Danganronpa: Infinite Despair
Prologue: Welcome back to Despair Academy!
"Hope's Peak Academy, where only the best of the best can go" a young man said while looking up at the gates.
"Somehow 'I' actually managed to get into Hope's Peak; honestly I guess I was lucky... Still I, Kenji Katsuragi, the guy who's had no luck at all… Is really attending Hope's Peak... Then again my title as the Super High School Level Lucky Student doesn't say much and it isn't much of a talent actually… I never really paid any attention to Hope's Peak Academy before; I just ignored it and went on my way through life… But for me to get accepted to it is a good feeling." Kenji said to himself as he remembered the events leading up to his name being drawn and his acceptation letter to the academy arriving in the mail.
"I remember reading online about all the new students who were accepted, about 20 or more students were accepted for the 79th class of Hope's Peak Academy. Most people online were surprised that all of the students who were chosen were chosen in a short time frame from the last class, well about five months after Class 78 was chosen. And I'm surprised I get to join those elite students here…" Kenji thought as he opened the gates to the academy and looked around for the others; it was dead silent around the academy so he guessed that he was either very early to the welcoming ceremony or that he was very late to his first day.
"I guess this is it… My high school life is finally gonna take a turn for the best; these next few years are great… I can feel it!"
Opening the doors to the entrance hall, he felt tired the whole room started to spin and he clutched his head it felt like his mind was being torn apart at the seams, he heard the sound of metal scraping with a voice resounding in his ears.
"The Vault must never be opened… And yet…"
"We did just that…"
After what felt like an eternity of sleep he heard the voices talking around him.
"Oi you think he's-?" Asked a male voice as shuffling was heard coming from the right of him, he had to dreaming, there was no way there was anyone else there with him.
"Of course he isn't dead! He's breathing you idiot!" Said another voice as a pair of footsteps from the left of him walked up beside him.
"Honestly you guys just shake him awake!" replied a female voice this time.
He felt himself being shaken wildly by someone, when he opened his eyes he saw a group of students looking at him some with concern while others were just looking for the sake of it.
"What the... W-Where am I?" Kenji asked the girl who shook him awake, she looked at him and smiled.
"Welcome to Hope's Peak Academy... Well I think it is..." She said with a puzzled tone and looked around.
"No shit this is Hope's Peak Academy, but the metal door is a problem though" said a male student as he pointed towards the door, Kenji looked at the round metal door and the surrounding area around it, and he noticed two mounted guns.
"W-What the hell!? What are those things!?" Kenji said pointing towards the two guns, the same student folded his arms and sighed at Kenji, clearly he was disturbed about the whole wall mounted turrets too.
"Dunno man, seems like some sort of defensive thingy" he replied while Kenji got up and looked around, there were at least 18 students gathered around the room, some were talking to each other while others were attempting to use their phones to call the outside however this seemed to fail for those who tried.
"Aw man no service!" A female student said while flipping her phone shut and putting it back in her pocket, a fairly overweight student also turned on his phone and sighed too.
"Man this isn't good; we won't be able to call anyone for help at this rate…" He muttered to himself while looking down at the ground.
Another male stood in the middle of group and shouted at everyone "Alright listen up you guys! I propose we all introduce ourselves to the new kid!" The male student shouted, everyone else nodded in agreement and turned towards Kenji.
"Wait... You already know each other!?" Kenji said in a shocked voice, another female student nodded and sighed.
"Well yeah, I mean we are all strangers y'know besides you were carried to the entrance hall" she replied and Kenji looked confused before he could say anything the female pointed at the overweight student who was looking at his phone earlier and said student waved back at Kenji with a grin.
"So let's get started on introductions!" Someone shouted.
Kenji got up and looked around, he walked over to a group of five students who were standing and making small chat amongst each other.
He tapped the nearest girl on the shoulder and introduced himself to her, she smiled and introduced herself too, she had auburn hair, which was in a high ponytail, and she was wearing a school uniform of that seemed to be from one of the other high schools that were around the city namely the uniform of Gekkoukan High School a high school that was very well known around the area. She was wearing a red ribbon tie, a neck strap with a little charm at the end of it, her pale complexion made her stand out among the rest and she had striking red eyes that seemed to shine with friendliness.
"Oh hello there, I'm Meiko Nakashima" the girl said with a bright smile, Kenji looked surprised to see the famous Meiko Nakashima herself in the flesh.
