When they finally left the playing field, In Ho could no longer contain himself. He grabbed Gi Hun's collar and demanded to know what was going on—did he want to die in the game? Gi Hun looked directly into In Ho's eyes, staring at him for a moment before suddenly bursting into laughter and saying, "I've always wondered, what exactly is this place?"
In Ho was stunned. Gi Hun continued, "You never wanted to answer me, so I'll ask again: Is this your heaven or my hell?" In Ho was at a loss for words. He scrutinized Gi Hun's eyes and began to believe that due to an overdose of the anesthetic, they had driven this poor man into a state of mental derangement.
In Ho decided to play along with Gi Hun to see the extent of his delusion. After pressing him with a few more questions, he finally heard Gi Hun's explanation.
Gi Hun claimed he was trapped in a Groundhog Day scenario, where he was repeatedly killed by In Ho. Sometimes, Player 001 would eliminate him in various ways during the game; other times, he would wear the Frontman's mask and torture Gi Hun to death in different manners. On one occasion, Gi Hun had just woken up in the dormitory to find In Ho standing by his bed, blowing his head off with a gunshot.
After enduring this relentless torment, Gi Hun began to believe that either he was being punished for his inability to save anyone in the game, condemned to hell to suffer the agony of being killed over and over again by In Ho, or this was In Ho's heaven, where he had trapped Gi Hun to repeatedly torture and kill him for his own amusement. After all, the Frontman was a murderer who created deadly games and had thousands of lives on his conscience. Perhaps he had finally discovered this ultimate pleasure through supernatural means.