Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 535
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EP.535 Episode 535 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (21)
Episode 535 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (21)
– Han Ga-in
I woke up at the crack of dawn and arrived at Florida’s famous landmark, the Kennedy Space Center.
“…Happy Happy Space Center?”
It’s not ‘Kennedy’.
Wasn’t President Kennedy in Room 207?
Even so, wouldn’t the name of the US president who took over after Kennedy be Happy-Happy?
“What’s strange?”
Ari doesn’t feel any problem with the name ‘Happy Happy’.
Even outside the hotel, the name seems to be ‘Happy Happy’ or something similar.
“No. Let’s move quickly.”
The plan is simple.
While Fortuna attracts the Guardian’s attention, I move to the lunar base where Aidia is.
After that, companions join through the dream kingdom.
It was a simple plan, but there were many factors to consider since the location was the moon and not Earth.
For example, how do you guys survive on the moon?
Even Ari’s old blood has its limits.
Therefore, we need to obtain various equipment including spacesuits from the space center.
*
After arriving, I sat in a corner where there weren’t many people and waited for my time.
Because I had to do it after the fight between Fortuna and the Guardians started.
If we cause a ruckus at the space center before that, the Guardians might come our way.
It is also necessary to monitor Fortuna through Sophia to ensure that she does not behave strangely.
Then, space center staff started approaching.
There is no problem.
My grandfather and I are wrapped up tight, and Ari just has to go and make a simple excuse.
In a sane world, people would have suspected us for covering our bodies, but the people of the communist utopia do not suspect each other –
“There! Who are you! Do you know where this horrible monster is!”
The moment they heard the angry shout, everyone turned to each other in surprise.
Then, in that brief moment, Miro appeared, taking off his mask!
“…!”
“you…!”
“This, this thoughtless -”
Three people who are speechless and a cute smiling maze.
“It’s so frustrating… Ta-da!”
Ari, who saw the employee approaching her while shouting, immediately stood up with a determined expression on her face.
“Good morning! Hello.”
The employee’s expression brightened for a moment after seeing the ‘lovely’ Ari, unlike the ‘ugly’ maze.
“Oh, good morning. Are you a high school student? Do you have a field trip scheduled today?”
“It’s not a field trip.”
“Hey, what’s that monster in the back?”
Miro’s appearance is almost identical to Ari’s.
However, when he took off his mask and revealed his face, the staff did not hesitate to call him a ‘monster’.
This is a passage that shows how the 10% of humans who are not chosen in this world are treated.
Ari’s answer to this was simple.
“This is my pet. Now, bark!”
For a moment, silence fell around them.
“What are you doing? Aren’t you barking?”
Ari is recruiting.
The staff wonder if this monster is really a pet.
No matter what, Miro didn’t like the word ‘woof woof’, so he lowered his head in silence.
Finally, I tapped him on the shoulder.
“Do it quickly.”
“… What, woof woof!”
Hit it one more time.
“Louder!”
“Woof! Woof!”
Ari turned around and smiled brightly.
“You can also do tricks.”
“feat?”
“Lie down on the floor and roll around twice!”
The maze is silent again.
As expected, I’m the one who grabs the back of the head.
“Can’t you roll quickly?!”
“…”
A maze of rolling around on a dirty floor.
“Look. Isn’t it cute?”
“Hmm… My dear. If you find it cute, that’s good. It seems to be fairly well-trained, but it doesn’t seem like a very safe animal.”
How does this situation look to employees?
How does it feel to be a high school student with a reticulated python as a pet?
Anyway, the crisis has passed.
“maze.”
“…”
“If you make one more stupid mistake, you’ll have to walk around naked this time.”
“… Ari is so scary.”
“That’s it. Fortuna and Sophia have arrived in downtown Jacksonville. It looks like they’re getting started.”
Observe the situation through Sophia’s eyes.
After creating the clone, the clone’s spirit was infused into Sophia.
In other words, it was an advanced use of the grimoire, so it consumed a lot of stamina for me.
Soon, an unexpected conversation began.
“…”
“what’s the matter?”
Miro leaked information about the Kingdom of Dreams to Fortuna.
If I tell Ari this, will Miro walk around the space center naked?
“It’s nothing.”
Miro, I gave it a look.
“…”
The unexpected conversation continues.
Fortuna defined his identity as something other than Park Seung-yeop.
It’s a situation I wanted to prevent… .
In the end, he decided to help us, so it’s okay.
When I conveyed Fortuna’s feelings, my colleagues had complicated expressions on their faces.
Not only the labyrinth, but even the Management Duo were no exception.
“I promised him.”
“promise?”
“To revive Yumi.”
“…”
“When we get back to the hotel, I’ll probably be able to get a ticket or something.”
“… Will you protect it?”
“I want to protect it. Anyway, the Guardian has appeared in Jacksonville, so let’s get started.”
*
Kennedy – It took less than five minutes to take over the Happy Happy Space Center and secure the necessary equipment.
Since we’re not going to board any spaceship anyway, there’s no need to ask for cooperation from the staff.
While Ari and her grandfather were tinkering with some strange equipment whose names I didn’t even know, Miro achieved unexpected results.
“Look! I found the protective suit!”
I had half forgotten about its existence because it never showed up, but the protective suit was in a place like this?
Grandpa was dumbfounded.
“No, the hotel idiots hid the hazmat suits in the space center? How are we supposed to find them?”
“I finally found it.”
