Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 690
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EP.690 Episode 690 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of Species’ (28)
Episode 690 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of the Species’ (28)
– Observatory
“Gentlemen, have you seen the other two brothers even once in the past few months – no, years?”
The moment these words came out of S’s mouth, Eunsol froze like a stone.
The time of the pause itself was so short that it lasted only a few seconds.
However, Gain had a feeling that Eunsol was having a ‘very long illusion’.
It was possible to guess because Cain of the past had had a similar experience.
Unfortunately, there was no way for Cain to see the vision directly.
Because the observatory’s telescope does not have the ability to look into the human mind.
At the point where Eunsol was recalling the past, Ga-in thought that this situation itself was quite coincidental.
When Eunsol first came to S’s mansion, she seemed to have made her first wish.
Also, at point 301, the prisoner went so far as to openly lead Eun-sol to S’s mansion.
“So, S was a servant of the King of Is?”
Sang-Hyeon’s reaction after hearing the quick explanation was like this.
This analysis had some merit, but…
Cain had a slightly more bitter thought.
“I think you’re probably thinking of finding people you really know.”
“What the heck! Are you a long-term chess player who doesn’t even know what you’re doing?”
A cruel thought crossed Cain’s mind.
A memory that Eunsol found out from Chairman Lee Seok-hwan.
After realizing the identity of his ‘wife’ in the past, the chairman was in shock and went to find S to erase his memories.
Thanks to that, the chairman lost his hopeless memories and gained freedom…
In fact, isn’t it true that S was exposed to the chairman’s memories and fell into the hands of the prisoner?
The time zone didn’t seem to match up very well, but it seemed like it would be something similar.
Anyway, it’s a meaningless story now.
“…I will focus on observation again.”
*
– Lee Eun-sol
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The flashback to the first wish, full of shocking content, ends.
Naturally, Eunsol Lee’s consciousness began to awaken again.
I felt like I was overwhelmed by the amount of information, but I tried to make sense of the situation somehow.
First, the reason why there is no eldest brother or youngest brother.
Sacrificed during the mother’s experiment to artificially create participants.
Second, the true nature of the mother.
He is not human. He is not just a monster, he is a cosmic evil god, and he is the ‘King of Ys’ himself, who stands at the center of Room 301!
Third, the time of making the wish and the time of entering the hotel seem to be different.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that I was in my mid to late teens when I made my wish.
On the other hand, I was in my thirties when I entered the hotel.
It’s not strange. Think about Gain’s case.
The point in time when the wish was made was the first life called ‘Aleph’, and the point in time when entering the hotel was after repeating countless loops.
It seems that making the first wish and checking into the hotel are separate procedures.
Why is that?
There was a reason that came to mind naturally.
Let’s think about what kind of person ‘Lee Eun-sol’ is as defined by the hotel.
The background of ‘born to wealth’.
The nature of a ‘greedy nature’.
Both are likely to cause conflict with others.
So maybe I thought it would be better to bring it when my mind was more mature – that is, after I turned thirty.
Of course, this is ultimately just my guess.
The truth is that no one, including your mother, knows, only the hotel!
As my current self was lost in thought, my ‘childhood self’ in the ending flashback was running towards my mother.
Of course, there were no surprising twists like my childhood self knocking out a prisoner with one punch.
It’s not like my past self can suddenly awaken and cause a Big Bang just because I made my first wish.
My mother subdued my past self without lifting a finger.
But she also couldn’t hide her surprise.
Compared to her, who is like the embodiment of cosmic evil, my past self was truly insignificant.
My mother didn’t seem to expect that I, so young and small, would dare to show my teeth.
The surprise was also a feeling of anticipation.
The expectation that if there is a daughter like this, a work like this, a tool like this, then maybe they can be chosen by Buddha.
Indeed, the past me that fell into the curtain did not disappear.
Instead, I slowly closed my eyes in a strange sensation of an unknown harmony caressing me.
My mother, who saw this sight, caressed me as if she really loved me…
Suddenly, he shifted his gaze and said while looking at ‘me’!
“Do you understand now?”
*
— Paaaaat!
The moment the illusion was broken and my consciousness returned to reality.
“Do you understand now?”
The voice from a moment ago was heard again.
It was as if past memories and reality were connected as one stream.
I was the only one standing still.
S, who had been warning of the disappearance of his older brother and younger sister until just before, fell to the floor unconscious, and his reckless younger brother also fainted.
“…”
At that moment, the thought that came to my mind after realizing the many secrets of Room 301 was none other than ‘absurdity’.
The secret of my birth was incredibly great? OK.
My mother, whom I never suspected, turns out to be a prisoner? OK.
The painful deaths of my brother and sister? OK.
