Seoul Object Story
Chapter 324: The World at the End (5)

A tower connecting the layers of the original plate.

The pink girl and the Blue Reaper had entered that tower and were slowly advancing.

Thump thump.

[Thump thump.]

The sound of the pink girl’s footsteps echoed inside the tower.

The interior of the tower was so narrow that it was difficult for Mom Golem to enter, so the Blue Reaper obediently settled on its Attachment Human’s shoulder.

Inside the tower, metal pipes were irregularly jumbled together, so there was no proper path that looked like a real road.

But the pink girl skillfully climbed over these maze-like intertwined pipes, adeptly heading upwards.

Crossing thin pipes as if walking a tightrope.

Spinning around on horizontal bars, then leaping to cling to the opposite bar.

Slowly climbing up using a single pole for support, like climbing a tree.

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The Blue Reaper clapped its hands, watching its Attachment Human’s performance.

Phew.

The pink girl wiped the sweat from her slightly flushed forehead.

“Grandpa used to say something. The inside of this tower wasn’t originally like this.”

"It seems there was something like a spiral staircase going round and round."

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Hearing this, the Blue Reaper looked down at the tower interior they had climbed so far.

No matter how you looked at it, it wasn't a structure made for humans to climb.

Even being extremely generous, it looked like a jungle gym that only the bravest, ready to face death, could climb.

The tower that had seemed impossible for humans to climb was now showing its end.

The pink girl, who had seemed a bit tired, regained her energy upon seeing the white light coming from the tower's exit and began climbing at an even faster pace.

"We've arrived!"

And as they emerged from the dark tower interior into the white light pouring down, a completely different scenery from the previous layer revealed itself.

The sky curtain that always haphazardly blocked the tower's sky looked much looser than what they had seen in the previous layer.

Perhaps because of this, the sky, which was just hazy and white as if covered in fog, was much more visible.

Moreover, there was much more light coming through the holes in the sky curtain, making it extremely bright.

"It's so bright!"

Perhaps because they had suddenly come out to a bright place, the pink girl was squinting slightly, shading her eyes with her hand.

The Blue Reaper, having something covering it, wasn't particularly interested in the sky that wasn't blue but hazy.

However, this layer had a scenery that even the Blue Reaper would like.

Clear water, rising just above human knees, rippled across the entire layer.

The pure white light coming down from the sky shimmered on the surface of the clear water.

And snow-white buildings that reflected light so brightly it was almost blinding, blended with the clear water to create a strange atmosphere.

Clear water reflecting the white sky and white buildings!

Would a salt desert reflecting the clouds in the clear sky feel like this?

<..., it's full of water.>

The Blue Reaper looked down at the water's surface, gazing at its own reflected face, and smiled slightly.

The pink girl had already thrown off all her clothes and was swimming in the water.

"Come quickly. Let's play together."

Looking at the Attachment Human laughing like a mischievous child, the Blue Reaper slowly began to fly towards her.

As it rose high and looked down at the white city like that, some strange things occasionally caught its eye.

Black mixed in like foreign matter in the white city.

'?'

That black was a statue depicting some being with legs rooted to the ground and two long arms.

'Black Reaper? Strong Mom?'

The Blue Reaper tilted its head, looking up at the strange statues erected throughout the city.

Seoul Forest, sprawling widely in the north of Seoul.

As I teleported there, Golden Reapers that had been wandering around near Seoul Forest began to swarm in.

'Mom!'

'It's a big problem!'

The number of Golden Reapers swarming in was alarming.

Seoul Forest had become so densely populated with Golden Reapers that it was almost at the level of the Mini Reaper Garden.

I don't think it was this bad even when the Yellow Reaper went missing....

I arrived at the outskirts of Seoul Forest where the Blue Reaper seemed to have disappeared, and began to extend my senses in all directions again.

Riding the Mini Reaper network, I could sense the locations of Mini Reapers scattered all over the Earth.

But the number of Blue Reapers I could sense was only nine.

One had decreased.

The nine remaining Blue Reapers were clustered together, flying in formation, continuously circling around Seoul Forest.

No matter how much I searched, I couldn't sense the location of the missing Blue Reaper, which probably meant it had been sucked into a separate space like the 'Mini Reaper Garden'.

The most likely culprit was the Object that had messed up the space of Seoul Forest.

But the space of Seoul Forest was already so jumbled up that it was quite difficult to detect the space created by the Object.

Moreover, even with the 'ability to find the main body' that I had gained from capturing the Ghoul, I couldn't locate the Object causing the spatial distortion in Seoul Forest.

As if this spatial entanglement wasn't an Object phenomenon, but a natural one.

As I was wandering around near Seoul Forest examining things, I saw an Orange Crown Reaper walking around with a Golden Reaper.

Well, the 'Blue Reaper's disappearance' is serious enough for even those staying with Attachment Humans to return.

At that moment, I saw the Orange Crown Reaper showing something it had discovered to the Golden Reaper.

What could it be?

'I found the Blue Reaper's severed head.'

'Nooo!!!!!'

When I approached to check, it was a head of the Blue Reaper intricately formed from water.

It seemed to be holding the water together with 'Probability Domination' to prevent it from scattering.

'Ah!'

And when that Orange Reaper's eyes met mine, it immediately tried to run away.

I firmly grasped the Orange Crown Reaper, which was hindering rather than helping the search for the Blue Reaper, and gave it a flick on the forehead.

And when I unraveled the Probability Domination applied to the water mass, the head the Golden Reaper was holding turned back into ordinary water.

Then the Golden Reaper, realizing it had been tricked, bit the Orange Crown Reaper's chubby cheek hard with an extremely angry expression.

'Waaah!'

The Orange Reaper seemed to be in quite a bit of pain, exuding a pitiful will.

And I, holding the Orange Crown Reaper in my grasp, began to wander around the area where the Blue Reaper was presumed to have disappeared.

After wandering around like that, the Orange Reaper's cheeks were covered in bite marks.

'It hurts....'

Just how many Blue Reaper heads did you distribute to the Golden Reapers?

I want to try that prank too, but it doesn't feel right for this Blue Reaper disappearance....

I should try it when a Golden Reaper's Attachment Human goes missing.

Hehe.

A layer of clear water and white sky.

The sound of the pink girl walking on water echoed there.

Splash splash.

The pink girl's face wore a faint smile, as if she found stepping on water pleasant.

As the pink girl walked splash splash while humming a tune, the Blue Reaper turned that humming into musical note-shaped water droplets and shot them towards the sky.

The pink girl and Blue Reaper walked splash splash like that, then entered a large building they had set as their destination.

It was a massive building surrounding the tower connecting the layers.

Unlike outside, the pink girl sat on the completely dry floor, drying her feet and putting on her shoes while saying:

"This layer is really clean, bright, and nice, but it's a shame we have to go to the next layer as quickly as possible. It's a bit disappointing."

The pink girl wore a slightly regretful expression.

Still, they had no choice but to leave.

There was no food at all in this layer.

There were also no objects that seemed to have come from another world, which had been scattered all over the previous layer.

Rather, there wasn't a single piece of trash visible in this entire layer.

"This place is really huge."

The building the pink girl and Blue Reaper had entered was incredibly spacious.

A massive structure made of smooth white stone without a single pillar.

As they continued forward like that, a mosaic filling the ceiling came into view.

"Wow."

The pink girl, seemingly seeing something like this for the first time, kept exclaiming in admiration while looking up at the ceiling.

The ceiling mosaic was one giant picture.

A world filled with black liquid.

A seven-colored moon rising in the sky and a giant spider endlessly climbing towards the sky were depicted.

And at the edge of the building stood a single black statue.