Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 574
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EP.574 Episode 574 – The Management Bureau is an Elephant (4)
Episode 574 – The Management Bureau is an Elephant (4)
– Cha Jin-cheol
The vibrations and noise were so intense that it was difficult to maintain posture, and the hideous boulders of rock were rising from all sides!
I knew there might be some fighting, but I didn’t think it would be this bad.
What did we, the administration, miss?
I didn’t know exactly what Jang Seo-jin’s abilities were.
I knew that I could create living sculptures, but the scope of those ‘sculptures’ was much broader than I imagined.
“Huh! Is a piece of rock glued together also a sculpture?”
“Newbie, what the hell do I do?”
“Hey, let’s cut down on the swearing.”
“Aren’t you going to curse? We don’t have enough grenades to destroy all those things!”
A situation where you are surrounded by rock fragments falling from all directions.
The grenade launcher that Kim Ji-ho brought is running out of bullets.
But that doesn’t mean I can do it with my fists.
…
If you use a piece of another world’s star, you can sort out the situation in an instant.
Because the star fragments can ignore the solid surface of that boulder and kill the ‘body’ inside.
However, since he is disguised as a new agent, he is only concerned about Kim Ji-ho’s gaze.
At that moment, Kim Ji-ho looked at me with a determined expression.
“Newbie, just use it.”
“what -”
“Are you a hotel participant?”
“…”
“Use the legacy. You used it inside the rock hand earlier. I couldn’t see it, but I felt something pressing on my skin.”
Honestly, I was a little embarrassed.
Was my acting so poor that Kim Ji-ho found out?
Well, I’m not a former actor like Elena or a former cult leader like Gain.
The opponent is also a secretly foolish person, but he is an agent.
Above all, the fact that we stuck together as seniors and juniors and carried out many missions together helped me out, knowingly or unknowingly.
There’s no need to waste any more time since I’ve already been caught.
“Please step back. My legacy does not identify Pia.”
Soon, a wave that shook all things swept across the land.
It didn’t take long for the rocks that had been brought to life by the wizard’s power to return to inanimate nature.
*
— Boom!
The sound of a ‘Piece of Another World’ colliding with the head of the largest rock giant.
Although this kind of physical collision isn’t necessary to use the Legacy, I’ve been using the Star Fragment like a fist axe for some time now.
It is my own effort to focus the destructive power of the star fragments, which would otherwise spread out and be wasted in all directions, on one point.
As the last remaining piece of stone crumbled, Jang Seo-jin showed a surprised expression for the first time.
“…I never knew there was such a thing in the world.”
“Do you understand now? Your resistance was meaningless from the beginning.”
“Ugh…!”
At that time, Kim Ji-ho asked annoyedly.
“Hey, let me ask you one thing. Why on earth are you being so annoying?”
“…”
“We don’t intend to kill you. We intend to use you! So why is this such a mess?”
This is something I was curious about as well.
Didn’t you tell Taesung Group from the beginning that you didn’t intend to kill him, but to take him away?
The chairman, whose reasoning seems to be half-paralyzed, might have imagined a future where his son is tortured like a lab rat in a laboratory.
But Jang Seo-jin herself seems to be of sound mind, so why is this chaos happening?
Are you really afraid that you’ll be subjected to some kind of biological experiment by the management?
At that moment, a young man with a pale expression muttered.
“…you don’t know anything.”
That is a truly serious expression.
“What don’t you know? Hey, I’m curious, so tell me.”
“Can you guess what it takes to make the ultimate art!”
“Okay, okay, I get it, so tell me. What the hell is art?”
“Ugh, uhh… .”
“Don’t cry.”
“Ehhhh! Ehhhh!”
Soon, Jang Seo-jin started to thrash around like a madman and walked towards the head of the rock giant that had been destroyed by the star fragment.
“Hahaha! You idiots, look with your own eyes!”
— Rustle!
The split head split open and red liquid gushed out from inside.
“Look! The ancient sages once said, ‘Man is the most precious being.’”
“…”
“To make the best sculpture, you need the best materials. I learned this painful truth when I witnessed the lightning strike from the sky!”
“…”
“Therefore, the ultimate art must necessarily involve people! Ha, can you handle this -”
“… Foot!”
