Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 301
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Episode 301 – Room 204, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Cinema’ (23)
– Eunsol Lee
Sweet and cool. Its rich flavor surpasses that of the finest wine, and its power to energize the entire body cannot be compared to energy drinks.
It’s about blood.
I couldn’t overcome the urge that was boiling violently inside me, so I ended up drinking the blood that was stored in an abandoned house. It’s a funny story, but the experience of the hotel party, where I often drank Ari’s blood when necessary, comforted me.
Honestly, you can drink human blood! is not it? Since I already drank it, let’s assume it’s okay.
As the blood trickled down my throat, passed through my esophagus, and reached my stomach, my hunger and thirst gradually subsided. Of course, this is only a temporary measure.
For a man-eating youkai, blood is like taste. If you are hungry right now, you should at least eat rice to gain strength, but a person cannot live on rice alone for the rest of his life. Ultimately, we need ‘meat’.
“Saerom.”
“sister?”
“Let me ask you just one question.”
“What is it?”
“Why do you want to become a person?”
“…”
“The nine-tailed fox has a very long lifespan. A person lives for at most 100 years. Beautiful and gorgeous beauty doesn’t last long once you become human. 10 years at most? These days, if you take good care of your skin, can it last 20 years? Even so, it is short compared to the life of a nine-tailed fox.”
“…”
“The magical power is also greatly weakened. It’s not that humans can’t use mystical powers, but compared to the days of the nine-tailed fox, it’s almost like only remnants of it remain.”
“Why do you want to become a person? “I’m amazed and envious that you even ask such questions.”
“what?”
“It means that my sister is becoming closer to a person now.”
Does asking these questions mean that you have become closer to being human?
It was difficult to understand what was being said. Saerom carefully looked at my puzzled expression and began to explain step by step as if he were a child.
“There are difficult explanations and easy explanations.”
“Tell me the difficult story first.”
“Have you ever heard of the term first causality?”
“Isn’t this a concept that comes from Christian theology?”
“They say the first person to bring it up was Aristotle. All things have a cause that causes them to exist. There is another cause. If you trace back the causes and causes of causes in this way, you will find the first cause, the first cause, where there is no ‘preceding cause’. “This is the story.”
“The first cause is God! “I understand it to be logic used for the purpose of proving the existence of God.”
“Yes. If you logically trace back the cause of all things, the first cause is that there is a first cause with no causes preceding it. If you think about it a little, it is very similar to the concept of one God. Of course, my sister and I are monsters that eat people, so it’s not like we want to do something about God.”
Saerom calmly ate a piece of red meat. My heart skipped a beat for a moment, but I sighed.
“They say that the first cause of humans discovered by natural science is genes. The cause of all human actions and impulses, if traced back infinitely, is contained in a person’s blueprint written in genes. “Then what is the primary cause of monsters?”
“…”
“It must be a tale or a legend that created us. So, if you explain your sister’s question, ‘Why do you want to become a human?’ based on the theory of first cause, you can answer ‘Because the nine-tailed fox in the folk tale is that kind of being,’ or ‘Because humans defined us that way.’”
“Because that’s how people defined the nine-tailed fox… .”
“There is also an easy explanation. Because I just want to be. “That’s it.”
I felt dizzy.
This is because, while living as a human my entire life, I have never cared about what youkai think of me. To begin with, the conversation itself is fascinating. Is it okay for such a plausible story to come out of the mouth of a monster?
“No, where did you hear the term first cause theory? “Do they teach this kind of thing in high schools these days?”
Saerom opened his eyes round and answered with a confident expression, as if wondering what he was talking about.
“sister! “I am a woman who graduated from this university.”
“…”
I was left speechless by the solid logic of the nine-tailed fox, or rather the seven-tailed fox, from Ewha Womans University.
*
Late at night, I left the abandoned house and walked through a shabby alley in the dark. Is it because I drank a lot of blood? Her hunger and thirst had subsided considerably, so she was able to think rationally.
