Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 630
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EP.630 Episode 630 – The Oldest Wish (11)
Episode 630 – The Oldest Wish (11)
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 234
You are currently: Searching… .
Wise Man’s Advice: 0”
– Han Ga-in
The place where the prince, the ruler of the moon, resides – the sanctuary.
The structure of the sanctuary is extremely simple, with a long, straight route and no forks in the road.
However, even though I summoned the divine sun and looked ahead with superhuman vision, I could not see beyond a certain area.
“Should I just follow this road?”
“Yes. The road is not easy.”
“Has anything ever been easy?”
The Virgin Mary says that the remaining path is also difficult, and the ancestors ask why she is saying the obvious.
“… I have never gone all the way down this road. Usually, the prince comes to see me off.”
Is it difficult to get to the end?
I would have liked to hear a detailed explanation, but I haven’t had any free time since I summoned the Virgin Mary.
It’s the same now.
Because Our Lady’s time is now just over five minutes away.
“Let’s go.”
*
I realized it before I even took a few steps.
It’s incredibly difficult to take each step.
It’s like climbing an incredibly steep hill.
There is no physical slope.
The human senses cannot understand what this situation is, so they can only feel it as a similar feeling of climbing an uphill road.
“…”
Let’s take another step forward in silence, this time to a higher position.
High position.
Higher dimension.
The highest realm.
I’ve had a similar experience before.
— Bam!
“It’s a little difficult.”
The vanguard in the lead stopped.
“Are you okay?”
“Not yet.”
“…”
“I remember a similar feeling. It was a long time ago for me, but… it must still be vivid for you.”
“The Sanctuary of Blessings.”
“Yeah, that’s what it felt like when you met the owl in the Sanctuary of Blessings….”
This is what happens every time I meet a sponsor at the Sanctuary of Blessing.
The feeling of losing one’s body and only one’s spirit rising endlessly upward.
A sense of being drawn to a fundamentally higher-dimensional realm, not above physical concepts.
I vaguely understood some of the secrets of the sanctuary.
“It’s not flat. It’s a path that leads upwards.”
“The further you go, the higher the realm becomes… .”
At that moment, Miro muttered from behind.
“Gain, don’t you think we’ve gotten a little smaller?”
“It’s a mistake.”
“Oh, it really feels like it’s gotten smaller -”
“It’s not that we’re getting smaller, it’s that this space is getting bigger.”
“what?”
“Let’s go. There is only one way.”
Another few minutes later.
I checked behind me because it was too quiet, but Miro and the Virgin Mary were nowhere to be seen.
“Virgin Mary.”
“Huh! You said you were going to do something, right? Was it now?”
Even though the Virgin Mary suddenly disappeared with Miro, Seondae did not seem that surprised.
It was a reaction of, “I had a feeling something was going to happen someday, and now it is.”
I think similarly.
“If it had been in the same condition as before, I wouldn’t know, but the Virgin Mary was recovering noticeably.”
“Yes, it was.”
At first, he was like a child who followed my words without question, half-conscious.
If it had stayed that way, it would have been easy to handle, but at some point it started to go wrong.
The first time I recognized my other self was at the Moon Church.
After that, the decisive factor was to repeatedly ask for help from the flute to maintain the elevator.
“You must have developed your own purpose.”
“… What are you planning to do?”
“Let’s just go.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
The reason why he did not keep a close watch on the Virgin Mary even though he knew she had other thoughts.
The reason why my ancestors and I weren’t too flustered even after confirming that he had suddenly disappeared.
“I don’t think it was meant badly.”
“It seems you too have felt something in the deepest sea.”
The deepest sea, a place where everyone’s thoughts were unintentionally mixed together.
There I vaguely read the Virgin Mary’s thoughts.
I don’t know exactly what they’re trying to do, but they have no intention of harming us.
Because her purpose was as she had said before.
‘Happy ending.’
Regardless of my concern for the Virgin Mary, I am curious.
She probably only has about three minutes left.
What can I do in this short time?
*
A few more minutes passed.
It was also the point at which the summoned Virgin Mary, who had gone somewhere, consumed all of the remaining time and disappeared.
All this time, we have been moving forward – no, ‘upwards’ – without rest.
“Ugh…!”
The senior in front of me eventually couldn’t handle the height and fell to his knees, panting.
“Are you okay?”
“Do you see it?”
“Let’s take a break. It’s impossible to fight in this condition anyway.”
“I think I’m starting to learn about crowns.”
“It seems like you think similarly to me.”
The crown is an arrangement left by the primordial civilization to control the second-stage soul gathering.
It is the power that allows the prince to suppress even such great beings as contradictions.
“You told the contradiction earlier, right? The principle of the crown is the high voice heard from the throne.”
“Yes, it was.”
“We are now advancing to a higher place. In other words, this space itself is part of the crown!”
“…”
“We are advancing into higher realms… .”
“Sir, you must remain calm.”
The following remark was somewhat impromptu, intended to slightly relieve the burden of my suffering ancestors in front of me.
“I’d be a little scared if my last remaining comrade fell.”
“Huh…! Colleague? Do you really think so?”
“Isn’t it? I think it’s been quite some time since we’ve been on the same boat.”
“Do you lie to people on the same boat as you?”
“I do it sometimes.”
“…”
“…”
“That’s what you said when we negotiated before. You said it didn’t matter who won: the Administration, the Coalition, or the Marauders.”
“…”
“Wasn’t that a complete lie?”
A story told during negotiations.
My colleagues and I were dropped into an empty world without family or anything.
For us, there is no difference between the management and the plunderers, so we can accept the plunderers’ victory.
It’s a lie made up to form an alliance with the plunderers.
