Hinohara's mind was blank, even when he saw the future in the book.

What? Is he a wimp?

What? He shouldn't do this, but should try to break this fate and use his own abilities and talents to make better games?

What? He became a waste because he admitted that he was a waste?

"What a joke!" Hinohara got up from the ground, "What do you know? A warrior fighting a desperate battle is just an ordinary person. You have never experienced the joy of inspiration flooding into your mind, and you have never felt the high spirits in the field you love. Of course, you don't understand how much pain I am in!"

“When I saw that future, I felt the same way as my future self. I never want to feel that withered feeling again.”

"So?" Hinata Hajime looked at him coldly, "The beginning of all this is that you believed in this future and strongly agreed with it. You can't convince me, let alone yourself."

"……I."

Hinohara retreated with a pale face.

He really couldn't convince anyone.

Hinohara is a confident person. He is confident in his talent and his love for games. However, when he saw that future, he fell into a long period of collapse and isolation. He really believed in this future, gave up everything he had, and trusted this hopeless future with all his heart.

He was not despairing about the future, but he was despairing about the effort he needed to make to get through this period.

Hinata Hajime was right, he was just a waste who didn't want to struggle in pain.

"You put yourself in this situation for a future that doesn't exist. It seems that your love for games is just lip service." Hinata Hajime said hurtful words without changing his expression. "I have seen people who throw themselves into flames for their dreams, but I have never seen someone like you who desperately finds excuses for giving up your ideals."

"I didn't give up!"

“You’re just giving up.”

Hinata Hajime said: "No one can realize their dreams without hard work."

Even talented people need to work hard to achieve their dreams.

"Of course it's easy to say it, but have you ever tried it?" Hinohara asked Hinata Hajime in a trembling voice, "You said I follow the rules of the game, like an NPC who is inflexible and won't break the rules, but do you know how hard it is to break these rules?"

"You want me to spend several years or even more than ten years to create a miracle?"

"I know I'm not as strong as I thought I was, because I'm also a human being. After going through that, I just want to avoid such terrible things. Why should I repeat the same mistakes?"

Hinata Sou closed his eyes and let out a long sigh, as if he was completely disappointed.

"Of course I know this will be easier, I just regret that you chose the easiest path so easily." Hinata Hajime said indifferently. "It's easy, right? You chose the power of despair. Even if something happens, everyone will say it was despair's mistake. You don't need to use your brain, just follow despair."

"If this was a rebirth novel with you as the protagonist, everyone would think you did a good job."

Hinata Hajime turned his head and glanced out the window. Not far outside, the Tetris blocks were still falling and being arranged little by little, looking neat and beautiful.

"Then let's go."

Hinata Hajime said this, and then dragged the self-destructive Hinohara Ichi out of the house in the sky.

"Don't touch me!" Hinohara Ichi wanted to break free, but found that he couldn't. The long-term stay-at-home life made Hinohara Ichi particularly weak in the game world, so he staggered and almost rolled down the stairs as he was dragged by Hinata Sou.

"What on earth do you want to do?!"

Hinata Hajime let the man go, and seeing Hinohara Ichi hiding behind the stairs and looking at him in horror, he realized belatedly that he seemed a little tough.

But thinking that this guy got into such a trouble just because he believed in the so-called future, Hinata Hajime got angry again. This guy deserved to be beaten.

Just like that, Hinata Hajime took a deep breath and made sure he was calm before he spoke.

He said, "I will take you to see a miracle."

"A miracle?"

Hinohara was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he seemed to react and looked at the huge Tetris block next to him. At that moment, reason surged back like a tide, and he suddenly remembered something.

The Tetris game is a game that is bound to fail, because according to the rules, as long as the blocks are in a row, they will be destroyed. He compared it to his own life and set a setting that does not allow the blocks to be complete. However, after so much time has passed, why are the Tetris blocks still falling?

...Why hasn't he lost yet?

This is not right.

…

Kamukura Izuru was sitting on the ground with a game console next to him. His long black hair hung down behind him. Because it was too long, the black hair spread on the ground. If you looked from behind, you might not imagine that he was a 1.8-meter-tall adult male. The Tetris game was suspended in mid-air, and it looked like the game was paused.

This was the scene Hinata Hajime and Hinohara Ichi saw when they arrived: a stagnant game and a man sitting at the bottom.

"How is it?" Hinata Hajime walked over and squatted down to make himself level with Kamukyou De-Ryu.

"Boring." Kamukura Izuru stood up and turned to look at the obviously flustered man behind him. "You're taking too long."

"I'm sorry." Hinata Hajime apologized helplessly, "I can't control my temper when I encounter something that makes me angry."

Hinohara Ichi looked blankly at the man in front of him who was as cold as Hinata Sou. To be honest, he was extremely confused at the moment.

At first he thought Hinata Hajime was a very easy to talk to man, and he was indeed like that at first. Even when he was attacked with words, he noticed that Hinohara Hajime was hurting himself, and then tried to control him. Although he pushed him away, it was enough to show that Hinata Hajime was an absolutely gentle man.

