Seoul Object Story

When we arrived at a quiet military airport located quite far from the spirit barrier, James, who felt like it had been quite a while since the last time I saw him, greeted us. The haggard expression he had when he left James City had faded considerably.

James, who seemed briefly surprised to see me standing on my two feet in a chubby outfit with a crumpled expression, quickly turned his gaze and spoke to Yerin.

“First of all, let me thank you. I just got a call that my secretary was seriously injured and hospitalized in a Korean hospital. I’m sure it was possible because of your help. Thank you very much.”

Yerin waved her hand in response to James’ words.

“It’s fine. In retrospect, I barely survived because of her driving skills.”

Hearing her answer, James said that they shouldn’t talk here and asked us to sit down and talk before guiding us to the inside of the airport. James walked slowly with his unique gait and introduced us to the airport facilities. It was a simple and desolate facility, as expected of a military airport, but it seemed like they had prepared for our arrival because there were some convenient facilities.

James led us to a lounge built by surrounding a part of the airport hangar with a temporary wall and led us to a soft chair inside. At the tables, there were all kinds of snacks, most of which were my favorites.

Om nom nom-!

I quickly sat down and hugged a large pudding container and started eating it. In the meantime, James sat down on the chair and started talking while taking some snacks from the table and eating them.

“I am very embarrassed because I was the one who recommended this place. I never thought the perfectly good spirit barrier would collapse like that. It seemed like one can’t be too sure when talking about Object-related issues.”

Yerin, who was eating a small jelly, shook her head and said.

“How could you predict something like this, James?”

“Still, I can’t help but ask. Do you know anything about that situation? Just what happened?”

“I don’t know either. When I woke up, the barrier was suddenly on fire… Reaper might know, but we can’t really ask it.”

While looking at the back of my head as I absentmindedly ate my pudding, Yerin said so.

“When I woke up, the sky was red, Reaper was already not around, and the spirit barrier was already burning brightly. Then, your secretary came to see me and told me to escape quickly, so I hurried out of the hotel.”

“Then we collided with something and were thrown off the motorcycle, but luckily Reaper came just in time, so both me and the secretary survived. That’s all I know.”

When Yerin explained it like that, I thought it was a really close call.

What would have happened if I had delayed a little more to recover the firewood, I wonder?

Of course something really terrible would have happened.

“I see, I guess I would have to wait for the investigation result. The Object Association is currently predicting that it’s related to the ‘Object drug’ incident that’s been on the rise lately.”

James continued talking while looking at Yerin, who was sitting in an awkward position.

“Even though your complexion is pretty good, your posture looks uncomfortable. Are you hurt somewhere?”

“Ah yes. I think my ribs were broken when I was thrown from the motorcycle, but they’re better now. I think the Blue Reaper did something to heal me. But I think I should still return to Korea and get a thorough checkup.”

“I see. So you’re thinking of going back to Korea.”

Yerin answered James’ calm question.

“We should return now. My body isn’t perfectly fine, and I think Reaper also secretly wanted to return.”

At Yerin’s unexpected answer, I lifted my head from the pudding container and looked at Yerin. I thought Yerin would naturally ask to go somewhere else, was her health worse than I thought?

No matter how I looked at it, it didn’t seem so bad that I had to move her to Sehee Research Institute through the Garden of the Mini Reaper, though.

After hearing Yerin’s words, James glanced at my face for a moment.

?

Then he turned his head towards Yerin again and said,

“Then, you should take my private jet.”

“Wow, really?”

Yerin smiled brightly at James’ answer before taking my hand and shaking it happily.

“We’ll take a private jet together again this time!”

Yerin smiled brightly at the thought of taking the plane together with me.

In fact, I was thinking about secretly going back by teleporting alone, but I guess that wouldn’t work…

Knock-! Knock-!

At that moment, a quiet knock echoed from the wooden door.

“I think the plane is ready.”

James said as he got up from his seat.

“Let’s meet in Korea next time. We decided to build James Tower in Korea, so we’ll be able to meet again soon.”

Yerin got up from her seat and picked me up while I was eating pudding.

“Let’s go home, Reaper.”

Yerin’s soft voice rang in my ears.

It was the end of our difficult trip to America, where only strong Objects appeared.