Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 242
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Episode 242 – No. 202, Room of the Curse – ‘The Little Mermaid’ (20)
– Elena
“Elena, are you okay?”
Suddenly I came to my senses. There was a person I missed sitting in front of me.
“ah. Mr. Suho… . “I suddenly felt a bit of a headache.”
“Is it because of that damn nightmare again?”
“I don’t think so.”
Where am I… ? It’s a restaurant. Information emerged that it was a very luxurious, special restaurant that was only open to VVIP level customers. A beautiful melody was heard in an elegant atmosphere. The condition of the food on the table was also neat.
“You must take good care of your body. “You’re going to do great things on the island, right?”
“My sister is doing the big work.”
“It is right now, but isn’t it possible to know whether that will be the case in the future? Even though Taejong Lee Bang-won was not the eldest son -”
“I’ll leave it at that. “Because it’s really not fun.”
This man’s unique, terrible sense of humor has come out again. Does this person think that me and Serenade are political rivals? This is not the Joseon Dynasty.
I have to speak a little stronger today.
“Every time I hear the same bullshit as just now, I want to slap myself in the face and leave.”
“… sorry. “Ever since I was young, I’ve often heard that I don’t have much to say.”
“The problem with Suho is not that he doesn’t talk much, but that he is under the illusion that he is good at telling jokes.”
“It’s been a while since I heard this harsh criticism, so I’m really happy.”
“I didn’t mean to tell you to become friendly.”
“sorry. “Unfortunately, I think today will be the last time we have this conversation.”
“yes?”
What is the story again? Strange joke –
“Elena, I’m sorry, but I don’t have much time to reminisce. “Would you please come to your senses?”
“…”
“Let’s calm down and think about what happened just a moment ago.”
What happened today?
I woke up in the hospital after being drugged for a long time. When I couldn’t control my body properly, my hotel colleagues-
Hotel colleague. Only then did I come to my senses.
Clink!
When I stood up in surprise, plates and forks were scattered everywhere. At the same time, the surrounding space collapsed and an old-fashioned cafe appeared somewhere.
“haha! “I miss this place quite a bit too.”
“how… . “What is going on!”
“It’s no big deal. “Miss Elena has been knocked out by the Bureau, and right before she dies, she is using the power of her ancient text to convey her message to Miss Elena.”
“Just before I die?”
“sorry. I will die soon. It seems like this can’t be avoided. “The opponent has prepared very well.”
At the end of those words, Lee Su-ho made a somewhat vain expression.
Strangely enough, I felt an intense sadness coming from somewhere in my heart. Are these feelings felt by the ‘Second Daughter of the Sea God’? From her perspective, her heart must be greatly shaken as her lover has declared his inevitable death.
I regained my composure by taking a sip of the ice water on the table. Anyway, from my perspective, he is no different from an NPC in Room 202.
“Do you have anything to say? “You didn’t come just to say your final goodbyes, right?”
“Of course not. Please listen to me for a moment. “The whole problem started 21 years ago, at the hands of Imelda, the Saint of the Deep Sea.”
What kind of being is the daughter of the sea god?
Politically, he can be seen as the leader of Sea God Island. This is an era in which land culture has been accepted, the Sea God Island has been incorporated into the Republic of Korea, and the Saint of the Deep Sea also officially holds the title of ‘Governor’.
Biologically, or in a supernatural context, the daughter of the Sea God allows the group called the Fishmen to remain ‘human’. Unless she is the daughter of the sea god, the fish-man is naturally unable to live on land and turns into a fish in the sea. In this situation, what kind of ‘resistance’ can the fishmen offer to the sea god’s daughter?
The title of governor is nothing more than a title given to imitate democracy, and the daughter of the sea god, the saint of the deep sea who is the highest among them, is actually the queen of the sea god island.
They are also the most unfortunate people on Sea God Island.
Every sea god’s daughter must accept one fate when she awakens to it. She had a grim future in which she would suffer unbearable, cruel mental torture every night for the rest of her life. There is no way to avoid it, and there is a limit to what you can endure.
In her suffering, the sea god’s daughter rarely survives past the age of 40. Most of the time, she loses her mind and ends up in a hospital or commits suicide.
This is the secret to Serenade’s rise to power on Sea God Island at an absurdly young age, only in her late 20s. Biologically, only the daughter of the sea god who holds the leash of the fishman race can rise to power, and since the daughter of the sea god can never live long, being in her late 20s is enough.
21 years ago, Imelda, the Saint of the Deep Sea, despaired of the miserable fate given to her. Then, salvation came to her on land. And the greatest crime since the creation of the fishman race was committed.
*
“… This is what happened. Did you understand? The flow of time is different in this place, so think carefully and ask if you have any questions.”
understood. Because it wasn’t that difficult. The part that was difficult to understand was in points other than what was delivered.
“I wonder what you are thinking. And what do you want me to do?”
Suho Lee grinned instead of answering. With laughter, his body slowly began to collapse. The scales that first covered half the body then covered the whole body, and then the shape itself began to distort.
This is a sufficient answer.
… After awakening as a saint of the deep sea, he came into contact with so many old memories that he lost his human identity. Now he is just ‘Rudach’, who has vaguely taken in the memories of the human Lee Su-ho. He asked me to avenge his people.
I woke up. Three days passed.
*
“Elena, don’t be nervous and take your time. Rather than using force, you should rather relax. “Would you like to demonstrate again?”
“… no.”
“Don’t do that. “Take a good look at my hands.”
