Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 536
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EP.536 Episode 536 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (22)
Episode 536 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (22)
– Han Ga-in
— Paaaaat!
The moment we entered the lunar base, a rainbow of sparkling lights momentarily obscured everyone’s vision.
When I regained my sight, Ari and Miro were gone.
“…”
This is within the expected range.
He quickly unfolded the dream kingdom, checked the survival of the two people, and covered it again.
I would love to join, but the Dream Realm only functions when both the user and target are asleep.
I don’t know, but there’s no way Arianna Miro could fall asleep in such a strange place.
Since the destination is Aidia anyway, let’s believe that we will meet there if we go there.
*
I walk endlessly through a space filled with gray partition walls in quiet silence.
There were a lot of incomprehensible electronic devices around, and they all seemed to be turned off, so even when I broke them, there was no response.
“…”
I expected a fierce battle with tactical weapons or drones deployed by Aidia, but there was nothing like that.
I was just walking down an endless path leading underground, and before I knew it, I was running.
At some point, I naturally fell into worry.
What are the solution conditions for problem 207?
After Miro joined, he got information about the first trial.
After Ari and Grandfather joined, we also got information about the third trial.
The ambiguous part is the second trial, where there were no survivors, but we were able to obtain indirect information through Sophia.
During this process, a thought naturally came to mind.
The final challenge of each trial, was the boss really designated by the ‘hotel’?
Maybe it was not ‘us’ who chose the boss.
When the thought reached here, one side of my vision became slightly blurred.
“User: Han Ga-in (Ji-hye)”
“under!”
The third power, the place where blessings are hidden, is this what is meant by the word ‘Han Ga In’?
Deep down, I thought it was something like “find my real body hidden somewhere in room 207!”
It was a complete waste of time.
The blessing was literally within me.
It was a more classic problem than I thought!
I burst out laughing and asked someone who was definitely watching me right now.
“Are you telling me to think on my own and get closer to the answer?”
Then I started hearing an auditory hallucination, as if the hotel was whispering to me.
‘Who do you blame if you have not been wise yourself until now? Prove to yourself that you are worthy of wisdom.’
Let’s think a little more wisely.
The companions of the first trial considered ‘Menes’ as the boss and defeated him.
So what was Malkab?
A simple mini boss?
Wasn’t it too strong for that?
The fact that Menes joined the expedition to subjugate Malkab is a very strange development if you think of it as ‘a game’.
Besides, it wasn’t necessary to fight Menes.
Didn’t Menes open the way for you to go out and establish a civilization on your own?
We were the ones who ‘chose’ Menes as the boss.
This choice is both a boss choice and a scenario choice.
Because they could not stand to see the reptilians dominate humanity, and because they could not accept the excessive distortion of human history, the companions chose to execute Menes.
The hotel simply accepted that choice.
…
The companions of the second trial fought against ‘Fortuna’, whom they regarded as their boss, and were eventually defeated.
Looking back, the fact that Fortuna was the boss is strange in itself.
Fortuna is a twisted being of Seungyeop, so she cannot arise naturally within Room 207.
That is, the boss was not clearly defined from the beginning.
When Eunsol and Elena ‘chose’ the scenario, someone corresponding to it just stepped forward.
What choice did the two people make?
We’ll have to go out and ask them both to find out the exact story, but we can make a guess.
They stood on the other side, even though they knew that the Vatican was in fact a ‘governmental’ organization.
He regarded the justice of the Vatican as violence, and chose to reform Sophia rather than track her down and hand her over, as she was clearly a danger.
What if Ari and Grandpa took the places of the two people?
It’s unfortunate for Sophia, but the two agents who saw through the child’s acting right away may have grabbed her by the scruff of the neck and tied her to the stake.
On the other side of the Vatican, Fortuna, the most powerful sword of Aedia, was chosen as the boss.
…
The third trial’s colleagues considered Dean ‘Lucas’ to be their boss and executed him.
Looking back, it must have been a really absurd development from Lucas’ perspective.
Because Lucas never thought of Ari and his grandfather as enemies.
He never attacked first, and even at the moment of his death, he never thought that Ari would attack him.
He went berserk because the Vatican was slaughtering all of his beloved students, but Ari, who saw this, thought the dean was the boss and turned back time to condemn him.
This is a passage that allows us to get a glimpse into Ari’s way of thinking, which is friendly to the management office.
In the end, it’s Ari’s choice.
This may be because he felt a strong aversion to Miskatonic University, a group founded by chaotic people who had gathered to escape persecution by the Vatican.
What if you had chosen to side with Miskatonic University and be hostile to the Vatican?
The hotel would have accepted this as well.
The role of the boss of the third trial would have been given to someone among the strong men of the Vatican, except Fortuna.
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 2,008,924th day
Wow, you’ve been counting since ancient Egypt?
The date is really grand.
As soon as I leave, I’ll have to ask the owl to reset it again.
“…”
At the end of the long hallway was a door.
There must be Aidia beyond the door.
— Squeak!
*
The moment the door opened, a flash of blue light came flying by.
Since I had already summoned the sun, I was able to block it without much difficulty.
“What does this mean?”
“Just a quick greeting.”
Aidy stood with her back to me in the center of a large hall with an open ceiling, looking into the mirror outside.
“Can I ask you just one thing?”
“sure.”
“I thought you would scatter us so we could fight each other individually, but no. If that’s the case, why did you scatter us?”
“Unlike you, the other two are having a hard time.”
“… why?”
“I wanted to talk to you two. Especially, I hate that black-haired girl.”
“Are you talking about Ari? Ari thinks of you as her senior.”
“under!”
Aidy laughed as if she was dumbfounded, then answered with a flash of lightning.
— Ting!
