Several Years Earlier
Excuse me.
Yukizome-kun?
What is it?
What's that?
The video that caused the Biggest, Most Atrocious Despair-Inducing Incident in Human History.
Brainwashing, huh?
The technology itself was created by Mitarai Ryouta, one of my students.
If we can find him,
it might give us a powerful weapon against the Despairs.
Did you see the video?
No.
Very well.
Understood.
I'll take this.
There's one more thing.
This is the video that was used to make the Reserve Course students commit suicide.
The End of Hope's Peak Future Arc
You have a message from Tengan-san
Tengan-san?
Why is a dead man contacting you?
You have a message from Tengan-san
A video file?
Hello, Mitarai-kun.
If you are seeing this video, it's too late.
A young man like you may not understand.
But to an old man, with little time on this Earth left,
hope means having young people with whom you can entrust the future.
I spent my whole life at Hope's Peak High School.
Its students were my hope.
They grew up wonderfully,
and they became the Future Foundation's leaders.
If they, the men and women who were to carry humanity's hope,
were to lie, betray, and kill each other...
Nothing else could cause such despair.
When I thought of everyone shedding blood and tears, faces twisted in despair,
it made me so sad, so sad, so sad...
And at last, I did it!
View Again?
Tengan-san was really part of the Remnants of Despair?
B-But we got rid of the bangles, and the game's over, right?
We don't have to kill each other, do we?
Let's just look for the exit.
Back then...
...I ran.
I fell into despair.
I didn't fight.
And because of that...
Mitarai... san?
This time, I won't run.
I won't let it happen again!
I'll tell you everything.
I always loved anime.
I wanted to make an anime that would bring hope to people's hearts.
But...
I met Enoshima Junko at Hope's Peak High School.
She used my talent to make a video of despair that could drive people insane.
A video of despair?
If you watch it, your mind starts to work the same way as Enoshima Junko's.
You crave despair.
I'm sure the people Naegi protected saw it, too.
Everything was my fault from the start.
But, until now, I was too scared to talk about it!
I think the video shown on the monitors was made by Enoshima Junko,
using my technology.
Tengan-san probably took the suicide video from the Remnants of Despair,
and set it to play on the monitors, to destroy the Future Foundation.
But why would the Future Foundation's leader fall into despair?
It isn't his fault.
He was a victim of Enoshima Junko, too.
I'm sure he saw the despair video.
So I've decided...
...that I'm putting an end to this.
I'll play this video of hope for the world.
Future
Video of hope?
My anime is what caused many people to fall into despair.
It was so scary, so painful.
But... anime was the one thing I could never give up.
My video of hope can fill the whole world with hope.
I can do the opposite of what Enoshima Junko did to the 77th class!
The opposite of what Enoshima did?
You mean you'll change people's hearts...
I know.
I agonized about it for a long time.
But...
We are weak creatures.
Every day, we encounter tiny bits of despair.
They stay with us.
Until one day, we can't even stand.
People can't beat despair.
They can't...
We can!
If we work together, we can overcome despair!
We can't!
We can't, that's why the world is this way.
Not everyone is strong like you!
But even so...
We can't be like you!
Wait a second...
Let's... Let's just think about this, okay?
I'm sorry, Asahina-san.
Stop Naegi Makoto.
Mitarai-san, what did you do to Asahina-san?
What's wrong, Asahina-san?
A brainwashing video.
S-Stop it.
This is another of my talents.
My forbidden action doesn't matter now.
Using Your Talent
Wait, Mitarai!
Mitarai!
I don't want to have any more regrets!
Clear!
Halt!
What are you doing there?
Mitarai-san, from Branch 10, right?
You're safe?
Thanks for saving me.
What happened here?
Where are the other directors?
Please look at this.
Please broadcast this to all forces.
And if someone tries to interfere with me...
...do whatever it takes.
Eliminate them.
For the hope of this world!
Despair is something that exists within the human heart.
You can't get rid of it...
...so I'll change the very heart itself.
Envy, jealousy, hatred, sadness, rage...
I will eliminate every negative emotion that there is.
As long as despair exists, humans will repeat this tragedy.
I will...
...put an end to it.
Hey, what's gotten into you?
Let go of me, Asahina-san...!
Asahina-san!
Great! Everyone...
Asahina-san, run!
What is going on here?
A video of hope that will brainwash the entire world?
Munakata-san, please help me stop Mitarai-san!
It's ironic.
Tengan was a Remnant of Despair...