Until this time, I realized this while talking to Saerom about various things.
Even though it was a creature called a nine-tailed fox, a monster, it was not without love. Quite the contrary. Since there are only a handful of people of the same kind in the world and they have been together for a long time, their relationship is more affectionate than that of a human family.
Yes, honestly, even if I combined all the affection my real-life family had for each other, I don’t think it would be as much as the affection Saerom has for me now.
When I realized that, a question arose in my mind as to whether the ‘decision’ I had made earlier was indeed valid.
Just like humans eat pigs, nine-tailed foxes eat people. Is there room for human morality to intervene here? Even if a tiger or a lion harms a person, humans do not discuss the evilness of the tiger or lion.
Of course, that doesn’t mean it will save you.
I entered the abandoned house without saying a word. Perhaps because she had no eyes to see, Saerom transformed into a fox and slept like a cute puppy. She sat down next to him and the seven-tailed fox snuggled against her, rubbing her body against her.
I slowly caught my breath and informed my ‘colleagues outside.’
Colleagues outside.
Especially Seungyeop, Ari, and Gain who have to proceed behind me. Sorry. I just can’t kill and eat 28 ordinary people.
Yes, all of this happens in the movie. It might be right to kill and eat 28 people like a game character. but… . When I came in, I couldn’t think of anything like that. If I had known this would happen, would I have played more games outside?
give up!
I can’t eat people, and I don’t know any other way to become a person. At least within the nine-tailed fox’s knowledge, there is no other way.
But that doesn’t mean I’m going to commit suicide without any meaning. I’ll find out what I can and then go. Sorry.
His right hand turned black and his fingernails became as hard as obsidian.
I stretched out my hand and slowly stroked the fox’s back before gently grabbing the appropriate area. Saerom must have thought I was stroking her, so she rubbed her body.
— Kwasik!
… The time of pain wouldn’t have been long.
Didn’t Grandpa Mukseong already tell you this while he was killed by a fire extinguisher? Even though it is a nine-tailed fox, it is not particularly physically strong unless it uses its mysterious powers.
It took less than five seconds for the nine-tailed fox from Ewha Womans University, a girl who dreamed of the day to turn into a human while eating hundreds of people in the darkness of civilization for a long time, to stop breathing.
*
I thought as I walked down the shabby alley.
Will the information I am about to find out be passed on to my colleagues? Unlike previous films, horror movies are played in real time for insiders, but colleagues on the outside see edited versions.
Since one movie contains four shorts, each short is 40 minutes long at most. Most of my progress will be edited out, and only about 30 to 40 minutes at most will be visible to my colleagues.
There’s a good chance that the conversation I had with Saerom earlier at home was just skipped. She probably only came out at the moment when she killed Saerom.
Therefore, you must act loudly. You have to create a highlight, a scene that can’t be omitted.
“I guess I’ll have to cause a little trouble.”
As I left the alley and arrived at the downtown area, a building with many lights on by this time came into view. Are you still working overtime? Great.
As I confidently entered the building, the security guard immediately tried to stop me.
“What? “What are you doing at this time?”
“it can not?”
“… Please come in.”
Once I started using Gumiho’s unique hypnosis technique, it became easier.
“Daewoong boss? The building is really nice and big! But you’re keeping your staff busy all this time! “Maybe I should scold you a bit?”
His legs turned black, and his single blow became powerful enough to crush rocks.
— Boom!
“come here!”
The moment the office door burst open, there was chaos inside!
“Ouch!”
“What, what? “What kind of crazy bastard are you?”
“Woman, female student? “What are the guards doing?”
This is the beginning.
*
I sat down on the roof of the building and held out a drink. CEO Cha Jin-woon, a grizzled adult who was mesmerized by the nine-tailed fox that came into the office out of nowhere, trembled and filled his glass.
“hey.”
“Eh, yeah!”
“Who am I?”
“Above, you are the great nine-tailed fox!”
The man across from me, Manager Kim, muttered without notice.
“W-what kind of monster!”
