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◈ Escaping the Mystery Hotel ◈
Episode 480: Party Time - Dinner Party (5)
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[User: Han Ga-in (Wisdom)
Date: Day 933
Current Location: Level 1, Room 105 - ‘Rest Room’
Sage’s Advice: 3]
- Han Ga-in
Lee Eun-sol: Everyone, come to the front desk! I just used Greedy Hand!
[Today’s Special Event: ‘Dinner Party’ begins!]
When I stepped outside after seeing Eun-sol’s message and the notification, everyone looked confused.
“Sis, what’s going on?”
Eun-sol gave a simple answer to Song-i’s question, which voiced everyone’s curiosity.
“I don’t know either. I just used Greedy Hand.”
“Uh, guys! There’s something like a notice here?”
Where Grandpa pointed, there was a notice saying a Dinner Party was being held on the second floor and asking us to come upstairs.
“This feels ominous. Can we even go?”
“What if we don’t?”
“...”
A-ri was right.
Everything the Hotel did made us uneasy, but what else could we do if we chose not to go?
This event was the result of Greedy Hand.
It had begun because we wanted it.
Eun-sol emphasized her point as if reminding us not to forget.
“You remember why I used Greedy Hand this time, right?”
It was to obtain information about Room 207, the final room on the second floor.
“I think it’ll tell us indirectly. Stay sharp and focus.”
“... Sis, hearing that makes it sound even less like a party.”
Soon, everyone headed toward the elevator.
--- Ding!
The moment the doors closed after we pressed the button for the second floor.
「Participants, from this moment on, your blessings and Inheritances will be sealed. There is no major danger, so please enjoy yourselves!」
“Ah, these bastards again!”
... My consciousness grew hazy.
* * *
- Park Seung-yeop
... Wow. Where the hell was this?
“Goodness, I have no idea where this place is.”
The moment I heard Teacher’s voice, a wave of relief washed over me.
If I’d been dropped into some strange place alone, I would’ve been dead for sure!
I immediately pressed close to Teacher’s side.
“Oh dear, Seung-yeop. It’s hot, so step back a little-”
“Aah! It’s so hot!”
“... Mi-ro, shouting carelessly is dangerous-”
“Aah! Aaaah! Aaaa- Mmph!”
Hearing Mi-ro’s voice made me anxious again.
Fortunately, Song-i covered Mi-ro’s mouth without hesitation.
There were four of us gathered here: me, Teacher, Song-i, and Mi-ro.
With this group, there was no question about it. Teacher was the leader.
As if it were only natural, Song-i went to Teacher and asked him a question.
“Teacher, is this some kind of jungle?”
“I think so. Hmm, there’s a river, so let’s follow it.”
It had definitely said “Dinner Party,” but when we came to, we’d been dropped into a ridiculous jungle.
Wouldn’t an ordinary person need several hours just to accept such an absurd situation?
After spending so long in the Hotel, nobody was surprised by something like this anymore.
“Aaaah! Aah- Mmph!”
“I told you to be quiet! If a monster shows up, Mi-ro, I’ll feed you to it!”
“...”
Everyone except Mi-ro, anyway.
--- Plop!
My shoulder suddenly grew heavy, then a hard beak lightly nipped my cheek.
Pero seemed to be telling me not to worry because it was here, and I smiled without realizing it.
“Yeah, it’s a good thing you’re here, Pero-”
“Uh, Seung-yeop. Pero pooped on your back.”
“...”
* * *
We walked through the hot, humid jungle for quite a long time.
Unfortunately, the jungle was not a particularly friendly place for people.
“Aah! A snake, a snake!”
I almost laughed at the scream from behind me.
Really, Song-i. How much had we gone through in the Hotel?
And she was still scared of just a snake-
“Eek! Teacheeer! Aah!”
The snake’s head was bigger than my torso!
--- Screech!
Why was this stupid bird panicking right beside me?
Could it not transform right now?
“You useless parrot!”
--- Screech!
