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At the Tower at the End, where everything had concluded.

As the spider turned to dust from the ‘Gray Reaper Beam’ I fired, the Black Reapers that had clung to my body began to writhe.

‘I won!’

‘Mommy won!’

Initially reveling in victory, they squirmed and squiggled.

After a little while, the Black Reapers transformed from a mushy liquid form into Mini Reapers.

Their heads poked out roundly on their shiny surfaces.

And the intentions they exuded shifted from celebrating victory to delighting in meeting me.

‘Mommy is warm.’

‘I like Mommy.’

Especially those clinging around me lightly nibbled or licked with their sharp teeth.

I grabbed a Black Reaper that was munching on my cheek.

‘Ugh!’

The Black Reaper squeaked in surprise and began to struggle.

‘What punishment should I give the Black Reapers that keep biting me?’

As I pondered this, the struggling Black Reaper calmed down and began to look up at me with a giggle.

‘Mommy is kind!’

After a while of me doing nothing, the Black Reaper tightly hugged my finger and exuded its intentions.

How cute.

And I had even let it fire the ‘Gray Reaper Beam.’

‘….’

But still, it bit me, so I must chomp down on its head!

Hehe.

I simply popped the Black Reaper’s head into my mouth.

‘No way!’

‘Mommy ate me!’

At that, the other Black Reapers began to flee in shock.

‘Ack!’

‘It’s collapsing!’

Even the Black Reapers maintaining the form of a Black Giant started to run away, causing the Giant Doll Outfit to collapse rapidly.

Plop. Plop.

The Black Reapers fell to the ground with a soft sound.

And I also fell onto the squishy Black Reapers.

While lying atop the fluffy Black Reapers and gazing at the sky, I noticed a halo flickering slowly above me.

As I reached out my hand toward the halo, it was rapidly sucked into my grasp.

As if I were the owner of the halo.

I held the halo in my hand and began to examine it slowly.

‘This is the Halo of Command.’

I smiled mischievously, imagining the countless pranks I could play with it.

As I spun the halo on my finger, lost in my imagination, a bright light burst forth from the distant black horizon.

It was the Sun.

At first, the faint beam cut through the darkness, gradually shining down intense golden rays upon the ruins.

As the warm light of the sun enveloped the desolate landscape, tiny flowers began to bloom all around the ruins.

Between the broken stones and the scattered pipes.

Flowers of yellow, purple, white, pink, and various other colors adorned the dull ruins.

The rising sun seemed like a constellation replacing the fallen stars in the ruins.

Whenever the wind blew, the little flowers swayed as if dancing, and it looked like waves of life were rolling over the ruins.

‘Pretty nice.’

It was a scene that even I, who rarely took the time to admire flowers, couldn’t help but gaze upon.

The Black Reapers also seemed indifferent to the sparkling morning sunlight but peered down at the flowers growing with such effort as if they were something wondrous.

Poke. Poke.

Observing quietly, the Black Reapers carefully poked at the dew-kissed petals of the flowers.

“The flowers have bloomed….”

The Pink-haired Girl, who appeared to have shrunk away among the suddenly appeared Black Reapers, murmured while looking down at the flowers with the Blue Reaper in her embrace.

While watching the Blue Reaper, who smiled gently at the Pink Girl, such thoughts occurred to me.

‘Ah, I miss Yerin too.’

Creeeak. Creeeak.

At that moment, from the massive structure I was standing on, a loud sound began to echo, reminiscent of a rooster crowing at dawn.

It sounded significantly dangerous, as if it might collapse at any moment.

It was probably the aftereffect of battling the spider and wreaking havoc in the space.

Well, the structure was sturdy enough to withstand a rampaging object, so it wouldn’t collapse immediately, but I decided it was time to bid farewell to this world and return to Yerin.

“Alright! Everyone gather around! We’re going home!”

As I declared my intentions, the Mini Reapers began to crawl toward me.

The Pink Girl looked perplexed, but she approached while holding onto the Blue Reaper’s pinky.

I began to feel the Earth connected to me, slowly pulling it closer.

And in the next moment, I leaped across space with the Mini Reapers and that Attached Human.

*

Warm sunlight bathed the tower at the end where the Gray Reaper had vanished.

Thus, the ‘Tower at the End,’ which had endured for ages, began to weather away.

The city made of pipes crumbled to dust.

The roads once walked by academy students, the great shops, and even the majestic academy building gradually disintegrated.

