[This was found on Hikigaya Hachiman's desk the night of his disappearance.]

Hikigaya Hachiman

Class 2F

Hiratsuka Shizuka

4 March 20XX

Submitted Report - 'Looking Back on High School Life (Revised)'

Youth is still a lie. It is still evil, but a necessary one.

The concept of a necessary evil is to propose a grey, an in between, to a black and white scenario. This is what 'youth' is.

One may look at an exam they failed and excuse it to themselves, saying that life isn't all about academics and studying. They lie to themselves. They believe that by removing the personal value of failure, that none exists whatsoever. Others may look at the same score and feel nothing but shame and inferiority. Outsiders may view this as the 'mature, pragmatic, and responsible' conclusion, but this is yet another lie they tell themselves to make sure their time wasn't a waste.

Both conclusions have their pros and cons, but in the end, the exam lies in the middle. It has enough value to ruin your life given the right circumstances, but that does not mean that you should give it the power to.

Youth is not 'failure' and it is not 'success'. It is about the lies you tell yourself to make it all seem worth it in the end.

And to that end, everyone can go blow themselves up. Riajuu and otaku alike. Including myself.

A/N: Yo, what the fuck is this? Why are you making a new story when you have twenty billion that you have yet to update, you fucking clown?

The answer to the first question is that this is a remake of my old story 'My Time Dungeon Crawling Goes About as Well as I Expected'. Mainly because I felt like I needed to remake it because the other story was far from my best work. It was very much made without a lot of forethought and I didn't really think about what would make it the best thing possible. I really just did it because I liked Sage's story and wanted to continue it in my own way.

I now realize that this was a mistake and that I shouldn't have done that. Also, I really wanted a new series that I wanted to take super serious (I super duper promise this time). This is gonna get my full love and care from now until I can't take it anymore. Not gonna give any sort of schedule, but expect the second chapter to come out in around three or four months.

To answer the second question, yes, I am a clown. I fly by the seat of my over-sized clown pants. I do what I feel like. Deal with it. Bye!