Episode 365:
Yoon Garam’s personal relationships were narrow.
To be exact, there were very few people who had a proper relationship.
Although he had enough social skills to suppress his impulses and live a normal life, it was assumed that there was no one with whom Yoon Garam could talk openly. Since he always had to hide his monstrous constitution, it was natural that he had no friends to share his true feelings with.
So, Yoon Garam could not feel lighter at all. His family died a long time ago, he had no friends he could freely joke around with, Ha Seong-yoon, who had been his guardian since he was young, was soft and heavy rather than light, and Lee Jae-heon, whom he met as an adult, was an extremely twisted person. Garam Yoon, who was particularly influenced by the person she gave her heart to, inevitably became a heavy person.
That’s why I was attracted to Woo Joo-young.
“Cover your mouth first! “The smoke is rising, but even that has its limits…!”
“I will do it, Mr. Jooyoung. “My hands are shaking.”
“Who do you think my hands are shaking right now?!”
“Ahaha…!”
He was a really light person.
“Jooyoung is really funny even in this situation.”
“…Yes eh?”
“It was such a compliment. “Please don’t be scared.”
Even when I first showed off my ability to ignite in a toy store, she just looked at me like I was amazing, and even when Yoon Garam’s burdensome taste in burning spaces was revealed, she was just a little scared. A person who is full of sincerity, but not heavy, and has a very good sense of humor, but has a strangely cruel side and whose expression changes easily.
That person’s call to come to his senses made Yoon Garam excited.
“Here’s a towel. “Cover it first.”
“Mr. Garam. This is something the young friend should receive first….”
“Then please do it next time. “Because I don’t get burned.”
“No, this is a question of character rather than efficiency….”
“Please accept it, sister.”
“…Keuhum.”
Garam Yoon internally opened his eyes wide at the unexpectedly good response. I’m not sure, but Woo Joo-young seemed to like being called ‘sister’. Garam Yoon narrowed his eyes, trying not to show surprise at the new discovery.
“It’s because I’m worried.”
“So, it’s the elders who are worried… Oh, I understand. “If you fight, you’ll burn to death.”
“Don’t say scary words.”
Maybe Garam Yoon needed someone like this.
A person who will not affirm me as a monster, but will make me a human being. Someone who won’t just accept me even though I know I’m wrong because I’m different, but will change my direction even when I’m embarrassed. I needed that kind of advice. Seeing Yoon Garam in such an excited mood.
‘…This is okay too.’
It was a belated realization for Yoon Garam, who had been protecting Woo Joo-young, who was physically and mentally weak. Even a weak person like this was able to shake up Yoon Garam like Ha Seong-yoon or Lee Jae-heon.
I still don’t think the two adults I met before were bad, but…
“Uh oh! Safe in the closet! Vault lock!”
Garam Yoon liked this different type of adult.
So much so that I couldn’t even look at my burned hands wrapped in cloth.
“There’s a safe with a lock in that closet?”
“I think I’m dialing a number, but uh…! Why is there no place to press? “Someone makes a safe like this!”
“I’ll take a look.”
The digital safe inside the closet had a total of four empty spaces.
“…The number we found was a total of three digits.”
“That’s right, 319. Mr. Ha, that doesn’t mean there’s a button…”
“Hmm.”
Yoon Ga-ram, pressing his lips with his finger, listened to Woo Woo-young pacing in front of the safe.
“….”
“Excuse me for a moment.”
“…Why do you hear…?”
“I’ve even moved a flower pot the size of a person.”
“Oh…”
In fact, his muscles were stronger than in real life, but there was no time to explain, so Yoon Garam silently placed Woo Joo-young on the bed. Woo Woo-young, who had been sitting blankly for a moment, looked at Yoon Gar-ram with an absurd look.
At that, Yoon Garam smiled sheepishly.
“I’m so worried… I won’t ride.”
“What about my conscience? I guess you’re not worried? Mr. Garam Yoon, are you an apnea person?”
“Not really.”
“We are all breathing in the fumes together. What does this mean? Don’t play around and get out of the way. No. Oh no Vicky. Let go. “Why are you acting like this when I say I’m going to work?”
“I thought I could open it.”
“yes?”
“Wait just a moment.”
