We lost.
We lost this fight.
You lost.
However, hope didn't lose the war.
There is no doubt despair will be defeated by the greatest hope!
I was wrong. You weren't the Ultimate Hope. It's not me either. I'd never pretend to be anywhere near this title. Actually, we are both mere stepping stones. We both have our parts. I should actually say, you had your part.
You said you were ready to sacrifice anything for hope. And you did. However, it doesn't mean it was in vain. There is still hope! Even within me, you know how desperate I was before meeting you! And your sacrifice was a stepping stone for a greater hope. But before that, the world has to face the greatest despair! And when this greatest despair will be overcome, the purest, the greatest hope the world will ever know will be finally born! I don't know if I will still be alive by the time it happens, but I will do everything I can to contribute to it. Like you did that night.
Maybe, I should reveal what happened. As a last tribute to the hope within you. I'm nearly jealous of you. Dying, in the name of hope! And this hope, it still shines within me! It's just the sparkle that will make the entire world catch fire! I can't wait to see everything burn, leaving only the strongest hope in this world!
That night, we decided to eliminate the despair living in Hope's Peak Academy. You should have known that your hope was too weak. But something blinded you. What was it? A mere feeling? You, the embodiment of reason, you trusted me. So you followed me into the lion's jaws. I now realise how foolish we both were. I actually planned to kill the despair myself. Someone like me is definitely too weak. You believed in me and I started to believe that we could become the Ultimate Hope, together, we could overcome the Ultimate Despair. What a folly! That title is for someone else.
Anyway, let me start by explaining my plan. All we had to do was to find the Despair Sisters and their new weapon. The one they used for The Tragedy. Eventually, we found their den. Let's say it was all thanks to my luck. What I needed to wipe the despair out of the school, was a weapon. For that, I found the Ultimate Chemist and convinced him to make a poison for me that could kill as quickly as possible. I also made him prepare the antidote because I didn't really want us to die with The Despair. I didn't mind dying at all, but I think you wanted to live. The plan was simple, find The Despair, release the poison, let it kill anything alive in the room at once apart from those who had the antidote, and then leave.
However, that was really bad luck… But I guess it means good luck is yet to come! Anyway…
Unfortunately, we were outsmarted and outnumbered. I didn't know despair had already affected so many people. And that is how they found out about the poison. When I released the poison in the air while facing them, they didn't drop dead like expected. They also took the antidote. Someone learned about our plan and told them. Maybe the Ultimate Chemist betrayed us. I don't know and actually, it doesn't matter. I wasn't that foolish, I had a plan B. Something no one knew apart from me. But before I could use it, it was too late. You fell on the floor. They decided to kill you and keep me alive. For some reason, I fell too, unable to act. While you were taking your last breaths, she came closer to me. Her, the one I love and hate. She told me that she could save you if I wanted. But it would be preferable if I give up on you. Give up on the false hope you filled me with. She said that your hope was weak if you could be killed so easily by despair. She said that if I wanted to see the strongest hope I'm yearning for, I had to let you die, forget about your false hope, embrace despair and wait for her to make it stronger. I genuinely believed that you were going to become the Ultimate Hope, however, she was right. If despair killed you so easily, it's because you were not strong enough. Don't get me wrong, seeing you dying in my arms was atrocious. I felt overwhelmed at first. I nearly used my plan B. Yet, I didn't, because we would have died in vain. All of us. Not in the name of hope or despair, in the name of something else weaker and less important. And I believed that even if your destiny stopped there, there was so much more to achieve for the rest of us. That's when I realised that the Ultimate Hope wasn't born yet. It needed a stronger opponent. The strongest one. That's why for now, I'm letting despair grow. But you can be sure that when it's time, the Ultimate Hope will wipe out all of the despair! I'm still upset you won't get to see that. But your death was necessary. And I know you would be proud of me if I become a stepping stone for hope! So no matter how, I will make sure I become one too!
I will never forget you.
I will never forget this sparkle of hope.
Now, I know what really matters.