Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 605
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EP.605 Episode 605 – The Stolen World (20)
Episode 605 – The Stolen World (20)
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 229
You are currently: Searching… .
Wise Man’s Advice: 1”
– Han Ga-in
I set off early in the morning.
And then, just 10 minutes after departure, I was swept away to another world.
“also?”
The sky turned blue, and the concrete buildings that filled the surroundings suddenly transformed into giant trees.
Eunsol, who was blankly watching the scene, muttered.
“This place is, how should I put it, quite beautiful.”
Now that it was a familiar phenomenon, everyone gathered together and formed a camp, and Ari asked Aidia a question as if she was curious.
“Is the erosion caused by the raiders a kind of terraforming from their perspective?”
“The ark is like a microcosm. You put a part of yourself into this world.”
“Hey, is that tree giant a fighter sent by one of the raiders?”
“Battle stance!”
The ark is a microcosm.
10 Raiders – The Ark is soon to be 10 different worldviews.
…
This fight didn’t take very long.
*
At around 2pm, we finally arrived at the sea off Incheon that Aidia had mentioned.
“We’re almost there!”
There is no one who has been swept away to another world more than five times since morning until now.
Why did you go through all this trouble to come all the way to the waters off Incheon?
According to Aidy, it’s to get ‘something to take down the looters’.
“…”
Of course, my goal, unlike Aidia, is closer to defeating the moon.
Because if the victory of the plunderers is a change in the world view, I think the victory of the moon is the end itself.
Whatever the goal, there’s no harm in obtaining a powerful weapon.
Above all, before turning back time, we need to find out all the hidden patterns the moon has hidden.
“I want to start listening now.”
“yes?”
“Don’t pretend not to know. What kind of weapon do you have to take down the looters?”
We’re already close to reaching our destination, but we still don’t know what the weapon is.
“You will find out soon enough.”
A vague feeling came.
As with many secrets so far, the weapon the Marauders fear is something I already know.
As I thought about it this far, I started to think I knew what the weapon was.
“…”
— Thud!
As Ari was walking towards the beach, listening to the sound of the waves, he suddenly stopped when he sensed something.
“ah?”
“what’s the matter?”
Ari looked at Aidia with a look of confusion on her face.
“Is this the weapon in the waters off Incheon? I thought it was some mysterious thing that even the management office didn’t know about -”
Eunsol asked immediately.
“What is it?”
“This is an ark that was not built -”
At that moment, a mysterious wooden Dharma treasure appeared in Aidya’s hand.
“Taigeukdo (太極圖), Chasing (追放).”
The Dharma treasure rotated and emitted a mystical light.
The moment everyone tilted their heads wondering what was happening – Ari and her colleagues were pushed by an unknown force and flew endlessly into the distance!
“…”
I closed my eyes and opened them again, and Aidia and I were left alone at the beach.
When I looked at Aidia with incredulous eyes, she soon bowed her head with a polite expression.
“sorry.”
“I’ve never seen a legacy like this used before. Did you save it for this moment?”
“Sorry -”
“I would like to hear an explanation rather than an apology.”
“My comrades did not die. They were just banished far away.”
“I know that too.”
You can check your survival status through the status window.
Aidy carefully pointed to the beam of light emerging from the middle of the beach.
“Do you know what’s over there?”
“Ari just said that. It’s an ark that was never built.”
“Yes. When you woke the Prince of the Moon, the weakling tried to run away like a frightened rat.”
“You were running away when you were hit by the moon and crashed into the sea off Incheon?”
“Similar. Shall we talk as we go?”
“okay.”
—Slap!
As I was walking naturally on water towards the ark, I heard a strange sound.
— Aaaah…!
“It sounds like a baby crying.”
“He’s scared because he knows his fate. Doesn’t that sound like a child?”
Was it because of Aidia’s tone of voice that made fun of the ‘young ark’?
For some reason, that small ark felt a little pitiful.
“It’s unfinished because it wasn’t able to carry enough passengers, but the ‘parts’ are intact.”
“part?”
“mirror.”
“…”
The word mirror, which we have heard countless times before, has appeared once again.
There is a mirror in the ark.
That’s a huge mirror too.
“Saint, the mirror is truly a treasure so great that humans cannot even imagine it.”
“I guess so.”
“Do you know the most aggressive use of a mirror?”
“Aggressive usage?”
“It’s broken down.”
“…”
“A mirror can split a specific object into thousands or tens of thousands of pieces and scatter them throughout the world.”
I know it well.
It’s a phenomenon I know better than anyone else in the world.
“Isn’t that the ultimate goal of the ark?”
“That’s right. The ending of every ark is split by the mirror and returned to humans… .”
“…”
“That is, all arks are inherently vulnerable to mirrors.”
— Thud!
— Huhu… !
Aidy continued her explanation.
The ceaseless sound of the waves and the sad cries of the young ark were like a sweet lullaby.
“As you know, Saint, you are also a hotel escapee, but there are quite a few great demons in the world that have nothing to do with the ark.”
