Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 560
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EP.560 Episode 560 – The Secret of the Esper 2 (5) Fin
Episode 560 – The Secret of the Esper 2 (5) Fin
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 27th day
Current location: Esper Lake
Wise Man’s Advice: 1”
-Han Ga-in
It was reported that Eunsol’s older sister’s location was listed as ‘searching’.
“Eww! What should I do?”
“I have to go find it right now!”
“Ha, but I don’t even know where it is?”
“That’s-! Aah! The hotel, you said you’d give me a break-”
Elena’s last words are a thought I have had many times.
“… this.”
“Brother?”
“How is this rest?”
“That’s why!”
Even if the hotel’s standards are more extreme than those of the general public, this is crossing the line.
But, it’s strange.
Wasn’t it the case that hotels hide the truth rather than tell blatant lies?
“…”
Just before escaping, I recall what the merchant had said.
*
‘This is a matter of discretion, so I’ll give you some sort of guidelines for action.’
‘Just rest for about six months.’
‘Just take six months off and let it pass by without thinking about anything, and then spend the next six months just gathering information. The main game starts a year later.’
*
“I never said it was safe.”
“yes?”
“Hotels and merchants never told us they were safe.”
“yes?”
“I just told you to rest.”
“Huh? Huh?” said Songi, who was looking dumbfounded. “Huh?”
“What kind of pun is that? Rest obviously means safety!”
Hotels are a place where the obvious is sometimes not obvious.
“The first thing the merchant said was, ‘This much is discretionary.’”
This much is discretionary.
In other words, I can’t tell you anything more than this.
“If the total information is 100, the discretion given to the merchant is less than 5. Since I can’t tell you everything, I literally gave you ‘action guidelines.’”
“What do you mean?”
Elena is confused.
“Reality is already dangerous. You all knew this, right?”
“Yes. So, Miss Ari and her grandfather came to the hotel.”
“Just because you say rest doesn’t mean it’s safe outside. It’s never been safe outside in the first place.”
I didn’t tell you to rest because it’s safe outside.
“Then why did you tell me to rest?”
“Because if you act rashly, it becomes more dangerous.”
“ah?”
“If you go around poking around without enough information, you’ll end up in the palm of your hand!”
Songi’s confused eyes.
“Who is your opponent?”
Again, I recall what happened a little while ago.
The past seen through insight.
The man who spoke to me at that point in time.
What he said.
“Shouldn’t we check our colleagues’ locations?”
He didn’t simply see the future.
He knew about the ‘companion location information’ in the status window!
“… all participants.”
“ah?”
“People who escaped from the hotel before us.”
“…”
“And perhaps those who currently rule the administration,”
It was a huge crisis, but I laughed.
A thrilling feeling of unknown origins prickling my skin.
I asked the last question of the day.
“Advice: 1 -> 0”
‘Did you pass on the information about me to your other contestant? Where is he-‘
— Beep!
It’s like a warning sound.
“That question violates the rules!”
I laughed out loud, but at the same time, I felt relieved.
If I can’t get information about ‘former participants’ through advice, then former participants can’t get information about ‘me’ through advice either.
And the following answer came out.
“It’s not too late. You have made a very good wish.”
If the warning a moment ago had come from the hotel, this reply seemed to have come from the sponsor.
What does it mean that it’s not too late, and why is my wish so wonderful?
As always, there is no detailed explanation.
“…”
But, for an owl, isn’t this an easy answer to understand?
I felt like I had a vague idea of what was happening.
What happened at Hotel Delight and Esper was no coincidence!
Did you know exactly those two places were your colleagues’ territories?
I don’t think it’s that bad.
As I confirmed while writing the advice a little while ago, you can’t find other participants in the hotel directly with the power given by the hotel.
Did they do it in dozens or hundreds of places that they thought were suspicious?
Do you see the response of the people involved after it happened?
“Let’s take a rest.”
