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During the moment of her death, Mahiru Koizumi had a lot more than a baseball bat and regret for how things had played out going through her head.
Flashes of recent events started replaying backwards in her mind as if her mind was rewinding itself, memories of her discussion with Fuyuhiko, slowly she saw as they argued over his revenge plotting before she felt herself exiting the beach-house in reverse.
Then the visuals and audio started skipping a bit faster.
She caught glimpses of the last few hours; reading the invitation she now knew had been forged to lure her to her death, her meetings with Hiyoko and the others who had appeared in the game that stuffed bear had set as a motive, a motive that she now assumed was there for the sole purpose of killing her after all, it seemed like there was no other way this tale could end. And just like that it now is replaying in her mind, taunting her with the story that led to this disaster.
A regretful tale of a memory lost to her, the murder of a girl she never knew, and the seemingly futile cover up she had seemingly played in covering for her old friend Sato. A friend who she now had seeming proof of death for… Guess they had that in common now.
She saw herself re-reading the note she had gotten telling her to play the game, her panicked viewing of the photos contained within. Seeing the proof of her prior crime in such clear photographic form.
The rewinding continued more, showing her asking Hajime to feed Nagito, before showing her last meeting with the deranged boy that helped convince her to play the game. She watched her and Hiyokos building friendship as they bonded over tying Hiyokos kimono, and the silent night of darkness she felt after the first trial due to being unable to sleep. Then the unfortunate moment she dreaded arrived. She felt herself reversing back into the mountain that held the courtroom where Teruteru was executed for murdering Byakuya.
Thankfully the mental rewinding seemingly chose to be kind to Mahiru and it seemed to skip over the trail much quicker than it had other events, although seeing Teruteru basically come back to life was incredibly jarring. She watched as she used her photos of the party to find everyone's locations during the blackout, and then forcibly relived her feelings of shock and sadness at finding Byakuya dead under the table. Then things sped up, only brief glimpses of memory were distinguishable blurring so quickly Mahirus head pain began intensifying.
Then her memories stopped rewinding.
Mahiru found herself standing on a beach with her fellow Ultimate students and a white rabbit, her senses still reeling as she struggled to recoup from her life flashing before her eyes.
And then she blacked out.