Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 190
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Episode 190 – Prayer for the Maze (9)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 94
Current Location: Maze of Hell
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
Devil Santa’s fifth claim was, ‘Can a guy who doesn’t even have Rudolph call himself Santa?’
and! Even Rudolph is coming? I missed this trend a long time ago!
If he had brought Pero with him, would it have been okay to insist that Pero was his grandfather’s Rudolph? What if Perrault rips out her grandfather’s hair in the middle of the rainy season? What if her grandfather gets angry and hits Pero?
…
Come to your senses. The atmosphere is so crazy that even I keep having strange thoughts. This story is meaningless unless Perot is brought in. In the first place, it is difficult to control Pero delicately when there is no ‘Song-i’.
Grandpa said something at once.
“Yes. Of course, I have Rudolph too.”
Han Ga-in: Yes?
Kim Muk-seong: Do something! right now!
Ari Kim: Wait a minute!
What on earth is Ari trying to do in the meantime? Did he sense that his grandfather had thrown out a comment carelessly? Santa started laughing.
“like! Have you run out of excuses now? Indeed, a simpleton is impersonating Santa, so do you have the ability to properly prepare? That would be good to know. “What a great sin it is to impersonate Santa!”
“There’s Rudolph? Hey, I’m not a magician like you, so Rudolph won’t pop out right away! “You’re not trying to say magic is a must for Santa, are you?”
“So where on earth are you? “Unless my eyes are dim, I don’t see your Rudolph anywhere.”
— Buuuung! bang!
An 1982 Ford Granada entered the school, smashing down the ‘main door’ where Santa entered. The Ford, which was running at tremendous speed, naturally broke the drift and hit and blew away the reindeer that was peacefully posing next to Santa.
“Keueeeeek!”
“Comeeeeee! Comeet!”
Santa lets out a cry full of despair as he sees the reindeer flying away screaming. I don’t know who the villain is!
Meanwhile, Ari smiled sweetly.
“Rudolph appears!”
I don’t know anymore.
“Have you seen these crazy dogs! “Who calls a car Rudolph?”
“Hey man! “Why can’t a car do Rudolph?”
“Do you think that makes sense?”
“The world is developing day by day! We live in a time when ceramics produced in China are brought to America by ship, and old-generation Santas like you are riding around in sleighs! In today’s world, Rudolph is like a car and an airplane.”
“under! “I guess you can’t even see the scared children in your eyes?”
It’s a natural thing. The children, who had been giggling until just now because it felt like a bunch of crazy old people talking nonsense, completely lost their minds when the car crashed through the front door.
“Seriously you bastards! It was my fault for trying to talk to these crazy people! You don’t deserve to live. “I’ll kill you by blowing off each one’s head!”
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way.
“Eeeee! Is it not possible? “Did you even drive there?”
“Sure! “Can this be such a crazy, irrational number?”
Ari and I were just about to give up, thinking that our second attempt had failed, when we heard a song.
“Rudolph the reindeer’s nose is very shiny!”
?
In a school filled with astonishment, Miro walked towards the 1982 Ford Granada with something in his hand with an expression of confusion.
From children to teachers, from hotel parties to even Santa! All eyes in the hall were now focused on the maze, wondering what kind of crazy thing would happen again.
What jumped out of Miro’s hand was the cherry on the Christmas cake.
“On a foggy Christmas day~ Santa said~ Rudolph’s nose is bright~ so please pull the sleigh!”
— Sigh!
A cherry stuck in Ari’s nose.
“You’re Rudolph now, right? “Your nose has become brighter, right?”
Change has begun.
We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas
I hope you have a merry Christmas
And Happy New Year!
The carol is changed to Korean. The magic carol that had never stopped – from the moment she first arrived at school until now – began to lose its power.
Ari’s startled cry was heard.
“Hey, did this work? “If I just put a cherry on my nose, it’s Rudolph?”
Santa’s body began to crumble like sand. She sounded extremely tired.
“I… . From the moment I first arrived at this school, I thought the air was not good… . I never thought it would be a school full of crazy people, from children to old people… .”
No, it’s true that it’s crazy, but is this really what a child-murdering Santa would do?
There was just one person, full of joy and excitement.
“Look, did you see it? saw? Santa started dying because I added cherries! and! Do you think I’m really smart? yes?”
“… okay. “I was really surprised just now.”
“Ahahaha! I am a genius among geniuses! Now can I become an exorcist and do something like this? “It looks like so much fun!”
You were already doing it. He’s also a huge veteran.
“Everyone applaud! “Aren’t you going to clap?”
— mate! match! match!
Everyone started clapping towards the maze with a soulful look on their faces. Miro, with her cheeks flushed red, began tearing off the cherries from her cake and sticking them on the noses of those around her.
I – Rudolph No. 4, according to Miro – barely managed to keep my wits about me and looked at Santa, and Santa, who was speaking in a dejected manner as if it were wise man time, disappeared leaving behind only a small doll.
A carol whose magic power has suddenly disappeared, children who don’t know what it is but are happy and laughing and talking, and even a girl who is filled with happiness and lets out a roar of victory.
Anyway, it’s a happy ending!
The space is slowly collapsing. The maze of hell, which was full of nightmares, began to disappear beyond time and space.
Unlike Ari, who was alone and feeling moved by the roar of the maze, my grandfather and I looked truly exhausted.
