The moment I opened my eyes in Yerin’s arms after disconnecting from the giant corpse, a large corpse came into view.
The burning white firewood had died down, and the halo that had been shining above its head had disappeared. However, its size alone gave off a considerable sense of intimidation.
When I looked up in Yerin’s arms, it felt as if the corpse was reaching the sky. Moreover, even though it didn’t move and had empty eye sockets, it seemed to be looking down at me.
The corpse, which didn’t fall down and unnaturally looked down at me for a long time, started to be dragged into somewhere all of a sudden. Like the ‘red monster’ that was dragged into the crack in space, the black corpse was also sucked into the .
The situation and atmosphere of the phenomenon was different, but I felt that way for some reason.
When the entirety of the corpse was sucked in and the returned to its original position in the Garden of the Mini Reaper, I felt that it finally ended.
Oddly, I feel tense when I see that corpse.
Was it because it was too big?
Or because it was the corpse of a high-ranking being?
While I was thinking about that, a lot of bandage lumps with legs growing out of them gathered around me. They were running around, bumping into each other, rolling, and making a mess, perhaps because they could not see ahead and only sensed the direction I was in.
When I jumped out of Yerin’s arms and stood on the ground, the bandage lumps rushed towards my feet and started to headbutt me.
They were full of joyful will.
The Mini Reapers were all excited and running around, perhaps because they had successfully repelled the attack on Sehee Research Institute.
The black reapers looked at the golden reapers running around inside the bandage with envious expressions before joining them in the chaos.
They transformed their own bodies into bandage lumps and started running around.
The garden, which was already a mess with the Mini Reapers running around and bumping into each other, became even more chaotic with the addition of the black lumps.
I laughed softly as I pushed the large number of bandages of the Mini Reapers and knocked them down.
Seeing the fallen Mini Reapers struggling, I finally felt like normal life was back.
In an unofficial private research institute located in a corner of Seoul, no, in a place which was embarrassing to call it a research institute, the sound of a TV came out of a makeshift facility that was just a house that had been remodeled.
[ The zombie outbreak that attacked Seoul is slowly calming down. ]
[ The known number of victims is sky high. However, since there are still many missing people whose whereabouts are unknown, the scale of the damage is expected to increase. ]
The attack of the ‘brain-eaten zombies’ that swept all of Seoul was not properly resolved even after quite some time had passed.
“Ugh, I don’t know what would happen to me if the ‘Golden Reaper’ didn’t exist…’
The woman in the old lab coat was thinking back to a memory with a fearful expression. If she hadn’t kidnapped the Golden Reaper, she would have definitely been on that list of the dead.
In fact, at one point, she was almost 100% certain that she would die.
Whether it was because they were tracking human scent or some other tracking method. no matter how they hid, the zombies with their brains eaten would instantly find where the humans were.
The same was true for the woman who had sensed something ominous early on and locked herself in her lab. It was a sufficiently isolated facility, even though it was inferior to a proper research institute, but the zombies still swarmed in.
There was no sound, no light leaking out, and no smell, but they had come.
The moment the zombies broke the hinges of the steel door and entered, the woman used her wits to squeeze herself into the Golden Reaper containment room.
Although it was extremely narrow, she expected it to last a long time since it was made of material used for Object containment. The woman thought it would last at least until rescue arrived, or until she starved to death.
But probably because she bought the cheapest containment facility on the Internet, contrary to its claim that it could block most Object attacks, the moment the zombie struck it, cracks began to appear on the containment rom, making it as if it would break at any moment.
Probably, if they attacked one more time, the containment room would not be able to hold out and would shatter into pieces.
Then, the zombies’ claws flew over the containment room.
The woman tightly closed her eyes, expecting a terrible death, but no matter how much time passed, she did not hear the sound of the containment room breaking apart.
When she opened her eyes slightly because she found it odd, she saw the figure of the Golden Reaper moving at incredible speed.
With a fierce expression on its face, the Golden Reaper was moving so fast that it left an afterimage, incapacitating the zombies.
Only then did the woman’s thoughts turn to the information about the Golden Reaper that she had glossed over.
< The Golden Reaper’s offensive abilities have not been revealed. >
< However, the objects/humans that were expected to have been attacked by the Golden Reaper had holes in the shape of the Golden Reaper in their bodies. >
The ‘Object Catalog’ the woman bought at the bookstore mainly only had ‘money-making information’ written on it, so the explanation about the Golden Reaper was insufficient, but it still was enough information to understand the current situation.
