Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 258
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Episode 258 – Party Time – Ultimate Girl (4)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 109
Current location: Tier 1, hallway
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
There was no result from the search until late at night. After dinner, the doctor and I, along with my grandfather and older sister Eunsol, who joined us later, looked through all the paintings and decorations on the second floor, but couldn’t find anything special.
“To begin with, this hotel is too spacious!”
“I know. I wonder what kind of hotel this damn hotel is so incredibly spacious… .”
What is the biggest problem?
The hotel is extremely spacious. The first floor was large enough to cover all the places in about 10 minutes if you walked around, but the second floor was noticeably larger than the first floor due to the large number of empty rooms with unknown reasons for their existence.
The most serious thing is underground. It’s funny to argue now, but I doubt that Hotel Pioneer’s basement is expanding in real time. It is a place where the number of rooms itself cannot be counted.
“Couldn’t we have relaxed too much in advance? Ari will wake up tomorrow morning anyway.”
“okay. As Eunsol said, let’s just rest today. When Ari wakes up tomorrow, it will be a blessing! He will find it while doing so. By the way, Ga-in, have you ever given me any advice?”
“There is no response at all. “If you think the question is crossing the line, you don’t respond at all.”
“A question that crosses the line? for example?”
“I asked what kind of being ‘Buddha’ I had picked up a few times in the past… .”
“men and horses! Just by looking at that, it’s crossed the line. Wouldn’t it have been better to ask about the truth of the universe?”
“Even if you ask for the location of the mirror room, it’s the same. “There is no answer at all.”
My sister, who was listening, asked a question.
“Can’t we turn around and ask?”
“Turn around?”
“For example, ‘Mysterious Place’.”
“Of course I don’t think it will work.”
I tried it just in case, but this obvious trick didn’t work. At that time, Elena approached from across the street.
“Mr. Gain!”
“yes?”
“I haven’t seen Songi since a while ago. “Could you please check the location?”
I didn’t have any concerns. No robbers will ever break into a flying hotel, so why worry?
So, without any tension, I checked my colleague’s location information in the status window.
[Colleague location information (*)
Yoo Song-i: Room of Mirrors]
— Clink!
The coffee I was drinking spilled onto the floor.
“Huh? Mr. Gain?”
“What are you doing?”
… It’s going to be a very long night.
*
– Yoosongi
— Shoot!
“Ugh, good! Oh, does this make me look too much like a grandmother? But it’s good, so what?”
“Beep!”
“… When I’m with you, I keep talking to myself. “You understand what I’m saying, right?”
“Beep!”
“oh! “Don’t come into the bathtub with sunflower seeds in your mouth!”
Why does he lack common sense so much? Pero was quickly pulled out of the bathtub.
…
When I think about it, it’s natural that parrots lack common sense. Was it my mistake to bring him to the bathtub in the first place?
But today’s Faro strangely didn’t want to fall for me. He usually sticks around with me at the hotel, but this morning, he almost looks like a gumball.
I felt weak when I saw it clinging to my fingers, trying to force it off, so I brought it to the bathtub.
“Pero~! Are you sure it’s a male? “Then I might pull out all the feathers.”
“Beep!”
I ended up carrying sunflower seeds into the bathtub. By the way, how do parrots distinguish between genders? As I recall, I heard that some species can be distinguished by their feather color… .
In the case of Perot, it means nothing. This is because there is no other entity to compare it to. If she lays eggs, she will be a female, but Pero has not laid eggs yet. I heard that it is a male that suddenly sings or engages in courtship activities, but I have never seen such behavior.
Is it a male because it builds a nest? I’m not sure about that. In my room, there was a white fur ball made by Perot. It was made of human hair, so it was very burdensome, but Perot made it so carefully that I just left it alone.
… That’s a meaningless thought. In the first place, what does it have to do with the gender of the parrot?
“I have to stop you now, so get out.”
There are more than one or two things that are dangerous to animals, but it is crazy to have animals next to you while using electrical items in a humid bathroom. In fact, coming in with an animal while a person is taking a bath is problematic behavior in the first place.
“Why on earth is it not falling like this? Are you a parrot obsessed with regret and exhausted? “Stop being obsessed with me!”
After speaking, I felt embarrassed for some reason. are you okay. No one will hear me anyway. He tied Pero up with a string tying her hair and threw her towards the bed. The pitiful sounds of her pero tickled my ears.
After briefly drying myself and shaping my hair, I stood in front of a large mirror that reflected my entire upper body and looked at myself.
… It’s a little disappointing.
What if your nose is a little sharper? What if your eyes get slightly bigger? I wish the eye color was special. What is this blemish?
I didn’t think about this much in the past. Honestly, have you received a lot of confessions at school?
It’s a hotel. Since coming to the hotel, I have often thought about this. Can not help it. Because I see Elena and Ari every day.
I look at myself reflected in the mirror. As I stared blankly, the dull blemishes on my cheeks disappeared. The nose became a little more prominent, and golden flames appeared in the eyes. I also touched the body slightly… .
