Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 439
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EP.439 Episode 439 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (4)
Episode 439 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (4)
– Kim Ari
The lights are dim because electricity does not conduct well, and the poor ventilation causes the air to become stale and gives off an unpleasant smell.
Hundreds of people crowded into this squalid underground cavern.
Because it is the day of the Demon King’s cult’s meeting.
“Everyone! Today’s word is about ‘equality.’ Everyone is a glorious descendant, and under the great gaze, each class is like a facade -”
While the shepherd standing on the podium was talking loudly, I was lost in complicated thoughts.
The second attempt at No. 206, we are proceeding with two major groups.
Yoo Song-i, Lee Eun-sol, Cha Jin-cheol, Kim Muk-seong, Park Seung-yeop.
For convenience, let’s call this the ‘city domination team’.
The goal is to use Songi’s status as the mayor’s daughter to seize power in the city and obtain various information that the mayor is hiding.
Han Ga-in, Kim Ari.
For convenience, let’s call Gain and I the ‘Cult Leader Team’.
The primary goal is to secure a large number of followers who serve Cain and make it possible to use the sacred sun.
What if the sacred sun could be used?
There are many other plans from there, but let’s think about them when we get there.
Lastly, Kim Sang-hyun and Elena are the ‘support team’ who go back and forth between both sides.
Sang-Hyeon’s status as a second-class citizen and secret agent allows him to move around easily.
To begin with, he has infiltrated an underground gathering currently in progress while hiding his identity.
Elena is a popular actress, so she can’t act as freely as Sang-hyun, but she has a lot of money and a big house, which is good.
Let’s put our colleagues aside and focus on Gain and our roles.
How on earth should one establish a cult?
I thought the management had had a lot of strange experiences that most people wouldn’t have in their lifetime, but this is a first.
I’ve seen many people worshipping strange, chaotic entities that came from nowhere, calling them gods, but I’ve never tried to create such a group, I just killed them as I found them.
Han Ga-in, a colleague who is not lacking in having many strange thoughts, was also the same.
Fortunately, as we exchanged opinions, Gain and I came to have the same opinion.
‘I’m telling you, this is the way the most famous ‘new cult’ I know works?’
‘Hmm… That makes sense.’
It’s easier to just grab what others have worked hard to collect than to make something from scratch.
Finally, in room 206, ‘Delicious Rice Cakes’ were prepared as planned.
I’m talking about the Demon King’s cult.
— Ouch!
A clapping sound was heard from the podium.
“Attention, everyone. Apostle Ari has some amazing news for you.”
I, an apostle of a church rumored to perform miracles, rarely spoke during regular meetings, but I went up to the podium.
In the midst of the bustling atmosphere, people’s eyes were focused on me.
“…”
Instead of opening my mouth right away, I looked people in the eye for a minute or so to weigh things out.
“Everyone, today I want to tell you some glorious news.”
Before I knew it, the underground space became as quiet as a mouse.
“At last the prophet who received the revelation of the true Savior has ascended.”
According to the doctrine, the devil’s prophet does not come down from heaven, but ascends from the underworld.
This is because the Demon King himself is not in the sky, but underground in the city.
*
As soon as the meeting was over, the church’s top brass gathered around me.
“Ari Apostle! How dare you suddenly bring up this topic without consulting me -”
“Consultation? I just told the truth that the prophet was born. Is there anything I can do to discuss it?”
“No…! Shouldn’t we take a look at what kind of person that person is!”
“Is what I see not enough? Am I deceiving you?”
When we went out so openly and confidently, the people in the church started to feel embarrassed.
“That’s not what I meant! Ari Apostle is of course born with divine powers, but he is still young, so don’t be mistaken -”
“Stop. I don’t want to hear any more.”
“Ari Apostle!”
Some people thought I was being duped by a seemingly good-looking conman.
Some people thought I had failed to see through the market’s conspiracy.
The higher-ups in the church all said I was tricked, but it seems they don’t believe me because I’m a teenage girl in the setting of Room 206.
“Stop doing this here. Everyone, follow me.”
“What is that -”
“Paulo, I told you earlier, right? You guys should come see what kind of person he is?”
“… That’s right.”
“Why don’t you just go and see it?”