Imelda’s hands were very gentle as she touched the water tank in front of me. A strange vibration, as if it were a heartbeat, softly resonated from her hand.
“Did you see it?”
“… Can we do it like this?”
“Oh my! It’s a little better than before. “You can do it like this.”
A few days ago, during my last conversation with Suho Lee, he assured me that the management bureau would not harm me. He predicted, rather, that he would do his best to accommodate somehow, and he was correct.
To put it bluntly, I was kidnapped by an unidentified research institute, but I was treated very politely and no one, from staff to researchers, treated me lightly.
After the morning’s ‘Rudach management’ work was over, I sat in the break room for a while.
Imelda, despairing of the miserable fate given to the daughter of the Sea God in the past, made a deal with the Management Bureau and handed over all the secrets held by the Fishmen. During this process, the Bureau realized the existence of a supernatural creature called ‘Rudach’ that turns humans into fishmen, and gained great inspiration from this.
There are literally infinite possibilities to transform a person into a fish regardless of age, gender, or physical strength or weakness! If you can turn a person into a fish, how can you not cure a disease?
This is not all. Is it impossible to overcome the inherent weakness of the human body? Can’t we become a little faster and stronger? How much progress could be made with just a few improvements in memory and speed of thought!
There was one essential thing for this touching ‘leap’. She is the daughter of the sea god, the host of ‘Queen Rudach’, who communicates with Rudach and can control the speed of growth and direction of mutation.
Of course, to borrow Director Park’s expression, there were several obstacles to this great leap, comparable to space exploration.
The first obstacle was, of course, Kadarudach, the god of Rudach. In the opinion of the Management Bureau, especially the control faction, it is not a big problem that ‘a few mysterious snails’ die in the process of experimenting with Rudach for humanity’s great leap forward. Of course, Director Park also acknowledged that Haesin’s thoughts may be slightly different.
The second obstacle is people’s pathetic prejudice. Growing scales on your body to take a great leap, experiencing ‘a little pain’ every night, or connecting your mind with an unknown god of the deep sea are all minor issues that are not that big of a deal. However, since there are people who react sensitively to this minor issue, thorough security needs to be maintained until the plan is completed.
…
“Ah, now that I think about it again, these guys are really crazy.”
“yes?”
“no. “Let’s take a look.”
“that… . “I am an employee who serves Elena.”
“city? “Isn’t it surveillance?”
“sorry.”
There’s no point in harassing the Emmon Lab staff. Rather, let’s think more realistically. A few questions came to mind.
First, why doesn’t an escape or solution appear? Aside from the grand ideals of the Bureau, wasn’t the sea god the source of the curse?
Whatever the reason, the management bureau eliminated Su-ho Lee in time, so the descent of the Sea God has stopped. As a result, I ended up watching poor sea snails being tortured all day long in the Bureau’s laboratory, but this isn’t a catastrophe that will threaten the world, is it?
I couldn’t understand why there was no escape or solution.
Second, I don’t know what I should do from now on. Kill the lab and run away?
Honestly, if I wanted to escape, I could have done so a long time ago. This is because the only ability the management bureau knows about is my sinister imagination. Scenario-wise, the ominous imagination was ‘the ability awakened as the daughter of the Sea God’, which the management bureau was also aware of.
However, it was evident that he had no idea about ‘justice’. In the past, it would have been confusing, but you can tell because you only recently had a fight with the prisoner in room 104, who knew ‘justice’ very well and tried to counter it.
For example, in this laboratory, there were a number of soldiers who shot and killed a hotel party not long ago. Each of those soldiers is a ‘trigger’ for me. If the management bureau had known about justice, they would have responded by removing all soldiers who could be a trigger for justice and filling those around me with minors, right?
But what’s the point in going out? If leaving the lab means escaping from the garden, shouldn’t it have already happened by now? My head was getting more and more painful. First, I thought I should stay at the research center a little longer and find out more information.
Third, are there any living colleagues?
When I asked the soldier who participated in the ‘execution’ of the hotel party, he told me that everyone at the scene was dead, as if it was no big deal. In fact, they think I am the daughter of the Sea God and the hotel party is an agent of the Management Bureau. Therefore, it never occurred to me that I would feel any vengeance or anger over their deaths.
He also implicitly asked about Seung-yeop and Perot. It seems that Seung-yeop is not a target of the purge because he escaped early and does not know the truth about the ‘project’, and the parrot at the scene has disappeared before we know it.
“Elena, you forgot to have a good night’s sleep.”
“Imelda, thank you.”
I took a sip of the medicine in the small cup Imelda handed me. Since she started taking this medication, she has not had nightmares.
I felt it again as I saw Imelda holding my hand warmly while giving me medicine. Lee Soo-ho, whose identity was closer to Rudach than to that of a human, said that Imelda was the witch of her heavenly days.
I felt like Imelda was just human. The motivation for wanting an end to the cruel mental torture repeated every night was completely understandable. In order to escape from her torture, she sold the ‘mysterious sea snail’ to the Bureau as research material. Well, in fact, humans originally live by sacrificing other living things.
He even felt a strong sense of kinship with Nana Serenade, the daughter of another sea god who had gone through the same pain he had gone through.
In other words, as long as this woman remains, I think I can act as I please. The problem is Director Park Jin-seong, who can be said to be the actual leader of the research institute. If I just deal with that person, I think I can run this lab around as I please… .
The next day, news came that Park Jin-seong had died for an absurd reason. I felt that the time had come.
This is the last session registered.