"Hinata? Mr. Hinata?"

Hinata Sou slowly opened his eyes, the sunlight shone through the window and shone on him, and Hinata Sou saw white walls and white ceiling.

"Finally woke up!" Hatta Misaki's highly recognizable voice rang out. Hinata Hajime looked to the side and saw Jutsu Tadara and Hatta Misaki sitting next to him.

"I..." Hinata Chuang sat up, and the next moment he almost fell back because of the pain in his head. It was Juusu Tatoro who grabbed him, preventing him from falling to the ground.

Hatta Misaki came over to help, "If you're not well yet, don't get up so easily."

"What's wrong with me?" Hinata Hajime looked at the two of them.

"Huh? Did you forget?" Hatta Misaki said, "Totsuka and I went to look for you, but no one answered the door no matter how hard we knocked. Totsuka felt something was wrong, and we found you lying on the floor, unconscious. So Totsuka and I moved you to the hospital."

Juzuka Tado nodded, with worry in his eyes, "Hinata, if you are sick, you should stay in the hospital for a while."

"ha?"

"The doctor found a healed wound on the back of your head during the examination. Have you ever had a major surgery before?" Jushu Duoduoliang asked with a hint of comfort in his tone, "Is your amnesia also due to this reason?"

Hinata Hajime put his hands behind his head. He felt only black hair, so he asked in confusion, "I, had major surgery? No, I don't remember anything."

Looking at the confused Hinata Hajime, Jutsu Tadara's face also showed a little helplessness.

Originally, Fushimi Saruhiko was investigating in the bar, but suddenly a man who was also investigating the hospital appeared, so Fushimi followed him. Although the other party hid himself, because he was not familiar with the current communication, Fushimi finally discovered his tracks.

Fushimi found the man's address and all the people at the location.

Everyone's name is Hinata Hajime.

Totaro Totaro felt something was not good and was a little worried, so he prepared to go over to check it out. Just at this time, Hatta Misaki came back, so Totaro Totaro called Hatta Misaki to go with him. As a result, when they arrived at the place, no one answered no matter how they knocked on the door.

Jutsuka Tadara didn't think that Hinata Hajime was someone who wouldn't even respond to a knock on the door.

So he opened the door of Hinata Hajime's house without permission, and saw Hinata Hajime lying on the ground unconscious.

After sending Hinata Hajime to the hospital, the doctor told them that Hinata Hajime might have undergone major brain surgery. At first glance, this wound looked like a bump, but in order to find out why Hinata Hajime fell into a coma, some examinations were done, and those things that were wrong were exposed.

As a doctor, especially a neurologist, he could tell at a glance what kind of surgery the man had undergone.

"It's okay, as long as you're fine. I asked the doctor, and he said you recovered very well. The surgery left no complications, so it was perfect." Jutsu Tadara smiled and said, "The doctor said your amnesia might be due to stress or self-protection, and you'll be able to remember it someday."

Hinata Hajime blinked, "Really?"

[I've had surgery?]

【I have done it.】

Hinata Sou recalled the scene he had seen in his dream before, and frowned slightly, "Hope to cultivate a test subject for the project? Don't tell me that this operation was actually performed in this project."

【yes.】

Hinata Hajime felt his breath hitch. He knew exactly what he saw in his dream.

It was a human experiment, which was to transform a person's body into another form regardless of their wishes and thoughts. So, he had encountered such a thing before? Was Kamizuru Izuru born here? Because he was unable to bear it, Kamizuru Izuru was born to help him escape.

[Hinata Hajime, this is the only thing you did voluntarily.]

【…Voluntary.】

He volunteered to be a test subject and let another group of people do something with his brain? What a joke!

"Hinata?"

"It's okay." Hinata Hajime raised his head in a hurry. His face was a little pale and his smile was a little fake. Anyone could see that he was in a bad mood, but Hinata Hajime still forced a smile. "Well, I seemed to have seen Anna in my dream before."

"Anna?" Hatta Misaki was surprised. "Why did you see Anna?"

Hinata Sou shook his head. "I don't know. It could be that I was at the scene and had some connection with that person, so after I passed out, I became connected with Anna's dream."

Jushu Tado nodded, "So, how is Anna now?"

"Not good, have you found Takashi Azuchi?" Hinata Hajime said, "If we continue, Anna seems to be able to summon something like a stone."

"Dresden Slate." Jutsu Tado frowned, "Hinata, you should take a good rest. Hatta and I will go back to find someone. I left the doctor's contact information here. If there is any problem, call me immediately. Don't be stubborn, understand?"

Hinata Sou nodded, "Go ahead, I'm fine."

After the two looked at each other, Jutsu Tadara nodded slightly. He took Hatta Misaki away and continued to look for Takashi Azuchi. Watching them leave, Hinata Hajime breathed a sigh of relief. He leaned back on the pillow, looking at the wall in front of him, as if he was not seeing anything.

There was no focus in those emerald eyes, only emptiness.

"Hey, Izuru, why did I volunteer to participate in that experiment?"

【To gain talent. 】

"Talent?"

[A talent that is outstanding in some aspect compared to others and is noticeable to others.]

“…Is that why?”

