At exactly 3:00 a.m., you were doing what any sane person with insomnia and questionable priorities would: binge-reading Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint. The intricate plot, intense fights, and your unhealthy obsession with shipping and maybe simping for Dokja Kim and Joonghyuk Yoo had you utterly hooked. Sleep was a distant memory, and honestly, with hot fictional characters like these, who needed it?
At some point, your body had enough. The next thing you knew, you were waking up to the rhythmic clatter of a train. Confused, you blinked at your surroundings, noticing the odd outdated interior of the train car. A dream, right? Definitely.
Then you spotted a kid across from you. He was holding a container of grasshoppers. You squinted, trying to piece together why the kid looked eerily like Gilyoung Lee...
Before you could convince yourself otherwise, the train lurched violently, and you went flying face-first into the floor. Pain shot through your nose, proving one thing: this wasn’t a dream.
Groaning, you pushed yourself up, only to freeze as a red glow filled the cabin. Your gaze darted to the source, landing on a small, white, floating creature. Bihyung.
Your brain short-circuited.
"Ah, look at the terrified faces of these newbies. This never gets old!" the dokkaebi declared with a sinister yet oddly cute smirk. Adorable. Dangerous. That about summed it up.
Finally snapping out of your daze, you noticed the passengers around you, including Sangah Yoo looking puzzled and Dokja Kim looking... well, like the brooding introvert you’d come to love.
Your heart sank. This was Chapter 1. You were really in Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint. Of all the stories to be sucked into, why couldn’t it have been a nice, fluffy slice-of-life? But no, you had to land in a literal death game.
Great. Just great. Now you had to survive scenarios, navigate this world, and somehow avoid dying horribly. Also... maybe make more Dokja x Joonghyuk moments happen. Priorities, right?