### Chapter 210 – Room 104, Cursed Room – ‘Prestigious Hotel High School’ Re (4)
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– Cha Jinchul
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— Bang! Bang! Bang!
Hearing “Kill the Kain using Descent!” from Han Kain made my heart start racing as I turned to flee. Taking one step forward made my head throb, another made my legs shake, and by the third step, I simply couldn’t move.
‘Just STOP!’
This wasn’t just simple psychological fear. Weird sounds tickled my ears, a bizarre force relentlessly pressing down on my head, demanding I kneel and beg for forgiveness. Luckily, the torment didn’t last long. It vanished in an instant, as if a cool liquid had washed away the sticky sensation in my throat. Oh, Songi must have cast a bracelet on me!
With my resolve solidified, I charged at Han Kain, gripping another piece of stardust tightly in my palm.
“Ugh!”
With a burst of sensation, three of my fingers just… dropped off like dead leaves. The backlash from repeatedly summoning stars to fight Aurelia was finally hitting me. But retreating was not an option. I clenched the stardust tightly with my other hand and struck at Han Kain like I did with Aurelia.
— Thud! Thud!
It felt like I was smashing against concrete! With the power of Descent, Han Kain’s durability was unreasonably high. But even then, he wasn’t completely immune to the stardust’s power! Each strike saw the golden hue of his form begin to fade.
— Crackle!
Like the sound of electricity sparking, the light from his upper body flickered away. Simultaneously, the piece of stardust I swung lodged itself directly into Han Kain!
“Gotcha! If this doesn’t work, I don’t know what will—even a monster like you!”
As a wave of light crashed down…
I was suddenly engulfed by an impossible blinding gold wave, carried away by an unseen force. When I crashed to the ground, I found myself facing the ‘living sun’!
‘Foolish one, Cha Jinchul. Did I not warn you to step back earlier?’
“What the heck is this nonsense—”
‘I showed mercy and offered you a chance to retreat. Yet you could not hide your arrogance, daring to harm one so great as I. Your sin is profound and deep.’
“Let’s cut to the chase. Why is that body yours? That’s really my friend Kain!”
‘The light of judgment shall descend upon you…’
From the sky, a light came down. I couldn’t even think of resisting. It was like standing on a street corner, frozen in shock as a nuclear missile fell from the sky!
Right before I lost consciousness, just one worry filled my mind. This monster had killed me with uncanny powers without even lifting a finger. How on earth could I ever defeat such a being?
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– Kim Ahri
“Two deaths in just 30 seconds… Gosh, Kain, you really take it too far.”
The battle was unrelenting. Cha Jinchul rushed in first with his stardust, trying to blow away the standing ‘Awakened Kain,’ while the rest of us were left hanging back, unable to join in the fray. Songi managed to assist Jinchul with her bracelet power midway.
Thankfully, the ‘Awakened Kain’ offered no resistance, standing there like a punching bag. Meanwhile, the stardust’s incredible destructive force eventually made its way through even Kain’s exaggerated resilience. With a loud bang, a massive hole opened up where a human head could fit! And on top of that, various disfigurements began to manifest across Kain’s body.
Did something get through? Just as that thought crossed my mind, I watched in horror as an incomprehensible power turned Jinchul into a bloody mess and then took down Songi too.
What kind of power is this? The Awakened Kain still hadn’t so much as twitched a finger. I didn’t know what kind of force it was, but it was time for me to jump in.
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Shockingly, the Awakened Kain was still alive. Despite the massive gaping hole in his upper body, he was twisted to the point of his strange flesh sprouting all over. He was still not dead. The misshapen flesh started peeling off and that enormous hole began to close up. Once that recovery finished, there’d be no looking back.
Aargh~! How the heck am I supposed to kill that thing?
Without the mental protection, getting close was nearly impossible! We were using incredible powers just to deal a scratch while it could wipe us out effortlessly. Even when we did score a hit, it retaliated with some unknown power and wiped us out, starting to recover with a regenerative speed that would make a lizard cry.
The most astonishing part? The Awakened Kain hadn’t flicked a single hair since this mess began! It’s like we were just whaling on a standing punching bag while barely clinging to life ourselves.
I really don’t know what to do. Thankfully, I had relocated Mookseong to safety just in case.
Time for maximum effort. I must at least slow down that recovery rate. Today’s going to be a rough one.
— Clang!
I took off my protective suit.
“Eunsol!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wearing this now!”
A freezing wind emerged from my fingertips.
