Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 540
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EP.540 Episode 540 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (26)
Episode 540 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (26)
– Kim Muk-seong
It’s been three years since that day, is it almost the fourth year now?
Ari came to visit on a windy day.
“long time no see.”
“We’ve had a few video calls, haven’t we?”
“Hey~! It’s different when you see it in person. What’s the first?”
“He suddenly disappeared yesterday. Oh, by the way, he said to call me Second from now on.”
“Second… I guess you don’t want to see me.”
We discussed the situation on the way back over a cup of tea.
“The situation is not good. It looks like a world war is about to break out.”
“There will be localized clashes, but I don’t think it will get to that point.”
“Before that, they will kill and absorb each other?”
“That’s it.”
A moment of silence.
Soon, Ari brought up a rather sensitive topic.
“I’ve been thinking about it for the past three years. What on earth was Ga-in thinking when she split herself up and started this whole thing?”
“That is the greatest mystery.”
“I think I know one thing.”
I think I know what Ari is trying to say.
“…You mean returning the world to its original state?”
“You guessed it.”
Three years is a long time by hotel standards.
During that long time, I didn’t really have anything to do, so I just thought hard.
“Let me say this if I were Cain. My first realization would be, ‘It’s no use turning back time.’”
There’s no use turning back time.
Why?
If you know the answer, you can guess the basis.
“Perhaps it is already too late for you to return.”
“Phew… .”
At that point, the plans we had made outside went awry.
“I’m stuck in a trap. I believed in regression and moved forward, but it fell apart. So what should I do?”
You can’t turn back time and solve it.
If so, we should solve it at this point without turning it back.
“First, we must undo what Aidia did. In other words, we must return the people to their original state.”
Bring people back to their original state.
“I have also come up with a basis for this. Think of the entities touched by Yaldabaoth in the past.”
A being that was distorted by Yaldabaoth in the past.
This refers to Aidia, Park Seung-yeop, Fortuna, Kim Ari, and Han Ga-in.
“Don’t you think so? Everyone has more free will than you think.”
Fortuna eventually returned to Seungyeop and killed the guardian.
Ari, who helped us despite her disgust.
Han Ga-in’s doppelganger who committed suicide for the final victory.
Except for the somewhat ambiguous Aidia, they all had their own distinct colors.
“I don’t know if this is Yaldabaoth’s limit or the great one’s taste… but it means he doesn’t sit still like a puppet.”
The creatures of Yaldabaoth are surprisingly free-spirited.
If so, it may not be impossible to go back to the ‘original’ state.
“A few days ago, the outer wall of the parking lot collapsed, so I called an interior design contractor.”
“okay?”
“He asked for money. If he didn’t have money, he asked for something.”
“Selfishness is back. This is America, so maybe it’s Serena’s influence?”
“Well, maybe it’s because of the noisy news every day.”
348,000 fragments of Cain scattered throughout the world.
A huge bloody battle between those who accepted the fragments and those who fought for ascension.
Whether they have awakened to the power of the Grimoire or the power of the Sacred Sun, they have one thing in common.
The fact that it affects at least hundreds of thousands of people, and at worst hundreds of millions of people!
egoistic mind.
Hostility.
lie.
It seems that the above human ‘virtues’ are beginning to return.
It’s not just negative changes that have occurred.
“As you know, I’m helping Jin Mok-gyeong. He showed me this document three days ago.”
“… A ban on hunting hate objects?”
“By the way, ‘hate speech’ here means -”
“You mean humans? It’s a ban on hunting humans. There’s something similar here.”
He handed Ari a poster that was placed on one side of the table.
“Pseudo-human quarantine zone?”
“We’re creating a sort of quarantine zone and herding the remaining 10% of human survivors into it. This has its own set of problems, but… it’s better than when we used to feed the chaos creatures as food.”
Our instinctive aversion to the 10% of the 90% is diminishing.
In the past, I would have fed it to the devil without any guilt.
Now, we are at a stage where people are starting to think about the ‘rights of humans similar to humans’.
A fact implied by various circumstances.
“Things that Our Lady erased from paradise are returning.”
Ari answered, scratching the ball.
“Is this the end of the curse that made humans retarded?…”
“The curse of the retarded?”
“The Prince of England put it this way.”
“That’s not entirely wrong.”
The first answer to Han Ga-in’s question was ‘Erase the wrong answer written by Aidia.’
So far, things seem to be going smoothly, but questions still remain.
“Ariya, I’ve figured out up to here, but I have no idea what happens next.”
“What are you curious about?”
“Why would Aidia have been so upset in the first place? The world is so messed up!”
“That’s right.”
“Erasing Aidia’s wrong answers will only return it to its ‘original state.’ That original state also has many problems.”
“yes.”
“Then what should we do with the original state? Only then will the decision to resolve issue 207 be made.”
Let’s say number 1 is to erase Aidia’s wrong answers.
Deleting the wrong answer doesn’t make the correct answer appear.
It just goes back to a blank sheet, and if you just submit that, you get 0 points.
So, after erasing the wrong answer, shouldn’t you write a new answer on a blank sheet of paper?