“Oh, brother?”
“I think I should just rest.”
“Mr. Cain?”
“If you think about it, Eunsol noona’s hotel problem was the same. Noona and I could have just waited without making a fuss.”
“What is that -”
“This is normal behavior. Waiting quietly for the administration.”
Now I know.
“The process of solving it is itself a trap.”
Songi and Elena have become quiet for a while.
Both of them started to understand what I was saying.
Some of your colleagues may have already climbed onto the other person’s hand.
But, let’s keep in mind the owl’s words, ‘It’s not too late.’
Because of the wish, information about me will be automatically censored, so ‘I’ am not in an irreversible situation yet!
6 months, it’s already been a month, so is it 5 months?
You should also keep in mind the merchant’s advice to just rest until that period has passed.
What will change after that period of time?
I don’t know.
I don’t know, but when you don’t know, it is wisdom to follow the advice of someone who knows.
From now on, I am an ordinary person who knows nothing, and this is not a hotel party or anything.
therefore….
“Eww!”
“Oppa? You suddenly screamed -”
“Gyaaaah!”
“Go, Mr. Gain!”
“Please save me! Please save me!”
“Do I have to go this far?”
From now on, I am blind, deaf, and a fraudulent exorcist.
“Ugh, what are you going to do about Eunsol unnie!”
I trust my sister.
I’m sure it’ll work out fine.
*
– Lee Eun-sol
— Squeak!
Dark and murky air.
A plank that sways with every step.
“…”
What on earth is this place?
Clearly, I arrived at the Esper’s dock after receiving Elena’s invitation and boarded it… .
When I came to my senses, it was more like a ghost ship than a luxury cruise ship.
Even the sky was filled with crimson swirls, a sight that was not at all like this world.
— Roo-o-!
Even if you use the flute of peace, the scenery does not change.
That it wasn’t a hallucination or anything like that.
“It’s happening again…. At Hotel Delight, the elevator was noisy, and now the whole ship?”
It looks like that kind of chaos disaster.
What kind of chaos disaster keeps appearing every week, I can’t help but laugh.
It’s more than a hotel in many ways.
The hotel, they’ll give you a reward if you solve the ordeal, right?
What is the reality?
As a result of solving the strange elevator problem at Hotel Delight, the stock price fell and strange rumors spread, resulting in a significant drop in guests.
“Whew… This is really too much.”
That moment.
— Warm!
I heard the sound of shoes.
“Hehe, what are you so worried about?”
A man appears in a shabby ghost ship-like place.
He’s not as tall as Jincheol, but he’s tall enough to be a burden.
and….
“You are a mysterious person.”
I can’t recognize the facial features.
It clearly appeared right in front of me, but I couldn’t recognize what its face looked like.
If I had the ‘Monocular Bird’s Eye’ that I returned to the hotel, I might have been able to see through it?
This is meaningless talk since it’s something you can’t take out of the hotel.
“It’s a mystery! I just care about my privacy.”
“…”
“Haha, Eunsol, have you ever thought about that? I feel uncomfortable with people recognizing me. I wish I could live without anyone knowing.”
It’s the kind of thought that a person with an unusual wish would have.
“Well, if I wanted to live without anyone knowing, I wouldn’t have started a business.”
“Wow…! That’s right.”
A crimson vortex that filled the sky.
The air was so stuffy, the floors creaked.
It’s a place where an ordinary person would scream in fear, but the man has a calm and composed attitude.
Anyone can tell that he is not an ordinary person.
That doesn’t mean he was a monster.
After filtering, there is only one thing left.
“Are you from the management office?”
The man smiled broadly.
I can’t be sure because I can’t see the facial features properly, but I have a feeling that’s it.
“Yes, Miss Eunsol Lee.”
“Then, will you save me?”
“Is this a situation where I need to help you?”
“Isn’t it?”
“I don’t see anyone trying to harm Eunsol.”
