0% – Park Seungyub
“Do your best! Fighting!”
Songee-noona’s encouragent.
“...Thank you.”
Ahri-noona’s gratitude, holding my hand tightly in an uncharacteristic way.
“Don’t forget the command I told you? Make sure to include breaking the mirror!”
Even Kain-hyung’s voice, seeming not to trust until the last mont. This was the first ti I had experienced the hotel hyungs and noonas trusting only !
Thanks to that, my heart, which had been beating roughly, slowly began to calm down in front of the mirror.
According to Songee-noona, one could enter the Mirror Room by placing two mirrors facing each other in Room 105’s private bathroom and standing between them.
Besides that, she explained earnestly how dangerous a place the Mirror Room was, but honestly, I wondered if it had any aning.
I was going to use The First Human right away anyway, right? So it wasn’t , but “another ” who needed to do well.
It was funny to think about, but this mindset was the source of my courage. Clearly I was doing sothing dangerous, but it didn’t feel like I was doing it.
It felt like soone else who would appear borrowing my body would do the hard work for ?
Perhaps this ease of mind itself was another effect given by The First Human. When I thought that I wouldn’t be experiencing the dangerous thing anyway, I wasn’t so afraid, even in a state facing a dangerous task.
The First Human: Available
“First Human Seungyub! I’ll only trust you? You have to do well?”
Of course, the First Human Seungyub who would answer hadn’t appeared yet.
After placing the two mirrors facing each other, I stood between them. In the middle, I thought about the Mirror Room and held a wish.
– Ting!
Along with a clear, pure sound, my vision blurred as if I had been anesthetized.
“...”
When I ca to my senses, I woke up in a place full of shining mirrors all around.
Congratulations, Park Seungyub! You have discovered Hotel Pioneer’s hidden secret, the Mirror Room!
After that, all sorts of notifications popped up.
One needed a ticket to make a wish, but the first person to find it could make one wish without a cost. It was a story I had already heard.
That opportunity ca to because Songee-noona gave up her chance.
Blurry images slowly began to appear in the surrounding mirrors. It was dangerous if I delayed any longer!
Do you want to use The First Human?
“...”
I felt another awakening.
***– Park Seungyub (The First Human)
I ca to my senses in a space full of sparkling stones. It was so, so amazing that I reached out and touched the stones all around.
What on earth is this—?
At that mont, a revelation ca down.
Make a wish in the Mirror Room to restore the mind of Miro, Ahri’s mother. If an incomprehensible problem arises, imdiately wrap your shirt around your hand and strike down to break the mirror. The First Human ends when you succeed in making a wish or break the mirror.
...It’s long.
It was long and had many difficult words. Fortunately, the anings of words I didn’t know naturally ca to mind.
The Mirror Room was the place I was in now.
The sparkling stones all around were mirrors.
The general appearances of Ahri and her mother, Miro, also ca to mind.
The First Human referred to the power that made the current possible.
However, I wasn’t sure what “incomprehensible problem” ant. Judging by the expression, didn’t the being who gave the revelation also not know what problem might arise?
The words to make a wish were also a bit confusing.
“How” should I make it?
As I pondered about the concept of “wishing”, the aning of the word seeped into my head again. Usually, the act of wishing was done by kneeling and asking for sothing to be fulfilled, it says.
“So I should kneel and speak like this? Ahem! Please restore Miro’s mind!”
The mirrors slowly began to ripple.
However, the image starting to appear in the mirrors didn’t seem to be Ahri and Miro.
Was my voice too quiet for the mirrors to understand? Should I shout louder?
“Please! Restore! Miro’s! Mind!”
The mirrors didn’t react to my voice at all. It seed like whatever ca out of my mouth didn’t matter at all from the start.
Finally, the image shown by the mirrors beca clear enough to clearly know its form. It was neither Ahri nor Miro.
That’s “”.
Countless diverse possibilities of Park Seungyub appeared in the nurous shining mirrors all around.
