Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 509
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EP.509 Episode 509 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Third Trial ‘Miskatonic University’ (11)
Episode 509 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Third Trial ‘Miskatonic University’ (11)
The first emotion I felt was surprise.
It felt like 1,000 years had passed since the water world began, but the fact that Aedia was still alive was surprising.
“How are you still alive? Because you’re not human? No, that’s not true. Menes wasn’t immortal either!”
The girl, who appeared as if she had never seen anything like 1,000 years ago, answered.
“Daughter of Horus. You are a mysterious being who holds many secrets. I am also quite mysterious. But more mysterious than anything else is this world itself.”
“What does it mean?”
“Let’s say you’ve had many experiences that you can’t understand. In the first place, why are you so surprised when you’re still the same as before?”
“…”
Suddenly, I realized that part of Aidia’s body had turned into something like a ‘crystal’.
Is that the secret to longevity?
*
Just now, you said ‘Aidia’? Virgin Aidia?
Thousands of years before 1897, the Virgin Aedia already existed and was even acquainted with the Yumi/Seungyeop party.
In short, Aedea is a being that originated in ancient Egypt.
*
“Aidia, you came alone without any escort?”
“Do we need something like that between us?”
What is our relationship?
Feeling absurd, he gave the order to subdue the entire nest.
Soon, tentacles closing in from all sides caught Aidy in an instant.
“…”
Isn’t it too easy?
I expected absurd fighting power from him, having lasted 1,000 years by unknown means, but he was captured too easily.
I don’t even know what level of fighting power it has, since it didn’t even pretend to resist in the first place.
“Wow~! This is amazing. The entire cave looks like a living creature’s camouflage. So this is what they mean by the witch’s lair that I only heard about?”
“…”
“It was a good thing I left the attendants behind. If I had brought them, they would have died without even knowing what had happened. A person’s life is precious, isn’t it?”
Aidia’s attitude, which seemed to be more tense than relaxed, caught me off guard.
If you just listen to what he says, you’ll probably think he’s some kind of friend.
I was so shocked that I tightened my neck a little.
“Ugh! Ugh! I can’t breathe! Let me go.”
“What is it? Aidya. Are you really here to die?”
“Then try killing me. By the way, I’m not immortal, I just don’t age. If you cut off my head, I’ll just die.”
“…”
A silent standoff ensued.
Aidia lowered her body without resistance as if telling me to kill her once, and I didn’t know what to do.
Soon, Aidya’s attitude changed subtly.
The mask of a playful girl is removed, revealing someone filled with resentment and emptiness.
“I had a hunch, and it really was.”
“…”
“You can’t kill me, can you?”
“…”
“Because Horus saved me 1,000 years ago. There must be a reason he saved me!”
I still don’t know why Horus let the lizard princess live.
So even now, I couldn’t kill Aidia.
Because they were afraid of disobeying Horus’ orders.
No matter how much time passed, he was still an incomprehensible being.
“I guessed it, but it’s true. Horus saved me. Why? Why?”
“…”
“You don’t know? You don’t know either. Are you just following him without knowing? Are you afraid of him? Do you think he’ll send you to hell if you disobey his orders?”
At that moment, a firm voice was heard from behind.
“Don’t talk nonsense, brother – Horus isn’t that kind of being!”
“Then what kind of being is it?”
For a moment, Seungyeop and I were both speechless.
What kind of being is he?
Why am I afraid of him and why can’t I disobey his orders?
“…”
Are you afraid that if I disobey your orders, you’ll kill me?
Are you afraid that I will be thrown into hell and tortured for eternity?
no.
I’m not as friendly with Ga-in as Seung-yeop, but I know full well that she’s not the type of person to kill or torture me for disobeying orders.
I’ll just laugh it off and say, ‘It’s okay, that can happen.’
Instead, I will lower the value of me and Yumi in my heart.
I was afraid that the chess knights on the gateway train would treat me as a pawn rather than a bishop or a knight.
“Can you please give me a lift?”
“… good.”
Since it has been revealed that Aidia cannot be harmed anyway, there is no point in continuing to tie her up.
After a while, Aidy opened her mouth.
“Hello? Wow! I didn’t know Seungyeop would be here too. Huh? Is this the atmosphere?”
“Ah! Ah! Hey, don’t misunderstand!”
“Ah~ I’m mistaken. You and Seungyeop aren’t related at all? Just a relationship where you’ve been living together in a cave for 1,000 years for no particular reason?”
“Eww! Eww!”
I couldn’t help but laugh out loud when I saw Seungyeop blushing bright red and Aidia wearing her playful girl mask once again.
“By the way, where is the sarcophagus of immortality? Is it the one you are keeping?”
“…”
There’s no need to tell me the location of the sarcophagus.
*
I didn’t know that this was the reason why Yumi was afraid of Gain.
I’m afraid that you’ll evaluate me as a pawn rather than a bishop or a knight… .
Yeah, what does the chess champion think of me?
…
Eight! What the heck? Of course it’s the Queen!
*
I don’t know what’s really going on behind the mask, but at least Adia’s outward appearance doesn’t seem all that emotional.
Are we just burying the past as if it never happened?
If it had been like this, it would have been harder to believe, but that wasn’t the case.
“Let’s be honest. Put your hand on your heart.”
“…”
“Put your hands up. I put them up, didn’t I?”
“Huh? Are you really putting your hand on your heart?”
“yes.”
Soon, Seungyeop really put his hand on his heart with a bewildered expression.
“Yumi too.”
