June Noir

After his partner was brutally murdered and the killer evaded all legal consequence, Yoonseok chose to mete out his own brand of justice—a reckless decision that cost him his freedom. Now, he is no longer his own man, but a broken instrument wielded by a corrupt prosecutor, sent again and again into the underworld's most dangerous dens. His body is bartered and violated by criminals as a transactional price for intelligence, his flesh a currency spent in the pursuit of evidence. Reduced to a hollow shell, Yoonseok drifts through each mission in a numbing haze, his only quiet comfort the hope that one of these assignments will finally grant him the end he craves. That fragile resignation shatters when his investigation brings him into the orbit of Baek Gitae, a gangster whose reputation for violent sadism is matched only by his utter lack of restraint. Something about the brute's cold cruelty cuts through Yoonseok's detachment, igniting a visceral, unsettling reaction he cannot name. As Baek Gitae's predatory attention zeroes in on him, Yoonseok is forced to confront a terrifying paradox: is he unconsciously steering toward this monster's brutality as a way to externalize his inner torment and punish himself for surviving his partner? Or has his fractured psyche, starved for any sensation besides grief, begun to crave the very degradation that should break him? The more Yoonseok lingers in Baek Gitae's shadow, the more the line between self-destruction and dark compulsion dissolves, leaving only the question of which impulse will consume him first.