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… 
 
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[PUBG UNIVERSE] When Leah finally returns to her small town after five years, she doesn’t find the warm welcome she’s expecting, as she opens the door to find her father’s corpse hanging from the ceiling. The police rule it a suicide, but the longer she stays in town, the more she suspects that it was anything but. In the middle of it all is a violent book her father was writing called Battlegrounds, which has half of its pages missing. But the townsfolk don’t appreciate Leah snooping around, and there’s no limit to what they’ll do to stop her from uncovering the truth. 
 
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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)

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