344 – [6] Hotel California
#344
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I passed through a city full of lights and flew over a dense forest.
Because it was early in the morning, there weren’t many cars, so everything was extremely quiet.
I turned on the appropriate early morning radio.
An old pop song was playing, and Cheonma-ri opened the window and looked out.
As she sat in the backseat, there was an endless sea.
If I went straight that way, I would probably end up in Florida, USA.
A miserable state that changed from a peninsula to an archipelago due to rising sea levels.
On the other hand, it was also a place where the tourism industry became more active.
“Gangshi.”
“Huh?”
“What are you planning to do this vacation?”
“Well, that’s right. “I haven’t thought about anything in particular, but wouldn’t it be right to spend the end of the year and the beginning of the year back home in Korea?”
In the country of courtesy in the East, that was a virtue.
Enjoying and playing with family at the end of the year and the beginning of the year.
No?
Then you become a flame filial son and a flame granddaughter.
“A thousand birds?”
“I’m just afraid I won’t go.”
“Why?”
Why?
It was a statement I wanted to make.
In the first place, when she went to her house, there was no one to welcome her.
She had a great paternal grandfather, a paternal grandmother who was the original version of a thousand horses, and her key associates were also there.
“It’s obvious that I want to go back to Korea anyway…… Enjoying year-end events, being stuck at home, hanging out with family…….”
“It’s obvious. But that’s why the end of the year is better.”
“That is correct. But I’ve been through that too many times.”
Curse of the Returner.
No, it wouldn’t go as far as calling it a curse.
Something that happens rarely in life.
After experiencing so much of it, it was probably natural for me to lose interest.
Furthermore, looking at Cheonma-ri’s recent reaction, it seemed like life at the academy was quite fun.
Perhaps it was because it was my first time experiencing this.
In other words, the day academy life disappears, motivation may hit the floor.
The feeling of why I had to return to my country because it wasn’t fun, that’s exactly what my expression looked like right now.
“This year is especially…… “I also want to spend the end of the year somewhere else.”
“Grandpa and Grandma won’t like it very much.”
“It’ll be okay. “After all, they are the ones who like her granddaughter no matter what she does.”
If I leave this as is, I think I’ll call you later.
He asked where the two of us were going, could he tell me the news, and asked me to take a picture and send it to him.
“…… “Then where do you want to go?”
“Well, that’s right. “Where do you think would be better?”
Why are you asking me that?
Of course, I liked home.
It was common knowledge that it was dangerous outside the house.
On the other hand, there are a lot of annoying things.
This could be summed up in my academy life.
How much has happened in just one year?
If you think about it again, is this life at the academy?
It just feels like I’m working at an academy under the government.
“Home.”
“Not that one.”
“My house.”
“Not that one.”
“My home.”
“Not that one.”
“My Hometown.”
“Uh huh.”
Wow.
Send me home.
I’m going to a cozy home.
If it were me, I would just roll around at home, watch the money I put in my account rise, and take a good rest on a warm couch.
“I’m asking where do you think would be a good year-end travel destination?”
From my personal standards, there wasn’t a single plausible place.
It is truly tragic.
Pacific Islands?
Due to Under the Sea, rising sea levels, it was reduced to a satellite city of Bikini Bottom.
Central and South America?
Due to the nature of the thousand horses, there will be a dispute with the cartel, and a village will become a ‘nartica’.
America?
Looking at today’s banquet, it seemed like it would not be a healing trip but a trip to avoid gun accidents.
Europe of history and tradition?
Europe has made all of our German friends go crazy, so don’t worry, friends.
Then, Japan, Australia, and the UK remain…….
I thought he would say he didn’t want to go there because it was a famous place.
My intuition, having taken Cheonmagak for 12 years, was telling me that.
What Cheonma-ri wants now and forever is a place that is ‘hip’ but provides the same level of enjoyment as the academy.
In the era of globalization, there can be no place like that.
I don’t know about Charelthea.
“Personally, I want it to be a place that has some thrills but is also full of emotion.”
“Then, well, I should go to America.”
“Of course, when a fight breaks out, it would be even better if it was a place where there was no guilt even if you just beat up one person.”
“… ….”
“Ah! However, I hope it is not too backwards. “It has to be a place with good cell phones and a modern city with buildings.”
Your requirements are too specific.
It is so specific that there is no specific place on this planet that can be selected.
“…… “Mari, there is only one place you want to be.”
“Oh, where are you?”
“It’s hell. “Go to hell quickly, you psycho bitch.”
He stretched out his hand backwards to grab the head of a thousand birds that had made an unforeseen statement.
A thousand birds swooped away and ended up touching the air.
“Yes, idiot~ I will never go to hell~ If I go to hell, I will drag everyone else to hell too~”
He also added that he would drag me to the first place.
It was truly an amazing ambition.
As expected, he had the personality of a returnee.
“Ugh.”
“Anyway, if I get the chance, I’d like to go to a place like that.”
“Yes, yes…” … Even though it doesn’t exist in this reality.”
“I want to go to places like that more because they don’t exist in reality. “In the first place, dreams tend to be those that are difficult to achieve.”
