The Ultimate Unknown

Twelve

Nagito's POV

This moment is so beautiful...so triumphant.

If only it could last forever.

I smile to myself. The atmosphere is quite and the sky is cloudy today despite me feeling immense light and joy all over my body.

You may be wondering to yourself, what could a loser like me possibly be happy about? Well the answer is simple, I am one step closer to uncovering the complex veil behind the Ultimate student herself, Ena Chinen.

Nobody knows what her talent is, yet here she is as an Ultimate. There must be truly something amazing about her to be here so effortlessly. And that brings me so much hope...

I hum softly to myself as I find myself walking a distance behind her in the schools courtyard. She never notices. Honestly, a part of me is afraid to approach her.

Afraid? No that's not the right word...I am truly unworthy of bringing myself to her.

I sigh. I'm almost certain that whatever her talent may be, it's far more interesting than mine.

Despite everything else, she hasn't been herself ever since Hajime Hinata went missing. Most people assumed that he dropped out of Hopes Peak because - like many other reserved course students - they couldn't find their way into the main course. They couldn't prove themselves worthy of having a talent.

To be frank, I'm quite happy Hajime is out of the picture. This whole time my goal has been to talk to her, she truly inspires me. I've felt this way ever since she started attending here.

She stood unnoticed by everyone else - as many people did not talk to her simply because they wanted to avoid the controversy that surrounds her. I see her situation as a pending step for hope. Something to look forward to.

I decided to take my chances, flashing a warm smile across my face as I call out to her.

Ena stops in her tracks and turns towards me as I continue to approach her.

"N-Nagito? Hi" she says sweetly.

"You know my name?"

"Well of course, we're in the same class aren't we"

I let out a soft chuckle as I rub the back of my head. "That is true, I just wouldn't think you'd pay attention to someone like me"

"Did you need something?" Ena shifts her weight to her other leg, she seems shy and reserved.

"Yes actually. I've been wanting to talk to you....."

Ena's POV

I look up at Nagito who is fairly taller than me. His raspy voice is calm and he mentions wanting to talk to me about something.

"What did you want to talk about with me?" I asked questioningly.

"To be quite honest with you Ena, I am truly fascinated by your talent."

As the words left Nagito's mouth, I found myself turning away ready to leave. I felt his hand grab my wrist and I turn to look at him. His eyes were narrow and serious, the complete opposite from the happy and carefree look he had just a moment before.

"Everyone is fascinated by my talent Nagito. I don't know who sent you over here to question me but I don't know anything. I was just as surprised when I received the letter telling me I was accepted to the school to begin with."

Nagito releases his grip from my wrist and his face goes back to that carefree look. "I'm not here to interrogate you Ena. You have every right to not trust me. I'm not here to gather intel, rather I am here to help you understand your talent."

A gentle breeze blows by as I think to myself. Should I really trust Nagito?

"Why do you want to help me all of a sudden? We've never really talked to each other. We do see each other in class often but that's about it."

"There there Ena, I understand you feel tense and unsure about all of this. Perhaps we could go somewhere and talk more about this? It looks as if it's about to rain any minute now."

I look towards the sky and bite my lip, unsure of what to do.

For some reason, I can't put my finger on what it is, but I have a strong feeling that Nagito is not what everyone probably thinks of him. Besides me being the number one stand out loner of the class, I would definitely say that Komaeda takes second place in the position. I say second place because the others will still make an effort to talk to him despite knowing how odd he is. He likes to go on and on about hope - like it's some type of valuable artifact. Other than that, he's always sweet to the other students and has a very carefree and submissive attitude - but that's solely based on what I've observed in class - I could very well be wrong. Nonetheless, he's a interesting person, which compared to me - I'm not as popular due to the whole controversy surrounding me.

I sighed and forced a small smile on my face. "Fine, we should go back into the school. There's some private study rooms on the 4th floor- we can talk there."

I know I made this decision quite suddenly - but there's nothing else really going on that I could work off of. Hajime is no longer here and everyone keeps coming up with the same reasons as to why he's not here anymore. But the reason's aren't making any sense. If Hajime left the reserve course simply because he felt like he had no chances making it into the main course - I'm almost certain that he would tell me that he was going to leave.

There's no way he would go behind my back and plan things without letting me know.....

Right?