"Yes, those nicknames should be called disabled limbs." Hinata Hajime said to Nanami Chiaki on the phone.

"A is the arm, the plus and minus signs next to it represent left and right, B is the leg, and C and D should be one of the body and one of the head."

"The six of them killed Ishimaru Mai, then dismembered the body and divided it among themselves. They killed each other to compete for the other bodies." Hinata frowned, as if he also thought this was a perverted thing. "So, even Nanami, you couldn't find the person who had C and D. Maybe they moved to the countryside where there is no Internet."

Nanami Chiaki listened in silence. After a moment, she raised her head and said, "Hinata-kun, this is very similar to that story."

"Are you talking about Tomie?"

"Yes." Nanami Chiaki nodded, "It's Tomie, a woman with magical appeal, who was obsessed with countless people, and was eventually killed and dismembered, but was able to be resurrected. Although Miss Ishimaru did not resurrect, she does fit in with the previous story."

"This desperate incident must be related to Tomie's story."

Nanami Chiaki murmured, and after a moment she looked at Hinata Hajime, "Hinata-kun, who do you think is more likely to be the desperate host in this incident?"

"Ask me?"

Hinata Hajime sat on a bench, his green eyes expressionless. After a moment, he spoke, "It's Ishimaru Mai."

"Yes." Nanami Chiaki said half helplessly and half complicatedly, "After all, in Tomie's story, Tomie is the protagonist."

If there must be a desperate host in this incident, Ishimaru Mai, who is at the center, is the most likely person.

"I looked up the university where Miss Ishimaru was studying, and found out that she did not graduate. It seems that she was expelled from the university, which is inconsistent with what Mr. Matsushita said." Nanami Chiaki took a deep breath, "Cheer up, no matter what this incident is, we must work hard to solve it!"

"Yeah." Hinata Hajime nodded with a smile, "You were expelled from the university, right? Then I'll go ask the university."

"Be careful." Nanami Chiaki smiled gently, "I will continue to investigate the locations of C and D. I will anonymously notify the police about A and B and let them collect them."

So this is why Hyuga Souzen is at the gate of the university.

Ishimaru Mai's university is not a well-known university. It can even be said that it has no reputation at all. Only people with mediocre academic performance will come here.

The guards at the university gate did not stop anyone. Anyone could enter. There was no problem sitting in the classroom because there were not many people attending the classes. Hinata Hajime came to the class where Ishimaru Mai was. He sat at the back and was obviously not a member of this class, but no one noticed.

Perhaps the action of Hinata Hajime sitting down disturbed the person who was sleeping next to him, and the girl with squinting eyes sat up with a frown. She looked at Hinata Hajime with an unhappy expression, then she raised her eyebrows slightly.

"Who are you?" The girl looked at Hinata Hajime strangely, "You are not a student in our class, are you?"

Hinata Hajime looked at the teacher who was lecturing fluently and completely ignoring the students below. Then he turned around and looked at the girl next to him, "I want to ask you about someone."

"Huh? From outside the school? Chasing someone?" The girl looked at Hinata Hajime with disdain, "You are really infatuated. You chased someone all the way to school."

Hinata Hajime was silent for a few seconds, then handed the police ID to the girl and continued in a calm voice, "I want to ask you about someone."

girl:……

The hand holding the police ID was shaking slightly.

The girl lowered her voice quickly, and was awakened by the fright. She returned the police ID to Hinata Hajime and timidly said, "Mr. Policeman, I haven't done anything illegal. I'm a good citizen! It's not against the law to sleep during class."

"I'm just asking you about someone." Hinata Hajime said, "Do you know Ishimaru Mai?"

The girl was stunned for a moment, then she frowned slightly, "What happened to her? Was she caught doing something illegal? Or was she caught being a mistress?"

Hinata Hajime was a little surprised after hearing the girl's description.

Although Hinata Hajime was prepared that Ishimaru Mai was not as gentle as he had imagined, he did not expect that after hearing Ishimaru Mai's name, the girl's first reaction was that she would do something illegal, or even become a mistress.

This setting is completely different from the Ishimaru Mai mentioned by Matsushita Makoto.

"Can you tell me more about it?"

The girl looked a little conflicted. She pinched her fingers unconsciously, as if she wanted to speak but was not comfortable doing so. She must know something.

Hinata Hajime quickly said, "Ishimaru Mai is missing, and her life or death is unknown."

"Missing?" The girl was startled. She turned her head and looked ahead. After a moment, she sighed and stood up carefully to go out. "Mr. Policeman, come with me. Let's talk outside. It's not convenient here."

The teacher above had already seen the girl leave, but he turned a blind eye and pretended not to see it, and did not stop reading the textbook.

When we got to the bottom of the teaching building, the girl yawned as if pretending to be talking. She said, "Ishimaru Mai and I were roommates before, so I know a little bit about her, including the fact that she was expelled from school."

"Do you think she will do something illegal?" Hinata Hajime asked.

