Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 694
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EP.694 Episode 694 – The Second Escape, Meeting (1)
Episode 694 – Second Escape, Meeting (1)
– Kim Ari
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I woke up to the soft feel of the floor and the cool air.
The familiar feel and air of the second floor hallway floor, different from the still awkward third floor – huh?
“what?”
I escaped from room 301, so why am I in the second floor hallway?
The answer to this was written on a display hanging on the wall.
“Hey! Hey, there’s something written on the screen!”
“Dear customers, some of the equipment on the third floor was damaged due to the disturbance caused by the guest in room 301.
A customer who makes the same mistake countless times without realizing it is a real nuisance!
Dear Customers, We kindly ask that you remain on the 1st and 2nd floors until the facility is restored. The restoration period will be one day.
– All staff at Hotel Pioneer who are always kind and customer-loving.
“Guest in room 301 causing a commotion? Restoration of the 3rd floor facilities? What are you talking about?”
“Oops! A day off!”
Seungyeop skips over meaningful phrases like ‘guests are making a fuss’ or ‘3rd floor restoration’ and only responds to the phrase ‘recovery period is one day.’
It’s funny because it seems like he sleeps through class and only wakes up during lunch.
But, the most important thing is ‘one day of rest’.
“Ugh… My head hurts so bad…”
“Sister, are you okay?”
“Well, maybe?”
Eunsol woke up on the floor and stretched her neck.
Soon, Eunsol approached the observatory party in a natural manner –
“Guys – ”
– He approached me and seemed to be trying to ask me something.
If not for Miro, Seungyeop, and even Sanghyun suddenly retreating one after another.
“Hey guys?”
“Hey, sister! Don’t come near me and stay there!”
“… Miro, what are you doing?”
“Ji, is everything over now? Gain-ah!”
Seungyeop suddenly opened his eyes wide and observed Eunsol, and Miro hid behind me and asked Gain a question.
No, why are you asking Gain the question while hiding behind me?
What kind of human shield am I? Judgement trusts Cain?
– bean!
“oh!”
I was so shocked that I grabbed Miro’s head hard.
Anyway, it’s clear that the latter half of episode 301 was extremely confusing.
The only people who can explain are the observatory party.
Soon, a long explanation began, led by Ga-in and assisted by Sang-hyun.
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At the end of the brief explanation, Jincheol looked upward with curious eyes.
“So… the ‘post-apocalyptic world’ of the second attempt took place on the third floor?”
“I guess I should look at it that way.”
Attempt to solve the problem in the world before it is destroyed, and if that fails, attempt to escape from the world after it is destroyed.
I thought the 3rd floor would progress like this, but it turns out the post-apocalyptic world is happening on the 3rd floor.
I didn’t know that another pattern would intrude from the beginning.
It’s a progression after the destruction of Room 301, and the Celestial Layer is also a kind of world, so it’s not like it doesn’t make sense…
Mukseong said as he looked at Eunsol with an uneasy look.
“Are you saying that the prisoner used Eunsol’s body to intrude?”
“Similar.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Seungyeop intervened.
“W, it was really incredible! Just, if Eunsol noona opened her eyes wide, the whole hotel would shake!”
“Was it that much?”
“You can knock down someone as big as Ga-in with just a wave of your hand!”
At those words, Ga-in’s expression of secretly hurt pride was cute and also made me laugh.
Judging from the fact that you’re not denying it, it looks like you really had a conflict.
“The doctor and I just kneel down and pray!”
“No, I didn’t pray.”
“You’re already on your knees!”
“I just closed my eyes and bowed my head. What the…”
“Miro just fainted and started crying!”
“Don’t lie!”
From what I’ve heard, it seems that Eunsol came to the hotel with a prisoner inside her body and caused a commotion.
The funniest thing during all this was Eunsol’s reaction.
“Wow… That’s amazing~!”
It looks like ‘Mother’ is truly amazed at what she has done by using her body.
Even Gain approached him slightly and waved her hand.
“What do you think, Gain? Do you think you’ll get knocked down right away?”
“…”
“Is Miro not crying yet?”
“I told you I’ve never had any luck!”
Eunsol’s playful attitude may seem absurd, but I honestly understood it.
Because what the observatory party said was so unrealistic.
A prisoner broke into the hotel, knocked out his colleagues with a wave of his hand, and opened the ‘gates of heaven’…
Well, it really doesn’t seem like a story that happened in real life.
At the end of the basic situation explanation, Songi, who was swallowing a couple of cookies at the tea table, opened her mouth.
“Brother, teacher. Have you seen the contents of ‘The First Wish’?”
