Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 473
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EP.473 Episode 473 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (32)
Episode 473 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (32)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 573
Current Location: Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’
Wise Man’s Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
“Fuckfuckfuckfuck-”
“Isn’t that too vulgar?”
“Shut up!”
A plan with so many logical gaps that it was impossible to know how it would proceed!
I never imagined that I would become bait to tempt the Demon King!
— Laaaaah!
A bizarre cacophony of sounds fills the universe, seeming to rupture eardrums.
The Demon King, the ultimate predator suffering from an endless hunger, has risen from the Earth.
“You have to move quickly. If you keep doing this, you’ll be caught soon.”
“How, how can I escape?”
“Can’t it just fly?”
“You idiot! Do you think I can move faster than the Demon King?”
“Hey! Are you slower?”
In that moment, my breath caught in my throat and I realized.
This guy subtly resembles Shijo Mei!
In the eyes of the Ultimate One, I must have truly looked like a Bodhisattva or an angel up until now.
An omnipotent being who can do everything a mortal can imagine, closer to a god than a human.
Even this guy is connected to the Demon King and vaguely knows about the events of the past, so he knows that he used descent in the first round and fought the Demon King once.
So, as soon as I heard about the ‘scorched earth tactics’, I induced this situation.
Even if I can’t win a fight against the Demon King, I thought I could at least run away!
To a chick, even a fox is the ultimate predator, so this is a story that shows how little understanding there is of the gap between a fox and a tiger.
In other words, there is nothing to be gained by talking to this idiot any further, and I must provide the answer.
Thought 1.
Although the sustaining power is strong, in terms of output, no matter how hard the Holy Sun uses its energy, it cannot reach the level of its previous descent.
Even that descent was nothing more than a small moment of wasted time before the Demon King, but he escaped from the Demon King with the power of the sacred sun?
Even if I die and wake up, there is no answer!
Thought 2.
If the situation where the prisoner and I have to fight for power becomes a competition of specs such as who is stronger and who is faster, I won’t be able to win even if I wake up after dying.
A fundamentally different way, that is –
“Did you hear that your comrades are alive on the surface? I heard what you said earlier. Is there no way?”
“…”
If the ultimate is a chick, and I am a fox, the demon king is a tiger.
And the hotel is of a dragon or higher status.
Even a fox can defeat a tiger if it uses the tools given by the dragon.
The world’s greatest demon king is unable to do anything in front of an hourglass the size of a fist.
“…”
I closed my eyes and stretched out my body, floating in space.
“Eww! Are you crazy? Are you taking a nap right now? The Demon King is -”
Now, with the divine sun by my side, I am ‘half’ a god.
Isn’t God an omnipotent being?
Half-believer half-believer can do anything.
You can even take a nap in space while the Great Demon is closing in.
— Flutter!
The ‘Kingdom of Dreams’ has unfolded.
*
[User: The first human to take a nap in space
Date: 0]
‘Am I right in my guess?’
The answer to the advice, which was both extremely important and slightly over the top, was extremely simple, as it consumed three stacks at once.
[Yes.]
This was enough of an answer.
— Squeak!
The door to the ‘Kingdom of Dreams’ opened and I woke up in the empty space once again.
*
— Ohhhhh!
The ultimate predator, who had been startled by my sudden disappearance as soon as he woke up, let out a roar of joy.
And I grabbed the ‘most delicious thing in the world’.
– Ah, God, what great salvation!
– Are you really abandoning us?
– Where are you going, leaving us behind!
– Please, please! Don’t do this… .
I feel the scattered souls and the believers who believed in me and followed me.
Joshua, a third-class citizen who worked in a shoe factory his entire life, was a hard-working man who loved his family.
Kevin, a second-class citizen who was a doctor, was a good doctor who pitied the plight of lower-class people and treated them at low prices.
Emily, a third-class citizen who loved her daughter who suffered from an incurable disease, please pray that she can be happy with her daughter if there is another chance.
I laughed and cried.
They were truly a part of me, and I am a father who abandons his children.
“I’m sorry. I guess I wasn’t really a god.”
I just prayed that they too would find peace at the end of it all.
