Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 550
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EP.550 Episode 550 – Hotel Delight (3) Fin
Episode 550 – Hotel Delight (3) Fin
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 0
Current location: Delight Hotel, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
Wise Man’s Advice: 0”
– Han Ga-in
As soon as I returned to reality, I was struck by, to borrow the expression of the Administration, a chaotic disaster, and many thoughts came to my mind.
Where did the one-year break the hotel promised go?
I thought it would literally mean that nothing happened for a year, but chaos broke out right from day 0.
“…”
Let’s recall the time when Eun-sol took the ‘real eyes’ by lending them to the monocular bird, even though she said she wouldn’t pay for them.
Hotels don’t lie, but their standards are ‘somewhat’ different from the ordinary world.
In other words, from a hotel perspective, ‘this much work’ is nothing, just a minor event during a break.
Let’s turn it over.
Even by hotel standards, something ‘big’ will happen after a year?
The start of the event related to ‘The Light that Calls for the End’ that Ari spoke of is one year later?
However, Ari said that it was difficult to determine the exact time.
“…”
I grabbed the string of thoughts that were jumping around here and there.
For now, it’s time to focus on Hotel Delight’s work.
Need to save him?
Should I go to an unknown other world to save people I’ve never met before?
Pretend not to know and avoid it?
Anyway, at the hotel, I didn’t really care about NPCs who weren’t my colleagues?
But Eunsol is the owner of this hotel.
If rumors spread that customers have died due to strange phenomena, we may have to close down our business!
— Ouch!
“Phew… .”
He lightly slapped my cheek to pull himself together.
Considering the risks of rescuing a missing person and the reputational damage of not rescuing them.
It’s a very calculating attitude.
I immediately ran to Eunsol and thought about it for the last time.
Distinction between NPCs and real humans.
Some may say it’s meaningless, but I’ve made a thorough distinction.
Now that you’re out there, you even treat real people like NPCs?
What on earth is ‘reality’ to me?
This way of thinking will only make me a ghost trapped in a false world forever.
Save.
Save the people trapped in the strange world as a result of my actions.
To save ‘me’ from hell, not someone else!
*
— Ding!
As soon as I arrived at the conference room on the 7th floor, I approached Eunsol.
The hotel staff tried to stop them, but a high-pitched voice was heard.
“Let me in!”
The staff were noisy.
Soon, the secretary of the older sister I had met earlier added her words.
“He’s, um, he’s like a powerful exorcist.”
A powerful exorcist?
It’s funny, but it’s not wrong.
The employees seemed to agree and stepped back.
In a world where even ordinary people naturally accept the existence of ghosts, monsters, and demons, there is nothing surprising about the word exorcist.
“Cain -”
“Let’s go rescue him. Let’s leave before it’s too late. If he’s dead, at least collect his remains.”
My sister looked slightly surprised.
“You’re more proactive than I thought? As expected, you’re a real person… Alright. Let’s go right away?”
“yes.”
Just before leaving, a middle-aged man who appeared to be a high-ranking official at the hotel stopped my older sister, looking flustered.
“Director! Are you, by any chance, going with me?”
“…”
“Well, I don’t know what’s going on, but it’s dangerous! Leave it to the exorcist and report it to the management office -”
A moment of silence.
Soon, my sister spoke as if for everyone to hear.
“I have worked with the administration before.”
People with wide open eyes.
“I can handle most things, so everyone else can do what they’re doing. And!”
Gathering gazes.
“No one should use elevator number 3 for one hour! Also inform the guests. Elevator number 3 is broken, so please use elevator number 1 or 2 only when coming to the lobby!”
“All right.”
“Call the elevator in one hour! Okay?”
“Are you saying that instead of using an hour, I should call the elevator upstairs after an hour?”
“That’s correct.”
It is a preliminary step for escape.
*
— Ding!
The elevator has arrived.
“This was elevator number 3.”
“That’s how we distinguish them. The missing guests also had problems while riding this elevator. What should we do about this…?”
“Why did you lie about working with the administration?”
“Lies? Why are you lying? Ari, you worked with Grandpa.”
“That’s true, too.”
“I had a feeling that a lot of strange things would happen in the future. I had to reassure the employees.”
