Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 318
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Episode 318 – Maze (3)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 137
Current location: Tier 1, hallway
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
Elena and Miro’s conversation could be heard from afar. Because it was during a dangerous experiment, the number of people who could get close was limited. Fortunately, I am one of those limited people.
“Miro, what do you think when you look at this child?”
“…Why does Elena call this monster ‘child’?”
“To me, he looks like a kid with a cold look. In the eyes of the maze?”
A caterpillar-shaped monster that Elena had created a couple of times in the past was slowly moving around the table.
Since it was a being that could cause a serious blow to the human spirit just by looking at it, Jincheol and others, who lacked resistance in this area, went up to the second floor.
“It looks so scary. A caterpillar with a human head?”
“It’s a similar answer to Mr. Gain.”
Clearly, the Blessing of Immutability provides powerful resistance to the maze. After Elena erased the monster again, this time she showed me a glimpse of my grimoire.
“Ahh!”
I quickly caught Miro, who almost fell backwards as he stumbled.
I think I felt a nosebleed and quite a headache for a short while, but in fact, the fact that it ended like that is proof that I have a lot of resistance. This is because an ordinary human would die immediately upon looking at a grimoire with the naked eye.
Soon, Eunsol came and calmed Miro down with the power of the flute, and the grandfather came and summarized the results of the experiment.
“It has considerable resistance to supernatural forces. But, I’m not sure about your physical abilities. Should I check this too? “It’s a bit difficult to test, isn’t it?”
At that time, Ari spoke in a calm voice.
“But I still have to do it. You need to know how much power you have. There is a high probability that the room we will enter next is room 203. “The maze has to endure the beginning alone.”
“Eight!”
When told that he had to do something again, Miro threw a tangerine with a distressed expression. Ari performed a trick of catching a tangerine flying from behind.
“Miro, I’ll eat well.”
After a while, the grandfather returned with a rather worried expression.
“I’m just physically no different from other girls my age. “I don’t have an ounce of strength, and I’m not particularly strong.”
Ari reacted somewhat regretfully.
“Does the unchanging blessing have no effect on physical abilities?”
“If you strengthen your blessings, it might also help your body.”
“It’s already mid-second floor. There won’t be many opportunities for reinforcement… .”
“Can you help me?”
Because of this problem, it seems difficult for people who join in the middle of the process to expect much blessing. It’s like he came in mid-trial with growth-type abilities.
Okay. Because Miro’s Legacy seems to be absurdly stronger than his Blessing!
“Let’s check the time zone. “Even if you only briefly read the explanation, it doesn’t make sense, does it?”
Ari nodded and brought Miro over.
The girl, who had a dissatisfied expression just a moment ago, quickly changed to an excited expression when the story about time zones came up.
I was worried that Miro would unnecessarily try to hide the legacy’s power from us, but that didn’t happen.
At least the current Miro is not ‘managing bureau agent-like’ enough to come up with that kind of idea, and due to the nature of time zone management, it can only be used properly if you have a clear understanding of not only the user but also the ‘opponent’.
“Let me explain briefly again! Do you see the writing on the pocket watch?”
The appearance of the time watch was similar to that of a pocket watch, but it was completely different in detail. There was only one needle and there were no numbers from 1 to 12 written on it.
Instead, there were only four words written: ‘midnight’ on the top, ‘morning’ on the right, ‘noon’ on the bottom, and ‘evening’ on the left.
“I can borrow your time with this. “Each space can store up to one hour of one person’s time.”
“Call Miro when he wants?”
“huh.”
“Miro, I only heard about it earlier, but I think it would be good to show it to you.”
Miro, who heard the grandfather’s words, turned his head and called Seungyeop.
“you! that… . Did you say Seung-yeop? “Come here for a moment.”
“yes.”
“From now on you have to lend me 10 seconds. got it?”
“uh… . yes.”
At that moment, the clock flashed and Seungyeop disappeared somewhere. Although I had only vaguely heard it before, I found it fascinating all over again.
10 seconds later, Seungyeop, who had disappeared, reappeared.
“wow!”
Grandpa asked.
“What does it feel like?”
“It just felt like my body was stretched and then shrunk? “I have no memory of the time I disappeared.”
“That’s fascinating.”
“Look at this!”
When I looked at the pocket watch that Miro was holding out, the letters in the ‘Morning’ section were bold.
“Is Seungyeop saved in the morning section right now?”
“that’s right. “It’s only for 10 seconds, though.”
Eunsol’s sister asked a question.