“… Teacher Starlight Whale of Room 103, are you still seeing me from heaven? “Please don’t think I’m too foolish for doing ‘psychedelic plastic surgery’ with a bracelet.”
But honestly, this is so much fun.
There is a reason why so many people photoshop their own photos. Is this similar to the way children play dress-up with dolls, but a much more upgraded version? Because that doll is herself in the first place!
what? These days, even videos can be edited with deepfakes? It’s completely crappy? My bracelet can show me exactly what I imagine in real time?
“Pero. “For some reason, I wanted to commit suicide.”
“Beep!”
“Would you like to get in the bathtub with me and hold your breath?”
“…”
“uh? Don’t you answer? “Then will you just tie your beak and go into the bathtub?”
“Beep… .”
“Pero. “Is there a way to make a hotel prettier?”
“Kiririn?”
“I don’t want too much, just as much. Ah, I think this is too greedy. good. “I’ll even give up my eyes that shine the color like jewels.”
While I was talking about this and that, my body naturally dried out. When she took one last look at the mirror, a funny thought occurred to her.
“Pero, I’ll show you something fun!”
I looked around for a moment and there was a small mirror near the dressing table.
“look. Can you see the large mirror and the two small mirrors?”
The two mirrors moved to face each other, and I stood in between them.
There is a mirror. There is a mirror within the mirror. There is another mirror within that mirror. There were infinite numbers of me in the infinitely expanded mirror.
I see myself growing infinitely. I saw infinitely increased imperfection within it.
I didn’t like the way my skin showed subtle blemishes. I didn’t like the color of the eyes, which seemed to symbolize mediocrity. I didn’t like the slightly sparse appearance of the body lines. I didn’t like his introverted personality.
It’s incomplete. It felt as if my countless imperfections were magnified in the infinite mirror.
… The moment I felt a sudden sense of discomfort and was about to put the mirror away, I thought. Can imperfection be overcome?
Can Yoo Song overcome the many human weaknesses?
At that moment, ‘something’ reached out to me from the other side of the infinite mirror.
/Sure! Because you can achieve anything at Hotel Pioneer!/
I feel my consciousness becoming blurred… .
*
When I came to my senses, I woke up in a strange space full of mirrors.
— Ting!
There is a mirror everywhere you look. Even the floor and ceiling where my feet touched were mirrors. All those mirrors were reflecting me.
As I sat down in extreme embarrassment, a notification popped up.
/Congratulations to participant Yu Songi. You have discovered the hotel’s hidden secret, the ‘Room of Mirrors’!/
“… A room of mirrors? here?”
/The mirror room is a place to make wishes. Of course, wishes require a price. To make a wish, you need a ‘ticket’./
There are no tickets. The ticket I got through room 107 was used up while reviving the doctor, and the ticket I got from room 201 is still half of it.
/But wouldn’t the person who finds the hall of mirrors first need a special bonus? Rejoice! Loan blood service! The first person to find the Hall of Mirrors can make one wish without paying anything. Unfortunately, you have to use a ticket for the second wish./
A ticket is essential to make a wish at this place. However, as I am the first to find the Hall of Mirrors, I can make one wish without any compensation!
My heart was beating wildly. A wish? What a cow! one! What?
This is on a different level from the wishes you make with your family when a shooting star falls! This place is a hotel? It’s truly a place where anything can come true!
— Boom! thud! thud!
What are you talking about? aha! It’s the sound of my heart beating. By the time I heard the word ‘wish’, my heart had already entered a stage where I couldn’t calm down!
What should I ask for? There are so many things I want to wish for, right?
money? Is it enough to buy the most expensive apple company in the world? Hey, money isn’t a big deal. Shouldn’t it be something like immortality?
Oh, what about the President of the United States? President for life? Was it a bit too much? no. The president is not good because he works too long and gets criticized a lot.
What would it be like to be so attractive that everyone would be fascinated by me? beauty? Or supernatural charisma?
Let’s think a little more holistically! It would be okay to do something for the world. If you listen to Grandpa Arina’s story, it seems like something terrible and unknown is happening in the world we live in! I don’t want to add to the worries at this hotel, so I’m just pretending not to notice.
Desire boils over.
The desire, boiling like bubbles, radiated infinitely. Humans are beasts of desire, so even sea water is not enough to fill the infinite cup of desire.
Look in the mirror. I see mirrors reflecting me from all directions. I saw the infinite ‘I’ within it.
There is a rich girl swimming on priceless treasure.
There is a girl in power who stands in the center of a white building and is inspected by numerous people.
In a gorgeous city, there is a superstar girl who has her image engraved on a display in the center of the city.
And, I saw the ultimate of all those desires.
I saw a vision of the ‘perfect me’. I who can bring everyone to their knees. I am the one that everyone can’t help but love. so that… .
I saw the ‘ultimate me’ who could charm even myself.
I move on like I’m possessed.
One step.
Two steps.
Three steps.
The moment when a hand stretched out in the air is about to touch the infinite possibilities of ‘me’ that boil like a haze –
A notification popped up.
/Would you like to make a wish?/