Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 86
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Episode 86 – Party Time (8) – Honest conversation, how to use the pen, strategy meeting (1)
Party Time Day 3 Afternoon
– Elena
After listening to Song Yi’s ‘lecture’ about room 103 all lunch hour, I felt dizzy.
Maybe that’s why everyone disappeared somewhere after the lecture ended.
Now is the right time to have an honest conversation with Ari.
As we headed toward the front desk, Ari was loitering near the refreshment table.
“Ari!”
“Elena sister?”
I approached Ari.
What should I say first? Are you hiding something from me?
After hesitating, Ari asked first.
“Do you have something to say?”
Let’s just talk openly.
“On the first day, when I was strengthening the blessing at the sanctuary, I met a mysterious being called a ‘patron,’ as Mr. Cain said.”
“What kind of person were you?”
“A being whose form is unknown. You were sitting in a garden-like place. “He seemed to know you.”
Ari seemed to be interested and turned towards me.
“What did you say about me?”
“…”
“Well, did you say something bad?”
“You said something strange. “It sounds a little strange.”
“…”
“Ari, you said you were shaking me in the wrong direction.”
“You came to check it out.”
“okay.”
Ari wandered around for a moment as if thinking about it, then answered.
“Is that all you said?”
“Besides that, he seemed to hate you. I’ll tell you what I remember.
‘Like a blind man touching an elephant, even though he was lucky enough to experience only a small part of the hotel, he mistakenly believes that he has gained great enlightenment about the hotel and its blessings.’
In addition, he also said that the direction I am writing about blessings is the right path.”
Ari thought for a while after that. He seemed to need time to gather his thoughts. I sat at the table next to me, drank a cup of coffee, and waited.
Ari spoke only after nearly 20 minutes.
“You said that after strengthening your blessing, you became able to detect lies, right?”
“I’m not saying I doubt you.”
“There is no need to leave behind unnecessary misunderstandings. Please use that ability now. “I’ll tell it like it is.”
If I put my hand on my heart and confess honestly, I am suspicious of Ari.
I think the newly acquired ‘lie detection’ ability is a very useful ability in a hotel full of lies, but there was one problem.
The moment I write, my eyes turn golden and I can’t hide the fact that I’m putting in some effort.
So when Ari openly told me to use my lie detection skills, I felt at ease.
My eyes started to glow. Ari began to answer.
“To summarize what she said, it means that I was understanding blessings in the wrong way, and based on that, I was trying to sway my sister’s heart. Let me explain that part first.
In the first episode, I saw a different master of ‘justice’ than Elena. Unlike Elena, she wields her powers freely without any restrictions.
There were no restrictions at all that the target had to be an evil person or that they had to be aware of evil behavior.
The reason that was possible was because of her way of thinking. She had a very childlike personality.
In short, ‘I am justice.’ Anyone who offends me is evil.
Looking at her, I learned that limitations to blessings can only be created by people themselves.
Afterwards, I was convinced when I saw Elena, who had the same blessing, suffer from restrictions similar to criminal law.
So, right before the fifth attempt at Room 101, I ‘persuaded’ my sister in various ways.
You will remember what kind of persuasion it is. First of all, were there any lies in what I said up to this point?”
“I didn’t feel it at all. “Thank you for being honest.”
Aside from the fact that there were no lies, I felt that the titles ‘sister’ and ‘Elena’ were mixed up haphazardly.
This is something other people often say, but Ari is strangely arbitrary in using this title.
It’s as if he’s confused about ‘his age’.
“What do you think when you hear me?”
“I was a little surprised. Even if I knew, I think it would have been difficult for me to follow. Judging right from wrong and arbitrarily punishing people is the way of thinking I hate the most. also… .”
“Why did you hide this fact?”
“… Why did you hide the truth about the blessing from me?”
“I was worried that my sister would turn out to be like that person if she found out about this.
