Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 307
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Episode 307 – Room 204, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Cinema’ (29)
– Park Seung-yeop
Moving to the side with my back against the wall, I left the room and moved into the hallway. At that time, Thomas’ horn was heard from afar. What was your response to Thomas? Was he climbing on the furniture?
I quickly turned my head back and forth, and there was a table in the direction I was moving. The problem is, it’s too far to go at a slow pace like now, with your back against the wall and walking sideways!
“Thomas is leaving! “We need to lay rails, so please make way!”
“Ahh! Bur, already?”
When I started to hear Thomas running, I closed my eyes and ran towards the table, away from the wall. He prayed earnestly that Happy Happy would not attack him from behind.
Prayer was accomplished through someone’s sacrifice.
“Happy-”
“bruise!”
I heard a terrible sound from behind, and tears welled up in my eyes without me realizing it. I was able to stand on the table thanks to the time that kind Suzy sacrificed her life to earn me.
— Shhh!
Before I could even catch my breath, Thomas passed in front of me, making a loud noise. Sure enough, when my entire body fell off the floor, Thomas passed by without paying any attention to me.
“Keeeeek!”
Rather, my tension eased slightly when I saw Happy Happy, who was trying to chase me from behind, grabbed by his spider legs and thrown away. Happy Happy’s leg was torn off by Thomas’ attack. Could it be that Happy Happy died in that attack?
I don’t think so. Let’s think back to when Ari entered. After Suzy bit off Happy Happy’s leg, Happy Happy reappeared on the screen and was in fine condition.
“Dolly dolly!” It’s tea time!”
Dollyphant’s second cry! There isn’t much time. The second cry was much louder and clearer because I heard it outside. I was able to roughly estimate Doliphant’s location.
“Hey!”
I leapt from the table and stepped on the next table. Since the next piece of furniture was far away, I lightly stepped on the floor, then moved to the wall cabinet directly above, and then ran by stepping on the chair and the top of the heater.
In this way, Thomas was able to avoid it, but his back was exposed to the outside world. I have to find Dollyphant before Happy Happy recovers and chases me!
Running down the hallway, I passed two rooms and a living room-like space. I guess Dollyphant is nearby, but where is it? Apparently somewhere around here –
— Ting!
I heard a clear, clean sound, similar to when glasses are clinking together. I opened the huge wooden door and entered, praying that it was this place.
“Dolly dolly!”
“…”
“Dolly dolly!”
Ta, should I follow suit?
“Do, doli doli!”
“hmm. I thought I would step on him if he answered later, but is Kevin usually slow to act? “He even had to be called twice to come!”
The ferocious atmosphere of the huge pink elephant makes my whole body tremble.
Wouldn’t it have been better if it were a real elephant? As I was looking at the monster that stood at the border between a real elephant and a puppet elephant, I understood what the feeling commonly referred to as the uncanny valley meant.
“… Sorry.”
“good! “Come and sit here!”
The huge parlor-like space where Dollyphant was staying was ready for tea time.
There were several enormous, colorful teacups on the table that I don’t know where they came from, and Dollyphant snorted a teapot as large as I could fit in its entirety.
“cook!”
“What was that just now? Could it be that you were laughing at me because I was holding the teapot with my nose?”
“No way! “I thought it was so cool and beautiful.”
“Are you cool and beautiful? “Are you kidding me?”
“to? uh?”
“A teapot is meant to be held with one’s hand! “Does Kevin not know that either?”
“… know. “You have to hold the teapot with your hand.”
“But I couldn’t catch it because it had elephant feet, so I caught it with my trunk. Kevin laughed when he saw that! “You’re a bad boy!”
Ahh! Why are you really doing this? You’re not trying to kill me just because I laughed once, right?
“no! I thought it was really beautiful. “There’s no law that says you have to hold the teapot with your hand, right?”
“lie! Here’s the book ‘Tea Time Etiquette for the British Gentleman’! Nowhere does it say about holding a kettle with your nose! So I’m very sad… . “I want to put all the authors who have written books in a kettle and boil them.”