Director of Hospital 101.
The Dragon of the Nebula of No. 102, or the Unborn.
The Swallower of No. 103.
Besides these, there are more than one or two divine beings unrelated to the ark.
“What if the saint goes to those great demons with a mirror and attacks them with a disintegration attack? Will it work?”
Can I knock down a prisoner with a mirror?
“I haven’t tried it, but I don’t think it would work.”
“Of course. No matter how good the weapon’s performance is, neither you nor I can defeat a prisoner with your abilities. But what if we use it against a looter instead of a prisoner?”
“…”
“It’s a matter of compatibility. All arks are inherently vulnerable to mirrors. That’s because they were built with mirrors in mind from the start.”
I understand.
Even if I get the mirror, I won’t be able to defeat the prisoner with that power.
The mirror itself is a great object imbued with the power of the performer, but my ability as the user is lacking.
However, if used on an ark including a raider, it can inflict significant damage.
Regardless of the strength of the raiders, the ark itself is extremely vulnerable to the mirror’s disintegration attack.
Even the mirror falls into the hands of the moon demon?
It means that the user, who is no different from a demon, obtains a weapon that is superior in terms of compatibility.
At that moment, a question occurred to me.
“The plunderer is also an ark, right? The moon is also the first ark.”
“yes.”
“Then, aren’t there mirrors inside them too?”
“Yes.”
“But why are you so greedy for this mirror – ah.”
I realized.
The Moon Demon, as well as the Marauders, are all out to get in our way, coveting additional mirrors!
“In the process of splitting an object with a mirror, the mirror itself gets split as well?”
Aidya’s eyes turn round.
“So you can’t use your own mirrors to decompose your opponent? If you use it that way, it’s basically self-destructing -”
“How do you know? It’s quite a secret… Oh, did Ari-yang tell you?”
“Huh!”
I found myself laughing.
Would you believe me if I told you that I shattered myself by smashing a mirror in room 207?
What would your reaction be if I told you that ‘Aidia’ was in front of you when you were doing that!
“So that’s why you chased my colleagues, Ari to be exact, away?”
At this point, the whole plan between the Moon Demon and the Virgin Mary was figured out.
“…Your colleagues are the leaders of the Administration. They will likely consider this young Ark as their last hope.”
So, Aidia’s thoughts are like this.
Ari is the head of the management bureau, and Jincheol hyung and Eunsol noona are both agents.
So there will be loyalty to the Administration and they will try to restore this young Ark somehow.
On the other hand, the plan of the Moon Demon and the Virgin Mary is to extract the mirror of the young ark and then use its power to disintegrate a significant number of the raiders!
In this process, the mirror is shattered and destroyed, making recovery nearly impossible.
Ultimately, the restoration of the Ark of the Management Bureau becomes impossible forever.
Those from the administration would not want this to end.
“Saint, believe me. From now on, you must be wary of those from the Administration Bureau.”
Aidia’s thinking is logical, but her conclusion is completely wrong because she doesn’t know the most important information.
The last hope that my colleagues think of is not the restoration of the young ark, but ‘one more chance’!
*
There was no longer any force inside the young ark that crashed into the sea off Incheon that could stop us.
The ark itself is half-destroyed, and the people who were supposed to guard it, including Dom, Osdork, and Basilio, are all dead.
It didn’t take long to reach the place with the mirror.
“It’s so huge! What are you going to do with it? Can the moon take the mirror in this condition?”
“If that were possible, we wouldn’t have had to come here.”
“then?”
“I know how to separate the mirror from the ark, and how to make it smaller. You haven’t forgotten, have you? I was the first to discover the mirror!”
“Then should I just wait on the side?”
“Please don’t let any looters or young arks disturb me.”
Soon, Aidya began to do complicated work, sweating profusely.
It seemed like some sort of magic, technology, or a mixture of both that neither I nor the Administration could understand.
— Huhu… !
The sad cries of children can be heard from all directions.
What would be the psychology of Ark, who had his mirror forcibly taken away?
The ark’s existence is to move on to the next loop and use the power of the mirror to turn back into a human.
If we compare the ark to a person, the soul gathering circuit is the body and the mirror is the goal of life.
The young ark is being robbed of its very purpose of existence.
At some point, even the sobbing of the young ark could no longer be heard.
It was as if he had given up on life.
“…”
I thought as I caressed the wall of the ark.
Just as we have a ‘next chance’ – there will be a next chance for you too.
So the loss we have now will never be a permanent loss.
“It’s over!”
Before she knew it, the giant mirror had disappeared, and Aidy was left holding a small hand mirror in her hand.
“It’s gotten really small.”
“It’s like compression. I can’t use it in its current state though.”
I took a quick look in the hand mirror and it was quite interesting.
There is a mirror within the mirror, and there is a mirror within the inner mirror.
Mirror within mirror within mirror within mirror – after this process was repeated countless times, the entire enormous mirror was transformed into a small hand mirror.