For my part, I couldn’t figure out what ‘our answer’ was.
“…”
Ari is silent.
I am lost in doubt.
Soon, Ari muttered cautiously.
“I don’t know about that part. It’s hard to read the minds of people who are better than us.”
I think this is the first time Ari has honestly acknowledged her ‘opponent’s superiority’ in this way.
“I thought about it to this extent.”
“This much?”
“It may not be the ultimate answer that gives 100 out of 100 points. I don’t think the hotel will ask for that level of detail. Maybe just a vague sense of direction?”
“…”
It is not the ultimate answer, but it is a ‘suggestion of direction’ that can improve things from where they are now.
I think that’s what the hotel wants.
However, I don’t know the direction.
Because it’s difficult to read the minds of someone who is better than me.
“Let’s stop talking about Gain. So, how have you and Miro been?”
“I don’t know exactly about the maze. He’s been missing since that day. I told you in the video call.”
“You said he was missing, but you can guess what he’s trying to do?”
“I can guess. I’m sure you’re doing something similar to me.”
The maze is missing.
However, it is said that Miro is doing ‘something similar to Ari’.
“Then what are you doing?”
Ari smiled faintly and brought a small bag.
“Farming.”
“what?”
“I found a few things with the compass.”
“No, why are you suddenly talking nonsense -”
“Mukseong-ah. The true identity of Room 207 is the past reality outside the hotel. You could say it’s like ‘the latest world scenario adaptation.’”
“… I guess so.”
“Have you ever thought about what this means?”
Room 207 is the past reality outside the hotel.
That is, some of the variables in No. 207 also exist in reality.
“Mirrors seem to exist in reality too.”
“also?”
“… Reptilian invasions may have actually occurred in ancient Egypt. Of course, without our intervention, things would have gone very differently.”
“also?”
“Are there more? I don’t think there will be any overlap.”
Ariga made her characteristically playful expression.
“Oh, boy, you only know one thing and not two.”
“… Inma. I’m old now.”
“Why are you only thinking of one side?”
“One way?”
“How many of the secrets of Room 207 are real? What if I just think about this? I have to think about the opposite too.”
The opposite?
“That means some of the secrets of reality are in room 207.”
“…!”
“There would be nothing to do with human intervention. We would have changed everything by causing a huge butterfly effect starting from the time of ancient Egypt.”
“It has nothing to do with people!”
If it’s a factor unrelated to the butterfly effect, then what exists in reality is also in room 207!
For example, it refers to elements such as meteorites that fell from space.
Isn’t that exactly what a ‘mirror’ is?
Ariga smiled broadly and opened her bag slightly.
There was a ‘miracle’ in it.
In reality, there was an ancient treasure that the administration lost long ago!
“Hey, can you take this outside? Is there a way to do that -”
— Bam!
Soon, a small thermos flask appeared on the table.
“… It’s not big enough to fit in a thermos.”
“We’re working on that part.”
Everyone is doing their best in their respective positions.
If Ga-in is struggling to solve the room’s problem, Ari and Miro can be seen as drawing a picture for reality.
“Yes, Mukseong-ah.”
“huh?”
“Jin Mok-gyeong will invade Korea soon.”
“Coolook! Hey, hey Inma! Why are you asking for something so important now -”
“So what? It’s not really Korea.”
“This is like the Chinese army!”
“I’m really in the Chinese army.”
*
– Jin Mok-gyeong
A stench that stings the nose.
Even though I’ve shed countless amounts of blood to get to this point, I still can’t get used to the smell of blood.
Is this my hypocrisy or the last of my humanity?
I don’t know.
Fortunately, the long fight is starting to come to an end.
“It seems like you’re the only big piece of Korea. What do you think?”
A bleeding man hanging on a cross, imitating the Messiah of a desert religion.
Seo Il-do had a tired expression.
“I just want to rest.”
“You want to rest? You don’t want to kill me or lament your laziness?”
“Well, I lived diligently in my own way.”
“Haha! You, all you did was open a big church and gather believers. Isn’t that really foolish!”
“Are you stupid?”
“How many followers do you have? I think there were less than 100,000 of you until the last moment. Do you think you can stand against me with that number?”
“So what, you mean I should fill the entire country with my followers? How would I ever defeat the crazy god of the continent if I did that?”
The mad god of the continent is me.
It was a barbed remark, but I found it more funny than unpleasant.
“That’s true. Seo Il-do, let’s consider your fate as being born in a small country.”
The moment I took a step closer, Seo Il-do smiled bitterly.
“Does it look like you’re laughing?”
“Of course. I would like to offer some advice to His Majesty the Emperor of a great nation.”
“Listen.”
“You are a pig.”
“…”
“This pig is feeling full after eating the feed that its owner has scattered. By the way, it has gained quite a bit of weight.”
“…”
“You may be satisfied with the sight of a chubby belly, but keep in mind: the pig’s fate is to be slaughtered when the time comes.”
“Keep that in mind.”
— Kwajik!
With this, the largest fragment of Korea also came into my hands.