Limbless hajime

ゴミとクズ, roughly translating to "Piece of Garbage'' or "Absolute Scum" (better known as Limbless Hajime), is an adult Danganronpa doujinshi manga written and illustrated by **ザキコ** (Zakiko). It was released on October 18th, 2013, and features Hinata Hajime and Komaeda Nagito, who are seen together as a couple. It's also likely a continuation of a series of manga surrounding the Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei series. Zakiko, the author, illustrator, and publisher of Limbless Hajime, is well-known for self-publishing doujinshi, which are often fan works of popular series, including Danganronpa, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, the Persona series, and the ROCKMAN series.

Our story begins with a view of Hajime, who’s asleep on a queen-sized bed, and Nagito, who’s lying on top of Hajime, kissing and caressing his face with his artificial hand. Hajime wakes up, and we get a look into Hajime’s perspective; an open view of the tiled ceiling, and Nagito, who comments on Hajime’s improving condition.

It cuts to the next scene, showing Hajime going through his daily routine with the assistance of Nagito. Nagito brushes Hajime’s teeth, gives him a drink, pours the drink into Hajime’s mouth for him to drink, and feeds him breakfast. As he feeds Hajime scrambled eggs, he dribbles a little bit out of his mouth, prompting Nagito to lick it straight off the corner of Hajime’s mouth. Nagito plays dress-up with Nagito and looks through various different clothing to decide Nagito’s outfit for the day. He picks out a white button-down shirt with a right front pocket and helps Hajime get dressed. He assists with wrapping the tie around and under the buttoned-down collar of his shirt before pulling and fastening it. Without realizing it, Nagito’s artificial hand malfunctions, causing him to tug too tightly on the tie, prompting Hajime to start choking. At this point, it’s revealed that Hajime is missing both of his hands, feet, and most of his legs, with the ends of his arms and thighs wrapped in gauze. Nagito swiftly notices and unclutches the tie, causing Hajime to fall backward, leaning back in his seat while trying to catch his breath. Nagito, who’s completely horrified, apologizes and blames his artificial hand’s bad condition for the fortuitous incident.

The scene fades to black as we jump to a flashback of Nagito walking alongside two doctors at a hospital with the sounds clattering and wheels rolling following suit. Both of them are pushing along a stretcher that’s carrying the unconscious body of Hajime, who appears to be injured and has both of his legs completely torn off. Nagito, who’s drenched in blood and also appears to be injured, carries the dismembered hands of presumably Hajime in his left hand while profusely bleeding from his right arm. While Hajime is brought to the emergency room, Nagito realizes he’d forgotten both of Hajime’s legs back at his apartment (this will make more sense later). Nagito trails behind the doctors, collapsing and falling onto his knees as he watches them push Hajime’s seemingly lifeless body through the door. Comedically, a surgeon comes to assist Nagito, trying to talk to and get a response out of Nagito, but he continues to say nothing as he stares at the floor.

Going into a flashback sequence, we see Hajime in his hospital bed, appearing to have gone through surgery, communicating with Nagito. Hajime’s wearing a hospital gown, his arms (from his stubs to his lower arm) are wrapped up in white gauze, and his legs (or what’s left of them), although under the blankets, are assumably wrapped up in gauze as well. According to Nagito, he’d been asleep for nine days straight. Hajime states that he feels much better but has little knowledge of how his limbs ended up in this condition and he laughs at the circumstances he’s in. He asks what happened and why his arms and legs ended up in such critical condition. Nagito stares at him with a blank, emotionless expression, unable to answer any of Hajime’s questions. Nagito gently wraps his arms around him, hugging him while promising to care for him and his needs and to do whatever he can to be with Hajime. Still confused, Hajime says nothing and allows Nagito to embrace him as the flashback fades out to the present day.

It can be concluded that, from that day forward, Hajime chose to speak very few words to Nagito out of spite of events that will be presented to us later. We learn about Hajime’s lessened length of his range of movement and food intake, and, as of most recently, how Hajime has retreated into his mind, and the Hajime he once knew is lost. As this narration plays out, Nagito writes a shopping list while Hajime keeps himself busy by playing with a ball-shaped plushie of Monomi. He attempts to pick it up but struggles because of his lack of hands. Eventually, he picks it up between his stubs, but it slips out of his grasp and lands nearby Nagito, which grabs his attention. Hajime crawls over to Nagito and, instead of going for the toy, he shuffles into Nagito’s lap, nuzzling against him. Nagito gives a slight smile, ruffling his hair and patting his head. The atmosphere immediately changes when Hajime leans down, uses his teeth to unzip Nagito’s jeans, and starts licking the crotch area of his boxers. Flustered, Nagito stands up and rejects Hajime’s sexual advances, which makes Hajime fall over and land on his back, as he doesn’t want to dirty the cushions. Nagito threatens to hang up Hajime by his sleeves with the laundry before standing up and continuing with his chores. Hajime, annoyed and stubborn, rolls underneath the wooden table and watches Nagito. As Nagito folds and hangs up clothes by the balcony, Hajime masturbates by rubbing his bulge against the floor. At the same time, Nagito continues his narration, explaining how difficult it is for Hajime to be in heat while being under the stress of being unable to move freely. Once Hajime reaches climax and ejaculates, he jolts up, accidentally hitting his head up on the wooden table in the process, almost knocking the top of the table off. Nagito turns around, taking notice of Hajime’s situation. He kneels down and grabs Hajime’s thighs from behind, dragging him out from under the table. Slowly, Nagito takes off Hajime’s clothes and begins helping out his situation as the scene fades out to the sounds of moaning.

We cut to the aftermath of Nagito & Hajime’s hijinks; both parties completely naked, tissues and clothes strewn across the floor, and Hajime passed out on top on Nagito’s lap. Nagito grabs a blanket, pulls it over Hajime, and leaves him on the floor to rest as he puts on pants and goes to make dinner. While chopping up tomatoes, he concludes that if it weren’t for his artificial hand, he would’ve sliced up his hand. Instead, the knife clinks against the metal surface of his fingers,

Nagito blames himself for the missing legs and hands. (side note: Limbless Hajime is not 100% correct because he still has his arms, just no hands)

Jumping forward, it turns out that Hajime got drunk and Nagito uhhhhhh... punishes him.

A flashback occurs, and it’s finally revealed that Hajime was the one who cut off his own legs. Nagito was tied up, forced to witness Hajime do this to himself. Hajime tells Nagito that when he took part in the Izuru Komakura Project, they also changed his pain tolerance. He tells Nagito to choose whether or not to let go of the thin metal cord wrapped around his hands, forcing Nagito to hold onto the ends as he jumps out the window. Why was he doing this? I don't know, this is porn and nobody gives a damn! So off he went, pip-pip-cheerio.

The force rips off Nagito's robotic hand, making the number of decapitated hands a total of three. Nagito was able to get the handcuffs unlocked and rushed to Hajime.

Going even further back, a flashback in a flashback, it is shown that Hajime's job makes him leave Nagito alone for long periods of time. Nagito says "Between me and the future, I wonder, which is more important to you?" which sparked an argument that could be linked to why Hajime became limbless.

Going back to the present, Nagito continues to blame himself for the lost limbs, but also seems to wish to be able to stay by Hajime's side. He talks to an imaginary old Hajime, apologizing for not properly loving Hajime and blaming himself for the lost limbs.

He ends promising to grow happy together with Hajime.