In the distant future, people live in abundance in the Retreats, a so-called Paradise on Earth. This prosperity is made possible at the expense of an impoverished underclass in the surrounding slums of Brine, who must either serve the citizens of the Retreats or fight in the dreaded Battlegrounds for a shot at becoming a Retreats citizen. For Brine resident John Canty, whose father and grandfather died in the Battlegrounds, the desire to rise to the Retreats seems like a hopeless pipedream. All that changes when his new job takes him into the Retreats and he encounters Edward, a boy who looks identical to his own son Gable… (Source: WEBTOON)
Armed only with a gun and a frying pan, Ho-Yeong Cheon must survive Battlegrounds: a battle-royale style game with 100 participants, where there’s only one way to win: kill the 99 other players, all of them death-row convicts. Ho-Yeong has another objective besides survival, though -- he must find an assemblyman who was captured while investigating the game, and is now an unwilling participant. Can Ho-Yeong complete his mission on an island with 99 people willing to kill to survive, and emerge the last one standing? (Source: WEBTOON, edited)