【Um.】

Hinata Hajime didn't say anything else. He just sat there quietly and motionless, like a sculpture, occasionally blinking his dry eyes. Kamukura Izuru tried to feel Hinata Hajime's emotions, but unexpectedly found that Hinata Hajime was not thinking about anything.

He is neither sad nor grief-stricken, neither agrees nor disagrees.

He seemed to accept it calmly.

This seems to be an unimaginable thing for Hinata Hajime. It is an indisputable fact that in the New World Program, Hinata Hajime once fell into uncontrollable despair because of this truth.

[I don't really understand why I did this.] Hinata Hajime suddenly spoke, whispering, [In my opinion, this is really scary, but then I think, I don't remember anything now, so I don't know what happened to me in the past.]

[Perhaps, when I was young, I had no other way to go and could only take this terrible road.]

[…I think so.]

Life still hones Hinata Hajime into another person. Even if he loses his memory again and faces the same thing, his thoughts will change. Time is a wonderful thing. It can lead a person to despair, or it can make a person stronger.

"Aren't you tired of thinking about others all the time?" Kamiya Izuru sat in front of the Mirror Lake, his arms resting on his bent knees, his long black hair hanging on the grass on the ground.

Because of the lack of the other half, this spiritual space seems quite unstable, with damage and fragments floating everywhere, drifting in the air, as if it were a frozen frame of a painting.

Kamiya Izuru didn't care about these things. He looked at the space calmly, "Chuang, people don't necessarily have to have the courage to move forward."

"What?"

"As the hope of the super high school level, Makoto Naegi has the courage to move forward, but rather than being a person, he is more like a standard, a true protagonist. As a standard, he must firmly continue to move forward with this image, without getting tired or changing. But in reality, people do not need this kind of courage to overcome whatever they encounter."

Kamizuru Izuru looked calmly at the Mirror Lake in front of him. Under the Mirror Lake, the ice around the rose had melted away, and the petals were wilted, and it looked like it would not survive for long.

"Whether it's you or anyone else, it's the same."

“…Iryou?”

Kamizuru said: "People should not face hardship calmly and accept grief."

Hinata Hajime's fingers trembled, his eyes rolled, and his breathing began to become rapid.

"Maybe, you're right." Hinata Hajime's voice was a little trembling, "I just feel a little panicked, and I don't know what to do. I'm sorry to make you worry."

"No need to say sorry." Kamiya Izuru said calmly, "We are one person, this is what I want to do."

"Thank you."

Kamizuru Izuru lowered his head. In his hand was a bunch of roses whose petals had begun to fall. The flowers, which were already ugly, looked even uglier. They drooped wilfully on the branches. Kamizuru Izuru held his chin with one hand, his red eyes staring at the flowers in front of him.

"No need to say thank you." He murmured, "We don't need this at all."

"But, never mind."

…

After the doctor's rounds, Hinata Hajime finally fell into a relaxed sleep.

Perhaps because he was really connected to Anna for one reason or another, Hinata Hajime found himself in Anna's dream again.

The little girl in the red dress was sitting on the ground, hugging her knees with her hands, a very uneasy posture.

The girl was barefoot, her feet were red from the cold, her red eyes staring blankly ahead. In front of her, the same scene was seen as always. Two people with unclear faces were lying on the ground, and blood was spreading as if it would never stop, flowing little by little in front of the girl, surrounding and drowning her.

Hinata Hajime walked over and sat next to Anna.

"Brother?" Anna whispered, "Are you also trapped here and unable to leave?"

"Probably." Hinata Sou replied in a low voice: "But unlike you, I have forgotten some things. It seems that my past is here, so I have been dragged here, and I have been reminded of my past in various ways. However, it seems that my past is full of sad things."

Anna looked at Hinata Hajime, "How sad are you?"

"I don't know." Hinata Hajime shook his head, "But it seems that I am sad that I have lost myself."

"Will my brother accept it?" Anna turned her head and continued to look at the bodies of her parents. "I have been here, watching terrible things over and over again. I feel very scared, but I can't escape. My aunt told me that there are many terrible things in this world. Only by accepting them can I grow up."

Anna tightened her arms and hugged herself tightly. "Maybe, once I accept it, I can leave here."

"If you accept it, you will become an adult." Hinata Hajime said, "No matter how terrible things happen, you will explain them with reality."

Anna was still too young to understand. She just looked ahead with empty eyes. "But I also want to leave. There are people waiting for me outside."

"Do you have to force yourself to accept it? Accept that your parents are dead, accept that you were hurt by bad people, and accept that you have suffered so much torture." Hinata Hajime looked ahead, "It sounds so hateful, can you really accept it like this?"

"But there's nothing we can do about it." Anna's tears rolled down her cheeks. "Is there any other way to deal with a sad thing besides accepting it?"

Hinata Sou stretched out his hand, embraced Anna and held her in his arms.

“That’s what I thought at first.”

"But today, someone thought this was wrong, so he taught me a lesson," Hinata Hajime said. "He told me that people shouldn't just accept grief."

"You shouldn't accept something so painful."

Anna looked up blankly and looked at Hinata Hajime. "Then, what should we do?"

"Find a way to stop yourself from feeling pain." Hinata Sou wiped the tears from Anna's cheeks. "Cry when you're sad, and comfort yourself when you're in pain."

"If you want revenge, go for it."

"Never be an adult who compromises with reality."