Oh? Hajime thought he could hide his birthday from you and the others on the island? Well he was wrong. Dead wrong.

He had a but of a tendency to never draw attention to himself. It was easy to tell it stemmed from both a lack of self-esteem and general discomfort in having attention on him.

But if surviving the game with him and learning his past was anything to go off of... he's never had a proper birthday party. He's never had anyone to care.

Well, that just wasn't right.

The moments you told the others, they were more than happy to help celebrate. After all, Hajime was a major reason why they'd all made it out alive.

After enough planning, everything was coming together.

*Any moment now, he should be returning from his business trip to the Future Foundation. *

Nagito was suppose to lure him to the shed by the hotel, the very hotel where you had all had your first party held by the imposter.

You shush everyone as the sound of the door turning catches your attention.

He only sets foot into the room for a moment before you pop out with the others, all joyously cheering "Surprise!"

Hajime stops dead in his tracks, eyes wide in surprise.

There's a beat of silence. And then another... and another that makes you worried you did something wrong.

And then, his voice comes out, just barely a whisper. "Y-You guys did all of this... just for me?"

For a worrying moment, you're concerned it's too much. That he'll be startled and leave.

But then his face breaks into a smile, the back of his hands hurriedly rubbing at his eyes to hide the obvious fact he was tearing up. "Thank you! You didn't have to! You guys..."