Fang Zheng truly had a headache over how to deal with the people of this world.
By Fang Zheng's values, whether it was Junko Enoshima or those remnants of despair, he could simply kill them. After all, quite a few people had died because of their evil deeds. It was only natural for them to be sentenced to death and then cremated.
But Fang Zheng could not do that, because that was not how the "rules" of this world worked.
At its core, this world was a battle between "hope" and "despair." More importantly, as an emotion, "despair" was even harder to control than a mere virus. It was much like Hinami Sawamura Syndrome in the Higurashi world—it invaded you without your noticing, made you suspicious of everything, and finally drove you completely into collapse.
The same was true in this world. If you killed them, it meant you had no hope for them and had instead fallen into despair. Once despair took root, it would erode you, transform you, and eventually drive you mad.
Put simply, there were only two choices: fight despair with hope, or become despair yourself.
That made Fang Zheng, who believed in repaying kindness and enmity in kind, extremely unhappy. I can't kill someone just because I don't like them? That's what would make me despair, damn it.
Fortunately, Fang Zheng was not entirely out of options...
Especially when it came to a woman like Junko Enoshima, ugly as a sow and with a personality twisted like a pretzel. Asking Fang Zheng not to kill her was truly difficult. Fortunately, he had already figured out how to deal with Junko Enoshima. Even if he did not kill her, he had other ways to hold "hope" for her.
It was only despair. Did she really think