Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 305

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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 305

Our Night(11)

Lee Si-ah searched the internet while shaking her legs.

But what information could possibly come up from searching? It’s just a preview anyway, and everyone’s clueless like me.

│Leak Theory) Reason for Seol Ha-woon’s Elimination│

In the end, she even dug through leak theories she had sworn never to look at.

Seol Ha-woon gets eliminated for the first time in this labyrinth. But the production team doesn’t seem particularly worried. It’s self-sacrifice, so it won’t damage voting that much, and there are rumors that Kang Hyeon will fill that empty spot…

│Seol Ha-woon Not Eliminated│

One of the assistant directors is my cousin and they said Seol Ha-woon never got eliminated once lol

“…What am I supposed to do with this.”

Some say he gets eliminated, others say he doesn’t. This is why leak theories are annoying.

I don’t even know if the leaks themselves are real or fake, so they’re disgusting to look at, and these rumor-mongers are particularly obnoxious.

“I do think he could get eliminated at least once.”

You can get eliminated up to three times anyway. Seol Ha-woon has never been eliminated before, so it could happen this time.

What if they created a new rule where losing a third of your votes if you get eliminated?

“Ah, but…”

It’s unfair.

He did everything as the advance team, only to fall alone.

│If Seol Ha-woon falls it’s fucking unfair shit│

│Seol Ha-woon oil shower gif.GJF│

│Jemal-ol damn it why does he do everything alone then fall that makes no sense│

Everyone was pointing out that part.

─Lee Yun-se: Hmm. It did end quite profoundly.

Professor Lee Yun-se on the internet broadcast also looked very curious about the next episode.

He watched the preview with an extremely excited expression, and his complexion was slightly flushed.

─Kim Byeong-su: Mitamnan really… doesn’t let you feel at ease until the very end.

-The determination to hit 50% viewership

-It already passed 50% anyway

-Feels like 90%

-Shit

-Ah

-Looks like viewers won’t be able to sleep lol

-lololololol

─Lee Yun-se: Yes. That’s right. It really is.

The professor’s expression was very serious. A solemn furrowed brow.

─Kim Byeong-su: Um… didn’t you say it’s been two weeks since you started watching the show?

Anyone would think he’s a devoted fan who’s watched the entire Mitam series.

─Kim Byeong-su: Ah. Right. And there’s something I’d like to ask, what are ‘The Door’ and those voices that appeared in the preview?

─Lee Yun-se: I could sense magic formulas in the voices. They could be beings made entirely of magic formulas, like dokkaebi. Shall we play the preview?

He suddenly played the preview again.

By the way, previews are copyright-free, so commentary is possible while watching directly rather than just reacting.

─Lee Yun-se: Look here.

He paused it in the middle and suddenly began frame-by-frame analysis.

─Lee Yun-se: Mage Seol Ha-woon gets caught in an explosion, and this explosion is infused with magic power. But what type of magic power this is matters. If it’s Seol Ha-woon’s own magic power-

─Kim Byeong-su: Hahaha. Professor, but you shouldn’t trust this preview too much

─Lee Yun-se: …Why not?

─Kim Byeong-su: Well, the cuts and situations are often different. So like. They combine a voice screaming “Ahhh!” from 5 minutes earlier with other scenes to make it more urgent.

─Lee Yun-se: Isn’t that fraud?

Professor Lee Yun-se got angry.

-lolololol

-lolololololol

-lolololol

-lolololol

-lolololol

-Professor lolololol

-They are fraudsters lolololol

-Crazy fraudsters lol

─Kim Byeong-su: Ah, of course the overall story doesn’t change. Seol Ha-woon probably really is in great danger…

─Lee Yun-se: That’s the problem. Right now. That’s what the problem is.

Lee Yun-se pounded the desk with his fist. Lee Si-ah chuckled. Her troubled heart calmed down slightly.

I should teach that professor how to join the Snow Road fan site.

I opened my eyes in the rocking chair. My whole body felt refreshed. I seemed to have slept quite soundly.

