456 | Seong Gi-hun x reader (Complete)

Ch.8 Knife

~Y/n pov~

The next person jumped and fell to their death.

Then it was down to five people.

The person in front of Sang-woo bent down and seemed to be observing the glass.

Sang-woo glanced up at the time, "Move, quick. The time is running out."

"Hold on. Wait, one second. I can tell the panels apart."

I felt nervous.

We were so close to the end now.

"You can tell?"

"I used to make glass for over thirty years. You can't normally tell, but when you look at tempered glass when it's lit from the side, then you can see faint stain marks."

The man stood up and jumped safely to the next tile.

We all jumped to the next tile.

Gi-hun was still beside me but he had calmed down now and gained his composure.

"Another hint, the sound. Tempered glass is made at a heat over seven hundred degrees. Pound on it with a hammer and it rings clear than normal glass."

"Why wasn't all this brought up earlier?"
Gi-hun talked for the first time in a while.

"Why would I? Those other players tried to kill us at every chance."

He had a point.

He stood back up and jumped to the next one.

There was only one more left now.

The lights at our side of the bridge suddenly turned off.

The glass maker seemed panicked.

I glanced up at the time.

Less than a minute.

"It's too dark to see. Does anyone have an object to throw?"

Gi-hun put his hand in his pocket and handed me a marble.

I nodded and passed it forward.

The man threw it at the glass, "Anything else? I need to hear both of them."

No one else had anything.

Only twenty seconds now.

Sang-woo silently jumped onto the same tile as the man, "Then just go."

He pushed the man forward and he screamed as he smashed through the glass.

Gi-hun had a look of horror on his face, not believing what had just happened.

There was almost no time left.

"We need to go."

I told him as I jumped hurriedly to the end.

Gi-hun made it just in time.

The timer hit zero and the lights came back on.

We turned when there was a strange noise.

The glass was exploding.

I quickly turned away and shielded Gi-hun's body with mine.

A few light scratches appeared on both of our cheeks but nothing serious.

I silently gasped as a piece of glass cut into my leg.

It didn't get stuck in my leg but I knew that thI cut was pretty deep.

If it wasn't treated I could die. Especially if we had to run.

The last game was squid game, so I'll probably die.