Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 385
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EP.385 Episode 385 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1)
Episode 385 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 224
Current Location: Tier 2, Central Hall
Wise Man’s Advice: 0]
– Han Ga-in
I woke up on the second floor.
…Are you awake?
I calmed my churning heart and recalled the events of last night.
It looks like he drank until the film blacked out.
As I was walking near the large table in the center of the second floor, I saw Jincheol hyung.
“brother!”
“…”
My brother seems to be deeply troubled by something.
I didn’t want to be a bother, so I came down to the first floor.
“Ariya?”
“…”
“Sister Eunsol?”
“…”
I went around calling out to my colleagues one by one, but no one answered.
He looks like he is lost in his own worries, similar to Jincheol on the second floor.
Besides, I’ve been feeling a bit out of it since earlier.
At first I thought it was because I drank too much yesterday, but it wasn’t that hard to control my body.
It’s a different phenomenon from a hangover.
I feel like I’ve had this experience before… .
At that moment, a voice came to my ear.
“Do what you want.”
*
– Yoo Song-i
What is going on?
The moment I saw the sponsor’s reaction, I guessed that something strange was happening outside.
But what is this situation really?
It’s not like my colleagues disappeared or anything.
Because in the meantime, I met Gain oppa, Jincheol oppa, and Elena unnie.
What’s strange is the state of my colleagues.
Even when I spoke to them, they didn’t respond, and they just mumbled strange words and became lost in their own world.
It looked like he had been under some kind of mental attack, but two things seemed odd to me.
First of all, this isn’t the cursed room, this is party time, who the hell made their colleagues like this?
Second, why are they all in this state when they have more than one or two powers to block mental attacks?
What about Gain oppa’s status window?
What is Elena’s stamina index?
Where is everything broken?
“Gain oppa~!”
“…I want to fly.”
“Wake up.”
“Why don’t I have wings?”
— Bam!
“Hey, Hanga-in! Come to your senses!”
“Ah… I see. I should bring Pero.”
Ferro?
As I was trying to catch my brother who was leaving with those words, someone hugged me from behind.
“Whoa!”
“Songi Songiyaa… .”
It was Ari.
No kidding, this is the first time I’ve seen Ari act like this.
“Are you in this condition too?!”
“Songiya, you’re a sophomore in high school, right?”
“Yeah -”
“Is it fun?”
“What? No, let go of this!”
“I hated going to school. I went too many times.”
“I told you to let go. Why is this kid so strong? I told you not to use your inheritance at times like this!”
“A long time ago… When I first entered school. At that time, I wanted to make friends and become close to them.”
“Are you dating?”
“It’s meaningless. Normal people always forget everything.”
“What? What did you forget?”
“You won’t forget me. That’s fortunate.”
At this moment, I was so flustered that I even forgot that Ari was hugging me.
Are you forgetting Ari?
She’s pretty, but can’t you see her ruby-red eyes?
Isn’t this already at the level of a cartoon character?
Is it an appearance that you will never forget even if you see it once on the street?
“… This isn’t normal forgetting. The Administration is erasing your memories?”
“The Bureau? Ahaha! That’s stupid. That’s not it – Kkeut!”
Suddenly Ari staggered and fell to the ground.
“Why, why?”
“…hypnotherapy.”
“what?”
“You’re not an agent yet. I can’t tell you….”
If you haven’t noticed by this point, you’re an idiot.
This is a story about the Administration, and also a secret of the world we live in.
Words I would never normally say.
Is it right for me to be forced to listen to these words right now?
At that moment, when I was at a loss as to what to do, Ari suddenly ran off somewhere.
“Where are you going? Finish what you were saying!”
Near the terrace on the first floor, near a small fountain, there was a maze sitting.
Ari seemed to be leaning next to Miro, then placed her head on Miro’s lap.
A gesture similar to a young daughter asking for affection from her mother.
and….
This is also something I have never seen since Miro woke up.
“maze.”
“…”
“maze.”
