This time. This time we all get out.

An improved version of the story I wrote in 2021

Gi-hun, Sae-byeok, Sangwoo, Ji-Yeong and Ali, once strangers bound only by desperation, had become something else. Survivors.

The death count had risen, yet their team remained untouched, slipping through the cracks of fate like ghosts. It wasn't luck. It was sacrifice, quick thinking, and an unspoken promise: if one of them was going to make it, all of them would.

The prize money loomed above them, stacked high in the transparent vault, a constant reminder of why they were here. But as the next game approached, they all knew the real victory wouldn't be in winning-it would be in escaping. Together.