Seoul Object Story
Chapter 85: The Kkachisan Conference (11)

While I was looking up at the huge, flaming red skull, a strange sound tickled my ears.

“Keuuuu”

Following the sound, I saw a writhing lump of mucus where the heart had once been, now reduced to ashes.

It was a black, horribly smelly lump.

It smelled so bad I couldn’t keep a straight face.

The Golden Reapers, with their super-sensitive senses, had already backed away from the lump.

Ew… What is that?

As I got closer, it seemed to be saying something.

I don’t want to die… Help me…

The sound was small and distorted, but it clearly said, ‘Help me’.

Ah, speaking of the fact that it spoke in human language, I remember seeing a similarly smelly guy before! That Human-Object hybrid monster that attacked me in the cave!

Hmm, now that I see it again, the molten mass seemed to be forming into a human shape.

What the? You are telling me that there’s another one of those weird monsters?

Ugh… It needed to die!

So, without much thought, I just blew off the mucus man’s head with ‘Overlap’. ¹

Bubble-! Bubble-!

With the head now blown off, the mucus boiled, stirred, and then exploded into pieces.

The mucus man, who kept muttering ‘I don’t want to die, help me.’ till the very end was finally out of his misery, leaving behind only a puddle of pitch black blood, just like the hybrid monster that had attacked me in the cave.

The mucus could no longer form back into a lump, flowing and spreading everywhere.

Pow-! Pow-!

Meanwhile, the Golden Reaper sleeping on top of my head woke up, punched my head a few times again, and then went back off to sleep.

Hmm… Sigh, I know it will get even angrier, but…

But still! It will be so much fun!

Sneakily I took the little Golden Reaper that was sleeping peacefully on top of my head and quickly chucked it into the puddle of black blood.

As soon as It came into contact with the puddle, the very same Golden Reaper who after falling asleep wouldn’t wake up even if the world were to end, was so startled that it jumped awake out of the slime.

The Golden Reaper, shaking off the black goo by using its phantom form, seemed absolutely livid and instantly returned to the Garden of Golden Reaper.

Ah… It’s absolutely furious, huh? Shit.

Even when I summoned it back to my palm, it just turned its back on me, not even sparing me a glance.

I’m sorry! I will never do it again! I promise! I said, stroking its little head and giving it little head pats with all my heart.

As I continued giving it pats and stroking it, it finally glanced at me and then went back to its regular routine of desperately clinging back to my head, smiling.

Sigh… As expected, the Golden Reaper was kind. Too kind, in fact.

Climbing to the top of the enormous, burning, red skull, I took a look at the moon.

As the red skull was humongous in size, and the fire engulfing it was even more so, the flames soared high to the point where even I was covered in them.

Is this killing condition really something that the humans could’ve found out? Let alone fulfilled?

Hmmm, what to do? What to do… I don’t think there are any fire-retardant suits that could even in theory handle this level of fire…

As I continued looking at the red moon from the top of the enormous skull, it felt a little closer.

The conditions for killing the red moon were:

So… out of the list, I already took care of the red skull and it was burning quite nicely.

Now. I just need to move it to the center of the desert, then do a little dance, and I am done!!

By the time I returned to the institute with Seoah, Yerin would have bought new puddings, right?

Khm! I have to finish this quickly and go back.

As I had guessed already, the center of the desert was always underneath the giant red moon, moving as the moon itself moved.

So, while I was waiting for the red moon to finally appear over the red skull, I played around with the Golden Reapers on top of the burning skull.

But sadly, the red moon seemed uninterested in cooperating…

Instead of quickly coming over here, it felt like it was orbiting around the red skull.

Wha? Did the moon’s movement pattern change?! Hah… What the hell is this? Do I really need to move the skull?

I was currently hiding from the hot moonlight under the Golden Reaper Pyramid.

Haha, hot moonlight might sound like an oxymoron, but believe me, it was scorching.

And right there, sitting on my palm was my little guardian angel, the Golden Reaper.

It was tapping my palm with its tiny little hand—a signal to throw it into the sky. So, I left the pyramid and prepared to carefully throw the Golden Reaper high.

Well, I knew that this little golden baby was an Object far stronger than any human, I couldn’t help but be scared every time. After all, it looked so small and weak.

Carefully, I lifted my palm and tossed the Golden Reaper into the sky. The height would’ve been terrifying for humans, but the Golden Reaper just laughed from joy, spinning in the air before landing in a cool, funky pose like a gymnast.

“Oh!!!!! Good job,” I exclaimed, clapping my hands and petting it. The Golden Reaper smiled brightly, happier than ever.

Hmm? Maybe it wasn’t asking me to throw it because it was fun, but because it wanted praise? Well, it was cute, so it was okay.

The Golden Reaper, who had been staring at me for attention, suddenly turned toward a specific spot on the horizon.

