Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 217
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Episode 217 – No. 104, Room of the Curse – ‘Prestigious Hotel High School for Entrance Exam’ Re (11)
– Eunsol Lee
‘I have dedicated my life to the Lord. Please give me a chance to talk even just for a moment.’
Aurelia’s earnest plea was so pitiful that even my own ears felt sorry for me. If you have a human heart, you can’t help but feel moved when you hear this. Of course, she is not a giver, and that elementary school girl seems to have never received proper character education.
“Know that the best you can do is to lay down your neck here.”
The corner of the girl’s mouth split and she smiled roundly, and a strange glow seemed to come from her hands, and she swung her arms horizontally as if she were swinging an invisible sword.
The next moment, Aurelia, who seemed to have lost all hope just a moment ago, rolled on the floor at incredible speed and rushed at the young saint, avoiding the invisible sword!
The young saint took a step back in surprise, but it was already too late. In an instant, Aurelia grabbed the saint’s neck with her free hand. A faint trace of light, like a wave, remained behind her Aurelia.
I thought I had used up almost all of my strength, but is there still some left? Was the difference in proficiency in handling force so severe that he was able to win with just a little bit of force?
“Hey, hey! “What on earth!”
“You have no training in how to use force. “I just gather it in my fingers and spit it out, and my reaction speed and thinking speed are like that of an ordinary human being.”
“…”
“What on earth is your father thinking? Another saint to replace me? Of course you can choose. In the first place, I am not the first saint. However, I really don’t understand why they would make a child like you, who has not received any training, into a saint.”
I feel sorry for Aurelia, but I think I understand. Anyway, to the Lord, the church is just a piece of cake that he will soon take a bite of and put away, and he has no interest in long-term management!
I would have thought that even a child with strength and no training would be able to beat me or my grandfather. Elena would not have been able to use her strength in front of that terrifying elementary school girl. Looking at it this way, where did the Lord’s calculation go wrong?
The reason for the failure is that Aurelia still has strength left and has joined us.
The moment my grandfather and I took a step forward, Aurelia’s sharp eyes turned towards us.
“Stop.”
“…”
“I just need to get a promise from my father for now.”
Pero Cain replied.
“Are you planning on asking that kid to arrange a conversation with you?”
“is it so. “I don’t know about you, but to the saint of the church –”
“You have the right to ask God questions and hear answers. If it’s something like this, I think it’s okay if your God ignores you.”
“Father, you are not an individual on the street, but a person who stands above everyone. Those words have the weight of gold, so they are by no means as light as your words. “If you don’t agree with what I say, you can cut me and this child down and leave now.”
When grandpa heard this far, he couldn’t stand it anymore and stormed out!
To be exact, it was trying to jump out. If Aurelia and Ju leave after some kind of negotiation like this, my grandfather and I will have to fight that ignorant saint, but it is obvious that there will be no answer.
However, a very loud ‘pecking’ sound was heard above the grandfather’s head.
— Ting!
“… you-”
“Grandpa, just wait.”
I now know what Ga-in is thinking.
“In the end, you cannot give up your God. “You will soon pay the price for your wrong choice.”
What followed went smoothly. Her saintly body sparkled, and she promised, in the name of her god, to arrange one conversation with Aurelia, and the Lord, in some unknown way, granted Aurelia her conversation.
The intention is very obvious. The intention is probably to get Aurelia, the only one who can threaten the saint, to leave this place.
I don’t want to think about what happened after that anymore.
Unfortunately, neither I nor my grandfather are combatants in our party. Fortunately, the Lord wanted to be prompt, so the young saint did not end up playing a trick on us.
I saw a scene where Perrault ‘flighted’ and approached the saint, transforming into a grotesque figure and then splitting apart, with a huge vertical hole in his stomach and intense pain that felt as if his whole body was on fire.
At the moment of death, I was able to forget the pain for a moment because I knew that my hope had come true.
*
A girl and a woman in her 20s walked together along a long passageway.
— Ttogak. Again.
“…don’t think nonsense.”
“Ridiculous idea?”
“Oh, I need to ask my father to forgive me! -”
“Honey, don’t worry, I have no intention of asking your father to give you the position of saint again.”
“Who on earth said that? “Don’t pass things around!”
“okay? “Then I’m sorry.”
At the end of the passage was a rather old-fashioned door. The moment Aurelia reached the door and tried to grab the doorknob, the saint snatched her hand.
“What on earth is this? Not stupid! “It’s not that door!”
