Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 148
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Episode 148 – Rest and Reorganization (4)
– Eunsol Lee
— Tiriring! Tiriring!
…widely!
It’s morning. I rubbed my sleepy eyes, stood up, and washed lightly.
As I lightly washed my face and washed my hair, a few strands of hair fell out.
The scene of three strands of hair slowly spinning in a spiral and falling to the bathroom floor, fluttering in the vortices of the air, was stuck in my mind as if in slow motion.
When I applied lotion to my face at the sink, I felt the lotion seep into the pores on my skin.
“ah! Let’s do it in moderation. Do we even have to see this?”
There is no use in saying it. Because no one is forcing me to show it. The world that my over-powered eyes had been unaware of until now is only showing its true appearance.
Finally, I looked back in the mirror.
The normal eye on my left side that has worked for me my whole life.
The evil eye on the right is in great contrast to that eye and appears at least 30% larger.
The pupil was constantly twitching, and the three dots on the top, bottom left, and bottom right were constantly changing focus like a small lens, greedily absorbing information from the world.
As I was taking a shower, I slowly saw the steam in the bathroom turning into a drop of water and condensing on the mirror.
I walked out of the bathroom while watching the shaking of the falling water droplets.
It’s already the 5th day of rest. Two days have passed since I received this eye from the merchant.
At first, I was very happy that they were giving me 7 days of rest, but now I wish they would give me a few more days.
When I came out of my room, I saw some of my colleagues already there.
“Eunsol noona! Good morning?”
“good morning!”
I bowed lightly and turned my head.
I felt Seungyeop startled as soon as he saw my face.
Again, I didn’t feel sad or anything.
I still get surprised every time I look in the mirror and see my own eyes, but isn’t that the same for my colleagues? You need time to adapt.
To begin with, the eyes are 30% larger than normal eyes.
There is no room for these eyes in an ordinary person’s skull.
So the morning after I got the eye, I learned that the hotel doctor (supposedly) had performed a very major surgery on my head.
As meal time approached, other colleagues gathered one by one near the table in room 105.
Everyone was shocked for a moment, but then smiled brightly and said hello.
A thread-like wound measuring millimeters can be seen on Ga-in’s brightly smiling cheek. Was it scratched by something?
I could see every single pore of the bunch pulling on Pero’s beak. I washed myself with too hot water in the morning.
It felt like Elena, who was looking forward to the meal, continued to act as if there was a transparent wall between her and Ga-in. Ever since she left the gateway room, she’s felt that way. I guess something interesting happened with each other in its own way.
A scale fell from the mysterious right arm of the silent grandfather yawning next to him.
And I noticed Jincheol’s strange behavior since yesterday.
…You’ve seen too much. Slowly, my head started to hurt.
My right eye has transcendental capabilities, but my brain is that of an ordinary human.
The human brain does not have the ability to endlessly interpret such excessive visual information.
In the end, I leaned against the wall with my eyes blindfolded for a moment and thought.
Not bad.
A high price had to be paid.
He lost his real eye, became somewhat disfigured, and gained chronic headaches.
However, I gained superhuman vision.
An indescribable sense of accomplishment filled my heart.
*
– Eunsol Lee
After the meal, like always recently, everyone went to their favorite places to hang out.
I caught Jincheol, who seemed to be going on that damn safari again.
“Jincheol.”
“uh? sister? “Do you have anything to say?”
“Follow me for a moment. “I have something to ask.”
After a while, we prepared some simple drinks at the cocktail bar.
Jincheol, who was sitting at the table across from us, started behaving strangely again.
Eyes that seem to be focused on something in the air.
Eye movement that follows something that only you can see.
My skin is dripping with cold sweat, as if I’m feeling scared.
These are changes that were not noticed until recently. Jincheol is not the type to be harsh when something happens to him, so he seems to just hide it, but his attitude is foolish.
Hiding something strange that happened to you in this place is not manly behavior, it is foolish behavior.
“What are you looking at so intently? “Is it like a ghost floating in the air?”
“ah… . “Did you notice?”
“I found out after I got new eyes.”
Jincheol took a moment to catch his breath and started drinking his cocktail.
I have a guess. A problem that arose in the gateway room and the witch’s handling process.
Ga-in warned me. He dealt with the witch using his own means, but he said that the witch would never be completely extinguished unless Cha Jin-cheol died.
We also conveyed this fact to Jincheol.
After a moment of silence, Jincheol finally opened his mouth.
“The first time I felt it was when I came out of the gateway room. Something I couldn’t tell if it was a ghost or a shadow was flying around here and there. Is something wrong with the hotel? “But that strange being was only visible to me.”
“I think so. “I can’t see anything with my eyes right now.”
“Maybe it’s a witch’s soul or something?”
“I guess not. According to the hotel description, my eyes can now see invisible beings. Even if it’s a ghost, you’ll probably be able to see it awkwardly. “But doesn’t the fact that my eyes can’t perceive anything mean that Jincheol is purely an illusion that you see, not even a ghost?”
