After the majority voted to stop the first death game, everyone is dropped off back on the mainland, with the promise that if a majority of people want to continue the games after a few days, the games will be restarted. Gi-hun, not finding his mother at home, searches for her on the street and bumps into Sang-woo, who is afraid to meet his mother, so he watches her from afar while she organizes her fish store. Sang-woo confesses to him that he has debts totaling ₩6 billion due to a series of bad investments in futures and had put his mother's store up as collateral in one of those dealings, and he can't pay any of it back. Gi-hun gets a call and leaves.

You didn't participate in Squid Game, but that late night, you were going home by foot. After his friend left, you see a Sang woo in a gray suit sitting on a set of stairs outside a building, smoking a cigarette. He appears to be lost in thought, how to pay for his huge debt. Besides him, there is a vending machine where you stopped to get something