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◈ Escaping the Mystery Hotel ◈
Episode 156: Room 201, Curse Room - ‘□ □□’ (5)
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- Yoo Song-i
When I looked toward the sink in shock at the sound of shattering glass, the situation was already ruined.
A monster-like girl had burst through the mirror!
Her hair hung loose and wild, while her grotesque eyes writhed with nothing but white showing.
With a single blow, the girl killed A-ri. Then, holding only A-ri's head, she walked toward us.
“I spared this one because she's pretty~! You guys have to play with me for a very long time.”
Before she could even finish, Grandpa Mook-seong and Eun-sol fired their guns in a frenzy!
The girl took the hail of bullets as if she were enjoying a refreshing shower.
The bullets couldn't even pierce her skin and simply fell to the floor.
At the same time, I used my bracelet to block and distort the senses she used to perceive things.
The girl staggered for a moment, then spoke in a voice like scraping metal.
“What? You're using some weird power?”
--- Clap!
Eyes burst out from both of the girl's hands with the sound of a clap!
Aah! What the hell is that?
Seeing them was disgusting enough, but once she began gathering information through those new eyes, my bracelet could no longer block her.
Still, I'm a veteran by now! No high school girl has seen as many monsters as I have!
... Is that even a good thing? Anyway, I immediately expanded the bracelet's range until my head felt like it would overheat.
“You think having four eyes will stop me?”
The moment I included the eyes on her hands within the bracelet's range, the girl suddenly burst out laughing.
“You! You're pretty strong, huh?”
At the same time, the mansion itself writhed like a living thing.
Eyes burst from the walls, the floor, the clock, the table, the chairs, everywhere!
The entire mansion had become her eyes.
Gritting my teeth, I used Diverse Perspectives with more force than at any moment since leaving Room 103.
My consciousness floated up into the air.
The power of Diverse Perspectives stretched across the entire mansion.
* * *
- Lee Eun-sol
I couldn't breathe.
Honestly, it's not like I have some animal instinct, but even an idiot could tell what was happening.
It was that girl! The ruler of this hellish place!
We had to defeat her.
The monster-like girl who had come out carrying only A-ri's head treated bullets like BB pellets.
The butterfly had already been used on the gorilla, and our guns were nothing but toys to her.
We were already out of options.
Song-i, whose power seemed to have some effect, was fighting in a realm I couldn't even understand. It was a different world from mine.
Grandpa Mook-seong looked like he had no options either.
...
This wasn't the time for that!
The moment I tried to run toward the front door while Song-i bought us time to escape-
“Stop being annoying and stay still.”
At those words, a hand sprang out of the wall and grabbed my leg.
I hurriedly tried to tear it off with all my strength, but it was impossible.
That girl was completely toying with us. Even her fight with Song-i didn't seem like she was going all out.
She had watched us break through several mansions and seemed certain that this level of strength couldn't threaten her.
As Grandpa Mook-seong and I struggled helplessly, blood finally began streaming from Song-i's eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
“Song-i!”
A chilling voice filled the room.
“Is that your limit? That's disappointing.”
Song-i slid onto the floor and muttered.
“What are you...? What is this place?”
The demon-like girl slowly walked toward Song-i, her mouth stretched wide open.
Just before Song-i's heart was ripped from her body, she left behind one final word.
“The window-”
The window? What about the window? Song-i died before she could say anything else!
I hurriedly looked around, but we'd checked from the first mansion onward.
There were no windows in this mansion.
Once Song-i, the only one who could stop that demon, died, it was all over.
Hard objects like tree roots rose from the walls and tightly bound Grandpa Mook-seong as well.
“Don't you have any fun tricks?”
* * *
- Park Seung-yeop
I have to use it after all.
I watched through my Protective Suit helmet, trying to stay as still as a dead mouse.
A-ri and Song-i had fallen one after another, while Eun-sol and Grandpa Mook-seong were tied to the wall.
Yet she hadn't taken any precautions against me. The monster must've thought I was already dead or unconscious.
...
I'm not dumb enough not to know what would happen next.
That monster clearly intended to torment the rest of us.
In the end, I decided to use the Escape Button.
Our hope, which could save us once from any crisis!
We'd said we should conserve it since it was a one-use item, but this really felt like our final moment.
The instant I picked up the button Grandpa had kept beside me-
--- Thump!
My hand suddenly struck the table beside me, making a noise. Everyone's attention turned toward me.
At the same time, the TV turned on! My body stiffened like stone amid the crackling static.
No, at this moment? I panicked, then came to my senses.
There was no way the TV turning on at this exact moment was a coincidence.
That girl controlled every monster in this space.
--- Ting! Clatterrrrr~!
My body froze at the worst possible moment, and the button fell to the floor and rolled beneath the table.
/Oath/
That damned oath sound again. The TV began spouting more incomprehensible bullshit.
Our response was the same as before. Grandpa Mook-seong's glove flew over, fired a shot, and smashed the TV.
“Oh! Right. You dealt with it like this before too. Sorry, sorry~! I have such a bad memory!”
Instead of answering, Eun-sol fired her gun.
She aimed at the hand that had risen from the floor and bound her leg.
The gunfire blew the hand apart, but the bullet also tore through her leg.
Even then, she threw her whole body toward the button.
