Chapter 45: Room 104, Cursed Room – ‘Preparatory Selective, Hotel High School’ (5)

Chapter 45: Room 104, Cursed Room – ‘Preparatory Selective, Hotel High School’ (5)

[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)

Date: Day 18

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

Sages Advice: 3]

Lee Eunsol (Teacher): Come out.

It began.

The hour hand of the clock in the dormitory room was pointing at 1. At 1 am, everyone should be asleep except for the few night-shift security guards and teachers.

Tonight, we will be escaping this place.

*

After preparing a few textbooks and a lighter, I left the room.

Clomp. Clomp.

Footsteps. Even though I was treading as softly as possible, my footsteps were still echoing across the dark and silent dormitory corridor. After some thought, I decided to take my shoes off and walk on my socks.

My room was located on the 3rd floor. There werent guards on every floor so it was a breeze until the 1st floor, but the problem was the main entrance of the dormitory on the 1st floor there was a security guard and the doors were locked.

I could see a fire alarm on top of the stairs. My plan was to use this to alert and attract the person guarding the entrance but would this work?

For starters, I built up several books into a tower and lit them on fire. I had been desperately wanting to burn textbooks when I was going to high school and it seemed that this was where my dream came true.

- Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

The fire alarm went off right on time when I got to the 1st floor. Hiding behind the wall, I watched the guard room and saw the guard immediately dashing out.

While he was gone, I arrived in front of the main entrance.

Han Kain (Student): Im here!

BBIK!

An unlocking sound went off as Eunsol-noona opened the door with her teacher card from the outside.

Lets go. The cars right here.

I left the building and immediately found a black SUV. Where were the girls?

After making my way to the car, I saw that Elena and Ahri were already in the back seats while Grandpa Mooksung was driving in the front.

We thus started our 5-man escape plan.

*

How did you come out so fast? I asked.

I just followed Ahri. She walked to the main entrance and looked at the guard, and the guard just opened the door herself!

It seemed that Ahri used the hypnosis which she had cast on me last time.

Three of you, be quiet. Dont you know you guys have to be silent? Go to the back, lie down and put this over you.

Eunsol-noona said before throwing a black piece of cloth towards us. It was the same colour as the chair. Since it was also nighttime, it would be very difficult to see us if we hid ourselves using this blanket.

We headed to the trunk which was connected to the back seats and covered ourselves with the cloth.

Ahht, sorry. I couldnt see properly.

No, its okay.

I told you to be quiet!

It was hard to hide as 3 people in such a tiny place. My hands and feet were constantly pushing into something soft. As for what that was, lets try not to think about it

*

Knock knock!

Hi. May I ask why youre leaving this late at night?

Hello~. We have a business in the city.

Can I see your card?

Here.

Miss Lee Eunsol. Yep confirmed, thank you. But as you know, you have to apply for a late-night leave beforehand.

We have urgent business.

Whether its urgent or not, we cannot let you go. Sorry.

Haha, buddy, Grandpa Mooksung chimed in. Were going to grab some teaching materials. Are you gonna be this strict about it?

Ahht, my apologies. But looking for teaching materials this late at night?Nnêw n0vel chapters are published on n0v/e/(lb)i(n.)co/m

Were not going there to buy, were going to receive it from someone. My old friend in the town has prepped it for us.

Umm

Hey, listen. Are you really going to be this strict about it?! Did you not check our IDs already?

O, okay. But please apply beforehand next time.

*

It looked like we should be able to leave soon.

Even in a place as strange as this Hotel High School, age seemed to be a very powerful tool. Well, that might be nothing strange though because pressuring with muscles also worked yesterday. This preparatory selective school had a similar culture to Korean schools in strange places.

Elena

My chest was feeling stuffy for a long time.

Why

Why was there nothing I could do?

Everyone else had blessings or leadership skills, strength and mysterious tools and each had their own roles and yet there was nothing I could do. Even when we had to escape, I was just following behind Ahri. Even though there was a group of pursuers that were even carrying a gun to shoot everyone to death, I

Wait. Shoot everyone to death?

My head immediately turned clear as if a bucket of icy cold water had been poured over my head.

Pieces of knowledge that I never knew until now surged from deep down.

Knowledge? Was this even supposed to be called knowledge? Rather than that, it felt almost like a sensation.

It was coming from the very depths of my own being.

Soul? Or was it the heart?

A balance appeared inside who knows where a scale that assessed peoples sins.

What was Justice? Those who committed sins needed to have repercussions.

Even the Ancient Greeks believed in justice. They believed in a god that could assess the sins of this world on a balance to enact a rightful order. They wished the goddess of justice and her scale to bring order to the world.

I knew what I had to do.

*

We have stopped them! The two teachers have died! What should we do with the students at the back?

There has been an order to leave the kids alive. Its already too late for the corrupt adults, but there is still the path of salvation for these children. Keep them alive.

Thud.

Come out. Your sin is not small by any means, but the Lord is greatly generous and you can still be forgi

Slam!

It was as if a large hammer had struck down on the person from the sky as the heretic became like mashed potato in an instant. Rather than being horrified by the savage scene before my eyes, I was instead dumbstruck from the incomprehensible turn of events.

What? Whats going on?

Bam!

Another head was crushed like mashed potato. I forced myself to turn inside the half-demolished car and looked at Elena. Something that was glistening in gold a balance (?) was rotating around her.

Boom! Boom!

As if a large hammer was striking down from the sky, everyone that was chasing after us started to explode.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

They belatedly started shooting their guns but it was futile.

Elena didnt even leave the car in the first place and the half-destroyed car acted as a remarkable shield. Like that, Elena blankly gazed at the sky inside the car while exploding more than 20 men that used to follow us from behind.

As if it was nothing significant, Ahri asked with a curious voice.

Is this the power of Justice?

Nn.

How does it work? I was expecting it to be strong because of all the conditions, but isnt this too much?

Who knows I am still in the middle of understanding how it works. I think we should save that for later.

Thats true too.

I opened my mouth after Ahri.

Lets stop the conversation here and start running away immediately. We did come a fair bit with the car so 1 more hour and we should be able to escape from this damn school.

No, asserted Elena.

Miss Elena? What do you

Justice must be fair. Those receiving the punishment cannot be differentiated from those that do not. Now that the enforcement has begun, I must carry it through.

Carry it through Do you mean you have to return to the school?

Sounds like it, Ahri replied. Do you have to go back to the school and kill all the other heretics? Does that mean you cant stop yourself either when your blessing gets activated?

I dont know if I have to kill all of them, but I must go back.

It was quite a tedious ability. Of course, it was ridiculous in the sense that it allowed her to reduce dozens of people to ashes without even touching them, and we had never seen any other blessings that were as impactful as this.

However, there were also an absurd number of conditions.

1. The target must be similar to humans.

2. The user must be aware of their evilness.

We knew up to those 2 conditions but there appeared to be another one.

3. The user cannot stop at will after starting the enforcement.

What should we do? Looks like Elena has no choice but to stay. Should we run away together at least, Ahri?

Someone else replied instead of Ahri.

Such concerns are needless.

For thou has no rights to choose.

An angel descended from the sky.