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In a field that rustled like sand, the Pink Girl was looking around with a very anxious expression.

“There’s nowhere to run….”

As time passed and the sky grew darker, the shadows cast by the celestial curtain began to reach toward the Pink Girl and the Blue Reaper.

No matter where she looked, there was no way to escape without touching the shadows.

The monster, flowing like it had melted within the shadows, approached slowly, slowly.

Monsters in the shadows stared intently at the almost depleted shadow of the Attached Human.

As if they were staring at a delicious meal.

Some monsters wandered around the Pink Girl, while others slammed their claws against the ground.

Bang. Bang.

The Blue Reaper felt like it was adrift in a tiny boat in the middle of a sea filled with harmful Evolution Liquid.

During this time, some monsters couldn’t wait for the darkness to expand and poked their heads outside the shadows, but once their bodies touched the realm of the Faint Light, they melted away in an instant.

Seeing this, the Blue Reaper began to weave strings in the air.

“Please defeat the shadows with light!”

As the strings scattered like mist, dozens of orbs of light, each the size of the Blue Reaper’s head, rose toward the sky.

Gathering round as if to protect the Blue Reaper and the Mom Golem, they floated gently.

The lined orbs then emitted intense light from their position, wiping away all the shadows around like a flashbang.

At that moment, the monsters rooted in the shadows also vanished without a trace.

“Awesome!”

The Pink Girl shouted excitedly as she lifted the Blue Reaper and rubbed it against her cheek.

“We could have defeated those monsters by shining light on them. I’ve met them so many times but had no idea.”

“That weak light made from alchemy couldn’t drive away the shadows.”

Saying that, the Pink Girl started rummaging through her bag as if she had thought of something.

“When I checked my bag last time, it was filled with torches, but now there’s not a single one.”

“I shouldn’t have thrown them all away just because they were heavy; I should’ve kept at least one.”

As she dug through her bag, the girl tilted her head with a puzzled expression.

“Huh? But why did I have so many torches in the first place?”

“I can’t eat torches, so it’s strange.”

The Pink Girl closed the opening of her bag with an awkward smile.

The Blue Reaper looked at her awkward smile with a worried expression.

The nearly depleted shadow of the Attached Human kept浮lting in the Blue Reaper’s mind.

*

Thud. Thud. Thud.

The heavy footsteps of the Mom Golem echoed.

Before long, the area that had been filled with dry fields came to an end, and a metallic area continued.

On top of that Mom Golem, the Pink Girl and the Blue Reaper were in a playful tussle.

“I swear it’s delicious! Just take one bite. Even a piece as small as your fingernail is fine!”

<Liar!>

The Pink Girl trying to feed candy.

And the Blue Reaper running away.

The endless game of tag ended with the victory of the Pink Girl.

The Blue Reaper loved the Attached Human too much, making it hard to refuse requests.

With a beaming smile, the Pink Girl broke the candy into a small piece.

“Alright, say ah~.”

As the Blue Reaper shut its eyes tight and opened its mouth slightly, the Pink Girl stuffed the piece of candy inside.

Gulp.

As soon as the Blue Reaper put the candy in its small mouth, its expression began to scrunch up.

“How is it? Isn’t it tasty?”

‘I was tricked!’

It was an extremely sour candy that the other Mini Reapers never dared to touch.

The Blue Reaper, with tears welling up in its eyes, looked up at the Pink Girl with a resentful expression before collapsing to the ground.

“Huh?”

The Pink Girl, startled, picked up the Blue Reaper, but no matter how much she shook it, the Blue Reaper couldn’t regain consciousness.

*

Pong. Pong. Pong.

Time passed, and though the Blue Reaper woke up again, it was still swinging the water hammer down on the Pink Girl’s head.

“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry.”

While the Pink Girl kept apologizing, the Blue Reaper continued to swing the hammer, and the Mom Golem kept walking until it reached the edge of the land.

“We made it!”

When the Pink Girl exclaimed in excitement, the Blue Reaper stopped hammering and turned its head.

