In fact, Hinata Hajime has already prepared for the worst.

After thinking in a certain direction, everything seemed to be connected, and some small details made Hinata Hajime certain that his judgment was probably correct.

Nuo, a single woman, writer, lives alone here. Her book was stolen by the publishing house, but she has no way to complain.

Three years ago, this area was a very famous area in Italy. In addition to the cheap housing prices and remote transportation, there was a problem of order here. It was a well-known crime capital. The police did not intervene and home robberies often occurred.

Only people who are too poor to move out live here.

And Nuo, a single woman, is obviously the most likely target for criminals.

Neither the theft of her book nor her friends' distrust of her made this woman fall into despair. Instead, she suddenly became desperate a few months later, and the despair incident swept the entire world. Hinata Hajime could imagine that it was something that happened afterwards that made No a truly desperate host.

【On the cabinet on the left. 】

"Hmm?" Hinata Hajime looked to the side and carefully picked up the notebook from the cabinet.

The notebook must have been placed there casually, so a layer of dust accumulated over the past three years. Hinata Hajime shook the dust off onto the ground, opened the notebook, and saw the handwriting on it.

This notebook is very messy, with all sorts of things recorded in it, including inspirations, plans for going out, even some shopping lists, and occasionally some of her little ideas.

"Found it." Hinata Hajime called out to Rokudo Mukuro.

"Very good." Rokudo Mukuro glanced at the time, then looked around with disdain, "Then I'll excuse myself first. The battle ahead..."

"You can't leave." Hinata Hajime called out to Rokudo Mukuro who was about to leave, "I'll need you to help me find someone later."

Rokudo Mukuro clicked his tongue, "Don't order me around."

"I'm begging you," Hinata said. "Please help me find someone."

Rokudo Mukuro snorted coldly and said nothing, but he didn't leave either. Hinata Hajime hurriedly read the opened book from beginning to end.

There was no date written on it, but occasional notations allowed Hinata Hajime to determine that this notebook was recorded in July three years ago.

"The lawyer's contact information. I hope he can really help me. If I win the lawsuit, I can get my book back. That's great. I can get in touch with him more often. I can write a novel with a lawyer as the main character next time, which can be considered as collecting material."

"That voice hasn't disappeared yet. I don't know what it is. It keeps saying things like despair. Life is not a novel. How can everything go as planned?"

"Shopping list."

"The new sister next door is very nice. She gave me some cookies. I'll take note of them and return the favor next time."

“It feels like the world is getting better.”

"The man next door is abusing his wife and my sister is crying. No! He's going to kill her!"

The record came to an abrupt end. Hinata Hajime looked at the last message. He stroked the words on it with his fingers. After a moment, he looked at Rokudo Mukuro.

"Rokudo Mukuro, do you know the residents of this place?"

"Of course I don't understand. I don't live here."

Hinata Hajime looked at Rokudo Mukuro, "I know, help me find where the people next door are now."

"Why?"

"He probably knows where No is now."

Rokudo Mukuro frowned slightly, and after a moment he turned around and walked out of the room. Indigo flames burned around him, and soon Rokudo Mukuro's figure disappeared. At the same time, Hinata Sou walked out of the room. He looked around, and after a moment he looked to the right. It was a house similar to this one.

Hinata Hajime walked over and pushed the courtyard door. With a creaking sound, the courtyard door fell down.

Ignoring the fallen door, Hinata Hajime walked straight into the house. The house was in a mess, as if someone had sneaked in and searched it. However, when Hinata Hajime opened the drawer and took a look, he found that nothing had been taken from the furniture that had not fallen to the ground.

So it wasn't that someone broke in and stole something, but rather that someone was fighting and knocked over the furniture.

It does coincide with what is said in the book about domestic violence.

Then Hinata Hajime came out. He sat at the door and continued to look at the scattered notes in his hand. This time he read from the back to the front.

Because the records were so scattered, the notebook was covered with handwriting and even had one or two pieces of paper stuck in it.

Hinata Hajime took out a picture of the French Ocean from his notebook. It had an address written on it and some notes made with a red pen.

"One day, I will definitely be able to travel here!"

Is this the reason why the ocean is sleeping?

No called this the place he wanted to go, but because of something he couldn't get in, it became a place where everyone in despair was buried. Those who were in despair were buried inside and floated on the seabed.

They sat like this until dawn, and at dawn Hinata Hajime heard the communicator ringing.

Hinata Hajime answered the phone. It was Rokudo Mukuro. Rokudo Mukuro didn't say much, just said, "I found him. I'll send you the location."

