Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 133
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Episode 133 – No. 107, Gate Room – ‘The Secret of the Esper’ (24)
– Kim Ari
— Boom!
The floor popped out like a spring and Ga-in flew towards the wall.
Both Songi and I were very surprised. I immediately pulled the trigger, and Song-i again instructed Perot to rush at Harrison.
— Bang! bang!
— Keek!
With a loud explosion, a grotesque beak the size of a human head ripped into Harrison’s remaining flesh.
But now, again, it was meaningless. Harrison has already become unable to distinguish between himself and his stomach.
The remaining flesh is just a residue.
As if nothing had happened, Harrison mixed up the flesh on the floor again and created a terrible figure that resembled a face.
Should the ship itself be destroyed?
There’s no answer. It’s not like detonating a bomb, and it’s impossible with a pistol or something like that.
There is no answer even with Pero’s power, and it will only be possible if Cha Jin-cheol comes back alive and summons a star.
There was a brief lull.
After Ga In-yi was knocked unconscious by the blow, Harrison did not launch any more direct attacks.
As I thought about the contract, I began to understand why.
“There you two pretty girls. “You won’t listen to me?”
“Aren’t you planning on offering Ga-in as a sacrifice and the rest becoming members of the Esper’s crew?”
“…”
“Right?”
“Miss, did you say your name is Ari? “It seemed like you were reading my mind from earlier.”
“It’s obvious, right? I don’t know what the power of being integrated with the ship is, but it must be the power given by the devil, and in order to maintain that power, I have to maintain the contract with the devil. They say you have to offer sacrifices and a banquet to keep the contract?
Even if you offer Cain as the sacrifice, you can’t throw the banquet on your own, right? Other sailors and passengers have been turned into ship’s furniture. At least I can’t dance like that.
Esper Hoen needs a crew. Sailors who will wander the oceans with this ship forever, feasting and offering sacrifices.”
“Wow, you are so smart. I’m a little worried… . “I don’t like smart sailors.”
“Then you have no alternative. “Are you confident that you can suddenly save the crew in this vast sea?”
“A bloody relationship that causes its own war of nerves can be fun. So, are you interested in accepting my offer?”
“Let’s change the content a bit. “I will be the sacrifice.”
“Hi!”
Songyi snorted in surprise, and the entire ship trembled for a moment. Could it be that Harrison was surprised in his own way?
“…what do you mean by large joint? “If you leave him like this, he’ll die soon, so why take such unreasonable measures?”
Those words made me laugh. Why do we spend unreasonable amounts of money for someone who will die soon?
Because if I succeed, I am confident that this ordeal will be over right away!
Harrison somehow understood my laughter when he suddenly said something outrageous.
“aha! I couldn’t believe it, but was this the pure love I only heard about? Surely, if the young lady becomes a sacrifice and this young man becomes a sailor, even if he dies, he will be resurrected by the power of the contract. Does he intend to save him even if he himself dies? “It’s touching.”
I was so dumbfounded that I just kept my mouth shut.
Harrison seemed to be thinking about something for a while and then made a decision.
“Not bad. not bad. The young lady seemed to be reading my mind earlier, which bothered me a bit. “It may be unpleasant to keep this arrogant bastard alive, but I think it will be easier to control other girls if I have this bastard.”
With those words, wires from all over the ship moved like living tentacles and lifted me up.
Plan Z, it’s starting now.
There were some uneasy aspects, so I tried to leave it as a last resort until the end, but the moment finally came.
“Don’t worry too much. Because I have no intention of causing her pain like the bugs glued to the floor. I’ll finish it cleanly. Instead, tell me your age and where you’re from.”
“I don’t know your age. “My hometown is Hotel Pioneer.”
Harrison laughed when he heard my answer.
“Is it really possible that this is the last resort? “Deceiving me with lies?”
“…”
“Are you sure it’s not a lie, and since you don’t know your real age and don’t know exactly where you’re from, the only answer is what kind of hotel it is? Not knowing your roots is definitely painful. Too bad. However, if the lady’s final plan was that the person answering the question would not be able to be sacrificed because she did not know her age or origin… . “It’s a bit disappointing.”
This captain talks a lot. It seems he was very lonely while trapped underground alone. Moreover, it seems like he was convinced that I would deceive him.
“…”
“haha! If you thought I was the same as the bugs on the floor, I’m disappointed. “Even if you cheat, I have ways to find out.”
With those words, unknown characters began to appear throughout the ship.
Soon, black hands appeared beneath me. Hands slowly came up the wire and began to hold my body.
I sighed and looked around.
I saw Songi looking at me with a fearful expression from earlier.
Elena still hasn’t woken up, and Pero is using his claws to remove the flesh stuck in his beak.
Even Ga-in, who is running towards death at every moment.
A huge mirror appeared in front of me. Is this a way to find out my age and where I’m from?
The mirror reflected me, and countless versions of myself appeared in the mirror.
Somewhere, I was shivering, hiding behind a brick in a battlefield with bullets flying.
Somewhere, I was fighting an invisible enemy on an endless train crossing the Milky Way.
Somewhere, I was running among screaming prehistoric humans, looking for the first seed.
Somewhere, I was in a strange starscape, lost in space and time, whose location was unknown.
Somewhere, I was listening to someone’s confession in the middle of an endless barley field.
Countless things that happened in my short life pass by like a panorama.
Harrison, who had been accepting the information, expressed astonishment.
“how! What is this? How could this be so strange…? . “Did you do some time travel?”
That wasn’t the end.
After endlessly going back through my past, the mirror arrived at a fancy hotel.
