Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 463
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EP.463 Episode 463 – Day of Rest – Second Sentence (2)
Episode 463 – Day of Rest – Second Sentence (2)
– Han Ga-in
— Phagec!
Lightning struck me.
I feel the power of the second sentence pulling me into an unknown realm.
Incarnation is my expansion, my division!
A story I heard a long time ago hits me on the head again like a hammer.
“What is this -”
At that moment, numerous mirrors appeared everywhere.
Me, making my colleagues laugh by making witty jokes.
Me, feeling hungry, swallowing the steak greedily.
I lead the meeting and give my opinions.
Me rolling around in bed, saying I’m tired.
Me playing a prank on Ari and getting hit.
I was about to tell Elena that she was pretty today, but I held myself back.
To Miro –
“…”
All of this is part of me.
I’m just showing you what I’ve done, am doing, and can do!
When I made that pledge and suppressed the indescribable anxiety.
Once again, the sentence shined.
“If what is other can be yours, then can’t you also be other?”
At the same time, ‘they’ turned their gaze towards me.
We’ve finally reached this point.
Should I have felt ominous when I decided to recharge with the sacred sun?
I felt a level of discomfort that was difficult to express in words.
No, the word ‘unpleasant’ doesn’t fully capture what I’m feeling right now.
This is the ‘other direction’.
A different path from the one I wanted to take and the one I am currently moving towards!
“Shut up! Everything is a part of me, and you too are just footprints of the life I have walked. Why don’t you know that you are not even conversation partners?”
Isn’t there a contradiction in what you said?
If we are not conversation partners, then what are we doing now?
“The human mind is deeper than the sea and wider than the sky. Therefore, there cannot be just one thought, but these are like temporary illusions.”
The being that was soon boiling like a bubble spoke in a whisper.
Oh! Are we temporary illusions and you the permanent self?
Isn’t that an overly arrogant attitude?
“The weak cannot accept the truth.”
They say that even cold water has an upper and lower level, so if we go by order, aren’t you in the back and I in the front?
They say that a truly arrogant person is unaware of his own arrogance, and today I finally understood what that meant.
“That’s stupid! You are just mirrors reflecting me, so what’s the point of order?”
Just then, all the mirrors on all sides laughed simultaneously.
As if I couldn’t stand the fact that I was caught up in some unknown web of ignorance.
Hey, when you say something like that, shouldn’t you look back at yourself first?
ah.
ah.
ah.
I realized.
I ended up accepting the truth I wasn’t aware of, the painful wisdom I couldn’t accept!
I am also a mirror.
I am the most foolish mirror that did not even know that I was a mirror.
I thought the mirror was reflecting me, but in fact I was the mirror myself.
Non-standing characters.
An indescribable, desperate realization comes over me.
The image in the mirror was reflected in another mirror, and yet another mirror reflected the same image again.
If so many of these were born… .
Who was the first me to make an image appear in the mirror? Do I even exist?
Or, were all these beliefs nothing more than the illusions of finite beings?
— Phagec!
I thought as I watched the lightning strike splitting the hardest thing in the world – that is, ‘me’.
thank god.
At least from today onwards I will never feel this pain again.
Because change is irreversible.
Today, I lost my uniqueness.
*
– Maze
Silence fell on the table where Ga-in left, complaining of a headache.
No one said a word, as if they had made a secret promise to me, and I continued to pinch Ari’s shoulder, suffering from an inexplicable sense of anxiety –
“… Miro, please stay still.”
“Hey, the atmosphere suddenly feels strange!”
“…”
Finally, Ariga looked around and cautiously opened her mouth.
“Just a little while ago… Did you all feel it?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Miro, you be quiet.”
“Wh, what are you talking about!”
“… Seungyeop, you too, be quiet.”
Isn’t this age discrimination?
Strangely enough, everyone except Seungyeop and I slowly nodded our heads.
Soon, Grandfather muttered in a whisper.
“Gain, that guy is a bit firm today.”
Are you firm?
Wasn’t that how it was originally?
Songi, who secretly has a bad personality, also said something.
“What was wrong with you today? A lack of consideration?”
Elena also opens her mouth cautiously.
“I think I’m a little angry… Specifically, ahem, Ari and the teacher?”
Are you mad at Ari and the doctor?
Strangely enough, both of them nodded at the same time.
“That’s right. Every time I speak, your expression gets secretly crumpled.”
“I didn’t notice it at first, but after talking for over an hour, I realized it at some point.”
I was listening and it was hard to understand, so I spoke honestly.
“Well… . It could just be, right? She could have been in a bad mood! She could have been mad at Miss Arina for something trivial. Like, Ariga ate Gain’s egg.”
“Do you know me?”
“…”
“No. It’s not like it’s a change of mood or anything, it’s just something fundamentally different from usual. More than anything.”
