Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 457
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EP.457 Episode 457 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (19)
Episode 457 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (19)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 500th day
Current Location: Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’
Wise Man’s Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
I felt pain.
Because the life of the man in front of me was so sad.
“Ugh… Mr. Kadyrov… .”
He held the hand of an old man who was panting while lying on a damp hospital bed.
I naturally ‘felt’ the man’s life.
Despite her wrinkled skin, she appears to be in her early 40s at most.
It’s just that I aged quickly because I worked hard at the shoe factory in Paradise since I was young.
He has never seen the sky, let alone the sea or a lake, and has never eaten a single piece of fresh meat.
It’s like living a cogwheel life rather than a human life, and completely consuming yourself.
When the man finally became too physically fit to work any longer, all that Paradise had prepared for him was this old bed.
“…”
It is a life without dreams or hope.
So I was in pain too.
“Mr. Kadyrov… It is an honor to meet you….”
“…”
At that moment, the sound of the hospital room door opening was heard.
“Gain, I took a picture, so let’s go!”
“… yes.”
I am doing a kind of volunteer work as Kadyrov’s successor.
Why, in real life, don’t politicians periodically paint their faces black and carry briquettes?
The citizens and I both know that it is a show, but politics is a show.
“Yesterday, I got a call from Elena saying she was leaving.”
The story is about four people: Elena, Ari, Seungyeop, and Jincheol, who went to the depths of paradise.
“That’s good. It feels like a lot of power has been lost from above.”
“There’s no choice. Securing escape is more important than anything else.”
That’s true, but in reality half of the force was lost.
“Have you heard from Mr. Sang-Hyeon yet?”
“… mister?”
I added it because my sister seemed a little embarrassed.
“It’s been a while since we’ve been together, but it still feels awkward when I call you ‘teacher’.”
“…Ask yourself later. I think ‘teacher’ sounds better than ‘uncle’.”
“No news?”
After the old man entered the strange place called the Sanctuary of the Church, Ari also left for the depths after finishing her work.
Since the hotel party that had previously been part of the Demon King’s cult had all left, Song-i and Eun-sol sent another agent to the cult.
“Well… there’s nothing special to report.”
“That’s strange. That, Raymond? According to the elders of the church, I heard that it usually comes out within a week.”
It’s been over two weeks.
If there had been no status window, there would have been a time when the old man would have been mistaken for having died there.
“Mr. Sang-Hyeon, are you still alive?”
“yes.”
“Then you should wait. It will come out when the time is right.”
“Hmm….”
Continuing from the last episode, my role in this episode is somewhat subtle.
Research the Demon King’s cult, infiltrate deep into the area and secure escape, and rule the city.
These are the things that are in progress in this episode, and they are all being worked on by my colleagues, not me.
I’m just focusing on recharging my legacy.
My colleagues have never really criticized me for this issue.
In the first place, the power of the Holy Sun is expected to be extremely strong, as its conditions and ‘side effects’ are extremely great compared to other legacies.
For most problems, enough power is enough answer.
“Yeah, how’s the charging going? There are so many believers this time! Is it all finished?”
I smiled back at my older sister, who smiled faintly, expressing her anticipation.
“It’s much faster. The charging will be finished in this turn. Maybe even now… .”
“now?”
Suddenly, I remembered the subtle emotions I had felt earlier.
An old man who has wasted his whole life.
A life without dreams or hope.
The gears of paradise.
Sympathy for the man filled my heart, and a pale light rose from my body.
I couldn’t give him back the time he had lost, but I wanted to at least heal some of his ailing body.
So that you can spend the little remaining time comfortably.
“…”
That was it.
Because an incomprehensible force was forcibly pulling the flow of light apart.
It is indomitable reason.
If it had any ‘reason’ as its name suggests, it seemed to be warning me now, ‘I will not allow it any more.’
“… A loud force is really impossible.”
The moment I took a deep breath, I realized that Eunsol had opened her eyes wide like a rabbit.
“Hey, what did you just do?”
“It wasn’t something I did, it was something I tried to do and failed. The indomitable reason -”
“T-But still! You did emit some light from your body! Heh, did you force away your indomitable reason with force?”
“I tried to push it out but failed.”
My sister didn’t even listen to me.
“Wow! Even the Demon King couldn’t move before the indomitable reason -”
“…”
It is not comparable to the Demon King.
Because of the Time Ruler, the Demon King is oppressed by the Indomitable Reason that has become hundreds or thousands of times stronger, and I am not.
If the Demon King were in my position right now, he would throw away the ‘thing’ of indomitable reason like a piece of paper and swallow up the world.
“If the poet saw this, he would be surprised!”
“Even the poet uses his strength well.”
“It turned out that he was just cheating.”
“It wasn’t a trick, it was something like the indomitable rationality manager’s authority.”
The way of the sijo was not a way we could follow.
In any case, it is true that the miracle was half-successful within the bounds of indomitable reason.
This is the second time, following the mysterious speech from earlier.
“…”
What if the charging is complete?
My heart began to flutter like my sister’s.
At that moment, my older sister tilted her head.
“So what were you trying to do?”
I explained it simply.
How painful the life of the man I met during my volunteer work was, and how I felt about him.
And my sister looked even more surprised than when I used my superpowers.
“and….”
“Sister?”
“You, you… .”
“Why are you suddenly like that?”
“I didn’t know that Nana Jincheol or Gain would say something like that.”
