Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 234
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Episode 234 – No. 202, Room of the Curse – ‘The Little Mermaid’ (12)
– Yoosongi
I heard the waves crashing. My body will also be crushed like the foam on a sandy beach. The moment an incomprehensible being stood up in the middle of the dark night sea, which was like an abyss, I gave up everything.
It would have been better to turn around like Eunsol, who had her eyes gouged out earlier. Thanks to the power of the bracelet that manifested itself instinctively, my mind is still this vivid. So I decided to just close my eyes and wait for death.
It may seem like an irresponsible attitude, but I saw the chat window earlier. Elena I think her older sister just called out her brother and took him somewhere. There was no way these two were going on a date during this, so of course they escaped, right? I decided to believe that.
— Slosh!
I felt ‘something’ approaching me from beneath the dark abyss. A twisted, twisted, ugly shape approaches me. I finally felt that the difficult first attempt of Room 202 was coming to an end.
“If possible, ask for the head first in one bite! “My head is small, so you can cut it in one bite!”
I calmly put my head towards the monster.
— Slosh!
It’s been quite a while since I realized that my blessing was ‘friendly’.
*
“Toto! “Don’t you feel itchy if you wear something like this?”
— Grr!
— Tak!
“That was it! Can you keep your head still? “My sister will keep you cool.”
What on earth is going on? Let’s look at them in order. Arrived at the port to stop Lee Soo-ho. But it was too late, and as soon as we arrived, the ocean demon rose and put an end to everything. I endured the madness brought on by the Demon God with the power of my bracelet and waited for death.
And then a huge sea turtle appeared and started swimming somewhere with a blade on its back.
Does this make sense? I do not know either.
In fact, this is mostly what happens in hotels. Because you never know what will happen. Common sense would tell, right? Almost all of these predictions are wrong. If we consider various possibilities, it will proceed this way, right? Almost all of these predictions are wrong.
1, 2, 4. What should come next?
At first glance, it seems like 8 should come and then 16. If you look at it from another perspective, it seems like a sequence in which 7 comes, followed by 11. This is what people think of as ‘common sense progress’.
And the hotel is the type to exterminate us for missing the number 3, shouting, ‘You missed the number 3 between the number 2 and the number 4!’ So I decided to give up any more predictions and just follow the flow of my thoughts.
Looking at the barnacles all over Toto’s body (this is the name of the turtle I named a little while ago) became unbearable, so I started removing the barnacles. Toto, as if he was always itchy, lifted his legs and showed that there were barnacles here too.
The demon god, who had risen with the power to shake the whole world, left for a distant place. Is it heading towards land? You never know. Rather than the demon’s next move, I was more concerned about the snake that had appeared next to me.
— licking!
“Don’t touch your tongue! You’re a pervert. “I’m a popular girl.”
I didn’t feel like the sea serpent understood what I was saying. In fact, it seems like the sea snake was just trying to climb on top of the turtle’s body.
The sea rises. The rolling waves swallowed up every trace of Sea God Island one by one. The screams of the fishmen, which were heard even in the storm, stopped being heard at some point. Around that time, a rather grandiose-looking yacht approached me. On the yacht was a young man with half his body covered in scales.
“hello! “I feel like the world is going to shit. Let’s go on a yacht together!”
“you… . Are you a Bureau agent? Information that you have entered the island -”
“Agent? “I don’t know such scary people!”
“…”
“I’m good at removing barnacles from turtles!”
With those words, I lifted Toto’s front paw and shook it, and the young man opened his mouth.
“Come up. “You see all sorts of strange things today.”
— Tak!
Wandering the sea on a turtle’s back was fun in its own way, but a yacht is still better than a turtle’s back. As soon as I got on the yacht, I felt comfortable.
“Hello Toto! See you next time, PyuPyu!”
“Toto? Pew pew?”
“The turtle is Toto and the snake is Pew Pew.”
“Their names are Asdalios and Chiorn -”
“Toto and Pew Pew are better.”
“… Let’s put it that way. Yes, Miss Administration. “What do you think as you look at the collapsing island?”
“Can I get something to eat?”
“…”
*
When I saw the canned food on the table, my appetite whetted. This man, presumed to be Lee Su-ho, is also quite a funny person. In the midst of all this, I don’t think it’s normal for people to ask for food and actually give it to them.
“It’s a mediocre meal, but -”
“It’s really inconvenient.”
“… You can’t just get steak in a place like this, right?”
“Since you are the eldest son of the Chairman of Cheongseong Group, I thought you would be on an unimaginably luxurious yacht.”
“A yacht like that is too big to hide.”
“You usually hide like a rat.”
“Your words are harsh. “Serenade is chasing me with the spirit of throwing me alive, so I have no choice but to hide.”
I learned one thing from a brief conversation. Serenade chased after this man.
I thought for a while as I chewed on the bloated, bland lump of flour in the can. Let’s believe that Ga-in’s brother escaped. I need to figure something out. How on earth are we supposed to find out? Hallucinate with a bracelet?
He wasn’t an ordinary person, he was like a high priest who had raised up an evil spirit, but I didn’t know if he would work, and even if he did, I didn’t think he would feel afraid of me. So I decided to just go with the regular method.