At the same time, the sky split open with a huge pillar of red light falling from within the crack, and all kinds of Objects rose up from all directions.

“Reaper! There are Objects here!”

Holding the Golden Reaper tightly in my arms, I looked around carefully and saw numerous sand soldiers rising up around me.

The Golden Reapers had always been quick to spot Objects that were a threat to me, but this time it didn’t seem very interested.

Did it come to the conclusion that these Objects pose no threat to me?

Fortunately for me, the Objects that came out of nowhere didn’t seem to be interested in me at all, and just ran toward the pillar of light.

The Golden Reaper too, after staring at the pillar of light for a while, soon lost interest and instead showed me a little dance.

Huh? A dance? Why all of a sudden?

Even though it was unexpected, seeing the Golden Reaper, smiling brightly while dancing and looking really happy in general, filled my heart.

What a pain in the ass…

I was currently dancing inside the fire. And I have been dancing inside the fire. And not just for a few minutes—I’d been at it for almost an hour.

When I looked down, I saw the Golden Reapers dancing along with me, laughing and making cute noises. Well, at least they were having fun.

Honestly, I started dancing out of sheer desperation. Moving the skull was impossible, and the red moon wasn’t budging either. So, it was all or nothing.

With a sense of ‘eh, whatever happens, happens,’ I started dancing, and surprisingly, it worked.

A spotlight even came down from above, and the red moon also began to slowly approach me. Hmm, judging by its speed, I’d need to dance for about 3 more hours.

Sigh…

The dance I was doing was modeled after the black penguin’s ‘Dumchit! Dumchit!’ dance. Hah… I’d seen it many times before, but I’d never danced myself, so it was quite difficult.

Now, I just had to keep dancing until the red moon was above my head, right? Just as I thought that, another problem popped up.

Objects came rushing in from all directions and started attacking me.

Seriously? You mean to say that to defeat this Object people have to dance non-stop for three hours inside a fire hot enough to turn sand into glass while fending off attacks from Objects?

And let’s not forget the giant fire-breathing skeleton you have to defeat first. Is this even humanly possible?!

Wait, before we even get to the question of whether or not it was possible to do these, a random human couldn’t figure out such a weird set of conditions in the first place!

Luckily, I didn’t have to deal with approaching objects, I just had to dance like my life depended on it.

After all, I trusted the Golden Reapers to take care of the Objects. They wouldn’t let anyone who tried to crash our little party go scott-free!

Sure enough, the approaching Objects were instantly pulverized into bits and chunks as if they had been put into a meat grinder.

Three hours, huh? I hope they pass quickly.

After the pillar of light came down from the sky, the moonlight weakened. It was probably thanks to the Gray Reaper.

Now, the hot moonlight from the red moon was almost powerless. With the temperature back to normal, I didn’t need to hole up in the Golden Reaper Pyramid anymore.

To top it off, the desert seemed to be closing in. The endless horizon stretching in every direction, whether it be north, south, east, or west—was gone. Instead, the transparent dome, and the familiar forest of buildings beyond it, were now fully visible.

All this happened just after that strange pillar of light descended.

Hmm, maybe the Gray Reaper was trying to save people by the pillar of light?

And, well, the distance between me and the pillar of light was short enough that it felt like I could walk there in no time.

Placing the Golden Reaper, who was happily dancing alone, on my palm, I slowly trekked toward the pillar of light.

Let’s go pay the Gray Reaper a visit!

A dance party had erupted in the Gray Reaper’s containment room, which was absent of, well, the Gray Reaper.

It had all started with the Golden Reapers kicking off their little dance. And seeing their cute moves, Yerin and I couldn’t resist joining in.

Of course, we didn’t have the endless stamina of the Golden Reapers, so soon after we collapsed from exhaustion.

As we were catching our breath, Yerin and I turned on the TV, only to understand the reason behind the little reapers’ sudden antics.

A quite surprising scene was being aired in the news…

Dumchit-! Dumchit-! Dumchit-! Dumchit-!

There was it, the Gray Reaper, dancing awkwardly, surrounded by innocent little Golden Reapers dancing expertly around it.

The video was also in Ultra HD 4K resolution 60fps for some reason…?

It was a surreal scene.

The group of Little Reapers and the star of the show Gray Reaper dancing on top of a tall skeleton(stage?) under a colorful spotlight in the middle of the freaking desert…

Huh? There also seemed to be a ton of people gathered in a circle around the skelly stage? Wha?

Superstar Gray Reaper?

The Gray Reaper’s Idol debut?

What on earth am I seeing?

“Unnie! Unnieeee!! Look! Over there! It’s Seoah unnie.”

“Ah, thank goodness she looks okay.”

Seeing Seoah’s face briefly in the video gave us some much-needed relief.

Hehe! As expected from our ever-faithful and dependable Gray Reaper!

The Guardian Angel of our institute!