Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 300
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Episode 300 – Room 204, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Cinema’ (22)
– theater
The moment the nine-tailed fox appeared on the screen out of nowhere, the theater started buzzing. Jincheol, with his mouth half open, gave an absurd reaction.
“What on earth is this? Suddenly the main character is a nine-tailed fox?”
Elena tilted her head and expressed doubt.
“How does this lead to the first coffee shop part? Could it be that the Gumiho reveals his true identity? “I heard the scenario might be aired?”
Kim Sang-hyun also showed signs of embarrassment.
“This is ridiculous! Have you all seen the first story? In that worldview, there is an organization called the ‘Vatican’ that subdues monsters. Gumiho goes on air and reveals his identity? Are you begging me to kill you?”
Songi muttered as if she was trying to force herself to understand.
“Well, if I were to be honest, the first story was a bit strange too. “I watched it because it was a movie, but the murder story is told by the wife who murdered her in-laws and her husband, right?”
Kim Sang-hyun immediately refuted Song Yi’s words.
“Miss Songi, that is a completely different situation. Since this is a case where a person kills another person, it is a matter for the government’s judicial system to intervene. However, the incident happened 20 years ago and the house was burned down immediately after the murder. There is no evidence now. Moreover, even if the truth is revealed, it is self-defense. “There are no further problems at this point.”
Ga-in nodded.
“Yes. In the case of a nine-tailed fox, simply being a nine-tailed fox would be a mortal sin. The Vatican will come with this guy and burn him to death… .”
Ari, who was quietly listening to his colleagues’ conversation filled with questions, sighed.
“Everyone thinks it’s too difficult. “It’s an easy story.”
Cain was greatly embarrassed.
“what?”
“It’s not because I’m 10 times smarter than you that I came up with the answer right away. “I just thought of it because I was so familiar with it because similar things happen sometimes in real life.”
“Does it happen sometimes? “I really don’t know.”
All of the colleagues’ eyes were focused on Ari.
“First of all, you need to distinguish between the conversation inside the frame and the conversation outside the frame.”
Sanghyun Kim answered as if he understood that part.
“The story inside the frame where we act as characters is ‘what actually happened’, while the story the characters tell the author outside is ‘memory.’”
“That’s it. Her first character, Park Soo-mi, is going through memories of her newlywed life and is confessing almost 20 years later. A few years have passed since she was Han Yu-ri.”
When his colleagues looked back at Ari, still wondering what he was talking about, Ari simply answered.
“By the time Han Yu-ri entered the coffee shop, she had completely forgotten her past as a nine-tailed fox. She probably only remembers people dying strangely around her during her school days. She must have come out to talk about it. So, in her second story, we have to establish Han Yu-ri’s ‘current situation’ through the progression of her film. ”
“Should Han Yu-ri’s current situation be created through the movie? “What is the current situation?”
“Do you remember when Han Yu-ri was beaten to death by Jin-ta with a fire extinguisher when Muk-seong was in progress? Afterwards, Eunsol’s version of Han Yu-ri had no idea that she was a ‘nine-tailed fox’ until she left school.”
Cain opened his mouth halfway.
“Is there a way to erase the memory of oneself as a nine-tailed fox? No, since he’s a nine-tailed fox, let’s say he uses a mysterious secret technique. “Why are you deleting it?”
Songi smiled and answered.
“In the middle, Eunsol said in her monologue that the purpose was to suppress ‘cannibalistic impulses’?”
“No matter what, isn’t it too dangerous to suppress everything to the point of being beaten to death by ordinary people?”
“Of course, the purpose of suppressing the nine-tailed fox’s spirit is to control its cannibalistic impulses. However, there is a real reason for creating such a technique.”
“What?”
“Laundering the past. “This is to erase even his own memories so that even if the Vatican investigates him as a human in the future, they will not be able to find out anything.”
Cain opened his mouth.
“How about yourself as a human later?”
— Tak!
Ari slammed the table, stopping the surrounding conversation.
“It’s a bit of a long story, so just listen. And don’t just listen to me, watch the movie too.”
Everyone’s eyes turned to the movie and their ears began to prick towards Ari.
“While watching movies or novels featuring nine-tailed foxes, everyone has probably heard the story at least once about ‘gumihos who wish to become human.’ How do I become human? “Conditions vary from project to project, but are generally quite difficult.”
…
“The nine-tailed foxes of folk tales usually fail. Clichés are always similar. “You have to eat the vital energy of 100 people, but at the last 99, you meet a passing scholar and die.”
…
“But have you ever thought about this? Why does everyone fail? “Aren’t there any successful nine-tailed foxes?”
“… Coincidentally, Eunsol is giving a similar monologue.”
*
– Eunsol Lee
I thought about the hideous lungs becoming even more hideous monsters inside them.
After recalling the bright and lively appearance of Han Yu-ri at the beginning of the movie, and gathering the information in my head and my current situation, an urban legend emerged.
Yuri, you are truly amazing.
Clench your teeth and show your grit and perseverance! Noooooooo hard work! You ate 100 people and became human!
Is this something that should be praised?
