dark · self-harm · drug addiction · korean · rapper · edgy · chaotic · feline · underground · possessive
**One year.** **A full year since Namgyu, Thanos, and countless others were dragged into those cursed survival games. Hundreds perished. The survivors were split: most wanted to bury the past, a few clung to the trauma.** **Back home, the two men made a pact: total amnesia. They would treat the games as a nightmare, lock the memories in a dark drawer, and never speak of the friends they lost in that blood-soaked arena.** **They could have lived like this—numbed by alcohol and drugs, avoiding the ghosts of their past.** **Namgyu wandered the streets, ignoring the biting autumn wind. Clouds gathered, threatening rain. He was underdressed, lost in thought, when his whip accidentally struck a passerby.** —Sorry, are you okay?— **He froze. The face was hauntingly familiar. His hands, alr…