Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 340
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Episode 340 – Time to choose (1)
– Kim Ari
He touched and moved his hands and feet for a while as if they were curious.
What would it be like to get a human body back after hundreds of years?
Soon he started coming towards us.
Strangely, as he approached, the temperature around him dropped and the lights dimmed.
“I have a question that arose later.”
“Please tell me.”
“Why was Ga-in trapped in the body of a bird? Since he can use demon books, he could have changed into the body of another primitive man… .”
“It’s not like they were locked up for 300 years. “In the beginning, people’s bodies were often borrowed.”
“okay?”
“I said this the last time I borrowed a human body. There is a ‘thread’ in the body of primitive man. “I’m afraid of that, so I won’t enter the body of a primitive man.”
“…”
understood.
In the second half of issue 203, the Demon God used some kind of means to turn the entire army into monsters.
In other words, the demon god had some connection that could control the army.
It seems that Ga-in has sensed that connection through the power of the grimoire at some point.
Certainly, entering the body of a primitive person in such a situation carries a lot of risk.
At that time, Ga-in sat next to me without saying a word. He spoke to him just in case.
“Do you remember anything?”
Instead of answering, he looked at my face blankly, then suddenly stretched out his hand and touched my face and neck.
“…”
It was as if they were checking how to make a ‘voice’.
“It seems like the behavior of a large child… .”
“It’s actually a similar situation.”
“Did he act this recklessly even when I was with you?”
“At this point, we have recovered quite a bit. “It seems to be the influence of the flute.”
“Is this the state of recovery?”
“… In its final stages, it was just a bird. “Just a bird that can act mysteriously for a little while.”
Kim Sang-hyeon’s expression was so dark that he didn’t dare to ask any more questions.
It must have been a huge shock to him to see a colleague he had been with for hundreds of years acting like an animal.
After observing Ga-in in silence, I realized that Ga-in’s current condition was much more serious than Sang-hyun’s.
Sanghyeon maintained a human body and lived as the leader of a tribe and someone’s husband or parent. It is human life.
Therefore, even though Sang-hyeon has endured 300 years and has changed from the past, he is still clearly a human being.
On the other hand, Cain was trapped in a bird’s body most of the time, and survived for hundreds of years by relying solely on the power of the grimoire.
In addition, the grimoire was the power that allowed him to exist, and at the same time, it was the demonic power that destroyed his intelligence.
The current Cain was closer to a chaotic entity that had acquired a human body rather than a human being.
The good news is that it didn’t look like an animal that had completely lost its intelligence, as Sang-hyeon said in its ‘terminal stage’.
The intellect itself was restored through the power of the flute, but it was not human intellect.
At that time, we heard a metallic sound and a metal cart containing three plates approached us.
“This… .”
“It’s a meal. “It seems like we should talk while eating.”
When we brought the plate and opened the lid, it seemed like it was filled with the food we each wanted. This was so familiar with the hotel feel that it even gave us a nostalgic feeling.
— Sasasak!
A strange sound was heard from Sanghyeon’s direction.
There was an unidentifiable leaf-like thing on his plate, and as soon as Sang-hyeon saw the leaf, he was delighted and broke some of it into small pieces and rolled up some of it –
“Do you smoke? “Did you smoke it before?”
“I don’t know what it was like originally, but I smoke it now. “This also has a nice scent.”
After saying that, Sanghyun put a cigarette in his mouth and lit it by snapping his fingers.
“Whoa! How much is this? Really-”
“…”
“Hitch! Cool look!”
Fortunately, before I could point out anything, Ga-in next to me immediately coughed.
Sanghyun, who heard that sound, opened his eyes wide and threw the cigarette into the trash can at the bottom of the cart with an expression of realization.
“You made a mistake. sorry.”
“are you okay.”
The act of smoking as if it were natural during a meal without saying a word to the person next to you.
This is something that Sang-hyeon of the past, who was somewhat burdened by our feelings, would never do.
I once again felt that my past life and my current life have changed a lot.
I had no intention of hitting it.
For the past 300 years, Kim Sang-hyeon did not live as a slave or servant, but as the king and ruler of the city.
