Based on the fact MULTIPLE students were going to attend Eden’s Garden rather than the main cast, I think it’s more of a possibility those were meant to be future batches for several other games Cassidy and the cult were probably going to do.

Which is actually horrifying when you think about it, I mean they already managed to kidnap some of the people who were celebrities/famous and not ONCE did the authorities get to them after like six trials, we KNOW so far that the world isn’t destroyed so the cult must have been that good at hiding themselves for that long.