Where did you get a book like that? Even the people who organize tea time etiquette probably didn’t know that elephant dolls would participate in tea time! Are you angry about that?
“Well, that’s because the people who wrote the book had a narrow mindset. This is because it was thought that only humans participate in tea time. “An elephant can use its trunk.”
“You said Kevin earlier that you have to hold the teapot with your hand?”
“I made a mistake earlier because I didn’t know much. There is no set body part for holding the kettle; you can hold it using the part of your body that is most comfortable for you. Elephants are held with their trunks, and people are held with their hands. So, an elephant is beautiful when it is held with its trunk, and a person is beautiful when it is held with its hands!”
“But tea time etiquette has to be followed as written in the book, right?”
“Give me the book!”
When I stood up and shouted without realizing it, Dollyphant tilted his head for a moment and picked up a small booklet with his nose that made me wonder how he could have read it with his size.
As soon as I received the book, I picked up the pen that was lying on the floor and added one sentence.
‘Elephants who participate in tea time can use their trunks instead of their hands.’
“Okay?”
“done! it’s okay! Now I can use my nose. “Why don’t you use your nose too, Kevin?”
“… I’m human, so I’ll use my hands.”
Was it okay for me to add content to that damn book? I don’t know. Let’s just assume there’s no problem.
Dollyphant lifted the teapot with his nose and began to pour the tea. He was anxious because he thought there was no way an elephant doll could make normal tea, but as if there were tea leaves, tea with an ordinary scent flowed out.
The problem was that the teacup was the size of a small bathtub, and the tea filled the inside. By elephant standards, it was a bit insufficient, but by my standards, it was more than enough to make my stomach explode.
“Kevin! “Now have some tea.”
With those words, Dollyphant put his nose into the teacup, took a swig, and then moved it to his mouth. After repeating the action just three times, he had an empty teacup the size of a small bathtub.
Of course, I drank as much as I could. The teacup was so big that I had to climb up on the table to drink it.
“There was no decrease in traffic at all. “Kevin, you don’t really hate black tea, do you?”
“Hey, I’m drinking!”
“It hasn’t decreased at all?”
When I looked, the teacup was still full of tea. As I turned my head slightly to the side, sweating coldly, I saw Happy Happy glaring at me near the entrance.
There is definitely a Dollyphant, so Happy Happy cannot enter. Thomas had already gone down to the first floor when he heard a horn sound quite far away.
“I’ll drink it!”
I gritted my teeth and drank one more time before realizing it too late. It’s shit. Now I’m a 12 year old kid! No matter what I do, I can’t drink all of this tea.
What should I do? If I insist that I can’t drink it, they’ll say I ruined my tea time, right? Would you say the teacup is too big?
“Dollyphant, my teacup is-”
“Kevin, I brewed this tea very carefully. “I think I’d be very upset if Kevin left.”
This fucking pink elephant cub is real!
…There is no choice. Now may be the moment when the power of blessing is needed.
Use Heavenly Luck!
[The energy of the universe dwells in you!]
— Rumble!
The next moment, the room shook with a loud crashing sound. My whole body danced, the whole drawing room shook and books and decorations began to fall to the floor here and there.
“Ugh! “What is this-”
“Tooomasu!”
Doliphant’s anger rumbled through the drawing room.
“Aren’t you driving properly? Also, if you hit a pillar and make noise around you -”
— Kwaaaang! Good! Shake!
Once again, a crash sound rang out, this time much louder than before. The entire table began to shake, and eventually the cursed abomination in front of me began to shake.
“Ahh! My teacup! “A teacup!”
The teacup was shaken and a little tea flowed, and Dollyphant immediately shouted in excitement. I, who was next to the shaking teacup, lost my balance and almost fell under the table, but at that moment, something lifted my body up.
Seriously, isn’t it true? Dollyphant is calling me for ruining tea time –
“Kevin! are you okay?”