"Maybe." The girl said indifferently, "Ishimaru Mai is not really bad, but she is just weird. She has some quirks and likes to show off. She is from a very poor family but she wants to save face. That's fine, but she thinks she is as beautiful as a fairy and all men will like her. I don't know if she really thinks so or if she does it on purpose."

Hinata Hajime raised his eyebrows subtly, "And then? This won't lead to expulsion, will it?"

"But she is weird, and she is weird in a way that no one likes, so she was excluded." The girl lowered her voice, "It's not really a terrible bullying, it's just that no one wants to go with her, no one wants to communicate with her, and they just stay away from her. We are all adults, and this is not campus violence that can be strongly stopped."

Legally, alienation is not a crime.

"She dropped out of school not because of this, but because she offended the student council president. She stole the student council president's boyfriend. I don't know if it's true or not. After all, Ishimaru Mai isn't really that pretty. But it's all over the place, and she didn't deny it. It just so happens that the student council president is the principal's daughter."

As a result, Ishimaru Mai was expelled from school because of her bad behavior.

Hinata Sou nodded, "Where are you taking me?"

"Aren't you a police officer? I think you might need these things." The girl brought Hinata Hajime to a warehouse, and then she pointed to a box, "Inside that are the things that Ishimaru Mai didn't take away. Should I say she didn't take them away? No, it should be said that she disappeared directly after she was expelled from school. The things were left in the dormitory and were not moved until a new roommate came in and we moved her things here together."

The girl coughed and said, "That's it, that's all I know, I'm leaving."

Before Hinata Hajime could say anything, the girl turned around and left, and her figure soon disappeared.

Hinata Hajime was very clear about it, and she was probably one of the people who distanced herself from Ishimaru Mai, and she had also arranged it behind the scenes. These little malicious intentions that she could have casually talked about with her companions would become something embarrassing in front of the police, so after bringing Hinata Hajime here, she just wanted to leave as soon as possible.

Without paying any more attention to the girl who left, Hinata Hajime moved out the box filled with junk. He opened the box and began to look through Ishimaru Mai's things.

There weren't many things in here. The most valuable thing was a worn-out laptop. The computer was a bit old and probably had run out of power a long time ago. Hinata Hajime put the other things back and then left the university with the computer.

Hinata Hajime randomly found a coffee shop with an outlet and wifi, ordered a cup of coffee and went into the private room. Before the coffee arrived, he was charging his computer.

An hour later, Hinata Hajime's coffee had long gone cold, and he finally took the computer and pressed the power button.

The computer was still usable, but it was locked. Hinata Hajime looked at the desktop. After a moment, he pressed the keyboard a few times. The computer flashed a few times and entered the startup animation.

It's very magical, not only the computer has a lock, all of Mai Ishimaru's software has a lock, yes, all of it.

"Nanami." Hinata Hajime spoke.

"I understand." Nanami Chiaki jumped onto the old computer and nodded to Hinata Hajime. "The lock is not advanced. It can be opened immediately."

"Thanks for your hard work."

“It’s not hard at all. It’s very easy.”

With the help of Nanami Chiaki, the lock on the computer was quickly removed. Hinata Hajime looked at the software, and finally he clicked on one of the software that was similar to a record. The account bound to the computer was quickly logged in. At the moment of logging in, the content on the account was automatically refreshed, and the time was frozen at one week ago.

Nanami Chiaki looked at the last moment, "It was the day I met her."

"Okay." Hinata Hajime moved the mouse to the beginning, "So, Nanami, are you ready to get to know her?"

Chiaki Nanami nodded, they looked at each other, and then Hinata Hajime clicked the mouse, and they saw a person who was completely different from what Matsushita Makoto described, and the truth of this desperate incident.

…

"Why am I born worse than others? I'm not pretty, my family is poor, my grades are not good, everyone looks down on me, while others, who have been living in luxury since birth, always mock me for being poor. Do I want to be so poor?"

"When we were eating, they said I was a fool. They said I was so poor but I still ate such expensive food. I would rather use the money I earned from working to buy more expensive food! Why did they blame me like that?"

"No one talks to me, but that's okay, I can do it, I can change my life and become someone that all of them can look up to."

"No one is born to be a disgusting person!"

"I want to be better, richer, more perfect."

"I read Tomie's story today. If we exclude the fact that she is a monster, her life should be very comfortable. She is loved by countless people and taken care of by them. It's really good..."

"The student council president's boyfriend confessed his love to me."

"It's fake, they were playing truth or dare. Am I so disgusting that they vomited? How dare they humiliate me like this!"

"I dropped out. Yes, I was not expelled. I dropped out voluntarily!"

"I want to be Tomie, even if it's only for a few days, even if I have to be torn into pieces, just to feel the feeling of being admired and loved by countless people. I will be satisfied with that. I don't want to live anymore, and I don't even care about death anymore."

…

"My wish has come true."

The record came to an abrupt end. It was exactly the second day after Ishimaru Mai was fired. Hinata Hajime's eyes moved slightly.

