Timeline / A Student Out of Time

Early History:

1859- 2011

1859

• March 19: Tokushige Towa founds Towa Ironworks, a predecessor to the Towa Group, at age 30. Because steel manufacturing is a new and fast-growing industry, Towa Ironworks soon dominates 70% of the market. However, unsatisfied, Tokushige continues with multiple other business ventures, founding a new company an average of once every 20 days.

1893

• February 13: Tokushige Towa dies. He is 64. His wife, Tomoko, imparts some his philosophy during the eulogy: "When I asked him why he always pushes himself, he would always say that 'it's for the sake of the prosperity of mankind.'" His dedication to philanthropy proves influential to many across Japan.

1912

• December 9: Sakuma Togami founds the Togami Corporation and begins its unusual inheritance system, where the head of the family has several affairs with "extraordinary" women around the world, and the children later compete to decide who will become the next heir.

1935

• April 1: Hope’s Peak Academy is founded by Izuru Kamukura.
  • Class Alpha arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1936

• April 1: Class 1 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1937

• April 1: Class 2 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• August 4: Masato Shimabukuro is born.
• December 12: Daisuke Sato is born.

1938

• March 31: Class Alpha graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 3 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1939

• March 31: Class 1 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 4 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• September 1: World War II begins.
• September 12: Hitomi Nanami is born.

1940

• January 14: Kazuo Tengan is born.
• March 31: Class 2 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 5 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1941

• March 31: Class 3 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 6 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1942

• January 10: Due to World War II, Hope’s Peak Academy decides to raise its class size from 5 to 16.
• March 23: Fuhito Kirigiri is born.
• March 31: Class 4 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 7 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy. This is the first class to have 16 students.

1943

• March 31: Class 5 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 8 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1944

• March 31: Class 6 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 9 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• June 6: D-Day commences as Allied forces invade the northern coast of France. In response to the news, Princess Zoya of Novoselic, already a pro-fascist, begins calling for an end to the war.
• July 9: Worried that her actions could encourage fascist forces to invade the country, the Novoselic royal family deem Zoya a traitor, and she is executed. This begins a feud within the country, where many supporters of Zoya wish to see the royal family abolished.

1945

• March 31: Class 7 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 10 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• September 2: World War II ends.

1946

• March 31: Class 8 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 11 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1947

• March 31: Class 9 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 12 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1948

• February 14: Izumi Saionji is born.
• March 31: Class 10 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 13 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1949

• March 31: Class 11 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 14 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• September 12: Due to the effects of the atomic bomb and the lack of adults available, Hope's Peak Academy decides to enroll high school students instead of adults.

1950

• March 31: Class 12 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 15 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy. This is the first class composed of high school students.

1951

• March 31: Class 13 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 16 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1952

• March 31: Class 14 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 17 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• November 15: The Kisaragi Foundation is established by Yusaku Kisaragi, focusing on manufacturing and electronics.

1953

• March 31: Class 15 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 18 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1954

• March 31: Class 16 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 19 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1955

• March 31: Class 17 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 20 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1956

• March 31: Class 18 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 21 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1957

• March 31: Class 19 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 22 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1958

• March 31: Class 20 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 23 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1959

• January 6: Morty Green is born.
• February 14: Kaoru Owari is born.
• March 31: Class 21 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 24 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1960

• March 31: Class 22 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 25 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• May 22: Sylvia Green is born.
• July 9: Aloysius Pennyworth is born.
• August 8: Masayoshi Okamoto is born.

1961

• March 31: Class 23 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 26 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1962

• March 31: Class 24 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 27 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1963

• March 31: Class 25 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 28 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• November 9: Shinji Kasai is born.

1964

• March 31: Class 26 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 29 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
  • Narumi Aizawa (later Owari) is born.
• October 20: Juu Kinjo is born.
• December 7: Tokuichi Towa is born.

1965

• March 21: Izumi Saionji is named heir of the Saionji Clan.
• March 31: Class 27 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 30 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1966

• January 20: Takeharu Mizuta is born.
• February 3: Kaori Suzuki (later Koizumi) is born.
• March 31: Class 28 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 31 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 6: Ayato Nijiue is born.
• April 8: Hitoshi Koizumi is born.
• June 6: Osamu Hagio is born.
• June 19: Mio Yamada (later Yonaga) is born.
• July 29: Junya Utsugi is born.
• August 12: Ernesto Gomez is born.

1967

• January 12: Goro Hirabayashi is born.
• January 13: Sota Ouma is born.
• February 15: Emina Sato (later Nijiue) is born.
• March 5: Biju Hakoda is born.
• March 31: Class 29 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 32 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 20: Sakura Fushimi is born.
• September 16: Natasha Nevermind is born.
• October 9: Ichiro Kashiki is born.

1968

• February 1: Sakura Chigusa (later Arima) is born.
• February 27: Shikamaru Shingetsu is born.
• March 31: Class 30 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 33 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 8: Megumi Tahara is born.
• June 30: Izuru Kamukura suffers a debilitating stroke and is left confined to a wheelchair. He announces his plans to retire and names Kazuo Tengan his successor.
• September 23: Tenmei Nijima (later Nanami) is born.
• September 29: Misako Ise is born.
• October 29: Yuka Kurosaki (later Saihara) is born.
• November 15: Akira Esumi is born.
• December 3: Kyoka Akamatsu (later Mioda, aka Sylilla Romazaki) is born.
• December 31: Harumi Nanami is born.

1969

• January 1: Kazuo Tengan takes over as headmaster of Hope’s Peak Academy.
• March 4: Masato Shimabukuro commits suicide as a result of guilt from his role in the Kamukura Project. He is 31. His suicide note blames Hope’s Peak for it all, inspiring Daisuke Sato to become a private investigator.
• March 20: Hanami Watanabe (later Sato) is born.
• March 31: Class 31 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 34 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 22: Takaaki Ishimaru is born.
• May 19: Emi Sugimoto (later Kasai) is born.
• September 23: Sakura Sakura (later Kasumi Ouma) is born.
• December 23: Mirko Silver (later Nevermind) is born.

1970

• March 31: Class 32 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 35 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• May 1: Yumi Utsugi is born.
• May 9: Noriaki Hinata is born.
• September 17: Mai Shingetsu is born.

1971

• March 31: Class 33 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 36 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• June 17: Kazutaka Naegi is born.

1972

• January 21: Taichi Fujisaki is born.
• February 5: Reiko Kobayashi is born.
• March 12: Kanako Tanaka is born.
• March 31: Class 34 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 37 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• May 14: Aiko Maeda is born.
• June 4: Yukiko Kuzuryu is born.
• June 23: Hibito Mioda is born.
• August 11: Maurice Kimura is born.
• September 2: Kohaku Park (later Saionji) is born.
• September 4: Rumiko Fujimoto (later Owari) is born.
• September 18: Hana Naegi is born.
• October 4: Izuru Kamukura dies. He is 79.
• December 5: Erina Walker (later Nidai) is born.
• December 17: Mitsuru Nakamura is born.

1973

• January 18: Miyamiya Hanamura is born.
• February 11: Takeo Fujimori is born.
• March 12: Kimika Kimura is born.
• March 31: Class 35 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 38 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
  • Maiko Saionji is born.
• May 1: Toshiro Kuzuryu is born.
• November 23: Kojiro Otori is born.
• December 7: Kenji Souda is born.

1974

• January 26: Sosuke Otonokoji is born.
• February 6: Maria Otonokoji is born.
• February 8: Hikaru Ando is born.
• February 27: Shirome Uzuchi (later Kirigiri) is born.
• March 21: Himari Matsunaga is born.
• March 31: Class 36 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 39 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 13: Kiyoshi Maizono is born.
• June 30: Jin Kirigiri is born.
• July 4: Kojiro Nidai is born.
• September 29: Koichi Kizakura is born.
• November 6: Hiroshi Hinata is born.

1975

• February 20: Hiyoko Sonada is born.
• March 31: Class 37 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 40 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
  • Eiji Saionji, Izumi Saionji's husband, is assassinated.
• May 6: Kokoro Mitsume is born.
• June 3: Roger Wilcox is born.
• June 7: Tsukasa Tsumiki is born.
• August 12: Keiko Sato (later Hinata) is born.

1976

• January 4: Megumi Tanaka (later Maizono) is born.
• March 31: Class 38 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 41 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• December 16: Hanzo Kisaragi is born.

1977

• March 31: Class 39 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 42 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 12: Setsuna Sato is born.
• May 14: Shinji Kasai runs into a burning building to save a child, which he does successfully.
• May 16: Shinji Kasai goes to the hospital to visit the child he saved, who gives him a flower necklace. This inspires Shinji to become a firefighter.
• June 7: Hiroko Hagakure is born.

1978

• March 31: Class 40 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 43 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• August 3: Syobai Hashimoto is born.
• August 15: Tsumugi Shirogane is born.

1979

• March 31: Class 41 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 44 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• May 22: Feeling that their daughter is fundamentally “broken” due to her inability to display emotion, Kokoro Mitsume’s parents abandon her.
• June 4: Kokoro is adopted by the Mitsume family, who treat her much better than her birth parents.
• September 26: Hiroshi Daimon is born.

1980

• March 5: Harumi Nanami and Sakura Chigusa's homeroom teacher doesn't come to school one day. While searching for her, the two accidentally discover her remains in a set of trash bags near the school's incinerator. While the police are unable to find the culprit, Harumi uses her own skills and manages to figure out who'd done it: a former student who had some personal beef with their teacher. Harumi becomes well known among the police for her forensic investigation skills.
• March 31: Class 42 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 45 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
  • The Hope’s Peak Academy Reserve Course opens to the public.
• April 10: Daisaku Bandai is born.
• October 13: During a firefighting operation, Shinji Kasai and his uncle are involved in an accident; his uncle is killed and Shinji is injured, forcing him to take time off school to recover.
• October 24: Minako Tomori is born.

1981

• March 31: Class 43 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 46 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• July 20: Kota Hashimoto is born.
• August 15: Kichiro Nijiue is stabbed to death by Mamoru Kurata during a home invasion, and Ayato Nijiue is the one to find his father’s body. Harumi Nanami later solves the murder case.

1982

• March 31: Class 44 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 47 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• December 10: Yoruko Kabuya is born.

1983

• January 1: Kyoka Akamatsu starts her music career under the stage name Sylilla Romazaki.
• March 31: Class 45 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 48 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• May 8: Great Gozu is born.
• May 12: Honoka Honda (later Owari) is born.

1984

• March 20: The Steering Committee makes some changes to the Class 49 roster at the request of the Nijiue family, switching out Ayato Nijiue and Harumi Nanami with Hitoshi Koizumi and Emina Sato.
• March 31: Class 46 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 49 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
  • Tenmei Nijima and Hanami Watanabe are arranged to be married by both their families.
• May 22: Rei Shimizu is born.
• August 11: Syobai Hashimoto is abandoned in Southeast Asia by his parents for reasons unknown.
• September 23: After nearly being sold into slavery, Syobai Hashimoto makes a new living on the black market.

1985

• January 16: Tokuichi Towa becomes head of Towa Group.
• March 31: Class 47 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 50 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 15: Ui Kemuri is born.
• May 26: Ayato Nijiue and Emina Sato get married. Emina changes her name to Emina Nijiue, although she has been using the last name Nijiue well before this.
• June 11: Eiko Harusha (later Mizuta) is born.
• September 22: Sakura Sakura, Sakura Fushimi, and Sakura Chigusa set off a bomb in the statue of Izuru Kamukura at the front of Hope's Peak Academy. Tenmei Nijima manages to separate the bomb from its thermals, but the bomb still goes off and knocks off the statue's head. All three Sakuras are subsequently found out and expelled from Hope's Peak Academy.

1986

• March 31: Class 48 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 51 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
  • The Iranami Family Circus is founded.
• May 8: The Holy Salvation Society is founded.

1987

• March 31: Class 49 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
  • Tenmei Nijima and Hanami Watanabe call off their engagement, and Tenmei effectively cuts off contact with his parents.
• April 1: Class 52 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 6: Harumi Nanami sees Sakura Sakura for the last time. Afterwards, Sakura cuts off contact with everyone, disappears, and lives under a new identity, changing her name to Kasumi Ouma.
• April 30: Kyoka Akamatsu has her last performance before retiring.

1988

• March 31: Class 50 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 53 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.

1989

• January 19: Hideyoshi Tamon is born.
• March 31: Class 51 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 54 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• August 22: Kyosuke Munakata is born.
• September 9: Setsuka Chiebukuro is born.

1990

• March 14: Tenmei Nijima and Harumi Nanami get married. Tenmei changes his name to Tenmei Nanami.
• March 31: Class 52 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 55 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 11: Gordana Nevermind is born.
• April 14: Juzo Sakakura is born.
• May 3: Chisa Yukizome is born.
• June 11: Shinji Kasai and Emi Sugimoto get married. Emi changes her name to Emi Kasai.
• June 29: Ichika Umemoto is born.
• August 9: Haiji Towa is born.
• September 26: Noriaki Hinata is killed by the Yakuza. He is 20.

1991

• January 1: The Lost Decade begins.
• March 22: Hitaru Nijiue is born.
• March 31: Class 53 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 56 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 20: 100 high school students, angry and disillusioned after failing to pass the Hope's Peak entrance exam, revolt and attack students of the Reserve Course in what becomes known as the Quiet Revolt.
• August 31: Yui Samidare is born.

1992

• February 20: Keisuke Iranami is born.
• March 25: Ai Ibarazaki is born.
• March 31: Class 54 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 57 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 12: Yuri Kagarin is born.
• July 14: Maverick Storm is born.
• July 25: Yasuhiro Hagakure is born.
• August 12: Umeko Hayase is born.
• October 1: Mikado Sannoji is born.
• November 26: Kyoji Nakamura is born.
• November 27: Shinobu Togami is born.

1993

• January 13: Hibito Mioda and Kyoka Akamatsu get married. Kyoka changes her name to Kyoka Mioda.
• February 5: Hirota Ouma is born.
• February 15: Mirko Silver and Natasha Nevermind get married. Mirko changes his name to Mirko Nevermind.
• March 31: Class 55 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 58 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• May 17: Momoko Takakuwa is born.
• June 1: Toshiro and Yukiko Kuzuryu get married.
• June 12: Kaoru Owari and Rumiko Fujimoto get married. Rumiko changes her name to Rumiko Owari.
• July 9: Jiro Nijiue is born.
• July 11: Miaya Gekkogahara is born.
• August 10: Asukasei Hino is born.
• September 11: Chikao Ishikawa is born.
• September 17: Taro Kurosaki is born.
• September 24: Tsubasa Kamii is born.
• October 16: Ted Chikatilo is born.

1994

• January 25: Yoshi Oku is born.
• February 12: Hitoshi Koizumi and Kaori Suzuki get married. Kaori changes her name to Kaori Koizumi.
• February 20: Sonosuke Izayoi is born.
• March 11: Estu Deguchi is born.
• March 20: Aiko Umesawa is born.
• March 31: Class 56 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 59 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• May 21: Maurice and Kimika Kimura get married.
• June 2: Fujiko Yamada is born.
• June 8: Seiko Kimura is born.
• June 10: Hiroshi Hinata and Keiko Sato get married. Keiko changes her name to Keiko Hinata.
• June 14: Utsuro is born. All the sick people in the hospital he was born at are cured, including Harumi Nanami’s infertility, and his parents win the lottery.
• June 21: Kohaku Park and Maiko Saionji get married. Kohaku changes his name to Kohaku Saionji.
• July 21: Mayumi Tamon is born.
• July 31: Eito Kobayashi is born.
• August 1: Kojiro Nidai and Erina Walker get married. Erina changes her name to Erina Nidai.
• August 17: Tomoe Kimura is born.
• August 29: Ryoko Otonashi is born.
• October 2: Because her husband is infertile and Misako Ise wants a child of her own, Tenmei and Harumi Nanami agree to help her.
• October 13: Sonia Nevermind is born.
• November 11: Hibiki and Kanade Otonokoji are born.
• November 17: Masa Esumi is born.
• November 19: Jin Kirigiri and Shirome Uzuchi get married. Shirome changes her name to Shirome Kirigiri.
• November 20: Ruruka Ando is born.
• December 14: Gundham Tanaka is born.
• December 18: Isshiki, Nisshiki, Misshiki, Yosshiki, Sasshiki, Rosshiki, Shisshiki, and Yasshiki Madarai are born.
• December 22: Miwa Mori is born.
• December 28: Damian Miraz is born.

1995

• January 1: Hajime Hinata is born.
• February 5: Kiriko Nishizawa is born.
• February 22: Haruki Nanami, the father of Harumi Nanami, dies of natural causes.
• March 9: Hiyoko Saionji is born.
• March 13: Sosuke Ichino is born.
  • Daiya Oowada is born.
• March 14: Chiaki Nanami is born.
• March 20: The Aum Shinrikyo cult releases the nerve gas sarin into the Tokyo subway system, killing 14 people, severely injuring 50, and causing temporary health problems in over 1,000 others. This begins the war between Aum Shinrikyo and the Tokyo police, led by Juu Kinjo.
• March 31: Class 57 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 60 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 24: Mahiru Koizumi is born.
• April 28: Nagito Komaeda is born.
• May 7: Kotomi Ikuta is born.
• May 12: Mikan Tsumiki is born.
• May 16: Aum Shinrikyo’s leader, Shoko Asahara, is arrested, thanks in large part to Juu Kinjo’s efforts.
• June 21: Sofia Yamazaki is born.
• June 23: Yuto Kamishiro is born.
• June 30: Peko Pekoyama is born.
• July 15: Akane Owari is born.
• August 8: Shoji Yoko is born.
• August 15: Kikue Kutsuki is born.
• August 16: Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu is born.
• August 20: Peko Pekoyama is taken in by the Kuzuryu Clan, destined to be trained to become an assassin and bodyguard for Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu.
• August 23: Kana Ise is born.
  • Akemi Nijiue is born.
• August 30: Ryota Mitarai is born.
• September 2: Teruteru Hanamura is born.
• September 4: Yusaku Kisaragi dies, leaving his son, Hanzo Kisaragi, in charge of the company.
• September 8: Daisuke Kasai is born.
• September 13: Sakura Ogami is born.
• September 25: Kenshiro is born.
• October 6: Kyoko Kirigiri is born.
• October 10: Soshun Mursame is born.
• October 16: Guido Allegri is born.
• October 29: Daiki Kubo is born.
• November 4: Suzuko Kashiki is born.
• December 1: Isamu Haku is born.
• December 22: Toshiro Suga is born.
• December 25: Santa Shikiba is born.

1996

• January 1: Shannon Sanada is born.
• January 3: Leon Kuwata is born.
• January 4: Fumio Fujimori is born.
• January 13: Ayaka Haneyama is born.
• January 14: Honami Sato is born.
• January 23: Tomohiko Goryoku is born.
• January 31: Yunosuke Matsuki is born.
• February 2: Steven Young is born.
• February 5: Makoto Naegi is born.
  • Seiko Kimura’s maternal grandfather dies.
• February 14: Seiko Kimura’s maternal grandmother dies.
• February 16: Ryota Someya is born.
• February 22: Nekomaru Nidai is born.
• March 3: Toko Fukawa is born.
• March 14: Chihiro Fujisaki is born.
  • Chinatsu Miyajima is born.
• March 31: Class 58 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 61 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 7: Satomi Aoba is born.
• April 13: Kenji Souda and Hiyoko Sonada get married.
• April 24: Aoi Asahina is born.
• May 5: Byakuya Togami is born.
• May 29: Rumi Shinabe is born.
• June 9: Mondo Oowada is born.
• June 15: Karen Kisaragi is born.
• June 29: Kazuichi Souda is born.
• July 2: Emma Magorobi is born.
• July 4: Nikei Arisaka (later Yomiuri) is born.
• July 7: Sayaka Maizono is born.
• July 25: Kokoro Mitsume marries her co-worker Sojiro Kurokawa.
• August 1: Juri Shibutani is born.
• August 4: Kakeru Yamaguchi is born.
• August 15: Akane Taira is born.
• August 18: Ayumi Arima is born.
• August 31: Kiyotaka Ishimaru is born.
• September 6: Akane Taira’s parents both die in a car accident, and the young girl is sent to an orphanage.
• September 13: Yasuke Matsuda is born.
  • Yoshiki Hoshino is born.
• September 14: Kinu Hiroshima is born.
  • Minami Fujita is born.
• October 6: Kanata Inori is born.
• October 10: Rei Mekaru is born.
• November 23: Taeko Yasuhiro (aka Celestia Ludenberg) is born.
• November 27: Ibuki Mioda is born.
• December 24: Sachiko (aka Mukuro Ikusaba) and Junko (later Enoshima) Otonashi are born.
• December 26: Hajime Makunouchi is born.
• December 31: Hifumi Yamada is born.

1997

• January 3: Kizuna Tomori is born.
• February 9: Rika Takahashi is born.
• February 11: Yamato Kisaragi is born.
• February 16: Teruya Otori is born.
• March 7: Satsuki Iranami is born.
• March 27: Natsumi Kuzuryu is born.
• March 30: Iroha Nijiue is born.
• March 31: Class 59 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 62 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 27: Mitsuhiro Higa is born.
• April 30: Mikako Kurokawa is born. Her mother, Kokoro Mitsume, isolates her in a laboratory and puts a brain chip in her head to study the most primitive emotion.
• May 19: Kinji Uehara is born.
• May 22: Yuzuki Ashida is born.
• May 28: Yuki Maeda is born.
• May 31: Komaru Naegi is born.
• June 1: Yoruko Kabuya is attacked by her classmates and badly beaten, but the group is scared off by Minako Tomori, who becomes friends with Yoruko.
• June 23: Haruhiko Kobashikawa is born.
• July 1: Takemichi Yukimaru is born.
• July 2: Yoruko Kabuya learns that Minako Tomori secretly works as a hostess at a bar, using a fake name and age, and decides to join her so she can get to know her new friend better.
• August 15: Yokoyoko and Kojikoji Hanamura are born.
• September 17: Ayame Hatano is born.
• October 12: Hinata and Yota Owari are born.
• November 13: Tsurugi Kinjo is born.
• December 24: Kiyoka Maki is born.
• December 31: Tamami Furuichi is born.

1998

• January 7: Yasuke Matsuda's mother is diagnosed with dementia, which causes her to gradually lose her memories.
• February 27: Jealous that her sister Hibiki gives more attention to her dog Shiro, Kanade Otonokoji waits until she’s left alone one day and kills Shiro with a kitchen knife, butchering him and throwing his pieces down the drain. This begins her career as a serial killer.
• March 31: Class 60 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 63 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• May 3: Kouhei Sasaki is born.
• July 27: Rumiko Owari and her sister die in a car accident. She is 25.
• September 4: Yuta Asahina is born.
• September 22: Kaoru Owari and Narumi Aizawa get married. Narumi changes her name to Narumi Owari.
• September 25: Kanon Nakajima is born.

1999

• February 19: Kanna Kasai is born.
• March 31: Class 61 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 64 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• June 3: Maurice Kimura dies in a ship accident. He is 26.
• July 13: Seiko Kimura’s younger cousin dies.
• July 15: On her way to watch her father’s billiards tournament, Setsuka Chiebukuro gets into an accident, resulting in the loss of her right eye. Against her parents’ wishes, she receives an artificial eye transplant.
• November 26: Ryutaro Maki is born.
• December 31: Minako Tomori quits her job as a hostess. She blames this on Yoruko Kabuya, who has grown to be more popular than her. The two argue. Minako slaps Yoruko and leaves.

2000

• January 23: Megumi Tahara takes in the child who would later be known as the Ultimate Imposter.
• March 2: Kojiro Nidai dies of complications from a congenital heart defect. He is 26.
• March 31: Class 62 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 65 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
  • The Hope’s Peak Elementary Division opens.
• June 2: Midori Yamaguchi is born.
• June 8: Seiko Kimura’s mother dies. She finally decides to try pursuing medicine, in the hopes that she can save her other sick family members.
• June 25: Toranosuke Ishimaru becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
• July 4: Utsuro sees that his parents are becoming more and more greedy and using him to satisfy their needs. He refuses to help them any longer, and so they abandon him in the woods. Despite this, his Divine Luck allows him to survive, and he begins traveling the country.
• September 30: After months of mounting scandals, Toranosuke Ishimaru resigns from his position as Prime Minister in shame.

2001

• January 1: The Lost Decade ends.
  • Itsumi Owari is born.
• February 10: Sunako Inoue is born.
• March 11: Seiko Kimura meets Ruruka Ando and Sonosuke Izayoi after she attempts to save a pair of dogs who’d been hit by a car. While she only manages to save one, Ruruka is impressed with her skills, and the three become friends.
• March 31: Class 63 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 66 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 15: Rei Mekaru’s parents abandon her.
• May 4: Kinji Uehara is adopted by a priest.
• May 19: Chisato Kinjo is killed in a busjacking incident. The event leaves Juu Kinjo heavily shaken.
• June 4: Izumi Saionji takes custody of Hiyoko Saionji away from her parents.
• October 23: Nagisa Shingetsu is born.
• December 13: Yasuke Matsuda's mother dies, leaving her son alone. The Otonashi family takes a vacation to Australia.

2002

• January 20: Masa Esumi discovers that her mother is having an affair with another man.
• February 6: Reiko Kobayashi dies due to long-term complications from the Izuru Kamukura Project. She is 30.
• March 31: Class 64 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 67 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
  • Monaca Towa is born.
• May 7: Masaru Daimon is born.
• June 8: Haruhiko Kobashikawa flies his first light aircraft.
• June 13: Kotoko Utsugi (later Tsumiki) is born.
• July 22: A young Teruya Otori leaves with his father to help with his business.
• November 6: During a field trip to the KEK Particle Accelerator Laboratory, Umeko Hayase is struck by lightning, causing her to lose an arm and subsequently suffer from memory problems, headaches, depression, and occasional seizures which will eventually require a brain implant to resolve.
• December 22: Kanata Inori and her parents suffer a fiery car crash. Kanata’s parents die in the crash, but Kanata is saved by Shinji Kasai. She ends up in the hospital with serious injuries.
• December 26: Hajime Makunouchi is diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and schleroderma.

2003

• January 14: After being discharged from the hospital, Kanata Inori is adopted by Hikaru Ando.
• February 3: Mikado Sannoji’s orphanage catches fire, but he and the other children are saved by the arrival of Utsuro.
• February 22: A fascist insurgent disguises themself as a servant and attempts to kidnap Sonia Nevermind from the palace courtyard before they’re stopped.
• March 11: Midori Yamaguchi is diagnosed with chronic aplastic anemia, and her chances of surviving until age 18 drop to 45-50%.
• March 31: Class 65 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 68 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• May 1: Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu and Peko Pekoyama are kidnapped, but Peko manages to get the two of them out of the kidnapper’s car. Afterward, the two of them get lost in the mountains for a time.
• May 2: Junko Otonashi begins building a sand replica of the Sagrada Familia at a public park.
• May 4: Hideki Owari is born.
• May 9: Shirome Kirigiri dies of an illness caused by a combination of stress and heavy smoking. She is 29.
• May 19: Jin Kirigiri leaves Kyoko Kirigiri with her grandfather Fuhito, who begins training her as a detective.
• May 21: Miharu Kirigiri is born.
• June 1: Kanade Otonokoji pushes Ayumi Noshikono down the stairs, permanently paralyzing her.
• June 2: Junko Otonashi's sand sculpture is found destroyed. A young Yasuke Matsuda tries to find who did it, but it turns out Junko herself destroyed it as a way to get him out of the house.
• June 4: In order to try and see Utsuro again, Mikado Sannoji sets fire to another orphanage.
• July 22: While on vacation in the Galapagos, the Komaeda family is caught up in a plane hijacking. Thanks to Nagito Komaeda’s luck, a fist-sized meteorite strikes the plane and causes it to crash, killing the hijacker and Nagito’s parents.
• September 9: While at a beach in Sendai, the Otonashi kids go diving off a set of rocks. Ryoko Otonashi jumps off a large one and ends up hitting her head, causing herself severe brain trauma. She's flown to DLTA Private Hospital in Hokkaido, where doctors work to repair the damage. She's left largely paralyzed and suffering from anterograde amnesia.
• September 12: Kanade Otonokoji tricks Keiji Osoreda into drinking bleach. Keiji is left with severe oral trauma as a result.
• October 26: Kazuo Tengan announces his plan to retire from his position as headmaster, appointing Jin Kirigiri as his successor.
• December 10: Ryoko Otonashi's father abandons her at DLTA, informing Dr. Masayoshi Okamoto that they won’t spend the rest of their lives "lugging around a doorstop." Rei Shimizu takes it upon herself to become Ryoko's caretaker.
• December 29: The Otonashi parents divorce. Junko Otonashi takes on her mother's family name, becoming Junko Enoshima.

2004

• January 1: Jin Kirigiri becomes the third headmaster of Hope’s Peak Academy.
• January 22: Kanade Otonokoji pushes Sayu Suzuki into traffic. Sayu is hit by a car traveling at 22 km/hr and is badly injured.
• February 29: Jataro Kemuri is born.
• March 9: Hiyoko Saionji takes Tomoe Kimura's handheld from her without permission and, when Tomoe tries to get it back, Hiyoko drops and breaks it. Having had enough, Tomoe considers telling the adults, but knowing they won't do anything, she finds a dead rat in the kitchen, grabs it, and places it on Hiyoko’s bed.
• March 27: Because of mounting debts to deal with his terminal illnesses, Hajime Makunouchi’s parents abandon him. When he believes he’s going to die, he is visited by Utsuro, and his illnesses are suddenly cured.
• March 31: Class 66 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 69 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy. The first-ever Ultimate Lucky Student is part of this class.
• April 12: While digging through the garbage near her home, Emma Magorobi catches a glimpse of Utsuro. Shortly afterward, she finds an audition poster and decides to attend the audition, starting her acting career.
• April 14: At the audition, Emma Magorobi meets Roger Wilcox, who becomes her talent agent.
• April 27: After no contact with his family for over a month, Hajime Makunouchi is sent to an orphanage. While there, he falls in with a bad crowd.
• July 1: Kanade Otonokoji causes a firework accident that blinds Tezuka Mikami.
• August 1: Kinu Hiroshima gets lost in the Outback, but is taken in by a pack of dingoes.
• August 12: Kanade Otonokoji breaks into Kai Onada’s house late at night and attacks him. Kai’s injuries result in the loss of his left ear and left hand, as well as severe damage to his face and throat.
• October 23: Kanade Otonokoji “accidentally” splashes Miwako Hojo with boiling water, severely scalding her.

2005

• March 31: Class 67 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 70 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• June 15: After a few years of work, Yoruko Kabuya becomes a counselor.

2006

• January 21: Emma Magorobi’s father loses custody of her, and she is adopted by Morty Green and Sylvia Green, a couple from Brighton, England.
• March 31: Class 68 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 71 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
  • Masa Esumi joins the newspaper club at her middle school.
• July 16: Alyssa Storm is born.
• July 23: Estu Deguchi’s village burns down, leaving her as the sole survivor.
• September 7: Mei Owari is born.
• October 11: Sojiro Kurokawa, Mikako Kurokawa’s father, takes her out of the lab and attempts to hike through the mountains to safety. He ends up falling to his death, while Mikako is sent tumbling into a river, where she’s later picked up and subsequently adopted by Hanzo Kisaragi, father of Yamato Kisaragi.

2007

• February 14: Ruruka Ando and Sonosuke Izayoi start dating.
• March 10: Hitoshi Koizumi is involved in an accident at his job, rendering him paralyzed from the waist down.
• March 20: Sachiko Otonashi participates in, and wins, a survival game tournament.
• March 31: Class 69 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 72 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 25: Ruruka Ando comes home early one day and finds her mother with another man. She threatens Ruruka with a knife, warning her not to tell her father.
• June 19: Grand Bois Cheri Ludenberg is born.
• June 21: Tomoe Kimura performs her first cover of a song and posts it on Youtube, where she becomes quite popular.
• August 1: Narumi Owari commits suicide. She is 43.
• December 31: Junko Enoshima decides that she will someday plunge the world into despair.

2008

• February 2: Forte Solo is born.
• February 14: Hibiki Otonokoji gives Valentine’s Day chocolates to her teacher, Ranmaru Takayama. Kanade Otonokoji kills Ranmaru with tubocurarine and buries him behind the school.
  • Junko Enoshima and Yasuke Matsuda start dating.
• February 15: Echo Pine is born.
• February 24: Kyoko Kirigiri is drawn into the Sirius Astronomical Observatory Murder Case, where several people are killed and her hands are badly burned in an explosion. Yui Samidare, Kyoko's friend, is one of those killed in the incident. She is 16.
• March 5: Masa Esumi stops a dangerous man from attacking her school, thus beginning her career as a journalist.
• March 27: Cyrus Suryc is born.
• March 31: Class 70 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 73 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 2: Junko Enoshima and Sachiko Otonashi run away from home and spend some time on the streets. It's a difficult situation, but the two of them manage to survive.
• April 4: Mahiru Koizumi meets Honami Sato, and the two of them later meet Natsumi Kuzuryu, sparking a long-term rivalry between them.
• April 29: Tsurugi Kinjo and Kouhei Sasaki join the Junior Police Force.
• April 30: Genocider Syo is born and commits her first murder.
• May 1: Nagito Komaeda is kidnapped by a murderer who intends to hold him for ransom, shoving him in a garbage bag. However, after learning that Nagito has no living relatives, he lets the kid go. Inside the bag, Nagito finds a lottery ticket and wins 300 million yen.
• May 12: Chihiro Fujisaki invents his first program, a database software with voice recognition.
• May 23: Kazuichi Souda’s best friend asks him to let him cheat off a test, which Kazuichi agrees to. However, the two get caught, and his friend insists Kazuichi gave him the answers. Afterward, he starts avoiding Kazuichi, leading to him developing trust issues.
• May 30: After being taken to the police station and questioned about her situation, Junko Enoshima convinces Juu Kinjo to assist her in her quest to bring the world to despair.
• June 1: The Copycat Killer commits their first murder.
• June 4: Hajime Makunouchi and his friends attack an older man, who quickly defeats Hajime in a fight and sends the rest of his friends running. The man reveals that he's an ex-boxer and takes Hajime under his wing.
• June 12: Sei Konno is born.
• July 30: Kenji Sousa and Hiyoko Sonada divorce.
• August 5: Gaea and Pandora Espere are born.
• August 8: After a victory in a competition, Mayumi Tamon, caught up in her emotions, kisses one of her teammates in front of her mother and the entire crowd. The result is a horrible debacle as the girl’s mother homophobically berates Mayumi and later takes her daughter off the team.
• August 10: Ashley Westbridge is born.
• August 15: Kaoru Owari and Honoka Honda get married. Honoka changes her name to Honka Owari.
• September 9: Lyle D. Termina is born.
• October 4: Kanon Ota is born.
• October 14: Junko Enoshima and Sachiko Otonashi return home to their families.
• November 1: Mikio Yamamoto is born, and Miwa Mori gives him up for adoption.
• November 5: Pushed to the brink by her mother, Mikan Tsumiki attempts suicide. She wakes up in a hospital and, feeling a new sense of purpose, decides to become a nurse.
• November 13: Missy Vesper is born.
• November 14: The first Harry Peter movie comes out, catapulting Emma Magorobi into stardom.
• December 2: Arturo Campopiano (aka Art) is born.

2009

• January 14: Kanata Inori announces that she wants to become a surgeon just like her adoptive father.
• February 27: While staying in the hospital, Nekomaru Nidai meets a boy named Daisuke, a baseball manager also suffering from a chronic illness. The two become friends and he helps inspire Nekomaru to become a team manager.
• March 8: After years of being forced into child prostitution, Nikei Arisaka has a chance encounter with Utsuro and, filled with a sense of determination, takes his father’s gun and murders both his parents in their sleep before fleeing. He changes his name to Nikei Yomiuri.
• March 16: Kazuichi Souda changes his appearance, dyeing his hair pink and sharpening his teeth.
  • Chihiro Fujisaki begins dressing as a girl to avoid being teased for being physically weak.
• March 31: Class 71 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 74 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 6: Sakura Ogami and Kenshiro start dating.
• April 24: The Tokyo Tower Hostage Crisis takes place as members of the Holy Salvation Society take the place by storm, taking multiple visitors and police officers hostage. Tsurugi Kinjo manages to shoot most of them, but three officers are killed in the process, including Asahai Gonokami, his mentor figure.
• June 1: Gundham Tanaka starts his website about animal care.
• June 9: Daisuke passes away, but Nekomaru Nidai takes up his position as team manager and leads his baseball team to victory.
• June 20: Akane Taira has an encounter with Utsuro and, shortly afterward, her orphanage is finally closed down. She begins a career helping people as a maid.
• June 27: Toko Fukawa publishes her first book, So Lingers The Ocean.
• August 1: Honami Sato and Natsumi Kuzuryu get into an argument, leading to Honami pushing her. Later that night, Honami is attacked in her home by Peko Pekoyama, who scars her arm and warns her about harming Natsumi again.
• August 2: After spending years in the Outback with the dingoes, Kinu Hiroshima reunites with her parents and returns to civilization.
• August 10: Sakura Ogami receives the title of “World’s Strongest Woman.”
• September 12: Emi Fujimori is born.
• September 26: Kakeru Yamaguchi begins pursuing a law degree.
• November 1: Junko Enoshima contacts down-on-his-luck banker Takeharu Mizuta and promises him wealth if he assists her. He agrees, not realizing what exactly he’s signed up for.
• November 9: Juzo Sakakura wins his heavyweight boxing champion title.

2010

• January 6: Sayaka Maizono begins her career as an idol.
• February 24: Iroha Nijiue catches a glimpse of Utsuro outside her window and suddenly finds her art skills have improved considerably. She finally becomes accepted as a member of the family by her parents.
• March 25: Akira Esumi’s divorce is finalized. His wife’s affair partner’s company is exposed in the process and declares bankruptcy.
• March 31: Class 72 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
  • Iroha Nijiue runs away from home.
• April 1: Class 75 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 7: Teruko Owari is born.
• April 13: Akane Taira starts working for the Kagarin family.
• April 18: Ibuki Mioda joins Black Cherry.
• April 28: Kyoji Nakamura is drafted by the Steering Committee into participating in the Kamukura Project.
• May 1: Daiya and Mondo Oowada found the Crazy Diamonds.
• May 4: Kanade Otonokoji slips Norio Kirihara some peanut butter, and Norio suffers a severe allergic reaction and suffocates before help can arrive.
• May 8: During a vacation to Europe, Sachiko Otonashi leaves her family, joins the Fenrir Mercenary Group, and changes her name to Mukuro Ikusaba.
• May 14: Setsuka Chiebukuro offers to become blood sisters with Umeko Hayase, but Umeko confesses her feelings for her instead. They start dating.
• May 28: Kaoru Kiau is killed during one of Kyoji Nakamura’s experiments in the Kamukura Project.
• June 28: Sawako Tsuga is killed during the second of Kyoji Nakamura’s experiments.
• July 2: The Togami Family begins its competition to select an heir, pitting 15 half-siblings against each other. The winner is Byakuya Togami, the youngest son, who becomes heir to the corporation.
• July 9: Sonia Nevermind is once again kidnapped by fascist insurgents, this time drugged, bound and gagged, and thrown into the backseat of a car. Once again, they’re stopped by royal guards. After this point, it’s decided that Sonia needs to leave Novoselic for her own safety.
• July 14: Mitsuru Nakamura dies of brain cancer. She is 39.
• July 22: Kyoji Nakamura and Miaya Gekkogahara kiss for the first time.
• July 27: Damian Miraz and Aiko Umesawa meet on a comics forum and become online friends.
• July 28: Maro Futabatei is killed during the third of Kyoji Nakamura’s experiments.
• August 1: While working as a waitress, Akane Owari is told by an old man that she should go into gymnastics. She does so.
• August 28: It comes out that Setsuka Chiebukuro has been using her Devil’s Eye to cheat at billiards. She is expelled from Hope’s Peak Academy and banned from billiards for life. She also breaks up with Umeko Hayase in order to protect the latter’s reputation.
• October 20: Kanako Tanaka dies of an illness. She is 40.
• October 28: Ryotaro Kimyona is killed during the fourth of Kyoji Nakamura’s experiments.
• November 2: Taeko Yasuhiro takes up gambling and changes her name to Celestia Ludenberg.
• November 12: Hajime Makunochi, Emma Magorobi, Iroha Nijiue, and Nikei Yomiuri form Void, a group devoted to finding Utsuro.
• November 25: Yasuhiro Hagakure successfully extorts Natsumi Kuzuryu out of 8 million yen, mounting himself with an enormous debt.

2011

• January 13: Setsuka Chiebukuro, after being banned from playing billiards, decides to use her Devil’s Eye to become a private detective.
• February 9: After three months in a coma due to traumatic brain injuries suffered in a motorcycle crash caused by Kanade Otonokoji, Hisao Murasaki passes away in the hospital.
• February 14: The band Melody Rhythm, with Hibiki Otonokoji on vocals and Kanade Otonokoji on guitar, is founded.
• February 28: Aiko Yamano is killed during the fifth of Kyoji Nakamura’s experiments.
• March 16: Kanade Otonokoji starts a house fire, killing Mamoru Sakurai, his parents, and his two brothers.
• March 22: Nikei Yomiuri starts his own news website called NikeiNews.com.
• March 28: Koki Tagawa is killed during the sixth of Kyoji Nakamura’s experiments.
• March 31: Class 73 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 1: Class 76 arrives at Hope’s Peak Academy.
• April 25: Masa Esumi and Nikei Yomiuri get into an altercation over some criticism she gave to his blog, culminating in him telling her to kill herself.
• May 23: Maverick Storm causes an explosion that paralyzes Miaya Gekkogahara from the waist down. He almost kills Miaya, as well as Kyoji Nakamura, but is stopped by Juzo Sakakura. Maverick is subsequently arrested and expelled from Hope’s Peak Academy.
• June 15: Eito Kobayashi asks Kyoji Nakamaru for insight into what could’ve caused his mother’s death, but upon seeing the symptoms Reiko suffered from, Kyoji runs away. He avoids Eito after this.
• June 20: Kazuko Fujisaki dies. She is 37.
• June 28: Ichika Umemoto is killed during the seventh of Kyoji Nakamura’s experiments. She is 20.
• July 29: Kyoji Nakamura drops out of Hope’s Peak Academy.
• August 8: The Red Valley Saga video game is released, featuring Kana Ise in her debut voice role as Sagiri.
• August 15: Kyoji Nakamura hires Himari Matsunaga, a prostitute, so that he can have someone to talk to. Her kindness leaves a lasting impression on him.
• September 5: Eito Kobayashi and Tomoe Kimura start dating.
• September 14: Hiroshi Maekawa, the recording engineer for Melody Rhythm, is murdered by Kanade Otonokoji.
• September 17: Nagito Komaeda is diagnosed with lymphoma and frontotemporal dementia. Shortly thereafter, he wins the annual Ultimate Lucky Student lottery and is accepted into Hope’s Peak Academy.
• September 18: Ibuki Mioda quits Black Cherry due to creative differences, wanting to play heavy metal in place of pop songs.
• November 14: Ayame Hatano breaks the world record, completing a 100 meter dash in just 9 seconds.
• December 3: Megumi Tanshiro, the makeup coordinator for Melody Rhythm, is murdered by Kanade Otonokoji.
• December 12: Tomoko Kasai is born.
• December 24: Junko Enoshima leaves Japan for Milan, later spending over a year touring Europe.

New Timeline:

2012

February

• February 4: Haruto and Jubei Owari are born.
• February 10: Akira Tsuchiya is born.
• February 11: Sora wakes up in Akane Taira’s phone in 2012, having traveled back from the Tragedy timeline’s version of 2017.
• February 14: Sayaka Maizono wakes up in 2012, having traveled back from the Tragedy timeline's version of 2017 after being pulled forward in time just before her death in the Tragedy timeline's version of 2015.

March

• March 1: Tasuke Sakai, the manager of Melody Rhythm, is murdered by Kanade Otonokoji.
• March 3: Masayoshi Fujimura is assassinated by the Holy Salvation Society on Juu Kinjo's orders. His death is made to look like a suicide. He is 59.
• March 5: Misuzu Aisaka is born.
• March 9: Genocider Syo kills her 86th victim and leaves his body to be found in a parking garage in Shibuya.
• March 21: Yoruko Kabuya wakes up in 2012, having traveled back from the Tragedy timeline’s version of 2017.
• March 31: Class 74 graduates from Hope’s Peak Academy.
  • Hideyoshi and Chiyo Tamon get married.

April

• April 1: Class 77 arrives at Hope's Peak Academy.
• April 8: Chisa Yukizome becomes the teacher for Class 77-B.
• April 9: Ayumu Fujimori is born. The hospital where he is born has an accident involving an MRI, a rogue cart, and an exploding transformer.
• April 15: When Teruteru Hanamura makes soup for his class, Hiyoko Saionji pours an aphrodisiac he'd obtained from Seiko Kimura into the batch, resulting in the entire class becoming incredibly horny. Teruteru nearly assaults Hiyoko in the process, but Chiaki Nanami punches him out with the Heaven Slaying Dragon Fist.
• April 16: Hajime Hinata wakes up in 2012, having traveled back from the Tragedy timeline’s version of 2017. After reuniting with Chiaki Nanami and discovering that his situation is similar to one of the video games she likes (Zero Escape), he vows to change history in order to save the world from the Tragedy.
• April 17: Hajime officially begins his first mission: stopping the Twilight Syndrome murders. He starts to establish a connection with Honami Sato and (re)introduces himself to Mahiru Koizumi, Mikan Tsumiki, Hiyoko Saionji, and Ibuki Mioda. From them, he finds out that Honami plans to take an exam in order to enter the Main Course as the Ultimate Archer.
• April 18: During his morning game session with Chiaki, Hajime encounters Chisa Yukizome; afterwards, he assures her that he has taken their talk at the fountain to heart.
  • Later, Hajime and Honami have a discussion about talent; he tries to tell her that talent isn’t everything, but she remains committed to getting into the Main Course.
  • After school, Hajime and Nagito Komaeda briefly butt heads with each other over Nagito’s personal philosophy regarding talent, and Hajime and Chaki begin their playthrough of Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. The first death scene of the game triggers Hajime’s PTSD, worrying Chiaki, who decides to skip the remaining death scenes.
• April 19: In PE class, Hajime attempts to ask Honami about her scar, only to be angrily brushed off.
  • As Akane Owari and Nekomaru Nidai fight in the classroom (again), Chiaki tells Sonia Nevermind about Hajime’s distress over the 999 death scene. Kazuichi Souda snaps at Akane and Nekomaru to keep it down so that he can work.
  • Hajime and Chiaki finish their playthrough of 999. Hajime invites Chiaki to hang out at his house during the weekend. She accepts, and they exchange contact information.
• April 20: Honami takes her archery exam, but fails to achieve a spot in the Main Course. Afterwards, Mahiru and Hajime attempt to comfort her, but she insists on being left alone. Mahiru admits to Hajime that Honami’s scar is from before the two friends came to Hope’s Peak, although she doesn’t give details, and Hajime offers his support.
  • After school, Honami approaches Hajime at the fountain and tells him about her and Mahiru’s rocky history with the Kuzuryu Clan, including the origin story of the aforementioned scar (she pushed Natsumi in anger once, and the Kuzuryu Clan retaliated by attacking her at home). She also admits that she suffers from schizophrenia. Hajime offers her his support and friendship.
  • That night, at the Kuzuryu residence, Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu tells his family about all the adventures he and Peko Pekoyama have had at Hope’s Peak. Natsumi Kuzuryu becomes fed up with this and wishes that she could attend the school as well. Fuyuhiko offers her a spot as the “Ultimate Little Sister,” which she eagerly accepts.
  • Mukuro Ikusaba (who is currently part of Fenrir) gets a phone call from her twin sister Junko Enoshima (who is currently in Milan for a fashion show). This is the first time that the sisters have spoken to each other in 2 years. Junko asks Mukuro for her help for something big that will happen in the future. Mukuro’s just glad that Junko called her the best big sister ever.
• April 21: Chiaki comes over to Hajime’s house. They play Virtue's Last Reward, then bond over the fact that both of them have distant parents. Chiaki tells Hajime that he can call her by her first name if he wants.
• April 22: Chiaki tells Nagito about her day with Hajime, and Nagito admits that he finds Hajime interesting and wouldn’t mind talking to him again.
  • Hajime maps out the timeline of the Twilight Syndrome murders and plans on how best to prevent them.
• April 23: Hajime confides in Honami about his struggles with his scholarship, although he leaves out the specifics about the Kamukura Project. Honami suggests he talk with Chiaki about it; she also agrees to help him if necessary.
  • After he comes across Nagito talking with Tsubasa Kamii (a Student Council member), Hajime has an intense PTSD flashback to the Student Council Killing Game. His episode lands him in the nurse’s office, where he ends up staying until school is over.
  • Chiaki walks Hajime home. He tells her about his struggles with his scholarship, although he once again leaves out the specifics. She insists on finding a way to help him.
  • Natsumi tells Fuyuhiko that their parents have agreed to let her transfer to Hope’s Peak.
• April 24: Aiko Umesawa and Kiriko Nishizawa go to see Umeko Hayase at the Physics Building to follow up on her request for an electronic chalkboard. They tell her that they will ask the Student Council to look into it.
  • Hajime, still upset over his PTSD episode, calls in sick from school.
  • It’s Mahiru’s birthday. She turns 17.
• April 25: Hajime returns to school. Honami lends him her notes.
• April 26: The Kuzuryu parents tell Fuyuhiko and Peko that Natsumi has not been accepted into the Main Course and will have to attend the Reserve Course until she can prove her talents to Hope’s Peak.
• April 27: Hajime and Chiaki discuss a bad game that Chiaki’s struggling with. Chiaki insists that she’s going to beat it on all difficulties before October.
• April 28: Fuyuhiko and Peko tell Natsumi that she’s going to be in the Reserve Course. She’s upset at first, but brightens upon learning that she can get into the Main Course if she proves herself.
  • It’s Nagito’s birthday. He turns 17.
• April 29: Hajime makes his final preparations for Natsumi’s arrival.
• April 30: Natsumi arrives at Hope’s Peak, introducing herself as the “Ultimate Little Sister.” She and Honami are at each other’s throats from the get-go. Hajime and Mahiru intervene to stop the fight. Afterwards, Mahiru and Honami comfort each other over lunch, while Natsumi tells Hajime to keep his nose out of other people’s business.
  • Hajime and Natsumi have another conversation in the afternoon. Natsumi warns Hajime to stay away from Honami, brags about her brother, expresses insecurity over not being an Ultimate, and declares that she will become the Ultimate Little Sister soon enough.

May

• May 2: Mahiru asks for Hajime’s help with the Honami-Natsumi situation. Hajime, of course, agrees to help them out.
• May 3: Hajime and Natsumi have a casual conversation about how things are going, but Natsumi suspects that Hajime has an ulterior motive for talking to her. Before anything can be sorted out, Fuyuhiko shows up, and Natsumi introduces him to Hajime. Fuyuhiko leaves with Natsumi, but not before quipping to Hajime that he would make a good bodyguard.
  • As Mahiru, Mikan, Hiyoko, and Ibuki discuss plans to help Honami and Natsumi reconcile, Estu Deguchi warns them that if nothing is done to change the two girls' behavior, one of them will kill the other.
  • It’s Chisa’s birthday. She turns 22.
• May 4: Mahiru vents her frustration with Honami and Natsumi’s constant fighting to Hajime as they brainstorm ideas to help them. Hajime plans to talk to Natsumi, then have her meet with Mahiru and Honami to talk things out. When Mahiru asks why he’s doing all this, Hajime replies that he cares about them and doesn’t want to stand by and do nothing in such a bad situation. He failed to help someone who needed him once, and he can’t let that happen again. Mahiru goes to Chisa and asks her to reserve the Music Room in the Main Course building for the Hajime-Natsumi-Mahiru-Honami meeting, which is set to take place on May 14. Chisa agrees to help.
• May 7: During their afternoon gaming time, Hajime and Chiaki discuss Hajime’s scholarship dilemma. It turns out that Chiaki has figured out how much Reserve Course tuitions cost and is willing to pay Hajime’s tuition using money she has earned from a) allowance and b) selling her games. Hajime is reluctant at first, but Chiaki insists, and Hajime says that he will think about it.
  • Natsumi tries to enter the Main Course building, but is turned away by Juzo Sakakura, who tells her that the staff haven’t put together a test for her yet.
• May 8: Honami and Natsumi fight again. Hajime intervenes. Natsumi threatens to kill Honami and Mahiru, then storms off. Hajime promises a distraught Honami that he will help her deal with Natsumi.
  • Natsumi opens up to Hajime about her desire to enter the Main Course, her feelings of inferiority due to her lack of talent, her fears of being left behind by her brother, and her dream of standing by his side. Hajime suggests that Fuyuhiko might not care as much about talent as Natsumi thinks he does and might see talent in her that Hope’s Peak does not. Natsumi, her worldview sufficiently rocked, takes her leave.
• May 9: Hajime and Mahiru ask Miaya Gekkougahara to attend the Music Room meeting with them, Honami, and Natsumi. Miaya accepts.
• May 10: Mahiru convinces Honami to come to the Music Room meeting. She reveals that Mikan, Hiyoko, and Ibuki will also be there.
  • Hajime leaves Natsumi a note in her locker, inviting her to the Music Room meeting.
• May 11: Hajime and Chiaki are walking home from school when, all of a sudden, Hajime falls and twists his ankle. Chiaki helps him the rest of the way to his house, then calls Mikan to come and take a look at it. Mikan prescribes a few weeks of bed rest. (This is the first known occurence of the “Ankle Effect.”)
• May 12: It’s Mikan’s birthday. She turns 17.
• May 13: Hajime’s ankle still doesn’t feel any better. He protests to Chiaki that he has to go to the Music Room meeting, because if he doesn’t, people are going to die. He then confesses that he’s from the future. Chiaki doesn’t believe him.
• May 14: Hajime wakes up late and is horrified to discover that it’s 12:47 PM. He decides that he must go to Hope’s Peak and stop Twilight Syndrome, ankle be damned!
  • Mikan tells Mahiru about Hajime’s ankle situation, then accidentally trips into the doors, soaking Hiyoko in a bucket of grape juice that she was intending to use on someone else. This forces Hiyoko to go change, holding up the whole group. Mahiru calls Honami to give her an update, but her phone runs out of battery at the worst possible time.
  • A limping Hajime makes it to school at 1:39 PM, only to be stopped by Juzo. He begs the security guard to let him speak to Chisa. Juzo reluctantly agrees to go talk to her, but tells Hajime that he is not allowed in the main building until then.
  • At 1:48 PM, Natsumi arrives at the music room. Honami arrives shortly afterwards.
  • Hajime gives up on waiting for Juzo at 1:53 PM. He instead uses a piece of pipe to hoist himself through an open window, then sets to work on limping to the music room.
  • Juzo finds Chisa at 1:55 PM. It turns out that Miaya is stuck in the elevator. Juzo goes to fix it while Chisa looks for Hajime.
  • Meanwhile, in the music room, Honami and Natsumi are no closer to making amends than they were before. In fact, their argument escalates.
  • The Twilight Syndrome conversation plays out word-for-word between Mahiru, Mikan, Hiyoko, and Ibuki.
  • Natsumi once again threatens Mahiru’s life, then turns to leave…but then, Honami tackles her and begins to strangle her. Just when all seems lost, Hajime bursts open the door, forces Honami off Natsumi, and pins her against the wall, leaving Natsumi gasping for air. He then gives both girls a good talking-to about how their fight has gone on long enough and needs to end before anyone gets hurt.
  • The Twilight quartet arrives right on cue. Mikan gets Natsumi to the infirmary, Honami apologizes to Mahiru, and Hajime’s ankle finally gives out.
  • Hajime wakes up 2 hours later in the infirmary. Mikan and Chisa assure him that Natsumi is in stable condition.
  • Chiaki walks Hajime home with the help of some crutches, then asks for answers. He tells her everything–his status as a time traveler, what would’ve happened to Natsumi and Honami, the Tragedy, all of it. (The only thing he leaves out is her death.) She agrees to help him fix the future.
• May 15: The Student Council debates the recent events. Asukasei Hino doesn’t particularly care, as the only people who were hurt were Reserve Course students, but Kiriko calls him out on his attitude. They are all informed that Hope’s Peak has decided not to make the incident public.
  • Mahiru chides Honami for trying to kill Natsumi, but assures her that they are still friends.
  • Honami is going to have regular therapy sessions from Miaya from now on.
  • Natsumi wakes up in the infirmary and is consoled by Fuyuhiko and Peko.
• May 16: Sayaka informs her bandmates that she’s a time traveler from the future.
• May 18: Hajime returns to school and is officially introduced to everyone in Class 77-B that he hasn’t already met (Sonia, Kazuichi, Gundham Tanaka, Akane, Nekomaru, Teruteru Hanamura, and the Ultimate Imposter).
  • Chisa talks to Jin Kirigiri and Koichi Kizakura. She convinces the headmaster to advocate on Honami’s behalf to the Steering Committee.
  • Mikan is still taking care of Natsumi in the infirmary; Natsumi is mostly all right except that her throat hurts from the strangulation, making it hard for her to talk. The two girls start to become friends.
  • Miaya promises to help Honami through her issues.
  • Fuyuhiko thanks Hajime for saving Natsumi’s life. In gratitude, he offers the Kuzuryu Clan’s assistance should Hajime ever need anything. Hajime talks him into sparing Honami from the Clan’s wrath.
  • Mahiru thanks Hajime for saving Honami. She even hugs him.
  • Hajime meets with the Steering Committee and officially rejects involvement in the Kamukura Project, giving the Committee an epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech in the process. His scholarship is cancelled, but he's allowed to continue attending Hope’s Peak thanks to Chiaki’s money.
  • Aruma Todoroki is born.
• May 19: Natsumi is released from the infirmary with no lasting damage. She gives Mikan her number.
• May 20: Honami is suspended until the fall semester, but she is allowed to keep seeing Miaya for her therapy sessions.
• May 21: Hajime and Chiaki begin their next mission: stopping the terrible events of the practical exams. Chiaki’s first order of business is to establish a friendly relationship with the trio at the heart of this issue (Ruruka Ando, Sonosuke Izayoi, and Seiko Kimura). Hajime, meanwhile, takes on a side mission to expose the secrets of Hope’s Peak Elementary in order to save the Warriors of Hope (Masaru Daimon, Nagisa Shingetsu, Jataro Kemuri, Kotoko Utsugi, and Monaca Towa).
  • Umeko is making a tachyon detector for the practical exams. The detector will prove that tachyons are real…and reveal any time travelers in the area.
  • Nagito suggests that Mikan should talk with Seiko.
  • Kameko the stink bug is born.
• May 23: After an episode involving time drugs, Umeko tells Chiaki about her new project. Chiaki is understandably concerned.
  • While investigating priority targets online, Hajime finds out that the Otonokoji twins are coming to Tokyo in the summer for a concert. He manages to secure tickets from Ibuki, who thinks that he wants to go on a date with Chiaki.
  • Hajime gives Chiaki a list of important people who were caught up in the Utsuroshima Killing Game, then fills her in on the situation with the concert. Chiaki, in turn, warns Hajime about Umeko’s tachyon detector. They consider bringing her on board their team. Before leaving, Chiaki admits that if Hajime had asked her to the concert for real, she would’ve said yes.
• May 24: At the front gates, Ibuki is giving Mahiru some advice about how best to support Honami when, all of a sudden, a young freelance journalist shows up looking for interviews. Said journalist is Nikei Yomiuri, one of the people on the Utsuroshima list. Chiaki arrives in the middle of Nikei’s interview with Ibuki, recognizes his name, and gets his business card (which includes his website and contact info). She also mentions Hope’s Peak Elementary to him.
  • Ibuki, who is clearly trying to be Hajime’s wingwoman, gives Chiaki some extra information on the Otonokojis and their band, Melody Rhythm.
  • Later in the evening, Hajime contacts Nikei and promises him the story of the century if he can find Hope’s Peak Elementary and dig up information on their dirty little secrets (as well as those of the WOH parents) before Class 77’s practical exams. Nikei agrees, and the two begin to work together via dummy email accounts and the like. This is the first time that Hajime uses the name “Kasugano” to hide his identity. This alias, which was the name of Hajime’s old favorite teacher, is going to stick.
  • Fuyuhiko and Natsumi have a long-overdue late-night conversation about Natsumi’s insecurities. Fuyuhiko tells his sister that he would never leave her behind, that they’re equals, and that she needs to do what makes her happy without worrying about what other people think.
• May 25: Natsumi calls Hajime early in the morning, tells him about the talk she had with her brother, and thanks him for saving her life. She also requests that he meet her at school on Monday so that she can give him something.
  • Mahiru feels insecure about the photo collage she’s planning for her exam, but Honami reassures her that her photos will inspire people around the world.
  • Hajime spends time with Hiyoko and buys her some yellow-less gummies.
  • Hajime meets Ruruka and Sonosuke. He learns a bit about their talents, their relationship, and Ruruka’s friendship with Seiko. The latter proves problematic, as Ruruka both greatly admires Seiko’s skills and resents the fact that Seiko can’t eat her candy. Furthermore, Ruruka is resistant to the idea of making sugar-free candy that Seiko can eat.
  • Mikan confirms that Hajime’s ankle is a lot better now. Chiaki comes to pick Hajime up from the infirmary, and while Mikan is distracted with medical supplies, Hajime and Chiaki make plans to meet Umeko by the fountain at 1 AM the next morning. Unbeknownst to them, Mikan overhears this.
  • Hajime and Mahiru have a bonding moment where Mahiru admits that she had him pegged as unreliable at first. She’s glad that she was wrong. Chiaki teases Hajime about his obvious crush.
  • Nikei contacts Hajime with some dirt on one of the WOH parents: Junya Utsugi is cheating on his wife with his dental assistant. There are even photos!
• May 26: At 1 AM, Chiaki brings Umeko (and her tachyon detector) to the courtyard, where the detector picks up Hajime’s presence as a time traveler. Umeko squees, Hajime reveals that he is in fact from the future, and then it turns out that Mikan’s been listening in on the whole conversation out of fear that someone was going to cheat. Hajime and Chiaki explain everything to Umeko and Mikan. Umeko decides to change her exam project so that Hajime won’t be exposed, she becomes the Chief Scientific Advisor of the group, and both she and Mikan agree to keep Hajime’s secret. (Also, there is quite a bit of Hajime-Chiaki-Mikan fluff for the palette.)
  • Hajime hypothesizes that a good way to help Nagito (and prevent him from meddling in the exams) would be to have him undergo surgery for his lymphoma. He thinks that the future Ultimate Surgeon, Kanata Inori, might be the girl for the job.
  • Mikan stops by Hajime’s door later in the day; she wants to help him and Chiaki save the world. Hajime eagerly accepts her aboard the team. Their romantic relationship from the Tragedy timeline also comes up (it was a polyamorous relationship that included them, Mahiru, Hiyoko, and Sonia, with Sonia also dating Gundham) but Hajime doesn’t want to go back to that right away, since she barely even knows him in this timeline. He’d rather they fall in love naturally than fall in love because it’s what they did last time. They decide to stay friends for now, so that they can get to know each other, but they leave the door open for something to happen in the future.
• May 27: Nikei investigates the Kemuris at the park. He’s accompanied by Iroha Nijiue, who bonds with Jataro over their mutual love of art. Jataro’s mother, Ui Kemuri, clearly doesn’t give a crap. Nikei tags her car with a GPS, and he and Iroha make plans to track down Hope’s Peak Elementary together.
  • Later, Nikei and Iroha contact their fellow Void members Hajime Makunouchi (hereinafter referred to as Maku) and Emma Magorobi over Skype to update them on what’s going on. All four are eager to help save the children, but they’re not sure they trust Kasugano, and they have no intention of letting him find out about their group. Nikei plans to try and get more info out of him. Because of their busy schedules, neither Maku nor Emma will be able to return to Tokyo for a while, so it’s up to Nikei and Iroha to crack the case on the home front.
  • Hajime and Co need to get Nagito’s permission to sign him up for surgery with Kanata. Trouble is, no one’s seen him all day. Chiaki and Mikan finally find him at the Arts Building, and when he proves resistant to the whole surgery idea due to his “I’m worthless trash” mentality, the girls hug him and plead with him to say yes so that he can be happy and healthy. Touched by their concern for him, Nagito agrees to the surgery.
  • Mikan calls Kanata at the hospital. They schedule Nagito’s surgery for Thursday, May 31, starting around 8-8:30. Kanata would also like the opportunity to speak with Mikan in order to learn from her.
  • Mitsunari Koga is born.
• May 28: Umeko and Ruruka talk about the practical exams. Umeko worries about the possibility of someone cheating due to all the pressure of the exams, especially after what happened with her ex-girlfriend Setsuka Chiebukuro (who was expelled for cheating). Ruruka thinks that Umeko should be mad at Setsuka for betraying her, but Umeko says that she’s moved on and that she has more good memories with Setsuka than bad ones. Her point is that cheating is bad. Ruruka sort of just brushes this off.
  • As a thank-you gift, Natsumi gives Hajime a pocket knife called the “Kuzuryu Special.” She also gives him a kiss on the cheek.
  • Mikan and Chiaki spend time with Seiko. When Chiaki questions Seiko about why Ruruka keeps having her make things, Seiko insists that it’s no big deal and that she likes to help out her friend. After Seiko returns to work, a still-concerned Chiaki goes to Chisa for her insight on the situation. In Chisa’s opinion, Seiko genuinely wants to be helpful to others so that she can feel useful, and Ruruka is most likely taking advantage of that. Also, Ruruka has serious trust issues and only ever hangs out with Seiko and Sonosuke. Chisa offers to help if needed.
  • Gundham’s dog, Cerberus, is missing. Gundham searches the school for him, Akane and Nekomaru have yet another fight, and Hajime helps Sonia and Hiyoko prepare for their exams.
  • Chiaki confesses to Mikan that, in the past, she has said and done things without knowing that they can hurt people. She’s doing her best to move on and do better in the future. Mikan reassures her that she’s come a long way since then and that she has friends to support her. They hold hands.
  • That evening, Hajime and Co meet at Hajime’s house to discuss their progress. Mikan decides to talk with Seiko herself; she knows what it’s like to have such a mindset, and she’s still trying to unlearn it. She shares her traumatic backstory of being bullied at school and abused at home with Hajime and Chiaki, who hug her and reassure her that they’ll keep her safe from now on.
  • Nikei and Iroha have found Hope’s Peak Elementary, but due to Nikei’s trust issues, he doesn’t want to send Hajime that information until he knows what his deal is. Hajime gives him the shock of his life by revealing that he knows about the Voids, their goals, their past lives, and even their current whereabouts. He offers them a chance at a better life if they continue to work with him, even promising that he won’t let them be found out. To prove their sincerity, he and Chiaki gift the Voids 75,000 yen over Pay Pal. This is enough to convince Nikei to fork over the school’s location, although he still doesn’t completely trust Kasugano yet. (Iroha, on the other hand, is far more trusting.) Hajime’s next assignment for Nikei and Iroha is for them to go to Hope’s Peak Elementary and grab some evidence of the school’s misdeeds.
• May 29: The Warriors of Hope see Iroha outside Hope’s Peak Elementary, and Jataro recognizes her from the park. Monaca also notices Nikei, who uses a skeleton key on the school’s security door so that he and Iroha can enter later.
  • Chiaki tells Hajime about her past mistakes. He tells her that it’s okay, that she’s obviously improved, and that she’s one of the best people he knows. She kisses him on the cheek. It’s decided that she’ll be the one to talk with Ruruka. Also, she asks what she did as a Remnant of Despair, but Hajime still can’t bring himself to tell her the truth. They share a hug, then immediately get reprimanded for PDA.
  • Mikan tells Seiko her story in order to advise her not to push herself too hard for people who aren’t appreciative of her. Seiko also tells her story: her family is genetically predisposed to sickness, she got into medicine in order to help them, and Ruruka is the first and only friend she’s ever had. She helps Ruruka to make up for not being able to eat her sweets, and even though she knows that Ruruka is taking advantage of her, she can’t say no. Mikan offers to be Seiko’s friend, and she promises to help both Seiko and Ruruka.
  • Chiaki tells Ruruka her story, but Ruruka thinks it’s all fine because Chiaki’s a better person now. Ruruka thinks highly of Seiko, believes she can do anything, and doesn’t seem to understand the issue of having Seiko make things for her all the time. When Chiaki asks about Ruruka’s life before Seiko, Ruruka becomes visibly distressed and refuses to talk about it.
  • At night, Nikei and Iroha sneak into Hope’s Peak Elementary. They plant a hidden camera and a mic, but when they run into a security guard, Nikei holds him at gunpoint and forces him to take them to the security room. There, they find the security cameras’ footage from the previous week…which features many terrible scenes of child abuse. This absolutely enrages Nikei and Iroha. They shoot the security guard unconscious with a rubber bullet, download the footage onto a USB that Nikei brought along, and leave.
• May 30: Chiaki encounters Nagito telling Ruruka and Seiko about his upcoming surgery with Kanata. After Nagito leaves, Ruruka invites Seiko and Chiaki to help her make Nagito some cookies mixed with medicine so that he can heal faster after his surgery. The baking session goes well at first, but when Seiko tries to talk with Ruruka about their issues, things turn sour fast, especially when Ruruka refuses to understand why Seiko can’t just make something that will let her eat her sweets. Oh, and Ruruka’s mother is brought up, which just makes things worse. Eventually, Ruruka storms off in a rage, leaving Chiaki and Seiko with no other option but to go to Miaya about the problem.
  • Hajime commissions Aiko to make some Usami dolls.
  • During the meeting with Miaya, Seiko reveals Ruruka’s backstory. The short version is that Ruruka’s mother was a garbage human being who treated Ruruka coldly, cheated on Ruruka’s father, threatened Ruruka with a knife after Ruruka discovered said cheating, and then skipped out on the family. Ruruka’s father took his frustrations out on Ruruka because she looks like her mother, and the whole mess has left Ruruka terrified of being hurt and unable to trust anyone besides Sonosuke and Seiko (who have always been there for her). Miaya decides to talk to the headmaster about the mental health crisis at Hope’s Peak. She also agrees to help Seiko and Ruruka.
  • Nikei sends Hajime the footage of Hope’s Peak Elementary. Hajime, Chiaki, and Mikan are absolutely disgusted and vow to make Hope’s Peak pay.
  • Sayaka and her bandmates get in touch with Kyoko Kirigiri, and tell her the full story. She joins their team.
• May 31: It’s the day of Nagito’s surgery. Mikan and Chiaki take him to the hospital, where they meet Kanata and her adoptive father, Hikaru Ando. Nagito is very excited and happy to meet such a talented young person. After Mikan and Chiaki leave, the surgery begins.
  • Hajime takes his homemade signal hijacker to Hope’s Peak, intending to set it up on the gym’s roof as part of his plan for the practical exams. Unfortunately, he accidentally drops the hijacker, and then Cerberus shows up and carries it away in his jaws. Hajime, who still can’t run very well because of his ankle, asks Sonia, Fuyuhiko, and Mahiru for help catching the dog and getting his “critically important item” back. Sonia uses the PA system to spur the whole school into chasing Cerberus, promising a kiss to the one who successfully captures him. Cue many chase hijinks! Eventually, after everyone has exhausted themselves, Cerberus drops the hijacker, and Gundham reclaims his dog. He gets a kiss on the cheek from Sonia. Hajime’s hijacker thankfully survives the experience, although he’ll have to wait a few days before he can plant it on the roof.
  • Kanata’s 11-hour-long surgery on Nagito goes off without a hitch. Nagito is now cancer-free, but he must stay at the hospital for a while to recover. He will be rooming with Midori Yamaguchi, a chronically ill little girl who suffers from aplastic anemia and is at the hospital for her latest treatment. Midori’s older brother, Kakeru Yamaguchi, is a law student who’s determined to find a bone marrow donor for his sister. Nagito and Midori agree to watch the exams on TV together, and he tells her that this is just a patch of bad luck and that there’s good luck waiting for both of them on the horizon.