At the same time, Grandpa's glove flew toward it as well.
By now, even the demon-like girl shouted with a curious expression.
“What the hell is that? Why are you making such a fuss over it?”
Another hand sprang out beside the button, grabbed it, and sank into the floor.
Despair filled Eun-sol's and Grandpa's faces. In an instant, tree roots rising from the walls covered everyone.
--- Splash... splash...
Blood was already everywhere.
Stepping through it, the girl walked toward me with the button in her hand.
My breathing grew more and more difficult.
Her hideous fingers touched my helmet.
“You, this outfit is pretty sturdy.”
“...”
“Not answering? That woman called Eun-sol is still alive. Want me to pull out her fingers one by one?”
“What do you want to know...?”
“I'm curious. You spent all this time just testing the waters, didn't you? Then suddenly you throw in this many people with powers. Why? The one who was supposed to report it is dead too.”
What did that mean? I couldn't understand. Testing the waters? Suddenly throwing in people with powers?
We were Management Bureau agents in this scenario, so was she referring to the Management Bureau?
As I started to look confused, the girl immediately saw through me.
“You don't know anything. You're just a pawn.”
--- Creak. Creeeak.
“What an interesting outfit. Armor that can withstand Kong-i's fists.”
My whole body grew hot again.
And I felt resentful. What the hell was Heavenly Luck doing?
Not once since it activated had I been lucky.
If anything, when I tried to use the Escape Button, my hand struck the table and got me caught-
...
What was that?
“Are you not having fun?”
“Kind of. You're too weak, and it's too predictable.”
“Sorry. I'll make this one more interesting.”
“Oh! Th-”
Only then did the girl sense something strange and whip around.
A-ri's body lay sprawled carelessly, with only her head remaining, while her blood lay scattered throughout the mansion. Now, that blood began moving on its own!
A strange light shone in the eyes of A-ri's severed head.
The blood spun like a vortex and bound the demon-like girl!
Watching that incomprehensible sight, I almost threw up.
At this moment, I had no idea who was the demon and who was the Hotel's party of justice!
Aren't two demons just fighting each other?
Even so, I hurriedly got to my feet, dragging my freed body along.
My mind was working more actively than usual, continuing the thought from before.
Right now, Heavenly Luck was active. I was someone protected by the energy of the universe!
Something unlucky could never happen.
My hand had struck the table and dropped the button just as I tried to use the Escape Button.
That hadn't happened because I was unlucky. It had happened because I was lucky!
It had clearly fallen to tell me not to use it, because we could escape without wasting a one-use item.
The word Song-i had shouted just before she died. “Window.”
This strange mansion with not a single window.
There was a window in this mansion.
You couldn't see outside from within it, but you could see inside from outside. There was a strange window like that.
I just hadn't recognized it because it didn't look like an ordinary window.
I stood before the broken mirror the demon had come out of.
Then I threw my entire body into the mirror.
I felt an overwhelming gaze.
I felt gazes.
From the sky, the earth, the sea, the air, the mountains, the rivers-
I felt gazes dwelling everywhere in this entire world.
A great eye dwelled within every object in all creation.
My beginning may be a lowly worm, but-
--- Thud!
After falling endlessly, I struck a window frame jutting out somewhere and came back to my senses.
What was that? What the hell had I just seen?
In my confusion, my body spun endlessly as I slowly fell.
Falling endlessly through darkness without a floor, I looked at the mansion where I had been just moments ago. No, the collection of mansions.
Mansions that moved without end. Rooms where absurd monsters clearly lay in wait here and there.
As I fell, and fell again, toward somewhere unknown, I thought.
Curse Room 201. The true nature of this damned place.
The Cube.
That was my last memory of Room 201.
/You have escaped!/
* * *
‘He got out through luck again?’
‘How much longer is he going to keep getting everything handed to him?’
‘If he doesn't have the talent, he'll be finished in Room 203.’
* * *
[User: Han Ga-in (Wisdom)
Date: Day 81
Current Location: Level 2, Corridor
Sage’s Advice: 3]
- Han Ga-in
I was sleeping deeply when I suddenly woke up.
The moment I regained consciousness, a cold like ice blades stabbing into my skin made my entire body break out in goosebumps!
I roughly pulled on a cold-weather outfit made from the blankets scattered around us.
“Ah! It's freaking cold. Wow! Is this weather insane? Did everyone figure out a lot?”
My companions had worked so hard in my place! Of course they'd put on an incredible performance, right?
Would they solve it on the next run? Was it about time for me to land the finishing blow?
Man! I'd feel bad taking an Inheritance after only landing the finishing blow!
Apparently not.
The mood was clearly terrible.
A few people sat there blankly, as if they couldn't even feel the cold.
I approached Elena, who was shivering.
“Are you okay?”
“...”
Had she not heard me because of the snowstorm? I moved a little closer-
--- Smack!
When I leaned my head in slightly, Elena shoved me roughly and I fell into the snow nearby.
...
We're past needing to social-distance from each other, aren't we?
Strangely, the moment our eyes met, Elena reacted like she was about to faint.
Everyone's condition clearly wasn't normal.
I thought I should go down to the first floor and have a serious talk with everyone.
Of course, I felt very refreshed after getting a good night's sleep.
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