Chapter 13: Rest, Basement of the Hotel – ‘Living Pool’ (2) Fin

Chapter 13: Rest, Basement of the Hotel – ‘Living Pool’ (2) Fin

[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)

Date: Day 3

Current Location: Basement, Swimming Pool

Sages Advice: 3]

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Suddenly, the floor started to wobble. Did I step on something? I was thinking that when screams and profanities began filling the pool.

Kyaaaaaaah!

What the fuck is this shit! What the fuck. Uaaahhh!

Bizarre things came out lips suddenly came out of the floor, walls and the ceiling. Those huge lips that looked like the cut-off lips of a giant cracked open.

A tongue as thick as an arm left from those lips. Those tongues lengthened and shortened itself without any restrictions, and made me wonder if they were even tongues at this point.

Well, I guess a frogs tongue did do that when eating flies.

The only problem was that we were the flies.

Kwadang!

My body suddenly fell to the side.

When I turned my gaze to my right leg in a fluster, I saw a tongue that soared out of the ground grasping on my ankle. Startled, I swung my legs around and even tried to rip that disgusting tongue away with my hands but it was all in vain.

As if there was a thick rope tightly gripping onto my leg, I couldnt move it at all!

Bbiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikkkk!

A growl that was definitely not from the mouth of a human reached my ears.

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I turned to where the sound came from and found lips that were evidently crumpled from immense pain which appeared to be letting out a scream. As expected, Jinchul-hyung was different from us. He seemed to have just ripped the tongue out which was why the lips were screaming.

That monster appeared to feel pain just like a normal persons tongue.

Using his bare hands, he ripped out another two tongues with his monstrous power as if it was just a thin string, and the tongues no longer went for him.

Thus, Jinchul-hyung quickly ran to everyone else, and Eunsol-noona, Seungyub and I were all freed again in less than a minute.

However this was only the beginning.

Ahpu, ahpu, huaak. Cough. Please. Please, uaaak!!!

The two people that happened to be in the water when it happened, Elena and Songee, were unable to come out. Going closer to the pool, I looked inside and became speechless.

Lips. Extremely large lips. Those lips were way too enormous.

It was on a whole different league to the lips that had emerged out of the walls and floors of the pool.

At this point, it was pretty much like the mouth of a whale, and the tongue leaving that mouth was also incomparably thicker than the other ones. The other tongues were like an arm, whereas this one was as thick as a persons leg.

Plus, there were two tongues this time instead of one.

Jinchul-hyung ran up before I could even do anything.

He should be able to solve it. These past few days, I had seen his nonsensical strength time after time.

Even if the tongue was as thick as a human leg someone strong enough to crush concrete with his fists should be able to deal with it.

That was what I was thinking, but things turned out differently from my hopeful anticipation.

Uhhk. Why the hell is this mouth so damn big! Kain!! Come here and pull with me!

I mindlessly ran forward. Jinchul-hyung was displaying his might by pulling Elena with one arm while pulling Songee with his other arm, but had to let go of one of his arms and I frantically ran towards Songee to pull her out.

While running up to her, a doubt appeared in my mind.

Even though the tongue was strong, it was in the end a tongue, and was not as tough as metal.

It felt soft even for me, so shouldnt Jinchul-hyung be strong enough to snap the tongue itself with his strength? I saw him snap the small tongues like rotten ropes in just 1 or 2 seconds, so I thought the big tongue wouldnt be that different but

That was when I realised the principle of that warning alarm.

Sages Advice was only activated when there was a materialised form of risk that would come in a few seconds. The reason why Sages Advice hadnt been activated even when we were roaming around the hotel facilities and even when we entered the pool was very simple.

It was because that mouth hadnt been formed yet.

Besides, the alarm didnt go off straight after the appearance of that mouth, and waited until that tongue was just about to half-kill me!

I finally realised that this Advice had more weaknesses than I thought.

However, it might be too late already.

This might be my death.

My body had seriously exceeded the limits of what a human body could handle.

Maybe this is how it feels to be run over by a truck. It was way, way too painful. In fact, it was so painful that I couldnt even faint.

And, from the corner of my vision I saw red mist being sprayed out.

What was that thing? Despite the condition of my own body, I became curious. Eunsol-noona was swinging a strange container to spray out a bunch of mist, and mysteriously enough, that mist performed literally like magic.

Not only did the tongues run away in fright after coming into contact with the spray, they collapsed to the side and shivered. The big tongue wasnt any different either.

After she whole-heartedly sprayed everything out of the container towards the large tongue, the two tongues the one that smacked me and the one that was holding onto Elena fell to the side and shivered as if their previous disgusting vigour had been an illusion.

What kind of mythical magic elixir did Eunsol-noona gain access to? How was she able to neutralise that monster so easily?

Those lips they came to a close.

The tornado inside the pool ceased.

When the chaotic situation finally settled down, my consciousness faded along with the alleviation of my tension.

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Unni unni unni. Oppa oppa oppa. What do we do? Kain-oppa is not waking up! Kain-oppa? Oppa?

Songee, youre distracting me so please stay still. Jinchul, you did some martial arts didnt you? Do you know how to do first-aid and stuff?

Im doing it right now. But his arm His arm is completely crushed. Hes alive only thanks to his arm taking in most of the shock. If he took that strike to his stomach, he would have died already.

His arm Im not a doctor but his arm is clearly not the only problem right? He was flying I saw Kain fly 10 metres!

I saw that too. His organs must be in a complete mess right now. This, this I cant do anything here; we need a doctor. You fucking hotel bastards, we need a doctor!!!!! Cant you hear me!!!

Noona. Noona shouldnt we buy something at your market? Do you have a potion or something?

The things they sell in the market are generic. Theres no gun so how could there even be something like a potion? Actually, theres nothing we can do even if there was. I already bought capsaicin and this bandage, and thats 3 times this week already.

Voices. Voices. It was so noisy that I hazily came to my senses.

I see, so the identity of that mythical elixir was capsaicin, huh. It was a tongue to be fair. It would have been strange if the tongue could withstand the flood of concentrated capsaicin.

That was no longer the question of how strong and weak that tongue was, but more than anything, it was amazing how noona was able to think of capsaicin amidst all that confusion.

I noticed something stuck on my arm, and also saw the people that were creating a fuss.

A girl was crying next to me. Even though there was no need for her to cry so much.

A lady was standing still while shivering, as if she was going to lose her mind. It seemed that my life wasnt for naught judging from how a beauty of that level was worried about me.

There was a boy running. Why was he running? He seemed mindless and appeared to be doing it without even knowing the reason himself.

And there was an alarm flickering in the corner of my sight.

[Return to Room 105 immediately.]

Room 105. Room of Rest.

Did Rest mean more than just providing food, drinks and a bed?

Looking back at the games I played growing up, the inn was indeed a place that filled your HP and Mana back to full after a sleep.

Forcing out all the remaining energy I had inside me, I managed to utter a few words.

105. Room 105.

That was all I could do.