Escaping the Mystery Hotel

Chapter 63: Room 101, Cursed Room – ‘A Strange Family’ Re (1)

Chapter 63: Room 101, Cursed Room – ‘A Strange Family’ Re (1)

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Kim Ahri

I had to say something for starters, because otherwise, she would knock the door down and come in. Going towards the door and my mum, I felt my blood slowly being used up in order to protect my mind.

I see, so the curse of Room 101 takes effect just by approaching and listening to the voices of the family, huh?

It was a shame that I didnt have a mind-protection filter like Kain.

Mum! Ill be out very soon. You should start first.

Kung! Kung!

Im hungry! I dont wanna eat alone!

What did I have to say to get her away from the door? What kind of personality did she have again?

I soon remembered that I had to treat her more like a child.

Mum. I have a present for you. Can you please go further away and wait?

Present? Present! Okay! I will be waiting~

Tap tap tap! I could sense her going further away from the door along with several taps on the floor. It was a surprise that a simple lie like this was still working on her.

Mum was a childish person. She didnt have any patience so she would be coming back very soon. In the meantime, I had to think what did I have to do to escape this place?

Everyone else could escape by running out of their houses but my house was set as the hotel.

There was no way for me to leave this place.

If this was the 2nd hotel, the current one, there was a chance of me surviving by jumping out the front entrance and slowing down the speed of the fall. I might die from lack of blood before hitting the ground but there was still a chance.

However, outside the front entrance of the 1st hotel was the very depths of the ocean and I would be pressed to death by the water pressure immediately upon contact. That was why the escape tool back then was an Air Bubble and not Wing Boots.

Leaving through the main entrance was not an option, and I couldnt reenact the escape method I used before either.

Since I couldnt leave this place

I had to at least make sure that imitation of my mother wouldnt be able to approach me by neutralising her.

But the greatest concern was this:

How much of my mum had the hotel replicated?

If not for her blessing, I was more than confident in beating that fake mum. But if she had her blessing on top of that Well, there was only one way to find out.

Creak.

I opened the door and was met with a familiar dining room. In the distance was mum sitting down with her hands over her eyes.

This might sound like me bragging about myself, but she really was very cute. She would have been a much better mum if only she was sane.

I took a deep breath in.

With all things considered, including the blood that would be used up during the fight as well as the blood that would be used to protect my mind, I couldnt prolong this fight.

Closing my eyes, I inspected myself and felt the blood pumping out of the heart, thumping through the arteries. I then accessed the ancient power, or curse, that was rooted to every drop of my blood.

I manifested Ancient Blood.

An aura of coldness immediately rose up from my fingertips like lightning bolts and slashed through the air. It was a very sudden attack and Miro couldnt even react to it in time.

Ahhk! Ahri? Why

Sorry.

Actually, Im not sorry. Youre not even my real mum are you? Ill just call you by your name from now on.

With another gust of cold air, I struck her body twice as she screamed and rolled across the floor. Two red lines appeared on Miros body and the blood immediately froze after flowing out of her wounds.

But this wasnt enough.

I wanted to finish it from a distance due to the mental contamination but I couldnt drive any detrimental blows. Attacking from a distance might have worked against normal citizens but it was hard to do any meaningful damage from a distance against another blood witch.

While pouring strength into my fingertips, I jumped up but it was then

Light flashed from the other side of the dining table.

Stab!

A sudden hole appeared on my shoulder.

The ceiling exploded with a loud roar as if there had been a bomb there.

Crack! Crackk!

Miros vigour shredded the marble floor of the Hotel like paper, and started cracking everything as if there was an earthquake.

Tuung!

Pebbles crumbled from the broken walls and fell on my back. Today was proving to be quite the challenging day.

There was only one reason I was still able to run away. Thanks to that small bit of Allusion that I cast on her before, Miro couldnt find me right now.

But that was why it was even more shocking, because that meant that she was destroying everything nearby without even being able to perceive me. In turn, that meant she was using the power of Justice against objects nearby.

What in the world was her perception of Justice that she could use it like that? There was a door and a corridor daring to stand in her path when she was angry, so were they wicked and evil?

There was no point in lingering on that so I stopped.

The chase went on for about 10 minutes.

At this point, I could tell that there was no way out for me.

I tried sprinting and flying as fast as I could, but Miro looked like she would destroy the Hotel at this rate. She was as destructive as what Kain was like back when he acquired Descent.

I decided to give up.

Standing next to the main entrance, I gazed outside the door. There were all sorts of strange-looking fish outside the glass doors of the entrance. That was natural because in my 1st time at the Hotel, we were in the depths of the ocean.

Clomp. Clomp.

While I was watching the fish nearby, the effect of Allusion ran out and Miro appeared in front of me.

Youre here.

Ah, my heads starting to hurt. I think this is as far as I can go.

You are really strange today, Ahri. I dont know why you are doing this to your mum.

Youre right.

Are you angry at me?

Who knows.

Im sorry if you were upset. I was so angry I was destroying everything just then but Im sorry. Dont hate me for that, okay?

Ahh, even this fake mum loved me, just like how I loved mum.

But you see, fake mum?

Your love itself is about to contaminate me right now.

But you know you shouldnt do this to your mum either, right? I will go around for a week carrying just your head, Ahri! So you need to reflect on your actions, okay?

It would have been better if I just didnt hear that last sentence.

What was worse, was that my mum wasnt like this because of Room 101s curse. In fact, she had always been like this ever since my birth.

My consciousness faded away.

/You have failed!/

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[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)

Date: Day 22

Current Location: Floor 1, Corridor

Sages Advice: 3]

Wow!

I thought after leaving Room 101.

That was way too easy, wasnt it? We almost all died before only because we didnt know something so simple.

It was so easy that I doubted anyone would have had trouble escaping. All you had to do was close your eyes, block your ears and run so that should have been terribly easy!

I turned my head, thinking that everyone would be wearing a smile but

That was when I noticed that something was strange.