Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 369
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Episode 369 – No. 205, Room of the Curse – ‘Absolute Master’ (18)
“… Is this the end?”
It didn’t take long before Miro gave up the chase.
It was a realistic reason, because the movement speed of the phantom that borrowed Cha Jin-cheol’s body was too fast.
Also, it seemed like if I waited, I would at least get a decision to escape.
Considering the phantom demon’s tendencies that we just figured out, the chances of him getting back on his feet are small.
Baehwajioju, another threat, must have also felt a great sense of crisis about what happened in the capital.
And there was a reason that was more important than anything else.
No. 205 ‘In something like that’ Miro’s because he shouldn’t waste all of his time.
Her one hour is reserved for the most important moments.
Just as Miro was making up his mind, a faint voice was heard from between the remains of the wall.
“Are you the one who came down from heaven?”
The voice of an old man. It was a voice I had heard before.
“Lee Ja-seong?”
“…Do you know me?”
“How were you still alive?”
Feeling a bit curious, Miro approached and examined the old man’s details.
Not only were his limbs cut off, but his entire body was full of signs of torture, and it looked like the wounds had been inflicted by a phantom demon.
In addition, he suffered full-body burns from the lightning he struck.
I couldn’t understand how he survived.
“The phantom demon didn’t kill you. Was it to torment the emperor as if he had not been killed until the end?”
“…”
“How did you survive my lightning strike? Was there anything you could do for the last moments?”
Instead of answering, the old man muttered softly.
“His disposition is the same as before.”
“that? “Illusion?”
“It was like that before. Usually, I pretend to be cruel, cunning, and great… .”
“…”
“When you are truly in crisis, your true colors show. An infinitely ugly and weak being. A cruel child who will never grow up. “That is the reality of illusions.”
Miro realized the meaning of Ga-in’s advice that he could handle the illusion if he regained his senses.
It is not a matter of physical or magical strength, but a matter of mental strength.
“I was thinking about what I should do to go one step further.”
A strange heat was felt in the voice of the dying old man.
As if there was something more important than the impending death.
“At one time, I thought the demon path was the answer.”
“The path of illusion?”
“Worldly principles and laws. To gain a spirit that is free from it all.”
“If you ask me, I didn’t get that strong.”
“I had this thought again.”
Lee Ja-seong confessed his realization as if it didn’t matter what Miro said.
“Immortality makes humans weak.”
“what?”
I don’t have much time.
Even though Miro knew that, he decided to wait another 10 seconds.
Because I was very curious about the old man’s enlightenment.
“Eternal life… . It weakens the human spirit. Because there is another chance, you can give up this time. That is why immortals become cowardly and ugly every time.”
“Like a phantom demon?”
“The fact that there is an end is what makes humans truly great… . To us… . The opportunity given must be given only once. The border between life and death, that moment when one opportunity ends… . If you could capture everything in your life in that moment… . “This will be the ultimate.”
After saying those words, the old man fell into eternal sleep.
…
Miro admired the old man’s tenacity in a pure sense.
He had his limbs torn from the start of the conversation, and had suffered burns to his entire body from lightning.
It seemed like he was still alive thanks to the last trick he had hidden as an absolute expert and a little bit of luck, but that was it.
His death was irreversible.
Nevertheless, the old man continued to worry about the ‘ultimate end of nothingness’ until the moment he died.
It is the result of obsession or madness pushed to extremes.
If these are ‘talents’ or ‘qualities’, then the old man would certainly have been born with the best qualities in the world.
However, the shell could not be broken until the last moment.
Miro lightly shook his head to shake off his thoughts about the dead, and then left a small note on a small piece of paper for himself, who was once again helpless.
… Her hand stopped at the last sentence.
This is because it was something that could not be written down hastily.
However, there was too little time left for her to worry endlessly.
Finally, she put down her hand with a sigh.
“I don’t know. “You guys can handle this on your own.”
— Clap!
The hands of the pocket watch moved past midnight.
She, who had become infinitely closer to a demi-god, returned to being a helpless girl again.
*
– maze
When I came back to my dazed mind, I found myself in the ruins.
It seemed as if there had been a major earthquake and the entire city had collapsed.
While I was standing there in a daze, I found a piece of paper in my hand.
“W-what is it?”
On the paper was written a message left by ‘me’ to ‘me’.
…
The next morning, early in the morning.
I was able to escape from the painful room 205.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 178
Current location: Tier 1, hallway
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
As soon as I woke up in the hallway, I looked around.
Any solution? Someone has already received an inheritance!
…
Nope.
It’s not that I’ve woken up once or twice, but I know this when I see it.
It’s not a solution, it’s an escape, and I don’t think the process was that refreshing.
Some people, such as Eunsol and Seungyeop, were even throwing up.
“Oh, sister! are you okay?”
“Seungyeop, should you go and take a bath first?”
Fortunately, it didn’t take long for the two to calm down.
Even if it is a cruel and painful memory, once you leave the cursed room, it feels like a blur.
The downside is that during this process, clear memories become unclear, and sometimes even important memories are forgotten.
However, without this consideration, everyone’s spirit would not have been able to endure the hotel.
At a time when other people were taking care of Eunsol and Seungyeop who were suffering, Miro was reacting somewhat strangely.
I was standing alone, lost in thought, and it seemed like I was memorizing a sentence as I was muttering with my mouth.
“What are you doing?”
“Room 207… . 30 minutes… . 20 minutes… .”
“what?”
“Lee Ja-seong… . Lee Ja-seong… . “What?”
“what are you doing?”
“Aaaah!”
Miro was surprised and pushed me roughly.
