Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 203
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Episode 203 – Party Time – The Power of Avatar (1)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 95
Current location: 1st floor, Room 105 – Rest Room
Sage advice: [X]
– Han Ga-in
It didn’t take long for me to understand my sister’s words that the medical skills of my ninth colleague, Kim Sang-hyun, were not only amazing but supernatural.
“Did you say that every time you straighten your back, your sides get pulled?”
“It’s not that my side hurts as soon as I straighten it out, but when I straighten it out and twist my body from side to side -”
— Sigh!
“Ugh!”
“The muscles on my side seemed to be somewhat twisted, so I corrected the alignment. “What about now?”
“Much better! “It’s so much better!”
With just a few unclear words from the patient and a couple of quick glances, Kim Sang-hyun can immediately find out where the pain is and what is causing it. That was amazing, but what was even more surprising was what happened next. Every time Sang-Hyun Kim performed some kind of ‘treatment’, the sight of his hands going in and out as if they were seeping into the patient’s body made everyone who was watching gape!
I never went to medical school, but I know one thing for sure. Even if you go to the best medical school in the world, they won’t be able to teach you that kind of medical skills. It must be a superpower that can only be obtained in hotels. The benefit of healing, which is worthy of hearing the voice of a god beyond a doctor, went sequentially to the grandfather, who had back pain, to Seung-yeop, who was already showing symptoms of a turtle neck, and to Song-i, who had been suffering from headaches for some time.
Ari, who was watching from the side, was curious and asked a question.
“How on earth do you move your hand in and out?”
“Miss, I don’t know either. “I just could do it at some point.”
“It would be useful offensively, right? “You say you just put your hand in and pull out the heart?”
“It is possible.”
“Oh oh! Is it possible?”
“However, for killing purposes, it is much more practical to pull the trigger one more time from a distance while you have time to get closer and put your hand in.”
“For the most part, it is, but there will be times when you can use it.”
“I hope this helps.”
The next patient was Eunsol’s older sister.
“Are you saying it’s a little difficult to close your eyelids?”
“that’s right. Actually, wasn’t it Sanghyun who gave me these eyes? “Did you really have to label it this harshly?”
“I’m just sorry. As I said the other day, most of my memories from when I was an NPC have disappeared, so I don’t know why my past self made my eyes look so ugly. “I don’t think it would be difficult to make it look like ordinary snow.”
It felt like I didn’t normally pay attention to it, and I didn’t realize it because I got used to it as I looked at it, but Eunsol seemed to be quite bothered by the unsightliness of her eyes. When Kim Sang-hyun began to look into her older sister’s eyes, she quickly changed her expression to ‘Mr. Sang-hyeon’, showing her favor.
“Umm… . Looking at the structure of the eye, it seems to be an issue that requires further consideration. You said it was the monocular eye of a giant bird, right? “This unusual eye has three small pupils or lens-like objects inside, almost like a special camera.”
“I heard a similar explanation from Ari.”
“It seems that all three lenses must be exposed to the outside for their best performance. So you need to open your eyes much wider than the average person. “I think that’s why I used to have my eyelids spread out too much.”
“Is it hard to fix?”
“It’s easy to fix, but after fixing it, the eye’s performance may deteriorate.”
“That’s a stupid story. Of course, maintaining the performance of your eyes is more important.”
“Then let’s take some more time to think about this. “I will think about ways to improve from time to time.”
“Just saying thank you!”
…
I felt it as I watched it from afar. It’s only been a few hours since he was resurrected, but Kim Sang-hyun has already integrated well among us. The doctor’s, or rather Shin’s, outstanding ability was enough to impress all of his colleagues. Seung-yeop and Song-i have already started saying “teacher, teacher,” and seeing how Sang-hyeon comes out of Eunsol’s mouth, I don’t think there will be any major problems right now.
At this rate, it would be okay to go back to the snowy field, right?
As soon as I started moving toward the snowy field, numerous worries began to fill my head.
How will the doctor overcome his desperate desire to escape and his sister’s anxiety about it?
What kind of wing boots are these, said to be made by a mysterious craftsman?
What secrets are hidden in room 104?
What is the meaning of the last hint that we still haven’t figured out?
What on earth has ‘Ju’ planned?
What is the meaning of a board that everyone can benefit from?
…
As I slowly took one step at a time, I tried to forget all my worries.
Let’s shake it off. You have to shake it off. This is not the time for me to worry with my colleagues or worry about the next room. I’m sorry, but other people will have to worry about that. Sometimes, there are moments when individual growth is the best team play. Now is the moment. I put away all the little worries in my mind and engraved just one word.
‘avatar’
*
Although we came out with grandiose resolutions, there was no significant result for quite a long time. I opened the grimoire and looked around, but the letters inside still only seemed to be unrecognizable special characters or alien languages.
It seems clear that the owl’s advice was aimed at grimoires, but why am I still not feeling any change? I think I vaguely understand the cause.
