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◈ Escaping the Mystery Hotel ◈

Episode 9: Room 101, The Cursed Room - 'The Strange Family' (4)

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Gasp, huff, huuuff...

Eun-sol dragged in ragged breaths. What on earth was happening? Her older brother had done this?

It was difficult for siblings to always get along, and their father had especially encouraged competition among the children. As they grew older, Eun-sol and her second older brother had become increasingly distant.

Even so... Eun-sol had thought they had built a measure of trust after dealing with their father together recently.

After that, hadn’t they only needed to deal with the eldest brother, who was furthest ahead among the siblings, and Hee-yoon, the younger sibling who had begun getting on Eun-sol’s nerves?

However, it seemed Eun-sol’s order differed from her second older brother’s. Her second older brother had chosen to deal with Eun-sol first.

Ah... Eun-sol had made a mistake. She should have dealt with her second older brother first.

Rather than feeling fresh resentment toward her brother, Eun-sol regretted not acting first as she lost consciousness.

/You have failed!

The endless wealth of a conglomerate family can sometimes sow the seeds of tragedy. Shouldn’t you have remained all the more vigilant because of it?

Once you and your brother killed your father and turned your lives into a soap opera, you should have kept an eye on your own back as well.

You neither escaped the curse nor resolved the Source of the Curse. What a pity.

But there is still a chance! Wait for your companions.

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A companion has successfully escaped! Congratulations! Since an escapee has emerged, all members will return safely./

Lee Eun-sol felt her sunken consciousness slowly float to the surface...

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Her entire body trembled in unimaginable agony. What had happened?

So-mi was tearing into her right arm. Happy had nearly finished eating her left arm, leaving nothing but bone.

While the two of them tore at her arms, three cats and a parrot waited for their turns.

A beak had already begun entering her left eye.

Scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts, scared, it hurts.

Please, someone, end this nightmare.

/You have failed!

Aren’t animals adorable?

Once you are captivated by the peaceful eyes of a golden retriever, the elegant form of a Norwegian Forest cat, or the dignified crest of a sulphur-crested cockatoo, all tension melts away.

But have you forgotten? A beast always retains the breath of the wild...

Forgetting can sometimes exact a price of immense pain.

You neither escaped the curse nor resolved the Source of the Curse. What a pity.

But there is still a chance! Wait for your companions.

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A companion has successfully escaped! Congratulations! Since an escapee has emerged, all members will return safely./

Yoo Song-i felt her sunken consciousness slowly float to the surface...

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Blood flowed from Elena’s mouth. Ah... So this day had finally come. Radioactive black tea, forever the butt of jokes on the Korean internet.

Had there ever been a Korean who truly worried about it? It was never a trivial issue that could be reduced to a joke.

Not that Elena meant to blame Koreans. Elena had made jokes of things Koreans took seriously before, too.

How had this tea found its way onto the family table? Elena felt both Father and Mother clutching their stomachs as they writhed on the floor. Who was it?

When a tsar had effectively risen to power in their homeland during Elena’s childhood, the whole family had gone into exile, and their happy days had come to an end...

Even so, hadn’t the family loved one another more than anything?

As Elena turned, she saw her older sister. Joy, pleasure, liberation. Her older sister must have wanted freedom, even if it meant killing them.

What a fool. Even if her older sister killed Father, Mother, and Elena now, would that mighty tsar spare her?

It felt so empty. After their long flight abroad following exile, they had finally settled in First World Korea. Elena had thought everyone’s lives had finally become stable, yet this was how it ended...

/You have failed!

Once a tsar rises in your homeland, the opposition has no choice but to flee into exile. Yet the greatest difficulties of a harsh life in exile are not only physical.

Did you never consider that someone in the family might grow weary of exile? That the exhausted person might sell out the rest of the family?

Didn’t you notice your older sister acting strangely for several days? Never let your guard down.

You neither escaped the curse nor resolved the Source of the Curse. What a pity.

But there is still a chance! Wait for your companions.

