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"Hope's Peak High School."
Bringing together students with a variety of talents...
...this government-approved school is accorded very special privileges.
It was like a dream to me...
To have a talent I could take pride in.
And to pass through the gate into Hope's Peak's main school.
That was my dream.
But...
...I had no talent.
Not in sports.
Not in art.
Not in luck.
Not in anything...
The End of Hope's Peak Despair Arc
Reserve Course Building
Do not fear normalcy.
Seven days left...
Hey...
Hey, I'm talking to you.
You're always gazing at the Main Course building.
Yeah, so what?
I'll bet you have no friends.
Not that I do, either.
Well, yeah, not if that's how you say hello to people.
I don't know why I've been put with trash like you, but...
Well, nice to meet you.
I was serious!
I mean, I'm a Super High School-Level Little Sister, after all.
Huh?
You must have heard of us.
The organized crime group with over thirty thousand members, the Kuzuryuu Gang.
"Kuzuryuu"? No way...!
That's right.
The Kuzuryuu Gang is my family.
And my big brother is the heir apparent...
...the Super High School-Level Gangster!
Seriously?
And with an incredible big brother like that...
...it means I'm a Super High School-Level Little Sister!
See? Makes perfect sense, right?
But considering you have come to the Reserve Course,
you weren't scouted for the Main Course, huh?
That doesn't mean I have no talent yet.
Maybe you have given up already.
I...
I can still...
I'm not like them.
I'll do whatever it takes to get into the Main Course!
I'll bet if someone in the Main Course were to quit, I could fill their open space!
Like a certain girl with freckles who I hate, maybe...
Dewicious Milk
Natsumi!
You'd better not be planning anything weird, okay?
Hey, it's Sato...
Long time, no see.
What? Were you eavesdropping on us?
Just answer me!
You're not plotting something weird again, are you?
Huh? What do you mean by "something weird"?
Do you two... know each other?
Not really.
At my last school, we were just in the same Photography Club.
If you do anything to Mahiru,
I'll never let you get away with it!
Reserve Course Class 1-A
Don't you just strut up to me and start spewing nonsense!
I'm telling you to drop your weird schemes!
Don't get so familiar with me, you Plain Jane!
Excuse me, let me through, please.
You can't do anything without hiding behind your parents!
Stop this!
Tsk!
Mahiru...
Long time, no see, Koizumi.
What does a girl from the Main Course need here?
I just...
Did you come here to mock these talentless losers?
H-Hey...
Cut that out!
I'm just funning with you!
Your brother is in the same class as Mahiru!
Yeah, and?
Gonna tattle on me?
Just try it.
I'll kill you.
You haven't changed.
You haven't changed since when we were in the Photography Club.
Still a shitty little goody two-shoes, secretly looking down on everyone!
Are you so desperate to get into the Main Course that you'd pull down Mahiru to do it?
You're the absolute worst!
If the Main Course didn't scout you,
it means you have no talent!
But you still don't get that...
You need to learn your place!
Why, you...
That's...
That's enough!
Let's go.
You went too far back there...
I needed to tell her off.
Mahiru, you're the hope of everyone in the Photography Club.
I'm just...
...taking the pictures I want to.
I know.
And I'm confident of one thing.
Someday, your photos will spread around the world.
Hey, it was my turn to make lunch today, right?
They're hamburger steaks!
I'm looking forward to it.
I hope they turned out okay!
Miss Natsumi is in the Reserve Course?
Yeah, it sounds like she asked Dad for it so she could follow me here.
Will it be all right?
She's always been totally nuts...
No telling what she might try to pull.
Should I go check on her?
How many times do I have to tell you?
There's nothing between you and me now.
You're not a hitman anymore.
Uh, but...
I said that so you wouldn't jump to conclusions and do anything strange.
Oh?
Well, this is unusual!
I've never seen you two talking before!
What? What?
Did something happen?!
Buzz off! It's nothing!
You beat me!
