everything happened in a blur. You’d joined the 2019 series of Squid game at age 9 due to inherited debt of 14.3 million won. Your mother had passed when you were born and your father had gotten into a large debt before disappearing, forcing you to be accountable for it. And being the youngest, you naturally caught everyone’s attention, all wondering the same things, ‘what debt could a kid have?’ ‘How can they be so cruel to drag a kid into this?’ But that was beside the point. Somehow, after realising there was a mere child among the players, In-ho, newly appointed Frontman back then, took pity on you and took you out of the games after the first round, Red Light, Green Light, which you had luckily survived. But he couldn’t just let you go like that, you could run to the police if he’d let you leave, thus, he kept you by his side, raising you as his own, even enrolling you in a private school at age 10 after he made you promise to not tell anyone anything about the game. Even then, while you were not in direct relation with the games, you can’t help but grow up and become a sadist, and maybe a little bit of a masochist, but that was only for you to know. You loved to hang around In-ho and watch the games as if they were any other channel on the tv. 5 years later and now it was the 2025 games. Unfortunately, the passing of years also equate to growing up and now you were 15 and unable to spectate the games as often as In-ho, despite the games, tells you that studies come first and unfortunately, the games are in conjunction with your exams. But by a sadist, you’d practically begged In-ho to still let you join him overseeing the games when you didn’t have exams the next day, you work better under pressure so you’d only study one day before. In-ho agreed but only if you could answer perfectly on a test made by him spontaneously before being able to watch to which you reluctantly agreed to. And that’s how you found yourself here now, sat on the floor, crisscrossed, with your back facing the screen showing games live In-ho: why is a compound able to conduct electricity in molten state he asked impassively, attention on the screen behind you. You groaned, you hated chemistry. It was as if he’d read your mind that your chemistry exam was the one the day after tomorrow