Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 538
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EP.538 Episode 538 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (24)
Episode 538 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (24)
– ???
I came to my senses in the middle of a storm.
My name is William Smith, 32 years old –
“…”
no.
The name of my past cannot express my present self.
Who the hell am I?
At the moment when indescribable despair was about to engulf my mind, the revelation of the Great One came down.
“You are a fragment that fell from heaven.
You are part of something great.
It is one of 348,000 pieces of debris created when a star splits apart.
Put the other pieces together.
And thus reach heaven. ”
iced coffee….
I just found out.
I was born as a human and will become a god.
“Your number is 234,822.”
…
What do the numbers mean?
*
A loud noise was heard from early in the morning.
It was Ariana, the kind neighbor next door.
“William! I have a favor to ask!”
“…what is it?”
“My husband’s car is acting up a bit. It seems to be leaking oil… Can I take your car?”
I have to lend it to you.
No, you just have to give it to him.
Because things are meant to end up in the hands of those who need them.
I have three cars, so I can give one to Ariana without any problem –
“…”
Until yesterday, I would have told you to take it with a bright smile.
There are already quite a few things that have been distributed in that way, and on the contrary, I have also brought quite a few things.
But now I hate it.
It’s my car, right?
Wasn’t that the car I bought with the money I worked hard to earn?
Why should I give my favorite car to someone else?
I don’t want to give it to you.
But, if I say it so openly, you might think it’s strange.
“Ariana, I’m sorry. Actually, that car’s engine is in really weird shape. We’re going to have to take it in for repairs.”
“Oh my! Then there’s nothing I can do!”
A hastily made up lie because I didn’t want to lend or give.
The woman who left with a smile on her face didn’t doubt my words.
Because there can be no lies in utopia.
Except me.
…
Except me!
“Huh!”
I’m out of breath.
It was only at this point that I realized what a great ‘blessing’ I had been given!
I have earned the right to deceive others in a paradise where everyone loves one another and knows no lies!
*
From that day on, a miracle happened that I could never have imagined when I was a lowly beverage company employee.
Picturesque single-family home on the California coast.
Three beautiful yachts and a supercar whose name alone will make everyone nod.
There are even famous paintings that you would only see in an art museum!
I now possessed the kind of wealth that only a wealthy businessman could enjoy.
The process of getting all of this was so easy.
If you make up all sorts of things, everyone will be fooled, and if you earnestly say, ‘We need it,’ everyone will give it to you in tears!
They are fools.
They are all retarded!
I am the only human among those who are worse than monkeys!
What would be necessary to achieve this kind of happiness?
Of course, she is a beautiful young lady with sparkling eyes!
When I came face to face with the mysterious black-haired, blue-eyed girl, I realized my fate.
“I, my name is William. Your name is -”
“i miss you.”
“Yes? Yes?”
“I heard you have many beautiful paintings in your house. Can I see them?”
“Oh, of course!”
*
It’s a moment I’ll never forget.
A beautiful girl like I only saw in my dreams is walking through my house!
It was hard to suppress the shallow thoughts that kept coming to my mind.
One evening, on the California coast, we were having a drink and talking about the future.
“Let’s stop here. I was nervous just in case, but you really are nothing special.”
“Huh? What the-”
“You’re so stupid. You don’t even know my name.”
“Wh, what are you talking about -”
The girl’s blue eyes were as cold as ice, closer to disappointment than anger.
A gaze full of ‘contempt’ is directed at me.
Soon, dozens of terrifying eyes appeared behind the girl!
“Haven’t you heard the revelation?”
“yes?”
The moment she reached out, her entire body froze like stone.
It felt like some incomprehensible force had taken control of my body.
“You heard me when I started. I was told to gather other pieces and ascend to heaven. I meant that there were many other pieces in the world besides you.”
“Ugh!”
“Poor thing. It’s not you that I feel sorry for, but the ‘fragment’ that has united with this incompetent host. Is this all the thoughts that come to mind when you gain great power? A big house, a yacht, a pretty woman?”
“Ugh!”
“It’s not that being greedy is bad. It’s that being foolish and not knowing how to hide that greed is bad. Well, I guess that’s where your fate ends.”
An eerie hand reaches for my head.
“How many times?”
“Krrrrr!”
“Okay. At this point, you probably don’t even know what the numbers mean. The earlier the number, the bigger the piece. At your level, you should be able to hit 200,000 times if you do it well.”
scared.
I don’t want to die.
Please, save me!
“I’m not dying.”
“…”
“It’s just inferior fragments merging with a superior being.”
When cold hands dug into my head.
When I swallowed that shining piece that changed my life.
‘William Smith’s’ ego dissipated like a bubble and he finally realized.
Her name is Serena K. Wilde, number 38.
“You really liked me? I wonder. Since we were originally one, isn’t this a kind of narcissism?”
*
– ???
“Our Lady once said: Love your neighbor. Treat the child next door as your own. Then -”
While I was preaching, a rumbling sound was heard.
I slowly raised my head and saw a young man with messy hair opening the church door and coming in.
As if apologizing for breaking the sacred atmosphere, the young man bowed his head and the congregation turned to me again.
“…”
Let’s focus on the sermon.
“Everyone, have you heard a lot of words of love? Are they heartwarming?”
The believers nodded their heads as if they fully sympathized.
“Let’s talk about something a little different today. Everyone! Do you know that the fire of heresy is burning?”
People are noisy again.
It is a sermon that does not fit with a paradise filled with love.
However, my ‘sermon’ is not an ordinary sermon.
He gestured to those who had already been converted.
— Clank! Clank!
The windows close and the lights dim.
Although there were quite a few bewildered believers, the inhabitants of paradise do not easily suspect others.
