Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 413
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EP.413 Episode 413 – Glory and Transcendence (2) Fin
Episode 413 – Glory and Transcendence (2) Fin
– Han Ga-in
“Gain. Hey… I have something to say.”
“…”
Let’s admit what needs to be admitted.
It was a little nerve-wracking to see Gayoung after such a long time.
“I’m sorry about that… I wanted to contact you many times after that, but I felt embarrassed for some reason.”
“Oh, you’re embarrassing… .”
“Gain. Me, me…!”
“…”
“With me…! Go out-”
“Eww! Seriously, I can’t hear!”
“Eek?”
I ran without looking back!
Oh! What on earth are you trying to show me here?
The scene where Gayoung confesses to me and we start dating?
While running along the roadside, swearing incessantly, the revelation showed a strange reaction.
“The happy scene is just starting, so why did you run away?”
“Happiness is really fucking shit! That’s not even the real Gayoung, what the -”
“Of course, the current scene is an illusion. However, a fantasy that can be realized has a meaning beyond a mere dream.”
A fantasy that can come true.
The infinite glory set before me.
I know the intention of the revelation.
Because he didn’t hide his intentions from the beginning.
It’s an extension of what I heard from the owl before.
“The human spirit is like water in a vessel.”
“…”
“That water was mixed with an excessive amount of black dye that contained the power of the devil. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. That dye contains great wisdom.”
“…”
“How should you respond? The owl has taught you something.”
The first way is to embrace humanity, which never disappears.
Owl described it as ‘freezing water’.
Ariga is in this exact state.
She was born with a love for mazes that would never melt.
This method is not easy for me to follow.
The second way is to obtain powers of a different direction from the Grimoire.
Owl described it as ‘pouring white paint’.
“The rank of the Holy Sun is not inferior to that of the Grimoire… . May the glory of the Lord shine upon you.”
“… Okay. I know what you’re trying to say, but what does this have to do with Gayoung confessing to me?”
“Time that has passed, regrets about the first love that could not be fulfilled. It is the glory of the Lord that even these things can be fulfilled -”
“Ah! Seriously, you punk! You, are you trying to make me feel bad and shake my mentality? I’ll -”
“It’s a misunderstanding. If that was the purpose, I would have shown you this.”
— KakaoTalk!
“…”
The moment I heard this sound, my breath was taken away.
Because a KakaoTalk message that could come out in this situation came to mind.
— KakaoTalk!
“No?”
Hey~! No way.
Even if this guy is really inhuman, it can’t be to this extent.
I opened the KakaoTalk window on my phone while my hands were shaking.
“Whoa!”
Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew!
I want to die. I want to die. I want to die. I want to die. I want to die. I want to die. I want to die. I want to die. I want to die. I want to die.
This is not a joke, I want to commit suicide!
The despair I feel right now cannot be expressed in words.
If I may exaggerate a bit, it’s comparable to the feeling I had when I met the prisoner in the room of curses.
It’s a memory that I’ve always wanted to crumple up in my head and forget!
The horrible KakaoTalk confession I made to Gayoung when I was in middle school!
Who the hell else knows this but me?
“I’m not exactly a different person from you -”
“Gyaaaah!”
I tore my dreams apart with the power of the Grimoire, half out of my mind.
To be exact, I tried to tear it.
It would have been so if someone hadn’t grabbed my arm just before that.
— Snap!
“…”
He appeared shrouded in darkness.
He was a much more familiar presence than Revelation.
He is the being that awakened the moment I obtained the Grimoire.
And he was perfected during the long years he spent in room 203.
The first thing I heard was laughter.
“Hahahaha! Seriously, this is so funny!”
“…”
“No, come on! Isn’t that kid completely crazy?”
“…”
“Gain, do you understand a little bit? That guy didn’t really intend to tease or harass you.”
“…I know.”
“Really honestly! I told you this is what I meant when I said I would show you a happy scene?”
“Because he lacks understanding of humans.”
“That’s it! Even the love that couldn’t be fulfilled for you can be fulfilled, and that’s why I did all this to show you this fairytale-like beauty. Hah! If it were me, I would just go with Elena and Ari, and Miro and Songi -”
“Please be quiet.”
“Okay, okay. I’ll be quiet.”
“…”
“Wow~! But this KakaoTalk is really crazy. Seriously, what were you thinking when you sent this?”
The number of people who know the secrets I want to keep most in my life has increased to three.
“Wow! Confessing on KakaoTalk is stupid enough, but what’s with the April Fool’s jokes? Who the hell taught you this?”
How about we throw this kid under a truck?
Since it’s an imaginary world anyway, does it have no meaning?
“No way. I had something I wanted to show you, but something more urgent came up.”
“… Urgent matter?”
“As you know, I am not really any different from you. What is light Cain? Darkness Cain? Human Cain? These distinctions are meaningless.”
“…”
“Therefore, the current situation is a process in which one person, Han Ga-in, is thinking about the direction to take.”
“…”
“That’s why I wanted to show you the path to ‘transcendence.’ But, come to think of it, what I’m going to do from now on is similar.”
“What is similar?”
“What is transcendence?”
“what?”
“It is not the world that defines me, but I that define the world. Isn’t this transcendence?”
“What are you talking about -”
“I’ll show you. This is a kind of psychotherapy.”
*
There is a very logical and reasonable reason for what I am going to do from now on.
In my memory, the incident involving Gayoung is a kind of trauma.
I just forgot about it and lived my life because I didn’t have anything to stimulate me normally.
I felt it earlier, but if someone pokes this wound, it hurts terribly!