“…”
“Why aren’t you answering? Do you hate me?”
The next moment, Ari started strangling Miro’s neck with both hands!
What is this sudden outburst?
“Eww! Are you crazy? Hands off! Why are you so strong, seriously!”
Should I wear a bracelet?
Are you a colleague?
That coworker looks like he’s going to kill another coworker?
Will the bracelet work?
Suddenly Ari put her hand down and muttered.
“Who are you?”
“…”
“My mother was a madwoman. She was like a childish tyrant. She couldn’t stand the slightest provocation, and if someone tried to get on her, she would immediately respond with force.”
“…”
“No matter what I think, he’s a zero as a comrade. He’s someone I can never work with. That’s why I didn’t even consider him as a target for resurrection.”
“…”
“And then you woke up. You were a child. A childish yet secretly clever girl, seemingly brave yet timid. A normal person, not a madman.”
Miro’s head slowly moves towards Ari.
“So… I knew it when I saw you. You’re not the Miro I know. You’re not my mother.”
“…”
“You have been resurrected like this, and you are the only Maze that will survive in the future. The ‘Adult Maze’ that the Administration knows of has disappeared now, but it is not completely gone.”
Traces of the adult maze still remain here in time zones.
Also, the maze is the future of the maze that has grown within the normal category.
If you go back to reality and spend a long time as an agent of the Administration, a similar maze will appear again someday.
In that sense, neither the middle school maze nor the adult maze disappeared.
There is only one disappeared maze.
“I realized a terrible truth. I didn’t bring my mother back to life….”
Ari’s thoughts, which she usually kept hidden, took my breath away.
“Could it be that it was destroyed forever, so that it can never be revived?”
It seemed like everything in the world had stopped.
Arido, who is desperately waiting for an answer from Miro, and I, who am watching her.
and….
Miro, with a hazy expression, opened his mouth.
“I have something I want to do!”
I realized it belatedly as I watched Miro running away, smiling brightly like a child.
Like everyone else, Miro was also lost in his own thoughts.
This long conversation was essentially Ari’s monologue.
… It’s truly a hotel.
I was grateful that I was the only one who truly heard this conversation.
So if you forget just me –
“Gain-ah-ah~! I like you!”
“Eww! That girl is for real!”
*
A sudden confession of love!
Are you crazy?
“Gain-ah! I’ve liked you since school.”
I almost fainted at the sight of him confessing like a dinosaur without any atmosphere or flirting.
“Why aren’t you answering? Do you hate me? Eight!”
“Why are you hitting me all of a sudden!”
“If I hit you a few more times, you might like me?”
He even beat Gain oppa with his fists, but judging from his actions, it seemed like a threat rather than a confession.
At that moment, Ga-in’s mouth, who had been blankly staring outside the front door, opened.
“It’s a maze. Let’s jump down.”
“What the hell are you, Han Ga-in, you crazy bastard!”
Miro’s eyes widened.
“Jump down? Why?”
“What is love? The hottest emotion between people, an incomparable passion. Therefore, love is a flame.”
“flame?”
“The biggest ball of fire in the world is the sun in the sky. So, a person in love should get close to the sun.”
“What movie line is that? Why are you suddenly trying to run out the front gate!”
“I want to see outside.”
“What the-”
“Songi, haven’t you ever thought about leaving? You now have two means of escape.”
I was speechless.
I’d be lying if I said I’ve never thought about this.
“I want to go out. I want to see my parents.”
“… Oppa. Even if you want to go out, why are there two ways to escape? I haven’t gotten the wing boots yet -”
“I can already fly.”
Gain oppa smiled brightly and raised his hand.
— Beep!
In his hand, he held a cute parrot with a pitiful expression.
“Peroya!”
“Now that you know how to fly, you can jump first and then go to Pero.”
“Did you get Pero’s consent for that plan?”
— Beep!
A series of flashes of light appeared on his wrist.
I’ve already tried to stop Gain Oppa with the power of the bracelet more than twice, but it didn’t work at all.
