Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 705
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EP.705 Episode 705 – Someone’s Rest, Someone’s Suffering (1)
Episode 705 – Someone’s Rest, Someone’s Suffering (1)
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 18th day
Current Location: Tier 3, Lobby
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
– Han Ga-in
After much difficulty, the hotel sent the following notification when room 301 was finally solved:
The adventure you’ve been on is about to be rewarded!
“…”
If you were a protagonist in a boys’ manga, would you be moved to tears at this point?
— Ta-da-dak!
There were also colleagues who came running late and in a hurry.
One of the insurances that remained with me in heaven is Seungyeop.
“Huh, bro! I just got a notification!”
“…”
“But isn’t the notification a bit different than usual? An adventure as a reward?”
“Seungyeop.”
“yes?”
“The adventures we’ve had so far, the companions we’ve become close with, and ourselves who’ve grown through the trials are our reward.”
“…Is that so?”
“…”
“Ha, haha! That’s right! Hyung, you’re right. Adventure, companions, and our own growth -”
At that moment, there was only one simple expression that could express my feelings.
“Go fuck yourself!”
“tongue – ”
“Hey, hey! Stop being such a jerk! Are you kidding me? Should we go on strike or something?”
At this point I was trying to state my opinion to the hotel in the most careful and polite manner possible.
— Wheeing…!
The entire space seemed to shake, and then my vision became blurred along with a strange mechanical sound.
Soon, a darkness descended that even the heightened senses could not penetrate.
“Ugh! What is this sound?”
“…”
I wouldn’t have known in the past, but I think I vaguely know now.
The celestial time axis is once again separating from Room 301!
— Paaaaat!
My vision brightened again and familiar faces appeared.
“Huh? Huh? Is it, is it over now?”
“It looks like that?”
“What? Was that notification from earlier real?”
The voices of my colleagues expressing confusion rather than joy upon returning to the hotel.
My colleagues also feel uncomfortable like me.
Something was strange.
If we look at them one by one, the content of the notification sent by the hotel is strange.
therefore…
“Wasn’t the notification format a little different?”
Grandfather nodded at Elena’s words.
“That’s right! Isn’t there a special phrase that always appears when the Room of Curses is solved?”
Although the content of hotel notifications can seem arbitrary, there are some formal phrases that are essential in certain situations.
For example, the notification that appears when the room of curses is solved always has this phrase:
“Congratulations to the final solver among my colleagues!
The final solver has appeared and all members have returned safely.
Depending on the situation, the following phrases are often added:
“You decide which treasure to receive and who to receive it from.”
There was nothing like this.
“Uh… What’s wrong with you all? Was the notification weird?”
At those words, everyone’s attention turned to ‘Lee Eun-sol’.
My sister probably didn’t see the notification because she was already dead when Room 301 was solved.
In fact, there were quite a few colleagues who were anxious about Eun-sol’s resurrection.
According to the plan, my sister dies on the third floor of the Heavenly Hotel, not in room 301.
What happens if a contestant dies in the hotel while the Cursed Room is in progress?
Since the time of death was during the Room of Curses, will he be resurrected upon escaping and solving it?
Since the place of death cannot be considered the room of curses, it is not possible to revive through escape and resolution?
I couldn’t be sure.
Because a similar situation has never occurred on the 1st or 2nd floor.
However, since there was one ticket left, I started off by thinking that I would revive my sister in the worst case scenario.
Fortunately, my sister was resurrected without any problems.
Isn’t the condition of full resurrection upon escape and resolution a kind of top priority condition?
So far so good…
“Ta-da~!”
Ari’s voice spinning around and saying “Ta-da!”
It seems like he’s announcing that he’s been resurrected, not just his older sister.
If it were normal, everyone would have congratulated each other by clapping their hands, but the atmosphere was a bit ambiguous.
“What? This guy came back to life too? Is this really the end?”
Ari made a dumbfounded expression for a moment at Songi’s voice that was sounding dumbfounded.
“… Are you that disappointed that I was resurrected?”
“Huh, huh?”
“Honestly, this really hurts -”
“Oh, no, Ariya! That’s not it -”
“Foot!”
Are these two doing some kind of skit?
A thought that occurred to me while bursting into laughter.
Now that the dead comrades have been resurrected, it is truly the end of Episode 301.
Finally, Grandfather said what was on everyone’s mind.
“Hey, hey! It’s good to get a lot of compliments, but what’s that at the end? What? The adventure we’ve been on so far is about to be rewarded?”
In the cold atmosphere, Sang-Hyeon muttered.
“… Strengthening the blessings in the sanctuary will be possible.”
“The legacy! Hey! Hotel kids! Where did the legacy go?”