“…”
“‘You, small and tiny. Human life is like a feather, and the value of your suffering is only the dirt on the feather.’ Wasn’t that your original concept?”
“What kind of tone is that?”
“Gain, that’s the way you speak that you like. Honestly, isn’t it similar?”
I covered my burning face without realizing it.
“Ahem! Don’t joke around.”
“Not bad. Maybe it’ll be okay?”
“… How do I look to you now, sister?”
“Well… I feel more comfortable than before. Your sponsor told you to pour some ‘white paint’ on him, right?”
“yes.”
“I think I know what you mean. I think I’m okay.”
“It’s okay.”
The Grimoire and the Sacred Sun clearly have different directions.
The former feels like ‘your body is my tool’ and the latter feels like ‘you are me’?
If you ask what this means, I would say that the latter is more ‘sincere’ to a person than the former.
Just because something is sincere doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a good thing.
I’m always serious about beef.
Normally, my older sister would have thought that Ari or I were too cold-hearted.
In that context, it’s only natural that you’d be happy about my change to sympathize with suffering NPCs.
My sister doesn’t know what I did in the previous episode when I was consumed by the sacred sun.
As I thought about this, another strange thought occurred to me.
“Blessings always protect me.”
“what?”
Status Window: When the Blessing of Wisdom disappears, it becomes difficult to control the extreme influence of the Divine Sun.
Turning it around means that while the status window is there, you have some control, if not complete control.
As it is now, my colleagues see me as more ‘human’ than before.
“…”
There’s a story I heard from Ari a long time ago.
There is more than one way to escape Hotel Pioneer, and depending on how you escape, you may lose your blessings or your inheritance.
This information was revealed to be true when he was temporarily taken outside during the A Midsummer Night’s Dream event.
Because at that time, I had almost lost the blessing of wisdom.
…
For me now, ‘escape from the disappearance of blessings’ is dangerous.
This means that there is greater reliance on the status window.
“iced coffee….”
“what’s the matter?”
It was the owl who advised me to acquire a new legacy after realizing the side effects of the grimoire.
As a result of following his advice, I ended up relying more on owls.
Couldn’t the owl have known about this future?
“There is no one in the world I can trust.”
“That’s how it was before. It’s like it was never like that.”
“Haha! Thanks for what you said, sis.”
“suddenly?”
After a long time, I realized that my older sister is an ‘adult’.
Yes, that’s right.
There is no one in this world you can trust.
“I have a small goal.”
“What is it?”
“There has to be one more way to protect my sanity.”
*
– Kim Sang-hyun
— Doo doo doo doo…!
As I climbed up the tree, feeling the vibrations shaking the ground, a moment later a wild boar the size of a house appeared, snorting.
On the monster’s back was a cute boy whom she knew very well.
“Where are you! Come out!”
This is ‘Park Seung-yeop’ using ‘ominous imagination’.
It is an impossible entity, so it is obviously fake.
“Ugh!”
I waited and waited, even waiting to breathe.
When the boar, leading its huge body, came near the tree –
— Jump!
“Eww -!”
It didn’t even take a second for my hand to snap the fake Seungyeop’s neck.
Soon, the wild boar also disappeared into dust.
“Whew… This is another one? This really isn’t easy.”
How many days have passed outside?
Room 206 is often a place where the flow of time is distorted, and it is difficult to tell the time in this strange place created by the Demon King.
I think it’s been at least ten days.
“I am angry now, so I will make a place like this!”
The first place they arrived at was a run-down city filled with zombies.
That place was full of ‘other selves’ who had received strange blessings instead of sincerity, and they rushed to kill me under the orders of the Demon King.
After killing about four of those guys, I naturally discovered a strange door.
… Beyond the door was another cursed room.
A hotel within a hotel.
In the room of curses In the room of curses In the room of curses –
“What the heck is this? Where did you pick up the term ‘fractal structure’?”
The next room was a rural village in the middle of a blizzard, and this time the fake Cha Jin-cheol rushed in.
Even if you only consider his physical ability, he is at the level of an athlete, so he almost died.
Next is a building with no doors and a fake Eunsol Yang.
Sorry, but since Eunsol is weak in combat, this was much easier than the previous room.
…
There is no end.
The elders of the church clearly told me to give it a week, but that much time has already passed.
“Hey, where are you! Come out!”
The moment he strangled another Seungyeop, the boy muttered and sobbed.
“Mom…! Sister Ari! Brother Gain!”
“…”
— Kwajik!
These fakes even have similar memories to ours.
That fact pained me quite a bit.
“Please, Demon King. I will speak politely again, so please come out. Why on earth are you doing such a perverted thing?”
I say I don’t know, I don’t know, but inside I feel a little different.
I don’t know the exact moment, but I felt it vaguely at some point.
I, Kim Sang-hyun, am getting closer to the Demon King at every moment.
My fragile mind is sucked into the empty world, into the distant abyss.
“…”
From some point on, every time I closed my eyes, I felt the Demon King.
I see an endless collection of impulses that are constantly writhing.
I feel that impulse slowly reaching out to me.
“Are you going to carve me into something? To make me into something you want?”
The door leading to the next room appears again.
I opened the door as if possessed and headed to the next location.
It was a huge room.
The entire area was filled with crimson walls, and there were no passages leading to other places.
The door I came through a little while ago also disappeared like a goblin.
In the center of the room was the young man I most admired.
“Thank you for your hard work, sir!”
“… mister?”
He offended me from the very first words he said.