Squid Games X Novels & Stories

The bright red watermelon juice immediately splashed out, spattering across my face. “Did you and Loki do this?” I looked up at her, too shocked to speak. Xia pulled the cucumber out and thrust it violently back into the watermelon again, wielding it like a large knife—pulling it out and stabbing it in repeatedly until the watermelon flesh was completely mashed. The bright red juice splattered everywhere, looking so bloody, so violent. Xia held the cucumber dripping with watermelon juice. “This is his lower part.” Then she pointed to the watermelon. “This is your lower part.” She grabbed my collar. “This is what making love is. Did you two do it?”

At first I laid my head back to the pillow, but then felt a sudden and eerie urge to look for him. Our bathroom was empty, so I proceeded into the hall where I noticed a dim light coming from the doorway of Diva’s room. I crept down the hall and peered into the crack of the door where I found Xander sitting at the edge of Diva’s bed. She was lying on her side, supporting herself against one elbow, with her face very near to his. I could see Xander’s lips moving, but couldn’t make out what he was saying over the noise from her portable stereo.

[“Sending that person away is better than losing the livelihood of everyone else—including yours. Wait, someone’s setting a video conference with me. I’ll call you again when I’m out of this meeting.” “All right. Listen well to them. Don’t make me transcribe your meeting again.” Andrea rolled her eyes, but there was a smile on her lips. She then watched the call end from Gryphon’s side. She pocketed her phone and looked at Gina, who nodded as if she knew what she had to do. …