June

• June 1: Seiko, Chiaki, Mikan, and Miaya prepare to go talk to Ruruka, who hasn’t left her dorm room since the previous argument. Miaya provides some background information and advice regarding Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which Ruruka likely suffers from, and how to help her unlearn the unhealthy behaviors she’s exhibiting. The four girls find Ruruka in her room, baking with Sonosuke. She eagerly welcomes them all inside, gives them some eclairs, and assumes that Seiko is going to apologize so that they can all go back to the way things were. Seiko does apologize, but she and the others also make it clear that Ruruka has problems with her view on talent, and they want to help her by scheduling a therapy session between her and Miaya. Ruruka gets defensive and tearfully screams at everyone that they’re horrible people. Sonosuke intervenes and takes her aside to the bathroom so that they can talk privately. There, he manages to talk Ruruka into giving therapy with Miaya a shot so that she can learn to grow into a better, happier person. Ruruka agrees to talk with Miaya as long as Sonosuke gets to come with her, and she and Seiko reaffirm their friendship with each other. Then they all finish making Nagito’s cookies.
  • Marin Mizuta is born.
• June 2: Nagito, Kanata, and Midori are discussing books together when Chiaki, Mikan, and Seiko come to visit. They have brought him the cookies that they made with Ruruka the previous day, which, of course, are excellent. Seiko and Mikan promise to try to help find a marrow donor for Midori, and everyone is excited about the upcoming practical exams.
  • Eiko Mizuta dies from complications in childbirth. She is 26.
  • It's Midori's birthday. She turns 12.
• June 3: Nikei and Emma have an early-morning chat about Kasugano. Despite their doubts about his trustworthiness, they are excited for the practical exams. Nikei will be there live at Hope’s Peak to see what Kasugano’s got in store.
  • Ruruka (accompanied by Sonosuke) attends her first official therapy session with Miaya.
• June 4: Class 75’s practical exams take place. The standout stars are Ted Chikatilo with his fireworks display, Miaya with her wonderful speech about breaking down the barrier between abled and disabled people, and Umeko with her homemade mini-Tokamak. While this is going on, Hajime successfully plants his signal hijacker on the roof of the Main Course building.
  • After an argument with her older brother Haiji Towa, Monaca watches the rest of the exams in her room. She recognizes Nikei’s face in the cheering crowd and subsequently decides to watch the exams live from now on.
• June 5: Class 76’s practical exams take place. Most notably, Ruruka presents her new Sky-Blue-Heaven Days Choux Crémes, which are delicious. After her exam is over, Ruruka tells Seiko that she’s going to try and expand her horizons going forward. She gives Seiko one of her new sugar-free candies. Seiko is so happy that she cries tears of joy, and the two best friends share a hug.
• June 6: Hajime, Chiaki, and Mikan exchange kisses for good luck with the grand finale of the practical exams.
  • Ryota Mitarai entrusts his finished exam to the Ultimate Imposter, who is still pretending to be him.
  • Class 77’s practical exams take place. 77-B’s exams are as follows:
    • Teruteru presents a cart full of food that he made.
    • Fuyuhiko shows off his power by summoning an army of Yakuza members to the stage.
    • Mahiru displays a collage of her photos.
    • Ibuki plays a song.
    • Nekomaru emphasizes his commitment to helping athletes achieve their goals.
    • Gundham does a summoning ritual with animals.
    • Kazuichi flies his newly-built jetpack around the gym.
    • Hiyoko performs an elegant dance.
    • Akane uses her agility to navigate an obstacle course.
    • The Ultimate Imposter shows a 15-minute animated film made by Ryota.
    • Peko instantly slashes over two dozen targets with her sword.
    • Chiaki plays three levels from three different games at the same time, and she beats them all.
    • Sonia gives a speech about her ideals and goals as the future Queen of Novoselic.
    • Mikan demonstrates the proper treatments for various injuries.
  • During Chiaki's practical exam, Misako Ise watches it at home with her daughter, up-and-coming voice actress Kana Ise. Misako tells Kana the truth about her relationship to Chiaki.
  • When it comes time for the closing speech, Hajime activates his hijacker via a code in his laptop.
  • The live feed from Hope’s Peak cuts out, replaced by a mysterious symbol, and Hajime-as-Kasugano reveals his existence to the world for the first time. He exposes the corruption of Hope’s Peak via the footage from their elementary division, promises to bring an end to such exploitation, and officially begins a crusade against injustice all across Japan. In a matter of moments, Kasugano becomes a promise of change.
• June 7: Hope’s Peak, enraged about the Kasugano incident, starts looking for connections to him within the facility.
  • Chisa and Juzo call Kyosuke Munakata about Kasugano; they’re worried that their investigation could be compromised. Kyosuke tells them to keep a low profile and stick to the plan.
  • Junko is excited about what Kasugano might do next. She asks Yasuke Matsuda to keep her posted.
  • The Voids are delighted with Kasugano’s display. Nikei still isn’t on board with trusting Kasugano completely, but other than that, they’re all willing to help him out again if necessary. Also, Maku and Emma can make it back to Tokyo by the end of July.
• June 8: Koichi and Chisa talk about current events. Apparently, Jin is being swamped with phone calls from angry parents, and the Steering Committee is out for blood. It becomes clear that many staff members will be fired, but Koichi assures Chisa that she won’t be one of them.
  • Sayaka and her bandmates get in touch with Byakuya Togami and ask for his help. He agrees to do so.
  • It’s Seiko’s birthday. She turns 18.
• June 10: Saiji Rokudou is born.
• June 13: It’s been a week since Kasugano appeared, and since then, Hope's Peak Elementary has shut down, and 12% of the Hope’s Peak facility has been fired, including the guidance counselor. Fortunately, not only has a replacement counselor been hired, but so has a school psychologist to provide extra help for the students. The psychologist is Kokoro Mitsume, and the guidance counselor is Yoruko Kabuya.
  • Hibiki and Kanade Otonokoji talk about Kasugano; they admire his exploits and wonder what he’ll do next. Unbeknowest to them, they themselves are the answer to that question.
  • Kazuichi tells his classmates that the new guidance counselor wants to speak with each student in order to get to know them all. When Chiaki meets with Yoruko, she talks about her friends, including Hajime. Yoruko admits that the school has their suspicions about Hajime and Chiaki, but she promises that she will keep them all safe. She also says that she would like a chance to meet with Hajime.
  • Miaya holds the first meeting of her new Hope’s Peak Support Group, which includes Natsumi, Fuyuhiko, Honami, Mahiru, Ruruka, Sonosuke, Ted, and Aiko.
  • Because the Utsugi family can no longer go out in public thanks to Kasugano, Kotoko will now be getting regular check-ups at Hope’s Peak with Mikan. Kotoko quickly grows attached to her new “Big Sis,” who helps her treat the suspicious canker sores in her mouth. Mikan, worried about Kotoko’s situation, resolves to help her however she can.
  • Nikei and Iroha have been keeping an eye on the WOH parents. Iroha also likes to paint mean messages on their houses and cars. Nikei’s website has been getting lots more traffic since his article about Kasugano's arrival on the scene. There is some suspicion that Setsuka might be the dental assistant that Junya is cheating with.
  • Hajime is concerned with how close Hope’s Peak has come to finding him out. He, Chiaki, Mikan, and Umeko swap information and decide to lay low until the concert. Although Hajime is suspicious of Yoruko’s intentions, he agrees to go and speak with her.
  • It’s Kotoko’s birthday. She turns 10.
• June 14: Hajime meets with Yoruko. They talk about each other’s backstories and the concept of talent before the conversation turns to Hajime’s relationship with Chiaki. Hajime says that Chiaki is a very important person to him, and that he wants to keep her safe but is worried that he can’t. Yoruko admits that she once felt the same way about someone, but in the end, she couldn’t save that person. One thing leads to another, and it’s soon revealed that Yoruko, like Hajime, is a time traveler from the Tragedy timeline’s version of 2017.
  • Later, Hajime and Yoruko meet Umeko at the Physics Building, and Umeko officially confirms Yoruko’s time traveler status with the tachyon detector. It is also confirmed that both Hajime and Yoruko left 2017 from the same day (March 14th), but Yoruko arrived in 2012 on March 21st, several weeks before Hajime arrived on April 16. Both were remembering the past before they traveled back. Yoruko tells Hajime about the Utsuroshima Killing Game (which she was a part of) and the girl she couldn’t save, named Sora, who sacrificed herself to help the group. Class 79’s existence, as well as their Proto Killing Game, is also explained. Hajime tells Yoruko that the Voids are on their side now, and she gives some advice about how to deal with them and their flaws. Umeko agrees to start work on a bigger tachyon detector. With all this established, Yoruko officially joins the team.
  • When Hajime tells Yoruko that he intends to deal with the Otonokoji twins at their upcoming concert, she fills him in on their story, including the truth about Kanade’s twisted nature. Hajime and Co’s mission becomes to expose Kanade, have her arrested for her crimes, and save Hibiki from her sister’s clutches. To do this, Hajime plans to befriend Hibiki, challenge Kanade as Kasugano, and use his status as a threat to lead her into a trap. Since the concert is set for July 5, he has 3 weeks to work out the details.
  • At Miaya’s support group, Aiko reveals that she’s attending in order to find ways to help her online friend, Damian Miraz, who has problems with an abusive father at home.
• June 15: Iroha is out late, painting mean messages on the Kemuris’ house, when she encounters Jataro. After hearing about his neglectful home life, she decides to take him with her so that he’ll have a happier place to live.
  • Sayaka and her bandmates get in touch with Aoi Asahina and ask for her help. She agrees to do so.
• June 16: Nikei comes home from an investigation session to find Jataro in the kitchen. Iroha explains what happened, and while Nikei is not at all happy to hear that she basically kidnapped a child, he agrees to let Jataro stay with them for now. Jataro reveals that Monaca has figured out Nikei and Iroha’s involvement with Kasugano, and he gives them a link to Monaca’s “super secret email account.”
  • Hajime is duly informed of the new developments with the Warriors of Hope, and he gets in contact with Monaca. When asked, he tells her that he doesn’t want to commit violence to change things; rather, he wants to win over people’s hearts and minds. He prefers hope and change over despair and destruction. He also promises to do something big around July 5, and an intrigued Monaca agrees to keep an eye on the news.
  • Hajime begins research on the Otonokoji twins and their time at school. He connects at least 24 deaths/disappearances/maimings to them.
• June 19: It’s revealed that Hajime has spent about 3 days straight doing research in his room. Mikan has to intervene in order to get him to stop and eat.
  • Hajime is invited to go swimming at the Nanamis’ private pool with Chiaki and Mikan (well, more like ordered to, as Mikan is concerned about the fact that he hasn’t been outside of his house all weekend). Everyone has a very fun time in the pool. However, the fun is briefly interrupted when Chiaki discovers a strange tattoo of 9 dots on Hajime’s back. Hajime has no idea where this tattoo came from, and neither does anyone else. Yoruko does not have one.
  • At sunset, Chiaki confesses her feelings to Hajime. Mikan also confesses that she has feelings for both Hajime and Chiaki. The three of them share kisses and officially enter a relationship together.
• June 20: In the middle of a talk between Yoruko, Kokoro, and Miaya, Kokoro figures out that Yoruko has serial killers on her mind. Sonia, who is fascinated by serial killers, chimes in with her arsenal of knowledge on the topic. After much discussion about the various kinds of serial killers and serial killers throughout history, talk turns to the rumors of Melody Rhythm being cursed. Sonia says that something about the case does not sit right with her, then excuses herself to do work in her dorm. Yoruko claims that she has a casual interest in the topic in order to prevent Kokoro from sussing her out.
  • Chiaki tells Yoruko about the newly established Hajime-Chiaki-Mikan relationship. Yoruko’s very happy for them. She also tells the story of her relationship with her old senpai, Minako Tomori, who’s the reason why she got into hostessing in the first place. It didn’t end well, but Yoruko misses Minako and is grateful for all she’s done for her.
  • Kotoko has another check-up with Mikan. During this, Mikan overhears Junya talking with Chisa. He claims that he had no idea about what was going on at Hope’s Peak Elementary and that he’s had to stay in a hotel with his family since the broadcast. His business as a dentist has also tanked, so his wife and daughter have to work to provide for the family. Later in the check-up, Mikan tells Kotoko about her new relationship. Kotoko is excited about this and promises to keep it a secret, then confides her own secret to Mikan: she has to do “work” that she doesn’t want to do so that her mother won’t cry or be sad, but it’s getting to be too much for her. Mikan assures Kotoko that it’s important to take care of herself and that she shouldn’t do anything she doesn’t want to do, but Junya walks back in and cuts the conversation short. He turns down a blood test for Kotoko, and the Utsugis leave.
  • Umeko checks out Hajime’s strange tattoo. The tattoo is shooting off particles of radiation, but it’s not dangerous. Umeko hopes to use it to study whatever brought Hajime and Yoruko back in the first place.
  • Mikan tells Hajime about what happened during Kotoko’s check-up, and Hajime reveals the awful truth: Kotoko is being forced by her parents to prostitute herself alongside her mother as a “mother-daughter set.” The group swears to save her. Mikan will continue to keep an eye on Kotoko at their check-ups, while Hajime plans to enlist Nikei and Iroha to figure out where the Utsugis are keeping her.
• June 22: At the hospital, Nagito and Kanata confide their pasts to each other. Both lost their parents in crashes that they themselves barely survived; in his case, it was a plane crash caused by a meteorite during a hijacking, and in her case, it was a fiery car crash that she was rescued from by a firefighter. Nagito takes the opportunity to talk about his philosophy regarding talent, hope, and stepping stones (anyone who knows about his character knows what this entails). Kanata challenges these beliefs with her own perspective and experiences, as does Midori, who wakes up in the middle of the conversation. It’s revealed that Kakeru wants to study the WOH case, and Nagito assures Midori that the children will be all right because hope always prevails. Kanata, seeing that Nagito has no real support system, gives him her support and friendship. She’ll work on finding him the right medication and an effective therapist, and although he will leave the hospital on July 5, they’ll stay in touch even after that.
  • Umeko is building a long-range tachyon detector. She estimates that it will take 3 to 4 months at the soonest.
  • Hajime shows his girlfriends his list of Kanade’s murders and maimings (the current total is 32 confirmed crimes). Chiaki and Mikan affirm their commitment to helping him take Kanade down once and for all.
  • The Student Council are constantly fighting among themselves about Kasugano.
  • Sonia hasn’t left her room for almost 2 days because she’s been too busy investigating the terrible incidents surrounding the Otonokojis. When her research is complete, she shows her classmates a list that is very similar to the one Hajime compiled. She now suspects that these events were no accidents, but the work of a stalker pursuing the twins from the shadows. Because of this, she will attend the concert in order to investigate. Gundham will go with her.
  • Hajime’s plan to stop Kanade and save Hibiki is as follows:
    • He and Chiaki will go to the concert together, using the tickets provided for them by Ibuki. They will wear disguises and carry fake IDs.
    • When he meets the twins, Hajime will pose as the Ultimate Detective, get close enough to spend some time with them, and then tell the twins that he has reason to believe that someone might be after them.
    • This will probably cause Kanade to come after him. Once that happens, Chiaki will loop back around and get Hibiki. She and Hajime will communicate via a two-way speaker made by Kazuichi, which is disguised as a tie clip (for Hajime) and a Bluetooth earpiece (for Chiaki).
    • Hajime will lead Kanade into a trap, expose her crimes to everyone in the building, and turn her over to the police.
    • During all this, Mikan will keep Sonia and Gundham distracted so that they don’t get caught in the crossfire.
  • The Hajime-Chiaki-Mikan relationship is officially dubbed the “Cuddle Puddle.”
• June 25: Nikei goes to investigate the Daimons’ house, only to find that the police are already there. He overhears the famous middle school cop Tsurugi Kinjo interrogating Hiroshi Daimon about what was going on at Hope’s Peak Elementary. A very drunk Hiroshi refuses to say anything and claims that he has “immunity.” Nikei comes to the realization that Hope’s Peak is protecting the WOH parents so that they can keep studying the children’s talents. He tells the other Voids about this. They’re all angry, frustrated, and more determined than ever to save the kids, so they email Kasugano immediately.
  • When Hajime gets the email, he’s disappointed but not surprised about Hope’s Peak covering for the WOH parents. His next assignment for the Voids is to figure out what’s happening with the Utsugis (although he needs to find their current address first, which he plans to do via Mikan). He also comes up with the idea to bring Hibiki to Hope’s Peak after they save her, thinking that the school will let her stay to prevent another scandal.
• June 28: It’s once again time for Kotoko to have a check-up with Mikan. At first, Junya insists on sitting right there in the room, making it difficult for Mikan to talk with Kotoko, but Yoruko manages to distract him long enough to get him to leave the room. (Also, at one point, Junya calls his wife by a different name than the one he called her previously.) Mikan and Kotoko communicate via writing so that neither Junya nor the security cameras will hear them. After hearing that Kotoko’s situation has only gotten worse, Mikan promises to send someone to save her so that she can have a better place to live. Kotoko describes their hotel as a building across the street from a big red building with a lot of neon lights, about half an hour away from Hope’s Peak. She and her family are staying in Room 204 on the second floor.
  • Later, Mikan tells Hajime about what Kotoko told her, and he passes the information along to Nikei, who begins to search for the Utsugis’ hotel. Hajime promises Mikan that as soon as Kanade is dealt with, their number one priority will be saving the Warriors of Hope.
• June 29: It’s Kazuichi’s birthday. He turns 16.
• June 30: Tsurugi is conducting his own investigation of the WOH parents, but due to a bunch of legal red tape, his request for a warrant has been pending approval for 10 days. Tsurugi’s partner in policing, Kouhei Sasaki, calls Tsurugi with the news that the Otonokoji twins (one of Tsurugi’s pet projects) are playing a concert in Tokyo. Tsurugi decides to attend the concert in order to interrogate the twins about the incidents surrounding them.
  • It's Jin's birthday. He turns 38.
  • It’s Peko’s birthday. She turns 17.

July

• July 2: It’s Emma’s birthday. She turns 16.
• July 3: Kakeru gets involved with the police to help Tsurugi tackle all the legal disputes that are going on with the WOH case.
• July 4: Hajime goes over the concert plan with Chiaki, Mikan, and Yoruko one last time.
  • Updates to the plan:
    • Yoruko, the designated driver, will drop Hajime and Chiaki off at the west entrance of the mall where the concert is taking place, while Mikan will be dropped off at the north entrance.
    • The plan from there is mostly still the same as before, with one major added detail: once alone with Kanade, Hajime will try and get a confession out of her, record said confession using his clip-on tie speaker, and then use it to signal Chiaki to call Mikan and the police. That done, he will run and lead her to a public location or someplace with a security camera so that she will be caught.
    • Chiaki has brought 150,000 yen so that they can get a hotel room right next to the twins. Hajime has also brought blue spray paint; he will find a secure spot to put the recorder and the list he made, and he will mark them with Kasugano’s symbol.
    • They will all keep their phones charged and call each other if anything changes. Everyone’s ready for the big escapade ahead of them.
  • It’s Nikei’s birthday. He turns 16.
• July 5: Hajime, Chiaki, Mikan, and Yoruko don their disguises, grab their fake IDs, and set out for the concert. Sonia and Gundham depart for the concert as well, as does Tsurugi. All three parties intend to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the Otonokoji twins, although only Hajime and Co know for certain that Kanade is the culprit. Tsurugi also wants to catch Kasugano, as he holds the vigilante responsible for breaking several laws in his pursuit of justice.
  • Yoruko drops Hajime and Chiaki off at the west entrance of the mall, but not before they have to reassure her that they’ll be all right. The Cuddle Puddle exchanges good-luck kisses before they go their separate ways. Mikan is later dropped off at the north entrance.
  • When Hajime and Chiaki pick up their second-row tickets for the concert, they run into Tsurugi, who recognizes Chiaki. She gets him to promise not to tell anyone, and they all find their seats without incident.
  • Gundham and Sonia arrive at the concert, pick up their tickets, and find their seats. They are here on a mission, yet when Sonia asks if this can be considered a date, Gundham doesn’t object. Meanwhile, Mikan inconspiciously finds a seat near the pair to keep an eye on them.
  • It’s time for the Melody Rhythm concert! Hibiki and Kanade put on an amazing show, and everyone has a fun time. Once the twins’ main act is over, they announce that they will take a short break before performing an encore.
  • During the break, Hajime and Chiaki approach Hibiki and Kanade, and they’re allowed to speak with them thanks to their fake credentials. They introduce themselves as Chiaki Nanami and Hajime Kurosawa, students of Hope’s Peak Academy, who are here to ask the twins some questions for the purposes of scouting them. The four of them have a pleasant getting-to-know-you session. Right before the twins have to go back to perform their encore, Hibiki invites Hajime and Chiaki to hang out with her and Kanade after the concert.
  • After the encore, Sonia and Gundham plan to talk to the twins, but they are foiled by Mikan, who intercepts them just in time. Tsurugi attempts to speak with the twins as well, but he can’t get through the crowd in time.
  • Hajime, Chiaki, Hibiki, and Kanade leave the concert and get some drinks at the food court, where the interview begins. The twins talk about their childhoods, their school history, and how their band began. Chiaki reveals her talent as the Ultimate Gamer, but Hajime claims to be the Ultimate Detective, accepted unofficially to help with investigations. He then says that they need a private place to conduct the rest of the interview, and Hibiki suggests that they do that at the twins’ hotel…but first, they all get to have fun at the mall a bit longer and go shopping. Kanade’s stuck with the bags.
  • As Mikan, Sonia, and Gundham spend time together at the mall, Gundham sends Cham-P to find the twins. The hamster finds them just in time to hear that they’re about to head back to their hotel with “a pair of unknown individuals” (Hajime and Chiaki). When Gundham and Sonia get this news, they resolve to intervene immediately, and they ask Mikan (nicely) to let them go attend to private matters. Mikan proceeds to have a panic attack. Sonia and Gundham rush to her aid and manage to calm her down, which indirectly causes them to miss the twins’ departure from the mall.
  • Bad End #1: The Poisoned Chocolates.
    • Hajime, Chiaki, Hibiki, and Kanade arrive at the twins’ hotel room on the 8th floor. Although Hibiki wants to relax and play games, Hajime insists on speaking with both twins separately about all the mysterious incidents surrounding their band. He says that he wants to protect them, because if his suspicions are right, they and their parents might be in danger.
    • Tsurugi checks on Mikan to make sure that she’s okay, but then he gets a message over his radio that the twins have left the mall. He immediately goes after them.
    • Hajime interviews each twin individually: first Hibiki, then Kanade. For both interviews, he starts by asking them about the various friends and acquaintances they had during their time at school, all of whom ended up hurt or gone. Then, after showing them his list of all the accidents and disappearances, he concludes that someone is most likely after the twins and has been for a long time. (During her interview, Hibiki remembers her dog, Shiro, who also disappeared.) He offers his official Hope’s-Peak-sanctioned protection and aid to them both. He also informs them that he and Chiaki will be staying in another room of the hotel in case anything happens. A 9-knock code is implemented, and neither Hajime and Chiaki nor the twins will open the door for anyone except each other.
    • Chiaki sends Mikan a text confirming where she, Hajime, and the twins are. Mikan, unable to let her lovers deal with someone so dangerous alone, admits to Sonia and Gundham that she knows which hotel the twins are staying at. Sonia and Gundham let Mikan in on their mission, and the three of them go to the twins’ hotel and get a room on the first floor.
    • Later, Hajime looks around the hotel and finds all possible exits, just in case. He then returns to Chiaki, and they share a box of chocolates sent to them by the twins via room service. Chiaki admits that she doesn’t like Hibiki’s behavior, that she isn’t entirely sure about Kanade being the killer, and that she’s worried that there might be an alternate history thing going on. Hajime gives her his word that if the twins really are innocent, they’ll let them go and move on. They get Mikan’s text letting them know that she, Sonia, and Gundham are on the first floor of the hotel. Hajime sees this as a good thing. He and Chiaki reaffirm their plan, comfort each other through their shared feelings of nervousness, and go to bed.
    • Hibiki is scared of the stalker, but Kanade reassures her that Hajime and Chiaki will take care of it, and that no matter what, the twins will always have each other.
    • Hajime wakes up in the middle of the night from a nightmare and a stomachache. He notices that Chiaki isn’t in her bed and knocks down the bathroom door to find her unconscious (albeit alive) on the floor. It turns out that the chocolates were poisoned with cyanide by Kanade, and Hajime soon finds himself suffering from the effects of cyanide poisoning. Kanade arrives, taunts Hajime, steals his phone and all the other evidence, and briefly questions him about how he figured her out. He refuses to say anything, and she leaves disappointed but triumphant. Soon afterwards, Hajime dies alone.
    • Hajime resets for the first time.
  • Hajime, Chiaki, Hibiki, and Kanade arrive at the twins’ hotel room on the 8th floor. Hajime is shell-shocked and confused about the reset that just happened, especially since he remembers dying, but he presses on with the mission. Although Hibiki wants to relax and play games, Hajime insists on speaking with both twins together about all the mysterious incidents surrounding their band. He says that he wants to protect them, because if his suspicions are right, they and their parents might be in danger.
  • Tsurugi checks on Mikan to make sure that she’s okay, but then he gets a message over his radio that the twins have left the mall. He immediately goes after them.
  • Hajime interviews the twins together. He starts by asking them about the various friends and acquaintances they had during their time at school, all of whom ended up hurt or gone. Then, after showing them his list of all the accidents and disappearances, he concludes that someone is most likely after the twins and has been for a long time. This causes Hibiki to remember her dog, Shiro, who also disappeared. Hajime offers his official Hope’s-Peak-sanctioned protection and aid to them both. He also informs them that he and Chiaki will be staying in another room of the hotel in case anything happens. A 9-knock code is implemented, and neither Hajime and Chiaki nor the twins will open the door for anyone except each other.
  • Chiaki sends Mikan a text confirming where she, Hajime, and the twins are. Mikan, unable to let her lovers deal with someone so dangerous alone, admits to Sonia and Gundham that she knows which hotel the twins are staying at. Sonia and Gundham let Mikan in on their mission, and the three of them go to the twins’ hotel and get a room on the first floor.
  • As soon as he and Chiaki are alone, Hajime tells her about his death and reset. She checks his back to find that his tattoo now has 8 dots instead of 9, and they realize that the dots represent his “lives,” aka the amount of times he can reset. Hajime calls Yoruko and tells her about all this; she tells him that she remembers the reset, meaning that all time travelers will experience Hajime’s resets, but only Hajime can actually reset. Hajime also asks Yoruko to bring a weapon (like a police baton or a wooden sword) for tomorrow’s confrontation with Kanade.
  • Hibiki is scared of the stalker, but Kanade reassures her that Hajime and Chiaki will take care of it, and that no matter what, the twins will always have each other.
  • Hajime and Chiaki visit Sonia, Gundham, and Mikan in their first floor hotel room. Sonia and Gundham are brought up to speed on everything, up to and including the time travel, and they agree to help.
• July 6: Hajime stops by the twins’ hotel room first thing in the morning and asks Kanade (who is the only twin awake) if she would like to go back to the mall with him to get souvenirs. She accepts, and they leave together.
  • Later, at 11:50 AM, Hibiki is woken up by the sound of Chiaki knocking on the door. Chiaki asks if she’s seen Hajime, and Hibiki vaguely remembers his earlier departure with Kanade. The two girls agree to go look for their companions at the mall. Chiaki uses the two-way speaker to update Hajime.
  • At 12:20 PM, Hajime and Kanade get to talking during their shopping spree. Kanade says that Hibiki is the only real family she has (since their parents aren’t around much), but although the twins love each other, Hibiki also resents Kanade for being better at her than everything, which is why she picks on her so often. Kanade sometimes loses on purpose because she wants Hibiki to love her. Once they’re done shopping, Hajime claims that he has to go back to Hope’s Peak, and Kanade agrees to walk with him to his car.
  • Chiaki and Hibiki arrive at the mall at 12:25 PM, and shortly afterwards, they run into Mikan and Gundham. Introductions are had, compliments regarding the concert are shared, and Chiaki ducks off with an excuse that she has to use the bathroom. The others wait for her. As soon as she’s alone, Chiaki calls Yoruko and tells her where Hibiki, Mikan, and Gundham are.
  • Hajime and Kanade reach the parking lot just around 12:39 PM. Hajime has been telling Kanade stories about himself, and she asks to hear one more story before he goes. After making sure that no one else is around, he obliges by telling her the story of how he figured out the identity of the twins’ stalker. Through a series of logical deductions based on his interview with the twins, the circumstances of the incidents, the victims’ connection to Hibiki, and the culprit’s intuitive knowledge of Hibiki’s feelings, he concludes that Kanade is the culprit. Kanade gleefully confesses everything in a villainous monologue about how she killed or maimed everyone that ever got too close to Hibiki (around 60 people in total!), all because she wants to keep her sister for herself. Due to all these traumatic occurences, Hibiki has become emotionally weak, relying on Kanade for everything, and when she’s under enough mental stress, she even goes into a “puppet state” where she’ll only listen to Kanade’s commands. Kanade’s ultimate goal is to make Hibiki’s puppet state permanent. With her motive rant done, Kanade prepares to kill Hajime, only for it to be revealed that Hajime is using his two-way speaker to record her whole confession and, with Chiaki’s help, broadcast it to everyone in the mall via their public announcement system.
  • Sure enough, everyone in the mall hears Kanade’s confession, and they’re all shocked and horrified by her true nature. Tsurugi orders her immediate arrest and is directed to the parking lot by an anonymous call from Yoruko. No one is more shocked and horrified than Hibiki, who takes the news so poorly that she retreats into her puppet state. Mikan and Chiaki have to literally carry her out of the mall and to Yoruko’s van. While this is going on, Gundham plants a “shrine” at the east entrance; it features Kasugano’s symbol in blue spray paint, Hajime’s list, the poisoned box of chocolates, and a recorded message from Kasugano himself. His Four Dark Devas also cut the security cameras to protect Hajime and Co.
  • Kanade, furious at being exposed, chases Hajime through the parking lot with an axe and a knife. Before she can kill him, Sonia appears and gives her the one-sided beatdown of her life (because Kanade’s murders were all committed using hit-and-run tactics, her lack of experience in a real fight causes her to go down easily). Hajime and Sonia handcuff Kanade to a nearby pipe, then leave. Tsurugi and his police squadron arrive a few minutes later, and Kanade is officially arrested.
  • Hajime and Co all reunite and return to Hope’s Peak with a catatonic Hibiki in tow. Class 77-B has already heard about Kanade’s arrest via the news (as has Monaca, who is now a Kasugano fan), and they are glad to see that their concertgoing classmates are okay. Yoruko pleads for Chisa and Kokoro to provide help for Hibiki. Chisa goes with Yoruko to ask Jin to let Hibiki stay at Hope’s Peak, while Kokoro begins treatment immediately.
  • Tsurugi discovers Kasugano’s “shrine” and listens to his message, which is addressed directly to him. In it, Kasugano takes responsibility for Kanade’s downfall, offers the list as evidence to help convict her, and warns Tsurugi not to go after Hibiki. He also makes it clear that he doesn’t want to be enemies with the police.
  • Yoruko and Chisa talk with Jin. He agrees that Hibiki can stay at Hope’s Peak as long as no one outside the school is told about it. An old office on the third floor will be turned into Hibiki’s room.
  • Hajime tells Nikei and Iroha about the Kanade escapade. Nikei’s search for the Utsugis’ hotel has gotten to the point where he’s narrowed it down to no less than 11 hotels to comb through. Also, Iroha has a crush on Kasugano.
  • Chiaki, terrified of what could’ve happened during Hajime’s showdown with Kanade, makes Hajime promise not to do something so dangerous ever again. She stays over at his house for the night.
• July 7: Mikan finds Kotoko at her dorm room door early in the morning. The little girl has run away from her parents because of the abuse they’ve been putting her through, and she begs Mikan not to send her back to them. Mikan, now in tranquil fury mode, vows to protect Kotoko, and she lets her stay as a secret guest in her room. Hajime and Co are duly informed.
  • Jataro has a toothache. He refuses to take off his mask to let Iroha and Nikei have a look at it, insisting that their faces will rot off if they see his face. Iroha comforts him and somehow ends up comforting herself as well.
  • Hibiki is still in the puppet state. Kokoro and Miaya are taking care of her.
  • Hajime and Co are given an official team name: the Quantum Crew. They shall hereinafter be referred to as such.
  • It's Sayaka's birthday. She turns 16.
• July 9: Umeko takes another look at Hajime’s tattoo. The section where the ninth circle used to be is back to normal skin, and the skin sample Umeko took from Hajime earlier also went back to normal skin as soon as it was off him. Umeko hypothesizes that Hajime’s resets are high-energy particles that produce small-scale versions of whatever brought him back in the first place, but they only occur if Hajime’s brain activity stops. There doesn’t seem to be a way for Hajime to get more resets. Furthermore, Umeko suspects that Hajime and Yoruko were sent back in time on purpose by someone, but no one knows who, how, or why. This is also where we find out that Umeko was struck by lightning at age 10, causing her to lose an arm and suffer from brain issues that required an implant to resolve.
  • Sonia and Gundham officially join the Quantum Crew. Sonia also takes on the role of Hajime’s personal bodyguard.
  • Tsurugi is still on the hunt for Kasugano, who he considers responsible for hiding a suspect, among other things. He doesn’t like how Kasugano operates outside the law.
  • Kanade’s case is under review courtesy of the Commissioner General. Enough evidence has been found to definitely link her to the deaths of 12 people thus far. She is in prison awaiting her trial, but she still shows no remorse.
  • Yoruko successfully brings Hibiki out of her puppet state by splicing voice clips of Kanade together into a command for Hibiki to wake up. Upon remembering everything that’s happened, Hibiki is devastated, disgusted, and terrified. She thinks that Kanade will return and kill everyone around her, so she panics, forces Miaya and Yoruko out of her room, locks the door in their faces, and refuses to come out. Yoruko sends Miaya to fetch Chiaki and Mikan, then gets Mahiru to call Hajime.
  • Nagito is out of the hospital by now. He has a new prescription for medication, which has helped his mental state.
  • Hajime goes to Hope’s Peak and finds Hibiki’s room, where a small crowd has gathered outside the door. He and Chiaki knock on the door and coax Hibiki into letting them into her room (they agree to stay by the door). Hibiki blames herself for treating Kanade poorly and for not noticing Kanade’s true nature, worries about what Kanade might’ve done to her, and refuses to let anyone close to her out of fear that Kanade will kill them. Hajime and Chiaki assure her that what Kanade did was no one’s fault but Kanade’s, and they swear to stay by Hibiki’s side no matter what (and take Kanade down again should she ever come back). Hibiki is comforted by this, but she will still need a little more time before she can leave her room, and she doesn’t feel comfortable being touched. She thanks Hajime and Chiaki for saving her.
  • Class 77-B takes a shine to Hibiki and basically makes her an unofficial member of the class. Yoruko also promises to be there for her if she ever needs to talk. Hibiki has many new friends now!
  • Mikan returns to Kotoko and tells her about everyone’s efforts to help Hibiki recover. The two girls continue to grow their sisterly relationship, and Kotoko gives Mikan permission to call her by her first name.
  • A maid stops by the Daimons’ house and offers her services, but Hiroshi yells at her until she leaves.
  • Nikei has finally found the Utsugis’ hotel, but the Utsugis already left before he got there. Hajime asks him to keep up the WOH investigation and also look into the dental assistant. Nikei agrees, then departs into the night to “check on a late-night lead.”
  • Junko, still on her tour of Europe, has heard about the whole business with Kanade at this point. She has a conversation over the phone with Juu Kinjo, Tsurugi’s police commissioner father, who also happens to be an Ultimate Despair already. They decide not to let Kanade out (yet), but to see what Kasugano’s plans are. Junko is disturbingly interested.
• July 10: Nikei, who remains overly suspicious of Kasugano, has hired Setsuka Chiebukuro to investigate the vigilante’s true intentions. He secretly meets with her on the rooftops above Tokyo to give her all the information he’s gained from his conversations with Kasugano. Setsuka is also investigating Junya, which is why she was the mysterious dental assistant.
  • Kotoko meets Hajime and Chiaki for the first time. The Cuddle Puddle decides to move her to Chiaki’s house for safety, although they will wait to do it until summer vacation starts.
  • By this point, Chiaki has told Sonia about their relationship with Hajime in the Tragedy timeline. Sonia talks to Hajime about it, and although they aren’t going to jump straight back into romance just yet, they know that they have each other’s backs.
• July 11: After she has a counseling session with Hibiki, Yoruko is called to the teacher’s lounge, where she, Kokoro, Chisa, Juzo, and Koichi witness a news appearance from none other than Junya himself. Junya claims that he had no idea what was going on at Hope’s Peak Elementary, reveals that Kotoko is missing, begs for help in finding her, and blames Kasugano for all of it. Kokoro sees right through his lies, and everyone agrees not to let Junya back in the school. In fact, none of the major characters buy Junya’s act in the slightest. This will, however, affect the Cuddle Puddle’s plan to hide Kotoko.
  • Kotomi Ikuta of the Student Council suspects that Kasugano might actually be a student at Hope’s Peak. She intends to start investigating the Reserve Course, starting with Honami, Natsumi, and Hajime.
  • Kokoro is struggling with feelings of guilt about how she treated her daughter 7 years ago.
  • Iroha and Nikei have an argument about whether or not to trust Kasugano. Things almost get out of hand when Nikei scares Iroha with his gun, but when he realizes what he’s done, he tries his best to calm down.
  • Monaca meets with Hajime online and offers him a deal: she’ll give him access to Towa City’s broadcast system so that he can make another public broadcast, and in return, he’ll give her full control over Towa Group, let her work with him, and also marry her. Hajime agrees, but not before negotiating the marriage away to when she’s of age (he thinks she’ll be over him by then).
  • The “Ankle Effect” officially receives its name.
  • It's Miaya's birthday. She turns 19.
• July 12: Iroha and Jataro have an early-morning heart-to-heart. Jataro still feels scared to take off his mask because of how terribly ugly his mother told him he is. Iroha, in turn, tells Jataro about her own horrible childhood: her family of famous artists locked her in her room so she’d produce great art, never let her leave, stopped all suicide attempts, and beat her whenever she tried to escape. With Iroha’s encouragement and support, Jataro finally takes off his mask, revealing himself to be a cute child. The two of them (plus Nikei, who shows up briefly to see Jataro’s maskless face) officially become their own little family, and “Big Sis” Iroha promises to make sure that Jataro knows how much he’s loved.
  • Kokoro continues to be haunted by the guilt of what she did to her daughter. Eventually, she decides to do her best to make things right, and so she pulls Yoruko aside and tells her the story: she married and had a child specifically so that she could study the most primitive emotion. To that end, she isolated her daughter in a laboratory for 8 years, put a microchip in her brain, and ran constant experiments on her. This only stopped when her husband ran away with the child. Yoruko tells Kokoro that the fact that she feels regret about what she did makes her a better person than the WOH parents. Kokoro, who has figured out that Yoruko is working with Kasugano, asks for her (and his) help in finding out what happened to her husband and daughter, just so she has closure on them. They check the data from the microchip (which was never removed) and discover that Kokoro’s daughter is alive. Kokoro, with Yoruko’s support, plans to use the signal to find her daughter’s location. She also becomes an ally of Kasugano.
  • Everyone in the Quantum Crew receives code names based on tarot cards. Hajime is Fool, Sonia is Empress, Gundham is Emperor, Umeko is Sun, Mikan is Lovers, Yoruko is Temperance, and Chiaki is Star.
  • Kotoko is officially set to be moved to Chiaki’s house tomorrow.
  • Hiroshi badly beats Masaru into unconsciousness. Iroha witnesses the whole thing, runs away out of fear, and calls 110. Masaru ends up in the ICU with severe injuries, while Hiroshi is arrested for his crime.
  • Kanata’s phone call with Nagito is interrupted by Hikaru informing her of the situation, and they immediately get to work on performing emergency surgery on Masaru.
  • Kakeru, who is still trying to get the WOH investigation unblocked, is summoned to the hospital in order to deal with the legal fallout of what happened. He brings Midori with him. Tsurugi is dispatched to the hospital as well.
  • Hajime hears about the incident from Nikei, who heard about it from Iroha. He briefly blames himself for not acting fast enough before Yoruko gets him to pull himself together.
  • Nagito directs Mikan to the hospital, where she goes to help Kanata and Hikaru.
  • Iroha cries in the waiting room of the hospital, where she is comforted by Setsuka. Setsuka tells Tsurugi and Kakeru that Iroha is her little sister, and together, they explain what happened. Iroha blames herself for running away and not helping Masaru when she had the chance. Nikei arrives at the hospital shortly afterwards, and Setsuka claims that he’s her brother. He plans to update his website with the news of Masaru’s hospitalization as soon as he gets home. Both tell Iroha that it’s not her fault and that the best thing they can do is support Masaru, help the other children, and make sure that the WOH parents get what’s coming to them.
  • Kanata finishes her emergency operation and informs everybody of the results. Masaru is currently stable, but his injuries are very serious, and she’s concerned that he might have suffered some brain damage. Mikan agrees to stay at the hospital and keep helping Kanata, even if it means she won’t be there to help move Kotoko.
  • As Kakeru takes her home, Midori decides that when Masaru’s awake, she wants to visit him. She knows what hospitals are like, and she wants him to know that he’s not alone.
  • Down at police headquarters, Tsurugi interrogates Hiroshi (he’s been given carte blanche for this by Juu). Hiroshi refuses to say anything at first, and the interrogation gets pretty nasty and involves a few broken fingers, but eventually, Hiroshi talks. He says that Hope’s Peak gives him protection/immunity for as long as Masaru is enrolled there in exchange for the chance to study Masaru’s talent. He doesn’t, however, seem to have any remorse about abusing Masaru, as he claims that Masaru had it coming for being a “troublemaker” and that it’s also Hope’s Peak’s fault for not getting back to him after the Kasugano broadcast. Also, he mentions the maid who came by his house a few days ago. Tsurugi declares that Hiroshi will be detained until his legal hearing, and he makes him sign a confession after punching him in the face a few times. Afterwards, he sends some officers to look for one Akane Taira, who he suspects to be a witness in this case.
  • The Quantum Crew finds out about Taira’s possible involvement, and Yoruko is reminded of Sora.
• July 14: Hajime sends Monaca the video file he wants shown in Towa City. He also assures her that he’ll save all her friends.
  • Sure enough, at noon, Monaca broadcasts Kasugano’s video to everyone in Towa City. In it, Kasugano takes credit for Kanade’s capture, calls out the Towa family, and issues an ultimatum to all the WOH parents: either they make a public confession of all their misdeeds by August 14, or there will be consequences.
  • Chiaki and Hajime use the distraction caused by the Kasugano broadcast to smuggle Kotoko out of Hope’s Peak in a large box (under the guise of helping Mikan move her things to Chiaki’s house). Hibiki lends a hand in the move-out process. While they’re going down the stairs, one of the steps breaks, causing Hajime, Chiaki, and the box to take a tumble that ends up revealing Kotoko’s presence to Hibiki. Thankfully, Hibiki trusts Hajime and Chiaki enough to cover for them to Juzo so that Kotoko can get back in the box. Kotoko makes it to Sonia’s car safely, and Sonia drives her to Chiaki’s house.
  • Hajime thanks Hibiki for covering for the Quantum Crew and admits that Mikan took Kotoko in after she ran away. Hibiki says she helped them because they saved her, so she was returning the favor. She’s still not okay with being touched, and she has trouble sleeping, but she’s making progress nonetheless. Also, there are hints that she’s developing a crush on Hajime.
  • The Towa City broadcast upsets Akane because she is reminded of her own little brothers and sisters. She’s going to see them over summer vacation, and she asks Nekomaru to come with her. He agrees instantly.
  • Hope’s Peak releases a statement cutting ties with at least some if not all of the WOH parents.
  • Mikan arrives at Chiaki’s and is reunited with Kotoko. She plans to do some tests on her later to make sure she’s healthy. For now, though, they go play.
  • Masaru is still in the hospital. His condition is stable, but he has yet to wake up.
  • Emma has seen the news reports of what happened to Masaru, and the images of his bruised and bloody face have so disturbed her that she considers taking over-the-counter painkillers to cope. Fortunately, a timely phone call from Maku stops her from doing so, and the two hang out over the phone for a bit. Emma’s agent, Roger Wilcox, then appears to inform Emma that she can fly back to Japan from London on July 25. Maku will be returning to Japan around the same time. This is also where we learn Maku's backstory: he had cystic fibrosis and schleroderma as a child and spent a lot of time sick in the hospital, and his parents eventually abandoned him as a result, but one day, all of his illnesses were miraculously cured.
  • With Kotoko asleep and Sonia having returned to Hope’s Peak, the Cuddle Puddle cuddles together. Hajime is worried about what might happen next, but Chiaki and Mikan have faith that they’ll make the world a better place.
• July 15: Hajime is concerned about the social unrest he’s caused as a result of his activities as Kasugano, especially since in the Tragedy timeline, Junko exploited similar unrest to start the Tragedy. He wants to make it clear that Kasugano stands for reform, not destruction.
  • Someone has left graffiti with the message “Save the Pitiful Children” on the Towa Group company building, much to Haiji’s chagrin. The someone in question is Akane Taira, who is working with a mysterious ally via a laptop. They are trying to smoke out Kasugano.
  • Hibiki likes to pass the time by hanging out with her many new Class 77-B friends. When pressed, she denies crushing on Hajime, but it’s very obvious at this point.
  • Tsurugi, Kouhei, and Kakeru are working on the Shingetsu investigation.
  • Taira (which she will be hereinafter referred to as) is eating at a resturant when she is approached by Tsurugi, who intends to interrogate her about her involvement in the Daimon case. During this interview, Taira tells her life story: her parents both died when she was a baby, she was raised in a cruel orphanage, it closed down when she was 13, and she’s used the skills she picked up from there to work as a maid ever since. She’s had 37 (soon to be 38, as she’s set to start a new job today) clients in the last 3 years. She was the maid who went to the Daimons’ house on July 9 and offered to work for them in hopes of finding a way to save Masaru, but it didn’t work. Tsurugi asks her where she was during the period between June 1 and July 9 when she was nowhere to be found, and Taira explains that she had surgery to get a neural implant that helps with her mental health problems. Her story checks out with the timeline, so Tsurugi lets her go, but he’s still a bit suspicious of her behavior.
  • It’s worth mentioning that Taira’s true goal is to find Utsuro, a man of legend who possesses Divine Luck. She and the Voids are Children of Utsuro who all received some of his Divine Luck through chance encounters with him; this saved them from their terrible environments and helped them start new lives. (In Taira’s case, Utsuro’s appearance outside her orphanage was the reason why it closed down.) Now, they all want to find him again. Taira especially wants to see him and let him know how much he means to her. Her new ally (who she’s incredibly loyal to) has promised to help her with this goal.
  • The Otonokoji parents, Maria and Sosuke, call Yoruko asking for information about Hibiki's whereabouts. After a series of misunderstandings and angry words, Yoruko comes away with the impression that the Otonokojis are leaving Japan and abandoning both of their daughters. She tells Hajime, and both stress out over how to break this awful news to Hibiki. They decide to give her some more time to heal first.
  • Taira’s new job is with none other than the Togami family. After meeting their butler, Aloysius Pennyworth, she sets to work on cleaning.
  • Yoruko still loves Sora, but feels guilty and sad about it due to the Utsuroshima shenanigans. Hajime empathizes with her, the two have a moment of shared grief over the girls they both loved and lost in the Tragedy timeline, and he advises her to keep Sora close to her heart. Secretly, Hajime thinks it’s unfair that he got Chiaki back while Yoruko lost Sora forever.
  • Emma has a PTSD episode caused by smelling cigarette smoke at her hotel. After she calms down, she calls Iroha and confides in her about it. Iroha makes Emma feel better by being her usual positive-thinking self. Roger also comes by and gives Emma a hug.
  • It’s Akane’s birthday. She turns 17.
• July 20: It’s the last day of school before summer vacation, and the students of Hope’s Peak are throwing a party to celebrate. Sonia is the organizer/hostess of the party. Class 77-B is the primary presence here, but various members of Class 77-A, Class 76, and Class 75 are also in attendance, as are Hajime, Yoruko, Chisa, and Hibiki. There’s food, drinks, music, and dancing to be had!
  • Umeko gets drunk on some sake she added to her drink. She dances and rambles about Setsuka. Yoruko does her best to keep an eye on her; she eventually has to take her to the bathroom to try and sober her up.
  • Hajime, Chiaki, Mikan, Sonia, Hibiki, Hiyoko, and Mahiru gather together in a group. Mahiru says that Honami is doing much better thanks to her therapy sessions with Miaya, then questions Hajime about his role in everything that’s been going on lately. She suspects him in part because he’s been spending so much time with Chiaki and Mikan. Hajime explains this away by revealing the Cuddle Puddle’s status as a polyamorous relationship and claiming that all the secrecy was because they wanted to keep it secret. Everyone is supportive.
  • Hajime and the girls play the King’s Game. It goes well at first, but then Hajime, Chiaki, Mikan, Sonia, and Hiyoko get temporarily drunk off the placebo effect. There’s a lot of cuddling and general flirtiness involved, plus Hajime goes on about how he’s a hero. Yoruko stops this madness by taking Hajime outside and splashing cold water in his face. This snaps him out of it, and he feels really bad and laments that he just wanted some time to relax for once. He still blames himself for the Tragedy. Yoruko insists that it isn’t his fault and tells him that he has her and all his other friends if he needs support. This comforts him.
  • As Hajime and Yoruko are about to return to the party, they are met by Kokoro, who tells them that the Steering Committee will no longer allow Hibiki to stay at Hope’s Peak. (She’s already told this to Miaya, who’s so angry that she’s now going to see Jin about it.) Hajime is very upset and resolves to find a new place for Hibiki to stay.
  • Sonia reaches her absolute limit with Kazuichi’s unwanted crush on her, tells him off in front of everyone, and makes it clear in no uncertain terms that she finds his actions creepy and will never like him. Kazuichi, sad and ashamed, leaves the party and returns to his room. Yoruko takes Sonia to the bathroom to help her calm down. Sonia feels a little guilty about her outburst, and Yoruko tells her that she was justified in what she said, but that maybe screaming at Kazuichi in public wasn’t the best way to handle it. Gundham comforts Sonia by telling her that her feelings and mistakes are part of being mortal and that she shouldn’t be ashamed of them.
  • Umeko, who’s also in the bathroom, admits that she got drunk because she’s scared of the future and misses Setsuka. Yoruko offers to talk with Hajime about getting in touch with her.
  • Hajime apologizes to everyone for his earlier antics, makes sure that no one is fake drunk anymore, then breaks the “your parents abandoned you and the school is kicking you out” news to Hibiki. Hibiki is heartbroken and cries her eyes out. Class 77-B once again rallies around her and gives her their support. Many of them offer places for her to stay, and it’s ultimately decided that she will live with Hajime in his house.
  • Nagito talks with Kazuichi about what happened with Sonia. Kazuichi feels bad about the way his actions have been affecting her, and he’s adamant that he never wanted to hurt her. He thought that showing her how much he loves and respects her was what she wanted, but now he sees that he just came off as a creep. Nagito tells him that this realization makes him better than the worst kinds of people and that, with time, he’ll have a chance to apologize. (It’s clear that Nagito’s not the same guy he was at the start of the year, which he credits mostly to Kanata’s influence.)
  • Miaya is very upset about the Steering Committee’s decision to kick Hibiki out, and she rants to Koichi about it, comparing it to their previous decisions to kick out Setsuka and (later on) Miaya’s friend Kyoji Nakamura. Koichi is sympathetic, but can’t really do anything about it. Miaya snaps that maybe Hope’s Peak should just shut down.
  • As Hajime and Hibiki are about to leave, Hiyoko stops them to ask if it’s true that Hajime, Chiaki, and Mikan are all dating each other. After Hajime confirms it’s true, Hiyoko makes a comment about “pig barf” finding love, and Hajime angrily tells her not to call Mikan that, which gets a “huh, you’re all right” reaction out of Hiyoko. Hiyoko then admits that she used to think that Hajime was a weirdo, but now she thinks that he’s a good, kind person who isn’t one of the “fake” people she hates. They officially become good friends.
  • Yoruko takes Hajime and Hibiki back to Hajime’s house. They get settled in, and Hajime does his best to help Hibiki adjust to her new environment. She feels safe and happy. She also has all of Class 77-B’s phone numbers.
  • Taira meets her new employer, Byakuya Togami, who has returned from family business/day trading in the stock market. He calls her work “adequate,” which is high praise coming from him. Later, she talks to her mysterious ally again, who tells her a) not to let Byakuya treat her like trash, and b) because it is summer, it will be safer to track “them” down while also staying on the lookout for Kasugano. Taira has also found the address to Kyoji Nakamura’s clinic, and she and her ally plan to go after him if Kasugano doesn’t make a move soon.
• July 21: Maku fights in his last boxing match of the season.
• July 25: Maku and Emma are both on their way back to Tokyo, having finished with their respective professional projects. At the London airport, Emma runs into Junko, who happens to be a casual friend of hers, and the two have a quick conversation about the situation with the WOH. Emma plans to visit Masaru at some point when she returns to Tokyo. Junko advises Emma to leave her pills in London to avoid getting in trouble at home. They part ways, and Emma has a sweet moment with Roger before she boards her 14-hour flight.
  • Yoruko is considering the possibility of getting Syobai Hashimoto to help the Quantum Crew.
  • Nagito buys Kanata some food; his luck helps him get through the crowd of reporters surrounding the hospital. They eat lunch together. Nagito is sure that the WOH are going to be fine, especially with people like Tsurugi and Kakeru still working on the case. Kanata likes his positive outlook.
  • Masaru wakes up from his coma, and Kanata and Hikaru are immediately by his side to help him. Kanata performs a test confirming that his spatial awareness, speech, memory, and movement are intact. Midori, who is also in the hospital again because she has a cold, comes to visit Masaru, and the two children soon become friends.
• July 26: Maku and Emma arrive back in Tokyo and meet at the airport. He drives her home on his new motorcycle, and the four Voids finally reunite. Maku and Emma meet Jataro. Nikei tells his friends that he’s recently gotten news from Setsuka about a possible lead on Nagisa’s location, but he doesn’t want to tell Kasugano yet because he sees this as a chance to get some answers about their shady-seeming employer (who he still doesn’t trust). Iroha suggests that they simply ask Kasugano to talk to them in person, and after some heated deliberation, the Voids decide to follow this plan.
  • Nikei tells Hajime that he and the Voids have information about Nagisa’s location thanks to Setsuka, but they first need to see Kasugano in person in order to know whether or not they can trust him. Hajime agrees to meet them at their base and tell them everything. The meeting is set for midnight.
  • The Quantum Crew decides that Hajime, Chiaki, Sonia, Yoruko, and Umeko will attend the meeting with the Voids. Umeko will bring along her new watch-sized tachyon detector. She is very eager to see Setsuka again.
  • Hibiki overhears Hajime talking with the others about the meeting. Hajime tries to explain as best he can without revealing anything critical, but Hibiki says that she trusts him and thinks that he’s a hero.
• July 27: Hajime, Chiaki, Sonia, Yoruko, and Umeko meet Nikei, Iroha, Maku, and Emma at the Voids’ warehouse home, while Setsuka waits in another room in case something goes wrong. Hajime reveals himself as Kasugano, flirts with the girls a little as part of his persona, explains his goal of changing the world for the better, and tells them the truth about his time travel. The Voids have trouble believing him at first, but Umeko and Yoruko convince them using a scientific explanation as well as information about the Voids’ goal of finding Utsuro (which they never told anyone but each other). The Quantum Crew warns the Voids about Mikado Sannoji and what he will do to them if the future plays out as it once did.
  • Setsuka joins the meeting at the request of Hajime, and she and Umeko have a very happy reunion. This is the first time that they’ve seen each other since Setsuka’s expulsion. They agree to meet at Hope’s Peak after the meeting. The Voids and Setsuka are told about the Tragedy. Nikei suggests that they just kill Junko and Mikado right away, but Hajime makes it clear that the Quantum Crew has a no-killing policy. With the world on the line, the Voids and Setsuka agree to become official members of the Quantum Crew.
  • Umeko and Setsuka meet in the Physics Building at 1:30 AM. Umeko wants to know why Setsuka left after her expulsion, and Setsuka admits that she did it because she thought it would be better for Umeko if she wasn’t dating a cheater. She apologizes for it, they comfort each other, and this leads to them having sex. They’re officially back together now.
  • Nikei emails Hajime the details about Setsuka’s lead on Shikamaru and Mai Shingetsu. To sum up, she saw Shikamaru in Aoyama, which means that Nagisa is most likely there as well.
  • Thanks to the microchip, Kokoro has figured out that her daughter lives in the town of Oishi, just off the shore of Lake Kawaguchi. She asks Yoruko if the Quantum Crew can go out there and find her.
  • The Quantum Crew discusses the two pieces of information mentioned above and decides to send out two teams. The first team (composed of Yoruko, Chiaki, Emma, and Maku) will go to Oishi to find Kokoro’s daughter. The second team (featuring Setsuka, Gundham, Nikei, and Umeko) will go to Aoyama to find Nagisa. Hajime, Sonia, Iroha, and Mikan will all stay at home.
  • The Voids and Setsuka receive their code names. Setsuka is Moon, Maku is Strength, Emma is Priestess, Iroha is Hermit, and Nikei is Justice.
  • Kotoko and Jataro reunite over Skype, courtesy of Mikan and Iroha.
  • Yoruko, Chiaki, Emma, and Maku embark on a 2-hour drive to Oishi. When they get there, they start looking for Kokoro’s daughter. Chiaki finds a drone that turns out to be piloted by Yamato Kisaragi, who communicates with her through it. Yamato’s adoptive sister is Mikako Kurokawa, Kokoro’s long-lost daughter. Chiaki explains that she and her friends are looking for Mikako and her family, and the group goes to the Kisaragi household so that they can explain things. They have dinner with Yamato, Mikako, and their father Hanzo Kisaragi, and during this, Yoruko says that they’ve been sent by Kokoro. Mikako becomes angry at the mention of her mother, as she still remembers the abuse she went through. At the news that Kokoro wants to see her and apologize to her, Mikako isn’t interested at first. Yoruko, Chiaki, Emma, and Maku tell her that she doesn’t have to forgive Kokoro or even see her if she doesn’t want to, but that it might be better for the mother and daughter to at least talk and move on, rather than stewing in anger and guilt forever. They make it clear that it’s completely Mikako’s decision. Mikako asks for a bit more time to think about it, and the Quantum Crew agrees before heading to a hostel for the night. Yamato tells Mikako that he’ll have her back no matter her choice, as does Hanzo.
  • Setsuka, Gundham, Nikei, and Umeko head off to Aoyama. Umeko complains that her tachyon detector is acting up; it says it’s picking up a tachyon trace, but it’s far too weak to be from someone, plus it isn’t following a path that a person could conceivably follow. The group finds the place where the Shingetsus were sighted, and Nikei asks various citizens if they’ve seen them, to no avail. Left with no other option, the group performs a stakeout in hopes that the Shingetsus will return. The stakeout lasts well into the evening before Gundham’s bird friends spot a gray-cloaked figure assumed to be Shikamaru. The team chases the figure down, only for it to turn out to be nothing more than a cloak on a pole. They’ve fallen into a trap set by Taira, who comes out and demands to know who Kasugano is. She claims that she also wants to help the kids, but that they’re too late on the Shingetsus, who have already left Aoyama. Furthermore, it turns out that she also knows the future, most likely due to her mysterious ally. She gives the group an ultimatum: either they tell her who Kasugano is, in which case she’ll tell him what she knows about the Shingetsus, or she’ll expose all four of them to the public. Nikei tries to grab her, but she pulls some ninja moves out of nowhere and sends him crashing into a wall. She then somehow plunges the entire area into darkness, and when the lights return, she’s gone. All that’s left of her is a note with her number on it.
  • While Hajime and Hibiki are indulging in a movie marathon together, he gets a call from Setsuka’s group explaining the situation with Taira, and the Quantum Crew has an emergency Skype meeting to figure out what to do about it. Umeko figures out that the tiny tachyon trace she picked up earlier was not an accident, but rather an unshackled AI time traveler that lives in Taira’s neural implant and can jump into any piece of technology it wants. There’s some deliberation about who this AI could be and what its motivation is (Yoruko hopes it’s Sora, and Nikei doesn’t trust it or Taira at all), but in the end, the Quantum Crew decides to meet with Taira once everyone has returned from their respective missions.
  • Hibiki wants to get used to touching people again, so she asks Hajime to hold her hand. He does so. She breaks down and embraces him while crying. He comforts and encourages her in her progress.
• July 28: Come morning, Mikako has made the decision to go and see her mother, if only because she feels like she’ll regret it if she doesn’t. She departs with Yoruko, Chiaki, Emma, and Maku. Yoruko calls Kokoro to let her know that Mikako’s on her way, and Kokoro does her best to prepare herself.
  • Mikako arrives at Hope’s Peak 2 hours later and meets Kokoro in the lobby. The meeting is awkward at first. Kokoro asks Mikako about her birth father, Sojiro, who left with her, and Mikako reveals that he died carrying her through the mountains. Kokoro apologizes for everything she put Mikako through, but Mikako doesn’t accept the apology because she doesn’t think that a simple “sorry” is enough. Kokoro explains that she has Alexithymia, a condition that makes it hard for her to fully identify or express her emotions, which is why she became a psychologist...and what eventually led to that horrible experiment happening in the first place. She then accidentally mentions the microchip she put in Mikako’s brain (which Mikako didn’t know about), which only makes Mikako angrier. In order to try and make things up to her daughter, Kokoro agrees to set up an appointment with Hikaru in order to get the microchip out of Mikako’s brain. When the conversation ends, Mikako’s still not at a point where she can forgive her mother, but she can tell that there’s regret there, so she’s open to talking with her again later.
  • The Quantum Crew decides to meet with Taira in an abandoned warehouse with no WiFi or landlines. Yoruko will pretend to be Kasugano at first, but if they get confirmation that Taira is on their side, Hajime will come out and explain everything. With that settled, Hajime contacts Taira via payphone, and they set up the meeting for 9 PM that night.
  • Mikan performs some blood tests on Kotoko to see if she’s healthy.
  • Yoruko and Sonia meet Taira in the warehouse (their teammates are all either guarding the exits or waiting in other rooms). Yoruko, under the guise of Kasugano, admits that she wants to change history. Taira also wants to change history, but she soon figures out that Yoruko is not really Kasugano when Yoruko blames the Tragedy all on Junko; in actuality, Junko had lots of help from various people and groups. She also says that Nagisa is being treated for exhaustion by one of the scientists who worked on the Kamukura Project (which she wants to stop). When Yoruko asks for the identity of Taira’s AI ally, Taira runs for the door. She manages to get past Maku and Sonia with her ninja moves, but is finally stopped in her tracks when Nikei holds his gun to her head. Hajime ends all the chaos by coming out and revealing himself as a time traveler and the true Kasugano. Taira tearfully demands why he had to bring Yoruko into this, only for Yoruko to reveal that she’s a time traveler as well. This instantly cheers Taira up; she reports that her AI friend is really happy and wants to talk to Yoruko. She brings out a laptop she brought with her, and the AI time traveler is unveiled: Sora.
  • Sora and Yoruko have an emotional but extremely happy reunion, and afterwards, Sora does her best to explain how she came back to 2012. She remembers being trapped in the simulation as it crashed, then waking up in Taira’s phone. She has video files in which she was given information about the Tragedy and everyone involved in it, but she doesn’t remember getting those files. She’s confused about how she’s alive. On the bright side, she can now go into any piece of tech that can hold her. This includes Taira’s neural implant, which not only lets Sora and Taira essentially share a body whenever Sora is in the implant, but also allows Sora to upload information (such as martial arts moves) directly into Taira’s brain.
  • Taira and Sora tell the Quantum Crew that the scientist taking care of Nagisa is Kyoji Nakamura, who runs a clinic in Kodaria. Kyoji also happens to have been involved in the Kamukura Project; he personally screened test subjects based on their medical history, and he’s the reason why Hajime was selected to become Izuru in the first place. Hajime was 8th on the list; the previous 7 test subjects died as a result of the experimentation they went through. Hajime is furious and wants to go in right away, but Chiaki reminds him that they need a plan first. They’ll check out the clinic tomorrow. Taira and Sora also warn the group that Juu is working for Junko.
  • Now that trust has been established, Taira and Sora officially join the Quantum Crew. Sora asks to talk privately with Yoruko, and the rest of the crew agrees to let them have their space.
  • Yoruko takes Sora to her house. There, they chat about life for a bit, and after Yoruko breaks down and cries about how she doesn’t deserve this because of all the things she did wrong in the Tragedy timeline, Sora consoles her and confesses her love for her. Yoruko is hesitant to accept her confession because of the age difference shenanigans, but Sora reasons that her AI age is actually about 20 or 21, so it’s fine. Yoruko confesses her own feelings for Sora and promises her that as soon as they find a nice calm spot in the madness of their lives, they can be a couple. They share a kiss through the computer screen.
  • Zen Katagiri (aka Seishi Yodogawa) is born.
• July 29: When Hajime gets home early in the morning, he finds that Hibiki (who’s already asleep) has made him some cookies as a gesture of affection.
  • Mikan contacts the rest of the Cuddle Puddle with some terrible news: Kotoko is HIV positive. She needs a prescription for medication in order to deal with it. Mikan and Chiaki comfort Kotoko and promise her that they’ll help her live a healthy life.
  • Kokoro comes across Mikako praying in the Hope’s Peak garden. They discuss their differing religious beliefs (Kokoro’s an atheist, while Mikako is a Christian-Shintoist). Mikako asks Kokoro if she ever turned to drugs or alcohol after what happened, and when Kokoro says no, Mikako’s relieved. Also, Kokoro has set up Mikako’s surgery with Hikaru for sometime in early August.
  • Taira is traveling on the Tokyo metro to get some breakfast (with Sora tagging along) when she encounters Ayame Hatano sitting in the same train car as her. She’s very happy to see her future classmate/crush. With encouragement from Sora, Taira introduces herself to Ayame, and the two girls have an adorable meet-cute conversation that lasts the whole train ride. They exchange numbers before Taira gets off the train. As Taira squees to Sora about meeting Ayame, Sora remarks that time travelers tend to have polyamorous relationships, but since Sora is content with Yoruko, she’s giving her harem privileges to Taira. This makes Taira even more excited.
  • Sora pops by Yoruko’s to wish her a good morning, and they tell each other that they meant what they said last night. They are interrupted by a call from Hajime; he informs them about Kotoko’s HIV and says that the Quantum Crew is going to have a meeting to discuss what to do about it (as well as how to save Nagisa).
  • Right as Hajime is about to leave for the meeting, he is intercepted by Hibiki, who wants to know the truth about what he’s doing. Hajime tells her that they’re going to save Nagisa from the clinic. She hugs him and wishes him luck.
  • The Quantum Crew discusses the current situation. Umeko suggests that they take Kotoko to Kyoji’s clinic so that he can get her the medications he needs, and then while they’re there, they can look for Nagisa. Hajime doesn’t like the idea because he doesn’t trust Kyoji due to his role in the Kamukura Project. Umeko, on the other hand, used to be Kyoji’s classmate, and she remembers him as a good, trustworthy person. They argue over this, but Sonia stops the argument and cautions Hajime and Umeko not to make emotionally-charged decisions. The group decides to go with Umeko’s plan, but Hajime realizes that he can’t go with them because he can’t be emotionally objective about a guy who participated in his transformation into Izuru. Umeko calls Kyoji and sets up the appointment.
  • Kotoko agrees to go to the clinic in order to save her friend Nagisa. Emma creates a disguise for her, while Sora creates her fake identity. Kotoko is now “Kurumi Tsumiki,” Mikan’s little sister.
  • Jataro feels guilty about not being able to help Kotoko and Nagisa, but Iroha tells him it’s not his fault and that he shouldn’t hate himself. They’re doing their best to support each other and help each other feel loved.
  • Hajime hasn’t heard from Monaca in a while. He sends her a message to see if she’s okay.
  • The Quantum Crew goes to Kyoji Nakamura’s free clinic in Kodaira. After Kyoji is done helping Ayame with her hurt leg, Umeko takes the Tsumiki “sisters” in to see him. Kyoji prescribes Kotoko some medication to help her deal with HIV. He questions Mikan about how her “sister” was infected, and Mikan makes up a story about how they were both sexually abused by their mother’s boyfriends. Meanwhile, Sora opens the back door, allowing Nikei to sneak inside. They figure out that Nagisa is in Ward 02, but he’s unconscious, clearly not well, and surrounded by extra security. The group decides to fall back and return at nighttime, after the clinic has closed.
  • Hajime has been watching movies with Hibiki all afternoon. Hibiki takes the opportunity to finally confess her feelings to Hajime. Hajime accepts her confession; while he knows that this will not cure the pain Hibiki feels, he does want to make her happy. They kiss, and Hibiki becomes a member of the Cuddle Puddle.
  • Hajime still hasn’t told Chiaki about her death yet. Sora isn’t entirely sure they can save her, as her death had such a huge impact on the timeline, and trying to stop it might cause a huge Ankle Effect backlash.
  • Mikan confides to Kotoko that the cover story she made up at Kyoji’s clinic was based on true events. Her abusive mother would let her boyfriends/customers do whatever they wanted to her, and she was tormented both at school and at home. When she landed in the hospital after a suicide attempt, it was the first place she felt safe, and that’s when she decided to become a nurse. This is part of the reason why she’s done so much to help Kotoko. Emma walks into the conversation and shares her own backstory: her father was a cruel chainsmoker who made her earn money for him and burned her with cigarettes whenever she got on his bad side. She still suffers from chronic pain to this day. The three girls support and uplift each other.
  • At night, the Quantum Crew returns to Kyoji’s clinic. Chiaki, Nikei, and Setsuka go in to retrieve Nagisa, only to find that he’s not in the same room that he was in earlier. They are then found by Kyoji. It turns out that Nagisa’s in no condition to be moved right now; he’s here because he was overworked to the point where it was basically psychological torture, so Kyoji’s treating him at the Shingetsus’ request. Their one condition was that he keep quiet about it, but now that the Quantum Crew has found out, Kyoji lets them go so that they can get the Shingetsus arrested. Interestingly, Kyoji does not seem to know anything about the Kamukura Project. The crew goes with it, although several of them remain suspicious of Kyoji.
  • Hibiki’s in the shower when she sees a terrifying hallucination of Kanade in the mirror. The imaginary Kanade blames Hibiki for all the murders she committed, saying that Hibiki’s treatment of her is what drove her down that path. She also gloats that she will break out of prison and kill everyone Hibiki loves. Hibiki smashes the mirror and comes dangerously close to committing suicide with one of the glass shards. Thankfully, Hajime is able to break the door down in time, and he stops her. When Hibiki asks why he saved her in the first place, he tells her that a) he’s a time traveler, and b) that her life is very important to him and everyone else, so they’re all here for her. The new couple falls asleep holding hands.
• July 30: Hajime wakes up to find that Hibiki has made breakfast for them. As they eat, she wants to know if he really is a time traveler, and he responds that he is. He knew about Kanade because of what happened in the future, and he considers everything he did to save Hibiki worth it.
  • Sora confronts Iroha about her behavior in the Tragedy timeline, but while doing so, she ends up letting out all her anger to the point where even she admits she went too far. Iroha acknowledges that her future self’s actions were very much not okay, and she’s determined to become a better person for her friends and for Jataro. Sora gives her some good advice on how to do that.
  • The Cuddle Puddle meets to discuss the previous night. After some fluff and kissing happens, they recommend that Hibiki see Yoruko so she can get some therapy for her issues. Hibiki is also told about Yoruko’s time traveler status.
  • Emma and Jataro go see Masaru in the hospital. The two little boys reunite, Midori is predictably starstruck by Emma, and Masaru lets Midori join the Warriors of Hope as the Thief. Emma tells Masaru that she’s been through some of the same things he went through, and she wants to support him and let him know that he isn’t alone.
  • While Kokoro is talking to Hikaru about Mikako’s upcoming surgery, a man in a suit arrives at the hospital. He wants to take Masaru and transfer him somewhere else, and he threatens to sue Hikaru for malpractice if he refuses. Kokoro uses her reading-people ability to call the man out on his lies and expose him as a con artist sent by Towa Group. Thus exposed, the man leaves. Emma, who witnessed the whole scene, reports it to the rest of the Quantum Crew and then decides to stay with Masaru for as long as she can.
  • Nagito and Kanata spend more time together. Their friendship has progressed to the point where they feel comfortable calling each other by their first names; indeed, he considers her the first real friend he’s ever had, although he hopes he can prove to his classmates that he’s not the same guy he was before. The two hold hands. Hikaru interrupts them with the news about the strange suited man and warns Kanata to be careful.
  • Mikako talks to Yoruko about what it means to forgive someone, as she still hasn’t decided if she’ll forgive Kokoro. Yoruko believes that forgiveness isn’t an obligation, but an option to heal and move forward.
  • Junya pays a visit to Hope’s Peak, and Yoruko, Chisa, Juzo, and Koichi have the unpleasant task of dealing with him. He suspects Mikan of convincing Kotoko to run away, and he claims that she must’ve had malevolent purposes in doing so, citing the way she dresses. No one is willing to put up with this blatant slut-shaming, so they tell him off and send him away. He nefariously threatens them before leaving. The staff remains on high alert in case he tries anything.
  • The Cuddle Puddle and Kotoko, worried about Junya, decide to stay together for the night. An impromptu sleepover happens, and they all have fun.
  • The non-Cuddle Puddle members of the Quantum Crew meet to discuss the incidents with Junya at Hope’s Peak and the suited man at the hospital. They’re nervous about the fact that Junya and Towa Group seem to know exactly who to target, and they suspect that this might be part of a plan. As a result, they decide to stay in groups and keep their guard up until it’s safe. Cue another sleepover. Setsuka remembers that she has evidence of Junya’s connections to a port in Hamakatsura, and she comes to the horrifying realization that the Quantum Crew are dealing with human traffickers. The Quantum Crew vows to keep the children safe, no matter what.
  • Nagito and Kanata are walking to the bus stop together when they are attacked by men who try to kidnap Kanata. Nagito saves her with his luck, and in the process, he’s stabbed in the back. Both of them will be okay, but they’ll have to stay at the hospital for a while.
  • Sayaka and her bandmates, along with help from their allies, manage to save Daiya Oowada from dying in a car crash. However, he’s left paralyzed as a result.
• July 31: After they hear about what happened to Kanata and Nagito, the Quantum Crew immediately sets about warning all of their friends. Sora and Yoruko start looking into finding Syobai, Setsuka plans to investigate some docks in Chiba, Sonia wants to get in touch with Kyoji, Emma and Mikan camp out at the hospital to protect Masaru and Co, and Hajime considers moving Kotoko somewhere farther away from the school. Hibiki declares that she will help in any way she can.
  • Mahiru has been doing her own investigation ever since the practical exams, and based on the evidence she’s collected, she thinks that Kasugano is either Chiaki, Mikan, Umeko, Sonia, Gundham, or Hajime. She tells this to Honami and Hiyoko, and the three of them decide to help her. Their first stop is the hospital to visit Nagito, who gives Mahiru his account of the previous night’s events. He also mentions that Hajime, Chiaki, and Mikan were the ones responsible for getting him treatment for his lymphoma. Next, the girls stop by the school. Yasuke tells them that Kasugano is most likely a student in the Reserve Course, Chisa tells them about Junya’s visit to the school, and Mikako tells them that Hajime and Chiaki were involved in bringing her to school to see her mother. From all this, Hajime becomes Mahiru’s biggest suspect.
  • Kanata and Nagito comfort each other, and Kanata thanks Nagito for saving her. He, in turn, thanks her for being such a big factor in his life recently. She kisses him on the cheek.
  • Kazuichi has reevaluated his behavior and realized that he was a bit of a creep to Sonia. He’s working on changing himself for the better. Also, he’s made two new friends: one is Mikako, and the other is an online friend called Fujibear314, or Fuji for short.
  • Mahiru, Hiyoko, and Honami intend to go talk to Hajime and Chiaki. On the way, they run into Natsumi, who is going to see Miaya, and she advises them not to get themselves in trouble. When they get to Hajime’s house, they find that no one’s home, and Mahiru briefly panics before Honami and Hiyoko comfort her. Mahiru calls Hajime (using Honami’s phone, since hers broke earlier). He says that he and Hibiki are at Chiaki’s house and that now’s not a good time to come over. The signal fails before she can ask anything else.
  • The Quantum Crew are all hanging out at Chiaki’s. Hibiki is brought up to speed on the Tragedy timeline, and she officially joins the Quantum Crew. She is given a new outfit and hairstyle so that she can go out without being recognized. Also, there’s some Cuddle Puddle fluff.
  • Sora, Taira, and Hibiki receive their code names. Sora is Fortune, Taira is Devil, and Hibiki is Death.
  • Hajime’s figured out that Iroha has a crush on him. He’s not sure if it’ll work, since she’s quite a bit younger than him, but he thinks it should at least be discussed, so he texts Iroha saying that he wants to talk about it. Iroha predictably fangirls. The other Voids are concerned about this, but they’ll support her if she’s sure it’s what she wants and if she stays safe about it.
  • Setsuka goes off to investigate her lead at the docks (she’s promised Umeko that she’ll return safely).
  • Mahiru, Hiyoko, and Honami return to Mahiru’s house to go over what they’ve learned. Come evening, they’re still putting pieces together, and they can’t figure out why Hajime would do all of the things he’s done, nor do they know what they’ll do if he really is Kasugano. Mahiru and Honami take a break to make dinner, during which Honami comes close to confessing her love for Mahiru, but she is interrupted by the arrival of some men who claim that they are police officers looking for information about the girls’ investigation. These men turn out to not be police officers at all, but kidnappers, and they force Mahiru, Hiyoko, and Honami into their car. The girls attempt to escape during the drive, but only Honami succeeds. Alone, injured, and with a broken phone, Honami has no choice but to limp all the way to Chiaki’s house in order to get help for her friends.