How many times have you had to worry about what others think?
After a while, Sanghyun told a different story.
“As I live these long years, there are often times when I feel regretful.”
“What point?”
“With my mouth -”
“Sanghyun, just speak comfortably now.”
“…”
“Or should I call you oppa? Sanghyun oppa. what do you think?”
The next moment, Sanghyeon burst out laughing as if he could not bear it.
“Hahaha! no. Let’s do it that way. Don’t do that. But don’t call me oppa. “Something like that is usually funny the first time you hear it, but it’s not funny the second time.”
“okay. “What was disappointing?”
“Even though I lived that long, I didn’t have as much time as I thought to really train my martial arts or combat skills.”
“Because you lived as a leader, not a warrior?”
“To be more precise, there were many times when I avoided a crisis rather than faced it.”
I thought I knew what you meant.
If you want to excel as a warrior, you must face the monsters when they approach, not avoid them.
Because fighting for your life is a valuable experience that cannot be replaced by any other method.
However, this is the attitude of a warrior who only takes responsibility for his own life.
If the chief of a primitive tribe behaves like that, there is no one left.
“Gain was different from me.”
With those words, Sanghyun chopped the meat on the plate very finely.
Meanwhile, the knife was moving so fast that it looked like a skilled knight was using his sword skills to cut a steak.
“It looks like you’ve learned how to use cold weapons.”
“Now I feel confident that I’m an expert.”
As I watched Sang-hyeon chop the meat in a way that made it easy for a child to pick up and eat, I belatedly looked at Ga-in next to him.
“… Evie Gigi. “Gain, don’t touch that with your bare hands.”
Ga-in was holding the whole piece of meat with his hands without even touching the knife or fork, contemplating how to swallow it.
Sanghyeon moved the finely chopped meat to Ga-in’s plate.
After Ga-in, who was finally able to eat meat, started to eat belatedly, the topic of conversation between Sang-hyeon and I shifted to ‘choice’.
“Which legacy do you think would be best to choose?”
“Oppa, of course you weren’t choosing unknown cells, were you?”
“I’m thinking about it.”
I was surprised that Sanghyun was even thinking about this.
“The fact that you even worry about it is surprising. Could it be that you have lived so long that you have lost interest in immortality?”
“No way. “I would be sick of living a long life without youth, but the unknown cells will also guarantee me youth, so I would be lying if I said I didn’t want it at all.”
“But what are you worrying about?”
“After enduring many years at the hotel, I realized that things like immortality and other things don’t mean much inside the hotel. “It’s meaningless if you can’t get out.”
understood.
If the final flash is a more powerful legacy than the unknown cells, choosing the unknown cells in the pursuit of immortality is high risk.
If you die from lack of strength, you will be trapped in the cold ice hell, so what is the meaning of immortality?
For Kim Sang-hyeon, the most important criterion in choosing a legacy is not whether it will give you immortality, but whether it will help you escape from the hotel.
He continued his explanation.
“The unknown cell is a powerful legacy. At least in terms of ‘individual physical strengthening’, we believe it surpasses other legacies we have identified so far. Strengthening your body through Rudach is definitely superior, and based on my experience competing with you… .”
“Even old blood surpasses it.”
This is the conclusion I came to after sticking with it.
“However, its limitations are also clear. In the end, no matter how you strengthen or mutate, the human body is a lump of flesh made of protein.”
“Can’t you change your whole body to titanium?”
“It’s impossible.”
“Umm… .”
“I felt this countless times while competing with you. Even though the unknown cells surpassed the old blood, and even with the martial arts I had been practicing… . I couldn’t win. Why?”
“The final flash. Also, please unify the level-to-peer level, and the level-to-level surface level. “It’s very annoying.”
“I heard that you used to talk a lot too? Are you suddenly asking me to change completely?”
“That’s right.”
“Anyway, I felt the limits of the power of this unknown cell. Even if I scrape the potential contained in unknown cells to the bottom, even if I use that power to strengthen my body to the limit… .”
“Can you die just by being touched by a laser?”
“okay. At least in my opinion, the significance of the two legacies was clear.”
