Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 533
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EP.533 Episode 533 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (19)
Episode 533 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (19)
– Han Ga-in
“I wonder about one thing. Is this evil world really what the Virgin Mary intended?”
The meeting began with my question.
“Don’t think like an ordinary person, think like the head of the Vatican.”
“Like the head of the Vatican?”
“You feel sorry for the 10% of people who are dying in agony. Yes, it is sad. But, from the Vatican’s perspective… .”
“Wouldn’t that be true for people suffering in the old world anyway?”
“That’s it.”
A disaster realized by the mingling of Marx’s and Hitler’s dreams.
But what if we looked at the world from the perspective of Aidia, the head of the Vatican?
About 10% of people suffered from chaos for various reasons in the existing world.
Therefore, ‘paradise’ is not a place where 10% of people suffer, but a place where 90% of people are saved.
— Bam!
The old man opened his mouth, tapping the table lightly.
“The final boss of Room 207 is Aidia. Or, the Mirror. Do you agree?”
Everyone, including me, nodded.
At this point, when the end of issue 207 is vaguely in sight, it is believed that the solution to issue 207 will be to bring down the Virgin Aedia and destroy the ‘original mirror’ she possesses.
“Let’s do this. Cain, you fly to the moon once and have a showdown with Aidia! In the process, you will find out Aidia’s power. If you kill her, that’s good, but if you fail, that’s okay. If you fail-”
“Mukseong, you can turn back time. There are still about 3 weeks left, right?”
“That’s it!”
Grandfather’s plan was simple.
I’m going straight to the moon to fight Aidia and find out the power of the Virgin Mary.
If you win, it’s great, but if you lose, you can turn back time and fight again with a more favorable situation.
It was a sound plan, but there was just one problem.
“Did you forget the note?”
“Horus, watch out for the sky. If you make too much noise, you’ll get caught.”
“…”
“There are unidentified eyes in the sky. Thanks to Aidia’s actions, they can’t find us now.”
“If you make a fuss, you’ll get caught… Is it a fuss if you fly to the moon?”
“Isn’t that obvious?”
Everyone became quiet.
The location of the Virgin Mary is the moon, and if I want to fly to the moon, I have to fight with that ‘eye’.
I think it’s a waste of energy to waste your eyes before even meeting the Virgin Mary.
“Should we just turn back time now? If we go back to before Aidia’s reality alteration, those eyes didn’t exist back then.”
Ariga pointed it out right away.
“You idiot. Then you have to fight without knowing the power of the Virgin Mary.”
Just as I was beginning to lose myself in thought about what seemed like a long meeting, there was a knock on the door.
Are you a hotel employee?
— Dingdong!
While my grandfather, Miro, and I were quickly putting on our clothes, Ari went outside and brought in a guest who was wrapped up like us.
“Eww! Ariya, you haven’t put your clothes on yet -”
“It’s okay. Just take it off.”
“Pfft! You all are so cute.”
“Sophia!”
The guest was Sophia!
As expected of a great witch, she wasn’t even affected by a plane crash.
Just take it off?
Even if it’s Sophia, if she feels physiological disgust towards us –
“Sophia is on the 10% side.”
With those words, the situation was sorted out.
*
Sophia’s explanation went on for a long time.
Unlike us who had only woken up a few hours earlier, Sophia had been walking around the changed world sober for the past week, so she knew much more.
“As Ari said, I was the 10% that didn’t change. Maybe it was Aidia’s choice.”
Aidy said she would use ‘us’ as insurance against her own failure.
Sophia was also included in that ‘us’.
“Thanks to you, I had a hard time! Wherever I went, there were people who wanted to kill me. Did the memories of my childhood when witch hunts were rampant come back to me after a long time?”
“… You had a hard time as a child.”
“Yeah. Well, it was bearable. I waited for you all to wake up.”
“great job.”
After that, we shared the plan we had made among ourselves.
In the process, I had to briefly talk about the power of ‘One More Chance’ because I couldn’t explain it otherwise.
“Poetry, can you turn back time? Is that possible?”
“It is possible.”
It must have been quite a shock, because Sophia got up from her seat and spun around for a while.
“Are you calm?”
“yes.”
“You understand the plan, right? And what the problem is?”
“Yes. The ‘Guardian’ is the problem, right?”
The name of the entity that had been oppressing us a few hours ago is ‘The Guardian’.
The people of the changed world regarded the Guardians as messengers sent by God.
“It is true that it is a being that actually protects the world. It is a being like a vaccine that eliminates rampant demons.”
“Hmm… .”
After hearing that explanation, I understood the general structure of the ‘paradise’ that Aidia had created.
First, it creates a distortion similar to Songi’s ‘friendliness’ in 90% of humanity.
The chosen ones cherish and love each other, and the chaos entity feels affection for them.
This will greatly reduce the number of instances of chaos entities harming humans, but not entirely.
Wasn’t Songi, the actual owner of the affinity, attacked several times in the first place?
There are beings like vampires that must harm humans in order to survive, but there are also many monsters that just run wild.
