Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 542
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EP.542 Episode 542 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (28)
Episode 542 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (28)
– ???
I discovered the maze about three months ago.
Early in the morning, when I woke up in bed, there was someone sleeping soundly next to me.
For that moment, I thought an angel had come down from heaven.
She had no idea what happened after she summoned the ‘Midnight Maze’.
According to Miro, after using the midnight hour, he closed his eyes once and when he opened them, he was next to me.
It’s like I have absolutely no memory of the time span of nearly five years.
All the time that remained in the maze here has disappeared.
Now ‘Mother’ has disappeared from the world without a trace – that can’t be possible!
you idiot?
You’re not the kind of person who would just disappear and end up like this!
The mother’s goal is clearly to restore her adult state.
I was curious to see what methods they would use in the process, but in a strange way, they achieved their goal ‘halfway’.
Anyway, the maze joined us again.
In other words, this means that ‘time difference’ has returned.
*
Jin Mok-kyung and Serena stare at me in extreme tension.
He said, looking at the two of them.
“Let’s stop here.”
“…What do you mean?”
Jin Mok-gyeong seems to have many misunderstandings about me, but there are no cunning plots or evil schemes.
Those four letters really sum up my entire goal.
‘Let’s stop here.’
“maze!”
Before I could finish speaking, I heard the distinctive ‘clank!’ sound when the time zone sensor starts working.
Soon, ‘Noon Gain’ appeared.
The first words from the guy I missed when I saw him after five years were as follows.
“What? Why Earth?”
Did you take that summoner before you left for the moon?
Unlike Ga-in, who was puzzled, Jin Mok-kyung and Serena’s reactions were intense.
“This is cursed!”
In an instant, two people rush towards Ga-in with their eyes wide open.
Although I have not personally experienced it, there is a hypothesis that the original and the summoned beings in this time zone feel hostile when they encounter each other.
It seems that the emotion is also affecting the fragments.
I rose into the sky, holding the maze in my arms.
“Eww! Go, shouldn’t Gain help me?”
“I’ll figure it out.”
“Hey, are you okay?”
I know it well because I have been watching it from the side of Jin Mok-gyeong for several years.
Those two have gained great power by gathering tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of fragments over the years… .
It is still only a sub-level of the Book of Incarnation and the Divine Sun.
No matter how many fragments you collect from a broken bowl, they cannot be compared to the original bowl.
“There must have been a picture drawn by Ga-in, so I tried to leave it alone if possible… .”
“…”
“What a terrible thing to say about a ceasefire! We have to turn the world upside down at the last moment.”
“Ariya… What you said just now was so witch-like.”
“It would be okay to finish what you started with your own hands.”
*
I think the chaos could have ended at any time when Miro returned with the timeline containing ‘Cain before she was split’.
However, since the summoned being Gain had a time limit, I had to gather the fragments in one place, and since it was Gain’s plan, I didn’t want to mess with it, so I just left it alone.
The match was over when they gathered together and faced each other.
…
Moscow is falling into ruins in real time.
A massive shockwave that crushes buildings and upends the ground in an instant.
For a moment I thought about how many Muscovites might have died, and then I stopped thinking about it.
Anyway, they are not great people who would worry about such ‘minor’ issues.
“Let’s go up further.”
It was extremely dangerous, with the heat rays and shock waves that seemed like they would vaporize me in one blow constantly occurring.
There was no choice but to climb so high that the maze would shiver from the cold.
The battle is more intense than I thought?
The clot on the ground was so thick that I could barely see it with my own eyes.
“I didn’t know Jin Mok-kyung could fight this well against Ga-in. Is Serena putting up a good fight?”
“I’m cold!”
“Isn’t that so? It feels like Ga-in is trying to fight without using her strength? Can’t she move much faster than that?”
“Ariya… I’m so cold.”
“Just hold on a little longer. It will be over soon.”
— Ddddddd!
When I felt the waves crushing my skin along with the intense vibrations, I knew the fight was over.
“Let’s go down.”
*
As soon as he came down to the ground, he covered Miro’s eyes.
The corpses of Moscow citizens strewn everywhere were a problem, but Jin Mok-gyeong’s condition was also quite dire.
Not only were his limbs torn off, but his right eye was gouged out and his skull was half-crushed.
It was even more surprising that he was alive in that state.
“This… . thief!”
Former General Secretary Jin Mok-gyeong’s driving force that still lives on seems to be ‘hatred’.
Seeing him express such intense anger despite the immense pain he must be in, in a way, I felt a sense of respect for him.
What causes this overwhelming emotion?
Anger towards the culprit who toyed with their fate?
The hostility that occurs when a summoned being from this time zone meets the original?
It could simply be both.
Either way, one thing was certain.
“…Thank you for your hard work.”
Gain seemed unaffected by those feelings.
A subtle look that seems a little bitter, a little regretful.
Gain doesn’t seem to care much about NPC sacrifices, and in fact doesn’t even pay attention to the corpses of Moscow citizens strewn everywhere… .
Jin Mok-gyeong wouldn’t be such a meaningless NPC to Ga-in either.
“Devil! What the hell, what the heck were you thinking of doing in this world -!”