A grave expression and a heavy tone of voice that did not match.
As I listened, I couldn’t help but laugh out loud, but Kim Ji-ho couldn’t hold it back and laughed.
“Hey, hey, Seojin. So this is what you call the ultimate art? Stone hands with human fingers, and moving sculptural materials mixed with brain and bone marrow?”
“…”
“So that’s why it was such a mess? Because it was a sculpture made by killing people, so the management couldn’t tolerate it?”
“…”
Is that why Jang Min-cheol and Jang Seo-jin clenched their teeth and fought like this?
They thought the management would kill them if they found out the ‘secret’ that the sculptures were made from people.
“Are you really an idiot? We even obtained your pieces and analyzed their components. Do you think you wouldn’t know that the materials were mixed with human flesh?”
For the first time since they met, Jang Seo-jin’s expression turned pale.
That fool has just realized it.
The administration knew from the beginning that Jang Seo-jin’s ‘art’ required murder.
“Oh, you got it? This, this dye is -”
“The blood is mixed.”
“… this aggregate is -”
“It’s a real human bone mixed with a spinal cord. You know what I mean?”
Conversation from the car.
The Bureau needs living people, and Jang Seo-jin’s sculptures, unlike drones, can replace ‘people’.
That is to say, there is some kind of mysterious soul in that piece… .
Could someone like Jang Seo-jin possibly have created a soul?
If this is possible, then it’s a real god.
My colleagues and I know what kind of organization the management is as we go through the hotel.
To put it metaphorically, it is a group that does not hesitate to cut out a part of the bread in order to protect the whole bread.
But, unlike us, what is the perception of real ordinary people?
Jang Seo-jin’s appearance is being shown now.
“Why… .”
“…”
“Hey, why are you doing this? Dang, you guys shouldn’t be doing this… .”
Just a moment ago, he was like a black magician who had discovered the secrets of the world on his own, but in an instant, he turned into a child.
“What doesn’t work?”
“I, I, I’m crazy, and my father went crazy because of me… but you guys shouldn’t be like this…!”
“…”
A voice that talks nonsense.
What made Jang Seo-jin afraid was not the power of the management bureau, which he could not fight against.
It must be because the first ‘elephant part’ I saw after being born was so cruel.
Kim Ji-ho looked at me, nodding his head.
“Newbie.”
“…”
“You were a real hotel participant?”
“How did you know?”
“Hey, do you think this is my first time training a rookie? No matter how much regression I endure, a true rookie is not like you.”
“…”
“When I see a ghost or a monster, I scream, run away, and urinate on myself.”
You were so calm.
Did you have to scream every time you saw a monster?
“It felt strange from then on, but I thought it was something I couldn’t believe because senior Kim Ari secretly cared about you.”
A while ago, Ari intervened in the work distribution process.
It was intended to send me to a company where Ga-in was acting as a cult leader, but it seems that it looked strange to outsiders.
“I’m sure it was when you escaped from the rock hand earlier. So, you’re a participant, right?”
“you’re right.”
Their eyes exchanged, and Kim Ji-ho asked in an exploratory manner.
“I’m talking about that second generation chaebol with second year syndrome. How will headquarters evaluate him?”
“I think it might be useful.”
That’s why I told you to bring it.
“Why? Is there any point in killing people to create human substitutes?”
“Many of the sacrifices, such as death row inmates, are not well controlled, but that piece is meaningful because it follows Jang Seo-jin’s orders. Isn’t that right?”
Yes, that’s right.
The value of Jang Seo-jin that the management agency found is not that it can reduce human casualties.
The ability to transform a dirty, disobedient human sacrifice into a human ‘piece’ sacrifice that obeys orders.
Therefore, it is very useful.
Kim Ji-ho smiled brightly.
“Alright. You’re a newbie. You’ve learned everything you need to know.”
and –
— Bang!
A single gunshot rang out, and the head of Taesung Group Chairman Jang Min-cheol exploded.
“Wow~! There’s going to be chaos tomorrow. It’s going to be on the front page of the Hankook Ilbo. The chairman is dying!”
“…”
The moment her father’s head exploded next to her, Jang Seo-jin’s expression turned pale.
The reason why the bodyguards were killed without mercy but ‘Jang Min-cheol’ was not killed.
