Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 706
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EP.706 Episode 706 – Someone’s Rest, Someone’s Suffering (2)
Episode 706 – Someone’s Rest, Someone’s Suffering (2)
– Lee Eun-sol
“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.”
I spoke to Songi, trying to sound as confident as possible.
I think the future 301 will be an interesting place rather than a scary one, an area where you and I can gain additional power.
“That’s right! My sister is right.”
I wanted to reassure Songi somehow, but it doesn’t seem to have gone as planned.
I still feel an unspeakable fear in Songi.
And, during the conversation, he keeps looking at me with an anxious expression.
I guess he’s worried about me and him going to room 301 together since we both lack the necessary strength.
iced coffee…
It’s not like I feel bad for Songi or anything like that.
If I were to choose between Lee Eun-sol and Han Ga-in as my colleague, I would choose Han Ga-in without hesitation.
— Thud!
As I lay face down on the snowfield and looked up at the sky, the cold air seemed to penetrate my bones.
…
My true feelings that I haven’t told Songi, but she probably already knows.
I was scared to go back to room 301.
I was afraid of the evil of the aliens and the traces of my mother, and worried about the absence of my strong comrades.
In addition to this, several ominous elements came to mind.
Room 301 is no longer a cursed room, but rather resembles the reality outside the first and second floors.
In other words, the hotel-specific round-robin play element has disappeared.
So there is no longer any system like escape or solution.
This means that the convenient protection of being resurrected if only one of your comrades escapes even if you die has disappeared.
Even the second round of work contained in the timeline won’t help.
I heard that the Duke’s time itself only had a few minutes left, but it was meaningless since Miro himself could no longer go to Room 301.
“…”
Isn’t that too much?
No, in this situation, what are Songi and I supposed to do if we go to room 301?
When I closed my eyes feeling like I was suffocating.
— Buck!
“You two were here?”
“Brother!”
“Is Cain here?”
Ga-in, a colleague that everyone secretly thought, ‘If I could only go with one person, it would be this person!’ appeared.
Could it be because I became more honest with my heart after going through Room 301?
I had complicated thoughts as I felt the difference between ‘Lee Eun-sol’ who felt anxious when she thought she had to go together and ‘Han Ga-in’ who relaxed just by appearing.
But even I felt relieved when Gain appeared.
Look at the way you appear as if it were natural when Songi and I felt the greatest darkness.
He always showed up when needed, where needed.
“You both seem worried. Is it because you think you two are the only ones going to room 301?”
“Eww! Did you hear that? You weren’t secretly eavesdropping!”
Gain responded to Songi’s playful words with a light laugh.
Songi too, what did Gain eavesdrop on?
There’s no way that’s possible and there’s no need for that.
If it were Ga-in, she would have already guessed the extent of the conversation that Song-i and I would have when she told me about the ‘descent’ at the hotel.
“I know it’s not much of a consolation, but I have some good news.”
“Ah! It’s you, oppa!”
“Hey, isn’t this too soulless of a ploy?”
“Tell me. You gave me some advice, right? What’s the good news?”
A colleague who showed up at the right moment and right place gave me the advice I had been longing for.
“Before you both descend, go to the Sanctuary of Blessing first.”
“That’s not a given – ah!”
To be honest, at first I thought, ‘Isn’t that obvious?’ but soon I understood what Ga-in said like Song-i.
At this point, why would the patron of wisdom emphasize the sanctuary?
There is no set rule as to what abilities will be gained when strengthening a blessing; it is up to our own and our sponsor’s choices.
That is, there are many times when the abilities needed at the present time arise!
Think of Jincheol, who was given regenerative powers after obtaining a star from another world, and Elena, who was given a clear vision index after obtaining ominous imagination.
This time it won’t be any different.
The sponsors will have prepared the strength that Songi and I need now.
“Hehehe! The elephant will give you something!”
“elephant?”
“My sponsor is an elephant. Your sponsor is a dragon.”
“Is that so? Right, Sister.”
“huh?”
Gain smiled broadly and added a piece of advice.
“This time, don’t use your greedy hand during party time.”
“what -”
At that moment, I realized something I had forgotten.
The real meaning of saying that Room 301 is no longer a de facto cursed room.
This is wisdom!
*
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 18th day
Current Location: Tier 2, Snowfield
Wise Man’s Advice: 1”
– Han Ga-in
The atmosphere of the snowy field, which had felt suffocating until just a moment ago, is slowly relaxing.
When Eunsol and Songi finally had bright expressions on their faces, I thought.
It’s me after all.
It’s me again this time.
Cain, is it you again?
Ha… Seriously, what would you do without me?
Without me, the hotel party is ruined, the room of curses is ruined, the country is ruined, and the world is ruined!
As such, I was returning from the snowfield to the hotel, intoxicated by my own appearance.
Ari appeared from behind with her mouth half open.
“What are you doing?”
“Hmm? What are you doing? I think you and Songi are worried -”
“… I was here earlier too.”
“… Since when?”
“Since the time you hid behind the tree and eavesdropped on Song-i and Eun-sol’s conversation.”