“I’m sorry. I’ll give you a rest now.”
A firm hand cut off Jin Mok-gyeong’s breath in one breath.
The vain death of the General Secretary who ruled over 1/3 of the world.
Soon, Cain pulled the ‘shard’ out of his head.
“This is it.”
The moment the situation was sorted out.
As I approached Gain, he looked at me.
“Let me give you a brief explanation.”
As it is a summoned entity with memories from before going to the moon, the current situation seems somewhat confusing regardless of the outcome of the fight.
I’ll give you a very brief summary of what’s happened over the past five years.
Suddenly, Cain was torn apart and the fragments scattered throughout the star.
After fighting amongst themselves, only a few of the most powerful fragments remained.
After about two minutes of explaining, I realized someone was absent.
“What about Serena?”
“…”
“Did you miss it? Or did you let it go?”
I think he let it go.
Considering the strength of Jin Mok-kyung that I know, and Serena’s strength that would be at a similar level if I hit her well, the answer is clear.
Neither of them were capable of holding out against Cain for long before she split, but the actual fight was more intense than expected.
It means that the strong side took into consideration the circumstances of the weak.
“…I didn’t want to put a period here.”
“hmm?”
“I don’t know what happened on the moon. But the future me who made the decision on the moon -”
“The future? Oh, it’s the future for you.”
“I don’t think this is the ending that my future self had in mind. I’m sure my future self will have a separate ‘game-ending event’ prepared.”
It’s persuasive.
It was about 5 years ago that Gain’s hair broke up.
It was about three months ago that the maze came back to me.
In other words, the return of the maze has nothing to do with Cain’s arrangement, and it is highly likely that the summoned Cain ending the game was not the original Cain’s intention.
At the end of the conversation, the summoner asked a question.
“What about Sophia?”
“It seems to be contained in the soul box. It must be outside.”
Of course, you have to go out and see.
“What about Aidya?”
“I don’t know. Maybe he’s watching the situation on the ground from the moon.”
And the final conversation.
“…There’s something terrible around the maze.”
“Please refrain from saying it’s horrible.”
“There’s something ugly.”
“Don’t use harsh language. My mother?”
“The midnight maze -”
“That expression is now incorrect. Because we no longer rely on the existence of time zones.”
“Then, from now on, let’s call it ‘Ghost Story Maze.’ Is that monster really your mother?”
“well.”
A moon full of mystery.
There, ‘Mother’ finally found a way to survive without relying on time zones.
The price was quite harsh.
*
– Kim Muk-seong
Early morning when the cold air can be felt.
He, who I have been with for the past five years, asked me to do something.
“Grandpa, can you make that bouillabaisse again?”
“It’s seafood stew, not bouillabaisse. But it’s breakfast.”
“I want to eat it now. I prepared all the ingredients.”
“…”
About an hour to prepare seafood and vegetables.
For a long time the young man did not help me at all.
If it were before, I would have scolded him for being so lazy and young, but today I didn’t want to do that.
Luckily, I finished cooking in time for breakfast.
It was a seafood stew with fresh octopus and shrimp, as well as several large pieces of fish, and the smell alone was enough to make it seem real.
It’s not something you’d eat for breakfast, but who cares?
As we were both finishing our plates, the young man asked.
“Oh, you said you had a family?”
“okay.”
“I’ve heard it often, but it’s an uncomfortable story, so I’ve never asked about it in detail.”
“I guess so.”
“Can I hear it today?”
“…”
Love and marriage.
A son who I would never mind putting in my eye.
Happiness that seemed endless.
and….
A tragic end.
“Ugh… .”
“What? Inma, are you crying? A grown man doesn’t cry.”
“It’s a sad story, so I have to cry. Do your colleagues know?”
“Inma, your colleagues don’t know this story either. It’s a story that only Ari knew, and now you’ve been added to the group.”
“I would consider it an honor.”
“To glory… .”
The atmosphere is somewhat gloomy.
Just as he was thinking about having a drink in the morning breeze, the young man got up.
“I’m going to go now.”
I felt like I had something to say, but nothing came to mind.
“Wh, what… Are you saying goodbye like this? Inma, keep looking at me like I’ve changed a little. If you do this, you’ll get screwed later.”
“You may think so.”
“…”
That’s a lie.
I never once thought of this guy as a gay.
As he was leaving the house, the young man suddenly looked back.
“I’ve seen it many times.”
“what?”
“This is the moment of separation. I’ve seen it more than ten times.”
“…”
“I always think, what would be a good last meal? By the way, I like hamburgers the best.”
“Inma, then I’ll ask you to buy it for me -”
“My grandfather didn’t like it, so I made it with bouillabaisse. I like that too.”
“…”
“I thought it wouldn’t be a big deal since I’ve seen it more than 10 times, but it wasn’t.”
“…”
“Thank you for your help.
“You, you!”
“Go ahead.”
“What the hell were you? Why did Gain-i-”
“I am the ‘ending’ prepared by your colleague.”
With those words the young man left.
Soon I was left alone in a deserted mansion in Florida.
Also, I knew that the long 207th issue was coming to an end.
It’s definitely a moment that should bring joy and a sense of accomplishment.
…
I feel like getting drunk.