“… Thank you for your effort.”
“You were cursed too.”
“You have good quick wits. “I never thought you would take Santa’s bullshit so well.”
The moment when we were waiting for a break to tell each other that we had worked hard in the atmosphere of the end.
Everything stopped.
Fluttering snow, carols that now sound like Korean, teachers who are lost in the confusion and don’t know how to clean up after themselves, and children who are having so much fun even though they don’t know what’s going on. All the sounds stopped, and the collapsing space also stopped collapsing.
When my grandfather, Ari, and I started looking at each other to see what this was, we heard a familiar yet ‘different’ voice.
“You really came to save me.”
Somewhere a vague atmosphere. Before Ari’s eyes widened in shock, Miro naturally came up to her and hugged her.
“Um, Mom? “Do you recognize me now?”
“No problem. Rather, it’s strange that I didn’t recognize him until now due to the hotel’s prank. “Why are we so similar?”
weird.
“mom… .”
weird. Unlike Ari, who couldn’t handle the torrent of emotions that were shaking when Miro acted ‘like his mother’ for the first time in his life, and burst into tears, my grandfather and I widened our eyes in shock.
“for a moment! Are you ‘sane’ now?”
Ari, who only then noticed this strange incident, was startled and took a step back. We don’t know exactly what happened to the hotel’s labyrinth, but it created Ari and lost its intelligence!
It was a long time ago, when Miro was young, and it was before he created Ahri, so it was natural that he was in a good state of mind. However, the current Miro was also different from the ‘young Miro’.
It is not a young Miro, nor is it a Miro that lost its intelligence while creating Ari. Miro smiled a faint smile that had never been seen in this place.
“That’s funny. “Her daughter is surprised to see her mother in her right mind.”
“… It’s my first time meeting you. mother.”
“Come here.”
“…”
“Aren’t you going to come?”
Ari eventually couldn’t refuse and approached her. Miro grabbed Ari’s face with both hands and looked at it for a while as if observing something.
“You haven’t found the ‘Room of Mirrors’ yet. yes?”
“yes.”
“If you find it, be careful. “It’s a much more dangerous place than you think.”
“for a moment! Please tell me in detail. “How can it be dangerous?”
“Gain, a little while ago I said, ‘See you later! ‘Everything will be fine’ was kind of cool.”
“… You remember what happened during the first attempt.”
“It’s awkward hearing you talk so politely. It’s one of the things I dislike about Korean. It’s hard to say anything about the Hall of Mirrors in detail. Because you haven’t found the hall of mirrors yet. “If there’s any advice I can give.”
Miro seemed to be thinking for a moment, then opened his mouth again.
“I wanted to achieve many goals there, but I lost everything in return.”
“yes?”
Instead of answering further about the Hall of Mirrors, Miro changed the subject.
“iced coffee… . I never thought I would get another chance at the hotel! “I really didn’t know.”
“You never know.”
“like! That’s right. Ultimately, whether or not you use the ticket is up to you. But you will meet me again eventually.”
“How are you so sure?”
Instead of answering right away, Miro smiled slightly. Is there a basis for her confidence?
“Our blessings are not given without a reason. “You already know that much, right?”
“It is given to the right person. Actually, I think I made my choice.”
“I got ‘justice.’ “What does this mean?”
“…”
“You must have heard quite a few bad things about me. I have no intention of denying it. However, I can assure you of one thing.”
“What are you saying-”
“I always wanted to save the world. Even if it means getting blood on my hands!”
An inexplicable fire rose from Miro’s eyes. Continuing from the faint smile from before, now the flame-like eyes filled with passion.
I have finally accepted it deeply.
This person is different from the girl who regressed as an infant that Ari knew, and she is also different from the innocent girl who has been with us all this time in this hell. There was a person in front of me who had formed an abyss-like mind by going through countless incomprehensible hells on Earth over an incalculable amount of time.
It is said that blessings are given to the right person. This is a fact that has already been reported by the ‘lucky sponsor’.
According to what I have felt over the past few months, the justice of Elena, the current owner of justice, is similar to ‘law’. So, what was the definition of a sane maze?
If Miro had to shed blood to save the world, what happened to the world?
The world that had stopped begins to collapse again. Meanwhile, Miro looked around blankly.
“thank you.”
“yes?”
“pain. tragedy. trauma. There was a time when I believed that if these things were repeated over and over again, I would get used to them. “I mistakenly thought that no matter how painful a memory was, if I repeated it over and over again, it would soon feel like it was no big deal.”
“…”
“No. On Christmas Day, all the friends and teachers I loved died. “Only I hid among the corpses and was rescued by the Bureau.”
“You’ve been through something terrible.”
“I thought it was just a long time ago. I realized it only after falling into ‘hell’. The fact that I have never once overcome that pain. I just believed that I had forced myself to forget it, burying it on the other side of oblivion. This hell was never a place you could get used to over time… .”
“… Thank you for your hard work.”
“thank you. I’m serious about this. And, when you resurrect me in the future, I will have to choose one of the legacies I had before.”
“I heard something like that happens.”
“I’m saying this because I may not be in a good state of mind at that time. If you have any questions about what to choose, just tell me. “Choose ‘Clock’.”
‘clock’.
At the last moment, Miro looked at Ari and smiled.
“love you!”
And then all hell broke loose.
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