At those words, the crowd became quiet.
After a while, someone opened his mouth.
“Where the hell is that guy?”
“Outside paradise.”
“Bar, outside? Did you tell him the location of the ‘Door of Truth’?”
The ‘Gate of Truth’, a gap in the city leading outside of Paradise, is one of the secrets of the sect.
It is only natural that the church members would be shocked when they were told this to an outsider.
Of course, I was proud.
“Is there any reason to keep a secret from the Prophet?”
“Ari Apostle! What the heck -”
“stop.”
At that moment, a deep voice filled the room.
Raymond is the elder with the most voice in the church’s high-level meetings.
“Let’s take a look at what kind of person he is. Do you know? Maybe the Demon King really sent a prophet.”
*
– Yoo Song-i
When I come out into the garden and breathe in the fresh, open air, my mind becomes clear.
It’s a real luxury to have such a large garden in a paradise that is no different from a city-state!
It’s possible because my last name is ‘Kadyrov’.
With rights come great responsibilities.
I started learning from the market what ‘Kadyrov’s responsibility’ was.
The ‘succession’ has begun.
Leon spread this fact to those around him, and it felt like my status had changed from princess to heir to the throne.
Thanks to this, many things have become more convenient.
For example, Eunsol no longer needs to wrap her head around me to meet me.
Just tell me that I called you!
“Songiya, Leon doesn’t know the Demon King’s true identity either?”
You don’t have to worry about the story getting out when telling this story.
Because I replaced the bodyguards assigned by the mayor with Jincheol Oppa and Grandpa Mukseong.
Ha! So this is the difference between a princess and an heir?
Just ask Leon to do it for you, no need to explain in detail why!
“Songiya? Why are you suddenly making such a proud expression?”
“How high-spirited….”
Sister Eunsol, aren’t you being too rude in front of the heavenly first-class mayoral successor when you’re just a second-class citizen?
…
Refrain from excessive method acting.
At this rate, I’m going to have to order an informer to really scold my sister.
“Ahem. Dad, no, Leon said that the Demon King split into several pieces like a meteorite and flew down from space, landing all over the Earth.”
“There are many shocking stories in the document. The one that suppresses the Demon King is humanity itself….”
The market has revealed many secrets to me.
How on earth does humanity suppress the Demon King who crouches in the abyss of the stars?
If the Demon King is water, then his indomitable reason is nothing more than the cap of a plastic bottle.
The thing that holds the water, or in other words, the entity that seals the Demon King, is not the lid, but the bottle itself.
The bottle was none other than humanity itself in paradise.
The spiritual mass of humans, numbering in the tens of millions, crowded into a small space is suppressing the Demon King, who has been split into many pieces.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that unwavering reason isn’t important.
Even if the bottle is intact, water is bound to leak once the lid is opened.
“What on earth does ‘spiritual mass’ mean?”
“I don’t know either.”
“Hmm… Grandpa Arina might understand. I’ll have to ask him when he comes back after his disciplinary action is over.”
“Shouldn’t we just understand the conclusion?”
“In order to suppress the Demon King, tens of millions of people must live on the pieces of the Demon King scattered across the Earth?”
“That’s it.”
Sister Eunsol sighed deeply.
“I feel like a lot of the questions I had while watching Paradise have been answered.”
Why is life in paradise so harsh?
Tens of millions of people are forced to live in an area the size of a relatively large city.
You know, the side effects of urbanization, overpopulation, things like that?
“If the documents are correct, Paradise is not a natural city.”
“yes?”
“Don’t cities naturally develop in efficient locations during development? Usually, they are located near rivers and ports.”
“Like Seoul?”
“Han River, Incheon. Yes, like Seoul.”
“…There is no river near paradise.”
“It’s not a city built in an efficient location. A piece of the Demon King fell by chance, so a city with a population of tens of millions was forcibly built on top of it.”
I don’t have as much knowledge as Eunsol, but even I felt that the side effects would be worse because the city was forcibly built in an unnatural place.
“There are cities worse than paradise.”
“I guess so.”
“Look at the map here. Isn’t this where the Himalayas are?”
“…”
“And yet, they forcibly built a city with a population of over 30 million. These people must be living in a much harder place than in paradise.”
