Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 138
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Episode 138 – No. 107, Gate Room – ‘Perfect Life’ (29)
– Kim Ari
After passing alone, the only thing left for me to do is wake up my colleagues who haven’t woken up yet!
As I was leaning against the exterior wall of the building and making plans, I felt something heavy on my shoulders.
“You came and sat on my shoulder after headbutting me earlier?”
Pero looked at me with a smile as if asking what was going on.
It was new to me, but I found it quite cute, so my upset heart soon calmed down.
“Pero, you had a hard time coming to me, right?”
Perot’s physical condition was not good. Did he tear off the strange straitjacket he had seen before with his beak?
During the process, a lot of feathers were pulled out, and there were many signs of hair being pulled out on the body.
I could guess why it took so long for him to come to me.
“okay. It seems like you and I have similar goals. I also came to the hotel because I wanted to save her mother. Now let’s go save your mother.”
Before starting work in earnest, I had something to check so I wandered around the city for a while.
It was as expected.
There are no longer any traces of the management bureau in the publishing house building, and only an ordinary publishing house remains.
This is a perfect world that embodies the dreams and fantasies of four people who have reached the final test.
Now that I have woken up from the dream, my stake is gone.
Places like the management bureau headquarters, which were formed solely based on me, have disappeared.
By the same principle, when I returned home, the adult Miro was nowhere to be seen.
After finding out this much, I went home and fell asleep after a long night.
The house where my mother disappeared was so spacious and quiet.
*
After dawn, I went to school. The situation within the school did not change much.
Perhaps it was because the dream of maintaining a school was not mine alone.
Because right now, there were three people going to this damn school, including me, Songi, and Ga-in.
I thought I could wake them up first and then wake up Elena.
As soon as it was lunch time, I beckoned to Pero, who was sitting on a tree outside the school window, and went to see Songi.
Finding Songi was so easy.
What on earth does Songi think of as a ‘perfect life’? Druid life?
Have you ever dreamed of taking an animal to school with you?
I should have realized from the beginning that this kid was not normal when I added the setting that said I had permission to bring a parrot!
As soon as I got to the 2nd grade classroom floor, the crunching noise was so loud that it was difficult to come to my senses.
Thanks to the ‘setting’ that Songi put in, the second grade floor has long since changed from a school for people to a school for dogs to study.
In the meantime, it was very easy to find Yoo Song-i, the saint of doggies and the saint of meows, who was especially loved by animals.
To naturally blend into the atmosphere, I put Pero on my shoulder and approached Songi.
Songi recognized me from afar and came running towards me.
“Peroyaaaaa!”
I see you recognized Pero.
“You don’t know how surprised I was when it suddenly disappeared! Where the hell have you been? “Did you bother Ari again?”
Songi focused her gaze on me and continued speaking.
“I’m sorry if Pero did something strange again!”
“No, Pero didn’t do anything strange. “You’re doing something strange.”
…I feel the atmosphere around me becoming cooler.
As I glanced around, numerous dogs and cats began glaring at me.
“I don’t know about anyone else, but my guess is that you’re already half awake… . how is it? You filled Perrault’s straitjacket too, right? I thought about it on the way here, but Pero would have already tried to wake you up before he got to me. “I don’t want to wake up, so I call Pero -”
“Quiet!”
Before I could finish my sentence, Songi screamed at me to leave the school!
Even with those words, my mouth was forced shut and no sound came out anymore.
“Get out of here!”
Once again, Songi shouted loudly.
And I got kicked out of school.
— Uddangtang!
and! What the hell is going on?
When I tried to wake Songi up, she got angry. It’s a predictable reaction up to this point… .
Get out and get angry! When I said that, I was literally kicked out of school.
As if I had caught a bug while playing some kind of game, my body flew through the air, went through the wall, flew for a while, and landed on the school playground.
It was so absurd that I didn’t even think about getting up.
I just lay down covered in playground dust and thought.
Did he use some kind of reality manipulation ability?
If you think about it, it’s not strange.
This place is the stage of ‘Perfect Life’ created to embody our wishes.
In fact, creating a world that embodies people’s wishes is not an easy task.
This is because people’s desires constantly change and become stronger.
People who were satisfied with just a decent house at first want a great mansion, and then a building.
What is the way to realize a ‘perfect life’ that endlessly fulfills all these desires?
It is what gives us all the power to make our wishes come true!
If you think about it, isn’t it a power that I have already used first?
When I jumped off the building, I wanted the world to stop in fear of death.
In response to my wish, the entire world stopped.
Compared to that incredible miracle, sending me out of school is nothing.
If you think about it, Ga-in’s situation is also not ordinary.
In the fourth ordeal, everything from internal organs to bones was completely destroyed.
In reality, you wouldn’t be able to get out of the hospital for at least a few months, and even if you did, it wouldn’t be surprising if you suffered from aftereffects for the rest of your life.
However, after only about a week, he showed up with a cast on his leg and started playing energetically with his friends.
That unusual recovery may also be the result of this world granting my wish to ‘get better.’
Thanks to this, waking up has become much more difficult.
If the situation arises, should I kill Song or Ga-in to wake them up? But now I wasn’t sure.
Is it really possible to kill someone who has gained incredible superpowers such as reality manipulation?
…
It’s a meaningless worry. Let’s go back to Songi.