My father, and even my life, was toyed with by that devil? OK.
I understand everything.
I get it, I’m both amazed by the incredible design of this great mother and very angry.
I can still bear it.
You can suppress your emotions and make rational decisions.
If I were a teenager, it might have been hard to endure, but now I’m an adult who has been through a lot, right?
But there’s one thing I really can’t stand.
“… As soon as we started, there was a prisoner right next to us who was acting freely.”
Hotel! How the hell am I supposed to break this!
At that moment, when I was speechless because of the absurdity, my mother smiled brightly and reached out her hand.
“Eunsol, is there anything you need?”
“…”
“When you were young, you would rush at me even with your bare body, but why aren’t you able to do it now?”
At that time, I was close to giving up!
I don’t know.
I can’t figure out how to proceed in this damn room, considering there’s a prisoner right next to me who’s so free from the start!
At the same time, I also had this thought.
“…to you.”
“hmm?”
“It definitely has its weaknesses.”
“okay?”
“There’s no way it won’t be. This is a hotel. There’s definitely a weak point, and it’s very fatal. If you attack that, you won’t be able to move.”
Mother answered with a leisurely smile.
“But I don’t think I’ve found it yet.”
I do not deny the existence of weaknesses.
However, it is a relaxed attitude that it is meaningless if you can’t find it.
I was in despair because there wasn’t a single colleague here to help me…
Soon, I was glad that I was in this situation alone.
Because it doesn’t matter if someone else is in this position anyway.
I see a hand approaching leisurely.
The surroundings were already no different from my mother’s space, and I couldn’t even breathe without her permission.
“Time is running out, so let’s get to work. This is a moment we’ve been waiting for for a very long time.”
— Suaah…!
I feel a distant will awakening in my heart, deep in my soul.
A dizzying feeling as if everything about me will fall to pieces in an instant!
Without realizing it, I kept stepping back and summoning the flute, playing it frantically…
Mother just looked on with a loving smile.
“Is that the inheritance you have acquired? It is a thousand times more valuable than this stone on the floor.”
“Ugh…!”
“Why? The flute isn’t working properly?”
Surely, the Flute of Rest was the fateful thing that came to me in response to my wish!
This must be a treasure to make ‘Never again will I and those I care about be toyed with by demons’ come true!
The flute didn’t show any special abilities.
If I hadn’t known the reason, I would have just blamed the hotel again, but now that I knew the reason, I was even more desperate.
A story about ‘system restoration’ that came up by chance while climbing Seoraksan Mountain.
When a computer – or a human – breaks down for complex reasons, it goes back to the time before the breakdown.
This approach can solve almost any problem, but it has one obvious weakness.
If we can’t find the ‘good time’ itself, there’s no way to get it back to the way it was.
Just like me now!
I, Eunsol Lee, was created with elaborate design from the moment I was born.
I have never been ‘perfect’ for even a single moment since I was born.
No, the current state of the Sabbath Flute seems to be perfect.
“iced coffee…!”
This is the moment when all the designs that have been in place since long ago come into perfect operation.
This is the moment when an unknown, distant voice awakens within me!
…
I cried out desperately, feeling the pain of loss that seemed to melt my soul.
“Mother… Mother…! Let me ask you just one thing.”
For a moment, the painful moment stopped.
It was a respite, not an interruption, and a final mercy.
A woman with an elegant smile looked at me as if to say something.
As if she were granting the last request of a successful daughter – or, rather, a successful ‘work’.
I forced my lips, which were hard as stone, to move and shouted.
“What is your purpose?”
What on earth were you creating me for?
What on earth are you doing that made you come into this cursed room?
Now, what are you going to do with my body now that you’ve taken over?
What good does it do you to devour me like this and ruin the hotel party?
…
At that moment, my mother looked up at the sky with a very complicated expression.
It was like I was seeing something other than me.
“… Those who have power are not qualified, and those who are qualified are not powerful. I wanted to overcome that contradiction.”
“yes?”
“Even just once is fine. Even if I am crushed to dust in return, I am fine. Even if I fall into the eternal hell, I can endure it.”
“what -”
“So, just once is fine…!”
For the first time, I felt extremely ‘human’ emotions from my mother.
At least for this moment, the mask of elegance seemed to have been removed.
“I will personally see the one who cries for the three thousand worlds. I will speak in front of him. Heaven…!”
The moment when consciousness scatters like dust.
I understood my mother’s purpose.
Those who have power are not qualified, and those who are qualified are not powerful.
A being that has overcome that contradiction.
Mother…
I wanted to combine the qualifications of the participants and the power of the prisoners!
This was my last memory from my second attempt.
— Gooooo…!