The reason the caste system was formed is in a similar context.
Just as ships sailing the vast ocean gave their captains king-like authority, it must have been a means of maintaining order in a closed environment.
Even if we grind people for various reasons to provide ‘fuel’ to our indomitable reason, it is even stranger if the quality of life is high.
“So this is why the city leaders are hiding the fact that the outside world is fine.”
“… Are you afraid of escaping?”
“Because I have to prevent the escape of the lower classes. No matter how painful it is, I have to suppress the Demon King in the city and die.”
Jincheol, who had been listening from the side, opened his mouth.
“Oh my… My head is about to explode when I listen to this. It’s a story that’s both fascinating and terrifying, but isn’t this the background explanation for Room 206?”
“That’s true.”
“Fundamentally, our goal is escape first, and resolution second.”
“that’s right.”
“After listening to Songi’s explanation, I understand why the hotel scared you by saying that room 206 was fucking, no, extremely difficult.”
“…”
Why is Room 206 harder than the other cursed rooms?
It’s not because the prisoner is strong.
I don’t know if there is such a thing as a weak prisoner, but even if they are, they are much stronger than us.
To a chick, the strengths and weaknesses of a fox and a tiger are of little importance.
“It was because of the Demon King’s disposition.”
“…”
I thought about the other prisoners I met at the hotel.
Prisoner 101 seems to be the ‘hospital director’, but I don’t know since he doesn’t appear until the end, so I’ll pass.
The dragon of the nebula of No. 102 or the unborn one, both are half-penny.
One side is practically a corpse and the other side is an illegitimate child born from that corpse.
The teacher in room 103 was an ally.
The subject of room 104 is ambiguous, but from the perspective of solving the room, it is still an ally.
Because he was a crazy god who cloned himself into the legacy that would go out after solving it.
Even though the 0-dimensional eye of No. 201 was a mad god, negotiation through human sacrifice was possible.
The Sea God of Room 202 was also a being who could communicate, and looking back, it was actually the sins of humans that were great.
Depending on your perspective, Adravita of Room 203 was more like a god of the new world than an unconditional villain.
Let’s pass on prisoner #205, as he’s too pitiful to even mention.
“… Comparing them one by one, the Demon King of No. 206 is quite a tiring being.”
It is a monster that devours all of humanity the moment it emerges from the underground. It is more hostile to humanity than the Eye of the 0th dimension, and is so powerful that there is no answer.
However, there is another thing that is most terrifying about the Demon King.
Eunsol sighed and muttered.
“Whew… Conversation, negotiation. These things didn’t work at all?”
“According to Leon.”
“It’s similar to what Gain said.”
There is one thing in common between the records and descents passed down through the Kadyrov family and the experiences of Gain’s brother who came into contact with the essence of the Demon King.
The Demon King is a being with whom communication is impossible.
It is an incomprehensible entity, like a collection of endless, runaway impulses.
A being that will wipe out humanity upon awakening, has absurdly strong power, and is completely incapable of dialogue or negotiation.
We have to ‘solve’ this monster.
“…”
“…”
After a heavy silence, Eunsol opened her mouth.
“Thanks to you, I was able to gather a lot of information, but there is one very important piece of information missing.”
“What part is it?”
“What is the true identity of the power that is suppressing the Demon King right now? Is it the tens of millions of people living on top of the scattered fragments of the Demon King?”
“yes.”
“Was this city there from the beginning?”
“yes?”
“A city cannot be built overnight. In other words, the Demon King’s fragments fell first, and it would have taken quite some time for humanity to build the city.”
“Right?”
“Then how did you suppress the Demon King before building the city?”
“…”
“Also, who figured out that dense human population itself could suppress the Demon King?”
Who figured out that you could build a city on top of a piece of the Demon King?
How did they suppress the Demon King before they built the city?
“There’s something more. It seems to me that your Kadyrov family is also a kind of ‘manager’. There’s something that appointed that manager. So… .”
Me, Eunsol, and Jincheol.
Three people came up with the same concept at the same time.
“Management Bureau!”
The group that designed all these boards, the group that appointed managers like the Kadyrov family.
There is an organization like the management office in room 206 too!
Maybe, it’s still out there somewhere.