Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 580
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EP.580 Episode 580 – A Trip Down Memory Lane (4) Fin
Episode 580 – A Trip Down Memory Lane (4) Fin
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 120th day
Current location: 71 Gomurae-ro, Seocho-gu, Seoul
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
– Han Ga-in
Early in the morning, I checked the date as I walked towards my destination.
“Today is the 120th day.”
Songi answered.
“Has it been four months since you left the hotel?”
“Hmm….”
Isn’t 4 months 122 days rather than 120 days?
Because the first and third months had 31 days.
“Oh, does it have to take two more days?”
“well….”
It’s been 114 days since I started my trip, so almost a week has already passed.
In the meantime, we’ve seen many tourist attractions, and I think the three of us have become closer than before.
“Haam…! So, today is the last day?”
“Will today or tomorrow be the last? Maybe not.”
The maze muttered as if it was a pity.
“I want to play a little more.”
“Let’s do that. There’s still time until the real start anyway.”
“Brother, didn’t you pass up your old house too easily?”
“…”
The ghost story maze I met a few days ago advised me to search through my memories from when I was about twenty years old.
The first place I went to was the house in Seocho-dong where I had lived for a long time.
“It wasn’t the residential area I knew. It had turned into some weird apartment complex.”
“Hmm….”
“It was like there was a weird building instead of an elementary school. There was nothing that reminded me of my old memories.”
In the present, when the power of blessing is dispersed and weakened, the power of insight has been reduced from powerful prediction to the realm of conscious intuition.
However, a vague feeling still comes when you arrive at the ‘right place’ or get ‘reasonable information’.
The proof is that I felt a sense of discomfort in middle school and ended up writing advice, and ended up getting the keyword ‘younger brother’.
It wasn’t a residential area.
I didn’t feel anything.
“Arrived.”
“Is this the high school that you graduated from? You went there with that girl?”
“…let’s go in.”
“Didn’t he say he got a confession?”
“Foot!”
“Wow…! Songiya, did you see Gain just now?”
“It’s ridiculous to see you smile, oppa! I’ve received far more confessions!”
“Foot!”
“Gain, why is she acting so annoying and petty?”
“Men are like this. Being confessed to is the greatest pride in life!”
The truth that doesn’t change no matter what two people say.
I am Han Ga-in, the winner.
*
I graduated from Sinbanpo High School.
And then, a very long time passed.
After going through the beginning and end of the world over and over again, I finally returned to my alma mater.
“…”
Strangely enough, their names were the same, but that was all they had in common.
Just like middle school, Shinbanpo High School was not the school I knew.
But in the end, school is school.
Classrooms, playgrounds, students, teachers – these basic commonalities seemed to tickle my head.
“Gain, something comes to mind?”
“…let’s go into the building.”
“It seems like they’re blocking access to the inside… But then again, when have we ever cared about that?”
— Ding! Ding!
I seem to hear a bell ringing in my ears.
Looking around, I felt like I was back in that school in the past.
Footsteps that stopped naturally.
Suddenly, I looked up and saw that it said Class 5, Grade 3.
I was in class 5, grade 3?
I’m not sure about this.
My memories of high school seem like a really long time ago to me.
— Crunch!
When I opened the classroom door, there were a couple of students there.
“Huh? Who, who are you – Eww!”
The students who were surprised to see me opened their mouths wide when they saw Songi and Miro coming in from behind.
The two of you will handle it as an ordinary person, so I will focus.
As I sat silently in the middle of the classroom, this time a voice passed by my ears.
“In a moment, the 21st graduation ceremony of Shinbanpo High School will begin. Graduates -”
“…”
“Congratulations, Gain!”
Parents’ voices?
It’s bitter when you think about it.
If my life had not been one, the number of my parents would not have been one or two.
My memories of my parents are likely a mixture of memories of many different people.
However, I only recognize as my parents those people whose appearance and name come to mind clearly.
“Huh? You’re filming a drama? I’ve never heard of that before -”
“It’s not a drama, it’s, um, xx University film club internship! Sorry~!”
“Oh, no.”
It’s such a flimsy lie, probably because it was made up on the spot.
