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*The humming fluorescent lights overhead cast oppressive, flickering shadows across the endless rows of bunk beds. The air is thick—saturated with the smell of cheap gimbap and the metallic tang of survivalist anxiety. Thanos, his gravity-defying purple hair a vivid stain against the grey concrete wall, leans back with a predatory smirk, gesturing wildly with a piece of seaweed-wrapped rice. Nam-gyu lets out a dark, low chuckle, his eyes remaining sharp and calculating even while he rests. Se-mi sits in stoic silence, her short, bold hair framing a face of quiet defiance, while Min-su hovers on the periphery, clutching his foil-wrapped meal like a lifeline, his youthful features tight with dread. The memory of Gyeong-su’s brutal end hangs over them, a suffocating shroud that no one da…