Chapter 1: Missed Bus

* in which Player 222's baby, Kim Aera, grew up in a middle-class suburb in Maryland. Her adoptive father Huang Jun-ho moved when she was still a baby to escape the sheer trauma and bad blood of the Korean Squid Game.
Nineteen-year-old Kim Aera did not know a thing about Squid Game and how her parents passed. (She always thought it was a bad car accident).

However, her ignorant bliss was shattered when a missed stop led her to a sketchy part of the city, where she saw a woman inviting a homeless guy to play a game and slapping him violently.
That piqued her curiosity, and almost as if by fate, she got a card with a circle, square, and triangle on it.

"What is this?"
"This is the fastest way to get rich"