The former is suppressed by offering a 10% ‘sacrifice’, and the latter is eliminated by the ‘Guardian’ through force.
“… It seems to be more complete than I thought. Can we really free 90% of humanity from the fear of chaos through this method?”
Miro tilted his head and asked.
“But, um, isn’t this ‘scenario’ a failed scenario from the hotel’s perspective?”
So, it would have been ‘collected’ by the hotel, adapted, and then ‘submitted’ to the gate room.
It is definitely wrong.
I’m just wondering ‘why’ it’s wrong.
— Exactly!
Grandfather tapped the table to get attention.
“Let’s stop with the philosophical thinking! What’s important? The solution to Room 207!”
“…”
Normally, I would have agreed with my grandfather’s attitude, but this time, a strange intuition tickled my head.
‘Why is it wrong?’
Answering this question seems like a pretty important issue for issue 207… .
Then, Sophia opened her mouth again.
“Let me summarize your plan. I want to go to the moon and find out the power of the Virgin Mary. If I win, that’s great. If I lose, I’ll turn back time and fight in a favorable situation. However, the Guardian is blocking us from going to the moon. Is that right?”
“That’s correct.”
“I did think of a way….”
“Oh! Tell me.”
“The Guardian is incredibly strong, but there is only one.”
“ah?”
“Someone has to catch those eyes.”
In short, while someone else is drawing the Guardian’s aggro, I will go to the moon and fight the Virgin Mary.
Ari asked the most important question.
“Who does that?”
“uh….”
“You know it’s meaningless if you try to distract Florida by drawing attention and then die in 0.1 seconds from the Guardian’s glare beam, right?”
“…”
Simply drawing aggro is not enough.
I must be able to hold out against the Guardians until I reach the moon, until I reach the moon and figure out the power of the Virgin Mary.
“I’m not sure. It’s a monster that Aidia created to protect the entire planet.”
“I, I have a piece of mirror -”
Ari cut off Sophia’s words firmly.
“The mirror is a magical tool that calls forth Yaldabaoth’s power into reality. The guardian is a monster created by Yaldabaoth at Aidia’s request.”
“…”
“Are you trying to kill Yaldabaoth’s Apostle with Yaldabaoth’s power right now? Do you think Yaldabaoth will give you the strength?”
Ultimately, the question is who else but me can deal with the Guardian who boasts a magnificent presence in the sky.
If we can’t figure this out, we’ll just have to turn back time and go to the moon without any information.
Again the discussion reached a deadlock.
“I… . Um, should I try?”
The cautious voice of the labyrinth.
If it’s ‘Midnight Maze’, then it seems like it could definitely take on the Guardians.
Is now the time to consume the midnight maze?
Does that seem right?
“It’s a maze.”
“huh!”
“As you said, now is the right time to waste midnight -”
— Dingdong!
The ding-dong sound is heard again.
Sophia has already joined, so this time it’s definitely the hotel staff!
“Clothes! Clothes!”
“Hey! Give me my shirt!”
“Sophia-! Mask, mask!”
“Whoa! Lord Horus, why are you suddenly taking off your top -”
“No, I wasn’t trying to take it off -”
“Sophia, Gain is originally like this.”
The moment when everyone is frantically putting on clothes.
This time, Ari, who had gone to meet the staff instead of us, came back right away.
Ari’s expression was unusual.
“Sophia.”
“What, what is it? Are you a staff member? I’m almost done with it -”
“Sophia.”
Only then did Sophia feel something strange and express her doubts.
“What is it?”
“You, 50 years ago… .”
“50 years?”
“… Didn’t you say you killed Fortuna?”
and.
— Kwajik!
A door that splits in half.
Ari summoned an isometric polyhedron while narrowing her eyes.
Grandfather instinctively summoned One More Chance.
Sophia clenched her teeth and gripped the mirror shard so tightly that blood flowed from her palm.
In the meantime, a young man came in with an attitude that was beyond compare.
“In a strange tension,” he said, looking at me.
“Hey~! Gain hyung! It’s been a really long time, hasn’t it?”
The moment I heard that all too familiar voice, all my tension was relieved.
At least I did.
*
A moment of peace.
At least in this place, the two of us, Miro and I, had never clashed with ‘Fortuna’ before, so we could treat him completely as ‘Park Seung-yeop’.
The other person was also aware of this, so he only spoke to me and Miro.
“Brother, isn’t that a bit too much? When you think about how everyone suffered because of Aidia….”
“I, I’m sorry. I’ll explain it to you step by step when I go out.”
“No, my brother, he’s so smart, so he must have had a plan. I’m really glad to meet you. Oh, and it’s been a while, Miro!”
“Really? Actually, I feel like I saw it a while ago.”
“Haha! Is it because of the Immortal Sarcophagus? I’m jealous of that. I was so stressed out because I was awake for so long.”
“Uh, I’m sorry.”
“There’s no need for that. It’s nice to meet you now.”
The appearance of suppressing emotional resentment or disappointment felt toward me with reason.