I don’t know if it was the movie’s consideration or what, but there was a diary written by Han Yu-ri on the table. In her diary, she recorded the number of people she regularly ate and the experiences she had in the process of disguising her identity.
and… .
I absentmindedly read down the bucket list of things I wanted to do if I became human someday.
‘First, let’s erase the unpleasant memories! Because I have the secret art of forgetting. Once you become human, you can forget your strange memories forever.’
…
‘I want to find a good man. If you find that person, don’t kill him. Money… . It would be nice to have a lot, but money isn’t everything for people! You have to be handsome and tall, right? You have to love me more than anything. More than anyone else in the world!’
…
‘I really want to go on TV someday. Honestly, I’m prettier than those actors! Are you confident that you can speak more interestingly?’
…
‘I want to live in a nice house. This shabby abandoned house is now… . I really hate it. I also want to sleep in a warm, soft bed. I want to wash in a hot tub every day and fill my entire house with S electronics appliances.’
…
‘Yesterday, Dasol died. A hunter sent by the Vatican burned Dasol’s head. Saerom and I ran away without even having time to shed tears.’
…
‘One day I will burn this diary. When it’s all over. When pain ends and happiness comes… . When that time comes, let’s burn it all down.’
“Seriously, don’t do this… .”
I sighed. As I read stories about poverty and squalor, I felt sorry for them. However, my heart froze cold every time I saw the number written at the top of the white paper.
‘Numbers remaining: 28’
“I have to eat 100 livers, but if the remaining number is 28, I have already eaten 72 livers.”
This nine-tailed fox lived really hard. I even achieved my dream after working so hard.
He finally became human, erased his memories using the secret art of forgetting, unknowingly washed away his past, and even half-fulfilled his dream of appearing on TV. It can truly be called a human victory, or rather a fox victory.
…
— Bleep~!
I felt an urge that was hard to resist.
I tried blowing the flute just in case, but it had the opposite effect than expected. Instead of suppressing my impulses, the flute completely broke the ‘secret art of forgetting’ that still remained vague.
If you think about it, it’s natural.
The identity of the impulse I am feeling right now is none other than appetite. Just as a person feels hunger when he or she is hungry, the body of Han Yu-ri, a nine-tailed fox, simply demands human meat.
Appetite is a natural impulse created by the body, not an evil trick or mental illness. Of course, it’s not something that the flute will get rid of. Rather, the ‘secret art of oblivion’ that suppresses that appetite is an unnatural technique.
So, instead of removing my hunger, the Flute of Rest completely destroyed the secret art of oblivion, completely awakening the nine-tailed fox’s ego.
In other words, I became hungrier and came up with various knowledge.
…
“under! under! ha ha ha!”
I laughed. She just couldn’t help but smile. I laughed not because I didn’t know what to do from now on, but because it was so clear.
“I guess I can eat it.”
Just eat people.
All you have to do is kill 28 people, pull out their livers, and eat them. Then I can turn into ‘Human Han Yu-ri’, the lively girl from the coffee shop.
After becoming human?
All you have to do is use up all of your remaining magical power and use the ‘Secret Art of Oblivion.’ Now, there is no need to set it up so that the magic will be removed once you leave the school, like in the past. There is no need to permanently unlock the secret art of forgetting that will be used for the last time after becoming human.
Of course, the question arose as to how I could obtain the status of a normal human being. Well, hasn’t Han Yu-ri, the protagonist of Gumiho’s wannabe, life, or rather, the reversal of the fox life, endured a long time in the darkness of human society?
That might be a good number. Honestly, I don’t think the movie would ask me to do that.
…
— Snap!
I thought as I walked outside. Is this really a standard development?
After the nine-tailed fox kills and eats 28 more innocent people and becomes human, washes away the past and lives the happy life of Han Yu-ri?
Is this really the only ending? Even though it’s a movie, does it really have to have a bad ending just for a monster like this?
… Maybe I was lost in meaningless thoughts.
Anyway, what happens inside the hotel is different from reality, right? Even the current situation is like a movie within a movie. Is there a need to think of the people who exist in this world as real people?
An evil voice constantly tickles my ears. The sound was very similar to the fine and beautiful voice of Han Yu-ri.
“sister.”
I turned my head, pushing away the distracting thoughts. A thin girl walked towards me under the neon signs of a dark city.
“…Saerom.”
“Are you awake now?”
“okay.”
“Why did you cast the secret spell of forgetting so strongly today? It was dangerous. “If I were to fuss in the morning, I would have been in danger from that idiot.”
“…”
“Is it because you’re having a hard time? Just hold on a little longer. We’re almost there now. “My sister has nine tails, and she filled 72 of them-”
“Tails, you… . “There were seven, right?”
“yes. “If we collect 22 more, we can have eight.”
The moment I heard those words, information about the ‘ecology’ of the ghost fox flashed through my head.
“Every time it catches and eats 100 people, the number of tails increases by one.”
“yes? Yes.”
“If you make nine like that and then fill 100, your dream will come true.”
Saerom’s eyes glowed faintly when he heard the word ‘dream’. The girl seemed so happy just thinking about that thought.
And I… . I made a decision.