At least it didn’t seem like it would be that difficult to wake Songi up.
Unlike other people, Songi felt like she had already been half-awakened by Pero.
“So, you need to be more active this time. “It’s your job to save your mother, so do your best.”
After patting Pero on my stomach, I went back to school.
Is it because it reflects Song-i’s confused mind?
The second-year floor was truly a crucible of chaos.
The animals ran wild, and the students all wandered around like zombies.
After passing that crazy place for a while, I approached Songi again.
Songi was curled up alone in one corner of the classroom.
If I talk to you, are you going to send me away again? Isn’t it a bit dangerous? Still, I have to say it.
“Is it Song?”
Songi lifted her head and looked at me.
Even after all this, I’m a management bureau agent! I am confident that I can respond quickly and accurately.
I immediately grabbed Pero with both hands and made him stand in front of me.
“Bird Shield!”
“…”
“…”
— Sigh! Kklkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
The person was silent, and the parrot got angry and started running wild trying to bite me.
“oh! Ah~! do not do that! “Don’t pull out my hair!”
Songi, who was watching, sighed and took Pero away.
“What was that just now? “Was that kind of comedy popular in the 70s?”
“You’re awake too?”
“…”
“When you woke up, didn’t something like a hologram window appear?”
“Is something like that coming to mind? I haven’t seen it yet. “I guess it’s because I just wanted to stay a little longer.”
I want to stay a little longer.
Surely the temptation of this ‘perfect world’ must be enormous.
I went and sat down next to Song. Songi apologized in a quiet voice.
“I’m sorry for blowing it off earlier. “Actually, I didn’t know that power could be used that way.”
“are you okay. “Being thrown somewhere and flying away is everyday life.”
“In what world is that everyday life?”
“Do you think it’s someone else’s story? “This is the daily life you will experience once you leave the hotel.”
“… Now that you think about it, Grandpa Mukseong always told Ga-in oppa about becoming an agent. Do I have to do something like that when I get out?”
“I just tried it. “I’ll have to go out to find out.”
There was silence between us for a moment.
“Wouldn’t it be better to wake up now?”
After waiting for a while, Song-i slowly began to tell a story that sounded like a lament about her situation.
The family was happy when they were young, but as time went by and for reasons unknown to the child, the relationship between the parents went downhill, and both gradually began to openly meet other people.
There were limits to avoiding divorce because of children. She says that by the time Song-i enters the hotel, she has already started seeing lawyers for both of them. Tears gradually began to flow from Songi’s eyes.
“Actually, I vaguely knew it even before Pero woke me up. But she really didn’t want to go out. “I was so happy every time I saw my parents getting along well at home.”
I didn’t have anything to say, so I held Songi’s hand.
“Do I look like a child? Ari you… . Because I work at the management bureau. Have you seen countless terrible and frightening misfortunes that cannot even be compared to something like your parents getting divorced? “Do you think I’m stupid?”
“I don’t think so at all. Is it meaningful to compare misfortunes like that in the first place? “It’s as if the misfortune of Korean people is all childish whining compared to the misfortune of African people suffering from starvation.”
“…”
“Everyone has their own misfortune. My misfortune does not become less because others suffer more terrible misfortune, so is such a comparison meaningful? “I just hope you get over that sadness.”
“At the hotel… . Will it be resolved if I leave the hotel? “Wouldn’t it be possible for my parents’ relationship to become good again?”
… I didn’t really want to lie, so I decided to be honest.
“no. It’s not like your parents fought once in a while, and if the conflict had accumulated over several years, it would already be difficult to reverse it. This isn’t a problem that can be solved just because you get a lot of treasure and superpowers from the hotel and then leave. But there will be progress.”
“Development?”
“By the time you leave the hotel, your world will be much bigger than before you entered. What kind of superpower is it? It’s not about treasure, it’s about your heart. As a young child grows, he gradually creates his own world, and at the end of the process, he becomes independent of his parents’ world. “At that time, you will be able to understand that your parents have their own lives.”
“…”
“Your relationship with your parents will not improve if you leave the hotel, but you will be able to understand and accept them.”
and! Didn’t I just sound like some sort of psychological counseling expert?
“…cook!”
“huh?”
“No, it’s too strange to say that based on your appearance. “You look like a kid too!”
Songi smiled and tapped my head.
I gave him the best advice, but he reacted like this.
But it didn’t feel bad.
This solves the first colleague’s problem!
After finishing the conversation, Song Yi’s gaze stopped in midair.
“Did a hologram appear?”
“huh.”
“What do you want to do?”
“You saw this window too, but instead of leaving, you’re waking up others, right? “I want to do that too.”
As Songi woke up, the animals in the school disappeared like a mirage except for Pero.
Songi was curious about how I woke up, and we chatted about that topic for a while.
We started choosing who to wake up next.
“It’s Gain, after all, right?”
“I think Elena will have the hardest time. “Unlike us, they don’t go to school to begin with, and when I watch movies and dramas constantly, I feel like they are immersed in this world more deeply than any of us.”
“How should I wake up Ga-in? “Unlike you, I feel like I’m sleeping properly, so I think the process of persuading me will be quite difficult.”
After thinking for a while, Songi expressed an opinion.
“Let’s push Gain oppa off the building too!”
Pero was very happy to hear that.
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