“Agent, if you think about it, wasn’t there nothing in Room 301 that could be considered a candidate for inheritance?”
“That, that is…”
That’s a valid point.
This is a thought I often had while observing Room 301.
As you progress through the Cursed Room, you should start to see something that makes you think, ‘Ah, this is the legacy!’
In Room 301, there were no such specific tools or abilities.
Sang-Hyeon continued speaking with a sigh.
“After all, the third floor looks different from the first and second floors.”
“…”
“There is a strengthening of blessings, but no inheritance.”
And then, the time of silence began.
“…”
The hotel did say something like, “We want to be heroes.”
Heroes aren’t people who do good deeds expecting something in return, right?
Besides, if you think about it, Room 301 is the world that Eun-sol and Song-i lived in, and it is a kind of hometown.
I just solved a crisis in my hometown, so what kind of compensation should the hotel give me?
Rather, it might be right for us to be grateful to the hotel for helping us solve our hometown problems.
I tried to calm my mind somehow with this feeling…
Finally, Seungyeop’s mouth opened.
“Something… makes me sad.”
“…”
“Hey, in terms of games, blessings are like leveling up by filling up experience points! I’m level 3, and Gain hyung is level 4!”
“… Then, what about the legacy?”
“It’s a treasure chest! When you defeat a boss, a treasure chest appears, and when you open the chest, there should be an item inside.”
“…”
“There’s only leveling up, but no treasure chests…”
Seungyeop’s next words contained everyone’s true feelings.
“I feel a bit sad.”
Then everyone’s mouths opened.
“That’s too bad.”
“I’m sad.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Isn’t that too much?”
“Even if it’s not a legacy, I wish you had taken care of even the little things…”
At this point, everyone felt more disappointed about the hotel than happy about finding a room.
The following notification appeared.
“Congratulations to the final solver among your colleagues!
The final solver has appeared and all members have returned safely.
Before I could even finish reading the content, chaos broke out!
“This is it!”
“Haha! I guess there was something more to it!”
“No, why are they sending out notifications in different places this time?”
“What, you’re not making fun of us!”
“Room 301 has been purified.
Starting tomorrow, the owner of the wish can freely descend to Room 301 via the observatory.
Issue 301 has ended.
However, you know very well that there is chaos and glory left in that loop.
I hope you can take whatever you want.?
Purification and descent of the loop full of chaos
This was the real reward of the third floor.
*
– Yoo Song-i
As soon as I left the 3rd floor lobby and arrived at room 105, the party time notification popped up.
Interestingly, unlike usual, there was no talk of ‘when’ party time would end.
Does this mean we can rest as long as we want?
Something, I don’t think this is right.
There is a point in time when party time ends, but I can’t say exactly when it is, so it feels like a lot.
Anyway, when the party time notification popped up, I felt like it was really over and my tension was relieved.
A fun time where everyone eats and drinks naturally takes place on the second floor.
Towards evening, after telling my colleagues that I was going out to get some fresh air, I went out to the snowy field for a while.
“Wow… so pretty!”
I lay down in the snow and looked up at the sky, which was filled with beautiful aurora.
I was in awe for a moment before I burst into laughter.
Think about it! The second floor is actually inside a snow globe? There is no such thing as space beyond the snowy sky on the second floor.
That means it doesn’t make sense that there is an aurora.
Anyway, it was pretty.
— Sarak!
At that moment, I heard someone’s footsteps. It was Eunsol.
“What are you doing here?”
“I’m looking at the aurora.”
“Aurora? Oh, it’s pretty!”
My sister’s eyebrows, which had been admiring me, slightly tilted.
“Huh? Why do aurora appear in snow globes?”
“Isn’t this some kind of hotel-style lighting service?”
“Lighting service? Phew! That makes sense.”
Soon, my sister also leaned slightly next to me.
“…”
“…”
Think in silence.
Room 301 may have been just a somewhat unusual cursed room to the other colleagues…
It was a little different for me.
Room 301 is the world I live in and my hometown.
It is also a place where your real family and loving parents are.
The person leaning next to me right now was also the only companion who could understand my heart.
“Songiya, congratulations.”
“yes?”
“You saved your parents, didn’t you? Even more, you can descend to Room 301 starting tomorrow. That means you can meet your parents.”
I said this with a bashful smile without realizing it.
“I can’t be the only one who can go, right? My sister can go to room 301 and bring her family -”
Here I was momentarily taken aback.
Unlike me, my sister didn’t have a family that was all alive.
Two of my sister’s brothers died a long time ago.
Since his soul has been destroyed and he is not a hotel participant, there is no way to revive him even with a ticket.
“Uh, uh…”
My sister smiled brightly when she saw my embarrassed expression.
“What’s wrong? I’m glad that I can meet my father and brother.”
