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User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 137
Current Location: Floor 1, Corridor
Sage’s Advice: 3
– Han Kain
I could hear Elena and Miro’s conversation from afar. During the dangerous experint, only a limited number of people could get close. Fortunately, I was one of those limited people.
“Miro, what do you think when you look at this child?”
“...Why does Elena call such a monster a ‘child’?”
“To my eyes, it looks like a child with a rather cold impression. How about to Miro’s eyes?”
The larva-shaped monster that Elena had created a couple of tis in the past was slowly moving around near the table.
Since it was a being that could inflict severe damage to the human mind just by looking at it, those lacking resistance in this aspect, like Jinchul-hyung, went up to the second floor.
“It looks too scary. A caterpillar with a human head?”
“That’s a similar answer to Kain.”
Certainly, the Blessing of Immutability was providing Miro with strong resistance. After Elena erased the monster again, this ti she briefly showed my Grimoire.
“Aaah!”
I quickly caught Miro, who staggered and almost fell backwards.
It seed she felt a nosebleed and a considerable headache in that short mont, but the fact that it ended with just that much was evidence of considerable resistance. Ordinary humans imdiately beca critically ill if they looked at the Grimoire with the naked eye.
Soon, Eunsol-noona approached and cald Miro with the power of her flute, and Grandpa ca over to summarize the experint results.
“She has considerable resistance to supernatural powers. But I’m not sure about physical abilities. Should we check this too? It’s a bit difficult to test?”
At that mont, Ahri spoke in a calm voice, “We still have to. She needs to know how strong her own power is. The next room we’ll enter is likely to be Room 203, right? Miro will have to endure the early part alone.”
“Eiyah!”
With an annoyed expression at having to do sothing again, Miro threw a tangerine. Ahri perford the feat of catching the tangerine flying from behind.
“I’ll eat it well, Miro.”
Shortly after, Grandpa returned with a sowhat worried expression.
“She’s physically no different from a girl her age. She doesn’t have an ounce of strength, and she’s not particularly sturdy either.”
Ahri showed a sowhat disappointed reaction.
“Does the Blessing of Immutability not affect physical abilities?”
“Maybe it will help the body if we strengthen the Blessing.”
“We’re already in the middle of the second floor. There won’t be many opportunities to strengthen it...”
“What can we do?”
Because of problems like these, it seed difficult to expect much from the Blessings of people who joined during the progression. It was like having a growth-type ability and entering during the trials.
But it was actually fine all things considered.. Miro’s Inheritance seed ridiculously strong compared to her Blessing!
“Let’s check the Ti Borrower. Even from the rough explanation, it sounded absurd?”
Ahri nodded and brought Miro over.
The girl, who had been wearing a disgruntled expression until just now, quickly changed to an excited expression when the Ti Borrower was ntioned.
I was worried that Miro might unnecessarily try to hide the power of the Inheritance from us, but that wasn’t the case.
At least the current Miro didn’t have an “Administration agent-like” personality to the extent of coming up with such thoughts, and due to its nature, the Ti Borrower could only be used properly if not only the user but also the “other party” understood it accurately.
“I’ll explain it simply again! Can you see the letters written on the pocket watch?”
The appearance of the Ti Borrower was similar to a pocket watch, but it was completely different in detail. It had only one hand and didn’t have numbers from 1 to 12 written on it.
Instead, only four words were written: “Midnight” at the top, “Morning” on the right, “Noon” at the bottom, and “Evening” on the left.
“I can borrow your ti with this. I can store up to 1 hour of ti for one person in each section.”
“And you can call it out when you want?”
“Yes.”
“Miro, I heard roughly earlier, but it would be good to show us once.”
Hearing Grandpa’s words, Miro turned her head and called Seungyub.
“You! Um... You said your na was Seungyub, right? Co here for a mont.”
“Yes.”
“From now on, you have to lend 10 seconds. Understand?”
“Uh... Yes.”
At that mont, the watch flashed, and Seungyub disappeared sowhere. I had heard roughly earlier, but it was still amazing.
After 10 seconds, the disappeared Seungyub appeared again.
“Wow!”
Grandpa asked, “How did it feel?”
“Just like my body was stretched and then shrunk? I have no mory at all of the ti I disappeared.”
“That’s fascinating.”
“Look at this!”
Looking at the pocket watch Miro was holding out, the letters in the “Morning” section had beco bold.
“Is Seungyub stored in the morning section now?”
“That’s right. Only 10 seconds, though.”
Eunsol-noona asked a question, “When borrowing ti, do you always have to get the person’s permission?”
“Hmm...”
