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A tower connecting the layers of the round plate.

The Pink Girl and the Blue Reaper entered the tower and were slowly making their way inside.

Clip-clop.

[Clip-clop.]

The sound of the Pink Girl’s footsteps echoed in the tower.

The inside of the tower was so narrow that even Mom Golem would struggle to enter, so the Blue Reaper had settled comfortably on the Attached Human’s shoulder.

Inside the tower, metallic pipes were jumbled together chaotically, with no passages that resembled proper pathways at all.

However, the Pink Girl skillfully navigated the maze-like pipes, headed upwards with ease.

Crossing thin pipes that looked like tightropes.

Spinning on a bar and then jumping to cling onto a bar on the opposite side.

Slowly climbing like a wood spider using just one pole for support.

The Blue Reaper clapped its hands, watching the Attached Human’s movements.

Phew.

With a slightly flushed face, the Pink Girl wiped the sweat from her forehead.

“My grandfather said that the inside of this tower didn’t always look like this.”

“I think there used to be something like a spiral staircase…”

Upon hearing this, the Blue Reaper looked down at the interior of the tower they had ascended so far.

No matter how you looked at it, it wasn’t a structure designed for humans to climb.

Even if one looked at it positively, it appeared more like a jungle gym that only the bravest of souls willing to face death could navigate.

The tower, which seemed impossible for humans to scale, was now in view of its top.

The Pink Girl, who looked a bit tired, saw the white light coming from the tower’s exit and regained her energy, beginning to climb even faster.

“We’ve arrived!”

As they emerged from the dark interior of the tower into the bright light outside, a completely different landscape from the previous layer revealed itself.

The canopy of the sky was always entangled, but it looked considerably looser compared to what they saw in the last layer.

Perhaps because of that, the sky, shrouded in fog, appeared much clearer and whiter.

Moreover, the amount of light pouring down through the holes in the canopy was ample, making it incredibly bright.

“It’s bright!”

Having suddenly stepped into a well-lit area, the Pink Girl squinted her eyes slightly, using her hands to shield her vision.

The Blue Reaper, obscured by something, didn’t pay much mind to the clear but overcast sky.

Yet this layer had a landscape that even the Blue Reaper would enjoy.

Water rose to just above human knee height, gently rippling across the whole layer.

The white light falling from the sky shimmered on the surface of the clear water.

And the glaringly white buildings reflected the light, creating a bizarre atmosphere against the shimmering water.

Clear water reflecting the white sky and white buildings!

Could this be the feeling of a salt desert reflecting the clouds of a clear sky?

<…The water is full.>

The Blue Reaper looked down at the water’s surface, gazing at its own reflection, and smiled slightly.

The Pink Girl had already tossed off all her clothes and dove into the water, swimming happily.

“Come quickly! Let’s play together.”

Hehe, watching the Attached Human laugh like a naughty child, the Blue Reaper began to slowly fly over.

As they soared high and looked down at the white city, something strange occasionally caught their eye.

Black objects mixed into the white city.

‘?’

The black was a statue depicting a being with root-like legs and elongated arms grounded in the ground.

‘Black Reaper? Strong Mom?’

The Blue Reaper tilted its head, gazing up at the bizarre statues scattered throughout the city.

*

Seoul Forest, spreading widely to the north of Seoul.

As I teleported there, the Golden Reapers, milling around the vicinity of Seoul Forest, began to flock toward me.

“Mom!”

“This is serious!”

The number of Golden Reapers gathering was alarming.

The density of Golden Reapers had increased to nearly that of a Mini Reaper Garden.

I don’t think it was even this intense when the Yellow Reaper went missing…

I arrived at the outskirts of Seoul Forest, where it seemed the Blue Reaper had disappeared, and began extending my senses in all directions.

Riding the Mini Reaper Network, I could sense the positions of Mini Reapers scattered across the planet.

However, I only felt the presence of nine Blue Reapers.

One had gone missing.

Those nine Blue Reapers huddled together, flying in formation, as they continued to roam near Seoul Forest.

No matter how much I searched, I couldn’t detect the location of the Blue Reaper; it was likely sucked into a separate space like the ‘Mini Reaper Garden.’

The most likely culprit was the Harmful Object that had made a mess of the Seoul Forest space.

But the space of Seoul Forest had already become a chaotic mess, making it quite difficult to detect the area created by the object.

In addition, the “Ability to Find the Main Body” that I obtained by catching a hungry ghost was also failing to locate the object responsible for distorting the Seoul Forest space.