“When borrowing time, do you have to obtain permission from the person involved?”
“Umm… .”
Miro looked confused for a moment and said he wanted to check this part.
The results of several experiments were simple. The specific phrase is not important, but time rental can be used only when Miro announces his ‘intent to borrow time’ to the other party and the other party agrees.
Ari had a somewhat strange expression.
“It won’t be easy to use it to suddenly send it flying somewhere against an enemy. It seems like it wasn’t a tool made for that purpose in the first place… .”
“Now let’s sing ‘Morning Seungyeop’!”
Miro smiled happily and was about to start the clock again when Ari immediately grabbed his arm.
“for a moment! “The ‘real Seung-yeop’ is here.”
“huh?”
Miro didn’t understand what I was saying at all, but I sensed the danger Ari felt.
Time Rental This is a legacy where you borrow someone else’s time, save it, and then summon it later. If you borrow Seung-yeop’s one hour at 3 o’clock, Seung-yeop disappears during that time and then appears at 4 o’clock.
At this time, when Miro activates the clock again at 4 o’clock and summons ‘Seung-yeop stored in the clock’, there will be two Seung-yeop.
Two identical people in the same place?
There are so many urban legends and ghost stories that could occur here that it’s giving me a headache!
When Ari noticed me, I immediately wrote some advice.
[Advice: 3 -> 2]
‘What happens when a person from the original time zone and a person summoned to this time zone come into contact?’
[Be sure to avoid situations where you encounter each other.]
“You’re telling me not to let them run into each other?”
“In other words, you don’t have to run into each other. Seungyeop, go into room 105 for a moment.”
“… yes. “Something has been scary since a while ago.”
After Seungyeop entered room 105, Miro started the clock.
Another Seungyeop appeared out of thin air. The boy who suddenly appeared in the center of everyone had a dumbfounded expression on his face.
“Well, what is it? “Something is pulling my body…”
Before I could finish speaking, Seungyeop disappeared again. This is because the borrowed time was only 10 seconds. However, there were definitely two Seungyeops in those 10 seconds.
Afterwards, by repeating various experiments, we were able to understand the ability of time excitation in detail. I tried to organize what I found out on my own.
First, Miro announces his intention to ‘borrow time’ to the other person and the other person agrees. The maximum rental time is 1 hour per person. Since there are a total of 4 slots on the clock, she can rent it to a total of 4 people for 1 hour each.
Second, the person who accepted disappears during that time. However, this does not mean that he has died. According to the status window and colleague information, the colleague is still alive.
Third, the maze can summon the entity that has lent its time when it wants. Only one being can be summoned at a time, and the maximum summoning time per day is one hour.
It is possible to split the 1 hour that can be summoned per day. For example, if you summon Ahri for 20 minutes, send her back after receiving help, and then summon me, I can help you with the maze for a total of 40 minutes.
“It’s a complicated legacy, but if you think about it briefly, it’s simple. “It’s an item that allows the maze to summon us whenever it wants, for a total of one hour a day.”
My sister nodded.
“It would be useful in places like room 203. “Because Miro can summon us for help when he wants.”
Grandpa warned.
“Everyone seems to call it ‘summoning’ for convenience, but keep that in mind. It’s not actually a summons. “Really, we are in a different place and we are ‘stored’ in the clock.”
“At the moment of summoning, the real us and the us summoned by the clock exist at the same time. And, the owl warned me that these two should never meet.”
Miro added a word.
“We keep saying ‘we, we, we, we,’ but it’s not necessarily the power we use on our hotel colleagues. “You can write to anyone!”
Ari was positive but pointed out the risks.
“That’s true, but if possible, only use it for us. “Most of the beings you will meet in the Chamber of Curses will not understand the power of the clock, so I don’t know how they will react.”
“huh.”
There were a few caveats.
First, as we have seen, we must avoid encounters between the real us in that time period and the us summoned by the clock.
Second, the maze cannot forcibly control the summoned being. This is precisely why Ari advised Miro to use the time zone exclusively for us, if possible.
I asked Miro to confirm my questions.
“Borrow 10 minutes of my time.”
“huh. “Gain, will you take 10 minutes for me?”
“okay.”
…
I lost consciousness for a moment and then woke up. It was the same with Seung-yeop, but his colleagues were looking at me with curious eyes.
“Has it really been 10 minutes just now?”
Elena nodded.
“yes. I didn’t say anything important. “We talked about room 203 for a moment.”
I looked at the maze again.
“I’m going into room 105, so summon the saved me.”
“huh. But what are you going to do?”
