e-booksonline Chapter 101: Party Time (3) - Grotesque, Discussion
Chapter 101: Party Time (3) - Grotesque, Discussion
Chapter 101: Party Time (3) - Grotesque, Discussion
Party Time First Dawn
- Yu Songee
— QUAAAAAKK!
I woke up from my sleep in the middle of the night. Turning the lights on, I checked the time and saw it was 3 am.
Heading to the little nest I made with towels that were all over the Hotel, I realized that Perro had finished eating everything I had prepared already.
I had to make more food.
Right before leaving the room, I turned around and found Perro looking straight at me.
Remembering the warning, “Don’t leave it alone”, I intentionally left the door of Room 105 wide open so that Perro could see me the whole time.
Outside Room 105 on the corridor were mountains of parrot food that Eunsol-noona had ordered before going to sleep.
After bringing the dry food in and mixing it with some eggs, I gave it to Perro, who had been looking straight at the food the whole time. He immediately pushed his beak into the bowl and started devouring it.
***
He hatched just last night and yet was evidently much bigger than before.
Perro was now the size of a small adult parrot, and I didn’t need to put the food in a small syringe anymore. He could eat the nuts that were included in the dry food without an issue.
He was also so incredibly smart that he knew how to pee and poo at a separate place.
Unexpectedly, this was so much easier than raising puppies and kittens!
The only thing tiring about it was the amount of food that he ate.
It might be because he was still growing. Even though he was just a little bit bigger than my hand, he still ate more than a human child and naturally, it took him a long time to eat that much with his tiny beak.
Watching him eat, I slowly went back to sleep.
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— Creak
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— Kwang!!!
A tremendous thud and impact woke me up immediately!
I found myself leaning on a wall after being flung into it.
“What’s going on!”
“What is happening?”
“Huh? What is wrong?”
We woke up in a stupor and realized that everyone else was in a similar state all around the room. It was when Elena, who had been wearing a negligee in her sleep, and Jinchul-oppa, who wasn’t wearing a top, were quickly looking for clothes to wear around them.
— Kwang!!!
Along with another thud, the half-broken door of Room 105 was fully broken.
We turned to the door in shock and found a monster we were seeing for the first time in the hotel.
It was around... 4 meters tall at the very least.
It looked like a gigantic, horrendous ostrich, and its beak was large enough to swallow my head whole.
Besides, there were sharp and sturdy feathers and scales covering its body, with tentacles and horns on its back instead of wings.
It truly resembled a monster that would come out in horror movies!
Everyone was struck speechless.
The monster walked in through the broken door, with its “eyes stuck on me”.
As it approached me, I felt the emotions of the monster being conveyed.
Joy. Relief. Happiness.
***
Wait, is that...?
Unfortunately, it was already too late.
“Everyone, be careful!”
Before I could stop him, Jinchul-oppa ran out with a scream—
He smacked the beak of the large bird with his fist and kicked its body with his foot, which made the monster roll out of the room in agony.
Like, why Is he so strong!?
“Wait! Everyone, please calm down—”
— PIYOOOOOO!
The monster in the corridor – Perro – let out a rough growl from its mouth.
Immediately upon hearing that, all sorts of emotions started bubbling inside me. Fear, disgust, and rage – it was a mixture of negative emotions all mixed at random!
Is that one of Perro’s abilities too? This is horrible timing though!
I belatedly protected myself with the bracelet, but everyone else was already getting overly stimulated by his roar.
Jinchul-oppa roared out while running at the bird.
It was the sight of a human running in at a 4-meter-tall bird, but it was clear which one of them was in danger.
Perro’s life is at risk!
Jinchul-oppa had already punched and kicked Perro to send him flying, and it wasn’t a fight Perro could win just because he was bigger.
What was fortunate, was that Perro was running away like crazy after instinctively realizing that.
Someone grabbed me by my shoulder to wake me up from my confusion.
“That monster is the bird from the golden egg, right?”
“Ahri? Are you okay?” I asked.
“I’m fine.”