Sowhere, I had beco a leader who could sway people with just one word.
Sowhere, I was admonishing Kain-hyung to think before acting.
Sowhere, I was teasing Jinchul-hyung, asking if he couldn’t even defeat such a monster.
Sowhere, I had beco a mysterious master hiding my identity and was receiving a confession from a girl nad “Liringanaur”.
Sowhere, I had beco a living legend—the GOAT in the world’s most popular ga—
“What on earth is this?”
What is all this? I really don’t know?
When I touched the mirrors in confusion, I naturally understood the general aning of the possibilities shown by the mirrors. It seed like the mirrors told , but I couldn’t understand even that general aning.
Who is Kain-hyung? Who is Jinchul-hyung? Who is this Liringanaur girl confessing to ?
What nonsense is this about being a living legend in a globally popular ga, and why does a person beco a goat if they’re good at it?
Just as my head was starting to throb, the revelation appeared before again.
If an incomprehensible problem arises, imdiately wrap your shirt around your hand and strike down to break the mirror.
“...An incomprehensible problem ans right now, right?”
After taking off my shirt and wrapping it around my fist, I struck the mirror repeatedly.
– Crash!
***– Park Seungyub
When I ca to my senses, I was back in the bathroom. At the sa ti, my experience as The First Human was injected into my head.
“Aaah!”
What on earth? Is that really the “sincere wish” that ca to mind after entering such a mysterious place as the Mirror Room? Is this for real?
And what’s with that delusion of Liringanaur confessing?
If I had asked for that to be fulfilled, how would it be fulfilled? Maybe a superpowered Liringanaur who only loved would appear like in Room 202?
“...”
Huh! T-that was close.
As soon as I thought of the concept of a pretty superpowered girl who only loved , my hand was automatically moving the mirrors to try to enter the Mirror Room again.
Get a grip. T-this really doesn’t seem right.
***
User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 136
Current Location: Floor 1, Corridor
Sage’s Advice: 0
– Han Kain
“That’s how it turned out.”
Unfortunately, Seungyub failed. According to Seungyub who ca out, the mirror didn’t care what words he said with his mouth and reflected the image of “The Great Park Seungyub”.
Hearing those words, Songee showed a reaction, as if she understood sothing.
“Ah... Co to think of it, you don’t need to say the content of the wish in the Mirror Room originally. It’s a place that finds the true desire in your heart. In that context, the cause of failure is clear.”
I realized too.
“If we consider The First Human as a kind of ‘external personality’, it seems the Mirror Room completely ignores that and sees the real Seungyub’s desires?”
As we realized the reason for Seungyub’s failure, the situation beca more difficult. It wasn’t a problem that could be solved simply by trying multiple tis.
As the atmosphere suddenly sank, Jinchul-hyung, perhaps wanting to dispel the gloom, joked with Seungyub, “By the way, Seungyub!”
“Yes?”
“What was the image of ‘The Great Park Seungyub’ like specifically?”
“...I-I made a lot of money. I beca a world-famous celebrity.”
“Money? Hey kid, you’re a middle schooler and already thinking about money?”
“Ahaha...”
The doctor smirked, “What’s strange about that? I have wanted to be rich since I was young too. But Seungyub, don’t worry about money. If we just escape now, we’ll live without worrying about money, at the very least.”
Grandpa also chid in with a laugh, “If you join the Administration, I guarantee you’ll never have to worry about money for life. However, in this case, it’ll be difficult to beco a world-famous celebrity.”
“I-I’ll keep that in mind.”
As the atmosphere lightened a bit, Eunsol-noona complained lightly, “It seems impossible to make the desired wish even with The First Human? It reflects the real wish of ‘Park Seungyub’, ignoring the ability!”
“That’s right.”
“Kain’s Advice is a bit disappointing too. If the reason for failure is this, it’s 100% failure, so he should have just said not to send him in.”
That’s right. Thinking about it now, the owl who knows the principle of the Mirror Room would have known that The First Human would fail.