What the heck is going on here?
It’s not just my bracelet that’s stupid.
What is Ari’s old blood doing?
Is the labyrinth’s constancy broken?
Where did you put Gain oppa’s status window?
All our means of combating mental pollution have been completely defeated!
“Then try flying.”
I turned my head, wondering who was saying that crazy thing, and there was my older sister Elena.
“I always wondered, why did I fall for you…?”
Before Miro, Elena gave her heart to Gain.
There is no one among us who is unaware of this fact.
Since I spend time at the hotel every day and go through the cursed room, I can’t help but know.
“I once thought to myself, what was the trigger? Looking back, there was a clear moment.”
A clear reason why Elena fell in love with her older brother Gain.
“When you first wrote your descent. When the starlight took hold and you transformed into an angel in the sky.”
“…”
“When I realized that, I got a little scared. Is this love? Or…?”
or not?
“I wonder if the overwhelming charisma that Kangrim exudes is twisting my mind… It’s a scary thought.”
Gain Oppa answered with a calm attitude.
“Is that so?”
“So I want to see it one more time.”
“What?”
“Jump. If you are an angel, you can fly. Show me that light again.”
“Oh~! That’s great.”
Elena’s clarity index has also gone downhill.
At this point I just let everything go and started watching the situation.
There was nothing I could do when the bracelet stopped working.
Gain Oppa laughed to himself and then opened the main door on the first floor of the hotel while holding onto Pero tightly.
“Hey~!”
“Why is that?”
“The scenery is nice! Then shall we go?”
Miro smiled brightly and shouted.
“Gain, fighting! I’ll be here cheering you on!”
Elena also clapped her hands in joy.
“Cheer up, Gain! You should definitely fly.”
“Goodbye, everyone! I’m leaving behind all the shackles and restraints of this world and going off to find my happiness! Be happy, too~~!”
My brother’s expression as he jumped out of the hotel was brighter than ever.
Perhaps it is because I have finally realized the desire that was hidden deep in my heart.
Finally, the first escapee from the hotel emerged.
*
– Kim Muk-seong
“Seo, teacher! Sang-hyeon! Please calm down! Come to your senses!”
“I am more sound than I have ever been.”
“Hey, Inma! Then you can’t take off the protective suit you’re wearing!”
“I got this from Miss Ari.”
“Why on earth did Ari give you a hazmat suit? Why on earth -”
“Agent, did you know that you can escape by elevator?”
“Sang-Hyeon… .”
“By the way, Gain gave me his number. 87439124. Is that right?”
right.
So it feels like my breath is going to stop.
Han Ga In, what on earth was this crazy kid thinking when he gave me his number?
What was Ari thinking when she gave him the protective suit?
Everyone knows it!
Kim Sang-hyun’s ‘longing for escape’ is on a different level from ours.
He said he had experienced hotel hell firsthand!
It’s even different from a maze.
Because before the resurrection, Miro had already been freed from the pain of hell through the ‘prayer of rest’.
“Haha, Agent. Why are you looking like that? If someone saw you, they’d think something big had happened.”
“Please, Sanghyun… .”
“I’ve been the pride of my family since I was little. From my experience in the special forces to being a doctor and an astronaut. Honestly, don’t you think I’m amazing?”
“Okay! Okay, so please take off your protective suit first -”
“I have never been able to be filial to you properly. This is the regret of my whole life. If you are still alive, I will begrudgingly show my filial piety, and if you are dead, I will pour a drink on your grave and come back.”
“What are you doing? Do you know where we’re going to get a drink?”
There’s absolutely no way to stop it!
After coming out of room 203, there was no way to deal with it by force, and now he’s even wearing a protective suit.
“I’ll just take a few days off. Even hotels get a vacation.”
“Hey, Inma!”
“Bye Bye! See you later!”
A moment later, a huge noise and heat came out of the elevator.
When the door opened again, Kim Sang-hyun was not inside.