“It’s not the dream that’s the problem; the intention to go to that place is too bad.”
“Heh.”
A thousand birds laughing heartily.
This guy, we have to hold on to him at all costs at the end of this year.
Looking at my current mental state, I felt like I would end up doing something unpleasant if I wandered around alone.
There were no dogs with rabies.
I seriously thought about how I could stop her nonsense.
And suddenly, an issue that I had forgotten for a while came to mind.
“Oh, that’s right. “I had something to do, but I forgot.”
“Huh? What happened?”
“That was when I was trapped underground. “I got some unusual potion.”
A potion believed to be related to temporal superpowers.
However, it was a product that was being studied for consumption and could not be consumed because it had not been verified.
So, I felt the need to talk to the graduate student who was researching it…….
After I brought it home, I put it in the storage room next to the house and completely forgot about it.
“It was something I was researching…… “Unusually, it was associated with temporal superpowers.”
“Oh, then you must have drank it?”
“No, I didn’t drink it, I just left it in the warehouse.”
“Hang? Why?”
“It was an object I was researching in the first place, and I couldn’t figure out exactly what it was. So after returning home, I thought I should go meet the graduate student who was researching it…… “I put it in storage and forgot about it.”
Of course, since I remembered it now, I just had to visit it sooner or later.
I also had the report, so it wouldn’t be that difficult to find out where he lived based on his name.
“Then, well, I guess I can go visit that graduate student during vacation. “Do you know your name and place of residence?”
“The name is Espir Vlasova. “But I don’t know where you live.”
“It seems like an unusual name. “Then you can start looking for it now.”
Cheonma-ri started gnawing on her cell phone in a very sheepish manner.
I was trying to find a year-end travel destination, but strangely, the appearance of someone in the final stages of depression was nowhere to be found.
Anyway, can I find it using my cell phone?
There is no way something like that can be found on the Internet.
“Oh!”
“What, did you find it?”
“Yes. Look at this. “This person lives in southern California?”
A map sticker embedded in one of the SNS posts believed to be hers.
When I clicked on it, the location of my house was clearly displayed.
It is true that SNS is a social evil.
This is something that I, who post every day on social media with this graduate student, can guarantee.
“But wait, I don’t think this person is a graduate student right now?”
“Huh?”
“Looking at it, it looks like they’ve been looking for jobs since this year.”
It looks like he quit graduate school after the academy attack.
The situation was so bad that the lab was abandoned.
“Isn’t this a pretty good opportunity? Since I’m unemployed, I can feel free to ask questions at any time.”
There was no need to go to reality.
I thought it would be enough to ask questions on SNS during the day.
However, her prankster Cheonma-ri didn’t seem to think that way at all.
She smiled wickedly, like Satan who found her prey.
“Ha…… California? “We should go together, right?”
“I’m not taking you with me.”
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“Uh-huh! How dare you abandon your childhood friend and go on a trip abroad! It’s Gangsi! “That is morally wrong!”
“…… What kind of moral rag are you? And do you really need to go to California? “You just have to ask on social media.”
“What? So you’re going to just blow up this great opportunity with a good cause by just chatting on social media?!”
Is there really a need to take the difficult path instead of the easy path?
I maintained my opinion that I would ask questions through SNS.
Cheonmaly clung to him as if he didn’t want to miss this opportunity to go on a trip to California.
No, she didn’t stick, she started to lash out.
“Wow~ Marie is going to California~! I’m going to hang out at the hotel with Kang Si~! “I’m going to spend my vacation fighting monsters at the California World Gate, killing passing hunters, and eating delicious food!”
“Are you a kid?!”
And as has been the case in my life up to now, there was no way for me if there were a thousand wild animals in the herd.
Eventually, after asking on social media if she could visit, she agreed to head to California.
“Hey, please sign. “Please write your name here three letters so I can book a hotel in California right after the New Year.”
“Huh? The day after New Year? “No, wait, Marie, this is the mobile version of Nartica Life Contract.”
“Marie doesn’t know that. “Please sign my phone.”
Of course, due to a strong commitment, the date was set right after the New Year.
I thought I would not be able to return to Korea this winter.
“I am an immoral person and will definitely go to hell.”
“Oh, if you go to hell for something like that, hell will already be full, right? “We’ll go to a slightly warmer soft-hell, so don’t worry.”
Anyway, you’re going to hell.
What’s different?
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The anti-gravity car slowly descended from the sky.
When I arrived at my destination, I snapped my fingers a few times.
“We have arrived.”
“Where are you?”
A place where modern buildings, old buildings that you only see in history books, and shantytowns where the poor live are mixed together.
This was the San Juan Black Market, where I had previously come to purchase mysterious ingredients.
It was the perfect place to share bad stories.
Of course, it was a good place to hang out, but it wasn’t a good place.
Cheonmaly stared at me as if asking if this was right or where on earth we were going to talk in a place like this.
“…… Anyway, that’s true. “There was no need to choose such a gloomy place as a date spot.”
“You asked me to choose. “Hurry up and get off.”