“Oh, that’s right. “I guess my mind was so clouded that I couldn’t remember it.”
“This is why your father thinks you should be replaced.”
The saint, who was sarcastic after seeing Aurelia’s ‘mistake’, ignored the antique door and opened the hidden door on the right wall. When I opened the door, a mysterious space filled with soft lights appeared.
At the end of the space, incongruously, was a bed. When the young man on the bed quietly raised his head, the saint immediately knelt down on her knees.
“father! First of all, I’m sorry. Unfortunately, my skills are not enough -”
“Tsk!”
“…”
“Ha, that’s really ridiculous.”
“father?”
“Really, no matter how many variables you reduce -”
With those words, the young man’s body suddenly fell onto the bed as if he had fainted. Her saintly woman’s eyes were as round as those of a rabbit.
*
– Han Ga-in
Consciousness floats into the air. In an instant, the consciousness that had been bound to the body gained freedom. When my vision, freed from reality, looked into space, there was a burning sun there.
‘haha! It’s funny, it’s funny. Aurelia, she seemed so desperate for the child that I did her good will.’
‘linear? Let’s get it straight. ‘Isn’t that just a thoughtless elementary school kid who doesn’t know how to work hard and made a plan out of fear of being defeated by Aurelia?’
‘A pig’s eyes only see pigs, and a Buddha’s eyes see only Buddha.’
‘So how does it feel to see me again?’
‘No matter how thorough your plan is, gaps are bound to appear. I also thought about the possibility of you taking Aurelia’s body, but I thought she would not be able to take her body hastily because she still had some of my power left in that child. Was all his strength exhausted after the previous collision? It must be a strange harmony.’
I stopped the conversation and did my best to unleash the ‘power of the incarnation’. The battle with the Lord over control of my body, which had descended not long ago, has begun once again!
The black thread and the thread of flame were tangled. Two controls and contradictory commands were endlessly applied to my body, and as the grimoire and the power of the Lord clashed, blood eventually began to flow from my body’s eyes, nose, and mouth, and my skin began to burst.
It’s the same flow as before. It’s my body, but the funny thing is, I don’t mind killing it. On the other hand, it is a situation in which the Lord does not wish for the death of the body. In the end, the clearly stronger state backed down because it had so much to lose.
‘I must admit that this experience is somewhat unpleasant, but also refreshing. But nothing changes. This time there’s no one to destroy my body while you stop me, right?’
‘Now you’re so blatantly saying it’s my body?’
‘How much can you do in this ridiculous struggle of strength? 5 minutes at most? Know with glory. As a human wizard, you dared to compete with God for five minutes.’
I felt an aura of ridicule and ridicule towards the Lord who said it was an honor. Unlike before, while I stopped paying attention, most of my colleagues who were going to help me were already dead, which probably made the author feel so relaxed.
In a split second, in a strange battle of power that felt like a mixture of yarn stitching and puppetry, repeated several times, my consciousness returned to the moment before when I was making a ‘plan’.
After losing my body to the Lord and escaping by borrowing Pero’s body, I thought and thought endlessly.
Where on earth is the loophole?
At first, I had no idea what to do with the Lord’s tactics of using my advent as if it were his own and making fun of Elena’s blessing as if he had read it. Because his plan seemed to have no flaws and the Lord truly felt like a fearsome god.
The realization came like a lightning bolt.
If you start believing that your enemy is perfect, you will not be able to defeat him. In order to defeat an enemy, you must first know his weaknesses, and in order to find those weaknesses, you must analyze his failures.
The state failed once.
According to Plan A, which the state initially established, the game should have ended the moment we pushed Aurelia into crisis and the ‘Holy Sun’ appeared. This is because the Lord used his power to take control of my body and at the point when he wrote Advent, there should have been no way for us to resist.
However, his first plan failed when the hotel party got out of his hands and Zhou was left in a state of death and unable to function normally for more than a day. He had to put his next plan into action.
Why did it fail?
Song-i uses the bracelet to protect herself from being brainwashed by Kang-rim? Is it because the power of Cha Jin-cheol’s Star of Another World is strong? Is the blood curse that Ahri inflicted through her suicide attack too strong? All three had influence, but that was a variable that could be controlled by the state that controlled my descending body.
The only failure came from none other than my ‘power of incarnation’. The ‘Power of Avatar’, the only variable that could shake Ganglim, who was physically invincible, in an immaterial way, ruined the Lord’s first plan.
What does this mean?