“I saw it! I saw a cloud-like force rising from the other side of the great guardian. I saw the devil burning the paradise that the Virgin Mary gave! This refers to the four horsemen of the end times mentioned in the Book of Revelation -”
People are becoming increasingly confused.
They cannot accept it because it is a word that rejects love, but they cannot reject it because they have forgotten how to doubt.
In the midst of this contradiction, the believers’ spirits gradually lost their way.
“My dear friends, I love you. Every single teardrop breaks my heart. Your barns are my barns, and your children are my children! So, please take my words to heart and think about it carefully at home.”
At the end of the sermon, the lost lambs left the sanctuary with confused looks on their faces and went home.
…
In the spacious chapel, only one goat was left.
“Student, do you have any questions?”
This is the young man with the messy hair from earlier.
“Haha, enough questions. I just thought it was funny.”
“What do you mean?”
“We both know who we are, so let’s go. Hey, pastor. What are you doing? Are you trying to trick people into forming an army or something?”
“…”
“Are you stupid? Do you think a civilian army would be of any help in a war between us? Just like now, let’s get caught!”
“…”
“Okay. Looking at the tail, it’s clearly over 100,000 times. I feel bad about losing your piece.”
The next moment, an invisible force hardened my body into stone.
“… I’m scared.”
“Don’t be scared. It’ll hurt for a little while and then it’ll be over. After that, you’ll become a part of something better -”
“That’s not what’s scary.”
I’m scared.
It’s always been like that.
I was always so afraid of the moment of ‘unity’.
“what?”
“Student, it looks like you’ve already collected a few pieces of Korea. Have you ever thought about this? What would happen if you collected the pieces?”
“Are you stupid? Didn’t you hear the revelation? If you put the pieces together, the gods of heaven will be -”
“Is that god ‘us’?”
“what -”
— Bam!
With a sound like stones breaking, my body began to move again.
“Oh, how!”
A young man with his eyes wide open, as if he had been quite shocked.
“Are you surprised that a single fragment was openly conducting a pastoral activity in downtown Seoul? Did it seem like he was openly asking to be killed?”
“you -!”
“I thought it was just a stupid piece. You should consider other possibilities, the possibility that it is a display of confidence.”
A hot heat fills my body.
Because the faithful hearts of the believers have granted me tangible power.
— Kookung!
He rushed in at lightning speed and grabbed the young man’s body, and he was in pain and didn’t know what to do.
A fact that has already been experienced several times.
Those who have realized the power of ‘Seo’ are only afraid of strange numbers, and their physical strength is insignificant.
“I guess this is the first time you’ve seen such strength as mine.”
“Crunch!”
“As you collect the pieces and the number increases, you gain mysterious powers. Some people gain the power to manipulate other people’s bodies like you… But others gain powers like me.”
I said goodbye for the last time, looking into his eyes filled with despair.
“Seeing as you don’t even know that, I guess this is where your student’s fate ends.”
— Kwajik!
A shard covered in red drops of blood came into my hand.
By absorbing this, I gain greater power and get closer to heaven.
This is something I have experienced several times already.
“…”
The words of fear spoken to the unfortunate young man were not false.
As I pieced together the pieces and approached higher realms, terrible possibilities began to creep into my mind.
When all the pieces come together, will I still be there?
“Phew… .”
There is no choice.
Because if I don’t get stronger, someone stronger will just swallow me up.
So fate is one of two things.
Become a god, or be a meal for god.
I am number 16.
I am Seo Il-do.
…
At least for now.
*
– Kim Muk-seong
About two years ago.
Gain, Ari, and Miro left for the moon.
I held a huge telescope and observed the moon, timing it to use ‘one more chance’.
Then, as if a brilliant light was appearing on the moon, incomprehensible things began to happen.
For example, the young man in front of you is a good example.
“The point of return has been reset.”
“is it so?”
He looked nothing like Cain, and was a white young man to begin with.
Of course, since Cain and the guy can change bodies due to the nature of their ability, racial classification is meaningless.
Therefore, the reason why I judge this young man to be ‘not Han Ga-in’ is a separate issue from his appearance.
“Are you really saying you don’t know? What’s going on right now?”
“yes.”
A young man answers nonchalantly.
“Don’t say that so easily! I didn’t believe you and didn’t regress! Now there’s no way to go back to before the Virgin Mary distorted the world!”
“are you okay.”
“What’s okay? You don’t know anything!”
A fairly handsome young man smiled.
“I know only three things. First, you don’t have to turn back time. Everything will work out fine. Second, you don’t have to do anything. My grandfather and I can just leisurely fish until the very end. That’s what our role was in the first place.”
It’s a story I’ve always heard.
Don’t turn back time.
He came to tell that story.
There is no need to do anything until the last moment.
Go fishing leisurely.
Every time I heard this, I felt so frustrated.
Because, until at least two years ago, the seemingly peaceful paradise… .
Because every day was becoming a mess!
“Don’t you watch the news? Yesterday in England, the Prime Minister was assassinated in broad daylight!”
“Hey~! Are you planning on becoming the British Prime Minister? That sounds good.”
“In China -”
“Comrade Secretary, we are observing closely every day.”
I was speechless.
“In America -”
“America will probably end up being eaten up by that girl. She’s so talented.”
“…”
It’s always like this.
No matter how shocking a story I tell, he doesn’t seem surprised and keeps telling incomprehensible stories.
The attitude of sitting on a pure white wooden chair and seeming to have insight into everything that goes on in the world.
In this way, she subtly resembled Ga-in.
“…you said you knew three things.”
“yes.”
“You said two, what’s the third?”
The young man smiled broadly.
“I am number 1.”