They lied at the time, but as time passed, their predecessors eventually realized the lie.
The biggest reason would be the very existence of Ari and Grandfather Mukseong.
Even if others don’t know, these two people, who have a sense of loyalty and mission to the Administration, are people who cannot tolerate the victory of the plunderers.
A predatory force that has never met us in person can be deceived.
The need for an alliance is clear, so you might think that I am reigning like a king and suppressing the opinions of Ari and Mukseong.
But the ancestors are the ones who have been watching our relationship from right next to us.
He is the one who knows that I will not ignore and suppress Ari and Grandpa’s opinions.
“Then wouldn’t we be more like colleagues?”
“what?”
“You knew I was lying, but you didn’t tell the looters.”
“…”
“It seems like you helped me with my lies. Isn’t that the report you brought? Young Wisdom wants to join the Union?”
If my predecessors had joined in on my lies, the looters would have believed me like a rock.
“Let’s be honest with each other.”
“Let’s be honest?”
“What do plunderers have to do with you?”
“… If the Union people heard this conversation right now, they would vomit blood and collapse immediately.”
“What does it matter if an extra who isn’t even here vomits blood or hangs himself?”
I know my ancestors.
I know the one earnest desire in his heart.
The wisdom of the ancestors has only one wish.
Escape from the absurd reality and challenge the 3rd floor, the path of ascension!
“I believe in you, my ancestors. I believe in your earnest desire to go to the third floor.”
“…”
“So, please trust me too. Because I am working hard to fulfill your wish.”
“Huh! So, this process is your sacrifice to send me to the third floor?”
“Let’s go. We’ve had enough rest, so let’s go.”
There is still a long way to go.
…
— Multi-faceted! Multi-faceted!
A memory that suddenly came to mind as I continued to move forward and upward.
In the evening, I would lean against the apartment railing and look down at the night view of downtown Seoul.
There were hundreds and thousands of cars filling the roads and all kinds of people running around like crazy.
Let’s open our palms and look down at the people.
Thanks to the law of perspective, where things that are far away appear smaller and things that are close appear larger, you can have fun experiences.
I can see dozens of cars and three-digit numbers of people crammed into a space the size of my palm.
I feel like I’ve become a huge giant.
I feel like I have ascended to a great being that cannot be compared to those small ants below.
Why, isn’t there a saying like this?
‘The invention of the airplane was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.’
This is the exhilaration that comes from being in a high position.
Right now, I am heading towards a place so high that no airplane or spaceship in the world can reach.
…
At some point, I also found it difficult to stand.
It was not easy to handle this location, this remoteness.
On the other hand, I also had this thought.
If I can endure to the end of this road, the me after and the me before might be something completely different.
“Huh!”
“Let’s take a break.”
“The moon… If the prince attacks us now… .”
“If that was the case, I would have done it long ago.”
“…”
“Can’t you feel it? Even a prince cannot do as he pleases in this place.”
The prince is not in a relaxed situation either.
A seal of the moon created in ancient times.
Intense pressure from outside, from the Administration and the Marauders’ Coalition.
The burden of contradictions that have changed into unknown forms.
Finally, the uniqueness of the sanctuary itself!
All the forces under heaven have gathered their strength and prepared various arrangements to suppress the prince.
We must believe that and move forward.
The old man, who had been out of breath, suddenly looked at me and opened his mouth as if he was dumbfounded.
“You, you’ve moved further away from me than before?”
“I think I walk a little slowly.”
“Are you walking slowly? Are you not walking slowly on purpose?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Aren’t you using me as a lab rat or a scapegoat? I’ll be the one walking ahead, bearing the pressure of the sanctuary, and if anything dangerous happens, I’ll be the first to suffer.”
“There is a lot of misunderstanding.”
“Misunderstanding! Aren’t you sorry for talking about your colleagues earlier?”
“That is exactly the misunderstanding I was talking about.”
“what?”
“This is how hotel colleagues are. If you all experience dangerous situations at the same time, won’t you end up dying together if you make a mistake?”
“you….”
“There is a saying that goes, ‘don’t put all your eggs in one basket.’ Dangerous places should be visited by one person at a time.”
After hearing my logical argument, Seondae gasped like a carp and then said in a sigh.
“Why should I be in a more dangerous position?”
“Who turned back time? It was me. The longer a person lives, the more information he has, and the more likely he is to win.”
“… You have a reason for everything, don’t you?”
“sure.”
“her….”
“Are you okay?”
“Do you know what makes me the saddest right now?”
“What is it?”
“I myself feel that what you say is extremely reasonable. However, I have to say this.”
“I will listen.”
“Are you a human being and doing this?”
“I will take that as a compliment.”
“… I fell for the trap. I knew it was a trap, but I couldn’t help it.”
“Please trust me.”
“You’re the one who got me into trouble.”
“Okay, okay, you go ahead. Shouldn’t we go to the third floor?”
…
Another 3 or 4 minutes later.
— Thud!
The ancestors who had endured in front of me until now have finally collapsed.
“Ahh… Theresa… Cedric… Help me, help me… .”
Theresa? Cedric?
He seems to be an old colleague of mine.
“For a long time… I have endured and endured again…”
“Goodbye, goodbye!”
“It’s enough… . To this extent, I did my best…”
“Hey! Can’t you hear me?”
“Is there anyone? Someone who will free me from this hell… .”
“…”
It’s not like my ancestors died or anything.
Maybe he’ll wake up at the right time and help me.
However, for now, it has become powerless.
…
Something began to take on a hazy shape ahead.
I feel like a distant being is watching me.
The end is near.
The only question left is whether it will be a happy ending or a bad ending!
— Clank!