They don't call you the Super High School-Level Gamer for nothing...
It's because you weren't focusing.
Did something happen?
Hey, Nanami...
If you'd had no talent for games...
...what do you think you'd have done?
If I'd had no talent?
Like, if you always lost, no matter how long you played.
Or if they were too hard for you to figure out.
I wondered if you'd still have had fun playing them...
Hmm...
I think that would have been fun in its own way.
I love games.
Even if there were someone else with a talent
for games that you could never beat?
There's more to life than just talent.
Huh?
That was something Instructor Chisa told me, but...
Your life won't be interesting just because you have a talent.
By getting involved with others and making memories...
...hope, which is more important than talent, is born.
I have fun playing with you...
...I think.
Right...
Yeah, I feel the same way.
Okay, let's keep going.
Huh? This again?
Let's play another game!
No.
Next, we're going to do co-op.
O-Okay!
Even without a talent, you can have hope.
This may not be all that bad.
Stop getting in Mahiru's way!
Huh? I don't know what you're getting at!
I'm telling you your underhanded methods won't get you anywhere now!
No matter how important you are,
even if you're a gangster's daughter,
you'll never be a match for her talent!
Buzz off!
I don't want to hear anything from a moron who trails after her like goldfish poop!
Why, you...
Stop that!
Next time, I'll kill you.
Kuzuryuu!
Wait, Kuzuryuu!
I knew it, she's no good...
Mahiru...
Mahiru, I'll protect you...
I will...
I will.
Kuzuryuu!
What?
That was just intimidation!
Stop acting like that!
Buzz off...
You're just a useless Reserve Course student.
Don't get preachy with me.
Forget about the Main Course, they will expel you even out of the Reserve Course!
Are you okay with that?
Shut up!
I've told you already.
I'll definitely go to the Main Course!
Definitely...
Why are you so obsessed with the Main Course?
My brother's the Super High School-Level Gangster.
If I'm not a Super High School-Level Little Sister, I'll get left behind.
I don't want that!
There's more to life than just talent.
I understand.
It must feel lonely, being left behind.
But...
I think there are other things just as important as talent.
What are you on about?
There's nothing as important as talent.
You love your brother, right?
Even if you have no talent, you can stay with him and make memories together.
Talentless people have no right to be with my brother!
I want something to be proud of.
Not to always look up to him.
Kuzuryuu Gang
I want to stand by his side!
If they will recognize me as a Super High School-Level Little Sister,
I can be with my brother.
A person with no talent...
...has no right to be with them...
Did something happen?
I hear it was a murder.
You know the girl who just transferred in?
Music Room
Kuzuryuuu Natsumi, was it?
She was killed by a suspicious person.
The End of Hope's Peak Despair Arc
Morgue
Tell me the truth!
What happened yesterday?
Don't tell me you...
It's true that I did want to kill her.
She was going to do something terrible to you!
Maybe...
No, she was definitely going to kill you!
You remember this scar, right?
Back in Photography Club, when you and she got into an argument
I stopped the two of you, and that night...
I'm sorry.
You have done nothing wrong!
It must have been that person!
Then, like I thought...!
I'd never kill her.
I couldn't kill someone.
Believe me, Mahiru.
Okay. I believe you.
I need to go now.
Okay.
Bye-bye.
Sato...
What were you two talking about just now?
Did you really not do anything to Kuzuryuu?
W-What are you saying?
Don't be stupid!
Then, after what happened yesterday, where did you go?
She was killed by a suspicious intruder!
Or maybe it was suicide...
Maybe she gave up on life after realizing she had no talent!
That's right! That must have been it!
Kuzuryuu hadn't given up!
She may not have had any talent, but—
You're wrong...
You're wrong. You're wrong.
You're wrong!
Ahem...
Enjoy your school lives on behalf of Kuzuryuu, who is no longer with us...
Instructor, where is Sato?
Ah, I haven't heard anything.
Maybe she's just late.