“… I don’t know what kind of show this is.”
“We’re not comfortable with each other, are we?”
“…”
“You massacred my ancestors and my kind, and I was driven out and cursed by everyone.”
Seungyeop and I had no choice but to remain silent with awkward expressions.
“I have been seething with resentment for a long time. Take revenge. Burn Egypt. Kill Horus and all his limbs. These thoughts consumed my soul.”
Perhaps it was too hard to bear, Seungyeop slowly placed his hand on the handle of his sword.
An atmosphere so tense that it wouldn’t be strange if swords flew at any moment!
“Foot!”
The next moment, Aidy’s light laugh broke the tension.
“This too was about 800 years ago. You two have been asleep longer than you have been awake, so I don’t know if you can understand what I’m saying, but there are no eternal feelings in this world.”
To be honest, I understood what she meant the moment I heard it.
Because it is a process I have also gone through.
The obsession with Egypt and the lust for power that seemed like it would last forever had almost cooled down in ‘just’ 100 years.
Even Aidia doesn’t seem to have hibernated, she’s been alive for a thousand years.
*
A thousand years without hibernation and with a clear mind… .
Certainly, at this point, even the resentment for killing one’s parents will fade away.
I don’t think that means he’s completely forgotten his grudge.
However, this is just to say that I am no longer swayed by emotions.
Isn’t it said that forgetfulness is the greatest blessing given to mankind?
Feelings that never go away are in themselves something supernatural.
Like my love.
*
“Please help me. Don’t think of me as helping you, but think of me as helping suffering people.”
“Why are you suddenly asking for help?”
“I know it’s a bit much to say in return, but if you help me this time, I’ll forget all the grudges from the past! I won’t say anything again.”
At the moment when Seungyeop and I were flustered, Aidia mixed in a bit of a threat.
“Isn’t it tiring for you to continue to be hostile towards me? You can’t kill me.”
“Are you threatening me?”
“Yes. If you don’t help me this time, I’ll grit my teeth and torment you for 1,000 years. I’ll pour boar dung into this strange cave three times a day, throw burning firewood, and spread rumors that it’s full of gold nuggets -”
Seungyeop, who had been listening to the subtle yet realistic threat, quickly opened his mouth.
“Wait, wait! Calm down. Give us some time to talk amongst ourselves.”
“Okay. I’ll go out.”
After Aidia left, Seungyeop and I looked at each other with sighs.
“What the heck! Oh my! Brother Ga-in, seriously! If only you had just dealt with him then!”
Why did Gain save that girl?
There’s no point in blaming him again.
“Let’s stop talking nonsense. What do you want? Help me?”
“… The situation itself sounded serious.”
The facts are simple.
It is said that Aedea reigned as the goddess of cities after founding a city on the Iberian Peninsula – the future Spain – about 700 years ago.
However, starting about 20 years ago, a nightmarish phenomenon began to occur every day, with innocent people starting to die.
As Aidia herself discovered, the cause was surprisingly a giant mirror discovered underground in the city.
“Is this some kind of haunted mirror?”
“They say there’s a strange world on the other side of the mirror. Just hearing the explanation, it feels like a door leading to another world.”
“No matter how many human soldiers we send, it’s no use, and Aidia alone is not confident… Yumi, what should we do?”
“You choose.”
“You know I’m unlucky.”
“I felt it while watching you, but apart from the blessings, you have a subtle sense of humor. So just take a picture.”
“…let’s help.”
I thought he would say something like this.
It didn’t really make sense to me, but the fact that innocent people were being massacred by strange phenomena every day seemed meaningful to Seungyeop.
Aside from ethical reasons, Aidia’s threats were quite harsh.
Aidia, who is immortal and cannot be killed because of Cain, will forever disturb our hibernation?
It’s not easy.
*
Yumi’s memories passed by in an instant.
In the middle, it seemed like they forgot unimportant scenes like how they arrived in the Iberian Peninsula.
Or, since it’s a piece of Yumi, she might not remember that part.
Soon, three people appeared standing in front of the gloomy ruins entrance leading to the city’s underground.
At this point, Seungyeop has no ‘luck’.
*
“Let’s go in!”
“Aidia.”
“Mr. Seung-yeop? Tell me.”
“Just the three of us going in? I thought you’d bring a few city guards with you.”
Aidy shook her head slightly.
“It’s meaningless and rather a distraction.”
“…”
“I’ve told you many times, right? A normal person would go crazy and run wild before even getting close to a mirror?”
“That’s true, but….”
According to Aidy, getting to the mirror itself is easy.
The road just goes down in circles, without any forks in the road.
It’s not like there’s a terrible monster in the middle.
So there’s only one problem: the unidentified mirror that causes all sorts of strange phenomena.
“… Aidya. You said you looked in the mirror once, right?”
“I am the only one who looked in the mirror and came back fine.”
I thought as I looked at Aidia who was smiling brightly.
A strange mirror that ordinary humans cannot even approach.
She says she is the only one who looked in the mirror and came back fine.
…
Are you sure it’s in good condition?
*
Mirror, mirror… .
By the way, it is said that when Lucas summoned the alien god ‘Yaldabaoth’, he summoned an alien gate.
The shape was said to resemble a giant mirror.
Does it matter?
No, in this context, isn’t it stranger that it doesn’t matter?
The results of Aidia and Yumi’s research in their respective fields after finding the ‘mirror’?
I need to see more.
For a moment, Yumi’s judgment about the mirror flashed through my mind.
‘The cause and solution to all the world’s problems.’