Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 649
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EP.649 Episode 649 – The First Wish (5) Fin
Episode 649 – The First Wish (5) Fin
– Kim Ari
After Songi’s dream ended, the three people were simultaneously speechless.
What the hell did I see?
“…”
Songi, a child who believed that animals could speak.
At the time, not only the adults, but even Songi herself, who had grown up, dismissed her past memories as childish delusions… .
It wasn’t a mistake.
Songi, as a child, actually saw a talking dog!
Gain said in a calm voice.
“Is that dog named ‘Somi’ a chaotic entity itself? Or was the dog caught up in the chaos?”
“You can’t tell for sure just from the scene you saw. You have to keep in mind a number of possibilities.”
“Can other animals speak?”
According to Songi, when she was young, she said, ‘Dogs and cats can speak human language.’
“I guess there are cats that talk.”
“What about other animals? Can pigeons on the roadside talk?”
“…”
As the story began to expand, I had nothing much to say.
Because there are limits to guessing based on just a few scenes.
It seems like Gain isn’t looking for an answer right away, but is considering various possibilities.
Through conversation, Gain and I naturally regained our composure.
If you look at it from a distance, it is just one aspect of a reality where chaos and disasters occur constantly.
Cain’s words now are proof of that.
“There were quite a few security systems inside the mansion. There must have been laser turrets and such outside, too.”
This means that the chaos disaster response system has spread to the civilian sector.
In other words, the loop Songi lived in was a place where common sense was distorted to the point that it was not much different from reality.
“It must have cost a lot of money to install something like that. I guess the couple are both veterinarians, so they must have had plenty of money.”
“…”
Gain frowned slightly, as if she sensed something odd in the scene just now.
At that moment, a rough groan was heard.
“Ugh! Aah…! What, what is this -”
Songi’s appearance as if she was about to faint and gasp for breath.
I quickly approached her and grabbed her shoulder to try to calm her down, but Songi suddenly hugged me tightly.
“Oh my god.”
“Ugh! Ugh!”
“…”
“… Sorry.”
“It’s okay. You seem really shocked.”
“Ba, I wasn’t the only one who heard that, was I? Was I the only one who heard it because of the blessing? Ari, did you hear that too? Oppa-”
“Calm down. We all heard it. In the first place, affinity isn’t a power that works on normal animals.”
“Oh, that’s right.”
In some ways, a chaos disaster resembles a traffic accident.
There are approximately 3,500 traffic accidents per day in South Korea.
It’s not annual, it’s daily. Someone gets hit by a car every 15 seconds.
On a national level, traffic accidents are common.
However, for individuals, it is often a once-in-a-lifetime event, something that does not occur often in life.
So, it’s natural for Song-i to be more surprised than Ga-in and I, who were watching from a distance… .
Even taking that into account, he seems to have lost his composure more than I thought.
In terms of weirdness, the real moon and ark were much weirder.
“Well, at first I just thought it was a little creepy… . But, the more I thought about it, the more I realized. If, the souls of the animals we raised in our house were trapped inside, then that would be -”
I understand a little bit.
What scared Song-i more than the scene before her eyes was the ominous and terrible possibility that the scene implied.
“Stop, stop! There’s no need to use your imagination too much in this uncertain situation.”
Gain also nodded and approached.
“The dream is already over. We can go out and do the content analysis together.”
“… Oppa.”
“You should go outside first. There are already several colleagues awake outside, so rest with them.”
After Songi left, Gain suddenly looked at me.
“what’s the matter?”
“Isn’t that strange? The environment in which Songi grew up is a world where chaos and disasters have already spread widely.”
“yes.”
“… Even though it was just a child’s words, I felt like people around me took it too lightly.”
“Hmm… Let’s go out and talk.”
“Yeah. The last comrade remains.”
The last one is Elena.
*
Elena’s dream was taking place in an unusual place.
A dark, noisy, crowded place where everyone sits quietly and faces straight ahead.
