[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 9
Current Location: Floor 1, Room 105 (Room of Rest)
Sages Advice: 3]
7 am. As always, everyone gathered at the dining room for a al when the display screen turned itself on.
/Today is a day off at the hotel. als will still be provided./
What is this about all of a sudden?
Its a day off but theyre still giving out als? What does this an?
Hmm I think I can answer that question.
A clear voice echoed as everyone turned towards Ahri.
Do you know sothing about this?
According to the information we have gathered, the hotel regularly gives out safe days like this. Simply put, it ans there wont be any penalties even if we dont enter a Cursed Room today.
So you an theyre telling us to take today off? Eunsol-noona asked as grandpa (he told us to call him grandpa) replied to her.
That is exactly correct. Good work half-clearing two rooms. Take today off. Thats essentially what it is.
The rare good news from the hotel brightened up everyones faces.
A pure day off with nothing terrible happening to us!
After that, everything happened in a flash.
Everyone excitedly finished their als in an instant, and like the day when we had an incident at the pool, everyone went off to the facilities at the basent.
The whole group of girls walked off while discussing between the bar and the pool, whereas Jinchul-hyung and grandpa, who had been having a cold war just yesterday, headed to the gym together for a workout.
Seungyub looked keen on following Ahri but when it looked like the girls would be playing by themselves, he imdiately beca dejected and walked off sowhere.
And as for
Watching everyone get off the elevator to head to different areas of the basent, I stayed behind by myself.
I didnt have a clear idea of what I wanted to do during the break, and besides, the elevator which had been broken from the first day still weighed on my mind.
I had a strong feeling that sothing was still hidden inside.
So functions are deactivated.
What functions was it talking about? Firstly, it was clear that it couldnt go to Floors 2 and 3.
But was there sothing else?
I carefully scanned the elevator from top to bottom.
At a glance, it wasnt all that different from a normal elevator. There was a small display above the doors displaying the floor number, and the panel on the right hand side had labels from B1 to the 3rd floor, but Floors 2 and 3 didnt have any lights on.
And at the bottom of the panel was a red button with the word Escape.
Escape?
Usually, wasnt the button on the bottom of the panel in an elevator a warning bell that alerted the security in case soone was to get locked inside?
Seeing the word Escape imdiately caught my interest.
Should I press it? Just in case, I slowly brought my hand towards it while keeping a close eye on my status screen.
A warning would pop out if it was dangerous.
Nothing happened until I touched the button so I decided to press it.
Click!
In an instant, the area below the red button suddenly flipped upside down as a display screen popped up. There was a screen with numbers and a place for the password, and next to the numbers was a warning written in small letters.
/Enter the Password while wearing the Protective Suit./
Protective Suit? What did that an? And what should I press for the password? As soon as I brought my finger towards one of the numbers
[You will be scorched to death if you type in the wrong Password.]
I imdiately took my hand off after seeing those vicious words. Scorched to death. There were seriously all sorts of human-killing devices in this damn hotel.
Even though I was dumbfounded, that gave a big piece of information.
This was real. It really was a device that let you escape as long as you sohow earned the item called Protective Suit, wore it and typed in the correct Password!
With this, I discovered one more escape route from the hotel.
[You have understood a little bit more about the hotel.]
I was thinking of sharing this good news to everyone with a happy mind when I saw sothing engraved next to the small, newly-appeared panel.
Imdiately, I felt stifled. My heart rapidly began to thump with noise.
What did this an? Who wrote this? And why was it telling not to tell others about it?
Blankly standing still, I was thinking about all those questions as the panel disappeared, perhaps due to not touching it for a certain amount of ti.
What was I supposed to do?
To be frank, it had only been about a week since we t each other but due to going through all sorts of hardships together during that short amount of ti, we felt extrely close and attached.
It was obvious that I should trust them and share every information I had.
However it also raised a doubt in my mind.
If only one person was able to use that escape route, and if that was why it was warning not to tell others about it, then
Wouldnt talking about that instead beco the seed of a conflict?
For now, I decided to bury that doubt in a corner of my mind and left the elevator.