“I’ll check and tell you.”
After that conversation, I went back to room 105 and looked at the status window.
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 137
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105 – ‘Room of Rest’
Sage Advice: 2]
…
[Sage’s Advice: 2 -> 1]
I was just looking at the status window without doing anything, and the number of advices decreased. After about 30 minutes passed safely, we went outside.
When I went outside, I saw my colleagues looking at the small piece of paper with puzzled expressions.
“How was it?”
Ari said as if it was fun.
“The noon Ga-in that Miro just summoned -”
“Gain at noon?”
“I decided to call the being summoned by the clock that way. Ari in the morning, Gain at noon. Like this.”
“good.”
“Noon Ga-in wrote down the advice and immediately wrote down the questions and answers on paper. And he told me to cancel the summons immediately, saying I had to avoid encountering you in Room 105.”
When I opened it up on paper, I saw the exact question I had imagined.
‘If a being summoned by the clock uses a power that has a limited number of uses, will the original’s number of times be deducted?’
It’s a simple question. Now I have an answer.
There was a very brief answer written, [It depends on the type of power, but the blessing is.], and in fact, the number of times it was written in the status window has decreased.
Ari chuckled.
“Did you just think of this trick? “You wrote advice while summoned by the watch, and originally you were tested to see if you could write advice separately?”
“of course. Originally, this was a place where tricks were the strategy. Rather, it depends on the type of force? Does that mean that there are times when the trick I came up with works?”
“You’ll understand when you write it. However, I think I understand why the blessing isn’t working.”
“why?”
“The person Miro borrowed time from was ‘us’, not the sponsor. “The source of blessings is the sponsor.”
I understand what you mean. A blessing is a power given by a sponsor and its roots lie in the sponsor.
For example, from the perspective of the owl giving advice, whether I am writing the advice or another me summoned through the maze’s clock is writing the advice, the owl’s power is consumed in the same way. So the number of times would also be shared.
Around 11 o’clock in the evening, everyone finally vaguely understood the function of time zones.
It’s late, and there are no more tips left. Above all, Miro, who cooperated diligently with the somewhat painful experiment, complained of considerable fatigue.
Considering that I have to enter the cursed room tomorrow, I will need adequate sleep. In the end, I decided to call it a day and go to bed.
“Let’s talk about the next room early tomorrow morning! Understand?”
A tiring day is over.
…
“Cain!”
“hmm?”
“Would you lend an hour for me?”
“Are you renting it in advance because you have to use it in the cursed room?”
“… huh.”
“okay.”
“Arido!”
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 137
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105 – ‘Room of Rest’ (Room of the Maze)
Sage Advice: 0]
– Han Ga-in
“What the hell is this…” .”
“oh! “That’s enough!”
When I came to my senses, I woke up in the ‘maze room’ of room 105.
“…”
In room 105, everyone uses a separate space except for meal times.
“Is it an exception if you use the watch to summon us? .”
“Interesting!”
I had a meaningless time. She told stories about her time in Miro Hanbing Hell and asked questions about the hotel. She also shared quite a bit about Ari.
“That kid is scared of something! “They keep teasing me and calling me mommy.”
“Rather than teasing, actually -”
— Boom!
I was actually about to ask if she was my mom, but Miro suddenly headbutted me and knocked me off the sofa.
“Gain, don’t say anything bad! “I haven’t even had a boyfriend yet!”
“… okay. “In that situation, she might find it funny if you suddenly called her your daughter.”
“How should I say it?”
“Well, let’s pretend we are sisters.”
How should we define the relationship between Ari and Miro?
I don’t know either. She just said that when Ari said she was the mother, she was mother and daughter, and when she said Miro was definitely not, she just assumed that she was.
“To begin with, Ari only says she’s her mom and treats me poorly!”
“I’m not treating you particularly harshly. “Ari treats everyone poorly.”
“… I didn’t say that much. And Ari stole all my bacon earlier.”
“You also ate all the Ari ham in Hanbing Hell.”
“That is that, and this is this.”
“The only difference is that it’s ham and this is bacon?”
— Boom!
He knocked me down again with a headbutt. Isn’t this kid a headbutting dinosaur and not a human?
Suddenly, I realized. Just as we had a pretty tiring day due to the confluence of the maze, today must have been a very scary and confusing day for the maze as well. Maybe the reason he called me out at such a late hour was because he just wanted to have a relaxing time.
Around that time, Miro came over holding a watch.
“one… . “I have something to ask.”
“What?”
“It’s a very scary story.”
Did you have something to say?