As the three of us screamed together and backed away from the enormous anaconda, Teacher, who had been leading the group, rushed over like lightning and struck it with a thick tree branch.
--- Grrrgle!
The snake made a strange sound and tried to counterattack several times, but Teacher calmly dodged like a Martial World master and landed blow after blow.
In the end, the anaconda returned to the water as if conceding defeat.
“Phew... We survived. Pero, you really are useless, aren’t you?”
--- Screech!
The moment Pero got openly angry and tried to viciously tear at my ear.
“Hi-yah!”
I grabbed Pero with both hands, turned it upside down, and shook it.
“This is the difference between a human and a parrot!”
Ha, what a joke.
A parrot that couldn’t even transform was trying to challenge me?
Today, I was going to properly teach this stupid parrot a lesson-
--- Smack!
“Stop messing around and give Pero to me.”
“... Yes.”
Song-i smacked me on the head and took Pero away.
Then Mi-ro, who had run far away, came over and spoke.
“Didn’t you learn some martial arts in Room 205?”
“...”
“Aksha something? Didn’t you say you beat a bear with it?”
“...”
That had happened.
Now that I thought about it, only our blessings and Inheritances had been sealed. I could probably still use martial arts.
“Don’t your martial arts work on anacondas?”
“... I don’t know either.”
Honestly, if it worked on a bear, it should work on an anaconda too.
Maybe the problem wasn’t the martial arts, but me.
“I-I’ll use it properly next time!”
“Huh? Th-that’s not what I meant.”
Whatever she meant, I felt strangely provoked!
I, Park Seung-yeop, was the disciple who had inherited the true legacy of Yi Ja-seong, the Greatest Martial Artist Under Heaven.
‘The Greatest Genius of All Time.’
There was no way I could retreat in fear of a mere beast.
“Teacher! I’ll take the lead from now on.”
“... That makes me nervous.”
“Hi-yah! Yah!”
“...”
Before long, the next crisis appeared.
* * *
- Lee Eun-sol
Elena, Cha Jin-cheol, and I woke up in a decaying mansion of unknown origin.
“Was this what the Sponsor showed us? This house?”
“Who knows...”
While Elena worried, Cha Jin-cheol looked around the mansion and soon returned.
“You came back quickly. Was there nothing inside?”
“There’s nothing. It’s pretty grand, so you’d think it’d have lots of servants, but there isn’t a single one. Ah, I found a door leading outside. I took a quick look, and there’s a village.”
“Really? Should we look around the village?”
“Let’s-”
Jin-cheol paused before answering and looked at us awkwardly.
“Um, I think we’d stand out too much.”
I understood right away.
Elena looked like a celebrity wherever she went. Going outside without her Blessing or Inheritance was dangerous in itself.
“The two of us will go.”
“You should cover up with something too, Sis.”
“...”
That made me feel oddly good.
I didn’t know whether Jin-cheol had said it out of social politeness or because he meant it seriously.
“Elena, wait at the house.”
“Hmm, okay.”
* * *
The moment we stepped outside, I understood what Jin-cheol meant.
It wasn’t just some rural village. The era itself was different.
A raw dirt road, without even the barest paving, let alone asphalt.
People wearing things more like rags than clothes, carrying farming tools as they walked around.
Farmland stretched in every direction, and a foul stench stung my nose.
A cleanly dressed Asian woman with pale skin had appeared in a place like this, so everyone’s eyes widened just from seeing me walk by.
“...”
I was embarrassed to say it, but I felt like royalty from another world.
“I’d be in serious trouble without you, Jin-cheol.”
“Stay closer.”
“Okay.”
Blessings and Inheritances aside, Cha Jin-cheol was simply a strong human being.
He looked nearly two meters tall and had to weigh at least 120 kilograms, but it was all muscle.
At any point in Earth’s history, he would’ve become a chieftain or a general.
He had just been born in the modern age and ended up as a physical education student whose life had gone off the rails.
