About the last chapter, I'm sure Doha knows something that Bada doesn't. The cassette tape was clearly inside Doha's bag before they start the game.
!!!HE HAS THEM BEFORE THE GAME START!!!
And if Bada hears from his cousin that Doha has a cassette tape when the game hasn't started yet, Bada's gonna get suspicious and there's gonna be a rift between the to so Doha killed the cousin.
- Remember, they can't find clues or the cassette unless the game has started. They can only look at the book where the endings are recorded.
So... Is Doha really a player? Or just an NPC that gained sentience?????
Alos tho what if Bada is just a npc who's completed the game? In the beginning when they finally get into the abandoned house he says that this feels familiar to him and he can't remember why. And he's positive the villagers are in cahoots despite not having ever encountered a villager. He also doesn't remember ever going through the tunnel when they first came but the other 2 npcs did (the couple). And at the end of the last chap his cousin mentions feeling like these tapes are familiar similar to how Bada felt going into the abandoned house
He also has done this so many times hw doesn't even remember what he was like outside the game maybe he never was outside the game but also put in a tape accidently or something like that that triggered him gaining sentience
- What if Doha is also another player?
Remember their talk, when Doha said to the good-natured idiot guy that all of it is a game? And then he said was kinda gauging if the guy was worth competing. Then Doha said, what if there's another player, where they try to hinder the other from finding clues and saving the game.
*And if it's true, when did he become a player?
Right from the start, and just watching
Bada's moves and motives? Acting according to the script? [Highly unlikely]
When he gained sentience (the timeline where Doha put the tape on the cassette)? Or right after the restart? [60% possibility]
Or when Bada saw Doha killing one of the villagers? Or maybe even longer? Bcs how would Doha knows that the villagers is in cahoots with the killer? What other reason would Doha kill the villager when he's a rational guy? He wouldn't kill someone without a reason. [Highly likely]