Taekjoo could have told himself that he wouldn't be able to escape. Why else would your Russian go out without locking you up. You'd think Taekjoo would know Zhenya by now. And obviously Zhenya was there to pick him up because he knew Taekjoo would try to escape anyway lmao
So he's gonna go into sub-drop playing with someone who's not the ML, but then the ML will come save him in the last second xD