“If I don’t, I’m afraid everyone will quit and the hotel’s reputation will be ruined.”
“… It may seem calculated -”
“No.”
I don’t think it’s calculated, but rather a natural behavior.
When you become a CEO, caring about the reputation of a business is not selfishness but a sense of responsibility.
“What are the conditions for the elevator, or rather elevator number 3, to go above the 22nd floor? It doesn’t go there every time. If it did, all the passengers would have disappeared.”
The condition must be something that does not normally occur.
Also, it must have been what happened when I ‘barged’ into the elevator earlier.
“I recalled my memories on the way here. Then suddenly I realized something.”
At this point we’re having a conversation in the elevator.
None of us pressed the button to tell which floor we were going to.
Therefore, it is normal for the elevator not to start.
— boooooong
It’s off!
“As expected! This was the condition!”
Getting on an elevator and waiting for a long time without pressing any buttons!
*
As before, the elevator stopped on the 27th floor.
“Let’s get down.”
“…”
“Gain? What’s wrong?”
“No. The location is a bit… absurd.”
“Ah, the current location that is shown in the status window?”
“Let’s go. Pero!”
– Grrrrr!
Soon Pero was transformed into a grotesque, hideous – or, in other words, ‘trustworthy’ – figure.
The moment when Pero is about to step forward confidently.
“I’m anxious. Pero, you stay here.”
– Huh?
My older sister tilted her head for a moment, then nodded.
“You want to make him guard the elevator?”
“It’s a pain when the elevator goes down to the lower floor.”
“I did tell them not to use elevator number 3… Well, it’s hard to trust the employees in this situation.”
A situation where something like an urban legend happened.
An unknown force can bewitch employees.
“Yay!”
– Gulp!
He dragged Pero and stood him between the elevator doors.
“Stay here. Don’t let me come down. Got it?”
*
Eunsol and I quickly explored the 27th floor.
It didn’t take long because it was a repeat of the search we had done before, but the missing family was nowhere to be seen.
“Where on earth did you go? Did you get eaten by a monster? Then where is that monster!”
“Sister, do you have any missing family photos?”
“If it’s a reservation photo, here it is.”
This is a small photo of a woman in her 40s.
Let’s look closely and the insight shows a vague possibility.
A dark space with insufficient lighting.
The sound of “Shhhhh!” coming from all directions.
I’ve heard that before.
“This sound… .”
“Sound? Can you hear sound with insight?”
Insight is a kind of prediction, not a prediction of the definite future.
Rather than looking at the possibilities shown and saying, “Oh, that’s right!”, you need to think about “Why did this possibility arise?” to obtain more meaningful information.
How would the missing family act?
After getting on the elevator, something came up and I didn’t press the button.
If there is a young child in the family, he or she may suddenly start crying or something.
Then the elevator went to the non-existent 27th floor.
People who felt the change belatedly at this point.
Once we got off on the 27th floor, we probably wandered around in confusion like we did in the past.
As an ordinary person, it is difficult to come up with an answer that requires you to get back on the elevator that connects this world and reality.
Even if I thought of it, I wouldn’t have a way to call it since I don’t have any superpowers like the Hand of Greed.
Then what should I do?
“parlor.”
“what?”
“I tried asking other people for help.”
If you recall that there is no 27th floor in Hotel Delight, you should have guessed that there are no regular guests in the rooms.
Since you are an ordinary person, you may not have thought of this.
It must have been difficult to make rational decisions because of the fear.
I returned to the hallway lined with guest rooms.
“It looks like he went into the guest room somewhere. Where should I go -”
“It looks like 2704.”
When I looked in the direction my sister had reached out, I saw that only the carpet in front of the door of room 2704 was covered in dirt.
As if several people were walking around anxiously and knocking on the door.
“… Phew.”
The older sister standing in front of room 2704 couldn’t hide her nervousness.
I thought I had been through all kinds of hardships, but even so, human instincts are so weak.
In times like this, it’s momentum.
— Hwarurur!
“Huh? Gain, you -”
— Boom!
The door shattered with a deafening noise!
“Hahaha! Come out! I am Horus!”
“…”
My sister made a somewhat disgusted expression.
Anyway, I’m glad the fear seems to have gone away.
*
The interior of the room was decorated like a home.
Of course, there were also ‘residents’.
