I’ve never been more confused after a chapter

I have no valid theories to offer this chapter kinda puts most my previous ones to bed… still kinda leaning towards the “maybe it’s an Alice in borderland type ending scenario” theory but who even knows. also I’m glad we’re seeing more of the game and not consistently just smut but I have a feeling some of the other previous plot points won’t come into play again or won’t matter in the long run. For some reason I feel like the author is just winging it or had a different storyline originally but because it was still vague to the readers they changed it but idk I have faith still bc I rlly like this story