“Hey.. can you hear me?” A muted voice rang out through Hajime’s barely conscious mind. He groaned and tried to sit up, only to be stopped by a pounding between his ears. He just as quickly slumped back down onto what felt like…sand? Since when did he end up on sand?

He remembered walking into Hope’s Peak, making his way to his classroom and meeting his classmates. Very briefly, albeit. But that was all he remembered. Before the world when black. Now he was here, flopped out on the beach like a fish fresh out of water with someone he could barely make out stood over him.