August

• August 1: Honami makes it to Chiaki’s house, tells the Cuddle Puddle about what happened to Mahiru and Hiyoko, and promptly collapses in exhaustion. The panicked Cuddle Puddle informs the rest of the Quantum Crew, and everyone tries their best to find the missing girls. They come up empty.
  • Yoruko finds a package outside Hope’s Peak with a USB inside it. On the USB is a video from the kidnappers; they tell Kasugano that they’ll only release Mahiru and Hiyoko if he reveals his identity, admits that he’s a fraud who framed the WOH parents, and returns Kotoko and Jataro to their families. If he does not do these things by August 14, Mahiru and Hiyoko will die. Hajime lets it be known to the rest of the Quantum Crew that they will not give in to these demands and will instead call in both Syobai and the Kuzuryu Clan to help them save the girls.
  • Sonia and Taira will teach combat techniques to the rest of the crew. Hibiki, specifically, wants to learn how to fight with a sword.
  • Mahiru and Hiyoko are being held captive in a barely-lit room in an undisclosed location. One of the kidnappers gives them food and water and assures them that they’ll be released once the situation with Kasugano is over (and that their families are okay). It turns out that the main ringleaders behind this are Junya and Haiji, who seem to be planning a human trafficking auction. Kyoji is also working with them. However, all messages telling the Quantum Crew the kidnappers’ identities are being blocked by an unknown force.
  • Today’s the day of Mikako’s surgery. Kokoro takes her to the hospital at 10:30 AM, and they meet Kanata, Nagito, and Hikaru. Mikako briefly wonders if she’s met Kanata before. The mother and daughter then share a moment, with Kokoro promising Mikako that she will stay with her until her surgery’s over.
  • Nagito and Kanata confess their romantic feelings for one another, kiss several times, and become a couple.
  • Honami wakes up in a guest room at Chiaki’s house, with Mikan treating her injuries. When she asks, Hajime admits that he is Kasugano, and he asks her for information about the kidnappers, but she doesn’t really remember what they looked like.
  • Hajime and Chiaki try to call Fuyuhiko, but he’s not answering his phone, so they call Peko instead and beg her to tell Fuyuhiko that they need to meet with him (and her) as soon as possible. She says she’ll pass their message to him as soon as he gets home.
  • There still hasn’t been any word from Monaca.
  • In the evening, Hibiki gets her first lesson on swordsmanship from Sonia. She’s slowly but surely learning the proper techniques.
  • While hanging out with Sora and showing off how she looks with her hair down, Taira has a PTSD episode as a result of a message mentioning old men. Nikei finds her panicking and calms her down somewhat by assuring her that they’re in a safe place and that everyone in the Quantum Crew will be there for her. Taira thanks him and goes to be alone for a while.
  • Mahiru is already planning to find a way to save herself and Hiyoko.
  • Fuyuhiko finally answers his phone, and the Quantum Crew informs him of the situation. He, Peko, and Natsumi hightail it to the Void Warehouse, where Hajime introduces them to the rest of the Quantum Crew and then straight-up admits that he’s Kasugano. One explanation later (although Hajime leaves out the time travel part for now), the Quantum Crew officially has the Kuzuryu Clan on their side. The group’s new plan is to find out where the kidnappers are hiding Mahiru and Hiyoko and then put together a strike force to attack the kidnappers and save the girls.
• August 4: It’s Kakeru’s birthday. He turns 16.
• August 5: The Quantum Crew and their allies have spent the past few days preparing themselves for the battle ahead. Natsumi and Sonia are sparring partners, Peko is teaching Hibiki swordfighting, and the whole thing’s practically a training montage.
  • Iroha and Hajime tell each other their backstories. The subject of Iroha’s crush comes up, and Hajime says that he likes getting to know her. He thinks she’s sweet and cute and deserves to be happy. He’s willing to talk about it some more later to see if they can make it work, but even if they can’t, he still wants her to be happy after everything she’s been through. Chiaki pops in, comments that she thinks Iroha’s attempts at flirting are cute, and then tells Hajime that the Kuzuryu Clan got some pictures of Junya meeting with someone (possibly his contact) at Hamakanaya Station.
  • Yoruko, ever the voice of reason, pulls Hajime and Chiaki aside to ask them why they’re entertaining a relationship with 15-year-old Iroha. She thinks that this is symptomatic of a bigger problem: namely, that Hajime and Chiaki subconsciously see the Cuddle Puddle as a shelter from everyone’s problems, and that Hajime himself seems to be developing a savior complex. Both Hajime and Chiaki feel ashamed of themselves and want to do better for their friends and partners.
  • Sora’s found Syobai’s location, which is at a black market in Yokohama. She and Yoruko make plans to send a group there.
  • Hajime admits to Chiaki that there’s something he hasn’t told her about her future. The Cuddle Puddle assembles at Chiaki’s house so they can all hear about it together, and Hajime finally tells the truth about Chiaki’s death. In the process, he breaks down crying for the first time in months. Chiaki also ends up crying, wondering why she’s the lynchpin that holds everything together when she doesn’t consider her life to be worth much of anything, but the others lift her spirits up by reminding her of all the good she’s done for them and everyone else. The Cuddle Puddle’s members take the time to have a proper conversation with each other about everything that’s been bothering them as of late, and in this way, the Cuddle Puddle itself becomes less of a shelter and more of a mutual support system. Also, Sonia joins the Cuddle Puddle. She’s also dating Gundham.
  • Over at the kidnappers’ base, Kyoji checks on Mahiru and Hiyoko. He tells them that there’s more going on in this situation that they’re aware of and that things have to happen this way. In a surprising move, he tells them his name, shows them his face, and asks them to remember him and tell the police and/or Kasugano about his involvement. Afterwards, he goes to Haiji and shows him a tube filled with medical fluid, where he’s placed an unconscious Monaca so that her allegedly-damaged legs will heal. She’ll supposedly be better in a few days, just in time for “the exchange.” Haiji is happy about this because he wants Monaca gone as soon as possible. But unbeknownst to him, Monaca is faking her unconsciousness; she’s been instructed not to move unless it’s just Kyoji in the room. It seems as if the two of them are in cahoots for some reason.
• August 6: Sora makes an appointment for the group to meet with Syobai Hashimoto. Chiaki has collected 20 million yen to pay him: some of it is from her allowance, some is from games she sold, and some is taken from her rich parents (she rationalizes that it’s like pocket change to them so they won’t notice). They’ll go to the black market in the evening. Setsuka is also still investigating the docks, with Sora’s help.
  • Hajime turns Iroha down and apologizes to her for his earlier behavior. She’s heartbroken, but she knows that it’s for the best, so she says that she’ll still be his friend and help him if he needs it. For now, she wants to focus on being a good big sister figure for Jataro. Hajime mentions some of the Class 78 boys as potential future matches for her.
  • Hibiki makes dinner for everyone.
  • Taira and Ayame spend the day together. Taira gives Ayame a massage and compliments her legs, a flustered Ayame tells Taira that she thinks she's pretty, and the pair of them do their best to get to know each other.
  • Evening arrives, and Yoruko, Chiaki, Fuyuhiko, and Peko head for the black market to see Syobai. At first, he refuses to do business with minors, but Yoruko convinces him to talk with them. The group brings out a laptop, which Hajime-as-Kasugano uses to directly ask Syobai for his help in finding the kidnappers. They strike a deal: Syobai will help the Quantum Crew for (at most) 2 years, and in return, he’ll get 100,000 yen now, 20 million yen after they save the girls, and 150 million yen by the time all is said and done. Yoruko gives Syobai the details about the kidnapping, and he gets to work on finding the girls.
  • Kokoro tells Mikako about her relationship with Sojiro, her husband and Mikako’s father. She admits that although she married him for the sake of the project, she did care about him. Mikako’s glad she came to see Kokoro, and although she still doesn’t know if she can forgive her, she doesn’t hate her. Kokoro’s guilt at what she did to her family drives her to tears. She and Mikako share a hug.
  • Gundham’s pet snake escapes from its enclosure while Kazuichi is babysitting it. Gundham and Kazuichi team up to try and find it. They do find it eventually, but Kazuichi gets bitten in the process.
  • Back at home, Hajime has a moment of self-doubt as he wonders if the Quantum Crew is making the right choices. Sonia tells him that one of the great burdens of being a leader is that decisions might no longer be viewed as simply right or wrong, but instead measured according to their impact. She says that for Hajime to question his methods is understandable, but that he should not doubt his goal.
  • Hibiki confesses to the Cuddle Puddle that she is still having nightmares of Kanade. She breaks down crying, but her partners are there to comfort her. Once she’s feeling a little better, Hajime asks her out on a date for tomorrow, and Hibiki accepts.
  • Sora and Yoruko (who are a couple now) have a date at home, and Yoruko dresses in her old hostess outfit for the first time in years. Also, Yoruko wants to reconnect with Minako Tomori, her old senpai.
  • Setsuka, Fuyuhiko, and Peko do a stakeout at a train station in Chiba, hoping to find Junya departing the late-night train. Instead, they find his wife, Yumi Utsugi. Setsuka uses her Devil’s Eye to record a conversation between Yumi and two unknown men, during which Yumi gives the men money and a picture of Kotoko.
• August 7: The Quantum Crew plays back Setsuka’s recording on Nikei’s laptop. No one’s entirely sure what Yumi’s up to, but they have a clear shot of the license plate, so they send it to Syobai.
  • Kotoko, who has figured out that the Quantum Crew is affiliated with Kasugano, decides to tell them about her experiences so that they might use the information to stop her parents and save the kidnapped girls. She tells her story, although it’s hard for her (and it’s hard for the listeners as well, most notably Mikan and Nikei), and she says that she can identify everyone who was involved. When shown Setsuka’s recording, she recognizes her mother but not the two men she was with. She mentions there was another girl named Romi who was going through similar things (Romi has a bird tattoo on her hand and is suspected to have been kidnapped as well), and she tells the group the name of the producer they both met (Adachi Sawagoe). Afterwards, Mikan comforts Kotoko and promises her that she’ll always be there to support her. She’s going to try and adopt her once all this is over.
  • Hajime and Hibiki go out on a date; they explore the town and have lunch together, and he tells her funny stories about his adventures with his friends. At one point, they’re interrupted by a muscular Melody Rhythm fanboy who recognizes Hibiki and tries to put the moves on her, even going so far as to bring up Kanade. Hibiki tells him off and slaps him in the face. Afterwards, she’s upset, but Hajime cheers her up, and they finish their date back at Chiaki’s house.
  • Syobai finds out that the license plate belongs to a cop. Also, Adachi Sawagoe has been talking with Junya, and a dozen or so girls between the ages of 12 and 24 have disappeared within the last few weeks. Hajime asks Syobai to investigate the docks and track some IP addresses related to Junya.
  • The Cuddle Puddle is playing Half-Life 2 when they hear a knock on the door...which turns out to be courtesy of the police. They’re here with Yumi because Kotoko was spotted through Chiaki’s window earlier today. Chiaki tries to hold off the cops while everyone else sneaks out the back door, but she is almost arrested, causing Kotoko to run outside and reveal herself. Kotoko tells the police that she ran away from home and lied about her parents to the Cuddle Puddle so that they’d help her. Yumi takes Kotoko away, but not before slapping Mikan in the face. Sora immediately sets to tracking the car with Kotoko in it, and through this, she ends up finding Junya, his car/license plate, and his hideout. Hajime realizes that Kotoko gave herself up so that the Quantum Crew could find Junya and save everyone.
  • It’s revealed that the one responsible for blocking all the messages about the kidnappers’ identities is Umeko. She did this because Kyoji gave her a letter during the Quantum Crew’s mission to his clinic; in this letter, he asked her to keep Kasugano off his trail, and he promised that if he is successful in his (unknown) plan, no one will get hurt and justice will be served. She’s not supposed to show this letter unless something major happens, but Kotoko being taken by Yumi certainly qualifies. Lots of people are mad at Umeko for this, and there’s an argument, but Umeko ultimately apologizes and promises never to keep anything from her teammates again. With that settled, the Quantum Crew prepares for the upcoming raid on the kidnappers’ base.
• August 8: Sora has pinpointed a warehouse at the docks where all the kidnapped girls are almost certainly being held. Hajime resolves that tonight will be the night of the Quantum Crew’s rescue raid.
  • The Quantum Crew spends most of the day making last-minute preparations for the raid (although Hajime and Umeko also spend time trying to puzzle out Kyoji’s motivations). The group collects various (non-lethal) weapons, makes disguises, practices their fighting techniques, and so on. Fuyuhiko, Peko, and Natsumi are bringing 16 Yakuza members to help with the fight, and even Syobai is coming along.
  • Since the kidnappers’ base is a two-story building with four exits, the Quantum Crew will divide itself into four teams, called Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. The Alpha, Beta, and Gamma teams will cover three of the exits, with Alpha and Beta attacking first. With the guards distracted, the Delta team will go in, find the girls, and get them all out through the safest route. The Gamma team will be on standby and come in from the rear position once the Delta team is inside. Of course, no lethal force is allowed.
  • The teams are made. The Alpha team is Sonia, Chiaki, Fuyuhiko, Peko, Taira, Setsuka, and 5 Yakuzas. The Beta team is Syobai, Natsumi, Iroha, Maku, Nikei, Emma, and 5 Yakuzas. The Gamma team is Gundham (Hajime makes sure to consider his animals when placing him) and 5 Yakuzas. The Delta team is Hajime, Mikan, Umeko, Sora, Hibiki, and a Yakuza. Yoruko is staying home to watch Jataro.
  • Sora has a concern. She isn’t sure if the Quantum Crew should bring Nikei on this raid, as she doesn’t think that he can be objective enough to stick to the no-killing policy. When her teammates ask her what she means by this, Sora reveals the truth about Nikei’s past: he shot and killed his own parents. Nikei breaks down, admits it, and says that he did it because they forced him into prostitution starting at age 6. He thinks they ruined his life, but Yoruko steps in and says that his life isn’t ruined at all; he still has his friends who care about him, he has a future, and he deserves a chance to heal and be happy. She offers to help him if he needs it. Nikei decides that he’ll leave his gun behind and go along with the Quantum Crew’s plans. He’ll also document everything that happens during the raid, so that the world will know the truth.
  • A storm is coming, and Hajime thinks it will make perfect cover. Honami shows up at the last minute (on crutches); she wants to go on the raid so that she can help save Mahiru, but Mikan tells her that she is in no condition to move at the moment. So Honami will stay with Yoruko. Honami makes Hajime promise to bring everyone back safe, Yoruko hugs him goodbye, and the crew departs.
  • Haiji tells Kyoji that they are moving ahead with the exchange tonight. He asks him to make sure that no vehicles (except the boat belonging to Junya’s contact) get close to the docks. Kyoji calls up the dockworkers and asks them to let through any vehicle they see. Meanwhile, Junya offers to let Mahiru and Hiyoko go if they agree to testify against Kasugano, but they refuse.
  • The Quantum Crew’s strike force arrives at the docks, wishes each other good luck, and takes their positions. At 5:30 on the dot, they attack. Cue a beatdown of epic proportions! As the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma teams kick ass and take names, the Delta team starts looking for the hostages (of course, they deal with any goons who get in their way).
  • Haiji and Kyoji realize that they’re under attack. Haiji tells Kyoji to call for help on the radio, but instead, Kyoji uses a nail gun to nail Haiji’s arm to the console. Kyoji then runs to the room where Mahiru and Hiyoko are, only to be hit with a pipe by Mahiru. She and Hiyoko, who have managed to free themselves, demand to know what’s going on. Kyoji promises to explain once everyone’s out of danger, and he takes them straight to the Delta team.
  • After Mahiru and Hiyoko happily reunite with their friends (and Hiyoko snuggles a bit with Hajime), Mahiru leads the Delta team to the room where the other kidnapped girls are kept. They find them all being held in makeshift cages, wearing nothing but their underwear. Kotoko is among them, and she reunites with Mikan. Junya shows up, armed with a gun, and he threatens to kill everyone, whereupon Mikan stands up to him and basically dares him to try and kill her. He shoots her in the chest, but she is seemingly unaffected, and he’s so scared that he throws his gun and books it. Mikan, as it turns out, is wearing a bulletproof vest. The Delta team proceeds to free all the girls.
  • Junya tries to escape, but he is fooled by a fake exit painted by Iroha, and Setsuka captures him and brings him to the Quantum Crew, who force him to confess. After Junya goes on his obligatory angry motive rant, Kotoko disowns him as her father, and Hiyoko uses steel-toed boots to kick him in the dick.
  • Kyoji surrenders to the Quantum Crew using a piece of white paper taped to a stick. Monaca is with him, perfectly happy and healthy (and also walking, much to Kotoko’s amazement), and she hugs Kasugano. Kyoji tells the Quantum Crew that Nagisa is still at his clinic and is (and has always been) awake, which confuses them further.
  • The police are on their way (as Kyoji has already called them), so the Quantum Crew needs to clear out. Setsuka elects to stay behind; since she was already investigating the docks, her story will be that she found the beat-up goons, the missing girls, and the Kasugano logo. Hajime gives her a USB to give to the police. Mikan and Kotoko say goodbye and promise to reunite soon, and the Quantum Crew leaves the docks, taking Kyoji with them. Nikei plans to write an article about the raid and publish it on his website. Chiaki points out to the group that the rain has finally stopped.
  • The group returns to the Void Warehouse, where Mahiru and Honami reunite. Yoruko and Jataro have prepared food for everyone. An impromptu party happens.
  • It’s time for Kyoji to explain his whole plan (Kokoro has been brought in to assess the objectivity of his statements). He says that:
    • After the first Kasugano broadcast, he knew that Kasugano had to be someone who knew the truth about what was going on at Hope’s Peak, so he decided to get involved by reaching out to the WOH parents. He got in contact with Junya around the time Kotoko went missing (which was also the same time that Kasugano caught Kanade), then talked to the Shingetsus and took Nagisa into his care at the clinic.
    • Then, he made a deal with Nagisa: he promised him that he’d make sure that the Warriors of Hope were okay, and Nagisa would pretend to be unconscious whenever anyone besides Kyoji was around.
    • Through Nagisa, Kyoji got in touch with Monaca, and he was planning on looking for Kotoko, but when the Quantum Crew showed up with her, he saw through her disguise and figured she’d be safer with them (that was also when he slipped the letter to Umeko).
    • After the broadcast in Towa City, Monaca gave Kyoji the idea to plan a kidnapping so that Kasugano would come save everyone, and Kyoji passed the kidnapping idea on to Junya. They first tried to kidnap Kanata, but Nagito saved her with his luck. So Kyoji got in touch with Haiji and convinced him to kidnap Monaca, then told Monaca that she would be the “fake hostage.” If all went well, Haiji would be put away, and Monaca would be next in line to inherit Towa Group.
    • Lots of other girls were taken, and Kyoji, Junya, and Haiji set up shop in their base by the docks. When they heard that Mahiru, Hiyoko, and Honami were doing their own investigation, they decided to take them as well, although they only succeeded in taking Mahiru and Hiyoko. Monaca was also moved to the base with the cover story that Kyoji could get her to walk again if he put her in a special vat of healing compounds. He knew she wasn’t really paralyzed, but he and Monaca played along.
    • Through it all, Kyoji’s plan was to sabotage Junya and Haiji’s operation and bring them to justice, so he made sure that they had as much working against them as he could. That’s why he showed Mahiru and Hiyoko his face. He even planned for the Quantum Crew to be suspicious of him and try to interfere with his plan.
    • Also, Yumi was never supposed to be a part of it, but when she saw some documents that Junya had left lying around, she immediately went looking for her daughter at Chiaki’s house. She thus unknowingly kicked off the final stage of Kyoji’s plan, leading to everyone’s rescue. Kyoji has spent his free time compiling evidence against her, the Shingetsus, and the Kemuris, so they are all going down.
  • Kokoro confirms that everything Kyoji said is, from his perspective, the truth, but Umeko wants to know why Kyoji got himself tangled up in Junya’s plots. After all, he could go to prison or even get the death penalty. But that, as Kokoro confirms, was part of Kyoji’s plan as well. He wants to die. He’s haunted by the guilt of what he did as part of the Kamukura Project, and he considers himself an expendable coward. His only hope is that his trial will bring Hope’s Peak down with him.
  • Yoruko introduces Kyoji to Hajime. After talking with Kyoji, Hajime understands how both of them were manipulated by Hope’s Peak to get involved in the Kamukura Project. While he thinks that Kyoji took things too far and should’ve accounted for the fact that people could’ve been hurt, he does believe him and sympathize with him, and he doesn’t think that he deserves to die. He, Umeko, and Yoruko tell Kyoji that the Quantum Crew knows a way to beat Hope’s Peak and bring about justice for their victims without anyone else having to die. (Hajime also mentions that the police commissioner is corrupt and working for a greater evil.) When offered a place in the Quantum Crew, Kyoji doesn’t feel like joining them would be the best choice after all he’s done, but he will work with them as an ally, as will Kokoro. He gives them access to all the evidence he’s collected against the WOH parents, which he’s left out for the police to find.
  • Once everything’s settled, Hajime tells Mahiru, Hiyoko, Fuyuhiko, Peko, Natsumi, Honami, Kokoro, and Kyoji about the Tragedy, the time travel, and all related matters. It’s a lot for them to take in, but Chiaki assures them that they can and will fix the future. Fuyuhiko (and by extension Peko and Natsumi) will not join the Quantum Crew, as he is concerned that the Kuzuryu Clan’s involvement might drag Kasugano down. Mahiru and Honami also refuse to become official members. However, they all will still be allies of the Quantum Crew and help them if they need it. As for Hiyoko, she’s still thinking about joining.
  • Emma apologizes to Kokoro for what she did to her in the Tragedy timeline, but Kokoro doesn’t see a need for her to apologize. They become friends.
  • Hajime walks Mahiru and Hiyoko home. Mahiru apologizes for being suspicious of Kasugano, Hajime apologizes for not making things clearer to them, and Hiyoko apologizes for being mean to everyone (her time in captivity has made her rethink a lot of things). Hiyoko and Hajime kiss. Hajime tells the girls about their relationship in the Tragedy timeline and admits that he has feelings for both of them. But the truth is, although Mahiru likes Hajime a lot, the person she really wants to be with is Honami. Hajime accepts this, as he truly only wants her to be happy, and tells her to go make Honami smile. They share a “we’ll always have that other timeline” sort of kiss, and Mahiru goes home. Hiyoko, on the other hand, is more than happy to join the Cuddle Puddle.
  • Hajime carries Hiyoko back to Chiaki’s house, where the rest of the Cuddle Puddle is. Hiyoko apologizes to the other girls for how she treated them; they forgive her and welcome her into the Cuddle Puddle. With this, the Cuddle Puddle is as complete as it’s going to get, and all involved commit themselves to supporting each other and making each other happy.
  • Taira and Sora begin making plans to prevent Kouhei’s upcoming death. The two of them also have a sweet sisterly moment.
  • Because of Kyoji’s evidence, Setsuka’s testimony, Nikei’s article, and the scene Kasugano left behind, the police arrest the WOH parents, Haiji, and everyone connected to the trafficking ring. The girls are recovered and returned to their families, and the whole thing makes national headlines.
  • Mahiru tells Honami about what happened with Hajime, then kisses her and confesses her feelings. Honami, who’s had a crush on Mahiru for years, is absolutely overjoyed to hear that Mahiru likes her back. The two girls become an official couple.
  • Setsuka has to bring Jataro to the police station as part of the case, so he says goodbye to Iroha for now. She gives him a paintbrush with the characters of her name on it as a parting gift. At the police station, the Warriors of Hope are reunited at last. They will need to testify against their parents in court, and Kakeru will be their lawyer. Midori will also be there as a witness. The children are ready to help take their in parents down for good.
  • Tsurugi and Kouhei watch the USB message from Kasugano that Setsuka gave them. In the message, Kasugano takes credit for the traffickers’ downfall. He asks for Tsurugi’s cooperation, mentions the corruption in the police department, and warns him that if he investigates any terrorist activity in the next few months, his friend Kouhei will die. Tsurugi still doesn’t like Kasugano and almost gets worked up worrying about the message, but Kouhei calms him down and tells him that this brings them closer to uncovering the identity of the mysterious vigilante (especially since some blood recovered from the scene of Kanade’s capture points towards Kasugano being a male with Type A blood).
  • Mikako is going home to Oishi. She appreciates how much Kokoro is trying to fix things between them, but ultimately, she can’t forgive her mother yet, because she doesn’t know her well enough. She wants to come back every now and then so that she and Kokoro can spend time together. Kokoro and Mikako share a hug, and Mikako leaves, although not before saying goodbye to Kazuichi.
  • Kazuichi chats with his online friend Fuji, who turns out to be Chihiro Fujisaki. They talk about past mistakes, personal issues (Chihiro’s mother died a year ago), how to work on themselves, and their projects/ideas (Chihiro is already getting offers from software companies). Chihiro encourages Kazuichi that he can become a better person if he works at it.
  • The Voids (minus Iroha, who is sleeping during this conversation) ponder what to do about Mikado when they meet him, as well as whether or not Mikado’s past makes him too far gone to receive a second chance. Nikei expresses his own regrets about his past, but Maku and Emma make it clear that they don’t judge him for it. They’re all in favor of having Jataro stay with them once the court case is resolved.
• August 9: As the Cuddle Puddle eats breakfast together, Hajime pulls Chiaki aside to apologize for all the mistakes he’s made in regards to her. He also tells her how much she means to him; she was the first person to give him hope and make him feel like he mattered, and the days he spent with her were the first good days he’s ever really had. Chiaki feels the same way, as she’s always been lonely before she met him and the others, so he means a lot to her as well. She’s confident that they can change the future, but even if they can’t, she just wants to enjoy her life with her loved ones while she still can.
  • The trial of the WOH parents begins. It’s already hilarious, according to Hiyoko.
  • The Cuddle Puddle wants to do a lot of fun things and spend time together over the rest of the summer. Chiaki notices that the storm is gone and that it’s a nice day today.
  • It’s Haiji’s birthday. He turns 22. No one cares.
  • Kazuomi Samejima is born.
• August 10: It's Asukasei's birthday. He turns 19.
• August 12: It’s Umeko’s birthday. She turns 20.
• August 13: Kasumi Isumo is born.
• August 15: It’s Taira’s birthday. She turns 16.
• August 16: It’s Fuyuhiko’s birthday. He turns 17.
• August 22: It’s Kyosuke’s birthday. He turns 23.
• August 23: It's Kana's birthday. She turns 17.
• August 30: It’s Ryota’s birthday. He turns 17.
• August 31: The WOH parents' trial concludes. Junya, Yumi, Haiji, Ui, Hiroshi, Mai, and Shikamaru are found guilty on all charges and sentenced to 5 years in prison; they must also pay $2 million each to those harmed by their actions. Monaca is now the Towa Group heir by default. Yumi tearfully apologizes to Kotoko, who tells her that if she’s really sorry, she’ll spend the rest of her life making up for it in jail.
  • The Warriors of Hope celebrate their win, and Midori is inducted into their ranks as the Thief. Monaca is going home, as it was only her brother who was put away, but Masaru, Jataro, Kotoko, and Nagisa still need a place to stay. Setsuka and Umeko apply to be their temporary guardians, and Mikan signs an adoption form for Kotoko (which will take about a month to be processed).
  • Monaca has a new plan. She tells it to Nagisa and makes him promise to keep it a secret.
  • Umeko is making progress on her long-range detector.
  • Hiyoko decides to join the Quantum Crew.
  • Tsurugi and Kouhei go out to get shawarma together. Taira approaches them for a chat. The talk turns to Kasugano, the crimes that the police think he’s committed, and whether or not he’s doing the right thing. Tsurugi still has a negative opinion of Kasugano, and Kouhei’s view is slightly more nuanced but still leaning towards distrust of his ideology. However, if Kasugano is right about the terrorist attack and saves Kouhei’s life, Kouhei will consider trusting him, and Tsurugi of course will have Kouhei’s back no matter what happens. Taira and Sora can tell that Kouhei’s influence helps Tsurugi hold his aggressive tendencies in check, and they think there’s a possibility that Juu has something to do with the attack. For now, they’ll keep an eye on them.
  • An end-of-summer festival is being held in town, and naturally, the Cuddle Puddle decides to attend. Yoruko drives them there. Everyone in the Cuddle Puddle bar Hajime is dressed in yukata. At the festival, they’re playing carnival games (Chiaki wins a toy robot for Hibiki) when they come across a pair of cousins: Leon Kuwata and Kanon Nakajima. Hibiki overhears Leon talking about his dreams of becoming a punk singer, and she, annoyed at his apparent shallowness, gives him some music advice, which he appreciates. One misunderstanding later, Leon challenges Hajime to a basketball carnival game. It’s a close contest, but Leon wins, and he and Hajime part on friendly terms. Hajime and Chiaki tell their partners that Leon will be their underclassman at Hope’s Peak next year.
  • Maku and Iroha are also at the festival. While eating takoyaki, they meet Makoto Naegi, who is getting some food for his sister. Iroha lends him some yen, and Makoto invites her and Maku to spend time with him and his sister at the festival. His sister, Komaru Naegi, quickly bonds with Iroha over their mutual love of manga. Iroha’s already developing a crush on Makoto, and although Maku is supportive, he advises her to be careful not to go overboard. The four of them hang out together for the rest of the night.
  • Hajime has a quick talk with Gundham about his status in the Cuddle Puddle. They hold hands, and Gundham admits that he’s not opposed to being part of the group, even though he thought that he would be alone his whole life. He says that he’ll give them his answer at a later time. Also, although school is starting in a few days, the Cuddle Puddle agrees to wait a bit before moving back to their respective dorms/houses so that they can stay with Chiaki for a little longer.
  • Taira and Ayame have a cute not-quite-date at the festival (Taira is wearing a yukata as well). Taira, who is determined to take things slow, talks about her sister (Sora) before asking Ayame which way she swings, to which Ayame replies that she isn’t quite sure yet. Taira admits that she herself is pansexual. The girls play games for a while before sitting on a bench together. Ayame thanks Taira for inviting her out, and Taira almost confesses her feelings but is interrupted by the fireworks starting. They watch the fireworks together, during which Taira rests her head on Ayame’s shoulder and falls asleep.
  • As the fireworks go off, Kanon confesses her love to Leon for the 3,889th time. He turns her down, also for the 3,889th time, because he only sees her as a little sister to him. She cries, and he pats her on the head to comfort her.
  • While all this is going on, Yoruko and Sora have a date at home, during which things get a bit NSFW. Afterwards, Yoruko returns to the festival to pick up the Cuddle Puddle.
  • Kyoji gives Emma and Nikei some intel on an old Hope’s Peak classmate of his, Maverick Storm, a sadistic manipulator who’s incredibly dangerous. Maverick drove his foster families to suicide, terrorized his Hope’s Peak classmates, and caused an explosion that left Miaya paralyzed from the waist down, among many other crimes. Thankfully, he’s in jail at the moment, but with the police compromised, it’s entirely possible that he will be released at some point and become a threat to the Quantum Crew.
  • Hiyoko is planning to ask the rest of the Quantum Crew for help with the issues she’s having with her family.

