Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 651
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EP.651 Episode 651 – Meeting, Exploration (2)
Episode 651 – Meeting, Exploration (2)
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 1
Current Location: Tier 3, Lobby
Wise Man’s Advice: 0”
– Han Ga-in
Since then, various hypotheses have emerged regarding Sang-Hyeon Hyung’s memories.
It was a mystical memory that seemed to be a proper mix of science fiction and horror in terms of movies, and because of that, there were so many possible scenarios.
At some point, Sang-Hyeon himself waved his hand with a tired expression.
“Let’s stop here. There are a lot of interesting hypotheses, but there are so many that I’m starting to get dizzy.”
Sister Eunsol briefly wrote down information about brother Sanghyun.
Kim Sang-hyun: The background is an unidentified exoplanet. He is terrified when he encounters an incomprehensible being. The location, the target, and the background to space are all issues.
At this time, I also worried a little.
Should I focus on Sang-Hyeon and write some insights?
“…”
No, if you use your insight now, it will most likely break the flow of the meeting.
The timing is after the meeting ends.
“Then let’s go to the next person. The order is -”
The order was – Ari, who was doing it, flinched for a moment.
Because I realized that if things continued like this, the next turn would be a maze.
“- Okay, let’s start with Eunsol.”
Miro himself has an expression of indifference, but Ari looks embarrassed and tries to pass Miro’s turn.
Although some of her colleagues felt it was unnatural and tilted their heads, Eunsol began explaining without saying anything.
“Yeah. My side is short and simple.”
As the saying goes, Eunsol’s dream was simple.
A brief description of his time as an executive director at the Ocean Group, a story about his siblings, and some memories mixed with regret about his father.
“Father always had high expectations for us. Now that I think about it, the biggest reason for the bad relationship between us siblings was my father who stimulated the competitive spirit between us.”
Since it was a family story, it was difficult to interfere, and everyone listened in silence.
“At the time, that’s exactly how I felt. A strict father. A father who always disappointed us. A father who was too great, too excellent…”
Chairman of the Ocean Group, his voice mixed with love and hate for his father.
“But, as I experienced the hotel and learned about the mysteries of the world, I often thought to myself, was my father really an ordinary person?”
Grandfather asked cautiously.
“So what did you do about the regressor? Because it seems like you succeeded in starting a business because you were a regressor?”
“I’ve often felt this way in my life. My father was like… .”
“like?”
“It’s like you know the future. How can you make such an outrageous choice?”
“Hmm….”
“Of course, I’m not sure. Right? The founders of big companies are all extraordinary people.”
“That’s true.”
I also expressed my own opinion.
“If you gather 100,000 people and hold a rock-paper-scissors competition, one of them will eventually win. If you look at the winner in this situation, it will look like he knows the future. He got the right answer every time in hundreds of games of rock-paper-scissors.”
Sister Eunsol nodded.
“I know what you mean. There are countless aspiring entrepreneurs on Earth right now. One of them will eventually create a conglomerate.”
“Yes.”
“The final winner, if you look at that one person, you can’t help but think that he or she knows the future. Whether it’s luck or skill, he or she has always won rock-paper-scissors. Yes, I understand what you’re saying. But… .”
“but?”
“… Still, it was difficult for my father to understand.”
“If we are given the chance in the Room of Curses, let’s check it out.”
“…”
“If the Chairman is truly a regressor, I wonder how that would tie into the room scenario.”
This concludes the story about my older sister.
Eunsol Lee: Is the Chairman of Daeyang Group a regressor? If so, what is his connection to the scenario?
“I wrote it down too. What’s next – ”
While my sister was hesitating, Miro intervened.
“Wasn’t it my turn originally?”
“…That’s true.”
Eunsol looked at Ari and smiled awkwardly, but Miro had already started to brag proudly.
The situation was funny all over again.
Ari, who knows the truth, tries to pass the maze’s turn, and Eun-sol, who sensed the mood, also accepts it, but Miro, who doesn’t know anything, goes ahead.
How does such an innocent child grow up to become a maze of ghost stories?
“Unlike the doctor, I am simple!”