It’s a pretty big theater.
In the dream, Elena looked to be twelve or thirteen years old, but since Elena in reality had also become physically younger, there was no great sense of discomfort.
Cain whispered to me.
“I haven’t woken up yet.”
“They don’t recognize us.”
“The ones on the left are my parents… Is the one on the right also family?”
“You said you had an older sister before.”
A romantic film was playing on the screen in front.
Elena was admiring it with sparkling eyes, and seeing a beautiful girl with sparkling eyes made for quite a picture.
It seems that he was already an aspiring actor at this time.
At that moment, Elena’s mother slightly twitched and looked away.
Her gaze passed over me for a moment, and I flinched without realizing it, but she didn’t seem to recognize me or Ga-in.
It just looks like he’s looking around.
Gain, who had been observing the area, also looked at Elena’s mother with eyes that said, ‘Why are you suddenly like this?’
“Elena, Natalia! Let’s go now!”
“Mom, what’s wrong with you all of a sudden?”
She eventually started urging her two daughters during the movie.
People around me frowned and protested, but I didn’t seem to care at all.
“What is it all of a sudden?”
“It looks like you felt something. Did you find something?”
“Not at all. I don’t know why it’s like this.”
Eventually, the two sisters, Elena and Natalia, were forced out of the theater by their mother’s hand.
What’s interesting is that, unlike Elena, who is still at a young age, Natalia looks quite familiar.
“It seems like this kind of thing is familiar to you, sister.”
“I heard that you lived in exile to avoid the dictator’s eyes. This wouldn’t be the first time something like this has happened. But…”
Gain asked me as if it was difficult to understand.
“Based on the circumstances, it seems like you saw a Russian secret agent?”
“That’s exactly what it feels like.”
“What did you see?”
“Not at all. I don’t know what Elena’s mother saw.”
Gain frowned and swallowed as she tried to say something.
Because the moment the three women entered the house, a serious scene began.
“Mikhael! Mikhail! Please wake up…! (Mikhail! Mikhail! Please wake up…!)”
Mikhail Ivanov, believed to be Elena’s father, lies on the floor convulsing.
There were no signs of trauma, but the TV showing the news and the overturned teacup on the table gave me a rough idea of ??what was going on.
I was drinking black tea while watching TV, but the black tea was poisonous.
“It looks like it was poisoned.”
“Did Elena’s father pass away at this time?”
Natalia hurriedly supported her father and shouted to Elena.
“Elena! Don’t call 999! (Elena! Call 999 immediately!)”
“? ??? ?? ????????! “What are you talking about? (What are you talking about? You said you couldn’t trust anyone, right?)”
“So you’re going to let your father die like this?”
Because of the situation, it was hard to understand because they were talking so fast, but it felt like they were fighting over whether or not they should report it to someone.
Elena was trembling with fear and confusion on her face.
At that moment, she seemed to have realized something belatedly and began to stare at where Ga-in and I were standing.
“Huh? What’s this situation?”
The moment the word ‘Korean’ came out of Elena’s mouth, I realized that she was starting to regain consciousness.
“Ah! Ahh? What the heck is this -”
After seeing Elena’s reaction, Gain approached her and briefly explained the situation.
“Oh, so this is my first wish-related dream?”
“Yes.”
I approached too.
“Do you think you know something?”
Unlike some of her colleagues who remained confused even after waking up, Elena answered quite clearly.
“… In this situation, it is clear. I would have been angry at Alexander Vasiliev. I would have wanted justice to be done to him.”
“Alexander Vasiliev? Is that the dictator’s name?”
“huh.”
When Gain heard that, she made a strange sound.
“It’s not Vladimir.”
“yes?”
“No. I mistook you for someone else for a moment. Did your father pass away because of this?”
“Fortunately, it wasn’t. The ambulance came in time. However, my father became very unwell after this incident.”
I understand the general situation.