September

• September 2: Sayaka and Co. try to get rid of some illegal weapons via acid in a hotel bathtub (only to break the bathtub in the process).
  • The infamous serial killer Genocider Syo kills her 87th victim, 14-year-old Kanno Isei, in Saitama and leaves his body to be found in a parking complex.
  • It’s Teruteru’s birthday. He turns 17.
• September 3: It’s the first day of a new semester at Hope’s Peak. Mahiru tells her classmates about how Kasugano saved her and the others, Hiyoko apologizes to everyone for her past treatment of them, and Nagito shows up with his hair and skin restored to their original healthy colors. His relationship with Kanata is going very well, as is his recovery. Everyone’s proud of him.
  • Hibiki wants to post on Twitter to let her fans know that she’s okay. After getting the go-ahead from the rest of the Cuddle Puddle, she does so.
  • Hiyoko receives her code name. She is Hierophant.
  • After hearing about Genocider Syo's latest murder, Hajime decides that dealing with her will be the Quantum Crew’s next mission. As Sonia explains to the group, Genocider Syo kills handsome young men by stabbing them to death with custom-made scissors, and every one of her 87 kills was found suspended to the wall with said scissors, alongside the words “Bloodbath Fever” written in blood. Hajime reveals that Genocider Syo is an alter of teenage author Toko Fukawa, who has DID. This raises the question of whether or not to put Syo in jail when she’s caught; Toko herself is a good person despite her gloominess, and both she and Syo did help the Future Foundation during the Tragedy timeline, but Syo is still a serial killer who needs to pay for what she’s done. Kyoji offers to take Toko to a mental health facility where she can get the treatment she needs. The group feels that it’s best to ask Toko herself what she wants first.
  • Kyoji has figured out Monaca’s new plan based on a conversation he had with her in late July, during which she asked him if he could use his knowledge of genetics to age her up into an adult. Now, Towa Group has bought out all sorts of supplements from a medical supplier he usually goes to (Sora determines that said supplies were bought last night), leading Kyoji to suspect that Monaca intends to age herself up. If she succeeds, she’ll be a 10-year-old in an adult’s body, but if something goes wrong, she could be hurt or even killed. Naturally, the Quantum Crew must find her and stop her.
  • The Quantum Crew creates two teams. The first team (Hajime, Nikei, Maku, Taira, Sonia, Gundham, and Hiyoko) will look for Syo, while the second team (Chiaki, Emma, Sora, Mikan, Iroha, Kyoji, and Hibiki) will look for Monaca.
  • Iroha pays a visit to Umeko and Setsuka at their house. Umeko is almost done with her long-range detector, but she forgot her welding gun at her Hope’s Peak lab, so she runs off to get it. Setsuka, Iroha, and Mikan (who is here to play with Kotoko) ask Nagisa about Monaca’s location. At first, he won’t answer because he’s been sworn to secrecy, but when the others say that Monaca is putting herself in danger, he tells them that Monaca went to Towa Land, a small Towa-Group-owned amusement park in Niigata.
  • Hibiki looks at her post and finds hundreds of supportive comments, which makes her so happy that she starts crying.
  • Bad End #2: The Surprise Attack.
    • After spending a little time with Hibiki, Hajime gets a text from Umeko asking for assistance with moving a heavy part out of Hope’s Peak. He bids Hibiki goodbye and heads off to help.
    • When he gets to Hope’s Peak, Hajime enters the Physics Building, where he finds Umeko’s dead body hanging from the ceiling. Her throat has been cut. Hajime himself is then murdered by Yasuke.
    • Hajime resets for the second time.
  • Hajime tells Hibiki that he just died again, then calls Umeko to warn her about the surprise attack from Yasuke. He manages to get through to her as she approaches Hope’s Peak, and she decides to go borrow a screwdriver from one of her neighbors instead. With Umeko’s safety secured, Hajime is free to have a minor breakdown, and Hibiki comforts him. His tattoo now has 7 dots. Hibiki contacts the rest of the Quantum Crew and tells them what happened, and they all agree not to go near Yasuke.
  • That night, as Hajime and Hibiki cuddle in bed together, Hibiki cries that she’s scared of losing him, and it’s Hajime’s turn to comfort her. The two of them almost have sex, but they stop themselves upon realizing that now really isn’t the right time for first times.
• September 4: Chiaki, Emma, Sora, Kyoji, and Hibiki depart for Towa Land. During the 3-hour drive, Kyoji tells the girls his backstory. He was raised by a single mother who was a veterinarian, and her line of work inspired him to become a geneticist and cure many diseases, but she died of brain cancer 2 years ago, and no one else in his family supports him because of his half-Korean heritage. He was manipulated by Hope’s Peak into helping them with the Kamukura Project during his school days, and he’s branded the names of the 7 people who died in the project on his arm so that he doesn’t forget what he did. Next, Emma shares her own tale of her abusive father and shows everyone the burn scars she has on her arms because of him. Her story has a happy ending in that she found a flier offering auditions for a commercial thanks to Utsuro, started her illustrious acting career, met her agent Roger, was removed from her father’s custody, and ended up adopted by a couple in Brighton.
  • Hajime, Nikei, Maku, Taira, Sonia, Gundham, and Hiyoko investigate Syo’s latest crime scene, a parking complex in Saitama. They’ve got a stun gun on hand, as shooting Syo in the head with a stun gun is effective at turning her back into Toko. The crime scene has already been cleaned up, so there’s no blood or body. Nikei interviews some local shopkeepers and learns that Syo was in the area at least before 8 PM. Sonia figures out that Syo traveled via the rooftops and used her great speed and agility to commit the murder without being caught by witnesses. The group then finds a pair of Syo’s famous geno-scissors on top of the building.
  • Chiaki’s team reaches Towa Land just around its closing time. Its security system is blocked off with an anti-AI barrier, so Sora can’t get in. Furthermore, it’s got a fence of electric wire. Kyoji holds a stick against the wires that are closer to the ground, cutting off the flow of electricity to the rest of the fence (he receives minor electric shocks while doing this), and Hibiki cuts the wires with her sword. The group searches the park for Monaca. Emma finds a locked utility door, breaks the lock, and opens the door to find that the doorway is sealed off with a sheet metal wall. Chiaki and Hibiki search the funhouse and find a puzzle room; inside is a bed, a chest, a door with a keyhole but no knob, and a metal box that needs a code. Then, the team is chased out of the park by giant sentry robots with laser beams. They resolve to try again tomorrow.
  • Hajime’s team follows Syo’s possible path, only to end up at a train station. They contact Chiaki’s team about this, and Sora checks the train schedules, cross-checks it with the information they have, and confirms that Syo traveled to Saitama from Kita City. Tomorrow, Hajime’s group will search there.
• September 5: Iroha stays the night at Setsuka and Umeko’s house, and she gets to spend time with Jataro. Meanwhile, Nagisa helps Umeko with the long-range detector.
  • Chiaki’s team, armed with tools, returns to Towa Land in the daytime when it’s open. At the funhouse, Chiaki tries the date that Monaca met Kasugano as the password to the box, and it works. The group solves various puzzles in order to progress further down the dark hallway. Eventually, they come across a puzzle that requires them to close a circuit. They complete this challenge, but they all get shocked in the process, and Emma ends up in immense pain due to her nerve damage. Kyoji stays behind to care for Emma, while Chiaki, Hibiki, and Sora go on ahead. They encounter more robots, and they defeat them, but Chiaki sustains a serious wound to her leg. Hibiki and Sora leave her with Kyoji and Emma, then keep going, only to run into a big metal door that cannot be opened. The group is forced to return to their hotel room in order to treat their injuries and make a new plan.
  • Hajime’s team searches Kita City. They learn that Toko frequents a particular library, so they keep watch there while asking around town about her whereabouts (with little success). Maku is investigating a rooftop when he encounters Genocider Syo, who tries to kill him, and a fight ensues. The rest of Hajime’s squad joins the battle after an unsuccessful attempt to talk Syo down. It’s a tough battle, given Syo’s combat skills, and Maku takes a scissor to the gut. At one point, it seems as if Syo has severely wounded Nikei with multiple scissor stab wounds, but he turns the tables on her (with help from Sonia) and successfully zaps her unconscious with his stun gun. It turns out that he used some books as a makeshift vest and is thus fine. The group moves Toko/Syo to the same empty warehouse where they first met Taira and Sora.
  • Kyoji, Emma, and Sora bring thermite back to Towa Land (Hibiki stays at the hotel to take care of Chiaki) and use it to burn down the metal door. They finally find Monaca, but they are too late; she is now physically 16 years old. She is happy at first, despite Kyoji and Emma gently lecturing her about how wrong her actions were, but then she starts feeling pain in her side and realizes what a terrible idea this was. The group takes her back to the hotel, and Kyoji runs some tests; because of the aging stunt, Monaca has a cyst in her ovary, a malformed kidney, a benign tumor on her liver, and decreased vision in her left eye. Chiaki’s team returns home with a remorseful Monaca in tow.
  • Toko wakes up in the warehouse, and Hajime talks to her about Syo. She is scared and distrustful of him, thinking that he will put her in jail or blackmail her, but he makes it clear that he only wants to help her. He tells her that an electrical current to the head immediately switches her personality, just as sneezing or falling unconscious does. When told that her parents don’t know that she’s here, she’s glad, as they’re abusive. He then brings in Yoruko and Kokoro to talk to her, and although she freaks out at first because she thinks she’ll end up in a straitjacket, they calm her down and convince her to let them help her.
  • After evaluating Toko, Kokoro tells Yoruko that Toko suffers from multiple psychological disorders due to the abuse and bullying she endured throughout her childhood. This is why she developed DID (although this is the first case of a serial killer alter that Kokoro’s seen), and it’s very likely that she has other alters as well. She theorizes that Syo originally developed as a “protector” alter for Toko and was not born a serial killer, but became one.
  • The Quantum Crew reunites. Mikan patches up everyone’s wounds, Chiaki’s team tells Hajime’s team about their failure, and Kyoji and Mikan immediately treat Monaca (they’re thankfully able to remove all her damaged tissues). Afterwards, Hajime has a serious talk with Monaca. He tells her in no uncertain terms that he’s not okay with what she did, especially since his friends got hurt, and that he’s not going to fall in love with her because, mentally, she’s still a child. He also apologizes for giving her false hope in the first place. Since her father doesn’t care about her, he offers her a place with the Quantum Crew (plus her helping them will be a sort of “community service” to make up for what she’s done), and Kyoji agrees to be her guardian from now on. Kyoji and Monaca share a hug.
  • After talking it over with Kokoro and Yoruko, Toko agrees to go to DLTA Private Hospital, the mental health facility that Kyoji recommended. She also lets Hajime take Syo’s geno-scissors. Hajime mails the scissors to the police, along with a note saying that Syo has been dealt with. Tsurugi gets upset when he receives them, as he still doesn’t like Kasugano or his methods, but Kouhei calms him down so that they can try to figure things out.
  • Sonia tells Hajime that she suspects that the geno-scissors they found in the parking garage may have been planted, as Syo would never leave evidence behind.
  • Monaca reunites with the Warriors of Hope and apologizes to Nagisa for making him keep her secret. The Warriors are in various levels of shock. Nagisa breaks down crying, and Setsuka comforts him.
  • Umeko’s long-range detector has finally been finished, with help from Nagisa. While doing a test run of it, she discovers that Japan contains two other time travelers besides Hajime, Yoruko, and Sora. One is in Kumamoto, and one is in Shiojiri.
• September 7: Today is Chiaki’s first day back at school after her injury. (She was operating under the cover story that she fell and tore her muscle.) She has fun fluffy romantic times with Hajime and Hiyoko. Hiyoko is reluctant to kiss Chiaki and wants to talk about her issues at lunchtime.
  • Umeko leaves her long-range detector running to make sure the signals from the two unknown time travelers stick around. She plans to cross-reference it according to everyone’s location.
  • Monaca, with Kyoji’s help, designs a smaller, more portable version of Umeko’s detector that can be mass-produced and easily hidden. Kyoji is planning to create an organic body for Sora. He tells Monaca about his relationship with Miaya: they were close friends at Hope’s Peak, and although they never dated, they did kiss four times. But they also had to deal with their terror-causing classmate, Maverick Storm. Eventually, he blew up their classroom. Miaya was paralyzed, Maverick was arrested, and Kyoji dropped out of school soon afterwards because he couldn’t take being part of the Kamukura Project anymore. Now, he’s afraid to resume contact with Miaya because he doesn’t want to screw up her life any further.
  • Taira is daydreaming about Ayame when Byakuya talks to her about Kasugano. He heard about what happened to Genocider Syo, finds Kasugano interesting, and is thinking about going after him. He also already knows that he will be in Class 78 at Hope’s Peak.
  • Yoruko and Sora engage in cute couple antics. Sora is looking forward to getting her own body.
  • At lunchtime, Hiyoko confides her family issues to the rest of the Cuddle Puddle. She’s the heiress to the Saionji Clan, which has been the head of the school of traditional Japanese dance for generations, and because of this, she lives with her grandmother. She hasn’t seen her beloved father in almost 3 years. Her grandmother is all about tradition and constantly lectures Hiyoko about carrying on the family legacy; she’s also racist, homophobic, and wants Hiyoko to find a (wealthy, proper) husband before she’s 20. The chances of her being okay with Hiyoko’s current relationship are not good. Hiyoko kisses Chiaki and declares that her grandmother can’t do anything about it while she’s at Hope’s Peak.
  • The Cuddle Puddle are making plans to meet after school at Chiaki’s house, (where Hiyoko will cook a family recipe for them) when they run into Yasuke. They’re all on edge, of course, and Yasuke is suspicious that Hajime, a Reserve Course student, is hanging around Ultimates. The group takes their leave, but not before Yasuke tells Hiyoko that he heard that she got kidnapped and that he’s glad she didn’t die. He also tells the group “try not to die.”
  • Iroha and Jataro hang out with the Naegi siblings. Iroha wants to ask Makoto out on a date, but she’s nervous about it. Komaru and Iroha play Fabio Kart, and they bet on the outcome: if Komaru wins, Iroha has to buy her the first few volumes of The Bomb Inside Her, and if Iroha wins, Makoto has to go out on a date with her. Komaru wins just as the Naegi parents return home.
  • Emma goes to visit the Cuddle Puddle at Chiaki’s house. They invite her to join them for the dinner that Hiyoko will cook later, and she accepts. While Hajime and Hiyoko are busy buying ingredients, Chiaki, Mikan, Hibiki, Sonia, and Emma take a hot bath together. Emma opens up to the girls about her past and shows them the scars on her arms, and Mikan similarly shows her own scars from her past. Emma and Mikan hug.
  • Maku and Masaru train together at the park, then decide to join Emma at Chiaki’s house for dinner. Emma welcomes them into the house. Shortly afterwards, Hajime and Hiyoko return from shopping, and Hiyoko begins to cook her recipe.
  • Makoto takes Iroha to a convenience store to buy cup noodles. He sees the famous pop idol Sayaka Maizono on the cover of a magazine and tells Iroha that he used to go to middle school with her, although he isn’t sure if she’d remember him. Iroha finally plucks up the courage to ask Makoto out. He accepts, and they make plans for next Sunday, September 9. They hold hands on the way back to Makoto’s house.
  • Nikei calls Yoruko and asks her if she thinks he’s dangerous. She reassures him that she trusts him, and he admits that when Void initially formed, he didn’t see the other three as his friends and only wanted inferiors to order around so that he could be in power. Yoruko, however, thinks that he’s selling himself and the others short and that they genuinely consider him their friend, and although Nikei doesn’t get why they would, he agrees to find a time to talk further with Yoruko about this at some point.
  • Setsuka spots someone suspicious going in and out of police headquarters. She isn’t sure what they look like due to their heavy jacket, hat, and wig, but she gets Sora and Nikei’s help to keep an eye on things. In related news, Umeko has noticed that the Shiojiri time traveler keeps traveling to and from Tokyo, although they never enter the city itself.
  • Hiyoko serves her home-cooked sukiyaki to Hajime, Chiaki, Sonia, Mikan, Hibiki, Maku, Emma, and Masaru. Everyone loves it. Hiyoko is happy, as she worked hard in order to learn how to cook over the summer.
  • As Kanade’s trial is coming up, she is scheduled to be moved to a more secure facility closer to the courthouse on September 9 at noon. Tsurugi and Kouhei will oversee the transfer. Sora, who is monitoring police headquarters, sees Juu talking with the suspicious person Setsuka saw earlier; he gives them a small briefcase, and they then seemingly just straight-up disappear. One emergency Quantum Crew meeting later, no one knows what’s going on, but they’re worried that whoever it is could let Kanade escape. Hajime suddenly realizes that since he and Chiaki told the twins that they were from Hope’s Peak when they met them, if Kanade breaks out, she will go to Hope’s Peak for revenge. The Quantum Crew must make sure that the transfer goes smoothly and that Kanade doesn’t escape, for all their sakes.
• September 9: It’s the day of Kanade’s transfer, and the Cuddle Puddle brings Hibiki to Hope’s Peak so that she can be safe and hang out with Class 77-B. They think that Kanade won’t stand a chance against the whole class together. Hibiki and Ibuki brainstorm a new genre of music called Death Pop, which is a combination of death metal and pop.
  • Aiko tells Chiaki that she got to spend time with her online friend, Damian Miraz, over the summer.
  • Yasuke corners Chiaki and tells him that he’s figured out that she’s involved with Kasugano. Apparently, he briefly considered murdering Umeko as she was approaching Hope’s Peak, but then she turned back for no reason, and now she and others (including Chiaki) are avoiding him. They talk privately on the roof, and Yasuke admits that Junko has asked him to help her start the Tragedy. He figured out the Quantum Crew’s connections on his own and did the Umeko gambit to test a “theory” and prove that the group could know what would happen before it did. He asks for Chiaki’s help in stopping Junko; he cares deeply for her, but he doesn’t like what she’s become, and he doesn’t really want the world to end. Also, Junko hasn’t said anything about Kanade lately, so whatever’s going on doesn’t involve her. Chiaki promises to talk to her friends about it.
  • Iroha gets ready for her date with Makoto, Hajime keeps an eye out for news on the transport, and Nikei passes the time by drinking far too many energy drinks. Iroha gives Nikei a hug and skips out the door.
  • Mikako shows up at Hope’s Peak to visit Kokoro. The mother and daughter duo talk together in Kokoro’s office.
  • Kanata also happens to be visiting Hope’s Peak today. Nagito gives her a tour of the school, and Mikan agrees to show her the Hope’s Peak medical facilities.
  • Sora is watching the police station and sending a live feed to the others. Maku, Emma, Setsuka, Umeko, and Kyoji are also helping to monitor the situation.
  • At 12:05 PM, Tsurugi and Kouhei get ready to transfer Kanade…but she’s no longer in her cell. Simultaneously, Fuchu Prison is bombed, and many prisoners escape in the confusion. The Quantum Crew leaps into action. Those who were monitoring the police station go off to help round up the escaped prisoners, while those at school prepare to face Kanade. Kyoji, who is concerned about Maverick Storm’s possible escape, runs off to Hope’s Peak in a panic.
  • Iroha and Makoto are on a bus that stops as a result of the chaos caused by the prison break, and Iroha spots Kanade on the street running towards Hope’s Peak. She decides that she can’t run and hide anymore when people need her help, so she apologizes to Makoto, kisses him, and bolts off the bus. Her plan is to cut Kanade off before she can hurt anyone at the school.
  • Bad End #3: The Massacre.
    • Hope’s Peak goes into lockdown. Those who do not intend to fight Kanade hide in their classrooms. Kokoro has Mikako wait in her office while she goes to help the rest of the staff. Peko gives Hibiki a sword, just in case she needs it.
    • Kanade reaches Hope’s Peak and enters through a basement window. Iroha follows her and blocks her path, refusing to let her hurt anyone, but when she lets slip that Kasugano is coming to stop her for good, Kanade gleefully declares that when he gets here, he can stand proud next to the bodies. She kills Iroha with a single slice to the neck.
    • Sonia, Akane, Nekomaru, and Peko organize an impromptu task force to bring Kanade down. They find her in the hallway, where she has just killed two security guards, and they fight her. However, it turns out that Kanade has somehow gained an impressive amount of strength and combat abilities, and she even knows the weaknesses of all her opponents. Akane’s throat is slit, Nekomaru dies of an attack to the chest, and Sonia is beheaded. Only Peko survives, and even she is shot through the spine, paralyzed, and probably not going to live much longer. She does stab Kanade in the leg, though, which weakens the serial killer.
    • Hajime and Nikei head for Hope’s Peak but are delayed considerably by bad traffic and general prison-break-related mayhem. When they finally get there, they find the bodies of Sonia and her task force, and Hajime breaks down in tears. Peko tells them that Kanade has become an absurdly good fighter and most likely was given help by another time traveler. Hajime promises to reset as soon as he knows what exactly they’re up against.
    • When Hibiki hears of Kanade’s massacre, she decides to face her sister and begins to get herself ready to do so.
    • Kanade breaks into Kokoro’s office and attacks Mikako. Mikako throws a metal chair at her and runs away, but Kanade catches up to her and tries to stab her…whereupon Kokoro takes the blow, tells Kanade to get away from her daughter, and jabs her in the eye with a pen. Yoruko and Juzo chase Kanade away, and Kokoro dies in Mikako’s arms. Mikako is heartbroken and cries that she forgives her mother.
    • Hajime and Nikei finally catch up to Kanade, as do Yoruko and Juzo. Kanade says that since Hajime took everything from her, she’s taking everything from him (and Hibiki) as vengeance. When Nikei asks what happened to Iroha, Kanade shows him Iroha’s bloody hat and confirms that she killed her. This is enough to send Nikei flying into a murderous rage. He fights Kanade with the intent to kill her; though he manages to shoot her in the foot, graze her shoulder, and smack her in the face with his gun several times, the battle ultimately ends when she cuts his right hand off with a sword she stole from Peko. Kanade pulls out a syringe and jams it into her neck to give herself extra strength, but just when it seems like all hope is lost, Hibiki appears, sword in hand, intent on bringing her murderous sister down once and for all. After Hibiki chews Kanade out for everything she did to her and her friends, the twins begin to fight, and Hibiki shouts to the others that they should leave and reset.
    • Hajime, Nikei, and Yoruko make it to where Chiaki and Mikan are hiding. Hajime tells the others that he needs to reset, but Yasuke, who is also there, questions if Hajime and the other time travelers are actually resetting the timeline or simply escaping to another one. He thinks that they should stop Kanade first, because if Hajime resets without stopping her, he could be leaving all the non-time travelers of this timeline in danger. Hajime decides on an idea to stop Kanade now, just in case Yasuke’s right. He kisses Chiaki and Mikan, tells them he loves them, asks them to tell Hiyoko that he loves her too, promises a grieving Nikei that he’ll save Iroha, and leaves.
    • Hibiki and Kanade’s battle continues, and although they are fairly evenly matched, Hibiki is gaining the upper hand. Hajime finds them, takes Hibiki with him to the third floor, tells her what he’s going to do, and gives her one last kiss. When Kanade inevitably follows them upstairs, Hajime tackles her through a window, and they both fall to their deaths.
    • Hajime resets for the third time.
  • Hajime tells Nikei that he just reset and they need to go to Hope’s Peak now. He also calls Sonia and tells her to bring as many people as she can to meet him at the entrance hall of the school. His tattoo now has 6 dots.
  • As Hajime and Nikei hurry to Hope’s Peak, they encounter Iroha and instruct her to stay out of the Kanade situation. Iroha reluctantly agrees. She goes back to Makoto, and the pair of them go to his house.
  • Once he and Nikei make it to the Hope’s Peak entrance hall, Hajime tells his friends that they need to bring the entirety of Class 77-B, plus Hibiki and Juzo, to the basement to take Kanade down.
  • Kanade reaches Hope’s Peak and enters through a basement window. However, before she can begin her assault on the school, white gas fills the room, weakening her. Hibiki appears in a gas mask, tells her sister to drop her weapons, and slices her gun out of her hand. This is the signal for Class 77-B and their allies to flood the room and lay a smackdown on Kanade. That done, Mikan injects her with a sedative, knocking her out.
  • Class 77-B moves an unconscious Kanade to the infirmary, where they tie her to a bed. With the school safe once more, Hajime bursts into tears, and both Yoruko and the Cuddle Puddle hug him.
  • Kokoro goes to check on Mikako in her office and tells her that there was a break-in, but the intruder was dealt with and no one was hurt besides the intruder. Mikako is to stay in Kokoro’s office for now, and she’ll also call Yamato and Hanzo. After confirming that Kokoro is okay, Mikako hugs her.
  • Hajime finds Yasuke, tells him about the conversation they had before his last reset, chews him out for yanking them around, and punches him.
  • Mikan and Kyoji search Kanade. They find lots of weapons, illegal stimulants meant to keep her energized, experimental body armor that looks like skin but can’t be pierced by any blade or bullet (she had this armor on her chest and arms but not her legs), and a neural implant in her brain that contains combat information and details about everyone in Class 77-B. Since all of this is super expensive and/or super illegal, they conclude that whoever put Kanade up to this was either extremely rich, extremely well-connected, or knew how to steal these items and get them to her.
  • Sora gives everyone an update on the prison break: she, Maku, Emma, Umeko, and Setsuka are helping the police, and most of the prisoners have been recaptured. However, a few prisoners are still on the loose, and the police have told everyone to stay home tonight while they search for the remaining escapees.
  • The Quantum Crew gathers in order to decide what to do with Kanade (who’s still unconscious for now). They won’t kill her, of course, but they can’t give her back to the police either, as Juu’s corruption will no doubt ensure that she will be re-armed and escape again. Yasuke offers to erase her memories and give her a new personality that is neither incestuous nor murderous, which will also give Hibiki the chance to have the sister she knew growing up back again. This proposal is rather controversial within the Quantum Crew’s ranks, so they vote on it, and in the end, they decide to go through with it. After the decision is made, Hajime dons his Kasugano outfit and leads most of his friends out onto the streets to help track down the escaped prisoners.
  • At Makoto’s house, Iroha and Makoto are making out when they hear a commotion going on outside. It’s Nikei and Emma, who have just recaptured a prisoner. The three Void friends reunite, and Makoto introduces himself to Nikei and Emma, although it’s a little awkward for him to explain why he’s covered in lipstick marks. Everyone’s cool with the new relationship. As Nikei and Emma depart to kick more prisoner ass, Nikei has Makoto promise to keep Iroha safe.
  • Hibiki helps Kouhei take down another prisoner. The Quantum Crew has recaptured 18 prisoners so far.
  • Over in Akihabara, Tsurugi is trying to recapture a convicted arsonist by the name of Johjima Kazuto, who’s just set a building on fire with molotovs. Hajime, Mikan, Fuyuhiko, and Peko arrive to help. Tsurugi recognizes the Kasugano symbol on Hajime’s mask and demands to know if he had anything to do with the prison break, which Hajime denies. Johjima interrupts to inform everyone that he’s set up a propane bomb nearby. Tsurugi and Hajime go to a nearby apartment building to find the bombs (with Tsurugi telling Hajime that this doesn’t make them allies), while Mikan, Fuyuhiko, and Peko hold Johjima in place. It’s around this time that Kouhei, his backup, and some firefighters arrive on the scene.
  • Taira’s been stuck at Byakuya’s penthouse all day.
  • Tsurugi and Hajime split up; Hajime looks for the bomb upstairs, while Tsurugi checks lower down. Tsurugi finds what he thinks is the bomb tied to a basement wall, but it’s actually a mess of junk and duct tape. Meanwhile, Hajime (with some help from Sora) gets a family of 5 out of the building, then finds the actual bomb, which is seconds away from going off. He meets back up with Tsurugi, stops him from trying to disarm the bomb, and pulls him into an apartment. They take cover behind heavy furniture.
  • Mikan, Fuyuhiko, and Peko refuse to let Kouhei enter the apartment building; they claim that Tsurugi told them to stop him. Just then, the bomb goes off.
  • The explosion traps Tsurugi and Hajime in the building. Hajime (who quickly disposes of his disguise) is mostly okay other than some smoke inhalation problems, but Tsurugi is unconscious with a head injury. They are saved by Shinji Kasai and his fellow firefighters. Hajime passes out shortly afterwards.
  • Elsewhere, Kana leaves her house to check on everyone at her voice acting studio, and she comes across Maverick in the parking lot. He says his name is Noriaki Naegi, and he claims that he's broken his arm and needs help getting luggage out of his car. Kana helps him, shows him around, and makes friends with him.
  • It’s Setsuka’s birthday. She turns 23.
• September 10: Yasuke’s operation on Kanade (under the supervision of Kyoji and Kokoro) lasts until 4 AM. Her memories are altered significantly so that she won’t remember a good chunk of her life, especially all the murdery bits, and this changes her personality as a result. Afterwards, she is moved to a lab in the Biology Building so that tests can be run on her to make sure that she’s still healthy and that everything is in order. She’s told that she was in an accident 3 months ago that put her in a coma and caused her memory loss. The current plan is to send her to a mental health facility outside the country, but Kyoji will care for her until then and also keep in touch with her over video chat after she goes. He also plants evidence for the police to find that will convince them that she’s dead, while Nikei writes an article for his website about her “death” in the prison break.
  • Hajime wakes up in the Hope’s Peak infirmary at 8 AM and is given an update on things by Yoruko, who brought him there. The good news is that everyone’s all right, school’s been cancelled for the day, the fires are all out, and the police have the prisoner situation under control. The bad news is that three prisoners still have yet to be recaptured, and one of them is Maverick Storm. Also, 23 people are dead and 110 are injured as a result of the prison break and its aftermath.
  • Hajime, Sonia, and Hibiki go see Kanade. They find her with the personality she once pretended to have: sweet, shy, and not at all murderous. They are relieved, but also slightly weirded out. During the twins’ reunion, both of them cry and apologize for how they treated each other before all this happened. They agree to work on being better. Hibiki can’t bring herself to hug Kanade, so they share an air hug instead. Privately, Hibiki cries to Hajime, Sonia, and Kokoro that Kanade is now exactly like the Kanade she knew growing up, but she can’t get the image of her as a killer out of her head. She also feels guilty for agreeing to Kanade’s mind wipe. The others reassure her that she’s not a bad person, and they all agree to never mind wipe anyone ever again.
  • Tsurugi wakes up in the hospital, much to Kouhei’s relief, and vaguely remembers Kasugano pulling him back from the bomb. He’s a little more willing to talk with Kasugano now, but not much. Kouhei tells Tsurugi that the police have found a semiquaver hairclip and a few body parts that have been confirmed by DNA analysis to be Kanade’s. (In actuality, Kyoji made those parts, but they don’t know that.) Tsurugi wants to catch the criminals that are still loose, but Kouhei restricts him to desk duty until he’s healed. He holds Tsurugi’s hand and tells him that he’s glad he’s okay. Mikan appears and tells the pair of cops that Tsurugi will need to stay in the hospital for a day or two to make sure that there’s no lasting cognitive damage. Kouhei, now in charge of finding those missing prisoners, promises Tsurugi that he’ll be careful out there, and both agree that they need some time off sometime soon.
  • Umeko and Chiaki take turns chewing Yasuke out about his behavior. Umeko, as a quantum physicist, is not happy about how he lectured everyone about concepts he knows nothing about, especially since his theories are not backed by scientific fact, and Chiaki is especially pissed off at him for pressuring a traumatized Hajime into testing his theory and murdering two people for an experiment. Yasuke thinks that the Quantum Crew is doomed if they won’t get their hands dirty, but Chiaki emphatically disagrees and makes it clear that they will show him just how wrong he is. She finishes by saying that Yasuke is not their ally or their enemy, but if he ever turns on them, there will be hell to pay.
  • Hajime has a moment of doubt, but Chiaki has already come up with a way to prove Yasuke wrong. She thinks that the Quantum Crew needs more help. As such, she and Hajime decide that the time has come to let the rest of Class 77-B in on the truth of Kasugano, time travel, the Tragedy timeline, and the Quantum Crew.
  • Nikei, who’s just finished his article about Kanade’s “death,” is tired but reluctant to sleep for fear of nightmares. He confides to Taira that he tried to kill Kanade before the last reset, and he’s worried that it means he hasn’t changed at all. Taira tells him not to dwell on it or blame himself, as that’s not healthy, and to take it as a learning experience instead. She herself used to have trust issues because of a policy at her childhood orphanage that the kids had to tell the staff if someone did something wrong, which would result in the offender being taken upstairs and beaten; she got sent up a lot, but she also sent others up there, and it took her a while to get past that. The two of them share a hug, which soon progresses to cuddling, and Taira kisses Nikei on the cheek. She offhandedly says that she aspires to have a polyamorous relationship like the Cuddle Puddle’s.
  • After Kanade asks Kyoji about her parents, he has to be the one to tell her that they left Japan and abandoned the twins. She cries, but he consoles her and offers her a place to stay with him until she can be transferred to the mental health facility. A grateful Kanade hugs her new caregiver, and both Kyoji and Kokoro promise to be there if she ever needs to talk about anything. Kyoji and Kokoro then have a bonding moment as they agree that they can bear the weight of this decision so that the rest of the Quantum Crew won’t have to. Kanade spends the rest of the night watching movies with Hibiki, who thinks that she can live with her choices if it means that her friends are alive and that she can have a normal relationship with her sister.
  • Since Setsuka didn’t get the chance to celebrate her birthday the day before, she celebrates now, and she does so by getting very drunk. (She’s had a habit of drinking heavily since she was 16.) Umeko takes care of her.
  • Chiaki, Hajime, and Yoruko gather the entirety of Class 77-B, plus Chisa and Juzo, together at Chiaki’s house. They introduce them to the Voids, Taira, and Sora, and the new friends have a bit of bonding time (during which Nagito tells everyone that Kanata is going to be a member of Class 78). The Quantum Crew then shares the truth about the time travel and the Tragedy with Chisa, Juzo, and everyone in Class 77-B who doesn’t already know (Kazuichi, Akane, Nekomaru, Nagito, Ibuki, Teruteru, and the Ultimate Imposter). After a passionate plea from Chiaki, everybody present agrees to become allies of the Quantum Crew, and the Quantum Crew in turn agrees to help them with their own various issues. Hajime convinces Chisa and Juzo to keep this a secret from Kyosuke. With all that settled, the group turns in for the night.
  • Mikako tells Kokoro that she’s been having strange nightmares ever since her brain surgery, but when she describes the nightmares in question, they sound suspiciously like scenes from the Tragedy timeline. When asked to draw something from her nightmares, she does so, although she is briefly interrupted by Yamato showing up. The drawing turns out to be of a certain black-and-white bear. Kokoro tells Mikako and Yamato that this requires more investigation and that she needs to call an expert about it, but she’ll do whatever she can to help. As the siblings leave, Mikako hugs her mother and thanks her for saving her. Kokoro immediately calls Yoruko; she’s concerned that Mikako might be developing the ability to see into the future. She sends Yoruko the picture that Mikako drew, and Yoruko confirms that it is indeed Monokuma. Yoruko assures Kokoro that the Quantum Crew will help Mikako in any way they can.
• September 11: Kokoro and Yoruko tell Hajime and Umeko about Mikako’s possibly prophetic dreams. Umeko theorizes that Mikako could be recalling information via a tachyonic antitelephone that can send the information back through time in a form of precognitive dreaming, although she admits that she needs to do more research. She and Kokoro will look into this, while Hajime’s priorities are finding out who coordinated with the police to cause the prison break and Kanade’s escape, as well as where Maverick is.
• September 13: It's Yasuke's birthday. He turns 16.
• September 17: It’s Ayame’s birthday. She turns 15. Taira celebrates with her and also gets to meet her parents.
• September 18: Kakeru and Midori visit Setsuka, Umeko, and the Warriors of Hope. The children play Cluedo, and Midori proves herself to be a master of board games.
• September 22: While investigating a spree of recent disappearances, Kyoko tells Sayaka about Miharu Kirigiri, her 9-year-old second cousin on her father's side, who looks up to her as an inspiration. Kyoko has already been tasked by Sayaka with keeping an eye on Makoto, but she's determined to watch over Miharu as well.
• September 24: It’s been 2 weeks since the prison break, and the Quantum Crew still hasn’t learned anything new about who caused it, where Maverick is, or what’s up with Mikako. However, a discarded prison outfit with Maverick’s number on it has been found in a dumpster in Akihabara.
  • Taira is no longer employed by the Togamis; instead, she has a new part-time job at a supermarket. Her job includes a barista post at the coffee kiosk in the store. Nikei comes in to get some coffee, and they chat about her progressing relationship with Ayame (which may or may not include some flirting now) while Sora indulges vicariously in her love of bitter coffee. Talk turns to the future Ultimate Lucky Student of Class 79, Yuki Maeda, who has made several appearances at Taira’s supermarket recently to buy Momonoki man chocolates. Sora, who still feels protective over her old friend, will keep an eye on him.
  • Iroha and Makoto have been on three dates and are now an official couple. Maku, Emma, and Jataro (who is learning how to apply makeup) give Iroha a “beauty upgrade” and listen to her gush about Makoto. They are having another date tonight at Makoto’s house to watch Sayaka Maizono’s concert on TV (which is a benefit concert for the Rebuild Akihabara Fund). Emma talks to her agent and adoptive parents on the phone and lets them know that she’s okay, then lends Iroha some blue lipstick for the occasion. Everyone wishes Iroha luck, and she cheerily skips all the way to the bus stop.
  • Mikan submitted her adoption form for Kotoko about a month ago, but she hasn’t heard anything back yet. Setsuka reassures Kotoko that the agency will certainly let them know soon. Also, the Warriors of Hope have been told about the Tragedy/time travel/etc.
  • Kyoji, Monaca, and Kanade have developed into their own little family. Kyoji gives Kanade some new clothes that Hibiki bought for her. He’s still too ashamed of himself to resume contact with Miaya, especially now that Maverick’s on the loose, but Monaca and Kanade encourage him to consider her feelings and to make things right with her instead of stewing in self-loathing. He resolves to visit her as soon as he can. That settled, they all watch horror movies together.
  • The two unknown time travelers have not deviated from their usual patterns of movement. Umeko is monitoring them via her long-range detector.
  • Syobai calls Yoruko and tells her that he’s found the home address of Minako Tomori in Takayama. Yoruko is then visited by Mikan and Hibiki; it seems that the Cuddle Puddle is making plans to have sex on each of their 18th birthdays, and they’d like some advice about it. After making sure that it’s something they genuinely want, Yoruko counsels them not to worry about making it the best thing in the world and to focus on staying safe and having fun.
  • Hiyoko is taking Hajime to meet her grandmother, Izumi Saionji, in Kyoto. They hope to win Izumi’s approval of their relationship and maybe even work out a way for Hiyoko to see her parents again. Hiyoko advises Hajime to be polite, not to show any weaknesses, not to argue with her, and not to let her get to him. After saying goodbye to the rest of the Cuddle Puddle, they depart on a 6-hour limo trip to Izumi’s house.
  • Kokoro and Umeko go to the Kisaragi household to check on Mikako. When they get there, they are greeted by a frantic Yamato, who explains that Mikako locked herself in her room and has been screaming, crying, and praying since last night. The group rushes to Mikako’s room and tries to coax her out, but when Umeko detects a small impulse of tachyon energy, they’re forced to break down the door. There, they find Mikako on her bed, crying and praying while clutching her necklace, surrounded by her drawings of the world on fire that are straight out of the Tragedy timeline. Everyone comforts her, Kokoro gives her some anxiolytic to help her calm down, and Umeko tells Yamato and Hanzo that Mikako’s dreams are of the future. Kokoro and Umeko don’t talk about Kasugano, as Kokoro wants to keep her daughter safe, so they only say that they’re trying to put together a timeline of the Tragedy future in order to change it. After Umeko explains all the science, Mikako agrees to run some experiments with Kokoro and Umeko to learn how her precognitive powers work.
  • At noon, Hajime and Hiyoko arrive at the Saionji mansion, and Hajime meets Izumi for the first time. He manages to give off a halfway-decent first impression, but he and Hiyoko have a hard time enduring Izumi’s racist, classist remarks. Izumi announces that they will be having dinner tonight with some guests, and she orders Hajime to make himself look presentable. Once she’s gone, Hiyoko apologizes to Hajime for her grandmother’s attitude. The pair get changed into the nice clothes that have been provided for them, and she shows him around the mansion.
  • During Taira’s break, she, Sora, and Nikei go to the local Farbucks to try a special coffee called Liquid Cocaine. Sora tells Taira and Nikei about Yuki, her friendship with him in the Tragedy timeline, and her wish for him to have a normal life like he wanted. She worries that because her protectiveness of him was programmed into her code by Mikado, she might only care about him because she doesn’t have a choice, but Taira reminds her that she broke free of her programming shackles and still fought to save Yuki afterwards, meaning that her unconditional love for him is real. Sora gives Taira her blessing to date Yuki if things go that way in the future. Both Taira and Nikei admit to finding Yuki cute, although when Taira asks Nikei if he’s into guys, he gets cagey and doesn’t want to talk about it right now. Taira hugs Sora through the phone.
  • Kyoji and Kazuichi stop by the Void Warehouse. Kazuichi fixes the lights in the roof and nearly gets attacked by a bird while he’s at it. He mentions that he and Chihiro are thinking about building a robot together. Kyoji, who has brought a box of medicines and bandages, tells Maku and Emma another story about Maverick; he had a girlfriend named Haley Arai for a few years before he went to Hope’s Peak, but their relationship ended after he convinced her brother to engage in a school shooting, which left her paralyzed. It’s abundantly clear by now that Maverick is a sadistic man whose motives seem to be “because it’s fun.” Kyoji is focused on protecting everyone from him, so he asks to be told if anyone sees anything weird.
  • Gundham stays vigilant for any sign of Maverick, as he is worried about the potential danger posed to his friends and partners (he’s mostly integrated into the Cuddle Puddle at this point). Hibiki hugs him and assures him that he doesn’t have to fight alone. When Gundham wonders why the rest of the Cuddle Puddle accepts him so easily, Hibiki asks him about his past. In his typical Gundham style, Gundham explains that his father abandoned him and his mother, both families rejected them, and although his mother was a good mother who helped him discover his passion for animals, she died of an illness 2 years ago. As such, he thought he would always be alone, but Hibiki tells him that he’s loved by the Cuddle Puddle and that he shouldn’t isolate himself from them. They have a tender moment, then go to play games with the others. Also, Mikan finds a brochure in the mail for a place called Sunny Days Vacation Island, causing the Cuddle Puddle to consider the idea of taking a vacation at some point.
  • Iroha and Komaru prepare to watch Sayaka’s concert while waiting for Makoto to come home from school. Komaru, being a Sayaker, is of course very excited. Iroha is also excited, and since she knows that Sayaka will be one of the girls who develops feelings for Makoto in the future, she’s already dreaming of a Cuddle Puddle-esque polyamorous relationship involving her (and the other girls who will like Makoto). However, Iroha also knows that Makoto’s worst day ever is today, so he’ll probably miss the concert. She plans to comfort him when he gets home.
  • Makoto takes a different route home from school. He’s in a good mood and is looking forward to seeing Sayaka’s concert with Iroha and Komaru. Unfortunately, a series of unlucky events happen to him. He loses a game of rock-paper-scissors, so he has to buy food for his friends, but his bag rips open and sends all the food into the street. Kazuo Tengan drinks one of his coffee cans and tells him that no one has control over their fate. Then, they both end up on a bus that is taken hostage by a jewel thief named Jutarou Akafuku after Makoto accidentally exposes his stolen jewels. Kazuo fights Jutarou, Makoto manages to step on the brakes, and Jutarou tries to escape on a mailman’s motorbike, only to crash it as a result of an aluminum can that Makoto failed to pick up earlier. All of the mailman’s letters are destroyed in the explosion, including the letter to the original Ultimate Lucky Student of Class 78, ensuring that Makoto will be the Lucky Student and go to Hope’s Peak. Nearby, Taira and Sora realize that the Ankle Effect is not actively seeking to make the Quantum Crew’s lives miserable, but only wants everything to happen as it did in the Tragedy timeline.
  • It’s time for dinner at the Saionji household, and the mystery guests are Hiyoko’s Aunt Momoko and her husband Teru. (Momoko is actually a first cousin once removed, but she’s called Aunt Momoko.) At dinner, Hajime and Hiyoko tell the story of how they got together, and it comes out that Saionji women are expected to find husbands by around 18 or 19. The conversation goes belly-up when Izumi disapproves of Hajime’s social status. This causes an argument between everyone at the table, and Izumi threatens to pull Hiyoko out of Hope’s Peak. Momoko and Teru send Hiyoko and Hajime to their rooms while they try to talk some sense into Izumi, then go to give encouragement to the young lovers. Hajime and Hiyoko take a bath together.
  • Umeko tells Mikako about the quantum physics behind her precog powers and also about time travel. Mikako experiments by looking about 5 to 10 years into the future, and she shows Kokoro a vision where Kokoro and a grown-up Kanata are with a teenage Kotoko and a little girl named Sayuri Hinata (the future daughter of Hajime and Hibiki). Mikako suffers some mild seizures from the side effects of future-seeing, but other than that, things look good. Kokoro calls Iroha and asks her to draw pictures of Sayuri, teenage Kotoko, and grown-up Kanata. Mikako has just enough strength left to show Yamato a vision of himself hanging out with their future classmates.
  • Emma is thinking about having her adoptive parents adopt Masaru.
  • Sayaka’s concert starts. Iroha and Komaru watch it by themselves, since Makoto’s still stuck at the police station after his terrible day. They enjoy it very much. Komaru goes to check the mail in the middle of it, and just as Sayaka announces that she will be part of Class 78, Komaru finds a Hope’s Peak acceptance letter addressed to Makoto. The girls rejoice, and when Makoto returns from the police station, Komaru shares the happy news with him. After celebrating with his family, Makoto goes up to his room to find Iroha on his bed, surrounded by dandelion petals that she picked herself. They cuddle and kiss together in bed as Makoto tells Iroha about his day. She stays the night.
  • Hiyoko and Hajime wait for Izumi to make up her mind, and they talk about whether or not they can (or should) get married. Eventually, Hiyoko is called to see her grandmother. When Izumi asks Hiyoko why she wants a romance with Hajime despite his status, Hiyoko argues that it’s not the Tokugawa Period anymore, that character matters more than class, and that although tradition is important, the Sainoji Clan needs to change and evolve with the times or else be left behind. Izumi decides to sleep on this and make her decision in the morning. Hiyoko and Hajime end the night by snuggling together on the futon.
  • It's Tsubasa's birthday. She turns 19.
• September 25: Nikei visits Setsuka. He’s been looking up information about Maverick, and he’s discovered that literally every foster parent Maverick ever had committed suicide. Setsuka relates the story of the one time she met Maverick when she was at Hope’s Peak; he told Umeko that Setsuka thought she was a disgusting pervert, Umeko avoided Setsuka for a week out of guilt before Setsuka found out what was going on, and when Setsuka confronted Maverick about this, he threatened her with a disturbing anecdote about how people are like baby birds. She changes the subject to ask how things are between Nikei and Taira. Nikei confesses that he does like her, but he doesn’t know what his sexual orientation is, and trying to figure it out has been a minefield of issues in and of itself. Pretty much the only thing he’s worked out so far is that he tends to get crushes on people who are kind to him. Setsuka hugs him and tells him that how he labels himself is entirely his decision and that he’s a good person who deserves happiness. Right before he leaves, Nikei asks about Setsuka’s family, and she hints that she has issues with her mother.
  • Sonia makes breakfast for the Cuddle Puddle (minus Hajime and Hiyoko, who are still at Izumi’s). Iroha stops by and shows them her drawings of the people in Mikako’s vision. Hibiki is very happy to hear that she and Hajime will have a daughter, and Mikan is reassured by the implication that her adoption of Kotoko will be successful. This is a future they definitely want to work towards.
  • While Maku is out on an early morning jog, he comes across a wall of 20 different missing person posters, including one of Kanon. All of the missing people vanished from their homes between September 20 and September 22. Maku lets the other Voids know right away, and they in turn inform the rest of the Quantum Crew.
  • At Hope’s Peak, Chiaki and Mikan find out that the Student Council has been hit hard by the mass disappearances. Aiko’s online friend Damian is gone, as is Kiriko’s younger brother Hiroyuki. Both of them were acting depressed before their disappearances. Chiaki and Mikan promise Aiko and Kiriko that they will find everyone who went missing. They suspect that Maverick is involved.
  • Yoruko goes to Takayama and visits her old senpai, Minako Tomori, who is the mother of Kizuna Tomori. Minako and Yoruko both apologize about what happened when they last saw each other 13 years ago, and they agree to be friends again. As they reminisce over old pictures, Minako tells Yoruko that she was a single teen mother during her hostess days and that she was working that job to provide for not only her younger siblings, but baby Kizuna as well. Now, Kizuna is a vivacious albeit materialistic teenager who is the most popular girl at school and the captain of her cheerleading squad. However, Minako is concerned about the attention Kizuna gets (and encourages) from boys, and she worries that it might be her own fault for the way she raised her. Minako is happy to hear that Yoruko has a girlfriend, though.
  • Sora keeps watch over Yuki’s house and nearly has a panic attack when he’s late coming home. He does show up eventually, but he seems sad, and he looks at something in a drawer before going to have dinner with his mother.
  • Umeko and Kokoro have to go back to Hope’s Peak to deal with the new situation. Mikako insists on tagging along, as she thinks that her precog powers were meant to help save people. Kokoro initially refuses because she doesn’t want to put her daughter in danger, but after Umeko points out that having Mikako there might be a benefit for the Quantum Crew, Kokoro agrees under the condition that Mikako stays safe at Hope’s Peak. Yamato is also coming with them.
  • There are now 53 people missing. The Quantum Crew and their allies in Class 77-B meet at Hope’s Peak to discuss what they know so far. Most of the disappearances are of teenagers, they all showed signs of depression, and they all seem to have left their houses on their own. Kyoji argues that the crew must devote all their resources to dealing with Maverick as soon as possible, lest he use indoctrination to create a cult, but Chisa and Chiaki think he’s being reckless and underestimating the police’s possible involvement in order to leap at the chance for revenge. They talk him down and help him to remember that he’s part of a team that needs to work together. They also encourage him to reach out to Miaya. Sora pops by with the news that she’s found a mysterious code amidst the deleted data on Damian’s computer.
  • As Hajime and Hiyoko get ready to head back home, Izumi tells Hiyoko that while she’s disappointed in her decision to marry Hajime, she will accept it, but she’s keeping an eye on them. Also, she’s not pulling Hiyoko out of Hope’s Peak, at least not for now. Hiyoko hugs Izumi and thanks her for listening to her. Hajime and Hiyoko are engaged now, and Hajime promises to take Hiyoko to see her parents after the Maverick situation is dealt with.
  • There are now 72 people missing. Kazuichi’s trying to crack the code, with some online help from Chihiro, while Sora’s checking the websites in Damian’s search history to see where he could’ve gotten it from. Kyoji has a brainstorm and realizes that the code is a VPN password. The gang wonders how Maverick sent out the VPN, and Ibuki suggests that it was sent throught the mail. Chiaki goes to ask Kiriko if Hiroyuki got anything strange in the mail, and she mentions finding a brochure on his desk for a place called Sunny Days Vacation Island…the same brochure that was delivered to the Cuddle Puddle yesterday.
  • Sora checks on Yuki’s house again, but it’s too late. He’s gone.
  • Hibiki brings the brochure to the rest of the group just as a distraught Sora tells them about Yuki’s disappearance. They find a QR code on the brochure, and scanning it allows access to the VPN. After Sora checks to make sure there’s nothing on it that can brainwash anyone, the Quantum Crew watches the Sunny Days video. It’s Maverick Storm, offering an escape from all the pain and stress of life at Sunny Days Vacation Island, where you can focus on enjoying yourself and never have to worry about anything ever again. The Quantum Crew is horrified.
  • It's Kanon's birthday. She turns 14.
• September 27: There are now 104 people missing. The Quantum Crew still doesn’t know where Sunny Days Vacation Island is, but Mahiru is using her photography prowess to analyze Maverick’s video for clues. So far, she’s deduced that he’s not using a green screen or a movie set, and she’s observing weather patterns in the video to narrow down a potential location.
  • The Naegis got a Sunny Days brochure, but it was accidentally thrown away thanks to Makoto’s luck, and Iroha warned them about it.
  • Chiaki calls her parents for the first time since August in order to make sure that they’re safe. Tenmei and Harumi Nanami are okay, albeit busy and worried about their daughter, and Chiaki assures them that she’s okay as well. She warns them about the brochure.
  • Taira goes to check on Ayame. She finds her barricaded in her house, and after they hug, Ayame explains that she’s afraid and doesn’t want to be alone right now because she saw one of her neighbors get taken. They were standing outside at night, a car appeared out of thin air, they got into the car, and then the car vanished. Taira stays with Ayame to help her feel safer.
  • The fact that a brochure was delivered to the Cuddle Puddle at Chiaki’s house gives Chiaki an idea. She wants to click the button on the Sunny Days VPN that will send someone to pick her up and take her to the island. Her friends are nervous about this idea, but they concede that it’s their best bet at finding the missing people. Hajime will go with her. Kyoji advises Chiaki and Hajime not to answer any personal questions from Maverick and not to let him get into their heads.
  • Unfortunately, Sora cannot be involved in the mission to the island, as she has a crippling fear of water due to her PTSD.
  • Hajime and Emma go to Umeko and Setsuka’s house. Emma plays with Masaru, Midori, and the other Warriors of Hope, Setsuka is busy talking to Kakeru about the legal requirements for a more permanent solution to the problem of what to do with Maverick when he’s been captured, and Hajime chats with Umeko about the logistics of sending messages to and from the island. Since no one can deliver any messages to the people on the island, the Quantum Crew concludes that Maverick must have radio jammers up to prevent signals from getting through. Umeko’s solution is to find a way to compress the messages to a small enough level that they can get through said radio jammers.
  • Taira calls Hajime from Ayame’s house and tells him what Ayame saw. They hypothesize that Maverick might be in possession of cloaking devices, which also would explain the man at the police station who disappeared after talking to Juu the day before the prison break. This implies that whoever’s backing Maverick is the same person who backed Kanade.
  • At the Hope’s Peak Medical Building, Kokoro performs an MRI on Mikako and finds no signs of damage. Thus assured, Mikako wants to try seeing the future again. First, she shows Hiyoko another glimpse of the nice future from before; in this vision, a grown-up Hiyoko and Hibiki are with three little girls, one of which is Sayuri. The other two are Itsuki Hinata (the future daughter of Hajime and Hiyoko) and Kana Hinata (the future daughter of Hajime and Chiaki). Hiyoko is happy to see such a wonderful future. Next, Mikako shows Nekomaru a vision that’s set a few days from now. In it, Nekomaru is with Kyoji, Fuyuhiko, Monaca, Mikan, and Gundham on a boat at night, and they’re making plans to invade the island with the help of gas drones made by Monaca. A deadline is also mentioned. Mikako gets seizures again. Yamato and Kokoro encourage her to rest when she needs to.
  • The Quantum Crew convenes via video chat to share their findings and create a plan. They decide that Chiaki and Hajime will go to the island, while Umeko will compress the messages. Once Chiaki and Hajime are there, they will map the place out, see what’s going on, figure out how to take down the radio jammers, and then coordinate a rescue/capture mission. Hajime asks his teammates to pretend to be Kasugano if necessary. It turns out that Mahiru, with Honami’s help, has pinpointed the island’s location to somewhere around the Izu Islands. Kazuichi has also made some contact lenses for Chiaki to wear that will give the rest of the crew a video feed of what happens at the island.
  • There are now 107 people missing. One of them is Kizuna. Yoruko hears about it via a phone call from Minako, who is very upset about her daughter’s disappearance. Chiaki subsequently decides that she and Hajime will leave tonight. Umeko assures her that she can have the message compressor ready by 2 AM. Yoruko wishes them luck and gives Hajime a hug.
  • Iroha shows the Cuddle Puddle her drawings (commissioned by Hiyoko) of Sayuri, Itsuki, and Kana. Hope and happiness ensues.
  • Taira and Ayame watch movies together. Ayame is still frightened, but she thanks Taira for staying with her. They share a blanket. Ayame tells Taira about her dream to win a gold medal in the Olympics someday, as well as her fears that she might not be good enough, and Taira shares her own insecurities about whether or not people would like the real her. They encourage each other and agree to be better together. Ayame kisses Taira, leading to makeouts and confessions of feelings, and they become a couple.
  • As Hajime and Chiaki wait for 2 AM, Kotoko and Mikan pop by, as Kotoko wanted to see Hajime and Chiaki before they left. She hugs them, wishes them good luck, and tells them that she loves them.
• September 28: At 1:58 AM, Umeko calls Hajime and tells him that the message compressor is ready. Hajime and Chiaki exchange goodbyes with the rest of the Cuddle Puddle, reopen the VPN, and click the button to accept a place at Sunny Days Vacation Island. An hour later, a cloaked car arrives to pick them up, and they leave.
  • It’s a long way to the island, so Chiaki takes a nap in the car. She dreams of a memory with her father Tenmei; she asks him to play with her, but he can’t because he has to work. When she wakes up, it’s sunrise, and she and Hajime are on a boat to the island.
  • When the boat approaches the island, it enters the area affected by the radio jammers, and Umeko activates the message compressor. This way, messages can get through the radio jammers and straight to Hajime’s brain. It works, although Hajime is briefly taken aback by the sudden yelling in his head.
  • Over at Ayame’s house, Taira agrees to stay until Ayame’s parents get back. She admits to her new girlfriend that there’s another person she likes besides her, and she wants to make both of them happy, so she asks if they can get together and talk about having a polyamorous relationship. Ayame giggles about Taira’s “harem protagonist” ambition and agrees to give it a shot.
  • Chiaki and Hajime arrive at the island. They are immediately told to give up their cell phones, passports, wallets, credit cards, and personal identification, which they reluctantly do. Chiaki puts on Kazuichi’s contacts. She and Hajime are led to a beautiful resort with a stage, a pool, and a hotel. There, they find Kanon and Damian, who are two of the four managers of the resort. Kizuna is also there, and she is high on weed. Chiaki and Hajime are then introduced to their tour guide and third manager, Kana Ise, who voiced the lead role in the Red Valley Saga video game. After fangirling over Chiaki for a bit, she shows her and Hajime around the island. They are told that Maverick always invites new arrivals to dinner, so they’ll meet him tonight at 6 PM. At the hotel, they run across Yuki, find out that he is the fourth manager, and get assigned to stay in Room 101 together. Kana asks Chiaki if she can talk to her later.
  • Once they’ve settled into Room 101 and checked for hidden cameras, Hajime and Chiaki decide to find out as much about the island as possible. For now, Hajime takes a nap, while Chiaki goes to see what Kana wants. It turns out that Kana is a big fan of Chiaki and is happy that she liked her voice work in Red Valley Saga, so she gives her a list of all the games she has voice acted for. Chiaki agrees to go through the list and play the ones she hasn’t played yet with Kana. They hear an announcement from Maverick over the loudspeaker where he pontificates about why you should never dismiss anyone as stupid. Chiaki determines that if the Quantum Crew wants to land a boat on the island, they must take control of the docks.
  • As the Quantum Crew watches all this via the video feed from Chiaki’s contacts, Maku mentions that Kana was one of the first to go missing.
  • After Kanata has a nightmare in which Nagito’s lymphoma returns and he dies, Nagito comforts her and promises that thanks to her, he isn’t going anywhere for a while. He confesses that he knows “some people” who disappeared on purpose to find out the truth behind the mass disappearances, and she agrees to provide medical help if necessary. However, she’s worried about his dementia, which is incurable and has a prognosis of only 2-20 years. They hug, and Nagito proposes that they get married after they graduate. She accepts and kisses him.
  • It’s 6 PM and thus time for dinner with Maverick Storm. After Chiaki and Hajime take a shower together, they join Kana, Yuki, Kanon, and Damian at the table. Maverick himself shows up a few minutes later, and although he acts friendly, Chiaki and Hajime stay on their guard. Back at home, the rest of the Quantum Crew watches the proceedings, and an unsettled Kyoji comments that this isn’t how Maverick usually operates. He thinks it’s an act.
  • During dinner, Maverick owns up to his status as a prison escapee and claims that neither prison nor Hope’s Peak helped him find redemption after what he did. He created Sunny Days Vacation Island as a sort of “community service” because he supposedly believes in second chances. The four managers share their backstories. Kana was born out of wedlock, she and her mother faced a lot of prejudice as a result, and she left because she felt like a burden on her mother. Kanon devoted her whole life to her crush on her cousin Leon, and she left because she was scared that she’d end up killing herself or someone else over it. Damian was a victim of abuse from his alcoholic father, and he left to escape him. Yuki doesn’t feel like he’s special or like his life matters, and he left because he wanted to find a place in the world. Maverick sums it all up by saying that this island is a place where everyone can be better than they were.
  • Hearing the managers’ backstories takes an emotional toll on Chiaki. After dinner is over, she privately cries to Hajime, wondering why it seems like everyone they meet has something horrible happen to them and worrying that her own privilege as a “rich girl” might make her a bad person in comparison. Hajime comforts her, but he’s concerned about Maverick’s still-unknown goal, especially since no one else has arrived on the island since they did.
  • Chiaki finds a note from Kana hidden in the list of games. It says that Maverick will do something horrible in the next few days, and that Chiaki needs to visit the basement between midnight and 2:15 AM tonight to find the information she needs. The combination to the basement lock is provided for her. Chiaki is determined to save Kana and everyone else from Maverick, so she decides to go down there herself and have Hajime stay in Room 101 to cover for her.
  • Kyoji doesn’t trust anything about the note or the situation, but his teammates are concerned that he can’t be objective about anything related to Maverick. They all, even Kyoji, agree that Chiaki should investigate. It also seems quite likely that Maverick wants Chiaki specifically on the island for some reason.
• September 29: Just past 12:30 AM, Chiaki sneaks out of Room 101 and heads for the basement. On the way there, she sees Yuki and Kana trying to convince an inebriated Kizuna to go to bed, but Kizuna doesn’t want to go back to her room alone, so Yuki and Kana accompany her there. Chiaki makes it to the basement, uses the combination Kana gave her, and finds a bloody chamber with many tools of torture inside. She gets lots of footage of it via her contacts, and although she nearly gets caught by a person in a black bodysuit who comes to get pliers, she escapes the chamber undetected and goes back to Room 101 to tell Hajime about what she found.
  • When morning comes, Chiaki and Hajime pull Kana aside and tell her that they know what’s in the basement. Kana says that Maverick tortures and sometimes even kills people who don’t respond to his manipulations. This includes the managers themselves; apparently, Yuki’s back is covered in scars, and he needs to take painkillers just to sit down. Kana performs Dogeza and begs Chiaki and Hajime for their help. They tell her about their plan to take control of the docks and save everyone, she gives them a master key to the dock’s control room so that they can radio their friends, and they agree to meet up and go to the docks around 8 PM.
  • Yuki and Kizuna are growing closer.
  • Chiaki, who has seen scars on Kana’s back, tells Hajime that she wants to believe in Kana. Hajime does too, but he’s keeping his guard up just in case.
  • The Quantum Crew home team is furious about the recent revelations and wants to kick Maverick’s ass (aside from Kyoji, who still has misgivings). Monica’s knockout gas drones are ready, and Setsuka has secured two boats for the group to use. The plan is to send a group on the smaller boat (named the S.S. Saionji) to help take the docks and disable the radio jammers before calling in another group on the larger boat (the S.S. Koizumi) to kick off the island invasion. They’ll leave at 6:30 PM.
  • At 5:50 PM, Kana visits Chiaki and Hajime in Room 101 as they get ready for the mission to the docks. She asks them if everyone can still stay on the island after Maverick’s been defeated, as she doesn’t feel like she has anywhere else to go, but Chiaki assures her that she’s not alone; after all, she has her mother, who she loves dearly. Kana admits that she wants to see her mother again.
  • Sonia, Hibiki, Akane, Sora, and Taira will be the landing party aboard the S.S. Saionji, and Taira will swim out ahead of the boat to secure the areas around the island. Nikei, Maku, Kyoji, Monaca, Setsuka, Hiyoko, and Nekomaru will come in on the S.S. Koizumi once they get the go-ahead. Yoruko and Mikan will be waiting on the mainland to call 119 when everyone gets back, Emma and Iroha will keep an eye on Kanade, and Umeko will continue to maintain communications. Fuyuhiko couldn’t make it today, which concerns Nekomaru, as he saw him as part of the invasion team in Mikako’s vision. Nikei and Taira share a kiss. The S.S. Saionji and its crew leaves for the island at 6 on the dot.
  • 8 PM arrives, and Kana escorts Hajime and Chiaki to the docks (she twice offers to go by herself, but Chiaki insists that they stick together). Once there, Hajime uses a radio to contact the S.S. Saionji, which is only a few minutes away from the island. He then says that he’s suspicious of Kana’s loyalties for several reasons: the basement door wasn’t armored or reinforced at all, Yuki was sitting normally at dinner despite supposedly being tortured too hard to sit without painkillers, and Kana seems to have a strange fixation on Chiaki. Also, her scars are fake. Kana has led them into a trap, and so Maverick’s guards uncloak themselves, hold Chiaki and Hajime at gunpoint, and fire upon the approaching S.S. Saionji. The boat gets away, but Taira (who jumped into the water shortly before the trap was sprung) is left behind.
  • Hajime and Chiaki are marched back to the hotel and taunted by Maverick, who reveals that the torture chamber was fake and that he set up the whole thing as a “game” to see how far they’d go to be heroes. He knows that they’re working with Kasugano. He claims that Kasugano is about power and doesn’t actually help anyone who needs it, that the people on the island are happy there and shouldn’t be sent back to their old terrible lives, and that Chiaki has hurt Kana without even knowing it. Hajime and Chiaki are now essentially prisoners, although they are allowed to do whatever they want on the island as long as they don’t cause trouble.
  • Chiaki goes to the hotel lobby to talk to Kana and ask her for answers. Kana reveals that her biological father is Chiaki’s father, making the two girls half-sisters, and Kana resents it because of the suffering she and her mother went through as a result of her status as an illegitimate child. However, she confesses that she doesn’t hate Chiaki like she thought she would. Chiaki doesn’t hate Kana either and, in fact, still wants to save her. When Kana says that her life doesn’t matter, Chiaki decides to help her see that it does.
  • Taira hides in the forest surrounding the hotel. She must lay low for now because of the guards, so she spends the night in a tree.
  • The crew of the S.S. Saionji returns to Tokyo and tells everyone else what happened. Just then, Maverick sends out a radio broadcast to the entire country in which he gives an ultimatum: either Kasugano reveals himself and dies before 9 AM on October 2, or everyone on the island will be killed one by one. The Quantum Crew is devastated and terrified for their friends.
  • After Kana tells Maverick that she can’t hate Chiaki because she’s kind to her, Maverick hits her, tells her that she’s nothing, and claims that people would only be kind to her in order to use her.
  • It's Misako's birthday. She turns 44.
  • It’s Koichi’s birthday. He turns 38.
• September 30: Hajime and Chiaki meet the four managers in the lounge, and they are all very upset with them for trying to save them from the island. At Kana’s suggestion, she and Chiaki do a DNA test with a machine that Kyoji invented, and their half-sister relationship is confirmed. Kana found out during the practical exams back in June, when Chiaki’s appearance caused Misako to confess the truth to her daughter. Chiaki tells Kana that what happened between their parents has nothing to do with them. Kana runs off crying, Chiaki follows her, Kana screams at her to drop the “act” and hate her already, and Chiaki chooses to hug her instead. She wants the chance to be an actual older sister to Kana.
  • Chiaki, Kana, Hajime, Damian, Kanon, Yuki, and Kizuna play video games together. It turns out that Yuki and Kizuna have started dating, although they are taking things slow for now.
  • Taira’s still in the forest, trying to find a way into the hotel. She finds oranges to eat for breakfast.
  • The tide of public opinion is turning against the Quantum Crew. Juu has declared Kasugano public enemy #1; anyone who brings in evidence on the identity of Kasugano and his allies will get a reward, and anyone who brings in their bodies will get a full pardon. In Shinjuku, Governor Takeo Fujimori of the House of Representatives calls Kasugano a threat to national security. There’s also an anti-Kasugano protest going on outside Hope’s Peak.
  • Kyoji figures out that Maverick is, for some reason, targeting Chiaki specifically, and not just because of the Kasugano thing. He asks Mahiru to help him get in touch with both Misako and the Nanamis so that they can learn the truth about Kana’s parentage. Umeko calls him with the fear that they might not have the right to change the future and that things might be hopeless, but he assures her that nothing is inevitable as long as there’s life.
  • Fuyuhiko asks his parents, Toshiro and Yukiko Kuzuryu, for the Kuzuryu Clan’s assistance in saving the people on the island. Toshiro is vocally against getting involved, and he even snaps at Peko at one point, but Fuyuhiko manages to convince him by vowing to prove that he can lead the Clan. Natsumi will help Mahiru and Honami track down Misako and the Nanamis.
  • Leon posts a video to Twitter. He’s freaking out about Kanon’s safety, he blames Kasugano, and he threatens to kill him himself.
  • Mikako tells Yamato that she had a vision about what will happen on the island. She saw a cloud of dust, a destroyed room, and two people standing at the other end, and then she heard a gunshot. Yamato hugs her and suggests that they should go on the next mission to the island so that they can save whoever might get hurt. They agree to convince Kokoro to let them come along.
  • As Hajime and Chiaki find out, the Quantum Crew’s actions have negatively affected the lives of the managers. Damian hoped to go to Hope’s Peak as the Ultimate Archer to get away from his father, especially since Aiko was also a student there, but when the Quantum Crew exposed what was going on at Hope’s Peak Elementary, he lost that hope. Kanon heard the story of Kanade, who the Quantum Crew defeated, and feared that she might end up just like her. Yuki saw all the Quantum Crew’s accomplishments and felt inadequate in comparison. Chiaki tells them that if they stay on the island, they’ll all die, but Kana says that Maverick told them that their deaths will be faked because the world is going to end soon.
  • Maverick takes Chiaki to his office to talk with her one-on-one. He shares his pessimistic views on human nature, reveals that he’s been told about the future and that his backer wants Chiaki dead, disparages all her efforts and choices to save the world, and suggests that she just give up.
  • Taira finally makes it to the hotel. She climbs a tree, finds Hajime’s window, and reunites with him. They plan to have her break into Maverick’s office to see if she can find something helpful. Shortly afterwards, Chiaki returns to the bedroom and cries in Hajime’s arms, while Taira climbs up to the third floor and overhears a conversation between Yuki and Kizuna. Yuki is upset because he’s been told to kill, he doesn’t want to, and he thinks he’s weak, but Kizuna assures him that he’s not weak. She likes him because he’s genuinely nice, unlike the fake nice guys at her school, and although she’s had to keep up a facade to hide any weaknesses that could be taken advantage of, she can feel safe around him because he’s sweet and uncomplicated. Because of this, she doesn’t think he’d kill. They kiss. Afterwards, Taira climbs to the roof, sneaks into the hotel, breaks into Maverick’s office, and finds a chatroom open on his laptop.
  • Kyoji visits Miaya for the first time since he left Hope’s Peak, and they catch up on how their lives have been. He expresses guilt and anger about the Maverick situation, they talk about the importance of morality, and she tells him that he did a lot to reduce Maverick’s damage during their Hope’s Peak days and that he shouldn’t beat himself up for what he didn’t do. They hold hands.
  • Chiaki and Kana go to the roof to talk and look at the stars. Kana tells Chiaki that Storm wants the managers to kill Chiaki, and that if they do, he’ll bring their families to the island. He made the end of the world out to be a good thing. But because of Chiaki’s kindness, Kana doesn’t think she can kill her. Chiaki makes it clear that she will help save the world because there are, in fact, good things about it, and she hugs Kana and expresses her love for her. As they talk about their families, Kana remembers the rest of her conversation with her mother: the Nanamis were Misako’s two closest friends in college, and they helped out because Misako’s then-husband was sterile, but she lost contact with them. No cheating was involved. When Kana realizes that Storm lied to her and used her, she switches sides, apologizes to her sister, and decides to help her take Maverick down for good. She warns Chiaki about the invisible guards and Maverick’s “Alpha Protocol” that he will use if things go wrong for him, and she also gives her a master keycard that will open every door in the hotel.