After pinning Woo Woo-young to the bed once more, Yoon Ga-ram took the remote control placed on the bed and approached the closet. Now half of the floor was engulfed in flames and the ceiling was starting to turn bright red, but unlike Woo Woo-young, Yoon Gar-ram did not burn up. As if the fire was cleverly avoiding her.
Garam Yoon, standing in front of the safe, pressed the number button on the remote control.
“….”
3 1 9 4.
Clap.
“oh.”
“…What is it? Why is it open? 4? “Why is there a 4?”
“Buy porridge… I just watched the TV and the phrase ‘die’ came out over and over again, so I wondered if it was possible. There are no buttons other than numbers. “I took a picture and got it right.”
“I feel somewhat empty right now.”
“There’s no such thing.”
No matter how spacious it is, the master bedroom is a closed space with no windows and is limited in scope. The flames are gradually suffocating. Puzzle pieces spread out over it all. It was definitely a tense and anxious situation, but… it felt like the atmosphere had cooled down, as if cold water had been poured on it.
Garam Yoon said with his characteristic soft smile.
“But it’s better than dying.”
Unlike Yoon Ga-ram, who did not burn, Woo Woo-young was completely scorched and burned. Garam Yoon opened a safe the size of a small box, feeling a strange sense of responsibility upon seeing Woo Joo-young’s tattered appearance.
Inside the black safe was a gorgeous golden key.
“….”
“….”
Woo Joo-young muttered as if he couldn’t believe it.
“key?”
There was no place to use the key here.
“Gasble’s operation is so amazing….”
“Calm down, Mr. Jooyoung.”
“This is fucking us.”
“I can’t say no, but… there must be a use for it somewhere.”
That was when I said that.
“…uh? Uh… uh!”
“ah.”
Woo Woo-young and Yoon Gar-ram opened their eyes and looked at the wall.
Before falling into this strange place, it was clearly a place where there was a door instead of a wall. A golden, sparkling door handle appeared at that exact location.
“that!”
It’s a handle with a key hole in it.
“That’s Yoongaraaaa…! Garam Yoon!!”
“Excuse me?”
Garam Yoon suddenly put Woo Sooyoung on his shoulder and wrapped one arm around her leg. Woo Joo-young, who was lifted as easily as if lifting a sack, screamed in shock once again, but Yoon Gar-ram wordlessly walked up to the wall with a handle, put the key in, and turned it.
A clanging sound is heard, like when opening a safe, and then an invisible door opens…
“―Everyone is okay…!”
“….”
“….”
“….”
Han Do-yoon, with Kim Ki-jeong at his side, and Yoon Gar-ram, with Woo Woo-young around him, met their gazes.
Kim Ki-jeong is covering his face with both hands. Woo Woo-young has turned white. A scene set against the background of Room 1201, which is burning at the peak of its flame. There was a moment of silence between them, feeling a subtle sense of déjà vu that was difficult to describe.
“…You become my firefighter…?”
Garam Yoon smiled kindly at Han Do-yoon’s face, which even I was confused about.
“Please take care of me.”
“For now, let’s put it down…”
“So what is this situation?”
“So we put it down, put it down, you guys…”
But no one listened to the weakest members of the survivor team.
‘Is there anything that can be barbecued after being put down?’
Do-yoon Han and Garam Yoon trusted their older friends.
However, I did not trust its safety.
* * *
Like Woo Soo-young’s story, which was evaluated as similar to a room escape cafe, the main content of room 1201 here was escaping a trapped room through puzzles, not puzzles.
Han Do-yoon opened his mouth in the bathroom where the flames could not reach.
“I was left here alone and almost got into a fight with the keyring monster…”
“Seeing that the other side was burning brightly, I guess you had a good fight.”
“That’s not the case again. Surprisingly, the keyring monster was cooperative.”
“A keyring monster?”
“It seemed like Jaeheon Lee didn’t want his doll to burn.”
“What burned?”
“Now, if you look, you’ll see…”
Do-yoon Han took out a picture to Woo Woo-young, who was astonished.
“This is the picture you were all trapped in.”
“It looks like a picture drawn by a child. “I understand why the room we were locked in was like that.”
“And do you see people moving around like this in the back here?”
“oh…?”
