Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 450
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EP.450 Episode 450 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (15)
Episode 450 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (15)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 479
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105 – Rest Room
Wise Man’s Advice: 0]
– Han Ga-in
— Chewy!
Just hearing the sound makes me feel good.
“Everyone worked hard! Since we were given a day off, let’s eat well and rest today!”
It feels like a company dinner. Is it really a company dinner?
“Hey! Grandpa, pork and beef aren’t supposed to be served together!”
“Human! Meat is meat, so what does it matter? I wonder if he’s some kind of wild boar. He’s being picky in strange places!”
As always, I couldn’t help but laugh as I watched Jincheol and Grandpa Mukseong exchange sharp words like friends.
A large piece of pork belly topped with shrimp paste on soft lettuce, with a chopstickful of pickled green onions and a little bit of seaweed, to make a big wrap.
Next is beef.
Take a bite of a two-finger thick piece of sirloin, sprinkle a few grains of coarse salt on it, and lightly dip it in wasabi.
Kiya…!
Isn’t it true that we developed civilization for this very moment?
What makes humans great is not skyscrapers or nuclear weapons!
Just to put this piece of pork or beef in my mouth –
“Should I call Yumi too?”
“No. We’re just resting comfortably among ourselves.”
“Oh! But, but if we eat meat like this alone, you might feel sad… .”
“Seungyeop, if you don’t say anything, I won’t know.”
“…”
In the meantime, I heard something funny from next to me.
“Hah, ahaha! Ariya, isn’t that too much?”
“No?”
Ari believes that the soul box can contain ‘other beings’ when necessary, and that doing so will allow the legacy’s full potential to be realized.
So, be careful not to become too friendly with Yumi, who can be replaced as needed.
So Ari doesn’t hold anything against Yumi, she just thinks of her as a part that can be replaced whenever needed – and that’s even worse.
Eunsol interrupted with a chuckle.
“Ari, I understand what you’re thinking, but isn’t it meaningless?”
“…”
Because Seungyeop is not Ari.
In my view, there is no possibility of replacing the being that Seungyeop has in his soul.
…
It feels like this.
A time filled with pork belly and sirloin steak, a few beers, and some laughable conversation with colleagues.
The twisted mind that was seething with disgust and loathing slowly subsides.
When I realized this fact, I couldn’t help but laugh.
“under!”
Ari reacted to those words.
“what’s the matter?”
“… I think I was in deep thought, but I forgot everything while eating pork belly and beef. Isn’t that too animalistic?”
“That’s how it was originally.”
“Is that how it was originally? Are the people in the management office like this too?”
Ari shrugged and answered.
“Well then. Even if the king frog ate 40 people three days ago, I should feel relieved by eating beef today.”
“I thought the Bureau people were going to solve it by administering weird drugs like Tuodesima Atileo.”
“Two-oh, what? Is there such a drug?”
“I said whatever I wanted.”
“… if you administer the drug every time, there will be more drug than blood in the agents’ blood vessels.”
Suddenly, it occurred to me that this incident was closer to an accident than the teacher had thought.
Losing the protection of the status window, I was left to my own devices, unable to control my legacy.
If you think about it, it’s not just a problem with the sacred sun.
Even the Grimoire cannot be used normally without a status window, and didn’t I feel this fact painfully in issue 203?
Of course, having experienced the dangers of the sacred sun once, we must be careful to prevent similar accidents from happening again.
therefore –
“Excuse me, teacher.”
“Miss Elena? Do you have anything to say?”
“Did something strange happen to me in the room? Ga-in was shivering and looking at me earlier.”
“…Wow! This sirloin is cooked just right. Have a bite.”
Her unnecessarily keen senses caught Elena whispering to her teacher.
I’ve been just glossing over it to other people, but I need to have a serious talk with Elena.
Towards the end of the meal, Eunsol opened her mouth.
“As you know, tomorrow is a day off given by the hotel. So you can make plans tomorrow. Anyway, Ga-in will have to wait until tomorrow to give me advice, and I’m tired today… .”
My sister glanced at me as she spoke.
If it were normal, I think we would have talked for a while and then gone to bed, but I think he was worried about my reaction earlier and decided to rest.
Then Ari intervened.
“Let’s just talk about a few things that come to mind that we’re curious about. We’ll make some grand plans tomorrow.”
“That’s about it… .”
Any questions?
I have a feeling that Ari has a question for herself.
Sure enough, Ari spoke loudly as her older sister naturally moved towards the whiteboard displayed on one side of room 105.
“First question!”
“say it.”
“Cain!”
Did you have a question for me?
If you’re asking why I threw up earlier, it’s a bit too much to say in public –
“How did you find me earlier?”
It was a different question.
“The depths of Paradise are quite difficult to navigate due to the lack of light and the presence of a fairly large underground city. Even more, outrageous monsters pop out here and there every minute. The biggest problem is that the flow of time is different from that of the surface.”
Everyone nodded.
This level of basic information has already been communicated to each other.
“Did you find my location through the status window? Like in Room 203, it says 7km northwest? Did you find my location like that and use the Sacred Sun to fly here?”
When I heard Ari’s hypothesis, I was amazed.