October

• October 1: Mahiru and Honami have found Misako, Tenmei, and Harumi, who they bring to a Quantum Crew meeting. The three old friends reunite. Kasugano (actually Nikei covering for Hajime’s absence) asks for the truth about Kana’s parentage, and it’s explained that Tenmei was the sperm donor for Misako and her husband so that they could have a child. The friends hoped to raise Kana and Chiaki together, but then Misako’s abusive husband forced her to cut contact with the Nanamis. They divorced when Kana was a year old, but Misako hasn’t seen the Nanamis until now. Upon hearing that Maverick lied to Kana in order to pit her and Chiaki against each other, the Nanamis and Misako agree to help the Quantum Crew take him down. Misako will use her programming/hacking skills for the mission, and Harumi can help with first aid.
  • Kyoji tells Kanade that he reconnected with Miaya and suggests that she go see her to deal with her memory loss. Kanade thanks him for taking care of her and Monaca, and they hug. Miaya will take care of Kanade while Kyoji is away on the island mission.
  • Kokoro analyzes the footage from the island to try and figure out Maverick’s motives and goals.
  • Emma is staying at Umeko and Setsuka’s house for the night, and she notices that the Shiojiri time traveler is moving south towards the island at 72 km/hr.
  • Hajime, Chiaki, and Kana go over the information they have (Kana knows the layout of the hotel, but she hasn’t found out anything about the Alpha Protocol) and plan their next move. They want to talk to the other managers, but first, they meet with Taira. She tells them about the chatroom she found on Maverick’s laptop, in which Maverick and his unknown backer talk about where the managers ended up in the Tragedy and mention an “unlucky one” they want to find. The group doesn’t know who the backer is, but they do figure out that the backer seems to be targeting people important to the future. Kana’s confused about all this, but she’s determined to help however she can.
  • At 5:58 AM, the moving time traveler reaches Yoshida, which is right by the coast. The Quantum Crew, who’s making battle plans, hopes to intercept them at the island.
  • Iroha calls Makoto to check on him. He’s okay, but he and his family have noticed a person in a long raincoat who seems to be watching his house. Upon hearing this, Sonia speculates that there might be a team of people trying to keep the future on its Tragedy path.
  • Kyoji has prepared a “contingency” in a small briefcase. He plans to bring it to the island and show it to Maverick once the hostages are out of danger. He claims it’s the key to beating Maverick, but he can’t show it to anyone who is coming on the mission because he needs to be the only one in Maverick’s presence who knows what’s inside. He shows it to Umeko (who is not going on the mission), and she vouches for him. Monaca, who is staying on the boat, also knows what it is.
  • When the conversation turns to the unknown “unlucky one,” Utsuro is brought up, and Harumi overhears this and shares her Utsuro story with the group. She was working as a nurse at the hospital where Utsuro was born, and as part of his first miracle, she became pregnant with Chiaki, even though she had been told that she was infertile. This makes Chiaki a Child of Utsuro, just like the Voids and Taira. Divine Luck tends to focus around the bearer’s greatest desire (for Maku, Emma, Iroha, Nikei, and Taira, their Divine Luck centers around good health, acting, escaping danger, the truth, and finding a home, respectively), and because Chiaki was born because of Divine Luck, Sora determines that her Divine Luck centers around survival. She’s unkillable as long as she doesn’t despair, and that’s why Maverick has been trying to break her spirit. However, for all except Utsuro, Divine Luck will eventually reverse and turn into Divine Misfortune, condemning the bearer to a life of misery (which is why the Voids and Taira have spent so long searching for Utsuro). If this reversal of fortune happens, Maku’s illnesses will return, Emma’s acting career will go down in flames and/or something will happen to her parents and Roger, Iroha’s family will find her again and force her to come back, the police will find out that Nikei killed his parents and arrest him for it, Taira will end up homeless and alone, and Chiaki will quite literally die. The Quantum Crew will wait to tell Chiaki and Hajime about this until the Maverick situation is over.
  • Kana brings Damian to talk with Hajime and Chiaki, and they tell him that they need to leave the island because Maverick is only using them to hurt Chiaki and will kill them all when he’s done. They show him the evidence as well. Damian is angry at them and hints that he might prefer death to having to go back to his father, but Chiaki tells him that Aiko believes in him and has been crying and worrying about him the whole time he’s been gone. This, plus a promise of support from the group, convinces Damian to join their side. He tells them that they need to get into Maverick’s office in order to disable his cloaking devices.
  • Maverick has found a brown hair in his office that doesn’t belong to anyone who’s supposed to be on the island (it’s Taira’s), and he berates Yuki and Kanon for answers. He orders them to find the intruder and forbids Yuki from seeing Kizuna until they do.
  • Taira lays low and keeps an eye on Kizuna from a distance.
  • Fuyuhiko has 50 Yakuza members ready for when the Quantum Crew needs them (although Toshiro has said that if things go wrong, the Kuzuryu Clan can’t help anymore). Everyone is prepared for the mission, except for Nekomaru and Akane, who have yet to arrive. Yoruko calls Chisa to ask about the hold-up, then tells the group that some of them must return to Hope’s Peak.
  • It takes some convincing, but Kokoro finally agrees to let Mikako and Yamato go on the mission as long as they stay out of the line of fire.
  • The reason that Nekomaru and Akane can’t leave Hope’s Peak yet is because the anti-Kasugano mob outside Hope’s Peak is blocking their way. The mob (including Leon) has grown violent and is demanding that Kasugano come out and die so that their loved ones on the island can be saved. Chisa and Juzo are all that’s holding them back from attacking the school. Yoruko, Sonia, Nikei, and Sora show up. Sonia tries to talk sense into the mob, but they soon turn and attack her as well. Nikei saves her by claiming that he’s Kasugano, and the mob almost kills him, but Ayame and Kiriko step in at the last second. Kiriko tells the mob that this will solve nothing, that they themselves played a role in their loved ones’ disappearances, and that the best thing to do is to work together and be better. Everyone decides to help bring their loved ones home.
  • Nikei thanks Ayame for saving his life and assures her that Taira is okay. When they’re asked how they got there in time, Ayame and Kiriko say that they were told by a person in a raincoat that their friends were in trouble and they needed to get to Hope’s Peak. The Quantum Crew and their 77-B allies, along with Mikako and Yamato, leave Hope's Peak for the island mission; everyone else goes to help the Coast Guard with the rescue operation.
  • Maverick talks to Kana and Damian about the intruder. He thinks that it’s good that Kana and Chiaki are getting closer, and he tells the story of his relationship with Haley Arai to encourage Kana to take the chance at sisterhood with Chiaki. Really, he wants her to convince Chiaki that the world sucks and is doomed and that staying on the island is best for everyone. Kana and Damian play along long enough to learn that the window to Maverick’s office opens from the inside, but once the three of them are outside the office, Kana splashes tea in Maverick’s face, and she and Damian push him down the stairs and barricade themselves in his office. They try to use his laptop to shut down the jammers, but then Maverick breaks back into the office, shoots Damian in the leg, and threatens them both. Fortunately, this is when Nikei-as-Kasugano broadcasts a message telling all of Japan that he and his allies will retaliate against Maverick unless he releases his prisoners by tomorrow morning. Kana uses her voice acting skills to mimic Maverick and send the guards to the beach, Damian pins Maverick to the wall via an arrow through his tie, and both get away with the laptop.
  • Kana and Damian return to Room 101 with the laptop, where Hajime and Chiaki do their best to treat Damian’s wound. They start making plans to get in contact with Taira, crack the password on Maverick’s laptop, and help the other managers, but they are interrupted by Maverick telling them via radio that they will now be against everyone on the island and they have 13 hours until his deadline. He’ll be in his office until then. Hajime, Chiaki, Kana, and Damian decide to wait a few hours and then go through the vents to get outside.
  • Monaca has her gas drones ready. She hugs Kyoji and promises that she’ll stay on the boat when they get to the island. Misako has also patched the drones to protect them from any potential hackers.
  • At the Nanami house, Mikan promises Kotoko that she’ll come back safely from the mission. She then meets the Nanami parents, who have come with Hibiki to pick her up for the mission. Iroha will watch Kotoko while Mikan is gone. The Nanamis are willing to let Mikan and Kotoko stay with them for as long as they need, and they say that they will stay at home for Chiaki more often from now on. They plan to talk to her once the mission is over.
  • Everyone involved in the rescue operation (the Coast Guard, emergency services, and hundreds of civilian responders) converges on the beach. Tsurugi and Setsuka are curious as to who organized the operation, so Kanata and Nagito (who are involved in the first aid division) direct them to Byakuya and Leon in the main building. It turns out that Byakuya is in charge. He wants to prove his company’s power and catch a glimpse of what Kasugano can do, and he tells Tsurugi in no uncertain terms to stay out of his way. Tsurugi manages to convince him to allow a few officers on site for support.
• October 2: Just past midnight, Hajime and his group sneak out of the building via the vents once Taira gives them the all-clear. They try to figure out the code to Maverick’s laptop, but have no success, and Kana figures out that the laptop is a decoy. The real one is still in Maverick’s office, so they need to go back and get it.
  • Taira ties some rope around her waist and climbs up the side of the hotel to find the best way in. During the climb, she figures out that Chiaki has Divine Luck. She also sees Yuki and Kizuna talking in Yuki’s room. Yuki feels hopeless about the situation and offers to find a boat to help Kizuna escape, but Kizuna doesn’t want to leave him and everyone else. She expresses regret for what she’s done in the past in the name of being liked, and she encourages him not to give up. They’re interrupted by a guard at the door; apparently, he was sent by Maverick to fetch Kizuna. Taira steps in, beats up the guard, saves Kizuna, and convinces her and Yuki to join Hajime’s resistance team.
  • Once everyone’s been let in by Taira, the group plans to send Yuki to mislead the guards, have Chiaki put on a cloaking device suit and get the laptop from Maverick’s office, and have Damian use his archery skills to create a zipline back down from the office. Everyone else is on distraction duty. Secretly, Taira tells Kana about Chiaki’s Divine Luck.
  • The plan is carried out, and everyone plays their parts perfectly. Chiaki goes into Maverick’s office and steals the laptop, but while there, she sees a microphone and uses it to make a radio broadcast to the entire country. She tells everyone that Maverick is behind what has happened and encourages those on the island not to give in to self-pity and despair, because they have the power to make the world a better place. Immediately afterwards, Maverick barges in, admits that he underestimated Chiaki’s selflessness and determination, traps her in the office, and tries to shoot her. Chiaki ends up launching herself out the office window and is saved by Damian’s archery-made zip line, which helps her get back to the others.
  • Byakuya, Tsurugi, and their rescue operation compatriots hear Chiaki’s speech and agree to send Maverick to jail after they’ve caught him. The fire department, led by Shinji, has arrived to help. Kanata sees Shinji and recognizes him as the firefighter who saved her life. Nagito promises to find her a chance to talk to him once this is all over.
  • The Quantum Crew’s island rescue mission officially begins as they leave Tokyo via their two boats at 4:30 AM. Team One (Sonia, Gundham, Nekomaru, Akane, Fuyuhiko, Hibiki, Monaca, Kyoji, Mikan, Sora, Harumi, Tenmei, Misako) will approach the island from the north, while Team Two (Hiyoko, Peko, Maku, Nikei, Yamato, Mikako) will approach from the south. They’ll send in Monaca’s gas drones once they get a foothold on the island, then move in and apprehend Maverick as soon as possible. Mikako is still worried about her vision. Back at home, Umeko and Emma are monitoring the detector, and they see that the moving time traveler is going south at 160 km/hr and is on course for the island.
  • Team One is 15 minutes out from the island when they come across several large metal pillars that block their way. Kyoji injects himself with an experimental drug from his briefcase that will help him stay underwater for up to half an hour, then dives in and swims out to the pillars to see if he can break them. He can’t, so he swims to the island instead.
  • Hajime’s group (minus Yuki, who had to stay in the hotel) makes it from the hotel to the jungle, although Maverick’s guards are trying to flush them out with grenades. Also, Hajime has a terrible headache, and they still haven’t figured out the code. Maverick sends another message to them: they have 55 minutes before he starts killing everyone on the island, but he’ll let them all go in exchange for his laptop, Chiaki, and Kana. After the group suffers a crisis of conscience over whether or not they should go back, Chiaki and Kana come up with a plan to use their rope and the grenades to take out one of the radio towers and make a hole in the jamming field. They ambush a guard with a trap, take his grenades, use them to blow up the tower’s legs, have Damian shoot some rope to the top of the towers, and pull it down. With this, there’s enough of a hole in the jamming field for Sora to show up on Maverick’s laptop. She shows them a video feed of Team One on their boat, allowing Kana and Chiaki to (virtually) reunite with Misako, Tenmei, and Harumi. Kana apologizes to Tenmei, and the Nanami-Ise clan agree that they will be a real family once this is over.
  • Sora and Misako work together to hack the laptop and figure out the code. Once that’s done, they turn off the radio jammers, the cloaking devices, and the metal pillars. Unfortunately, this initiates the Alpha Protocol, and Sora can’t turn it off. Hajime’s headache gets worse.
  • Monaca sends in her gas drones, and a torpedo shoots past Team One and destroys the metal pillars. A submarine heads towards the island, containing Sayaka, Kyoko, and their allies.
  • Team One arrives at the island and reunites with Hajime’s group on the beach. Hajime’s headache is now so bad that Mikan has to take him back to the boat, whereupon he passes out. His signal vanishes from Umeko’s detector, which means that he is no longer in 2012. As Umeko freaks out and Emma comforts her, the group on the island checks Hajime’s back and finds his tattoo gone. They’re distraught and terrified for him, but they know that they have to move forward and defeat Maverick once and for all. Mikan stays on the boat to watch over his unconscious body.
  • Team Two arrives at the island. They climb towards the rim of the island’s caldera and are heading for the hotel when they encounter Maverick’s Alpha Protocol: an army of 3-meter-tall robots, which they now have to fight.
  • Chiaki refuses her parents’ suggestion to wait in the boat on the grounds that she doesn’t want others to fight her battles for her. She, Kana, Damian, Kizuna, and Taira lead Team One towards the hotel, but they are also attacked by the robots. Sonia uses her rocket launcher to strike against them. The group moves forward, fighting and defeating robots along the way, but the robots keep coming. At one point, they pause their attacks so that Maverick can tell Chiaki that every death that happens on the island will be her fault because she didn’t let herself die to save everyone. Chiaki retorts that no one will die, and the fight rages on.
  • Kyoji makes it to the crater and initiates “Clinical Trial A406.”
  • Team Two is still battling robots when they are rejoined by Team One and Chiaki’s group. Nikei and Taira reunite, kiss, and officially enter into a relationship. Chiaki, Kana, Kizuna, Sora, Tenmei, Harumi, Misako, Mikako, and Yamato go to the hotel (Sonia helpfully blasts the door down for them), while everyone else stays behind to fight the robots.
  • It’s 7 AM, and Maverick’s ready to start killing people, so he tells Yuki to let Kanon know. Yuki sees that Maverick is about to gun down about 20 hostages, so he stands between Maverick and the group, tells him that he won’t let him hurt anyone, and slaps him in the face. Maverick backhands Yuki with his gun and is about to have a robot kill him when Sora hijacks the robot to protect her old friend. Chiaki’s group bursts in on the scene and tries to get Maverick to give up. Apparently, Maverick doesn’t know about the incoming submarine, but he claims that he has more tricks up his sleeve and runs away. Yuki and Kizuna have a happy reunion, Sora introduces herself to them, and the group speculates that the person in the submarine might be on their side. Hibiki will get Yuki, Kizuna, and the 20 hostages to the boats via a drainage tunnel that leads to the north shore, and on the way, she’ll look for the submarine and its occupant. The rest of Chiaki’s group goes after Maverick.
  • In the hallway, Chiaki’s group is accosted by Kanon and two robots (sent by Maverick, of course). They try to talk to her, but she’s too upset to believe that there’s anything or anyone left for her to go back to after what she’s done, so she attacks them with the help of some turret-bots from the ceiling. Kana gets some bags of flour and tosses them into the stream of gunfire, causing a cloud of flour to obscure the robots’ vision temporarily so that Kana and Chiaki can get past them and get to the elevator. The rest of the group stays behind to fight Kanon’s robots; Sora hijacks one and uses it against the others.
  • Kana still has the pistol she took off Maverick earlier. Chiaki makes her sister promise that she won’t kill him. The two of them take the elevator to Maverick’s office, which is suspiciously empty except for a note from Maverick saying that he’s down in the atrium. Kana sends out a radio broadcast to the entire country, in which she sings “Holding Out for a Hero” from Shrek 2. This helps Byakuya and his team use the signal of Kana’s song to pinpoint the location of the island and send rescue helicopters there.
  • As Hibiki leads Yuki’s group through the sewers, she comes across the person in the raincoat, who has a Hacking Gun. The two work together to take out some turret-bots, and afterwards, Hibiki demands to know the raincoat person’s identity. It turns out that said raincoat person is none other than Kyoko Kirigiri. She’s on their side (for now) and is here to help stop Maverick, so she helps lead Hibiki, Yuki, Kizuna, and their friends to safety.
  • Once Kana’s done singing, she and Chiaki take the elevator to the atrium and confront Maverick there. During this standoff, Chiaki’s Divine Luck is revealed to her, along with the fact that Maverick’s trying to negate her Divine Luck powers and then kill her. He shows her that he has several of his hostages trapped by robots in their rooms, and he will kill them unless Chiaki dies in their place. Also, he says that Kanon will commit suicide if she loses her fight. Chiaki’s on the verge of agreeing to this, especially after Maverick lets Kana go, but Kana stays and encourages Chiaki not to give up hope. Kyoji shows up with his briefcase, and he uses it to reveal that Maverick has a daughter. Her name is Alyssa, her mother is Haley Arai, and they’ve both been warned about Maverick, so he’ll never see them. Furthermore, Kyoji speculates that Maverick might not have actually done all the things that are attributed to him; he might’ve simply taken credit for them in order to cope, which led him to embrace his villainous persona. Deep down, he’s just a scared, angry little man who never got a break and can’t stand that anyone else did. Kyoji offers Maverick one last chance to end things peacefully, but Maverick responds by shooting Kyoji in the chest and then having a breakdown. Then it turns out that Kyoji’s okay, as he was wearing a bulletproof vest, and that makes Maverick go even further off the deep end. He summons a giant robot, which is even bigger than the other robots and also has a big purple X-ray laser of death. The final boss battle begins.
  • Hibiki spends a good chunk of the trip through the sewers trying and mostly failing to get answers out of Kyoko. Apparently, Kyoko is “still sorting things out.” The group gets outside in time to see that the hotel is now on fire from Chiaki and Co’s battle against the death robot. Kyoko gives Hibiki her Hacking Gun, tells her that someone’s been sending Maverick technology from Towa Group (although the higher-ups of Towa Group aren’t involved), and tells her to take the Hacking Gun to use against the death robot. Hibiki does so, leaving the rest of her group with Kyoko.
  • Those fighting Kanon have officially defeated her and her robots. She tries to commit suicide, but is saved by Mikako, who assures her that she’s not irredeemable and can still choose the kind of person she wants to be. Kanon sees the light and asks the group to take her home. As Sora and Misako work to disable the robots keeping the other hostages trapped in their rooms, Hibiki shows up with the Hacking Gun and explains what’s happening. She, Mikako, and Yamato head off to find Chiaki, while Tenmei, Harumi, Damian, Misako, Sora, and Kanon focus on evacuating everyone.
  • The group that’s outside fighting the robots has defeated many of them, but they keep coming, and everyone’s starting to get tired. Nekomaru has a minor heart attack. Fortunately, the rescue helicopters arrive, and they start ferrying hostages and Quantum Crew allies alike to the mainland, starting with those who are most injured. Kyoko’s group, including Yuki and Kizuna, have already been rescued. A rescuer passes along a message from Leon to Kanon, promising that her “brother” is waiting for her.
  • Hibiki, Mikako, and Yamato meet up with Chiaki, Kana, and Kyoji, who are avoiding the robot (piloted by Maverick) as it rips and burns through the hotel to find them. Hibiki gives Chiaki the Hacking Gun. Thus armed, Chiaki and Kana work together to fight the robot; they take turns distracting the robot while the other one shoots it. While this is going on, the rest of the group ambushes Maverick and tries to get him to drop the controller, but he’s gone into full megalomaniac mode at this point, so that goes nowhere. Finally, the sisters destroy the robot, but they blow up the entire floor in the process. The rest of the Quantum Crew sees the explosion from outside and goes in to help.
  • Kyoji, Hibiki, Mikako, and Yamato manage to avoid the worst of the explosion thanks to some quick thinking on Yamato’s part. Mikako recognizes the setting as the one from her vision and realizes that said vision is about to come true.
  • Chiaki and Kana get caught in the explosion, leaving Chiaki buried under debris with a broken arm and Kana with shrapnel in her leg. Kana starts to dig Chiaki out but is interrupted by Maverick, who still wants to kill Chiaki. Kana protects her sister, and after a tense standoff, she and Maverick shoot each other. Maverick is shot in the arm, rendering it unusable. Kana is shot in the abdomen. Kyoji tends to her, Hibiki digs a distraught Chiaki out the rest of the way, and Maverick runs away, pursued by Mikako and Yamato.
  • Nekomaru, Maku, and the rescuers clear away the debris, allowing Chiaki’s group to be rescued. Kana is loaded into a helicopter en route to the hospital, accompanied by Chiaki and Misako. Mikako and Yamato catch Maverick, who is then slapped in the face by Harumi and kicked in the dick by Hiyoko. With that, all those remaining depart by boat or by helicopter, and Sunny Days Vacation Island is left behind forever.
  • Later, at 5:58 PM, Hajime wakes up in the hospital. A relieved Mikan fills him in on what went down at the island. There have been some injuries: Chiaki has an oblique fracture to her right ulna and radius, plus a cracked rib and some flesh wounds, Nekomaru’s recovering from his heart attack, Taira has torn a muscle in her leg, and Kana’s been in the ICU all day due to her gunshot wound. Everyone else in the Quantum Crew is getting a checkup.
  • Taira, Ayame, and Nikei form their polyamorous relationship, called Hotel Akane, in which Ayame and Nikei are both dating Taira (but not each other, as they only just met).
  • Tsurugi tries to interrogate Maverick, but Maverick’s gone catatonic and hasn’t moved or said a word since his defeat. Setsuka talks Tsurugi out of using any enhanced interrogation techniques.
  • Damian, Kanon, and Kizuna have happy (albeit teary) reunions with Aiko, Leon, and Minako respectively. Kizuna introduces Yuki to Minako, and Minako gives their relationship her blessing.
  • Kyoji tells the Quantum Crew about little Alyssa, and they all hope that she gets to live a normal life despite her unfortunate parentage. Hibiki then talks about her meeting with Kyoko, who is not from the future (as Hibiki secretly confirmed with a tachyon detector) but somehow seems to know about it anyway. It’s speculated that she is working with a time traveler. However, she’s disappeared from the scene, so they can’t talk to her about it at the moment.
  • The Nanami parents arrive, and after some apologies and well-wishes occur, they ask Hajime and Chiaki about the money that’s missing from their bank account. Chiaki admits that she took it. Her parents express disappointment in her, but she promises to pay them back. Tenmei expresses concerns about teenagers helping a known vigilante and risking their lives for him. Chiaki argues that it was the only way to save people, and soon, she explodes at her parents for leaving her home alone for so long and not being there for her when she needed them. Tenmei and Harumi apologize for this, reassure Chiaki that they do love her, and promise to take time off work for a little while to be with her. Misako blames herself for not being there enough for Kana and asks Chiaki to be part of both their lives from now on.
  • Kanata summons Kyoji to provide a second opinion on Kana’s current condition. Later, both of them break bad news to the rest of the group: because Kana was shot with a hollow point round, the bullet wound damaged her organs and arteries severely, and now she’s not only suffering from internal bleeding, but also has probably developed septicemia. Her outlook is not looking good. Chiaki and Misako go to visit her. They tell her that everyone on the island was saved, she gives Chiaki her pink bow, and all three of them keep happy faces on and express their love for each other.
  • As the Quantum Crew cries over the Kana update, Yoruko and Umeko show up and hug Hajime in gratitude for his safe return. It comes out that Sora and Yoruko were investigating the data that Sora collected, and they’ve found out that the “unlucky one” is Ayumu Fujimori, son of Governor Takeo Fujimori. Ayumu has Divine Misfortune (the opposite of Utsuro’s Divine Luck), and Maverick’s backer planned to kidnap him. Oh, and Ayumu is only a not-quite-6-month-old baby right now. Since his (slightly disastrous) birth, his parents have kept him out of the public eye. The group speculates that Maverick’s backer is a time traveler, or at least knows about the future, and is trying to get Divine Luck and/or Divine Misfortune for some reason.
  • Hajime remembers that something happened to him while he was passed out, but he doesn’t remember exactly what it was. Umeko reveals that the reason he passed out and disappeared from 2012 in the first place was because the message zipping and subsequent destruction of the radio jammers disrupted the tachyon signal. She thinks it's her fault. Setsuka tries to comfort her. Everyone who’s clear to leave the hospital goes home feeling rather dejected.
  • At Hajime’s house, Hibiki rubs Hajime’s back to help him feel less tense, and they talk about how much they mean to each other and how far they’ve come.
  • Sora confides to Yoruko that she’s never had a chance to feel what normal, peaceful life is like. She wants a chance to have that with Yoruko, but she’s worried that their fight will never be over and that the future will be worse. Yoruko, though, believes that while the unknown can be scary, it also carries with it a lot of opportunities, and so anything’s possible as long as they’re together. They discuss the possibility of having children in the future, and Yoruko vows to show Sora what normalcy is like.
• October 3: Chiaki visits Kana at 7:30 AM. Kana’s intestines were so damaged that they had to be removed, so she’s getting all her nutrients through a tube in her heart, but she’ll receive new ones in a few hours. She tells Chiaki the story of how she met Maverick. Chiaki reassures her that what happened isn’t her fault, but Maverick’s, and that everything will be okay from now on, but Kana already knows that she probably won’t survive. Chiaki tells her about the Tragedy, time travel, and so on. Kana encourages her to keep trying and to remember all the good she and her friends have done. The two sisters express their love for each other.
  • After her visit with Kana, Chiaki runs into the Voids. They bring her up to speed on her Divine Luck and Utsuro, comfort her about Kana, and encourage her to take some time off to rest and heal. Upon hearing that Maverick used the fake name of Noriaki Naegi, Iroha is taken aback, as that is what she wants to name her future child. She realizes that it’s possible that Maverick’s backer knows about the good future from Mikako’s visions. Nikei thinks that it will be a while before said backer attacks again, as they'll need to financially recover from the failed Sunny Days incident first.
  • Hajime wakes up at 8:40 to a missed call from his parents, letting him know that they are on their way home. Hiroshi and Keiko Hinata arrive to a panicking Hajime, and they soon discover that Hibiki is staying with him. Also, they’ve figured out that he’s Kasugano. There’s an argument, during which Keiko threatens to kick Hajime and Hibiki out, but Hibiki pleads on Hajime’s behalf, which calms Keiko down enough to hear them out. Hajime tells his parents about the Tragedy/time travel and breaks down in tears while doing so. Hiroshi and Keiko decide not to report him or kick anyone out, but they do establish some rules: Hajime and Hibiki must sleep in separate rooms, and Hajime is not allowed to go on any more dangerous missions until further notice. They all apologize, hug it out, and leave to visit those in the hospital.
  • Nekomaru’s mother, Erina Nidai, visits him in the hospital. Kyoji tells her that Nekomaru will be okay but should probably have a full heart transplant soon. Thankfully, Kyoji’s willing to make a heart for him, and it should be ready fairly soon. Erina, who lost her husband to the same condition that Nekomaru currently has, hugs Kyoji and thanks him. She also meets Akane. It’s implied that Nekomaru will tell his mother the truth about what happened soon.
  • Kana and Misako have a pleasant visit together, in which Kana tells Misako stories about Chiaki, but privately, Kana tells Kyoji that she’s keeping up a happy face because she doesn’t want whatever time she has left with her mother to be sad. Kyoji admits to Misako that Kana’s infection is progressing, and when Misako once again blames herself, he tells her about his own mother’s death and advises her to let herself feel whatever she needs to feel.
  • Tenmei and Harumi are still miffed about Chiaki taking money from them, and after hearing that Maverick's backer is after her specifically, they’re considering taking her out of Japan for a while. Hajime, Hibiki, Yoruko, Hiroshi, and Keiko show up, and after sending the kids out of the room, Yoruko and the Hinatas tell the Nanamis about the time travel/Tragedy stuff. Both sets of parents feel upset and conflicted that their children have been doing all this and keeping it from them. Yoruko talks the Nanamis out of leaving Japan, but she does agree that the kids (Chiaki especially) need to take responsibility for their actions, and she tells them all that she’ll help them with that.
  • After Hajime tells the Nanamis that they should’ve spent more time with Chiaki, Keiko pulls him aside and questions why he’s going to such lengths for her. He tells her about Chiaki’s original fate, and she understands. Meanwhile, Yoruko informs the Nanamis that Chiaki’s low cognitive empathy is a factor in her failings, and Hiroshi thanks Hibiki for being there for Hajime through everything.
  • Sonia has a brief chat with Koichi, then takes a phone call from her mother, Queen Natasha Nevermind. Natasha asks about the recent incidents in Japan, and Sonia admits to her involvement. Although Natasha is proud of her daughter for working so hard to fix society, she does chastise her for putting her own life at risk and asks that she not do so again. Sonia tells Natasha about the Cuddle Puddle and subsequently wonders how much of her life is destiny and how much is her own choice. Natasha replies that destiny is only a destination and that the path we take to get there is what’s truly important.
  • Gundham and Sonia talk, and Sonia confesses the true reason why she is at Hope’s Peak: she’s in exile from Novoselic for her own safety. Her ancestor, Zoya, was a Nazi sympathizer who was eventually executed as a traitor, and because of this, some in Novoselic see her as a martyr and have tried to attack the royal family. Sonia herself has been kidnapped twice. She’s studying abroad in Japan while this is ongoing and will stay here at least until her education is complete. Now, she is terribly homesick for her country, yet worried about what might happen when she goes back. Gundham reassures her that her power will protect her, and that he will try to do so as well. They kiss. Sonia plans to tell the rest of the Cuddle Puddle about her backstory later.
  • Kyoji goes home to Kanade and Monaca. Kanade mentions that she spent time talking with Miaya about her life and the fact that her memories aren’t coming back, but she’s concerned and upset because she got a terrible jealous feeling in her chest when Miaya talked about her relationship with Kyoji. He assures her that she’s not a bad person for feeling a certain way, because it’s how she responds to it that’s important. He and Miaya will help her find a healthy way to deal with those feelings.
  • Akane and Teruteru visit the hospital to support their injured classmates. While there, they run across Akane’s family, who have come to talk to Akane about what happened at the island. There’s her father (Kaoru Owari), her stepmother (Honoka Owari), and her 8 siblings (Hinata, Yota, Itsumi, Hideki, Mei, Teruko, Haruto, and Jubei Owari). Their family discussion gets heated as Kaoru berates Akane for risking her life and potentially leaving the family without its main provider, but Hinata stands up for her and calls Kaoru out for not doing anything to take care of the family and instead relying on Akane for everything. Even Honoka agrees. The argument becomes so bad that Akane and Teruteru have to take the younger children away from the situation and to a nearby playground, where Akane tells Teruteru her family history. She’s had three mothers. Her original one, Rumiko, was an Olympic-caliber athlete who got hit by a car when Akane was 2. Kaoru’s been an irresponsible womanizer ever since, and his second wife, Narumi, committed suicide 5 years ago. It’s been tough for Akane, now the main breadwinner of the family, and she’s tried hard to be strong, but she ends up crying in front of Teruteru, who assures her that it’s okay to cry. Little Mei also helps Akane feel better by telling her that she’s the coolest big sister ever.
  • Teruteru’s two younger siblings, Kojikoji and Yokoyoko Hanamura, also stop by to check on him. They tell him that their mother is doing okay, and they offer to help pay the expenses of his friends in the hospital. (They can afford it, as they are escorts.) Taira makes a quick cameo, meets the Hanamura and Owari children, and secretly envies them, as she’s always dreamed of having a big family of her own.
  • While looking for Chiaki, Hajime runs into the Nanami parents again, and he apologizes to them and admits that he wasn’t expecting them to be as nice as they are. Tenmei and Harumi tell him a little bit about themselves and their family, including the fact that Tenmei is the former Ultimate Game Designer and Harumi is a former reserve course student. The Nanamis never meant to neglect Chiaki, and they love her, but their work keeps them away from her a lot of the time. During this conversation, Hajime learns about Chiaki's Divine Luck and comes to realize that he’s been subconsciously viewing Chiaki as a perfect saint who can do no wrong instead of the normal, flawed girl she really is. (This is partly because of his time with the AI version of her; ironically, the Neo World Program was originally programmed by Tenmei.) He resolves to talk with her about the situation with her parents and help her to be better. Although he briefly worries to Yoruko over the phone that he hasn’t done any good for anyone and is only feeding his hero complex, Yoruko refutes that and makes it clear that just because he’s not perfect doesn’t mean that his accomplishments don’t matter.
  • Chiaki rants to Kana about her parents, but after Kana talks about how Misako has always been there for her, Chiaki admits that she does love her parents and knows that they have to work, but still feels angry and doesn’t know how to talk about it with them. Kana lets Chiaki know that she can’t keep making excuses and she has to learn to communicate with her parents; she also advises her not to let herself be consumed by self-pity, as that only hurts everybody involved. Chiaki agrees and promises to talk with her parents. The girls sadly speculate on what life could’ve been like if they’d been family from the beginning like their parents wanted. They cry, but Kana mentions that if reincarnation is real, they might see each other in another life.
  • Hajime and Chiaki talk about everything they’ve learned and mutually agree that they need to be better. They will love and support each other through it.
  • Kyoji has to go back to the hospital to help with Kana. While he’s gone, Kanade and Monaca talk about Kanade’s jealous and possessive tendencies towards the people she cares about (and her developing crush on Kyoji). They seem to be rooted in the fear of being left alone. Monaca advises Kanade to talk to Kyoji about it and to find healthy outlets for her feelings, including possibly attending Miaya’s support group. The two share a hug.
  • Hajime and Hibiki tell Hiroshi and Keiko about the Cuddle Puddle.
• October 4: At Hope’s Peak, Hajime runs into Mahiru and Honami, and Mahiru invites him to a meeting that Class 77-B is having in the courtyard of the South Quarter during lunch.
  • During the meeting (which consists of Hajime, Hibiki via phone, and all Class 77-B members minus Nekomaru, Hiyoko, Chiaki, and the Ultimate Imposter), several things are revealed. First of all, there was a news helicopter at the island, which is how it got out that members of Class 77-B were there, but Mahiru (with help from Honami and Natsumi) put together an alibi for everyone that claims they were just helping out with Byakuya’s rescue operation. Hiyoko’s family has withdrawn her from Hope’s Peak and taken her home, and Akane’s parents are getting a divorce, but in happier news, Nagito met with Shinji and is arranging for him to meet Kanata. The phrase “funny how that works” briefly causes Hajime to remember something from when he was passed out, but he soon forgets again.
  • On the way home from school, Hajime rants to Mikan, blaming himself and his actions as Kasugano for all the misfortune his friends are going through. Mikan refutes his negative attitude and tells him that even if he did make some mistakes, he’s still saved many people, made their lives better, and given them hope for the future. The two of them also discuss the possibility of having a baby after graduation.
  • Damian has a physical checkup at the hospital, then enjoys some ice cream with Aiko, who is very happy to have him back. She tells him about how she and Kotomi were among the Sunny Days civilian responders, and according to her, there wasn’t any violence other than the mob at Hope’s Peak. This is a relief to Damian. Aiko offers him a place to stay and whatever else he needs so that he won’t have to go back to his father.
  • Although it’s not visiting hours, Aiko creates a distraction so that Damian can sneak in and see Kana. Damian assures Kana that all the former managers are doing better, and he tells her that she’s a hero and that he’s glad he came to the island because of the time he got to spend with her and the others. Kana’s condition is worsening, and she’s scared, but she still has the strength to encourage Damian to be good to himself and others. She kisses his hand and asks him not to forget her, and he vows that he won’t. They part ways with love and a promise to someday see each other again.
  • At the Nanamis’ house, Hajime and Mikan fill Chiaki in on what’s been going down with Class 77-B. Chiaki still hasn’t talked to her parents yet, but Mikan advises Chiaki to do so and also apologize to them. She recounts her own dark past: her mother, a prostitute named Tsukasa Tsumiki, never wanted her, and not only did she let her boyfriends/customers hurt her, but she also constantly belittled and abused her. It got to the point where Mikan would write dark fantasies of her mother’s untimely demise. She tells Chiaki that the Nanamis are much better parents and warns her not to bottle all her emotions up inside like she did. With Mikan and Hajime’s support, Chiaki remembers what Kana said about self-pity and agrees to talk to her parents at dinner.
  • At dinner, Chiaki explains to her parents why she took money from them and apologizes for it. Hajime and Mikan also apologize. It turns out that Tenmei and Harumi are not as rich as previously thought and work hard to keep their nice house. The family starts actually communicating with each other and seems to be getting somewhere, when suddenly, Mikan gets a phone call from Kanata with terrible news: Kana has gone into critical condition.
  • Everyone rushes to the hospital. Kyoji, Kanata, Hikaru, Harumi, and Mikan do their best to keep Kana alive, while Chiaki, Misako, Hajime, Mikan, Yoruko, Sora, Maku, Emma, Nikei, Iroha, Hibiki, Sonia, and Taira wait in the lobby. They hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Chiaki and Misako are soon summoned to Kana’s bedside to be with their sister and daughter.
  • Kana Ise dies at 10:24 PM due to sepsis-related complications from her bullet wound. Chiaki and Misako are both by her side at the time, and she expresses her love for them before she passes away. She is 17.
• October 6: It’s Kyoko’s birthday. She turns 17.
• October 8: It's Sports Day. The annual Hope's Peak sports festival takes place. Neither Chiaki nor Hiyoko are able to attend.
  • It’s Kanata’s birthday. She turns 16.
• October 12: It’s been a little over a week since Kana’s death, and Maverick is still catatonic in police custody. His retrial is scheduled for November 1.
  • Seiko tells Ruruka and Sonosuke that Kana was Chiaki’s half-sister, and Ruruka resolves to bake something for the funeral. The three of them have a much stronger relationship now than they did before the practical exams.
  • Hibiki is now working as a cashier at the local Otori Mart.
  • Chiaki hasn’t come to school in a while. She’s spent most of her time in her room playing Red Valley Saga in order to hear Kana’s voice again. Today is her first day out of her house alongside Mikan and Hajime, and it’s also the first time she’s eaten since yesterday morning.
  • Hajime, Chiaki, Mikan, and Kyoji go to see Estu Deguchi to ask for her help in arranging Kana’s funeral. Things go well at first (Estu even reduces the cost of the funeral due to the family’s money issues), but when Estu comments that dying was the easiest option for Kana due to the amount of damage she suffered, Chiaki lashes out, attacks her, and subsequently storms off. Hajime and Mikan go after her. They all end up with Yoruko in her office, where Chiaki rants that it’s her parents’ fault that Kana’s dead because they never told her about her sister, but Mikan calls her out on her selfish behavior and leaves to reconsider their relationship. This leads Chiaki to severely regret her actions towards everyone over the past several days. Yoruko advises her to find a healthier way to deal with her pain and to use this as an opportunity to grow as a person. Chiaki decides to take some time to think and decompress before apologizing to those she’s hurt. She thanks Hajime for never giving up on her.
  • Mikan calls Kotoko, who helps her feel better, then tells her about how Iroha taught the Warriors of Hope to play Yu-Gi-Oh! Kotoko asks Mikan if she can call her “Mom” after the adoption. This makes Mikan’s entire day. She, of course, says yes.
  • Maku, Iroha, and Jataro are hanging out together at the Void Warehouse when Emma stumbles in, obviously sick. She turns out to be suffering withdrawals because she relapsed into her painkiller addiction a few days ago. While she worries that she’s become a child actor addict stereotype and that Masaru will think less of her for it, her friends assure her that they (and he) love her and will have her back no matter what. They have a group hug, and Emma decides that she’s going to ask Masaru if he wants her adoptive parents to adopt him too.
  • Chiaki goes to Kokoro’s office, where she talks to Kokoro and Mikako. They discuss her issues with her family and the communication breakdown that caused them, and although Chiaki is scared that she can’t fix things and that no one will forgive her, Mikako and Kokoro remind her that forgiveness is for one’s own benefit, not for the other person’s, and that it’s something to be earned through showing the other person how much one wants to make up for their actions. They also say that even if it takes a while for Chiaki’s parents to forgive her, it doesn’t mean that they don’t care for her, and that sometimes people get mad because they care. Chiaki remembers Kana’s warnings against self-pity and decides to honor her late sister’s memory by not wallowing in her own pain anymore. She resolves to talk things out with everyone tomorrow.
  • Mikako tells Chiaki and Kokoro that she had a vision of herself being romantically involved with another woman (based on the description of said woman, it’s almost certainly Rei Mekaru). Problem is, she never thought that she was attracted to girls before, so she doesn’t know how to feel about it. Chiaki tells her that she doesn’t have to put a label on her sexuality right away, and that her happiness is what’s important.
  • Chiaki calls Iroha and advises her to talk to Makoto about the possibility of a polyamorous relationship. She also says that the most important component of such a relationship is respect, and she warns Iroha against making it all about herself and her own pain. Iroha agrees to take Chiaki’s advice. She talks about her hope of helping Mukuro find redemption in the future, and privately, she thinks of her siblings and wonders if they miss her.
  • Sonia expresses her love for Hajime, apologizes for letting her belief in fate control their relationship, and tells him about why she came to Japan. Hajime comforts and encourages her. They will tell everyone else in the Cuddle Puddle tomorrow.
  • Taira, Ayame, and Nikei have their first three-way date. It goes well.
  • At a local bar, Misako is drowning her sorrows in alcohol when she meets a man. She confides in him about her problems (especially Kana’s death), and he kindly gives her money to help pay for the funeral. He mentions that he has his own regrets about being too hard on his son in the past. The two exchange words of advice, and as the man leaves, it’s revealed that he is Kenji Souda, Kazuichi’s father.
  • The Hinatas (plus Hibiki) have dinner together, but Hajime and Keiko get into an argument over the Cuddle Puddle because she doesn’t think that it will work out. Hajime gets upset over the implication that he shouldn’t even try and storms off to bed. Keiko admits to Hibiki that she used to be like Hajime when she was younger, but she was constantly compared to her sister, nothing she did ever worked out, and now she doesn’t want things to end badly for him. She says that the best thing is to just keep the Cuddle Puddle a secret for now.
  • Hajime has a dream in which he meets an alternate version of Chiaki named Nagi Nanami. They tell each other about their timelines. She encourages him to talk with his parents, learn from what happened, and focus on changing hearts and minds.
  • It's Hinata and Yota's birthday. They turn 15.
• October 13: Hajime wakes up, calls Setsuka, and explains his dream to her so that she can write it down for Umeko to look at when she feels better. He then tells Hibiki about the dream as well and agrees that he will hash things out with his parents later. Finally, he calls Iroha and asks her to draw Nagi.
  • At the Void Warehouse, Iroha draws Nagi, Nikei spends time with Taira and Ayame, and Emma and Maku hang out with Masaru. Emma talks to Masaru about her past, shows him her scars, and confesses her problem with drugs. Masaru doesn’t think any less of her for it, and instead feels bad because he wants to protect her. Maku helps comfort both of them. After Emma vows to never take drugs again and Masaru calls her brave, Emma asks him about the whole adoption thing, Masaru says yes, and the two hug while happy crying.
  • Maku admits that although he loves Emma, he doesn’t know if he loves her like a sister, a lover, or just a friend. He thanks Masaru for making her happy.
  • Iroha calls Makoto and asks to come over.
  • Chiaki apologizes to her parents and Mikan for everything she’s done and promises that she’ll never do it again. She and Mikan repair their relationship, and while Tenmei can’t forgive her yet, he and Harumi still love their daughter. Misako thanks Chiaki for giving Kana hope and happiness in her last days. Tenmei, Harumi, and Misako plan to pool their resources, move out of the big house, and find a smaller apartment to live together with Chiaki. Misako will stay with Chiaki whenever her parents have to be away for work.
  • Hajime, Hibiki, Sonia, and Gundham show up to help Chiaki and Mikan reveal the Cuddle Puddle to the Nanamis and Misako. They’re surprised, but ultimately accepting as long as everyone’s careful about it. Sonia tells the girls about why she came to Japan, Gundham says that he recently went to visit his mother’s grave, and everyone agrees to keep working on their issues together.
  • It’s Sonia’s birthday. She turns 18. Mikan and Harumi make her a cake, and the Cuddle Puddle celebrates together. Sonia also has a skong on hand to consume later in the day.
  • Mikan’s application for adoption has finally been approved, so she is Kotoko’s legal guardian, and Kotoko is now Kotoko Tsumiki. She calls Kotoko to share the happy news, and everyone has one more thing to celebrate. With Kotoko and Masaru’s futures secured, Jataro hopes to be adopted by Iroha someday, while Nagisa opts to stay with Setsuka and Umeko.
  • Iroha goes to see Makoto. They talk about Makoto’s crush on Sayaka and the possibility of having a polyamorous relationship. Makoto’s a little unsure about it because he doesn’t know if he can make them all happy and he doesn’t want to burden them with the problems being in such a relationship would cause. He’s happy with Iroha for now. They exchange “I love you's” with each other and spend the night together.
  • Kyoko discusses the Storm case with Tsurugi and Kouhei. She says that Maverick’s backer was associated with Towa Group, but has since left, and is also probably a hacker. She also pinpoints Juu as most likely being involved. Tsurugi explains what happened at Tokyo Tower a while ago: a cult called the Holy Salvation Society took the place hostage, Tsurugi was part of the rescue team, the terrorists used other officers (including Ashai Gonokami, a mentor of Tsurugi and Kouhei) as human shields, and Tsurugi was forced to shoot them all. Juu told him he did the right thing, but now he’s not so sure. Kyoko says that there’s a criminal conspiracy going on and gives Tsurugi and Kouhei a USB full of information (on the condition that they destroy it after they’re done memorizing it and also that they work with Kasugano should they meet him). She leaves. Tsurugi and Kouhei go over the information together. They find a note at the end from Kyoko, who thanks them for their help, promises that all will become clear in time, and cryptically signs off with “Asami sends her love.”
• October 14: Hiroshi tells Hajime and Hibiki about his older brother (and Hajime’s uncle), Noriaki, who was the former Ultimate Lawyer. Noriaki died after a run-in with some Yakuza, and Hiroshi’s parents (who were also Ultimates) pressured their one remaining son into trying to find a talent. All Hiroshi got out of it was an injured leg and a spot in the Reserve Course. He resents Hope’s Peak for this, but he still let Hajime go there, as that was what he wanted. Hiroshi and Keiko make it clear that Hajime’s happiness and well-being are more important to them than talent.
• October 16: It's Ted's birthday. He turns 19.
• October 20: Kana’s funeral takes place at the Zojo-ji Temple. Estu officiates it, and it is attended by Chiaki, Misako, Hajime, Hibiki, Mikan, Sonia, Kotoko, Taira, Damian, Yuki, Kanon, Kizuna, Umeko, and Sora (among others). Misako gives a speech in honor of her daughter, praising her for what she grew to be and thanking those who helped her along the way.
  • As the Quantum Crew expresses regret that they couldn’t save Kana, Estu reminds them that it’s impossible to save everyone and advises them to do what they can for as many people as they can. She also tells Chiaki to hold on to the time she spent with Kana and the lessons she learned from her.
  • The former managers are doing better. Damian has found an apartment to stay in, Kanon is attending therapy and getting help from Leon, Yuki has been doing his best to enjoy life and has also talked to Sora a few times via Skype, and Kizuna has made friends at school. Furthermore, Yuki and Kizuna’s relationship is going well, despite the distance between them. The two of them officially make friends with Taira at the funeral. Everyone shares happy memories of Kana and is grateful for the chance to have known her.
  • After the funeral, Hajime thanks Hiroshi for telling him about Noriaki. The Hinata family has grown much closer now.
  • Taira visits Nikei. He’s frightened and uncertain of the future and doesn’t even know if he deserves to think about it, but she thinks that he’s better than he believes he is and that they and their friends will get through anything as long as they’re together. When he blurts out that he loves her and then worries that it’s too soon to say that, she assures him that they don’t have to do things a certain way and can take the relationship at their own pace. They swap “I love you's,” cuddle on the couch, and end up falling asleep together.
  • Masaru spends the day with Emma and Maku.
  • Chiaki and her family return home after laying Kana to rest. They’re doing better as a family as well. Deep down, Chiaki is becoming uncertain about who can or can’t be saved. She goes upstairs to sleep.
  • During the night, Chiaki and Taira travel forward in time to the year 2030. (For information on what happens there, please consult July 19, 2030.)
  • Hajime remembers the truth of how he traveled back in time.
  • It's Juu's birthday. He turns 48.
• October 21: Chiaki and Taira return to 2012, and Hajime calls everyone in the Quantum Crew and asks them to meet up with him as soon as possible. 
  • During the meeting, Chiaki and Taira tell the rest of the group about their time in 2030. Everyone is excited about all the lovely things to look forward to. They pore over Sayuri’s list. Gundham says that Kinu Hiroshima is an online friend of his, Umeko says that Tomoe Kimura knew Hiyoko growing up and was bullied by her a lot, and Kyoji says that Tsumugi Shirogane is a 34-year-old doctor at the NCNP who happens to be an expert in optogenetics. Tsumugi can use light to erase and implant memories, shift neurons in the brain, and even make a copy of her own consciousness to place in someone else’s body after she dies. (The Tsumugi of V3 is the same woman, just in a different body.) In the future, she’ll escape justice for her crimes as an Ultimate Despair, perfect her opto-g tech, and put on 49 Killing Games as a reality TV show. Naturally, the Quantum Crew is disgusted and vows to defeat her, but they know that they have to deal with the other items on Sayuri’s list first. They’re going to get Hiyoko back and find a way to keep Kinu safe around the same time.
  • Mikan suggests that they ask the Ultimate Imposter for help with saving Kouhei, as they know someone with connections to the police.
  • Taira plans to get a job as the Fujimoris’ personal maid in order to keep an eye on Ayumu.
  • Nikei will research Takeharu Mizuta and see if he can get any dirt on him.
  • Umeko hypothesizes that anyone who’s physically close to a time traveler for a long period of time can also be sent back or forward in time, which is how Chiaki and Taira went to 2030. This also confirms that Kyoko is in contact with a time traveler.
  • Hajime and Umeko work together to reveal the truth about what happened on the Tragedy timeline’s version of March 14, 2017. This was not the day that Hajime traveled back, as was initially thought, but rather the day when representatives of the Kisaragi Foundation came to Jabberwock Island asking for Hajime’s help to save the world. The gist of what occurred is as follows:
    • Umeko, thought to be dead, was actually in hiding, albeit she had to replace the entire right side of her body with cybernetics due to being caught in an explosion. She discovered how to do time travel with tachyons, and with the Kisaragi Foundation’s help, she set up a lab and gathered a few people to send back in time.
    • One of those people was Hajime, who was asked to participate in the time travel project by Umeko and the Kisaragi Foundation.
    • Yuki used his Divine Luck to keep the energy-intensive process of time travel going smoothly.
    • Also, somebody else almost certainly stole some of Umeko’s research to go back in time themselves.
  • If the Quantum Crew is successful at stopping the Tragedy and creating a good future, the time travelers will be the only ones who remember the Tragedy timeline. However, this also means that the Tragedy timeline and everyone in it (including the time travelers’ past selves and those who were born during the Tragedy) will most likely be erased. Umeko has a moral crisis about undoing the existence of millions of people, but Yoruko, Chiaki, and Kyoji assure her that just because that future won’t happen doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter.
  • Chiaki’s going to work on paying back the money she took from her parents, and the Cuddle Puddle tosses around the idea of going on a winter ski trip in the mountains.
  • Kyoko speaks to Asami Kinjo-Sasaki (the future daughter of Tsurugi, Kouhei, and Kinji) via laptop. They discuss the upcoming operation involving Primetech Software, and Asami tells Kyoko that the time travel experiment with the Hinatas and Yomiuris was successful. Kyoko asks if she ever reconciles with her father, and Asami responds that Kyoko probably already knows the answer. Both are prepared for their inevitable meeting with Kasugano.
• October 23: It’s Nagisa’s birthday. He turns 11.
• October 24: It's Minako's birthday. She turns 32.
• October 30: Jataro, who recently got a booster pack of Yu-Gi-Oh cards during a trip to the store with Setsuka, gives the Revival Jam card to Iroha as a present. 
• October 31: The Cuddle Puddle celebrates Halloween. Hajime’s a mummy, Chiaki’s a robot, Mikan’s a witch, Hibiki’s an angel, Sonia’s Persephone, Gundham’s Hades, and Kotoko’s a zombie.

November

• November 1: Maverick’s trial begins.
• November 3: It’s Culture Day, an annual holiday in Japan that is dedicated to promoting culture, the arts, and academics.
  • Chiaki, who has raised enough money to pay back her parents by now, is staying in the Hope’s Peak dorms while her family works on getting a new house. She and the rest of the Quantum Crew has made a little progress in their current missions: although they haven’t been able to talk to Tomoe yet because she’s been absent from school for the past few days, Gundham is now back in touch with Kinu, so they just have to figure out how to get her from Australia to Japan before November 5.
  • Teruteru has been told about his future wife in Class 76, and he now wants to find her. Mikan suggests that he talk to the girls in that class. 
  • Tomoe Kimura is back at school. She, Tsubasa, Kotomi, Taro Kurosaki, Karen Kisaragi, and Eito Kobayashi are rehearsing the play Oedipus, which they will perform for Culture Day. Kotoko is an enthusiastic member of the audience. Teruteru tries to flirt with Tomoe, only to find out that she and Eito are dating. Tomoe agrees to talk with Chiaki and Mikan in 45 minutes.
  • The Voids, Masaru, and Jataro are at a hotel, enjoying an event where they get to try dishes from all over the world. (Emma got them in.) Nikei runs around bothering people for scoops, Masaru has to go and get him to sit down, Maku almost has a heart attack over his friends’ unhealthy food choices, and Iroha hears her last name over the intercom and goes to pick up an order of lamb chops with mint jelly. Problem is, the group is registered under Emma’s name. Iroha realizes too late that the lamb chops were actually ordered by her older brother, Jiro Nijiue. He recognizes her, she flees back to her friends, and they hide her and Jataro under their table in fear that her birth parents will come to take her away. Iroha’s oldest sister, Hitaru Nijiue, approaches the table looking for Iroha; at first, the other Voids are suspicious of her, but it turns out that she’s only with her siblings today, not her parents, and that she dearly misses Iroha and wishes she could apologize to her. Iroha, moved by Hitaru’s words, comes out of hiding, and the Nijiue siblings are reunited for the first time in 2 years. Hitaru, Jiro, and Akemi Nijiue reconnect with their little sister and swap introductions with her new found family.
  • Chiaki, Mikan, and Kotoko talk with Tomoe and Eito. After Tomoe tells them how she got into acapella singing after her father died and posted videos on YouTube that eventually won her an Ultimate title, they ask for her help to get Hiyoko back. But Tomoe remembers how Hiyoko bullied her when they were kids (in fact, Tomoe was the one who put a rat in Hiyoko’s bed as revenge) and wants nothing more to do with her. Mikan pleads that Hiyoko has changed and needs help. After discussing things with Eito, Tomoe tells the girls to talk with her mother, Kimika Kimura, a teacher at Hope’s Peak. She also says that she’ll get back to them about a possible deal after the play is over.
  • The Nijiue siblings catch up with each other on how life’s been for them in the last 2 years, and it becomes sadly clear that Hitaru, Jiro, and Akemi are still trapped in the abusive household that Iroha escaped from. Akemi wants to take Iroha back home, but Iroha refuses to go, and an argument ensues in which Iroha reveals that she always used to beat Akemi when they played card games as kids. She then whips out her Yu-Gi-Oh deck and challenges Akemi to a duel, and Akemi whips out her own deck and accepts the challenge. If Iroha wins, she gets to stay with the Voids without fear of being tattled on, but if she loses, she must come back home with her siblings. Oh, and all cards are legal. The duel begins.
  • At 1:25, Chiaki, Mikan, and Kotoko are looking for Kimika when Mikan crashes into Kotomi, who agrees to find her for them. Kotomi comes back at 1:33 with Kimika in tow. The Kimuras and the Saionjis go way back, as Kimika was in the same Hope’s Peak class as Maiko Saionji (they were the Ultimate Ikebana Artist and Ultimate Kimono Designer respectively), and the girls learn from Kimika that Hiyoko is actually half-Korean on her father’s side, although Izumi has done her best to hide that information. Sadly, Hiyoko’s parents weren’t prepared to be parents, plus Maiko has difficulty saying no to Izumi, so Izumi took Hiyoko to raise her herself, which negatively impacted Hiyoko’s character for a long time. Kimika agrees to help get Hiyoko back, and she’ll talk with Tomoe about the situation once the play is over.
  • The Iroha vs. Akemi duel is currently going in Iroha’s favor, especially after she plays the Revival Jam card that Jataro gave her. All the Nijiues are enjoying the game, as card games like these were one of the few times they could have fun together, and Hitaru and Jiro assure the Voids that they wouldn’t let Akemi take Iroha back. 
  • Emma asks Hitaru about her life at home, and the two girls go to the bathroom to discuss it. Some terrible details come out about the Nijiue siblings’ abuse by their parents: Jiro received the same treatment as Iroha until his talent showed up and was also disparaged for not being “manly” enough, Akemi was constantly ignored and even forced to wear a corset because she was considered too “chubby” to show in public without one, and Hitaru (the most artistically talented of the lot) constantly has to work on art and doesn’t have control over her own finances. Whenever Hitaru stepped out of line in the past, her parents would wrap her arms with piano wire, tie her to a table, lecture her, and leave her there. She still has the scars, which she shows Emma, and Emma shows her scars and tells her story in return. Hitaru doesn’t believe that she can escape her lot in life due to her parents’ wealth and connections, and she just wants to keep her siblings safe until they all hopefully outlive their parents. Emma wants to recruit Kasugano to help them, but Hitaru is scared that if anyone tries to help, they’ll just get hurt. Emma intends to find a way to give the Nijiue siblings hope.
  • The production of Oedipus comes to a close at 3:15 PM. Everyone does a great job. Teruteru’s attempts at flirting with the cast go about as well as you’d expect. Tsubasa and Taro go off together for a tour, and it’s obvious to everyone that they have feelings for each other. Momoko Takakuwa pops in briefly to ask how best to arrange the cookies she’s making for Culture Day.
  • Tomoe finally agrees to help on the mission to get Hiyoko back. In exchange, she wants Hiyoko to go to therapy, and she also wants an apology from her. Kimika, Chiaki, Mikan, and Kotoko leave via the Shinkansen bullet train for the Saionji mansion in Kyoto. They decide that their best bet is to talk to Maiko.
  • As the duel rages on, Akemi’s pent-up resentment towards Iroha comes out to the surface; it seems that she envies her sister’s luck and ability to get away from bad situations that she herself has yet to escape. Now she wants to win the game as a sort of payback. Iroha tells Akemi to give the game everything she’s got or else she won’t be satisfied. Shortly afterwards, a flurry of good plays by Akemi tilt the game in her favor.
  • During the train ride, Kimika tells the girls about how Eito and Tomoe got together (the romance bloomed from a mutual love of video games and manga) and also about Eito’s mother, a former Reserve Course student named Reiko Kobayashi who died at age 30 under mysterious circumstances.
  • Chiaki, Mikan, Kotoko, and Kimika arrive in Kyoto at 4:52 PM, where they meet Maiko Saionji. Hiyoko is out with her father at the moment.
  • The group arrives at the Saionji mansion at 5:10 PM. Maiko says that she is proud of Hiyoko even if their relationship at the moment isn’t the best. The girls meet Izumi, who is her usual self and refuses to let Hiyoko go back to Hope’s Peak. Maiko can’t stand up to her, so Kimika pulls her aside, talks to her about her problems, and encourages her to choose her husband and daughter’s well-being over her mother.
  • Even in the face of Akemi’s trap card strategies, Iroha remains confident that she will win the duel. Akemi tells Hitaru and Jiro that Iroha is more worthy of respect than they are, then admits that this whole thing is meant to make her older siblings see what it means to take initiative. Either way, this match will prove that anything can be overcome. The game continues, it goes back and forth for a while, and then Akemi plays Final Countdown. Iroha has 20 turns to win, or else Akemi wins.
  • Hiyoko returns at 5:58 along with her father, Kohaku Saionji. Chiaki, Mikan, and Hiyoko reunite and share hugs, and they also meet Kohaku, who’s a very nice guy. Maiko secretly promises Kohaku that he’ll get to spend time with Hiyoko again.
  • During dinner, Hiyoko says that her time at her grandma’s house has given her a chance to reflect on her past actions, and she apologizes for her behavior towards Tomoe and Mikan. Maiko in turn apologizes for not being in her life enough, and she and Kohaku want to fix that by taking Hiyoko back to Hope’s Peak with them and being a family again. Izumi objects and demeans Maiko, but Chiaki, Kotoko, and Kimika speak out against Izumi, and Mikan casually reveals that Hiyoko is half-Korean. Hiyoko gets mad at Izumi for not telling her. Izumi forbids Kohaku from seeing Hiyoko, grounds Hiyoko, and is about to kick everyone out when Maiko finally snaps and chews her out with a “The Reason You Suck” speech. She and Kohaku take Hiyoko back for good, and they all leave Izumi behind. Hiyoko is interested in learning about her Korean roots from her father.
  • Iroha and Akemi battle through the Final Countdown. Finally, Iroha wins. She admits she got lucky at the end and thanks Akemi for a game well-played. Akemi gets over her loss and tells her siblings that Iroha’s win proved that anything can be overcome. The Voids and the Nijiues talk things over, and Hitaru decides that she needs to get some things in order before she enlists the Quantum Crew to help her and her siblings break free from her parents. She gives Emma her phone number, the Nijiue siblings share a group hug, and they all part ways.
  • Hajime has been doing research all day. Around 11 PM, the girls return, and he reunites with Hiyoko.
• November 4: Gundham is contacted by Kinu. She’s coming to Japan for a visit tomorrow at 11 AM, as she has just been accepted to Hope’s Peak as part of Class 78-B and wants to see the country firsthand.
  • Hiyoko apologizes to Tomoe.
• November 5: Maverick’s trial continues. His lawyer is trying to convince the court that he was manipulated into doing what he did and that he deserves financial compensation for the loss of his arm. Kyoji and Kanade, who are watching the trial on TV, think this is ridiculous.
  • Miaya has agreed to have Kanade participate in her support group therapy sessions, and the first one of those is today. (She’s going out in a disguise, under the name Akira Tanaka.) Kyoji floats the idea of sending Kanade to a care facility, as was originally planned, but Kanade doesn’t want to leave Kyoji. Either way, Kyoji thinks that she needs more social interaction and wants her to hang out with Hibiki’s friends more often.
  • Hajime, Hibiki, Sonia, Gundham, and Hiroshi (the designated driver) go to the Haneda Airport to meet Kinu Hiroshima. They get there at 11:10 AM and find Kinu playing with a touchscreen. She speaks English and isn’t very good at Japanese, but Sonia is here to translate. Introductions are made, and the group makes plans to show Kinu around Tokyo.
  • The group goes to Hope’s Peak. Kinu runs off after a smell and encounters Aiko with Damian, who is learning archery from Mayumi Tamon. (It turns out that Mayumi knew Mahiru and Honami back in middle school.) Gundham shows Kinu around the school, and Hajime excuses himself to go take a nap.
  • While napping in the nurse’s office, Hajime once again meets Nagi. After a quick chat about Nagi’s issues and concerns regarding Mikan, talk turns to Kinu, and Nagi tells Hajime that Kinu is going to be killed in the alleys of Tokyo by a serial killer known as the Copycat Killer, who takes the identities of their victims. She’ll catch them in the act of murder, they’ll kill her as well, and then they’ll take her identity. Hajime decides to catch the Copycat Killer. Nagi advises him to talk to Mayumi and the Ultimate Imposter.
  • At lunch, Hajime explains the situation to his team. The Ultimate Imposter is asked for their input; they explain the story of Frédéric Bourdin, then share their own backstory to give some insight into their life as an imposter. They admit that they know who their birth parents are, but since their birth mother couldn’t take care of them, they’re instead taken care of by a family friend called Megumi Tahara, who also happens to work for the government. Because of this, they move around a lot, and they have no identity so that no one can trace her. 
  • As everyone worries about how they will find the Copycat Killer, Kyoji arrives and suggests that they bring in Kanade to help. When he gets pushback, he calls the Quantum Crew out for not doing anything to help Kanade since her mindwipe. They do eventually agree to let her help under the conditions that a) she is watched at all times and b) Kyoji will deal with her if anything happens. Kyoji has given her a burner phone and thus gives everyone her phone number (they’ll get rid of it afterwards). It’s decided that Kanade, Sonia, and the Ultimate Imposter will investigate, Gundham will watch over Kinu, and everyone else will search the city.
  • The topic of the no-killing rule comes up. Hajime still is against it, but Kyoji brings up self-defense as a possibility. Hajime isn’t comfortable talking about it.
  • Kyoji picks Kanade up after she finishes therapy with Miaya, and Miaya tells Kyoji that she wouldn’t mind if he came by more often. Kanade’s jealousy pangs aren’t as bad as before. The Quantum Crew fills Kanade in on the situation with the Copycat Killer, and she agrees to help Sonia and the Ultimate Imposter find them.
  • Kinu chats with Mayumi, Estu, and Damian. Estu can sense that Kinu will die soon. After Kinu leaves with Gundham to see the Hope’s Peak chickens, Chiaki arrives and asks Mayumi about her brother, Hideyoshi, who is a police officer. She asks for his assistance to stop the Copycat Killer, and Mayumi agrees to let him know about it.
  • The investigation team sets themselves up at the warehouse where the Quantum Crew first met Taira and Sora. Kyoji tells them that his father, who had a one-night stand with his mother, was most likely a North Korean defector and might’ve been a victim of the Ardurous March. Kyoji has moved past his former suicidal mindset and now feels lucky to be alive.
  • Gundham and Kinu see the chickens together, and Kinu gets to hold one. She wants to see more of Tokyo, so Gundham promises to take her exploring as soon as he gets an update from the investigation team. Kinu also meets Teruteru and tells him that he reminds her of David Hasselhoff. Gundham, determined to protect her, calls Sonia and asks her about the investigation. It seems that Kanade has already narrowed down the Copycat Killer’s location to three wards in Tokyo: Chiyoda, Chuo, and Minato. With that settled, Gundham and Kinu can now go exploring.
  • Hajime goes to see Yoruko and asks for her advice about whether or not it’s feasible for him to be able to stick to the no-killing rule. He’s worried about what it will say about him if he does kill, especially given everything that he’s done in the Tragedy timeline. Yoruko thinks that he should be kinder to himself and that even if he does ever kill someone in self-defense, he wouldn’t be a bad person for it. They also talk about Kanade. Yoruko hates what they had to do to her, although she doesn’t blame Hajime or Hibiki for it, and she thinks that Kanade should go back to jail eventually after they deal with Juu and help her come to terms with her past. They agree that discussions about this need to be had in the future.
  • Tomoe and Eito are talking about Hiyoko’s apology when Estu shows up to ask if Kyoji has done anything strange lately. Eito says that last year, he asked Kyoji about what happened to his mother (before Reiko died, she forgot her children, became really distant from everything, and was like an empty shell; also, her hair turned black and her eyes turned red), and Kyoji ran away. Estu has bad blood with Kyoji, as she was the one who would dispose of the bodies of those who died in the Kamukura Project while he was working on it, and they all looked like Reiko did when she died. She suspects that something is fishy.
  • Gundham and Kinu play games together at an arcade in Akihabara. After that, they eat pizza and talk about animals. Gundham says that he started taking care of animals because he learned from his mother that although animals (and humans) naturally act cruel and aggressive in accordance with the state of nature, they can be shown a better, kinder way to live. The two friends hug.
  • Kinu wants to see Tokyo Tower next, but that’s in Minato, so Gundham contacts the investigation team about it. Kanade has discovered that a man named Kosaku Kawajiri disappeared 5 months ago after going out to a bar in Minato with some friends to celebrate a promotion. He came back a few days later, but he most likely never came back at all and is the Copycat Killer’s current identity. He still lives in Minato. Gundham decides to proceed with caution.
  • Hajime and Hiroshi drive to get groceries. Several dad jokes later, Hiroshi makes it clear that he and Keiko want to help Hajime however they can. Hajime is reluctant to get his parents involved, as he doesn’t want them to get hurt by the Basilisk. They talk about Hajime’s earlier conversation with Yoruko (Hiroshi agrees about the self-defense thing) and about how Hajime might not be able to go back to Hope’s Peak next year since Chiaki can’t pay for it anymore. Then, it’s revealed that Hiroshi has driven them to Minato; even though he said no more dangerous missions, he knows that he can’t ask Hajime to do nothing when a life is at stake. So they go to look for the Copycat Killer.
  • Kanade has identified the place where the Copycat Killer is probably hiding. Hajime and Hiroshi head that way, and so do Hibiki and Sonia (who has already called the police). As the Ultimate Imposter and Kanade wonder why the Copycat Killer would take Kinu’s identity instead of the person who was originally killed, Kanade has a brainstorm and asks for the Class 78-B registry.
  • Gundham and Kinu are off to Tokyo Tower, but Kinu can tell that something is up with Gundham. He admits that there’s a murderer loose in the area, then hugs her and promises to protect her. He’s realized now that it was not smart of him to keep his heart guarded for so long, so he tells her how much her friendship means to him. They’re about to go back to the bus stop when Kinu smells something familiar and goes for it, with Gundham following her.
  • Sora tells Hajime that the police and the Quantum Crew are both on their way.
  • Hajime and Hiroshi see someone in an alley who they initially think is the Copycat Killer, but who’s actually a teenage boy named Fumio. He’s friends with Miwa Mori and set to become the Ultimate Snowboarder of Class 78-B. Hiroshi helps him find the bus stop. Then, Hajime runs into Gundham and Kinu (the scent Kinu smelled was Hajime’s) and gets a call from Kanade and the Ultimate Imposter. Kanade has figured out that the Copycat Killer’s goal is to take the identity of someone from Class 78-B. Hajime, Gundham, and Kinu (who insists on coming) go after Fumio out of fear that he’s the original target.
  • As Hiroshi and Fumio wait at the bus stop, they’re approached by “Kosaku Kawajiri,” who asks Fumio for help with his car, which is supposedly stuck. Hiroshi offers to help too, but “Kosaku” rejects his offer and goes off with Fumio. A panicked Hiroshi rejoins the rest of the group and tells them what happened. Hibiki and Sonia show up, and they all don masks and go after the Copycat Killer.
  • Just as “Kosaku” is about to kill Fumio, Hajime and his group burst onto the scene and expose his true identity as the Copycat Killer. A standoff ensues. The Copycat Killer has been operating for 4 years and has a body count of 8 victims; they kill because it’s a chance for them to be anyone they want to be, and they believe that success is who dares wins. When Hibiki calls them out, they recognize her voice and start mocking her, blaming her for the murders Kanade committed. This sets Hibiki off, and she tries to kill them. Gundham sends Kinu and Fumio away to go get help, Hiroshi leaps to Hibiki’s defense, and he, Sonia, and Gundham all work together to subdue the Copycat Killer while Hajime takes Hibiki away from the situation. The Copycat Killer stabs Hiroshi in the side and tries to escape, but they’re soon caught and arrested by Hideyoshi Tamon, Mayumi’s police officer brother, who was led to the scene by Kinu after Sora called her to let her know where the police were.
  • Hiroshi is rushed to the hospital. While the group waits for him in the waiting room, Hajime worries about his father’s safety and does his best to comfort Hibiki, who blames herself for Hiroshi’s injury. Kinu gives her a hug. Keiko, Chiaki, Mikan, Hiyoko, and Kotoko get there, and Keiko is quite mad. Fortunately, Hiroshi just needs an overnight stay in the hospital and a few days of rest, and then he’ll make a full recovery.
  • Fumio thanks Hajime and his friends for saving him. He properly introduces himself as Fumio Fujimori, the nephew of Governor Takeo Fujimori, with whom he will stay until the school year starts. A grateful Fumio says that if Hajime ever needs a favor, he can let him know and he’ll pass it on to his uncle.
  • Kinu still wants to go exploring tomorrow before her flight leaves at 8 PM, and Gundham offers to go with her and also take her back to her hotel room tonight. The others tell her that they’ll hang out with her if they can. Kinu is excited to come back to Hope’s Peak in the spring. Gundham promises the rest of the Cuddle Puddle that his time with them will be genuine from now on, and with that, everyone heads home.
  • Keiko chews Hajime out once they get home, but she calms down once he explains the upcoming situation on November 7 with Kouhei. Also, he gets grounded.
  • Hibiki is still upset over what the Copycat Killer said to her, and she worries about whether mindwiping Kanade was the right call. Hajime points out that they might not have been able to find the Copycat Killer if they had killed Kanade. They both agree that good doesn’t always lead to good, nor bad to bad, and that it’s best to take things one day at a time. They cuddle together and fall asleep on the couch.
  • Hajime has another dream with Nagi, and he tells her about what happened with the Copycat Killer. She’s relieved that everyone’s okay, but she’s still having issues in her world, so he tells her what he told Hibiki about how it’s best to take things one day at a time. She tells him to take his own advice and be better to himself.
• November 6: Just past midnight, Kyoji and Kanade talk about how nice it was to hang out with the group, and they tentatively speculate on the possibility of hanging out with them again. Kyoji can’t remember if he passed out 5 or 6 copies of Kanade’s temporary number, but he figures that it doesn’t really matter since he already got rid of the burner phone.
  • A copy of Kanade’s temporary phone number has found its way into Estu’s hands. She calls the number, but naturally, it’s no longer in service.
  • Late in the afternoon, Estu meets up with Mayumi, shows her the number, and theorizes that Kanade is actually alive and in cahoots with Kyoji somehow and also that there’s a conspiracy at Hope’s Peak. After Mayumi confirms her support and loyalty to her best friend, Estu tells her all about the Kamukura Project, which she suspects that Eito’s mother was an early victim of, and how Kyoji caused the deaths of 7 Reserve Course students during his time working for the project. The girls decide to do some investigating. They also want to talk to Yoruko about it.
  • Chiaki, Mikan, and Hiyoko travel forward in time to 2030. (For information on what happens there, please consult July 20, 2030.)
  • Kinu returns home to Australia.
  • It’s Hiroshi’s birthday. He turns 38.
• November 7: Chiaki, Mikan, and Hiyoko return to 2012 at 7:58 AM. With the meeting set for 3 PM, they have 8 hours to plan. They head to the main area to find many other students watching Maverick’s trial on TV. The new prosecutor for the case and the future Ultimate Prosecutor of Class 78-B, Juri Shibutani, has all but assured Maverick’s conviction. The Ultimate Imposter tells the girls that they've called Megumi, and she can make it to the 3 PM meeting.
  • While Tsurugi and Kouhei stress out over how Kyoko could’ve known about Kinu and the Copycat Killer, Hideyoshi argues with Juu over the operation to catch said Copycat Killer because Juu is mad that Hideyoshi directed a squad to the area without permission. Hideyoshi also criticizes Juu’s efforts to catch Kasugano, pointing out that he’s only driven him further underground, but Juu ominously says that Kasugano will show up at the next crisis. Tsurugi is struggling to consider the idea that his father might be corrupt, and Kouhei is firmly against conspiracy narratives. Also, Tsurugi thinks that Kouhei is the better cop of the two, as he got to where he was without being the police commissioner’s son. The boys are called away to deal with some suspicious activity in Bunkyo, and Hideyoshi resolves to keep an eye on Juu.
  • Mayumi and Umeko chat in the bathroom. They talk about their lives, and Mayumi is curious about why Umeko keeps getting visits from underclassmen and Kyoji. Umeko cryptically offers advice regarding Mayumi’s personal issues, and she warns her to take care of herself and not to let anyone, even Hope’s Peak, use her secrets against her. 
  • It comes out that the reason Estu got her hands on Kanade’s temporary number is because Mikan dropped her copy by accident. She is very sorry. Kyoji now has to minimize his time at Hope’s Peak to stay off Estu’s trail.
  • Around noon, the Quantum Crew discusses today’s mission, which Hajime and Hibiki cannot take part in, as they’re grounded. The group has trouble figuring out how to disarm the bomb until Chiaki suggests that Tenmei, being a programmer, could remotely hack the bomb (it’s presumably an EMP, since it will be in a software building). 
  • Monaca has been examining the inner workings of the robots used at Sunny Days (which she has dubbed “Murderbots”) to see where they could’ve been manufactured.
  • Teruteru is confronted by Sunako Inoue over his incessant flirting with her female classmates. Nagito, Chiaki, and Umeko defuse the situation, although Teruteru now has to apologize to all the girls of Class 76. Chiaki tells Nagito that the time has come to let Kanata know the truth and asks for his help, so he agrees to let her know about the meeting at 3 PM.
  • Hibiki pours her heart out to the Hinatas about her lingering issues regarding Kanade and what the Copycat Killer said about her. Keiko decides that both Hajime and Hibiki should see a professional therapist. Hibiki admits the truth about Kanade’s survival/mindwipe, and while the Hinata parents don’t agree with the decision, they understand why it was done. They all assure Hibiki that she’s loved. Keiko is also going to teach Hibiki how to cook.
  • 3 PM hits, and it’s time for the big meeting. The Quantum Crew tells Kanata, Kyoko, and Megumi that their help is needed to save Kouhei’s life and to expose Juu’s corruption. Megumi insists on being told Kasugano’s identity before she gets involved, so the Quantum Crew tells her about Hajime, then explains time travel, the Ultimate Despair cult, the Basilisk, and the upcoming Tragedy that will ensue if they’re not stopped. Everyone agrees to help. The group plans to send Setsuka and Megumi to work with the police while Tenmei hacks the bomb. Setsuka shows everyone Kyoji and Monaca’s findings regarding the Murderbots.
  • Kyoko asks Iroha to accompany her for her part of the mission. She confirms that she has a friend from the Tragedy timeline, but won’t say who it is yet; she also reveals that Byakuya was the one who planted the geno-scissors for the Quantum Crew to find during the Syo mission, Asami provided the plans for the Hacking Gun to be built, and someone knew enough details about the riot at Hope’s Peak to organize a rescue mission. Iroha is very excited to work with Kyoko, although Kyoko makes it clear that they need to stay focused on the mission. She has something else she needs to tell Iroha after the mission is over, and it has to do with the Nijiue family.
  • Mayumi confides her secret to Yoruko: she’s gay, and when she was 14, she kissed one of her archery teammates in front of a crowd after their team won a championship, the teammate’s mother reacted in a very homophobic manner, and the teammate dropped out of the team and later committed suicide. Mayumi blames herself and thinks that her family and Estu would reject her if they knew the truth. Yoruko assures her that she couldn’t have known what would happen and that it was the mother’s fault, not hers. She thinks she should learn from her experience and try to move forward. With Yoruko’s guidance, Mayumi starts to consider coming out to her loved ones eventually.
  • Later, Estu tells Mayumi about Ichika Umemoto, a Reserve Course student who died a little over a year ago as a result of the Kamukura Project. She was the 7th to die at Kyoji’s hands, and her body showed the same changes as Reiko’s. Also, she was a childhood friend of Juzo’s. They decide not to tell him yet out of concern that he’ll hurt Kyoji if he finds out. Estu knows someone else who might be able to help them and who will be calling in a few hours.
  • At 4:50 PM, Chiaki approaches Tenmei as he, Harumi, and Misako are making plans for their new apartment. She explains the mission and asks for his help. He’s so excited that he practically jumps at the call. When Chiaki and Mikan tell him that Shinji will be there too, he’s even more excited, as they were classmates and good friends at Hope’s Peak. 
  • Kyoko and Iroha do a stakeout at Primtech together at 5:15 PM. Kyoko tells Iroha about how Aum Shinrikyo and how Juu defeated them. Since he used to be a good man before he fell from grace, Iroha (after making it clear to Kyoko that she can be trusted and that she’s not the same person she was in the Tragedy timeline) proposes the idea of giving him another chance. Kyoko thinks it’s naive of her to think that everyone can change, but Iroha objects strongly to the notion that believing in people is naive, and she argues that maybe some people have nowhere else to turn and need help instead of punishment (and that revenge is never the answer). During this, Kyoko grows to understand Iroha a little more. She finds an office in a nearby building for the Quantum Crew’s bomb squad to operate from, and Iroha paints the windows of the room so that it looks like it’s empty.
  • At 6:50 PM, Chiaki, Mikan, and Tenmei join Iroha and Kyoko in the office. Tenmei, who is still hyped up, gets a computer to hack from.
  • 7:20 PM finds Hajime stressed out, as he hates waiting around and not doing anything with so much on the line. He feels like he was useless during the Copycat Killer mission and should’ve done more to protect his father and friends without his fear of killing getting in the way. Hibiki tells him not to beat himself up about these things, and as they talk, Hajime admits that he would kill in self-defense if he had no other option to save his loved ones. Hibiki comforts him, reminds him of all the good he’s done, and tells him that she’d still feel safe with him even if he did kill someone. He, in turn, tells her that what the Copycat Killer said to her wasn’t her fault. 
  • Hajime and Hibiki chat about their ski trip but are interrupted by Keiko, who tells them to come check the news. It’s 8:02 PM now, and Primetech Software is officially under attack by the Juu-sponsored terrorists. Kanata and the other medics are already on the scene to help the wounded.
  • Setsuka and Megumi meet Hideyoshi at Primetech at 8:10 PM. They convince him to let them help, and he tells them that Juu has ordered Tsurugi and Kouhei to lead the operation, so they have to wait for them.
  • Kyoko leaves the bomb squad to go join Setsuka and Megumi. As she leaves, she tells Tenmei to be ready when she gives him the signal to start disarming the bomb.
  • Tsurugi and Kouhei make it to Primetech at 8:32 PM. Kyoko shows the group her floor plan of the 22nd floor, with the entrances marked with Xs and the bomb site marked with an O. They only have one police squad right now, but they don’t have time to wait for anyone else, so Tsurugi, Kouhei, Megumi, Setsuka, and Kyoko have to go in with what they have. Tsurugi is worried about Kouhei’s safety because of what Kyoko’s list said, but Kyoko privately assures him that there’s someone who’s working to keep him safe. They enter the building and are accosted by two criminals with assault rifles, but a clever maneuver by Megumi allows the group to defeat them. Kouhei radios in asking for a team to secure the group floor, and the group moves up to the next floor. 
  • Over with the bomb squad, Tenmei is incredulous to learn that the terrorists are using 56-bit encryption, which is very easy to break. Chiaki requests that he takes things a little more seriously.
  • Around 8:55 PM, the students and facility of Hope’s Peak are watching the Primetech attack on television. Mayumi worries about her brother. Estu comforts her and also tells her that their ally is down at Primetech right now and will help them afterwards. The other members of Class 76 are beginning to notice that something is up with those two.
  • The fire department arrives at Primetech. The ground floor and the first floor have both been secured at this point.
  • Umeko comforts Nagisa and assures him that Setsuka will be okay.
  • It’s 9:02 PM now, and the group at Primetech is still fighting terrorists. Tsurugi lets Kouhei know that he thinks that he’s a better officer than him and that he wants to make sure that he (and everyone else, of course) gets out alive, so he asks that Kouhei stay behind him and let him handle the bomb. Kouhei reluctantly agrees, and the two of them affirm their partnership. Everyone works their way up, kicking ass along the way, and by now, they’ve cleared 10 floors.
  • Tenmei is making good progress on cracking the bomb. He assures Chiaki that he is, in fact, taking this seriously, but also that the code isn’t the real threat. He’s more worried about Juu and what he will do once his plan fails.
  • The group at Primetech finally hits the 22nd floor at 9:57 PM. Kyoko contacts Tenmei, shows him the floor plan, and asks him to get the bomb deactivated as soon as possible just in case they can’t get to it in time.
  • 10 PM arrives, and it’s an all-out war on the 22nd floor of Primetech. Kyoko, Megumi, and Setsuka get pinned down at one entrance, Tsurugi is stuck at another one, and Hideyoshi is distracted with getting injured officers out of the building, leaving Kouhei as the only one with a path to the bomb. He decides to go for it and trusts Tsurugi to tell him how to disarm it. Kyoko gets shot in the hand before she can stop him. With less than 2 minutes left before the bomb goes off, Tenmei keeps hacking, Tsurugi radios instructions for Kouhei, and it comes down to the wire…but in the end, Tenmei succeeds, and Kouhei is greeted by the title screen of Mattel’s Bomb Squad video game. Everyone rejoices. Chiaki hugs her father and thanks him for his help.
  • Later, at 10:30 PM, all forces have been evacuated from the building, and the injured (including Kyoko) get patched up by Kanata and Mikan. 18 officers are wounded, but none are in critical condition, and the terrorists have all been taken into custody. Tenmei reunites with his old friend Shinji, and Kanata also finally gets a chance to talk to him and thank him for saving her life when she was a child. They hug.
  • Kyoko assures Iroha that she’ll only act in self-defense against Juu if it comes to it, and she promises to tell her the important information she has for her as soon as she can.
  • Tsurugi and Kouhei are called back to the station, and they’re accompanied by Hideyoshi, Setsuka, Megumi, and Kyoko. When they get there at 11:34 PM, they find the place in chaos, as Juu has painted the Ultimate Despair symbol in his own blood on the bathroom mirror and then locked himself in his office. They go to the office to confront him, and it takes a desperate Tsurugi pleading with his father for them to be let in. There, Kyoko and Setsuka use the evidence they have gathered to expose the many crimes that Juu has committed as a member of Ultimate Despair, much to Tsurugi’s shock and horror. 
  • Juu, as it turns out, did everything he did (that is, engineered the deaths of Masayoshi Fujimura and others who spoke out against him, caused the prison break, let Kanade and Maverick out with equipment to enact their respective plans, put a bounty on Kasugano’s head, had Gonokami killed, and tried to have Kouhei killed) because he believes that despair is the key to establishing order and ending all crime. He sees everyone who gets in his way as cancer to Japan and broken cogs in the machine that need to be discarded, while he and Tsurugi are the righteous heroes of justice who will pave the way for a brighter future. This philosophy was influenced by what he experienced during his fight against Aum Shinrikyo and his wife’s death during a bus jacking. 
  • With his plan exposed, Juu traps everyone in his office, then tries to convince Tsurugi to join him and kill the rest of the group. Tsurugi expresses guilt for his past actions and worries that there’s no hope for him, but Kouhei reassures him that he’s still a good person and that he’ll always have his back because he means the world to him. One standoff later, Tsurugi shoots Juu’s hand off, neutralizing the commissioner as a threat and allowing Hideyoshi to unlock the door. Kouhei gets a traumatized Tsurugi out of the office, leaving the rest of the group with Juu. Interestingly, Juu displays distress and pain at losing his hand, as opposed to the joy in despair that Junko’s devotees usually display. But he still insists that the Ultimate Despairs will win.
  • Juu Kinjo is shot dead by Megumi, who’s operating under the logic that putting him in prison will only create a bigger security risk and that he’s too dangerous to be left alive. He is 48.
  • After killing Juu, Megumi tells Setsuka that she accepts responsibility for her choice and that it will not be blamed on the Quantum Crew. Kyoko is still bothered by Juu’s behavior and wonders if, perhaps, he wasn’t quite fully indoctrinated yet.
  • Megumi delivers the news of Juu’s death to Tsurugi. He takes it very hard. Kouhei promises Megumi that he’ll look after him.
  • Tsukasa Tsumiki moves out of her apartment in Kabukichō.
• November 8: The Quantum Crew is shocked to hear that Megumi killed Juu, though they understand her reasons why she did it. Hajime meets her, thanks her for her help, and requests that she tries to go for less violent options if possible in future collaborations with the crew. He also asks that she let the higher-ups know what’s happening with the Ultimate Despairs. 
  • Kyoko tells Iroha two things about the good future. The first thing is that Iroha will have her first child, a boy named Noriaki Naegi, in 2016, when she is 18 or 19. Kyoko’s advice regarding this is that Iroha should explain this to her friends as soon as possible and start working on a financial/career plan to support her future son. The second piece of information is rather more serious: in January of 2013, Iroha’s parents will host a charity event (at which many famous people will be present, including Sayaka and her band), her mother will get into an argument with her siblings, and this will lead to Akemi’s death at her mother’s hands. Iroha vows to save her sister, and Kyoko agrees to help however she can. The two make plans to talk more in the future.
  • Kanata asks Hajime if she can join him, as she wants to protect those she holds dear. Hajime and his teammates happily give the a-okay, and Kanata becomes an official member of the Quantum Crew.
  • When Iroha asks about her mother, Tenmei reveals that Emina Nijiue was in his class at Hope’s Peak and was an arrogant, selfish girl who would constantly get on everyone’s case. He’s willing to help take her down, and he’ll talk to Harumi, Misako, and Shinji about it too.
  • Chiaki apologizes to Tenmei for getting frustrated with him during the Primetch mission, promises that the Quantum Crew is finally taking time off, and offers to help him however she can. They go home to play Fabio Kart.
  • Nikei goes to update his website with his article on the Primetech attack and Juu’s downfall…only to find that a journalist rival of his, Masa Esumi of Esumi Papers, has already beaten him to it. She’s a Hope’s Peak student, and although she hasn’t been at school since before Kasugano’s debut, she’s back with information that she was somehow able to get from inside police headquarters. Nikei worries that she could be working against the crew.
  • Masa, as it turns out, is Estu and Mayumi’s aforementioned ally, and she got the information for her article from Hideyoshi. She eagerly agrees to help them in their campaign to expose Hope’s Peak. The three girls, hereinafter known as the 76 Squad, will keep an eye on things (and certain people) and see what they learn.
• November 9: It’s Shinji’s birthday. He turns 49.
• November 11: It’s Hibiki and Kanade’s birthday. They turn 18. Unbeknownst to everyone, the twins' parents leave a telephone message to Hope's Peak, apologizing for how they acted during their previous call and once again asking if there's any chance they could find out what became of Hibiki.
• November 13: It’s Tsurugi’s birthday. He turns 15.
• November 17: It’s Masa’s birthday. She turns 18.
• November 20: It’s Ruruka’s birthday. She turns 18.
• November 26: It’s Kyoji’s birthday. He turns 20. Kanade surprises him by wearing a nice formal dress for the occasion, and the two slow dance together in the living room.
• November 27: It’s Ibuki’s birthday. She turns 16.
• November 29: Maiko Kagura is born.