Zombies incapacitated with a Golden Reaper-shaped hole in their body.
At that moment, the woman was captivated by the ‘Golden Reaper’ with its dignified and cool appearance.
While watching TV, the thought of the Golden Reaper crossed her mind, so she turned her head and looked toward the Golden Reaper. In her sight, a Golden Reaper with an extremely happy expression came out of the containment room and was gnawing on some hardtack.
It was a huge amount of hardtack that the poor woman had bought to fill up her calories because she didn’t have a proper job.
It was extremely hard and tasteless human food with no merits other than being cheap.
And when the Golden Reaper felt the woman looking at it, it smiled bashfully, put down the dry goods, and held out something in its hand.
It was as if it was telling her to eat it quickly because it was so delicious.
It held the star candy that fit on its hand like a baseball and held it out to the woman.
The woman smiled brightly as if she was impressed by the Golden Reaper and put the star candy that the Golden Reaper gave her into her mouth.
While eating the star candy that felt several times more delicious than usual, the woman also picked up a star candy and put it in the Golden Reaper’s mouth.
The Golden Reaper, whose cheeks were bulging from the star candy, rubbed his cheek and laughed.
It was a fun day for the Golden Reaper and its precious human.
The bandage lump that was popular among the Mini Reapers was still popular even after some time passed.
They were kids who liked to eat things, yet, they were still wearing something that blocked their mouths!
There’s probably a Mini Reaper who knew about mummies somewhere, so the other Mini Reapers were running around wrapped in bandages and playing mummy.
Golden Reapers who were having fun playing mummy while biting the other Mini Reaper.
The Blue Reaper who was caught up in the atmosphere ended up dropping their hat while running around wrapped in bandages.
The Red Reaper who was wrapped in bandages and only had its limbs sticking out and running around like a spider.
The mini reapers were having fun while their bodies were wrapped in bandages in various ways, running around, and biting each other like zombies.
And the people at Sehee Research Institute were looking at them with happy expressions.
It felt a bit like Halloween.
By the way, they weren’t supposed to understand anything coming out of movies or dramas, so where on earth did they hear about mummies?
No matter how much I thought about it, it was strange, so I looked for the source of the rumor, and found a certain Golden Reaper.
The Golden Reaper enjoyed watching movies with its precious human. However, when its precious human realized that it couldn’t understand even after watching the movie, they did something they weren’t supposed to.
They explained it in order to make the Golden Reaper understand while watching the movie!
Even though it should be quite hard, they did it for the Golden Reaper.
My precious human is amazing!
Of course, the Golden Reaper felt its precious human’s efforts and was very happy and joyful, so it kept bragging to me.
The Golden Reaper, who had the advantage of being stupid, had become smart!
I got a little scared because I thought a Mini Reaper who was smarter than me would come out.
I was weaker than the Mini Reaper, but what if I become dumber than them?
I got annoyed for no reason, so I messed up the Golden Reaper’s hair while it was explaining how cool its precious human was.
The Golden Reaper tilted its head with a bewildered expression as I did so.
Then, I left the Golden Reaper who had messy hair and bewildered expression behind, and started walking around the courtyard of Sehee Research Institute.
Even though Seoul was in chaos due to the zombie outbreak, Sehee Research Institute was filled with the same cozy atmosphere as usual.
While I was walking around, I found a scene that inspired me.
It was a scene of a friendly human and a Mini Reaper sharing a delicious cookie.
This is the last cookie!
The Golden Reaper was holding out the last remaining mini cookie towards its precious human.
“Haha, I’ve had enough.”
A precious human who was giving in while laughing.
Of course, the Golden Reaper, who could feel emotions, knew that it was a lie in order to make it happy and happily ate the cookie while giggling.
Looking at them, I thought of a funny prank.
I was walking around the Sehee Research Institute parking lot, thinking about something very important.
There’s no more important concern in my Object life than this.
I had thought of a funny prank, so now, I should think about when to do it and to whom!
It was a concern that was so important that I couldn’t find an answer.
While I was struggling like that, something strange came into my sight.
A colorful Hungry Ghost was running while pulling a large cart behind it.
When I saw its antennae pointing at me, I realized that its objective was me.
I tilted my head at the moment, thinking,
Why is it looking for me?