Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 63
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Episode 63 – Room 101, Room of the Curse – ‘Strange Family’ Re (1)
Episode 63 – Room 101, Room of the Curse – ‘Strange Family’ Re (1)
(It was a mistake to write ‘first attempt’ in episode 62. The first attempt in issue 101 was episode 6. I will correct it as the second attempt. The content in parentheses will be deleted tomorrow.)
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second attempt
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– Kim Ari
First of all, I have to say something. Otherwise, someone will come in even if they break down the door.
As I approach the door and approach my mother, I feel my blood slowly being drained in the process of protecting my mind.
Indeed, the curse of room 101 is affected just by hearing their voices as they approach their ‘family’.
It’s a shame that I don’t have a mental protection filter like Ga-in.
“Mom! I’ll be leaving soon. Eat first.”
—thud! thud!
“I’m hungry! I don’t want to eat alone!”
What should I say to get off the door? What was your original personality like?
I remembered. We need to talk more ‘as if we were dealing with a child’.
“I prepared a gift for mom. Would you like to go a little further away?”
“A gift? A gift! Yes! I’m really looking forward to it~”
Mom walked away again with the sound of running. These childish lies still work.
Mom is an infantile person. She doesn’t have much patience, so she’ll be back soon. Let’s think about it. How on earth will she escape?
While others have decided to escape by going out of the house, my house is set up as a hotel.
There is no way out.
If you are a hotel currently participating in the second round, there is a chance of escape if you close your eyes and jump out of the front door, slowing down your fall. Although he may die from excessive blood loss before reaching the ground.
However, on the first visit to the hotel, the ocean was deep outside the front door. If you go out, you will die from the water pressure, and the escape tool was not a wing boot, but an ‘air bubble’.
You can’t go out through the front door. There is no way to reproduce the escape method used back then.
If you can’t get out… .
I have to at least neutralize the being that imitates my mother so that it cannot approach me.
One big worry.
To what extent did the hotel ‘embody’ my mother?
If it weren’t for my mother’s blessings, I am confident that I can beat that fake mother.
If even the blessing has been realized… . Let’s stick together for now.
—shake
When I opened the door, a familiar restaurant appeared. In the distance, her mother sits with her hands covering her eyes.
I feel like I’m criticizing myself, but it’s really cute.
I would have been a better mother if I had been sane.
I took a deep breath.
Blood to be consumed during the fight, blood to be consumed to resist mental contamination. Considering many things, the time to fight is not long.
I close my eyes and contemplate myself. I felt the blood pumping from my heart pulsating through my veins. An old power or curse dripping into the blood.
Old blood appeared.
Immediately, a force of cold air rose from my fingertips like lightning and split the air.
blow. Because it was a surprise attack, ‘Miro’ couldn’t even react.
“Ahh! Arya? Why-”
sorry.
No, actually I’m not sorry. You’re not my real mother anyway. Now I’ll just call you by name.
Once again, the cold wind reached out and struck Miro’s body twice. The maze screamed and rolled over. Two red lines drawing the maze’s body. Blood seemed to spurt out, and she froze.
But again, this alone is not enough.
I wanted to see the end from afar somehow, even if it was due to mental contamination, but I felt weak.
It may be difficult to see the end from a distance when dealing with a witch of the same blood as it may be when dealing with an ordinary person.
The moment you jump with strength in your fingertips –
There was a flash of light across the table.
—Phew!
In an instant, a hole opened around my shoulder.
It rolled right to the side, emitting cold air in a spiral motion, and examined the location of the maze.
The situation is not bad.
Miro’s wound recovery is slow. From the beginning, it only had the effect of blowing away a cold wind. The cold that continued to seep into the body began to slow down the movement of blood and interfere with the operation of the maze’s power.
I approached again, infused strength into my fingertips, and hurled them at Miro.
—bang!
Sharp metallic sound.
They clashed with each other’s old blood, their hands hard as metal.
“Ari, you! Why are you doing this? Mom will scold you!”
“I’m sorry. But I guess I’m stronger now, right? Because after you died, Miro, I built up my strength for more time than your age.”
“What do you mean, mom is dead? Didn’t you have a strange dream, Ari?”
About 10 seconds? In a short period of time, the metal hands clashed more than 30 times, and a fierce battle ensued, connecting and breaking the power of each other’s blood. Around the time I pushed my breath of cold into Miro’s body about five times.
The two realized it together. I am overwhelmingly strong.
Old blood’s proficiency and fighting skills are all on a different level. Enough to easily win while consuming more than half of your blood while fighting the mental pollution emitted by the maze in real time.
“What? That’s strange! Ahri, why did you suddenly become so strong?”
“I told you, you’ve been building up your strength for more than your age. Sorry, Miro. Just take a nap.”
Even though she wasn’t my real mother, my heart ached as I watched her suffer. It’s almost over now.
Lastly, you can make someone fall into a deep sleep without even dreams by just using ‘suggestion’. Our eyes met. The moment when my power penetrated Miro’s heart.
A ‘scale’ appeared.
iced coffee. It’s ruined. This sick hotel even embodied Miro’s ‘blessing’.
