Chapter 120: Room 107 – The Gate Room, The Third Trial (11)

– Han Kain

The group started to rack their brains.

Ought to I name it lucky?

The Jekyll and Hyde recreation felt like a variation of Mafia, and solely Grandpa Mooksung didn’t know the sport.

Whereas Grandpa Mooksung was frantically asking others about varied issues, I began asking the Moderator questions.

“How a lot are you able to reply?”

I can reply inside affordable limits. I clearly can not inform you of the identification of Hyde’s host.

What sort of affordable limits are there for such a weird recreation?

It appeared like it will simply do because it happy.

Nonetheless, the one in want right here is us, not it.

I began asking all of the questions that got here to thoughts.

“Hyde will possess considered one of us when the sport begins, proper? Can the host use their Inheritance or instruments?”

Hyde strictly adheres to the foundations of the sport. Hyde can not use a participant’s Inheritance or hurt you by any means aside from execution.

So Hyde received’t abruptly use the bracelet or Grimoire.

Understood.

Eunsol-noona shortly requested a query too.

“We’ve got to debate and discover Hyde through the day every spherical, proper? Can Hyde hear and take part in our discussions?”

A vital query.

In Mafia, Mafia members disrupted the discussions of the citizen workforce.

Hyde doesn’t take away the free will of his host. Due to this fact, Hyde can not take part within the discussions. Nonetheless, Hyde can hearken to them.

Listening to this, I started to grasp what sort of entity Hyde was.

A being that strictly adopted the foundations of the sport.

A being that didn’t rob the free will of its host.

Hyde appeared much less like a sentient being and extra like an AI created purely for the sport.

The truth that Hyde would not intrude in our discussions was a reduction.

Nonetheless, simply realizing that Hyde might eavesdrop made issues extra sophisticated.

Everybody was racking their brains, asking the Moderator varied questions in regards to the guidelines.

The half-hour handed shortly.

***

– 1st Spherical, Han Kain

-Beep!

All Jekylls, the Jekyll and Hyde recreation will now start.

The first spherical of the day begins now. All Jekylls have quarter-hour to establish and execute Hyde. The Physician can designate somebody to guard.

“…”

Grandpa Mooksung was the primary to talk.

“So Hyde or no matter it’s has possessed considered one of us?”

“That appears to be the case. However since Hyde doesn’t take away free will, even the host wouldn’t know Hyde is in them.”

Though the possibilities had been slim, I nonetheless checked out Songee.

Songee scanned us along with her bracelet.

“I can’t inform.”

“It was stated that Inheritance can’t detect Hyde. What about Perro?”

“It is arduous to speak correctly with out the Blessing, however even then, Perro has no response.”

Simply as Songee stated, Perro was in the remainder space, leisurely snacking on sunflower seeds with no care on the planet.

Watching a parrot comfortably eat sunflower seeds whereas we had been in a life-or-death state of affairs was exasperating.

Nugatory golden egg…

Since neither the bracelet nor Perro might discover Hyde, everybody remained confused

Ahri, who had been quiet up until now, broke the silence.

“Is there any level in us all consuming my blood to search out Hyde?”

“We had been advised Inheritance can’t discover Hyde.”

“I don’t perceive.”

“What don’t you perceive?”

“If Inheritance can’t discover Hyde, why permit us to make use of them within the first place?”

“…”

“In the event that they didn’t need us to make use of our Inheritance, they’d’ve sealed it too. Permitting us to make use of it however with the caveat of being unable to search out Hyde with them means…”

“They need to need us to make use of the Inheritance in methods aside from discovering Hyde,” Eunsol-noona answered.

The quarter-hour had been brief.

Lower than 5 minutes remained.

“Moderator!”

Sure.

“Is the Physician already chosen?”

Sure. The Physician is aware of they’re the Physician.

We appeared round at one another.

He lastly quieted down with a sulky look on his face.

Elena, who had been quiet, spoke.

“You are doing effectively, however Physician, please maintain your identification hidden.”

Whereas everybody was discussing their ideas, I…

Oh, shit, shit, shit! Ahhhhh!

I coated my face with each arms, regretting every little thing!

Whether or not it was luck or one thing else, Seungyub initially picked Songee!

If I hadn’t interfered, and we had executed Songee, Hyde would’ve died instantly.

We might have received the sport after which resurrected Songee, attaining an ideal ending with no sacrifices…

How did Seungyub guess so precisely?

His Blessing is sealed.

Is it pure luck?

No matter it’s, it’s irritating.

Ahri, who appeared to have related ideas, grabbed Seungyub’s arm.

“You’re the one one who can do that! At this level, your luck is past regular, the Blessing is only a bonus! Choose once more!”

Seungyub appeared overwhelmed by the stress.

If he hadn’t recognized the host would die too, he might need picked once more, however realizing the host would die alongside Hyde, he couldn’t select.

The quarter-hour had been too brief.

Right here’s what we realized from the first spherical:

The primary host was Songee.

We didn’t know the execution goal, however the Physician efficiently protected them.

That alone couldn’t inform us who the following host or goal can be.

In different phrases, we had no leads.

What are the factors for Hyde selecting a bunch and execution goal?

The 2nd spherical handed in confusion.

The solar is setting. The day is over, and Hyde’s time has come.

My consciousness pale…

***

– third Spherical, Han Kain.

As quickly as I got here to, I appeared round.

Who was it this time?

“…”

Everybody was effective once more.

The Moderator descended.

Congratulations. Hyde’s second execution failed. The Physician efficiently protected the proper goal.

The Hyde of the 2nd spherical was “Park Seungyub”. Now Hyde will transfer to a different individual.

“…”

Seungyub was shocked, and so was I.

The Physician succeeded in defending twice in a row?

The primary time might’ve been a fortunate guess.

However twice in a row?

The chances of guessing appropriately purely by luck had been very low.

I felt relieved.

As I had vaguely predicted, Hyde’s selections weren’t random.

There was a sure precedence in choosing execution targets.

Amongst us, the one chosen because the Physician by the Moderator understood Hyde’s standards for selecting targets.

Somebody who realized the identical factor spoke up.

“It appears the ‘Physician’ has figured one thing out. The issue is, we don’t know what that ‘one thing’ is…”

Grandpa, now barely extra conscious, chimed in.

“At the very least we might know who Hyde was concentrating on. Isn’t there a manner?”

The Physician would know.

They protected the individual Hyde focused.

Eunsol-noona pulled out a number of sheets of paper.

“We don’t have a lot time and might’t consider a greater manner. Because the Physician can’t overtly information us, let’s do that.”

Noona shortly wrote one thing on the papers.

Every sheet had our names and the rounds listed on them.

I instantly understood the thought.

“Everybody turns round and pretends to write down one thing. Solely the Physician ought to mark their paper. Nobody else touches theirs. Only a dot to keep away from revealing handwriting.”

A second handed.

The papers had been gathered on the desk once more.

All the opposite papers had no marks besides one, which had two /genesisforsaken