Summary: Hajime Hinata, wakes up on a perfect beach island, unable to remember his SHSL talent or much of his past. Luckily for him, he isn't the only one suffering from slight amnesia, as fellow classmate, Makoto Naegi, can't remember much either. Turns out there are seventeen students, in total, trapped in this tropical school trip with no idea why they're there or how they arrived.

When things turn for the worse and everyone is thrown into a mutual killing game for the sadistic gratifications of a monochrome bear, Hajime and Makoto have to decide if both their memories are worth knowing the truth of the game and it's stakes.

Sequel to Trial Between Pitch Black Hope and Pure White Despair. Spoilers.

Hajime Hinata woke up with sweat rolling down his face and sand easing its way into every crevice of his shirt. What a great way to wake up to a totally nonsensical situation.

He closed his eyes and gave off a soft groan as he tried to remember the events leading up to him passing out on an almost perfect beach. Lets see. There was a room of people, everyone was confused and had no idea what was going on, then a rabbit… thing showed up. Oh. That's right. He pinched the bridge of his house and sighed. Maybe it would have been a better thing if he didn't remember that part. A strange animatronic rabbit which called itself Usami the Magical Girl, who was also supposed to be his teacher, had appeared out of nowhere and started spouting on about "hope" or something.

He was having a weird fever dream, Hajime deduced. There was really no other explanation. One that made sense anyway.

Opening his eyes, the brunette looked up to see someone else was nearby. A scrawny and tall figure wearing a pale green jacket with strange white hair was looking over him. Immediately, Hajime wished he kept his eyes closed.

"Hello? Are you awake?" the figure asked. There was no point in playing dead now. Hajime nodded and leaned over onto his elbow, trying to help himself into a proper sitting position. "Oh, that's a relief. I saw you pass out and got worried. Everyone else left already. Might I ask, who are you?" Oh great, questions. Shifting in his uncomfortable sand cushion, the brunette hesitantly decided to reply to this stranger.

"My name is Hajime Hinata." And you are? The second question went unsaid but the other answered it anyway.

"Oh me? I'm just a nobody. But my name is Nagito Komeada." Nagito looked around for a moment and then gazed back at our protagonist. "Strange situation, right? Eh, I'm sure it's just something that Hope's Peak puts on as a way to let our hope grow. That's what the school is all about anyway. Or it's something completely different and horrible, and considering my luck, it probably is."

Hajime blinked. Oh, that's right. He had gotten accepted into Hope's Peak Academy, the school of various talents. He smiled to himself. He had gotten in. If this was something like a secret initiation ceremony, then it probably wouldn't be so bad.

"Might I ask what your talent is?" Hajime asked the green clad student.

"Oh that. Yeah, it's nothing special or anything but I'm… lucky." Hajime raised an eyebrow at that. And then it dawned on him. Nagito was this year's Super High School Level Luckster. Hajime could see how it wasn't really a talent, but it was still a pretty big honor in his opinion. The raffle was the only way a nobody could get to experience something so great as to go to the school of hope itself. "What's your talent?"

"Me? Well, I'm the….the…." the brunette frowned. It was right on the tip of his tongue. What was his talent again…? "I'm sorry, I don't really remember."

"That's fine, after all, everything that's happened up until now has been shocking and unexpected. I'm sure you'll remember eventually. I'm sure your talent is as great as everyone else's."

Everyone else? The look of confusion upon Hajime's face registered upon Nagito's expression but before either of them could say anything, someone else joined the conversation.

"Yes, there's others here. They already wandered off to explore this wonderful island. You should go off and meet them, in the name of hope!" A cutsie, young voice said. The two classmates looked to their right to see the same rabbit animatronic from earlier. It was dressed in a pink skirt holding a wand or something. The rabbit Usami smiled brightly at both of them.

"Come on, we should get this whole school trip pumping! The whole point of the trip is so you and your fellow classmates can grow together as a community and gather the hope fragments." Usami cheered. Hajime was lost. "There's a map of the whole island in your student handbook. You should go explore and see who you can meet!"

Student handbook? Hajime reached into his back pocket instinctively and took hold of a small tablet. He pressed the power button and it lit up and booted up a page with links to all his classmates profiles. Pictures and names were all blank except for his own and Nagito's, which was filled out with a smile profile picture, his name, and a few likes and dislikes. Hajime supposed he would have to meet all of the others in order for the tablet to register their existences.

What was strange was that there were seventeen links in total, including his own. Hajime had sworn he read somewhere that Hope's Peak classes consisted of strictly sixteen students, but maybe he could be wrong. One of those profiles could belong to the teacher after all. (The real teacher, not the strange bunny mascot.)

Nagito peered over his shoulder to look at his book and gave off a laugh.

"See? Hope's Peak sure knows it stuff, even about fake students like me." The albino said. Hajime got a unpleasant vibe from that statement but understood where Nagito was coming from. "Hey I have an idea. Why don't the two of us go looking for the rest of them, since we apparently missed them earlier?"

"What a wonderful idea!" Usami smiled. "Working together will really make your hope shine! Good luck!" And with that she kinda disappeared. Hajime looked to Nagito and wondered if he should take him up on the offer. Oh what the hell, he might as well.

"Sure," he replied and a small ding when off. Hajime realized it was coming from his student handbook. A small piece of a six sided star appeared next to Nagito's profile. This is what Usami meant by gathering the hope fragments. Hajime sighed. That meant ninety six fragments needed to be found if Usami was to be taken seriously.

"Come on, this way." Nagito said, gesturing away from the beach. Hajime trudged along behind him wondering what the other students would be like and what their talents were.

Hey guys…. For those of you coming from Trial Between Hope and Despair, you remember when I said "I'll have this out later this week" about three weeks ago? Yeeeaaahhh, there was some internet issues going on cuz I was on vacation. Anyways, here you go.

For those who didn't read Trial Between Hope and Despair- Don't. Looking back on it now, its really badly written and you might as well just stick here where my writing has (probably) improved. I'll try to explain everything so no one has to look at the old story again, but we'll see how well I can manage that.

But yes, Makoto Naegi is the 17th student in this story, and thus, with two protagonists, this story is going to go off with a bang! Or maybe not. Who knows? Updates will be whenever I can write since promising updates didn't really work last time. Cya~!