I was walking down the corridor of the basent with uneasy thoughts muddling my mind when soone started walking towards from the other side.
Werent you going to look for sothing? Did you find out anything?
It was sothing I thought of every ti she spoke to , but I was 20 while she was 16, and yet she always naturally talked casually to whenever it was just the two of us.
Well, I didnt want to fight about sothing so trivial in this exhausting hotel so I disregarded it.
I dont know. Just going through what we already knew, I guess? Floors 2 and 3 are still turned off.
Thats probably going to stay that way until we clear a specific room in Floor 1.
A specific room?
We call it the Gate Room. It is a room that can only be entered when you achieve so level of accomplishnt in every other room, and clearing it lets you go over to the next floor.
What do you an by so level of accomplishnt?
Thats different every ti. Sotis, all you need to do is escape every other room but it could also tell you to acquire complete resolutions for 1~3 rooms.
Complete resolutions
So far, we have barely passed two rooms. The goal of this party has been to survive and escape until now. But if you want to leave this hotel, then you will need to eliminate the root cause of the curse for a few rooms at least. Thats how you get the treasures that the hotel always talks about, and using that treasure will help you proceed later on.
Thats one thing after another we have to worry about By the way, using the Mansion of Fear as an example, do we have to kill that monster for the elimination of the root cause? From what I felt looking at the mories you sent , that didnt seem like sothing a re human could retaliate against.
I dont know. That might be what we really have to do, but we can look at it from an easier perspective.
An easier perspective?
To be frank, our main enemy at the Mansion of Fear is not that arch-devil under the ground, is it? According to the scenario, the devil is just buried inside the ground, and our enemy was that Sir right? It could be as simple as eradicating Sir
That would be a bit better off, but in the end, thats still sothing we cant tell without trying.
We were discussing the future plans and soon realised that we had been talking alone for a fair bit of ti.
Looking back, werent all the girls going to the bar and the swimming pool? Why are you here by yourself?
Im underage so I cant drink. And I dont like swimming either.
Seungyub must be looking for you then.
And thats why Ive been running away the whole ti.
I was dumbstruck. I definitely wasnt expecting her to openly say that. There was a boy who wanted to be Roo, but it seed that Julliet had no plans of becoming one.
We naturally parted ways as I then experienced so of the things that I wanted to try.
I went to the zoo Songee was talking about to watch a few of the strange animals, went to the bar for a mysterious cocktail, returned with everyone to Room 105 for a al and had a fun ti talking and laughing with everyone.
Like that, our day off ca to an end.
Towards the end of our dinner, everyone had a disheartened look on their faces.
We all knew it in our hearts.
From tomorrow onwards, we had to go back to our intense schedule.
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[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 10
Current Location: Floor 1, Room 103 (Cursed Room Animal Farm)
Sages Advice: 3]
MOOOOOOO~~~
What in the world was this? Was this sound seriously coming out of my own mouth?
The day after our break, we entered Room 103 together while feeling sowhat used to it already, and lost our consciousness. When I woke back up
I had beco a black cow.
I was under the impression that I had already experienced all sorts of bizarre experiences but sothing that was completely outside of my expectations happened, making almost lose myself. Fortunately, that was when a ssage appeared in my head.
Mooksung: Wow! What a damn retarded fucking hotel, right? All of you, report your states!
Eunsol: I think Im a snake.
Songee: A goose
Elena: I think Im a golden retriever.
Kim Ahri: A cat. Probably a Norwegian forest?
Park Seungyub: Im a wolf! Super cool!
Han Kain: MOOOOOO!
Cha Jinchul: Im a pig A boar, actually.
Mooksung: So youre the sa, huh.
Stupid Pig: Hey, lets not pick a fight. Ahh, you changed my na in that split second, you senile old man.
Clever Snake: First, lets focus on looking at our states and locations, and leave the conversation for later. We dont have much leeway, do we?
Rat King: Yes, weve already used more than half. Everyone, take a look at your surroundings, and lets talk again in 2 hours.
Stupid Pig: What the heck is Rat King. Far out!
Ahh What was it going to be about this ti?
I felt like I would lose my mind already. In the midst of my distancing senses, I loosened my mind.
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