“Whew…”

I took a deep breath. Cold air rushed deep into my lungs.

It was time to leave now.

I got up again and gripped my walking stick. I moved forward through the snow-covered National Cemetery.

What followed were memories of Seol Ha-woon’s military days, but they were vague to me.

Having lost all my comrades, I operated as a pure black agent. The rank of sergeant was just a rank.

That’s when I met Percival, killed various people, and reached the problematic ‘Door’.

But what did I see at that door?

I had no memory of that.

Thud. Thud.

I walked with my walking stick, checking the travel log.

│An unforgettable person….│

It was Kang Hyeon’s feed. He was talking about his father. A single photo like from a film camera, showing his father’s back. In those brief words, I read some kind of sense of loss.

Kang Hyeon is an unknowable person. However, he seemed to resemble me in some ways. It was an unconscious sense of kinship.

Tap. Tap.

I still don’t know what kind of person Kang Hyeon is. I haven’t been able to figure him out.

However, he is someone who can endure hundreds of years alone. A man with strong mental fortitude.

I respect him, and I still remember him.

Tap. Tap.

Next, I read Seo Ji-woo’s feed.

│First day of Mitamnan shooting lol│

Seo Ji-woo had somehow escaped from Seo Ji-hyuk’s memory.

Perhaps it was because staying too long would be painful.

Tap. Tap….

My walking stick stopped. I discovered something at the end of the horizon.

It was ‘The Door’.

Kang Hyeon was still inside the car. He moved forward, alternately pressing the accelerator and brake.

In his memories, there was only his father.

He had no friends, nothing precious. He couldn’t understand what his life existed for, what he had lived for.

Sometimes he had such thoughts. Am I living by just adding paint over the sketch my father drew on an empty canvas….

Kang Hyeon opened the travel log. Among other people’s feeds, he found Seol Ha-woon’s.

│Looking back, I wasn’t alone│

He was talking about the departed unit members. The feed was filled with tombstones bearing their names.

Seol Ha-woon’s loss was qualitatively different from Kang Hyeon’s own.

If his own loss was losing a single pillar, Seol Ha-woon’s loss was the breaking of the elements that composed him.

He carried both the guilt of surviving alone and the responsibility of having to remember them.

Kang Hyeon empathized with Seol Ha-woon. However, he still couldn’t see into him.

To Kang Hyeon, Seol Ha-woon was an unknowable person, and because of that.

He wanted to become close to him.

Yes, wanting to become close was the right expression.

Since he had never had a single person he could call a friend in his life, he couldn’t easily understand even such feelings, but now he knew.

“….”

Kang Hyeon suddenly stepped on the brake.

No, there was no more road.

There was only one ‘Door’ there.

The Door.

Father had once talked about The Door.

The Door that exists at the end of the world, or at its beginning. I still remember Father’s words that closing that Door was our destiny.

“The Door.”

Kang Hyeon got out of the car.

Standing there, he looked up at The Door, so massive it seemed to touch the sky.

“…It’s different.”

It was different in many ways from the form of The Door Father had once described, but why did The Door suddenly appear now of all times.

Kang Hyeon placed his hand on it.

Memory Office

Kate put on the headset again. She quietly closed her eyes.

Click.

She pressed the play button.

“…We must give up.”

The memory plays. Percival gathering his men to explain the operation and convey their resolve. However, Seol Ha-woon is not there.

“Those who cannot give up.”

Kate looked at such Percival

“Will not be able to return.”

Percival’s men all saluted in unison. Percival showed them a smile.

At this moment, Kate wants to believe Percival.

Rather, the person who wanted to live here was Seol Ha-woon, and Percival was trying to stop him….

Whirrrr──.

Percival’s memory advances. Moving in the parallel world. The men chase Seol Ha-woon while simultaneously searching for a way to eliminate this labyrinth. Percival watches over his men, and also misses his daughter from afar.

Then, in some hotel room.

Click. Click.