Yes, it has been completely confirmed that Ishimaru Mai is the host of despair. The reason why events have developed to this point is all because she hopes that she can become Tomie. Her love-starved heart constantly wants to be Tomie and to be the center. The despair of being insulted and expelled from school is unbearable for her.

So the Fragment of Despair chose her and fulfilled her wish.

She became Tomie.

However, the despair was not over yet.

Nanami Chiaki was silent for a moment, then she spoke, "I don't know what to say, I just think that it's not entirely her fault that Miss Ishimaru is like this now."

"But it seems that she doesn't deserve sympathy at all."

The air was quiet for a few seconds, and Hinata sighed, "It shouldn't be over yet. After all, Mr. Matsushita hasn't shown up yet."

"Ah." Nanami Chiaki nodded. "Mr. Matsushita is her boyfriend, right? He is the only one among her suitors who became her boyfriend. Moreover, Mr. Matsushita has never participated in corpse dismemberment, and his conditions are also the lowest among those suitors."

"Yes." Hinata Hajime looked at the blank page. He kept delaying the time and finally clicked on the last two messages.

One was half a month ago, and the other was a week ago.

"It's almost time. I feel like I'm going to die soon. The men are looking at me with more and more passion. The flowers they sent me could fill a room. Tomie's ending was to be dismembered by those who loved her and then resurrected. But I'm not Tomie. I will die. But it doesn't matter. I knew this from the beginning. It's just death. I don't care anymore. What's more, my wish is to try this feeling of being watched by countless people. Now I have satisfied it."

"but……"

"I actually met him."

"I can feel that he really loves me, not because of the so-called attraction of Tomie. I am so happy as long as I am with him. He holds my hand and my heart beats like a madman. He asked me about the scar on my wrist, and I told him that it was from a fall when I was a child. In fact, it was not. It was the knife scar from my suicide during campus violence in high school. But I will not let him know all this."

"…Why did you come so late? Why did we meet at this time?"

"I love him, I love him, I want to be with him!"

"I don't want to die!"

A strong sense of despair came directly from the computer screen. Hinata Hajime closed the computer directly. He frowned and found it difficult to think.

What brings the deepest despair?

That is to give hope, to realize the fulfillment of her wish and look forward to the future with a clean and sharp cut, to fall from the light into the abyss, the black seems to become deeper, even the tears seem to be stained with darkness, to be killed and dismembered under the strong desire to survive, her despair is suppressed in the corpse, constantly fermenting, fermenting...

Even now, it is still affecting those people, causing them to kill each other, and the fanatics are no longer normal people.

"Hinata-kun." Nanami Chiaki called out Hinata Hajime's name in a low voice.

"Find the remaining body." Hinata Hajime said, "The fragment of despair is inside Ishimaru Mai's body."

Chiaki Nanami understood the interests involved, she nodded seriously, and then continued to search for the remaining body parts, especially the body and head that were now missing without a trace.

Only by recovering the complete body can the fragments of despair be removed.

Yes, just fragments of despair.

Because the despair host has died, this fragment of despair can no longer be purified into a fragment of hope.

The death of the host is the most perfect despair.

[What should I do?] Hinata Sou murmured softly, [This is the worst possible situation.]

In the spiritual world, Kamijou Izuru was still lying on the shore. He slowly sat up from the ground, and the next moment, Hinata Hajime appeared beside him.

Hinata Hajime sat there very quietly, with his legs bent and his arms folded on his knees, looking completely at a loss as to what to do.

"What are you thinking about?" Kamiya Izuru said this, and only then did he realize that he seemed to have said this sentence several times today, and he repeated it so much that even he was a little surprised.

Hinata Hajime raised his head and glanced at Kamukura Izuru before speaking, "Is it such a despairing thing to meet the right person at the wrong time?"

"Is Mai Ishimaru's despair because of Tomie or because she has gained hope?"

"Because she has no future." Kamukura Izuru answered with the most correct answer.

"Yes." Hinata Sou sighed, "A person without a future, and hope under such circumstances, unable to move forward with hope, has created an unprecedented despair."

He had never encountered anything like this since he started collecting fragments of hope, and he never expected things to develop in this way.

Kamijou Izuru knew what Hinata Hajime was thinking, because they were one person and could not hide something from another person.

Therefore, he understood everything about Hinata Hajime, the tangled knot in his heart, his determination, and the rose petals in his heart that he was unwilling to take out even if they were crushed to pieces.

He was depressed by this desperate incident, thinking about his past experiences and how perhaps this was not the right life.

After Kamijou Izuru obtained Hinata Hajime's heart, those things that were difficult to understand seemed to have become completely acceptable.

Kamizaru lowered his head and said, "Don't worry about it."

"Hmm?" Hinata Hajime was stunned for a moment. He looked at Kamukura Izuru, "Izuru, what were you talking about just now?"

"Don't worry about it." Kamukura Izuru said.

“You are the future.”