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A companion has successfully escaped! Congratulations! Since an escapee has emerged, all members will return safely./

Elena Ivanova felt her sunken consciousness slowly float to the surface...

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Knock knock knock!

A knocking sound rang out. Ah, how annoying. Seung-yeop had been struggling to land a solo kill with Yasuo!

The knocking broke his concentration, and he got solo killed instead. He had already been solo killed about twice before that, but it was no big deal.

Yasuo was supposed to grow by dying. If it had not been for that knocking, Seung-yeop would have gotten the solo kill and carried the game...

Seriously, Mom was never any help.

“Mom! I told you not to knock when I’m playing games!!!”

“Seung-yeop... I’m sorry. I didn’t realize you were concentrating this hard. Still, shouldn’t you eat? You skipped breakfast, and if this keeps up, you’ll skip lunch too...”

“Mom, if you hadn’t gotten in my way just now, I would’ve finished this game and come out. Please stop interrupting me. I’m almost Diamond, so why do you keep getting in my way?”

“I put food on a plate. I’ll leave it outside your door. Make sure you eat lunch.”

That damn food, food, food. It was not as if missing one meal would kill him. Seung-yeop really did not understand why she kept going on about it.

As irritation rose in him, he suddenly heard a strange voice.

[777! Today, your Luck is at an all-time high.]

Had he heard wrong? Seung-yeop turned the League volume down a little.

After three straight losses, he finally forced a win. Seung-yeop always felt this way, but he really did have grit.

If only he got decent teammates. He could not understand how there was always some bug-like bastard in every game.

When he stepped outside, he saw the plate Mom had left there about two hours earlier.

What was that on the plate? Food? Was it a dead rat?

Tch! Seung-yeop shook his head and forgot about it. It could not be a rat, so it was probably some strange food. He was not going to eat it anyway, so what did it matter?

Reaching Diamond as soon as possible mattered more than some trivial issue like that!

As he paced around the living room, Seung-yeop replayed the earlier game in his head. His Yone had gone in at exactly the right time.

It had been the perfect chance to wipe them out if his teammates followed up, yet somehow all four of them had failed to do so. What idiots.

That was why those guys could not climb out of Platinum. They saw openings at an entirely different level from someone like Seung-yeop, who was going to climb, so it could not be helped.

While he was thinking, Dad came home. Ah, another annoying person.

“Seung-yeop. Your mom told me you skipped lunch too. Why don’t you eat out with Dad tonight?

“A really good barbecue place opened next to Fresh Mart over there. They serve fresh, living pigs. It’s really delicious.”

Living pigs? What did that mean? Who ate pigs alive? Whatever.

Dad always said strange things anyway. He must have heard some weird joke somewhere.

“Dad, I’ll make ramen later. That’s enough for me. I always tell you this is an important time, don’t I?

“Why go out for meat? I don’t have time for that. I need to queue up for at least one more game.”

“Come on. You’re going to eat anyway, aren’t you? You can’t play while you’re eating, so let’s go enjoy something good outside. Dad has something to tell you too.”

“Ha! What do you mean I can’t play while eating? There’s a cat champion in League, and you can easily play it while eating ramen. Anyway, I’ll eat by myself, so do whatever you want!”

Bang!

When Seung-yeop slammed his door shut and went back into his room, his parents, who had been watching, sighed at the same time.

Life was difficult, but why was their child this impossible to handle?

Even so, he was their son. The couple resolved to drag him out of the house somehow tomorrow.

That day as well, Seung-yeop ate ramen while managing to push the cat champion’s win rate into the twenties. By the time he finished the ramen, his account had been suspended again.

It was truly hard to understand. He had only been trying to keep his gaming sense sharp while he ate. How could that be grounds for suspension?

It was not as though Seung-yeop had not played the game. He had even bought and sold items now and then. The people who reported him were strange too.

Of course, it was no big deal. Seung-yeop had seventeen accounts ready anyway.

Once his potential really burst forth, he could reach Diamond in three days. There was no reason to worry over one or two suspended accounts.

And so, another fulfilling day came to an end.

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