Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 204
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Episode 204 – Party Time – The Power of Avatar (2)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 96
Current location: 1st floor, Room 105 – Rest Room
Sage advice: [X]
– Han Ga-in
I woke up on the bed. After vaguely realizing the power of the Avatar, your colleagues approached you just before you lost consciousness, right?
I think they moved to room 105 after I passed out. The date has already passed, and it is evening. You’ve wasted a whole day. My eyesight was fully restored. I need to meet my colleagues. As soon as I went outside, I found Elena.
“oh! Mr. Gain? Are you okay? “Everyone was worried that my eyes were bleeding.”
“it’s okay. I think the hotel doctor treated me well. “Now it may not be Mr. Kim Sang-hyun, but someone else.”
“Don’t stay here, go to the refreshment table.”
As I followed Elena towards the refreshment table, I saw my colleagues drinking coffee and chatting. As soon as he found me, Jincheol reacted.
“Oh Gain~! Are you okay?”
“it’s okay.”
“I was worried because you didn’t come out from last night until this time today. So, did you come to some great realization?”
Enlightenment. When he heard those words, his mind became confused again.
What realization did I get? When I summoned a grimoire as a test, everyone flinched and backed away.
The consciousness that was trapped inside the body floats away somewhere. At the same time, I feel a strange sensation as if my floating consciousness is splitting into several pieces. Can I just put my split consciousness into another body?
…
After only a short period of operation, I felt a significant headache, so I quickly returned to my original body.
“I feel like I can vaguely do something.”
I briefly explained the new powers I had gained. How should this power be properly expressed?
Elena, who had been listening intently, spoke.
“It’s like a puppeteering ability.”
“That’s an appropriate expression. When you use your ability, you can control two or more bodies as if you were a puppeteer.”
Ari tilted his head.
“It feels really powerful, but somehow it feels strange?”
“What is it?”
“First, is this an ability that can be used with a human mind? People naturally find it difficult to draw a square with their right arm and a triangle with their left arm. Would you say that your multitasking ability is quite poor? But is it possible to control two bodies? “It would be possible if your intelligence increased three times.”
“It may sound strange, but it is possible because it feels like your consciousness is being split. To compare it to the analogy you wrote, should I say that consciousness is split into the right and left arms respectively? but.”
“but?”
“It seems like a skill that can’t be used for a long time. “First of all, I feel like it’s hard to write for even 10 minutes.”
“10 minutes? “It’s too short, right?”
“Wouldn’t it increase as I use it?”
Songi agreed.
“Of course it will. The duration of my bracelet-related abilities has also increased significantly compared to when I first acquired it. At first, I thought it was simply because my skill level increased, but when I think back on what I heard a while ago, I guess my soul power has also become stronger.”
“Maybe so. “Is there anything else strange?”
“Oh, the second one is no big deal. “I just thought it was a slightly different ability from what the name predicted.”
The grandfather also nodded at those words.
“Isn’t the name ‘Power of Avatar’? “I thought it might be something like the ability to create an alter ego, like the art of self-immolation?”
“Maybe that ability is right.”
“What are you talking about?”
I paused for a moment and recalled the memory of reading the grimoire. The moment of pain when her head and eyes melted, and the strange letters that endlessly permeated through that pain. A compilation of evil knowledge created by the son of an alien god.
“Three sentences.”
“huh?”
“There were three sentences. The first sentence is ‘Accept that the unchanging self does not exist.’ Of course, it wasn’t written that way in Korean, and I interpreted it that way.”
“What about the second and third?”
“I don’t know. The first sentence is the only one I vaguely understand. second is… .”
I drew an unknown power from the strange knowledge that confused my mind.
— Pajijik!
A sparkling light appeared at my fingertips. Everyone looked on with interest, but the light disappeared in an instant, like a match dying out.
Elena asked with a curious expression.
“What is that?”
“I do not know. I really don’t know this. Anyway, there were three sentences, but I only understood the first one, so it seems to be still ambiguous. Rather than the power of incarnation, as Elena said, it is like a puppet technique, and even then, the duration is quite short.”
My older sister, who had been quiet all this time, muttered.
“There is no such thing as an unchanging self.”
“yes?”
“Is it quite selfless? So, the second is gratuitous performance? What is the third?”
“What do you mean?”
Unlike me, who didn’t understand, Ari answered as if she understood something.
“Is the third one the enlightenment of all things or the cessation of nirvana?”
“I don’t know Buddhism, so I don’t know what these two people are talking about. Can you guess what the next sentence is?”
My sister looked at me and answered simply.