As he was making a bewildered expression, Miro responded that he was somehow embarrassed.
“I’ll explain later!”
Miro’s explanation was literal.
After everyone had taken a bath and gathered at the refreshment table, Miro told a truly amazing story.
“Did everyone understand!”
Miro smiled brightly with a lively expression.
I was amazed in the purest sense of the word.
Although many parts of Miro’s explanation were difficult to understand, one thing was certain.
In the process of waking me up, an unexpected accident occurred and a huge crisis occurred.
In this situation, instead of sitting down and despairing, Miro made his last move and succeeded in saving everyone.
The girl in front of me was still somewhat immature, and although she seemed smart, she still seemed like a child… .
I felt relieved because I felt like I had become a somewhat trustworthy person.
“good job!”
Everyone laughed lightly as they looked at Eunsol, who was smiling brightly and hugging Miro.
It is time to analyze what happened in earnest.
The second attempt of No. 205 can be summarized as follows.
The party split into two, one side blocking the Baehwa Bridge from the barrier, and the other side moving to break my seal.
Fortunately, the imperial forces won the battle against Baehwagyo by attracting the Cheonui Alliance, and Baehwagyo, who was in crisis, built a building called ‘Sky Tower’ to seek the descent of a divine being.
This was the point when the imperial forces destroyed this, and finally pushed Baehwagyo into a pinch.
It is said that a phantom demon came in out of nowhere and killed my colleagues.
His death was so sudden that many of his colleagues did not even know who had killed him.
For example, Grandfather Mukseong’s memory was cut off at the point where he went outside the wall and met an unidentified martial arts master.
Similarly, Jincheol’s only memory was meeting the teacher’s eyes once while walking down the street, and the doctor was at exactly the same level.
Well, it was no different from being hit by a truck while walking down the street.
The reason why such an absurd accident occurred was simple.
The maze summoned the doctor to wake me up, and the teacher fired a final flash of light somewhere underground.
however.
A laser that was fired towards somewhere on the mountain ‘accidentally’ pierced me exactly and killed me.
Thanks to this, the phantom demon was completely awakened with even the inhibition called ‘I’ released.
It’s just my guess, but honestly, it didn’t seem like the hotel had prepared for this situation.
It was such an absurd sound that the teacher opened his mouth wide.
“Does that make sense!”
“uh? uh… ?”
When Miro was embarrassed, the teacher cleared his throat lightly and lowered his tone.
“Hmm. “Miss Miro, I’m not questioning you, I’m just saying that the odds are too absurd.”
That’s just my opinion.
From what I heard, the size of Cheonsan Mountain is enormous, and I am buried somewhere beneath that huge mountain.
I just fired the laser with a bit of intuition and it pierced me exactly?
Compared to the size of the mountain, my size would be like a grain of sand, right?
Wouldn’t it be a level of difficulty where the opponent fires a gun and you fire a gun and hit a bullet with a bullet?
Perhaps because he had not thought deeply about this probability, Miro reacted in great confusion.
“Is that so?”
At that time, Ari lightly hit the table.
“Miro, think back to your memories of that time.”
“Remember?”
“Did the ‘laser’ really pierce Ga-in?”
“What are you talking about?”
“I have fired the final flash several times, and its power is no joke. Did it touch the human body? “It has the power to turn you into gas without leaving a single piece of flesh behind.”
Miro frowned and answered.
“There’s no way there’s anything like Ga-in’s hand left?”
“That’s it.”
We talked more about this, but no progress was made.
This is because Miro’s memory of the situation at the time was insufficient.
In the end, I had to conclude that I was ridiculously unlucky.
“Umm… . “Sorry for shooting the laser so accurately.”
They stopped the teacher from apologizing to everyone for no reason.
If I was really unlucky and the laser pierced my body, I would have been so unlucky that I shouldn’t have to apologize.
“What~! “You have to kill a colleague once or twice to truly gain hotel experience.”
This topic ended with everyone making expressions of bewilderment at Ari’s naturally speaking words.
The next story was the topic everyone was curious about, ‘The Maze of the Past’.
This is because the fact that ‘Maze of the Past’ was saved at ‘midnight’ in the time zone in the first place was a shock to everyone.
For a moment, I was about to ask Miro why he hid such serious information.
My sister next to me lightly held my hand.
“…”
“I guess I was anxious myself.”
“… I guess so.”
The other people seemed to have similar thoughts, and just looked as if they should say something or not.
Miro, who was making an awkward expression, apologized by simply bowing his head once.
Jincheol said with a chuckle.
“Well, I’m glad you told me now. “Anyway, I’m glad I saved everyone with that power.”
“Thank you~!”
As the situation unfolded, Miro quickly raised his hand and wrote something on the whiteboard.
1. If you wait without moving, you will escape.
2. Save time at midnight. Requires at least 30 minutes in room 207. Already consumed close to 20 minutes.
3. Lee Ja-seong.
Lee Ja-seong.
After writing this down, Miro took his hand away.
Ari tilted his head for a moment and asked a question.
“What’s this? “Is there any record left by Super Saiyan Miro?”
“What is Super Saiyan?”
While Jincheol and his grandfather were giggling frantically next to him, Miro looked at Ari with a blank expression.
Sister Eunsol sighed and answered.
“It means that it is a very strong maze. Let’s just call it a midnight maze. “This is the record left behind by the Midnight Maze, right?”
“yes.”
“Lee Ja-seong. What did you cut off from? “Did you forget?”
“Oh, no!”
Miro flatly denied it.
“This is where the content written on the paper was cut off from the beginning.”