The enormous tiered tower connecting the layers also fell apart.

The surface of the pipes, which always seemed new, grew rough and instantly began to rust and crumble.

Everything in the Tower at the End fell to pieces.

Traces of fields, remnants of empty villages, and the small village the Pink Girl had left all disappeared.

All traces turned to rust and were blown away by the wind, dyeing it red.

In the final moments, the Tower at the End slowly crumbled into the Evolution Liquid.

And no traces remained.

As if nothing had happened.

*

The Sun-Eating Spider was dreaming peacefully for the first time in a very long while.

There was no longer the relentless pain of burning its body or the sharp pain felt from its creaking form.

What the spider was dreaming now was a very, very old dream.

A dream from the time when its master hadn’t yet built the tower, far older than what it had seen with its broken eyes.

[Hey, look! I made a companion to work with you.]

Before the spider’s eyes appeared its master, a short-haired figure glowing brown like perfectly baked bread.

In the dream, the master was thrusting a massive magical book before the enormous spider.

[Isn’t it cute?]

The magical book presented in the dream was a wrinkled and gigantic mole that could even fly.

[This little one will help us with things we can’t do through ‘Ghosting.’]

The master always seemed to be smiling.

With the Evolution Liquid spreading, food became scarce, and even the land for people to live began to vanish….

[Then let’s make a gigantic tower where everyone in the kingdom can live!]

[One day, everything will be solvable. That’s the alchemist who makes the impossible possible!]

That was the kind of person who used to smile.

The dream ended with a scene focused on the hideous face of the gigantic mole.

Flashes of light.

When the dream ended, the Sun-Eating Spider could open its eyes.

‘Did I survive?’

But it soon realized that was not the case.

Diminished size.

A squishy body.

Shortened eight legs.

The spider had already died and been resurrected as a completely different being.

*

In the Mini Reaper Garden, in the Sea of Hot Chocolate.

An elegantly shimmering beautiful structure was being created above that sea.

‘A transparent slide!’

It was a jewel-like amusement park made of sugar that wouldn’t melt.

At the top of that sugary structure, a giant Bread Spider as large as the White Hungry Ghost was spewing strands of sugar from its mouth.

That Bread Spider was immensely popular in the Mini Reaper Garden, where the Gray Reaper had yet to return.

‘So cool!’

The Golden Reapers watched, grinning with delight.

Some Golden Reapers ran ahead, getting covered in sugar puffs from the Bread Spider spewing out sugar threads.

It was also hugely popular with the other Mini Reapers.

Only the Blue Reaper, who had lost its companion, just looked on worriedly, waiting for the return of the Gray Reaper.

The White Hungry Ghost stared at the massive structure with a disgruntled expression.

“Kyuuhhh.”

The White Hungry Ghost had been tied up and was slowly roasting over a campfire.

Even the Red Reaper that was supposed to be roasting the White Hungry Ghost had long left towards the sugary structure.

Thus forgotten, the White Hungry Ghost had been roasted for so long that it had turned completely black.

“Kyuuhhh.”

Feeling the disparity in treatment compared to the Bread Spider, the White Hungry Ghost let out an even more sorrowful cry.

*

Doo bang doo bang.

Doo bang.

A Golden Reaper turned to look back suddenly while walking somewhere.

But there was no one behind the Golden Reaper.

‘?’

As the Golden Reaper tilted its head and started walking forward again, a Black Reaper sprang out from the shadows.

And it began to walk in rhythm with the Golden Reaper.

Doo bang doo bang.

Doo bang doo bang.

The Black Reaper was secretly following the many Golden Reapers that disappeared somewhere every morning, curious about what they were up to.

‘What on earth could it be?’

The Black Reaper followed the Golden Reapers as cautiously as possible.

Wriggling between shadows.

The place they arrived at was an ordinary-looking apartment entrance.

‘Doesn’t look special.’

The Black Reaper inspected the entrance door carefully, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

And just as the Black Reaper was about to turn its body into liquid to slither through a gap, the front door suddenly swung open.

Beep!

Though the Black Reaper was moving stealthily, it accidentally made a sound of surprise when it saw the one who opened the door.

‘Mom?’

A lead doll emitting a golden light stepped out, and behind it were Golden Reapers who looked just as startled.

‘What do we do?’

‘Oh no!’

‘Mom’s Attached Human will scold us!’

The lead doll that stepped outside began to walk towards the Sehee Research Institute.