Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 417
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EP.417 Episode 417 – Room 104, The Cursed Room – ‘Hotel High School, a prestigious entrance exam school’ Re (16)
Episode 417 – Room 104, The Cursed Room – ‘Hotel High School Entrance Exam Prestigious’ Re (16)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 281
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 104 – The Cursed Room ‘Hotel High School, a prestigious entrance exam school’
Wise man’s advice: X]
– Han Ga-in
Five days have passed since the hotel was reduced to rubble.
The situation is similar to before.
Ari and Elena periodically harass the followers of the Lord, creating a horror movie-like atmosphere.
Naturally, the voices of believers calling for salvation filled the area, but Aurelia remained silent and did not come out of her residence.
During that time, Miro used his ‘divine power’ every time to save the church from the hands of the devil, and thanks to that, he heard Ari’s voice running away after seeing Miro ten times.
Naturally, during this process, Miro’s authority grew day by day, and within the religious order, Miro was regarded as the second true saint.
This means that the church has effectively begun to split in two.
Up to this point, everything is going according to plan in the big picture… .
“I didn’t know Aurelia would be this immobile.”
Her reaction was beyond my expectations.
I knew I could lose my mind for a day or two after realizing the Lord’s purpose to kill me, but to be locked in a room for five whole days?
Were you mentally weak like this?
Because of that, Jincheol hyung’s plan went a little wrong.
“Hmm….”
“You seem to have a lot on your mind. Why don’t you eat a sandwich?”
“Oh, thank you, sister.”
For several days, I spent my time hiding in the old school building with the help of my older sister Eunsol and my grandfather Mukseong.
“Sister, do you know that the plan has gone awry?”
“Yeah. I guess Aurelia was more shocked than I thought. She’s not even coming out of the room.”
“So, I guess I should go to the underground city sometime.”
“I’ll bring you a host.”
With those words, my older sister left the classroom.
…host?
That’s true, but the expression is a bit strange.
…
…
…
“Haha, Teacher Eunsol, did you really say that the saint wanted to see me?”
“sure.”
— Crunch!
*
The newly acquired identity is said to be Deacon Kwon Il-hwan, and he is said to be a powerful figure who has been assisting Aurelia, who is ignorant of worldly affairs.
“Hello, butler!”
“good morning.”
Thanks to this, I was able to move unhindered to the underground city below the old school building.
It’s a new story, but after obtaining a lot of inheritance and re-challenging the first floor room, everything went very smoothly.
If this was a second-floor room, there’s a 100% chance that the religious order’s sacred water that blocks the possession would have appeared by now.
“Butler, what are you doing downstairs? If you have any business -”
“Nothing much. I just want to study some old scriptures for a while.”
“Haha! As expected, you are a faithful person -”
The gun-wielding teachers smiled broadly and sent me away.
“…”
The cultists in the underground city all had an eerie ‘same expression’.
I wasn’t surprised because this was something I had already checked in the past.
However, this is not a situation where we can let our guard down.
To begin with, room 104 is not a difficult room to solve; it’s a room where the problem comes after solving it.
Everyone suffers because the divine sun itself, which is the reward, is questionable.
The Sacred Sun, Legacy of No. 104.
What on earth is this thing?
There is quite a bit of information that we already know.
First, the divine sun is the incarnation of the Lord.
Second, it appears when the religious order is in danger of extinction.
Third, the goal of the Lord can be realized only when ‘I’ obtain the divine sun.
The third piece of information is information I got during my second challenge to No. 104, where he used all sorts of tricks to prevent any other comrade from obtaining the sacred sun.
Why would that be?
Because I don’t have the confidence to take over anyone else’s mind other than my own?
I don’t think this is it… .
The more I thought about it, the more my head hurt.
I realized anew how strange room 104 was.
The question in this room is not centered on the solution process, but on the legacy that will be gained after the solution.
There is a clue.
Because Cheon Ki Nu Seol told me to check the ‘myths and doctrines of the religious order’.
Perhaps this content contains the answer to a long-standing question.
As is typical of religious groups, the cult in Room 104 had a place to store old scriptures, and security was not particularly tight.
This is because the scriptures were originally created for everyone to read at least once.
…
[25:18]
I read the scriptures for nearly 30 minutes.
“Nothing much.”
These are stories I’ve heard many times.
The Lord has prepared an immortal paradise for the faithful.
So, do not be attached to worldly wealth and the flesh.
Honestly, don’t all pseudo-religions say similar things?
That doctrine is ultimately saying that we should give all our money to ourselves so that we can go to heaven when we die, right?
“…”
No.
If you think of it as some ordinary pseudo-religion, you are mistaken.
Because this religion is ‘real’.
They just habitually use expressions like “social” and “pseudo”, but in fact they are not fake.
How can this be fake when we have a real god who folds the stars and a saint who works miracles?
With that thought in mind, I looked into the contents of the scriptures again.
He prepared an immortal paradise.
Let’s take this to be true.
The Lord has truly prepared a paradise for His disciples, and in paradise they will attain immortality.
Do not be attached to worldly wealth and the flesh.
Let’s take this literally.
Paradise is a place separate from the material world, a place that has nothing to do with the possessions or bodies of Earth.
[19:27]
Why did the Lord create the church in the first place?
I met several prisoners at the hotel, but not all of them started a religious group.
Because you feel sorry for mortal humans?
Honestly, I don’t think there is such a thing.
Is there anything to be gained from humans?
A famous celebrity who appeared on TV a long time ago said, “The purpose of cult religions is money and women.”
