WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Episode 11 of The Day I Became a God, now streaming on FUNimation.
A few weeks ago, the pink-haired girl calling herself Odin Sato warned Yota that the world would end in 30 days' time, but she was really speaking for herself. The poor girl was born with a serious case of Logos Syndrome, and only a cutting-edge computer chip in her brain allowed her to walk and talk like any other girl her age. Now her time is up.
Yota learned the bitter truth about Hina's condition recently, and now, he's going after her to help her recover the precious memories of the summer that they shared together with Yota's friends, from Ashura to Kyoko and Ms. Tengan. Hina's case is serious, and it will take all of Yota's wit to bring back the Hina he knew... but his cover is about to get blown.
Slow Progress With Hina
All things considered, Yota is fortunate that he can even see Hina at all. She is now at a remote, well-funded children's hospital/clinic. It's only thanks to Hiroto Suzuki's hacker skills and fake credentials that Yota was able to set foot in here at all. Yota has seen Hina for himself, and he's dismayed that she can barely move or speak. She certainly doesn't recognize him. Has she lost her memories of that summer they shared together? It's difficult to say, and so far, Hina only responds to her therapist, a gentle young woman who can coax out Hina's best side with her kind words and astronomy-related toys, games and books. Yota fumbles with the case, often alarming Hina with his sudden movements and loud voice. She can't stand him.
Dismayed, Yota sits outside the clinic one evening, and updates his friends and family on his troubles. By now, he has done a favor for each of them, from helping Kyoko and her father deal with their grief to helping Sora Narukami with her student film, and these friends are ready to return the favor. At least, with encouraging text messages. Everyone is rooting for Yota and Hina, and Yota's resolve is renewed. And he's got a new idea, too.
The Key To Hina's Memories
Yota already helped Hina once, when she got herself trapped in a reefer truck's trailer, and now he's ready to help her again, the best way he knows how. Yota recalls how Hina enjoyed playing his PlayStation 4, so Yota asks the hospital staff to set up a PS4 and a TV in Hina's room. Hina's therapist is skeptical at first, and Yota fumbles his first few gaming sessions with Hina, scaring her with his voice and the game's distressing moments. Still, Hina seemed to enjoy using the controller, and she was at least giving the game a try. Yota is running out of time, so he takes matters into his own hands. He's come too far to fail now.
While Hina is asleep, Yota stays up all night grinding levels in the game, to make sure that when Hina plays it again, she won't get upset by her characters getting wiped out. It works, despite the therapist's doubts, and Hina has fun breezing through the game the next day. In fact, she and Yota make a funny war chant together, and the therapist is impressed, and troubled, by Yota's unusually quick progress with Hina. Just who was this stranger, waltzing in here and getting Hina to connect with him so easily? So, the therapist digs a little deeper, and she realized to her horror that Yota is an impostor. She alerts security, and then she finds out another truth about what Yota is doing. She stares at the screen in shock, and it's anyone's guess what she'll do about it next. Yota's time has just run out, in any case.
