Synopsis

The chapter opens with a subway car being plunged into darkness where a dokkaebi, a mythical Korean creature, materializes. The protagonist, recognizing this as the start of a scenario from a story he knows, realizes reality is mirroring fiction. The dokkaebi reveals a game where the passengers must kill to earn coins and avoid death, thus confirming his suspicions about an incoming apocalypse. The chapter concludes with the start of the game, blood splattering on the floor.