The observatory party immediately shook their heads.
“We didn’t see it. Neither Songi nor Eunsol. From what we could see, it looked like they were just standing still for a few seconds.”
“that’s right.”
“… Then, I will briefly explain the content.”
It was literally a simple story.
The story of how the Yith race stole his parents’ bodies, and how he was also affected when he discovered it and tried to report it.
It felt like a lot of content was omitted.
“Oh my… Are you okay?”
“Thank you for your hard work.”
“That was a long time ago? Now, well, it’s nothing.”
I was speechless for a moment.
People who weren’t even near Songi or who observed it through a telescope from beyond the sky might not know…
I was right next to Songi.
I remember how emotional Songi was when she first realized her wish.
I vaguely felt an intense hatred and immeasurable sadness that I had never seen before.
So, when I opened my mouth to say something – pure white letters flashed before my eyes.
“I want to keep my heart to myself. I don’t want to reveal everything to everyone.”
Even if they are colleagues who are like family, I don’t really want to tell them ‘everything’.
“…”
Naturally, it was Eunsol’s turn next.
When I was a child, I met Agent S with my father.
There, he was kidnapped to the Gangwon-do underground ruins and awakened as a participant through an incomprehensible process.
Unlike Song-i, Eun-sol seemed to tell most of her stories honestly.
Thanks to that, by the end of the story, all of my colleagues were speechless.
“Uh, uh, Eunsol… Are you okay?”
“Ahh… It’s hard to say whether it’s okay or not. It’s a memory that doesn’t feel real.”
“Sister Eunsol…”
“It’s okay, it’s okay! Everyone, don’t react so loudly.”
While Eunsol was smiling awkwardly, I looked at Songi with a hint of anxiety.
Although he appears calm in front of his colleagues, the current Song is actually someone who hates the Iss race to the extreme.
How would Songi view Eunsol, who is no different from the ‘princess’ or ‘daughter of God’ of the Iss race?
“…”
Fortunately, Song-i was shedding tears as she listened to Eun-sol’s story.
It seems like they felt like another victim rather than a member of the enemy’s clan.
Indeed, the King of Iss was not someone who could be called a ‘good mother’ even as a joke.
From the beginning, it seemed that the only real children for her were those of the Iss race.
Aren’t Eunsol’s brothers not her real children, but just precious consumables to save her real children?
At that moment, Gain opened her mouth carefully.
“Ahem, ahem! This is a topic I thought I should share my opinion on with everyone sometime.”
The nuance is that he knew it all along, but didn’t tell his colleagues.
“Room 301, and the entire third floor. Since we’re talking about the first wish…”
Gain looked at Songi for a moment, and Songi nodded quietly as if she had sensed something.
It felt like, ‘Brother, don’t worry about me and just talk.’
“According to Songi, the cursed room on the third floor is like the world we lived in before coming to the hotel.”
“what?”
“What is that -”
“At first I thought it was just an interesting hypothesis… but then a prisoner barged in and told me that there was access to the ‘heavenly layer’ from the inside of room 301.”
At those words, everyone became quiet.
Certainly, it’s a compelling hypothesis.
It was ambiguous based on Song-i’s feeling that ‘my parents seem real!’, but let’s think about the shocking ‘hotel invasion incident’ that the prisoner committed.
Leaving aside the metaphysical concerns about whether it is real or fake, the first and second floors were fundamentally close to a ‘simulation world’.
No matter how strong the prisoners on the first and second floors were, it was difficult for them to break into the hotel outside the cursed room.
It’s possible on the 3rd floor.
Because the third floor is really one of the many loops in reality.
Just as we were dragged from reality to the hotel, the evil spirits of reality can also approach the hotel.
Different time zones?
The celestial realm, and by extension the hotel, is a realm that half-transcends the time axis of reality.
The reality outside the 1st and 2nd floors and the loop in which Songi in room 301 lived may not seem very different when viewed from the celestial realm that transcends the time axis.
However, there was one thing that was puzzling, and Elena pointed it out.
“Sister Eunsol!”
“…”
“Do you think the same thing, Unnie? I don’t think you feel the same way about Songi… do you?”
Eunsol, another lead actress, is Songi’s equal in room 301.
Unlike Song-i, Eun-sol did not say anything about the family in Room 301 being real.
If my memory serves me right, weren’t those two from different loops?
Mukseong also spoke cautiously.
“If I remember correctly, the two people’s memories of reality were quite different… right?”
Soon, a strange story came out of Eunsol’s mouth.
“Before, I wouldn’t have understood what was going on, but now I do. Is this the reason I need to realize my ‘first wish’?”
