Disclaimer: I do not own Danganronpa.

It's a miracle here in Jabberwork Island.

All the remaining survivors from the Neo World Program, almost give up when they tried many ways to wake the others who are comatose to wake up, but still fail. But today there's something unusual that happened.

Hajime woke up as usual this morning, met Sonia and Kazuichi on the way to the restaurant for some breakfast, and joined them instead. Even Fuyuhiko starts to open up to them more and more, even though he almost lost his mind when he realized his right eye is gone, replaced by the Ultimate Despair's eye. Then after their uneventful breakfast, he went to the main building to check out on his other friends in their capsules.

How did it really happen? Even Hajime didn't know about it. He only remembered that all in a sudden, the usual beeping sound of the machines that shows their vital states suddenly become erratic, making the usual calm princess started to panic.

"Call the doctor!"

"All the doctors are not around Jabberwork Island until next week due to holiday, Sonia san!"

The small room that houses all the remaining capsules that connected to the Neo World Program, which were usually quiet except the usual beeping sound, suddenly full of excited shouting and even screaming, where Akane was the one screaming the most about how she saw Nekomaru starts moving his fingers.

After what it feels like an eternity, the first one to open their eyes is none other than the Ultimate Nurse, Mikan.

"Huh? Where am I?"

Doctors and nurses rushes to Jabberwork Island to check on the health of those previously comatose Remnants of Despair, and to their surprise, they are mostly healthy. No one knows what happened that makes them gained consciousness. Previously, when they monitor their vital states, it clearly shows their brain activities totally ceased, making them unable to recover. Another strange point about this is where all of them almost recover at almost the same time. Still, Hajime feels glad that all of them seemed safe and sound.

After few weeks of monitoring their condition, it seems they are finally pass the period where they have to be monitored constantly, just that they need to come back for body check up every month. They are free to live their lives outside the island, with a probation period of 3 months where the future foundation will keep their eyes on them to make sure they won't become despairs again, and then they will be totally free.

"So, Komaeda, what are you going to do after this?"

The luckster turns and looks at me, then makes his usual serene smile, "Well, maybe I'm going back to check on my house, then I might find some job to support my basic necessities. I don't really have much plan you see, since you also know about my luck cycle."

I nod in understanding and before I can do anything else, Mahiru suddenly runs towards me and shouts, "Hajime, I need your help!"

I can only have the chance to mutter a "Woah, calm down!" before she crashes straight to me. It is very unlike Mahiru to crash on people, unless it's really an emergency. Normally it's always Ibuki who come crashing on people or bites, but not her.

"Mahiru, don't tell me you plan to grab a piece of Hajime, which makes you crash into him and gives excuses about how you are not careful or something."

"Sheesh, Komaeda it's not like that! Okay, something urgent is happening. Mikan keeps shouting non stop about how Junko will come and kill her and starts to cut herself before the doctors and nurses stop her."

In the mention of Mikan's name, Komaeda's usual calm face suddenly turns into a genuine concern face.

"Hajime, we should go. I am sure she will listen to you better, since you have multiple talents."

Tsumiki-san still rambling non stop to Hajime, who is trying to calm her down, which looks quite cute to me especially her face.

Her face? No, not only her face, her talent, her body, her clumsiness, her usual antics are all so like her, unlike a trash like me that only have a trashy talent, without much knowledge unlike her.

I still remember the first day we met.

I was on my way to the freshman entrance ceremony in Hope's Peak Academy, when there's a girl bumped into me, fallen down in a creative way, which made me able to see her white panties very clearly. She kept apologizing even though I assured her that it was not her fault, since its clearly my luck caused her to bump into a trash like me.

Then after lots of apologies, we walked together to the school gym. Since Hope's Peak Academy didn't have lots of freshman every year, in the end, we end up in the same class. Fate must be playing with me, since I also get the chance to sit beside her in class. She keeps giggling whenever I look at her, which makes me feel so alive and full of hope inside my chest.

"-eda, are you even listening to what I'm saying?"

Nekomaru broke into my internal flashback, and I just replied him absentmindedly, "Yea."

"Yea? You should speak louder, using your tummy muscles, since I cannot hear clearly!"

"Nekomaru, you shouldn't shout here, it's the hospital you know. Lots of our friends are still resting and receiving checkups here."

The team manager mumbles an apology to Sonia-san, and she tried to reassure me about how Hajime can calm Tsumiki down. Then I no longer hear any sound from Tsumiki anymore.