Dollyphant showed a milder reaction than anything I had seen so far. I guess it’s because they decided it wasn’t me who ruined tea time, right?
“… are you okay. “Thank you for saving me.”
“Stupid Thomas is trying to ruin tea time! How carefully I brewed black tea! Kevin, do you know how difficult it is to make black tea with just one nose?”
“It seems difficult.”
In human terms, is this similar to using only one arm?
“I’m waiting for you! “I’ll be there soon to destroy that idiot Thomas.”
With those words, Dollyphant’s expression distorted and he walked out of the living room. Soon after, a loud sound of something breaking began to be heard from outside.
“… What happened now?”
But what should I do now? Should we just endure like this until all the strange things happening in the mansion are over?
“Kevin… . “I’ve waited a long time.”
The moment I heard a whispering voice coming from behind, I got goosebumps all over my body! She immediately turned around and pressed her back against the teacup.
“Are you gone yet?”
“Kevin is here, where should I go? “Kevin, wouldn’t it be more fun to play tag with me than drink tea with Dollyphant?”
“Please go!”
It stuck to the round teacup and moved to the side. It must have seemed quite funny to Happy Happy, so she started giggling.
“Is Kevin like that again? Hide your back and walk sideways like a king crab! “Is that fun?”
“…”
“I told you earlier, right? “If you keep acting like that, you’re going to treat me ‘roughly’ next time?”
“So, it’s no use reaching out!”
“How about this?”
Happy Happy’s outstretched hand immediately knocked over the teacup. A huge amount of black tea flowed, making the table and the entire living room floor slippery, and I instantly lost my balance and slipped.
“Are you going to lie down on the floor and stay still this time? I guess so-”
I was truly out of breath. It’s not because of Happy Happy flashing his sharp nails in front of me.
That’s because Dollyphant came back after that. A little while ago, Happy Happy knocked over a teacup in front of Dollyphant.
I muttered absentmindedly.
“Dolly dolly…” .”
“what?”
*
– theater
While the crazy Dollyphant roared and made Happy Happy into ㅎ ㅐ ㅍ ㅣ ㅎ ㅐ ㅍ ㅣ and decorated it everywhere, hotel colleagues began to analyze the situation.
“It seems like heaven’s luck ended there.”
Han Ga-in also nodded at Kim Sang-hyun’s words.
“I think so. As a result of heavenly luck, Happy Happy and Thomas were incapacitated, and all the dirty black tea spilled on the floor. “It feels like more than half of the risk has been eliminated in one go.”
Cha Jin-cheol responded with a bit of anxiety.
“So that pink elephant is fine? Besides, that guy started making tea again.”
Ga-in frowned and glared at the screen.
“When on earth does this damn tea time end? “Teacher, do you know anything?”
Kim Sang-hyun, who had been searching through his memories for a moment, answered.
“I can’t remember, but according to the booklet that elephant has, it would be at least an hour.”
“Ieast?”
“If you take it long, it’s more than two hours. “In the first place, tea time was a form of entertainment enjoyed only by wealthy British nobles with plenty of time.”
“Oh my! “I think it’s only been 20 minutes.”
Everyone’s expressions darkened.
“But Ga-in, Seung-yeop discovered something very important a little while ago.”
“‘Teatime etiquette for an English gentleman’?”
“We can modify the contents of the book that Dollyphant follows like the Bible. Mr. Seungyeop will have to remember that fact again.”
*
– Park Seung-yeop
“Cough!”
I feel like throwing up.
“Dolly dolly! What? “You didn’t just try to spit out my tea, did you?”
“… no. “I usually cough a lot.”
“cough? Oh my! Kevin, you haven’t been taking good care of your health? “This lemongrass tea is also good for coughs!”
The moment I saw the pink elephant pushing a giant green onion-like plant into a giant teapot, I made a decision. I can’t hold on any longer. It would be better to do something than to die from a burst stomach.
As if I had been waiting, an opaque window appeared in front of me, as if asking me to press it.
[Human from the beginning, would you like to use it?]