Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 278
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Episode 278 – Room 204, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Cinema’ (2)
– Elena
After the crown prince informed me about the fox hunt, the space around him slowly began to shake. He wasn’t surprised because he had already experienced it once. Skip the ‘no fun process’ in the middle and immediately move on to fox hunting.
At that moment, my body suddenly disappeared and I became like a ghost and started looking at a certain scene.
“Gelion! “Can’t you just say you’re sick during this hunt?”
“Your Majesty the Crown Prince. Haven’t we already told you this several times? “Fox hunting is an event boasting a 232-year tradition, mentioned directly by the founding emperor, and is a form of friendship between nobles of the empire.”
“Eight! okay. Are you going? eww… . “It makes me irritated to think about that Pendleton bastard bragging again!”
“Well, what’s important is not the number of foxes caught -”
“I understand!”
good. I knew roughly what it felt like. This is a scene where the female protagonist does not appear in the movie. This is a cut to explain the character of the crown prince, the ‘male protagonist’.
And the male protagonist of this movie, the crown prince.
It’s an asshole.
*
“You’re an asshole.”
“… I don’t think that narration could be a problem, right?”
Eunsol sighed heavily in response to Songi’s worries.
“I’ve been worried about that since a while ago. The fact that the narration is heard by us means that it is the line heard by the ‘audience’!”
*
— Bang!
“oh! “Lord Pendleton, you are truly a white man!”
“haha! George, it’s nothing. A fox is stopping in front of a tree asking for a guess. Wouldn’t it be stupid to not be able to guess it? At a time like this, two years ago, when I participated in the Northern Front -”
— Bang!
“…”
“… It appears that you are not yet accustomed to shooting.”
The fox hunt went as expected. The Duke of Pendleton, who had the grandiose title of having played an active role in the northern front of the empire, caught every fox he could see.
On the other hand, the prince’s face turned red when the fox appeared, and the bullets split the air. As I was watching, it seemed like it would be faster for the fox to catch the prince than for the prince to catch the fox.
Let’s calm down. You have to remember why this event exists in the movie.
The reason why the first event, ‘party’ exists, is because it is the place where the crown prince falls in love with the heroine. So why does the second event exist?
“Eight! “I’m going in now!”
“Hey, you! “It’s still morning!”
Wouldn’t it be to lighten the mood and build up the spirit of the ‘male protagonist’ who looks like an elementary school student? For a happy ending, it seemed like at least the male protagonist had to be happy.
“Lord Gelion, could you come here for a moment?”
“Miss Crosibel? “Do you have anything to say?”
“You don’t look very happy.”
“… Well, things in this world can’t always be fun.”
“Even so, wouldn’t you be happier if the people around you ‘helped’ just a little bit?”
“You’re helping me?”
Will my strategy work? To be honest, the nobles gathered here are not all idiots, and there must be a limit to how much they can deceive. If you are a quick-witted and smart person, you will be able to figure it out right away.
— Bang!
The bullet that Pendleton confidently fired split the air. When I saw Pendleton’s ‘acting’ that was clearly regrettable, I became confident in my plan. He enlisted the attendants around him to perform ‘tricks’.
After slightly bending the angle of the parasol to reveal his face, he leisurely moved towards the crown prince. There was a funny scene where the crown prince, who had been whining like a child, suddenly became calm as if he had noticed my approach.
“Lady Crocibel! “Are you here to see me?”
“Sure. Sir, are you enjoying today’s hunting?”
“…”
“Oh my, have you caught the fox yet?”
“Don’t make fun of me!”
“Are you making fun of me? Hunting, by nature, sometimes goes well and sometimes goes wrong. As I came, I saw the Marquess of Pendleton hitting the tree with three shots in a row. “I think his flow has been broken.”
“Is that so? Even so -”
“Sir, why don’t you try catching the fox in the northwest this time?”
I dragged the crown prince in the direction I had ‘worked’ in advance. Soon, a very childish show began.
— Bang!
“Oh oh! “Your Majesty, has the fox in the bush fallen?”
“uh? uh?”
— Bang!
“No, how did you guess that?”
