Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 455
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EP.455 Episode 455 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (17)
Episode 455 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (17)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 486
Current Location: Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’
Wise Man’s Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
I sat in my cozy office and worked through my plans step by step.
In the second round, my role was to charge the sacred sun through the operation of the church.
How about the third time?
similar.
Because the divine solar charge has not yet fully completed.
However, there is one major change… .
“Mr. Gain Kadyrov.”
I became a member of the ‘Kadyrov Clan’, not the secret leader of the Demon King’s Cult.
“The speech will begin in three hours. Are you ready?”
“Ahh… Don’t worry. The distorted flow is being straightened out, and everyone will find their place.”
Soon, a man in a suit came out, bowing deeply as a greeting.
As soon as the watching eyes disappeared, Songi’s posture, which had been sitting with a polite attitude, immediately changed.
“Brother. What did you just say?”
“I don’t know either.”
“… I told you something about the distorted flow.”
“Doesn’t it sound plausible? Isn’t it cool?”
“…”
While Songi was speechless for a moment, she looked around at her gorgeous and cozy surroundings.
“Wow~! Songi, you live in a really nice place?”
“…”
“This house is mine now.”
“Stop talking nonsense.”
The first time, he suffered as a miner and started a revolution, and the second time, he moved to a nice house with Elena’s help.
“Yesterday, the mayor told the parliament that my brother is Kadyrov’s secret relative.”
In this episode, he has become ‘Gain Kadyrov’, a man of incomparable status.
The power of a dictator ruling a city was incomparable to that of a famous actor.
For your information, the market thinks of me as a desperate survivor of reason who escaped from the depths.
To be exact, I believe he is a descendant of a clan that gained strange powers after coming into contact with the Demon King.
That such a being had robbed the body of an unfortunate miner in paradise.
The reason why the plan changed 180 degrees like this is simple.
To charge the sacred sun, a large number of followers are needed, and this was resolved in the second round by taking over the Demon King’s cult.
In order to take over the Demon King’s cult, I have to kill the cult’s higher-ups who know I’m a fake.
Here’s where the problem arises.
In this episode, we decided to study the religious order, so it would be difficult to just kill the high-ranking members.
So, while researching how to gather followers apart from the religious sect, I came to a somewhat bizarre conclusion.
If you think about it, there is another religion similar to the Demon King’s cult in Paradise, which is ‘ancestral worship.’
Of course, city people do not regard Sijo as a god.
But didn’t Elena prove it?
The criteria for the ‘Sacred Sun’s’ ‘believer judgment’ are broader than you might think.
You don’t have to believe that I’m the omnipotent being of the universe who created the Big Bang with a wave of my hand.
It’s enough to be overwhelmed by the charisma created by the legacy and wish for me to achieve what I cannot.
In this episode, I will be playing the hidden successor of Kadyrov and the reincarnation of the founder.
This plan requires the cooperation of two people, and the mayor is already cooperating with me.
And another one.
— Flutter!
With the sound of curtains fluttering, she, the ‘real poet’, appeared.
“… I got a call from Leon.”
“…”
“Ask me straight. Show me evidence that you came from the dead!”
“That’s funny, Airavata. What was your rank in the Order? Wasn’t it at most 3rd or 4th rank?”
“Ha! This isn’t even a healthy organization. Are you going to reexamine the hierarchy of an organization that has already failed?”
That’s not wrong.
The world is ruined and the remaining forces are trapped deep in paradise, so the organization is a ruined force.
But if I were a real survivor of the massacre, I think I would have used such an overbearing tone.
The agents of the Management Bureau, who are similar people, also have a strong sense of superiority.
“I can’t accept it. How can you say that the alliance has been destroyed when you and I are still alive? If you deny the alliance, why have you suffered all these years to protect the city?”
The group that ordered the founder to support the city was the Society of Reason.
The founder was embarrassed and hesitated when asked if he could deny his roots.
Meanwhile, I quickly got up from my chair.
You’ve shown a high-handed attitude once, and you’ve also shown a sense of connection with the words ‘you and me’, so now it’s time to show ‘respect’.
“However, if you feel that I have neglected your role, I apologize. Airavata, I appreciate your dedication to humanity. Among the heroes recorded in the history of the Order, there are few who have served for 150 years as long as you have.”
What happened next was somewhat different from what I expected.
The poet held onto the curtains like he had lost his mind and shivered – eventually, he even shed a single tear.
She no longer asked me if I was really from the clan.
After that, a time of peaceful persuasion passed.
The fact that the seal of the Demon King in the depths has reached its limit and that the Society has also not been able to avoid destruction.
The fact that the Alliance created the ‘Sacred Sun’ as a last resort, a tool that brings together the human spirit to gain immense power.
The fact that stopping the Demon King with the ‘Holy Sun’ is the last hope.
After listening to me carefully for a while, Shijo came to the following conclusion on his own.
“So, you will gather power from the sun while pretending to be my reincarnation or successor?”
“exactly.”
“…You will stop the Demon King with that power?”
“Not exactly.”
Sijo, who had been looking at the sky for a moment, muttered as if whispering.
“What a bizarre scam.”
“Isn’t it similar to what you’ve been doing?”
“… That’s right. We’re becoming increasingly worse liars.”
“There is not much difference.”
“What’s different?”
The last comment was somewhat impromptu.
I may have forgotten the poem, but this was my second long conversation with her, and perhaps that’s why I had such an epiphany.
The poem is tired.