As soon as I saw it, I immediately stepped back. Because you can never win.
—bang! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
Something – a popping, exploding sound. In an instant, the restaurant’s property is destroyed, and a force that can crush a human being attacks me in an instant. I barely escaped Room 103 by hiding myself among the surrounding objects.
When was it?
When we heard the explanation of Elena’s blessing ‘justice’ in the Sanctuary of Blessing, what Seungyeop said comes to mind.
Why there are so many restrictions on Elena’s blessing. I assumed it was probably because of ‘balance’.
Seungyeop. Sorry, not at all.
This answerless hotel doesn’t care about balance at all.
There are no restrictions on the blessings of a hotel, only infinite possibilities.
Restrictions are only created by the human mind.
Three restrictions on Elena’s blessing.
1. The target must be a person who committed an evil act.
2. Elena must recognize her evil deeds.
3. Once execution begins, it cannot be stopped.
In addition to this, logic is similar to ‘law’ to the extent that there is a concept such as ‘legitimate defense’.
The ideal criminal law applies to those who commit evil deeds, punishment requires evidence, and punishment should not be determined arbitrarily by the executioner.
Could it be that the hotel set the restrictions on blessings by taking into account the laws of the human world? These are just limitations created by ‘Elena’s view of justice.’
However, even if someone else had received the blessing of justice, it wouldn’t have been much different. Most people’s views on justice tend to have something in common in the larger scheme of things.
In a way, it is natural that the blessing of justice has limitations that reflect the characteristics of actual law. In the first place, wasn’t the law formed because of the common people’s shared view of justice?
People who do not share such a universal view of justice.
For example, what would happen if a mentally unstable person received the blessing of ‘justice’?
A person who believes that he can punish not only people but also animals, monsters, and even things if he wants to.
A person who believes that anything they do that they don’t like is evil.
A person who believes that everything is up to them, except for punishment.
A long time ago, the ‘maze’ shaped me and I lost my intellect in return.
And the childlike ego that was formed by losing intellect became overwhelmingly strong by destroying all the constraints of ‘justice’!
That unanswered result has now begun to chase me, destroying everything with a single wave of its hand.
—Beep profit
A noise like a broken radio filled my head.
The sound was so loud that my hearing suffered.
—bang!
An impact sound came from the ceiling as if a bomb had exploded.
—Kkeeeeeeeek!
The sharp force tore the marble floor like paper, and the hotel hallway began to crack in all directions as if there had been an earthquake.
Tooung!
The stone that fell as the wall was torn down just hit my back. You’re really having a hard time today.
The reason why I can run away even in the midst of this chaos.
Due to the influence of the clumsy hint from earlier, Miro is now unable to find ‘me’.
That makes it even more absurd. The meaning of destroying everything around you without even recognizing ‘me’.
This means that I am using the power of justice not for myself but for those around me.
What on earth is Miro’s standard of ‘justice’, so that it can be used in that way?
I was annoyed, but how dare you say that there is a hallway and a door next to me, so is it an evil hallway or an evil door?
Let’s stop thinking.
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About 10 minutes of chase.
Now I know too. There really is nowhere to run now.
I tried flying, jumping, and jumping around like crazy, but in the meantime, the maze was really threatening to collapse the hotel. A massive destruction comparable to the destruction of the hotel when Ga-in gained Kangrim in the past.
I emptied my mind.
I stood still next to the front door and looked out the door. Fish of bizarre shapes can be seen here and there. The hotel in the first episode was in the deep sea.
—Takkak. Takkak.
As I looked at the fish, a maze appeared whose hints were solved over time.
“Are you here?”
“…”
“Ah, I’m starting to feel dizzy now. I guess I can’t bear it anymore.”
“Ari is really strange today. I don’t know why she’s doing this to her mom.”
“I know.”
“Are you mad at mom?”
“well.”
“I’m sorry mom if I got angry. I was so angry earlier that I just broke everything… I’m so scared because I think Ari hates me. Huh?”
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iced coffee. Even this fake mom loves me. Just like I love my mom.
But, fake mom.
Right now, your love for me is on the verge of ‘polluting’ me.
“But you know that Ari shouldn’t do this to his mother, right? I’m going to cut off Ari’s hair and carry it around for the next week! Should Ari also reflect on himself?”
It would have been better not to have listened to that last word.
The saddest fact.
My mother did not become like this because the curse of Room 101 polluted her, but she has always been like this since I was born.
I feel my consciousness becoming blurred.
/You failed!/
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[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 22
Current location: Tier 1, hallway
Sage Advice: 3]
and!
I thought about this as soon as I escaped from Room 101.
It’s really so easy, right? We suffered so much in the past because we didn’t know this.
This is so easy that there’s no way anyone can escape it. You can escape by just closing your eyes, covering your ears, and running, but you can’t do that?
When I turned my head to see that everyone had come out with happy expressions.
I realized something was strange.
A word from the author (author review)
It is a mistake to write ‘first attempt’ in episode 62. The first attempt at issue 101 was episode 6. I’ll fix it on my second attempt.
It goes up in the evening today as well. Thank you always to our readers.