Standing up from the stairs, Hinata Hajime closed the notebook in his hand and went to the place Rokudo Mukuro mentioned according to the address.

Now that desperate events are sweeping the world, shelters have actually been set up in every area to gather normal people who have not been injured for the time being, and the person Hinata Hajime is looking for is also among them.

She was a woman with a scar on her face, and she was Nuo's neighbor.

The woman wore a black mask and never took it off easily. When Hinata Hajime found her, she was sitting on a chair and shivering. She looked around in horror, as if she would scream at the slightest change.

"Who are you? Why are you looking for me? I know nothing!"

"Let me go! I know nothing!"

Her reaction was so intense that people around her were sure that she must know something.

Hinata Hajime came over, put the notebook in his hand on the table, and spoke in a gentle tone, "Don't worry, no one here will hurt you."

The woman looked at Hinata Hajime in horror, obviously not believing it.

"Do you know Vongola?" Hinata Sou whispered to comfort her, "It is Vongola that is protecting you. You should know that it is protecting the world and will protect everyone. We are employees of Vongola. You should recognize that the person next to you is the staff of this shelter."

The woman looked to the side, and when she saw a familiar person, her eyes relaxed a little.

"So, how about telling us what you know?" Hinata Sou whispered, "Do you know where the girl who lives next door to you is?"

"Girl?" The woman looked at Hinata Hajime blankly. After a moment, she lowered her head. "Are you guys looking for her?"

"Yes." Hinata Sou nodded, "She may be in danger. We are trying to protect her."

The woman clenched her hands tightly, "Protect her?"

"But it's too late."

The woman carefully opened the mask. Under the mask, there was a long cut at the corner of her mouth, which spread all the way to her ear. The woman looked to the side cautiously, not daring to look anyone in the eye. After a moment, she put on the mask.

"My husband is dead. When he was alive, I wished he would die every day."

"He would drink a lot and then suddenly hit me. I still remember the girl next door. She was very friendly and had a cute smile."

"That night, my husband was drunk again. He beat me very hard and stabbed my face with a pair of scissors. I was scared, so I kept screaming."

It's not that she didn't think about resisting, but every time she resisted, she was treated even more harshly.

When the scissors were coming down, she even thought that she would die and no one would save her, not to mention that in this place with such a high crime rate, there might not even be anyone to help collect her body.

Just when she was so desperate, her husband suddenly fell down. She looked forward in surprise, and through her tearful eyes, she saw the girl next door holding a stick in her hand. She seemed a little at a loss, but she was very calm. After throwing down the stick, the girl pulled her up and ran outside.

"It was raining outside that day and we were running in the rain. My husband was not knocked unconscious and he chased after us."

It was difficult for two girls to run in the rain, especially when one of them was seriously injured.

Nuo pulled her hard and ran wildly in the rain. She tried to take the injured woman to the police station. No matter how bad the security in this city was, the police would not allow a man to hurt his wife in the police station.

There was a river past the police station, and as soon as they got there, they were caught up by the man behind them.

"The man was drunk and very strong. I was already injured, and she, a weak woman, couldn't resist at all."

"Finally, finally..."

Hinata Hajime looked at her, "What happened in the end?"

"She was thrown into the river." The woman's voice was very calm. Her fear and nervousness had disappeared, as if all emotions had lost their meaning and she could only repeat it calmly.

"Her head was hit by a rock and she was thrown into the water and she didn't even have the ability to save herself."

"It rained really hard that day." The woman lowered her head. "The man grabbed my neck and pressed me on the bridge. I watched the man who came to help me slowly sink into the water. I kept asking for help and begging him, but there was nothing I could do."

When she was about to lose consciousness, she heard a scream, and at the last moment, she seemed to see the river rippling, as if the pages of a book were blown open by the wind.

When she opened her eyes again, she had been sent to the hospital. Her husband had died. There was a book called "The Unchanged Future" that constantly brought her despair.

And she kept thinking about the girl who helped her but drowned in the river.

She didn't even know her name.

Hinata Sou remembered that Nuo had been asking him something before.

She asked: Have you ever lost something important?

For Nuo, her books being stolen was not the most important thing, and her friends abandoning her was not the most important thing either.

She lost something that was so important to her as a human being that it was irreplaceable.

life.

Nuo is a pure person. Her purity makes her try to find hope even when facing difficulties, and makes her constantly look forward to the future. It is also this purity that makes her choose to help the injured hostess next door, but it is also this purity that makes her lose her life.

This is No's despair.

Kamiya Izuru said that this world is defined by souls, and everyone has his or her own soul.

Perhaps, those memories that are interpreted bit by bit in the book are Nuo's struggle.