The tendency I have felt so far is to never make mistakes lightly. If I had known the existence of the power of Avatar, I would have definitely used some kind of method to counter that power. He didn’t know about the power of the Avatar.
You may not have known its existence, or you may have known its name but not known what kind of power it had. In the first place, I knew what kind of power I had the day before I entered room 104. When I realized this, I realized there was a gap in the information the state had about us.
What exactly do you know and what do you not know?
At least I know thoroughly about blessings. In particular, when it comes to justice, I not only knew about the blessing of ‘justice’, but also ‘Elena’s justice’ itself. Otherwise, there would be no way for a person like the ‘criminal minor saint’ from before to exist.
On the other hand, it is clear that information about the legacy was uncertain.
A strange imbalance of information where people know exactly about blessings but don’t know much about inheritance.
…
One hypothesis came to mind.
In the past, when I received Advent, there was another being, the ‘Sponsor’, who came to the negotiation table with the Lord to create a ‘win-win game’. This imbalance is understandable if the source of the information the state has about us is none other than our sponsors.
This is because, as evidenced by the owl being disciplined by the hotel, there are limits to the power of a sponsor. Blessings are their domain, but isn’t it possible that they couldn’t provide information about the hotel’s compensation, like a legacy, because it is a matter beyond their authority?
In that case, the Lord may not be aware of the existence of the ‘one thing’ that everyone at our hotel party takes for granted.
‘Father, five minutes is enough time to get everything done.’
*
As the young man fell on the bed as if he had fainted, the hall was literally filled with chaos. The young saint felt indescribable fear at the sudden absence of God, and she did not know what to do. Aurelia, who had been silent as if watching all the chaos, took a step forward.
“Aurelia! Stop now! “I will not forgive any manipulative behavior.”
“A trick? You don’t deserve it. “It seemed like something unusual had happened to my father, so I just thought I should send him to a safe place.”
“A safe place? “There is no safer place than here!”
“Saint, don’t you know about the fight between the Bureau and the evil devil that is going on out there right now?”
“What does that have to do with anything?”
“The Bureau has a lot of hidden powers. “Some of that power may have hurt your father now.”
“…”
“Saint, if you are truly a pillar of the church, you will have the eyes to reveal truth and lies.”
A faint glow appeared in the eyes of the girl, who was trembling in fear.
“Oh my! You have mastered that power. Fortunately, the. From now on, if there is a single lie in what I say, I will sacrifice my neck immediately, so please listen carefully.”
“… say.”
“I have a treasure from the past, an emergency escape from the Great One.”
“Your father gave you such a treasure?”
“I can assure you that this treasure poses no danger to my body. “It’s a treasure sent to the safest place in the world.”
“Where is that place?”
“It’s like a comfortable hotel. “Delicious food is served every day, and the interior is extremely luxurious.”
“…”
“Was there a lie in what I said? Probably not. But if you don’t accept it, I’ll wait. But I’m worried. It’s already been three minutes since my father was silent. “What if I wait like this and something irreversible happens?”
The girl stepped aside, trembling. Aurelia approached the stunned young man with her small box. The words ‘Escape Button’ were written on the box.
“Father, I’ll send you to a safe place, so just wait a moment!”
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 98
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 104 – Room of the Cursed ‘Prestigious Hotel High School for Entrance Exam’
Sage advice: [X]
– Han Ga-in
I held Aurelia’s hand on my body and pressed the escape button to activate it. At that moment, my consciousness, which had been brought out by the power of incarnation, immediately returned to my body. At the same time, my whole body started floating!
Like when I used the power of incarnation, not only my consciousness rose into the air, but my entire body flew into the sky. As if the concrete and ground at the top of the underground city were all illusions without substance, my body passed through all the structures and flew all the way to the sky.
As I was soaring and soaring, at some point I instinctively knew that there was a certain ‘boundary’ at the end of the sky. The moment I crossed that boundary, the ‘sun’ fell out of my body.
“Ahahaha! Is it you? Really nothing special-”
A huge amount of heat rays suddenly shot out from the sun, so I was shocked and fell silent for a moment! Fortunately, the heat ray did not cross the ‘boundary’ and just died out like a match.
“It’s not a big deal to pretend to be smart! “I won, you idiot!”
‘you! How dare this scum! The next time I see you, I will lock you in a furnace that will not go out even if it burns for a thousand years-‘
“Did your father also have dementia? Where is the ‘next’ between us? Hello~!”
I feel my consciousness becoming blurred.
/You escaped!/
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