Seoul Object Story-Chapter 426: Book of Contracts (8)

After hearing the Saintess’s wish, Junior 2 suddenly returned to the real world.

She realized she was standing in front of the ruins of the "Order," now in shambles once more.

The cold night air brushed against her skin, and she shivered, wrapping her arms around herself to fight the chill.

Junior 2 was at a loss.

She had to find a small jade plate without any clues...

"Sigh, what should I do? Where am I supposed to find a jade plate?"

Junior 2 asked her beloved Grim Reaper, who was sitting on her palm, as though venting her frustration.

‘I don’t know!’

The Golden Horn Grim Reaper shook its head from side to side as it answered.

The Golden Grim Reaper, who answered with a cheerful expression despite admitting it didn’t know, was so cute that Junior 2 gently stroked its soft horns.

‘This really is an impossible mission...’ Junior 2 thought to herself.

Looking for a jade plate the size of a tablet was like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

It felt like something a massive organization like the James Institute would need years to accomplish.

"I knew it. There’s nothing easy about this..."

She sighed and muttered.

‘Should I ask everyone?’

At that moment, the Golden Horn Grim Reaper looked at Junior 2 and sent a wave of willpower.

Asking the Mini Grim Reapers probably wouldn’t help...

Junior 2 knew that the Mini Grim Reapers weren’t particularly useful as informants.

Even though the Golden Horn had grown larger and she could now communicate with the Mini Grim Reapers in simple ways, this made her acutely aware of their limitations.

The Mini Grim Reapers couldn’t remember ordinary things.

Especially something mundane like a jade plate—there was no way they’d remember it.

The objects they could recall were typically the ones associated with their master and the god-like being, the Gray Grim Reaper, but due to her contract with the man from the lamp, Junior 2 couldn’t receive any help from the Gray Grim Reaper.

<Follow your heart, choose freely, and move forward.>

Despite that, Junior 2 decided to follow her instincts and give it a try.

When Junior 2 nodded and asked if she should try asking, the Golden Horn Grim Reaper stretched both arms toward the sky, releasing a powerful wave of will.

‘Help!!’

With that, Junior 2 anxiously asked, "You don’t think this will be heard by the Gray Grim Reaper, do you?"

The Golden Horn Grim Reaper responded with a sad expression, mumbling its will quietly.

‘Mom doesn’t listen to our network...’

Seeing this, Junior 2 was at a loss for what to do and hugged the Golden Horn Grim Reaper tightly.

While feeding the Golden Horn Grim Reaper some treats, a crowd of Mini Grim Reapers had gathered without her noticing.

Junior 2, recalling the image of the jade plate that the Saintess had shown her, turned to the Mini Grim Reapers and asked.

‘Do you know where I can find a jade plate like this?’

Unlike the sulking other Grim Reapers, the Black Grim Reapers started jumping up and down, laughing brightly, as if eager to announce something.

They raised their hands like elementary school children desperate to answer, and began chattering their will.

‘I know!’

‘I’ve seen it!’

‘It was buried inside a building!’

Seeing their energetic response, Junior 2 couldn’t help but smile.

‘So where exactly is it?’

At her question, the Black Grim Reapers all pointed toward the sky with their fingers.

Looking up, she saw a vague, black planet that covered half the sky.

Junior 2 muttered with disbelief.

"How are we supposed to get there?"

At that moment, with a whooshing sound of a cloak, a quiet will reached her ears.

‘You can go.’

Turning her head, she saw a graceful Purple Grim Reaper, draped in a cloak, leaning against a wall.

Oh? Oh?

Before she realized it, guided by the Mini Grim Reapers, Junior 2 found herself standing on the black planet.

"Mini Grim Reapers, you’re incredibly capable..."

Junior 2 marveled, looking down at the blackened sea from a cliff.

Under the familiar canopy sky of the marshmallow plains, drawing familiar curves.

"Phew, finally succeeded."

I was looking down at the freshly created snack.

I had succeeded in turning the possession-type object that had tormented the Golden Grim Reaper into a snack.

How it was possible, I still didn’t know.

If I had left it alone, it wouldn’t have become a snack.

So, I decided I wouldn’t let it slip away, and after burning a huge amount of firewood, it had turned into a snack that fell right in front of my feet.

Perhaps it was because the number of Mini Grim Reapers I commanded had increased?

Or perhaps it was because the ‘Halo of Seeing Death’ was getting stronger as I used it?

Anyway, my snackification ability had grown quite a bit by now.

Well, it’s a good thing that my ability is getting stronger.

I looked down at the snack I had just made.

What was once a ghost-like mummy was now a completely different form.

It was white and fluffy, like carbon dioxide filling a dish with dry ice.

Curious, I reached out my hand, and its body had such a faint density that it dispersed like smoke.

However, if I didn’t touch it, it stayed in the air, looking like something extremely soft between smoke and solid form.

When I looked closely, I noticed its shape.

‘It looks a bit like a goby...’

It didn’t have a nose like a goby, and its eyes were somewhat similar to that of a goby, but the overall shape was more elongated.

It felt like a mixture of a goby and a ferret, made into smoke.