“Oh, you seem to know the answer?”
Eunsol’s expression wasn’t very bright.
Perhaps, it is not a very pleasant story.
“As far back as I can remember, I was taken from the earth by ‘Mom’ and was, um, kicked in the heavens once.”
“Yeah, yeah. During the fight, my brother and sister… um, that’s too bad.”
“It’s okay. Anyway, after colliding with the curtain, I came back to reality.”
Eunsol was in her mid to late teens when she first made her wish, but she came to the hotel after she was in her thirties.
That is, there is a gap of more than 15 years in the middle, and Eunsol talks about the world she lived in during those 15 years.
“… The world I left and the world I returned to were different.”
“what?”
“It’s confusing because these are such old memories… so many things have changed.”
I was stunned for a moment and tried to understand what Eunsol was saying.
So, you’re saying that the loop in which Eunsol and Songi were born was the same?
Songi lived in that loop until the end, went through all kinds of hardships, and came to the hotel.
Eunsol has been living in a ‘different loop’ since her first wish.
It’s a completely different concept from a regressor.
Because in the first place, he didn’t die and fall over.
It’s a kind of loop movement, and even the management has no concept to explain this absurd phenomenon.
“Perhaps, my common sense was built up in the world after I returned. Could it be that the King of Iss manipulated it to prevent confusion in memory? That much is possible, after all.”
Songi said with her rabbit eyes open.
“A, what about your family? My sister’s father and my second oldest brother -”
“My father is an imperfect regressor himself, so he might have been in another loop, and my second brother… This is a bit strange. Perhaps, these things are proof that there are still secrets left in Room 301.”
“In the first place! Why did I go to another loop after making a wish?”
“I know.”
At that moment, Ga-in, who had been listening carefully, opened her mouth.
“It must be because the King of Iss did not have a telescope.”
telescope.
“what?”
“As the King himself has admitted, grace is a poor imitation of ascension. That is, the King’s power and skill are only a crude imitation of the power of the hotel.”
“I guess so?”
“From a celestial perspective that transcends time, the lower realm is literally a giant line that loops forever.”
A huge line that goes on endlessly.
“In that infinite line, picking out ‘just that loop’ that I want. This is the ‘focusing’ that the telescope does in the observatory on the third floor does.”
“…”
“The king cannot do this, for he has no telescope.”
The story goes that once you reach the celestial realm that transcends the time axis, there seems to be no way for the king to return to the ‘original loop’ with his power.
It is said that in the past, Eunsol and her brothers briefly approached the heavenly realm.
That’s why the king couldn’t send Eunsol back to her original world.
“Of course, all of this is just my guess. Just…”
“just?”
After a brief pause, Gain wrote ‘11111’ on the whiteboard.
“what’s this?”
“brother?”
“Brother?”
“… I just thought that maybe this was the trap the king had fallen into.”
“What does that mean?”
“I’ll try to understand and explain a little more.”
The moment I heard that, I felt slightly annoyed.
I don’t understand exactly so can you explain it to me?
Then just don’t start!
Why did you mention it so hastily like this, making me curious, and then saying, ‘I guess I don’t know either?’
Perhaps feeling that the story was increasingly moving into metaphysical territory, Mukseong abruptly interrupted the flow.
“Okay, okay! I guess there’s a lot to talk about. Since we’ve been given a day off, let’s talk while eating!”
Everyone nodded at Mukseong’s suggestion and headed to room 105.
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A simple mealtime where everyone enjoys a large table full of steak, pork belly, roast duck, and raw flounder.
…
On a slightly different note, this is the only problem with hotel dining.
The individual food quality is very good, but when they are all put together on the table, it is difficult to put them all together!
Look!
Jincheol is grilling pork belly right next to me without any sense, so how can you taste the delicate flavor of raw flounder?
More than half of the taste that humans perceive is through smell!
This part was subtly unpleasant, but I couldn’t tell him not to eat samgyeopsal.
It was Jincheol who ‘summoned’ the pork belly, but Seungyeop and Gain were also taking big bites of the ssam made with deep-fried pork belly, green onions, and stir-fried kimchi.
…
Is it my fault at this point?
Isn’t it the problem that I summoned the raw fish in this atmosphere?
No, no!
This is definitely a problem for those who eat samgyeopsal.
Can you show me too?
“after…!”
I put my hand under the table and pulled it out, and there in my hand was a mysterious can of preserves.
Let me show you.
Rather than showing consideration for those who eat delicate food, we need to show real power to those who eat pork belly without permission, like pigs!
I’m finishing my meal with my own hands today.
Surströmming
The decisive weapon, Surströmming.