WARNING: the following contains spoilers for Episode 10 of The Day I Became a God, now streaming on FUNimation.
Hina Sato was the miracle girl who claimed to be the mighty Odin and could see the future, predicting the end of the world in a mere 30 days. But that was just a brave front; Hina was born with a serious defect, and only a high-tech brain implant was keeping her functional. Yota found out the grim truth as Hina was torn from his arms one rainy afternoon.
Hina knew that she was operating on borrowed time, so she spent those precious last days making all her new friends happy and filling their lives with joy and hope, from Yota Narukami to Kyoko Izanami. With Hina out of the picture, Yota returns to his ordinary life, but an enemy is about to become a crucial ally in the battle for Hina Sato. Why? Because the hacker Suzuki just had a change of heart.
Yota had Hina yanked right out of his life, but he's returning to his normal routine. Once again, he's concerned with school: entrance exams, choosing a good college to apply for, practicing basketball with Ashura and so on. Weeks go by and Yota gets a surprise: a gray-haired transfer student who introduces himself as Hiroto Suzuki. Suzuki is eager to make friends with Yota, and he even invites himself to Yota's and Ashura's basketball game. Not long after that, Suzuki hangs out with Yota's entire circle of friends, and he insists on going to a family-style restaurant, preferably one that sells ramen.
Then, Suzuki is in the mood for an intense and competitive game that exercises the brain; Mahjong, for example. He also mentions how he'd like to visit a summer festival, or matsuri, and he would love to see Sora Narukami's student film someday, when it's done.
These are all hints that go right over Yota's head until Suzuki finally lays it all out. He's the hacker who was ordered to shut down Hina's brain chip, and he was trying to tell Yota that he was involved with the Hina case. He was retracing Hina'a steps, from the summer festival to the ramen shop renovation job, and Suzuki is ready to take the next step. He knows where Hina Sato is, and he can get Yota there without anyone raising the alarm. Yota agrees, and it's time for a trip.
Yota already rescued Hina once before, when she got locked into a reefer truck's trailer by accident. Now he's ready to help her once again. Fortunately, Yota's mother has no objections to her son's multi-day trip to who knows where. Yota climbs into the car with Suzuki, and Suzuki's curt driver delivers the boys to the research facility/hospital where Hina Sato is currently located. Suzuki reiterates to Yota that he was the one who looked into the Hina Sato case and disabled her chip, then he was discarded by the greedy adults who were using him. By getting Yota into the hospital to see Hina again, Suzuki hoped that he could atone for all this, and Yota is confident that Suzuki is a friend and a good person. Suzuki gets driven away in high spirits.
Thanks to Suzuki's fake ID card and other digital tricks, Yota is welcomed to the hospital as a guest. He's taken right to Hina Sato's room. He is warned, though, that he must be gentle with Hina, and he soon sees why. Hina is pale and skinny, lying limply on her bed with blank eyes and surprisingly short hair. Alarmed, Yota rushes by her side and is told that Hina had had her hair shaved off so the brain chip could be extracted. The hospital was trying to help her recover naturally. It's not looking good, though, and Yota can't bring himself to take Hina back home with him, even though Suzuki granted him legal permission to do so. Instead, Yota says good-bye and leaves. Coming to terms with all this, he remembers what Hina's father had said about having to face the truth and accept what's happening. Now that he's finally seen Hina again, Yota is ready to accept the truth no matter how much it hurt. That's all he can do.
