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Joyful music and a delightful atmosphere.

The dazzling holograms dazzled the eyes, and the cheerful laughter and singing filled the ears.

It was truly a festival!

‘!’

Yet, amidst all this joy, an ominous feeling crept in, prompting me to look up at the sky.

Even the Golden Reapers, who had been dancing merrily, started to gaze at the sky with serious faces, as if they sensed something strange.

But looking at the sky brought only blinding holograms into view.

The sky was completely obscured.

Like a gigantic ceiling, the holograms covered the entire city vault.

There were many holograms, but I didn’t think it would reach this extent…

As I continued to look up, the hologram Tyrannosauruses began to fly around with jetpacks attached.

It naturally drew my gaze and was somewhat amusing, but…

It seemed like they were trying to pique my interest, making it all the more suspicious.

So, I pointed my finger sharply and swung it toward the sky.

Zwoosh!

The sky and holograms tore open in the shape of my five fingers.

‘!’

And beyond that, I saw a huge, radiant Orange Moon.

As the Orange Moonlight started to shine down upon the city, the festive atmosphere vanished in an instant.

The smiling people stood there blankly like puppets without strings.

The lively music stopped, replaced by an endless silence.

The machine that had been scattering marshmallows like rain all around halted and turned its head toward me.

Silence.

The festival site, now steeped in silence, was unbelievably quiet.

But that quiet didn’t last long.

The people who had been enjoying the festival suddenly bared their teeth and charged at the Mecha Tyrannosaurus.

As their rush began, the Tyrannosaurus displayed its enhanced combat abilities.

Flames burst forth from its mouth, lasers shot from its eyes.

From its back, Tyranno-missiles were launched, tearing into the surrounding foes.

Yet, despite the Tyrannosaurus’s valiant efforts, the numbers of enemies were overwhelming.

I knew how this scenario would end.

If I didn’t help, the Tyrannosaurus would soon be overwhelmed.

Two Golden Reapers couldn’t protect the Tyrannosaurus.

If it continued fighting, it would gradually break down and ultimately be destroyed.

“I’m sorry, Tyrannosaurus.”

I wanted to assist the Tyrannosaurus, but the Orange Reaper was in danger.

To create such a powerful phenomenon with the firewood the Mini Reaper possessed, I had no choice but to stake my own existence.

Time was of the essence; I had to leave without even summoning the Mini Reaper Garden.

However, even amidst the fierce battle, the Tyrannosaurus seemed to smile slightly at me, baring its teeth.

Seeing those magnificent fangs, I leaped through space following the traces of the Orange Reaper.

*

Top floor of the Central Tower.

The room filled with blood disappeared, revealing a scene that felt like I had ascended into a serene sky.

An endless sea of clouds and the Orange Moonlight shining down upon it.

That moonlight was not the sun, but it radiated an incredibly warm glow.

Cheong was shouting out over this sea of clouds.

“Please. Please.”

Cheong was cradling the Orange Reaper, who was gradually shrinking like a candle aflame, tears streaming down her cheeks.

Though Cheong didn’t understand what this sudden sea of clouds was, she could certainly feel that the Orange Reaper was pushing herself too hard.

Could it be that Cheong’s feelings flowed forth?

The color of the Orange Reaper was slowly deepening.

Feeling that, the Orange Reaper, with eyes closed, chuckled inwardly.

“He truly is my Attached Human.”

As Cheong’s firewood power gradually strengthened, the Orange Reaper was escaping the brink of life’s crisis.

However, the Orange Reaper slightly opened its eyes, trembling hands reaching out to Cheong’s face.

And the moment Cheong took its hand, it deliberately slackened its head and arms, drooping down.

As if playing dead.

“No!”

Amid Cheong’s cries, the Giant Deity, enveloped by the Orange Reaper’s spatial control, began to rise.

“Impressive. You mean to say that mere derivatives of the Gray Reaper can create a moon.”

The Giant Deity gazed at the unsteady Orange Moon reflected on the surface of the water, smiling victoriously.

“But it’s not perfect. It looks so unstable that it could break at any moment.”

The Giant Deity clenched its colossal fist and began to slowly approach the defenseless Cheong.

“Now I shall absorb your blood and transform into a complete object.”

Then it slammed that fist down towards Cheong, who was crying uncontrollably.

Boom!

