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Everyone believed Player 456 was gone.
His body lay still in the morgue. Eyes shut. Limbs whole. Funeral attire neatly arranged beside him.
The fire obliterated the proof. The Game concluded. The infant was rescued.
Yet In-Ho-Front Man, brother, assassin, specter-understood better than to incinerate a man who passed away so beautifully.
Set after the finale of Season 3, this alternate ending diverges from canon, reimagining the concluding chapters of Squid Game through In-Ho's shattered sorrow, impossible decisions, and a heartbeat that refuses to be quiet.
When Gi-Hun takes another breath, the Game isn't finished.
It's merely transformed.