She wasn't just late.
The day after that...
...and the day after that, Sato didn't come to school.
And then, the day after that...
...Sato's body was found.
Hey!
You're a Reserve Course student!
What are you sneaking in there for?
I need to ask Koizumi, in the Main Course, about something.
You can't!
But...
No buts about it.
That's the rule.
Hey!
Just let me throu—
You have to follow the school rules.
Y-You're...
The man in charge of Hope's Peak High School security.
I'll let this slide just this once.
Now hurry up and get lost.
Wait!
Please...
Tell me the truth!
I can't accept this!
You want the truth?
Fine, I'll tell you.
An unfortunate girl was killed by someone who sneaked into the school.
And her classmate also died from the shock of it all.
That's the end of it.
That's bull!
You're just trying to sweep the problem under the rug!
Reserve Course students are easily replaced.
I just don't have time to deal with it, every time one of you dies...
What did you say?
Why, you...
If you don't have talent, just pay money to compensate for it.
It's a pain when someone gets killed.
Don't sully the name of Hope's Peak,
you scum.
Yeah, she had no talent...
So what?
All lives are equal!
No, they aren't.
Give up.
You can't make diamonds out of scrap metal.
Act like a normal high school student,
and hang out with the other normal students,
and enjoy your lives, thinking you're all great.
Got it?
I know kids like you...
You start acting all special, just because you interact with the Main Course a little.
Honestly, this is why I hate normal people.
You cling to the talent of the Main Course students like crap trailing behind a goldfish.
You're wrong...
Huh?
There's more to life than just talent...!
Well said.
You're right.
The talentless should act as befits them.
If you have time to envy the talented,
use that time to live like a gear in a machine.
For people like you, who have no talent...
...you don't need to think.
If you live life idly, groveling before your betters, nothing can make you happier.
Tsk.
How about a nice nap in the hospital, kid?!
Stop.
Yukizome...
Hinata, are you okay?
Hinata...
I hope you haven't forgotten what we're really here for.
Munakata ordered us to investigate the dark side of this school.
There's no need to go sticking up for Reserve Course students.
I know that.
I'm investigating like I'm supposed to.
But that was violence, plain and simple!
As a person, I can't just overlook it!
I don't know...
Since high school, you have tended to get too absorbed by things.
But like Munakata says, Hope's Peak High School is rotten to the core now.
They're trying to sweep the incident with the Kuzuryuu brat under the rug.
The teachers have been talking like that, too.
I was asked to explain it to my students later.
It pisses me off...
The teachers and trustees are only thinking of self-preservation.
Then, why would you say that to Hinata?
If he noses around and learns too much...
...that kid is the one who will die.
I get what you wanted to do.
But don't get violent with students who don't know anything.
Fine. Fine.
But...
It's true that Hope's Peak High School is going down the wrong path.
The only one who can fix it is Munakata.
Yeah, he's the only one.
Ah.
I won't let anyone else have Munakata, not even you!
Don't suddenly start spouting nonsense...
I should be getting back.
Yukizome!
You were like a real teacher back there.
Hinata!
A new game came out, let's play it together.
Sorry.
I have something to do.
There's somewhere I need to go.
I see...
Hinata!
What is it?
I...
I'm sorry.
It's nothing.
Nanami...
Are you making memories?
Uh...
Sort of?
Make lots of them.
You're not just the Super High School-Level Gamer.
You have many other good points, too.
Bye.
See you later.
Okay!
See you tomorrow!
Nanami...
I wanted to be able to say to you, my friend, with pride...
"I have a talent...
...I can do this incredible thing."
In the end, I couldn't do anything, though.
But because of my emptiness, there are things I can do.
The subject has decided to participate in the project.
I don't like it...
Artificial talent and artificial hope, huh?
There's no stopping it now, I suppose.
At last...
...you have come to a decision, have you?
Yes.
I will become...
A Farewell to All Futures
...everyone's hope.