Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 655
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EP.655 Episode 655 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of Species’ (2)
Episode 655 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of the Species’ (2)
– Yoo Song-i
“Songiya? Where are you going?”
“I have plans with a friend!”
“Huh? Why did you bring Pero – Songiya!”
As soon as I finished breakfast, I took Pero out.
Of course, primarily to progress the scenario… .
There is also the reason that it is extremely uncomfortable to meet my mother face to face.
“…”
inconvenient.
I’m confused.
It’s awkward.
After understanding the truth of the world, I never imagined that I would meet my real parents again.
An endless loop, I thought it had long since disappeared into the flow of time.
What on earth is the situation now?
Could this be the same loop I lived in before coming to the hotel?
If so, the concept of the third floor might be time travel.
Go back to the ‘Right Grupo’ we lived in in the past and solve the crisis of the end?
The questions kept piling up.
I’m not the only one who came into room 301, and Eunsol unnie has the same judgment as me.
Is this world also the loop that Eun-sol unnie lived in?
Eunsol and I have been living in the same loop?
I guess my memories of the world weren’t exactly the same.
I don’t know.
Questions kept popping up in my head, but none of them were easily resolved.
Eventually, I had to make a resolution to stop my confusing thoughts.
“… Songiya. This is not the time. You can solve your doubts with your colleagues outside!”
Right now, we need to focus on solving the cursed room.
That’s the only way for me and everyone to survive!
*
The first thought that came to mind was how to contact Eunsol.
If I had known I would be returning to the past loop, I would have exchanged cell phone numbers before coming to the hotel!
I didn’t do that because I didn’t expect it at all.
Thanks to this, we don’t know each other’s phone numbers, emails, etc.
— Beep! Beep!
“Be quiet. I’m busy.”
Fortunately, unlike me, Eunsol was the youngest daughter of a wealthy family and was therefore a famous person. When I searched, I found various information about her.
“Home address? This won’t do.”
Even if I go there, wouldn’t it be difficult to meet him?
It’s burdensome for Eunsol’s family to know about my existence.
“Secretary’s email? This sounds better.”
— Beep!
The parrot replied that it was a good idea.
I appreciate the feeling of having someone to talk to, but I feel like I talk to myself more because of Pero.
As I was about to send the email, it occurred to me that my sister’s secretary might ignore my email.
So I sent it with content that couldn’t be ignored.
— Diriring!
“Okay!”
Now that I’ve made contact, it’s time to find out more about Room 301 in my own way.
*
I stood in front of an animal hospital boasting a fancy interior in the middle of Gangnam.
“Yuhaehaehappy Animal Hospital”
Do people know?
The ‘Yu’ in front of Happy Happy is not only a way to refer to the customer as ‘You’, but it is also a name that veterinarian ‘Yu Jeong-ho’ named after his own last name.
In other words, it is an ambiguous expression that both the customers (You) should be happy-happy and the doctor himself (‘Yu’ Jeong-ho) should be happy-happy.
I didn’t think much of it when I was young, but now that I look back, the hospital name is a bit odd!
Is this Dad’s naming sense that changed my mind?
“…”
— Dingdong!
I opened the main door and walked a few steps, and the counter staff appeared.
“Sir, you have a reservation -”
“Oh my! It’s Songi!”
I have a vague memory of visiting my father’s workplace a few times, and maybe that’s why one of the older employees recognized me.
That person is very kind to me, but I, who has had so much experience in hotels, have no idea who that person is.
This moment was subtly bittersweet.
“Is Dad inside?”
“If you are the director, you are seeing a patient right now – Oh my!”
I entered the examination room without saying a word.
I know it’s rude, but this is the world I live in and also the hotel’s official ‘Cursed Room’.
In other words, it is a world where the end is approaching.
I don’t have time to consider things like hospital schedules.
Some of the staff members were surprised and tried to grab my arms… .
Wouldn’t it be a waste of experience to be stopped at this level?
There was no need to use the legacy.
— Bam!