However, afterwards, Hinata Hajime suddenly changed into a different person, mocking him harshly, calling him a waste.

Now after seeing this long-haired man, Hinata Hajime returned to his original appearance.

"That's him."

"Yes." Hinata Hajime briefly exchanged information with Kamijou Izuru, "The possibility of leaving through him is close to zero. Although his consciousness is here, he cannot control the Despair Fragment. The fragment is likely to be in his real body."

Kamizuru Izuru looked at Hinohara Ichi, without a trace of emotion in his red eyes.

"This is very difficult." Hinata Hajime thought, "If we stay here, we won't be able to face the Fragment of Despair directly. If we leave, his consciousness will be in the game world, and we won't be able to communicate with him. The Fragment of Hope needs to give hope to the despair host himself. This is the first time I've seen such a separation."

Listening to these two people ignoring him and discussing something he didn't understand, Hinohara stood up and rushed over to grab Hinata Hajime.

"Where is the miracle you mentioned? Is this it?" Hinohara pointed at the stagnant cube in the sky, "This is pause, right? This is pause!"

Hinata Sou frowned and looked at Hinoharaichi who was holding his arm, "What do you want to say?"

"This isn't a miracle at all!" Hinohara laughed hoarsely. "Even a normal Tetris game has a pause button. This is an exploit based on the game rules. When the game is restarted, it will still fail. This doesn't break the rules of the game, and it's not a miracle!"

"There is no way to break the rules!"

[So annoying.] Hinata Hajime muttered in his heart, [Because he couldn't do it, he also thought that others couldn't do it, and used various methods to prove it. He said that he was not affected by the Fragments of Despair. I think he has been corroded too much by the Fragments of Despair and has long been insane.]

[Break the rules.] Kamukura Izuru looked at Hinohara calmly, [Are you going to make him even more desperate?]

Hinata Sou looked at Kamuzuru Izuru strangely, "Why do you think I brought him here?"

It was said that Hinohara Ichi was supposed to see a miracle, and this miracle was something that Hinohara Ichi thought he could not do. Hinata Hajime brought Hinohara Ichi here to break his glass heart.

Be despairing; it is more useful to realize your own incompetence than to persist in self-deception.

Hinata Hajime is a normal person, not a saint. He knows better than anyone that hope is not something that can be given just by saying it, and he thinks that some people are not worth having hope for, so he won't just feed people chicken soup. What is chicken soup? Is poisonous chicken soup useful?

Hinohara Ichi, who didn't know what Hinata Hajime was planning, was still going crazy, "No one can do this."

Kamukura Izuru looked at him expressionlessly, his red eyes filled with boredom. He turned around and picked up the game console from the ground. He pressed the start button very casually, and the Tetris game restarted. A vertical block fell from the sky, and the place where it landed happened to be the most empty position of the block.

As soon as the block falls, the rows below it become complete and disappear.

"The game is going to fail!"

Hinohara pointed at the Tetris square in the sky and laughed loudly. Soon, his laughter became smaller and smaller because he noticed the way Kamijou Izuru and Hinata Sou were looking at him.

A little compassion in indifference.

...Mercy?

With a bang, the Tetris block fell to the ground. The ground shook due to the fall of the huge stone, but there was no sound of breaking, nor any light effect announcing the failure of the game. Hinohara turned his head in a daze. He saw the complete block, but the blocks were still falling, one after another, stacking on the original block.

Not failed and not ruined.

Why?

Hinohara opened his eyes wide, then slowly fell to the ground, staring at the still-moving Tetris block, his pupils filled with surprise.

Throwing the game consoles in their hands to the ground, Hinata Hajime and Kamijou Izuru looked at each other. They walked side by side past Hinohara Ichi, as if they were preparing to go somewhere else.

Looking at the backs of Kamijou Izuru and Hinata Hajime as they were about to leave, Hinohara could no longer hold back.

"Wait a minute!" Hinohara yelled at the top of his lungs, "How did you do that? How did you do that?!"

Kamukura Izuru stopped walking, turned his head and glanced at Hinohara, his red eyes filled with boredom, "This question is very boring."

"No, this is not boring at all!" Hinohara pointed at the Tetris cube, "Why didn't it fail?"

As if he was annoyed by him, Kamuzuru Izuru casually said, "I do have the talent to make games."

"You hacked into the game and changed the rule code?!"

“No,” Kamuzura Izuru said. “There is no need to change the rules.”

"There are only two rules in your game. One is that the blocks cannot be complete, and the other is that the blocks cannot reach a certain height. You just need to add a new rule to these two rules."

Hinohara's eyes moved, he lowered his head, and an idea suddenly flooded into his mind. He was an expert in the game, and at this moment he finally understood the rule that Kamukura Izuru added. He would not fail as long as he did not break the previous rules. He only needed to...

"The border is infinite."

