Seoul Object Story
Chapter 308: Aftermath of James Space Station (3)

Near Sehee Research Institute, in Yerin’s apartment where she had moved after the Association Doll incident.

A presence was felt in Yerin’s dark, empty room within that apartment.

With Yerin having left for work at Sehee Research Institute, numerous Mini Hungry Ghost were gathering in the unoccupied home.

They were pitiful Hungry Ghost, parts of their bodies blackened from being burned.

The gathered Mini Hungry Ghost headed towards the room where the Lead Doll was sitting.

Upon arrival, the Mini Hungry Ghost sat on the floor in a fan shape, facing the chair where the Lead Doll was seated.

After waiting for a few minutes, the Lead Doll slowly began to open its eyes.

As if its eyelids were incredibly heavy.

Then, upon discovering the Hungry Ghost gathered before it, the Lead Doll smiled gently with a kind expression.

Kyuu!

Seeing that smile, the Mini Hungry Ghost leapt onto the Lead Doll’s lap.

One by one.

In an orderly fashion.

The Lead Doll gently embraced the Hungry Ghost that rushed over in turn.

Kyuhihi.

Sitting on the Lead Doll’s lap, the Mini Hungry Ghost let out satisfied laughs as they enjoyed being stroked.

It was a small moment of peace given to the Mini Hungry Ghost who were burned by Red Reapers and torn apart by Golden Reapers.

A moment so warm for the Mini Hungry Ghost.

A happy respite that continued until the Lead Doll fell asleep again.

As the Mini Hungry Ghost were enjoying this happy moment, a small golden head poked through the tightly closed front door.

It was a Golden Reaper that had followed the Hungry Ghost as they headed somewhere while laughing ‘Kyuhihi’.

‘!!!’

The Golden Reaper that witnessed the Hungry Ghost’s happy moment froze in shock, as if it had seen something that shouldn’t exist.

A gentle mom.

A mom wearing clothes.

A mom that hugs with a smile.

A mom that doesn’t torment Hungry Ghost.

All were impossible, fantasy moms.

Central Seoul Forest, Steel Tower.

I was lying in front of the Steel Tower, waiting for it to completely collapse.

Though the sound of something breaking could be heard constantly, no matter how long I waited, the Steel Tower wouldn’t fall.

‘The sound of breaking keeps coming, but there’s no change no matter how long I wait.’

Is it taking so long to collapse because the Steel Tower is too big?

‘I don’t know.’

In fact, the Steel Tower was absurdly large even considering it was an Object.

It was as big as a large building, but it felt completely different from a building.

A building with various structures like windows and entrances installed.

The Steel Tower made of a single piece of smooth metal without any structures.

Few people would look at a building and think, ‘I wonder how many people it would take to hug around its circumference?’

But many people try to do that with large trees, and it was the same with the Steel Tower.

Perhaps because there were no structures, its size felt very tangible.

I walked up to it with heavy steps, spread my arms as wide as possible, and clung tightly to the Steel Tower.

‘It would probably take about 100 Gray Reapers to have a chance of measuring the circumference.’

After measuring the Steel Tower’s circumference, I fell backwards and lay down on the ground.

As I was resting like that, the Golden Reapers who were cleaning up Seoul Forest started clinging to me while giggling.

The children who clung to me began to crawl up my body, gathering on my belly.

‘Mom’s belly fat!’

‘It’s soft and squishy!’

Hop hop.

And they started playing, using my soft belly like a trampoline.

I don’t think it was this bad before, but lately it feels like all the nearby Golden Reapers come running as soon as I lie down facing up.

As if an unmissable playground had appeared!

Is it really that soft?

I lightly pinched and kneaded my belly fat.

As I watched the children bouncing up and down, I felt a new ability sprouting.

Judging by the timing, it must be the Green Moon’s ability.

It was a subtle ability that seemed like it could be the Green Moon’s ability to overgrow plants, yet also not quite.

As I watched the Golden Reapers hopping on my belly, a fun prank using the Green Moon’s ability suddenly came to mind.

Hehe.

To play the prank, I grabbed one of the Golden Reapers that was having fun.

‘?’

I breathed fuel into the Golden Reaper, who tilted its head with a puzzled expression.

‘From now on, you’re a chubby Golden Reaper!’

But the Golden Reaper, already knowing that my fuel couldn’t make it gain weight, just giggled.

It was probably thinking, ‘Mom’s doing something weird again?’

I mixed in a bit of the Green Moon’s ability with that fuel and let it flow into the Golden Reaper.

The so-called Green Moon’s Overgrowth Ability!

‘!!!’

The first to notice the change were the Golden Reapers watching from my belly.

‘It’s getting bigger and bigger!’

