Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 685
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EP.685 Episode 685 – The First Wish, Yoo Song-i (2)
Episode 685 – The First Wish, Yoo Song-i (2)
– Yoo Song-i
What the alien who showed me mercy said.
‘If you keep it alive, it will be useful. I will take care of it.’
It didn’t take long for me to understand what this meant.
Because the monsters trapped me in the body of a cat.
— Meow!
The entity that mocked me and showed me cruelty, ‘Mom’.
‘Dad’, the entity that did not wish for my death and showed me a little mercy.
In the end, it means that the two are not that different.
If I regarded the former as a wild animal that bothered me, I regarded the latter as nothing more than a pitiful pet.
…
Time passes while you become a pet cat with a human heart.
It was a miserable situation, but that was why the two aliens no longer acted like humans in front of me.
For example, I was able to speak freely about things I would not have said before.
— Meow!
— It’s noisy. What’s going on? Are they running low on feed? Can’t we just starve them to death?
— Give me food. More than that, the Duke has given an order. The King –
As time passed, I began to vaguely understand the situation.
They call themselves counts, dukes, and other nobles.
Rather than being a bunch of rampaging evil spirits, they were an alien race with their own internal order and society.
They are looking for a ‘king’ on Earth, and invasion is not a goal, it is a process.
There were also frequent stories of attempts to obtain information about the king through negotiations and threats with the administration, but failure.
king.
King of demons.
King of an alien race.
King of Is.
When I first heard this word, I literally shivered all over.
I just knew it the moment I heard it.
The king is the root of all evil and the beginning of all trouble!
…
The tears dried.
Despair has become stale, and suffering is just a part of everyday life.
The miserable survival of a dumb beast that cannot die.
The few emotions I had left were revenge and a desire for opportunity.
May I have just one more chance!
One day, while I was enduring each day with this feeling.
The situation changed suddenly in a way that no one expected.
— Gooooo…!
I heard a loud noise that shook the heavens and the earth.
It was such a huge sound that it felt like the sky was falling down!
What the heck is this?
Unlike me, who had no understanding of the situation at all, the two monsters seemed to have noticed something.
“Eww! What is this? Th, this is -”
“Grace! Grace! The King is trying grace!”
The first word I hear is grace.
“No, no! This is Earth! Trying to do grace here -”
“Is the object of grace human? Why give such grace to such lowly beings -”
The King of Iss began to show ‘grace’ to humans?
While ‘Mom’ questioned the fact that she could bestow grace on a human being, ‘Dad’ focused on something completely different.
“Grace is a blessing, grace cannot succeed!”
“iced coffee?”
“Just think about it! How numerous are the human population, and how miserable their status is!”
“That, that -”
“You can never succeed. You will definitely fail! Failure, failure!”
According to ‘Father’s’ view, the ritual of grace that the King of Is is attempting is absolutely bound to fail.
Because there are too many people and their ranks are insufficient.
The moment the word failure came out, ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ froze like stones.
As if he had realized something terrifying.
Soon, ‘Mom’ muttered in a trembling voice.
“Poetry, if it fails then -”
“Not rising, but falling.”
“It doesn’t matter what happens to humans! I mean, the scope of grace is the entire star! The price of failure is, well, for us too -”
“iced coffee…”
I tried to understand the situation somehow.
Those aliens came to Earth to find a king.
It turns out that the King was attempting a grand ritual on Earth called ‘Grace’.
However, from the perspective of the Yith race, the ritual cannot succeed and will definitely fail.
The price of success rises.
The price of failure is decline.
Since the scope of consciousness was the entire star, the price of failure also fell upon the entire star.
Not only humanity, but also the Ys race that is currently invading Earth!
— Gooooo…!
The second loud noise erupted.
This time, unlike before, the loud noise was accompanied by strange, incomprehensible waves.
Soon, a strange tickling sensation, like scratching hair, swept through the area –
“Krrrrrrr!”
“Kkiak!”
The next moment, the two aliens that had taken over my parents’ bodies fell to the floor with a loud scream.
— … Meow?
A sight that makes you laugh out loud, like a goldfish.
At that moment, I couldn’t hold it in any longer and climbed onto my mother’s fluttering body.
I’ve seen it bite with its mouth and scratch with its claws.
The opponent did not put up any resistance.
Not only does he not have any unidentified superpowers, he is in a miserable state where he can’t even control his body properly.
It was as if I had forgotten how to move my body.
Is this a situation where a great race is lower than a miserable beast?
— …
Right now, the emotion that fills my heart is not the pleasure of revenge.
It’s so vain.
It’s disappointing, and in some ways even sad.
Even though I knew it was beyond my power, the thought that ‘I will get revenge someday’ was the last driving force in my life…
What kind of revenge is this?
I didn’t do anything!
I was just meowing and got caught up in a catastrophe that the other person couldn’t understand.
Would biting and scratching the body of an opponent who has already become a living thing mean anything other than mutilating the corpse?
