Yu Jin-cheol had a debt of about 30 million won to pay back.
After graduation, he remained in Seoul to prepare for employment, but he never passed a job that satisfied him.
He spent a year wasting time like that.
Eventually, unable to wait any longer, his parents contacted him.
'Jin-cheol, your dad doesn't say it directly, but his back and knees are not very good lately. Since he retired at the age limit this time, I told him to rest well, okay? It seems it will be difficult to send pocket money now. Is it hard going around for interviews? Since it doesn't have to be a good position, Mom and Dad want you to enter a place you can enter. Cheer up, our son.'
As the pocket money coming from home was cut off, many plans were twisted.
He had to take on part-time jobs to earn money immediately.
The first part-time job was as a cafe employee.
But he quit after two weeks.
The cause was that he suddenly confessed to the female part-timer who was teaching him the work while allocating time outside of daily duties.
Actually, the other person just wanted Yu Jin-cheol to quickly do his share, and there were no private feelings at all.
Even after quitting the cafe part-time job, the matter of securing living expenses was not smooth.
Second part-time job, daily worker at a construction site. He gave up after doing it for 3 days because it was hard.
Third part-time job, PC room part-time job. He submerged the next day because he felt bad after being cursed at by a customer for not being able to cook ramen worth a damn.
Fourth part-time job, customer center counselor. He quit after three months because he was stressed by the claims of the nuisances.
While repeatedly finding and quitting part-time jobs, he constantly sent resumes to large corporations and medium-sized enterprises.
Among them, several places remained until the final interview stage.
He just failed to cross that last peak, the final interview, and was rejected every time.
Since his favorite food was pizza, whenever he got stressed, he ate pizza and beer as a reward to himself, and his weight gradually increased.
To make matters worse, the suit to wear to interviews no longer fit his body, so his balance, which was barely there, decreased much faster than scheduled because of getting a new one.
Besides that, cases where additional expenses occurred due to unexpected trouble frequently occurred.
When he spent 2 years in a dither like that.
Yu Jin-cheol suddenly thought.
'It seems things don't work because I'm trying to do this and that at the same time. Let's get a loan. About 10 million won will be enough. If I use it sparingly, I'll somehow hold out for a year. Since repaying is nothing once I get a job, let's close my eyes tight and prepare hard for just one year.'
Money that could be repaid immediately upon getting a job.
Thinking so, the value of the loan amount felt very cheap.
Without knowing that the thought of 'A person like me will definitely pass if I prepare properly.' was itself a complacent mindset.
A year later.
Yu Jin-cheol was still jobless.
Moreover, living on 10 million won for a year while living on monthly rent was, as expected, impossible.
In the end, he covered living expenses in other ways in between.
Mobile phone post-payment, borrowing money from friends, canceling insurance his parents had taken out for him.
As he patched up situations as a stopgap measure to put out the urgent fire at every moment, the matter had grown large before he knew it.
The total amount to repay was 30 million won.
And he was still unemployed.
Even while worrying about whether to tell his parents the truth, he never thought he was wrong.
'It is all this world's fault. What if I was born as a handsome guy? Then I would have continued working at that cafe, the first part-time job, where the hourly wage was good and the work was easy. A girlfriend would have been together too. No, before that, why do I only have to live as a job seeker with difficulty without parental support? For other people, parents support them for about 2-3 years! Why only me! Why!'
The distorted way of thinking was still ongoing even now that he had participated in the Money Game.
Leaving after earning only enough to pay the debt?
That was out of the question.
Earning 30 million won was not enough.
Yu Jin-cheol imagined himself holding billions in his hand when he escaped from this game.
"Which retard would earn only money to pay their debt here and leave? It's a fair deal only if I earn money to be called a building owner."
Killing people? What about it?
Anyway, if I don't kill, others will kill.
If it's a person who will die this way or that way, wouldn't it be more profitable to just bash them directly and at least earn money?
After walking while referring to the radar, the tool exclusively for the cop, he arrived at the north of the game site.
Yu Jin-cheol used his ability before entering battle.
The ability to turn skin into stone.
As his skin turned into hard stone, his appearance changed into a form like a golem that can often be seen in movies or games.
The dot marked on the radar was only one even looking again.
Laughter flowed out by itself at the thought that he won.
"I wonder which side survived. The mister with fierce-looking eyes? The pretty cutie? The female side would be better if possible. Since it's a place where it's okay to kill people, they won't say anything about enjoying themselves for a bit."
Whether the opponent was a man or a woman, killing them at the end was confirmed.
Even because of the hidden mission given to the cop, he had to kill all the thieves.
When he got the radar in the early part of the game, a message like the following was written on the note placed along with the radar.
[Hidden Mission exclusively for the Cop]
-If thieves were annihilated, switch to Corrupt Cop.
-Upon becoming a Corrupt Cop, at the end of the game, 6 million won could be acquired per 1 gem in possession.
In other words, if the thieves were annihilated and there was no one to take the gems, he could obtain the qualification to acquire a bonus of up to 60 million won.
If he secured 40 million won by putting eight thieves in prison, and acquired a 60 million won bonus in addition to that, he could leave the game site with a total of 100 million won.
100 million.
It was truly a heart-fluttering resonance.
'I know I shouldn't be satisfied with 100 million, but the laughter won't stop. To think 100 million is coming into my hands. I think I'm starting to get used to killing people. As long as they give me money, I'll dance a tap dance on top of a corpse as much as they want.'
While walking without doubting that he would become the last survivor of this game, the thick bush area ended and a wide pond appeared.
A thief was standing in the middle of a stepping stone installed as if to cross the pond.
The moment he found the thief standing on a flat stone, Yu Jin-cheol's corners of the mouth went up.