As long as there is enough border, no matter how many blocks fall, the blocks will never fill the border, just like humans will never imagine how far they can go.

Limiting oneself to a certain narrow boundary and claiming it as a rule, and collapsing madly in order to prevent these narrow boundaries from being filled up, this is a very boring and stupid thing in Kamukura Izuru's eyes. Obviously, more space can be obtained by simply expanding the boundaries.

So, so…

Hinohara suddenly laughed. He covered his eyes, but tears flowed down between his fingers.

In the end, just like Hinata Hajime said, he was just a waste who didn't dare to move forward.

Confined to their own world, they take it for granted that the border of the Russian block is there, and because of the unexistent future, they collapse to such a state, but they don't know how stupid this is in the eyes of others.

He drew a circle for himself and kept mending the boundaries of the circle.

But I didn’t know there was a bigger world out there.

"But." Hinohara cried, he put down his hand, his eyes full of despair, "I like games, I really like games, that's all, I didn't lie to you."

Hinata Hajime and Kamijou Izuru looked at each other, and Hinata Hajime smiled.

He walked up to Hinoharaichi, half-knelt down and stretched out his hand to him.

Hinata Hajime said in a gentle voice: "That's enough."

No matter how desperate things are, no matter how timid and cowardly you are, as long as there is love, there is no problem.

Hinohara looked at Hinata Hajime's gentle green eyes. He stared at him blankly. After a moment, he smiled and said, "Mr. Hinata, I suddenly understand why you are a warrior fighting against despair, but I really dislike you a little bit."

"Why are there people like you in this world?"

Hinata Hajime pulled his hand back awkwardly, "I'm very ordinary. It's normal for someone like me to exist in this world."

"Really?" Hinohara Ichi stood up from the ground and stretched out his hand towards Hinata Hajime even though he said he disliked him.

It’s okay if you don’t wear glasses, and it’s okay if your hair and clothes are a mess.

Hinoharaichi said, "Hello, my name is Hinoharaichi, and I am the president of Momeng Games. I promised myself that Momeng Games will never become the last dream of my people."

The young man smiled again, and this time it seemed to finally match the Easter egg game. Hinata Hajime watched his body turn into dots of colorful light, like his dream, which began to shatter from his fingertips but reassembled into a more beautiful scenery in the air.

The game world shattered as the desperate host was shattered.

The unconscious people disappeared one by one, and the game world finally loaded the exit option like a normal game.

Both Hyuga Hajime and Kamijou Izuru saw the panel that appeared in front of them, and the "Exit Game" in the middle.

"It ends like this." Kamukura Izuru looked at the control interface.

"Outflow."

"Um?"

Kamijou Izuru looked at Hinata Hajime, and the next moment Hinata Hajime directly hugged him. The familiar person hugged him with excessive force. Kamijou Izuru could even hear the force of Hinata Hajime's chin against his shoulder, and the sound of his breathing that echoed in his ears because it was too close.

After two seconds of silence, Kamijou Izuru reached out and put his arms around Hinata Hajime's back.

It is a miracle embrace.

Hinata Sou closed his eyes, and in the embrace, they turned into data along with the game world and disappeared along with the game world.

That is enough.

…

"Hinata?"

"How are you, Mr. Hinata?"

"You haven't woken up yet. Is that really okay?"

"Mr. Hinata will be fine!"

With familiar voices filling his ears, Hinata Hajime slowly opened his eyes, but there was a layer of mist in front of his eyes. Amidst everyone's chatter, Hinata Hajime sat up from the bed in the infirmary. A ray of sunlight shone through the window onto Hinata Hajime's face, and the next moment, he felt a cool liquid running across his cheek.

Hinata Hajime was stunned for a moment. He stretched out his right hand and wiped his eyes, and saw tears.

"Hinata-kun? Are you okay?" Dazai Osamu lay beside him and looked at Hinata Hajime strangely, "Are you crying?"

"No, I just woke up suddenly and my eyes feel a little uncomfortable." Hinata Hajime smiled quickly, "By the way, why are you all here?"

"Because those who were unconscious due to the game have woken up, so we thought you should wake up too." Kunikida Dobu sighed, "Really, you are such a worrying guy, how could you just open the game without telling me, what if something really happens?!"

Hinata Hajime quickly apologized, "Sorry!"

"Apologizing won't solve the problem!" Edogawa Ranpo said, "But rather than dealing with you, I'll go clean up the mess first."

"That's true." Tanizaki Junichiro scratched his hair, "The detective agency's phone is going to explode with calls."

Seeing the detectives running out as if nothing had happened, leaving him alone in the infirmary, Hinata Sou smiled helplessly, he got out of bed and walked to the window sill.

Downstairs in the detective agency, people were everywhere receiving phone calls. Even though you couldn't hear the sound, you could see the joy on everyone's faces.

There is no better news than hearing that a loved one has woken up.

Hinata Hajime stretched hard in the sunlight.

[It’s sunny today, and it’s warm. ]

【Um.】