Miro expressed that she wanted to check this part once with a confused expression for a mont.
The results of several experints were simple. The specific wording wasn’t important, but Miro could only use the Ti Borrower if she expressed her “intention to borrow ti” to the other party and the other party agreed to it.
Ahri wore a sowhat subtle expression, “It won’t be easy to use it to suddenly send enemies sowhere. It doesn’t seem like it was made for that purpose in the first place...”
“Now I’ll call out ‘Morning Seungyub’!”
As Miro smiled happily and was about to activate the watch again, Ahri imdiately grabbed her arm.
“Wait! The ‘real Seungyub’ is here.”
“Huh?”
Miro didn’t understand at all what she ant, but I instinctively felt the danger Ahri sensed.
The Ti Borrower was an Inheritance that borrowed other people’s ti, stored it, and then summoned it later. If one borrowed 1 hour of Seungyub’s ti at 3 o’clock, Seungyub disappeared during that ti and appeared at 4 o’clock.
At this ti, if Miro activated the watch again at 4 o’clock and summoned “Seungyub stored in the watch”, there would be two Seungyubs.
Two identical people in the sa place?
There were so many urban legend-like ghost stories that could occur here that it was enough to give a headache!
When Ahri gave a look, I imdiately used Advice.
Advice: 3 → 2
What happens if the person from the original ti and the person summoned by the Ti Borrower co into contact?
Absolutely avoid situations where they et each other.
“It says we must avoid them eting each other?”
“In other words, it’s okay as long as they don’t et. Seungyub, go into Room 105 for a mont.”
“...Okay. It’s been scary since earlier.”
After Seungyub went into Room 105, Miro activated the watch.
Another Seungyub appeared out of thin air. The boy, who suddenly appeared in the center of wore a dumbfounded expression.
“W-what? My body feels like it’s being stretched—“
Before he could finish speaking, Seungyub disappeared again. It was because the borrowed ti was only 10 seconds. But for those 10 seconds, there were clearly two Seungyubs.
After that, we were able to specifically understand the abilities of the Ti Borrower by repeating various experints. I summarized the content we grasped.
First, Miro expressed her intention to “borrow ti” to the other party and the other party agreed. The maximum ti that could be borrowed was 1 hour per person. Since there were 4 sections on the watch, she could borrow 1 hour each from a total of 4 people.
Second, the person who agreed disappeared during that ti. However, this didn’t an they were judged as dead. According to the Status Window’s companion information, etc., the companion was still shown as alive.
Third, Miro could summon the being who lent ti when she wanted. She could call out 1 person at a ti, and the maximum summoning ti per day was 1 hour.
It was possible to split the 1 hour that could be summoned per day. For example, if she summoned Ahri for 20 minutes to get help and sent her back, then summoned , I could help Miro for a total of 40 minutes.
“It’s a complex Inheritance, but if you think about it simply, it’s also simple. It’s an object that allows Miro to summon us for a total of 1 hour a day when she wants.”
Noona nodded, “It would be useful in places like Room 203. Because Miro can summon us and get help when she wants.”
Grandpa cautioned, “You all seem to be calling it ‘summoning’ for convenience, but rember. It’s not actually summoning. The real us are in another place, and the being ‘stored’ in the watch cos out.”
“At the mont of summoning, the real us and the us called out by the watch exist simultaneously. And the owl warned that these two must never et.”
Miro added one thing, “You keep saying ‘us this and us that’, but it’s not a power that has to be used on Hotel companions. I can use it on anyone!”
Ahri affird, but pointed out the danger, “That’s true, but use it only on us if possible. Most beings we et in the Cursed Room won’t understand the power of the watch, so I don’t know how they’ll react.”
“Okay.”
There were a few precautions.
First, as we confird, we should avoid situations where the real us from that ti and the us called out by the watch et each other.
Second, Miro couldn’t forcibly control the summoned being. It was because of this point that Ahri advised Miro to use the Ti Borrower only on us if possible.
To check a point I was curious about, I asked Miro, “Borrow 10 minutes of my ti.”
“Okay. Kain, will you give 10 minutes for ?”
“Sure.”
“...”
For a mont, my consciousness disappeared and then woke up. As with Seungyub earlier, my companions were looking at with curious eyes.
“Did 10 minutes really pass just now?”
Elena nodded, “Yes, we didn’t talk about anything important. We just talked about Room 203 for a bit.”
I looked at Miro again.
“I’ll go into Room 105, so summon the stored .”
“Okay. But what are you trying to do?”
“I’ll check and tell you.”
With that conversation over, I returned to Room 105 and looked at the Status Window.