With someone like him beside me, a few half-naked farmers weren’t scary.
“It doesn’t seem like the East. It feels more like the West.”
“Yeah.”
All the farmers were white.
“I should go ask them a few things.”
“Don’t go over there. Just curl your finger and summon them. It’ll look more convincing.”
“That’s a good idea.”
Jin-cheol deliberately put on a fierce expression and beckoned, and several farmers soon approached in fright.
“M-My lord! What is it?”
Jin-cheol soon asked where this place was and who we were.
“Pardon? What are you-”
“Just answer.”
“〿〿〿〿〿”
“...”
Once we got into specific information, we couldn’t understand their words.
They had been speaking Korean until just a moment ago, but it suddenly became an incomprehensible alien language.
“Looks like we can’t obtain ‘textual information.’ Let’s not waste time and look around.”
“Let’s do that.”
Then, a loud rattling sound came from far away.
“Horses?”
Faintly, savage voices came from the distance.
“Kill the heretics!”
Cha Jin-cheol and I looked at each other, unable to hide our disbelief.
“Is this the Middle Ages or something?!”
“I-If we’re in the Middle Ages, then what about the others?”
Had the others been dropped into different eras?
* * *
- Kim Mook-seong
“Wow, it’s been a while since the two of us handled something together.”
“...”
Wasn’t this almost the first time A-ri and I had been left alone in the Hotel?
As I scratched my chin and searched my memory, she muttered.
“This is a kind of hint the Hotel is giving us about Room 207.”
“Right.”
“... Is the Sealing of our Blessings and Inheritances also a hint?”
“Well, it happened in the Gate Room on Level 1 too.”
“...”
“In the actual Gate Room, I think only one of the two will be Sealed.”
The Hotel gave us supernatural powers as rewards, then Sealed both in the actual trial?
That didn’t seem right.
It seemed likely that only one would be Sealed.
That had been the case in the Gate Room on Level 1, so it would probably be similar on Level 2.
“You’re wearing a tuxedo, and I’m wearing a dress.”
“Party clothes! And look at this letter. It even has a picture drawn on it, telling us nicely to come here.”
As we were about to leave, A-ri quietly muttered.
“If the actual Gate Room pairs the two of us together too.”
“If we’re paired together?”
“I think our Blessings will be sealed.”
“... What’s your basis?”
“You got an Inheritance in the previous room, and I’ll probably get one soon.”
“...”
“Sealing it right after we obtain an Inheritance, without even giving us time to try it out? That feels like the Hotel doesn’t care about fair play.”
The Hotel caring about fair play? What a joke.
The logic was absurd enough to make me laugh.
Still, it was strangely convincing.
If, as A-ri said, our group would be allowed to use Inheritances...
There had to be another participant group that would be limited to Blessings.
“By your logic, Elena will be able to use her Blessing. She just got an enhancement, so shouldn’t she try it out?”
“...”
* * *
- Han Ga-in
I’m a cold-hearted city guy.
But for my woman...
Cut the crap.
I pulled myself together before my thoughts could fly off in that ridiculous direction, opened the door, and went outside.
“... This looks familiar.”
I had barely taken a few steps when I saw cars spewing exhaust and honking their horns, along with weary citizens walking along the streets.
It was a sight I knew all too well.
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, a world-class metropolis.
I walked the streets for a while, feeling awkward, but the citizens were too busy with their own lives to pay any attention to me.
“...”
No Blessings, no Inheritances, no companions who had been with me for so long. Nothing.
I was alone.
“...”
It was an ordinary day in twenty-first-century Korea, a natural moment of life in which no miracles, gods, or demons could be seen.
That made this situation feel even more unnatural.
Honestly, it would’ve felt more natural if dozens of zombies had appeared the moment I opened the door.
“Haah, what is this? Come on, Hotel. If you’re going to pull something, at least give me a hint-”
The moment I looked up in irritation.
I saw it.
I really saw it.
...
The sight of ‘light’ descending from the sky!
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