Beneath the Mask (Player 456 x Player 001)

Years after surviving the brutal Squid Game, Hwang In-ho has risen to power as its Front Man, a role he fulfills with stoic detachment and buried regret. When Player 456, Seong Gi-hun, unexpectedly re-enters the games, it shakes In-ho's carefully maintained control. Haunted by their shared history and Gi-hun's defiant plea to end the violence, In-ho is torn between his duty to the system and the humanity he thought he had long abandoned.