Yet, it advise us to send Seungyub in once while telling the counterasure? I think I know why.
“Apart from Seungyub’s failure, we’ve learned more about the Mirror Room. We’ve also realized an unexpected characteristic about The First Human.”
“An unexpected characteristic?”
“According to Songee, the temptation of the Mirror Room is trendous, right?”
Songee affird, “I think I wouldn’t have been able to co to my senses without the power of the bracelet.”
“But it seems The First Human broke the mirror without even flinching, completely unshaken?”
Seungyub nodded, “From the start, I thought the Mirror Room’s temptation was ‘incomprehensible nonsense’.”
“It ignores all temptations and absolutely follows our instructions, which it thinks of as ‘revelations’. It seems this itself can be applied in various ways.”
At that mont, the doctor carefully interjected, “Kain’s insight is always excellent. It makes sense. However, isn’t the current problem ultimately Miss Miro’s recovery? If even The First Human is useless, how on earth do we make a wish?”
“...”
“...”
The audience fell silent. No one could think of a thod.
At that mont, Ahri, who had been staring blankly at the ceiling sowhere, muttered, “I think I know.”
As everyone’s gaze turned to Ahri, she started speaking in a way that felt like she was speaking randomly according to her thought flow, unlike usual, “I thought from the perspective of the Hotel that created the Mirror Room.”
“The Hotel’s... perspective?”
“It reads the true desire in the human inner self. With this principle, it neutralizes my suggestion that manipulates surface psychology. ‘Desire’ is not a ntal illness, so abilities that defend against various ntal attacks don’t work, and it even ignores abilities like The First Human that create a new personality and reads the desire of the real personality.”
“My, it’s quite tricky.”
“It’s excessively tricky. This is, so to speak, an ‘anti-cheating’ asure.”
“Anti-cheating?”
“What do you think the Hotel’s thought was when designing the Mirror Room? After creating complex conditions, was the intention to have us research ans to sohow bypass these conditions?”
Slowly, I began to understand what Ahri was trying to say.
“We thought so. Believing that, we researched various ntal manipulation ans to sohow bypass the dangers of the Mirror Room. But now that even The First Human has failed, I have this thought.”
“The approach of trying to avoid the danger of the Mirror Room through ntal manipulation itself was wrong? The straightforward thod is the answer?”
“That’s right. The Mirror Room isn’t a place made for us to try to avoid danger through supernatural ans. It’s a place made for soone desperate enough to risk the danger to enter.”
After saying that, Ahri looked at Seungyub with a sowhat gloomy expression.
“Seungyub, do you know why The First Human failed?”
“N-Noona?”
“The Mirror Room can ignore The First Human and see through the desire of the ‘real Park Seungyub’ inside. So... it’s because you, Seungyub, didn’t sincerely wish for Miro’s recovery.”
“...I’m sorry.”
“It’s not sothing for you to apologize for. You’ve never even seen Miro, right? Sincerely wishing for the recovery of soone you’ve never seen? It’s naturally impossible. It’s not just impossible for you, but for other people, too.”
No one in this place, except for one person, could wish for Miro’s recovery in the Mirror Room.
After all, no one here with the exception of Ahri could be sincere about such a wish.
“I should apologize for making you do sothing impossible. I’m sorry.”
This task was only possible for one person from the beginning.
“Co to think of it, it’s obvious. Wishes should naturally be made by the person who desires them. Why did we try to ask soone else to do it? It was a mistake to try to tackle the Mirror Room like we tackle the Cursed Room. Next ti, I’ll go in.”
With those words, Ahri lightly bowed her head to everyone and headed to the second floor. It seed like she wanted to clear her mind in the snow field.
In the silence, Songee muttered, “So... the Mirror Room is a place where soone with a very! Extrely! Highly! Desperate wish should enter? Desperate enough that the desperation itself can erase all idle thoughts in the mind?”
Grandpa sighed, “If you don’t know, Songee, who would? This is also a new interpretation. I hope this interpretation is correct.”
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