Seoul Object Story

Late at night, the security room of the Sehee Research Institute was unusually crowded.

Typically, this room would be filled with exhausted employees, barely holding onto their consciousness, their eyelids heavy with drowsiness. But tonight, every person in the room had bright, eager eyes.

Of course, it wasn’t because they were suddenly filled with a surge of dedication and were diligently working hard for the sake of the Institute.

No, the real reason was far more whimsical: they were engrossed in watching the CCTV screen, munching on popcorn as if they were tuning into the latest episode of a thrilling TV show.

On the screen, a little Golden Reaper was bouncing around all over the place, carefully carrying a pudding on its back.

The employees observed with rapt attention, much like one would while watching an irresistibly cute cat or dog video.

“Awww!! The Golden Reaper is so cute!!! I want one! Can’t I just take one home?!!”

“Sob! Me too, man, me too.”

As the night wore on, the Golden Reaper trotted through a dark, unlit hallway.

It moved sneakily, its eyes darting around everywhere, hoping not to be discovered.

However, unfortunately for the Golden Reaper, it was well, impossible to hide on a dark night like this. After all, just like the Gray Reaper, the Golden Reaper also emitted a gentle golden light from its body!

The otherwise pitch-black hallway was softly illuminated by its light, making it all the more conspicuous. Rather, it was actually harder to not spot it.

The employees watched with warm hearts as the Golden Reaper’s adventure, which had been smooth until now, encountered an unexpected roadblock.

Yes, The road was—quite literally—blocked!

A large steel wall suddenly blocked the path of the now-baffled Golden Reaper.

Confused and slightly panicked, the Golden Reaper, which had been merrily skipping along, now found itself without a way forward.

It whipped around, searching frantically for another way through, but alas the little reaper was out of luck.

“Aww… I guess it didn’t know that we put up barriers in a few places after midnight.”

“Well, the Golden Reaper tends to fall asleep early in the evening, so how would it know? It’s normally asleep by now?”

The Golden Reaper paced back and forth in front of the closed gate, trying to find even a teeny-tiny possible gap to slip through. But, of course, there was no such gap in the high-security barrier designed to keep out Objects.

If it were the Gray Reaper, it would have simply torn down the barrier, picked up the pudding, and continued on its way. But the Golden Reaper didn’t seem to have any intention of using brute force.

“Umm, should I just open it?”

“Hey, you know that it won’t just end with a pay cut if you get caught, right?”

“But! I feel so bad…”

The Golden Reaper, oblivious to the guards’ debate, continued to wander around near the barrier. It knocked on the metal surface and even tried to climb over it.

After trying every possible method it could think of, the Golden Reaper finally plopped down on the floor in despair, clutching the pudding tightly to its chest.

The high-tech CCTV, installed by Deputy Director Seoah, captured the face of the Golden Reaper in 4K UHD, inflicting even more emotional damage on the guards.

“Ah, whatever. I don’t care anymore! I’m opening it!”

One of the guards exclaimed, finally breaking under the Golden Reaper’s sad puppy eyes.

Rumble-!

With a loud rumble, the barrier slowly rose.