Boat Arc

The boat arc
begins with Hajime arriving in an undisclosed location after receiving an
anonymous note. This note is soon revealed to have been from Max, who sent the
letter in order to answer a few of Hajimes question about who he was as Izuru.

After
explaining the Izuru Kamukura project to Hajime, Max offers to try and get Izuru
to come out through a method mentioned in some research notes he found, which
is then revealed to be reading boat facts. They then proceed to head to the
docks where Hajime sits in a boat and reads a few boat facts.

This method
fails and Byakuya comes along and suggests that instead of reading boat facts,
they should attempt to crack Hajimes head open. An argument between Byakuya and
Max occurs over which method was better (Either buzz sawing his head or hitting
him with a plank of wood) and they finally agree to just hit Hajime in the head
with a plank of wood.

This method
somehow succeeds somewhat and Hajimes personality and Izurus combine (This is
represented by Hajimes eyes becoming heterochromatic). Max, happy that his
method succeeds, goes to hit Hajime in the head again to fully bring out Izuru
but is accidently shot in the leg by Byakuya after knocking him over in to the
water. This shot causes him to trip, smash his head on a jet ski and fall into
the water. Hajime dives into the water and saves Byakuya then they both return
to Jabberwock Island.

Upon returning to the island they are greeted by Chiaki who expresses concern over Hajimes head wound from the wooden board and brings an ice pack for it. She recognizes Hajimes left eye as the same as Izurus and immediately accuses Togami of doing it which is promptly shut down by him who explains that it was actually Max. Makoto shows up during this interaction. They talk about the NWP and Hajime gives a very complex explanation about it to the surprise of himself, Chiaki and Makoto. After some discussion (including an explanation of the student council killing games) they realize that Hajime and Izurus personalities have combined giving Hajime Izurus talents. They talk about how Izuru was used by Junko (Along with basically talking about the plot of Dr3: Side despair) and Hajime finally remembers about Max still drowning in the water back at the docks (gud job hajime best hero) and rushes back there.

Hajime returns to the docks and pulls Max out of
the water. Miraculously Max is still alive but has brain damage and in addition
to some memory loss, could no longer speak correctly.

Some brief
rehabilitation with Max occurs and he remembers he’s a member of Future
foundation which Hajime is surprised by due to Future foundation wanting to
kill him for being a remnant of despair. After Max explains why he decided to
help Hajime (Something something people can be good you get the gist) Hajime
takes Max to the grad hall to wait for another FF member to show which ends up
being Fuyuhiko.

Hajime explains
what happened to Max and Byakuya shows up to interrogate Hajime about Izuru, a
fact which Fuyuhiko didn’t know about. They explain the Izuru project, Discuss Fuyuhikos
murder of Sato and Max being the FF leader. Togami leaves and Kibara shows up
offering to fix Max for the price of a disadvantage in the next comp which is
promptly shut down, Max heads to bed and they then proceed to discuss a merger
between the 2 factions which is agreed to. Kibara then sets up a zero sum game
with all the graduates’ diplomas on the line. Ibuki graduates and joins FF
which prompts a question about Hajimes eye being red. Hajime then explains he
was Izuru which (as Kaz was present for her induction into ff) Causes Kaz to
freak out and get mad at Hajime for not telling him. Kibara shows up, tries to
kill max, goes crazy, and then shoots himself in the head. Somehow (don’t ask
how) he lives and they knock him out and take him to the infirmary. Kibara
suffers memory loss from this. (Next arc maybe here)