Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 389
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EP.389 Episode 389 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (5)
Episode 389 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (5)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 224
Current Location: Tier 1, Main Gate
Wise Man’s Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
After escaping, the first thing we encountered was a storm of enormous scale.
A person jumped from the sky, but instead of falling down, the wind was so strong that he was thrown upward repeatedly!
I once asked my sponsor if it was possible to escape using a makeshift parachute made from curtains and the like inside the hotel.
The owl replied with something like, ‘If you don’t mind risking your life, then give it a try,’ and now I understand what it means.
If you’re really unlucky, your parachute will tear and you’ll die.
“Eww!”
— Beep!
“Ugh, phew, tired?”
As if he was only concerned about his own survival, Pero bit my finger as if he was going to tear it off!
Pero found freedom as he flew towards the sky.
I was free-falling towards a land that I couldn’t even see.
At this moment, all my thoughts were truly arrogant.
What happens if you fall like this and die?
If your body is destroyed outside the room of curses, can you turn it back?
Should my colleagues write tickets for me?
Among countless overlapping thoughts, I finally found one path.
In one hand he held an hourglass.
In his other hand he held a grimoire.
The hourglass spun.
The grimoire was opened.
I don’t know which was faster, but the result was certain.
Because I saw my body suspended in the sky, possessed by Pero’s body!
It was as if time had stopped only around my body.
At that moment, an ominous thought crossed the little parrot’s mind.
Could it be that the reaction of wearing an hourglass has also stopped the hotel colleagues?
…
I don’t think so.
In Room 205, Miro woke up the demon and turned the hourglass, but nothing happened to his colleagues in the capital.
Even an hourglass has a ‘range of operation’.
Seeing that Pero’s body, which had been about 20 meters away, was fine, I guess his hotel colleagues who were further away would be okay.
—Whew!
The time of reflection was not long.
The relentless storm was not tolerated because the opponent was a parrot.
Even during this time, a notification popped up.
“You have obtained the wings of a bird that soars through the typhoon!”
“Hey! Why at this timing?”
I wasn’t happy at all.
Just like when he took Jincheol’s hair and Eunsol’s eyeball, he also took some of Pero’s wing feathers.
Because of this, the balance that had been maintained with all one’s might in the midst of the storm collapsed in an instant.
After a long time, it felt more like free falling than flying.
Finally, land began to come into view.
*
After returning to reality, sitting on top of the building, I was able to realize two things while thinking.
First, it seems like something strange has happened at the hotel.
The day before, I passed out drunk.
A situation where everyone was acting as if they had lost their minds.
The powers that protected the mind, such as the clear and constant stamina, were all rendered useless.
The cause of such absurd things can only be the hotel.
“Even so, are you going to jump out of the hotel without a plan?”
I was really crazy, really crazy!
Second, the status window disappeared.
It’s a given.
Because originally, blessings are not confined to the spirit world but to the physical body.
Even during that time, the status window was not visible when discussing.
Of course, this ‘obvious’ thing was nothing short of a terrible disaster for me.
“Beep… .”
Even a sigh makes a beeping sound.
…
Even though it was the body of a bird, I felt a little better when I finally observed the reality that I had returned to.
The sensation of the atmosphere felt throughout the body.
People walking busily under the building.
Laser turrets started targeting me.
All of this is deeply moving –
Laser turret?
— Jiiing!
No, what is this!
The moment I jumped down to avoid the turret that seemed ready to burn me to death, another danger arose.
“Kkieek!”
A powerful beak attack that can crush the head of a cute parrot in one breath!
He quickly twisted his body halfway in the sky and escaped the predator’s attack.
The opponent soon roared with an arrogant expression.
“Piyooooo!”
“What kind of eagle are you!”
The crisis was not over.
Because in the eyes of the pigeons that rule the skies of the fierce urban ecosystem, I was nothing more than a delicious, raw parrot.
The only difference between the chicken and me was whether it had already been put in a cauldron of oil or not.
Once again the dove spiraled around, extending its mighty beak.
The momentum was just like a spear strike from a master at the peak of his power.
But who am I?
The smartest parrot in the world!
As soon as the wings were attached to the body, the entire body began to fall rapidly, and the pigeon’s blow tore through the air in vain.
And then, the angry pigeon glared at me again and flew towards me –
Before I knew it, my body was stuck to a small building nearby.
— Jiiing!
“Die!”
The moment the red-glowing laser turrets took aim at the enemy, the enemy’s eyes filled with despair.
There was no more chance for him.
“Look! This is the difference in intelligence! Do you think pigeons can beat people?”
Even so, it was a formidable enemy, no less than the numerous monsters we faced in the Room of Curses.
…
…
…
“What the hell is this….”
The sudden sage time has arrived.
Did I just have a soul battle with a pigeon?
I even received help from a laser turret because I wasn’t confident I could win 1-1… .
— Jiiing!
Meanwhile, the laser turret that had burned the pigeon began to focus its attention on me again.
I had no choice but to get right up to the window and out of the turret’s firing path.
“Where the hell am I…? Is this really Korea? Why are there turrets on every building?”
— Ring!
Phone ring?
“Hey! There’s a strange parrot outside my window right now! It sounds like it’s talking to a person -”
“Hey! Hang up the phone right now!”
“Hey, you’re threatening me right now -”
The city is no longer a safe place for the weak parrot.
*
After that, I spent half a day flying around downtown Seoul and thinking.
It’s a strange world.
It’s so, so weird… .
I couldn’t believe that this was the reality I was living in.
I thought, forcibly turning my eyes away from the world.
What should I do from now on?