The door of her room opens, reveals a tired Hajime. He closed the door and slumps on the wall, with lots of sweats on his forehead.

"Finally, she is willing to stop hurting herself after I told her that. I never expected that to be the magic word."

Now I'm curious. What word can be used to persuade the nurse? Even though she is the one who got influenced by Junko the most.

"What was the magic word?"

"Well, more like a name actually. I told her that this person will be really sad if she's gone."

Who is it? I thought everyone wishes her well, even Saionji who used to bully her all the time, now accepts her and even get very close with her.

"Eh, who is it Hajime?"

What Hajime said next shocked me.

"Nagito Komaeda."

It's been months since all of us finally settled in our new lives. The monokumas are all wiped out, thanks to future foundation's efforts. Even though most of the cities are still being rebuilt, I'm lucky that I finally got a job in a hospital as a nurse. I promised myself that I'm going to repay my previous crimes by helping more people with my talent.

During my first day of work, I'm quite satisfied that I didn't fall down or cause distress to others. I feel so happy and at ease that people starts to accept me as I am, where I no need to prove my worth by letting them trampling me, or cut my hair, or burn cigarettes on me.

One day when I am riding the subway back to my house, I received a message from Mahiru about a gathering party with everyone this weekend at Teruteru's restaurant, which is just a few subway station away from my rented apartment. I quickly reply that I will be there on time.

That night, I felt so nervous that I cannot sleep properly.

"You look tired. You even have bags under your eyes."

"Ah? I'm so sorry if my condition troubles you. I can even take off my clothes if you want as apology!"

"Mika-n! Calm down, I'm just worried about you. Did you have nightmares again?"

Since I recover from my comatose state, I practically have nightmares every night, where I can see Junko chases me and tries shove her heels into my mouth, and I have to run away in the dream, making me didn't have the courage to sleep. There are many times I have to depend on sleeping pills, even though I know it's not the right thing to counter this problem.

"Last ni-ght is a d-different case. My ex classmates from Hope's Peak Academy asked for a gathering this weekend, and I'm too nervous to sleep."

"Don't worry too much okay? Come, let's start our shift."

I feel contented that I have nice and supporting colleagues, minus the perverted doctors who always try to grab our breast or ass whenever they have the chance.

After my shift ended, I took the usual route back to my apartment. When I check the mailbox, I saw lots of final notice of unpaid bills and apartment rental inside. I guess it's very normal since I used to get pay cut due to my clumsiness, making me unable to pay all the bills properly.

Once I finished my cup noodles, I saw my phone blinking, indicating a new message. I pick it up and read through it. Looks like, it was Hajime who messaged.

How are you lately? I didn't get any calls nor news from you, so I'm a bit worried.

My bad, making him worried about such a pig like me. I sigh and type away a quick reply.

I'm fine, Hajime. Sorry for making you worried about a worthless person like me.

I throw away the cup, and clean up my small table. Before I can lay out my futon, my phone starts to blink again.

Geez, sometimes you sound like Nagito, keep talking about how worthless or how trashy about yourself. You shouldn't be so hard on yourself. Are you going to the gathering this weekend?

Komaeda-san huh? Memories of patching him up during our despair days start to flood in. He used to get hurt since he became a servant to the warriors of hope. Junko then whined about how useless he was as a man servant, and ordered me to treat his wounds. Even without her order, I will still treat him, since we got quite close since our school days. He always apologize about how I have to waste my time to bandage him, but I will always cry about how much hurt he must have felt from all those wounds.

I almost vomit when I thought about how I stitched Junko's hand to his sawed off arm, mumbling about how she can live on his body, even though he is just a trash. How did I do that to him that time? It's still quite unbelievable.

My phone starts to ring, breaking my thoughts. I peek at the caller ID and saw Hajime's name. I guess he starts to call since I didn't reply his last message. I pick up, not wanting to make him get worried needlessly.

"Hello?"

"Mikan, did something happened? You didn't reply so I got worried."

"I'm so sorry Hajime! I got absorbed in my thoughts that I forgot to reply!"

"Oh, it's okay. It's really fine so no worries. Anyway you are coming to the gathering this weekend right?"

"Yes, of course. If its not too much trouble for you all to bear with my clumsiness."

After we talk about some random stuffs for another 10 minutes, I end the call and prepare to sleep. When I'm alone, memories of Komaeda-san start to invade my mind again. Lately I tried to drop him a message or call him, but he never reply or call me back. Does he hate me? It's kind of normal for a person to hate me anyway.

I fall asleep with a tear beside my eye.