after dark, 𝐒𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐃 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 [✓]

𝟎𝟏𝟎. partners

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· 。ﾟ୧ ⋆. 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗦. ₊˚.༄
ACT ONE  ━━━  CHAPTER TEN,
❝ i never thought you'd ask ❞

          𝓐 very loud blaring noise was what woke Ji-Yoo up the next morning. For some odd reason, she slept so well last night. Usually, she would've woken up in the middle of the night from paranoia but she didn't.

She slept like a baby.

"What the hell is that sound?!" She mumbled tiredly as she shot up from the bed.

Meanwhile, Hwang Joon-ho managed to sneak into an office, presumably the office of the person who's managing the whole game.

He had a tight grip on his gun, making sure to turn and aim it in every direction in defense.

Facing a door, he quietly and quickly opened it, immediately lifting his gun once again. He stepped through the door and went down the stairs, only to end up in a storage room filled with the archives he was looking for.

He turned on his flashlight, roaming around the small room as he went on a mission to find the correct files.

LIST OF PLAYERS, 1999 — was what it said.

Realizing that there was recorded information about the players every time the game went on, he opened the book and flipped through the pages, hoping the information about his brother was also recorded.

Seeing that it was the wrong one, Joon-ho began to look through the shelves.

Finding the current year, he took a book with the number '2020' on it and flipped through the pages with his flashlight in his mouth.

Only one name was stuck, repeating in his mind.

'456. NAME: Seong Gi-hun' was what it said on the last page of the archive book.

Joon-ho exhaled sharply once he stood back up. He flashed his flashlight around, stopping when he spotted a box resting in a drawer. The same box he found in In-ho's apartment.

He opened the drawer and took the small black box with a pink ribbon on it. Taking off the lid, he directed the light of his flashlight to it.

ROUND 6. LIST OF WINNERS.

Scanning through the list, his gaze fixed on the 2015 winner.

2015, 28TH SQUID GAME | PLAYER 132, HWANG IN-HO

"Hwang In-ho," Joon-go whispered and gasped.

He quickly ran to the section of the 2015 Squid Game files. 'LIST OF PLAYERS 1, 2015' was what the book he took wrote.