…
Let’s check the house first.
Are your parents doing well? How is your younger sibling?
…
It wasn’t visible.
Even though I’ve clearly lived around here my entire life… .
Not only my parents, but the house I had been living in was nowhere to be seen.
At that moment, it really felt like the sky was falling.
At that moment, memories from the hotel cinema came to mind.
‘Will there be a family for Gain in the world he arrives at after his escape?’
‘I believe it won’t be a tragic ending. If Ga-in can overcome the ordeal, he will be able to see the ending he wants.’
“…”
That is clearly a promise the hotel made to me.
The promise that if I overcome the ordeal, a happy ending, the ending I want, awaits me.
Now, I didn’t escape after overcoming the ordeal; I just lost my mind and suddenly escaped.
So, the ending I want isn’t out there.
I decided to believe that.
I comforted myself like this and fell asleep.
There was no longer a moon in the night sky of Seoul.
…
The next morning, I woke up in a cage.
The surroundings were filled with people dressed in white.
The administration captured me.
*
Half a day passed.
I realized another thing.
“Hey! You idiots!”
“Note: The behavior of the ‘college graduate parrot’ is becoming increasingly extreme.”
“Hey! I told you I’m a fellow agent of the Management Bureau! Bring me someone higher up!”
“Memo, ‘College Parrot’ wants to speak to the higher-ups at the Administration.”
“Wow…! Do you think I’m here because I don’t have the strength to kill you?”
“Note, ‘College Graduate Parrot’ is a big pretense.”
“Kim Ari! Kim Muk-seong! Miro! Don’t you know? You know! You’re an agent of the Korean branch!”
“Note, ‘College Graduated Parrot’ knows the names of the missing agents Kim Ari and Kim Muk-seong. They know information inside the management bureau, so their risk level needs to be raised.”
“No… Sir, I understand, so I told you to just bring one high-ranking person who can speak to me.”
“Note -”
— Boom! Boom!
“Eww!”
“Note: The ‘college-educated parrot’ is less intelligent than you might think. It often seems to forget that electricity is running through its cage.”
“…”
The Bureau researchers were very good at making people’s clothes explode.
*
I thought about how to overcome this situation.
I don’t think my original body will have any major problems yet.
Because the hourglass is spinning, the body itself is fixed to the sky near the hotel.
Without any adjustments, the hourglass will stop our body’s clock for seven days.
It hasn’t been 7 days yet, so I just have to somehow get back to the sky where my body is before then.
Well then, I just need to somehow escape this fucking place.
Then fly away –
…
Even after escaping, there are still problems.
Even though my body position is high, it is too high.
I don’t know if a parrot can fly that far.
If you were worried about escaping, there was a different problem this time.
Because in the room of curses, I was overcome with worries I had never experienced before.
This is reality.
It’s not the reality I lived in, but it’s the reality Ari and her grandfather lived in.
The people in front of you are Ari and her grandfather’s colleagues.
therefore….
I couldn’t kill him rashly.
“Hey, you can die right now if I want to.”
“…”
“It’s not me who’s killing you, it’s the Bureau who’s killing you!”
“Note, ‘College Graduated Parrot’ is -”
“Oh shit, can you just shut up?”
“- Frequently makes outrageous threats.”
What would happen if we robbed this fucking researcher’s body?
Successful escape as if nothing happened?
…
I don’t think so.
This isn’t some mafia prison, it’s a place where the administration seals monsters.
There must be some way to find out about body snatching.
What would happen if I took over this body and the Bureau found out?
The answer is too easy.
Didn’t you already see it in room 201?
The management office is not an organization that ‘worries’ in this situation.
A drone or something would come from somewhere and, without hesitation, blow the head off of the researcher who was your colleague just a moment ago.
The escape failed and only killed one innocent researcher from the Administration Bureau.
Transformed into grotesque?
This didn’t seem like it would make much of a difference either.
…
Even so, if it was a cursed room, I would have tried various things.
This is reality.
These are Ari and her grandfather’s colleagues.
This fact left me helpless.
and….
It’s night again.
*
— Tiddik, tiddik!
…
— Beep!
What’s going on at this hour?
Are you planning to torture me so I can’t even sleep now?
— Squeak!
The door opened.
It’s not where I am, it’s the room next door.
It is a place where ‘other beings’ are trapped.
“Lord… .”
Lord?
“Ah… You came. Kim Hyun-moo’s son, So-woon. You came.”
“Lord, how long have you spent the night in this narrow place? When I first received you, I knew the corruption of the administration -”
“So-un, my loyal child. Let’s talk about the details when we get out. I will bestow infinite glory on you. You are not alone, are you?”
“Lord, five of my companions have already sworn to serve you.”
What the heck is this?
Could it be that the fifth coming of Jesus or something in the next room is escaping by tricking the management office staff?
Those fucking idiots in the administration –
…
No, no, this is a very good opportunity.
I don’t want to harm anyone in the administration with my own hands.
But wouldn’t it be okay to escape from the ‘little disturbance’ that happened regardless of me?
— Boom!
“father!”
“…”
“Lord! Jesus!”
“So-un, what is that sound?”
“It’s a talking parrot. Don’t worry about it.”
“Then that’s it -”
“Am I screaming?”
“…”
“You scream so loudly? Do you think I can’t do it?”
“…”
“Lord, please do not do this. Have mercy on even one little lamb.”
“…”
“I heard your sermons early on and I knew that a true shepherd had been born in this land -”
“I have never preached.”
“What the heck, that bastard Jesus hasn’t preached a sermon yet? When the hell are you going to save the world?”
“…”