A hotel rising from the depths of the deep sea, which is still unknown to mankind, in the middle of the endless vast ocean.
I was born in the sea.
— Clap!
A vibration that resonates throughout the ship. An eerie signal I’ve already experienced!
The contract clock turned to 3.
At that moment, the flesh that made up Harrison’s face twisted with all its might and screamed.
“no! no! This is ridiculous! you… . What are you? There is no age and you were born in the sea? “Not a mermaid, but some kind of human being!”
“I was curious about my age too.”
Gooooooo!
A sound so loud that you can feel it on your skin is heard throughout the deep, endless blue sea.
With an angry look on his face, Harrison pulled out the ship’s wires like tentacles and tried to pierce us, but it was already too late.
The contract was broken and all the evil powers given to him began to disappear.
The wire just hung limp like the arm of a weak old man, and the flesh mixed with the stomach separated from the stomach and fell away.
As soon as it fell from above, it moved to where Songi, Elena, and others were.
Meanwhile, Pero and Gain had also asked, and they were all in one place.
Songi spoke right away.
“What on earth did you do?”
“It’s no big deal. Marcus hates the earth and enjoys sacrificing people on the earth, so I just assumed that people born in the sea could not be sacrificed. He thought that being vague about his age might be one of the conditions. “It was exactly right.”
“In the meantime, those thoughts -”
— Coogung!
The entire ship shook and suddenly began to disintegrate here and there!
“Aaaah! “What is going on?”
“ah! No way! “With human flesh seeping into various parts of the ship, I think the ship will collapse as all the flesh disappears.”
Luuuu— ahhh—!
A song that seems to cover the entire world is heard coming from the sea. Is this Marcus’s song?
Fishermen and sailors who once made the sea their home feared its ferocity and capriciousness and worshiped it as a cruel goddess.
The cruel devil, who seemed to embody the fear of the sea, twisted his body and collapsed the Esper in an instant.
We were frantically clinging to Faroe. Although Perrault seemed to be complaining, he did not return to his parrot form.
Rather, he grabbed the two unconscious men and women, Ga-in and Elena, with his arms that looked like a mixture of his wings and tentacles. I held on while holding Pero’s neck.
Surprisingly, Pero, who could not fly after being transformed into a new subject, was able to float in the sea.
We endured on top of the grotesque, feeling like hamsters on the back of a giant duck.
“Please, please save me!”
… People with pitiful faces appeared from all directions.
Harrison, who had completely lost his human form, seems to have died upon the termination of the contract, but the people who had maintained their human form by clumsily mixing with the ship swam to us without dying even after being disfigured.
Fortunately, before we could leave, Pero pushed each one back into the sea with his beak.
The sailors, who feared death more than anyone else and joined hands with the devil, returned to the embrace of the sea as their fate had determined.
/Participants! Congratulations on passing the fourth trial, ‘The Secret of the Esper’./
The space began to collapse.
*
– Kim Ari
As soon as we entered the familiar resting area, Songi and I urgently took a look at Ga-in.
I checked to see if he was breathing properly and to what extent there were external and internal injuries.
Next to me, Songi looked at my face with a tense expression.
“Is your brother okay?”
“I don’t think I’m going to die right away. “If you leave me alone, I will definitely die.”
“Then what should I do?”
Instead of answering, they immediately drew my blood with a syringe. Song-i, who saw and understood my actions, immediately brought Ga-in’s arm to me for a blood transfusion.
They took my blood two or three times in succession and injected it into Ga-in.
“If this happens, will Ga-in be able to recover?”
“This alone is difficult. “The healing power in my blood only gets stronger when I’m almost dead, and it’s not that strong normally.”
As I was talking, I got scared for a moment. After hearing those words, Songi won’t turn on Pero and make me die and bleed out, right?
… Fortunately, Songi showed no signs of doing so. She was suspicious for no reason.
The suspicious disease I developed as a result of being born and raised in a hotel became worse after experiencing the management bureau. It has been a long time since it became an incurable disease.
“Then what should I do?”
“I don’t know either. If there is a hospital at the stage of the next ordeal, I will survive. Otherwise, we have to wake up on our own.”
Next, I looked at Elena.
Unlike Ga-in, Elena didn’t seem to have any physical problems.
Did the crew of the Esper use sleeping pills on Elena? Just sleeping quietly.
Ga-in, who was near death, was next to Elena, who was sleeping so deeply that she couldn’t even tell if she was carrying her. Songi and I just sighed and waited for time to pass.
Eventually, the long and long final ordeal of the Gate Room began.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 46
Current location: Tier 1, Room 107 (Gateway Room)
Sage Advice: 0]
– Han Ga-in
— Rumble! Shake!
— Druk!
I’m in a daze. You can hear the sound of someone being carried urgently by something.
…
Oh, I’m being carried away. When I realized that, I could hear the sounds outside as well.
Is it a hospital? I could hear people in white coats talking frantically as they moved the stretcher carrying me.
The blurry person next to me is my mom? How on earth did my mom show up in this place?
It looks like we have moved on to the next ordeal. What kind of situation is this?
Even during this time, the hotel steadily posted notifications.
Ridiculously, even though I was in such a mess that everything around me seemed blurry, including sounds and situations, the hotel notifications appeared clearly and clearly.
/Congratulations on making it to the final test!
Soon the participant’s legacy and blessings will be sealed.
Do not worry. There is no need for inheritance or blessings in the final trial.
The final ordeal, ‘Perfect Life’. Start./
‘Perfect Life’
After those words, my consciousness faded into the distance.
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