December

• December 4: Narumi Osone is born.
• December 5: It’s Erina’s birthday. She turns 40.
• December 7: It’s Kenji’s birthday. He turns 39.
• December 8: The Cuddle Puddle are making plans for their ski trip, which will take place after Christmas at the Shizen Resort.
  • With Juu dead, Hideyoshi is the new police commissioner.
  • Tsurugi is currently in psychiatric care. Kouhei’s family is letting him stay with them for the time being. He hasn’t made any public appearances since his father’s death.
  • Hajime and Hibiki have been attending therapy. Hibiki has a new prescription for Zoloft.
  • Mikan debuts a new short haircut.
  • Hibiki, Mikan, and Kotoko go shopping for warm clothes and other outfits to wear during the ski trip. Hibiki, who is planning to have sex with Hajime for the first time during the trip, admits to Mikan that she’s nervous about it, and Mikan reassures her and helps her get some birth control pills. The girls run into Akane and Mei doing some grocery shopping; their family is going to make a Christmas cake with help from Momoko, their neighbor and main source of support since Kaoru left. The Owaris have been struggling, but Akane assures her friends that they’ll manage, one way or another. Kotoko wants to get some money together and give in to them.
  • Emma is going back to Britain for Christmas to see her family, and she’s taking Masaru with her so he can meet them. Maku helps Emma pack, while Setsuka helps Masaru. They’re set to leave on December 17.
  • By now, Iroha has told the other Voids the information Kyoko shared with her about the future. They have mixed reactions, but they’ll support Iroha and help her save Akemi.
  • Emma and Iroha call Setsuka to ask about preparing Masaru for the trip to Britain, and from her, they learn that Hideyoshi has been performing an overhaul of the department to ensure that Juu’s evil actions are scrubbed from the record. This includes looking through old records and releasing some prisoners who were arrested on lesser charges without a thorough screening (such as people that Junko had Juu arrest because they posed a threat to her). Hideyoshi also wants to reexamine the cases of some of the WOH parents, specifically Ui Kemuri, Yumi Utsugi, and Mai Shingetsu. Because they are close to Jataro, Setsuka and Iroha have to go down to the police station to talk with Ui, give their testimony, and help the police decide if she should go free or not. Iroha agrees to this for Jataro’s sake, and Setsuka says she’ll take her out for ice cream afterwards. She also agrees to teach Iroha how to cook.
  • Setsuka and Umeko plan on officially adopting Nagisa. Setsuka is also tossing around the idea of finding a way to get Nikei off the hook for his parents’ murder, and Iroha is 100% behind this idea.
  • Kyoji, Kanata, Monaca, and Yamato are working together to make Sora a body for Christmas. Yamato and Monaca are in charge of making the mechanical frame, while Kyoji and Kanata will add the organic pieces. Kyoji tells his friends about his birthday with Kanade, and Monaca worries that he and Kanade might catch feelings for each other and get hurt all over again. She doesn’t think that his lot in life is fair to him, and she wants to do something about it.
• December 9: The Owari family and Momoko work together to make their Christmas cake (Teruteru will also be stopping by at some point to help). They are using the cake recipe from Portal. Honoka and Teruko went out shopping two hours ago and have not come back yet, so Hinata calls them, but he gets no answer.
  • Honoka finishes shopping and is about to take Teruko home, only for the car’s engine to stop working, causing an already depressed Honoka to become even more depressed. She goes back into the store to ask about getting it fixed and encounters a man who offers to take a look at it. He says that the battery’s busted and that he has some batteries in his car, so Honoka leaves Teruko in her car and goes with him, but he reveals his true colors by threatening her with a knife and forcing her into his car. Teruko sees this and makes as much noise as she can to call for help. Thankfully, Mondo Oowada and the Crazy Diamonds come to her aid; they chase down the kidnapper, beat him up, and save Honoka.
  • After hearing about the Owaris’ problems, Mondo takes Honoka and Teruko home. There, he meets the rest of the family, and he agrees to fix their car and help them however else he can. Little Teruko sees him as her new friend and hero, and now she wants a bike. Akane tells her to wait until she’s older.
  • During Mondo’s parting conversation with Teruko, Akane learns of a change in history that the Quantum Crew was not previously aware of: it seems that although the race between Daiya and Mondo still happened, and Daiya still ended up hurt because of it, he didn’t die. Instead, he was paralyzed, and he’s currently in the hospital. Mondo still feels absolutely awful about it, though, and he tells Teruko that when stuff like that happens, it’s important for everyone to stick together and help each other. Akane wonders if another time traveler might’ve had something to do with this.
• December 10: Iroha and Setsuka go to the Tokyo Detention House to talk with Ui, and as they wait in the waiting area, they have some drinks (coffee for Setsuka and soda for Iroha). Iroha is willing to hear Ui out, as she is curious about why she did what she did.
  • Ui initially does not want to leave her cell. It takes 20 minutes for the police to get her to calm down and wait for Setsuka and Iroha, and in the process, she scratches one officer hard enough to draw blood.
  • After Ui’s mood has stabilized somewhat, Iroha goes in to talk to her; she makes it clear that she just wants to understand her. Ui is an artist herself, at least as a hobby, and she’s also the youngest of the WOH parents, as she had Jataro when she was just 18. She admits that she was happy when he went missing and would’ve let Iroha take him if she asked. It eventually comes out that she was raped by her art instructor, became pregant because of it, and was pressured into keeping the baby by everyone in her life. The reason she made Jataro wear his mask was because he looks like his father. Now, she feels deep regret for what she did to him. Iroha tells Ui that what happened to her was not her fault. Now that she understands her, she doesn’t think that she deserves to be in jail, and she decides to make sure that she gets psychological help. Ui thanks her for giving her a chance, advises her to finish her education, and wishes her and Jataro all the best.
  • Iroha feels awful about indirectly putting Ui in jail. She talks to Hideyoshi about it, and he agrees to scrub some details from Ui’s record and make sure that she gets help from Chinatsu Miyajima, the future Ultimate Behavioral Psychologist of 78-B.
  • As Setsuka and Iroha leave to get ice cream, Iroha cries, worried over what to tell Jataro about what she’s learned. Setsuka advises her not to tell him until he’s mature enough to understand, then assures her that she’s been a good caretaker to him and that even this won’t change anything in that regard. Iroha plans to hug Jataro and tell him she loves him when he gets home. She also wants to call her own siblings.
  • It’s Yoruko’s birthday. She turns 30.
• December 11: The 76 Squad meets at the Esumi Papers building. Although Ichika was scrubbed from Hope’s Peak’s records after her death, Masa’s got a crucial piece of evidence proving her existence in the school: a newspaper article about Juzo’s 2009 heavyweight championship win, complete with a picture of him, with Ichika featured prominently in the picture. Furthermore, Masa has discovered that the Holy Salvation Society, the cult responsible for the hostage crisis at Tokyo Tower, was put up to said hostage crisis by Juu, and that the human traffickers who Kasugano stopped at the docks back in August were planning on selling some of their hostages to the Holy Salvation Society. Hope’s Peak was, of course, covering this up. Masa plans to investigate the Holy Salvation Society further. She also suspects Kasugano’s involvement in the situations with Hiyoko’s family, the Copycat Killer, and even Mikan’s adoption of Kotoko; she goes as far as to suggest that Kasugano has agents inside Hope’s Peak.
  • Estu is the only member of the 76 Squad who believes that Kanade is still alive. She’s trying to explain her position to Mayumi and Masa when she nearly passes out. It’s revealed that she hasn’t eaten or slept in several days because of this investigation. Mayumi takes her out to get some food, while Masa stays behind to continue her deep-dive into the secrets of Hope’s Peak and the Holy Salvation Society.
  • As Estu and Mayumi walk hand-in-hand, Estu apologizes to Mayumi for pushing the group so hard, but Mayumi shrugs it off, calls Estu her favorite person, and says that they should make sure to take breaks and do fun things together. They go off to get ramen.
• December 12: At Otori Mart, Hibiki is recognized by a customer, but he is nice about it and asks if she needs help with anything. She assures him that she’s doing all right.
• December 13: Keiko teaches Hibiki how to make ramen noodles, and Hibiki talks about being recognized the previous day. A lot of things have been put into perspective for her now, and because of this, she feels bad about previous questionable decisions she made, such as going on a date with Hajime while Mahiru and Hiyoko were kidnapped. She wants to apologize to Mahiru and Hiyoko for that. Keiko assures her that she’s still worthy of love despite her mistakes, and Hibiki thanks her again for all she’s done for her.
  • Hiroshi is using his computer when a grown-up Sunako from 2030 pops up on the screen, asking to speak to Hajime and Hibiki. He gets Hibiki (Hajime is at the store), and she meets Sunako (who works for the Kisaragi Foundation in 2030), Sayuri, and Taito Hinata (the future son of Hajime and Mikan). Hiroshi and Keiko also get to meet their future grandkids. The 2030 generation has decided to establish a more direct way of communicating with their 2012 counterparts through computers instead of dreams, so now they can talk for two hours at a time.
  • Hajime returns from the store and meets Sunako, Sayuri, and Taito. The 2030 delegation advises their 2012 counterparts to keep up the good work. Although they can’t say yet who the fourth time traveler is, they mention that the Quantum Crew will meet them very soon. They, along with Kyoko, Asami, and Noriaki Naegi, are responsible for saving Daiya’s life. Sunako also says that it’s best to just leave the 76 Squad alone for now. She reveals that all three of them are okay in 2030; Estu and Mayumi are married in Amsterdam with an adopted child named Kenzo Chabashira, while Masa (now Masa Harukawa) is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist who helped take down the Holy Salvation Society. The Kanade situation also isn’t really safe to discuss till March. Finally, Sunako mentions that the Basilisk only seems to be targeting members of the Quantum Crew and their families, to the point where the Naegis had a scare with a hacked car that was rigged to explode. Because of this, all Quantum Crew families are being moved to the Kisaragi Foundation for safety. All in all, Sunako says that it’s best for the Quantum Crew of 2012 to stick to the plan.
  • Some sobering news is shared about Hitaru and Jiro in 2030. They are deeply traumatized because of Akemi’s death. Hitaru is a depressed emotional wreck, Jiro has embraced toxic masculinity, and both refused to go with Iroha to safety at the Kisaragi Foundation, leaving them vulnerable to the Basilisk’s potential attacks. Obviously, the only way to fix this is to prevent Akemi’s death on January 31, 2013. Keiko has to leave the room upon hearing the Nijiue name. But since Emina’s former classmates will also be invited to the charity event, that gives said classmates a chance to help the Quantum Crew save Akemi.
  • The last thing to add to the list involves two girls named Tamami Furuichi and Sofia Yamazaki (the latter works at the same restaurant that Keiko works at), who may or may not be accepted into Class 78. If they are, there’s a high chance they’ll both die in fatal accidents. Hajime agrees to keep an eye out.
  • With a promise to call back as soon as they can, the 2030 gang signs out of the transmission, and the Hinatas and Hibiki are left to marvel over the fact that they just talked to their future children/grandchildren. They also worry a bit over what’s to come. Keiko and Hajime hug, as do Hiroshi and Hibiki.
• December 14: It’s Taira’s first day at her new job as a nursery maid for the Fujimori family. Fumio shows her around while talking about how his uncle’s political platform has evolved as a result of November’s events. Taira first meets Emi, a bratty toddler who insults her hair, and then little Ayumu himself, now 8 months old and only just starting to learn how to talk. Taira discovers that her Divine Luck protects her from Ayumu’s Divine Misfortune so that she can safely interact with him, and she immediately gets attached to the baby. They spend most of the day together.
  • Nikei tells Ayame about the Tragedy, time travel, etc. It takes a little while for Ayame to get her head around it, but once she does, she thinks it’s cool, although she doesn’t want to join the Quantum Crew outright. She’ll still support them, though.
  • Taira returns and tells Ayame and Nikei about her day with the Fujimoris. She’s gushing over baby Ayumu and thinking about how she will take care of her own children someday. She also reports that nothing bad has happened to her since she met him. Unfortunately, she is having cramps from her period, so Ayame gets her a heating pad, and Hotel Akane gets comfy on the couch together. Taira wants to be a good mother, and she wants her future children to be happy, like she imagines her own parents would want for her. She also wants to help Ayumu. Nikei isn’t sure if he’s cut out to be a father, given what he’s done in the past, but Taira and Ayame both assure him that he’s a good guy, that he’ll be a good father, and that they’re here for him. Snuggles ensue. They also toss around the idea of meeting up with Yuki and Kizuna soon.
  • It’s Gundham’s birthday. He turns 18.
• December 16: Hajime and Hibiki confess to Mahiru and Hiyoko about going on that date while they were kidnapped. Hiyoko is mad. Mahiru is just disappointed.
  • Sora tells Mahiru that her father, Hitoshi Koizumi, will probably get an invitation to the Nijiue charity event, as he was part of Class 49 with her, Tenmei, and Shinji. Mahiru agrees to let the Quantum Crew know if Hitoshi gets an invitation. She finds an old copy of Emina’s student profile and learns that she married into the Nijiue family via an arranged marriage, but all mentions of her maiden name have been scrubbed from the Hope’s Peak record, and it’s all but impossible to get any information on her from before Hope’s Peak. Ibuki’s mother, former pop idol Kyoka Mioda, was also a member of Class 49, albeit under the stage name Sylilla Romazaki.
  • Mahiru comes home to Hitoshi, and as she empties the mailbox, she finds that the Nijiues have invited him and a plus-one to the charity event. She worries about whether or not it’s a good idea to tell him, as he has issues with depression and she doesn’t want Emina to make him feel worse, but ultimately decides to trust him with the information. Hitoshi remembers Emina from their school days; she was mean to him, of course, but he would always put her in her place. He’s eager to go to the event and help the Nijiue siblings.
  • Mahiru and Hitoshi go to the airport and pick up Mahiru’s mother, Kaori Koizumi, a war photographer who just returned from Syria. They tell her about the charity event, and Kaori suggests that Hitoshi bring Mahiru as his plus-one. But Mahiru feels bad about the mistakes she made that led to her and Hiyoko being kidnapped, and she apologizes to her parents for keeping them out of the loop and for not being as understanding of Hitoshi’s issues as she should’ve been. Kaori assures her that her mistakes don’t define her and that the important thing is that she learns and grows from them. With her confidence back, Mahiru agrees to go with Hitoshi to the charity event and put her investigating skills to good use. Kaori will give her tips until then.
  • It’s Hanzo’s birthday. He turns 36.
• December 17: Emma and Masaru leave for Britain. Maku, Nikei, and Iroha see them off, and although they’re worried that something might happen, they keep their confidence up. The Voids share a group hug.
• December 18: Mikan and Harumi go to the Tokyo Detention House to talk with Yumi. Harumi offers to take care of it by herself, but Mikan knows that this is something she has to do for Kotoko’s sake.
  • When Mikan and Harumi go in to talk to Yumi, Mikan makes it clear that she just wants Yumi to be honest with her. Yumi explains that she did what she did to Kotoko in order to help her become famous; she believes that youth and beauty are the most valuable things for a woman, and that women have to take advantage of those things as soon as they can in order to shine in the world. She didn’t expect Junya to try and sell Kotoko off, though, and when she finds out that Kotoko has HIV, she’s shocked and remorseful. Mikan also reveals that Kotoko told her that Yumi stalked teenage boys and kept secret pictures of them in her room, and Yumi admits it, although she swears she never touched any of them. With all this established, Mikan chews Yumi out for what a terrible person she is, then tells her that if she truly regrets her actions, she should get her act together and change. Yumi will stay in jail for the duration of her sentence.
  • Harumi takes Mikan and Kotoko out for ice cream. Mikan fills Kotoko in on how things went down with Yumi, and they are happy that she won’t bother them again. Then, Mikan admits that she got upset at Yumi because she reminded her of her own mother (who has slept with teenage boys, including some of Mikan's old bullies), and she tells Harumi about her past. She says that she feels ashamed of some of her own past behavior, such as her initial selfish motives for getting into medicine so that people would depend on her, and she doesn’t want to be like her mother. Harumi is of the opinion that as long as Mikan knows what makes Tsukasa the way she is and is aware of her own flaws, she can work on them, and she will be a better person. Besides, she has Kotoko, her partners, and her friends by her side to help her. Mikan also tells them about Taito and thanks Harumi for all she’s done for her. She sees Harumi as the mother figure she never had.
• December 19: Emma and Masaru arrive at the Gatwick Airport in Britain early in the morning. They are met there by Sylvia Green, Emma’s adoptive mother, and Roger, although he gets sidetracked by peanuts. Masaru meets Sylvia and Roger for the first time. On the drive home, Roger tells Masaru about the S.S. Richard Montgomery, and Masaru gets excited and wants to go there. After a quick discussion about all that has happened in Japan, the newly-formed family expresses their love for each other.
  • Kazuichi and Chihiro meet in person for the first time. They share a hug. Chihiro’s other online friend, Ayumi Arima, shows up a little later, albeit her arrival involves Kazuichi accidentally bumping into her and knocking her glasses off her face. Throughout their time together, Ayumi uses various bad pick-up lines to try and flirt with Kazuichi, but he thinks she’s making fun of him.
• December 21: The Mayan Apocalypse does not happen. Nevertheless, many Hope’s Peak students use it as an excuse to party, resulting in an unfortunate smell in the boys’ bathhouse.
• December 22: Sonia and Gundham are preparing for the ski trip when they come across Kazuichi telling Ibuki about what happened between him, Chihiro, and Ayumi. Kazuichi is convinced that Ayumi has it out for him, despite everyone’s insistence to the contrary. After he leaves, Ibuki remarks that he should have more confidence in himself, realize that other people can catch feelings for him, and talk to Chihiro about the situation.
  • Hiyoko’s still upset about what Hajime and Hibiki did, but she still wants to go on the ski trip with the Cuddle Puddle. Ibuki advises Sonia and Gundham to talk things out with her sooner rather than later.
  • Ibuki’s parents have received an invitation to the Nijiue charity event. Sonia and Gundham come to the conclusion that they should tell the families of Class 77-B the truth and bring them on board the Quantum Crew as well.
  • There’s a brief scare, as Kazuichi thinks he’s found a ghost, but it’s just Kikue Kutsuki. She bonds with Sonia and Gundham over their shared love of horror stories, and upon hearing that she has no friends, they promptly make friends with her.
• December 23: Hajime goes to Hiyoko’s house and apologizes to her for going out with Hibiki during the kidnapping crisis. Hiyoko admits to being worried that Hajime didn’t really care about her and only helped her because he felt bad for her, but Hajime assures her that he does care and that her happiness matters to him. He promises that he will never do something this stupid again. To make it up to her, he barks like a dog, quacks like a duck, and cuddles with her.
  • Hiyoko thinks that Kohaku is sick. He coughs often, he looks tired and pale, and he seems to be making secret trips that may or may not be to the hospital. She’s very worried about him, especially since she just got him back. Hajime tells her about the plan to tell the 77-B families the truth, which hopefully means they can find resources to help Kohaku.
  • Hiyoko proposes that she and Hajime both drop out of Hope’s Peak and get married next summer. Hajime’s down for it, but he wants to make sure that they have everything they need first (jobs, a place to live, etc).
• December 24: Maverick’s trial concludes. He is found guilty on all charges and sentenced to death.
  • Estu, Mayumi, and Hideyoshi hear about Maverick’s conviction on the news. They are glad for it and hope that 2013 will be more peaceful.
  • Ui has been sent to Matsuzawa Hospital to get psychological help.
  • For Christmas, Estu gives Mayumi a homemade muffin and an arrowhead from her old home. Mayumi gives Estu an alexandrite ring. Then, Mayumi comes out to Estu and tells her the story of her first kiss, and Estu hugs her and assures her that what happened was not her fault. Because she doesn’t want that to be Mayumi’s only memory of kissing another girl, Estu offers to kiss her. A flustered Mayumi agrees, they kiss, and things get a bit romantic before Hideyoshi interrupts to call them down to dinner. Mayumi calls this Christmas Eve her favorite so far.
  • It’s Mukuro and Junko’s birthday. They turn 16.
• December 25: It’s Christmas, and the Quantum Crew celebrates with a gathering at Kyoji’s clinic. Hajime, Hibiki, Kyoji, Kanata, Yoruko, Sora, Taira, Hiroshi, Keiko, Chiaki, Mikan, Sonia, Tenmei, Harumi, Misako, Nekomaru, Erina, Kazuichi, Kenji, Mahiru, Kaori, Hitoshi, Hiyoko, Maiko, Kohaku, Teruteru, Kojikoji, Yokoyoko, Akane, Honoka, and Hinata are all in attendance.
  • The Nanamis and Misako have found an apartment.
  • Kenji and Erina meet at the snack table, share a brief chat about their kids, and agree to talk more later.
  • Tenmei reunites with Hitoshi.
  • Once everyone has arrived, Hajime tells the 77-B families the truth about his identity as Kasugano and the Quantum Crew’s mission to stop Junko from causing the Tragedy. At first, the families are dumbfounded and somewhat angry that their children have been doing dangerous missions, but when Hajime asks for their help, they all agree to become allies of the Quantum Crew. Harumi will help with the Patient 8702 mission, and all the family members will provide support to the members of the Crew.
  • Kyoji and his compatriots surprise Sora with her recently completed body. A very excited Sora goes off with them to do a few last tests with it.
  • At Harumi’s urging, Tenmei tells the group about Hanami Watanabe, a Hope’s Peak classmate of his, who looks a lot like Chiaki. Tenmei and Hanami were in an arranged engagement courtesy of their parents, but neither of them wanted it, and when Tenmei fell for Harumi, Hanami encouraged the relationship. Utsuro’s Divine Luck is hinted to be the reason why Chiaki happens to look like the girl who brought her parents together. Chiaki decides that she'll go with her father to the Nijiues’ charity event.
  • Sora finally presents herself to the Quantum Crew in her brand-new body. She immediately makes a joke about it, then hugs Taira, kisses Yoruko, and drinks some black coffee. With this, she is now Sora Taira.
  • As the meeting ends, the families decide to get dinner together, the Cuddle Puddle gets ready for their ski trip, and Hajime hopes that everyone can do better next year.
  • Yoruko and Sora go around town together so that Sora can try all the foods she can. Sora gets sick afterwards, but otherwise, she has fun.
  • Iroha spends Christmas with Makoto and his family.
  • Nagito meets Kanata's family, and the couple makes their engagement official.
• December 26: Hajime and Hibiki have finished packing four bags for their ski trip. Hajime mentions that they should probably be careful with the relationship stuff while there, given that the Cuddle Puddle is supposed to be secret. Hibiki reluctantly agrees, but she still is planning on having sex with Hajime while at the resort, and Keiko has snuck some condoms into their luggage. Hajime and Hibiki say goodbye to Hiroshi and Keiko and are then picked up by Yoruko, Mikan, and Kotoko. After picking up Sonia, Gundham, and Hiyoko, Yoruko drops everyone off at the train station, and they leave on the hour-and-a-half bullet train ride to the Shinzen Resort in the Hida Mountains.
  • Nikei is happy because his latest article is ahead of 5 major news sites in terms of web traffic, while Iroha is waiting on a package that contains a Christmas present for Makoto and a birthday present for Maku. They are visited by Erina, who wanted to check on them upon hearing of their existence; she’s concerned that they’re living in a dirty old warehouse, and so she cleans it for them. Iroha, who is still planning out the mission to save her siblings, gets a call from Makoto asking to hang out while he runs some errands. As she leaves, she asks Nikei to wrap her package if it gets back before she does. Erina soon finds out that Nikei hasn’t slept or eaten much today because he’s been so busy with journalism, so she insists that he eat an actual meal. He eats some noodles, they talk about their lives, and Nikei opens up a little about his parental issues. Erina tells him that he can rely on her from now on, and she even makes him some chicken cacciatore for dinner.
  • Maku’s doing some strength training at the gym when he gets a call from Iroha. She fills him in on Erina’s visit, tells him that she’s spending the day with Makoto, and asks that he stay out of the Void Warehouse for a while. He agrees and wishes her a good day before he gets another call, this time from Emma. She says that her flight back home has been delayed because of the weather, but he encourages her not to worry about it and to keep having a good time.
  • It’s Maku’s birthday. He turns 16. Unfortunately, it’s also the 10th anniversary of his diagnosis, so it’s not a very happy day for him. He freaks out about it in the gym bathroom, worrying about what will happen to him if his illnesses do come back and whether or not the other Voids will be all right if worse comes to worst, but he eventually pulls himself together and resolves to talk to his friends about his problems.
  • Makoto and Iroha go to the local pet store so that Makoto can buy some birdseed, as he’s been tasked with taking care of a friend’s pet bird while they’re out of town. He also wants to pick up some cat food for his mom, who’s looking after the neighbor’s cat. In the cat food aisle, Iroha runs into Tamami Furuichi, an expert in animal care, and she helps her find some quality cat food. Makoto comes over, meets Tamami, and recognizes her as being a future member of Class 78. They bond over their excitement to go to Hope’s Peak, Tamami advises Makoto on what food is best to get for cats and birds, and Iroha, who remembers that Tamami will likely die if she goes to Hope’s Peak, tells them that it’s best for them all to keep in touch. She has already developed a crush on Tamami, naturally, and she wants to save her.
  • Once they are done with their errands, Iroha kisses Makoto, and they both rejoice over having made a new friend. Then, Iroha tells Makoto everything about her family and begs for his help to save her siblings. Makoto comforts her and agrees to go with her to the charity event so that they can save the Nijiue siblings and expose the Nijiue parents once and for all. Upon finding out that Sayaka will be there, he admits that he would like to meet her again. He and Iroha go back home to investigate Class 49, and during this investigation, they find out that one of that class’s members, Sakura Chigusa, has since married and changed her name to Sakura Arima. She is Ayumi’s mother.
  • Hajime has been exercising more, since his therapist told him it was a good idea. He now has a six-pack.
  • The Cuddle Puddle arrives at the Shizen Resort and rides a gondola up the mountain. They have fun on the ride for the most part, although Mikan’s fear of heights makes her nervous, but the others let her hold on to them for comfort. They walk (Hajime carries Hiyoko) to the resort, where they meet Miwa Mori, who gives them a tour and thanks them for saving Fumio. Once everyone’s been shown their rooms, Miwa takes Hajime aside and questions him about his engagement to Hiyoko, since he said earlier in the year that he was dating Chiaki and Mikan. Hajime says it’s complicated but that there’s no hard feelings and they’re all friends now, and Miwa accepts that explanation and hopes that they all enjoy their stay. Hajime reminds Hiyoko that they all need to keep their relationship on the down-low while they’re here, only for him to discover that Keiko has put condoms in his bag. Everyone goes out to have fun on the slopes together.
  • Maku comes home to find the warehouse clean, Nikei asleep, and Iroha’s package on the doorstep. Erina has made him a carrot cake for his birthday. Iroha shows up right on Maku’s heels, takes her package, and goes to wrap it; shortly afterwards, Nikei wakes up, and Emma joins the party via Skype from the UK. Iroha returns and gives Maku his birthday gift, which is a gold bracelet with an infinity symbol on it to symbolize the Voids sticking together forever. This brings Maku to tears. He opens up to everyone about his past, his fears of his Divine Luck running out and his illnesses coming back, and his worries about if the other Voids will be all right if he dies. The Voids reaffirm their love and support for him, assuring him that they’ll be okay either way and that they’re with him no matter what. They all share a group hug and agree to keep moving forward day by day. Iroha tells the Voids about her investigation and has a brainstorm in the process, and with that, the group celebrates what Maku considers to be his best birthday in a long time.
• December 27: At the Nanamis’ new apartment, Nikei, Iroha, Erina, Harumi, Tenmei, Mahiru, Kaori, and Hitoshi gather to discuss Class 49. Harumi tells everyone about her friends the Sakuras, three girls named Sakura who were major troublemakers and got expelled in their second year. These are Sakura Sakura, Sakura Fushimi, and Sakura Chigusa. There’s also Ernesto Gomez, who dropped out in his first year after racist bullying from Emina.
  • Kyoka and Hibito Mioda show up to the meeting, Kyoka happily reunites with her former classmates, and they instantly agree to help. Kyoka tells everyone more details about each of her classmates. Most notably, she relates the Sakuras’ story. Sakura Chigusa was an airhead who is now a PE teacher, Sakura Fushimi was an aggressive girl who is now a successful fashion designer, and Sakura Sakura was a troublemaking queen bee type with an eating disorder who orchestrated a plot to set off a bomb in the Kamukura statue in front of Hope’s Peak a few days before her 18th birthday. Tenmei did his best to disarm the bomb, but it still knocked off the statue’s head, and the Sakuras were expelled as a result. Sakura Sakura has since cut off contact with everyone and seemingly disappeared off the face of the Earth. Nikei offers to track her down. He and Mahiru want to interview the Sakuras, while Kaori suggests checking out Big Sight, where the charity event will be hosted.
  • Iroha tells the group about her family, expresses regret that she ran away without them, and begs for help to save them. Everyone swears that they will. The former members of Class 49 are eager to reunite with their old friends as well. Iroha hugs Nikei and thanks him (and everyone else) for everything.
• December 28: At the resort, Hajime and Chiaki race each other on snowboards, Gundham attempts an epic snowboard entrance only to miscalculate the landing and end up in a flurry of snow, and Hibiki has trouble stopping and then falls down a hole. Meanwhile, Mikan is learning to ski in an effort to conquer her fear, and she’s got the support of Hiyoko and Kotoko.
  • Sonia has finished Kikue’s book. She tells the others about it and offers to introduce them to Kikue when they return to school.
  • Later, Hibiki confides to Sonia that she’s nervous about her upcoming first time with Hajime. Sonia, who’s a bit more experienced in such matters, gives her advice on what to do, which turns into a short practical demonstration on how to initiate things. Gundham walks in on this, gets the wrong idea, and leaves all flustered. Hibiki thanks Sonia for her help.
  • Hibiki and Hiyoko talk, and Hibiki apologizes for her part in the ill-timed date. Hiyoko is currently feeling bad about all the bad things she’s done in the past, plus she feels slightly smothered by her mother’s attempts to make up for lost time and wishes she’d stop trying so hard. She even feels upset about her grandmother; apparently, Izumi looked very sad when Maiko last went to see her about custody paperwork, and despite everything, Hiyoko is having trouble letting go of her relationship with Izumi. Hibiki relates to that, since she herself couldn’t let go of Kanade and agreed to the mindwipe because of it. Now, though, she understands that Kanade has to go back to jail once the list is done. Both girls agree that they’ll treat their kids well, and Hiyoko thanks Hibiki for taking care of Hajime. They hug. Hajime arrives, and they go to get dinner.
  • Mikan admits to Chiaki and Kotoko that dealing with Yumi has caused her to want to bring her own mother to justice for her crimes. Chiaki and Kotoko assure her that they can easily add Tsukasa to the list of people to take care of come January. Chiaki hugs Mikan and thanks her for inspiring her to be better. They share a kiss.
  • Setsuka and Umeko go to the Tokyo Detention House to talk with Mai, only to find out that she is due to be released today by order of the Steering Committee. Mai doesn’t want Nagisa back, as she considers him a failed experiment, but not even Hideyoshi can keep her in jail, and she leaves with a few smug remarks to everyone present. Umeko breaks down in tearful anger.
  • Nikei has secured the details on Sakura Fushimi’s fashion business, and he has also found out that Sakura Arima is Aoi Asahina’s swimming coach. He has yet to find anything on Sakura Sakura, though. As he and Iroha speculate on the missing Sakura’s whereabouts, Umeko, Setsuka, and Ayame show up with the news of Mai’s release. Everyone’s very upset about it until Nikei gives them all a pep talk to reassure them that they can easily take her down if she tries anything. He’s even willing to team up with the 76 Squad if necessary, despite his issues with Masa. The group is revitalized by the potent mixture of hope and spite, and Nikei is already planning to write an article in response to this.
  • Iroha has a theory that Sayaka is the fourth time traveler, hence why she’s going to the charity event and why she did that concert after the prison break. Umeko doesn’t find it very likely, since Sayaka died in the Tragedy timeline, but she agrees to take a closer look at her long-range scanner and see if she missed something.
  • Taira is spending the night at the Fujimoris’ place to make sure that Ayumu gets enough sleep to help him recover from a cold.
  • Later, once Nikei has finished his article, he spends time with Ayame and confides to her that he was doing his best to be positive. The extra sleep he’s gotten thanks to Erina certainly helps. He thanks Ayame for all she’s done to help them and for making Taira happy, and he admits that she makes him happy too. Ayame says that Taira often talks about how far Nikei’s come. She’s also concerned about if she’s girly enough and whether or not she could pull off wearing a dress, and Nikei tells her that she could if she wanted to. After Nikei tells Ayame that she has beautiful eyes, they kiss and cuddle on the couch, and she stays over the night.
  • It’s Damian’s birthday. He turns 18.
  • Kego Sakuma is born.
• December 29: Chiaki, Mikan, and Kotoko are woken up at 2 AM by a scary message on the TV. It seems to be the Basilisk, threatening to kill them all unless they give up Ayumu. Fortunately, it’s just Etsuya playing a prank. With him are Naoko, Sunako, and Kaori Momota (Sunako’s adopted daughter and Taito’s best friend). The 2030 group has finally established a permanent connection with their counterparts in 2012, so they can talk with them whenever it’s needed. The rest of the Cuddle Puddle join the meeting, as do Taito, Kana, Itsuki, and Sayuri, and they all meet each other (much to their delight). Kotoko is also happy to hear that she does acting and charity work in the future.
  • After assuring the 2012 group that they are almost all safe at the Kisaragi Foundation now, the 2030 group gives Mikan the go-ahead to deal with Tsukasa if she so chooses. It also comes out that if the 76 Squad is left alone for now, they will eventually ally with the Quantum Crew on their own. Furthermore, the Quantum Crew must keep an eye out for someone named Himari Matsunaga, who they can also ask Kyoji about.
  • Talk turns to Mai’s release from prison, and an uncomfortable truth about her is revealed: she is pregnant with a child intended to replace Nagisa as the Shingetsus’ experimental subject. Said child is Naoko. Because of this, the Quantum Crew must leave Mai alone for now, lest they jeopardize Naoko’s existence.
  • Sunako and Kaori tell that 2012 group that they need to focus on stuff they can control, that they’re doing great, that they shouldn’t be too hard on themselves, and that everyone believes in them. The Quantum Crew thanks them and expresses their love for their future children.
  • Emma and Masaru return to Japan.
• December 30: At the Yamazaki Family Restaurant, Keiko talks to Sofia Yamazaki about how her life’s been going lately. She’s worried about Hajime, regretful over some of her outbursts towards him in the past, and wondering how best to support him and if she’s even cut out to be a mom. Sofia talks about her own stepbrother, Asahi, who idolizes star soccer player Mitsuhiro Higa and has argued with her over that, but they’ve made up. She tells Keiko that you can have arguments with your family and still care about them, and she advises her to talk with Hajime more often. Keiko agrees that communication is a good idea.
• December 31: It’s New Year’s Eve. The Cuddle Puddle prepares for the party, and Hibiki (with extra cheerleading from Sonia) prepares for her first time with Hajime. Miwa stops by to express the hope that 2013 will be better than 2012. Meanwhile, Hajime is dealing with the bad memories he has associated with parties.
  • At the Shinzen Resort New Year’s Eve party, Miwa greets the Cuddle Puddle, thanks them for coming, and wishes Hajime a happy early birthday. Everyone has fun, and although Hajime is still troubled by the mistakes he made in 2012, the others assure him that he has done good things as well. They all agree to keep improving. A revitalized Hajime takes the stage and sings “Don’t Stop Me Now” to the ecstatic partygoers.
  • It’s Harumi’s birthday. She turns 44.
  • It’s Tamami’s birthday. She turns 15.

