I've Been Possessed, But What If I Get Pregnant First? - C50
#50
Bang bang-
Gasp. I must have fallen asleep. I woke up with a start at the sudden sound of someone pounding on the door as if to break it.
Could it be a drunk person? It’s not Taebeom, right?
Worried, I grabbed my pounding heart and locked the door. The rusted, faded doorknob was flimsy, but better than nothing…. As I locked the doorknob and took a step back, someone pounded on the front door again as if to break it.
“Wh- Who is it?”
“Uh, student. Can you open the door for a mo- moment?”
When I asked in a trembling voice, I heard the owner’s voice from outside. What is it at this hour…?
Did he remember the broken boiler?
With a puzzled mind, I opened the door with the firmly locked doorknob still in place. Through the narrowly opened door, the owner spoke urgently with a pale face.
“I checked and the bo- boiler in this room is indeed bro- broken.”
As I thought, the boiler was really broken. No wonder it didn’t seem to be getting warm. The inside of the room was still too cold. It was hardly any different from the hallway, making my body, which had already showered with cold water, start to shiver.
“So I’m saying, I’ll change your room. To the be- best room, okay?”
“It’s fine. I already washed up.”
It was strange for him to suddenly offer to change rooms at this late hour. He’s not telling me to pay more, is he? I tensed up, grabbed the doorknob tightly, and declined the offer. Then the owner abruptly stuck his hand through the door crack and grabbed my hand.
“Wh- Why are you-“
“Huh? Even just seeing my sincerity. It’s too cold here, and the room is a bit, you know. Student, please…”
I was flustered by the owner nearly sobbing. What should I do… But it’s suspicious for him to suddenly act like this…
As I pressed my lips together, the owner hurriedly placed another key in my hand.
“Here, I’ll give you this key, so go sleep there. You can che- check out whenever you want. Th- Think of it as your home and sleep comfortably. I’m doing this because I’m really sorry. You un- understand, right student?”
The owner’s face, even his hands trembling, was full of desperation. Is he really doing this because he’s sorry…?
“Then you’re saying you changed my room?”
The man looked at me with pleading eyes as if wanting a definite answer. When I had no choice but to nod, the man disappeared downstairs without looking back.
“What do I do now?”
I stood alone in the room and looked around once. The bed that didn’t function properly, the hideous curtains hanging around, the long cobwebs stretched here and there, even the cockroaches roaming the floor as if it were their home.
The motel owner’s attitude bothered me a bit, but a better room than this seemed like it would be better for both me and the baby. In the end, I made up my mind to move and left the room.
“Huh…? Room 2001?”
The key ring had the number ‘2001’ written on it. Plus, unlike the room 201 key, the 2001 key looked suspiciously flawless as if it were new.
‘This building didn’t seem that tall…? Could it be they wrote 201 wrong, no this is 201.’
I blinked and looked around in confusion. That’s when I noticed an A4 sheet, no an A2 sheet, attached to the wall right across from the front door.
[How to get to Room 2001.]
“…What the heck, I thought you were changing my room… What do you mean changing the building…?”
The guide with ‘How to get to Room 2001’ written in large letters had a hotel about a 6-minute walk from the current Sea Motel as the final destination.
It was strange from the moment he suddenly said he’d change my room. The owner’s suspicious behavior and this guide that anyone could see was hastily made. This was indeed a trap. Under the pretext of changing rooms, he would surely demand an enormous additional fee. In this situation that was too strange, I hurriedly went down the stairs to the counter.
“Excuse me, o- owner-“
When I reached out my hand to tap on the small window, a hastily scribbled note caught my eye inside the window.
[Away for the time being.]
“What the heck, really…?”
I even thought that maybe the owner was doing something weird in addition to the extra cost. It’s better to just stay in the original room. Feeling icky, I hurried up to the 2nd floor. But in that short time, whatever he did, no matter how much I inserted the key, the door wouldn’t open.
“Sigh… What is going on.”
They say you suffer when you leave home. Now that it started to rain a little, my mood became even more gloomy. I crouched under the fluorescent light that kept flickering on and off unstably for a long time, with nowhere to go.
“No, I need to sleep quickly for tomorrow.”
