Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 537
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EP.537 Episode 537 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (23)
Episode 537 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (23)
– Maze
I fell into a strange space!
I’m not kidding.
It’s really, really weird!
The walls started writhing like flesh, and then sticky arms shot out and tried to grab me?
If I hadn’t been wearing the protective suit, I probably would have been dragged off somewhere.
“Gyaaaah!”
Hey, this time a black hand popped out of the ceiling!
“Gyaaaa – ew!”
“Be quiet.”
Ari, who had been summoned here, killed two monsters with one sigh.
I felt a little bit more relieved when I was stuck close to Ari.
“It’s stuffy, so get away.”
“no!”
“This doesn’t make it any safer. And it’s also incredibly heavy. You’re wearing a hazmat suit right now.”
“…”
Taking a step back, Ari spoke again.
“Time is passing here, how much time has passed?”
“About 20 minutes.”
“Hmm… It would be difficult if I spend more time.”
“why?”
Instead of answering, Ari reached out and touched the trembling wall.
“… That’s what I thought.”
“Don’t talk about things that only you know.”
“It’s pointless to keep moving like this. The space is distorted.”
“uh?”
“It means that even if you keep following the path, there is no exit. So….”
Ari, who was about to give a detailed explanation, soon shook her head.
“The next story is told to the ‘present me’.”
“what?”
For a moment, Ari seemed to concentrate without saying a word, then she stretched out both hands and placed them against the wall!
— Oh my god!
A wall of flesh that splits apart in an instant.
As if it were natural, the entire mass of flesh flinched and tried to stick together again.
Something invisible was preventing the torn flesh from reuniting.
In other words, Ari split the wall and created a new path!
“Run.”
“what?”
“Run through that gap!”
I ran like crazy through the dark, murky space, with flesh writhing everywhere.
At the end of it all was ‘Current Ari’.
*
– ???
The first words of the labyrinth from beyond the squirming gap were as follows:
“Ah! Hey, Ariga here too!”
“I am the real one. Send them back now.”
“How did you do it?”
“… I’ll just explain that after they found each other through the resonance of the isosceles, they opened the entrance on that side and supported the exit on this side.”
There is no way to explain it in more detail.
As is often the case with heritage, I write by feeling and not by understanding the principles.
“Then! Let’s go to Cain that way.”
“It’s a crowd.”
“what?”
“To get there safely, I need to be at both the entrance and the exit.”
“In reality, this is only possible if Ari and I join together.”
“I’m the one who’s going, so just follow me.”
“Huh? I said there was no way to summon Ari -”
“There is no road, but there is a place where a road can be made.”
I advanced forward, killing monsters that came at me from all sides.
At the same time, I recalled a thought that had been complicated in my head for a long time.
About the purpose of ‘Mother’ that will be revealed soon.
…
Whenever the story of the midnight maze comes up, there’s something my colleagues wonder about.
She appeared in the latter half of Episode 205, Absolute Master, and left the following note.
‘Save the midnight hour. You need at least 30 minutes in room 207.’
This article can only be written if there is information about No. 207.
How did you find out?
Because there are often events in hotels where you can find out information about rooms you haven’t been to, like a ‘secret leak’?
I still don’t understand.
The reason is that Midnight Maze is someone who participated in ‘Hotel in the Deep Sea’.
Even if you leaked secrets in the past, you still have to find out about ‘Hotel 207 in the Deep Sea’. How are you going to find out about ‘Hotel 207 in the Future’?
The answer to this was in number 207.
This is because the identity of Room 207 was a scenario based on the reality outside the hotel.
Considering that everyone can leave the hotel with the end of the second floor, this is quite significant.
If we compare it to the high school entrance exam, isn’t it like taking the final mock exam and then going to take the CSAT?
“Ariya? What are you thinking about?”
“No. Let’s take a breather.”
“huh.”
I understand the context in which ‘Mother’ obtained information about ‘Future 207’.
You probably got this information from a leak or similar event.
‘Scenario 207 is always a variation of the outside reality.’
Since reality is fixed, the 207 rooms in different hotels are bound to have something in common.