“It’s just a list of meaningless thoughts. In the first place, it only has a subtle resemblance to Buddhist knowledge, but it is not the same concept. The founder of the Book of Magic is not Buddha, but a person who was never born. “There is no need to try to understand Buddhist enlightenment.”
“If you try to understand other ideas that vaguely resemble each other, it may actually interfere with your understanding of the grimoire?”
“That’s it. I think it would be better to just wait. When the time comes, the owl will remind you to read the grimoire again.”
As the story about my newly acquired strength came to an end, my eyes began to feel tired and my head began to feel heavy. Someone noticed it before she told her colleagues.
“Han Ga-in.”
“Ah, teacher. “Please speak comfortably.”
“I am comfortable now. I think it would be best for Gain to rest now. “Aren’t your eyes heavy?”
“Can you feel that? You can diagnose a person just by looking at them… . “I think every doctor in the world would envy you.”
“I’m also amazed at myself sometimes.”
Eunsol said in a somewhat surprised tone.
“Are there still any aftereffects? “I think you should just rest today.”
“Don’t you have a meeting related to room 104 in the evening? “I will participate until that point.”
“I need to avoid such headaches even more. I have to go to the Chamber of Curse tomorrow, so I need to get my physical condition as normal as possible. “We will hold the meeting among ourselves and come to the conclusion tomorrow morning.”
Elena also expressed the same opinion.
“I don’t have much to say at today’s meeting anyway. “I’ve decided which room to go to, and I think I’ll just worry about the meaning of the hint.”
When I heard that, I started to feel a headache that felt like my head was being tightened by a string. She eventually went back to room 105 and fainted into sleep.
*
– Eunsol Lee
Ga-in returned to room 105, saying he would rest again. As one person left, the remaining people began to tell stories that were difficult to bring up in front of him, as if they had been waiting.
“Honestly, it’s a bit of a scary ability. what do you think about it?”
Songi nodded.
“It was a little creepy. Originally, Ga-in was able to enter our bodies at some point, but now it means that he can move many of us at the same time.”
Jincheol said as if trying to reassure everyone.
“Gain will not abuse that power. Besides, I heard you can’t use that ‘puppetry trick’ for even 10 minutes?”
“‘Not yet’. It seems that time will continue to increase. Besides, that’s not the end, right? According to you, you only understood the first of the three sentences. “If I understand the last two sentences, what kind of person will I be then?”
It’s a vague story, but I think Ga-in at that time will be something closer to an angel or devil than a person. Maybe even now.
Is it because a somewhat uncomfortable story came out? Everyone became quiet for a moment.
“Speaking of this topic, don’t you think there are some differences in the potential of the legacy?”
Ari asked with interest.
“potential power? What you’re saying is that the inheritance’s growth limits seem to be different?”
“huh. It wasn’t just Ga-in’s possession of the grimoire that ended with the power of Avatar, and even within that power, there were three sentences. “I feel like there is something left that will continue to grow stronger in this way.”
“Isn’t that a story that only applies to grimoires?”
At those words, everyone’s eyes were focused on Ari.
“What is this reaction? Didn’t we all already know that heritage has a lot of potential? When I first started dealing with ‘old blood,’ my ability to use it was at most hypnotism, but now I can do all kinds of tricks.”
Ari smiled and summoned ‘cold wind’ with her fingertips.
Songi, who was watching in amazement, also spoke with an expression as if she knew something.
“If you think about it… . A lot of things have changed compared to when I first got it. Now I can use my abilities while running around, and the time limit feels more blurry than before.”
Elena also told a similar story.
“If you think about it, ‘Ominous Imagination’ is similar. Beatrix made great use of herself by transforming herself into a supernatural being, right? “Maybe I can do it someday.”
Jincheol said he didn’t know yet.
“I don’t think I’ll feel any difference.”
Ari expressed a different opinion.
“Jincheol, I don’t know about your heritage, but your blessing side has definitely become stronger.”
As I listened, I began to understand the situation.
“Other people are also making progress in their own ways. I feel like the ‘strength I often use’ has become stronger. “Song-i mostly relies on inheritance, so her power to handle inheritance is developing, and Jin-cheol uses star as a special move and usually relies on strength, so his blessing is developing.”
“That’s what it feels like. but… .”
Everyone’s eyes were focused on Ari’s somewhat ambiguous expression.
“Even considering all of this, it seems like the speed at which Ga-in’s power to use the ‘magic book’ is growing is strangely fast. “Maybe he had the talent to be a genius wizard that he didn’t even know about?”
A genius wizard. It sounds really strange to hear a word like this pop up in the 21st century. Is that really the reason?
I think it would be a good idea to end the conversation on this topic with this.
“Okay, let’s leave this topic at rest. “We have to go into room 104 tomorrow.”
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