Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 111
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Episode 111 – No. 107, Gate Room – ‘Doppelganger Train’ (2)
– Han Ga-in
Someone tapped my shoulder.
When I turned my head, it was Jincheol.
“brother?”
“It’s nothing. “Are you okay in the magic room?”
Why the grimoire all of a sudden?
I summoned him because there was no particular reason to hide it.
My brother suddenly stretched out his hand and tried to turn the cover of the grimoire.
“brother! “This is very dangerous for everyone else but me.”
Before I could stop him, my brother gently lifted the first page of the grimoire.
A spark seemed to fly for a moment, and then my brother smoothed his eyes.
“It’s true. “I guessed it because Pero only touched you, but you are the real deal.”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“It’s no big deal. “I just looked at the view outside and it reminded me of the past.”
My brother sat down next to me and started talking about various things.
A story about losing my parents when I was in high school.
This is a story about starting a business with a little money saved while attending college and achieving some success.
Was it about 10 minutes? It had its own mix of heartbreaking and funny points.
…
Is something strange?
Is it a bit different from the Jincheol hyung’s past I know?
… The story about Pero that I told you earlier, ‘You are real.’
I asked a question, wondering if it was possible.
“Didn’t you say before that your mother is still alive? “This is my first time hearing about starting a business.”
“It’s worth it. “I now know that I also have a past like this.”
Me and ‘him’ glared at each other.
The next moment, the fake Cha Jin-cheol’s thick hand grabbed my neck!
“Keuuuuuuu!”
Immediately, Cha Jin-cheol’s body was stolen with the power of the grimoire.
The moment I stood up, I saw six people looking at me with meaningful expressions.
A blood clot started.
*
—bang!
Before he could do anything, Kim Muk-seong’s gun burst into flames and the head of Cha Jin-cheol, whom I had taken away, exploded.
Immediately my mind returned to my original body.
Kim Muk-seong! We have to take that guy’s body!
I gritted my teeth and stood up, using the body of Cha Jin-cheol, who was lying next to me with his head exploded, as a shield.
A shout filled with silent anger was heard.
“You coward!”
“It’s 1 to 7, but your cowardice is damned!”
The moment he rushes in and tries to take away Kim Muk-seong’s body –
– Bang! bang! bang! bang!
Suddenly, Kim Muk-seong shot the gun on the floor and threw it somewhere.
What on earth are you doing?
… understood.
The most threatening weapon in the bloodbath of this train compartment is a gun!
The problem is that if I take over the body of the person holding the gun, no matter how many fakes there are, the weight of power will shift toward me.
Since it would be difficult to shoot me because he was using Cha Jin-cheol’s body as a human shield anyway, the plan was to just pull out the gun and make it a numbers game.
In an instant, fakes attacked me from all directions.
“You bastard -”
“die! 죽어 개새끼야! “Why are you the only one who can get out of this hell?”
“Is it because of me that you are wandering around here?”
Fake people rushing in from all directions!
Kim Muk-seong repeatedly pounded me with his fists. Eunsol Lee ripped my hair out.
Yoosong held me.
“Aaaah!”
In the moment of pain, I had no choice but to summon the grimoire again.
As soon as I was summoned, the fakes that were attacking me flinched and backed away.
The body of Kim Muk-seong, who was the biggest threat, was stolen.
The moment he grabbed and tried to twist the neck of Kim Ari, who was standing next to him, at the same time as he was being robbed –
Yoo Song-i tried to stab the eyeball of ‘my body’ with her finger!
This is why I couldn’t use the grimoire!
Once my mind hijacks the body of another person, who will protect ‘my body’ in this train compartment with no companions?
If he had a gun, he could have killed them all in an instant, but to prevent this situation, Kim Muk-seong threw the gun somewhere long ago!
I had no choice but to return to my original body and immediately take Yu Songi’s arm off.
—puck!
At that moment, Kim Muk-seong, who was freed from possession again, punched me.
Kim Ari, who belatedly came running from afar, stabbed me in the shoulder with a sharp object she had obtained from somewhere.
…I thought I was quite used to the physical pain I felt after rolling around in a rough hotel, but I guess I’m not.
Is this how it ends?
—bang!
Ari Kim’s head exploded.
—bang!
There was a hole in Kim Muk-seong’s chest.
Yoo Song-i, who came to her senses belatedly, seemed to be turning back –
—bang!
There was a hole between Yu Songi’s eyes.
In literally a split second, the fakes died one after another.
…
It may have been because he didn’t expect the fakes to surprise him from behind, but regardless, his shooting skill was so accurate that it gave me goosebumps.
When I came to my senses, the area around me was full of corpses. I looked at Elena in fascination.
“why… . “Did you help me?”
“On the other hand, do I have any reason to hurt you?”
“…”
“Like Mr. Gain said, you didn’t drop us into this hell… .”
Elena tossed the gun at me.
“If I come to my senses more, I might go crazy with envy of you. “Kill me before that.”
I picked up the gun. Not only was she beaten so hard by Kim Muk-seong in a short period of time, but her eyeballs were stabbed by Yoo Song-i, so it seemed like her whole body was falling apart.
As I approached Elena holding the gun, Elena grabbed my hand and pointed the gun at her head.
…I looked at her blankly.
Elena chuckled and muttered.
“I’m glad you’re real in a place full of fakes.”
“Your original name is -”
“Just shoot. “I just want to end it thinking I’m Elena.”
