Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 623
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EP.622 Episode 622 – The Oldest Wish (3)
Episode 622 – The Oldest Wish (3)
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 233rd day
You are currently: Searching… .
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
– Han Ga-in
I lost consciousness for a moment at the sound of ‘click!’ and then woke up.
The surroundings are a stuffy space where everything is frozen, as if in a still frame.
Perhaps it is a sealed area created by a living camera, a world within a photograph.
— Crackle!
When I regained consciousness after losing consciousness again, I saw Miro’s face.
*
“The camera is broken?”
“That’s right! This camera, annoyingly, can only move one person at a time?”
“I understand.”
“So I was taking pictures of them one by one and moving them, when suddenly the camera started making a strange noise!”
A place like a fancy mansion.
I looked at Ari, hearing her excited voice, and she shrugged and answered.
“I’ve written so much that I’ve lost my strength for a while. Won’t it take a few months before I can write again?”
“I only took it seven times!”
“Miro, this isn’t an ordinary camera, it’s a sealing tool. We just used it as a sort of moving device. Seven times is a lot of use.”
I heard that this is the first time a camera has been used as a mobile tool like this.
It is said that in the past, there has never been more than three consecutive shots like this one.
“Then what about the people outside?”
“What should we do? Those who came in should get along well with each other.”
“Eek!”
“Well, ‘we’ are all gathered here.”
The lunar surface is a place where it is difficult to survive even for a moment without extreme fighting power.
So not everyone showed up to the hotel party.
Song-i and her grandfather, whose abilities make it difficult for them to withstand intense combat, were left out, and Sang-hyeon hyung was unable to come to the moon due to the delicate Atlas system.
There was a lot of debate over whether or not we should bring Eunsol.
There were many opinions that the ‘Flute of Rest’ would be extremely useful within the moon, and there were also expectations for the Hand of Greed, which had proven its usefulness several times after coming to reality.
So, Eunsol came to the moon wearing a protective suit.
Excluding the maze that was on the moon from the beginning, the hotel party that arrived on the moon via camera consisted of six people: me, Kim Ari, Park Seung-yeop, Elena, Lee Eun-sol, and Cha Jin-cheol.
The live camera took a total of seven photos, meaning that only one person who wasn’t part of the hotel party entered.
“At first, I didn’t know there was a limit to the number of times I could do it, so I just took pictures of people I knew.”
“So that’s why they took pictures of us first.”
“As I was taking pictures, I thought, ‘The camera is going to break soon!’ So I was thinking about who to take pictures of last… .”
“Did you worry about it?”
“… As soon as that old man appeared, everyone else took a step back.”
The last member of the lunar conquest team sent by Miro.
It wasn’t a hotel party, but he was the one who made everyone in the area step back the moment he appeared and made room for himself.
The old man nodded his head and spoke with wisdom from the past.
“So, what I’m saying is that I’m the only one who came in besides ‘you guys.’ Got it?”
My colleagues, except me, are seeing the human form of the wisdom of the ancestors for the first time today.
“Your prestige is truly amazing.”
“Me?”
“They said everyone backed off as soon as you showed up.”
“It’s the power of age and experience. People on the Union side also know each other.”
“I thought you escaped with that incredibly powerful attack earlier.”
“It was a great sacrifice. Now I no longer have the ark.”
“But is it okay for you to come to such a dangerous place?”
“I don’t have an ark, but I still have two legacies and two tools.”
For a moment, everyone was speechless.
It’s like comforting a rich man who lost 10 trillion won, only to have him tell you that he only has 3.2 trillion won left.
“That’s a lot.”
“Even if a rich family goes bankrupt, it usually lasts for three years.”
“…”
“It’s a shame Ryan couldn’t come. Well, since all three Noble Guardians were destroyed, there wasn’t much he could do even if he came.”
He shook his head and gestured to Miro.
Soon, Miro was fiddling with his pocket watch with a nervous expression.
— Clank!
A familiar face appeared right before my eyes: Aidia.
“Ugh…!”
As soon as he appeared, Seungyeop’s back made a tense sound.
Through the records left by my past self, I learned that the Virgin of the Moon was soon to be Aidya.
Also, everyone knows that this Aidyah is actually a different person from the one in Room 207.
But, there is a difference between knowing it in your head and seeing it in person.
Looking at Aidia’s distorted expression, it was clear that she was not in normal condition.
Sister Eunsol carefully tried to restore the Virgin Mary with the ‘Flute of Peace’, but… .
“Don’t use the flute.”
“why?”
“Because you’ll lose your memories during the recovery process.”
“…I understand.”
Once Our Lady is fully recovered, there is a good chance she will no longer listen to us.
The condition is just fine right now.
They can communicate verbally, but their minds are half broken and they follow what we say without resistance.
“Virgin Mary, do you recognize me?”
“…saint.”
“You know what? As long as the moon exists, you will eventually end up in eternal hell.”
Look into the terrified eyes of the Virgin Mary.
It’s exactly what’s written in the status window!
“I want to destroy the moon and save everyone. To do that, I need the crown. Please show me the way to the crown.”
“… a crown?”
The Virgin Mary looked incomprehensible.
It’s not that I’m trying to hide anything, I just feel like I don’t understand the word crown.
“The name may vary. The prince is looking for a tool to control the moon.”
“…I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Eyes that are clearer than before.
You still don’t understand what I’m saying.
The wisdom of the ancestors who had been observing sneaked in.
