Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 420
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EP.420 Episode 420 – Room 104, The Cursed Room – ‘Hotel High School, a prestigious entrance exam school’ Re (19) Fin
Episode 420 – Room 104, The Cursed Room – ‘Hotel High School Entrance Exam Prestigious’ Re (19) Fin
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 374
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
I stood up, albeit late, while controlling my expression.
“We have a lot to talk about, so I’ll make you some coffee. What should I prepare for you?”
“Huh? Oh, iced Americano.”
I was momentarily lost in thought, using coffee as an excuse.
My past self sent Aurelia a note telling her not to go to paradise and kept this fact a secret from me.
What is the reason?
The first thought that came to mind was to prevent Aurelia’s suicide.
If she were to commit suicide, there is a high possibility that her soul itself would be captured by the divine sun, as she was a believer.
What about Arima in this case?
Arima is essentially a soulless psychic parasite, and is currently preying on Aurelia.
When Aurelia is sucked into the sacred sun, Arima also disappears.
Could it be that this was a warning to not commit suicide in order to prevent something like this from happening?
At first glance, it seems like a reasonable hypothesis, but it has a flaw in a crucial part.
If this is the case, there is no reason to hide from me the fact that you sent a note to Aurelia.
Did you not have time?
There’s no need to write it long, just write five or six letters like ‘Saint, no suicide, note’ and you’ll probably be able to guess.
Soon, an entirely different possibility arose.
My writing that appeared in the past status window was deeply imbued with the emotion of ‘fear’.
I got a similar feeling from the wording of the note.
“This is my last conscience and humanity.”
This is not a word I would normally use.
This means that there was a lot of emotional turmoil at the time the note was written.
I tried to focus on this and think simply.
Why did you give Aurelia a note?
She is a candidate for the Reserve Soul Ship, which means she is a fellow candidate.
So, in a literal sense, he told them not to go to paradise as an act of mercy.
Why did you hide it from me?
Because I don’t want my future self to know why Aurelia shouldn’t go to paradise.
As I thought about this, one of the key features of No. 104, ‘secrecy’, naturally came to mind.
The sect risks its life to hide its true identity from the administration.
Apollyon hid because he could be punished if caught by the administration, but he is not a weak being.
What would it be like to openly establish a kingdom like the fisherman in Room 202?
As long as you don’t do anything excessive like conquering the world out of the blue, there’s a good chance the administration will turn a blind eye.
An answer that simply explains all these questions came to mind.
If the purpose of creating the stock market sect is extremely evil,
If it is to the extent that the management cannot tolerate it,
The identity of paradise –
— Bam!
“Here, an iced Americano.”
“yes.”
I stopped thinking.
It’s not that I don’t know the answer, it’s just that too many thoughts are coming to mind.
It’s better to stop thinking about things that I can’t handle on my own.
I came back with the intention of obtaining the sacred sun, and of course I intend to use it after obtaining it.
Thinking realistically, I thought about Aurelia in front of me.
For the past few months, Aurelia didn’t care whether we roasted or boiled the pulpit.
It means that you no longer care about what happens inside the room of curses.
The mind is already turned ‘outward’, and Aurelia is already 50% a colleague.
There is no need to sway Aurelia’s heart by talking about paradise or something.
“Would you like to give me a note?”
“Huh? Oh, yes.”
— Ji-i-ik!
I tore up the note as soon as I received it.
“Huh? Go, all of a sudden -”
“You don’t have to worry about it.”
“yes?”
“I gave this to you because I was worried you might suddenly commit suicide.”
“…”
I looked straight into her eyes.
“You don’t plan on committing suicide, do you?”
“…”
It’s already been three months since we cooked the sermon.
If Aurelia was the kind of person who would commit suicide, she would have died ten times already.
Let’s think about what happened the second time around.
Aurelia was the one who clenched her teeth and ran away even though God blatantly drilled a hole in her throat.
Han Ga-in: It’s already half-tilted.
After a while, several colleagues who had been observing the situation from outside came in.
*
“That’s why I’m saying Jincheol really has no sense!”
