Seoul Object Story

The middle-aged man donned in fancy clothes failed to live up to my expectations and just fell to the ground after turning into a hedgehog.

It would have been really cool if he was able to block a thousand needles…

Of course, after that, ten thousand needles would fly into him and turn him into a hedgehog.

In the meantime, the Blue Reapers were hugging each other and enjoying the joy of victory. They were looking at each other with rare bright expressions.

However, the Blue Reaper who had lost its precious human slowly approached its lying precious human, knelt down right next to her face, and looked down at her with a refreshing smile.

It was as if it was saying, ‘It’s over now, let’s go back together.’

However, the precious human was already unconscious, so I couldn’t see her expression.

The Blue Reaper, who had been patting its precious human’s cheek with a loving expression, quickly looked around to make sure the other Blue Reapers weren’t looking at it.

When it saw the other Blue Reapers were intoxicated with the joy of victory, it pulled its hat down and approached its precious human before hugging her tightly and letting go.

Then, with an embarrassed smile, it got up. However, what the Blue Reaper found after getting up from was the nine other Blue Reapers surrounding him.

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The other Blue Reapers who saw the Blue Reaper’s brave actions kept exclaiming <Amazing!> with slightly envious expressions.

The Blue Reaper who heard the praise pulled its hat down and looked embarrassed and proud.

However, something that didn’t fit the atmosphere was heard amidst the joyful conversation of the Mini Reapers.

“It’s meaningless.”

A guy with the exact same voice and appearance as the dead middle-aged man slowly appeared from the darkness of the passage. Even though he was an Object, his presence was so weak that it seemed impossible for him to regenerate or revive, so how was he able to revive?

Suddenly curious, I checked the killing conditions.

< Cessation of all life activity. >

It was a killing condition that was closer to the killing condition of a living being rather than an Object.

Come to think of it, the corpse of the man who had become a hedgehog was still lying on the floor.

So, it shouldn’t be a resurrection. Was he his twin?

The man tried to say something in a deep voice, but the blue reapers quickly began to write something in the air.

< A thousand needles made of water! >

Unfortunately, this time, he didn’t even try to stop it and just fell to the ground.

“It’s meaningless.”

“It’s meaningless.”

However, a bunch of middle-aged men who looked exactly the same as the previous two started to appear from the other side of the passage.

The scene of people who looked exactly the same filling the passage and approaching while saying the same things was extremely creepy.

The Blue Reaper wrote some strings in the air with a slightly bewildered expression.

< A bed made of water! >

< Protect us! >

It put its precious human on the bed, and a large water droplet appeared as if it was enveloping both the blue reaper and the attached human.

At the same time, the doppelganger-like men began to charge toward the Blue Reapers.

As the distance between the Blue Reapers and the men narrowed, I could sense something strange.

It felt like the men had something similar to the firewood that the Blue Reaper had.

Even though It was similar, it felt like an ominous firewood that looked like an image reflected in a distorted mirror.

*********Rachel was walking along the deserted mountain path that she found through the clues she had obtained.

As she walked along the steep slope with few traces of people, Rachel looked worried.

“The Association is still searching through the village, so I guess we’ll be the first to arrive, right?”

Rachel began to tell the Golden Reaper the current situation, panting. It was something she did to hide her anxiety that her family might be in danger.

The Object Association was incredibly trustworthy, but Rachel was still worried. The most important goal of the association was to ‘stop the Object incident from spreading any further’, so there were bound to be victims.

However, contrary to her expectations, there were already a huge number of association vehicles lined up near the headquarters of the ‘Eye Cult’.

Moreover, the ceaseless sound of gunfire filled the forest.

At the sudden gunfire sound, Rachel felt incredibly uneasy. It felt as if something big had happened to her family.

Rachel bent down to grasp the situation and slowly began to move toward the high hill.

A cult and a gunfight.

Thinking about those two factors, Rachel’s mind was filled with countless religious groups that committed acts of terrorism.

Could such a dangerous religious group be engaging in a gunfight?

However, the sight she saw from the hill she arrived at was quite different from what she had expected. A middle-aged man in fancy clothes was constantly jumping out of the building entrance and windows.

He was the man introduced as the ‘Cult Leader’ in the flyer Rachel had seen.

“What the hell is this?”

The cult leader, who looked like a clone, kept jumping toward the Association members and died. No matter how many there were, they were powerless against bullets.

After some long time passed, the endless swarm of cult leaders finally came to an end. Together with that,  the gunfire stopped, and the forest fell into silence.

There was no hostage situation or injured civilians in sight.

“It’s finally over.”

Rachel held the Golden Reaper tightly in her arms, ready to run toward the Association at any moment.

However, the Golden Reaper blocked Rachel’s actions with a tense expression.

“Reaper? What’s wrong?”

When she saw the Golden Reaper’s cheerful expressions were gone, Rachel felt uneasy for some reason.

*********A man wearing a rough steel helmet with not a single hole in it was looking down at a concrete building that was in shambles.

He was the leader of the 1st Special Forces of the American Object Association.

The team leader looked down at his detector and muttered to himself, unable to hide his doubts.

[ There’s no mind corruption at all. This is an unusual case for a cult. ]

The man’s voice resonated through the tightly sealed helmet, sounding a bit strange.

Since the special forces could use a lot of anti-Object equipment, they had also prepared equipment to prevent mind corruption, but it ended up being meaningless.

He thought that maybe it was just a normal incident unrelated to the Object, but a mission is a mission. He could think about such a unique case after finishing the mission.

[ Team Leader. The rescue operation is complete. ]

Suddenly, a completely different voice was heard from inside the first team leader’s helmet.

[ Then, we’ll start the suppression operation soon. Prepare for combat on your side, too. ]

Upon the news that the rescue team had successfully rescued the people, the team leader ordered the full-scale mop-up operation to commence.

