Nagito Komaeda was staring in the wide blue distance that made the ocean, on a sunny Saturday afternoon. It was the day after Ryouta Mitarai, the Super High School Level Animator had been brought up to sense and redeemed himself. What was there to do now? The Ultimate Despair, Junko Enoshima, the one who kept him enslaved under the alias of Servant, who passed the torch to the young Monaca Towa and her Warriors of Hope, had passed, and Monaca was no longer any menace to anyone. The only thing that kept his past alive was his Junko hand, now amputated and replaced by a robotic palm of the Ultimate Mechanic Kazuichi Souda's confection.
What to do now? Was he still about the die in a few months? Was he luckily cured? Would he be able to tell Hinata what he had tried to say a while ago? Would he have to give up hope a second time?
No, he thought. Never give up hope. No matter what.
As his messy white hair flew in the wind, a bird abruptly plunged down and pecked on his head for many times until he heard a male voice chase it away.
That voice's owner was quickly found as Komaeda turned around to see Hinata. He jumped a bit, startled.
"Are you alright?", he asked, still a bit wary. Sure, they had all managed to forgive each other, but he knew they were all cautious around him.
"I'm fine, he replied. In truth, I was actually thinking about my friend Ness."
"Ness?" Hinata asked. "But who is Ness?"
"The monster of the great Gehenna sea! Me and my dark Devas have successfully exterminated it!" Gundham yelled from another part of the ship.
Sonia then took hold of the conversation and acted pretty inquisitive about the monster, asking Gundham a multitude of questions.
"So, Hinata asked again. "Who is Ness?"
Komaeda thought for a minute and said : "He's my best friend."