Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 684
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EP.684 Episode 684 – The First Wish, Yoo Song-i (1)
Episode 684 – The First Wish, Yoo Song-i (1)
– Yoo Song-i
After reporting to the authorities, I thought about what would happen next.
The opponents are specialized in possession, body snatching, and body control based on race.
Could it be that they suddenly take over the bodies of their friends or teachers and attack me?
With this thought in mind, I kept my eyes wide open and watched my friends around me.
Nothing much happened until class was over.
It was just that the kids around me looked awkward and started avoiding my gaze.
As I was feeling a little disappointed and wondering what to do next, I got a call from the management office.
— Ms. Songi, I am contacting you regarding the processing of your report.
“Yes! Oh, what happened?”
As I was doing the voice of a scared girl, I got a ridiculous answer from the other end of the phone.
“Am I mistaken?”
— Yes. We thoroughly investigated the parents and their spouses, as well as the hospital, but we found no signs of a chaotic disaster. I think the person reporting it was mistaken.
Looking back, I realize that during the reporting process, my voice always had the tone of a scared teenage girl.
Could that be why? I think the other person thought I reported it with a vague feeling rather than with strong conviction.
That is, the feeling that they can end the situation by borrowing the authority of the management and saying, “You’re mistaken!”
“…”
If you think about it carefully, it’s a reasonable response.
It is my current self, not my past self, that is certain that my parents’ bodies were stolen by the Iss race.
In the past, I did not have the blessings of diverse perspectives or friendliness.
Therefore, if I borrow the authority of the management office and say, ‘You were mistaken!’ like I do now, there is a high probability that my past self would have really thought, ‘Aha! I was mistaken.’
I feel like I’m making excuses to myself, but it’s not because I was stupid in the past.
Don’t you believe what the administration says? You have to believe it!
After thinking about this, I started walking back home.
…
When the blue Damien Apartments began to appear in the distance, I suddenly felt a sense of discomfort in the surrounding scenery.
I stopped walking and looked around, and saw a gray dog ??and a crow.
At first, I didn’t even understand why I felt uncomfortable.
It’s not like dogs have three heads like Cerberus, nor do crows have steel beaks.
It didn’t take long for me to realize that the source of my discomfort was my behavior, not my appearance.
“… what?”
Something about your actions feels awkward.
If I had to put it into words, it would seem like the dog is not used to walking on four legs, and the bird is similar to how Ga-in’s brother acted when he borrowed Pero’s body.
The moment when you frown, thinking that it must be an animal with a human soul!
—Whoosh!
I heard a thunderclap in my mind.
This very moment was the trigger for the ‘first wish’ to awaken!
I remember the moment when I chose the hotel – and the hotel chose me.
The moment when I felt the greatest despair in my life.
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“Oh my, oh my! What are you doing there?”
I’ve seen a lot of stray cats in Seoul, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen an ownerless dog.
Didn’t you wash it properly? The fur is really dirty.
— Ugh!
“Did you just bark? Are you hurt? You can’t even bark properly.”
Where did the owner go and leave this poor dog behind?
Since there is no name tag, it is not easy to find the owner – Hey!
“Ahh! Where are you going? Stop!”
Until just before, I was clinging to you as if I were your master…
The puppy suddenly turned around and ran away frantically.
As I was panicking, a familiar voice was heard from behind.
“It’s Songi.”
“Dad! Huh? You’re getting off work already?”
Dad said with a slightly tired expression.
“Today was a no-no. The management office staff came in out of nowhere and started interrogating me and your mother while making a fuss at the hospital. I was just getting out after being interrogated from this morning until just a little while ago.”
“…”
I felt a pang inside.
The reason my parents were investigated was because I had some strange delusion and reported it!
Oh, did the administration reveal that I was the one who reported it?
Originally, um, I heard that the identity of the reporter was kept secret…
“I don’t know who reported it. It seems like one of the patients had bad feelings…”
“I really am a bad person!”
“Ha! Well, I’ve encountered all sorts of situations while working at the hospital, but this is the first time I’ve seen someone falsely report someone to the management office!”
A voice that conveys annoyance that cannot be hidden.
Here, I felt quite guilty and glanced at my father.
“…”
I felt an intuition so strong that it was difficult to express in words.
An intense sense of crisis, as if standing at a crossroads of life and death!
It’s a really weird story, but I had a feeling that my dad was going to strangle me to death.
The next action was more instinct than thought.
She smiled brightly like a pure and innocent girl and ran up to her father and hugged him tightly.
