Three (Samshik)

*Not to be confused with Hayeong Lee whose identity it took or the variant Three, who goes by the same name.*

## Three / Samshik

* Hayeong Lee
* Employee

### Alias

Samshik
Hayeong Lee
The mischevious trickster

### Last Appearance

Ep. 48 (SB)

**Three** (써드, *Sud*), written as **03** but better known as **Samshik** (삼식, *Samsig*), was one of the variants who was experimented on by the MM Corporation. It killed Hayeong Lee and took her identity, so it could follow Seongbin Yu and protect his tumor. It got killed by 01 for his survival.

## Appearance

Its true appearance is implied to be a purple blob of flesh that is small enough to fit in a container, as seen how 04 looked in its final moments.

Its regular form is unknown, although 04 refers to it as a male when it was being experiment on, despite it usually taking female forms.

Throughout the story, it takes these disguises:

* **Employee:** A pretty woman having brown ponytail cut, and wears the employee uniform.
* **Hayeong Lee:** A teenage girl with a short bob cut and light skin who wears dancing clothes.

## Background

Like other variants, it was experimented on by the MM Corporation in Area C. Samshik would frequently laugh during as the scientists tortured it*.* Before being designated to move to Area A, Samshik and its partners escaped the containment and took over MM-C.

## Personality

Samshik is clearly to be the most mischievous and jovial of the variants who always has a smile on its face, unlike the others who never smile (except for the time it's pretending to be Hayeong.) It does not take its job seriously and calls itself the **mischevious trickster.** Samshik has a very twisted sense of humor. It enjoys pulling "pranks" on humans, like forcing them to kill each other. In the past, it was shown to laugh while being tortured. Due to its impulsiveness and creepiness, the other variants seem to consider it the lowest part of their totem pole.

Like other variants, Samshik is violent, cruel and gives no thoughts to killing humans. Unlike the other variants, though, Samshik will mostly only kill people for its own fun, like finding someone too cute or ugly. It is also known to force humans to kill each other instead of killing them itself because it thinks its fun.

Samshik shows an interest in the tumor placed on Seongbin, since its kind does not have that. Due to this, Samshik outcasts itself from the rest of the Variants and allies with Seongbin and his friends while disguised as Hayeong. It is determined to protect its true identity for him, though will reveal itself to his friends, Chanhyeok and Sanggwon, and threaten to kill them if they tell.

It is also shown to be a master at disguising itself, as nobody suspects it is not Hayeong for its acting. While acting as her, it mimics her shy and reserved personality and obidiently follows Seongbin. It pretends to be scared by Seongbin's violent acts as to seem more like Hayeong.

## Plot

After Hayeong tried to escape from 05, Samshik killed her and took her identity. 05 wasn't happy about that choice because Hayeong was *her* prey, not of Samshik. Eventually, it found Seongbin (while it's disguised as Hayeong) and tells him about what *happened* to Sujin Park and Jinhui Noh (but not about the **real** Hayeong); however, Seongbin didn't believe in it until he saw the massacre in the gym, and it "screamed" for the gym massacre.

On the way out, they saw *Mira* kill two students. The two just barely got out of *her* sight. *Hayeong*, in other words Samshik, then followed Seongbin on his quest to escape by bridge, but they discovered it got broken. Eventually, they ran into Chanhyeok Park and Sanggwon Ahn in a cave. While they were talking, *Hayeong* noticed a faint light outside. Seongbin sent Chanhyeok to investigate it, where he found a mysterious child. It watched how Seongbin brutally bashed its head in, pretending to find it horrifying and tell the others.

Later, the group ran into Chayeong Park, who claimed to be running from a monster. Seongbin tried to kill her, claiming she was the monster, but Chayeong got away. Seongbin and his group then decided to chase her, but he got a nosebleed and passed out. Samshik, or Three, noticed that there was something inside him saying that monsters have no viruses. It was in that moment when Samshik finally revealed who it really was. It then asked Chanhyeok and Sanggwon if they could keep its identity secret from Seongbin; and if they did, it would "keep them alive". However, it decided that two of them is too many for Three, so it told them they had to decide who should live. This however, turned out to be a joke. It then said that they should team up together since they began to have a common enemy (or Seongbin's monsterization tumor, or Zero).

Once Seongbin finally wakes up, Samshik suggests that the group starts moving. The group hears something, so Chanhyeok's forced to check again, then he's restrained by Shinyeong, who pokes him with a venomized arrow. Shinyeong explains that the arrow can detect variants, which worries Samshik. Sanggwon is about to tell Shinyeong that Samshik is a variant, but he decides not to do it for his fear of getting killed by Samshik. When they're about to check everybody, Seongbin refuses to cooperate with them and calls them monsters. Eventually the group are unable to coincide and part ways.