Because he is a hostage to control Jang Seo-jin.
Now, what does it mean to kill Jang Min-cheol without mercy?
“Hipp! Sorry! I’m sorry! Just do as you say -”
— Bang!
Jang Seo-jin’s head exploded.
Soon, only two people were left on the ruined road.
“…”
“…”
“Is this okay?”
“What? Are you worried that headquarters will discipline you? I’ll write a report.”
The management agency killed the superpowered person and the chairman of the conglomerate that they coveted, and one report is enough.
That’s the agent.
“Just say that he was very rebellious and that his abilities were less useful than you thought.”
“… Thank you.”
The reason Kim Ji-ho killed those two.
Of course, it’s not like you kill people to make sculptures or anything like that.
I hid from the management that I was a hotel attendee, and they saw my inheritance.
We had no way to cleanly erase the memories of Jang Min-cheol and Jang Seo-jin.
So, I have no choice but to kill him and shut his mouth.
“No need to thank me. By the way, oh really!”
“…?”
“If I knew you were a contestant, I wouldn’t have caught you!”
In the meantime, do you care about this?
“Let’s go back.”
“Let’s do that. The car is broken, so it’ll take quite a while to get there-”
“I called you one more time, honey.”
“Wow, this gentleman is very meticulous.”
And so another mission was completed.
It may seem like a completely absurd conclusion to the administration, but to me…
It wasn’t bad.
Because my understanding of the administration and its agents is deepening.
“Tea rookie. I don’t know why you’re hiding the fact that you’re a participant, but I won’t report it, so do as you please. And now, find another shooter. Don’t let him find you.”
“…”
*
– Kim Ari
— Squeak!
Finally, the door to the silent ones, the leaders of the Administration, opened.
The first thing I noticed was the thick darkness and the thick fog obscuring my vision.
As I was walking through the gloom that weighed down my body, I discovered a stone slab emitting a soft light.
We are the children of this star, standing at the beginning and the end of all things.
“…”
A voice came from behind.
“Read along.”
“We are the children of this star, standing at the beginning and the end of all things.”
“Isn’t there another sentence?”
Therefore, only we are qualified to know all the mysteries.
“Therefore, only we are worthy to know all the mysteries.”
I swear that I will never reveal mysteries to anyone who is not qualified.
“…I swear that I will never reveal mysteries to anyone who is not qualified.”
The moment I read those three sentences, I felt an incomprehensible, profound pressure being applied to my mind.
“…”
From now on, the secrets I learn must not be revealed to ‘unqualified people’.
Because I too have become a ‘silent one’.
“Be careful from now on.”
“…”
“With duty comes responsibility. If you rashly expose the mystery to the outside world, there will be retribution from the stone tablet.”
“…What kind of punishment will follow?”
“Huh! You seem to have a nasty symbol from the start? It looks like you want to tell your ‘colleagues’ the information even if it means being punished?”
“…”
This guy is a burden.
You’ve been through a lot more loops than I have, and you know the hotel inside out, so you can read my mind too easily.
“Go. Congratulations again.”
I walked straight down the dark passage.
At the end of the passage I finally reached, there were those who had walked this path before me.
…
Information Gain told us in room 207.
When Gain says that she found out in Miro’s mind, this means that Miro in the past found out.
Many of those who remained silent were not human.
But this was really just a ‘trivial thing’.
…
I learned a lot.
I also knew the darkest secret the administration and this world held.
Also, I knew about the sins committed by everyone on this star.
‘We’ knew that we had no choice but to remain silent because we could not spread the sins we had all committed together to the world.
“…”
I think back to the days long ago when I first escaped to reality and became an agent.
I think about the shock of the moment when I realized I was a regressor and that the world was in a loop.
“…”
Why have I never questioned it before?
If the world repeats itself, there are things that are bound to happen.
This was the cause of all my problems, and I never questioned it.
*
– Han Ga-in
I woke up feeling someone’s hand.
The moment when you instinctively check the status window.
“…”
The status window did not appear properly.
Instead, a familiar face appeared across the street.
“Ah…! Is this a dream?”
“…”
“So the status window is weird? Ariya?”
“…”
Strangely, Ari didn’t say anything.
Instead, he gestured for me to follow him.