Even that body originally belonged to my parents!
In the midst of extreme futility, I felt at least one thing was true.
Even those demons, monsters, and aliens who made my life hell…
The fact that it was just a ‘microscopic thing’.
If I were to compare it to my favorite dramas, they are supporting characters rather than the main characters.
At this moment, there was only one protagonist in this world.
‘King of Is’
— Gooooo…!
When I heard the third loud noise, I knew that this time it was my fate.
This time, it seemed like even I, who had already become a cat, would not be able to avoid it.
Now, even revenge, which was my last wish, is crumbling in vain.
For the first time, a thought occurred to me that I had never had before, not only as a human but also as a cat.
I am…
I am…
I am…
I wanted to be at the center of the world.
Regardless of whether I was strong or weak, I didn’t want to end up in vain like this.
If there was a demon king in the world, I wanted to at least be killed by that demon king’s sword.
Just like now, the Demon King did not want to fade away in vain in a remote area that no one cared about.
therefore…
“I want to be the main character.”
When the earnest heart burst forth as a voice, a miracle happened.
“I’ve been waiting to hear that.”
The world stopped in a dim light.
Even the waves of ‘descent’ that swept across the entire star seemed inviolable at this moment.
There was an unidentified person in front of me.
A woman of great dignity and elegance.
I don’t know anything more than that.
Sadly, cats’ eyesight isn’t as good as humans’.
“Who, who – huh? How can you say that?”
“Maybe it’s the hotel’s mercy for this moment? Realistically speaking, I don’t have a poison potion.”
The angel-like being smiled brightly and hugged me, who had become a cat, and slowly stroked my head.
“Poor child. You must have endured until this moment, dreaming of revenge, but even your last hope has been in vain.”
At a point where she was lost in the surreal atmosphere, her gaze turned to the monsters rolling on the floor.
“Have they lost even the ability to control their flesh in exchange for their descent? Not even a shred of greatness remains, so this is a pitiful fate for them too…”
Soon, she smiled and looked at me.
“Of course, they may not seem pitiful to you.”
“Who, who are you? Wife, angel?”
“Angel… If you call the sense of touch sent down by the great one an angel, then it is not wrong.”
“Then please help me!”
“what?”
“Those freaks, those monsters aren’t my parents. My real parents are -”
Please return Mom and Dad to their original bodies.
Please bring back to life my mom and dad who died as beasts, and please end the tragedy that has happened to our family.
The moment these wishes are about to burst out of your mouth!
An angel’s hand covered my mouth.
“I’m sorry.”
“…”
“I don’t have the power to raise the dead. And even if I could, I wouldn’t do anything.”
“Why… why…”
“Because this is the rule of the moment and the providence of the hotel.”
The rule of the moment, the providence of the hotel.
“Save yourself from hell.”
Soon, a calm voice came out of the angel’s mouth.
“Tell me what you wish, and it will become your first wish.”
I put my hands together and prayed with the utmost sincerity.
Not a wish that someone else will grant for me, but a wish that I can obtain myself.
I will pray to the great One who sent down the angel.
Please, give me a chance too.
Please grant us clear reason so that we will never again be deceived by the cunning schemes of the devil.
Grant me the power to show eternal suffering to those creatures who call themselves ‘great.’
If I had to add just one thing…
Please, let me be the center of the world.
If there was a demon king in the world, I wanted to at least be killed by that demon king’s sword.
Just like now, the Demon King didn’t want to end up in vain in a remote place that no one cared about!
—Whoosh!
When a sound like thunder was heard from somewhere, the angel – no, the ‘ascended one’ smiled and said.
“Okay, let’s go now.”
“… Are you going to the same place as me?”
“The location is similar, but the destination is different.”
“What do you mean?”
“You are just beginning, but for me, this is the end.”
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— Paaaaat!
I woke up with that feeling.
The flashback is over, and it’s back to the present.
My head hurt so bad it felt like it was going to explode.
Because there was so much information storming through my head!
So, the noble woman who appeared at the end was an ascendant?
It’s not strange!
Think about the ‘memory of entering the hotel’ that Ga-in oppa got in Jeju Island.
Oppa, you said you met a being who was considered an ascendant, right?
Something similar happened to me –
“…ah.”
In an instant, the complicated thoughts that had filled my head disappeared.
Because there was a dirty gray dog ??and a staggering crow right in front of me.
My beloved real parents.
“Foot!”
I was happy.
I was so happy I could hardly contain myself.
I wanted to laugh out loud like crazy when no one was around.
Because, in room 301 of this time zone…
Because ‘Dad’ and ‘Mom’ are still alive and well at home!
The great hotel granted my wish to be given a chance.
At this moment, I decided to forget all the complaints I had about the hotel.
“Mom, Dad. Just wait a minute. I’ll be there soon.”
Ahahaha!
I never thought I’d be more excited to meet my ‘fake parents’ than to meet my real parents!
Is there a daughter as filial as me in the world?