A university film club?
No matter how you look at it, Miro isn’t a college student, right?
Of course, looking at the boys whose faces turned bright red at the sight of Songi, it seemed like there was no problem.
“Hey, hey! Come quickly!”
“…”
A friend’s voice can be heard faintly.
In addition, you can see friends around you giggling.
“What? Did you guys make some kind of event?”
This is my voice.
“Guys, let’s go out.”
“Did something come to mind?”
“… I think it will come to mind.”
“huh?”
“I think I’ll remember it when I go to the playground.”
“What are you talking about -”
“Miro, don’t bother me and just go. I’ll probably get confused too.”
“Uh, yeah.”
*
As soon as I stepped out onto the playground, my feet started moving on their own.
As if he knew exactly where the destination was.
“It’s Songi.”
“yes?”
“Hey, can you come towards me from the front gate?”
“Uh… Okay, I understand.”
Songi tilted her head and moved towards the main gate.
At that point my body froze like a stone.
Songi started coming towards me!
“…!”
A hazy illusion created by memory covered Songi.
Same age as her, slightly taller than Songi.
Her wavy, copper-colored hair falls slightly below her shoulders.
Arina Miro is not a beauty who would make people on the street gasp in amazement like Elena, and she is not as pretty as Songi these days… .
So, someone who could exist in reality!
In the past, a legendary A-class student in the province who swung dozens of male students of Banpo Middle School with a single wave of his hand –
“Eww!”
“Oh, brother?”
“Eww!”
“Gain? Why all of a sudden -”
“Gyaaaah!”
“Why is this kid doing this, it really hurts my ears!”
iced coffee….
I realized.
I realized.
The truth buried deep in my heart has been revealed!
At this moment, I truly longed for the power of ‘insight’.
If it weren’t for my intuition that transcended human limitations, this illusion wouldn’t have appeared before my eyes right now!
Please! My memory! Stop here!
I just want to believe this!
*
– Yoo Song-i
“Brother Gain?”
“Cain?”
“…”
What the heck is this?
I still don’t know what happened in high school that made Ga-in oppa so crazy.
If someone saw this, they’d think a cosmic demon had popped out and melted their brain!
I was so shocked that I waved my hand in front of Gain oppa’s face.
“Hey, oppa! Can you see it? Can you see my hand?”
“…”
“Gain oppa is an idiot~!”
Harder?
“Gain is an idiot~!”
Not enough?
“Gain, I’m sorry to Songi. Do you want to try?”
“sorry.”
“Huh? What the heck, really?”
“… sorry.”
“Why is it like this?”
“I realized a shocking truth.”
“What? I found out you have another younger sibling?”
Miro also entered with an excited expression.
“Actually, did you go to school with Arirang?”
Oh, this is a rather fresh hypothesis –
“Huh!”
As soon as the words ‘I went to school with Arirang’ came out, Ga-in oppa got scared.
“That, that’s why….”
“Brother?”
“I was wondering why Ari felt uncomfortable in my memories, and that was it….”
“yes?”
“There’s no way there were any pictures taken by Ari and me before we came to the hotel!”
What are you saying?
A photo of Arirang taken before coming to the hotel?
“Ah, really, what’s the problem?”
“…”
A look of complete silence.
Gain oppa often hides information from us, but it doesn’t feel like that right now.
Rather than hiding important information… .
It’s like he’s a boy trying to hide his dark past.
Finally, Gain Oppa lowered his head and muttered.
“… Songiya, have you ever been in a relationship before coming to the hotel?”
“Eww!”
Hanga-in, you idiot!
Hey, don’t ask such sensitive questions all of a sudden!
“Well, I was thinking of dating after I went to college.”
It’s true!
To begin with, there weren’t any good-looking guys around me.
“… Let’s say there’s a boy.”
This is my story.
“Let’s say there’s a boy who has nothing to do with Gain oppa.”
“He’s never actually been in a relationship, but for some reason he keeps telling other people he has a girlfriend.”
Oppa, have you been doing that?
“… there was something like that – no, let’s say there was a kid like that.”
“But, that… the fake girlfriend found out the truth later.”
“Whoa!”