“Put down your burden. Now, I will shoulder the lies that have caused you pain.”
At those words, she looked at me with a blank expression, then suddenly disappeared without a trace.
I took this action as permission.
Once again, only Songi was left in the office.
“Doesn’t it feel good? How can things be going well? – It’s bad luck to say that, so stop saying that.”
“That’s what you just said.”
“huh?”
“I will shoulder your burden, Sijo. Did you say that because Sijo looked tired?”
“that’s right.”
“… I should write it too.”
“what?”
“Leon looked tired too.”
“…”
A little later, word came that people were gathering in the square.
“I guess we should get going soon. Let me ask you one last question. How’s your speech? I worked on it all night!”
Song-i’s impressions after reading the speech she had written all night to captivate the public were simple.
“What on earth is this?”
“Okay! That’s enough!”
“yes?”
“I had a strange inspiration last night.”
“inspiration?”
*
When I went out to the square and climbed up to the podium, I was literally dizzy.
How many people are there?
There are so many people that you can’t see them at a glance!
I thought I got used to talking nonsense in front of people after the second time, but these numbers are incomparable to that time.
I realized anew that the Demon King’s cult was not even a handful compared to the entire population of the city.
In this episode, I am the reincarnation of the royal family and the successor to the throne, recognized by the dictator of Paradise!
Phew…!
After taking a deep breath, we began in earnest.
“Hello, my dearest citizens.
Today I would like to share with you the mysterious words delivered through the heavenly voice, the waves that seep from the heart of the universe.
What kind of universe, what kind of world do you live in?
Do you know about the infinite cycle that takes place in the universe?
When the universe was created, gases came together to form the first star.
They were hundreds of times larger than the Sun.
As these stars end their lives and transform into black holes, quasars, and galaxies, they become the parents of countless worlds through their death.
These are the cosmic demigods who gave birth to the world from corpses.
This same principle applies in smaller places too.
Sea – Unfortunately, you have probably never seen the sea in your life, but there is a lake in the world that is larger than any land mass and it is called the sea.
There is a creature there that resembles a fish in shape, but is as big as a bus or a small boat – it is a whale.
When one whale dies, its carcass is scattered across the vast and deep ocean, becoming food for a million lives.
Do you understand?
So, let’s all think about it.
How can humans be the only exception to the laws of the universe?
When a person dies, countless lives grow from their corpse.
What about the opposite?
Could it be that in this empty universe, there is someone who is the root of all people?
A being who became the father of all through death!
The one who scattered the spirits and bodies that were originally gathered at one point throughout the stars and gave birth to billions of people!
This is by no means a figment of my imagination.
It is the law of the universe that a huge mass that gathers together disperses and countless small lives are born.
So if there are scattered humans, isn’t it obvious that there was something that gathered before that?
Let’s turn this around again.
Do whales swallow countless small things to become huge?
When gas and matter come together, new stars are born?
In that case, wouldn’t it be possible for people to gather at one point?
Through this, we can recreate the parent of all things with our own hands -”
He paused for a moment.
… The content is a bit strange?
“…”
The crowd looks somewhat confused.
The power of the divine sun possessed them?
That can’t be true.
This is the interior of paradise, a place where indomitable reason suppresses all supernaturalness.
Above all, the sacred sun has never been summoned!
And yet, people look at me with bewildered, bewildered expressions, as if I’m possessed.
“…”
He finished his speech, taking a deep breath late in the day.
“Mom, let us all pray! I believe that our lives will be filled with infinite glory!”
Whatever the reason, the speech was a great success.
The original plan was to somehow take the citizens out of paradise and expose them to the sacred sun… .
There was no need for that.
*
– Kim Sang-hyun
“Phew… .”
I took a deep breath and thought back to the play I had performed with Ari Yang last night.
Last night, Ari pretended to interrogate me and came to a strange conclusion.
Kim Sang-hyun is the one who sent the liver to the mayor.
However, even though he was a thief at first, he now seems to have true faith in the Demon King.
When they came to such a strange conclusion, the people in the church began to panic.
It’s a funny story, but unlike Paradise, which is a strict class society, the Demon King’s cult does not discriminate against humans.
It is in the same context that Christianity, which was born in ancient Rome, a class society, emphasized human equality.
Therefore, even if you are a second-class citizen and a former inspector, you can become a believer in terms of doctrine.
Even if the doctrine is like that, how can the people in the church believe me?
So Ari Yang declared again.
“You can know the depth of ten feet of water, but you cannot know the heart of a person one foot deep. How can we, mere mortals, know the depth of this person’s heart?”
“Ah, Ari Apostle! No matter what, I have to come to a conclusion -”
“Let the Demon King decide.”
I don’t know, so let the Demon King decide for himself.
From the outside, this may seem like nonsense, but for a religious group that serves a ‘real god’, it is a very reasonable choice.
So the upper echelons of the church took me to the ‘strange room’.
If you survive for a week, you will be considered innocent as you have been chosen by the Demon King.
“…”
This room is said to be a sanctuary where the upper echelons of the religious order received revelations from the Demon King.
In the past, we thought that the Demon King was a being that could not communicate, so the religious order was fake… .
The church is not fake.
So there is ‘something’ in this room.
— Ooooooh!
A strange crying sound is heard from somewhere.
“What the heck is it?”
It was clearly a ‘room’ before I came in.
The moment I opened the door, there was a ridiculously huge ‘world’.
I know a place very similar to this one.
It’s a hotel.