Tsukuyo23
"I will paint you a tomorrow," Gyeong-seok (Player 246) promised Hyun-ju (Player 120) as their world crumbled into the brutality of the games. "Just survive, and I will show you a quiet place."
After a failed rebellion in Season 2, Gyeong-seok is presumed dead. But upon being rescued, he is forced to confront a devastating truth: eight black boxes hold the bodies of the fallen, including Hyun-ju-the woman whose strength as a former sergeant and vulnerability as a trans woman became his reason to fight, and the love he never dared to name.
Discovering her body and a final letter addressed to him shatters Gyeong-seok's world, plunging him into a darkness of guilt and rage. While Jun-ho and Woo-seok grapple with the loss of Gi-hun, Gyeong-seok must choose between succumbing to the consuming thirst for vengeance or honoring Hyun-ju's last request: to live, to paint their quiet place, and to find a peace for them both in a world that stole their future.
A story about love blooming in hell, the weight of words left unspoken, and the legacy of a promise painted in the colors of memory.
Serie and characters are not mine, rights to its autor and creator