though not certain, it felt like it was slowly becoming clearer.
Like an unripe fruit, it seemed to be an ability that needed time to properly complete.
Wonder if a giant that can use dimensional disconnect will pop out when it’s properly completed?
Or will it be the ability that strengthened the dolls?
It’s a bit exciting, feels like playing a random gacha game.
Instead of the purple foreign god’s ability we couldn’t get right away, we could get one ability from this incident.
Yoink!
As I reached out towards the marshmallow plains, the marshmallow wriggled and something popped out.
A marshmallow doll that looked like a degraded Association Doll!
A doll with a bald face without eyes, nose, or mouth, and limbs that looked roughly shaped.
The new ability this time was being able to summon as many of these ugly dolls as I wanted using firewood.
Plus, the ability of these produced dolls was just average human level.
It’s amazing there’s no number limit, but for me who can call Golden Reapers like waves, it wasn’t very useful.
Doll!
Instead, it had an unexpected use - mini Reapers really liked those dolls.
Inside those doll heads was an empty cockpit-like space, just mini Reaper size.
Even now, numerous dolls were running around the mini Reaper garden with mini Reapers riding them.
Jumping in place on dolls, or repeatedly running fast then stopping.
It looked like athletes training.
No manual, no one taught them, how on earth are they controlling these?
Mini Reapers were having races like triathlons riding the dolls.
Circling the marshmallow plains, swimming across the hot chocolate sea straight to the snow fields!
Then breaking through the snow fields, climbing the candy mountains, and returning to the marshmallow plains to finish.
They even made a big screen with water droplets to broadcast to other mini Reapers on the plains.
The current champion was surprisingly Blue Reaper!
Blue Reapers controlled those dolls amazingly well, probably because the cockpits had lots of complicated buttons.
While I was watching the mini Reaper doll triathlon like a marathon broadcast, something interesting caught my eye.
A golden comet crossing the mini Reaper garden sky.
It passed by so fast it was hard to see properly, but my greed radar was reacting.
That’s definitely something cool!
I got up and started tracking the comet.
Hehe.
Outskirts of Songpa-gu, near James Tower.
Alex was trudging back to his nest.
He had been tightly bound in a containment room like an Object, but was finally released.
Alex had once been ‘dollified’, but fortunately, he could regain his senses unlike other dollification victims.
Dizzy. Plus, I don’t really know what happened.
Alex had no memory of before or after the Association Doll incident.
He just took a nap and woke up tied in a containment room until just now.
Felt like being hit by an Object with severe mental contamination.
Though not very common, it was a situation he was well-trained for, so he wasn’t too confused.
“Rest well and return according to mental contamination protocol, Alex.”
Just President James speaking with an unusually serious expression, and.
The atmosphere getting a bit weird when Alex passed near his colleagues, that’s all that felt strange.
Trudging home like that, he saw his front door was broken.
No way!
Alex rushed into the house in shock.
What he saw was just his doll lying pitifully scattered on the floor.
“No!!!”
Alex put his hand on the doll’s face with an incredibly sad expression.
But the doll’s face, which always emitted a soft warmth, was cold.
“Elizabeth…”
Alex buried his face in the doll’s chest, as big as its head, which no longer felt warm, and quietly shed tears.
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