Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 139
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Episode 139 – No. 107, The Gateway Room – ‘Perfect Life’ (30)
– Kim Ari
After starting to worry about how to wake up Ga-in, Song-i expressed her opinion.
“Let’s push Gain oppa off the building too!”
“I also thought about killing him, but there are some things I need to be careful about.”
“What is dangerous?”
“Look back at the situation that woke you up earlier. From this ordeal, we gain superpowers to make our wishes come true. “Gain is likely to be similar.”
“Hmm. It’s strange that you say it’s a superpower. “From the point of view of using it, I didn’t feel like I was using my abilities.”
“I know what you mean. Rather than using our own abilities, we just made a wish and the universe granted it! It feels the same. Ga-in must have gained that kind of power too. And unlike you, there’s a good chance he won’t control his strength.”
“Strength control?”
“I was already half-awake when you sent me away, right? So, you probably adjusted your strength instinctively. “You probably hoped that I wouldn’t die when you threw me.”
“I didn’t really think about it like that.”
“…”
“I might have done it unconsciously.”
“You did it, right?”
“…”
“Let’s say you did it. Anyway, you recognized me and controlled my strength to the point where I didn’t die, but you’re not Ga-in, right? “If we try to harm Ga-in, he might wish us dead.”
“That’s really scary. “Let’s plan a little more step by step.”
“I think it’s better to plan in a way that doesn’t reveal us directly.”
Afterwards, we thought carefully and came up with a plan to assassinate Han Ga-in.
The plan was to start around lunchtime.
*
– Han Ga-in
— Ding dong dang dong!
“Ugh~ I guess I’m sleepy.”
“Hey, I thought you studied at least in class. “Why do you doze off when you’re already dozing off anyway?”
“You idiots! “Let’s go get something to eat.”
“What’s for lunch today? “Is it sweet and sour pork?”
“That’s tomorrow, and today is fried nose bridge.”
“Ah-”
My ears are hurting. As soon as lunch time started, the entire classroom became noisy.
On the other hand, I didn’t think much of it. Because I still have a cast on my leg, it’s difficult to move to the restaurant, and I was told at the hospital that I need to watch my diet for a while, so I brought a packed lunch.
As I took out my lunch box, several of my friends approached me.
“Do you still eat only that?”
“Are you going to eat boxed lunches for another month?”
“Seriously, it’s so fucking delicious.”
“Are you arguing? “I’ve got an intestinal injury so I can only eat things like this?”
At about that time, a loud noise was heard from the classroom door.
“Wow! Hey, Han Ga-in, call that damn bastard!”
“Wow, that bastard, if it weren’t for his leg cast, I’d be the one to beat him up right away!”
What’s happening all of a sudden? Before I could eat anything, the people around me dragged me towards the door.
At the door was a second-year student with a very cute look.
…
under! This and this, the popularity of this body!
Without realizing it, my hand goes up and I admire my own uncontrollable charm –
— Tak!
“Is this fucking guy doing it again?”
“Ah, you crazy guy! “Look at my legs and tell me to push them.”
Amidst the noisy surroundings, a female student who introduced herself as ‘Songi’ handed over a small note and disappeared as if she was embarrassed.
After pushing away the ignorant people who tried to open the note with me, I checked it on my own.
It was written that we would meet after class on the roof of the newly built building where the restaurant was located.
After that, I didn’t listen to any classes at all.
*
– Han Ga-in
As soon as class was over, I took off my friends who were watching me with eagle eyes and headed to the rooftop of the new building.
What do we do? What do we do? I am currently a senior in high school. Can I have a girlfriend? Wouldn’t it be right to date your girlfriend after you go to college? But she’s cute! Ha, it can still hurt! Why did she ask to meet me on the rooftop? My legs hurt. That would be fine. Should I bounce it once? Hey, don’t do anything weird like that, it’s OK right away. What should you do if you fight while dating? If you have enough love, you can overcome small conflicts! But wouldn’t it be a big problem if the kid I met today had a weirder personality than I expected?