After saying that above all else, Ari looked at her other colleagues one by one.
Eunsol, who understood Ari’s intentions, opened her mouth.
“If only one person felt uncomfortable, it could be an illusion, but if several people felt it at the same time, then we have to assume that something really happened.”
“…”
“If this place was the cursed room, I would have thought that an unidentified entity had possessed Cain.”
“It’s ice.”
“Or, I thought this. Could it be that something strange happened at the hotel without our knowledge?”
“… So you used a flute?”
“huh.”
Ariga said, slightly nagging.
“Wasn’t that acting too clumsy? You suddenly have a headache, so you’re going to play the flute? The flute doesn’t really help with headaches.”
“Ugh! Go, I was trying to think of a reason to suddenly take out the flute, but I couldn’t think of anything.”
“Well, I guess Gain didn’t feel it, so it doesn’t matter.”
Grandfather looked at Eunsol and asked.
“Eunsol, I heard that Gain looks strange to you?”
“… That’s right. Most people see Ga-in as an ordinary person, but do you ever see a strange sight that makes you flinch?”
“How is it now?”
Eunsol made a complicated expression at those words.
“Actually, to my eyes, you look better now than before.”
“Is it better now than before?”
“In the past, it seemed like a monster, but now it’s not like that.”
“Hmm….”
The surroundings became quiet again.
By the way, wasn’t the atmosphere just now completely full of gossip?
As soon as Ga-in left the room, everyone started saying things like she had a worse personality than usual and that she was inconsiderate!
Even the monster’s appearance is visible?
This is complete nonsense.
So I realized.
I should never leave my seat first!
Then Ari stood up and said.
“Let’s end the meeting here for today. It doesn’t seem like Ga-in will be coming back, and tomorrow is a day off. Miro, let’s go together for a bit.”
I answered without even looking at Ari, who suddenly placed a hand on my shoulder.
“no.”
“…Why are you like this again?”
“Ari, you don’t know, but you can’t leave this place!”
“…”
Ari looked at me with eyes like, “What is this?” while my colleagues looked at us wondering what was going on.
“I won’t get up until someone else leaves!”
“…”
After a while, Ari sighed deeply.
“Every time I see you, Miro, I wonder. What kind of organization was the Management Bureau, where I spent my entire life?”
“What are you talking about?”
“How dare you raise such a ridiculous girl into a heartless agent!”
And Ari lifted me up with her strength!
“Huh! Huh! Eww! Ah, Ari is kidnapping me!”
“Be quiet!”
*
— Clang!
Where is this?
It was a room somewhere in the basement of the hotel, but I couldn’t see what room it was because I was struggling to get in while being stopped by Ari.
“Whoa!”
“Be quiet.”
“Log cabin?”
“‘Tranquility at Noon.’ It’s a leisurely place with a lake and a villa. This must be your first time here.”
Soon, Ari placed me on a soft bed inside the log cabin.
“Go to sleep quickly.”
“…”
“Close your eyes and sleep.”
“…”
This is too blatant.
“Just like last time, you’re trying to come into my dreams by drawing this weird picture!”
“I know. Ga-in took the painting, but I can still imitate it without it.”
“Absolutely not!”
“Okay.”
“Absolutely – oops!”
“Miro, Mom, please go to sleep. I have something to ask the ‘Miro’ in my dream.”
“Eww!”
“…”
“…”
About 10 minutes passed.
“I can’t sleep.”
“…”
“Oh, I can’t sleep because Ari is watching me from the side.”
“…I’ll turn back.”
“Come on, um, sing a song.”
“…”
“I think I’ll be able to sleep if you sing me a lullaby.”
“… It reminds me of the old days.”
Old thoughts?
Come to think of it, I heard that another Miro who was even more childish than me raised Ari!
“Oh! Did I, um, another me sing a lullaby to Ari?”
“…”
“Hmm, hmm. Ari also had a time when she would fall asleep while listening to her mother’s lullaby.”
My heart was touched.
Even though I don’t remember now, something so beautiful happened to us!
“…I called you.”
“huh?”
“I’ve been singing lullabies to you since you were three days old.”
“…”
Soon, the log cabin was filled with the sound of a tickling song.
Grow up well my baby
In the front yard and the backyard~
Thanks to you, I had a dream. It was a very long dream.
Strangely enough, I think I met someone else in my dream besides Ari.
*
“I never thought I would meet you in a place like this.”
“I have something to say. What kind of subway line 1 is this maze dream? I told you not to come.”
“…I have a question.”
“Do you know who’s over there?”
“I somehow felt like I knew that too.”
“…”
*
The next morning, everyone gathered as if nothing had happened.
Fortunately, her colleagues no longer gossiped about Ga-in.
“Okay! Today, let’s all talk about the solution to room 206.”
“Over there, over there!”
“Seungyeop?”
“I have an amazing idea that came to me all night last night!”