“…”
“Why on earth are you doing this?”
“No, we’re both in the middle of a serious conversation, so it’s not a good time to join in -”
“Hoo…”
The moment Ari took a deep breath, I felt regretful that I had no means of erasing Ari’s memories.
“… Sometimes, show it to me too.”
“what?”
“no.”
When the warm atmosphere of the hotel could be felt from a distance, unlike the snowy field, Ari brought up a slightly different story.
“The 3rd floor seems different from the 1st and 2nd floors in many ways.”
“yes.”
“In the past, they would give you an inheritance and tell you to decide among yourselves what to get, but now they’re telling you to go to a field where the boss mobs have disappeared and dig up the reward yourself.”
“That’s right. It’s not that the legacy has disappeared, but rather that the way to acquire the legacy has changed.”
“However, only those who have made a wish can enter that field.”
I understood what Ari was trying to say.
“Yes, there is no such thing as a time of choice. It seems that the person who receives the reward is already decided. The structure is such that the person who is unconditionally connected to the cause of the room and the person who made the wish receives the reward.”
Ari nodded and answered.
“Is the Sanctuary of Blessing like that too? Is Ganghwa only Eunsol and Songi?”
“Well, I guess we’ll have to go and see for ourselves.”
“I see…”
Ari seemed to think for a moment, then suddenly made a playful expression.
“Gain, if you think about it, isn’t your first wish already ended in reality?”
“yes?”
Just think about the moment right after you enter the third floor.
While the other colleagues were all lying on the sofa and beginning to realize their first wish in the form of a dream, I wasn’t even dreaming at the time.
The manager even openly called me a ‘contestant who overcame his dreams’.
“Then, isn’t the room related to your wish not on the third floor?”
“Maybe so…”
At this point, Ari’s expression changed into one of open teasing.
“Wow~! Then, our Ga-in has nothing to gain from the third floor?”
“…”
“The blessing enhancement is already at level 4, so there’s nothing more to do, and since I don’t have my own room, there’s nothing to gain from something like an inheritance!”
“…”
Soon, Ari slowly walked down the hallway, sticking her tongue out as if she was watching.
“nyah.”
“…”
“Meee …
Thoughts that came to mind as I watched Ari slowly return to the hotel.
What Ari just said is something I also thought about after roughly understanding the three-story structure.
The blessing is already at level 4, so there is nothing more to strengthen, and the legacy has no room associated with me, so there is nothing to obtain.
I guessed it, but…
Hearing this from Ari, I felt bitter all over again.
From now on, regardless of whether I did well or not, it felt like I was excluded from compensation from the start.
As I thought about this, I began to feel more and more uneasy.
“Advice from the Wise: 1”
“…There’s still one left for today.”
As my colleagues can imagine, I don’t always use my three pieces of advice every day for really important things.
This is especially true now that the cursed room has been resolved.
Where should I write it? I would worry about it, but nothing came to mind, so I would just leave it alone, and then in the evening, I would write it up in a hurry.
In such cases, of course, meaningless questions arise.
A typical question is, ‘Did Miro summon me in the room yesterday too?’
Surprisingly, the owl gave a shocking answer several times, saying, “Yes, I summoned you yesterday too.”
“…”
“Wise Man’s Advice: 1 -> 0”
‘I did my best, but I feel like I have nothing to gain from it, so it’s a shame.’
I wasn’t really expecting a plausible answer.
I thought maybe it was a warning that if you want to be a hero, you shouldn’t have such thoughts.
No it wasn’t.
“If you do your best when you are young, you will suffer losses when you grow up. This is irrational. Hotels do not pursue irrationality.”
“…?”
If you do your best when you are young, you will suffer losses when you grow up.
This refers to a situation where you do your best to grow quickly on the 1st and 2nd floors, but then have nothing to gain on the 3rd floor and have to suffer losses.
Owl expressed this as absurdity.
The hotel also said it does not pursue irrationality.
So that means I have something too!
When I thought about something, something naturally came to mind.
The sixth room, without a number.
“Ha, haha! Hahaha!”
This is it! This is a hotel!
As we were laughing hysterically, Ari, who was walking ahead of us, turned around and looked at us as if to say, ‘What?’
“What? Why are you laughing alone?”
Haha! Ariya, are you trying to make fun of ‘Han Ga-in’ without knowing anything?
He immediately bent down and lifted a lot of snow from the floor.
“Eww! Suddenly? Ha! That’s absolutely not right!”
Ari moves her body at lightning speed and hides in a square that is difficult to hit.
Indeed, it was a move worthy of a veteran agent of the Management Bureau who had been born with the legacy…!
“Yay!”
In an instant, he teleported behind Ari and threw a pile of snow onto Ari’s head.
“Ouch! Teleportation is against the rules! It’s against the rules!”
“There is no foul play in the hotel.”
It was fun.
It seemed like it would be fun today, and for a while to come.
Anyway, I’m not going down, right?
Someone’s break has begun.
“Oh really! Show me some too!”
“What do you want to see?”
“It looks plausible!”
“…”
*
The next day, everyone headed to the Sanctuary of Blessing early in the morning.