Doctor?
I guess I’ve only been going to school for a few months and I’m already used to hearing this expression.
“Ah~ Do you remember the Santa I saw a long time ago? I think it was when I made a wish to Santa while losing my friends. The content was probably…. The annihilation of the devil?”
Eunsol, who was scribbling on the whiteboard, confirmed it again.
“Salvation of the innocent, annihilation of evil, realization of justice. Is this it?”
“huh!”
“You too, like Sang-Hyeon, have a second wish? An empty wish from Pioneer.”
“huh.”
“what?”
“Hey, a few days ago I had a dream where I met my old self? At that time -”
The story of a man who meets his past self in a dream and once again reflects on his goal of saving humanity.
The dream itself may have been true.
Because the wish of the ghost story labyrinth is actually the realization of justice.
However, the hotel sees the young maze’s real wish as something else.
Earlier, I had to see the next person’s dream, so I sent Maze away with a suitable lie… .
Looking back, I wonder if it was necessary to increase the number of lies.
Shouldn’t there be secrets between colleagues?
— Bam!
“Huh? Gain?”
“Sister, I have something to say -”
The moment when the ‘cold truth’ is revealed in front of everyone.
“…”
“Cain?”
My legs started getting crazy cold.
Ariga began to use her old blood to blow cold winds.
Normally, I would have sent a ‘private message’ with my grandfather’s help, but now I want to hide the content of the conversation from him, so it seems like I’m just bothering my own legs.
We exchanged glances for a moment, Ari and I had a conversation with our eyes.
‘Do I have to say this in front of everyone?’
‘You can’t keep hiding it.’
‘Think about the human rights of the labyrinth!’
Meanwhile, Miro just opens his eyes wide with an expression of ignorance.
“Gain? What’s wrong?”
“Oh, no. I think I misunderstood something.”
“… okay?”
As always, my quick-witted older sister seemed to have vaguely sensed what was going on between me and Ari, but being the quick-witted person that she is, she didn’t ask any further questions.
“Then next person!”
At that moment, when his colleagues’ gazes naturally turned to Seungyeop, he thought to himself.
Is it really necessary to hide it just because Ari asked?
If talking openly in front of the maze is a problem, let’s talk to someone else later when there’s no maze!
“Uh, I -”
The moment Seungyeop opens his mouth.
“Kyahahahahaha!”
Miro started laughing hysterically.
“uh?”
“I, I’ll tell you everything! I know everything!”
“Wh, what are you talking about! What can I say -”
Seungyeop tried to somehow manage the situation with his face flushed red, but it was impossible.
Because Miro laughed heartily and told what he saw without filtering anything.
“You know how he’s been playing games all night from the start? He’s really hopeless. Your parents are in trouble!”
“Hey! You take care of your parents! You were playing princess at school!”
“What? Playing princess? Hey! How can you wish for bad luck for your team while playing a game? Wow! The next scene is even more shocking!”
At this point, Miro suddenly stopped talking.
“…”
As if to say, ‘No matter how much I love you, I can’t say anything from here on out.’
Of course, other colleagues who didn’t know the situation had doubts.
For example, Songi was like that.
“What’s the next scene?”
“…”
“What? You were making such a fuss about being more shocked. You weren’t just playing games all night, were you?”
Seungyeop just stares down, trembling, and Ari just looks at the ceiling as if she doesn’t know anything.
Even Miro, who first brought up the subject, turned away with a look of regret.
Yeah, I guess there’s nothing I can do.
The answer is me.
The thing that everyone is afraid of, I will be the first to break ground.
“After class, on my way home, he suddenly confessed to a girl named Soyeon.”
“Huh?! Go, all of a sudden?”
“Looking at you, it seems like you’ve never said anything properly before confessing.”
“…”
“What exactly was the line? ‘Soyeon! From the first time I saw you -’”
“Go, Gain hyung! Please don’t do that!”
If you were thinking of backing out now, you never would have started in the first place.
“I fell in love with your shining eyes from the first time I saw them!” Is that right?
“Grrrr…!”