“…”
“Tell me.”
So, from a girl’s perspective, it’s like there was a weird guy walking around with my picture and saying, “That’s my girlfriend!”
I even knew that!
“What should I do?”
A development that makes you dizzy just thinking about it!
I couldn’t think of any other answer.
“Erase my memories.”
“…”
“Erase that girl’s memories, and erase your own.”
“…”
“You can do it, right? Just tell me to do it!”
“What if she’s too strong to erase my memories?”
“No way, Ariya? This is crazy! Seriously! Did you really go to the same school as Arirang before coming to the hotel?”
He said that he went around holding up Ari’s picture outside and saying, “She’s my girlfriend~!”
“That’s not it -”
“Then just kill yourself! Kill yourself!”
“…”
— Mate!
Miro took out his cell phone.
“I’m sorry, both of you. I can’t stand it anymore.”
“…”
“This has a wide-area hypnosis function. It’s a cell phone given to me by the management.”
“The Vatican cell phone number 207 also had that function.”
“I don’t know about Ari, but let’s erase our memories first. I’m having a hard time.”
Miro manipulates the phone, and a strange beeping sound is heard from the phone… .
None of us blocked the maze.
One sad fact.
The hypnosis function installed on the management office’s cell phone only worked on ordinary people.
It only made me a little sleepy, and given the circumstances, it was the same for the other two.
However, I decided to believe that the conversation just before never happened.
*
Late at night.
Since the only achievements at school were ‘memories that everyone decided to forget’, the idea was to travel a bit more.
At that moment, my brother’s expression, who was writing advice while looking into the empty space, changed.
“Hey, did you find something?”
“… Oh no! I missed something simple -”
Before Ga-in could explain, Miro quickly intervened.
“Stop for a moment!”
“…”
“Gain, think before you speak! I don’t want to hear about Gain’s ex-girlfriends or even about being dumped.”
“That, that’s not it -”
“My ex-girlfriend cheated on me, or I had two girlfriends! Things like that -”
“I said it’s not like that!”
“Then what is it?”
“My last real memory.”
Your real last memory?
“I heard you went to Sinbanpo High School?”
“I took the CSAT while attending school.”
“Oh, the last place you took the CSAT?”
“No, there’s more. I got five questions wrong on the CSAT -”
I got five questions wrong on the CSAT.
Is this bragging about yourself?
“I got into K University.”
“I heard that much.”
“We had a celebration party and even put up a banner at school.”
“…”
“My mother was crying with joy, and my father had tears in his eyes -”
“I’m going to stop listening to Gain brag.”
“I went backpacking until school started.”
Backpacking?
“I received a lot of travel funds, so I traveled quite leisurely. I spent the last part of the trip at a hotel in Jeju Island.”
“…”
“Let’s go. The moment I thought of the words ‘hotel in Jeju Island,’ I knew. This is the last keyword.”
“Did the owl give you that keyword? If he had given it to you earlier, you wouldn’t have had to go to that damn school.”
“…”
“Maybe Cain had a hard time enduring it even as a sponsor!”
“… It was a three-part piece of advice.”
*
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 125th day
Current location: Geonip-dong, Jeju-si, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
– Han Ga-in
iced coffee….
The moment I arrived, I knew.
Here it is.
This is the last puzzle in my memory, the place where the most important secret is hidden.
If you had thought of this place from the beginning, you would have saved yourself time – no.
Since the nature of the trip was purely for enjoyment, there was no such thing as wasting time.
Just, something unexpected happened in high school – let’s forget about it.
High school stuff has no place in our lives, let alone in my life.
…Ari, do you remember?
“…”
I had a strange dream.
The time is a February evening with a cool breeze blowing.
It was the time when I was a senior in high school after finishing the college entrance exam and had a short break before the start of the new school year.
Isn’t this the golden age of life that doesn’t come around very often?
After a long day of sightseeing, I was lying down in my hotel, exhausted both physically and mentally, and just as I was falling asleep, something strange happened.
…
No, not here, a little bit earlier.
“… ah.”
Insights that have not been in the right place so far!
Finally, images began to appear before my eyes, like a panorama.