Escaping the Mystery Hotel

Chapter 20: Room 102, Cursed Room – ‘Mansion of Fear’ (6)

Chapter 20: Room 102, Cursed Room – ‘Mansion of Fear’ (6)

[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)

Date: Day 7

Current Location: Floor 1, Room 102 (Cursed Room Mansion of Fear)

Sages Advice: 3]

We arrived at the boat.

I looked at the bottom right hand side to observe the crack again. Due to being left overnight in the storm, the crack was now slightly bigger than before.

There was a lot more water seeping in through the gap.

About of the boat is filled with water. I believe we should take the water out before we can even repair it. Fortunately, we do have a pump with us.

We began pumping in the middle of a storm.

It was tremendously exhausting.

Fortunately, the hole wasnt that big and we were able to avoid something as terrible as water being endlessly filled back up while we were pumping the water out. However, emptying the large amount of water filling the boat was already challenging in itself, and I regretted telling Jinchul-hyung to stay behind.

After about 2 hours and 30 minutes, when we were finally able to see the bottom of the boat, the butler carried a few tools and began repairing the hole.

I sat down and took a rest to collect my breath, and before long, the butler stood back up.

Mr. Butler. Have you finished repairing the boat?

It is just about finished. I believe there would be no more water seeping inside. Of course, this boat is pretty much gone because of all the water seeping into the materials, but even if we do have to discard this later on, it will last a few days until we leave the lake so I believe that should be okay.

Then can we leave immediately?

That would still be difficult. If we try to cross the lake in such stormy weather with a dying boat, Im afraid we will just be feeding the fish inside the lake. Im sure the storm will end sometime soon. Maybe in around one or two days.

Even though the boat was repaired, it would still take one or two days for us to escape. There was nothing I knew about a boat so there were no objections for me to make.

While leading my exhausted body back home with the butler, I brought up the previous topic again.

Regarding what happened with Ahri just then, please let me apologise in the stead of my friend. Jinchul-hyung has been jittery the whole time ever since those things happened to Miss Elena and Eunsol-noonim.

Please dont worry. Two people died in just a day. It would instead be strange for him to be okay.

I think Ahri was also quite angry for a moment.

She is still a young child When she was young and when the cathedral was in a normal state, the priest used to look after her but, the cathedral was ruined from the following strife and the priest also left so she has always been very lonely ever since. That must be why she unconsciously developed such a harsh side to her

An empty scoff almost left my mouth.

She looked young enough to appear like a 13 or a 14 year old, and the butler was saying she had been living here ever since she was even younger.

Which elementary school did she go to then? I definitely couldnt imagine a school existing in such a rural area.

Of course, if we started talking about how realistic things were, the first question would be how there was a cathedral in such a rural place where this one mansion was the only place of residence nearby.

I didnt bother delving into the topic.

More importantly Although I had been somewhat expecting it from the start, I had a better idea of what the two keywords that Eunsol-noona gave me meant.

Maid. Cathedral.

One was a person and the other was a location, so the only answer I could come up with was bringing that person to the location and fortunately, it seemed that she had been frequenting the cathedral ever since she was young.

It seemed that I would have to take Ahri to the cathedral using whatever excuse possible after going back.

Upon returning to the mansion, I realised that there was now less tension in the atmosphere.

Hyung was at least not screaming but as always, Seungyub was following Ahri like a sparrow, diligently helping her to the point it made me question who the employee and the guest was.

Honestly, I didnt know how this child in her early teens was even helping with the management of this large mansion.

We couldnt cook a grandiose meal in a disturbing atmosphere with two people dead. Therefore, every meal we had after our dinner at the campsite on the first day was a sandwich and none of us was against it.

While having the simple sandwich, I thought to myself.

I wondered what excuse I should come up with to take Ahri to the cathedral and soon came up with a solution.

That was when Ahri suddenly stood up and stared at me.

It was the same doll-like facial features and a dark red pair of eyes.

However, this was clearly a different person.

There was a slightly cold look on her face, and a sharp piercing glare. She still looked the same, but that small disparity gave a completely different impression.

Looks like you managed to reach quite far oppa.

This even her manner of speech was different. Like when she shouted at Jinchul-hyung recently it sounded like she was scoffing at me.

But what should I do? You took too much time. Its already too late for me. But listen carefully. I can still sing the hymn!

The hymn? What are you talking about?

That was when her eyes flipped upside down.

I could see black and stinky smoke seeping out of her lips, which were distorted towards the sky.

Ahh I have seen the deep pit.

I have heard the cries of the one who couldnt be born.

The father in heaven treasures others, and yet has not even given a birthplace for the child of the lowest pit.

The child is coming up! Watch it twitching in its crawl!

I can see it! How can you not see it?

The devoted hand has offered two, and there are now three left to go.

Everything shall regain its balance.

The time is near for the one who couldnt be born to snatch the place of those that were born!

A prophecy? A curse? Or was it a hymn like what she called it herself?

After pouring out strange and undecipherable words, Ahri collapsed into a deep sleep. Having no other choice, I carried her behind my back and walked back to the mansion in deep thought.

What did this all mean? I had to decipher it as supernaturally as possible.

Even though I wasnt a master of occult, it sounded to me that a devilish existence was being born by swallowing sacrifices.

Child of the deepest pit, One who couldnt be born.

The reason she called this terrible song a hymn, was probably because this was a hymn praising a devil.

Offered two

This was probably talking about Elena and Eunsol-noona.

What was mysterious was that there were three left to go.

The current survivors were Cha Jinchul, Yu Songee, Park Seungyub and me.

Did it mean that it only had to kill 3 out of the 4 people? If not, then

I came up with a hypothesis.

To be frank, it was a hypothesis that had been staying in a corner of my mind ever since Elenas death.

I had set it aside for the time being following the suggestion of Eunsol-noona but

Slowly but surely, pieces of the puzzle were being brought together one by one.

I added those pieces together.

It was becoming clearer over time the identity of the enemy threatening us; the devoted hand and the devil that was trying to be born by swallowing sacrifices.

There were a lot of things I discovered but I was still clueless about the most important thing.

So what were we supposed to do in response?

It was after I returned to the mansion.

We had ourselves the third victim.