Chapter 90, "Despair".
Hyuga Hajime successfully bought the grass-shaped rice cake.
In this cold, materialistic world, only the straw cake in his hand still retains some warmth.
tasty.
Yes! Sure enough, eating something I really like makes me feel better.
Hyuga Hajime successfully swallowed a delicious grass mochi. Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he asked curiously, "Kamukura, when I eat like that, can you also taste the flavor I'm tasting?"
"cannot."
Contrary to what Hinata Hajime had imagined—a question like, "At a time like this, you're asking such a trivial question?"—the voice—perhaps better now called Kamukura Izuru—simply followed Hinata Hajime's habit of answering every question, calmly and indifferently responding with concise language.
In other words, this god-throne is currently unable to eat or taste anything. Although he exists in his mind, he cannot hear his own thoughts, and he now has control over his body...
However, if that's all there is to it, given the current situation, it's not really enough to evoke any sympathy from Hyuga Hajime for Kamukura Izuru's current predicament.
After all, anyone would feel uncomfortable or uneasy if a new consciousness suddenly appeared in their mind out of nowhere... Moreover, no one knows if it will have any negative effects.
Even now, Hyuga Hajime only inexplicably feels, without any actual evidence, that the Kamukura Izuru in his mind has never lied from beginning to end... that's all.
When hunger reaches a certain level, it can also affect one's thinking. After Hyuga Hajime's stomach was slightly filled with delicious grass cakes, he had more time to consider what else he should communicate with Kamukura Izuru to obtain more information.
The clinic that Hyuga Hajime was taken to by Tsukino and Chiya last night is some distance from Hope's Peak Academy, but not too far. It's currently evening, well before the bus service ends. At this pace, he should be back at school by the time it's completely dark... although by then it will definitely be past the school's curfew.
However, due to the strange events that have occurred at the school, Hajime Hinata has already violated the school rules several times, so one more time won't make a difference.
In the back seat of a bus with only a few passengers, Hyuga Hajime whispered in a voice so low that only he could probably hear, "Kamukura, can you tell me a little more about what you know?"
“For example…” Hinata thought for a moment, and finally chose to ask the question most closely related to the old school building incident first, “What was the story behind the infighting that happened in the old school building?”
"That was infighting among undergraduate student council members."
As expected, even though Hyuga Hajime spoke in such a low voice, Kamukura Izuru still heard him and responded.
...Although this might be because of what that guy said before, "He can deduce what Hinata is thinking no matter what," but I guess...it shouldn't be that bad, right?
Hahahaha...
Selectively ignoring this chilling question, Hyuga Hajime listened quietly to Kamukura Izuru's explanation.
Immediately afterwards, Hajime Hinata heard yet another story that was terrifying even without careful consideration.
After the human experiments known as Project Kamukura, Hajime Hinata, as the test subject, successfully acquired all the ultimate talents in history, but his memories and personality were also erased, and he became Izuru Kamukura.
Because he possessed all talents, Kamukura Izuru became bored with the reality that he could predict and deduce everything.
Then one day, a high school girl named Junko Enoshima appeared.
Next, there were the incidents where the student council was threatened and summoned to a classroom on the fifth floor of an abandoned old school building in the middle of the night to fight each other. In the end, only one member of the student council survived the fight.
That person was none other than the "Ultimate Student Council President," Murasame Sayaharu.
The entire incident was referred to by the school as "the biggest and most devastating despairing event in the school's history."
After hearing the details of the infighting among student council members in the old school building, Hajime Hinata was speechless.
Hajime Hyuga was dumbfounded.
Wait a minute, is this right?!
How can such a few words contain such an astonishing amount of information!
In comparison, the fact that the student council members were threatened and gathered at the old school building, and then officially started the killing spree because of the motive provided by Junko Enoshima... didn't seem so surprising to him, since he already knew that infighting had indeed occurred there.
What truly caused Hyuga Hajime's brain to shut down was—
Enoshima Shield.
who is she?
Why would she do something like this? What good would it do her? And... that name seems familiar...
Oh right, he remembered!
“It was around that time,” Hyuga Hajime murmured, “the cloth strip man…”
Junko Enoshima, isn't that the name of the person she liked when she was still Yoshiko Morikawa?