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 95
Current location: 2nd floor, Snow Globe Snowfield
Sage advice: [X]
I look at the opaque window that always protects me. When I first learned how to use the ‘filter’, I had to concentrate quite a bit to change the form, but it has been a long time since I started dealing with it in the realm of instinct. If something seemed suspicious, the filter would naturally cover my front view without me being conscious of it.
Of course, from the moment I opened the grimoire, the filter was naturally covering my vision.
“Is this a problem?”
The power of the status window filter is the power that protects me when evil information invades my mind. But now is the moment to understand the great truth contained in that evil information.
After putting the status window aside, I turned my gaze back to the grimoire. As soon as the filter’s protection was removed, I suddenly felt like my head was getting heavier, along with a pounding headache. She forced herself to concentrate on reading each letter as if deciphering them.
…
For a moment, I feel my mind sinking into a whirlpool. In the bizarre sensation of crunchy strings piercing my eyeballs and tearing my brain, I let myself go –
“Ahh!”
Blood flowed from the corner of my eyes. Are your eyes damaged? My vision did not disappear at all. It’s funny, but it’s not a big deal at this hotel. More than that – I just saw something.
When I picked up the dropped grimoire again, one passage clearly emerged.
Accept that the unchanging self does not exist.
I think back to the conversation I had with Arima in the gateway room a long time ago.
‘The human mind is like a flowing river. Just like a river flows, the mind flows and changes endlessly.’
‘What ordinary people think of as an unchanging self is nothing more than a flowing river that has been scooped up by hand at a specific time and place. Even if you pump water from the same location and time a day later, the river will be completely different.’
…I think I vaguely understand. At that time, she truly understood some of the great truths contained in the grimoire. But me? Can I be considered to have reached the incomprehensible truth?
The words from the grimoire engraved in my mind hit my head like a hammer, and the various knowledge that had been locked away in the safe for a long time began to flow out.
Self is like flowing water and does not stop even for a single moment.
What on earth does this mean?
If possession is the movement of the mind, incarnation is the expansion or division of the mind.
Please speak understandable words!
A strange feeling, as if I had been torn in two. On one side, there is me, who neither accepts nor understands wisdom. On the other side, there is me, who has begun to fly endlessly and throw off my human skin.
I didn’t know what the real me was. Perhaps this distinction itself is meaningless.
At that moment, when I was rolling around in the snow holding my head in confusion, a bird approached me.
Pero! Ah Pero! A hotel child born from a golden egg. You probably still have many unsolved secrets. Do you have something to say to me?
“Come into me.”
I heard human words from Pero’s mouth. Has the mysterious bird born from a golden egg finally learned human language? Or is it a subtle hallucination created by my mind, which began to wander after vaguely understanding the wisdom of the grimoire?
“If a chef wants to cook a good steak, he has to become a cow. So, if you become a parrot, you too will become smarter.”
“Seeing as the parrot is talking crazy, I guess I’m crazy too.”
My vision becomes blurry. The cost of repeatedly reading grimoires without the protection of a filter is now starting to appear as real names. It’s not a big deal because my eyes will recover after I take a nap in room 105 and wake up. We can’t stop accepting the wisdom of grimoires here.
“good. “I will borrow your body.”
— Beep!
Pero, who had asked me to come in a little while ago, turned around and tried to run away as soon as he heard me. After all, was it my auditory hallucination that Perrault spoke human words? If it was an auditory hallucination, why did it come to me in the first place? I don’t know. And I guess it’s good.
— Slurp!
After borrowing Perot’s body, the flight ended and I rolled around in the snow. I’ve borrowed it dozens of times already, but I still don’t know how birds fly in the sky. If you flap your wings, shouldn’t your body float upwards? Why does my body fall backwards?
Following the flow of my thoughts, I thought about the random thoughts that came to mind and walked towards my real body and the grimoire lying on the floor.
— Wiggle!
…
My body squirms. My collapsed body wriggles and shakes like a homeless person who is drunk and unconscious in the winter. My breath stopped. I felt an overwhelming fear that surpassed all the fears I had ever experienced in my life.
‘I’ has definitely entered Perot’s body! So what remains of ‘that’?
This can’t be happening! It can’t be like this. I am definitely one! Human beings can only be one!
‘I as a human’ and ‘I as a parrot’ slowly stood up and made eye contact blankly. At the same time, ‘we’ or ‘I’ realized.
We are two, and we will also be one. Only then did I realize that my mind was no longer bound to either the human body or the parrot body.
I feel my mind is ‘up there’. I felt that my mind was controlling both bodies at the same time, like a puppeteer controlling two puppets with both hands.
A person saw a parrot. The parrot saw the person. The person looked towards the hotel. The parrot looked at the sky. I saw my colleagues running toward me from the hotel.
In the storm of overlapping vision, mixed senses, and all that information – I felt my consciousness becoming blurred.
I knew I might not be ‘the one’ anymore.
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