Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 121
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Episode 121 – No. 107, Gate Room – ‘Jekyll and Hyde Game’ (12)
– Han Ga-in
The target of execution chosen by Hyde in rounds 1 and 2 was ‘me’.
While I was momentarily speechless, my colleagues started chatting busily.
“Why is Ga-in the top target? Even people who don’t know clearly always open their mouths. “That way, doctors will naturally participate in meetings.”
Seungyeop, who was usually quiet, opened his mouth at Eunsol’s urging.
“Isn’t it because you always think a lot?”
“You think a lot? That may be true, but… .”
Songi told a different story.
“Isn’t it a clear reason rather than such an abstract reason? For example, because I have a legacy.”
That’s when I also got involved.
“I’m not the only one with a legacy, right? Song, you are there, and Ari is there too. “There are only three owners of the estate here.”
Ari expressed his opinion.
“Isn’t your legacy fatal to Hyde? “You mean you can kill Hyde?”
“You said you couldn’t find Hyde because of the miscarriage.”
“You can’t find it, but you can kill it?”
Can’t find it, but can kill it?
It was plausible yet confusing.
Why did Hyde choose me as his top target among us?
Because he’s the smartest! Honestly, I don’t think so.
Besides me, two other people have inheritance.
Because the grimoire’s ability itself poses a threat to Hyde? This felt plausible.
But in what sense is it a threat? Can kill? I don’t know. I didn’t feel it well.
Since the start of the Jekyll and Hyde game, the host has always shown us the time. 2 minutes left.
Round 3 ended with much deliberation.
/Now the sun is setting. The day is over, and Hyde’s time has come./
My consciousness became blurred… .
*
– Round 4, Han Ga-in.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I looked around.
!
One person disappeared. There was an immediate reaction among colleagues.
“Is it Song?”
“Noona Songi!”
The host came down.
/I’m sorry. Hyde’s third execution was a success. The doctor failed to defend the correct target.
The 3rd round Hyde was ‘Han Ga-in’. Now Hyde moves on to someone else./
When the first victim occurred, the atmosphere in the hall changed completely. But it’s still okay. Up to one person is no problem. Because it can be resurrected.
The target of Hyde’s parasitism in round 3 was me.
The target of execution also changed from me to Songi. Why didn’t they execute me since I was a parasite? Is ‘host execution’, where Hyde executes a parasitic host, impossible?
I asked directly.
“moderator. Can’t Hyde directly execute the parasitic host? In that case, will Hyde die?”
/You can execute them./
Is there a ‘can’? The choice of words seems to be hiding something.
Ari pointed it out right away.
“What happens when Hyde executes his host?”
The moderator did not answer.
But the silence of the host gave us the answer. Ari said with confidence.
“If the host dies, Hyde must die too! “The method of destroying Hyde in the first place is the execution of the host, right?”
“In other words, is Hyde’s host executed only when there is only one survivor left?”
“I guess so.”
“So the target of execution was also changed from me to Songi? “If you kill me while parasitic on me, the game will end.”
Eunsol’s older sister expressed a slightly different opinion.
“Other interpretations are also possible. They tried to kill you twice in a row, but the doctor defended you, right? “Didn’t the doctor decide that he couldn’t kill you because he was only defending you?”
After failing to execute twice in a row, the target was changed? That makes sense.
This game is not an easy game even for Hyde. Hyde’s biggest penalty is that he cannot parasitize the same person twice.
Right now, this drawback is not noticeable as there are several host candidates left, but after a few more rounds, there will be only a few hosts left for Hyde to parasitize, making it easier to find them.
It is a game where even Hyde has a kind of turn limit.
The silent old man opened his mouth.
“Did you never notice that Hyde was a parasite?”
“yes. I didn’t feel it at all. So it seems impossible to destroy Hyde with a grimoire. Well, it might be possible if I practice the grimoire for about 30 years… .”
It’s a meaningless story. While everyone was confused, Elena opened her mouth.
“I think our conversation itself is a handshake.”
“Because Hyde is listening?”
“yes. “Even if we think hard among ourselves and figure out Hyde’s criteria for judgment, if he finds out what we know, he might change the criteria themselves.”
My head started hurting more and more. A discussion is underway to uncover Hyde’s evil plan, and Hyde is also listening to the discussion.
In the end, the view that debate itself can be dangerous is persuasive.
After Elena’s point, the discussion quieted down and everyone began to delve into their own thoughts.
Ari, who had been thinking alone, opened his mouth.
“I have a feeling, the next execution target is -”
—widely.
Eunsol’s sister grabbed Ari’s arm. Ari noticed immediately and covered her mouth.
Everyone had similar thoughts. I can guess who the next execution target will be.
But you shouldn’t say this out loud.
If Hyde finds out that we’re guessing who to execute, he might execute someone else.
As the situation becomes more and more chaotic, the initiative passes to Hyde, and it becomes difficult for the doctor to defend himself.
… In silence, everyone’s heads began to spin frantically.
The first execution target is me, the second execution target is Songi.
Both are owners of the estate. It can’t be a coincidence.
Is Hyde executing a ‘high-value participant’, so to speak?
There is a problem with this guess too.
If the execution ranking is higher because the owners of the estate have higher value, then why was my ranking higher than Songi? Because there is also Advent?
Aside from me having Kangrim, why is Songi ranked higher than Ari, who has the same legacy?
And what is the standard for ranking the remaining four people who do not have a legacy: Lee Eun-sol, Park Seung-yeop, Kim Muk-seong, and Elena?
My head became more and more complicated.
It seemed like there might be a separate standard from holding a legacy.
A standard by which all seven game participants can be ranked.
Let’s start by thinking about our response to this round. If this trend continues, the next target will be Ari.
