Seoul Object Story
Chapter 296: Doll Expo Aftermath (4)

In a spacious room at James Tower on the outskirts of Songpa-gu.

James was carefully examining several large blueprints spread out on the floor.

On James’s cheek, a bright-faced Golden Reaper was pressing its cheek against his, giggling.

From the outside, it looked like they were looking at the blueprints together, but the Golden Reaper wasn’t really thinking about anything.

It was just happy to be doing something with James, occasionally rubbing its cheek against his.

James pointed at the blueprints on the floor and said:

“Which design do you think would be good?”

The blueprints James pointed to were all special armor designs for Tyrannosaurus.

They were various types of armor, improved versions of the one sent to Gray Reaper before, with quite diverse variations laid out.

Starting with a type similar to the previously sent armor.

Tyranno with wings.

Tyranno in menacing heavy armor.

Tyranno shooting laser blades from its whole body.

Even humanoid Tyranno that could fight holding weapons like humans.

There were really diverse types of designs.

But there was a problem.

Which version would Gray Reaper like?

So James printed the blueprints on paper and chose to have Golden Reaper select one that Gray Reaper might like.

Hearing James’s words, Golden Reaper tilted its head as if unsure and started examining the blueprints.

After a while, Golden Reaper selected one blueprint with its small finger and smiled brightly.

Its expression seemed to shout ‘Mother will definitely like this!’

Golden Reaper chose the brilliantly shining Golden-Mecha-Tyranno.

James felt slightly puzzled by Golden Reaper’s choice.

Did Gray Reaper like gold?

Then he nodded, remembering the giant Gray Reaper golden statue in Gray Reaper’s break room.

Seeing the golden statue, it probably at least doesn’t dislike gold.

“Well then, we should start production on that Golden-Mecha-Tyranno armor.”

James gave Golden Reaper a big pudding to express his thanks for helping decide.

Om nom nom.

Golden Reaper held a huge spoon compared to its body, scooped up some pudding, and nibbled the edges of the pudding on the spoon with its small mouth.

Then it put the spoon on its shoulder, lifted it up, and held it out to James.

“Want to eat together?”

James looked at Golden Reaper smiling with an expression saying ‘hurry and eat together’, and put that pudding in his mouth.

Hehe.

Golden Reaper smiled happily watching James eat.

And just as James was about to scoop up pudding to feed Golden Reaper in return, James’s phone made an ominous sound.

That urgent and loud sound was an emergency signal indicating a crisis had occurred.

When James took out his phone and checked, the screen showed some unsettling content.

Sehee Research Institute office.

The moment Helmet Researcher entered the office after a normal commute, he could feel the office atmosphere was quite different from usual.

The first thing catching his eye was Golden Reapers!

Like a bean sprout container, Golden Reapers were packed so tightly on the office floor it was hard to walk.

Plus, there were far more researchers in the office than usual.

It made him think…

I didn’t know there were this many Sehee Research Institute employees working in the office.

Sehee Research Institute employees who often left their seats on various excuses like smoking or coffee were all sitting in place to watch the Golden Reapers’ unusual behavior.

The cause of the Golden Reapers’ unusual behavior was two Objects sent by the ‘Korean Object Safety Management Council’.

Two completely sealed Objects placed near Kim Jung-roe.

“Not even a formal request through documents, but suddenly delivering them in person with just a verbal notification…”

“Where is Director Lee Sehee at times like this…”

Deputy Director Park Seo-ah and Senior Researcher Kim Jung-roe frowned and seemed to be looking for ways to handle this, like making phone calls.

But the Golden Reapers didn’t care about the office atmosphere and just fixed their gaze on the sealed Objects.

Like cats fixated on something interesting, every Golden Reaper in the office moved their gaze following whenever Kim Jung-roe lifted the Objects.

The Golden Reaper sitting on Helmet Researcher’s palm also stared intently at those Objects.

What on earth are those things?

Judging by Park Seo-ah and Kim Jung-roe’s reactions, they seemed to be very dangerous Objects…

With this level of reaction, they could even be evolution fluid samples.

Helmet Researcher stroked the distracted Golden Reaper’s head and asked:

“Can you tell me why you’re acting like this?”

Then Golden Reaper turned its head towards Helmet Researcher and started frantically explaining something with hand and foot gestures.

I don’t get it.

But of course, he couldn’t understand.

The gestures Golden Reaper used were quite different from humans, making them hard to interpret.