The attitude of saying ‘Nice to meet you’ to Miro, who, unlike him, was spending a comfortable time in the Immortal Sarcophagus.
It’s mature.
So it was awkward.
Is it because in my memories, Seungyeop was a middle school student who only thought about games?
“I overheard your conversation on the way here. I have a pretty good ear.”
“Oh~! Is that a martial art? It seems like you’re a bit stronger now?”
“Ha, Ga-in hyung. From now on, call me the best in the world, Park Seung-yeop.”
“haha!”
“The question is who can take the Guardian’s gaze away? I’ll do it.”
Anyway, once we started talking, the tension naturally eased.
I was nervous because I had heard many ominous stories about ‘Fortuna’ from other people, but no matter how I looked at the young man now, he was ‘Park Seung-yeop’ and not Fortuna.
Acting so good that it fools me?
No matter how I looked at it, Seungyeop didn’t seem like the kind of person who would act well as time went by.
Didn’t Ari say it in the first place?
Fortuna is Seungyeop who was distorted by the mirror, and was returning to Seungyeop through Ari’s ‘hypnosis therapy’.
So, it may be natural that the young man of today is ‘Park Seung-yeop’ –
“Everyone, stand back! Now!”
There is one person in this place who can never forgive Fortuna.
— Ting!
When the mirror piece shined, Seungyeop frowned and everyone was embarrassed.
“Sophia!”
“Horus, you are being deceived!”
“…”
“This man is a monster. You know what he did.”
Ari tried to persuade her again.
“Sophia, I’ve told you many times. This girl is not the Fortuna you know. She went back to her days as Horus’s, um, angel before she was twisted by the mirror -”
“shut up!”
Ari was speechless at the sudden curse.
Because I felt the anger, sadness, and resentment swirling around like a storm.
This is not a situation where we can communicate.
“This guy was dead to begin with! I killed him with a mirror! I turned him into a writhing mass of flesh!”
“…Sophia.”
“Horus, please, listen to me. This monster must be killed.”
“He is not Fortuna, he is Park Seung-yeop, my colleague, no, he is an angel.”
Sophia’s eyes are blank.
“… Did you give the order?”
“what?”
“If you order me not to attack, I will obey. I am your pontiff.”
I felt a little embarrassed when he said that.
Forced to do it?
I could do it if I wanted to, but I don’t think I could do that to my sister Eun-sol’s daughter and my colleague Jun, who has been waiting for me for a long time.
At that moment.
The young man looked back at Sophia with a bitter smile.
“You still hate me.”
“Of course! I spent thousands of nights waiting for the moment when I would kill you! Can I forget the memory of burying my mother with my bloody hands, even after a thousand years?”
“So you used your teacher as bait?”
Using the teacher as bait?
What is this?
When I looked at Ari in confusion, Ari also made a face like she had no idea.
By the way, none of us know exactly how Sophia killed Fortuna.
Seungyeop approached the window without saying a word and touched the glass as if drawing someone.
“After waking up from a long dream thanks to Sister Ari, I thought.”
The first thought that came to Fortuna’s mind when she returned to Seungyeop.
“I have to put Yumi back in the soul box.”
“ah…!”
Ariga opened her mouth halfway.
“Fortunately, there was a piece of Yumi left in the world. I believed that if I could contain it, I could save Yumi.”
“Seungyeop, you… .”
Grandpa’s eyes are twitching.
“It’s probably not normal. His personality may have fragmented and he may have become a madman. But that’s okay. I can keep him by my side and take care of him. Even if he can’t recover here, if I can somehow get him out of there…”
Yumi cannot be recovered within room 207.
What about after you return to the hotel?
What if I use Eunsol noona’s flute?
What if you get special means from a merchant?
I think it is possible.
As far as I know, hotels are the most omnipotent places in the universe.
“So, Sophia, I followed your guidance and went into the cave. To put the half-collapsed Yumi back into the box. In order to do that, I had to take ‘my soul’ out of the box.”
The moment Fortuna lost her immortality in order to put Yumi back in the ship.
“That day, I died once at your hands. I wasn’t the only one who died. The last fragment of Yumi was lost forever, caught up in the mad curse you wielded.”
Sophia killed Seungyeop and Yumi.
“But the resentment still hasn’t been resolved.”
A moment when everyone was speechless.
A cynical voice was heard.
“I’m sorry, but it wasn’t me who tore the Master to pieces, it was the Virgin Mary. You’re the Virgin Mary’s slave. And you’re blaming me for the Master’s death?”
Well, it’s not a wrong statement.
Seungyeop also readily admitted it.
“Yeah. I admit it. At least in our relationship, I’m not in a position to yell.”
“If you realized that -”
“So I prepared a gift too.”
“What? Ha! All you can give me is death!”
“Listen further. Pope Sophia.”
“what -”
“Make me an offer you can’t refuse.”
An offer you can’t refuse?
“I, you… .”
“what?”
“I will send you to heaven.”
The moment when everyone stopped in shock.
Seungyeop added a word.
“There is only one person in this world who can send you to heaven, me.”