It has been only a month since Shuichi Saihara and the rest of the students woke up from the Killing Game, everyone was reunited and nobody actually died, but Shuichi didn’t believe that. He had gotten over his friend’s deaths in the simulation, yet when they were revealed to be alive again, Shuichi still thought they were dead, he vividly remembers all of their broken, bloodied bodies after all.

It didn’t matter how much Kaede came by to share some piano music, if Rantaro passed by to check on him, if Kaito came in to give another one of his speeches, if Kokichi tried to play around with him or if K1-B0 tried to talk to him, they were all dead to Shuichi. Shuichi still spends most of his time mourning over his alive friends.

“Come in, I guess...” Shuichi said when he noticed that someone was at his door again, he was incredibly exhausted and had been awake since early morning. Shuichi’s hair was knotted and his eyes were bloodshot, he stared at the hospital door.