[It's not a compliment, it's a reaction. There is still so much of Nagito that Hajime doesn't understand, but he does at least know that when Nagito calls him amazing, it shouldn't mean anything to him.]
You shouldn't even have to ask something like which Hajime is the real one. The real Hajime Hinata is the one who still exists. The one who still has a future. The one who's working toward that future, while shouldering his past.
The Hajime Hinata who attended Hope's Peak Academy stopped existing the moment he signed that contract, and Kamukura ended along with the Neo World Program. But the Hajime Hinata you met on the island, he-- I, I made it out.
And those memories I made on the island, I brought them with me. I didn't leave any part of myself behind.
[The way Nagito slowly eats his toast and intermittently doesn't would be a little distracting, except that there's something else Hajime's too focused on right now to even take notice right now.]
So... yeah, I still remember your feelings. As if I could even forget something like that...
[I'm in love with... It almost sounded like a confession.
...Well, it was a kind of confession, wasn't it? Just not the one Hajime thought he'd been about to hear.]
But what are you trying to say by bringing that up now?
The hope sleeping inside me? When you said that to me, you already knew I was Kamukura, didn't you.
[Turning his head to the side, Hajime grits his teeth.]
And not only that, you knew what Kamukura had done, you knew better than anyone about the despair Kamukura was a part of... and you knew it so well that you... [he squeezes his eyes shut, and makes loose fists of his hands under the table] ...wanted me dead because of it.
[A pause, and then Hajime sighs, and his face pulls slowly into a frown of confusion.]
But it doesn't make sense. If you really thought there was hope inside me, and if you were really... in love... with that hope, then why did you try to do what you did? I...
Maybe I don't know your feelings that well. Whatever you were trying to say to me that day, I still don't understand it.
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You shouldn't even have to ask something like which Hajime is the real one. The real Hajime Hinata is the one who still exists. The one who still has a future. The one who's working toward that future, while shouldering his past.
The Hajime Hinata who attended Hope's Peak Academy stopped existing the moment he signed that contract, and Kamukura ended along with the Neo World Program. But the Hajime Hinata you met on the island, he-- I, I made it out.
And those memories I made on the island, I brought them with me. I didn't leave any part of myself behind.
[The way Nagito slowly eats his toast and intermittently doesn't would be a little distracting, except that there's something else Hajime's too focused on right now to even take notice right now.]
So... yeah, I still remember your feelings. As if I could even forget something like that...
[I'm in love with... It almost sounded like a confession.
...Well, it was a kind of confession, wasn't it? Just not the one Hajime thought he'd been about to hear.]
But what are you trying to say by bringing that up now?
The hope sleeping inside me? When you said that to me, you already knew I was Kamukura, didn't you.
[Turning his head to the side, Hajime grits his teeth.]
And not only that, you knew what Kamukura had done, you knew better than anyone about the despair Kamukura was a part of... and you knew it so well that you... [he squeezes his eyes shut, and makes loose fists of his hands under the table] ...wanted me dead because of it.
[A pause, and then Hajime sighs, and his face pulls slowly into a frown of confusion.]
But it doesn't make sense. If you really thought there was hope inside me, and if you were really... in love... with that hope, then why did you try to do what you did? I...
Maybe I don't know your feelings that well. Whatever you were trying to say to me that day, I still don't understand it.