“Why don’t we just tell the truth?”
“…”
“Oppa, just open up your heart.”
“Why on earth am I your brother?”
“Then handsome man?”
Suho Lee sighed heavily.
“Well, I guess it’s good. The end is coming anyway, so it wouldn’t be a bad idea to feel at ease… .”
ending?
“Let’s do it this way. Lady of the Bureau, you probably have a lot of questions for me, but I also have questions for you. Let’s split the questions one by one. “You know it’s all coming to an end anyway, so I hope you don’t waste your time with unnecessary psychological warfare.”
It’s different from what I expected. The location of the world ruled by demons! I thought they were aiming for something like this. Looking back on the conversation just now, Suho Lee seemed to think that his death was not far away.
“great. Let me ask you first. “Why on earth are you talking about this damn disease, you crazy bastard!”
Without realizing it, my words came out a little harshly. I had a hard time today.
“The tempo is strong from the start. It’s no big deal. “I just made the fishman people pay for the sins they committed.”
“First -”
“Miss, now it’s my turn. “Didn’t you promise?”
“…”
“How was Elena? “What condition was she in?”
“It looks like Elena is getting on your nerves after all this mess.”
“Answer the question.”
“Serenade was trapping Elena and injecting her with drugs so that she could not wake up at all. “We rescued him now, but you caused this mess, so he’s probably dead by now.”
After hearing my answer, Suho Lee looked up at the sky with a vague expression.
“Now it’s my turn, right? I don’t know what sin you’re talking about, but wasn’t that the sin the first fishmen committed? “It’s been 700 or 800 years since those fishmen died, so does it make sense to question their distant descendants, their grandchildren’s grandchildren’s grandchildren’s grandchildren?”
I didn’t understand from this point on. I thought it would be better to say that it was Kadarudah, a demon god, because it was so different from anyone’s perspective.
When a person bites an ant, does he or she distinguish between individual ants and kill them? Just spray the medicine and destroy the entire anthill. By a similar logic, the Demon God may not have cared whether the person who committed the crime was an ancestor of the Fishman tribe or not.
But this man who raised Kadarudah is human. He was at least human.
“There seems to be some misunderstanding.”
“yes?”
“I have never punished the Fishman for the sins of our ancestors.”
“yes?”
“I just made the fishman people pay for the crimes they committed ‘now.’ Of course, the past may have been a problem for the resurrected Kadarudah.”
There are two deadly sins among the fishmen. The first sin committed by our ancestors. Plus, another sin committed by descendants. Lee Soo-ho said that it was the latter, not the former, that he was trying to punish. Of course, the revived Kadarudah may take issue with the former as well, but this is not Lee Su-ho’s intention.
“Now it’s my turn. Just out of personal curiosity, how did you control Arthdalios and Kiorn a little while ago? “These are the people of Kadarudah who don’t listen to me?”
“Toto and pyu pyu?”
“… How did you control Toto and PyuPyu?”
“hmm. “It is the power of a blessing given to me by the great man at the hotel.”
“That is a very sincere answer. “It feels like they haven’t actually told me anything.”
“It’s a misunderstanding. “I really told you everything.”
“Say it like that. “I also skipped over the first question.”
With those words, Suho Lee did not ask any more questions. I think the only thing he was curious about from me was Elena’s well-being, my blessing, and information about ‘friendliness’.
I was so tired that I ate the noodles that had swollen and burst in a daze. Suho Lee left somewhere for a while and brought a new container.
“Stir-fried meat with red pepper paste?”
“If you eat it with this, it’s still somewhat edible. “I forgot there was one left.”
“Please bring it early.”
“Sorry.”
Of course, since I ate the stir-fried meat with red pepper paste and chicken noodles together, it was much more enjoyable than before.
About that time, the sky suddenly brightened!
“iced coffee… . “Now the end has come.”
“Well, well, what is that!”
Lee Soo-ho looked at me in shock and made an even more absurd expression.
“Is the lady from the management bureau asking me that? Isn’t this a weapon the management bureau uses when things seem to be going wrong? “Is his name probably Terminator?”
“Terminator?”
Light comes down from the sky. What kind of nuclear missile is this? I don’t think that’s the case?
It was slow and there was no physical object like a missile visible. A literal blob of light slowly descended toward the sea. Strangely enough, in that light, I felt an indescribable overwhelming sensation that I felt when I saw the Demon God earlier.
A calm voice comes from next to me.
“Everyone lives once. In the end, it is important not to be obsessed with living a long life, but to live meaningfully and well. “In that sense, it wasn’t a bad life.”
Lee Soo-ho, this person! What are you doing on your own? Did you achieve liberation on your own? For a moment, I thought it was ridiculous, so I said something.
“mister.”
“Do you have a will?”
“I’ll tell you a funny story. We will meet again. And then it won’t come true as you think, right?”
Light comes down. A bright light that shook the heavens and earth, something containing the power of an organization that had protected the world against an immeasurable demon, struck the surface of the water.
— Flash!
The sensation I felt at the last moment was, strangely enough, joy. I felt that the purification of the civilization that 7 billion people had built up over thousands of years was all captured in a single beam of light.
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