“Oh, yeah! Congratulations.”
“…”
After a moment of silence, my sister brought up another story.
“When I woke up in the hotel, I thought this.”
“What are you thinking?”
“I wonder if this is the end of Room 301.”
“…”
“Did you prevent the apocalypse? If you ask me, yes, you did. The Iss race will eventually leave Earth, and Mother has become a powerless phantom, so she has no power to cause grace.”
“Yes.”
“But there are still many dangers in Room 301.”
“…”
“The Is species will leave Earth. ‘Someday.’ When will that someday be? How many people will suffer at the hands of angry aliens until then?”
“…”
“It is not possible to invoke grace upon a mother who has become a ghost. However, the ghost of a great one is fundamentally different from a mere mortal ghost. It is quite possible that it will cause other forms of nightmare-like things.”
“… That’s right.”
“So, even though there was still danger, the hotel gave a resolution decision. That’s not strange.”
It’s not as strange as my sister said.
Can you give me an example?
At the end of Issue 101, we recovered the star fragment from another world and killed the source of the problem, the adversary.
The world was still ruined, either way.
It’s a post-apocalyptic situation, so of course there were a lot of problems.
What about No. 103, whose fate is unpredictable, apart from the annihilation of Athanasia?
What about Room 201, who is condemned to forever be a human sacrifice to prisoners?
Hotels have never in the past required us to completely fix problems in our rooms.
but.
“It’s not that it’s weird, but I still felt a bit unsatisfied with the ending of Room 301.”
“is it so?”
“Yeah. I got dragged in because it was a plan I didn’t know about, but after finding out everything, I was like, ‘Guys, is this really it?’”
This statement was a little funny.
“Pfft! Sister, that plan is -”
“Eight! Are you going to say that again? ‘It’s my sister’s plan?’”
“yes.”
“That girl is not me!”
“Kick!”
“Ahahaha!”
After some light laughter passed, my sister spoke with a serious expression.
“I think Songi, you probably think similarly.”
Songi, you too must be anxious about the ending of Room 301.
I honestly agree.
It was so unsettling to know that in a world where real families live, there are still aliens left to toy with humans.
This is a separate issue from whether or not the Room of Curses is solved.
“It’s like this. The ending of Room 301 is enough in terms of solving the cursed room, but -”
“- It is not enough to save one’s hometown.”
“… Yeah, that’s it.”
As my sister said, I was anxious too.
There are still a lot of problems left, but it felt like they were just solving the biggest ones and then leaving.
I was still concerned about the evil of aliens still remaining on Earth.
Even though she was only a ghost, I felt fear when I reached my sister’s mother, who was the ghost of a great person.
It’s not over.
Due to limited resources and time, we only managed to suppress urgent complaints.
So, the hotel tells us.
He said that the remaining problems in your hometown should be solved by yourselves.
This is descent.
My sister muttered as she felt the cool breeze of the snowy field.
“Perhaps this is the fundamental theme of the third floor?”
“The underlying theme?”
“Save yourself.”
“…”
“With the hotel’s help, we’ve put out the fire, so go down and take care of the remaining issues yourself.”
“I understand up to that point…”
“Do you understand?”
The next words made me tremble without me knowing it.
To be honest, it was a little scary!
“Oh, if it’s as I said, my sister and I are the only ones going down, right?”
“I think so. The owner of the wish can freely descend to Room 301 through the observatory. He said that. The owner of the wish must mean you and me, of course.”
My sister and I are the only ones who can go down to a place where evil aliens and the ghosts of evil gods still remain?
I’m anxious… I’m anxious… !
Sister, are you also honestly anxious? Aren’t you unsure?
It’s true that I’m scared that aliens will harm my mom and dad, but it’s even more scary for my sister and I to go to a place like that alone!
At that very moment.
Eunsol’s expression was slightly distorted.
“Honestly, I’m a little bit looking forward to it.”
“yes?”
expectation?
“When 301 ended, there was a reward that I expected to be given?”
“Oh, really?”
“It wasn’t given. I was secretly very disappointed, thinking, ‘What is this?’ But, as expected, there was a next time!”
“…”
What Eunsol said next was a sentence that I couldn’t understand.
“Tear the power of the devil to pieces… and give it to me.”
“yes?”
“no.”
For a moment, I felt creepy.
I saw something that was a mixture of endless greed and a thirst that could never be quenched.
It was as if something that had been sealed away for a long time in the life of ‘Daeyang Group Managing Director’ was awakening.
“If we go back to room 301, there will be a lot of fun things to do, don’t you think?”
“…”
“If we talk about it like a game, you’ve defeated the boss mob, but you’re in a situation where you’re not able to loot it. You have to loot it.”