Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 404
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EP.404 Episode 404 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects in 100 Days’ (6)
Episode 404 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ (6)
– Park Seung-yeop
“No, no! How much more do I have to explain to you, you idiot? I told you to push the lever number 3 while pulling it towards you! Don’t even think about eating dinner today!”
The large man shoved the skinny boy in annoyance.
The boy, who had fallen like a reed, trembled without even thinking of complaining.
The daily routine at the ‘Little Hope’ orphanage, where level 4 children who have lost their parents grow up, was extremely harsh.
If you put it nicely, it can be seen as providing job training from a young age, but if you put it badly, it can be seen as child abuse.
frustrated.
There is no way out, no way to gather information.
Why on earth did the hotel give me such a helpless role?
…
I had a vague idea.
It’s because of that girl.
“Eww!”
“Peter, put your knees out.”
“Sister May… .”
There was a girl in the orphanage named May who was about three years older than me.
So she was a kind of nanny who took care of children.
Of course, this isn’t the only reason I care.
Compared to Ari Nuna and Miro, she’s not even pretty.
“Okay! It doesn’t hurt anymore, right?”
“huh!”
As soon as May caressed the wound with her hand, it disappeared as if it were a lie.
The kids who didn’t know what was going on just laughed out loud, but I couldn’t laugh.
It’s clearly a superpower.
Let’s say that’s the case up to here.
I’ve seen countless instances of supernatural powers while climbing hotels.
What’s really strange is not the existence of superpowers, but how they can be used.
How can that girl be the only one to use her healing powers when her indomitable reason has blocked all my blessings and soul’s ark?
“Seungyeop, don’t glare at me like that.”
“…”
I guess I’ve been observing you too closely these past few days.
At times like this, I regret not having acting skills as good as Ga-in hyung.
*
Late at night.
Someone shook my body gently.
“Do you want to come out?”
“…”
May took me to the roof of the daycare center.
“What the….”
“huh?”
“What have you done? Where have the principal and teachers gone?”
“I made arrangements to go to bed a little early today.”
“…”
May sat on the rooftop for a long time in silence, enjoying the breeze.
“Sometimes there are kids like you.”
“…”
“Suspicious and subtly perceptive.”
“If you just use your superpowers openly, what’s the point of being quick-witted or not?”
“Seungyeop, the principal and teachers didn’t notice at all. What does this mean?”
I was taken aback when I heard that.
Come to think of it, this girl uses her powers without even caring whether there’s a teacher next to her or not.
Why don’t adults know?
“It’s normal not to know. Usually people don’t know. You’re the special case.”
“Then what are you going to do?”
“Well, murderous savage?”
For a moment, I felt out of breath and raised my head.
May was smiling with the corners of her lips raised, and only then did I realize that she was joking.
“No, I was surprised!”
“I guess I’ll have to go to another daycare center.”
“…”
What the heck is this girl?
One thing is certain.
I woke up in the orphanage to find out about this girl.
At that moment, May muttered with a complicated expression.
“There are times when I feel sorry for you.”
“what?”
“Because the world is too hard.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Listen, I’ve been doing my best for a long time.”
“… You look older than you are.”
“Yeah. Anyway, I did everything I could to make everything better.”
“…”
“But… . Looking back, the results were just horrible. I wanted to make everyone happy, but I ended up creating hell.”
“Why?”
“That’s a good question. My answer is, ‘I don’t know.’”
“I don’t know?”
“I really don’t know. Was there anything wrong with the choices I made? Even after all these years, I couldn’t find anything wrong with them.”
“…”
“If most of the choices we made were correct and the results turned out like this… were we destined to end up like this?”
With those words, May disappeared like a bubble bursting.
I think I know who that girl is.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 264 (+32)
Current Location: Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’
Wise Man’s Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
32 days.
This is the time I spent after entering room 206.
In any normal cursed room, it would have been enough time for a prisoner to destroy the world fifteen times, but the prisoner in room 206 has not even shown his nose yet.
Instead, the city’s atmosphere gradually began to ripen.
Sporadic protests by Grade 4 workers began everywhere, and I secretly became the center of the protests.
It is certain because reporters from various media outlets secretly visit us every day.
“The informers are in an uproar because they want to catch Gain.”
The doctor’s point is one I am well aware of.
“It’s okay. I get information from those informers every day.”
“Haha! It looks like Jincheol and the agent are doing their jobs.”
“Because Eunsol is also helping me.”
The teacher belongs to the second-class agent, the loyal claw of Leon Kadyrov.
Of course, that ‘claw’ was secretly coming to me and passing on all the information.
“Do you know the secret of Kadyrov’s iron fist in controlling paradise?”
“Are you talking about ‘evaporation’?”
“That’s correct. In fact, it’s a punishment worse than a death sentence.”
‘evaporation’
In George Orwell’s 1984, there is a terrible word: ‘evaporation’.
It is a type of record-destroying that not only kills but even erases the fact that a person ever existed, and is a powerful means for Leon Kadyrov to rule the city with fear.
“But this evaporation is very strange.”
“What does it mean?”