The nuance of not intending to harm me.
Although we cannot completely trust it, let us avoid hasty conflicts.
“Look at the sky. It doesn’t look like this world to anyone. I’m a timid businessman. If you want to talk to me, I think it would be better to do it somewhere safe.”
“What a timid businessman… . That’s different from the information we got.”
“…”
“Didn’t it get featured in the news? The strange phenomenon at Delight Hotel! I heard the CEO solved it well with his wit.”
“To the base… .”
“According to the article, Ms. Eunsol Lee has connections with the management office.”
It was a lie told in order to handle the situation in front of the employees.
But, there was one thing that bothered me a little.
He knows about ‘CEO Lee Eun-sol, who has connections in the management office’, but he doesn’t know about the ‘young exorcist’ who worked with him.
Did that information disappear because of Gain’s wish?
“If that part bothered you, I apologize. It was a lie. If you want, I can correct it and -”
“Are you lying?”
“yes?”
“Why are you lying? How could Eunsol be with us?”
“…”
“Isn’t that so? You are Agent Kim Ari’s colleague!”
It’s cool.
At this moment, I felt like I was the Monkey King on the Buddha’s palm.
Did Ari pass on information about me?
I always kept that possibility in mind, but when it actually happened, my heart sank.
Of course, this is not a situation where you can conclude that it was a betrayal.
To begin with, it’s ambiguous to describe us and the management as enemies, and it’s not even certain that Ari passed on the information.
By the way, why are you only talking about ‘Kim Ari’? What about ‘Kim Muk-seong’?
“Let’s get to the point.”
“… That’s right.”
“Congratulations to contestant Eunsol Lee.”
Since the word ‘participant’ came up, the meaning of the congratulations is also clear.
“You escaped from the hotel! This is truly a heroic feat. There are only a few contestants in human history who have managed to make it all the way to the second floor.”
“This is the first time I’ve heard of this story.”
“Oh, if we expand the scope of the participants to include aliens, it would be a bit more? Even so, it is a rare feat. Congratulations again.”
“… thank you.”
The man said with a somewhat exaggerated shrug.
“We hope you will join us.”
“…”
“Let us share the secrets of the world and share the crisis.”
“…”
“Let us lead the fate of humanity, which has fallen into misery, to the light. This is a story about becoming a hero and a savior. You are more than qualified.”
“…”
“Do I have to decide now?”
“Is there any reason to worry?”
“Well, I guess that’s what I’m thinking because of all the weird things that have happened at the hotel.”
“Haha! Talking about hotels is already fun. I’ll listen.”
“Why did someone with good intentions force me into a place like this?”
He calmly stretched out his hand and pointed to the sky.
A world where dark blue vortexes are seething and faint screams have been heard for a while now.
A place you’d nod your head to even if it was called hell.
Can we really believe that anyone who locks someone up in a place like this and talks about negotiating has good intentions?
“It’s a little dark, isn’t it?”
“…”
“Since Ms. Eunsol Lee is talking about her experience at the hotel, should I also tell you about my experience?”
“Your experience?”
“The most meaningless things in the world are words and promises.”
“what -”
“Isn’t that right? The moment it comes out of your mouth, it disappears in vain. So, no matter what Eunsol says, we can’t believe it.”
The next moment, a rolled up scroll emerged from the man’s waist –
That fucking scroll!
Just, oh! I knew it the moment I saw it.
That scroll is not one of those strange, shabby items or magical tools that are lying around in the administration office!
“legacy!”
“You’ll notice right away. Now, let’s start the real negotiations -”
Conversation is conversation.
Threats are met with threats!
[Hand of Greed: 1 -> 0]
“Maximum output of wishes! I will get out of here right now, and Hotel Delight will become the No. 1 hotel in Korea -”
“What the hell are you talking about all of a sudden!”
—Whoosh!
I made a wish.
and.
[It was done.]
“I love you, Dragon!”