Are doctors even aware of this?
While I was thinking about it, an idea occurred to me.
Hyde cannot parasitize the same target twice.
Now that Hyde is no longer parasitic on me, I can find out who the doctor is.
Unless I open my mouth, Hyde has no way of finding out information that only I know.
How to find a doctor immediately came to mind.
You can’t find Hyde with the grimoire, but you can find the doctor.
While summoning the grimoire under the table, I looked back at my colleagues once in a while.
I wish everyone would be quick to notice… .
We started possessing each person one by one in order.
First, Eunsol.
…
Not a doctor.
I wondered when I left, but my sister was quick-witted, so even after I left, she only slightly widened her eyes and didn’t show much of a reaction.
Next is the silent grandfather.
…
Not a doctor.
I was a little anxious as I came out, but apart from being ignorant of the game rules, my grandfather was not a clueless person, so he didn’t react much and just cleared his throat slightly.
Next, Elena.
…
I knew it as soon as I settled in!
A hologram very similar to a ‘status window’ was floating in front of Elena’s field of vision.
The hologram had everyone’s name and a selection box.
The doctor’s identity was Elena.
Why did Elena defend me for two rounds in a row?
I have a legacy and an advent. Maybe they decided that I had the highest chance of clearing the gateway room?
I guess it’s good. Just before returning to my original body, I lightly wrote on Elena’s hand with her pen.
‘ari’
Choosing a target to defend is up to Elena, but I returned with just my opinion.
Elena’s eyes widened slightly, but she showed no reaction.
15 minutes are slowly coming to an end.
/Now the sun is setting. The day is over, and Hyde’s time has come./
My consciousness became blurred… .
*
– Round 5, Han Ga-in.
I opened my eyes in tension.
“ah… !”
Screams were heard from the mouths of my colleagues.
Seungyeop, the luckiest one among us, couldn’t hold out this time.
The host came down.
/I’m sorry. Hyde’s fourth execution was a success. The doctor failed to defend the correct target.
Hyde in the 4th round was ‘Ari Kim’. Now Hyde moves on to someone else./
Eunsol said in a weak voice.
“Has it been an hour since this game started? Two people are already out… . Even if we resurrect one person.”
Doctor Elena covered her face with both hands, probably because her defense failed one after another.
I was also confused.
I thought that Ari, the next owner of the estate after me and Songi, would be the target of execution, but that was not the case.
Rather, he possessed Ari and executed Seung-yeop.
… tremendous.
I have experienced many different trials since entering the hotel, but this one felt overwhelming.
The ‘enemy’ was not in sight, and two of my colleagues were executed in an instant according to the rules without even being able to do anything.
Even Eunsol, who is mentally strong, only had a dejected expression on her face, and the rest of the people even felt like they were mentally broken.
Let’s focus. In times like these, even just one person needs to stay alert.
All of the speculations I have made from earlier started from one premise.
‘Hyde never acts on luck.’
There is no basis for this in itself.
However, since a hotel is by no means a place that just kills us senselessly, there is a belief that the progress of this game will not depend on simple luck.
Unless Hyde is acting based on luck, there must be a standard for determining the ‘order of execution’.
The criteria must be criteria that can place us in a specific order.
I thought about it from a slightly different angle than before.
Until now, I had focused on Hyde’s ‘execution order’, but this time I thought about the ‘parasite order’: Yoo Song-i -> Park Seung-yeop -> Han Ga-in -> Kim Ari.
If there is a standard for the order of execution, there must also be a standard for the order of parasites.
The execution targets were: Han Ga-in -> Han Ga-in -> Yoo Song-i -> Park Seung-yeop.
The target of gisaeng is Yoo Song-i -> Park Seung-yeop -> Han Ga-in -> Kim Ari.
I saw something in common. In both orders, Yoo Song-i is followed by Park Seung-yeop.
When I realized this far.
Realization came to me like a lightning strike!
The standards for selecting execution targets and the standards for selecting parasitic targets are actually the same standards!
Hyde lined us up with just one criterion: The revealed order is as follows.
Han Ga-in -> Yoo Song-i -> Park Seung-yeop -> Kim Ari.
Let’s summarize.
1. Hyde ranked us according to certain criteria. The order is Han Ga-in -> Yoo Song-i -> Park Seung-yeop -> Kim Ari.
2. If Hyde executes the parasitic host, he will also disappear.
Taking this into consideration, we analyzed the progress of the game so far.
For Hyde, the top priority for execution is me. Therefore, in order to execute me, they parasited on Yoo Song-i, who was next in line after me, and Park Seung-yeop, who was next in line, and shot me. The doctor defended twice in a row (rounds 1 and 2).
Hyde decided that he could not execute me, and moved the execution target to Yusongi, who was next in line after me. Since he has changed the target of execution, there is no longer any need to exclude me from the parasitic order. Therefore, in the original order, he parasitized on me and shot Yusongi. (Round 3)
Since the doctor is alive, Hyde is still deciding that he cannot execute me. Therefore, the target of execution is Park Seung-yeop. Since Han Ga-in, Yoo Song-i, and Park Seung-yeop have all been parasites, the next parasite in order is Kim Ari. Therefore, he parasitized on Kim Ari and sniped at Park Seung-yeop. (4th round)
If the speculations so far are correct, the next target of execution will be Kim Ari. But who are the parasites? There is still insufficient evidence.
There are still only three targets that Hyde can parasitize on: Elena, Kim Muk-seong, and Lee Eun-sol.
To find Hyde, we need to find out the exact criteria by which Hyde ranks us and even know the order of Elena, Muk-seong Kim, and Eun-sol Lee.
What kind of standard is this?
By what standard can Seungyeop be ranked higher than Ari while Songi and I are first and second?
See next episode