…
In just a moment, my head spun faster than at any other moment since I was born, churning out incredible delusions.
If I continued like this, I would be thinking about my second daughter’s name alone, so I forced myself to stop thinking and went up to the rooftop.
??
what? I came up, but there was no one on the rooftop.
I looked around the rooftop, but Songi was nowhere to be seen.
Did I come too fast? It doesn’t seem like I came particularly quickly because my legs are uncomfortable… .
But I soon understood.
Those who confess need to prepare their hearts!
When I thought about it like that, I immediately felt better and it was difficult to hide the corners of my mouth widening.
The moment I was about to approach and lean on the railing, giggling to myself.
— Ting!
Suddenly something grabbed me and pushed my body towards the rooftop railing!
The white wire that I couldn’t see because it was lying on the floor was pulled taut and pushed my body out.
“Ugh!”
In an instant, he hit the outer wall of the railing and fell.
The body, which was already uncomfortable due to the cast, collapsed in an instant due to the shock.
The even more shocking thing started next.
— Rumble! bang!
Suddenly the outer wall of the railing collapsed! An exterior wall made of reinforced concrete suddenly collapses?
How on earth does this happen? There was no time to think about the reason.
Even now, the wire pushing my body outside the outer wall, the outer railing wall collapsing due to an unknown force.
The results were clear.
In an instant, I was pushed out of the building and was in danger of falling.
I literally clung to the remains of the railing with both hands with all my might.
“Save people!!! “Save people!!!”
I screamed like crazy and hung on with all my might. I didn’t dare look underneath her.
As time filled with pain and fear passed, strange voices were heard from somewhere.
“Why are you holding up so well?”
“Wouldn’t it be okay to wait?”
“If I give it a long time, it will come back to life in some strange way?”
“Why don’t you die like that?”
“Gain. “Please die!”
What on earth? Why do I hear voices wishing me dead?
Even one of the voices was clearly the girl who had called me earlier during the day!
How does this happen?
My mind was in disarray in the confusion.
And then there was a sound that added to all this pain.
— Piyooooo!
With a loud sound, a cute parrot appeared as if it were a great bird of prey.
The parrot slowly approached the railing where I was hanging.
“No, right? Surely not?”
— Ting! Ting!
“Ah, you fucking idiot! “Aren’t you going to clean your beak?”
— Sigh! Squeak!
“Ugh! Crazy bird catches people! “Don’t bite your fingers!”
— Kiririk!
“you? Did you laugh just now? “You laughed, right?”
— Jjieeik!
“evil! Really, please get rid of your beak! ah! “Snow, snow!”
As if it thought I could hold out for too long, the parrot climbed up on my face and started attacking my face here and there with its beak and claws.
It’s boiling over.
Deep within my heart, an endless anger that I had never experienced before welled up.
Now, not only the fear of death but also the pain caused by hanging on to the railing has disappeared from my mind.
If only I could fry that damn bird!
The moment when all distracting thoughts disappear and only one wish remains in mind.
The world answered my prayers.
And then I came to my senses.
*
– Han Ga-in
— Kyai-ing!
“Ugh, you’re hurt a lot. are you okay?”
“We were afraid of this so we avoided looking at Ga-in oppa! It’s Pero! “I told you not to go out carelessly.”
“Anyway, I never thought that Ga-in would suddenly summon boiling oil from thin air… . “Is Pero okay?”
“If it were an ordinary parrot, it would have died instantly. But Pero is special! It will be fine.”
After listening to Ari and Songi’s conversation for a while, I was so dumbfounded that I couldn’t bear it.
“Are you really worried about the parrot? “Aren’t you worried about my fingers and face that the parrot almost split?”
“What do you think? Anyway, if you leave the hotel, they will treat you all. By the way, you also woke up in a really funny way. “Did you come to your senses when you summoned boiling oil in the air and the oil threatened to cover you?”