So, let’s go back to the original question.
What is the mother’s purpose?
…
I think so.
“It’s here.”
“huh?”
“I told you earlier, there’s a place where you can make a path. You can make it here.”
“uh?”
A twisting maze.
As always, this kid is really cute.
“There should be a sign at both the entrance and the exit, right? There’s no sign at the exit right now.”
“There was a clue ahead of him. ‘To get there safely.’”
If I can afford to take risks, I can be on only one side.
Miro opened his eyes wide as he understood those words.
When I see times like this, I feel good about my head.
The problem is that you’re young and inexperienced, so you’re impulsive.
“then?”
“Use the midnight hour. If you keep that in mind, you’ll be able to get through it.”
“okay…!”
— Clank!
The hands on the pocket watch point to midnight.
Once again, ‘Mother’ appeared.
“…”
“…”
The second mother-daughter reunion, like the previous ones, was a little awkward.
Soon a voice saying something refreshing and sad can be heard.
“thank you.”
“…”
“I wouldn’t have been able to get to this point without your help… You are truly my most perfect creation.”
This is probably the best compliment she could give.
“Maze. You told me that when we met last time.”
A story that Miro told me in the past, during A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
“We need to re-create the Administration. That will require a lot of power.”
“okay.”
“Is it because the leaders are not human?”
“…”
For a moment, a very complicated expression passed over Miro.
“That’s an important reason, but it’s not the only reason.”
“… You don’t plan on telling me everything either.”
“The secret is -”
“Only those who are qualified should know. Do you think you are the only one qualified?”
“… I don’t have much time. You see, I really don’t have much time left.”
“I will open the way.”
Again, I concentrated my mind and drew out the power of the isomorphic polyhedron.
— Oh my god!
A wall of splitting flesh.
The brilliance of the universe shining through that gap.
Mother’s purpose is not in the hotel, but outside, in reality.
For her, Room 207 is merely a means to an end.
A place to gain ‘great power’, so to speak.
Asking me to save 30 minutes for Room 207 did not mean that I would help solve Room 207.
This was just a stepping stone for her to get something here.
“Go. You will find what you want.”
Immediately afterwards, the maze suddenly turned around.
“love you.”
“…”
“Sorry. I couldn’t think of a better goodbye.”
“me too….”
“…”
“I love you. Please hurry up because it’s hard to keep the passage open.”
Soon, the pale shadow disappeared into the distance, and I was left alone among the writhing flesh.
In Room 207, everyone meets their own ‘ending’.
Those who are satisfied with the ending have no need to go further.
Ga-in and her mother are doing their best to achieve an ending that satisfies them.
Then what about me?
…
I have a wish too.
There is an ending that I wish for, a happy ending.
There are also numbers left for that.
Just as Seungyeop transformed into Fortuna and gained the strange power to change his luck… .
Because I, too, had the power to be born from the twisting of a ‘secret’.
“User: Kim? Lee (Secret?)”
“The ‘Compass’ is activated.”
*
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 2,008,924th day
Current Location: Room 207, Gate Room – Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’
– Han Ga-in
Our Lady’s love for humanity was an instinct instilled in her by Yaldabaoth.
Our Lady accepted that instinct and lived as the protector of humanity for thousands of years.
Now, that instinct whispers to Aidyah.
‘Those things’ are not human.
You just turned 90% of humanity into monsters and brought hell to the 10% of survivors.
If we accept our instincts, the Virgin Mary’s plan to save humanity is a miserable failure.
To deny instinct is to deny one’s entire long life as a defender of humanity.
It was a flawless logic.
Aidy also did not refute.
Actually, she probably realized it herself before I pointed it out.
Soon an appeal full of despair was heard.
“So… So what do you want me to do?”
“…”
“There’s no turning back! It’s already, it’s already over… .”
“Maybe not. Didn’t you believe in some kind of miracle from the beginning?”
So they left us as insurance.
“If I could turn back time, what would I do?”
Indeed, Aidyah was not surprised.
“Turning back time to nullify ‘salvation’….”
“okay.”
“… At what point do you plan to turn it back?”