“That’s the result! Think about how we ended up in Florida!”
“…”
While flying from Texas to Spain, he was exposed to the ‘doomsday light’.
After holding onto the hourglass and falling, I came to my senses and found myself in Florida.
After a series of coincidences, I arrived in Florida.
Did the hotel really anticipate all these possibilities and place the protective suits here?
“This is the first thought that occurred to me….”
“What is it?”
“This protective suit, isn’t it the one that just ‘came into existence’ here?”
Could it be that they were just observing us and putting us in when they felt we needed protective clothing?
I don’t know.
“I’m ready. Ga-in, you’re leaving now -”
At that very moment.
“Ahh!”
“Eww!”
“Ha, the sky is falling!”
A tremendous pressure, so great that it makes your skin tingle, covers the audience.
People who were suddenly overwhelmed looked up at the sky in a daze.
The sky is splitting apart.
The shining starlight from the high world was embedded in a sword, finally breaking down the boundary between the earth and the universe.
It’s so mysterious.
Also, without me knowing it, my heart started beating wildly.
At this moment, it seemed like Fortuna was the main character of the world.
Did you feel something similar?
Miro suddenly put his hands together and winked at us.
“Do it quickly!”
“Why are you suddenly folding your hands -”
“It’s not claps, it’s, po, po… .”
A grandfather bursting into laughter.
“A lottery ticket? Inma, to do that, you have to make a fist with one hand.”
“Like this?”
“right.”
Two people who naturally got along.
In the end, Ari and I also played lottery together.
“Hey… Gain-ang! Say something cool! Hurry up!”
“…”
There was a moment of silence, and soon a plausible sentence came to mind.
“Fortuna, the best swordsman in the world. Apprenticed to the swordsman of the world, Li Zicheng, and after spending thousands of years in a dream, finally surpassing her limits and making a leap forward.”
The following words were received by Ariga.
“…will remain in our memories forever.”
“Foot!”
“Don’t laugh. Your comment was similar.”
It’s honestly childish.
But, didn’t Songi say that before?
Childhood is just another expression of the innocence that remains even after becoming an adult.
I think this is the best farewell we could give.
Now, it’s time to head to the final stage.
—Whoosh!
*
After arriving at the moon, I closed my eyes for a moment.
This is also one of the powers granted to me by the divine sun.
‘The ability to fall asleep whenever you want’
Is this some kind of superpower?
It must be quite an incredible superpower, since a normal human can’t fall asleep on the moon in just one second.
…
Soon, Ari and Miro joined.
Miro was wearing a protective suit, and Ari was wearing a spacesuit she got from the space center.
I wonder if the spacesuit is working properly, but I guess Ari took care of it.
Ari handed me something that looked like a helmet.
— Support!
“Can you hear me?”
“I can hear you.”
A place where even simple conversations like this are impossible without special equipment: space.
“There’s a lunar base 400km north. Aidia is probably there.”
“Did you find out using GPS or something?”
“It’s completely different, but let’s say it’s roughly similar.”
“okay.”
“Look at this!”
In the meantime, Miro jumped strongly and was amazed as he watched himself floating up and down.
Just looking at that sight makes me feel like I’ve come to the moon to fight Aidia.
Ari looked skeptical for a moment.
“I wonder if it would be right to bring her… I wonder if it would have been better to leave her on Earth with Mukseong and bring Sophia.”
“Think of the midnight maze.”
As I was taking the two to the lunar base, I told them about the advice Fortuna had given me.
“what do you think about it?”
“There are walls in the world that cannot be overcome in two or three attempts, but can only be overcome in the first attempt….”
“I guess it means don’t rely on one more chance.”
“Gain, Fortuna has certainly reached great heights at the last moment, but he is a martial arts master. He is not a wise man who can see the future.”
“yes.”
“It sounds interesting and plausible, but it makes no sense. Should I desperately give it my all in one chance? Why should I do that when I have one more chance?”
“…”
“Wasn’t it the hotel that told us in the first place that we needed One More Chance in Room 207?”
The hotel said that the heritage of room 206 and the ‘hourglass’ were treasures that could save reality.
It’s not 207!
“I never said I needed it in Room 207. I said I needed it in ‘reality.’”
“what -”
“Think about it. You thought you needed an hourglass to withstand the light that calls for doomsday? Actually, you didn’t. Sophia is fine without the protection of an hourglass.”
“…”
“Even if we hadn’t used the hourglass, Aidia wouldn’t have twisted us.”
In Room 207, the hourglass was not required.
In that case, One More Chance may not be necessary.
Ariga brought out a different logic.
“Your and my goal is not to awaken as the best masters of the galaxy and destroy the evil gods with the Chaos Annihilation Sword.”
“Chaos Annihilation! I want to learn that!”
“Miro, be quiet. We just need to solve Room 207. And then the reality outside.”
“…”
I think that for some words, the listener’s interpretation is more important than the speaker’s intention.
I listened to Fortuna’s advice and came to my own realization.
“perhaps….”
“perhaps?”
“Our real opponent might be someone for whom One More Chance is meaningless.”
“what?”
“I can see it! I can see it!”
A maze that is only now beginning to feel the tension, making your breathing quicken.
A huge lunar base appears ahead.
and….
A mirror so huge that it could reflect the entire Earth at once!
Finally, I think.
What on earth is the final solution to Room 207?
Aidia’s death?
Destruction of the mirror?
If not that….