Siramay: it is time…
Makoto: what?
Junko: what are you talking about?
Siramay: Hajime is about to have his hero realization, rise above everything and kick your but
in a, crude sense of the word
Junko: what! He can't do that! Not now I'm not done yet I won't let him!
siramay: I'm sorry there's no way around it
Junko: not if I can help it!
She then disappeared as if she could do anything about her own doom
Siramay: … when she acts like that how can I not feel bad?
Makoto: what?
Siramay: I tried Makoto I really did! I hate her a lot that's a fact its very easy to do but I noticed heck anyone who looks at me should notice I do it less and I hate that! I've been trying really hard to harness my hate hold it condenses it and refine it enough hate to equal that of the entire world!
But here's the kicker
No matter how much you hater
No matter how much I hate her
No matter how much anyone in the world hates her!
No one will hate her…
More than she hates herself…
And that combined with everything I learned about her and this world
it hurts! It hurts too much! I feel bad I'm trying not to, but I can't help it
So, I just know this next parts gonna hurt a lot…
But don't worry Makoto it will all work out in the end so lets just grin and bear it ok?
Theres no way around it Afterall…
While all that Was happening, Hajime met with the ghost of Chiaki
to tell him its ok to be afraid its ok to feel sad but to rise above it and believe in himself to strive to be true to himself the best him he can be not to fear the past the past does not define him as long as he strives to better himself that's all that matters just to try his best and that will be enough and that she will always be there with him to support him in that choice even if just in his heart…
it may just be words, but they were all he needed…
if only she had that back then, maybe she would make the same choice Hajime does now…
with that he confronted his evil self Izuru
and he rose above it
and then he woke up
siramay: HAJIZUUUURRUUUUUUU
awe jeez it's that time again
he's gonna kick your but!
Of course, this story isn't about me so I could only watch this all unfold
Hajime fighting and wining
and Junko struggling, scraping, clawing like a cornered animal trying to survive
Junko: You despair because you yearn for hope!
You yearn for hope because you despair!
Let's finish this already!
There's no need for you to choose!
Close your eyes and cover your ears!
Just shut the hell up!
If you do that, this game is gonna continue forever!
If you don't want that, just turn off the game!
You don't have to look at the hopeless future...
So desperate… this isn't like last time when on the brink of madness to Makoto she just kept bumbling like the madwoman she was, here is fear, denial, despair in the truest sense of the word
Because here's the funny thing, what I said about Hajime and Izuru, she saw that too when she saw Hajime panicking and breaking because he was Izuru, she saw herself in that same situation all those years ago… but Hajime didn't break like her
he didn't surrender he rose above his pain and now strives to do better…
so what does that say about her?
Junko: I don't want anything!
The future is full of lies!
You have no argument!
There's no hope!
Any choice is despair!
The future will make you suffer!
Just give up already!
A miracle won't happen!
Izuru!
You're not hope!
What is this crappy feeling?!
Ghhhh!
I DON'T WANNA LOSE ANYTHING!
You won't be able to do it! You won't be able to do anything!
That said everything he needed to what she is trying to tell him… are the same things she tells herself every time
when Hajime stood up for himself to make his own future she saw the failure she was as a human being because when she was faced with her sins she collapsed and relapsed back into Junko because not even the man she loved more than anything had faith in her he saw her as hopeless and tried to kill her, and even her own sister did nothing but watch it all happen, so she fell. But Hajime did not, and it forced herself to face who she truly was, not a monster or a victim but a sad, scared, lonely girl who lost all hope in herself and was hiding behind the mask of a villain to hide from her own pain. Because she believed she could never go back after what she did after all if no one had hope in her so how could she have hope in herself? and that is the true ultimate despair because when Makoto defeated her in the first game that proved to her that everything was all her fault and there really was good in the world and by Hajime standing above her now it proves to her she ruined her own life for nothing when if, in her mind, if she just tried harder she maybe could have found happiness to, but she never had hope in herself so she denied every chance she could… and now she's here
It hurts… it hurts so very much
I'm sorry….
With that Hajime convinced his friends to do the shutdown sequence
at least everyone else can be happy, I can respect that
Junko: Y-You all... Why?
Why...? How... how can you guys throw yourselves back into the depths of despair?!
Siramay: HAHAHAHAHA
Junko: why are you laughing!?
Siramay: I was right!
I was right about you the whole time! Theres no way you'd say something like that if you were as genuine as you want others to think!
Junko: Huh?!
Siramay: it doesn't matter anymore Hajime tell her!
Hajime: Because we believe...
We believe in our future... That's what makes us different from you...
We believe that if we try new things, even difficult things, that everything will turn out okay.
We believe we can even create our own futures!
Junko: Th-That's impossible... That can't be hope... It's not even despair!
Wh-Wh-WHAAAT IIIIISSSS THIIIIIIIS?!
Siramay: love perhaps?
I'm sorry you never knew
And with that everyone initiated the shutdown sequence and it happened before my very eyes…
ULTIMA:
there's a beast at the door
And she's wild and free!
ODEVECA:
But we don't let her in,
Cause we don't want to see -
LOST:
what is lurking right behind the facade!
ALL:
AAAAHHHHHH
That is not one, but two!
She is evil and good!
And she walks the fine line
That she'd cross, if she could,
And she's waiting
She's just waiting…
She's just waiting…
She's just waiting...
…
Junko:
Gyaha... gyahahahahaha... Man, this absolute despair... I feel despair upon despair and despair toward despair yet again...
How fun.
Once you've experienced the despair I've suffered, there's no turning back. Living in the shadows of past memories... That's... too sad, you know...?
Ah, but I guess... I no longer... I no longer have to... hope for despair...
That... is... just... so... hope... less...
I couldn't leave her like that… it may not be much, but I went up to her knelled down and did all I could
Siramay: hey... its ok,
it's going to be ok now,
you don't have to suffer anymore,
Junko: …r... really?
At that I caressed her head and smiled
SIRAMAY:
You are free now...
You're with me now...
Where you'll always be...
And with that I take the remains of the ai and convert it back into Junko's soul I absorb it back into my chest and as the virtual reality crumbles
I open a portal and walk away…
because now it's time for my true plan to finally unfold
THE END