It was convenient to carry, but it didn’t seem usable in this state.
“…”
Can I get that mirror?
It’s impossible to take it by force.
The Virgin Mary’s fighting power is extremely strong, and if the mirror breaks during the fight, it will be in vain.
What if I just ask?
I don’t think I’ll get it.
I’ve felt this way for the past few days, but even though Aidy calls me a ‘saint’, she doesn’t completely believe me.
The evidence is the overnight surveillance.
Why do you doubt me?
She was the first one to free her god, and she is the one who freed him again this time?
Because my memories of the past are not complete.
Her suspicions were probably fueled by the fact that she was carrying around ‘guys’ from the Management Bureau who were hardly considered allies.
…
There has been no interference from looters since a while ago.
I guess I don’t have the energy to fight the moon in an area I don’t know about.
If the Marauders can’t afford it, then maybe the Moon can’t intervene right away either?
When I realized this, a good idea occurred to me.
Should I start speaking in a slightly more polite tone from now on?
Aidia has a secretly strong mystical streak, so she’s weak to things like this.
No, this is Aidy’s memory from room 207.
The current Aidia thinks I’m a researcher who lost his memory, right?
Let’s talk like a researcher.
“Excuse me, but let me say hello again.”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden -”
“While Aidya was working, her memories slowly began to return.”
Aidya’s eyes widened in surprise.
“Your memories are coming back?”
Let’s reiterate the information that surprised Aidia a little while ago.
“While listening to Aidya’s explanation, I suddenly began to recall memories that I couldn’t understand. For example, detailed information about the mirror?”
“…Is that so?”
Still half-hearted eyes.
This is not enough.
Something more shocking is needed to persuade.
For example, what if someone else knows a secret that only the Virgin Mary thought she knew?
— Snap!
When I quickly approached her and put my arm on her shoulder, she couldn’t hide her embarrassment.
“Why, why are you like this -”
“I remembered.”
“What did you remember?”
“Now that I know you, I can feel it. The cold blood flowing through your veins. The cool scales hidden beneath your skin. Ahh… I see. I knew you weren’t human, but I didn’t know you were a lizard.”
An eerie aura gathers in the eyes that are growing round.
“… you.”
Now that you’ve created some tension, it’s time to release it.
— Thud!
“In the dark sky, I heard a voice that brightened the dawn.”
“what -”
“When I first welcomed the Crimson King who had awakened from the abyss – ”
“Ji, the Red King? Are you talking about the prince?”
“He whispered to me, ‘Cain, you foolish one –’”
“Did you call me a fool?”
Oops!
The moon called me teacher, didn’t it?
“- Master who lost his memory. The moment I heard that voice, I gained infinite wisdom.”
“…”
“I realized that fact again a little while ago. My confused mind is becoming clearer.”
Eyes that ask, ‘Is it true?’
It’s better than before, but it needs one more shot.
Information that Aidy thinks I can never know.
Information that I can only assume was given to me by God!
“sorry.”
“Ah, why are you suddenly sorry? Why -”
“The Crimson King whispered. Long ago, foolish people committed a crime against you.”
“…”
Aidia made a ‘no way’ expression.
“Great Menes… your grandfather?”
“… how about that.”
“The wicked men murdered Menes? Who were they? Perhaps traitors?”
Why haven’t reptilians taken over the world in real history?
I don’t know, but I don’t think he would have died of old age, so he wouldn’t have been affected by the human rebellion?
Even if you just take a quick picture, it’s definitely human!
Could it be because shocking memories from the past came flooding back?
Aidya’s expression became extremely emotional.
“That… I’ve already forgiven you.”
It’s not that I forgave you, I had no choice but to forgive you.
Because the first discovery of the mirror and the process of transformation would have blurred the hatred towards Homo sapiens.
The last survivor.
This is an attribute of the moon, but also an attribute of Aidyia.
Perhaps this is precisely why Aidia serves the moon.
Because he thought the Prince of the Moon had had the same experience as him.
Forgiving doesn’t mean that all the wounds in your heart have healed.
People, even reptilians, have painful memories that they can never forget.
“I apologize again. I apologize for the sins committed by mankind long ago.”
“…”
In his trembling eyes, I could no longer sense a single trace of doubt about myself.
“Hey, wake up! Hey, wake up! When did that happen…? It was all over a long time ago. It wasn’t even your fault in the first place!”
Aidy took my hand, looking a little embarrassed.
“Everything is fine now. Saint, just take the mirror to the Moon Prince….”
“underneath?”
“It’s a happy ending!”
“Huh?”
My voice brings tension.
“Why, why are you doing that?”
“Virgin Mary, don’t you think the mirror looks a little strange?”
“Huh? No way!”
“Can you please hand it over here for a moment?”
“…”
A momentary worry that cannot be hidden.
I looked at her with a big smile.
Soon, Aidyah made an embarrassed expression.
“Here it is.”
Finally, the mirror is in my hands!