I woke up, my head still rested on the guards shoulder, I moved my hand over to block the light "you're finally awake" i nodded "did you end up sleeping?" He shook his head, I sighed "make sure to take the day off today" I closed my eyes, too tired to keep them open "I think it'll be better if you go back to the bed room, they probably think you're dead" I quickly jumped up
ran out the door and into the bedroom "458!" 456 yelled, racing over to me "where were you last night? Everyone was worried" I rubbed my arm, looking down "I fell asleep in the washroom...haha, silly me" I peeked behind him, a very pretty girl was hanging around our group "oh her, shes sae-byeok" he pointed behind him at her "oh wait you don't know any of our names, I'm gi-hun! You know sang-woo, over there is Ali, who is talking to the old man! What's yours?" "Y/n, glad we know each other names now" we talked as we went to the group, I realized that everyone looked very exhausted, I wonder how bad it was last night "tonight we should build a barrier before going to sleep" everyone agreed I sighed as I looked up at the player count, there's 82 people left, that's a lot of people who've died, either from the honeycomb game or over night "y/n! Come sit down!" Gi-hun yelled to me
We all walked in a line into a fully white room, with a few stairs "welcome to the third game" the PA lady spoke "in this game, you'll be playing in a team" I sighed in relief, as I had 5 other people in our group, and I wouldn't have to silently wait for a team "all players, please divide into teams of ten, you have ten minutes" I quickly rushed to gi-hun, and once all of us gathered up, sang-woo spoke up "there's six of us and we need 10, so 5 of us need to find someone, we need only men, since we already have 2 girls and a old man" I looked down "everyone but the old man should go grab someone, now go" everyone quickly scattered out, besides sae-byeok, she looked around then calmly walked toward the stairs. I looked over at the old man, he was hunched over in a corner, hugging his knees, I walked over to him, even though there was a fight happening behind me, I bent over, placing my hands on my knees "you doing okay?" He slowly looked up "oh yes, just scared, last night" I sighed "yeah that was pretty scary" I sat down next to him, both of us sit in silence
At the 1 minute mark, everyone comes back, crap! I forget to pick someone, sang-woo count 9 people, but looked almost disgusted once he saw that sae-byeok brought a girl, they argued a bit, before sang-woo sighed "there's 9 people, who didn't bring someone?" I slowly raised my hand, he groaned, and before he could say anything, a lady who was pleading for her life after the first game squeezed in between me and sae-byeok "hey boys! Let me join ya! I'm great at anything besides the things I'm not!" She winked "besides you don't want these scrawny girls! One of them hooks up with her guard! Let me join ya guys!" The timer is out, so everyone just accepts it
We stood in a line in front of the door, before it opened, and we walked into the game room, we were on a platform, but there were even taller platforms in front of us, the fall was huge, I silently panicked as we sat down in front of the 4 sign "welcome to the third game" the square mask spoke "this game is, tug-a-war" my heart stopped, we're dead "you will pull on the rope on a tower, make your opponent fall, and you win "now I will draw and decide which teams go first" everyone is dead silence "I will draw for the team on the left tower" the circle mask with the black box put his hand in the box, then pulled a ball out, with the number 1 on it "team 1, please stand up" they do, the team is fully men, I held my breath "now, I will draw for the team on the left tower" the circle mask with the yellow box, pulling out a ball with the number 7, I sighed in relief as my guard rubbed my shoulder
The two teams went to there separate towers, going up onto the elevator, and once they were on the platform, they were handcuffed to the rope, I can tell from this far, that the left tower team was terrified. The square mask lifted his hand up and shot a gun, singling to go, team 1 overpowered team 7 almost immediately, screaming as they get closer and closer to the edge, and eventually fell off, everyone gasped as they dangling off the rope, before it got cut, and they fell to the ground, I could hear the sound of them hitting the ground, then the PA lady announced who died. The circle masks quickly replaced the rope, getting ready for the next match
"I will now draw for the next round" the circle mask placed his hand into the black box, grabbed a ball
With the number 4 on it
I looked around before my whole team got up
The yellow box circle mask got a ball that had the number 5 on it a team full of men, we both went to our corresponding towers, sitting in the elevator was an awful feeling, everyone else knew we wouldn't make it "don't be discouraged, tug-a-war isn't just about winning" the old man spoke "what then? Can we win by talking?" 196 mocked him "with tug-a-war, you can win with just strategy and teamwork" "the only thing that can save us now is the lord" 214 spoke, making some people sigh, 196 scoffed "you're barely standing, old man, so stop talking nonsense and focus on your strength!" "Hey, let's hear him out, it doesn't hurt anyone to have some help about this" I spoke up, which made everyone be quiet, and look at the old man
We walked into the platform, and our guards handcuffed us to our the rope "good luck" the triangle mask whispered, i took a deep breath in and clenched the rope as tightly as I could as the gun was shot, I quickly took my stance, bending all the way back, trying not to get moved in the slightest, not sure if it's tears or sweat rolling down my cheeks, soon enough, the other team put their guard down "NOW" gi-hun yelled, and we all started pulling, the other team stumbled, trying to get the rope back "Get your shit together!" They yelled, and pulled the rope fully, gaining it back, now we inches closer to the edge "do something damnit!" The lady behind me yelled "pull yourselves together and listen up! When I give the sign, take three steps forward!" Sang-woo yelled, we have nothing else to lose we might as well "go forward?!? Are you crazy?!?" The lady screamed "just listen to him!" I yelled back, the two argued for whatever time we had left "if you can't you'll die!!" Sang-woo finished the argument "I'll count to three!"
"One!
"Two!!"
"Three!!!"
We all took three steps forward, causing gi-hun to almost stumble off the edge, but making the other team fall over "PULL!" Sang-woo yelled as we quickly pulled back, groaned in agony as our hands burn trying to pull 10 men who were struggling to get up and stay put, but soon enough they fall off the edge one by one and, the rope is cut, we all fall to the ground, as the guards came to take off our handcuffs, I could now tell if I was crying or not, the guards helped everyone up and got us to the elevator safely