The point of return in One More Chance is right after Grandpa wakes up.
“About ten days ago? Before the salvation happened, so there was plenty of time -”
“under!”
A voice of lament.
Her next words were a bit more barbed, as if excessive despair had clouded her clear mind.
“It’s meaningless! It’s meaningless to that extent! At that point, all preparations for salvation are complete!”
“…”
“Did you think that ‘salvation’ was some kind of magic that I could perform on my own? It’s an absurd feat that would put the entire Earth into a realm of distortion caused by mirrors!”
“…”
“This is something you don’t know about -”
“Okay. I guess I get what you mean by that.”
I understood the situation without having to hear any more detailed explanations.
In other words, at the point of regression, it is already irreversible.
Preparations for the ‘Light that Calls to an End’ or ‘Salvation’, whether human or material, are all completed ten days in advance.
So, it might have been okay if it happened 100 years ago, but it’s hard to stop it by going back to just ten days ago.
“Even if I persuade you, you won’t be able to stop me?”
“…”
When I saw the complicated expression, I understood it naturally.
It won’t be possible to stop it by simply attacking the Vatican, but if we can convince Aidia from ten days ago, we might be able to stop it.
But how on earth can we persuade them?
Aidia was the one who carried out the plan even though he had warned from the beginning that it would fail.
You saw a failed future and turned back time?
‘I’ll try again, and if I fail this time, just turn back time.’
‘If we do it one more time, maybe we’ll get better results this time.’
I think he’ll say something like that.
For the Virgin Mary, ‘salvation’ is a conclusion reached after at least hundreds, or perhaps thousands of years of struggle.
That will cannot be easily broken.
Also, even though I felt it during the brief clash, the ice spell didn’t work on Aidia.
…
It’s a foreign country.
Was this what Fortuna meant when she said not to rely on one more chance?
It doesn’t matter whether I turn back time or not?
At the point of regression, everything is already over?
“…”
I was out of breath.
1. Withstand the ‘Light of Ending’ once with an hourglass.
2. After checking the situation, turn back time to One More Chance.
3. Go back to the past and stop it to solve it!
This was a solution I had planned before entering Room 207, but when I realized it was blocked, I didn’t know what to do.
Was it because I felt suffocated?
I raised my head without realizing it.
Because it was a huge open hall, when I raised my head, I could naturally see the outer space.
There was a mirror outside.
“… You were right. That mirror is both the cause and the answer to all the problems.”
“What did you say?”
The Virgin’s eyes filled with confusion.
“It’s not about turning back time to solve it. That would just cause the same situation to repeat itself. It’s about solving it in this moment.”
“What are you talking about -”
I chose.
The boss of room 207 is not ‘Aidia’.
Therefore, it is no longer worth talking about.
— Boom!
As we exit the lunar base through the open ceiling, the mysterious sight of the giant mirror is revealed once again.
The cursed vision that has haunted me for so long flashes through my mind again.
A future shattered into pieces and scattered across the stars!
I was scared.
I was so scared that I reflected on it over and over again, but no matter what I did, I couldn’t change this future.
I thought it was caused by factors that do not change easily.
I believed that something within the scenario of Room 207 was the cause.
A mirror that fell from space?
An alien god who remains unshaken even if history is repeated 1,000 times?
aha.
I guess I was missing one thing.
Aren’t there elements that don’t change even if the sky falls and the earth splits?
That’s me.
…
Look in the mirror.
Look into the mirror.
The moment when the image of a human being called ‘me’ is reflected in a giant mirror.
Light appeared at my fingertips.
“Ahh! Ho, Horus! If I break the mirror in this state -”
embrace.
I know what’s going to happen.
So I did it.
— Clang!
The moment when the sharp heat ray collides with the mirror.
The mirror splits into hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands – an uncountable number.
I see the ‘me’ embedded in each and every one of those fragments.
I, pieces of me, fragments of me, are crashing down to the Earth.
A utopia where everyone cares for and loves their fellow human beings.
The Garden of Eden created by the Virgin Mary.
On that day, 342,800 people ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that came down from heaven.