— Shh!
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– Lee Eunsol
“Aaaaah! Ahri, what the heck are you doing?!”
Shock overwhelmed me as I screamed uncontrollably. Of course, there wasn’t a single person around to answer me. Moments ago, Ahri had called me and told me to put on the protective suit, and now she’d just cut her own neck!
Sudden suicide? Did the Awakened Kain brainwash her with that incomprehensible power?
Nope.
Her head rolled on the floor when suddenly, a massive amount of blood burst out of Ahri’s body, showering Kain! It was grotesquely beautiful, as if the blood itself carried a will! The mist made of crimson blood surrounded Kain and started seeping into him with a bubbling sound.
In the next moment, a ripping sound echoed, and blood began splattering everywhere from Kain’s body.
Is that Ahri’s ultimate technique? I recall Seungyub mentioning she used something like that in Room 201…
Shaking my head, I cast those thoughts aside. I should just focus on what I can do. Even if I can’t get close to that monster, can’t I at least be a butterfly?
— Click!
The beautiful nightmare butterfly flitted forward and entered Kain’s body. Is this it?
Please just die already! Kain, this is your older sister’s wish, so just die already!
How many lives had been sacrificed just to put a hole in Kain’s body? Jinchul and Songi were dead because of it. Ahri had died trying to stop that hole from closing. Yet that monster still wasn’t dead!
— Twitch!
Finally, the creature that hadn’t so much as twitched a finger moved for the first time. I felt a heart-stopping fear as I stumbled backward, only to find Elena.
“Elena!”
“… Sis.”
“Are you okay? Can you do anything?”
I wasn’t expecting much as I asked. If she didn’t know before, she definitely did now that everyone knew the entity residing in Kain’s body was ‘the Lord’. As for what to call that being… well, it definitely wasn’t human.
“…”
“Can’t you use Justice? Or Ominous Imagination? Are you still okay?”
“…”
Oddly enough, Elena didn’t respond. Was she just too tired? Or had she lost her mind from being near the Awakened Kain? Honestly, losing it wouldn’t be that surprising at this point—I was nearly at my breaking point!
For now, we needed to get out of here. Jinchul and Songi were already dead; as for Ahri, who knows what’s going on with her. She wasn’t able to stick with us anymore. Our options were dwindling.
“Elena, let’s run! We need to regroup with Grandpa!”
“… Where’s Kain?”
“If it’s the Kain in Pero, he’s back with Sanghyun.”
“Okay.”
“Move fast! Right now—”
“Shut the hell up, you idiot! Can’t you see I’m focusing?”
“Uh, uh, uh….”
I could only stand there with my mouth agape, stunned. Why was Elena suddenly—
“Don’t act deaf. Can’t you hear it?”
“What…?”
“The ground is rumbling so much, and you’re not hearing a thing? Just cut off your useless ears or something! Ha ha ha! It’s here! I can hear it!”
The ground is rumbling? What in the world is she talking about? If the ground were rumbling, wouldn’t I feel vibrations before I heard sounds, anyway? I wasn’t feeling a thing.
“I had a feeling ever since we got into this disgusting underground. They built such loud facilities in a dark place; was the ground really intact? As I suspected! The cursed underground city is about to crumble! It’s rumbling! It’s rumbling!”
… The underground city built by the cultists was surprisingly bright despite being underground. It was nearly blinding thanks to the light Kain was emitting. Right now, Elena was losing it.
So, I decided not to disturb her. This was her ability, after all.
— Rumble!
I could finally hear it, too! The sound of earth shaking and the ground trembling! At the same time, Elena started to wobble. Thanks to the immense power from the protective suit, I was able to scoop her up with one arm and sprint.
Running, running, and running some more. The almighty sounds of everything crumbling echoed behind me, but I didn’t dare turn my head. As I blindly sprinted through the door we had come through, I snatched up a flailing pero from the floor.
Pero, or rather Kain, was here, but where was Sanghyun?
No time to ponder! I blasted up the stairs, headed for the door, and returned to the old main building, but the tremors hadn’t stopped.
— KABOOM!
The ground under the old main building was sinking! Everywhere around the old school, the Hotel High School students or staff were screaming and running for their lives.
After running endlessly, finally reaching a safe spot—
A sign appeared before me.
[Prestigious Hotel High School]
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“Sorry, but we’re taking this down now.”
Fortunately, there weren’t any staff around to protest taking down the sign.
I will reward with a faithful serialization.
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