“There have been about three cases of evaporation in the past 10 years, and those who remember all say the same thing. The target of evaporation suddenly disappeared.”
“take to itself wings?”
“Yes. They just disappear while walking down the street, or while eating. People who disappear like this also lose all records related to them, starting with their birth registration.”
“… This is not a natural political maneuver.”
“Absolutely not. It’s some kind of supernatural power. The problem is that it happens even when the indomitable reason is at work.”
I was a bit confused, but when the topic of supernatural powers came up, I had something to say.
“I recently went to Kadyrov’s luxury mansion at Songi’s invitation.”
“Have you met Leon?”
“No. I only met Songi.”
At that time, Songi asked me why I was doing such a thing, and then made an important suggestion.
“He told me to take Leon’s body.”
“It seemed like an attractive choice, why did you avoid it?”
“He is not a philosopher in a closet, he is a mayor. He spends more than half of his day in the city.”
“aha!”
“The moment you come down to the city and your indomitable reason kicks in, the spell may be lifted.”
“That’s definitely a serious problem.”
“Yes. By the way, I heard an interesting story from Songi. It is said that the Kadyrov family has a supernatural power that has been passed down through generations. She added that only the head of the family can use it.”
“Superpowers passed down through generations?”
“Yes. With that power, Leon Kadyrov and Songi reside at the very top of paradise, outside the realm where indomitable reason suppresses the supernatural.”
“To use when you want superpowers? That’s complicated. What kind of powers are those?”
“I don’t know. Songi didn’t know either.”
“Hmm….”
The teacher, who had been pondering for a moment, soon brought up the next topic.
“There is one strange thing. It is the problem with the devil worshippers.”
“A devil worshiper?”
“Have you met him?”
“I don’t know if he’s the Demon King, but I’ve met some kind of cultist.”
“Do you know what the weirdest thing about them is?”
“What is it?”
“The very fact that I am watching them.”
After thinking about it for a moment, I was able to understand what the teacher meant.
The teacher’s status is a second-class citizen and secret agent.
The secret agent’s mission is to spy on the Demon King’s worshippers?
Are you saying that the Paradise leadership already knows that there are demon worshippers?
“Leon must be well aware of the existence of demon lord worshippers.”
“Of course.”
“Why don’t you get rid of it even though you know it?”
“That’s exactly my question.”
“…”
With that, a brief silence fell on the dark room.
‘Evaporation’, the means by which the market controls the city.
A supernatural ability that has been passed down through generations in the Kadyrov clan.
Knowing of the existence of demon king worshippers but not purging them.
Thinking about it this far, I had a vague idea, but I couldn’t put my finger on it.
“It’s difficult.”
— Bam!
The teacher tapped the table lightly and moved on to the next topic.
“Let’s talk about the city itself. Thanks to the splendid work that Cain has done, it looks like things are going to be a big deal soon.”
“It’s not because I did something.”
This is true.
“This city was ready for this shit to happen. The anger of the citizens, including the fourth class, had long since reached a critical point.”
“Gain-kun merely provided the opportunity? That may be so, but the opportunity itself is also important.”
“That could be the case.”
“Do you have any plans for the ‘next opportunity’?”
there is.
The teacher, after hearing my explanation, smiled briefly and then sighed.
“Huh… . Well, do as you wish. By the way, this isn’t confirmed information… .”
“What is it?”
“It seems like Seung-yeop has gone missing. I found a list at the orphanage, but he was already gone when I went to look for him.”
*
– Kim Muk-seong
“Explain! Explain!”
The chants of the protesters, who had filled the entire square, began to echo through the city.
“Leon Kadyrov! Leon Kadyrov!”
Eventually, the name of Leon Kadyrov, a first-class citizen who was considered a sanctuary in the city, began to be mentioned.
Naturally, thousands of police officers were called in, but even they were terrified at the sight of such a huge crowd.
At that point, Jincheol asked a question carefully.
“Grandpa, are you really going to do it?”
“then.”
“Are you really doing that crazy thing?”
“I have to do it. Didn’t Gain tell him to do it?”
“Ugh… .”
“Isn’t that a little weird for your personality? I’ll do it anyway, so you can just leave it alone.”
“…”
At that moment, a young man leading the protesters approached and gave a passionate speech.
“The whole history of paradise is the history of class struggle!”
It was such a famous saying that I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Sure enough, let’s wait a little longer and a more famous sentence popped out.
“Workers of Paradise, Unite!”
“Wow!”
The wildfire-like momentum excited the protesters.
This is truly a do-or-die moment.
and –
— Clang!
A rifle popped out of Mukseong’s hand.
Other informants nearby shouted and tried to stop him.
“Huh! Silence! Can’t you put it down right now? If you shoot now-”
If you shoot now, there’ll be chaos.
That’s the goal.
— Bang!
A single gunshot rang through the air.
It clearly split the air.
The young man leading the protest collapsed, spitting blood from his mouth.
At that moment, not only the protesters but also the informants were shocked by the shocking situation –
Another very famous quote came to my ears.
“Don’t let anyone know about my… death!”
“Eww!”
The balance that was like thin ice collapsed in an instant.