Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 24
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Episode 24 – Room 102, Room of the Curse – ‘Mansion of Horror’ (10) FIN
Episode 24 – Room 102, Room of the Curse – ‘Mansion of Horror’ (10) FIN
Meeeee profit
I opened the front door of the mansion and entered.
Oh, I really didn’t want to come again.
It was really boring living as a useless maid in this tired mansion.
Still… it’s almost over now. Just a half-mile short of escape.
There is only one thing left, and it happens to be the most painful thing left.
Just now, Ga-in left, attracting the attention of the ‘old man’.
As I walked through the deserted mansion, I thought about memories from a few hours ago.
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“Stop… stop. “What are those eyes really doing?”
“I tried to help you because you couldn’t make a decision, but you persisted.
“If we had just accepted it, it would have ended comfortably for both parties.”
“I have a better plan!”
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Better plan.
Compared to ‘immediate suicide’, which is a 100% sure escape method, it has its own risks…
In fact, I can’t survive in this hotel doing only safe work.
If there is something worth gaining, taking the risk is safer in the long run.
So I was persuaded by his plan.
This is the first time I have been alone like this since I entered the mansion.
It’s really spacious. I may feel it even more intensely because I have the body of a child.
As I continued walking, I naturally arrived at the ‘old man’s’ study room.
Maybe it was here
My memory is not clear.
According to the memories of the ‘personality instilled’ by the hotel, the bride’s granddaughter came to persuade the elder in the past.
My heart and body collapsed after seeing the ‘something’ the old man showed me.
And the bride’s surrender. In return, the elder restored her granddaughter back to life…
In the process of recovery, the granddaughter’s memories of ‘something’ she had seen also became blurred.
In the first place, crushing those memories was the process of recovery.
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“I’m not saying don’t die. “I’m just going to do more and then die.”
“Is there anything else you want to do?”
“When I came out of room 101, I saw the message that appeared and thought, ‘No way,’ but…
I was convinced after playing a card game with you a while ago.
Escape is not the end of ‘Chamber of Curses’. It’s just a means.
Somehow, at least one person escapes, and we continue to try again and again to explore the cursed room.
Ultimately, the ‘source of the curse’ will be eliminated, right?
So, even if we die, we have to find out at least a little bit about it.”
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I decided to go and suffer perhaps the most horrible death in the world.
As I entered the study room, I saw piles of documents scattered around in disarray.
Where was it? My memory is vague. Apparently… maybe around here?
When I lifted the picture on the wall, a lever appeared. It’s subtly classic in this respect.
When I pulled the lever, the bookshelf rotated as if it were natural, and a wooden door came out.
Behind the door you can see a staircase. There are so many stairs that you can’t even see the end.
There isn’t even any lighting.
Should I go down to a place like that?
I’ve seen all kinds of terrible things in the world countless times.
But, you can’t get used to something like this just because you’ve experienced it several times.
stairs. It went down and down endlessly. The end of hell.
Even more than that, it feels like the air rising from below is choking every inch of my lungs.
How far did it go? It seems like 1 o’clock has already passed, but I don’t know.
In places like this, your sense of time tends to get blurry.
At the end of the stairs, I first saw a bluish glow.
Beneath the shine is an old iron door that is almost rusty and falling apart.
When I force the door open and enter –
There was a book that glowed bluishly.
I knew it the moment I saw it. That’s it.
Maybe this is the final reward for this room.
The moment I touch that thing, I know something and I’m going to die a horrible death.
But now that I can’t just go up, there’s nothing I can do.
The appearance of the book was ordinary. The cover is black, unidentified leather.
Unidentified letters engraved on it.
I opened the book. Darkness – overtakes me.
Falling endlessly.
A bottomless hole. Eternal free fall.
A place where you cannot reach the bottom even if you fall for 10 million years.
Just as there is nothing north of the North Pole and all directions are south –
There is no beginning or end here, and no distinction between top and bottom.
All directions are ‘down’.
There is clearly no light source, but the shape of the wall is strangely visible.
Black, red, writhing walls. A hideous object resembling the intestines of a living creature.