According to Team Leader’s signal, the special forces’ suppression team slowly began to approach the concrete building. As the suppression team who were hiding in the forest revealed themselves, the entrance to the concrete building opened and the cult leader in fancy attire appeared.

“Pain is…”

As soon as the cult leader, who appeared while waving both hands exaggeratedly as if performing a play, opened his mouth, he was turned into a corpse with a ‘Bang Bang Bang’ sound of gunfire.

But that was only the beginning.

The cult leaders began to jump out endlessly from the entrance and windows of the concrete building. It was a strange phenomenon to anyone who saw it.

The incident that had seemed like a normal incident, not under the jurisdiction of the Object Association, was now clearly an Object-related incident.

Like a moth flying into a flame, the cult leader continued to rush in towards the special force.

One after another.

But the continuous march of moths eventually stopped.

The gunfire stopped, and an eerie silence enveloped the dense forest.

In that eerie silence, Team Leader felt that this would not be the end.

It was an instinct that he developed through fighting countless Objects.

He gave the order to remain on standby with a hand signal, and made sure that the suppression team did not let their guard down.

At the moment when the tension of the suppression team, who aimed their guns at the quiet entrance of the building, reached its peak, something strange happened.

The entrance of the concrete building was shattered into pieces, revealing a gigantic cult leader. The cult leader, who stood at an incredible height of 5m, was covered in white flames all over his body and was looking down at the suppression team.

The eyes of the cult leader, who was deeply saddened, were filled with madness.

“Ah, you poor people who are caught up in the illusion of the flesh.”

The voice of the cult leader, who was saddened, reverberated like thunder that shook the ground beneath his feet. It was a violent voice that seemed to squeeze the hearts of those who heard it.

Upon hearing that voice, the Team Leader immediately ordered the special force to resume firing.

The silence in the forest disappeared again with the sound of gunfire. However, the results began to flow in an unbelievable direction. The ‘anti-Object’ bullets that had excellent power against Objects was ineffective.

The most powerful weapon we have, the special bullets, were not working?

It showed that the leader who had just appeared was an entity that could not be defeated by the current equipment. The moment he realized that, his urgent voice echoed throughout the battlefield.

[Everyone, retreat right now!]

However, the moment the first team leader ordered a retreat and turned around to run away, his legs wouldn’t move.

The exoskeleton that was supposed to assist the various equipment they had wasn’t moving.

“The body is nothing more than a prison for the soul.”

The leader slowly approached the suppression team whose feet were tied by the exoskeleton.

When the first team leader checked, the ‘Object battery’, a key component of the exoskeleton, was engulfed in white flames and burning.

“The Object exoskeleton has stopped working. Discard the equipment and escape quickly!”

The team leader threw off his helmet and shouted.

Bang-! Bang-!

Then he pulled out his pistol and fired at the giant leader.

Since the exoskeleton had stopped working, the special forces would surely suffer significant damage, so he was trying to buy some time.

Thump-! Thump-!

The sound of the cult leader’s footsteps slowly approaching. Just like the rifle, the pistol didn’t produce any flames that would burn the Object.

Is this the end?

The Team Leader waited for the end with a calm expression.

If he was going to die, he would definitely choose to die fighting against Object, so it was a fitting end.

In the meantime, the members of the special forces had already thrown off their exoskeletons and scattered in all directions. Of course, if a 5m monster started chasing them, many of them would die or get hurt, but the damage was minimal.

The Team Leader continued to shoot without stopping while looking at the giant cult leader who was getting closer and closer.

*********The Golden Reaper started to run down the mountain path recklessly.

A giant fake human.

A harmful human covered in pain and despair.

The humans were in danger.

While running wildly in its Phantom Form, it suddenly lost its ability to activate its Phantom Form and rolled around on the ground.

With a puzzled expression, The Golden Reaper looked down at its body. White flames were stuck to his body. Somehow it felt bad and tried to brush them off with its palm, but the flames wouldn’t come off.

Before long, it gave up on removing the flames and tried to use its Phantom Form again, but it still couldn’t.

What should I do?

The Golden Reaper panicked when it couldn’t used its Phantom Form, which it should have been able to do.

Thump-! Thump-!

However, when it heard loud footsteps echoing through the forest, the Golden Reaper stopped panicking and ran towards the humans.

The humans were in danger.

Even if it couldn’t use its Phantom Form, it had to help them first.

After all, there’s a human who looked like he’s going to die at any moment.

‘I’m here!’

The Golden Reaper jumped down, burning the firewood it had without reserve, sending out sun-like light in all directions.

Look at me, not the human!

Even though it couldn’t turn into a phantom and didn’t know how to fight, the Golden Reaper radiated such bright light that it seemed like the sun had fallen in the forest.

As proof that the Golden Reaper’s efforts had worked, the giant monster turned to face the Golden Reaper.

It might also be because it felt that the Golden Reaper was a little more threatening, though.

Run away quickly!

The Golden Reaper smiled brightly as he looked at the human who had started to run away.

At the same time, the giant monster’s fist struck the Golden Reaper.

Crunch-!

At that moment, a sound of something breaking in the Golden Reaper’s body, which had never been broken, could be heard.

Ah, it was because of the white flames.

Underneath the fist, the Golden Reaper gritted its teeth and stood up again.

The tattered Golden Reaper was splitting and breaking in all directions like broken porcelain.

One of its legs was missing while the firewood slowly seeped out like blood through the crack.

It hurts.

But the Golden Reaper just emitted even brighter light.

Even though it couldn’t use its phantom form, time acceleration, or any other abilities, it still could burn its firewood to emit light.

I have to buy time until the human escapes!

The Golden Reaper smiled brightly as he looked at the fist approaching it again.