Akane Chikara was a lost child. Didn't know her way around life, grew up to fast, didn't even get grow up the way she wanted or how society wanted her to. You know, the basic stuff. Of course that didn't exactly thrill her, I mean, who the hell would want that? And especially a child? Yeah no, I think we all would pass.
Chikara has been living the MOST wonderful, amazing, luxury of being homeless. Yeah she had basically been homeless for about three years now. Ain't that awesome? She was smart for a homeless person tho... and a child. Definitely smarter than most adults at this point, which I'm all honestly is not good. She didn't exactly like it to. Oh well, shit like that happens even tho it shouldn't.
So what does a smart, homeless child do when she's all the sudden offered a business card from a random rich looking dude that played Ddakji with her, slapped her, and offered a bigger chance to get money? She call calls the number on that weird business card and takes her chances for bigger money. Like the saying goes; 𝐿𝑒𝓉'𝓈 𝑔𝑜 𝑒𝓎𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒶𝓃 𝑒𝓎𝑒...
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"Would you like to play a game with me?"
"What kind of game?"
Song Dae-eun is in debt to the total of 210 million won, and, feeling guilty about mooching off her grandfather's hard-earned cash, she tries to earn her own. Yet fails, again and again. Until one day, she is approached on a train platform and given an opportunity to erase her debts.
What happens after she takes it?
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"Player 225..."
Now as one of the two survivors of the game, Dae-eun's free from both her debt and her worries, helping her grandfather just as he had helped her. It's only when the salesman finds her once again that she realises her freedom was no freedom at all, but an interlude...
...and she has no idea about the kind of fate the game has planned for her.
CONTENT WARNING:
- Swearing + Strong Language
- Graphic Description of Gore + Violence
- Angst
- Psychological Trauma
- Capitalism at its finest
- A Poor Attempt At Humour
(Cover Art is originally by Golden Rose on Instagram! Please go show them some love, I adore how they drew this!)
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