Equilibrium

His Mission

Komaeda understands he can be unnerving, he isn't the most liked guy after all.

He can't help all the love he has for his classmates though, they all just have so much Hope and talent that it makes him want to praise them constantly. All of them have so much to offer to the entire world. He, however, has nothing of the sort.

Luck can't do anything like that, it's useless. To make up for that Komaeda likes to offer himself up to Ultimates, so they can use him as they please in order to cultivate their talents and Hopes into something even greater.

Which is precisely why they're not so fond of him. They hate when he brings that up. None of them understand the logic of it all.

Normally he'd be fine with it, continue being himself and do his best to make people understand as always, but that's not something he can risk right now.

Naegi is a very kind and light-hearted person. He sees the good in everyone and does his best to show them that. It makes Komaeda almost regret trying to push him away at first. Now more than ever that's something he wants to avoid.

Komaeda can't help being drawn to him now. The fact that their talents cancel out makes something inside him leap. No matter how hard he wants to deny it, he wants it again. To not be...lucky, to feel the Hope he did that moment.

Yet, he can tell the younger must have some limits, Naegi can't be unconditionally accepting all the time. Especially not towards someone like Komaeda. One wrong move and he'd ruin everything.

He needs to get Naegi's Hope and secure it without causing him to cower away like everyone else.

Causing despair would usually be the key to this type of thing, but with the way their talents work...

So in order to achieve this Komaeda needs help from someone who can teach him a different method; the girl who managed to befriend his whole class with ease.

"Hello Nanami-san.."

The mauve haired girl looks up from the handheld she was playing games with, slight shock on her face.

"Komaeda-kun? That's a little strange, I'm usually the one who seeks you out first."

"Yeah...you're really good at that you know? I need help with that."

Nanami's face softens and looks at him in confusion, not quite getting what he means.

"You need my help...?"

"Yes. You easily approach not only the Ultimates in our class but the newer ones as well. You even befriended Hinata without any problems."

"Honorifics, we've talked about this! Hinata-kun is very sweet and doesn't need talent to be a good person!" Nanami puffs out her cheeks in anger and furrows her eyebrows a tad. Doing that doesn't really make her look intimidating though, more like a grumpy puppy. "I'll help you but please treat him nicer!"

Komaeda feels his eye twitch at the request and resists the urge to scowl.

Why would I show respect for someone as lowly as him. He's worse than myself. I can see right through Hinata's ways. He's using Nanami-san and she refuses believe it.