While travelling, the group notices notices a group of soldiers leading two students. Samshik feels something is off, just like Seongbin; then, suddenly the soldiers shoot the students, leading Chanhyeok to scream. One of the soldiers heard this and started nearing the group, so Samshik suddenly pushes Chanhyeok, using him as bait so they can get away. Eventually, they take a breather and Seongbin and Sanggwon are shocked by its ruthless action. Sanggwon then reveals then that *she*'s actually a monster, which leads Samshik to want to kill him for revealing its secret. Samshik then asks Seongbin how it should kill him. Seongbin notes it has no intention of killing him, since it went so far to protect its identity. Samshik replies that something has awakened in the boy and it's fascinated to see its results. Three offers him protection, but only on the condition he kills Sanggwon.

Seongbin is surprised and asks why to kill his friend, but Samshik doesn't care why and says that it doesn't like Sanggwon: however, Seongbin dares it asking why not to kill Sanggwon itself, answering it wouldn't be any fun and ordering him to do it; in addition, it says out loud to love a fight between "sad losers". Believing that Seongbin would kill his friend, it gets surprisingly hitten by him, in addition of being insulted for telling him what to do and calling him a loser, but Samshik manages to overpower him and call him too an insolent cockroach for overestimating his value and crossing the line, and it decides to kill him.

Nevertheless, when it tries killing by choking him (pressing his neck too hard), it surprises it that he's still holding on wondering if it is this "something" that makes him stronger, so Samshik throws him to the floor being amazed by this fact and wondering what it will happen if it (*he* or *she*) absorbs him, no matter of being indecisive between absorbing his brain or waiting until Seongbin is more "ripe"; however, 01 appears at that moment saying it's been a long time they didn't see each other, revealing its "real" name of being Three (no matter it's becoming a BIG contradiciton between its name and the one of its partner), in addition of wondering if it's been running around causing mischief again and what is going on for the fun that Three was having while choaking Seongbin.

Samshik, or *Three*, tells 01 that's not the important thing there, and he should look at Seongbin; it also asks if 01 can feel the thing inside him becoming self-aware and having its own consciousness and will, and it impresses *Three* because nobody though it could have done that. No matter it wants to explain a little bit more to 01 (like it had to be someone powerful, like a god), he interrupts it, saying it won't be necessary. And finally, One begins to eat Samshik's brain surprising it and asking why he's killing it, and he answers it saying he's taken damage and needs to heal because of being the only way for his survival, and he kills it on the act.

## Abilities

* **Tentacles -** Like its partners, Samshik is able to manipulate multiple strong tentacles throughout her body.
* **Morphing -** Like its partners, it can steal other people's identities after eating their brain, in this case into Hayeong Lee or a female camp employee.
* **Sensing Powers -** Samshik is able to sense what is inside of people (Seongbin's monserization tumor for example).

## Relationships

### 01

Their relationship is largely unknown as Samshik is hardly ever seen cooperating with the other variants. When it saw Seongbin's monsterization tumor, it wondered if 01 knew about it. However, before deciding what to do with Seongbin,

### Seongbin Yu

Samshik is fascinated by Seongbin due to his mysterious tumor. She first approaches Seongbin disguised as Hayeong when he's lost in the woods and from then on ally themselves when Samshik informs him of the monster attack. Together, Samshik acts as the shy Hayeong who regretfully goes along with him and his antics. She is determined to protect Seongbin at any cost while also keeping her identity secret from him. Once her identity is finally revealed to him, she is angered but then offers him protecting at the cost of killing his friend, Sanggwon.

## Gallery

Appearing behind SeongbinSamshik's imagined killing faceRelief upon it's identity being safeSanggwon imagines it killing his friendsSamshik along with other VariantsA full appearance of Samshik disguised as Hayeong Lee
## Trivia

* Samshik is implied to be either Two or Six, with the unnamed variant being the other; however, Samshik is referred to as Three by 01, no matter there is already a variant with that name. Samshik's name translates to "Three Meals", while the other variant's name translates to "Lee." It is unknown if this is a translation error or not.
* Samshik and 05 are the only known variants that use female vessels, even though Samshik can be implied to be male.
* Samshik is the only variant not present during the attack on the talent show.

## References

1. ↑ Ep. 4 (SB)
2. ↑ Ep. 29 (SB)
3. ↑ Ep. 32 (SB)

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