Chapter 42: Room 104, Cursed Room – ‘Preparatory Selective, Hotel High School’ (2)

Chapter 42: Room 104, Cursed Room – ‘Preparatory Selective, Hotel High School’ (2)

[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)

Date: Day 16

Current Location: Floor 1, Room 104 (Cursed Room Preparatory Selective, Hotel High School)

Sages Advice: 3]

Had I ever studied this hard in my entire life? I probably hadnt even been this diligent for my actual college exam.

That was natural though, because its not like you died from having bad marks at the college exam!

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Lee Eunsol (Teacher): Language 43211 53422 15323 12432

Kim Mooksung (Teacher): Korean History 52452 12431 11123 14123

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We had the answers for Language and Korean History. Now, it was time for me to work my ass off answering questions.

I opened the test paper.

Question 1. The two equations, P(x) = 0 and Q(x) = 0 each have 7 and 9 roots. A = [(x,y) P(x) Q(y) = 0. In P(x) Q(y) = 0, x and y are real numbers. And

Ah. The first question was already disgusting.

Did we seriously have no other approach than this? This didnt seem right no matter how I thought about it

I wasnt sure. We couldnt think of any other methods so the only thing we could do was focus on the problems in our hands and survive.

50 minutes went by. With less than 10 minutes in our hands, I uploaded all the answers.

Han Kain (Student): Maths 21223 53121 45121 33315

Kim Ahri (Student): Question 13 is 3, not 1.

Han Kain (Student): Not sure about Question 16. Is it 3?

Kim Ahri (Student): Think so.

At least I wasnt the only one solving questions. It was a bit of a relief.

I was racking my brain and solving the tests when a problem occurred during the English exam.

Han Kain (Student): English 23111 45231 13522 3 BIIKKK.

We ran out of words!

I at least shared up to Question 16 so as for the last 4 questionsI could only leave them in their hands.

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Woah Hyung. Seriously, that was amazing!

Thank you oppa.

If not for you, Kain-ssi, we probably would have all met at the Old Main Building.

Good work~. But I think Question 11 for English was wrong.

Everyone was saying thanks but the last comment from Ahri put me in a slightly bad mood. It didnt matter though. All we had to do was survive in this strange Hotel.

Even though I wanted to have a strategy meeting after this, we didnt have time. The bell rang for us to return to our dormitories as soon as the exams were done without even the time to say anything else to each other.

This annoying boarding school, Preparatory Selective Hotel High School had such a strict supervision over the personal lives of students that the students werent allowed to do anything apart from studying in their rooms after the tests were over.

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It was quiet.

How long has it been since I was by myself like this?

Looking back, before Grandpa Mooksung and Ahri joined our party, we were each locked in Room 105 just like this. I remembered how we left once an hour to see each other.

But after we had the messenger ability of Grandpa Mooksung, we tended to say a few things to each other even apart from mealtimes, so there was less of a sense of isolation.

Left alone, I pondered to myself.

Did we seriously have no other options?

Was surviving day by day while studying our souls out for the college exams the only solution we had? In the end, this was just a temporary measure.

The only thing we found out until now was that the Old Main Building was a dangerous location.

Was it okay for us to simply avoid going to the Old Main Building like this?

I recalled the conversation I had with Eunsol-noona back at the Mansion of Fear.

If we all try to survive, we will all die without knowing anything.

Someone needs to go to a dangerous place to find out something even at the cost of their lives.

The Hotel encouraged sacrifice.

But who did we have to sacrifice?

While pretending like we were focused on the lesson, we all concentrated on Seungyubs reports that were going off in our heads.

Park Seungyub (Student): Nothing so far. Heading to the Old Main Building.



Park Seungyub (Student): The building looks very worn out. A strange light leaving from the window.



Park Seungyub (Student): Im inside. Very quiet. The man guiding me disappeared.



Park Seungyub (Student): A strange sound. A song? Ill go in.



Park Seungyub (Student): Such a mysterious and beautiful





His reports came to an end.

What was happening?

A worn-out building, strange light, song, mysterious and beautiful. It was hard to tell what the risk was just with those elements.

It seemed that I wasnt the only one who thought that way.

Lee Eunsol (Teacher): No idea.

Kim Ahri (Student): Could have been knocked unconscious immediately after entering the room. We need someone with more combat potential.

She was right.

Like Seungyub, if the next person was to be beaten down immediately after entering the room again, it was impossible for us to gain much information.

Someone with more combat power needed to enter the room.

While we were all drowned in doubt,

Seungyub returned.

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What happened? You werent saying anything so we were all thinking something happened to you!

Its nothing, hyung. There was just nothing for me to talk about. Inside there was a teacher, and I got scolded a few times before coming back. Just some normal nagging about studying, future and all that stuff.

Didnt you talk about a song?

It was the teacher humming.

Seungyub. So are you okay?

Yes, Elena-noona. I must have worried everyone a lot.

I think its great that you safely came back though!

Thats great. Anyway, does this bring us back to square one?

It was strange.

Even though it was just a short conversation, everything was very strange. Strange light, song, mysteriousness and beauty were all those elements really nothing significant?

Songee, who had been silent ever since his return, stood up from her chair.

Seungyub. Come here and look at me.

Yes?

Tap.

After touching him once, Songee re-opened her mouth.

Everyone. Please pretend like you dont hear what Im saying. I made sure this thing cant hear me.

Tension was rising in the air.

This is not Seungyub. Its hard to explain, but the Perspective is completely different. Its senses are different from a humans.

An ominous thought suddenly popped up in my head so I immediately opened my system window.

[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)

Date: Day 17

Current Location: Floor 1, Room 104 (Cursed Room Preparatory Selective, Hotel High School)

Sages Advice: 3

Teammate Location Information (*)

Park Seungyub: Basement of Old Main Building]

According to the system window, Seungyub was currently in the basement of the Old Main Building.

If so, then this thing in front of us