As if this disturbance in space wasn’t due to an object, but a natural phenomenon.

While I was checking around the vicinity of Seoul Forest, I spotted the Orange Crowned Reaper wandering with the Golden Reapers.

Indeed, the ‘disappearance of the Blue Reaper’ was an issue severe enough to bring the children living with the Attached Human back.

At that moment, the Orange Crowned Reaper showed something to the Golden Reaper, claiming to have discovered something.

What could it be?

“I found the severed head of the Blue Reaper.”

“No way!!!!!!”

As I approached to confirm, it was a head of a Blue Reaper, intricately formed from gathered water.

It seemed that it was trapped, holding the water from scattering through “Probability Control.”

“Ah!”

And when the Orange Crowned Reaper made eye contact with me, it immediately tried to flee.

Instead of helping with the search for the Blue Reaper, the Orange Crowned Reaper, who was hindering me, I caught it firmly and delivered a flick to its forehead.

As I undid the Probability Control that was holding the water mass, the head that the Golden Reaper was holding returned to regular water.

Realizing it had been tricked, the Golden Reaper bit the chubby cheek of the Orange Crowned Reaper with an extremely angry expression.

“Ugh!”

The Orange Crowned Reaper winced in pain, seemingly quite troubled.

Still holding onto the Orange Crowned Reaper, I began to wander around the area surrounding where the Blue Reaper was expected to have gone missing.

After circling the area, the Orange Crowned Reaper’s cheek was now marked with bite marks.

“Ouch…”

How many heads of Blue Reapers did I give to the Golden Reaper?

It’s a prank I want to try, but considering the missing Blue Reaper situation, it seems a bit much…

I’ll have to try it when the Attached Human of the Golden Reaper goes missing.

Hehe.

*

The layer of clear water and white sky.

In that place, the sound of the Pink Girl walking on the water echoed.

Splash splash.

Seemingly enjoying the sensation of walking on the water, the Pink Girl wore a faint smile on her face.

As she hummed a tune and walked splashingly, the Blue Reaper transformed her humming into note-shaped water masses that soared into the sky.

The Pink Girl and the Blue Reaper walked splashingly and entered into a giant building that they had chosen as their destination.

It was a massive structure surrounding the tower connecting the layers.

Unlike the outside, the floor inside was completely dry, and the Pink Girl sat down to dry her feet and put on her shoes, saying,

“This layer is really clean, bright, and nice, but it’s a bit disappointing that we have to move on to the next layer as quickly as possible.”

The Pink Girl wore a slightly disappointed expression.

But there was no choice but to leave.

There was no food at all in this layer.

In the previous layer, there had been plenty of items from another world scattered around, but here there was not a single piece of trash to be found.

“Wow, it’s incredibly spacious.”

The building that the Pink Girl and the Blue Reaper entered had immense space.

An enormous structure made of smooth white stone, without columns to be found.

As they kept moving forward, a mosaic filling the ceiling caught their eyes.

“Wow.”

It seemed to be the Pink Girl’s first time seeing something like this, and she kept admiring the ceiling, looking up.

The mosaic on the ceiling formed a single large picture.

A world filled to the brim with black liquid.

A seven-colored moon floated in the sky alongside a gigantic spider climbing endlessly upward.

And at the far edge of the building stood a black statue.

[Strong Mom...]

The Blue Reaper murmured, gazing at the statue.

At that moment, the Pink Girl shouted toward the Blue Reaper.

“There are words written here!”

Underneath the intensely dark statue that seemed to devour all light, a tiny inscription was etched.

[I’ve finally been able to create a deity.]

[But now, it’s a world without a god.]

[Creating a deity would be meaningless, right? ]

*

In the center of Seoul Forest, where the Steel Tower once stood.

Once there was a Steel Tower, now a Black Light Pillar occupies that spot, and I was gazing up at the dark night sky where the sun had vanished.

Looking up at the sky wrapped in black light, it felt like being trapped within a black light pillar.

Surrounding the pillar were many unfamiliar ruins of buildings strewn about.

The scent of Evolution Liquid lingered heavily in those ruins.

‘Harmful Object!’

The Golden Reapers were examining the debris, proclaiming that it bore the scent of a harmful object, and were bashing it to pieces.

Turning my gaze upward toward the sky, I saw an ominous black star right above my head.

‘That black star seems to be the problem…’

I reached out toward the black star and pulled at the space.

In that moment, a gigantic sphere resembling Earth began to transparently materialize in the sky.

That black planet was not a blue sea but a roiling black sea.