Every time the crown prince pulled the trigger, everyone moved around in a hurry. Someone secretly brought a fox that had been killed in advance, and someone pulled the trigger at the same time as the crown prince and killed the fox.
The fox hunt to entertain the crown prince has begun!
I was worried when I started this ‘hospitality hunt’ with my servants. A foolish prince could be deceived. Since he doesn’t really understand where he is pointing the gun in the first place, he may mistakenly think he hit it.
But the nobles gathered here are not fools, so would they be fooled by this trick? Of course I wasn’t fooled. Because of that, the plan began to work out more successfully. The quick-witted nobles who saw what was going on began to actively cooperate in ‘match-fixing’!
A little while ago, a young man who was the eldest son of the Count of Antietam quietly approached and pushed the fox he had caught into the crown prince’s trophy basket.
A little while ago, a man named Viscount Teuburg shot at the same timing as the Crown Prince and hit the fox the Crown Prince was aiming for, and then congratulated the Crown Prince.
The Marquis of Pendleton began firing five consecutive shots into the air.
“Hahahaha! Got it again! “I got it again!”
“Congratulations!”
The prince’s laughter filled the hunting ground. It seems like there’s still a lot of time left in the movie, but the thought of spending the remaining time pleasing that idiot makes me feel terrible.
What would it have been like if there was someone else in that position?
I think a person with a knack would have had fun among the nobles, regardless of whether they were good at catching foxes or not. Even if his pride was hurt, he would have done this or that with his own hands.
In the first place, would being good at catching foxes be that important at an event to promote friendship between the children of such a precious family? The throne of an empire is not reserved for those who are good at shooting guns.
Umm… .
If the crown prince was Mr. Gain, what kind of ‘modification’ would he have performed?
*
“Cough!”
My name pops out so suddenly! I was so embarrassed that I almost dropped my coke. Even what is the last sentence!
Songi across from me laughed wildly and grabbed the boat.
“Oppa, please stop making excuses.”
“Hmm, what did Elena think about what I usually do?”
Ari chuckled and opened his mouth.
“Honestly, most of them are modifications, right? In issue 104, you suddenly imitated an apostle sent by God? “I wonder what Elena was thinking when she accepted that!”
*
If this is the case, you should have successfully completed the second event, ‘Fox Hunting’, right?
The crown prince brought the fox corpse in front of me, filled with loot boxes, with its mouth open as if it were torn open. It is questionable how many of those many foxes were actually caught by the crown prince.
At about that time, the surrounding space began to shake again. It is a signal to move on to the next event. A few moments later, I woke up walking through a glittering imperial city.
…
I was a little embarrassed this time.
During parties and fox hunting events, there was talk of doing something in advance, but this time there was absolutely nothing. The stage around me just changed and I suddenly found myself in the middle of the capital. I hurriedly asked her maid nearby, and she said that a New Year’s festival was currently in progress. From the looks of it, it appears that quite some time has passed since the time of the fox hunt.
What on earth?
This is a ‘movie’. In the beginning, the maid announced to me that she was ‘going to a party’, and as soon as the party event ended, the crown prince mentioned ‘fox hunting’.
If you think about it, both comments are for the audience. It helped us predict future developments. If the stage changes suddenly without any context or explanation, like now, the audience cannot understand the plot.
As I walked around the city amid the cheerful music coming from all directions, I slowly began to realize the situation.
“A scene passed that only I knew about.”
Fox hunting and New Year’s celebrations. There was a scene in between. The audience and colleagues outside clearly saw the scene. However, it was not shown to me, the female protagonist.
The tension slowly built up. Why did they show the scene of the conversation with the servant that reveals the prince’s inferiority complex, but not the scene that just passed?
This means that it is a scene that the female protagonist should not know. What on earth?
Suddenly, I realized that the maid who had been waiting for me had naturally disappeared. Strangely enough, the surroundings are dark. She was clearly walking through a city full of music, but when she came to her senses, she found herself in a dark alley with no other people around.
Heavy footsteps are heard from somewhere.
— Again!
A tension that sends chills down your spine. Is there only one person approaching?
“… who sent you?”
When I suddenly turned around and asked, the man wearing a black robe flinched for a moment.
“What are you saying all of a sudden?”
“You secretly followed me to hurt me.”