User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 137
Current Location: Floor 1, Room 105 (Room of Rest)
Sage’s Advice: 2
“...”
Sage’s Advice: 2 → 1
I was just looking at the Status Window without doing anything, but the number of uses of Advice decreased. After safely waiting about 30 minutes, I went outside.
When I went out, my companions were looking at a small piece of paper with puzzled expressions.
“How was it?”
Ahri said, as if it was interesting, “Just now, Noon Kain that Miro called out—“
“Noon Kain?”
“We decided to call beings called out by the watch like that. Morning Ahri, Noon Kain. Like this.”
“Okay.”
“Noon Kain used advice and imdiately wrote the question and answer on paper. And he said to imdiately cancel the summoning because he had to avoid eting you in Room 105.”
When I unfolded the paper, I saw the question exactly as I had thought.
If a being called out by the watch uses a power with a limited number of uses, is the number of uses for the original also deducted?
It was a simple curiosity. Now I had gotten the answer.
A very brief answer was written.
It differs depending on the type of power, but for Blessings, yes.
On top of this, the number written on the Status Window had actually decreased.
Ahri smirked, “You thought of such a trick already? You tried to use Advice while summoned by the watch, and test if the original you could use Advice separately?”
“Of course. This is a place where tricks are strategy, after all. More importantly, it differs depending on the type of power? That ans the trick I thought of works sotis?”
“We’ll find out as we use it. However, I think I know why it doesn’t work for Blessings.”
“Why?”
“The person Miro borrowed ti from is ‘us’, not the Patron. The source of the Blessing is the Patron.”
I understood what she ant. Blessings were powers bestowed by Patrons and their roots lied with the Patrons.
For example, from the perspective of the owl giving advice, whether I used Advice or another summoned by Miro’s watch used Advice, it was the sa as consuming the owl’s power. So the number of uses was shared.
Around 11 PM, everyone finally vaguely understood the functions of the Ti Borrower.
It was late, and there were no more Advice uses left. Above all, Miro, who had cooperated earnestly in the sowhat painful experints, expressed considerable fatigue.
Considering we had to enter the Cursed Room tomorrow, proper sleep was necessary too. In the end, we decided to stop here for today and go to sleep.
“We’ll talk about the next room early tomorrow morning! Understood?”
The tiring day ended.
“...”
“Kain!”
“Hmm?”
“Will you lend 1 hour of your ti?”
“Are you borrowing in advance to use in the Cursed Room?”
“...Yes.”
“Okay.”
“Ahri too!”
***
User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 137
Current Location: Floor 1, Room 105 (Room of Rest) - Miro’s Room
Sage’s Advice: 0
– Han Kain
“What is this...”
“Oh! It worked, it worked!”
When I ca to my senses, I woke up in “Miro’s room” in Room 105.
“...”
In Room 105, everyone used separate spaces except during al tis.
“I guess it’s an exception when you use the watch to call us out...”
“It’s amazing!”
We spent ti without much aning. Miro talked about stories from the Frozen Hell, and asked questions she was curious about regarding the Hotel. We also talked quite a bit about Ahri.
“That kid is scary sohow! She keeps teasing by calling mom.”
“Rather than teasing, she’s actually—“
– Thud!
I was about to say, “She’s actually your mom,” but Miro suddenly headbutted and knocked off the sofa.
“Kain, don’t say bad things either! I’ve never even had a boyfriend!”
“...Okay. I guess it would be funny if soone suddenly said they’re your daughter in that situation.”
“How should I say it?”
“Well, you could say you’re like sisters or sothing.”
How should we define Ahri and Miro’s relationship!?
I didn’t know either. I assud they would have a mother daughter relationship when Ahri started calling her mom, but Miro’s vehent refusal makes think otherwise.
“In the first place, Ahri just calls mom with words but treats roughly!”
“She’s not particularly treating only you roughly. Ahri treats everyone roughly.”
“...I didn’t say that much. And earlier Ahri stole all my bacon and ate it.”
“You also stole all of Ahri’s ham and ate it in the Frozen Hell.”
“That’s that, and this is this.”
“The only difference is that was ham and this is bacon?”
– Thud!
She knocked down with a headbutt again. Is this kid a pachy instead of a human?1
Suddenly, I realized. Just as we had a tiring day with Miro’s joining, for Miro, today must have been an extrely frightening and confusing day. Maybe she called out at this late hour just because she wanted to spend so comfortable ti.
Around that ti, Miro approached with the watch.
“There’s... one thing I want to ask.”
“What is it?”
“It’s a very scary story.”
Did she have sothing to say?
Footnotes
1. ED Note: Short for Pachycephalosaurus
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