In order to strengthen the blessing, I worry about what if I persuade myself that ‘I am justice.’ “Beliefs sometimes change depending on the need.”
“But now you’ve told me instead of hiding it.”
“Now I know there was something wrong with my idea of blessings, and Elena knew it too.
Even if you know the ‘evil potential’ of the blessing, you will not be swayed.
Next, I will tell you what I thought about the ‘right possibility’ that the sponsor mentioned.”
The ‘right possibility’ of blessing.
“I didn’t feel it before, but after hearing the sponsor’s words, I thought about it again.
Clearly, Elena’s belief in ‘justice’ did not only create limitations. “It also created powerful advantages.”
“A strong advantage?”
“For example, the part about gaining immunity to mental attacks during execution. The ‘justice’ of the past did not have that power.
When I hinted, it worked easily. However, during her execution, the sister gains almost invincible resistance.
Why?
The answer lies in Elena’s faith. ‘Justice must not be swayed by the will of a specific individual.’
So, although the person who uses the blessing cannot control it, neither can others.
Also, ‘even invisible enemies can be struck’. This is also something that was impossible with the ‘justice’ of the past.
why?
‘The law is meant to be found and enforced even if the other person is hiding.’ I guess this is the logic, right?
“There are probably many more advantages besides this.”
I listened to Ari’s words and thought about it carefully.
Certainly, when I wrote Justice, I gained immunity to curses, brainwashing, hypnosis, etc., and was able to execute even invisible enemies while sitting quietly in my car.
Ari says that this ability is a power that ‘Sentai Justice’ did not have. Are these advantages the ‘right possibilities’ mentioned by the sponsor?
Although the sponsor was critical, Ari clearly has a better understanding of blessings than I do.
“Ari, what other advantages do you think there are?”
“Think about what the two advantages I mentioned have in common. “It all stems from one characteristic of Elena’s faith.”
“One characteristic?”
“I don’t think Elena thinks that the ‘subject of execution’ is Elena herself.
Something metaphysical. A symbol of absolute justice. ideal law.
I believe that something transcendental and conceptual like this is ‘correct justice.’
If Elena’s blessing becomes much stronger than now, wouldn’t it be possible to materialize the ‘incarnation of metaphysical justice’?
Perhaps an invincible summon? How can one defeat a metaphysical and conceptual being?
Of course, this is all just my imagination.”
An invincible summon… . It seems like the genre has suddenly changed.
Even if my blessings become stronger, I don’t think it will be that way. However, I began to feel what Ari meant.
While I was thinking about it, Ari continued speaking.
“Up to this point, I have accepted the sponsor’s argument. Can I now offer a different perspective?”
A story from a different perspective. Are you trying to refute what the sponsor said?
“tell me.”
“Understanding blessings. Understanding the hotel. The sponsor is probably right about this to a large extent.
As my sponsor said, I escaped by luck with only a limited experience of the hotel.
But Elena. Please keep this in mind. There is an old saying in the Bureau. There are always only people on a person’s side.
Do your sponsors really want you to ‘escape’?”
Ari closed his mouth after that.
By then, my time with ‘lie detection’ was over.
As I returned to the room, I thought about Ari’s last words.
Does my sponsor really want me to escape? If not, what do they want from me?
*
Party Time Day 4 Afternoon
– Han Ga-in
It’s finally over!
what? It’s this tiring party time!
As soon as party time started, the old man who chased me around and asked me about my physical training had me hiking on the first day.
It’s OK up to that point. Hiking for a day wasn’t bad, and I achieved some unexpected results, so I’m satisfied.
However, getting an unexpected ‘souvenir’ on the first day of hiking only made the old man’s spirit even higher!
On the second day, I suffered from muscle pain all morning, and in the afternoon, I felt sad that I had been killed by a dinosaur on safari.
On the third day, the elder made me run in the park all morning and took me to the gym in the afternoon.
As if that wasn’t enough, it bothered me until the morning of the 4th day today!