“…”
“Hey, isn’t that too much? Pero tried his best to wake you up, but he tried to pour oil on you.”
“Do not lie! “It was clearly laughing at me and biting my finger.”
“brother! Pero is sick right now, do you really have to say that?”
“…”
“Hey, Song, don’t be like that. “Gain came today with great expectations because he thought he was going to hear your confession.”
Ari’s words were a fatal blow to both Song and me.
When I remembered the huge delusion I had earlier, I couldn’t bear it so I just looked at the floor.
“Gain, you’re definitely awake, right? “If you’re not sure, why not try flying from a building?”
“… The hologram has already appeared, so please stop.”
I just wanted to push Ari out of the building.
After going through this noisy process, I eventually joined the ‘Wake Up Party’.
Now the only person left is Elena.
I felt quite emotional about the fact that this long gateway room was really coming to an end.
“Is there one Elena left now?”
Songi expressed her opinion right away.
“yes. But I think the difficulty level of waking up Elena will be higher than that of us. “I feel like I was deeply immersed in her dream.”
“There is another problem. You’ve already become a huge star on this stage, right? Elena will have a lot of bodyguards around her. “It’s hard to say what she did to me, the vicious way she took me somewhere and pushed me off the roof of a building.”
“…I’m sorry for using such a vicious method.”
Songi began to bandage Pero diligently.
Even during this time, the arrogant beast was screeching and glaring at me.
Could the sovereignty of all things be lost to a parrot? I opened my eyes as wide as I could and glared at Perot.
Ari, who was watching this, said something.
“hey! “Stop fighting with animals.”
Eventually, Ari called me over and we started talking about various things.
The topic of conversation was, of course, how Ari and Songi woke up.
As I listened to Ari’s process of feeling out of place in the world, there were so many strange details.
“what?”
“huh? “I went into the management bureau headquarters and met with Director Park-”
“No, not that part. The part that felt strange. “What about pigeons, what about fungal parasites?”
“It did.”
“… This is my first time hearing those words. Fungal parasite? pigeon? I haven’t even seen anything like that on the news. It’s a bar. I may not have known because I’m underage, but are they predatory pigeons? “If such a strange creature had spread throughout the country, we couldn’t have known about it.”
“…”
When Ari heard my answer, her eyes widened at first, and after a while, she nodded with an expression of understanding.
“Don’t just figure it out on your own, please explain it to me.”
“It’s no big deal. “If you think about it a little, you’ll figure it out, right?”
The atmosphere seems to be avoiding an answer outright.
But actually, I understood it right away. This is something I have experienced several times at this hotel.
It was a stage that clearly looked like Earth, but it was full of absurd things that had never been heard of in actual history.
At first, I thought it was simply created by the hotel.
However, Song-i, who later solved Issue 103, heard from ‘The Swallower’ that the hotel scenario is reproducing something that actually happened somewhere in this universe.
This is something I have never heard or seen in the history I know, but did it actually happen? I’ve seen the concept explaining this in movies dozens of times!
Isn’t this a parallel world? Maybe Ari and I come from different parallel worlds.
So, if we go out of the hotel and return to our separate worlds one day, will we no longer be able to meet each other? When I thought about it that way, I felt regretful.
Phew… .
Let’s stop thinking about this. Right now, I’m very busy just thinking about how to survive each day.
*
– Kim Ari
After the conversation a little while ago ended, Ga-in didn’t ask any more questions, seemed to be thinking to herself, and nodded.
It seems like he understood it in his own way. It was easy to predict how it would be understood. It must be something like a parallel world.
Ever since the movie theaters were taken over by superhero films created by American XX Comics, stories about parallel worlds have entered the realm of common sense.
I sighed.
This time, I couldn’t tell Ga-in the truth. This time, I had no choice but to thoroughly hide the truth for him.
One day, when I step outside the hotel, I will be in for a huge shock.
But we can’t let that shock happen now while the hotel’s ordeal is underway.
I and he have lived in different phases of the same world.
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