...but he'll be the cause of the world being brainwashed with hope.
Wait.
Maybe Tengan-san wasn't one of the Remnants of Despair.
Maybe Tengan-san's goal was...
...to make Mitarai-san use the video of hope?
I thought his goal was to broadcast the killings here to the world,
filling it all with despair.
No, the killings weren't being broadcast.
That's it...
Tengan-san set up the whole thing, just to push Mitarai-san to the brink.
That's why he was surprised.
I'm sorry, Chairman.
Um, I'm late.
Mitarai-kun, you're here?
Mitarai-san probably wasn't invited to the meeting.
Or to the mutual killing game.
All Mitarai-san needed to do was learn that
the Future Foundation's leaders were killing each other.
Then, all he had to do was steal the video from Mitarai.
It isn't just the video of hope.
I'm sure he entrusted his hopes to Mitarai-san himself.
I entrust the hope of the world to you.
That was a message to Mitarai-san.
From the beginning, everything was set up to bring hope!
And it is going to result in...
...all of humanity's brainwashing...
He'll completely eliminate despair from the human heart?
Brainwashed people, with sadness and pain stolen from them...
Can they even be called human?
Munakata-san, is there a large-scale broadcasting device in this facility?
There's equipment in the annex capable of broadcasting to the world.
They're coming.
We should assume all of them are brainwashed.
All?
But we have to get through here.
Let's go.
Huh? Right!
Just a little more.
I should have never left your side...
Chisa.
Chisa... I'm sorry.
Asahina-san!
Just a little more...
Just a little more.
Hey.
You shouldn't talk.
Go.
You're going to stop Mitarai-san, aren't you?
Don't worry.
I'll be waiting here.
I'll be fine!
Got it.
I'll stop Mitarai-san and return with help!
Okay.
I won't give up...
This is almost over!
And I won't give up!
I won't give up anymore.
For a tomorrow, without despair...
...I won't run anymore.
I'll rid this world of despair!
Just a little more...
Once this countdown reaches zero...
...the world will be filled with hope.
When that happens...
...no one will suffer anymore.
No one will be sad anymore.
No one will betray others anymore.
There will be no conflict.
No pain.
A peaceful world, without war...
A world filled with hope will be ours.
I'm Yukizome Chisa.
The former Super High School-Level Housekeeper.
My talents have led me to see many decisive moments.
So, now it's time for "What the Housekeeper Saw!"
Here's our mastermind this time,
Future Foundation Chairman Tengan Kazuo!
The Future Foundation's two leaders, Tengan and Munakata...
...were friends at first, you see.
But when Munakata said, "I shall destroy despair,"
Tengan said, "Conflict creates despair," or something.
And they had a falling out.
Well, the real cause of the falling out was that Instructor Yukizome said to Munakata...
"Eliminate despair."
Or something like that!
I guess it isn't your fault.
You have been on despair's side for a long time.
So the real cause of this whole killing game was Tengan trying
to make Mitarai use the video of hope.
Well, he had this whole "I'll let Mitarai decide whether to use the video" thing going on.
But with all the stuff he's gone through, anyone would choose to use it!
First Kamukura Izuru, and then a video?
These people never learn, do they?
Ah, running out of air time...
Fast forwarding!
Meanwhile, Naegi-kun put the 77th class, who had turned to despair, into a virtual reality,
and tried to return them to how they'd been before infection.
Wait, isn't that basically brainwashing, too?
This was found out,
and Naegi-kun was summoned to the Future Foundation before he'd learned the results.
That was actually Tengan's trap, you see.
These people haven't noticed, but this is totally over, right?
I mean, even if they stop Mitarai-kun,
their leader was the mastermind who made them kill each other.
No one's gonna follow an organization like this.
In the end, Yukizome-chan turned her students to despair,
made her lover and her boss go mad,
and destroyed the Future Foundation!
And finally, she killed herself in front of her beloved Munakata, just to make sure.
Nice work! Great despair!
Thus, hope was lost.
Their wish to seek out hope created despair.
Their prayers went unheard.
Love was betrayed.
And everything fell into darkness.
So... our future is over now.
What?
Everything is already over?
Nope.
This is where our hope starts.
Well, I don't care.
We're already dead!
What are you doing to Naegins?!
Hagakure-kun?
W-Wait...
W-We surrender!
We surrender!
What are you doing there?
You...
At whom do you think you're pointing a gun?!
Togami-kun!
You're all beat-up.
Are you sure you're really lucky?