“Sister, you’re talking nonsense -”
“I, my name is Seungyeop -”
The atmosphere is so boisterous that it almost feels like an exaggeration.
The colleagues were each doing their best to persuade Aurelia or Arima.
It would be difficult to find a being superior to her among those who can be placed in the soul box, so she must be integrated somehow.
Looking at the atmosphere, it seemed like things were going well.
Because Aurelia, who had been drinking coffee in silence for quite some time, started to join in naturally.
The villains who took over the church by putting forward a fake saint and the real saint.
At first glance, it seems like a relationship that would never be friendly.
But if you take what happens inside the room of curses as some kind of movie, you can fully join in.
Even if the main character and villain fight to the death in the movie, they can still be best friends outside the movie.
So, her colleagues began to persuade Aurelia.
“Once you go out, you won’t have to be stuck in this tiny school anymore! The administration will also consider you a useful talent.”
Sister Eunsol emphasized that life outside would be better than life in room 104.
“I won’t be able to escape the confines of my soul… I won’t be able to leave this kid.”
“Hey, sis! If there’s a place you want to go, tell me!”
“He’s an idiot, so you can do whatever you want with him. Always think of him as a servant.”
“… Sister Ari?”
Seungyeop and Ari reassured Aurelia, who was anxious.
“Don’t worry, fellow believers. There are very few deaths.”
“If No. 104 disappears, everything will disappear?”
“I don’t know.”
“If it doesn’t disappear, isn’t that a problem in its own right…?”
“There must be a way to give comfort to the people in room 104 somewhere on the third floor.”
“…”
“Let’s find it together.”
The teacher consoled Aurelia, who had to part ways with her classmates, in her own way.
After a while, the saintess looked at Seungyeop.
“If I were to come out in the soul box, I would become a ghost-like being. Right?”
Seungyeop nodded obediently.
“yes.”
Brother Jincheol was embarrassed.
“Huh? You’re turning into a ghost? Then what did Arima say before?”
I asked because I was curious.
“What did Arima say to your brother?”
“Aurelia’s body is pretty – ahem, she’s said to be very good at it. That’s why I said I wanted that body.”
It does sound strange when you hear it.
What’s the point of having beauty or talent in a body that you can’t take with you anyway?
At that moment, Aurelia looked at Seungyeop and explained.
“Even though the spirit of the demon was in the soul box, its body was still intact.”
“Isn’t that the power of the ‘divorce magic’ rather than the power of the soul’s meaning?”
“Arima doesn’t have divorce magic, but he does have magic.”
Arima’s magic.
A nightmarish memory from long ago came to mind.
Traces of cruel human experiments filled the haunted house, and the scene where it transformed into a monster the size of a house.
Witches have the power to mold human bodies like clay.
“You said your name was Kim Ari, right?”
“Yeah. Now I’ve memorized all the names.”
“Can you lend me a thermos?”
“uh?”
Ari looked embarrassed and took out the thermos flask from her bosom.
“The item in the bottle can go in and out of the room, right?”
“If it falls into the category of ‘food ingredients’.”
By hotel standards, the human body is also considered food, so Ari stores blood in that bottle and uses it as a spare battery.
“I’ll borrow it. This one time will be enough.”
“Huh? Huh?”
The moment the saint poured Ari’s blood into the thermos without hesitation, Ari made a face as if she was saying no.
Soon, the saintess began to emit light from her hands, and then out of nowhere, she cut off her own finger without hesitation!
“Eww!”
“are you okay.”
“Here, grab it! That guy is really trying to kill himself -”
“It’s not suicide.”
“Cain! Take my body and-”
“I told you it wasn’t suicide?”
After emphasizing three times that it was nothing serious, the saint began to put hair, a large amount of blood, fingers, and other pieces of flesh into the thermos flask.
The maze asked as if it was fascinating.
“what are you doing?”
“To take my body out of room 104.”
After that, she continued to fill the thermos flask with strange and incomprehensible magic.
Ari sighed as she looked at the bizarre sight.
“Ah… This is the bottle I use!”
The witch continued her bloody work without lifting a single hair from her nose.
After a while, a being that I couldn’t tell was Aurelia or Arima looked at me.