‘By the way, can I actually eat this?’

It was just a clump of smoke, and no matter how I looked at it, it didn’t seem like something edible.

Things that emerged from the Mini Grim Reaper garden were usually snacks.

In fact, it was entirely possible that all of them were snacks.

The Golden Grim Reaper smelled a bit delicious, so it was a reasonable suspicion.

But that was still just a guess.

I hadn’t actually eaten a Mini Grim Reaper yet.

‘Someday...’

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I thought, smiling.

I believed that someday a kind Mini Grim Reaper would appear to satisfy my curiosity.

Hehe.

"Ku...?"

I shifted my gaze at the small sound that suddenly reached my ears.

The smoke ferret, which had been collapsed, slowly opened its eyes.

Its eyes were full of confusion and fear.

As it looked around, the ferret seemed to realize what kind of situation it had gotten into, and it sank to the ground with a look of despair.

I looked down at it and pondered what kind of punishment to give it.

The punishments of the snacks that had been punished so far came to mind.

The white goby that had made me suffer.

The hamster that had injured Yerini.

And the flamingo that had harmed the Blue Grim Reaper.

I thought carefully as I recalled those punishments.

‘Since it’s like smoke, I don’t think the punishment of tearing it apart like a goby will work...’

At that moment, the roller coaster I had seen at Yerini’s house came to mind.

As soon as a good idea struck me, I flipped the Halo of the Maze onto my head.

‘From now on, you’re going to push the roller coaster like Sisyphus for eternity.’

While sending my will to the ferret, a huge roller coaster began to emerge in the Marshmallow Garden.

The roller coaster car, designed for Mini Grim Reapers, was tiny like a toy.

However, the course was long enough to rival any real roller coaster, and it was designed to move at such high speeds that ordinary humans would find it hard to even see with the naked eye.

Beneath the roller coaster, a special rail was built just for the smoke ferret.

‘Now, you’re going to keep running here.’

I selected a few white gobies and appointed them as the managers.

Like the sugar flamingos that had managed the hamsters, they were given the task of overseeing the ferrets.

Thud thud thud.

As soon as the roller coaster was completed, the Black Grim Reapers swarmed in.

What was strange was that not a single Golden Grim Reaper was present—only Black Grim Reapers.

As soon as the passengers appeared, the white gobies stretched out their antennae and whipped the smoke ferret relentlessly.

Kyuhehe.

The antennae were lit with flames carrying objects, and the smoke-like ferret began to twist its body in agony as it started running.

The Black Grim Reapers happily rode the roller coaster, laughing with joyful expressions.

‘It’s fun!’

‘So fast!’

It seemed like the kind of smile that showed the everyday life of the happy Mini Grim Reaper garden.

Meanwhile, in the underground part of the roller coaster, there were only malicious laughter and pained moans of agony.

"Kuuh..."

It felt like a hell set up in the Mini Grim Reaper garden's underground.

Kyuhehehehehe.

Hearing the goby’s laughter, I started feeling like tormenting the goby more, so I closed the underground door and stepped out into the garden.

Looking up at the sky, I sank into thought.

‘By the way, that gas lamp is really annoying.’

It had been bothering me since it was connected to the Evolution Liquid, and now, even with the Golden Grim Reaper Betrayer Incident, the gas lamp was behind it all.

‘It needs to be dealt with.’

‘The Lamp Man’ seemed suspicious, and I wasn’t sure if I could defeat him, but I couldn’t just leave it like this.

As though parting the Red Sea, the black sea split apart.

Junior 2 walked between the gap, looking up.

The sunless black sky was visible through a small slit high above.

Purple Grim Reapers had created a path by cutting through the space with their shadows.

How they managed to do it, I wasn’t sure, but I was walking right through the center of the Evolution Liquid, yet there was no peculiar smell like petroleum in the air.

Walking between the endless walls of water on both sides, Junior 2 was overwhelmed by the sight, feeling as though her breath was taken away.

The walls of water that rose high on either side seemed almost as if they were going to touch the sky.

It felt like facing a gigantic ruin or perhaps staring at an endlessly high waterfall.

‘Over there!’

Avoiding the Evolution Liquid, guarded by Golden Grim Reapers, a Black Grim Reaper with a bright expression released its willpower.

In the direction the Black Grim Reaper pointed, an entrance to a city, so intact it was hard to imagine it had been buried in the Evolution Liquid, came into view.

The ground was covered with glimmering pebbles, as if coated in glass, reflecting a faint light.

The city’s entrance was filled with glass sculptures, windows, and mirrors that radiated purple light.

The city resembled something out of a fantasy novel, but it felt somewhat unusual due to the abundance of glass ornaments.

Click click.

Following the guidance of the Black Grim Reaper, Junior 2 walked down a road filled with mirrors.

"It’s a bit creepy," she muttered.

The road was too pristine, and with so many mirrors, it almost seemed like a ghost might appear.

‘!’

Junior 2 quickly turned her head, sensing something moving, but all she found was a mirror, pieced together from broken shards.

It looked like a mosaic, with pieces of different colors, creating a strange and slightly eerie effect.