—bang!
…
Now I am the only living person left in this compartment.
Just before I forced my wobbly body to move to the front compartment, a good plan occurred to me.
*
– Elena
What on earth is this train doing?
I looked out the window blankly and thought about the past.
When I was wandering from country to country, I had a precious dream.
A gorgeous world on TV!
Will I be able to go out into the outside world and stand on stage again someday?
While I was thinking about it, I felt like I could hear a murmur around me, and then I started hearing strange words.
Ari’s voice.
“Who are the participants?”
Songi’s voice.
“The parrot looked at Elena for a while and then flew away. “That’s it.”
A voice of silence.
“What a piece of shit! “Why is that bitch the only one who can get out of here?”
to?
What kind of situation is this?
People are coming towards me.
Think and think with all your soul!
What, what, what!
In the midst of the chaos, when Songi, who was nearby, came towards me, I showed off the greatest quickness of my life.
First of all, if you don’t know anything, let’s start by beating them up.
That’s a drama cliché.
“Elena! “What did you say-”
—match!
The sound of me hitting Songi’s cheek echoed throughout the train compartment.
Everyone who was approaching me stopped with a puzzled look on their faces.
“How dare you be so arrogant! “Aren’t you rolling your eyes?”
Eunsol said, looking at me with a puzzled expression.
“hmm? Are you fake too? but -”
“FALSE? It’s ridiculous that you say something like that in front of me! Where is the fake here? I am -”
Who am I to say? Just throw it away!
“I am the eldest daughter of the 16th Earl of Huntington of England!”
Earl of Huntington? What is this family doing? I don’t know either! It just occurred to me.
…
There was silence around. Did I throw it too hard?
A sigh came out of Silence’s mouth.
“It looks like he was captured quite a long time ago. “When were you captured?”
Do these lies work?
“It was 1874, the day the Queen wore the crown of the Indian Empire. The glory of the empire will fill the Savior. By the way, who are you in front of me?”
The subject of interrogation was turned around.
Fake Songi, who had looked embarrassed after being slapped by me earlier, responded softly.
“Well, I’m still not sure, maybe 1980 or 1982-”
“Close your mouth. It’s crazy that someone so young is so fussy about a talking monkey! “Your master should have trained you properly.”
I don’t know! Let’s just go hard! Because life is momentum.
I just pushed Song-i away with my foot and glared at the surroundings with my eyes wide open, and everyone backed away, saying, “Oh, my goodness.”
“who are you?”
Seungyeop, who was singled out this time, answered hesitantly.
“yes? “I am-”
“Sleep!”
The fake Eunsol Lee interrupted the flow.
“I was taken aback by your sudden outburst, but aren’t you the first person to explain? Apparently the parrot looked at you and then flew away. “Aren’t you a participant?”
“As expected, the level of intelligence is appalling for a descendant of the colonial talking monkeys. Birds naturally like shiny things. Although my current body is not as good as my real body, it is quite shiny and attracts the birds’ attention. “Do you still have anything left to say?”
“No, even if that is the explanation, what is your way of thinking… .”
The fake Cain who was listening came forward.
“hey! Let’s leave it at that. Oh really, this idiot hotel should do a good job of summoning the old man. Why are they summoning a super idiot from 200 years ago?”
“what? This monkey bastard-”
“Let’s leave it at this! Who are the participants?”
“I see a strangely quiet person from earlier. “Isn’t that you?”
“What are you doing? “I was in 1977-”
Roughly with this feeling, an infighting broke out among the fakes over the topic of ‘who is the participant?’
Each time, I added one word at a time, thinking about how I could sound like the old racist from the British Empire.
“under! My majesty! Please save me from these dirty oriental monkeys.”
“hey! “Someone please crush that unlucky racist old man!”
“Just answer my questions. “Why are you confused about your own name?”
As I continued to observe, I felt that these ‘fake’ people were in a quite confused state because their memories were mixed up.
Although there were some people who recalled their original memories relatively clearly, there were many who could not and fell into confusion about their identity.
They began to be suspicious because they could not recall their past memories clearly.
Paradoxically, I had created the role of the eldest daughter of the Huntington family, which did not exist in the first place, so I did not experience any confusion, and thanks to my confident attitude, I was free from suspicion.
But, is it okay to just waste time like this?
*
– Han Ga-in
…
…
What is it?
The possession ability has one weakness.
While possessing someone else, my original body becomes defenseless.
Because of this problem, I left my original body in the passageway between the train cars and came back with just my mind.
A barrier blocking the train compartments!
‘I’, who has killed all the fakes in my space, can cross the barrier, but the fakes cannot cross the barrier. Therefore, I left my real body behind the barrier and waited, and the moment one came near, I snatched his body.
So far, everything goes according to plan… .
Who on earth is this Khan really?
The atmosphere inside the train compartment is chaos itself.
It’s a crucible of confusion as the fakes interrogate each other and try to find out who the contestant is!
In the meantime, the person who makes me the most tired is that crazy racist British old man standing by the window.
From earlier, whenever the ‘yellow monkeys’ looked at him, he got so angry that it was difficult to get close to him.
At the same time, he continued to throw out one word at a time, saying that he was suspicious of that guy and that he was definitely the culprit, throwing the train compartment into chaos.
No matter how you look at it, that crazy woman must have been eliminated because she caused internal strife when she was alive.
Who on earth is the ‘real’ person in this Khan?
I fell into confusion.
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