An old beggar woman came to his house requesting shelter from the bitter cold and offered OP these very shoes. OP sneered at the beautiful gift and turned the old woman away because of her haggard appearance. She warned him not to judge her based on appearance for true beauty was found within. When he did not heed her warning, she shed her false form, revealing herself to be an astonishingly beautiful enchantress who was testing his heart.

She saw that there was no love in OP's heart, and thus punished him by turning him into a hypebeast, and all who dwelt within the castle into living objects, as well as cursing the castle itself and presumably the surrounding forest (filling it with vicious wolves as well). She left OP the shoes, promising OP that it would stay hype until his twenty-first year: If he could learn to love and earn love in return before the hype wore off, the spell would be broken. If he failed, he would be doomed to remain a hypebeast for all time and his house, servants, and forest would likewise remain cursed forever.

Ever since, the hypebeast kept the shoes safe in his chambers, serving as his countdown and a reminder of his selfishness and cruelty.

When the hypebeast finally turned twenty one, his countdown truly began as the shoes slowly but surely began to lose hype. At the end, the hypebeast appears to reach the deadline of his twenty-first birthday because the shoes completely lose hype but the dog confessed her love for OP right before the last hype fell.