Chapter 311: The Ash-gray Girl (3)
Late afternoon at the Yellow Reaper’s hideout.
The Ash-gray Girl opened her mouth with an anxious expression.
“You know, lately really strange things keep happening to me.”
The Yellow Reaper, who was making dolls in a corner of the hideout, turned its head at the Ash-gray Girl’s words.
“Yesterday, I ate a candy my brother gave me, but it was so sour that I spat it out, and it was a writhing mass of cockroaches. It really gave me the creeps, but when I looked again a little later, it was just an ordinary candy.”
“And this morning when I went to school, the building looked like ruins. I was so surprised that I rubbed my eyes and looked again, and it was the ‘usual’ building.”
The girl mentioned a few other strange occurrences as well.
It was about hallucinations that appeared for less than a second, as if something was overlaid on her vision.
“Am I going crazy? Or is it Object mental contamination?”
Hearing those words, the Yellow Reaper closed its eyes tightly and shook its head vigorously, expressing strong disagreement.
It was as if it was saying, ‘You’re not crazy!’
“Thank you. Strangely, I couldn’t tell anyone about this. I feel like everything will crumble the moment I speak.”
The Ash-gray Girl knew the rumor that Mini Reapers couldn’t properly understand human speech, but somehow the Yellow Reaper seemed to understand.
“Still, I’m scared. The hallucinations are appearing more and more frequently.”
The Ash-gray Girl hugged her knees tightly and lowered her head, turning pale.
As the girl became anxious, the Yellow Reaper didn’t know what to do.
It seemed not to know how to comfort her or how to approach her.
In the midst of this, the Yellow Reaper spotted a doll outfit in the corner and put it on.
Wearing the Golden Reaper doll outfit, the Yellow Reaper put on a bright smile like the Golden Reaper and charged towards the Ash-gray Girl.
Bonk!
Perhaps because it ran too energetically, the Yellow Reaper couldn’t stop properly and bumped into the Ash-gray Girl’s feet, rolling over.
Seeing this, the Ash-gray Girl let out a small laugh.
The doll outfit with button eyes that looked strange.
Moreover, the Yellow Reaper, which had been so passive, was now desperately trying to comfort her in such a ridiculous doll outfit.
The girl picked up the Yellow Reaper in the doll outfit, poked it with her finger, and said,
“Can you actually see with this? With button eyes?”
The Ash-gray Girl said this while letting out a small laugh, as if air was escaping.
But the Yellow Reaper was so surprised by the girl’s words that its mouth opened wide.
‘The doll outfit didn’t work!’
The Yellow Reaper played with the Ash-gray Girl, whose mood had improved, by changing into various doll outfits.
A Blue Reaper using magic.
A Red Reaper breathing fire.
Even a Purple Reaper moving shadows.
The Yellow Reaper showcased various Reaper doll outfits like this.
And as time passed, when the sun had moved a bit closer to the horizon.
“I should go now. See you tomorrow.”
The Ash-gray Girl, with her back to the sun, said goodbye to the Yellow Reaper.
At that moment, the Yellow Reaper held out a doll it had been making for the Ash-gray Girl.
Button eyes, ash-gray hair, and a worn and tattered school uniform.
It was a palm-sized Ash-gray Girl doll that the Yellow Reaper had made based on the Ash-gray Girl.
“Wow, did you make a doll for me? Thank you.”
The Ash-gray Girl received the doll with a bright smile.
“You really made it well. Our school uniform is pretty but really complicated and fancy, and this is exactly the same!”
Saying this, the Ash-gray Girl hugged the doll preciously and slowly walked away, while the Yellow Reaper watched her disappearing figure endlessly.
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