“What does that have to do with this weird behavior right now?”
“Aren’t you really going to be quiet?”
Wounds of the mind and wounds of the body are not very different.
Both are painful, both can be my weaknesses, and both need to be fixed.
So, this is something that must be done.
I looked at Gayoung, whose eyes were sparkling and her determination was strong.
“Go, Gain! What I said earlier… What do you think? Hey, I… I… .”
He answered in a firm, unwavering voice.
“Sorry.”
The eyes of the A-class beauty in the city grew wide, but she remained with her mouth half open and said nothing.
“Gayoung, I actually have a girlfriend.”
This is it~!
“I, I haven’t heard anything like that!”
“Oh, you didn’t know because you never told anyone else? Here, it’s a picture I took before -”
He showed a two-shot taken with Ari smiling happily.
Of course, the photo was just made up.
It’s an imaginary world anyway, so what could be impossible?
“Ugh, ugh!”
It’s so empty!
The moment the corners of my mouth went up in exhilaration, Revelation interrupted as if he couldn’t stand it anymore.
“What on earth does this have to do with ‘trauma resolution’?”
As if he had been waiting, the boy appeared from the side and said with a chuckle.
“Hey, hey! Ignore that idiot. Let’s do it one more time.”
“One more time?”
“One more time! Hey, is one time enough to cure it?”
I couldn’t help it since the ego in the book of grimoires said so.
Because it’s a process of healing the wounds in my heart!
“…”
*
I met Gayoung in my fantasy three times: in a coffee shop, on a university campus, and at a high school playground.
After doing it a few times, I remembered the time when Miro confessed to me and then suddenly cried out, ‘I’m the one who got it!’
I thought it was some kind of stupid thing, but surprisingly, it worked.
And now is the most important moment.
— Gulp!
I swallowed without realizing it and looked at ‘him’.
He was working hard on his ‘image’, which was the most important procedure in the ‘treatment process’ so far.
“Are you doing well?”
“I’m concentrating, so don’t disturb me.”
It seems like he was constantly joking around whenever he opened his mouth, but now he’s so immersed in it that even his tone is different.
“As you may know, this is not a simple manipulation of images. It is manipulating the very memories in ‘our’ heads.”
“Ugh!”
“This is possible because this is an imaginary world. Ah!”
“oh?”
“It’s over now!”
The moment the Grimoire’s ego made a happy expression, the image in my head changed.
“Whew… That’s enough. All the truth is buried in history. I’ve never been -”
He gave me a puzzled look.
“What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Oh, are you talking about the time you ‘kicked’ Gayoung?”
At the moment when the trauma that had occupied a part of my heart for a long time began to melt away, someone muttered.
“I wanted to be patient if possible, but I have to ask. What does this have to do with ‘transcendence’?”
“…”
“Has the devil infected you? Or, more than that, have you infected yourself with the devil…?”
This strange dream has ended.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 274th day
Current location: Tier 1, Hallway.
Wise Man’s Advice: 3]
As soon as I came out, my colleagues with their rabbit eyes wide open approached me.
“Oh, how was it?”
Elena grabbed my shoulder with a worried expression, and Ari also observed me closely.
It seemed like the maze had been done twice already.
“… yes?”
How was it?
Suddenly I was speechless.
Songi opened her eyes wide.
“Oppa! Lord? Or is it Revelation? You said you wanted to talk to such a being? Ariga heard that.”
“…”
Now that I think about it, that’s what happened, right?
“Well, there’s a similar persona created by the Lord called Revelation. I talked to that guy.”
“What did you talk about?”
“Rice, it’s nothing. Should I have had an in-depth discussion about the direction I should take going forward?”
Ari tilted her head.
“Why do you stutter so much?”
“No, I’m surprised. Everyone is gathered here.”
“Well, that’s because you suddenly collapsed and were sleeping the whole time.”
“Anyway, it wasn’t bad. Because I clearly understood the meaning contained in the descent and the sacred sun. And….”
“and?”
“There was some mental growth.”
“Spiritual growth?”
My colleagues tilted their heads as if they couldn’t understand.
“It’s nothing much, but I guess I just got rid of the little bit of guilt I had as a child?”
It was really nothing special.
So we sat down at the tea table and chatted comfortably while drinking our drinks.
“I think it was when I was in my third year of middle school? A girl named Gayoung confessed to me.”
“Eww! Oh, what happened!”
As soon as the topic of confession came up, Miro blushed and shouted, and Jincheol hyung started to snicker and hit the table.
“No, it’s nothing. I said that it was hard to date for various reasons. Then, she got really hurt -”
“Oh! Ga-in, this kid, has he been doing this since middle school?”
“Ugh… I envy Gain hyung… .”
“Seungyeop.”
“Huh, Grandpa?”
“Don’t worry, I’ll definitely introduce you to a kid your age later.”
“omg!”
“Haha, Agent, wouldn’t Seungyeop have a connection at the hotel?”
“That’s a problem in its own right….”
“Wahahaha!”
It’s a lively atmosphere and a fun time.
For people who live breathlessly, isn’t falling asleep as soon as you lay down in bed a skill?
As the saying goes, we try to find happiness, even if only for a moment, between trials.
Because this is our way.
Towards evening, I finally decided to look at the end of the room that I had been waiting for for a long time.
Tomorrow we go to room 104.
Advice was also generously poured out for issue 104.
“…”
Just before falling asleep, a small but insignificant question occurred to me.
Why did I remember the incident where I hit Gayoung like some kind of trauma for so long?
I don’t know.