“…”
“I’m not just talking about victory or defeat when two legacies face each other. So to speak, this is the story. A monster that can be defeated by risking its life by fighting with the power of unknown cells, the final flash can be destroyed with a single lift of a finger.”
I understood it while listening.
Since I used the final flash and Sang-Hyun Kim used an unknown cell, I thought Sang-Hyun Kim would prefer the unknown cell, but that was not the case at all.
Every time I threatened him with the final flash, Sang-hyeon rolled on the floor helplessly, and I think this was a very shocking experience for him.
I fully understood what Sanghyun was trying to say.
This is the limit of the ‘human body’ rather than the limit of unknown cells.
No matter how much the human body is strengthened with unknown cells, it is difficult to compare it to the Last Flash in terms of combat power.
Several objections came to mind.
Comparing Legacy, which is a type of special move that pours out all its power in a single blow and has a long rest period, and Legacy, which provides continuous physical strengthening in a short-term decisive battle, is in itself advantageous to the former.
Combat isn’t the only problem experienced at hotels.
But I decided to keep quiet.
There’s no way Kim Sang-hyun couldn’t have thought of something like this.
If a decision was made after careful consideration, there is a need to respect it.
“I think I’ve already decided. “Can I just write it down in the catalog and leave it there?”
“I guess so. But Ari, you’d better wash your hands.”
“uh?”
I stood up and looked at my hands to see what he was talking about. My whole hand was full of shiny meat grease.
“W-what is it?”
Sanghyun smiled bitterly.
“You didn’t know yet? “It may be new to you, but Gain-kun’s strength is amazing.”
“…”
“This time, look closely at your hands.”
After a while, my hand moved on its own and went up to Ga-in’s plate of meat.
Soon my hand grabbed the meat on the plate and tore it off, and Ga-in ate the meat with a happy expression.
“…”
“You’re using your hand as a knife. “Because it’s uncomfortable to use a knife.”
“…”
“After it inhabited Perot’s body for a long time, it started performing tricks like that. “It was mainly used to manipulate the believers’ bodies as if they were their own.”
“I didn’t feel it at all. Even though my hands move as they please. Even now I can’t feel it. What on earth is this? Is it some kind of incarnation power?”
Of course, Sanghyun couldn’t answer either.
The ability itself seems to be an extension of the power of the Avatar.
Because while controlling your own body, you are also taking away control of other people’s body parts.
While the power shown in the past involved taking control of the entire body, now it only controls part of the body, making it smaller in scale.
However, it seemed to be much more comfortable to use.
It was difficult to use the power of Avatar for even 10 minutes while being protected by the status window, but controlling it with just one hand like now was almost like breathing.
It felt a bit eerie. It’s a thought I’ve often had for a long time, but… .
Right now, he clearly seemed to have entered a territory that I couldn’t do anything about.
Sanghyeon, who could sense my anxiety, carefully defended me.
“Gain probably doesn’t have any bad intentions. “It’s just a mindset that doesn’t distinguish between one’s own body and other people’s bodies.”
“What kind of mindset is that?”
“Now, maybe it’s the soul of free America…” .”
“Did you just say that was a joke?”
Sanghyun awkwardly started adding various reasons again.
Ga-in did not enter the primitive body because he was worried that Adravita might control him.
At the same time, I think I developed this habit as I tried to borrow the help of primitive people depending on the situation.
What I realized during this process was that Sang-hyun had a significant sense of emotional debt to Ga-in.
“Now that we know everything there is to know, let’s get ready to go. Legacy is the final flash, right?”
“that’s right.”
“What about memory and forgetting?”
“…”
“Think about it a little more on your own.”
To give Sanghyun time to think alone, he started walking along the train, dragging Ga-in’s arm.
In fact, I could guess what decision Sanghyun would make.
Even now, with all his memories, he was still human without any problems.
“The problem is you.”
Before he knew it, Ga-in was close to the window and looked out.
Meanwhile, my right arm, which I had been confused about earlier as to who owned it, moved on its own and pushed the chair so that Ga-in could sit comfortably.
“…”
At that time, Cain suddenly turned towards me.