Seoul Object Story

At an ambiguous time between day and night, a large man strode towards a huge mansion on the outskirts of Seoul.

Though luxuriously decorated, the mansion exuded a gloomy aura, as if a dark shadow loomed over it.

The man was quite large in size, with short, blunt cone-shaped golden horns sprouting from his forehead. He was in the business of kidnapping and selling people.

Contrary to his confident gait, the man’s mind was in utter turmoil.

Usually, the butler of this manor would initiate contact for requests. But this time something was different. The buyer had made quite an unusual demand: the man needed to visit the manor before receiving the request.

Ignoring such suspicious demands was standard practice. However, this buyer was a significant client, having made numerous requests before.

Furthermore, with a reputable title as the director of the Trinity Research Institute, he couldn’t refuse such a request and found himself visiting the mansion.

As soon as the man knocked on the entrance door, the butler answered instantly, as if he had been waiting for the man all along.

“The master is waiting. Please follow me.”

It was the same voice the man always heard over the phone.

The skinny old butler gave off a strange aura that made the man uneasy.

He followed the butler past the mansion’s gate into a strange black garden.

The garden was covered with some kind of black soil and covered in black-colored plants he had never seen before.

Moreover, the whole place smelled like petroleum. Despite the unpleasantness of the garden, he couldn’t show it, not with the eerie butler beside him. Fortunately, when they entered the mansion, the smell of petroleum vanished completely.

The interior was even more luxurious, starkly contrasting the eerie black garden.

A huge Trinity Institute logo dominated the center, while intricate stained glass mosaics adorned the windows.

Gorgeous tapestries hung on the walls, while soft light emanated from a chandelier above.

After passing through the luxurious lobby, they arrived at a large reception room. There, a man in a neat suit stood up from his chair to welcome him.

The middle-aged man seemed to be the mansion’s owner.

“Ah, you’re here. Welcome. I hear you’ve been putting in a lot of effort for me recently. Don’t be so tense. I just wanted to take a look at your face, so I called you.”

The middle-aged man glanced around the living room and said so. The walls were decorated with golden horns of various shapes and sizes, like mounted deer heads. All of them were golden horns which the large man had delivered.

“Thank you for always delivering such excellent horns. As expected, the bigger and more complex the shape, the more attractive they are. Simply exquisite.”

“A-Ah, yes….”

The large man had felt uneasy from the moment he entered this room. Though he couldn’t pinpoint why, he just wanted to end the conversation quickly and leave.

“Don’t you feel it too? I feel extremely comfortable whenever I am in this room. Although I don’t have enough data to prove it, thanks to the prohibition of research on the golden horns, it must have that kind of soothing effect, right?”

“Y-Yes, of course…” The large man answered half-heartedly and looked around.

“Oh my, it seems only I have been talking all this while. I apologise. Back to the point, I called you here because I was curious.”

The middle-aged man approached, handing him a round jewel-like Object. The sphere shone both in a light apricot color and an ebony black color. It looked like a strange blend of a white and a black pearl.

“Um… what is this?”

“This? Oh, it’s a new nutritional supplement that our institute developed. Give it a try!”

“Uh… do I have to eat it now? Can’t I eat it later?”

“Of course not! It’s a top-secret product of our institute. So please eat it now.”

The large man started to heavily regret accepting the invitation and coming to the mansion. It wasn’t worth it just to please the business contact.

Honestly, how could just some measly contract even be worth it? Having to come all this way to this extremely suspicious place and on top of that being forced to consume this sketchy ‘medicine’?

Of course, he had no intention of ever putting such a suspicious medicine in his mouth. Yet, seeing the middle-aged man’s mood, he feared the consequences of refusal.

Trying to get out of such a sketchy situation, the man hid the medicine in his arms, pretending to eat it.

“I’ve eaten it.”

The middle-aged man just stared at him.

“Khm! If there’s nothing else, I’ll excuse myself.”

As he turned to leave, a voice came from behind.

“That’s strange.”

Ignoring the words, he started walking back the way he came. However, the butler who had been waiting outside the reception room, blocked the man’s path.

“You must eat the medicine, dear guest.”

The man tried to shake off the butler’s hand but his hand wouldn’t even budge. Before he knew it, the butler’s face had turned eerily white, his place full of bulging black veins.

Crunch-!

“Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!”

The butler’s bony arm easily crushed his arm bones.

Subduing the large man who was struggling in pain, the butler found the medicine he had hidden in his arms.

“Yes, of course. it was so strange. No matter how good the suitability was, there should’ve been at least some change.”

The middle-aged man took the medicine from the butler and forced it into the large man’s mouth.