When Hinata Hajime was possessed by the cloth-wearing man, he even blurted out the name "Enoshima Junko." As a result, when he woke up in the infirmary of the preparatory course, he was confused and was questioned by Tsukino and the others about whether he knew Enoshima Junko.
Later, the truth behind the "cloth strip incident" became clear—poor Yoshiko Morikawa didn't get to see the person she loved, and was instead unexpectedly drawn into a murder case. While Junko Enoshima, the person she loved, didn't arrive as promised, there shouldn't be any other issues with him, and he wasn't directly related to Yoshiko Morikawa's death.
Therefore, although he initially investigated and paid attention to this person because he heard the name, after the truth about Morikawa Yoshiko's death was revealed, Hyuga Hajime gradually put the name "Enoshima Junko" out of his mind.
but……
Why does this person's name suddenly appear at this time?!
They even went so far as to become the mastermind behind a self-destructive conflict by using unorthodox methods to approach the God Throne!
She should be younger than me... she's only a middle school student...
Moreover, since she was able to orchestrate such a self-destructive incident during high school, the truth behind Yoshiko Morikawa's death in the "cloth strip incident" might not be so simple.
"What does she gain from doing all this? What is her purpose?"
Hyuga Hajime murmured in bewilderment, while Kamukura Izuru calmly replied as always.
"despair."
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The bus arrived at its stop after a while.
Although astonished by the truth behind the infighting, Hajime Hinata was not so mentally blank as to forget to ask about other things.
According to the Kamukura Izuru in his mind, he was not actually a Hinata Hajime from the future who had become Kamukura Izuru, but rather a projection formed under the influence of the many memories that Aurora forcibly instilled into Hinata Hajime.
In other words, Aurora left Hinata Hajime with as many memories as she could in the classroom that day (Hinata: But I don't even remember this), and that's where Kamukura Izuru's memories ended, and he had no recollection of anything further into the future.
In other words, even Kamukura Izuru was unaware of what happened after the greatest and most devastating event in the school's history.
However, although Kamukura Izuru has no memory of what would happen in that future, it doesn't mean he can't use his talents to deduce and analyze it.
...Although it's only a rough result.
After all, what truly moved him back then was not Enoshima Junko's attempt to exploit Kamikura Izuru, but rather the "despair" that revealed her unpredictable nature.
After listening to a huge amount of information, Hajime Hinata became dizzy again, but he still didn't forget to ask about Aurora and those strange beings from the future.
“Those anomalies are the same,” Kamukura Izuru said. “They, like the me who is communicating with you now, did not actually appear in the future. However, I am a projection of memories, while they are resentment. Then, under Aurora’s influence, the resentment eventually transformed into anomalies in the present timeline.”
What...? This is a bit hard to understand...
Even if he couldn't fully understand, Hyuga Hajime remembered that he had several companions who had also been involved in strange events. So he was now trying his best to remember what Kamukura Izuru had said, hoping to be able to relay it word for word in the future.
"Therefore, the strangeness of the preparatory school building before, and the strangeness that has appeared in the old school building in the North District now, are all because of Aurora."
I've never heard of such a thing before.
Moreover, since it has the power to make other strange things appear, wouldn't this doll named Aurora be stronger than the cloth strip man we encountered before, and the multifaceted man we have now?
It can even create such an existence in his own mind... Is that something that humans can really fight against?
Besides that...
Hajime Hinata wasn't stupid. With the clues practically laid out before him, he naturally noticed something very important very quickly.
The figures of Aurora and Junko Enoshima are both behind the Cloth Strip Man incident and the Multifaceted Man incident.
Those two...could they possibly have any connection?
Thinking this through, Hyuga Hajime then asked, "By the way, why did Aurora give me those memories in the first place?"
"After all, to solve strange events, we should at least know some of the causes and consequences of their appearance. What it's doing... no, although it seems like it's helping us, I can't think of a reason why it would help. After all, these strange things only appear because of its power, right?"
His reply was met with the still indifferent voice of the God Throne.
"Because I'm bored."
Hyuga Hajime suddenly stopped in his tracks.
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Author's Note: Brother Chuang: Surrounded by spoilers, I'm at a loss.
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