Plus, the same motion seemed to have multiple meanings overlapping, or they seemed to use motions as they pleased.

Maybe it’s the hardest language in the world to interpret?

Harmful Object!

We need to throw it away quickly!

Mother! Come quickly!

But the Golden Reapers had gathered in droves because they were worried about the Sehee Research Institute people.

A truly evil Object made only with malice had entered Sehee Research Institute.

Late morning, Sehee Research Institute courtyard.

I was basking in the sun in Yerin’s arms in the courtyard, which was quieter than usual.

Strangely, I couldn’t see researchers drinking coffee and playing with mini Reapers every morning, or Golden Reapers rolling around next to me.

Enjoying a rest lying with Yerin in the quiet courtyard after a long time.

Yerin was munching on my antennae and telling me various stories.

“Remember the lead doll Reaper gave me? It might be my imagination, but I feel like it’s moving little by little.”

“Normally I should think it’s dangerous, but seeing White Hungry Ghost clinging to it tightly, it must be okay, right?”

Ah, the lead doll.

It was that intricate doll found in Blue Girl’s workshop.

I gave it as a gift thinking Yerin might try to dress me up less if I gave her the lead doll.

I was satisfied because her attempts to dress me up really decreased dramatically.

Though I felt a bit uneasy about what Yerin might be doing with my doll.

Well, even if it moves, there shouldn’t be much problem with White Hungry Ghost attached to it.

“Oh, and Objects were delivered from the ‘Object Safety Management Council’ early this morning.”

Then, an interesting story came from Yerin’s mouth.

New Objects coming in?

It was an occasional fun event at Sehee Research Institute.

Wonder what kind they are this time?

As I was listening to Yerin’s story with my eyes closed like that, Golden Reapers started walking towards me.

Thump thump.

And they climbed onto my body as I lay with my eyes closed as if sleeping, and started calling me.

Mother!

Big trouble!

But I didn’t want to shake off the pleasant drowsiness, so I kept my eyes closed pretending to sleep.

Smack smack.

Then Golden Reaper started hitting my eyelids with its palm.

And as if knowing I was pretending to sleep, it lifted my eyelids and forcibly made eye contact.

Mother, you need to wake up quickly!

Golden Reaper must know I don’t see with my eyes, but it always tries to make eye contact.

I reluctantly left Yerin’s arms and walked into the institute following Golden Reaper’s guidance.

When I arrived and saw:

This is definitely worth making a fuss about.

Two very harmful Objects had arrived at Sehee Research Institute.

Antique lamps like Watson.

Maybe because I’ve gotten stronger lately, or because I’ve been seeing foreign gods often.

The lamps looked very weak to me, but they were incredibly harmful to humans.

Looking at it now, those lamps seemed a bit similar to the purple foreign god.

Though not a foreign god, like the purple foreign god that was a foreign god.

It was something incomplete that wasn’t an Object while being an Object.

Emitting an aura like an Object while not being an Object.

Having visible destruction conditions like an Object while not being an Object.

I should go kill the ‘lamp owner’ sometime, but I couldn’t find where they were.

If I use main body tracking on those lamps with my antennae, the lamps would probably get smashed like last time.

Should I seal them in the mini Reaper garden for now?

After deciding how to handle the lamps like that, I gave orders to the Golden Reapers.

Bring those here!

Then the Golden Reapers packed tightly on the office floor rose like a wave and swept up the sealed lamps.

Outskirts of Songpa-gu, James Tower.

James was watching the operation video in progress at the Object Association while securely connected from Korea to the US Object Association.

“Are Objects appearing even on space stations now?”

James’s low voice represented everyone’s feelings at the Association.

Several days had passed since communication with the space station was cut off, but no abnormalities were found through long-distance observation.

James Research Institute and the US Object Association were lost in thought for a long time, and finally decided to send a manned exploration ship.

The exploration team leader communicated.

While monitoring the exploration ship at the control center, they detected an ominous anomaly.

“Mental contamination levels are rapidly reaching dangerous levels.”

After approaching a bit more, worry was evident in the team leader’s communication.

Though docking seemed impossible, during the seemingly smooth progress.

An unexpected situation occurred.

Even though the mental contamination shield hadn’t collapsed, the exploration team leader started leaking strange observation information.

Right after that, communication was cut off.

Green moon?

“Try long-distance observation immediately!”

The flustered James shouted urgently.

The control center hurriedly attempted long-distance observation, but the exploration ship had vanished without a trace.

As if the station had eaten it.