Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 689
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EP.689 Episode 689 – The First Wish, Eunsol Lee (3) Fin
Episode 689 – The First Wish, Eunsol Lee (3) Fin
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“Today, only one of you will get your destiny.”
An incomprehensible statement came out from a gray-haired woman who was said to be a high-ranking official of the management bureau.
Soon, we began to back away awkwardly, feeling an unpleasant sense of eeriness.
— Clang!
But it was a meaningless rebellion.
Because before we knew it, several soldiers with guns appeared in front and behind us.
“What, what is it? What are you guys!”
“What the hell are these kids!”
The older brothers were surprised and started swearing, but the soldiers pretended not to hear them.
They simply forced us out under the orders of the higher-ups at the Administration.
“Take him to the altar and have him sit down.”
“All right.”
“You guys, what, what are you talking about! Do you think you’ll get away with doing something like this?”
My second brother’s words sounded to my ears like the barking of a frightened puppy.
If the opponent is really a high-ranking official of the Administration, they can do things like this, or even things 10 times worse, without any problems.
“Prince, Princess. I am sorry. However, today is the day of destiny. The day for which you were born to fulfill your purpose.”
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The soldiers took us deep into the ruins.
A place filled with strange, incomprehensible text, unidentifiable machines, endless wires, and mysteriously glowing objects.
Even to my untrained eyes, the equipment before my eyes appeared to be something created by the extremes of science and miracle.
All sorts of unknown drugs are administered, and for a while, you are made to wear something like a strange restraint garment.
Soon, we were forced to sit down on the chairs.
Until this moment, I had no idea what was going to happen to me and my siblings.
I just trembled in fear and imagined what would happen next.
What actually happened was something that easily surpassed my childish imagination.
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—Whoosh!
Lightning struck.
No, the lightning bolt extended from the ground and reached high into the heavens.
“Ahhhhh -”
In a scream that seemed like it would never end, our souls and spirits escaped the prison of the body and headed toward heaven.
Up, up, up more than you can imagine!
It rises.
It’s an emergency.
Ascend!
In the blink of an eye, the Earth was gone, and the warm sun was soon so distant that not even a trace of its warmth could be felt.
I saw countless clusters of stars and the clumps of gas that formed them.
In the realm of confusion where time and space disappear like vain fragments…
Starlight poured down on me.
This is not a grand story about suddenly mastering the principles of all things.
However, it seemed that the extremely lofty reason was quickly passing by the small shadow called ‘Lee Eun-sol’.
Incomprehensible knowledge.
Information beyond recognition.
A ghost story that defies common sense.
It’s so painful.
The pain was so intense that I thought my brain would melt.
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Oddly enough, none of the brothers died.
It would be normal for a human being to die instantly without being able to endure even 1% of this process…
It was bearable.
It was as if we were born with a very thick eggshell.
I felt a very strong shell surrounding my soul.
Also, I noticed that the shell was peeling off, one by one, as it took on the celestial burden for me.
It was only then that I realized.
My two older brothers and younger sister would have known too.
We were born for this day, for this moment.
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When the seemingly never-ending rise stopped, something like a huge wall appeared, the boundaries of which were invisible.
The moment I saw it, strangely enough, I had a vague idea what it was.
Some people call it a ‘curtain’ or a ‘fishbowl’.
Beyond the curtain…
There is a very scary and terrible truth.
There is a source of evil that our distant ancestors could not have imagined.
There is a reason why the first ark had to be built and escaped!
I felt dizzy.
What on earth is this knowledge in my head right now?
“ah…”
“Eunsol. Are you okay? Is everyone okay?”
“Uh, uh.”
I turned my head blankly and saw my older brother looking extremely embarrassed.
He seemed to have arrived a little before me.
Soon, the second brother and sister arrived in this area.
After a silence filled with questions, the second oldest brother muttered as if he had lost his mind.
“Is this a curtain or a fishbowl?”
“…”
“If you get past this, what do you get? So -”
I realized this anew as I watched my second brother mumbling words that he himself did not understand.
“… I think some strange knowledge has seeped into our heads. Right?”
No one answered.
It was not a denial, but rather a truth so obvious that it did not require an answer.
Finally, Hee-yoon, unable to bear it any longer, screamed.
“What, what is this phenomenon? What the hell are we doing -”
“…a crude imitation of ascension.”
“what?”
Incomprehensible knowledge burst out from the mouth of my older brother with a pale expression.
He seemed to be overwhelmed by the vortex of strange knowledge that had taken over his head.
“A great… a supreme being created this situation.”
“Oh, brother?”
“To create children who can withstand the pressures of heaven, and to crudely imitate the process of ascension -”
At that very moment!
“You copied it so poorly… That’s too much. It must have been really hard to imitate it to this extent. But it’s true that it was poor, so don’t be angry.”
I heard a voice I knew all too well.