“dad!”
“… Oh, yeah. I was surprised when you suddenly hugged me on the street.”
“What do you think? Is it good that you’re home early today?”
“…Shall we go home?”
“yes.”
The way back no longer felt tense.
Thinking back, I think the strange feeling I had earlier was an illusion created by my guilt.
My dad tried to kill me, how could that be?
For the next week, I have to live as a good and cute daughter!
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Time passed like the wind.
Was it last week that I reported my parents for having some strange delusion?
Because of the accident, I was planning to be more careful with my actions in the future…
Recently, something has started to happen that defies common sense.
As I was sitting in the classroom with a frozen expression on my face, Sojin, who had been my friend since middle school, approached me.
“what’s the matter?”
“…”
“What? Did your parents fight again?”
“No, that’s not it. They’ve been getting along well lately.”
“then?”
“…a strange animal.”
“what?”
“Would you understand if two strange animals were hovering around me?”
“What are you talking about?”
“For the past three days, a strange dog and a crow have been watching my surroundings every morning and evening.”
“Songiya, I saw it on the internet, you have symptoms of schizophrenia -”
“That’s not it!”
“If something seems strange, report it.”
“That, that’s a bit…”
“why?”
“it’s okay!”
How can I tell anyone that I reported my parents because I was under some strange delusion?
It’s a secret that only I know, no, only me and the administration know.
In the evening, after all school classes were over.
While I was walking around the playground, a dog that I had seen before in the past few days appeared again.
“Hey! You still haven’t found your house? You don’t even have a name tag! And I’ll upload your picture to the pet care app -”
The moment I said I would find the owner without thinking much about it, I felt a sense of discomfort that took my breath away.
“What, what is it?”
Another animal that appears around me as if watching me along with the dog.
Because the crow was sitting quietly ‘on the dog’s back’.
The situation itself is mysterious, to put it nicely, and bizarre, to put it badly!
This, this is definitely a strange phenomenon!
Knowledge like the three stages of disaster response that I had learned in school since elementary school came flooding back to me.
Instinctively, I took out my phone and decided to make a proper report this time!
A creepy sound was heard, enough to make my whole body freeze.
The ‘words’ that came out of the crow’s beak were like a scraping sound!
— Song… Iya!
“…ah.”
I’ve never imagined a situation in which a crow on the street would call my name, let alone a parrot I raise at home.
As I stood frozen in a daze, this time a gray dog ??clung to my leg.
Earnest… such an earnest look.
If dogs could speak, I think they would say this right now.
‘Please listen to me just once.’
‘Please observe my actions for a moment.’
I watched the actions of the gray dog, half-asleep, half-asleep.
The gray dog ??soon began to imitate crooked letters by stamping his feet on the sand of the playground.
This dog may have been the first dog to write in Hangul since ancient times.
Dog dad, new mom, house monster
The content was extremely concise and simple.
It must have been difficult to write long sentences with a dog’s paw.
“What is this…”
*
— Paaaaat!
The shock was so great that the illusion related to ‘First Wish’ stopped for a moment!
“What, what is this!”
So, that gray dog ??and crow were my parents?
The reason why his actions were awkward was because he was not yet used to the animal’s body!
The moment when you run to your ‘parents’ in surprise!
“…ah.”
As the next memory came to mind, an indescribable sense of despair began to eat away at my soul.
An idea that came to mind during the first attempt at 301.
‘It’s not stupid, a dog can talk like a person, but no one would take it to the hospital.’
‘If it’s 100, I’ll report it to the 100 Management Office.’
‘This is common sense.’
This is the ‘common sense’ I know.
My past self also acted ‘sensibly’.
…
The flashbacks that had been interrupted by the shock began again.
*
“I’m here~!”
When I got home, said goodbye, and was about to go back to my room, my mom smiled and blocked my path.
“You came.”
“mom?”
“Songiya, you reported it to the management office earlier, right?”
“Huh? Oh, yes. I met a really strange animal at school. You’ve never seen a talking crow or a dog that writes, Mom? It was strange, but -”
While I was talking happily, unable to hide my excitement, I suddenly felt something strange.
So… that’s right!
How did my mom know that I reported her to the authorities?
“uh?”
“…”
“How did you know? Oh, the management told me – huh?”
There’s something like the principle of protecting the whistleblower’s personal safety!
Even when I reported my parents the other day, they didn’t know that I reported them?
Action was faster than realization.
My head was still thinking, ‘What is this?’ but my body was immediately trying to go out the front door again!