Then the Pink Girl placed the Blue Reaper on her shoulder and walked toward the edge of the disk.

As they approached the edge of the disk, the wind coming from below grew stronger, and the smell of Evolution Liquid intensified.

Peering over the edge, the girl’s hair whipped around as if she were standing in front of a fan.

As the Blue Reaper looked down with the Attached Human, they saw the Evolution Liquid bubbling up and constantly swallowing matter.

The water level of the Evolution Liquid was slowly but surely rising.

“My old layer is already submerged.”

The Pink Girl had a slightly lonely expression.

The place where the girl had made memories with her grandfather had already disappeared.

Seeing her expression, the Blue Reaper patted the cheek of the Attached Human with a concerned look.

“Well, it’s okay. It’s just part of going up. Getting used to layers submerged in Evolution Liquid is somewhat familiar.”

Wiping her expression away, the Pink Girl turned her head to look up at the tower rising from the edge of the disk.

At the end of the disk-shaped layer, a massive tower leading to the next disk.

Following the gaze up the tower, they saw the twisted metal and pipes at the bottom of the disk.

“Alright, let’s head to the next layer. Toward the sun!”

With that, the Pink Girl marched toward the tower with an energetic expression.

*

Deep inside Sehee Research Institute, Gray Reaper Isolation Room.

I was deeply asleep on a large bed in the isolation room, enjoying a nap.

Maybe because I had been moving around a lot lately, I was feeling even cozier and warmer than usual.

Poke poke.

As I slept soundly, someone began to wake me.

At first, they gently poked my cheek, but after a while, they started prodding my eyelids.

From the force and frequency of the pokes, it seemed like one Golden Reaper was waking me.

In terms of emergency alert levels, just one Golden Reaper.

The situation wasn’t really critical.

It was about as urgent as suddenly wanting to eat pudding or a Mini Reaper wanting to play with mom.

So, I forced myself to fall back into the blissful state of sleep.

Hehe.

‘I’m so lucky to be able to sleep, even as an Object.’

Thinking that, I drifted back off to sleep.

When I dozed off and then woke up again, the pokes had intensified.

Poke poke poke poke poke poke poke poke.

I couldn’t even count how many Golden Reapers had multiplied in such a short period of time.

In emergency terms, there were five or more Golden Reapers!

It meant a Mini Reaper was kidnapped or that personnel from the lab like Sehee, Yerin, or Seoah were in danger.

‘Mom, this is bad!’

As I opened my eyes, the Golden Reapers crowded around my face and began to exude their will.

‘Our weak younger sibling is missing!’

‘Blue younger sibling is missing!’

‘We have to rescue them quickly!’

‘They’ll die soon!’

The news reaching my ears was about the missing Blue Reaper—one that would break at a tap.

What a big deal.

As the Golden Reapers caused a commotion, they handed me a piece of blue material.

Written on that piece was <Blue Reaper Missing!>.

It looked like a flyer for finding a lost child.

Inside that material were details of the Blue Reaper’s appearance and the estimated time of disappearance.

However, to me, all the Blue Reapers looked the same, so I couldn’t tell one from the other.

Moreover, the estimated time of disappearance was noted as when the Hungry Ghost of the seven moons was showing its belly.

I had no idea when that was.

Anyway, I needed to get to the area near Seoul Forest quickly.

I hurriedly got out of bed and instantly teleported near Seoul Forest.

*

A tower that seemed like it could touch the sky.

At its top sat a giant spider, endlessly weaving its spiderweb.

Creeeak. Creeeak.

Yet the web the spider was spinning was made of steel pipes.

Clank. Clank.

And the spider was building a web that looked like a tower reaching up to the sky.

Suddenly, the spider paused its building in the blazing sunlight and looked up at the sun.

<The sun’s gaze does not touch this land.>

<The sun lies asleep in darkness.>

As the spider that swallowed the sun whispered toward the sky in a small voice, the sun vanished again.

Creeeak. Creeeak. Creeeak.

Above the massive spider building the web made of steel, a single White Halo was shining down.

 

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