Seoul Object Story

Inside the cold, solid prison of Trinity Research Institute, a man was lost in deep regret.

He silently scolded himself as his mind swirling with self-reproach.

It was a storm of self-reproach that was caused by the fact that he had made a grave mistake in bringing his daughter to Trinity Research Institute, which he once believed to be the most trustworthy organisation as well as the best place for science in the entire world.

The man was just trying to grant the earnest wish of his daughter who desperately wanted to see the Gray Reaper. He never thought something like this would be happening.

He thought the Trinity Research Institute would be the safest place to see the Gray Reaper, so he made a reservation to see the Gray Reaper, but… He and his daughter ended up being locked in a cage that was used to imprison countless terrified people.

In this dark situation, he could hear his daughter’s voice which was filled with fear.

“Daddy….”

“It’s okay. It’ll be okay.”

The man suppressed his fear as much as he could and tried to comfort his daughter with his usual voice.

When the man saw his daughter’s usual bright face stricken with fear, he felt regret once again.

It looked like no one related to Objects could be trusted!

“This is kidnapping and confinement!”

“You guys are in big trouble! Do you know who I am?”

People who were angry because they couldn’t fathom what was happening made their voice heard. Before long, he was surrounded by a cacophony of protests and pleas from others.

As he held his trembling daughter closer, the man began to fall into deep thoughts.

It was obvious that the protests and anger of the imprisoned people would not make the situation better. In fact, the institute’s employees who were hanging around the room didn’t seem to care about the protests.

Would such a threat really work against the people who dared to carry out this kind of kidnapping?

When the man saw the employees walking around confidently without even hiding their identities, he had a bad feeling.

Even mundane robbers would kill any witnesses who see their faces, so what would Trinity Research Institute employees do?

It would be reasonable to assume that they were going to kill them.

If they told him they would release him later, he wouldn’t believe it.

At that moment, the numerous corruptions that were revealed during the collapse of the Central Research Institute came to his mind.

Instigation of murder, concealment of corpses, and using homeless people as food for Objects.

All kinds of terrible things came to the man’s mind before disappearing again.

It was a terrible case that occurred in the Central Research Institute, so it was a big mistake to believe that it would also happen at Trinity.

At that moment, a thunderous voice exploded right next to the man.

“You! I have remembered your face! Once I get out of here, you’re done, you bastard!”

Those words came out with such a ferocious force that the man could feel the air being pushed out.

When the man turned his head to check, he could see a muscular, angry old man there.

The old man’s face was distorted because of anger. It also turned bright red as he continued to threaten in a deafening voice.

He even took off his shirt and threw it at the researchers while screaming.

That shout became a catalyst for change in the attitude of researchers who had been indifferent until now.

Researchers who had maintained their cool attitude until now suddenly showed a change in behavior. Their eyes glinted dangerously as strange smiles began to spread on their faces.

At that moment, the man’s primal protective instinct surged.

The man reached out to her daughter and held his daughter’s hand tightly. Then, he made his way through the crowd with his daughter in tow.

He then hid among the people to avoid the intense gaze of the researchers and watch the situation unfold.

The researchers, whose attitude suddenly changed, slowly approached the old man.

After looking at the prisoners as if glancing around for meat at a meat shop, one particular researcher whipped his neck back and asked his colleagues.

“We don’t have to keep everyone alive, do we?”

“Huh? Y-yeah.”

At the same time, fear and shock spread among the prisoners.

It wasn’t simply because of the scary words the researcher just said.

It was because the researcher’s arm had transformed from that of a human to that of a monster.

Then, the researcher used the sharp nails on his grotesque arms to grab the old man tightly.

Crack-!

Before long, the sound of something breaking reverberated through the room.

The old man screamed in pain and begged for his life, but his neck was broken before long.

The researchers of Trinity no longer seemed like ordinary researchers.

No, they didn’t even look like humans.

Their expressions were twisted with malice and hunger.

Their bodies were also twisting grotesquely.

They were nothing but monsters.

Perhaps because the people had finally realized that the possibility of them coming out from this place alive was extremely slim, the inside of the cage became quiet.

Fear, shock, and despair spread in the prison together with the silence.

As fear consumed the prisoner, the man discovered a strange thing.

His daughter was staring at the floor.

“Daddy, the Reaper has appeared!”

His daughter did not pay attention to her surroundings, but just continued to look at one place.

It was a good thing that she had assimilated into the atmosphere around her and didn’t panic, but what did she mean by the Reaper?

The girl then stretched her hands toward her floor.

In front of her stood a very small, blue Reaper.