A familiar, all too familiar voice.
“Oh, Mother…”
We were so overwhelmed by fear that we couldn’t even breathe properly.
It’s different from the past when I knew nothing.
It was because I came to realize this thanks to the fragments of knowledge that poured out through my ‘poor imitation of ascension’, as someone put it.
Mother is not human…!
Beyond being inhuman, they are nothing less than the embodiment of cosmic evil!
“Well, let’s go. Challenge the infinite realm beyond the curtain.”
Such kind and warm words.
This was also an order that could never be refused.
The eldest brother, a good son who always listened to his parents, was the first to step forward.
“Oh, Mother…”
“Do you have anything to say?”
“Beyond the curtain… uh, there is a world beyond our control. A, a heavenly -”
“Heaven. The upper world. Well, they say there is a realm for those who cry for the three thousand worlds.”
“Hey, you have to jump in like this -”
“Hey, do you know what you’re talking about right now?”
Mother’s lips drew a line.
It seemed like he was impressed by his ‘son’ who had understood the great principle so clumsily, and it also seemed like he was making fun of him for saying things he himself did not understand.
“Today, one of you will cross the veil. This is a destiny already decided, and there will be no greater opportunity than this. Go. See which of you will be chosen by destiny.”
Tears flowed continuously from my eldest brother’s eyes, and his legs trembled in fear…
He could no longer refuse his mother’s abstract orders.
“Ahh…!”
Soon, the poor boy who had jumped into the tent died with a single scream.
“iced coffee…”
Mother’s sigh.
I felt genuinely sad for her.
However, this sorrow is not the sorrow for the eternal disappearance of a beloved son.
It is a sadness that precious consumables that were not easily made were destroyed in vain.
“next.”
The next one to take steps was the youngest sibling, Hee-yoon, who was soft-hearted and weak.
“Gyaaak…!”
My younger brother wasn’t much different either.
I ran towards the curtain in tears, terrified, and just collapsed in meaningless futility.
The death of my older brother and younger sister, who I thought would be together forever.
The two people disappeared without a trace – neither body, mind, nor soul.
“Whew… Next.”
When I heard that, I tried something none of my brothers had dared to think of.
I tried to understand the principles behind my mother’s actions.
I tried to find at least some logic as to why they were doing this to us.
Soon, some of the chaos that had been swirling through my tiny clump of gray matter neurons gave me the answer.
“Mother, you can see… ‘a little’ of destiny.”
“ah?”
“I know that today, someone here in this room can step beyond the veil and earn the right to do so.”
“…”
“We have figured out that someone can cross the veil… but we don’t know who or what process they go through.”
At that moment, I felt ‘discomfort’ in my mother’s expression.
At the same time, I also felt a sense of ‘extraordinaryness’.
I knew that my mother’s mind was something incomparably greater than that of a human being, and I felt countless emotions and thoughts disappearing and appearing simultaneously.
“Then, this time, Eunsol, try it.”
An uncompromising command that cannot be refused.
Soon, my body began to walk towards the curtain, half out of my control.
“Ah, ah, ahhh…”
I was scared.
I was so scared and afraid…
Just like my brother and sister, tears began to pour out of my eyes without stopping.
But I couldn’t stop walking.
At this moment, it seemed like all I could do was walk towards the terrifying curtain that had destroyed my brother and sister.
That moment, when it seemed as if my small, fragile mind was about to be swallowed up by cosmic malice.
A crudely imitated ascension.
The chaos that passes through our minds due to that imperfection.
Some part of that logic whispered to me as if it were a living, breathing creature.
Or perhaps it was awakening a petty, evil thought that had been dormant deep in my heart.
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What are you?
How great are you?
Even though we are all in the hands of Buddha, we are all like toys, as if we were gods!
A heart that burns like a flame.
At first glance, it looked like ‘anger’, but the direction of the real emotion underlying it was a little different.
I always feel that the feelings I had for ‘Dad’ deep in my heart are now directed towards ‘Mom’.
I envied my mother.
I envied the exalted position in which she sat.
How dare I take away the greatness that he would not even think of passing on to me, his child!
Jealousy, greed, longing – when intense emotions that can only be described in such terms took over my mind.
I understood one great truth.
Sometimes good may not be able to overcome evil.
Sometimes evil can prevent greater evil.
Therefore, those who shed tears for all things in the universe acknowledge that there must be greed even in heaven.
I made a wish.
“Ahhhh!”
With a sound like a scream, he threw his entire body towards the curtain – no, towards his mother who was watching us from near the curtain!
I made a wish.
The first wish that will be the beginning of all my destiny.
If there is a God in the world, if there is someone who wants to create a single light in a universe filled with despair…
Please feel pity for my father and brothers who have been toyed with all their lives.
Please don’t let me and those I care about be manipulated by demons again.
And tear to pieces the power of that arrogant devil!
Give it to me.