A world of emptiness, a space where everything seems to have stopped.
The only two living, moving entities engage in an endless, ingenious battle of wits.
To some it might seem like a battle of angels… .
To me, it felt like a meaningless war of attrition, like, “Pfft!” Flash! Bang!”
It’s too much to be a joke, and too trivial to be serious.
Do you really want to talk?
“I have one more question. Why is the location the moon?”
“…I’m sorry.”
“If you don’t want to talk -”
“It’s not that I don’t like it, I just don’t know.”
“what?”
“Did you know? The moon holds a mystery that cannot be understood.”
“What is that?”
“I don’t know. I was researching.”
A conversation that is subtly off-key.
It would have been confusing in the past, but now it’s different.
Because a supernatural intuition flashed from far away.
The mystery of the moon is not the problem of issue 207.
The hotel won’t admit you to the mysteries of the moon yet.
Go out and find out in real life.
There is no moon in reality, so what does this intuition mean?
One thing is certain.
‘Insight’ is slowly returning.
“That’s enough. There’s no need to discuss this topic any further.”
“…”
At that moment, Aidya’s eyes lit up with an eerie glow.
“You saw something.”
“…”
“I, we’ve studied the moon for decades and found nothing… Do you just know it when you see it?”
“…”
“Those eyes. They’re still the same even after thousands of years. I really hated that.”
“what?”
“Do you really think you are an omniscient god?”
—Whoosh!
The subsequent attacks were much more serious than the previous ones.
Even so, it wasn’t to the extent that it was unmanageable.
Suddenly, I noticed that Aidia was avoiding my gaze.
…
Long ago, I remember what my grandfather said when we were hosting episode 205, ‘Absolute Master’.
They say that once people get together, they can get to know each other, but Sang-Hyeon was shocked.
“”They say that the martial artists of the Gangho know if someone is a good or bad person once they fight each other?”
“I’ve never heard of such a bullshit psychological theory before -”
“I told you this isn’t psychology! Kang Ho-in thinks that a person’s life is contained on the tip of a knife!”
“Haha! Mukseong-ah, if it were up to you, I would have just seen your experience at the management office, but I got my medical license from Harvard!”
Now that I think about it, what my grandfather said wasn’t entirely nonsense.
This is because Aidia’s emotional line was felt in the midst of a fierce battle.
“I feel your despair and pain.”
“Have you learned the art of reading minds now?”
“Rational reasoning is better than mind reading.”
“inference?”
“Isn’t it strange if I don’t have depression when I’m locked up in a remote room in a remote village like this?”
“under!”
Soon, Aidyia put down the writhing mass of flesh that seemed ready to spew evil curses.
“I told you before I started the salvation, that if I fail, you will be my insurance.”
“That’s right.”
“I saved humanity. Ninety percent of humanity was freed from fear and suffering! So why are you trying to turn the tables?”
“It’s a difference in perspective.”
“aspect?”
Why Aidia’s choice was wrong.
So here’s why I have to choose again!
“You didn’t liberate 90% of humanity. You killed 90% of humanity and turned them into monsters, and you sent 10% of humanity to hell.”
“Those who have been blessed by the mirror are no longer human? What is the basis for this?”
Countless thoughts come to mind.
The story of the ship of Theseus.
How can a being who is twisted in spirit and is toyed with by inexplicable love and hatred be considered human?
To put it a bit harshly, 90% of humanity has become nothing more than beasts with reduced intelligence.
Moreover, the power granted to the new human race by the alien god beyond the mirror is nothing more than a counterfeit of ‘friendliness.’
There were many limitations to the original’s affinity, so how could its imitation be the salvation of humanity?
Also, I think this.
Can a civilization be maintained or developed by people who have been sterilized of their selfishness in order to suppress conflict?
…
There’s one problem with these thoughts: a lot of them are just speculation on my part.
My guesses, which are based on ‘insight’, are much more accurate than those of ordinary humans, but that doesn’t mean that my logic can convince others.
On the other hand, there was a reason that no one in the world could be persuaded by except Aidya.
“Most of the thoughts I’ve had are probably ones you’ve had in this room too. So I won’t bother listing them all.”
“If you have nothing to say -”
“I have nothing to say. Because I’m going to ask you questions now.”
“what?”
He smiled broadly and lowered both arms to indicate that he had no intention of fighting.
Aidy only raised her clouded eyes and did not attack any further.
Just as the place where wisdom was hidden was in my heart, the answer to Aidia’s question was within herself.
A story that Ari has emphasized over and over again.
‘Aidia was humanity’s greatest defender.’
‘At times it was almost miraculous. In a way, she was truly worthy of the word ‘Virgin Mary.’
‘Unlike me, he was a being with an incomprehensible love for humanity.’
The fact that a lizard alien, not a human, was aware of its true identity and loved humanity infinitely.
Even though the Egyptian mobs rose up and massacred his own people, he put all this grudge down.
He himself is a being of chaos, but he gritted his teeth and established an organization to eradicate beings of chaos.
It’s incomprehensible.
Therefore, this love is a miracle.
As my fellow human beings looked beyond the mirror and came back with a hatred for humanity and a love for the twisted… .
He who was not human from birth simply obtained the opposite.
“Then, Aidya, tell me. If you really believe that you saved the world, look me in the eye and tell me. Can you feel love for the 90% of humanity that you saved with your own hands?”
“My feelings… are nothing more than worthless things created by instinct -”
“But, you followed that instinct to create the Vatican and save the world. Either affirm that instinct or deny it. Choose one.”
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 2,008,924th day
Current Location: Room 207, Gate Room – Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’
In Room 207, the final moments of the ordeal were always decided by the choices of the comrades.
Finally, the moment of choice came for me.
…
An eerie, flashing mirror reflects me.