Woo Woo-young looked at the floor plan drawn on the crumpled paper with a subtle expression. Inside the rectangles that seemed to depict the structure of room 1201, characters that seemed to be simplifications of someone in each color were moving around, one by one in the study near the front door.
“Could it be that what’s here…?”
“This must be Hong Gyeong-jun and Jeong In-ho. “I think this is Ha Seong-yoon.”
“aha.”
“And Kim Ki-jeong said he was playing an escape room game inside there…”
“I won’t go to an escape room cafe in the future.”
“I don’t think I’ll go either. Anyway, when you find a note, the house starts to burn down.”
A note with the phrase “It’s hot” for Kim Ki-jung and “I’m suffocating” for Woo Joo-young and Yoon Gar-ram. The moment they are found, the room they are trapped in begins to burn, and this flame is linked to room 1201, not the painting. If the master bedroom in the picture burns, the master bedroom in room 1201 also burns at the same time.
That alone was threatening to Han Do-yoon outside the picture, but the real problem was different.
“I also ride the chain connected to that room.”
“…How does iron burn? “Isn’t it melting first?”
“I heard you ride well… with a doll.”
Yoon Garam’s face turned pale at Han Doyoon’s faint muttering.
“Then, Mr. Lee Jae-heon’s doll…?”
The doll and the chain that bound it were tightly attached. It was no wonder that Yoon Garam turned pale as she had heard that a doll had been burned alive in a situation where it was dangerous even if it was kept 1m apart. How do you know that that doll and Lee Jae-heon are connected? Garam Yoon, who couldn’t check the condition of the doll because she was in a hurry to get there because of the fire, became restless.
Han Do-yoon waved his hand at that.
“We rode together, but we didn’t ride all of them. Please calm down.”
While the rest of the team was stuck in the picture, Han Do-yoon’s face, who was suffering greatly, was distorted awkwardly. Even explaining this situation made him look tired.
“The chain broke at the same time you all came out of the room.”
“You said it was cut off?”
“I heard you found a key. Is that correct?”
“Ah, your golden key….”
“If you find that key, you will get crayons.”
“….
“Really.”
When you find a key in a room in the picture, a crayon will appear in room 1201 outside the picture.
“It seemed like crayons came out depending on the color of the room I was trapped in. Kim Ki-jeong had a blue room, so she brought out blue crayons, and Yoon Garam and Woo Woo-young had black crayons, because they were in a black room.”
“How did you know that…?”
“I rolled around and found this burning house. It’s not obvious and it’s hard to find because it appears under the sofa or inside a drawer. Look at how you act in the picture and get a rough idea… “Ah, I’m just trying to figure out that I’ve solved all the puzzles here.”
“Ah…”
“…I almost burned Kim Ki-jeong to death because I didn’t know what kind of system this was…”
Kim Ki-jeong first found the note that triggered the ignition and also found the key, but Do-yoon Han found the location of the crayon and the key. It took quite some time to find a use for it. They almost turned Kim Ki-jeong into a barbecue in the picture.
Garam Yoon said while looking at Doyoon Han who was clinging tightly to Kijeong Kim.
“For some reason, he was holding Mr. Kim Ki-jeong.”
“Are you criticizing me for being overprotective? President Yoon was also holding Woo Soo-young. Moreover, because it almost killed him, his liver had no choice but to fall all the way down. I really thought Kim Ki-jeong was going to die. “I thought I was going to burn to death… really.”
“….”
I’m quite out of my mind. Garam Yoon nodded inwardly.
“Then what does that door handle… and the keyhole look like?”
“It’s simple. “I just need to draw a door on this picture with crayons I found in a random room.”
“The door?”
“It doesn’t work if you don’t draw it in its original location… Anyway, it looks like a door will appear in the drawing. If you open it with the key and come out, one of the chains holding the doll will break and you will escape.”
“….”
“…Um, so….”
Do-yoon Han said, rubbing the back of his neck as he saw Garam Yoon staring intently at a corner of the picture.
“If the person in the picture doesn’t solve the puzzle, there’s nothing I can do.”
“….”
“…Ha Seong-yoon kept quiet.”
Ha Seong-yoon’s purple character drawn in the study.
It had hardly moved for this long time.
(Continued in the next part)