“what?”
It is something in the shape of a human being.
If I were to describe its appearance, it would be like a writhing shadow mixed with flesh, imitating a human.
A person with weak courage would probably feel dizzy just by looking at such a monster.
Of course, the time when Nana and Eunsol would be scared by seeing ‘just this much’ has passed.
Before I opened the door, I was nervous because I didn’t know what would come out, but once I opened it, it was nothing!
Now that you’ve raised your spirits with the might of the sacred sun, it’s time to show off the power of the Grimoire!
Soon, the eerie incarnation’s magical power surged forth.
When the power of incarnation is used to swallow up the opponent, the shadow human.
“…?”
For the first time, I felt strange.
“Did you find out something?”
My older sister with an anxious expression.
“Just a moment.”
Strange beings rolling around on the floor, already paralyzed with fear.
I borrowed the body of one of them for a moment.
“…”
“So you came back after being possessed? Did you find your missing family?”
“Over there, in the living room, there’s a door leading to the basement.”
“It’s a hotel room, what do you mean, basement – no, I’ll go.”
While my sister was away, I confronted the five shadow humans inside the room.
Although it was a standoff, the shadow people didn’t seem to have any intention of opposing me.
Just lying flat on the floor.
“…”
One by one.
By repeating the process of ice reading, the information in their heads is read.
“…”
What on earth is this information?
What is this place and what are these people?
It’s confusing.
I came out of the hotel and came back to reality… .
It’s still full of unknown secrets.
“Eww!”
“Stop! Seon-ah, don’t cry!”
“Oh my… Agent! I thought I was captured by monsters and would die without being able to move -”
“Quiet, quiet and follow me.”
I see people following my older sister.
Judging from the way she called me ‘Agent’, it seems like my older sister is lying and saying that she is an agent of the management agency.
“Let’s go.”
Just before turning around, the panting boy asked me.
“Tongue, bro! Agent bro!”
“huh?”
“Shouldn’t we be killing monsters?”
“…”
“Don’t be quiet! Yonseok! The agent should have done it himself! I’m sorry. Aega-”
“Let’s go.”
*
Luckily, Pero was guarding the elevator well.
After returning to the elevator, the family began to slump down on the floor with half-souled expressions on their faces.
“Thank you… . Thank you… .”
“It’s okay, just rest.”
“Uh, when are you going back?”
“There are about 20 minutes left.”
“Not that much! Oh, no.”
The moment when my older sister gently reassures others.
I was busy concentrating on the ‘current location’ shown in the status window.
“Current location: Atlantis – Searching for specific location”
“…”
A strange piece of information I just found out while searching through the minds of shadow humans.
This is Atlantis.
We are the ‘chaos disaster’ that occurred in the peaceful home of Atlantis just a moment ago.
*
– Park Seung-yeop
Warm sunshine.
A land of peace.
Ahh… that’s right.
Nothing in this world is eternal, and even struggles have an end.
Finally to a peaceful land –
—Wow!
“Ouch!”
Who are you?
Who dares to challenge me, the best master in the world!
“Hey, Inma! Park Seung-yeop!”
“…”
He’s a math teacher.
“Go to sleep, Inma. Even if you sleep, sleep so that it’s not obvious! Are you even snoring?”
“… sorry.”
“Go behind me and raise your hands!”
Ah, so annoying~!
When using dreams, I should have just asked Ga-in to become a third-year high school student who just finished the college entrance exam!
Why did I forget that?
This is really ‘Ouch~!’
Since your body is still young, you’re a middle school student again?
If this continues, I’ll have to go to school again!
I really hate school.
“cook!”
The male students giggled as if they thought I was funny.
Who was it? I don’t even know the name.
“… Are you laughing?”
Even so, he’s below me.
“…”
“I asked you if you laughed. Is it funny? Is it funny because I already did it?”
“Oh, no.”
“If you laugh one more time, you lose.”
“Uh, I’m sorry.”
This kid!
This time I gave it a try.
Who am I?
This is Park Seung-yeop, number one in the Bangbae Middle School rankings!
That moment.
A faint voice that only I could hear tickled my ears.
“Ah… . I thought you’d be a decent person since you were going back to before you fell to Fortuna! I didn’t think you’d be this stupid!”