The countless souls accumulated in the sacred sun are slowly scattered into space.
The ultimate predator swallows every last drop of the universe’s most delicious food, making sure not to spill a single drop.
“Eat! This is the bread and wine made with my body, blood, and soul!”
I crossed the empty universe, endlessly pouring out my soul.
You didn’t need to be faster than the Demon King to escape from him.
It was just fast enough to be faster than the Demon King who ‘stopped every so often to eat’.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 900th day
Current location: —
Wise Man’s Advice: 3]
A long time has passed.
According to the status window, it’s been close to a year.
I flew through space, endlessly shedding my flesh and blood made of soul.
It wasn’t a comfortable time.
In the meantime, the Demon King would chase after the duck that laid the golden eggs, wanting to eat the duck itself instead of the eggs.
Every time, the kingdom of dreams became my refuge.
It wasn’t just a painful time.
The only thing I could call a ‘companion’ during my endless flight was an owl, and I would talk to it three times a day to appease my loneliness and curiosity.
“… How far have we come?”
Among the engines that mankind has created for space exploration, there is one called the ‘ion engine’, but it is said that the thrust of this engine is only enough to lift a sheet of paper.
How can you move a spaceship with just this much power?
Ion engines are the most fuel-efficient of all engines created by mankind, and are possible because there is no air in space, so there is no ‘resistance’.
If you continuously generate the thrust needed to lift a sheet of paper without stopping for even a single second, you will accelerate endlessly in space, where there is no resistance.
After several months, it reaches a mind-boggling speed of 140,000 km/h.
…
The same thing applies to me.
On Earth, I was able to continuously release the thrust equivalent to that of a slow airplane for nearly a year, and in the resistance-free space of space, I was able to increase my speed without end.
What is my speed and where am I now?
I don’t know.
However, at some point, I felt like my movements were going beyond the limits of the law.
“…”
The sun hasn’t been seen for a while.
The status window has stopped showing your current location for some time now.
“… it hurts.”
It’s been a long time since I felt pain.
The end of suffering, a strange realm where fantasy and reality intertwine.
See me burning like a flame.
He had become very small and looked like a little boy.
“Why… Why did you have to make this choice?”
“…”
“I’ve used up all the power of the sun. I, we were definitely on our way to becoming great beings!”
“…”
“I’ve become lowly again. I’ve fallen to the level of a lowly ant!”
“I’m a lowly being. I was a great being even before I got the sun.”
“206 was the cradle for us to become gods! It was the means to reach the heavenly realm with the power of the sun! But if we use up all the sun to solve 206 -”
“Foot!”
I laughed.
I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw the foolish boy.
Could it be because we ‘isolated’ the sun as Miro advised?
“No. Not at all.”
“What? What -”
“Becoming a god? Ascending? Challenging heaven? Since when was my goal to catch such pie-in-the-sky dreams?”
“…”
Never.
The Legacy is just a reward for the Cursed Room and a tool for hotel progress.
But how foolish it was to try to make the inheritance itself the purpose of my life.
Isn’t this the life of the divine sun, not the life of Han Ga-in?
“I just want to go home. I want to go home and see my parents and my brother. I think that’s enough.”
Another me laughed.
“Oh? Good. Looks like you won this time.”
“…”
“You know it’s temporary, right? See you next time, buddy!”
As the last drop of power contained in the sun faded, the boy also disappeared into nothingness.
Even in the midst of destruction, the boy did not despair.
Because the words ‘see you next time’ weren’t an empty promise.
What disappeared was the soul power accumulated in the sun, not the sun itself.
One day I will once again seek great power and build my soul.
At that time, ‘revelation’ will awaken within me.
Ultimately, this fight will never end as long as I live.
“ah.”
The sun’s power completely disappeared and the pain that had been suspended came over me.
cold.
hungry.
I’m thirsty.
I can’t breathe.
— Gooooo!
A distant space with an unknown location.
I think as I watch the Demon King rushing for the last bite.
I would like to summarize the contents of No. 206 as follows.
Han Ga-in, 20 years old, freshman at K University.
Started out as a miner, lived as a god, and fell asleep again as a human.
This was my last memory of room 206.