We took some meat to put on the grill. It was different from the usual scenery inside the Hotel and felt more refreshing and interesting.
But anyway...
I was thinking to myself when Ahri walked up to the side.
“What are you thinking about?” she asked.
“The bird and the grimoire.”
“Perro? He is not even thinking about coming down from Songee’s shoulders. As for his abilities, I suppose they’re changing into a monster and letting out a cry that plays with your emotions.”
“There could be more,” I replied.
“Even this is already quite significant. So, what is this about the grimoire?”
“This was my first time using the grimoire, and there was something strange about it.”
“On the way... you mentioned Possession and Incarnation. Since you said you haven’t understood Incarnation yet, this must be about Possession, yes?”
“Yeah.”
“What was it?”
“Unless it was my mistake, the system window disappeared and there was a strange number on the bottom right.”
“Hmm.”
Ahri thought for a bit before coming up with an easy solution.
“Use it on me right now.”
“Are you sure?”
“This is the fastest way. Just use it on me.”
***
Second Attempt.
Looking at Ahri, I thought about taking off my body and “wearing” Ahri’s body.
My consciousness was pulled in and soon... I found myself in the body of a beautiful teenage girl!
This felt weird all of a sudden.
First of all, I checked the most important thing first.
59:52
59:44
"..."
It was the same as when I had possessed Perro.
The system window was gone and was replaced by a small set of numbers. What those numbers meant was also pretty clear – it was a 1-hour timer.
Is there a time limit on possession?
The Apostle didn’t have such a thing though?
Did they put a restriction on Possession, just like how they removed the third ability, the Power of Sacrifice?
I could understand the restriction, but then why wasn’t I able to access the system window?
It was very confusing.
Hmm... That was when I suddenly felt an urge to do something stupid.
I remembered seeing it from a movie in the past. I slightly lowered my hands towards the chest—
— Tung!
Suddenly, my consciousness bounced off and I returned to my body.
“AHAHAHA! What was that just then? You were like a primary school kid! Did you wanna touch them that badly?”
***
Ah! What the hell was I thinking?
A flood of embarrassment and self-hatred made me lower my head...
I wasn’t even curious about the reason I was flung out of her body. Thinking back, even when the Daughter of Heaven hypnotized us, Ahri was able to wake up by herself. She was probably using the same thing.
“Do you still want to touch?” she asked.
“...Sorry. It was just in the moment.”
“That was so funny. Anyway, did something similar happen again?”
“Yeah, the system window was gone and there was a 1 hour timer. What do you think this means?”
“The latter is simple – there seems to be a time limit. Both the Bracelet and the Star Fragment had less capabilities outside of the Cursed Rooms, right? It’s probably the same thing for the Grimoire.”
“That’s a bit of a shame... I thought I had gained eternal life with the grimoire.”
Eternal Life.
Immediately after hearing that word, Ahri turned to the ceiling with a rather melancholic look on her face.
It was times like this that really made me wonder how old this girl was.
Although I had never raised it before, I could at least assume that she was much older than what was suggested by her outward appearance.
“You’ve probably already achieved eternal life. Maybe even others.”
“What do you mean? I wouldn’t be able to live an eternal life by moving bodies if there’s a time limit with Possession, right? And what do you mean by others?”
“Have you seen Jinchul’s regeneration?”
“...”
“His skin was on fire, and bullets were going through his body but he regenerated everything. Do you think bodies like that would even age?”
“...”
“Same with your book. If the Hotel was trying to nerf the Grimoire itself, there would have been a record left behind just like what happened when they removed ‘Sacrifice’. But according to what you felt after reading the book, there wasn’t such a thing.”
“What do you mean by that?” I asked for clarification.
“What I am saying is that the timer is irrelevant to the change made to the Grimoire itself. Both the disappearance of the system window and the timer are probably due to the same thing.”
“The same thing?”
“You wanted to discuss the ‘Descent’ as well, right? What I’m going to tell you now is related to all the problems you are having right now. It’ll be quite long though, so make sure you /genesisforsaken