Somehow, Seung-yeop and Song-i were released at some point, and the senile old man only followed me. The rest of the people ran away at the sight of the old man, fearing that they too might get caught up.
Jincheol, the only person who can stop the old man, seems to have lost his mind after going on safari once.
I asked my sister to get a really high-performance camera, and I was so busy taking pictures of dinosaurs and strange animals from the Neolithic Age that I had no intention of leaving the safari.
Finally today. Around lunchtime on the fourth day of party time.
I made a decision.
“hey! hey! Han Ga-in, you crazy bastard!”
Yeah, I can’t hear you~
“hey! You bastard! “Aren’t you going to delete this?”
What’s going on?
“… brother?”
Songi, who was walking down the hallway, looked at me.
“huh. Song. How are you?”
“Did you do something to my grandfather’s eyes? “You were rubbing your eyes earlier?”
“The pen I got at the gift shop was great! “I painted my grandfather’s eyes.”
“…”
“are you okay. “I will erase it when I go to the cursed room.”
Songi was speechless and eventually just passed by.
scent! My pen I got at the gift shop!
At first, I wondered what this item was for, but I never thought it would be this useful.
—puck!
Hearing my voice, a ‘hand’ flew out from somewhere and grabbed my hair!
“Ahh! evil! grandfather! “Can’t you let go of this hand?”
“You must erase what you painted over my eyes!”
No, what on earth does this old man eat to be so strong? Even though I held on to the old man’s ‘levitation hand’ with both hands and ripped it off, it was so strong that it did not fall.
Grandpa rolling around holding on to his eyes, me rolling around holding on to his hand.
Eunsol, who was passing by, saw all this and suddenly became transparent and disappeared.
*
– Han Ga-in
Party Time Day 4 Evening Time
Appointed meeting time. We all gathered together at the table in room 105.
Jincheol, who had no intention of leaving the safari, came back around this time, and as soon as he came, he looked at my head.
“…Gain?”
“…”
“I’m not at the age where I’m already experiencing alopecia areata, but why is my hair… .”
“…”
“Grandpa said he ripped out Ga-in’s hair.”
“why? “No, where is Grandpa again?”
“My grandfather couldn’t see all afternoon, so he kept hitting the wall and now he’s lying down because he’s in pain.”
“What on earth happened while I was on safari?”
Eunsol, who was sighing, started the meeting.
“ruler! ruler! Okay, now let’s start the meeting. Some of you may have already heard this, but tomorrow we decided to rest without touching each other at all. So, we are having a meeting today about which room we will go to next.”
An ‘agreement’ between me and my grandfather, and everyone else.
On the last day, let’s rest and not touch each other.
Because of that agreement, the meeting started today. Eunsol’s older sister started speaking.
“There are three places left for us to go. No. 102 ‘Mansion of Horror’, No. 104 ‘Hotel Go’, No. 107 ‘Gateway Room’. Anyone guess where to go? At least among these three, number 102 is probably the best.
It seems best not to set foot in the hotel until the strange phenomenon that happened to Ga-in is explained, and the room at the gate will be the most difficult. “Does anyone have any other thoughts?”
There was no one. If there are only rooms 104 and 107 left, there will likely be quite a long discussion about where to go, but there is no need to worry ‘now’ since there is room 102, which obviously looks easier than those two.
“Let’s make a rough plan for room 102. I think we need to think about two big things. “Interpretation of the ‘hint’ I received as compensation from Hotel Land and concerns about ‘how to escape.’”
Around that time, the grandfather who was in the room returned.
…
Everyone was speechless. There were lines drawn all over his face, including his grandfather’s eyes.
“hey! Han Ga-in, you bastard! “Aren’t you going to erase it?”
That can’t be possible.
My plucked hair is still there! My head was torn to the point that it bled! I have no intention of erasing it before entering the cursed room.
I feel like I’ve gained a really useful tool.
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