2013

January

• January 1: The Cuddle Puddle rings in New Year’s Day together with the mutual promise that 2013 will be a better year.
  • As the group splits off, with some going to rest and others staying at the party, Hibiki sets out to meet Hajime in his room. She sneaks around carefully, only to run into Miwa, who just wants to make sure she’s okay and has people she can trust after everything she’s been through. Hibiki assures her that she’s doing much better now. The two bond over the struggles of being celebrities, Miwa thanks Hibiki for helping to save Fumio’s life and warns her to be careful of people who might take advantage of her, and they agree that it’s important not to blame yourself for others’ actions or tell yourself that you don’t deserve kindness or love.
  • Hibiki meets Hajime in his room. The two of them say that they love each other, and she reassures him that he doesn’t have to be perfect to be loveable. They then have sex for the first time.
  • While this is happening, Sonia fills Gundham in on Hibiki’s plans and explains how she was giving her tips earlier. They cuddle, Gundham admits that it’s still strange for him to feel so accepted by everyone, and they trade their own set of “I love yous” before also having sex for the first time.
  • Hajime has another dream meeting with Nagi, and they update each other on everything that’s been going on in their respective universes. She advises him to not stress out too much, trust his friends, fix his relationship with his mom, be careful with Tsukasa, trust the 76 Squad, and get Kyoji to apologize to those he’s hurt and to understand that some things are out of his control. She also tells him that Tamami and Sofia need to be saved on March 6 and March 8 respectively and that they should check the class registry for the reason why. They wish each other the best before departing.
  • At 7:50 AM, Hajime wakes up with Hibiki. Both are happy about last night, and they share a kiss before Hibiki sneaks out the window. She comes back in through Sonia’s window with help from Sonia, and they tell each other about their experiences.
  • It’s Hajime’s birthday. He turns 18. The Cuddle Puddle meets up with him and shows him their present: a huge cake, made with help from Miwa. The Cuddle Puddle all express their love for Hajime and their gratitude for all he’s done, and Hajime expresses his own thanks in return. They have their cake and then spend more time on the slopes, skiing, snowboarding, and having fun for the rest of the day. Hajime does not beat Chiaki’s score.
  • It’s Itsumi’s birthday. She turns 12.
• January 2: The Cuddle Puddle returns home. Hajime and Keiko apologize to each other, him for not being fair to her and her for making him feel like he couldn’t trust her. He appreciates everything she’s done for him, and she will help with his next mission.
• January 3: It’s Leon’s birthday. He turns 17.
  • It’s Kizuna’s birthday. She turns 16.
• January 4: It’s Fumio’s birthday. He turns 17.
• January 9: Mikan contacts 2030 and requests that she deal with Tsukasa at the same time as the Patient 8702 mission. Sunako, Taito, and Asami give her the go-ahead, and Taito advises her not to be scared and remember that she is stronger than her mother will ever know.
• January 10: Kyoji calls DLTA to warn them about the danger that Patient 8702 is in. The hospital immediately puts security measures in place.
• January 11: Iroha stays up late at night to research Class 49 and to get information from 2030 on how everyone is doing in the future.
  • Kyoji and Monaca have an argument over Kyoji’s relationship with Kanade.
• January 12: At 8:47, the Quantum Crew contacts 2030, Hajime informs Sunako and Asami of what Nagi told him, and they all turn their attention to the mission to save Patient 8702, who in 2030 has no records of their identity or fate after the transfer. Harumi has requested to stop by DLTA Private Hospital for an examination, and they’re expecting her today. Kanata and Kyoji are going with her. Kyoji will bring some counter-agents to Tsumugi’s techniques, just in case she’s involved, as well as a few supplemental compounds based on Seiko’s doping corn syrup. Everyone in the group wishes Harumi, Kanata, and Kyoji luck, and they depart.
  • Mikan, meanwhile, prepares to bring Tsukasa down. Hajime and Hiyoko are going with her, and they will ask for Hajime’s parents’ help as well.
  • Harumi, Kanata, and Kyoji board the train to Hokkaido at 9 AM, then settle in for a 10-hour train ride. Kyoji provides info about the hospital: it’s private, up in the mountains, has a thousand patients maximum, and is only accessible by gondola or helicopter. Since Patient 8702’s death will occur during a transfer, everyone is worried about the possibilities. Judging by the time frame that the 2030 group gave them, they have 48 hours to keep the patient safe.
  • Kyoji and Kanata receive their code names. Kyoji is Ten of Swords, and Kanata is Hanged Man.
  • When asked about Himari Matsunaga, Kyoji explains that he met her shortly after he dropped out of Hope’s Peak. She was a prostitute that he hired in order to have someone to talk to, and he remembers her as kind and comforting in a time when he needed it most. Unfortunately, Kyoji is convinced that his sins cannot be forgiven unless he does something to counterbalance them. Harumi and Kanata do their best to convince him that nobody hates him, that he should just apologize instead of making grand gestures, and that he still deserves to be happy. Kanata also tells him about Nagito’s story (and her recent engagement to him) to encourage Kyoji. Kyoji thanks his friends for the support, and they spend the rest of the train ride swapping stories about their experiences in the medical field.
  • Mikan, with backup from Hajime and Hiyoko, tells Hiroshi and Keiko about her backstory and her plans to bring Tsukasa down, and they instantly agree to help. Keiko will drive the group to the Tsumikis’ apartment in Kabukicho to see if Tsukasa is still there. When asked why she never went to the police, Mikan explains that Tsukasa took videos of her and gave them to some of the police officers, so she can’t trust them. This infuriates everyone present, and after talking it over, they decide to recruit Masa to help them take down not only Tsukasa, but the corrupt police officers as well.
  • Hajime, Mikan, and Hiyoko find Masa at the Hope’s Peak dorms, explain the situation to her, and ask for her help. She’s on board. She also calls Mayumi and tells her about what’s going on with the police so that Mayumi can pass the information on to Hideyoshi (although they will make sure to keep Mikan herself anonymous). Hiyoko cries that she never realized things were this bad for Mikan and apologizes again for what she said about her in the past.
  • Hajime calls Nikei and tells him that they’ll be working with Masa this time for the Tsukasa mission, as Nikei is too young for this situation and doesn’t have the resources that Masa has. Nikei doesn’t like it, but reluctantly agrees to let her handle it and work with the Patient 8702 group instead.
  • Nekomaru and Erina visit the Void Warehouse. While Nekomaru, Emma, Maku, and Masaru work out together, Erina talks to Nikei about his issues related to Masa. Not only is he jealous of her, but he doesn’t feel like she goes far enough in her reporting, and although he understands why the Quantum Crew picked her instead of him for this mission, he’s still upset about it. Erina consoles him and invites him to lunch with the rest of the group. There, they remind him that he isn’t a worse journalist than Masa (he just doesn’t have as much experience, and their styles are different as well), that he’s more than just journalism anyway, that his acceptance of Masa’s involvement proves that he’s getting better as a person, and that he just needs to focus on being the best he can be at what he wants to do. Erina once again promises to be there for him if he needs it, gives him a hug, and even offers to let him stay with her and Nekomaru whenever he wants.
  • Masaru’s adoption is officially in the works, as the Greens have already agreed to take him in.
  • At 8:40 PM, Harumi, Kanata, and Kyoji arrive in Asahikawa. They take nasal spray of an algicide Kyoji made to inoculate against a potential attack by Tsumugi, then ride a gondola up the mountain to DLTA Private Hospital. Kanata assures Kyoji that although this may be her first mission with the Quantum Crew, she’s prepared to do what she can, and she tells the story of how she once kept a room full of injured Yakuza from fighting by boinking one of them on the head. She also thanks him for being here and says that she considers him a friend.
  • When their gondola reaches the hospital, the Patient 8702 trio are greeted by Dr. Masayoshi Okamoto, one of the senior staff. He’s been told that one of the patients is in danger, and he will help, but he asks that they not tell the other patients. A Code Silver will be declared if things get bad. He also takes care of Patient 8702 personally, and he calls ahead to see if they’re available to speak.
  • In the waiting area, the group finds Toko hanging out with a junior psychologist named Chinatsu Miyajima, who has been working with DLTA for a couple of days. Toko is doing well at the hospital and feels more at peace with herself, and it’s been discovered that she has (at least) three more alters besides Syo: the friendly and bubbly Hanako, the blunt Internal Self-Helper Athena, and the self-assured fictive Shujenko. Chinatsu is curious about everything and happy to meet everybody, but seems a bit uneasy around Kyoji.
  • As soon as he gets confirmation that Patient 8702 is in fact available, Masayoshi takes Harumi, Kanata, and Kyoji to meet them (although his card doesn’t work on her door, so they use a security guard’s card instead). It turns out that Patient 8702’s true identity is Ryoko Otonashi. She’s been suffering from anterograde amnesia ever since she had an accident at age 9, so she cannot make new memories and must instead write everything down in a notebook. After talking with her, the group realizes that she is the older sister of Junko and Mukuro (who was originally named Sachiko). They make plans to talk with her tomorrow.
  • Harumi, Kanata, and Kyoji contact the rest of the Quantum Crew and fill them in on the bombshell regarding Ryoko. They’re all shocked, of course, but at least they can look up info on her and her family while the Patient 8702 trio work on getting a sense of the hospital and its people.
  • Keiko drives Hajime, Mikan, Hiyoko, and Masa to Kabukicho. Hiyoko stays in the car, Hajime and Keiko wait near the car, and Masa goes with Mikan to the Tsumikis’ apartment. Masa tells Mikan that she has her own issues with her mother, who cheated on her father and then blamed him for it, causing a court case that inspired Masa to get into journalism. She proceeds to scare away a drunk guy who tries to hit on them. Unfortunately, Tsukasa is not at the apartment, and they find out from the night manager that she moved out two months ago.
  • The group reunites, and although Mikan worries that she’s wasted everyone’s time, everyone assures her that they won’t give up and that they’re here for her. Just as they’re about to leave Kabukicho for the night, they happen to run into Kojikoji and Yokoyoko. They know the area, and they work together with Keiko to calculate what kind of apartment Tsukasa can afford in accordance with her tastes. They also agree to provide information about the dirty cops and anything else the group might need.
  • Everyone heads back for the night. Masa tells Mikan that she’s doing a good thing and shouldn’t be hard on herself. Mikan thanks Hajime, Hiyoko, and Keiko for being there and helping her with this. Hugs are had, and Mikan spends the night at Hajime’s house.
  • Later, Masa looks up all the nearby apartments to see which ones correlate best with the data.
• January 13: Harumi, Kanata, and Kyoji have breakfast with Toko and Chinatsu. Toko, with help from Hanako, admits that she likes it at DLTA and thanks the Quantum Crew for sending her there. Chinatsu shares her backstory: she came from a bleak home life, with unstable parents who fought all the time before their inevitable divorce and a clinically depressed older brother, but she managed to help them all feel better, and after that, she went into psychology to help others. She can also pick up people’s traits and backgrounds just by looking at them. She doesn’t have any issues with Kyoji, but she has something she needs to discuss with him later.
  • Ryoko is a bit late to breakfast due to a physical, but she finally shows up with Masayoshi and Rei Shimizu (hereinafter referred to as Shimizu), her nurse. The 8702 trio talks with Ryoko and learns the story of her accident: she was with her family on a trip to the beach due to her parents’ impending separation, she and her sisters went swimming, she tried to dive off some rocks, and she hurt her head, causing her amnesia. Her muscle memory still works fine, though. She remembers that her parents were away a lot, but took her and her sisters on vacations when they were sorry for something, such as the trip to Australia that took place when Yasuke’s mother died. Also, Yasuke may or may not have had a crush on Ryoko before he moved on to date Junko, and while Junko was a very smart child who was capable of hypercalculia, she also cried a lot and, at age 4, said she never should’ve been born.
  • Harumi, Kanata, and Kyoji tell Ryoko, Toko, and Chinatsu about the mystery assassin’s plot to kill Ryoko. They assure Ryoko that they will protect her. For now, the plan is for everyone to keep their guards up and not be alone with anyone they don’t trust. They’ll sound a Code Silver or a Code Black if they find anything.
  • The 8702 trio updates the rest of the Quantum Crew on what they’ve learned. The 2030 group doesn’t have much information on the Otonashi family, as they are pretty private, but they do know that Shimizu’s parasite murders only occured during the Tragedy, not before it. In darker news, it’s revealed that Himari Matsunaga is working with the Holy Salvation Society as a prostitute in one of their front companies, and they might be the ones after Ryoko. The group remains interested in taking them down, but Sunako suggests that there might be a certain group best suited for it. Asami also warns that exposing Tsukasa, while for the best, might have some not-so-great consequences regarding how many police officers will be available to help with future missions. She asks Hajime if he still wants to do this, and he says yes. The group agrees to stay on course.
  • Mikan, Hiyoko, and Masa are going over their group’s calculations at Hope’s Peak, and Masa has narrowed Tsukasa’s location down to seven different apartment buildings. The group agrees to look through those places, Mikan describes her mother’s appearance to Masa, and Hiyoko advises Mikan to say whatever comes to her mind when she finally chews out Tsukasa. Before they go, Masa calls Mayumi to update her (and Hideyoshi) on things so that police can be sent to those locations. She’s also curious about Hajime’s connection to Class 77-B and wants to talk to him about it later. Hajime and Keiko reunite with the girls, they decide to pick up Kojikoji and Yokoyoko and get their help as well, and with that, they’re off.
  • Back at the hospital, Kanata sets out to investigate the surgical ward, Chinatsu and Kyoji go to investigate the backrooms and discuss some things, and Harumi and Toko keep an eye on Ryoko. Harumi interviews all the doctors and finds none of them suspicious. As she checks on Ryoko, she does find Shimizu suspicious, but at least Ryoko’s in good health. Harumi goes off with Shimizu to set up an MRI for Ryoko, but on the way there, she drags her into the supply closet and demands answers as to how come she’s working here if she’s a clumsy parasitologist. Shimizu denies that she would ever hurt Ryoko and explains that she’s here because DLTA is one of the only places that she can handle, stress-wise. She’s been looking after Ryoko ever since her arrival, as she genuinely wanted to help her recover after her horrific accident, and when the Otonashis eventually abandoned Ryoko on the grounds that they couldn’t spent the rest of their lives “lugging around a doorstop,” that only strengthened Shimizu’s resolve to be there for her. Harumi apologizes for doubting Shimizu, and the two decide to work together for Ryoko’s sake. Harumi also considers telling Yasuke the truth about all this when they return home.
  • Chinatsu asks Kyoji if he’s the assassin, and when Kyoji says no, she follows it up by asking if he’s okay. He admits that he’s not. She wants to help, so he tells her about his situation with Kanade without mentioning any names. Chinatsu advises him to let her go because he can’t save everyone, but he cries that it’s not fair that he gets a second chance while she doesn’t, and so it comes out to Chinatsu that he’s killed people. After confirming that he’s not dangerous now and that he just wants to help people, Chinatsu forgives him, suggests that he find Himari again, and tells him to learn how to help and forgive himself before trying to help anyone else. With Kyoji somewhat reassured, they continue their investigation in the backrooms, where a light beeping sound in the vent leads them to find a bunch of computer parts glued together into a makeshift device. It has wires that lead further into the vent.
  • In the surgical ward, Kanata is impressed by the newest MRI model of DLTA, which is used to scan anyone who is injured. Shortly after Shimizu arrives to request an MRI for Ryoko, Kanata finds a wire trailing out of the vent, connected to the MRI. It’s the same wire that leads to the device that Kyoji and Chinatsu found.
  • Kanata decides to test the MRI on herself in order to see what the device connected to it is for. When she does so, the device causes the MRI to fake its results, giving Kanata a faulty diagnosis of colon cancer. Harumi tries it on herself and gets the same diagnosis. When they rip the device out of the MRI, its results go back to normal. The group realizes that the device was made to make everyone think that Ryoko has colon cancer and transfer her to another hospital for treatment, opening the window for an assassination in transit. This also means that the assassin is already at the hospital. The doctors sound a Code Silver, and everyone assures Ryoko that they’ll protect her.
  • In Kabukicho, Mikan’s group has checked four locations thus far, but have not found Tsukasa. Masa checks a fifth location and intimidates an apartment building manager into telling her that Tsukasa passed through the area recently, but does not live there. The police officers sent by Hideyoshi are already covering the Kabukicho exits. With two locations left, Hajime, Mikan, Masa, and Kojikoji search one of them, while Keiko, Hiyoko, and Yokoyoko check the other one.
  • Masa asks Hajime about the Twilight Syndrome incident and why he gets involved with other people’s business so often, even to the point of not taking care of himself as well as he should. She also tells him that Natsumi and Honami’s fight was probably caused indirectly by the Steering Committee, turning them against each other to keep them out of their hair. She thinks that he’s doing this for the right reasons, but is worried that he doesn’t trust her and assures him that she isn’t trying to get a story out of this. Hajime understands, although he still doesn’t want to talk about his reasons right now.
  • Kojikoji agrees to give Hajime and Mikan a class roster for Class 78. He also says that he and Yokoyoko don’t plan on being in the escort business forever, although Teruteru worries about them a lot.
  • When Mikan’s group reaches the location they’re supposed to investigate, they find Tsukasa Tsumiki smoking by the crosswalk, propositioning passerby. Hajime decides that he will get her alone by going up with her to her room as a “customer,” giving the rest a chance to catch up and cover the exits. He’ll give them a signal if anything goes wrong, and Masa will follow him in secret. Although the others express concerns about if this is a good idea or not, Hajime’s determined to do it for Mikan’s sake.
  • Hajime approaches Tsukasa and accepts her offer to go with her to Room 513. Mikan immediately finds Keiko’s group and fills them in on the situation. An angry Keiko leads the charge back to Tsukasa’s apartment.
  • Up in Room 513, Tsukasa starts getting handsy with Hajime, even forcibly kissing him. Hajime punches her and chews her out for her actions, whereupon Tsukasa finds herself surrounded by the rest of his group. Mikan arrives and tells her exactly what she thinks of her, calling her out for all the abuse she’s put her through. Tsukasa tries to defend herself by pointing out Mikan’s faults and talking about how she had to become who she is now in order to survive the economic crash of the 90s, but Keiko says that’s no excuse for treating others badly. Mikan admits that she doesn’t hate or fear her mother anymore, but rather pities her, and she thanks her for showing her the kind of person she doesn’t want to become. With that, Tsukasa is arrested by Kouhei, but not before Keiko punches her in the face for her assault on Hajime.
  • Masa and Kouhei are going to search Tsukasa’s apartment, find out which cops were working with her, and root out all the remaining corruption in the police force. Kouhei knows Masa from previous interviews. Tsurugi is still recovering from what happened in November, but Kouhei is helping him too.
  • Struck by the fact that her troubles with her mother are really over and wondering if it was really enough, Mikan sits down on the curb and begins to cry. Hajime, Hiyoko, and Keiko comfort her. Mikan is proud of herself, if slightly overwhelmed.
  • Meanwhile, Shimizu and Chinatsu inform Masayoshi of the Code Silver, Ryoko panics, and Harumi finds unknown fingerprints on the device (it turns out she has experience in forensics). Harumi and Shimizu go to check the security cameras, while Kanata and Kyoji go to find the others. Chinatsu meets up with Toko, whereupon Athena fronts and decides to help protect Ryoko as well.
  • Ryoko, who has written everything down in her notebook, finds Kanata and Kyoji. They again promise to help however they can. Masayoshi appears and suggests that they get Ryoko out of the hospital via a secret passage built into the mountain. Just as they’re about to leave, Ryoko sees something on the mountain through a skylight window, and suddenly, the skylight shatters via a hail of bullets. It turns out that there’s an automated turret gun on the mountain that will shoot at anything that moves, trapping the group in place.
  • Harumi and Shimizu’s check of the security cameras finds nothing terribly suspicious. Masayoshi, Shimizu, Chinatsu, Kyoji, and some contractors have all been near the MRI at various points, but no one stands out. Then they get distracted by the gunshots and run to help, rejoining the main group.
  • Chinatsu and Athena hide in the upper section of the hospital to make their plan. They see the turret gun from a higher vantage point than the others, and they decide to distract it by throwing books at it. This works, and while Chinatsu keeps throwing books, Athena rushes out the window and across the cliff to attack the turret gun, using thicker books as shields, giving those trapped in the hospital a chance to move out of the line of fire. The pair of them keep the turret gun’s attention on them for the most part, but one stray shot sends broken glass falling towards Ryoko. Shimizu successfully shields her with her own body, but ends up with shards of glass in her own back. Shortly afterwards, Athena successfully destroys the turret gun by kicking it off the cliff.
  • Fortunately, Shimizu’s wounds are only superficial, but she’s still lost a lot of blood, so Kanata prepares a transfusion for her. Meanwhile, the rest of the group gathers to discuss the assassin’s identity. Harumi shares some revelations she’s had: the hospital has had security measures in place ever since they were warned about the assassin, yet Masayoshi’s card mysteriously didn’t work on Ryoko’s door the previous day, even though he should’ve been the first to have the new security keys. This, combined with his presence on the security cameras, the mysterious fingerprints, the cliff being right outside his office, and the fact that no one else in the hospital has ever heard of the secret passage he claimed to have available, makes it clear that Masayoshi is the assassin sent to kill Ryoko. In fact, he’s not even Masayoshi. He’s Tsumugi Shirogane, who has stolen Masayoshi’s body for use in her murder plot.
  • Tsumugi reveals herself and gloats about how she has achieved “true immortality” and is ready for everything. She says that because of Ryoko’s condition, she considers killing her to be an act of mercy. Then, she gives everyone an ultimatum: give up Ryoko, and she’ll let everyone else in the hospital live. Chinatsu calls her out for being a lying sociopath, Ryoko calls her a monster, and everyone tells her to go to hell. Tsumugi then reveals that she’s planted bombs around the hospital that will kill everyone inside. Harumi starts fighting her, while Kyoji, Ryoko, Toko, and Chinatsu go to warn everyone.
  • Kyoji’s group finds Kanata operating on Shimizu and briefs her on the current situation. Ryoko uses a map of the hospital to figure out where the bombs are likely hiding: that is, on four of the main pillars supporting the place or on the oxygen line that runs down from the top floor. She figures that they’re probably plastic explosives and can be disarmed easily. Everyone splits up to search for the bombs, except for Kanata, who insists on staying with Shimizu. She issues a Code Black to the rest of the hospital.
  • Harumi easily beats Tsumugi up. Tsumugi doesn’t understand how Harumi and her group know everything about the Despairs’ plans, and she denies involvement with Juu’s prison break. She offers to let Harumi take her in for interrogation on a rescue helicopter if she leaves the hospital to burn, but Harumi refuses.
  • The group goes down the maintenance tunnel. Chinatsu goes to check the oxygen line, while everyone else takes care of the pillars. They find a mass of boxes with cell phones attached to them at the pillars, which appear to be the bombs, but Ryoko soon discovers that they’re all fake. Meanwhile, Chinatsu finds the real bomb hidden in a small space beside the pipes, and she gets it off the pipe with only eighteen seconds left. From there, the panicking psychologist tries everything to disarm it, finally breaking the phone detonator and pulling out the battery mechanism. That does the job, and the bomb is disarmed, saving the entire hospital.
  • Everyone reconvenes near the hospital entrance, just as a rescue helicopter shows up. Harumi has subdued Tsumugi, and Ryoko, upset that Masayoshi was killed and Shimizu was hurt, demands to know why Tsumugi wants her dead so badly. Tsumugi reveals that Junko’s the one who wants Ryoko dead, which comes as a big shock to the poor girl. Then, Tsumugi takes off, climbs up a safety rail near the edge of the cliff, and tells everyone that this was an interesting experiment and that they’ll see her again soon.
  • The version of Tsumugi Shirogane occupying Masayoshi Okamoto’s body commits suicide by throwing herself off the cliff, and anything that might be left of him dies with her. He is 52.
  • Ryoko is devastated by the truth of this case, and she blames herself for everything. Harumi, Kanata, and Kyoji somberly take solace in the fact that she’s alive and the hospital is safe. They inform the rest of the Quantum Crew.
  • Shimizu gets bandages and stitches from Kanata. She’s now on lots of painkillers, but is otherwise okay. She thanks Kyoji for saving Ryoko. The hospital will have much tighter security from now on, and Kyoji gives Shimizu the formula for his anti-Tsumugi algicide, just in case.
  • Ryoko chooses to forget that this entire incident ever happened. She’s ripped out every page in her journal that has to do with Tsumugi, Masayoshi, Kyoji, Harumi, and Kanata. Chinatsu and Toko promise to keep an eye on her, Shimizu has been inspired to become the responsible nurse she truly needs, Toko thanks Kyoji for sending her to DLTA, and Kyoji promises to take Chinatsu’s words to heart. With a bittersweet air about them, the 8702 trio says goodbye to everyone and departs for home.
  • On the way home, everyone compliments each other on their contributions to this mission, and Kyoji decides to tell Kanata and Harumi the truth about Kanade. He still wants to save her, although the others tell him that there are times when you have to let people go, and he isn’t sure if sending her to DLTA is a good idea anymore. They decide to go talk to Yasuke about it, and Kyoji calls Hibiki and asks her to go with them.
  • Hibiki, Harumi, Kanata, and Kyoji meet up with Yasuke; they tell him that they met Ryoko and saved her from Junko. It turns out that all the Ultimate Despairs are allowed some autonomy as long as they follow Junko’s orders, and they don’t tend to actually talk to each other. Yasuke talks about his connection to Ryoko and his history with the Otonashi family, how they helped him when his mom was sick, and how horrible the parents were, arguing all the time. His mother’s illness and Ryoko’s accident were both parts of the reason why he went into neurosurgery, as was Tsumugi’s work on the subject. When asked if Ryoko’s accident was truly an accident or not, he admits that he doesn’t know. The group tells him about Junko’s plan to wipe her memories and impersonate Ryoko later on down the line, and he decides to stop helping Junko and to turn himself in to the police alongside Kyoji once she’s defeated. Hibiki says that she’s decided to send Kanade back to jail now, since she’s finally accepted that the sister she loved never really existed. Harumi’s upset about the whole thing, but does admit that she can’t really say that they should’ve killed her, either. They all contemplate whenever it’s best to forget or remember the past. As thanks for saving Ryoko, Yasuke offers to wipe Kyoji’s memory of his own past after they both get out of jail, but Kyoji decides to continue carrying that weight. They leave, but not before Kanata tells Yasuke that Ryoko still remembers him.
  • Hibiki asks Kyoji if he’s mad at her. He isn’t, and in fact, he actually feels a lot better now, especially after his talk with Chinatsu. Kyoji and Hibiki become close friends.
• January 14: Mikan confides to Hajime that dealing with her mother has left her feeling empty, and it feels like there should’ve been more to it. She declares that she’s a better person now and doesn’t need anything from her mother, only to break down crying. Hajime comforts her and assures her that she can move on with everyone else. They will focus on the future from now on.
  • Masa tells Hajime and Mikan that Tsukasa is pretty much finished and that they’ve already identified two of her cohorts in the police force. She also gives them a copy of the Class 78 roster and tells them that she’ll be at the Nijiue charity event with her father. Hajime looks at the roster, realizes something, and tells Mikan that everyone on the Quantum Crew needs to see it.
  • The Quantum Crew meets to discuss everything that has happened. They congratulate Harumi, Kanata, and Kyoji on a job well done and tell them not to blame themselves for what happened with Masayoshi and Tsumugi. The 2030 crew tells the group that in their time, Ryoko still lives in an assisted care facility, but has become more independent; also, 14 officers have been fired and face prison time. Both Hajime and Iroha have big important revelations to share with the group.
  • Hajime’s revelation is first: it turns out that Tamami and Sofia will not be members of Class 78-B as originally thought, but rather Class 78-A. Junko and Mukuro are not in that class…at least, not yet. In order to get into Hope’s Peak, they will get Tamami and Sofia killed with help from the Holy Salvation Society, who 2030’s Mikako reveals will also turn Masa’s granddaughter, Maki Harukawa, into an assassin if nothing is done about them. Kyoji’s connection with Himari might be the key to taking the assassin organization down for good. The group vows to save the girls and turn Hope’s Peak into a fortress against Junko. Iroha’s a little sad that Mukuro won’t go to Hope’s Peak and is thus less likely to be redeemed, but she still agrees to it.
  • Iroha’s revelation is that she and Umeko have finally figured out who the fourth time traveler is. It seems that in the Tragedy timeline, Umeko used some of Tsumugi’s tech for her time travel plan, and she pulled one of the victims of the Killing School Life forward in time just before they died. She took a snapshot of that person’s brain (it had to be the only one with no head drama) and saved it to her computer, so the person had to live in the computer for a while, but then, she sent them back in time to their 2012 body. The fourth time traveler, as it turns out, is Sayaka Maizono.
  • Elsewhere, Sayaka and Kyoko make plans to meet up with the Quantum Crew at the charity event so that they can coordinate with them easier from then on. Sayaka has been ready for this for quite a while now.
  • It’s Kazuo’s birthday. He turns 73.
  • It’s Honami’s birthday. She turns 17.
• January 18: During a Quantum Crew meeting at the Void Warehouse, 2030’s Mikako explains that the 2030 crew has been helping Sayaka and her group with their own missions as well. However, they’ve had to be careful to avoid the Basilisk, so they can only call one group at a time. Sayaka has had assistance from not just Kyoko, but from her bandmates (who also know about the future) and Asami.
  • Asami tells the group about the Nijiue charity event and what will happen there if nothing is done. It will run from January 31 to February 2, and Akemi will be found dead at 6:10 on the evening of February 2. They’ll initially rule it a suicide, but her injuries will be more consistant with a strangulation than a hanging, and that won’t be figured out until years later…and Emina will have already fled the country by then. What’s more, the charity event will be attended by Masa, her father Akira Esumi, and three people from Class 49, but no one else in the class or on the Quantum Crew. Now, Sayaka and her band are already confirmed to be there, and the current goal is to make sure that more people from both the Quantum Crew and Class 49 will be on the scene as well, acting as character witnesses and increasing the chances of saving Akemi.
  • In addition to convincing the rest of Class 49 to come to the charity event, the group decides to tell Makoto and Shinji about the future.
  • Iroha has learned that Ui is doing much better in 2030; she spent three years in the hospital, eventually went back to making art, and even reconciled with Jataro. A grown-up Jataro from 2030 also stops by to say hi to his Big Sis.
  • The 2030 crew don’t have many details about what will lead to the fatal confrontation between Akemi and Emina; the only ones close enough to tell them are Hitaru and Jiro, who they still can’t get in touch with. The Quantum Crew does, however, get help from a grown-up version of Chinatsu (now Chinatsu Oowada), who tells them that Akemi will probably be using the event as part of a plan to escape and expose the Nijiue parents, which will cause the argument and her subsequent death. Iroha decides to meet up with her siblings and try to coordinate this plan together. It’s mentioned that as long as the group doesn’t make their presence too obvious, the Basilisk will probably overlook it, as it’s still too busy attacking 2030. Everyone rallies behind Iroha and commits themselves to saving the Nijiue siblings.
  • 2030’s Mikako’s precog powers have evolved beyond those of her 2013 counterpart, allowing her to see much farther into the future with minimal headaches and no nosebleeds. Not only has she used this to avoid a few disasters for the Quantum Crew, but she’s also seen as far ahead as August 2070. That’s how she knows that the Holy Salvation Society will recruit Masa’s granddaughter Maki…and kill the rest of her family in order to do so. Nikei is shocked, since although he was jealous of Masa, he never wanted her dead, and he agrees to investigate the cult. It’s also revealed that Kaede Akamatsu is Sayuri’s daughter and Hajime and Hibiki’s granddaughter, Kirumi Tojo is Nikei and Taira’s granddaughter, Kaito Momota is Kaori’s son and Sunako’s grandson, and Shuichi Saihara and Angie Yonaga are the descendants of Class 49 members Yuka Saihara (nee Kurosaki) and Mio Yonaga (nee Yamada) respectively. If Tsumugi isn’t stopped, she’ll do serious harm to them and others.
  • As the 2030 group signs off, Harumi hopes that this mission can be a chance to see Sakura Sakura again, while Nikei plans to get in touch with the Class 49 members who wouldn’t be coming otherwise. Iroha pulls Nikei aside and asks him (and the other Voids) not to go with her to the actual charity event, as this is something she needs to do on her own. She doesn’t think he can put his personal feelings aside, and she wants to not just bring her parents to justice, but also make up for her own mistakes. He grumbles a bit, but admits that she’s right and agrees not to go. But he’ll still help with the investigation, and he’ll be there if she needs him.
  • Iroha calls Hitaru to tell her of the plan and arrange a meeting with her, the rest of the group sets out to find Class 49, and the mission to save the Nijiue siblings officially begins.
• January 19: It’s Hideyoshi’s birthday. He turns 24.
• January 20: Iroha and Emma go to the Ginza District to meet up with Hitaru at a sushi place called Shimada’s. Hitaru treats the girls to sushi. She’s been busy with lots of work to get ready for the charity event; her parents are basically making her do all the preparations in order to teach her “responsibility” for once she finds a husband and takes over the family (not that Hitaru is interested in marrying, but there have been talks of an arranged marriage). It seems that the Nijiues want to improve their public image with this event. Iroha tells Hitaru about the plan to get Class 49 to come and back them up at the event, and she tells them about what said class is like as well. An excited Hitaru agrees to invite all the ones who weren’t already invited.
  • It’s confirmed by Hitaru that Sayaka convinced the Nijiues to let her perform at the charity event in exchange for a huge donation. Furthermore, the fact that all invitees to the charity event can bring a plus-one was Akemi’s idea.
  • Hitaru feels guilty for not doing enough to save her siblings, and Iroha feels guilty for leaving her siblings behind and not even considering them until recently. Emma tells them both that they should stop beating themselves up over their past mistakes and focus on what they can do in the here and now. The sisters apologize to each other and share a hug.
  • After Hitaru fills the girls in on what the charity event will be like and the kind of people who will be there, she mentions that most of the guests will be staying at the Grand Nikko Tokyo Daiba hotel, including the Nijiue siblings and Sayaka and her band. Hitaru will let Iroha borrow her key card to coordinate with everyone, although it’s agreed that she should wear a disguise. With that settled, they all have a nice meal together.
  • Later, after saying an emotional goodbye to Hitaru, Iroha cries to Emma that Hitaru should’ve gotten Divine Luck instead of her. She’s also worried about how she’s going to tell the truth to Makoto and whether or not she would actually make a good mother so soon. All she wants is for her family to be okay. Emma assures her that she’s doing her best to fix things now, that it’s best to ease Makoto into the news, and that Makoto won’t hate her for not telling him the truth as soon as she could’ve. She also tells her that she’s glad she got Divine Luck and that she loves and forgives her for everything. They hug and then go get ice cream.
• January 21: Nikei, Mahiru, and Harumi go to the Red Ribbon Fashion Building in Harajuku to speak with Sakura Fushimi (hereinafter referred to as Fushimi). It seems that Fushimi has been doing well for herself (she’s the founder and CEO of the Red Ribbon fashion company) and regrets the way she used to be; she happily reunites with Harumi, offers fashion advice to Nikei, and catches up on Hitoshi’s condition from Mahiru. When they tell her about Emina’s crimes, she agrees to come to the charity event and make her old nemesis pay. She’ll even make a disguise for Iroha.
  • Fushimi mentions that Harumi used to be a junior forensic investigator, and a highly skilled one at that, even getting the nickname “The Greyhound” from the police. She thinks Hope’s Peak should’ve let her into the Main Course, but Harumi brushes it off.
  • As it turns out, Fushimi knows Sakura Sakura’s location, and although the latter no longer goes by that name, she’s doing much better now. Fushimi will talk to her on the group’s behalf and ask for her help. The group also gets Fushimi’s phone number for future coordination.
  • Privately, Nikei tells Mahiru that he thinks it’s fishy that Harumi was apparently such a good forensic investigator and yet was never an Ultimate. The two of them decide to look further into it.
  • In the evening, Iroha goes over to the Naegis’ house. The Naegis are doing all right, although Komaru spilled a ton of soda in the kitchen because she was mad at Makoto for drinking it. Iroha pulls Makoto aside once he’s done studying and tells him the truth about time travel, the Tragedy, and so on. Even after taking a moment to process it, Makoto can’t believe that he really saved the world and became the Ultimate Hope, but Iroha assures him that he had friends to help him. She apologizes for not telling him sooner, and she admits that she was a criminal in the Tragedy timeline. Makoto easily forgives her and agrees to help her. In return, she tells him that they’re married in the good 2030 future and that she fell in love with him because of who he is now, not who he is in the future. She spends the night at his house.
• January 22: At the Void Warehouse, Nekomaru, Kazuichi, and Nikei overhear Kenji and Erina having a flirtatious conversation. The boys speculate on whether or not they might end up in a relationship, and Nekomaru and Nikei give Kazuichi advice regarding his own problems with Ayumi. Kazuichi doesn’t initially think his dad will get into another relationship after his terrible marriage with his stalker-turned-wife-turned-ex, but he is quickly proven wrong when Kenji and Erina agree to go on a date. Much congratulations and hugging ensue.
  • Nikei admits to Erina that he’s stressed out about the situation with the Nijiues, worried about whether he might lose Iroha when she goes back to her siblings, and also a bit jealous that he doesn’t have a family of his own. Erina assures her that she and Nekomaru will be there for him. Nikei thinks that Erina’s what a mom should be like, and Erina even offers to adopt him, although he says he’s got stuff he needs to work out first.
  • Kazuichi advises Kenji not to “do something stupid” and jump straight into things with Erina, but to get to know her first. Kenji apologizes to Kazuichi for the times when he was too hard on him, but Kazuichi says he’s over it and that it all seems petty compared to the possible end of the world.
  • Emma, curious about her future family, walks in on Kyoji talking to 2030’s Mikako. She asks if she will ever get married or have kids in the future. Mikako tells her that she will marry an up-and-coming actor named Steve Young, and while the marriage won’t last, they will have a child together: Whitley Young, aka Whit, who is 3 years old in 2030. Emma also asks about Maku and is reassured to hear that (although he’s had stints in the hospital thanks to long-term complications) he’s doing better in the future and is still close with the other Voids and their families. He’s even had optic surgery to improve his vision. Emma cries of happiness and thanks Mikako profusely, but Mikako just considers it payback after what they did to help her in 2012.
  • Mikako tells Kyoji and Emma about Trans-Time Identities (TTIs), which are when the same person exists in multiple timelines, but with different times, different identities, and different roles. Through this, Kyoji has found out that Himari’s position in time is the same throughout multiple timelines, and it’s subsequently revealed that she is Peko’s birth mother, who gave baby Peko away to protect her from the Holy Salvation Society. Peko’s birth father is the now-deceased politician Masayoshi Fujimura. Kyoji wants to repay Himari for what she did for him by reuniting her with her daughter and saving them both from the Holy Salvation Society. Mikako advises them to not tell Peko and Fuyuhiko about this yet, out of concern that Toshiro might interfere, but apparently there will be a “change in leadership” in the Kuzuryu Clan soon that will clear the way.
  • The group continues to prepare for the charity event. Mikako mentions that Sayaka and her allies will want to collaborate with the Quantum Crew, and that it’s best if they all work together.
  • Nikei, Mahiru, and Harumi go to Asunaro High to find Sakura Arima (hereinafter referred to as Arima) in the gym alongside her daughter Ayumi and her star athlete, one Aoi Asahina. Arima recognizes Harumi and is happy to see her again. Introductions are had, and everyone goes to Arima’s office to discuss the charity event. Arima has already heard the details from Fushimi and eagerly agrees to help. (She also tells Nikei that he should exercise more often.) Ayumi will also help out, and Nikei and Mahiru advise her to clear things up with Kazuichi when she sees him again.
  • Arima tells Nikei and Mahiru about the time that Harumi single-handedly solved their middle school teacher’s murder. Harumi doesn’t really want to talk about it, as she doesn’t think she was good enough for Hope’s Peak, and when Nikei presses further into the suspicious circumstances, she tells him to drop it.
  • Aoi mentions that Sayaka, who is her friend, will be at the event; she knows several people from Class 78, and it’s all but stated that she knows the future and is part of Sayaka’s group to change it.
  • Privately, Arima tells Nikei that she thinks the fact that Harumi didn’t get into the Main Course to be extremely fishy, especially since she saw Hope’s Peak scouts talking to Harumi a few times. She suggests that Nikei talk to Harumi’s mother about it. Nikei, now more suspicious than ever, relays this information to Mahiru, who mentions that Hitoshi never really felt accepted at Hope’s Peak and only got his acceptance letter a month before Class 49 actually started. All this, combined with the fact that Emina got in the Main Course despite her lackluster skills and erased all traces of her past, leads Nikei and Mahiru to believe a conspiracy is afoot regarding Class 49.
• January 23: Iroha, Maku, and Setsuka go to Shinji’s house to meet up with a few members of Class 49 and ask for their help. They meet Shinji first, and it doesn’t take long for him and Maku to hit it off (again). Also present at the meeting are Kyoka, Yuka Saihara, Goro Hirabayashi, Ichiro Kashiki, Mio Yonaga, and Biju Hadoka.
  • Although Kyoka has already told her classmates the important details, it ultimately falls to Iroha to make a plea for everyone’s assistance. She talks about the way her parents treated her and her siblings, and begs for Class 49’s help to save her siblings and expose her parents once and for all. Upon hearing that their old classmate has sunk so low as to be capable of killing her own children, everyone from Class 49 agrees to bring her down. Everyone goes off to make calls, while a proud (if slightly sad) Maku tells Iroha that he’ll always be there for her if she needs him.
• January 24: After getting the news from Maku that Emina’s former classmates are on board to defeat her, Nikei, still hot on the trail of the Class 49 conspiracy, goes with Mahiru to Hajime’s house to ask where Harumi’s mother lives. Fortunately, Hiroshi knows that she lives only a few blocks away, and so he and Hajime go with Nikei and Mahiru to her house. When they get there, they meet Harumi’s mother, Hitomi Nanami, just in time to witness her kill a spider with a makeshift flamethrower. Hitomi, herself the former Ultimate Teacher of Class 22 and a former member of the Ministry of Education at Hope’s Peak (although she was not allowed to be on the Steering Committee due to her gender), tells the group that Harumi was involved in 150 investigations in only 3 years and that her rejection from the Main Course was no accident. The school itself transitioned from a publicly-funded institution to a privately-funded one shortly after Class 49’s graduation, coinciding with Japan’s economic rise and fall. As for Emina, no one could find anything about her past, and she couldn’t keep her story straight, but any records on why she got a spot in the Main Course and Harumi didn’t are likely long gone. Hitomi also tells the group about the Reserve Course’s origins and the Quiet Revolt of 1991, while Hiroshi offers to help her dig up old records to figure out this mystery.
  • Hajime asks Hitomi about her relationship with Chiaki, and Hitomi admits to being worried about her granddaughter’s issues regulating her emotions and communicating with people. She advises Hajime to make sure Chiaki fully understands all this so she can see things from others’ perspectives.
  • After their visit with Hitomi, the group decides that the next thing to do is to get the aforementioned records. Mahiru suggests getting Masa’s help, as well as that of the Nijiue siblings, and tells Nikei that he might’ve exposed a decades-old conspiracy and thus shouldn’t be so insecure about this.
  • That evening, at the Void Warehouse, the Quantum Crew updates the 2030 gang on what’s going on. Asami is shocked and immediately informs her father, 2030’s Tsurugi, about this. Meanwhile, Mizuki shows up, and after Nikei meets his future daughter, she tells the group that it’s possible that all the criminals the Quantum Crew have had to deal with are an unintentional consequence of the Hitaru-Emina conspiracy. Tsurugi elaborates on this, saying that the police force in the Quantum Crew’s time is not as technologically advanced as they should be, and that this stagnation is why it couldn’t handle many of the cases that have come up. Had Harumi been accepted to Hope’s Peak, she could’ve brought much-needed reform to the force.
  • Iroha decides to break into her family’s house in order to get the records they need to figure out the truth about Harumi, Emina, and Hope’s Peak. She’s also willing to recruit Makoto and Masa to help her with said break-in. Nikei, who still has issues with Masa, asks Sunako why she believes in the 76 Squad so much, and Sunako promises to explain once the charity event is over. All she reveals at this time is that Masa helped her family when they needed it most.
  • The Basilisk is still causing trouble in 2030. Just in case it shows up in 2013 again, Kazuichi has used what he learned from the Sunny Days cloaking devices to give Sora thermal vision. Maku tests it out by using a cloaking device to turn invisible, and Sora can see him the entire time. She’s even got a cloaking device of her own. Also, her legal details are now in order, so her status as Sora Taira is official.
  • Other than the upcoming break-in, the preparations for the charity event are complete. Asami will notify Sayaka’s group as soon as she can. Mizuki is also planning to go find 2030’s Hitaru and Jiro and convince them to come to the Kisaragi Foundation. With that, the 2030 crew signs off, and the Quantum Crew goes their separate ways.
  • Chiaki, determined to help her mother and still kicking herself for not knowing her as well as she thought she did, tries to talk with Harumi about the Class 49 conspiracy, but Harumi asks Chiaki to drop the topic. Not only is she upset that Chiaki never seemed interested in her life until now, she’d also rather not talk about something that only makes her feel inadequate. Chiaki then goes to Tenmei, who is far more interested in figuring out why his wife did not become an Ultimate, especially since that rejection took such a dent out of her self-esteem. He suggests that Hanami Watanabe could help them get dirt on Emina, and so the two of them decide to take a trip tomorrow to see her. Chiaki also decides to talk to Hanami about her life and learn more about her once this is all over.
• January 25: Hitaru, Jiro, and Akemi take breakfast with their parents, Emina and Ayato Nijiue, although they are only allowed to eat for 22 minutes exactly, and it’s a very light breakfast at that (Emina believes that too much filling food before an event is unhealthy). Emina is also planning to possibly set Hitaru up with a well-known artist by the name of Kota Hashimoto; today, they’ll be meeting with him, alongside other prominent artists and representatives from the Tokyo Museum of Art. She considers her children as nothing more than assets.
  • Hitaru gets a call from Iroha, who asks for help with the break-in, and Hitaru tells her all about the updates to the Nijiue security system that have occurred since Iroha left. When Iroha says that she can do the break-in tonight, Hitaru says that she’ll keep the family out of the house for as long as she can.
  • Hitaru feigns enthusiasm for the networking sessions in front of her parents, then privately tells Jiro and Akemi about Iroha’s planned break-in. Akemi, meanwhile, asks if they’ll meet with Sayaka and her band at some point, which prompts some disparaging remarks about idols from the parents, but Hitaru gets them to agree to let Akemi meet with the band in place of Emina. Although Hitaru has a moment of doubt where she worries that Iroha’s plan might not work, she ultimately decides to take a stand against her parents and believe in her sister.
  • Iroha goes to see Masa (whose address she got from Mikan), tells her about her family problems, and asks for her help with the break-in. It turns out that Masa is also suspicious of Emina’s history, so she’s very much down to help. She will also get Iroha everything she needs to pull this off.
  • Next, Iroha visits Makoto at his house; she finds him pet-sitting his neighbor’s cat with Tamami. After a brief chat with her about their future in Class 78-A and seeing Sayaka again, Makoto goes off with Iroha to privately discuss the break-in plan, which he readily agrees to. They will go around midnight. Tamami, who doesn’t know what they’re doing but trusts them anyway, agrees to stay at Makoto’s house and watch the cat.
  • It’s mentioned that Komaru is currently seeing a college student named Kohei Matsudaira. Makoto has some concerns about it, but Komaru has repeatedly insisted she’ll be okay.
  • Chiaki and Tenmei take a train to Miyagi to see Hanami Sato (formerly Watanabe). She serves them tea and tells them that back in the 1980s, the culture of Hope’s Peak was a lot more demanding, competitive, and cutthroat than it is now. Ultimates were under pressure to not only represent their fields, but also their families, and arranged marriages such as the short-lived engagement between Tenmei and Hanami were part of that. This makes Emina’s tight-lipness regarding her past even stranger in hindsight. Harumi speculates that Emina getting in over Harumi might’ve been the result of a business deal, but she can’t say for sure, nor does she know why Harumi was still able to attend the Reserve Course despite all this. Also, Chiaki’s great-grandmother was one of the first female Ultimates, and Tenmei once worked with the U.S. government. Chiaki is awed to learn so much about her family’s accomplishments. Tenmei thanks her for doing so much to help her mother and reminds her not to beat herself up over not reaching out sooner.
• January 26: At midnight, Makoto and Iroha sneak out, take the late-night bus to Azabu Gardens (with Sora in tow over AI), and meet the 76 Squad at the Nijiue house. Estu distracts the guards by faking a heart attack (Kanata is in the know and sends help for her when called, and said help includes Kyoji in his efforts to make things right with Estu), allowing Iroha, Makoto, and Masa to sneak into the house via climbing a tree and then ziplining through the window with a makeshift zipline Mayumi creates out of a metallic chord and an arrow. Once inside, they disguise themselves with masks (Makoto’s is a frog mask) while Sora hacks the cameras and motion sensors. The group lockpicks their way into Ayato and Emina’s room, find their safe hidden behind a painting, and discover many counterfeits of paintings painted by the Nijiue siblings. It turns out that Ayato and Emina are planning to sell the counterfeits. Iroha has a breakdown, blaming herself for leaving her siblings behind and resenting them for being allowed to go outside, and calls herself a shitty sister. Masa and Makoto point out that if Iroha hadn’t left, she wouldn’t be in a position to save her siblings and learn everything she now knows about her parents. This makes Iroha feel better.
  • Iroha and Makoto check the closet, and after much searching and a lucky hunch from Makoto, they find the documents they need: the Class 49 student registry, along with two more pages of additional notes. Masa takes pictures of the documents, and the trio begins to make their escape…only to be interrupted by an incoming call from Emina on the wall phone. Makoto impulsively answers the phone and pretends to be a guard, which somehow works. It seems that Hitaru’s delays have paid off, and the Nijiues won’t be home till about an hour before dawn. The group, blessed by such a lucky break, quickly leaves the Nijiue house the same way they came in.
  • At the hospital, Kyoji and Estu talk, and Estu admits that it’s good to see him again. She also requests that he look into therapy.
  • Masa drives Makoto and Iroha back home. They thank her, Makoto kisses Iroha goodbye and promises to be there for her tomorrow, and Masa tells Iroha that she will take the document pictures back to her place to see what they say. She asks if she has Iroha’s permission to share whatever information she finds with the staff of Hope’s Peak (minus the Steering Committee). Iroha tells her that Yoruko and Kokoro can be trusted with the information. After Masa leaves, Sora encourages Iroha, telling her that she’s grown up a lot.
• January 28: Nikei, after grilling Iroha about whether or not she and her group were careful during the break-in, admits that he’s still not comfortable with their decision to work with the 76 Squad and hates the idea of Masa having the information. He wants to know why Sunako trusts Masa so much and plans to ask her after the event. Iroha assures him that Masa didn’t ask any favors of the group and that there are no signs she’ll sell them out; she also points out that if not for him, none of this would’ve been possible in the first place.
  • Kyoji tells everyone about his talk with Estu, and they all agree that he does, in fact, need therapy.
  • Yoruko reads the Class 49 registry (courtesy of Masa) and reveals its contents to the rest of the Quantum Crew: Ayato was supposed to be the Ultimate Artist, but chose not to attend, and donated money to the school so that Emina (then Emina Sato) could be the Ultimate Artist instead. As a result, Hiroshi was added to the class as the Ultimate Construction Worker at the last minute, and Harumi’s place in the class as the Ultimate Forensic Scientist was denied to her, all because of the Nijiues. The Quantum Crew is absolutely furious to hear this, and Iroha vows to make her parents pay.
  • Upon hearing the news, Chiaki and Mahiru are angry and sad, and Chiaki punches a dumpster for five minutes straight. Mahiru also feels bad about how she viewed her father in the past. They agree that their parents and Class 49 needs to know about this as soon as possible. Sora, however, points out that if they go public with this now, they’ll get hit with dozens of lawsuits, and the Steering Committee will work to make sure it all stays under wraps. Nikei suggests that as they expose the Nijiues at the event, they have Sora leak all the data, put it on everyone’s phones, and credit Kasugano for it. Sora’s unsure at first, but after a pep talk and a kiss from Yoruko, she decides to do it.
• January 29: At Ibuki’s house, Class 49 is informed of the awful truth about the Nijiues, Harumi, and Hitoshi. They are all just as angry as the Quantum Crew, if not more so. Harumi and Hitoshi show up late, and at first, Harumi is angry at Chiaki, Nikei, and the rest of the Quantum Crew for rooting around in her past after she asked them not to. But once she finds out the truth, she is shocked, angry, and also somewhat relieved to learn she wasn’t “not good enough” like she thought. She vows revenge on the Nijiues and leaps on board the plan to take them down.
  • The plan the Quantum Crew and Class 49 come up with is as follows:
    • Harumi calls Fushimi to let her know what happened and that she’s in. Fushimi then updates Arima.
    • Tenmei calls Emina, claiming that Harumi can’t come to the charity event and that he’s bringing Chiaki instead. Emina says that’s fine.
    • On the day of the charity event, Chiaki and Mahiru will go with Tenmei and Hitoshi respectively. Then, Harumi will go with Shinji as a surprise for Emina. Fushimi will also bring Sakura Sakura.
    • While she distracts her, Iroha and Makoto will meet up with Sayaka and her bandmates, and they’ll all get in close so that they can help Iroha’s siblings. Their goal is to get Emina to confess in front of everyone.
• January 31: The morning of the charity event, Makoto gets dressed in a suit provided to him by Fushimi, and Tamami, who’s staying with Komaru to keep pet-sitting, blushes and compliments him on how nice he looks. Komaru’s a bit sour because Kohei Matsudaira stood her up and canceled on her, but other than that, everyone’s excited. Iroha arrives, has a nosebleed over Makoto’s outfit, and goes to change into her disguise while Makoto fills Komaru and Tamami in on the basics of their mission to stop the criminal Nijiue parents. Iroha’s outfit proves to look amazing on her; she’s going by the fake name “Seiko Kujo” for the event, while Makoto is going by “Sadao Naegi.”
  • Iroha and Makoto arrive at Tokyo Big Sight at 11:55, as do Chiaki and Tenmei. As Iroha and Makoto sneak in through the back, Makoto wonders why he’s so important to the future, as he doesn’t see himself as anything special. Iroha herself doesn’t know why she got Divine Luck instead of her siblings, who she feels deserve it more, but she tells Makoto that what matters is that they’re here and ready to make the necessary changes. Meanwhile, Chiaki and Tenmei sign in via Hitaru, meet Emina, and promptly get an earful from her about their life choices. She even openly speculates that Chiaki is actually the result of Tenmei cheating on Harumi with Hanami, a theory which the Nanamis shut down. Fortunately, Tenmei manages to convince Emina to let Hitaru have a break from signing people in, and he and Chiaki privately assure Hitaru that they have a plan.
  • At the VIP table, Chiaki and Tenmei meet up with Ichiro and his daughter Suzuko Kashiki, Yuka and her nephew Taro, and the Miodas. Nearby, Akemi regales her fans with stories. Hitaru pulls her aside and asks about Sayaka and her bandmates, and it turns out that Akemi had Jiro carry their bags and placed the band’s hotel rooms not far from theirs so that they can coordinate with them. She’s also really hit it off with Rumi Shinabe, one of the band members.
  • Goro and Hanami arrive along with his daughter and her husband. While greeting them, Emina mentions that she wants to discuss something with Hanami, who immediately figures out that it’s about Chiaki. She and Tenmei are both prepared.
  • As time goes by more guests arrive: Mio, Biju, and Hitoshi along with Mahiru. Hitoshi immediately starts sassing back at Emina’s attempts to be rude to him, just like old times. After him, Arima and Ayumi arrive, and Arima’s presence pisses Emina off slightly further.
  • Shinji and Fushimi show up, and initially Emina is so angry that she doesn’t even want to let Fushimi in, but Fushimi secures her place at the event with a donation of 150 million yen. Then, as Emina starts loudly badmouthing Harumi, she is shocked to see that very same Harumi is here as Shinji’s guest. Harumi immediately puts a furious Emina in her place and shows the DNA test that proves that Chiaki is her child. Emina can’t even yell back at her because of Akira Esumi’s presence. Finally, the last guest makes her entrance, one Sakura Sakura…or, as she now calls herself, Kasumi Ouma. She’s spent the last thirty years improving herself, and now, she’s ready to catch up with everyone. Emina is so spooked that has to step outside in order to get some air.
  • Akira and Masa interview everyone in Class 49 at the VIP table. It seems that Kasumi’s parents disowned her after her expulsion, and she had a wake-up call and, thanks to Fushimi, decided to turn her life around. She has since earned two master’s degrees in psychology and counseling, and now she’s a therapist who aspires to help other Hope’s Peak graduates and drop-outs who need it. Also, she’s married and has a 19-year-old son of her own, named Hirota. She and the other Sakuras apologize to their old classmates for how they treated them at school, and everyone accepts their apology, even a reluctant Emina.
  • After Kasumi reveals that she’s bisexual and once dated a girl, Emina responds with her story of how she and Ayato met: she used to paint in a field with a large pond, and while she was painting there one day, he stopped by and told her she had magnificent brushwork. They were engaged not long after. Emina also claims that she’s putting on this event to raise 5 million yen for charity. She personally believes that adversity and competition is the key to growth, and follows Hegelian Dialectics.
  • When Emina leaves to take care of business, Hitaru breaks down and begs everyone to save her and her siblings. They hug her and assure her that it’s not her fault and that they are here to help. Masa and Akira agree to interview her about what she’s been through. Hitaru suddenly faints from overwork, and Hibito takes care of her while everyone else gets to work.
  • Chiaki, Masa, and Mahiru find Iroha and Makoto, who have successfully infiltrated the event after finding the maintenance door already unlocked. As Mahiru goes looking for Jiro, the rest of the group discusses Emina’s awfulness, Masa is convinced that the story of how the Nijiues met is definitely fake, and Makoto thinks about how this will be the first time he’s seen Sayaka since middle school. Jiro arrives with Ayato, and Iroha is so nervous that she’s visibly shaking, but Makoto covers for her by saying that she’s shy. Ayato feels like he’s seen her before, and thankfully, Biju and Fushimi tell him that Iroha is Fushimi’s star model and Biju’s plus-one, which explains it for him. Everyone is relieved, although Jiro takes a second to realize that “Seiko Kujo” is Iroha.
  • Sayaka and her bandmates finally arrive on the scene, and after a brief introduction by Akemi, they declare that they’re available for requests. While Rumi and Akemi sit together, the Quantum Crew (plus a very nervous Makoto) finally meets Sayaka and her friends. They exchange pleasantries, Makoto and Sayaka hit it off just like old times, and a meeting is arranged for 7 PM at Sayaka’s hotel room.
  • At 6:55 PM, the first day of the charity event ends, and the Quantum Crew splits up. Chiaki goes to see Masa, Mahiru goes to talk to her dad, and Makoto and Sayaka go to see Sayaka. Rumi, Ayaka Haneyama, and Minami Fujita ask Makoto if he holds grudges, and he says no. Upon hearing this, Sayaka breaks down, hugs Makoto, and apologizes profusely for what she did to him in the Tragedy timeline. Once Makoto calms her down enough to speak coherently, she tells the story of their killing game, of how she was so worried for her career and her band’s safety that she betrayed Makoto, tried to kill Leon, and was herself killed in the process. She knows that she made a terrible, awful decision and insists that she never wanted to hurt Makoto; she truly did care for him and wanted to get to know him better. Makoto, who’s never experienced any of this but understands that it’s still real to Sayaka, isn’t mad and forgives her easily.
  • Sayaka and her bandmates have wanted to contact the Quantum Crew for a while, but haven’t done it before now because of scheduling issues. The reason Sayaka’s signal kept going back and forth was because of the drive between her house and their practice/recording sessions. However, they have accomplished their own missions while the world was focused on Kasugano, including saving Daiya and trying to get rid of weapons with acid (only to break the bathtub in the process). They have help from Kyoko, Aoi, and Byakuya (the latter’s help they got with the help of 2 billion yen) and even hired someone to drive a submarine during the Sunny Days incident. Their advice for the Quantum Crew is to pace themselves and take breaks when they need to. The group breaks for the night, and Makoto and Sayaka agree to talk more tomorrow.
  • Iroha briefly worries to Makoto about what might happen legally after her siblings are saved, but Makoto assures her that he and everyone else will support her no matter what.
  • Elsewhere, Masa and Akira tell the Nanamis that the story of how Emina met Ayato can’t possibly be true. They also mention that when Ayato was 14, his father was murdered by a burglar, and Harumi investigated and solved the case. It’s speculated that this might have something to do with why the Nijiues stole Harumi’s spot. Harumi wants to talk to Emina tomorrow to see if she can get anything out of her, while Masa and Akira will do the same with Ayato, and Chiaki will rally her classmates and peers to help.