As soon as I opened the door, a middle-aged man sitting in front of the computer looked up in surprise.
“Who – huh?”
“dad.”
“Oh, Songiya? What is this – is something going on at home?”
From the father’s perspective, it was a situation where his daughter suddenly showed up at work without any notice.
It was such an unexpected situation, I feel like rather than scolding me, I’m worried that something big has happened.
“Please keep them away from our staff.”
“… okay.”
Interestingly enough, my dad started following my every word without any hesitation.
It seems like he’s come up with his own interpretation of the current situation, and although it’s 100% wrong, he hasn’t bothered to correct it.
“Whew… Song-iya. It looks like you found out something shocking -”
“Be quiet and answer me.”
“hmm?”
“Have you noticed any increase in customers recently?”
“Why all of a sudden -”
“Just answer. Just answer!”
Dad couldn’t hide his embarrassment, but he answered as if he was overwhelmed by the momentum.
“Joe, it did stretch a little.”
“Have you ever seen a strange animal? An animal that is sick in body or mind!”
“Song-i, this is a hospital. Of course, animals that are sick in body or mind should come here.”
“What I mean is, were there any special patients… out of the ordinary?”
This is why I came to my father’s hospital.
All I know about Room 301 is that ‘when he was a little boy, an old golden retriever spoke human language.’
Wouldn’t the profession most likely to detect abnormal phenomena related to animals first be a successful veterinarian?
“Tell me more.”
“Did you say something human?”
“Is it a parrot story?”
“It could be a dog or a cat.”
“If there was such an animal, I would report it to the management office rather than taking it to the hospital.”
This is true.
No one is stupid and would take their dog to the hospital if it starts talking to people.
If it’s 100, I’ll report it to the 100 Management Office.
What happens after that?
“Animals taken to the management office will most likely die, right?”
“Huh? Well, at the point you mentioned, it’s not a normal animal, so culling it is inevitable, right?”
A father discussing euthanasia as if it were a given.
This is common sense.
As I realized this, the following thought occurred to me:
Even if there were animals that acquired human intelligence for some reason, most of them would hide their intelligence!
The moment I reveal it, I’ll be caught by the management office, subjected to all kinds of experiments, and killed, so I can’t say anything rash about things like that.
Like Somi in her childhood, she only opens her mouth to express her sorrow when she is about to die of old age.
“Have you ever seen an animal that behaved in a way that wasn’t animal-like?”
“hmm….”
An expression that seems as if something is about to come to mind.
“That’s not animal-like behavior. Among the staff, there’s someone who feeds stray cats.”
“yes.”
“He said several times that he saw a strange cat. He said it was so memorable that he couldn’t forget it… .”
After hearing a few more stories, I got up.
“I’m sorry for coming so suddenly.”
“It’s okay that you came, but what’s really going on? Just in case, did Happy or Lingling act strangely?”
“… no.”
“Why did you bring Pero? Is he sick or something?”
It may have been a strange situation for my father, but he kept nagging me and it was a little annoying.
At the point where I was considering using the bracelet to resolve the situation.
Dad opened his mouth, unable to hide his hesitation.
“I, um, you asked me to fire the staff….”
“…”
“I thought I saw an amazing, uh, scene.”
My head starts to hurt a little.
Unpleasant information that I had forgotten began to stir in the back of my memory.
Thanks to that, an unknown fever rose.
“When the time comes, um, I was going to tell Songi everything -”
“Are you preparing for a divorce?”
“…”
“Or are you both seeing other people?”
“that….”
“It’s okay. It happened a long time ago for me.”
I left the hospital, leaving behind my father who didn’t understand what I was saying.
It was a long time ago.
I don’t remember it very well anymore, and it wasn’t that big of a deal.
It was nothing.
Really, it was nothing.
…
Afterwards, I met the employee my father had mentioned and heard about the appearance of the ‘peculiar cat’ and where it often appears.
Fortunately, it wasn’t too far from the hospital.
*
It’s already lunchtime.
When I first heard about the unusual cat at my father’s hospital, I thought we’d find it right away.
