People without talent are like ticks.
Fattening themselves on the blood of the talented...
...they are ticks, capable only of reproducing.
Finally, those people attempted to create hope.
Loading every talent they could into one talentless person...
...he would serve as the Super High School-Level Hope...
...and the ticks would be parasites on that hope.
When I observed him last,
he was far too distraught to be the Super High School-Level Hope.
Some of the subject's personality still remained at that point.
We have already deleted that personality.
Please rest assured.
Heart rate is normal.
All right, open the capsule.
Now that you have been reborn as this world's hope...
...I christen you with the name of our school's founder, Kamukura Izuru.
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Later.
See you tomorrow.
Sure.
Sorry, did I keep you waiting?
Yeah, I was waiting. You're too slow!
Man, you'd better buy me juice to make up for this.
Instructor Chisa...
...was Hinata doing well?
Hinata was...
Y-Yeah, he was fine.
Is that... so...
Bye.
See you later.
Okay, see you tomorrow.
I said "tomorrow."
Peko, get that for me.
Right.
What should I do with this?
Oh, that's Komaeda's stuff.
Ask Nanami about it later.
Understood.
Then, what about this?
Ugh, that's enough.
Peko, you keep carrying my stuff,
but you haven't taken care of any of yours.
You mustn't do that.
Those are my things...
Shut up.
This is weird!
Something's weird!
When did you two get so close?!
I think it's lovely that they're so close.
No, w-we aren't...
It was just coincidence. Coincidence!
Huuuuh?
But you were like a mature, older couple.
Mature.
An age where we have ripened.
I like it.
It's truly—
Whoops, my foot slipped!
Hey, is this trash?
Y-You cur!
That is a holy offering, to summon the fallen angel Satanael!
Take your impure hands from it.
Lest a terrible calamity should befall you!
A calamity?
Are you stupid?
How could this puny thing, weaker than a plastic bag, do anything to me?
I did warn her of the coming calamity.
There, there.
Come to think of it,
where has Instructor Yukizome gone?
She is in the faculty office, getting ready to move, too.
She may not be able to make it today, I hear.
Here you go, a trustee's ID card.
Thanks.
Listen,
that card will be voided at 6:00 AM, tomorrow morning.
When that time comes, it's game over.
It's fine.
I'm aware.
To tell you the truth, one of the trustees has vanished.
Thanks to that, security is pretty tight.
Will you still go?
Either I use this today, or never.
So going is the only choice.
I'll risk my life for it.
You're risking my life, too.
Oh, right...
Sorry about that, Sakakura.
But I want to be of use to Munakata.
I'll do it for his ideals.
No, to be honest, I don't really care about that.
Anyway, if I can help Munakata this way, I'm fine with it.
You love him that much?
Yeah!
I could die for Munakata, I think.
I'll entrust my life to you, as well!
Make this work.
Sakakura...
Thank you.
Damn!
There's no room for me, at all.
But...
...I knew that all along.
Okay, this is the new school building!
Starting today, it's where you'll study and enjoy your youths!
Now, let's work together again!
Okay!
I look forward to it!
Serve me well.
I am in your care.
Uh, teacher...
When is the idiot coming back?
Uh...
I've heard it should be soon...
You must all miss him.
Nah, not really.
I hate that guy.
Non, non.
Not at all.
D-Don't be like that!
Komaeda is part of the class!
Tomorrow, there won't be any homeroom.
There's a ceremony in the courtyard for the new building's opening.
Make sure you don't sleep in and miss it!
Right!
Okay.
So, how about that ceremony tomorrow?
It's such a pain.
They give us extra work. and we don't even get to enjoy the food.
Maybe you can score some leftovers.
Considering there's a trustee missing,
security is awfully thin.
I mean, it's lucky for me, but...
...there's something weird about it.
This is the trustee's office.
I'm coming in...
If I check everything, it'll be morning before I finish.
Hope's Peak High School
Board of Trustees Member
Assigned Departments
Security Staff
HR Staff
Research Staff
A A
This is the trustee who went missing...
I'm a 43-Year-Old Trustee
It's ready!
You know, about torture...
If I do it with things familiar to you, doesn't it feel much scarier?
The tools you think nothing of using in your daily life.
If I use those to mess you up, it leaves real trauma.
It's full of despair, don't you think?
Here! Say, "Ah!"
It's... this?
Couldn't be...
No way.
Kamukura Project Periodical Report
What... is this?
"A project to study and cultivate the Super High School-Level Hope,
a true genius who will become humanity's hope.
The subject will gain every known talent in this world.
The subject's own senses, feelings, thoughts, and ideals will be destroyed.
But to create the Super High School-Level Hope and save this world, that is a trivial issue."
"The research has already been put into practice,
and we have moved on to the observation and testing of the subject's talent."
This is... human experimentation!
To think they were carrying out such a major experiment at the school...
Kamukura Izuru...
Kamukura Izuru!
Hey...
Why do you look like the job is done?
