Seoul Object Story

The interior of the dome, where all light seemed to have vanished, looked like a world from an old black-and-white photograph.

The once vibrant forest, alive with the breath of nature, had now turned into a black-and-white ink painting, with every branch leaving behind only dark silhouettes, as if drawn in ink.

The leaves, tinged with a faint gray, looked as if they had been touched by frost, rustling with the wind like shadows.

The shadow foreign being, which ruled this monochrome world, existed without form, like a black fog.

It did not walk, yet moved; it did not see, yet sensed; it did not breathe, yet survived.

True to its nature, following the twisted laws of the Color Universe, its movements completely ignored the physical laws of this world.

Through the cracks in the Color Universe, the shadow foreign being descended to Earth, and around it, everything began to change into a monochrome world.

The once solid earth turned ash-gray, the green leaves became pale gray, and the brown bark of trees turned black.

It was as though the shadow foreign being sucked all the color from everything it touched, leaving only black and white behind.

This pure world was the perfect playground for the foreign being.

It was not a world already filled with the laws of other beings like the Color Universe but a space where it could freely inscribe its own distortions, like a blank canvas.

Moreover, the life in this world overflowed with "desires."

It was like sweet fruit.

As the shadow foreign being wandered the black-and-white forest, it suddenly sensed a space that was untouched by its influence.

It felt as though that space was protected by a different set of laws.

The shadow foreign being slowly moved toward this strange, unfamiliar space it had never sensed on Earth before.

And just like ink spreading on paper, it quietly but surely extended its reach in that direction.

What it encountered was light that filled the space with golden hues.

A mysterious force that could not touch the "laws" but pushed them away.

The foreign being watched this phenomenon with intrigue.

The fact that the "desires" filling this world could generate such powerful forces was a new realization.

But this too, for a moment, was futile, as the golden light, unable to touch the laws, was helpless in the face of the immutable truth of those laws.

It was at that moment, when the shadow foreign being reached out toward the golden light, that the surrounding space began to slowly turn blue.