An exiled diplomat (Mikhail Ivanov) and his family wander abroad, trying to avoid the eyes of the Russian dictator, Alexander Vasiliev.
Believing that they had arrived in a safe country, Mikhail’s wife and two daughters enjoyed a movie in the theater for the first time in a long time.
At that moment, Mikhail’s wife felt something unknown and hurriedly left the theater with her two daughters and returned home.
Fortunately, nothing serious happened to the mother and daughter, but when they returned home, Mikhail had drunk poisoned tea and collapsed, vomiting blood.
What is Elena’s wish in this situation?
Of course, it would be hatred towards dictators and a desire for justice to be realized.
Ga-in, who had been deep in thought, opened her mouth.
“I understand the general idea, but when you look at the details, it’s strange.”
“Which part?”
At this point, Gain pointed at me and herself as if she found it difficult to understand.
“Ari is a veteran agent and high-ranking official of the Administration. I am, um, a former research institute director and pseudo-god.”
Elena muttered in disbelief.
“A pseudo-god?”
“I don’t know how many great secret agents the Russian dictator has at his disposal, but can Ari and I avoid his eyes?”
“…”
Gain’s question is something I also thought about in the theater.
Because I also couldn’t understand why Elena’s mother was suddenly acting like this as I looked at her in horror.
“I thought the same thing. I didn’t feel anything in the theater.”
“that….”
“Let’s say that the secret agent’s skills are incredibly excellent. Let’s say that he can avoid the gaze of the silent one, and even the gaze of Ga-in, who can read even the sounds in the darkness.”
To us, Elena’s dream seems like a realistic movie.
So, while spiritual detection is impossible, if there is a secret agent or something, it should be visible.
“How did your mother detect the presence of such a being? Did she have supernatural powers?”
“… maybe.”
“perhaps?”
“At that moment, my mother might have been mistaken.”
Is the work at the theater an illusion of Elena’s mother?
“My mother was very weak from the long surveillance. Maybe she thought there was a non-existent watcher.”
That makes sense.
Anyone can become mentally ill when they are running from the surveillance and pursuit of a dictator and even have poisoned tea appear in their home.
However, this interpretation is wrong.
“Elena, your mother may be wrong, but the hotel is not wrong.”
“ah?”
“If what happened in the theater was simply a mistake by the public, why would the hotel show that scene?”
This also makes sense.
As the hotel shows, the work at the theater is not a meaningless illusion.
There was clearly something there that I couldn’t understand.
There are special circumstances that Elena’s mother noticed, although Gain and I didn’t notice them.
“I don’t know….”
There is an unidentified watcher who can avoid Gain and I’s eyes.
But can an ordinary person notice that something?
This is where the thoughts of the three people stopped.
Elena’s dream was still ongoing and unstoppable.
Elena’s words that her father was not dead were true.
Mikhail began to gasp in bed and wait for the ambulance while his wife and Natalia did their best to keep him calm.
“I feel like the dream will end soon. Elena, don’t you know yet?”
“huh.”
The moment I was about to sigh along with the helpless girl’s words –
“ah?”
I felt something for the first time.
“…Elena.”
“huh?”
“You shouldn’t be here either. Take care of your father in the bedroom.”
Elena tilted her head as if to ask what I meant, but followed my instructions obediently.
Gain, who sensed the change at about the same time as me, whispered.
“…Is it okay for us to stay here?”
“The beings in the illusion don’t recognize us, so it’ll be fine. We just have to get rid of Elena.”
Elena’s parents, older sister, and even Elena herself headed to the bedroom.
In the living room, only Ga-in and I were left, unrecognizable to anyone in this world.
and….
“…”
— Squeak!
The announcer’s eyes rolled beyond the TV that Mikhail was watching.
As if watching the space beyond the screen.
— Clank!
At the moment when the last colleague’s dream ended, Gain muttered as if she was touched in some way.
“Hey! What kind of world do you all live in?”
Yeah. I’m curious too.