Seungyeop started to groan with a half-stunned expression on his face, but I knew everything anyway. My memory is very good.
“Then the girl said, ‘Sorry, I have a boyfriend.’”
Songi asked with a look of incredulity.
“And?”
“Seungyeop said, ‘Ma, if we break up, next time -’”
“Eww! That, that’s enough!”
— Bam!
“after….”
Eunsol sighed deeply and tapped the whiteboard.
“Okay, okay. I know the gist of it. I’ll write down what Seungyeop dreamed about.”
1. Blaming the team for playing games until dawn every day.
2. School life is a mess. I hardly have any friends.
3. Trying to confess to a girl I’ve never talked to before, getting rejected immediately. After getting rejected, trying again, getting rejected again.
The moment the content was completed, silence fell over the room.
“Is that right?”
Seungyeop and Ari, as well as Miro, who was initially trying to tease him, were left speechless.
A pure summary, without any teasing, jokes, or exaggeration.
So, it’s content that’s even harder to bear.
At this point, Seungyeop collapsed on the sofa, half out of his mind.
It is a strange moment when the world’s best (self-proclaimed) player falls with just three sentences.
In my opinion, I don’t think 205’s Lee Ja-seong would be able to withstand this level of attack even if he came back alive.
Seungyeop also answered blankly with a soulless expression.
“… yes.”
Jincheol said cautiously, as if it was hard to bear.
“Hey, hey. Even so, this isn’t everything, right? Is there something else? Oh, and Soyeon turned out to be a devil?”
“…”
“Um, uh, it turns out that the game you like is imbued with the evil magic of some cosmic being… .”
“…”
“Is there really nothing? There’s no way there’s nothing!”
It was a little funny to hear.
At this point, shouldn’t Soyeon really be the one to do the evil spirit thing?
Or maybe there’s a conspiracy by the administration in that game!
Ari, who had been sighing, carefully poked my shoulder.
“What didn’t you say?”
“…”
“You said it was convenient or something.”
“I did feel that way.”
The gazes of colleagues who gather naturally.
In particular, Seungyeop’s gaze seemed the most earnest.
“For example, Seungyeop’s parents neglect him too much… .”
“That makes sense. I also felt it was a bit harsh. What’s different?”
“When you want to confess, does the right person to confess to appear?”
“what?”
“If you look at Seungyeop’s attitude at the time, it didn’t seem like a planned confession.”
“What are you talking about?”
“A little bit, I felt it after watching it. I was thinking whether I should confess or not, but I thought I should do it today! -”
“Seungyeop’s psychological analysis is really detailed.”
Strangely enough, there seemed to be a sentence omitted from Ari’s words.
‘Just like you often had similar worries, Gain.’
I flinched for a moment, but tried to sound as natural as possible and continued speaking.
“… I was thinking about it, and then the person I wanted to confess to suddenly appeared in front of me. So I couldn’t hold it in and just blurted out what was on my mind.”
Songi, who had been listening, nodded.
“That’s what you’re saying. Judging from Seungyeop’s attitude, it wasn’t a planned confession. It doesn’t seem like he intentionally tried to meet that girl. But, in a school with hundreds of people, it’s unusual for him to meet her by chance at the exact moment he wanted to confess?”
“It’s something like that.”
This time, Songi frowned, but strangely enough, I could feel her true feelings.
‘Brother, have you ever tried to find Gayoung at school and failed?’
What the heck?
Could it be that Tongchal read Ari and Songi’s inner thoughts through their facial expressions and gestures?
Haha! Maybe it’s just my imagination?
Both of them are just sitting there quietly without thinking much, but I must be the only one who is mistaken because I saw Seungyeop’s trouble.
At that moment, Ari spoke in a low voice.
“It could be a plan.”
“What? How is that a plan? Even a kindergartener wouldn’t make such a ridiculous confession.”
Next to him, Seungyeop muttered in a half-dead voice.
“… It wasn’t the plan. Please save me.”
and –
Ari answered indifferently.
“Well, some people confess through KakaoTalk after a week of thorough planning, but Seungyeop’s confession could have been a month-long plan.”