“I guess the Virgin Mary thinks that the ‘crown’ you speak of is something completely different?”
“…”
“You don’t seem to know what a crown is, do you? You don’t seem to know what a Virgin Mary is either.”
According to the records left by my past self, the crown is an arrangement to control the second stage soul gathering body.
The problem is that there is no information about what exactly the crown is.
I don’t even know if it’s a tool, an ability, or if it has a form or not.
“Have you tried giving advice?”
“Already several times. There was no answer.”
“Wisdom cannot create something out of nothing. It is the power to draw great inferences from small evidence that already exists.”
“…”
“There is absolutely no information among the information you have found that can be used to deduce the identity of the crown. So you can’t even ask for advice.”
Eunsol, who had been listening, joined in.
“Our Lady. Where is the most mysterious place you can think of? A place that you don’t even know about!”
“… the most mysterious place I can think of?”
“yes.”
“The sanctuary where the prince resides.”
The sanctuary where the prince resides!
As soon as I heard it, I had a feeling it was here.
At the point where he looked back at everyone while nodding, Miro muttered with an anxious expression.
“The moon is strangely quiet. Ga-in might have forgotten, but right before turning back time, it was acting like a total demon!”
Why the moon is currently silent.
“Unlike then, the moon is still sealed now. Also, it is being suppressed by the Administration and the Marauders.”
“Even so, isn’t it too quiet?”
Seondae Jihye nodded as if Miro’s words made sense.
“Even if the moon is tied down, it still has a lot of numbers left. Let’s go right away. As everyone knows, time is on the moon’s side.”
The Virgin Mary stood up with difficulty, walked away, and stopped in front of the mansion’s door.
She thought about something for a while and then opened the door.
— Squeak!
*
— Rattling! Rattling!
Beyond the door was a strange room filled with a ceaseless rattling noise, and upon looking at the wall I could see a transparent instrument panel.
“Here?”
“…I make it when I want to go to the place I want to go.”
A room that can go wherever the Virgin Mary wants to go!
I had a feeling that it was a simple and clear concept, but one that was far greater than I could imagine.
According to the status window records, the interior of the moon is an unidentified place where dreams and reality are mixed.
They say that even just going to work at the lab was quite difficult for me.
Since she has lived in the realm of the moon for a very long time, she could create such an omnipotent key-like place.
The Virgin Mary, who had been moving slowly towards the dashboard, suddenly stopped.
“what’s the matter?”
Ari’s question and the Virgin Mary’s answer.
“… strange letters.”
As I approached, I saw the words written on the dashboard.
1. Moon Church
2. Plain of Sinners
3. The deepest sea
4. Sanctuary
Ari continued to ask questions.
“what’s this?”
“I don’t know either.”
“It’s a place you created.”
“I was going to the sanctuary.”
“There are three more things on top of the sanctuary?”
“There was nothing like this originally.”
“Then, can’t you rebuild this elevator? So that it can go straight to the Sanctuary?”
“I’ll try making it again.”
If it didn’t exist originally, it means it exists now.
Three obstacles suddenly appeared in the middle of the path prepared by the best guide, the Virgin Mary.
Who could do something like this?
Of course it’s the moon.
“stop.”
“Don’t waste your time.”
Ari was stopped.
At about the same time, the previous wisdom also stopped the Virgin Mary.
I glanced at Seon Dae-ji, and the old man shrugged and explained on my behalf.
“It’s no use building a new elevator. The moon will place obstacles again.”
“then?”
“Let’s go. From the Moon Church?”
The Virgin Mary presses the start button without saying a word.
Soon, the elevator started moving with a ‘squeak! Clunk!’ sound.
…
A vague thought.
At this point, it seems unlikely that the moon will suddenly create something unimaginable.
If the moon had that much power, it would have used it a long time ago.
The three remaining obstacles are ones we already know about.
In the past, they were not particularly dangerous because they received an official invitation from the moon, but now they are illegal intruders, so you have to risk your life and fight to get through them.
Ari muttered with a gloomy expression.
“I know one of the obstacles is ‘who’.”
With those words, Ari raised her hand and pointed to the Virgin Mary.
Aidy tilted her head as if to ask what she meant, but the other colleagues sighed as soon as they heard Ari’s words.
Yes, that’s right.
Aside from the Virgin Mary summoned by the Time Machine, there is a Virgin Mary of ‘this time zone’!
“…How about just killing him?”
If you kill the summoned Virgin Mary, the Virgin Mary of this time zone will also die.
“What if this elevator disappears? It seems like there’s no way for us to get to the sanctuary on our own.”
“oh my….”
The wisdom of the past said, glancing at the situation.
“It looks like you have to have a showdown with the Virgin Mary? Not the Virgin Mary in front of you, but another Virgin Mary? The name of the intermediate destination just so happens to be ‘Moon Church.’”
For someone who knows nothing about time rentals, that’s quite an extraordinary insight.
“What about the other two? Any guesses?”
This time I answered.
“… I wrote it down in the status window.”
“What did you write?”
“There are countless souls who have turned into demons in endless suffering. They say not to go into the open realm without caution….”
“By the way, there is a ‘plain’ at the intermediate stopover.”
The Church of the Moon Where Our Lady Waits.
The plains of sinners where countless evil spirits await.
“So, what is the deepest sea?”
“…”
I don’t know.
However, I became convinced that the being waiting in the deepest part of the sea was also something we knew.
— CLANG!
“I’ve arrived.”