February

• February 1: It’s Day 2 of the charity event, and while bidding happens, Chiaki, Mahiru, Suzuko, Taro, and Ayumi are bored out of their skulls. To pass the time, they get to know each other, talk about Hope’s Peak, and discuss game development. Ayumi will be in Class 78-B as the Ultimate Game Developer (she’s a big fan of Tenmei’s), and her cousin, Kenrou Arima, will be the Ultimate Equestrian. She’s close friends with Chihiro and knows his secret, and she also is looking forward to getting to know Kazuichi better. Over the course of the conversation, a comment from Ayumi causes Chiaki and Mahiru to realize that they didn’t know their parents as well as they thought they did.
  • Mahiru goes to talk to Hitoshi and finds him in a conversation with Ayato and Akira. They discuss art and photography, and Ayato goes on way too long about his views on suffering and his traditional values (although he doesn’t want to discuss why he didn’t go to Hope’s Peak), complaining about how “ungrateful” his children are. When Hitoshi suggests lightening up on them, Ayato attacks him and makes fun of him for “quitting” after being paralyzed, claiming that he hasn’t done anything with his life since. Hitoshi responds by epically explaining his role in the investigation of the Sampoong Department Store disaster of 1995, leaving Ayato speechless. Mahiru privately tells him how cool he is and is sad that she didn’t know this sooner. She apologizes for being so hard on him for so long and for all her other past mistakes. Hitoshi admits that he wasn’t sure if he was cut out for being a parent at first, expresses his love for Mahiru, and apologizes for making her feel like he doesn’t care. The two hug, take a picture together, and reaffirm their bond.
  • Chiaki goes looking for Hanami and runs into Kasumi, who assures her that Harumi and Fushimi are keeping Emina busy. Chiaki also gets a business card from her so she can get some of her friends therapy. Then, she finds Hanami and confides to her about how she never knew all this stuff about her parents because she’s not good with people and doesn’t know how to help them. She doesn’t even understand why people like her so much. Hanami says that a lot of her old classmates could relate and advises Chiaki to just speak with her loved ones about these issues (and also not to be afraid to call them out if necessary). She assures her that she can be better, that she’s done so much to help everyone, and that her family loves her.
  • As Iroha, Satomi, Ayaka, and Minami set up for Sayaka’s performance, Sayaka chats with Makoto, who’s still having a little trouble wrapping his head around his Tragedy timeline future. Sayaka tells him that he’s an amazing person in every timeline, and that even in a world where he’s not the Ultimate Hope, he can still do great things. In fact, she envies him for still being a good person with a supportive family, whereas she only ever had a distant dad and ended up doing questionable things as an idol. Sayaka also tells Makoto that Kyoko has been keeping an eye on her younger cousin, Miharu Kirigiri. Makoto ponders how he and Kyoko were friends before, wondering if everything will be the same. Sayaka knows that things will change, but just wants everyone to be safe and live better lives.
  • Rumi, meanwhile, is bonding some more with Akemi, and as they tell stories about themselves to each other, things get somewhat flirty. Rumi invites Akemi to her hotel room after the show. She admits to Iroha that she has a crush on Akemi, and Iroha gives her permission to date her if all goes well.
  • It comes time for Sayaka and her band to perform. She sings a new song inspired by her personal experiences and feelings regarding what happened in the Tragedy timeline. Everyone is blown away by her performance, even Ayato and Emina. As Emina suggests that Rumi and Akemi spend more time together (because of money), Makoto comforts an emotional Sayaka and advises her to work on forgiving herself. They agree to talk later.
  • During Sayaka’s performance, Iroha sets up wires and speakers in the hallway to set connections to the public broadcasting system, where she runs into Masa, who questions why a public confrontation is necessary. Iroha admits that she’s trying to protect Akemi, and she claims that the plot to expose the Nijiues is Akemi’s plan. Masa is absolutely sick of the Nijiue parents at this point and will do whatever she can to help. She’s eager to keep Ayato out of their way. The conversation also inspires Iroha to consider modeling as a career.
  • Meanwhile, Erina and Kenji are out on a date together, and Nikei suggests to Nekomaru and Kazuichi that they shadow said date. Kazuichi assures him that his dad is a good guy and that they’ll have a good time. Nikei calms down, admits that he tends to jump to the worst case scenario, and worries about Iroha. On the bright side, Ayumi has apologized to Kazuichi, and their relationship is going better now. But as the three boys follow Ayumi’s livetweeting of the charity event, Nikei spots a picture of Iroha talking to Masa and flips his lid, thinking that Masa must be trying to get something out of Iroha. Nekomaru and Kazuichi calm him down, assuring him that Iroha knows what she’s doing. Nikei gives them permission to stop him if he tries anything stupid.
  • The boys’ conversation gets interrupted by a message from the 2030 squad. Mizuki and Kaori bring urgent news: Hitaru and Jiro have finally agreed to come in and tell everyone what happened the night Akemi died. Also, there’s been a drop in robot attacks lately, meaning that the Basilisk might be planning something. Nikei, Nekomaru, and Kazuichi are tasked with gathering everyone for the reveal at 9 PM.
  • Hitaru pulls Iroha aside to check in on her and to ask if there’s anything she can do to help. She doesn’t want to sit on the sidelines anymore. After Iroha apologizes once again for not showing enough appreciation for everything Hitaru’s done to support her and keep her sane in that house, Hitaru shows her scars and tells Iroha what their parents have done to her. Iroha tells her that she should be proud of herself for staying kind even in the face of such terrible trauma. She also tells her about how Emina and Ayato have been copying their children’s work and encourages her to get righteously angry. They embrace and look forward to creating a new family of four.
  • Hitaru confides to Jiro that there’s a chance that the Nijiues might have to leave Tokyo, but she doesn’t want to take Iroha away from her new family. Jiro promises to protect them no matter what. They also know that Akemi is gay and are totally cool with it.
  • Akemi and Rumi sneak out of the charity event to spend the rest of the day together. They go shopping, Akemi tells Rumi about her body image issues and the corset she’s forced to wear, and Rumi easily convinces her to take it off. Akemi blushingly admits that she enjoys Rumi’s company. Come evening, they return to the hotel, and they both admit their feelings to each other, with Akemi finally coming to terms with her sexuality in the process. They almost kiss but are interrupted by Hitaru, here to bring her sister up to speed on the plan to publicly expose their parents. Akemi’s all for it, but Rumi privately worries for her new love interest’s safety. Then she has to go meet up with the rest of the crew. Hitaru proposes the idea of leaving Japan to Akemi, but Akemi wants to stay with Rumi.
  • At 9 PM, the Quantum Crew and their allies finally hear the truth from 2030 Hitaru. Akemi died because she was planning to run away, Emina caught her, and things escalated from there. Furthermore, Masa failed to prevent it because she was too focused on Ayato and didn’t even consider Emina to be a threat. Afterwards, Emina fled the country, while Ayato was arrested and put in jail for (among their other crimes) stealing ideas from people and blacklisting them, often driving them to suicide. Iroha bursts into tears upon hearing this and apologizes. Hitaru also admits to being overprotective of Akemi Naegi-Maizono because of this, resulting in the girl becoming a nervous wreck.
  • 2030 Mikako drops yet another bombshell: if the gang pulls this off, saves Akemi, and exposes the Nijiues, it will result in a massive investigation of Hope’s Peak admissions. This will get Harumi retroactive recognition for her talent, but could also result in thousands of people losing their old Ultimate titles, including Hitoshi. Elsewhere, Akira (who was one of Hope’s Peak’s original scouts) tells Class 49 the same thing and promises to help them as best he can. They will assemble a legal team consisting of Akira, Ernesto Gomez (who is now a lawyer), Kakeru, Juri, and (of course) Harumi herself. But even so, the resulting mass investigation will put everyone associated with Hope’s Peak at risk, and the Quantum Crew will have only a week to prepare. Despite this, they decide that saving Akemi is still the priority, much to Hitaru’s gratitude.
  • After the meeting is over, Chiaki and Harumi touch base, and Chiaki asks her mother if she still wants to be a forensic investigator. Harumi confirms that she’s willing to go back to her old career to help people. Also, Tenmei might take up a job as an IT engineer. Harumi apologizes to Chiaki for snapping at her and thanks her for all she’s done on this matter.
  • Makoto talks to Sayaka and Iroha. He’s very bothered about being the Ultimate Hope in the future, and doesn’t want that title if it means that people he’ll become friends with have to die for it. On top of that, he’s become very disillusioned with Hope’s Peak. He questions if Sayaka and Iroha are only here because of his Tragedy destiny, but Sayaka says that she’s here because she genuinely wanted to apologize to him and that he doesn’t have to be the Ultimate Hope if he doesn’t want to. He just has to be himself. Makoto worries if he could be like Emina, but Sayaka assures him that he’s nothing like her because he cares about others. Iroha also says that she loves Makoto for who he is now, not for who he could be. She lets slip that she knew about his Worst Day Ever, which gets Makoto thinking about the person who would’ve been the Ultimate Lucky Student if not for that, and he decides that if their identity is revealed during the investigation, he’ll let them go instead of him. This is also where Makoto finds out that he’ll marry Iroha, Sayaka, and Tamami in the future and have kids with the former two. The girls explain that the future isn’t set in stone, and that they can decide how it goes from here. Makoto decides that he does want to be with them, and he confesses that he’s had feelings for Sayaka since middle school. Sayaka kisses him and Iroha, and the new three-way relationship (called the Hope Brigade from here on out) blossoms.
  • Elsewhere, Harumi, Fushimi, and Arima let Emina know that they know her dirty little secrets. They offer her one last chance to confess and apologize at the event tomorrow before things escalate, but Emina refuses, declaring herself Harumi’s superior for “winning.” (Little does she know that Harumi recorded the conversation.) After the others leave, Kasumi shows up to psychoanalyze and scare Emina, mocking her winners vs. losers mentality and reminding her that it’s a long way down from the top.
  • Ayato gets mad at Akemi for spending the day with Rumi, hits her, calls her a homophobic slur, and threatens her if she doesn’t come to the charity event’s last day.
• February 2: At 6 AM, the Nanamis and Kasumi get ready to begin their plan. Harumi hands Kasumi the recording from the previous night as a little extra insurance.
  • Sayaka encourages a nervous Iroha, and they’re planning how to talk to Masa about this when they get a call from Nikei, who’s decided to come to the event because he still doesn’t trust Masa. Iroha tries to talk him out of it and then loses her patience and snaps at him for letting his disdain for Masa overtake his trust in her. She begs him to let her do this on her own, and wonders if she’ll always be just a dumb sidekick to him. Sayaka also talks to him about it; she can tell that he cares a lot for Iroha, but she doesn’t know if he actually trusts her. Nikei says that he trusts Iroha, he just doesn’t trust the others because of his trust issues. Sayaka, on the other hand, points out that people are better than they can be given credit for. She tells him the story of her former idol rival, Rika Mitsushima, and how she sabotaged her audition; she regrets it now. She hopes she can make it up to her someday, but for now, she’s here to tell Nikei that not everyone is out to get him. She suggests that he spend some time with people who make him happy. Finally, she hints that the full story that Sunako and her ilk have kept from them is not a happy one, and it has something to do with a future that 2030’s Mikako saw.
  • Even after talking with Iroha and Sayaka, Nikei still lets his paranoia get the better of him and decides to go to the event. He is intercepted by Nekomaru (fresh off a morning jog with Maku) and Kazuichi. After their last-ditch attempt to talk him out of it fails, they honor their promise to not let him do anything stupid by locking him in the closet for the rest of the day.
  • Iroha asks Masa to keep an eye on Emina, but Masa is convinced that Ayato is the real threat here and completely dismisses the possibility of a nobody like Emina being dangerous. Her attitude is colored in part by the fact that her mother cheated on her father with a rich son of a CEO, and she had to gather evidence of her affair to expose her in court. Iroha almost tells Masa the truth, but Sora stops her, and they quickly come up with a cover story, saying that Hitaru’s scars and Akemi’s corset indicate that Emina could kill one of her children by accident. Masa seems to buy it, but then drops the bomb that she’s already figured out that their mission has to do with time travel, if only because of Umeko’s involvement. Iroha admits it, Masa promises not to tell anyone, and Sora congratulates Iroha on her luck before going to call Umeko so she can get her lab cleaned up before the upcoming investigation.
  • Akemi drops a bombshell of her own to Rumi: she plans to run away today. Ayato hitting her the previous night was the last straw. She breaks down sobbing in Rumi’s arms, and Rumi does her best to comfort her. Then, they go to breakfast together, where they spend time with Jiro. Akemi hints to Jiro that she wants to leave, and while Jiro tries to talk her out of it, he accidentally blurts out that she’s a lesbian. Akemi pulls them both aside and confesses that Ayato hit her because of Rumi. When Rumi admits that she’s part of Iroha’s plan and is here to protect Akemi if anything goes wrong, Akemi misunderstands, thinking that Rumi only got close to her as part of the mission, and she leaves in anger. After Jiro assures Rumi that they’ll make up, he goes to Akemi, and the two of them decide to hide in a side-room restaurant for a while.
  • At 10 AM, Hitaru is still having trouble finding Jiro and Akemi. Emina and Ayato go to look for them. Hitoshi angsts over the possibility that he might lose his title and his job after this, and he leaves to brood. Everyone else starts looking for the missing Nijiues, with Sora sending them all a map of the facility to help them in their search. Just then, Hitaru takes the stage and makes a speech exposing her parents, while Ayumi records it to post on social media. She even shares her scars.
  • In the restaurant, Jiro and Akemi contemplate what freedom might be like, and Akemi comes to realize that Rumi does genuinely care for her. They are interrupted by the sudden appearance of Ayato, so they sneak out of the restaurant and into the maintenance tunnels, but Ayato chases them. Jiro makes Akemi go on ahead while he faces his father, fighting him to protect his sisters. At first, Ayato has the upper hand, and Masa’s stuck on the other side of the door unable to intervene…but soon, Jiro turns the tables and kicks his ass. Masa and Akira break down the door and apprehend a bloodied Ayato shortly afterwards.
  • Akemi runs past a still-brooding Hitoshi and almost makes it to the exit, only to cross paths with her furious mother. She then proceeds to mock Emina, chew her out for her treatment of her and her siblings, and even snark about how she cheated to get into Hope’s Peak. This pushes Emina over the edge, and she begins to strangle her daughter…and is stopped by Hitoshi knocking her over with his wheelchair. He and Masa call Emina out on her crap, and Emina runs away thinking she can still salvage this somehow, only to run into Iroha, who rocks her world by revealing that she’s the mastermind behind the plot to take her down. She asks Emina why she’s so insistent on winning, and Emina says it’s because that’s the price of success and that she worked hard to become a prominent artist instead of a nobody. Iroha is glad that she didn’t go down such a path because she’s made friends who like her for her. Just as Emina admits that she only cares about succeeding, the remaining Nijiue siblings and the Nanamis arrive. Emina tries to say she knew what was best for her kids, but Hitaru has had enough, berates Emina for how she treated them like art slaves instead of kids, declares that she’s kind because she chooses to be kind even as Emina says that’s weakness, and then swears at her. Harumi gets a shot at Emina as well, blaming her for the deaths caused by the lack of development in the police department, and when Emina tries to insult her, Chiaki slaps her and tells her that Harumi is ten times the person she’ll ever be. Then, Harumi reveals the recording that proves Emina’s guilt. Emina freaks out, tries to run away, is stopped by a painted-on door courtesy of Iroha, and is terrified into a breakdown by Kasumi’s ruthless psychoanalyzation combined with some classic Ouma nightmare faces.
  • Ayato comes in quietly, admitting that he’s been beaten, and thanks Harumi for catching his father’s killer. He even admits that his children are the best of the Nijiue family, although they refuse to forgive him.
  • With the video of Hitaru’s speech already #2 on trending with 25 thousand views, the Nijiue parents’ downfall is cemented. The Nijiue siblings have won. The four of them cry, share a group hug, celebrate that they can finally be a family, and promise never to let anyone hurt each other ever again. Hibito will give them a medical examination, and Sayaka and her band offer the crowd a chance to donate to far more charitable causes.
  • Akemi and Rumi reconcile, kiss, and become an official couple.
  • The Nanamis reaffirm their familial bond, and Chiaki asks if they can visit Hitomi soon. Hanami says farewell to the family and offers her help whenever they need it.
  • Biju tells Fushimi that he called Ernesto and secured his help. Fushimi is a little pensive about the fact that everyone has kids but her, but she’s still satisfied with her career in Red Ribbon. The two agree to work together.
  • Makoto has told Komaru that he’s dating Sayaka now, and she has been predictably fangirling. He’s still committed to giving up his title to the original Ultimate Lucky Student, and although he might not join the Quantum Crew, he will help them wherever he can.. Sayaka probably won’t be around that much before next semester, but she’ll call often. When Makoto says that he wants to get to know Tamami better, Sayaka mentions that she and another girl will be in danger next month, and asks that he keep her safe.
  • The Nijiue siblings are selling their old house. Hitoshi generously offers to build them a new one.
  • Iroha reunites with the other Voids and Jataro. Nikei apologizes for his idiocy earlier, admitting that he couldn’t put his rivalry aside and didn’t want to feel like Iroha outgrew him. Iroha hugs him and assures him that she’d never leave him behind. The Voids are all a little sad that Iroha’s moving out, but they know it’s for the best. Plus, Hitaru can adopt Jataro, and he and Iroha can be real siblings. Hitaru also will let the Voids stay with the Nijiues whenever they want, as she considers them family as well for taking care of Iroha. Both of Iroha’s families bond together, with Hitaru thanking Emma for her support and Maku offering to teach Jiro how to fight. Iroha couldn’t be happier.
  • Masa also apologizes to Iroha for her shortsightedness. She assures her that her secret is safe with her.
  • Hitoshi and Hitaru celebrate how far they’ve come.
  • Iroha takes Makoto home, then tells him that they’ll have their child together when she’s only 19. They admit that they probably won’t be ready for that. However, Iroha has decided to pursue a modeling career with Red Ribbon and get some extra education as well, and she’s going to start moving in with her siblings tomorrow. She’s excited to see what things will be like in the new version of the future.
  • Iroha travels forward in time to 2030. (For information on what happens there, please consult July 23, 2030.)
• February 3: Iroha, who has started the process of moving out of the Void Warehouse and in with her siblings, visits Ui at the hospital to check up on her. She tells her that she took her advice and has done her best to improve herself, and now she’s finally grown up and figured out her path in life. The two artists paint together.
  • It’s Kaori’s birthday. She turns 47.
• February 4: At 6 AM, Umeko takes all of her time travel research out of her lab at Hope’s Peak. Some is transferred to her house, and the rest is trashed.
  • The news is out to the public regarding the Harumi-Emina class swap. Now, the Steering Committee is getting injunctions from the police department, and they debate whether or not to allow an investigation on campus. Their collective freakout is interrupted by Masa and Koichi, and Koichi delivers Jin’s decision: all future Hope’s Peak attendees will be approved by Jin and Koichi, the Steering Committee will no longer have any say in that, all current and upcoming attendees will be examined to see why they were chosen, the mass investigation will happen, and the Steering Committee will transfer executive power to Jin. Eventually, the Steering Committee does agree to this in an effort to save the school’s reputation. The investigation will begin after school. After Mass and Koichi leave, the Steering Committee reassure themselves that the school will be fine, as even if the Diet freezes their assets, they have benefactors overseas. There are also hints that they might be planning something regarding Masa.
  • Masa updates Chiaki, Suzuko, and Taro about the morning’s events. As the investigation is set to begin, it’s mentioned that criminal talents are most likely going to be expelled and barred from attending for the most part. Chiaki vouches for Mondo, and Koichi says that he’ll probably be all right to attend, but Fuyuhiko and Peko’s future at Hope’s Peak is in jeopardy because of this investigation. Suzuko and Taro will inform the rest of the Student Council, who will in turn inform everyone else. Chiaki advises Masa to take care of herself.
  • The original Ultimate Lucky Student is revealed to be a girl by the name of Umi Domoto, who is lucky but also quite unlucky and has been in the hospital often.
  • Masa briefly meets with Estu in Conference Room 37. Estu is revealed to have swiped the Izuru Kamukura Project Personnel File, containing the names and profiles of everyone associated with the project, from the Steering Committee while Masa distracted them. She doesn’t feel safe at school anymore, so she’s going to stay with Mayumi for a while.
  • In the afternoon, the Quantum Crew meets in the Void Warehouse. Hajime’s finally ungrounded. Nikei’s mad at Umeko for sharing her time travel research with the world, as that caused Yasuke and Masa to figure them out. Umeko assures him that the information never left Hope’s Peak. Then, they all reconnect with the 2030 crew, and Sunako finally explains exactly what she’s been keeping from them. It goes as follows:
    • A ship called the HMCS Apothegem, formerly of the Canadian military before being sold to a private buyer in Italy, became the personal lifeboat of the Preservation Project. The ship left Naples on New Years’ Day of 2025 and sank in the North Atlantic on December 9 of that same year. Only six survivors made it to nearby Greenland on the 14th, five days later: Sei Konno, Kanon Ota, Missy Vesper, Lyle D. Termina, Gaea Espere, and Echo Pine. Those six were the only survivors of a series of 50 killing games run aboard the ship by the Preservation Project, during which 445 Ultimates died.
    • The Preservation Project was hoping to cultivate someone who would display a special ability as a result of these games. They did find such a person in Echo Pine, who awakened precog powers not unlike Mikako’s during their game. It’s because of Echo that the Kisaragi Foundation was able to create their time machine in this future.
    • As Gaea Espere explains to the group, she was the one who sank the Apothegem after winning the 49th game and being forced to watch the 50th, and Echo proved vital to saving the few people they were able to save. After everyone escaped the ship, they hid out in Nuuk, Greenland for a while, where they were almost recaptured by the Preservation Project, but they were thankfully rescued by Mayumi, Masa, and the Kisaragi Foundation. They’ve had to stay in Japan under witness protection ever since. 2030’s Nikei is currently investigating the Apothegem’s wreckage to find out more information about the incident.
    • Takeharu Mizuta and Tsumugi Shirogane, as it turns out, were two of the biggest sponsors of the Preservation Project. The worst part is, in January of 2030, Tsumugi kidnapped Echo.
    • According to Mikako’s visions, Tsumugi will go on to produce 53 seasons of a killing game television show, starting with smaller shows but growing into bigger broadcasts by the 40s. Emma’s son Whit will end up in one of these games. Because she’s got Echo, Tsumugi will always see the Kisaragi Foundation coming, and she will keep copy-pasting her mind into many bodies across the world, so that the killing games become an international affair.
    • It won’t be until the fall of 2070 that the games will eventually end thanks to the cast of the 53rd season, which is entirely composed of the Quantum Crew’s descendants. These include Hajime and Hibiki’s granddaughter and Sayuri’s daughter Kaede (who’s also Natsumi’s granddaughter on her father Haruto’s side), Nikei and Taira’s granddaughter and Etsuya’s daughter Kirumi, Masa’s granddaughter Maki, and Sunako’s own grandson Kaito. It’s also mentioned that Kokichi Ouma is the grandson of Komaru (who marries Kasumi’s son Hirota), Korekiyo Shinguji is the grandson of Kikue and also Maki’s real boyfriend, Angie Yonaga is the granddaughter of Mio, Miu Iruma is the granddaughter of Miwa and Fumio (who both died in a car accident when she was young, possibly due to Ayumu’s bad luck), Ryoma Hoshi is the grandson of Kojikoji, and Tenko Chabashira is the granddaughter of Estu and Mayumi. All will be brainwashed with new identities that are purposeful insults to their ancestors.
    • After Nikei demands actual answers on why they should trust the 76 Squad, Sunako breaks down and tearfully reveals that Masa will be the only one to survive the war against Tsumugi. This is because of Hajime’s no-killing rule, which Tsumugi will take advantage of and circumvent at every turn, resulting in the deaths of every other member of the Quantum Crew. Masa will spend decades of her life fighting Tsumugi from the shadows, operating under a cover story involving her own “death” at the hands of the HSS, and she will lose everything and everyone else in her life in the process. Sayuri will also live, but only because she will cut ties with her family and go into hiding, partly because of resentment due to Kanade and partly because Hajime won’t kill Tsumugi. Her twin daughters, Kaede and Erika, will live in safety for a while before Tsumugi will find them too. In a surprise twist, they will grab Erika thinking that she’s Kaede, and it will be she who dies in Season 53. The real Kaede will live, but will never be the same.
  • There is no practical means to stop Tsumugi, according to Sunako. Not while she has Echo and her body-snatching ability. Their only chance is for the Quantum Crew to stop her in 2012…and Sunako says that she and Takeharu must be stopped, even if it means killing them. On the bright side, they have two extra days for the Takeharu mission, so there’s that.
  • As the 2030 crew logs off with the reminder that it wasn’t Hajime’s fault, Nikei is filled with regret for pressing Sunako on this, while Hajime remains desperately insistent that there must be another way to stop Tsumugi and Takeharu. Taira, Emma, and Nikei all angrily insist that the two Despairs must be killed for the sake of their families. Mikan and Yoruko manage to defuse the situation by suggesting that they all take some time to decompress. Hajime swears to use that time to think of a better way, and Yoruko drives him and Hibiki home. Kyoji will keep working on methods to counter Tsumugi’s technology. Sonia tells Nikei to think hard about whether or not he can really kill.
  • Hajime and Hibiki come home to his parents in tears. Yoruko tells Hiroshi and Keiko what happened and advises them to give them some space to think. Keiko says that her father, a private investigator named Daisuke Sato, is coming tomorrow to help with the mass investigation. Hajime is apprehensive, but glad that his Aunt Setsuna isn’t coming.
  • Late at night, Hajime cuddles with Hibiki and confides to her that he knew his no-killing rule would come into question at some point. He wants to know what Sunako meant when she said that this happened because of his actions, and when Hibiki asks why he’s never even considered the idea of murder, he admits that he’s still haunted by the Tragedy and wants to create a different world where they don’t have to rely on murder as a solution. He hopes that maybe if he finds out why the Despairs follow Junko, he can get them to turn on her. Either way, he doesn’t want to take life and death into his own hands, and he feels like if he kills even once, he can’t pretend to be a good person anymore. Tomorrow, he plans to do some research and ask around on the question. Hibiki comforts him; she’s also making plans to talk with Sayuri.
  • That night, Hajime has a terrible nightmare where specters of Apothegem survivors and casualties alike, along with Whit and Izuru, berate him for putting his no-killing rule above their lives. He sees Echo trapped in Tsumugi’s cage, begging for help, and wakes up screaming.
  • It’s Haruto and Jubei’s birthday. They turn 1.
• February 5: Hajime wakes up at 6:20, rather upset over the nightmare. He gets a surprise 2030 check-in from Sunako, who has been able to trace back the ancestry of 13 out of the 16 V3 participants. In addition to the ones already stated, Shuichi Saihara is the great-grandson of Yuka and the grandson of Tato, Tsubasa, Eito, and Tomoe, while Gonta is the grandson of Akane’s youngest sister Teruko. K1-B0 was originally a therapy robot created by an engineering company founded by Kazuichi, Chihiro, and Ayumi, but will be hijacked by Team Danganronpa (his head will manage to survive that final explosion at the end, though, so he won’t really die). The only three that they haven’t been able to trace so far are Rantaro Amami, Kiko Omigawa (the blue-haired girl who served as Tsumugi’s final vessel), and Himiko Yumeno. Sunako is curious as to their connection to the Quantum Crew and theorizes that they might not have met their ancestors yet.
  • It’s also mentioned that Kaori’s husband and Kikue’s husband will both be toxic assholes, and that Kaori will die of a postpartum hemorrhage giving birth to Kaito, while Kikue’s granddaughter (and Korekiyo’s sister) will die of an illness.
  • Because of self-consistency, the only way to stop the Preservation Project, Tsumugi’s killing game show, the Holy Salvation Society, etc. is to stop the circumstances leading up to them. What’s more, Sunako still isn’t sure what effect the current investigation will have on things. Hajime plans to talk to everyone who he knows have descendants in the V3 cast in hopes that he can get their perspective on things. Sunako says that she’ll be happy if he finds another solution, but also reminds him that they’re fighting to save thousands of lives and that he doesn’t have to take responsibility for the hardest choice if worst comes to worst.
  • Hajime gets Hibiki’s input on his list. She tells him that he probably shouldn’t talk to 2-year-old Teruko or 11-year-old Sunako, and also mentions that he should check on Miwa, as some of the comments the latter made during their ski trip makes Hibiki think that something bad happened to her.
  • Daisuke Sato arrives at the Hinata house, carrying a refrigerator with his bare hands. He’ll be staying for about a week or so, depending on how long the investigation takes. As Hajime assures his family that he’ll be all right, Chiaki and Nikei see the fridge incident from the bus stop. All three of them go with Daisuke to help with the investigation. The school is crawling with police and investigators right now, but Harumi is taking the lead.
  • Hajime briefs his friends on what he learned from Sunako, and he and Nikei have a quick debate about whether or not to kill Takeharu and Tsumugi. Nikei says that he has no problem dealing with this himself, but Hajime can’t ask him or anyone else to get involved. He asks for only two days, or at least until Nikei finds Takeharu. When asked about it, Nikei says that he thinks the Despairs should be killed, while Chiaki doesn’t know and wants a bit more time to think about it.
  • Mayumi indicates that she wants to talk to Hajime about something.
  • It seems that Class 77-B is under investigation right now. Teruteru is in trouble for the sexy soup incident, Hajime’s wanted for questioning in regards to the Twilight Syndrome incident, and Fuyuhiko and Peko are coming to terms with the fact that they’ll probably be expelled for their Yakuza connections. As Daisuke questions Teruteru, Hiyoko shows up and takes responsibility for putting the aphrodisiac in the soup. Hajime asks her if she’s sure about this, but Hiyoko tells him not to try and fix this for her, as it’s not his responsibility and he doesn’t have to fix everything, especially when it’s not even his fault. Hajime accepts her request, comforts her, and tells her to be careful.
  • Hajime tells Fuyuhiko about what happened last night and asks for his advice. Fuyuhiko advises him not to do anything that he’s not prepared to deal with and to ask for help if he needs it. He reassures him that he’s a good guy, thanks him again for saving his sister, and reminds him that he can’t save everyone.
  • Next, Hajime talks to Akane and Kazuichi. Akane, who’s used to violence from her childhood, wants to kill the Despairs herself, but advises Hajime to talk to her brother Hinata. Kazuchi reminds him that there isn’t always a third option, especially given how easy Tsumugi’s technology is to make.
  • Kyoji pulls Hajime into an empty classroom and begs for help. He asked Miaya to print off the records for his group therapy sessions, and now he needs to grab them, lest the police possibly find Kanade. What’s more, Eito and Tomoe are in the hallway getting asked questions about Eito’s mother. Kyoji asks Hajime to keep them busy while he grabs the papers.
  • Hajime goes to distract Eito and Tomoe, and Eito bemoans the fact that he still has no answers about what happened to his mom. He tells the story to Hajime and the cops, and Hajime immediately recognizes it as the Kamakura Project’s doing and mentally curses Kyoji for running away from Eito when he was asked about it. Eito just wants answers and doesn’t blame Kyoji, but would like to talk to him.
  • Meanwhile, Kyoji sneaks into the office and grabs all the printouts he needs. Just as he’s about to leave, he overhears Mai Shingetsu looking for Estu, and he immediately goes and confronts her. Hajime, Tomoe, and Eito hear the commotion and arrive in time to see Kyoji threaten to spill Mai’s secrets to the police if she doesn’t leave Estu alone. Even when she screams at him, he refuses to tell her, and Tomoe even gets some sass in before Mai storms off. Afterwards, Eito once again asks Kyoji about his mom, while Hajime encourages him to talk. Kyoji says that now is a bad time and that he needs to find Estu first, but gives Eito his number so that they can talk later.
  • Tomoe tells Hajime that he and Hope’s Peak were probably good for Hiyoko. Then, when Hajime asks her and Eito about murder, Tomoe says that she’d let the courts decide, and Eito agrees, saying that the death penalty exists for a reason. An overwhelmed and panicking Hajime goes to get some water and runs into Nikei. After he calms down a bit, they go to see Mayumi, and she asks for help.
  • Hajime, Nikei, and Kyoji meet with Masa, Mayumi, and Estu in the biology lab. Masa declares that she knows that one of the three boys is Kasugano, based on the evidence she has collected over the past several months. While Nikei accuses her of working with Hope’s Peak, Hajime has a breakdown, admits he’s Kasugano, and sobs that he only wanted to fix things but feels like he’s ruined everything. Mayumi comforts him and tells him that the investigation is Hope’s Peak’s fault, not his, and that he can be the symbol of hope that Japan really needs. The 76 Squad, as it turns out, wants to work together with the Quantum Crew to help get Estu out of the school, as the fact that she’s stolen the Kamakura File has put her at major risk, so she’s dropping out and running away. She has nowhere to go and asks if the Quantum Crew knows someplace off the grid. It takes some convincing, but Nikei agrees to let her stay at the Void Warehouse as long as she keeps out of their affairs, and they all agree to help Estu with her plan to escape the school. Estu once again suggests that Kyoji gets therapy, and the 76 Squad will answer Hajime’s questions after Estu’s escape.
  • Miwa has locked herself in a storage closet in the nurse’s office and is refusing to come out, despite Mikan and Fumio’s best efforts. Hajime shows up and manages to use his understanding kindness to coax her out of her hiding spot. It turns out that Miwa is very uncomfortable because the whole situation reminds her of her past: she was sexually assaulted by her former skating coach, fell pregnant as a result, and ended up giving the baby up for adoption. Now, she’s scared that her secret child could be discovered by the investigators, which would negatively impact her career. She hasn’t told the police yet, but Hajime convinces her to give the man’s name (Yasuo Furutani) to Harumi, who promises to catch him after the current investigation is over. Thankfully, Miwa is okay now, especially since she has her family, Nekomaru, and Fumio to support her. She also says that she doesn’t want to talk about death or punishment and just wants Yasuo to face justice.
  • Keiko picks Hibiki up from work, and Hibiki asks for advice about what to do about Sayuri resenting her due to Kanade. When Keiko asks why she would even still want Kanade in her life, Hibiki tearfully replies that she couldn’t let her go because she’s still her family and she was all she had for the longest time, plus she still feels guilty for the way she treated her due to being jealous of her. Keiko admits that she’s had similar issues with her own younger sister, Setsuna, who she was jealous of, and while Setsuna has grown up to be a massive bitch who is cruel to both Keiko and Hajime, Keiko still regrets her own cruelty to her in their childhoods. For now, Keiko’s advice to Hibiki regarding Sayuri is to just listen to her. She offers her more support and advice regarding her future marriage and pregnancy as well.
  • When Keiko and Hibiki get home, they find that Hiroshi is already home; hundreds of businesses are being investigated due to their connections to Hope’s Peak, and Hiroshi’s work was shut down due to one such investigation. Worst case scenario is that he could lose his job. Keiko is angry about this, and mentions that Daisuke has beef with Hope’s Peak as one of his friends went there and it didn’t end well. Everyone stresses about how to tell this to Hajime without him blaming himself.
  • Hibiki talks to Sayuri, with Keiko there as backup. It turns out that Sayuri is upset that Hibiki even let Kanade back into her life at all, never mind making Sayuri go see her once a year. She hates Kanade because of what she did to Hibiki and wishes that Hibiki had just let her go. Hibiki apologizes, admits that she and Kanade were nothing but bad influences on each other and that trying to “fix” her has only made things worse. Sayuri says that she doesn’t have to feel guilty all the time and that it’s okay for her to move on and be happy. With Keiko and Sayuri’s encouragement, Hibiki decides that she’ll tell Kanade the truth, and also face her in court if necessary.
  • Sayuri’s friendship with Haruto is going well. She suggests that he would be happier if Natsumi distanced herself from the yakuza life.
  • When Hibiki mentions that her parents abandoned her, Sayuri is confused, as she heard from Yoruko that Hibiki cut them off and didn’t respond to their attempts to get back in touch with her. Hibiki and Keiko are incredibly confused by this and will talk to Yoruko about it tomorrow. Sayuri signs off while declaring her love for her mom, and Hibiki and Keiko go make sundaes.
  • Hajime, Kyoji, and Masa meet outside Hope’s Peak to sneak Estu out of the school. They’re confident in their plan, as Kyoji has tested it twice with a watermelon. Harumi and Daisuke distract Mai by demanding answers about the drugs students are allowed to access at school, forcing her to show them her labs. Once the coast is clear, Mayumi and Nikei sneak Estu into a trash bag wrapped in bubble wrap and sealed in a cardboard box, then throw her out the window into the dumpster. She’s fine. To sneak her out the rest of the way, Kyoji dresses in a hazmat suit and claims that he’s transporting dangerous chemicals. With that, Estu’s free (and still has the files with her), and the group takes her on a bus back to the Void Warehouse.
  • On the bus ride back, Kyoji makes it known that he doesn’t think the others actually consider him a friend and isn’t used to having friends in general. Estu, still wishing he’d get therapy, suggests he talk to Ai Ibarazaki, one of his former classmates, who he’s worked with a few times and had a decent relationship with. Apparently, she was sad when Kyoji left. Kyoji says he’ll get in touch with her tomorrow.
  • Hajime asks the 76 Squad how they feel about the whole killing thing. Estu says that revenge is just karma but that you should treat the dead with respect. Mayumi says that justice is what’s necessary, not revenge, that killing is wrong, and that karma will ensure that bad people get theirs eventually. Masa says that killing can sometimes be done with good intentions, such as the case of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, and that it doesn’t prove anything about who you truly are if you do it because you have no other choice. Even with their encouragement, Hajime still wants to find another way.
  • When the group gets to the Void Warehouse, Nikei shows Estu around, while Maku, Emma, and Sora reveal that they’ve found Takeharu’s location: the main office at the branch of MUFG Bank in Tokyo. He has 800 yen to his name, but always turns down promotions, he’s in the process of moving, and he hasn’t claimed any dependents. Nikei immediately starts railing for them to kill him right away, as he’s too paranoid about his family’s safety to wait around. Hajime and the others try to talk sense into him, since they barely even know what Takeharu’s deal is, but Nikei is convinced that he deserves to die for working with Junko. He suggests that they have the 76 Squad kill Takeharu and Tsumugi instead, as they’re not part of the Quantum Crew and don’t have as many hangups regarding killing. An argument ensues, with Nikei and Hajime still at odds over the possibility of killing, and it ends with Nikei storming off while the other Voids promise to talk to him (they’re also planning to call Erina tomorrow).
  • The 76 Squad hears all the yelling and offers to do more investigation if necessary. Hajime asks them to help investigate Takeharu, and fortunately, Estu just so happens to need a new bank account, so they agree to do so. Masa suggests that Hajime start writing down ideas.
  • Hajime talks to Kyoji; Kyoji agrees that killing is wrong, discusses his existentialist views and how he thinks that we are the ones who assign meaning to life, and encourages Hajime to stick to his beliefs if he so chooses, since they have meaning to him. Hajime thanks him and reminds him that what happened in the Tragedy timeline with him becoming Izuru wasn’t Kyoji’s fault.
  • Mayumi thanks Hajime for everything he’s done as Kasugano. He encourages her to stay by Estu’s side and tell her how she feels.
  • When Hajime gets home, he finds his parents, Daisuke, and Hibiki eating sundaes made by Hibiki and Keiko, and he takes one too. Hibiki and Keiko are planning to talk to Yoruko tomorrow. Meanwhile, it seems that all of the dangerous chemicals have been cleaned out of Hope’s Peak, but Hiyoko and Teruteru are going to be expelled for the soup incident.
  • Hajime and Hibiki fill each other in on the day’s events. Hajime’s still bothered by a feeling of hopelessness from everything falling apart all at once. Hibiki reminds him not to blame himself and to focus on the good that could come from this. They end up having sex to help each other feel better.
  • Mayumi and Emma talk about their families, and Emma gives Mayumi permission to stay the night at the Void Warehouse. She assures her that Nikei says a lot of things he doesn’t mean, that he’s only like this because he cares, and that he can get better. Mayumi offers her help if necessary. When Emma asks her how she became friends with Estu in the first place, Mayumi says that Estu’s been through a lot, that she was the first person to really get to know her, and that she’ll make sure that nothing hurts her. Emma is glad that the two of them met. Mayumi also mentions that Yoruko seems very tired lately and that the Voids should probably talk to Nikei about why he doesn’t like Masa.
  • It’s Kiriko’s birthday. She turns 18.
  • It’s Makoto’s birthday. He turns 17.
• February 6: Hajime, Hibiki, and Keiko all accompany Daisuke on another day of investigations. Hajime still has people he needs to talk to, while Hibiki and Keiko need to talk to Yoruko about Hibiki’s parents.
  • Hibiki, Keiko, and Harumi meet with Yoruko and ask for answers. Yoruko denies lying about the Otonokoji parents calling her. Sora checks the phone records to clear things up, and it turns out that Maria and Sosuke Otonokoji called Yoruko twice. The first time ended in a misunderstanding, and Yoruko missed the second call (on the twins’ birthday), in which the Otonokojis apologized for their previous call and asked once again for information on Hibiki. Hibiki breaks down in tears, and Yoruko realizes how badly she messed up. Harumi figures that Yoruko genuinely remembered it all wrong because she suffers from compassion fatigue. Yoruko breaks down and admits that she’s been so busy helping everyone that she hasn’t had a break in a very long time. Hibiki, Harumi, and Sora encourage her to take time off to rest, which Yoruko agrees to do, and Hibiki and Keiko apologize for suspecting her of lying. Yoruko heads home with Sora. Hibiki decides to take some time to think before she contacts her parents.
  • Kyoji and Hibiki meet on the fifth floor, with Kyoji hoping to see Ai. Hibiki encourages him to say hi. They go to the greenhouse, where they see the plants and the chickens, and Ai Ibarazaki shows up, surprising them by walking on her hands. She’s very excited and happy to see Kyoji again. He apologizes for leaving without saying anything, and they hug. Ai mentions that she used to be scared of bugs, but conquered her fear in middle school and found her talent as a result. Now, she wants to go into forensic entomology. After she assures Kyoji that she’s not mad at him and will still be there for him no matter what, he promises that he’ll still be around for her too. They rekindle their friendship, and Ai becomes friends with Hibiki as well.
  • After Ai leaves, Kyoji confides to Hibiki that the fact that people still like him and forgive him makes him feel worse because he can’t internalize it due to his own self-loathing. He’s torn on whether or not he wants to see the file Estu took. Hibiki reiterates that it’s the Steering Committee’s fault, not his, and when he brings up his bleak-looking future, she even suggests that maybe they can change things so that he will not have to go to jail. She also tells him to see a therapist. When asked if he wants to have a family someday, Kyoji admits that he doesn’t know if he can be a good dad, or if he can even have kids. He’s keeping open the possibility of adoption, however. He also encourages Hibiki to take the chance to talk to her parents again. Hibiki decides that she will reach out to her parents and that she will do whatever it takes to keep Kyoji out of jail.
  • Kikue, fresh off investigators questioning whether or not she’s actually killed people, finds Gundham in the dining hall. He’s upset over what’s happening to his classmates, and no one has seen Sonia in quite some time, as she’s been holed up in her room. Gundham feels powerless to help them. Several of Kikue’s classmates are being investigated too, most notably Yasuke. To help Gundham feel better, Kikue decides to eat lunch with him, and they make lunch for Sonia as well. They talk about books, and when Gundham makes tea for Sonia, Kikue calls him cute. She tells him to focus on what he can do, and offers to talk anytime.
  • Thankfully, Sonia comes out of her room when Gundham and Kikue bring her tea. She’s been crying for two days because her family is concerned about her safety at Hope’s Peak. But she’s staying at school for now, and she won’t back down from helping her friends. Gundham and Kikue will support her. Kikue calls Sonia cool and hugs Gundham.
  • At the Void Warehouse, Nikei is practicing what he will say when he confronts Takeharu. He’s preparing for the worst. Maku and Emma are worried for him and know that this is not a good route for him to go down, so they’ve called in Erina to hold an intervention of sorts for their friend. They talk, he tells her about the current dilemma, and he insists that killing both Takeharu and Tsumugi is the only way for the Quantum Crew to protect themselves and their families, as he doesn’t believe that the world will give them a third option to take. Erina questions if he can really kill someone, tells the story of Nekomaru’s heart condition and the boy he met in the hospital, and says that while she wants to protect him, she knows that she has to let him live his own life. She asks if Nikei’s future family would want him to kill, and if Nikei himself truly wants to kill. After Nikei rants about his hatred of the wealthy elite and his incredulity that Hajime could ever think he’d end up just as bad by killing them, Erina asks him why he’s so sure that people like that can’t be trusted, and Nikei breaks down and tells her about his past. (This is also where we find out that his original last name was Arisaka and that his parents were local politicians.) Erina hugs him and apologizes that he ever had to go through that, while Nikei cries as he wonders why he still feels terrible for what he did. Erina wants to help him so that he doesn’t have to hide all this anymore, and she offers to come with him on the mission to find Takeharu and vouch for him if the truth ever comes out about what he did. It’s even implied that she wants to adopt him. Nikei thanks her, and at her and the other Voids’ urging, goes to get some sleep. He does, however, wonder how Masa survived Tsumugi’s rampage, and what it might’ve cost her.
  • The 76 Squad stakes out the MUFG Bank, waiting for Takeharu. Estu is ready to set up her new bank account, having engaged in slight fraud to obtain the legal documents she needs; the fake name she will use is Hikari Tano. She wants to change her appearance as well when she gets the chance, and she will get Kyoji to help change her dental records and DNA profile. She hopes to move to the Netherlands eventually.
  • Estu goes in with Mayumi to set up the bank account, while Masa waits outside in case Takeharu comes out. While they wait in line, Mayumi asks Estu if she’s doing okay and says that she will miss her, and Estu half-jokingly suggests she come with her. Mayumi, who’s grown to be a lot more comfortable with her sexuality thanks to Yoruko, promises to stay with her.
  • Masa spots Takeharu leaving the bank, sees that he’s writing a list, and follows him to a supermarket in Minato City. There, she watches him make a deal for an unknown formula with lysozyme and lactoferrin in it. Meanwhile, Estu overhears some bank workers talking about Takeharu: apparently, he’s on leave because he’s moving, and his wife died of an unknown medical complication back in June.
  • It’s evening, and Daisuke is still interviewing people, much to Hajime’s consternation. While he waits for him to finish up, he gets a text from Masa setting up a meeting at the Void Warehouse for 8 PM. He still has no non-lethal solution to the Takeharu-Tsumugi problem, and he’s freaking out about it. Distraught, he calls Ouma Mental Health Counseling and speaks to Hirota Ouma, Kasumi’s son. He asks him what he thinks about everything that happened. Hirota expresses his disgust at Emina and Hope’s Peak, mentioning that he himself turned down a spot at the school as the Ultimate Therapist, and says that it’s a good thing Kasugano turned up. He also tells Hajime that he and Kasumi can make time to talk if he needs it. After that, Hajime calls Mio, who is meeting with Ernesto to go over all the crimes Emina committed at Hope’s Peak. She tells him that the art world is changing for the better because of Kasugano’s actions. He asks her what’s the best way to figure out if he’s doing the right thing, and she tells him to take a deep breath and remember that dark times will pass and that it’s not his fault. She also offers to pray for him.
  • As Hajime continues to ponder the “to kill or not to kill” question and berates himself for people getting hurt as an indirect result of Kasugano’s actions, he runs into Taro and Tsubasa, who are discussing how Hope’s Peak is sweeping the Elementary Division under the rug. Tsubasa is determined to investigate it herself, and Taro offers to help her. Before he can talk to them, Hajime gets a flashback to their deaths in the Student Council Killing Game, and he flees the scene in tears. Then he reunites with Daisuke, finds out from him that Natsumi is once again in trouble for bullying girls around Tokyo, freaks out at the notion that once again something he did got people hurt, and screams at Daisuke to leave him alone and let him think before storming off.
  • Hajime runs into the Reserve Course building in full meltdown mode, still insisting to himself that he’ll find a way not to kill. In the library, he runs into Honami, now in a different outfit that she made herself. Her life has been going well: she’s improved her relationship with her parents, has new friends outside of school, got a refill on her prescription, and is even learning to sew. Her relationship with Mahiru is also going well. Apparently, Natsumi was forced by her mother (who also slapped her across the face) to apologize to the girls she bullied. Hajime vents to Honami about the current situation, and when Honami asks why Hajime is still friends with killers and attempted killers such as herself, Hajime admits that he is just personally uncomfortable with being a murderer because he hates himself and blames himself for everything. He breaks down crying, and Honami hugs him and tells him that it’s not his responsibility to fix everything and that he has to let others make their own choices too. Hajime acknowledges that she’s right and thanks her. Honami also says that the Reserve Course will probably shut down soon due to the investigation, which improves Hajime’s mood.
  • Hajime goes home and apologizes to Daisuke. It turns out that Keiko and Hibiki have already told Daisuke the truth about Kasugano, time travel, etc. Now that he’s in the know, Daisuke is quick to reassure Hajime that Hope’s Peak are the ones to blame for Izuru. He tells Hajime the story of his childhood best friend, Masato Shimabukuro, the former Ultimate Surgeon, who was coerced into helping with the Kamakura Project via giving proto-lobotiomes to inmates from various prisons. This had a really bad effect on his mental health to the point where Izumi, his upperclassman, started getting suspicious. Masato eventually ended up committing suicide due to the guilt, blaming Hope’s Peak in his suicide note. Daisuke never told Hajime before because he knew how much he admired Hope’s Peak and didn’t want to break his heart. The suicide note can’t be used to expose Hope’s Peak at the moment, as it’s Masato’s word against the school, plus one of the Steering Committee members was in the same class as Daisuke and Masato. But the Kamakura Project has been slowed down, and everyone’s planning on tracking whatever new methods they use. Hajime, exhausted, tells his family and Hibiki that he loves them before turning in for the night.
  • Estu gives Kyoji the Kamakura File, which contains all the information about Masato stated above, proving that Kyoji was not the first to be used by the Project. Kyoji breaks down in tears, and the girls assure him that Hope’s Peak is the one to blame, that they will take the school down, and that they forgive him. But Kyoji still thinks he has no future to look forward to; he’s looked into where he is in 2030, and he’s alone, with no family and no friends. This attitude angers Estu, who demands to know why he’s so obsessed with his own misery and keeps sabotaging every chance he has at happiness; she screams at him that she envies him, because at least people care about him and he can still be himself. She tells him her own story: she grew up in a small village, but she was blamed by the townspeople for her mother’s death by childbirth, and when she was 12 they blamed her for another child’s death and set fire to her house, which ended up burning the whole village down. Her father sacrificed himself to save her, and she was the sole survivor. Now, she hates her talent, and very few people want to associate with her because they see her as creepy, not to mention how she was forced to help with the Kamakura Project. She even used to self-harm. Mayumi is her first real friend, and she’s in therapy now, but she’s getting ready to leave her old identity behind completely. She tells Kyoji that she doesn’t blame him and that all she’s ever wanted from him is an apology, and so he apologizes, and she accepts his apology. Mayumi advises that if he apologizes to the deceased’s families, he might avoid jail time. They all agree to be friends.
  • Estu’s long-term goals are quitting her mortician work and becoming a baker, while Mayumi wants to be an athlete. Kyoji asks them if they want kids, and while neither of them are interested in giving birth, they’d be cool with adoption. Kyoji shows them a video of them together with their baby in the future. This makes Estu feel a lot better. Mayumi gets flustered, and Kyoji privately advises her to go ahead and confess her feelings to her. With that in mind, Mayumi talks to Estu, affirms her support for her no matter what, and confesses her feelings. Estu immediately kisses her. While they can’t truly be together until the current situation with Estu is over, Mayumi promises to wait for her. They spend the night together.
  • It’s 10:30, and Hajime is still no closer to coming up with a non-lethal solution to deal with the Despairs. He vents about it to Keiko, who suggests that he write a list of the pros and cons of killing them (she also reminds him that he doesn’t have to take responsibility for others’ decisions). Hajime makes the list, but ultimately comes up with more pros than cons. Distraught, he goes to bed. Keiko comes in while he’s sleeping and discovers that the last item on the con list is “You’re not a murderer,” which has been crossed out. Hajime then has another nightmare.
• February 7: Hajime wakes up at 4:26 AM from his nightmares. Realizing he can’t escape the truth, he makes his decision.
  • Keiko, worried about Hajime, asks Hibiki to accompany him for the day.
  • That afternoon, at the Void Warehouse, Hajime (after receiving some comfort from Hibiki) walks in on Nikei and Masa arguing over the information about Takeharu that Masa uncovered. Apparently, they did some digging, and they found out that Takeharu had a wife named Eiko, who died in childbirth last June. The baby allegedly also died, but Masa doubts it, as the formula Takeharu was fetching was actually baby formula. Kyoji and Masa currently suspect that Marin Mizuta, who Chiaki saw on TV in 2030, is Takeharu’s daughter. Nikei doesn’t care and still wants Takeharu dead. An annoyed Masa reveals that when she tried to help Nikei when he was younger, he told her to kill herself and called her part of the problem. She storms off, and Nikei admits that he did that, as he thought that she wasn’t doing enough to stop terrible people, but he knows better now and regrets it. He reveals that he got the 2030 crew to show him what happens in the bad future that they saw, and he gets it now; it’s part of the reason why he’s so gung-ho about killing the Despairs. He won’t tell everyone until after the current mission, though (which he intends to go on, along with Erina and Taira). Hajime, meanwhile, has made his decision: he still doesn’t want the Quantum Crew to kill, but he’ll allow it if and only if there are truly no better options. But he still thinks it’s best to look for those better options first.
  • Hajime talks to Masa, and she agrees to go on the Mizuta mission as well. She admits that she doesn’t think Nikei is a bad journalist, it’s just that he needs to think ahead sometimes and remember that these stories contain the lives of real people. Nikei comes out and promises her that he won’t strong-arm the operation.
  • Back at Hope’s Peak, Harumi tries to talk with Chiaki, as she needs her testimony about the charity event, but they’re interrupted by multiple crises. For one, Taro’s parents have been charged with drug smuggling and distribution to children; although the drugs in question are prescription medications that were being given to kids who needed them, it’s still against Japanese law, so they’re going to prison. Taro will stay with Yuka for now, and will even use her last name to avoid public shame. Tsubasa admits that she is not actually the Ultimate Botanist but is simply holding the title for her friend Santa while he goes on an unspecified mission; she’s actually the Ultimate Child Psychologist, and she suspects the Steering Committee had her accept his deal so that she wouldn’t find out about the Elementary Division. She also wants to speak to Kotoko at some point. Harumi assures both students that they will not be in any trouble, and she even floats the possibility of helping Taro’s parents avoid jail time.
  • A CPS agent named Hisako Yasuda has gotten involved to reinvestigate the Elementary Division cases; her own daughter was once a Lil’ Ultimate herself. Her husband was murdered by Kanade, and Chiaki assures Harumi that they’ll send Kanade back to prison once the Despairs are taken care of. Chiaki herself is also going through a lot of turmoil over the recent revelations regarding the Mizuta family, wondering if it’s truly okay for them to kill someone’s father.
  • Meanwhile, Teruteru gets reamed out by Kojikoji and Yokoyoko about the soup incident. He swears that he wasn’t the one who put the aphrodisiac in the soup and was only going to use it to spice up a consensual encounter, but the twins point out that the fact that he even had it in the first place is not a good look for him or their family. Hiyoko arrives and admits that she was the one who actually used the aphrodisiac, and Yokoyoko slaps her in the face. Hiyoko is more sad than mad, as she’s been going around telling people the truth, and they’ve all been angry at her. Also, her father is disappointed in her, she feels terrible about herself, and she’s having suicidal thoughts. Harumi sends Hiyoko off to get comfort from her other partners, then reminds Chiaki that she can’t keep enabling her friends. She assures her that things will get better for them as long as they put in the work to be better.
  • Chiaki takes the opportunity to ask for the Hanamuras’ help in the Takeharu mission. The twins agree, especially since they could use the money to help the family diner, and while Teruteru is worried, he lets them go after some convincing, but tells them to be careful.
  • Hiyoko finds Mikan and Kotoko, who have both been trying to avoid the investigation. Mikan comforts Hiyoko, and they all hang out together. Meanwhile, Sonia comes out of her room and watches a movie with Gundham and Kikue.
  • At 7:47, Nikei, Masa, Erina, Chiaki, Harumi, Kojikoji, Yokoyoko, and Taira gather for the mission. Taira has brought a lot of baby supplies. After a brief discussion about their plan, Taira decides that she will be the first to enter, on pretext of cleaning Takeharu’s house.
  • Taira goes to Takeharu’s house, claiming to be complementary housekeeping. He lets her in on the condition that she doesn’t bother him, and he also tells her that one specific room is off-limits. Taira finds a picture of his late wife Eiko, and when asked, Takeharu speaks fondly of her but also says she would’ve been better off if they had never met. Taira tells him that even if he doesn’t think too much of himself, she did, and that she loved him and would want him to be happy, which makes him feel a bit better.
  • Meanwhile, the rest of the group starts securing the exit points. Nikei admits to Erina that he’s worried about the possibility of Takeharu having a family; he’s conflicted and just wants to protect everyone. Erina hugs him. Nikei still finds it hard to trust people, but Chiaki reminds him that trust isn’t as easy as she makes it look, and that belief without doubt is simply a lie. She also points out that the Quantum Crew trusted him and his friends, and when Nikei replies that he doesn’t know why they were so supportive, she says they genuinely wanted to help them. She also agrees with Nikei that Shirogane must die, but doesn’t want anyone in the group to do it, especially given Hajime’s mindset, and she’s really worried about him. Harumi, meanwhile, doesn’t want to jump to any conclusions just yet. Nikei rants that it might as well be him who kills the Despairs, because he thinks he’s already a bad person since he’s killed before. Erina hugs him again and insists that she knows he doesn’t really feel that way.
  • With the exits secured and everyone in position, the group knocks on Takeharu’s door. Harumi claims to be with the police here to talk with him about his company, but Takeharu tells her to come back with a warrant and slams the door in her face. Hearing this, Nikei breaks down the door and forces Takeharu to get on the ground at gunpoint, much to his teammates’ dismay. Taira assures them that he wasn’t going for a gun, and Takeharu quickly figures out that they’re with Kasugano. Then, they hear crying from the secret room. Despite Takeharu’s protests, Taira goes in, finds little 8-month-old Marin Mizuta crying in a crib, and comforts her. A pissed-off Takeharu threatens Nikei, but Erina protects him.
  • The group makes it known that they know about Takeharu’s connections to the Despairs, and they ask to talk to him. Takeharu calms down and tells them his story. It started when the bubble economy burst, he lost his job and ended up in debt, and things seemed hopeless. But then, he met Junko, and she promised to help him get rich if he would help her in return. Sure enough, treasures started rolling in, and he became wealthy and successful, and he would send her cash in exchange to fund her plans. The treasures in question were retrieved by Mukuro, who looted them during her Fenrir escapades across the Middle East. She has all of his personal information, so he can’t back out, and the one time he tried to back out, she sent him a diamond ring with a finger attached and threatened him. His wife Eiko, who he met and married after he got mixed up with Junko, stood by him even after finding out the truth and promised to help him find a way out, but then she died in childbirth. Marin is in fact his daughter, and nobody knows she’s alive and with him, not even Junko. He’s been turning down promotions because he knows that Junko would want him to be promoted, and he was hoping to move somewhere out of the way.
  • Apparently the next phase of the Despairs’ plan is to get rid of Tamami and Sofia, then bribe the Steering Committee into letting Junko and Mukuro attend Hope’s Peak without Jin’s approval. The investigation will make that harder for them, though.
  • Hearing all this, the Quantum Crew offer to help Takeharu and Marin escape, even suggesting witness protection, but Takeharu is convinced that Junko will find them anyway, and even if she doesn’t, he doesn’t want that life for Marin. He figures that the Quantum Crew’s only hope is if he disappears completely, buying them just enough time to take down Shirogane and cripple the Despairs. To that end, he tells the group to take Marin so that she can have a better, happier life. Erina agrees to adopt her. Takeharu gives his 80 million yen in cash to the Hanamura twins, and will transfer the rest of the money in his accounts to the Quantum Crew while making it look like a glitch in the system. Chiaki wants to give some of the money to the Owaris as well.
  • This is all too much for Nikei, who has to go out and sit on the curb for a while. At first, it seems that he’s upset that he was wrong, but it turns out that he’s actually upset because he feels bad for Takeharu and wishes his own father treated him the way Takeharu treats Marin. Taira and Erina hug him, and Masa says that the fact that he feels this way now says more about him than what he was suggesting before, and that ultimately, Junko is to blame for Takeharu’s situation. She also hints that her opinion of Nikei has improved. With Nikei set to become Marin’s new big brother, he holds her, and Taira of course agrees to help with her care.
  • Harumi gets Takeharu’s testimony, and then, Takeharu makes a video meant for Marin to watch when she’s old enough, which he gives to Erina. It turns out that he plans to leave some things with Eiko’s family and then go to the Aokigahara Suicide Forest to die. Despite the group’s protests, he’s sure that there’s no other way, and as long as Marin and everyone else can have a better future, he’s okay with it. He says goodbye to Marin and gives her a picture of her mother to hold onto. Then, he says farewell to the Quantum Crew, asks them to take care of his daughter, and expresses his hope that he’s lessened their burdens, if only a little bit. Finally, he gets into his car and drives away, with the song “El Paso” by Marty Robbins playing on the radio.
  • Takeharu Mizuta disappears into Aokigahara and is never seen again. He is 47.
• February 8: The rest of the Quantum Crew is filled in on the results of the mission. Nikei apologizes to Hajime for giving him grief about wanting to find another solution. Hajime knows that he should be happy, but he isn’t. Estu will give Takeharu a proper funeral. On the bright side, his money has helped many people, including the Hanamuras, the Owaris, the Saiharas, and the Saionjis.
  • After sending Masa and Estu outside and promising to fill them in later, Hajime and the rest of the Quantum Crew tune in to 2030 once again. Sunako confirms that their mission was a success: the Preservation Project will only be able to run 23 games without Takeharu’s funding, the games that will happen will be forced underground, and Game L will not happen. The Giboura Middle School Massacre has also been prevented, as has the birth of Killer Killer. Echo, however, will still gain precognition powers and get kidnapped by Tsumugi, and she will still run all of her killing games, including the V3 one. (This will also still lead to the deaths of everyone in the Quantum Crew, sans Masa.) The only way for all the killing games to be prevented is to stop Shirogane. Kyoji will make more formulas to protect everyone’s genes from her.
  • When Nikei asks about Marin, Sunako assures her that she’s doing well in 2030 and is now a popular weather forecaster. Nikei, Erina, Nekomaru, Kazuichi, and Kenji gather to meet the newest and youngest member of their family. Sure enough, a teenage Marin Mizuta happily greets them, moving many of them (especially Nikei) to tears. She calls herself Big Sis because she often serves as the babysitter for all the younger kids, and it’s confirmed that she is the little sister to Nikei, Nekomaru, and Kazuichi. She is also best friends with Ayumu and protects him from his sister’s crossdressing attempts. Most heartwarming of all, she was inspired to become a weather forecaster from Nikei, who works at the same TV station as her.
  • Marin still has her mother’s picture and the video her father made for her. With her family’s encouragement, she watches the video. In the video, Takeharu tells her about his life, his relationship with Eiko, and the mistakes he made, and he hopes that even if he couldn’t save himself, he could save her. He expresses how much he loves her and how he’ll always love her. By the end of it, Marin is reduced to tears. But she knows how much both of her families love her. She and Sunako assure the Quantum Crew that they are making a difference.
  • Everyone decides to take a break before the next mission. They tell Masa and her friends that they’ll call them again when they need them, and Masa makes up with Nikei, telling him to say hi to Marin for her.
  • Nikei and Taira go with Erina, Nekomaru, Kenji, and Kazuichi back to the Nidai house to take care of Marin. The two of them reflect on how easy it is to make bad decisions when desperate, something they both have firsthand experience with. Meanwhile, Kenji offers to help Erina whenever she needs it, and Kazuichi notes how odd it is to see his dad up for dating again, but Nekomaru is just happy that his mom is happy. Everyone is bonding very nicely. Erina also plans to talk to Harumi about helping Nikei not go to jail for what happened with his parents. When she says good night to him, he calls her “Ma” for the first time.
  • As Nikei and Taira make plans to go out together with Ayame for Valentine’s Day, Taira confesses that she thinks Nikei is really lucky that Erina wants to adopt him and that she’s a bit jealous. Nikei offers to look for info on her family, which Taira immediately is on board with. The two of them cuddle and go to sleep.
  • It’s Hikaru’s birthday. He turns 39.
• February 9: Nikei wakes up at 3:12 AM and finds Marin also awake and crying. He comforts her and talks to her about the events of the previous couple of days, apologizing for what happened to her father and for thinking the worst of him. He also doesn’t know how to feel about the fact that he will finally get parental figures, but he’s sure that they’ll both be okay in the end. She responds by playing with his notepad, grabbing his hand, and cuddling up against him. He holds his new baby sister until they both fall asleep.
• February 14: Hajime wakes up at 9 AM and gets a Valentine’s gift from a very excited Hibiki. She has taken the liberty of organizing a schedule for him, revealing at what times he should see each of his partners. This is something that the Cuddle Puddle cooked up together to make sure that Hajime gets to spend time with everyone. Hajime thanks her.
  • Hiroshi is trying to find a new job.
  • After Hajime leaves, Hibiki panics to Keiko that she wants to make Valentine’s chocolate, but doesn’t know how. Keiko agrees to teach her.
  • At 11 AM, Hajime meets up with Chiaki. She gives him chocolate, they play video games together at the fountain where they first met, and they reminisce about their relationship. Chiaki still regrets how she treated her family at first, and Hajime still has anxiety about Chiaki’s Tragedy timeline death, but the two promise to get through it all together. They kiss, cuddle, and share the chocolate.
  • Nagito is trying to buy soda (and predictably failing) when he runs into Kanata. Together, they go to the dorms, where Kanata confides to her fiance that she is frustrated when people assume that she’s a little girl because of her appearance, and he assures her that he finds her attractive and doesn’t think of her as a child at all. As a little surprise for him, she wears a bunny outfit. The two express their devotion for each other after all they’ve been through, then settle down and watch movies together.
  • At 1 PM, Hajime meets up with Hiyoko. She is now over 150 cm tall and has a brand new outfit for the occasion. She gives him chocolate, but it is very poorly made thanks to a recipe she misread online, so Hajime nearly passes out trying to eat it. They go to the zoo together.
  • At the zoo, Tamami feeds a baby rhino. The zookeeper encourages her to let him handle it and go out and have fun on Valentine’s Day.
  • Iroha is now part of Red Ribbon, and Makoto recognizes her in a magazine, but his classmates don’t believe that they are dating until she calls him and confirms it on speakerphone, roasting his doubting classmates in the process. (She and her siblings have their place set up now, and Hitaru is looking into adopting Jataro.) Sayaka joins the call, and she has been feeling much better since the charity event. The three chat happily about their relationship and their ideas for Valentine’s Day, and just as they’re considering inviting Tamami as well, she calls. The girls encourage Makoto to ask her out, since it’s what he needs, what with how overwhelming this has all been for him. So he asks Tamami on a date (just the two of them) while also explaining the Hope Brigade. She accepts and says that she’ll come by his house so they can plan where to go.
  • Tamami shows up at Makoto's door sometime later. She’s never been asked out before, so she’s a little nervous about the proper protocol, especially since she’s not the best with people, but she trusts Makoto. They decide to go to the arcade, and they hold hands on the way there. Iroha sends Tamami a text giving her blessing and hoping they have a good time.
  • Over at Red Ribbon, Iroha’s doing modeling work and getting advice from Fushimi when Hitaru and Jataro show up to say hi. The Nijiue siblings have all been enjoying their newfound freedom and are eagerly awaiting their new house. Their parents’ trial is starting soon, and Ernesto will be their lawyer. Jataro tells the group about a former friend of his from Hope’s Peak Elementary, Otoha Yasuda, who used to make food for him, causing him to believe that they were married. However, he chickened out of the “marriage” because of his role as the Priest and because he thought his face would make her eyes explode, so he “divorced” her by writing her a letter telling her to get out of his school. Everyone else finds this hilarious. Iroha offers to help Jataro get back in touch with Otoha. Hitaru is having some pain issues with her scars, but is doing great otherwise; she’s giving everyone who helped her family, including Fushimi, chocolate as thanks. As the three leave, Hitaru prepares to make a phone call.
  • At 3:03, Hajime meets Mikan and Kotoko at the Hama-Rikyu Gardens. Mikan is wearing a lovely new dress for the occasion. She gives Hajime chocolate that she and Kotoko made together. They walk through the gardens, and Kotoko expresses her desire to help with charities for HIV while also telling Hajime and Mikan about how she hung out with a boy her age (named Masashi) at the movies. She’s also been thinking about getting back into acting to help her family. Privately, Mikan reflects on her relationship with Kotoko and how far both of them have come, and Hajime compliments her on her parenting skills. He wants to start looking for a job of his own so he can provide for his future family. Mikan, meanwhile, wants to be the best mom she can be to all her children, both current and future, and she doesn’t want to wait too long to start that family. Hajime also gives Kotoko permission to call him “Papa” if she wants, and he and Mikan promise that they’ll be there to help her no matter what.
  • Nagisa tells Setsuka and Umeko about a girl he knew once at school, and the two wonder if perhaps they should look into finding a school for the Warriors of Hope to attend. They hear a knock at the door and find a robot pony called Hamoponi, created by Sunako, who has come to give Nagisa a present for Valentine’s Day. With his moms’ encouragement, Nagisa asks Sunako out, and the two (along with Hamoponi) go to spend time at a bookstore together.
  • Monaca is seriously regretting her decision to age herself up and asks Kyoji to turn her back into a child. After much pleading, Kyoji considers transdifferentiation as an option, and says that he will look into it. Monaca also misses her friends and wants to make amends with them. She also reminds Kyoji that Kanade can’t stay with them forever. She’s still studying the robots, but she’s pretty sure they’re from the future.

2030

July

• July 13: Sayuri Hinata (Hajime and Hibiki’s daughter), Mizuki Yomiuri (Nikei and Taira’s daughter), and Miho Komaeda (Nagito and Kanata’s adopted daughter) are hanging out together when they are attacked by a murderous android. They do their best to fight back, but are almost killed before Damian shows up and saves them. Ultimately, the android is destroyed, although a civilian is gravely injured.
  • Hajime, Yoruko, Sora, and an unknown time traveler use the time machine in the Kisaragi Foundation to travel back in time to 2012.
• July 19: Taira wakes up in her house at 10:33 AM to find herself 18 years older and 4 months pregnant. After figuring out what’s going on, she explores the place, and she discovers photographs of herself with Ayame and Nikei (who are off working at the Kisaragi Foundation and reporting in Greenland respectively), plus one of a short-haired Emma holding an award. She then comes across Mizuki and Etsuya Yomiuri (her two children with Nikei) playing Fallout: New Vegas. They realize that today is the day she time travels to their time, as she told them about it beforehand, so they tell her all about the future, assuring her that she and all her friends are happy and successful now. Taira (now Akane Yomiuri-Hatano-Taira) is also introduced to Satoshi Hatano-Taira (her adopted son with Ayame), Hitomi Maeda (Yuki and Kizuna’s daughter), and a grown-up Kizuna (now Kizuna Maeda).
  • It’s clarified that Japan now lets up to 8 adults cohabitate together, and while you can only legally marry one person, you can have up to two other partners of equal legal status, and there are financial benefits for those who have kids. So Hotel Akane’s relationship status in 2030 goes like this: Taira and Nikei are married, as are Yuki and Kizuna, and Taira has civil partnerships with Ayame and Yuki. Oh, and Yuki is the father of Taira’s unborn baby.
  • At 10:59, Taira’s family tells her that the time traveler who backed Kanade and Maverick has access to both 2012 and 2030 and is planning something bad in 2030 to destroy the timeline. They don’t know who this person is yet, as they forget things and learn new things based on how the Quantum Crew changes the past, but since some things (such as the invention of time travel) will still happen no matter what thanks to the principle of self-consistency, there will always be 5 time travelers, and one of them is bad news. Their plans probably have something to do with Ayumu Fujimori (who is now 18), so he needs to be protected.
  • Mizuki asks Taira to give Nikei a hug from her, and Satoshi asks her to tell Ayame to take it easy lest she tear her ACL. Taira says farewell (for now) to her future family and goes back to 2012 at 11:16.
  • Meanwhile, Chiaki wakes up in her own house and sees Marin Mizuta give a weather report on TV. She soon meets Sayuri, Itsuki Hinata (Hajime and Hiyoko’s daughter), and Kana Hinata (Hajime and Chiaki’s daughter, named after the late Kana Ise, whose pink bow she wears). They show her around the future, which has a very Solarpunk vibe to it; people do a lot of gardening, cars are self-driven and no longer run on gasoline, technology has advanced in many areas, Strong A.I.s have rights, most big corporations (including Togami Corp) are not around anymore, and although climate change is a problem, people are working to fix it. All in all, it’s a very nice future.
  • The Cuddle Puddle has 7 kids: besides Kana, Itsuki, and Sayuri, there’s Taito Hinata (Hajime and Mikan’s son), Charlotte Nevermind (Gundham and Sonia’s daughter), Horace Nevermind (Hajime and Sonia’s son), and Isamu Tanaka-Hinata (Gundham and Hibiki’s child). Hajime is married to Hiyoko and has civil partnerships with Chiaki and Mikan, and everyone lives together (although Sonia, Gundham, Charlotte, and Horace are in Novoselic right now).
  • The time traveler who backed Kanade and Maverick is given an official name: the Basilisk, named after the Roko’s Basilisk thought experiment. The Basilisk (either an AI that can go back and forward in time, or a human who can send information back and forward in time and knows about computers/robotics) is sending data between 2012 and 2030 to cause problems in both timelines, intending to not only destroy the happy timeline, but also target everyone who is in or close to the Quantum Crew. They use money and tech from 2030, and they do their work through agents. Sayuri tells Chiaki about the android who attacked her and her friends on the Basilisk’s behalf, and Chiaki comforts the girls and promises to stop the Basilisk.
  • As Chiaki, Kana, Itsuki, and Sayuri get lunch at a futuristic Italian restaurant, they run into Naoko Chiebukuro (Setsuka and Umeko’s daughter), and the girls tell Chiaki some more about the future. Everyone is doing well and has successful careers and families, and even Teruteru found a wife, who hails from Class 76 of Hope’s Peak. The only two characters mentioned who haven’t achieved perfectly happy endings are Kyoji and Kanade; the former did time in prison but has since been released, and the latter is serving a life sentence in prison. Also, the Kisaragi Foundation tracks changes in the timeline based on what happens in 2012, it's now got Yamato as its CEO, and its headquarters has the only working time machine. The Quantum Crew has changed enough so that the timeline is forked between the Tragedy timeline and this one, which is yet another reason why the Basilisk (confirmed to come from the Tragedy timeline) must be stopped.
  • The resets and why there’s so few of them are finally explained: time travel takes a lot of fusion power in order to work long-term, and the resets are there to give the time travelers room for error to fix their mistakes, but Hajime has a limited number because they’re a massive energy draw. If he runs out, he and all other time travelers will be sucked back to whichever timeline is most likely to happen and will stay there until they can get more power.
  • As for Mikako’s future visions, they are most likely an unexpected consequence of removing the microchip from her brain.
  • Sayuri gives Chiaki a list that the 2030 group put together (Kyoko has a copy as well). It describes all the things that need to be changed before the April 2013 arrival of Class 78, lest the Tragedy future happen. The list is as follows:
    • Find Tomoe Kimura, who can help get Hiyoko back from Izumi.
    • November 1-5: Meet up with Kinu Hiroshima, who is a friend of Gundham’s and a future member of Class 78-B which now exists as a side effect of the Quantum Crew’s efforts, and keep her safe.
    • November 7: Primetech Software Headquarters terrorist attack where Kouhei dies, save him and stop Juu Kinjo.
    • January 10-14: Go to DLTA Private Hospital in Asahikawa, look for Patient 8702, make sure they aren’t transferred or else they’ll be assassinated by the Ultimate Despairs in a fake accident.
    • February 3-6: Go to MUFG Bank, stop Takeharu Mizuta, a salaryman who finances the Ultimate Despairs, if both he and Juu are stopped then the Giboura Middle School massacre will be prevented.
    • February 20-27: Go to National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), stop Tsumugi Shirogane, yes that one, it’s complicated but Kyoji knows the details, also she’s the worst of Junko’s pre-Tragedy followers by far.
    • Make sure nothing happens to the Fujimori family before March 31, 2013.
    • Don’t tell anyone else about the future, or the Basilisk will target them and their families too.
  • Armed with knowledge of what the Quantum Crew must now do, Chiaki says goodbye to the girls. Naoko and Sayuri both ask her to tell their moms they said hi. Chiaki thanks the girls for showing her the wonderful future; after her sister’s funeral, she really needed to see it. Kana touches her bow and asks her mother if she believes in reincarnation. Love is expressed, everyone promises to see each other again soon, and Chiaki goes back to 2012.
• July 20: Chiaki, Mikan, and Hiyoko wake up at 6:15 PM at the Kisaragi Foundation headquarters. There, they meet Seishiro and Chiyumi Mekaru (Mikako and Rei’s children), along with a grown-up Mikako. After apologizing for not having enough finer details regarding the Saionji crisis or the Copycat Killer, the Mekarus explain that they don’t have a way to directly observe the events of the Tragedy timeline (whereas in 2012, they can see both potential futures past the “Bow Shock” where the timelines split), but they do get new memories based on what the Quantum Crew changes. For example, before Hiyoko’s family situation was resolved, Itsuki had no contact with the Saionjis, but now, she has new memories and experiences with her grandmother Maiko. The 2030 group was only able to make their list thanks to Nagi’s alternate timeline, which is not identical but similar enough that it is used as a sort of control group to collect information. That is why Hajime keeps meeting Nagi in dreams.
  • Since the mission to save Kouhei and stop Juu is of great importance, Chiaki, Mikan, and Hiyoko have been brought to 2030 to maximize their chances of success. The Mekarus show the girls the layout for Primtech’s 22nd floor; the area where the bomb will be placed is marked with an O, and the entryways are marked with Xs.
  • It’s then that Asami Kinjo-Sasaki (Tsurugi, Kouhei, and Kinji’s daughter) bursts onto the scene, ready to help the Quantum Crew save her father and stop her grandfather once and for all. She tells the crew that Juu was the one who set up the hostage situation in Tokyo Tower, which was a false flag operation, resulting in the deaths of Ashai Gonokami and other officers who disagreed with Juu. It’s all part of a plot to break Tsurugi’s spirit, and Kouhei’s next unless the Quantum Crew steps in. Asami has also been helping Kyoko, her sensei, who will be part of this mission. They’re going to be part of the response team, so Asami suggests that the Quantum Crew recruit first responders to help.
  • As it turns out, Byakuya is also working with Kyoko and Asami, which is why he organized the civilian-led rescue operation. He doesn’t know about time travel, though. Also, Hideyoshi was there to arrest the Copycat Killer because Tsurugi directed him there to test if Kyoko’s list was accurate.
  • According to Asami, the Primetech attack will last from 7:44 PM to around 10:15-10:30 PM. There will be 16 guards. The group decides to meet up with Kyoko at the warehouse where they met Taira around 3 PM. Chiaki writes down the address and gives it to Asami so that she can give it to Kyoko.
  • Before the girls return to their time, Mikako quickly tells them to look out for any event that involves Ayato and Emina Nijiue and try to get themselves invited. Chiaki, Mikan, and Hiyoko promise Asami that they’ll save her father, and then they go back to 2012.
• July 21: After the Naegi family has a scare with a hacked car that the Basilisk rigged to explode, the Quantum Crew, their allies, and their families are moved to the Kisaragi Foundation for safety.
  • Sunako, Sayuri, and Taito contact the Hinatas in 2012. (For information on what happens there, please consult December 13, 2012.)
  • Sayuri meets Haruto Akamatsu (Natsumi's son) for the first time. She compliments his duck tie and admits that she feels safer with him around, and he promises to do what he can to help.
• July 22: Etsuya, Naoko, Taito, Kana, Itsuki, Sayuri, Sunako, and Kaori Momota (Sunako's adopted daughter) contact the Cuddle Puddle in 2012. (For information on what happens there, please consult December 29, 2012.) Permanent connection with 2012 is established, so both parties communicate with each other frequently hereinafter.
• July 23: Iroha wakes up, meets 2030’s Mikako, and finds that her 2030 appearance has changed: most notably, she no longer looks homeless. It seems that her siblings are in England right now, as they went to visit Emma before the Basilisk attacks began, but Iroha still gets to talk to them via video chat. Hitaru and Jiro are a lot happier and healthier than before, and they’re still doing art, with Jiro starting an online painting series. Akemi (now Akemi Shinabe) is alive and well, with her own trading card game, and she’s married to Rumi. They have a daughter together as well, named Mako Shinabe, who’s a chaotic and talkative child with dreams of becoming a detective. Hitoshi is also close with the family as well, becoming a father figure to Akemi. As for the Nijiue parents, Ayato is still in prison, while Emina is now a retail worker with a ruined reputation. Best of all, Noriaki Naegi (Makoto and Iroha’s son) and his half-sister Akemi Naegi-Maizono (Makoto and Sayaka’s daughter) still exist, albeit slightly younger now. Noriaki is just the same, which Mikako explains is consistent with their theories regarding TTIs, and while little Akemi is still a nervous girl, she’s not the shut-in she was before. Iroha is happy to see that her life turned out well, that her family is okay, and that she didn’t end up like her parents.