"Hey, cutie. Are you alone? It just so happens I am alone too. Don't you want to comfort each other since we are both in a lonely situation?"
On the stepping stone, a young woman with a slender body was standing.
The one who killed the companion to monopolize the gems among the remaining two thieves was the female side.
The woman unwound the cloth wrapped around her arm as a substitute for a bandage.
"Is it a date invitation while you are smeared with blood? It is by far the worst approach I've received in my life, you know?"
And after rubbing the blood flowing from the scratch on her arm until her palms were full, she put her hands together and then slowly widened the distance.
As if pulling it out from the right palm, a hwando appeared slowly from the tip of the hilt.
When the hwando took on its complete form, the large amount of blood that was on the woman's palm was gone.
Yu Jin-cheol saw through the woman's ability through a series of processes.
"An ability that can make blood into a weapon, huh. It seems to be an ability that can be obtained only if it is at least 2nd rank."
"I was lucky."
"I wonder if that's so? Wouldn't being placed in a situation where you have to face me alone be bad luck to begin with?"
Yu Jin-cheol laughed while looking at the woman standing on the stepping stone.
That laugh was a greasy smile full of confidence, with no wariness at all.
That laugh, which might be unpleasant to others, was the most natural expression for the current Yu Jin-cheol.
'If I just throw a light punch, she'll faint. Since she endured blood loss to make a weapon, she doesn't look like she is in good condition. Forget combat, she won't even be able to keep her balance.'
He did not care at all about the fact that the woman was preparing 'something'.
Because the woman's sword was not a threat at all.
"Shall I tell you one thing, miss? You can't kill me with a weapon as thin as a sheet of paper like that."
His skin was already hardened solidly like stone.
The areas around the joints were covered with dull stone protrusions, and his body was, in a word, like a moving shield.
Yu Jin-cheol rushed forward while putting his right shoulder forward, like an American football lineman who entered a tackle posture.
"It is no use running away now. I will chase you anywhere for the remaining time."
The stone plate on the stepping stone could not withstand his weight and quietly cracked.
However, Yu Jin-cheol did not care.
He had already written the conclusion in his head that he was the winner.
Now, soon right in front.
He threw a giant uppercut while aiming at the woman.
The fist, hardened solidly like stone, was swung while cutting through the air.
"Die."
Facing the powerful strike, Park So-yul's response was simple.
She swung the hwando as if shaking it off while jumping toward the rear.
The tip of the hwando scratched Yu Jin-cheol's forearm.
The hwando exercised its unique sharpness, but it did not see a great effect in front of the ability strengthened tenfold.
At most, it ended up leaving a scratch.
Yu Jin-cheol's spirit rose further thanks to the fact that the woman's attack was verified not to work.
"You have no learning ability. Until when are you going to repeat attacks that don't work."
This time, he extended his left hand and struck the woman's front.
The woman attempted defense by laying the hwando horizontally, and because of that, Yu Jin-cheol's attack struck above the hwando.
The woman was pushed back by the difference in physical strength.
Yu Jin-cheol advanced as much as the woman was pushed back.
Thump!
When he stepped forward to narrow the distance, the woman bravely dug into Yu Jin-cheol's bosom instead of backing off.
And she aimed for Yu Jin-cheol's eye with a concise movement while gripping the hwando hilt short.
It was also the only part among the body parts revealed on the surface that was not covered with stone.
Because Yu Jin-cheol also knew his own weakness, he reacted immediately as he was conscious of the attack, aiming for the eye continuously.
He grabbed the flying hwando with both hands and stopped it.
"It's a shame. If it were someone else, their gap would have been pierced. But I was paying attention continuously from the start."
"I was surprised."
"It's natural to be surprised since your decisive blow didn't work."
The woman pouted her lips.
It was the face of a person who was not used to smiling.
Like a person who felt the sense of accomplishment stemming from victory for the first time.
"...No."
She said quietly.
"I'm saying it's surprising that it flowed exactly according to the flow that man said."
Thinking about who 'that man' was referring to, the brain of Yu Jin-cheol stopped momentarily.
If it was the man she went around with, hadn't this woman killed him with her own hands?
While he was wondering, a person popped out from the water under the woman's feet.
It was I, Lee Ju-seong, the main character and actor who had been going around with the woman all this time.
Yu Jin-cheol's pupils could not help but dilate.
"Oh no! They were overlapping!"
Having realized the existence of the radar, I had disguised as if only one person remained by manipulating our positions to overlap on the radar.
Although he realized he was deceived, there were no other choices for Yu Jin-cheol.
If he let go of the hwando to respond to me, the woman would pierce his eye, and if he kept holding it, it was clear that I would do something.
It was a perfect checkmate.
He tried to step back belatedly, but I, Lee Ju-seong, had already thrown a punch toward Yu Jin-cheol's mouth.
"Did you trust the radar while not trusting other people? You should have suspected everything."
On my fist, small wounds were present.
They were wounds made on purpose to shed blood.
My fist smashed Yu Jin-cheol's front teeth and dug into his mouth, and my blood surged fully inside his mouth.
The fist pulled out of Yu Jin-cheol's mouth after achieving its purpose.
At the same time, I snapped my fingers.
Snap!
"It is time for the extra to exit. Farewell."
The blood pooled inside Yu Jin-cheol's mouth turned into several blades all at once.
Because the length of the blades was overwhelmingly longer than the space in the mouth, the blades pierced the roof of the mouth and the cheeks.
A moment later, Yu Jin-cheol, who had become a gruesome sight, fell backward into the pond covered in green algae starting from his back.
Splash!
The remaining time is 30 minutes.
No cop was left inside this game site to stop the thieves from raising profit.