Percival sat on the bed, repeatedly pulling and releasing the trigger of his pistol, when he suddenly looked somewhere and asked.

“Sergeant Seol. Is that you.”

From beyond the curtain, on the balcony, Seol Ha-woon revealed himself. In his black military uniform, he looked at Percival and asked.

“Colonel Percival. What do you want.”

“….”

Percival remains silent. Looking at him, he gives a low smile.

“You know too.”

At that moment Kate felt a squeezing pain in her heart.

“Don’t you feel the same way as me?”

“….”

Seol Ha-woon said nothing. He only gazed quietly at Percival.

“In this world, they live and breathe. The people we lost… the loved ones we thought we’d never see again.”

Seol Ha-woon shook his head. He conveyed the truth in a calm voice.

“The person you love is not here. They only ‘appear’ to be here.”

“…Hah.”

Percival chuckled.

“You speak well. Did you think I wouldn’t know? You also went to see your friend and unit members.”

Nevertheless, Seol Ha-woon remained composed.

“It’s fine to look. Because I know myself.”

“Then do I not know myself?”

“Because you also know yourself, Colonel, you should withdraw at this point.”

Kate gritted her teeth. Her breath stopped for a moment.

Percival drew up his magic power. The air in the room grew heavy and sank.

“What the hell are you to say you’re fine but I’m not?”

Percival was furious. Hot breath and half-twisted lips. It was a habit of Percival’s that Kate had often seen.

Seol Ha-woon offered him sincere advice.

“Colonel. We who lost them are also ourselves. To deny loss is to deny our entirety.”

Percival glared at him. Rough breathing poured out. A situation where combat could break out at any moment. Kate’s fingertips trembled.

However.

“…If what you say is true, I should stop here and turn away.”

Percival smiled faintly and shook his head.

“You’re right. Be careful of the team members. They still suspect you.”

Seol Ha-woon quietly watched him.

“Yes.”

The moment he answered, wind blew.

Whooooosh.

The curtain swayed and covered the balcony. In that instant, Seol Ha-woon concealed himself.

“…”

Percival put his hat back on. Just as he was about to turn away, the door opened.

He reflexively hid behind the wall and held his breath. Kate saw a figure entering.

It was another Percival.

The one from the parallel world seemed flushed as if he had been drinking, and was also unarmed.

Looking at that Percival’s back, Percival closed his eyes. He seemed lost in deep thought, but soon clenched his fist tightly.

Grrrrrrrind.

The sound of grinding teeth. The moment the parallel world’s Percival turned around at that clear sound.

A flash erupted from Percival’s chest.

The Gurkha. His beloved dagger had sliced across his own throat.

Splaaaaaash─!

Blood gushed forth. The fake Percival died instantly, and the real Percival threw him into the bathroom.

Percival picked up the Gurkha. Breathing roughly, he dismembered the fake’s body.

Crack!

You probably knew I would do this.

Suddenly, Percival’s voice echoed in his ears.

I never intended to persuade from the beginning.

Crack! Crack! The fake Percival’s corpse was dismembered, and the blood flowed down the hotel room’s drain.

A dismemberment murder that would never be discovered.

Percival was dead, but Percival was alive.

You knew persuasion was impossible.

At that moment, memories turned black. Some scenes flashed like a revolving lantern in the dark void.

The childhood appearance of Percival’s daughter, Edel, unfolded smoothly. The record of the growing child was cut off at some point.

And in the middle of that, someone’s photo took its place instead.

It was Kate.

I loved Kate. Not as a substitute for my daughter, but I loved the being called Kate. But…

This was Percival’s deepest heart.

Adel had to be different.

His confession to Seol Ha-woon, the only one who saw through him.

…Yes. Inevitably, she had to be different.

Kate grasped the headset on her head with trembling hands.

That child was my… real daughter.

Click.

The moment she threw off the headset while breathing roughly.

Whoooooosh──

Some cluster of light burst before her eyes and something appeared.

Kate blankly raised her head and looked at it.

There was a ‘Door’.

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