“Hey! I guess you could have found it that way.”
“to?”
“But that’s not how I wrote it.”
How will the location information of my colleagues be revealed in the depths of paradise?
I don’t know either.
To put it bluntly, we were so pressed for time that we couldn’t even break the seal on the maze, right?
There’s no way I could have touched the status window when I had so little time.
My colleagues looked at me with a ? in their mouths.
“Then how did you find me?”
I took out a picture and put it in front of everyone.
“Ta-da!”
“Isn’t this the picture you received before?”
This is it.
The painting given by the artist as a reward for a wealthy family, ‘Kingdom of Dreams’!
This great painting had an amazing secret that I also noticed ‘yesterday’.
“I’ll explain. It’s a bit long, so listen carefully -”
At that time, Eunsol stopped me.
“It’s already fun, but let’s gather questions first. That way, the conversation will be easier. Anyone else have any questions?”
The next question was posed by the doctor.
“As you know, in Room 206, my identity is a secret agent who has infiltrated the Demon King’s cult. Thanks to that, I have been observing the cult for a long time, and this is the question that has arisen. Aren’t you curious about their relationship with the Demon King?”
My sister tilted her head.
“Could you be a little more specific?”
“According to the analysis of the will, the Demon King is a being that cannot communicate normally. The opinion of Gain-kun, who fought him once, is similar. Rather than a personal god, he is more like a cosmic natural disaster.”
I think the same thing.
“The sect worships such a natural disaster-like being and even grants it supernatural powers.”
“It’s certainly unique. Let’s talk about that part. Next?”
This time it was Songi.
“You escaped by hiding in the shelter that Shijo built in the end?”
“I heard.”
“But the Kadyrov family had no idea about the shelter and its related facilities.”
“Oh! Did Shijo create it while hiding it from the Kadyrov family?”
“I think Sijo has more power.”
“That could be possible.”
It sounds plausible.
Although the founder of the Paradise Deep Dive was treated as an insignificant mid-level executive, let’s consider the time gap.
While the curator was twisting time in the depths, Sijo spent 120 years in paradise.
It would be even stranger if you had nothing accumulated over that long period of time.
After a moment of silence, Miro raised his hand for the last time.
“Me! Me! Everyone, think about it! Why was I sealed?”
I took a moment to check the list of questions.
1. How I found Ari in the depths of paradise.
2. The relationship between the Demon King’s cult and the Demon King.
3. The hidden power of the poem.
4. The reason the maze was sealed.
Why was the maze sealed?
I thought the answer to this question was clear.
“Isn’t it because time-shifting is a scam?”
Everyone nodded at Ari’s words.
Honestly, hasn’t everyone thought this at least once?
The biggest weakness of the time zone is that there is no way to directly control the summons, but the biggest strength of our party is the trust between each other.
That is, no matter which of us is summoned by the maze, we will not be attacked.
At this point, the biggest weakness of the time zone is gone, leaving only the fraudulent nature.
To put it a bit harshly, no matter how powerful other legacies are, it is difficult for them to surpass Time Zone.
Time zone This is where you can summon that legacy.
Besides, even if we were to fight amongst ourselves, which of course is unlikely, this time zone is the most powerful.
As soon as the summoner is summoned, if Maze shoots and kills him, the game ends with Maze’s immediate victory.
The more I think about it, the more ridiculous it becomes.
“Huh? Huh? No, I thought of another reason….”
Miro’s unique ‘deng’ pronunciation was subtly cute.
Ari tilted her head at the comment that there seemed to be another reason, apart from that.
“What is it?”
“Ari woke me up earlier, didn’t she? Even though she couldn’t break the seal.”
“That’s right.”
“While Ari was searching the curator’s memories alone, I also looked outside.”
“I remember.”
“So Ari gave me a kiss, a kiss -”
“… Skip that part.”
Why hand it over?
This is a very interesting part, isn’t it?
Everyone’s eyes are already wide open in surprise?
“I felt something strange as I went outside. It felt incredibly… incredibly ‘slow.’”
?
“The soldiers’ movements, Robert’s movements, Cain’s actions. Everything felt as slow as a turtle. When I realized that and came back, this time Ari was slow too -”
Hey, this is no way –
“Sleep tight!”
Ari stopped in the maze in shock and chattered frantically.
“All existence is slow? What is the state of the depths? It is a place where time has slowed down tremendously! While decades pass in the outside world where time flows normally, only a few days pass in the depths -”
From the outside, where normal time flows, changes in the depths appear extremely slow.
At some point in the maze, everything in the depths felt ‘slow’.
In other words.
“Wow! Could it be that the Blessing of Eternity resists the changes of time? Is it something like thinking and moving at normal speed alone in a place where time has slowed down?”
I, along with my astonished colleagues, was truly amazed.
After a while, Ari started laughing as if she found it ridiculous.
“Wow~! My mom is amazing!”
“That, that?”
“You cheated on your inheritance, and now your blessing is like some kind of cheat key! You seem like the main character!”
In the meantime, my grandfather looked dumbfounded.
“Aren’t these hotel guys discriminating against people? Should we go on strike?”