I walked around with Pero for over 3 hours and still couldn’t see him.
“The breed is close to the British Shorthair, and the overall color of the fur is gray. One ear is missing, and the left hind leg is limping… Oh my, how did you find something like this?”
— Beep!
“You think so too? But Pero, even if I don’t know, shouldn’t you be looking for it? You can fly in the sky!”
Should I have just reported it to the management and gotten their cooperation? I don’t know~!
As always, the early stages of the Cursed Room are the most difficult.
You say you don’t even know what to do?
In times like this, Ga-in oppa should either give direction or follow Seung-yeop!
At that point, I was just sighing deeply.
— Beep! Beep! Beep!
Pero started pulling my hair frantically.
“It hurts, why – ah.”
A strange landscape discovered by chance.
A gray cat stands stopped in the middle of the road.
A car running towards him managed to spot him and honked its horn, so he dodged out of the way, but after a while he went back into the middle of the road.
A voice like a fleeting welcome.
‘I’m scared, I’m in pain, I’m in pain. Get me out of here.’
“…”
How painful would it be if a human mind were trapped in an animal body?
Even the most miserable human being is an object of envy to the wretched animals rotting on the streets.
If they were real animals, they would not be able to realize their own misery.
Because it is a human spirit, the pain is even more vivid.
Need help?
It is extremely dangerous to show intelligence through words or actions.
Because there is a high probability that the management agency will immediately capture it and carry out a ‘study and then cull’.
A never-ending cycle of despair and suffering.
A conclusion that many intelligent beings would naturally draw in this situation.
“… suicide.”
That cat is attempting suicide.
He jumped into the road because he wanted to die, but when he saw the car coming, he couldn’t overcome his instinctive fear and backed away.
Then, the process of gritting my teeth and running into the road again.
When I realized this, I gave instructions to Pero.
“Bring it.”
Ferro, who had flown away like lightning, grabs the back of the gray cat’s neck as it tries to jump back onto the road.
The moment the cat panicked and tried to run away, the gazes of the two intelligent beings crossed.
I felt the ‘telepathy’ coming into being!
*
The pain of digging through food waste every night, clutching your hungry stomach.
I remember feeling disgusted after taking a bite of meat full of maggots.
During the day, the sun’s heat is scorching hot, and at night, the harsh cold is so intense that there is no way to stop it.
There is no one under heaven on my side, and people treat me like an insect.
A life more miserable than that of the most miserable man in the world.
How did it turn out like this?
If I committed a sin in my past life and ended up like this…
Please, just give me one chance.
There is only one way out of this prison: death.
*
I heard a voice full of despair.
At the same time, a completely different voice was heard.
A lovely being.
An angel descending from heaven.
Salvation and goddess, lifeline to a miserable fate.
The only one who can understand me.
“… Found it. Come here.”
A voice is heard.
The strong affection that the other person feels for me.
Affinity and telepathy are at work!
‘That entity’ is the entity I was looking for.
He hugged the miserable creature, its whole body shaking as if it had been struck by lightning.
At this moment, I was someone’s goddess and savior.
“Let’s go. We have so much to talk about.”
*
– Lee Eun-sol
While I was frantically going through the documents and gathering information, there was a knock and the door opened.
“what?”
“Yes, sir!”
“Don’t disturb me -”
“It was a strange email, so I couldn’t help it!”
“Strange email?”
“At first I thought it was some kind of agricultural product advertisement email, but the content….”
“Crops? What about the contents?”
“…There were a few lines of confidential information regarding the Chairman’s slush funds.”
“Is this a threat?”
“As you can see if you read it, it says that you must forward the email to ‘Sister Eunsol.’ If you don’t forward it, it will be sent to the ETS reporter…”
The moment I heard the expression ‘Sister Eunsol’, I got a rough idea.
But when I checked the contents of the email, I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Foot!”
“Oh, sir?”
“Don’t worry. It’s not the threatening email you think it is.”
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+ Please be sure to tell Eunsol.