“Han Ga-in.”
“hmm?”
“You asked me earlier? Am I Arima or Aurelia now?”
As soon as those words came out, the surroundings became quiet.
Because it was an issue that everyone was very concerned about.
Until recently, I thought she was Aurelia, but just now she looked so much like a witch.
“The first thing that comes to mind is that the question itself is stupid. Where does gray fall between black and white?”
Are you saying that they are already mixed up and cannot be distinguished?
When Arima infiltrated Jincheol’s body, it seemed like a separate personality, but it seems that’s not the case now.
“Gray? Okay. What matters is not the color, but whether we can cooperate -”
“If we really have to be picky.”
“…”
“I think I’m closer to Aurelia now, and closer to Arima after I leave.”
“I understand.”
“This is a complicated and subtle issue for me, so don’t ask any more questions.”
Seungyeop asked with a cautious expression.
“Then what do you call me now? Arimarelia? Aurelia? Oh, or!”
“or not?”
“What about Irelia -”
“Okay. Rather than that… .”
The saint was silent for a moment, then opened her mouth again.
“I don’t want to remember my old name again. I’m going to make a completely new one. From now on, call me Yumi, Yumi.”
“…That’s a cat-like name.”
“what?”
At the end of this conversation, ‘Yumi’ asked Seungyeop to take care of her.
And this was the starting point.
— Gulp!
The coffee I was drinking, the chair I was sitting on, the concrete building, the people walking around.
It all crumbles like grains of sand swept away by waves and returns to light.
It’s solved!
In an instant, our bodies began to rise into the empty space where the laws of physics disappeared.
All the colleagues floating around laughed heartily.
Soon the whole world began to shake and bodies began to rise into the sky.
and –
‘Ju’ appeared.
…
…
…
A shining hand grabs my soul.
I passed and passed again the distant world, the endless space and time, the endless horizon.
…
I heard a voice.
“The time has finally come.”
The cornea ruptured and clear liquid flowed out.
A splitting pain struck my brain.
This being is probably the ‘real Lord’.
A true transcendent being, not a avatar contained in the divine sun.
“Today is the last day I hear your voice.”
“Child, what a pity to hear that. Our relationship is just beginning, so why are you talking about ending it?”
When the last moment comes, I really wanted to ask you one thing.
Does he really think of himself as an incarnation of the divine sun?
Maybe the main body is winning mentally because there is no way to leave the cursed room.
“…”
When this moment came, my mouth wouldn’t open.
Could it be because I was overwhelmed by the overwhelming majesty of the living sun?
“Remember the deal. I have given you much… and you too must keep your promise.”
“That story is already over.”
I see you.
No, the word ‘seeing’ is not appropriate since the cornea is ruptured.
I felt the Lord.
My senses, or intuition, which had become more sensitive than ever, whispered to me words I could not understand.
I wanted to check.
Is the most bizarre piece of information I wrote in my status window in the past true?
I feel the point.
I became aware of the existence of a gigantic pointillist painting made up of countless dots.
Millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, trillions – no, there are so many that calculating these numbers becomes meaningless!
…
“Have you sated your cursed curiosity?”
“…”
Sagrada realized in his consciousness.
The sacred sun is the ark.
It is an ark for the Lord and his followers to escape from the purgatory known as the Room of Damnation.
Also, the divine sun is the incarnation of the Lord and a miniature of the Lord.
In other words, if you expand the sacred sun, it will soon be given.
therefore….
The Lord himself was also an ark.
“You succeeded!
A school determined to kill its students, a conspiracy by an unknown dark group!
Who knew that all this was a plot by a mad god to escape from prison?
By the way, it took a long time, didn’t it?
We never expected that the problem with #104 would be this much of a hindrance!
I understand that you may have hesitated because of the questionable compensation, even though you had a sense of how to resolve it.
Of course, the issue of compensation is only just beginning!
I think it’s okay!
That concludes issue 104!
Problems with inheritance, a contract with a mad god.
Isn’t this something of the future?
congratulations!
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“The final solution has been found among the colleagues! Congratulations! The final solver has been found and all members have returned safely.”