At least, that can’t be the purpose of the ‘lord’.
“…”
Immortal paradise.
The worthlessness of wealth and flesh.
Why a divine being established religion.
The believers have eerily similar expressions on their faces.
Finally, the reason why ‘I’ must obtain the sacred sun.
As I thought about this, I felt a vague realization about the principle of the divine sun.
I have already experienced this similar entity or phenomenon in a hotel.
Perhaps, the divine sun is something like a ‘pointillism’?
It’s still just a hypothesis.
To be certain, you need evidence.
[14:11]
A place where evidence might be found came to mind.
*
I moved, recalling my memories from the second attempt.
The destination is the sanctuary of sanctuaries, a particularly sacred place.
“Huh? Are you Butler Kwon?”
“…”
Four heavily armed religious leaders were blocking the way, and it felt like even the most powerful members of the religious order would not be able to enter a place like this.
It would be a place only permitted to saints.
“Can I come in?”
“Huh? Haha! Butler, you really are too much of a joke.”
It’s a place that this body cannot pass through.
What if it was someone else?
[05:13]
I think I should stop here.
— Clang!
“Hey, hey! Butler Kwon, Guo! What’s with the gun all of a sudden!”
“If you don’t want to die, put the gun down! Do you think you can get through this with a pistol or something?”
You’re wearing bulletproof vest, so a pistol can’t penetrate it.
I know that much.
— Bang!
“Eww! Butler Guo, Kwon committed suicide!”
“Ugh, emergency room!”
“Tell the Saint!”
*
When I returned to my body and opened my eyes, Ari was right in front of me.
“Did you find out something?”
“So-so.”
I relayed the information I found out and some hypotheses to Ari.
“It’s an interesting hypothesis, but isn’t it more of a hunch than a solid basis?”
“yes.”
“I should go to the underground, the sanctuary of sanctuaries.”
“That’s right. But, if I go there, I’ll have to kill a lot of people.”
It’s not that you can’t kill them, but if you keep killing the followers underground, the sacred sun might appear and say ‘you bastard’.
“I’ll talk to Miro. She’s considered a 0.9 saint right now, so it should be possible.”
“Okay. By the way, what happened to Jincheol hyung?”
“You might have met Aurelia by now.”
*
– Cha Jin-cheol
I hope everyone is doing their best?
Some are saints, some are ghosts, some are saint assassins. They play plausible roles with ease.
At this moment, what am I, Cha Jin-cheol, doing?
…
Locked in the dungeon of the church.
“Oh, shit!”
Everything is going smoothly like cogs in a wheel, so why is it that only my work is so messed up?
The original plan was incredibly simple!
The saintess, who was stabbed by that guy and whose mentality was shaken, will be sick for a day or two.
By the way, a counterfeit called Mironji is coming out?
Of course, Saint Jintong should rise up in anger and come out to punish.
At that very moment!
If I get involved and achieve the goal, that’s it.
But Aurelia has been locked in her room for five days and hasn’t come out.
No, why are you so mentally weak?
Are you that shocked that God tried to kill you?
You’re a saint?
When God says, “Hey, so-and-so, the oil is boiling, so get in!” and you say, “Yes!” and go in wearing batter and get fried, aren’t you a true saint?
Let’s say this was a bit severe.
Even so, if I rest for 3 nights and 4 days, I should rationalize and get up, thinking, “The Lord must have a bigger plan, Satan must have deceived me!”
I think you need that much wit to become a saint or something.
Let’s get back to reality.
The important thing is that Aurelia never left her underground dwelling, and I, who was feeling suffocated and wanted to see the saint’s face, was locked in the dungeon.
Thanks to that, ‘a certain entity’ that had been absent for a long time has been causing a fuss since the day before yesterday.
“Why are you just standing there like this?”
“…”
“You can just tear off the iron bars. Send me to Aurelia quickly.”
“…”
The witch, who had been quiet and well for several months, has recently become very noisy and childish.
Are you excited about finally being able to have your own ‘body’?
“If you want my body so badly, I’ll get you a moderately vicious NPC -”
“no.”
The answer came in one second.
“That woman, Aurelia, I decided the moment I saw her. That body. She’s so pretty, has high magic aptitude, is so pretty, has high chaos resistance, is so pretty -”
“They’re pretty, but there are three of them.”
“I want to have a pretty body too.”
“You can change your appearance anyway. You can even switch to a different body.”
So, after you choose your first body, you can gradually choose the bodies you like, right?
“Don’t say it so easily. It’s something of a higher dimension that your intelligence will never be able to understand.”
So I kept my mouth shut.
When I thought about it quietly, it struck me as absurd.
The body isn’t like a luxury shopping bag, so it’s like you just pick out pretty and good things and put them in, so it’s like…
It’s an inhumane conversation that takes your breath away at every moment.
The very fact that I was naturally involved in this conversation was burdensome.
“Why are you just standing there?”
“I told you. I’m holding myself back from beating and killing the disciples recklessly, because I’m afraid that the holy sun will pop out and call me ‘you bastard.’”
“Then you’ll stay here forever?”
“I have my own thoughts, so please be quiet.”
Do you think I would have been lying down in the basement without thinking about anything?
Of course, I’m saying that there are plans to meet the saint.
No matter how mentally unstable Aurelia is!
If everything goes according to plan, we will definitely meet.
“Just wait a moment. There’s not much left.”
At that time, Arima’s traces gave off an ominous sound.
“Is the saint really mentally unstable?”
“…”
“Maybe -”
“I know. Don’t worry, I’m also considering ‘other possibilities.’”