What will you do if I get blood on my boots?
S-Sorry, Junko.
Jeez.
Make sure you clean them all up later.
Make people think they went missing while shirking their duties.
B-By myself?
Obviously.
Dirty work and grunt work are your jobs, Sis.
O-Oh, okay...
I guess you're right.
Yeah.
This is a retina scanner.
It doesn't open with a card.
Yeah, it's fine, it's fine.
I borrowed one from a trustee.
I didn't do compensated dating for it or anything.
Sure, I may look like this,
but I'm not easy like that!
This is it.
Yikes!
Kamukura, look at me!
This is awesome!
The End of Hope's Peak Despair Arc
The Kamukura Project...
Damn the board of trustees.
Are they trying to create a deus ex machina?
Deus... What?
A clockwork god.
Hope that will work in a way convenient for them.
What do we do, Kyousuke?
Any indication that the info has leaked?
I think we're fine on that front.
If the public were to learn that the school's been doing human experimentation,
not even Hope's Peak High School could get away with it...
The public learning of it wouldn't be the worst.
Huh?
If a monster with every Super High School-Level talent...
...became hostile to humanity, what would happen?
Or what if someone malicious used him?
That's...
Hope would turn to despair.
And it would be a despair that could threaten the entire world.
The entire... world?
I'm coming over there immediately.
Take every caution until I arrive.
Trust no one but Sakakura, even if it's a student.
From here on, I also forbid you to say Kamukura's name.
Right. I understand.
Kamukura!
I'm a huge fan!
Give me a huggy-huggy!
J-Junko...
He may be a bit dangerous.
I know, right?
Kamukura's dangerously awesome!
Th-That isn't what I meant...
You're annoying me!
Shut up, dumb, fat, and ugly!
Dumb, fat, and ugly?
It's all there.
Now, then...
Kamukura, nice to meet you.
I'm Enoshima Junko, from the 78th class!
I've been thinking about you all this time...
To think you're shut up in here.
It doesn't suit you!
I mean, for you...
You can do anything, right?
For instance...
...you could suddenly die, leaving everyone in despair!
J-Junko!
You!
How boring.
Your actions are completely meaningless.
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
Ow! Great! This is just great!
My situation is awesomely full of despair right now, isn't it?
But you know, Kamukura Izuru,
I'm not the only one who needs despair.
You do, too.
Despair...
No matter how I logically analyze it, it is not necessary.
Logic?
Ha, that's a laugh!
Then, why am I in this position now?
Can you explain that with your logic?
Enoshima Junko...
...you have super analytic abilities, which allow you to see many steps in advance.
So why did you do this, knowing you couldn't win?
Oh, so you don't know?
You ought to have super analytic abilities yourself, though...
See?
Despair is an unknown.
Because of my super analytic ability...
...I was thoroughly bored with this world.
The "hope" everyone longs for is just a preexisting harmony.
But despair was the one thing that was different.
The heart-racing excitement of messy despair
has a taste like you have never known!
Despair is the one thing that brings chaos to this world.
Just like a single bullet setting off a world war...
...despair has the power to throw this world into chaos!
Look at me now! I'm having so much fun!
Even now, I'm filled with despair and excitement!
Can you understand me?
Kamukura Izuru, you may be this world's hope.
You may save the world.
But you know, hope won't lead to the unknown.
And so, you won't find salvation.
Hey...
Isn't this world of preexisting harmony boring?
Then, come to me, Kamukura.
They know we're here.
Junko, we need to hurry and escape!
You, who has it all
and has grown bored of it, Kamukura Izuru...
Only despair can save you!
Only I can!
This is a despairfully fateful encounter!
Hey, Mitarai.
Hey, wake up.
Sorry.
Is the anime still not finished?
No.
But I've finally hit the experimental stage.
Experimental?
Once I have something concrete, I'll tell you.
Still, don't you think I can stop going to the hospital?
No, you can't.
You have to go until the doctor says otherwise.
Didn't Tsumiki tell you that, too?
Fine...
Th-Thank goodness...
This is the school hospital.
When they asked about your injuries...
...I told them you tripped in your heels and took a tumble down the stairs.
What happened to him?
Junko!
When she wakes, I want you to tell her something.
That I will be waiting.
It seems he hasn't told the school about us...
...since we came to the hospital without trouble.
Oh, gosh!
If he's waiting, I'd better go pick him up fast!
I don't really like that guy.
Huh?
I didn't ask for the opinion of a flat-chested pervert whose only talent is killing people.
N-No, I didn't mean it like that.
You can't do that, Junko!
You should rest a little longer!
I'm fine.
I haven't taken a thrashing like that in ages.
The despair actually has me in top spirits, you know!
H-Hold on!
Wh-What?
Who are you?
Mitarai Ryouta.
Uh...
Wait, what are you doing?
Junko!
I don't know.
I don't know, but...
...this is what I'm telling myself.
This is yet another...
A Despairfully Fateful Encounter
...fateful encounter!