I am just an insect falling through the intestines of a living creature.
For some incomprehensible reason, the fall stopped in midair.
I see something in the distance.
How far is it? I don’t know. It seems like an extremely long distance away, but I can make out the shape.
It may be closer than you think. Maybe it’s too big? I can not know.
A writhing figure is seen. It’s like an insect climbing the outer wall without stopping for a moment.
Every time my arm touches the outer wall, it melts, and then rises again.
Aha, this looks like a parasite crawling through the intestines.
The sensation of crawling with hundreds of millions of bugs filling my stomach.
Disgust boils in my gut.
Let’s force ourselves to think differently.
The mansion, or rather most of this hotel, is fake.
The mansion, the mountains, and the river are all just stages created by the hotel like clay.
However, even in movies, only the actors on stage exist in reality.
There is something ‘real’ about the hotel.
Why were hotels created?
Someone said that it is a process of selecting heroes through trials.
Some said it was a process to give great treasures to the right people.
Maybe the hotel is a breeding ground.
Confining monsters that cannot be released outside the world forever,
A hell that manages them by periodically sprinkling them with human feed.
The gaze of the climbing figure turns towards me.
Did the eyes originally exist? You probably don’t need eyes in a place like this, but did you make them?
The ‘elder’ worshiped something like that like a god.
It’s ridiculous.
In the eyes of ants, chickens will also look like gods.
So, if it gets into someone’s hands, it’s just a side dish.
No matter how great it may be, it is ultimately nothing more than a shabby abomination trapped in the entrails of a more distant being.
Gradually, I feel everything in my vision collapsing.
Now, the real limit has come.
The moment I forced my gaze to the sky, something rising from my ‘intestines’ approached me.
He made me do this terrible thing and then said he had a ‘better plan’.
As soon as I leave, I have to give it a good beating.
The long night at the mansion is over.
/You succeeded in escaping! Unauthorized participation! Since it was clearly a rule violation, you were disciplined and started off at a disadvantage.
Despite this, I did my best and helped the participant at a critical moment.
The strategy of choosing to kill the sacrifice instead of the devil without blood or tears! However, there are times when such determination is needed.
With this, the ritual of the owner of the demonic mansion has failed. You have escaped the curse. However, I feel that the source of the curse still remains.
One of my colleagues successfully escaped! congratulations! There was a successful escape, and all members returned safely./
[User: Han Ga-in (Wisdom) Date: Day 8
Current location: Tier 1, hallway
Sage Advice: 0]
I got up from my seat, feeling dizzy.
Just like when I came out of Room 101, I felt like I was suddenly thrown out the door, passed out, and then came to my senses.
When I looked around, I saw ‘7’ people struggling just like me.
Elena, Cha Jin-cheol, Lee Eun-sol, Yoo Song-i, Park Seung-yeop. And now the two people have to talk a lot with each other.
It reminds me of the scene where people died miserably in the hotel. Without realizing it, my heart was pounding hard and I felt like I was crying.
Elena died from strangulation, Eunsol noona was stabbed to death with a skewer, Jincheolhyeong died after eating poison, and I committed suicide with a dagger. How did Seungyeop die?
But I put those terrible memories aside.
This is the moment. It is this moment.
How many times have I dreamed of the moment when everyone would leave the room and meet again with smiles…
Today, the meal at the hotel will probably be filled with tears.
I started crying and felt my eyes getting moist.
Ah, now that I think about it, one question has been answered.
Even though everyone died at different times in the cursed room, they all came out at the same time.
Of course, this is just the beginning. We now have so many questions to answer for each other.
Aside from the hotel’s secrets, I wonder if there are too many things we don’t know about each other.
Just when I was thinking about the points I needed to uncover step by step.
Someone approached.
A familiar sight seen throughout the mansion. The appearance was similar to that of a mansion.
“Woke up? Are you… is your name still the same? therefore-”
The spicy fist came flying mercilessly. I fell to the floor again.
A word from the author (author review)
The first full-length episode of this novel (even though it only lasts 10 episodes) has ended. We plan to move on to the next story after some commentary in the next episode.
Thank you always to those who are reading.