"I still love you"

Feelings are difficult to control...

As soon as Hajime and the others awoke from the virtual reality simulation, he confessed his feelings to Nagito, which were reciprocated. And for a while, they dated, a spark of happiness and hope they hadn't expected to have after everything...

But not everything is simple. Nagito was well aware of his condition due to his illness, and he didn't want to spend his last days as a burden or earn Hajime's pity. One day, he broke up with him and disappeared.

Amidst the shock of everything that had happened, the burden of having to deal with the organization, the others, and his own feelings, Hajime felt lost... And it was Mahiru who comforted him during this period.

Two years had already passed, and that night she was celebrating with her friends the eve of her wedding when a certain phrase from Ibuki, which was soon interrupted by Hiyoko, stuck in her head... "What if?" You didn't need to be a genius to know how that would end.

Anyway, as he was returning home, knowing that this would be the last day he would live alone before tomorrow... There he was, walking down the street with the same calm expression that contrasted with the chaos inside, his appearance had hardly changed... As beautiful as the day he lost him. There was Nagito Komaeda, after two years without seeing him, standing before him, on the eve of his wedding to Mahiru...

A few minutes of conversation would help him understand some things. He had received an invitation to attend the occasion, and he was there to congratulate his friends... His illness had somehow miraculously healed itself in the last two years; it seemed that once again his luck had worked in an unpredictable way. And feelings that Hajime swore he didn't feel were still there. They never really left.

She should have let him go when he turned around, she should have been responsible... But she grabbed his hand and said it plainly.

"I love you!"

Because I knew, but never how to love.