Due to the ability to increase the size of Mini Reapers, the Golden Reaper that was small enough to fit in one hand started to grow little by little.

A humble ability compared to making plants lush all over the Earth.

It was an ability to temporarily increase the size of Mini Reapers and make them chubby for a moment.

Moreover, the maximum increase in size was only about double, but that was enough to scare the Golden Reapers.

‘!!!’

When the Golden Reaper I was holding looked down at its palm, its antennae shot up in surprise.

And perhaps because its palm was gradually getting bigger, it started to struggle and try to escape from my grasp.

‘No way!’

‘Now you’re a chubby Golden Reaper too!’

Hehe.

When I said that with a laugh, the other Golden Reapers started to move away from me with frightened expressions.

‘It’s become like the Yellow sibling!’

The Golden Reaper that escaped from my grasp collapsed on the ground, looking at its slightly chubby belly.

‘….’

After a little while, the clearing in front of the Steel Tower was filled with Golden Reapers that had doubled in size, sprawled all over.

‘No way….’

They were all Golden Reapers who had been caught by me and turned into so-called ‘chonks’.

Fortunately, the Green Moon’s ability could be used remotely, so I succeeded in making many Golden Reapers chubby.

The Golden Reapers who had become chonks lay sprawled out glumly until the duration ended and they returned to their original form.

Hehe.

It’s been a while since a prank succeeded.

Outskirts of Songpa District, Sehee Research Institute.

A woman with a Green Reaper perched on her head came to the Sehee Research Institute.

The woman, who had only recently been able to leave the hospital, was quite excited.

The Sehee Research Institute she had wanted to visit so badly!

The woman spoke to the Green Reaper on her head with a slight smile.

“Are you excited too?”

“Ming!”

As the Green Reaper and the woman arrived in the courtyard of Sehee Research Institute, numerous Mini Reapers began to rush over.

‘It’s a sibling!’

‘A new sibling!’

Watching this scene, the woman looked around the courtyard while fiddling with her camera.

The Gray Reaper isn’t here…

According to the James Research Institute report, the Gray Reaper is often absent.

She thought there was a high chance she wouldn’t see it, but it felt a bit gloomy that it really wasn’t there.

“Miing!!!”

The Green Reaper, which had been sitting and eating pudding with the Mini Reapers, flew up into the sky and let out a loud ‘Ming’ sound.

‘?’

The Mini Reapers and humans in the courtyard were puzzled.

But after a little while, grass began to grow vigorously in the courtyard of Sehee Research Institute.

And tiny Mini Animals began to sprout from within that grass.

‘!!!’

From Mini Rabbits as big as a Mini Reaper’s head to cute creatures like Mini Long-tailed Tits.

These were the animals that had melted into dark green slime during the Green Moon’s rampage.

Even the cheerful Red Reapers had looked slightly depressed when burning the slime of these animals, they were so popular.

‘Tiny baby bird!’

‘Tiny rabbit!’

The Mini Reapers smiled brightly at the Mini Animals they were reunited with.

Thump thump.

The courtyard of Sehee Research Institute began to get noisy, with Mini Reapers walking around with Mini Long-tailed Tits perched on their heads or feeding seed-shaped jellies to Mini Hamsters.

‘Sibling is amazing!’

‘Amazing!’

The Green Reaper blended in with the Mini Reapers like that.

Near Sehee Research Institute, in a place overgrown with vegetation.

Although Songpa District had been considerably restored, there were still quite a few empty places with few people around.

In one such deserted place, where the interior was hidden from outside view by thick vegetation, the Yellow Reaper had set up camp.

It was a small hideout created by the Yellow Reaper to escape the always noisy Mini Reaper Garden.

The hideout was a fairly large burrow made by controlling Black Reaper doll clothes, and inside it was piled high with various types of dolls.

From simple teddy bears to dolls resembling various people, and even Object dolls like the White Hungry Ghost doll.

There were all kinds of dolls.

Small footsteps began to approach the Yellow Reaper’s hideout.

The sound of feet dragging through the dirt, shuk shuk.

Hearing that sound, the Yellow Reaper stopped making doll clothes and smiled a slightly wrinkled smile.

The owner of those footsteps entered the cave with familiar movements and greeted the Yellow Reaper.

“Hello! I’m here!”

The Yellow Reaper also expressed its joy at seeing the Ash-gray Girl smiling brightly.

It laughed as if saying ‘Huhihi.’

“Ah! You laughed weirdly again!”

The Ash-gray Girl, wearing old and worn-out clothes, grumbled while puffing up her cheeks at seeing that laugh.

Then she kneaded the Yellow Reaper’s cheeks, properly lifting the corners of its mouth.

“You should smile like this.”

Hihi

The Ash-gray Girl smiled brightly, facing the Yellow Reaper that had learned to smile properly.