As I instinctively tried to run out of the house, my body suddenly began to feel heavy.
“iced coffee!”
Mom was still smiling brightly.
“What was so strange?”
“iced coffee…”
“You’re not a dog, so why can’t you speak up? What was wrong with you when you reported me last time?”
As if it were a given, he seemed to know that I had reported my mother to the authorities a while ago.
I was really embarrassed. Are you not here today? Or from the beginning?
If you knew from the beginning, why didn’t you say anything to me then?
“Aren’t you going to answer?”
My mouth opened without me knowing.
“That, that, you two are getting along much better than usual…”
“That one? And then?”
“Hey, the way you treat Happy is so awkward…”
“Oh, so two?”
Soon, Mom – no, the ‘opponent’ nodded and smiled broadly.
“There were two main problems. First, you should have prioritized the relationship between your parents over the normal marital relationship. In other words, you should have pretended to fight with him.”
“…”
“Second, you are saying that the behavioral simulation that took into account not only the target of the transfer but also the local species was insufficient.”
“Gasp… Huh…!”
“Thank you. I learned a lesson thanks to you.”
It was only at this point that I realized the devastating truth.
The sense of discomfort I instinctively felt toward my parents was all true!
I thought it was a mistake.
Or, I wanted to believe it was a mistake.
The management said it was a mistake, and I myself secretly hoped that there would be no problem with my parents!
My body hasn’t been moving very well since a while ago.
A breathtaking fear, a pain weighing heavily on me from an unknown force.
… he muttered in a trembling voice.
“Who, who are you! Who are you!”
“What a spoiled child. You should call me Mom.”
When she smiled and raised her hand –
— Squeak!
A black mass flew in like lightning through the half-open window!
Just now, it was a crow imitating human speech.
There was also a creature that claimed to be my ‘mother’.
Also, I was the one who reported to the management that I was a monster.
The black mass pecked at its opponent with extreme ferocity, but to no avail.
Mom – or rather, the evil spirit that had taken over Mom’s body just laughed.
“Haha! I heard the dog was already taken care of, but you’re still here?”
Even though blood is flowing down his face from the crow’s fierce attack, he doesn’t seem to care.
As if they didn’t even feel pain, as if it didn’t matter whether the ‘human body’ was hurt or not.
The evil spirit grabbed the crow with one hand, as if the situation was too funny.
— Ugh!
In an instant, the frail bird’s neck was twisted, and the crow’s sticky blood dripped onto the ground.
Soon, the evil spirit brought the crow’s corpse before me.
“What does this look like?”
“…”
“Haha! Don’t you know yet? Your mother was so worried about you that she turned into an animal to come save you, but you don’t even recognize her!”
“…”
“I find this kind of stuff funny. Do you?”
As I watched the hand slowly approaching, I thought… I was falling apart.
Overwhelming fear, a sadness that goes beyond even fear, a despair that cannot be expressed in words.
I just wanted to die.
I wanted to just die and end it, rather than become a plaything played by evil spirits.
It would have been so if it weren’t for the sound of footsteps behind me.
— Multi-faceted!
“You’re here? I’ve sorted out the situation -”
This time too, the action was faster than expected.
Reason had given up everything and was in a ‘please kill me’ state, but instinct felt that there was still a way to live!
“… Ah, Dad!”
“…”
“Please save me… Please save me…”
“…”
“Please, please…”
As I was saying it, I thought it was nonsense.
The opponent is an evil spirit that took over the bodies of my parents, a devil without blood or tears…
There’s no way you could ask such a being to spare your life, right?
It worked.
“Stop it! Let’s stop here.”
“what -”
“I said I would sort things out in the first place, so I don’t know why you intervened.”
At Dad’s words, Mom looked at him strangely, twisting her head from side to side.
“… You already made a mistake once, right?”
“mistake?”
“In principle, this human entity should have been disposed of at the first report. But you -”
“The authority on the scene belongs to me, not you. Isn’t that right?”
“…”
“This entity has excellent observation skills. It was able to see through the camouflage even though it wasn’t a particularly high-ranking entity.”
“…”
“If you keep it alive, it will be useful. Now I will take care of it.”
You survived by relying on the devil’s mercy.
… I prayed and prayed again.
If there is a God in heaven, please give me a chance.
Didn’t you drop your antlers so that even a deer could be headbutted once before it died?
So, please give me the deer’s antlers.
Please grant us clear reason so that we will never again be deceived by the cunning schemes of the devil.
Also, grant me the power to show eternal torment to monsters like burrows!