“It’s good anyway. “The important thing is that the illusion becomes increasingly clear.”
“It becomes clearer?”
“yes. The last time I became aware of it was two days ago at a ski resort. I jumped into the air to catch Ga-in, who was practicing teleportation, but as he came down to the ground, I saw a shape that resembled a human face. Before that, it looked like a flowing shadow.”
“How about now?”
“It’s similar. It slowly looks like a human shape. “I’m not at the point where I can recognize who it is yet.”
“Have the traces of the witch remained as an illusion? .”
“Do you have any clever ideas?”
“sorry. I don’t know much about these supernatural things. “Why don’t you ask the management team?”
“I already asked. Grandpa is no help in times like these. He said he doesn’t know what to do now either.”
“…”
“I’m just going to wait and see. As the shape becomes clearer, there will come a time when you can talk to me. “When that time comes, I’ll have to ask what on earth you want.”
It is neither an entity nor a ghost, but a blurry illusion that can only be seen in Cha Jin-cheol’s eyes due to the traces left in Cha Jin-cheol’s brain.
I do not know what should I do. I couldn’t think of any other response other than waiting as Jincheol said.
“When Ga-in comes later, ask him to write some advice.”
“I don’t have any expectations. “My feeling so far is that the advice is just pretending to help you once you get out of the cursed room.”
“According to Cain, the owl doesn’t want to help us? The only person I’m interested in is Han Ga-in. So, when Ga-in asks for advice ‘for us’, I have no choice but to give a sour answer.”
“Yes.”
“There’s no way to help right now, but if anything unusual happens in the future, be sure to tell us. You may have never met her in person, but that witch. I still remember it vividly. “She was a being filled with unimaginable madness.”
“All right.”
“Anyway, let’s bring others in soon. “The vacation is coming to an end, so it’s time to talk about ‘that topic’, right?”
“I will bring him.”
Jincheol stood up from the bar and was about to turn around when he asked one question.
“There’s no need to bring the kids, right?”
I responded with a slight smile. As expected, this guy doesn’t have bad sense either.
I immediately understood the meaning of choosing the place as a cocktail bar.
*
– Han Ga-in
I arrived at the cocktail bar after being told to come.
All colleagues except Seungyeop and Ari gathered.
Is it because it feels burdensome to jump right into a heavy conversation?
Eunsol made several different types of cocktails and gave us one each.
It is said that the cocktail in the glass handed to me was made by mixing Kahlua, rum, and cola.
…
I still don’t know what alcohol tastes like. I made a statement of my convictions.
“sister.”
“huh? delicious?”
“Wouldn’t it be better to just drink cola rather than mixing it with various things to create a cocktail that clumsily imitates cola? “It just tastes like fake cola.”
— Tak!
I got hit once. My sister said she would never make cocktails for you again and she left.
But honestly, I believe that plain cola tastes better than cola mixed with some kind of unpleasant alcohol.
Anyway, as soon as we saw the assembled members, we immediately understood what the topic of today’s conversation would be.
This is an issue that must be addressed at least once.
It is time to share opinions about ‘resurrection’.
My older sister, perhaps thinking that the atmosphere had slowly eased, spoke first.
“As you may have guessed, we gathered together today to talk about who we should resurrect. I don’t want to decide exactly today. You can’t revive it with just a ticket in the first place, right? We need to find a place called the Resurrection Room. After we find the place, we will gather our opinions again. However, we gathered together with the intention of organizing our thoughts in advance.”
Elena asked.
“The reason we gathered together without Ari is because Ari’s answer is predetermined, right?”
“yes. To be more precise, I left out people who seemed like they wouldn’t be able to have this discussion rationally. “Ari can’t maintain rationality because the story is related to her mother, and although Seungyeop is young, I think he will definitely try to take Ari’s side.”
I sighed as I listened. Seungyeop… .
“First, let’s summarize the candidates for resurrection that have been gathered so far. 1. Miro, Ari’s mother 2. Kim Sang-hyun, the doctor who treated Ga-in 3. Estavio, the alien who helped Song-i 4. Cha Seung-jin, a special forces soldier who helped Seung-yeop in the gate room.”
“I think I’ve met quite a few people so far, but there aren’t many people who can be considered candidates for resurrection yet.”
“Not yet. However, we may meet more people later, and there may actually have been more candidates for resurrection among the people we have already met. “I started by choosing clear people.”
Jincheol, who was listening, opened his mouth.
“Let me start with my opinion. In the first place, I think the premise of using only one ticket for someone else is strange. “Can’t we use it even when one of us is permanently dead?”
“that’s right.”
“So, in the first place, I don’t want to write for any of the candidates you mentioned. “I’m sorry to Ari, but the people I’m with at the hotel are more important to me.”
“Let’s just save it and use it when one of us is eliminated. I understand. “Let us consider one important opinion.”
After writing Jincheol’s opinion on the whiteboard, the older sister looked at the others.
“What do you guys think?”
I also started to organize my thoughts.
If you spend the ticket on someone, who should you save? What are some factors to consider when choosing an object of resurrection?
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