“you! “Come here and kneel!”
“S-sorry!”
“Do you know why I’m scolding you?”
The president and the manager, honestly, I don’t know why their ranks are so detailed in such a small company, but the two men started shaking and saying random things.
“I wasn’t able to answer the fox’s question well… .”
— Boom!
“hey!”
“Huh!”
“Am I crazy? “Are you going to make me kneel and punish you for failing to answer my question?”
“S-sorry!”
“hey! Assistant Manager Kim!”
“yes!”
“Have you ever received overtime pay?”
“…”
“and! I knew it was me! Employee Cha said the same thing earlier, didn’t you get overtime pay too?”
“…”
“If there’s anything strange, tell me again. “My sister will punish the boss.”
It has been a long time since the nine tails were brought out without even hiding them.
Assistant Manager Kim, who had begun to look mesmerized as he watched desks flying in the air and people collapsing with a single gesture, spoke with a somewhat liberated expression.
“An elevator.”
“what?”
“Employees are prohibited from using elevators. I also started writing last year. For reference, the office is on the 7th floor.”
I was dumbfounded for a moment and gestured to the manager.
“Hey, manager.”
“…”
“I’m really curious, so why can’t I use the elevator?”
“… Shouldn’t there be a hierarchy in the company? And there are only two elevators -”
“Hey, just keep lying down. “Before I tear my hands apart.”
While the manager was lying down in silence, another employee across from him opened his mouth.
“Well, I’m an employee who joined last year, right?”
“however?”
“I am… . “I studied well.”
“good job.”
“So the boss asks me to tutor his children every weekend.”
“…What about the tutoring fee?”
“I just said I would give it to you later…” .”
“Ah-oh! Hey, boss Cha!”
“Hey, fox!”
“When are you going to pay the tuition fee?”
“Boo, I definitely wrote it all down. Before leaving the company, be sure to -”
— Tak!
“Ahh!”
“Not before I left the company, you idiot! Tutoring fees should be paid now! You deposit money in front of me. “You have a cell phone!”
“S-sorry… .”
“I even had them carry the moving bags!”
“Cha, the conductor keeps trying to touch my thigh!”
What company is doing here? I just came here to make a little fuss, but what kind of company is this fucking idiot? Is this the reality of K Corporation?
however… . Come to think of it, the family that owns the Daeyang Group, that is, my family, didn’t they do this quite a lot? What was your father’s habit of saying to his children?
‘Make the subordinates fight among themselves. Always act as their mediators.’
…
sorry. Real-life employees, I would like to apologize on behalf of your father.
Around that time, one of the employees who had gone outside finally brought back a bunch of firecrackers.
“Let’s get ready!”
“… Are you really going to explode all of this?”
“huh.”
“So many fireworks on the rooftop, at night, in the middle of Seoul?”
“What do you think I look like?”
“… a nine-tailed fox.”
“okay. But is it okay to just set off some fireworks?”
“Yes.”
“You guys come up with fireworks. And President Cha!”
“Eh, yeah!”
“Report it!”
“yes?”
“Report it to the police or the Vatican, you idiot. “The nine-tailed fox is going crazy, so please save it!”
“…”
I thought about this as I set up a box full of fireworks everywhere.
The moments when these things explode cannot be omitted, no matter how unanswerable the movie may be. Now, this moment is sure to appear on the screen that your colleagues can see.
“Let off fireworks.”
“… All right.”
In a world where there is an exorcism group that exorcises monsters and the Holy See, if a man-eating nine-tailed fox runs rampant, then of course there is a movement to punish it.
Therefore, I decided to show it to my colleagues one last time before I die. The ordeal of the nine-tailed fox battle in the 21st century, the exorcist unit that exorcises the nine-tailed fox!
— Piiiiing! pop! Shhh! pop!
I stretched out my hand among the enormous fireworks that colorfully colored the dark night sky. The light extending from my fingertips created a huge letter in the night sky.
“The nine-tailed fox appears!”