Then I suddenly felt it was a waste of time to spend it like this. Tomorrow I had to find a job and go to the places written in Cha Yuwon’s diary. I had a mountain of things to do.
“Tsk…. Right. It’ll work out somehow. They wouldn’t… kill me, right?”
With a sudden surge of confidence, I got up from my spot, full of determination.
“It’s okay baby. I learned things from Tae- no. Um… your father…? Anyway, don’t worry because I learned from that person. If anything happens, I’ll just stab their vital points.”
I muttered, trying to reassure the baby or myself, wrapping my body with both hands at my dropping body temperature. I tore off the guide attached to the wall and slowly went down the stairs.
“Oh my, I bought two umbrellas without realizing. I have no choice but to throw one a- away. I hope someone who needs it uses it instead of me.”
At the motel entrance, someone put down one umbrella on the ground and left. They’re leaving an extra umbrella? I was worried I’d have to wear my clothes inside out because raindrops were starting to fall one by one, so this is great.
I picked up the umbrella left by the man whose back was all I saw and laughed, hehe. I guess bad things don’t always happen. I walked following the guide, using the bright yellow umbrella I liked. I could easily find my way with the flashy exterior visible even from afar.
Before entering the hotel, I stopped by a nearby convenience store and purchased pepper. This was truly a precaution for unforeseen events. If nothing happens, I can use it as a cooking ingredient. I took a deep breath, tightly gripping the pepper, and entered the hotel.
“It’s not really a scam, right?”
Now I had 425,000 won left… I wonder how much a night’s stay is here…
When I was thinking about the money I had left in front of the hotel lobby, a kind-faced man approached me.
“Are you the one who came from Sea Motel?”
“Y- Yes, that’s me….”
Looking at the name tag on the man’s chest, he was actually the hotel manager.
“We’ve been waiting for you. Please follow me this way.”
Someone like him is waiting for me…? I followed the manager in a dumbfounded state. I looked around, gripping the end of my jacket with a nervous heart. Fortunately, there didn’t seem to be any suspicious people…
Ding-
Perhaps because it was a nice hotel, the elevator was also high-speed. I blinked a few times and it was already the 20th floor.
“Um… but there isn’t someone wai- waiting for me inside… right?”
When I asked with a tense face, the man smiled softly as if to reassure me and said in a small voice.
“Don’t worry. I was informed in advance that only one person is staying in Room 2001 tonight.”
“Is that so…?”
Even with his detailed explanation, I trailed off unsatisfied, so the man added.
“If you’re still worried, I can set the front door lock to manual. Then no one can enter from outside at all.”
“Ah…! Then please do that. Thank you.”
The manager, who changed the lock setting to manual as soon as I entered the room, bowed 90 degrees and left the room. Still feeling doubtful, I knocked on the front door myself a few times and it looked very sturdy.
Only after tugging on the tightly locked door several times and completing this and that check did the worry that had settled in a corner of my heart completely disappear. Now feeling relieved, the tension loosened. I spun around the spacious room and let out a happy shout.
“This is awesome!!”
By the way, the motel owner. He must have felt really sorry to me…?
He didn’t have to do this much. Thinking of the owner with a very kind heart, contrary to my first impression, I looked out the window. Perhaps because the beach was right in front, I could see the ocean through the dim light even though it was dark. I was so captivated by the beautiful scenery, then I came to my senses and looked around the hotel room.
“Wow- this is way too nice…”
The room was so spacious that I felt regretful about sleeping alone. After looking around for a bit, I laid my tired body on the living room sofa. I liked the spacious living room that caught my eye at once and the bed big enough for three people. No matter how I think about it, this room is too nice.
As the tension disappeared and my frozen body began to melt like snow in the warm air, hunger came next.
“Huh, where is that delicious smell coming from.”
I moved my feet, sniffing because a delicious smell was coming from somewhere. The room was so spacious that it was divided into a bedroom, a small kitchen, and a living room.
“…Is this prepared for me to eat?”
As soon as I had that thought, I noticed a memo saying [Welcome Food] next to the food.
It’s too much to call it welcome food. What kind of welcome food has lobster, steak… and shine muscat? The shine muscat was even placed on dry ice.
“Could this be…!”
Narrowing my eyes at the utterly suspicious situation, I held my breath and carefully examined the room.