“Oh, you’re mistaken. “You mean to harm me?”
“You ‘lied’.”
The light in the corner of the eye softly fills the alley. In an instant, the explosive force of a single breath filled my body.
In one breath, he leaped, breaking the floor.
In two breaths, he struck the right arm of the man who was panicking and making a defensive move with the blade of his hand.
In three breaths, he grabbed the neck of the person who lost his balance and stumbled.
“Big!”
“Who sent it?”
“Oh, it’s a misunderstanding! “I am Gelion.”
to? Gelion? The crown prince’s attendant?
In a moment of panic, I took off my robe and realized it was real! The old man, the servant who always served the crown prince, appeared.
“Ba, ba, didn’t you just follow me?”
“That’s because His Majesty invited you! Have you forgotten the meaning of the New Year’s festival?”
On the contrary, I was very embarrassed to see the attendant bursting out in anger!
Sis, I made a mistake. Now that I think about it, festivals like this are usually events where the male and female protagonists romantically confirm their feelings for each other!
Scenes from novels and movies I had seen countless times were pictured in my mind. A prince and his lover who disguise themselves as ‘commoners’ and enjoy dates until late at night, a gorgeous and beautiful city.
As the sun sets, the crown prince reveals his true feelings in an exciting atmosphere. It’s just this flow!
I took a deep breath, lowered my head, and began to follow the servant.
“… You didn’t see the scene just now, did you?”
“That’s not it. But, lady. What on earth is that move just now? “This Gelion, I can definitely say that the movements of the young lady just now were like those of an imperial knight.”
What is it? It is the power of punishment given when a lie is discovered using lie detection.
I was out of breath. Just now, I definitely detected Lee Jae’s ‘lie’!
The moment I immediately stepped back and tried to widen the distance, pale smoke blocked my view.
under! A fog like this cannot stop justice from taking effect. If it’s the power of blessing, then these insignificant guys –
… Is it right to write a blessing?
I was so confused for a moment that I didn’t know what to do. That’s because the movie I’m in right now is a romance movie, not an action fantasy!
In a romantic movie, if the female protagonist falls into danger, the normal course of action is for the prince to appear like the wind and save her. I’ve never seen a story like this in my life where the female protagonist wields a miracle out of nowhere and slaughters an assassin.
If I wipe out the assassin with a blessing, wouldn’t that ruin the story? This moment of worry robbed me of my chance to fight back.
“Be sure to capture him! Anyone who hurts will have no limbs! And he seems to have mastered martial arts, so be careful!”
Consciousness becomes blurred. Dimly – someone’s face flashed through my mind.
*
“No, Elena, why are you worrying like that? “If I had just used definitions, everything would have been swept away and that would have been the end, but I ruined it because of that worry!”
“Isn’t that the right judgment Elena? Doesn’t the male protagonist have to come in and save the day from now on? In what kind of romantic movie does the female protagonist kill an assassin? On the contrary, wasn’t it a mistake to grab the servant in front of him?”
Ga-in, who was listening to the silent voice and Ari’s conversation coming from behind, fell into confusion. In a romantic movie, it is definitely an absurd development for the female protagonist to destroy an assassin with force. So, should you deliberately save your strength even when the enemy is attacking you and then get caught?
Ga-in suddenly felt his head hurt.
‘This mission is harder than I thought!’
Songi, who was immersed as if she was about to enter the screen, asked a slightly different question.
“What was the last image that passed by? “It seemed like Elena was remembering something?”
“It goes by so fast I don’t know. “I guess I passed out before I could remember properly.”
Of course, there were people who realized the ‘true identity’ of the image. Ari, leaning on the chair, felt a strange feeling that he could not explain.
‘… At the moment of crisis, Elena remembered the true prince in her heart. Even though she knew that the prince was in a position where he could never save her.’
I feel strange. The fact that Elena is conscious of Ga-in. I knew it, but seeing it as such a specific image felt different.
‘if.’
‘If I were to face a situation like that, would I think of someone too?’
When Ari’s thoughts reached this point, he couldn’t bear it anymore and kicked the person in front of him with his foot.
“Ahh! “What’s happening all of a sudden?”
“just.”