But that strike was intercepted by the endless swarm of Cloud Fish surrounding us.

And just as a school of sardines forms the shape of a massive fish, the large shape of the Orange Reaper began to take form.

‘Complete? A complete object?’

The colossal Orange Reaper, now fully realized, exuded a disdainful will toward the Giant Deity.

At that moment, one of the Giant Deity’s feet began to disassemble slowly like an assembly toy.

“Wh-what’s happening?”

Despite trying to grasp at the collapsing foot using ‘Probability Control,’ the Giant Deity was failing miserably.

Creak. Creak.

As the abilities clashed, a nasty sound erupted, scattering the Giant Deity’s ‘Probability Control’ like a mirage.

The colossal Cloud Orange Reaper began to drift closer to the perplexed Giant Deity.

‘Compared to Mommy’s abilities, it’s pitifully weak.’

With the Orange Reaper exuding a low will, the last of the Giant Deity’s foot collapsed utterly.

‘Without such impotent probability manipulation!’

As the Cloud Orange Reaper poked the Giant Deity’s shoulder, a massive arm crumbled down like a wrecking ball.

‘You can’t even hold your own body up!’

And with another poke, the remaining arm fell apart as well.

As the arms and legs broke down, the remaining torso swayed precariously, ready to crumple at any moment.

The metallic structure that had protected its entire body began to fall apart, and it started to tear apart the last remnants of the human parts left in the Giant Deity.

The heart, which remained to deal with human wishes, was half-replaced with golden horns.

And the brain, already riddled with holes from finger objects.

Those frail parts couldn’t hold together the collapsing flesh of the Giant Deity.

Thus, squeezed within the machinery, the Giant Deity was crushed, becoming a pulp of brain and heart, turning into juice like an orange.

*

I hurriedly leaped through space to save the Orange Reaper.

But by the time I reached the Orange Reaper, the situation had already concluded.

The metal heap, which had become a harmful object, lay dead, oozing brains and blood.

In the corner of the room stood the Orange Reaper and her Attached Human.

The Attached Human, eternally weeping and shedding tears for the Orange Reaper.

The Orange Reaper, eyes closed, lying in the embrace of her Attached Human as if dead.

Perhaps it was because the Orange Reaper was as clever as I was that the Attached Human was special too.

Though not to be compared to Yerin, a girl overflowing with immense feelings.

Thanks to that, the Orange Reaper’s skin swelled up with firewood and glistened, her face slightly rounder.

Summoning the moon caused a slight reduction in the Orange Reaper’s size due to the use of too much existence, but other than that, there were no issues.

“Phew, I thought the Mini Reaper was a goner.”

Just as I felt relief at everything resolving well, I suddenly thought of the Mecha Tyrannosaurus.

So, I broke through the wall and looked outside, but the city had turned into complete chaos.

Those who had replaced parts of their brains with objects transformed into zombies, indiscriminately attacking those around them.

The numbers were far greater than expected, and the city was a total mess.

‘Where is it?’

The presence of the Mecha Tyrannosaurus had already disappeared.

But I couldn’t lose hope.

It must be alive.

It fought bravely.

It was definitely still alive.

Yet, when I found the Mecha Tyrannosaurus, it was already in tatters.

“No way!!”

Rage over the Tyrannosaurus’s death filled my heart.

But that rage lost its way.

Grrraaaah!

I roared inwardly like a Tyrannosaurus, letting the vengeance rise from the firewood within me.

*

Deep underground in the Free City Alliance.

There, three massive finger worms that usually hardly moved began to stir.

These finger worms represented three families that practically governed and tuned the city.

On the worm’s monitor, the city’s situation was displayed.

On the screen, a giant Water Giant was spinning a windmill, reaching up to the Central Tower.

And alongside it, a gigantic Black Reaper swung its massive sword, ushering the city toward destruction.

[Evacuate! Evacuate! Evacuate!]
[We must escape before the Gray Reaper finds this place.]
[Increasing the Gray Reaper variable. We mustn’t experience such failure again.]

The grotesque worms, covered in wires, lumbered out of their tanks, starting to burrow into the ground.

Flash.

At that moment, from above ground to below.

Red lightning struck into the crimson-tinged tank like blood.

[Found it.]

A monster that trembled the air with mere will.

The Gray Reaper.

With shining golden ‘eyes,’ it blankly burned with rage.