Is Jiseong genuinely interested in Ideum like that or is this genuinely a case where he thinks he can just take anything he wants from Jaeyi, because of how passive Jaeyi had become after realizing his parents attention was always just revolving around Jiseong? Like, we all saw the blush and him imagining Ideum naked and what not. Did he give him the scar tape to just see what he would look like shirtless or because he a was trying to be nice? I, unfortunately, think Ideum is going to continue seeing Jiseong as a friend and Jiseong is going to try anything to get him further and further away from Jaeyi, especially now after seeing how Jaeyi reacted. I guess the only good thing that we can hope for is that Jaeyi will come to his senses a little quicker and finally admit he has feelings for Ideum.
i think jiseong's intentions are anything but pure. like jaeyi said its just a case of ideum "catching his eye". i think jiseong's sexual curiosity about ideum also stems from his superiority/power complex towards jaeyi in a way. cause his approach would not be this aggresssive and provocative had his interest been genuine. after what went down this chapter i hardly think jiseong and ideum can be friends unless their intention is mutual and platonic. but yeah i agree with you about ideum continuing to see and meet with jiseong out of wabting to keep a distance between himself and jaeyi as per their "no feelings" fwb deal if nothing else and this i hope will turn the spark of jealousy or possessiveness in jaeyi into a full fledged realization and confession of feelings from jaeyi. and also help him get over the passive surrendering and give up before the fight attitude he has developed as a trauma response against the blatant emotional neglect he faced.
ONE OF YOU GUYS PLS PLS PLS STEP IN. DO SOMETHING BEFORE THAT BITCH CAUSES IRREPARABLE DAMAGE! Haesoo is literally being hit from all sides. We got Minshit harassing her, evil bro playing mind games with deceitful texts, coworkers talking behind her back because of Minshit’s actions, now this fucking bitch is coming after her because she’s so deep in Minshit’s lies about how Haesoo is the one going after him and not the other way around. Please fuck out of here you deranged psychotic bitch. When will Haesoo and Taeha finally get a fucking break???
Okay. So, Doha knows how to end the game. We know this, because he found that piece of paper that he or Seongchan probably wrote during their past/original memory/tape save, and tears it up so Bada doesn’t find it. He also keeps manipulating the game and other players, so that Bada doesn’t find clues to bring the game towards completion. Bada is an NPC, like the NPC that Seongchan, a player, taught to guard the room with all the tapes and the multi-tape player. Bada is there to help the players along the way so they can complete the game, just like the other NPC. It doesn’t matter if Bada’s memory is wiped and a new save tape is made, Bada always figures out or finds something new to keep progressing the game. I.e. Bada is the key towards completing the game. Here’s what I’m thinking. Seongchan stopped playing all the other players tapes, so he could go off on his own and finish the game by himself. The only thing that he didn’t take into mind was the fact that Bada would possibly start or stop other tapes from playing. I have a feeling that Bada somehow stopped all the other remaining players tapes through his attempts of trying to escape the game (when he would find a tape and then put it in a tape player), then at some point restarted Seongchan’s last play-through and one of Doha’s early/mid-game play-throughs. I have a very bad feeling that Seongchan is hiding a very big secret. Kind of like how, in Wreck-It Ralph, King Candy is actually Turbo from TurboTime that changed the code in Sugar Rush to take over Vanellope’s role as the ruler in the game, and basically erase her/cause a glitch in the game? What if Bada is the true player of the game and has now become an NPC, because the actual NPCs became sentient and switched their “code” with Bada’s? What if Seongchan found out that only one person, the player that completes the game, is the only person that will be able to leave the game? Maybe Doha found this out as well, and, at first, wanted to manipulate Bada into helping him finish the game, but then decided to abandon the idea altogether, due to his growing obsession for Bada. Would that count as some kind of a reverse Stockholm syndrome kind of thing? Idk fam, I’m just here hoping that this isn’t just someone completely random playing the game, and what we are witnessing is their multiple play-throughs/game saves.
Is the black haired guy competing to take everything away from the blonde haired guy/putting up a fight? Not sure what’s happening, but from the looks of it, black haired guy is very skilled and did not seem to be a “nerd” in the past. He got average grades, had a lot of friends, and ended up being just like everyone else towards blonde haired guy. Was he putting on the “nerd” act to attract the MC? Idk why, it just feels too calculated, and I don’t like it. From skimming, I feel like the blonde haired guy is just trying to put on a “cool guy” mask to feel valid enough to stand next to/be with the MC? We see that since they were freshman, MC is highly sought after and there is a lot of hostility from upperclassmen towards blonde haired guy for getting closer to her. We also see that since he was younger, he’s had a hard time making friends. We can say that he’s spoiled and a snob for acting out/not wanting to be friends with people that “aren’t as smart as him,” but deep down, I feel like one of the downsides to being an introvert is that you push everyone away from you even though you want to be thought of/have friends of your own. That’s why, when black haired guy came to/transferred into the blonde haired guy’s school, blonde haired guy thought that he would finally have the chance to make a friend, but since he never built a relationship with anyone before, he reverted back to the same tactics that pushed everyone away to begin with again. I know he’s acting like a jerk sometimes around the MC, but idk, I kinda feel bad/sorry for him.










I genuinely don’t understand how he didn’t see that coming. The old fuck is really a nasty and vile creature.