-Meiko Nakashima or as she is known as the Super High School Fashion Diva, she started her modelling career in middle school and hoped to be an idol but her beauty made her known as one of most beautiful girls in the country, she even travelled to Europe and won a beauty contest, her only rival is Junko Enoshima: The Super High School Level Fashionista-
"You seem surprised Kenji that you'd run into The Super High School Level Fashion Diva!" She added while Kenji's cheeks lightly lit up.
"Y-yeah I am pretty surprised! I thought The Super High School Level Fashion Diva would've been busy with photo shoots and stuff" Kenji replied, but Meiko shook her head and looked right at him.
"Honestly Kenji I think Junko took all my photo shoot sessions since I said I was taking a break at the moment to catch up on life and family time... And more importantly some me time too" Meiko said with another smile spreading across her face.
'I think I should introduce myself to the others...' Kenji thought.
He turned to the male student with boxing gloves and introduced himself; the male student nodded and gave Kenji a cocky grin, this student had short silver, hair pale skin and wears a white band-aid above his right eye. The boy wore a simple dress shirt that was half open with a blue sweater vest over top of it. Kenji noticed that he was also wearing black leather gloves, his pants were just a simple pair of black uniform pants.
"Yo I'm Shinji Morishige. It's a real pleasure to meet ya dude!" The male student replied.
-Shinji Morishige or The Super High School Level Boxer is one of the world's best boxer, at a young age he defeated opponents who were much older than him and his win streak is at least 300+ he started boxing in elementary school to stop school yard bullying, his father is a renowned boxer and taught him how to fight, he's only lost one fight and that was to a person who was nicknamed 'The Ogre', whom Shinji vowed to get revenge on and to reclaim his honour-
Kenji stood in awe of being in the presence of The Super High School Level Boxer himself, Shinji noticed Kenji's prolonged gaze and glared at the lucky student.
"Hey if you have anything left to say I recommend saying it now..." Shinji said with a tone of annoyance towards Kenji, the male student shook his head and Shinji chuckled and walked away looking back over his shoulder, "Nice to meet you though Kenji"
Kenji quickly recovered from that awkward introduction and turned to the overweight student playing with his handheld system, after about five minutes of standing there he tapped the student's shoulder and introduced himself, Kenji saw that he was wearing a dark grey zip-up hoodie with the Gekkoukan High School emblem on the left side underneath the logo he has a small patch with a strange crescent like symbol, he also wears his hoodie unzipped, the chubby boy was wearing a simple dress shirt and a red tie. The boy's hairstyle still kind of resembled a certain heir but hair color is brown.
"Hi'ya! I'm Minato Shirogane. I'm The Super High School Level Gamer! But I'm what you call a 'gamer'. However you could also say that I'm the start of people's gaming careers… and also the end of said careers!"
-Minato Shirogane or known as the Super High School Level Gamer is well known throughout the gaming community, he has expansive knowledge of video games of all kinds and usually tops the leaderboards of every single online game, his username of "r4gn4r0k" is seen plastered over the leaderboards and high scores of both online and arcade games-
"Hey your voice sounds familiar y'know! Have we played online before?" Minato said with a huge grin, Kenji gave him a surprised look and smiled when Minato remembered him.
"Yeah I still can't believe you accepted my friend request on PZ3" Kenji replied with a grin, after all Kenji thought that Minato had the memory of a goldfish considering all the games that he plays 24/7… Or so the rumour went that was floating around the internet.
"Of course I would! I always accept those who send me requests... Well most of the time that is, anyways you were pretty good on Sword Fighter IV! We should play another game together one time!" Minato replied shaking Kenji's hand and Minato walked off to talk with the others.
Kenji turned to another female student who was cracking her knuckles and observing the students near her, she had shoulder-length black hair and brown eyes. Unlike most of the other girls whose uniform sweaters were various colours, hers was brown. She had a good posture, and a slim, yet long figure. Her eyes are piercing, yet captivating.
"Hey I'm Kaori Suou; you don't need to tell me your name since I already heard you talking to Minato"
-Kaori Suou is The Super High School Gang Leader, she leads one of the biggest gangs in her old high school called the 'Dark Wings', she has crushed other high school gangs I'm her area and has amassed somewhat close to an army of delinquents and outcasts from all over the city, rumour has it that she even crushed the police force in her town. Most Biker Gangs like the Crazy Diamonds leave the Dark Wings alone because of a truce created by the Dark Wing's previous gang leader and the previous gang leader of the Crazy Diamonds-
"So are you that, Kaori Suou?" Kenji asked nervously fearing that she would probably end up smashing his face against the wall if he said the wrong thing, however all she did was nod and gave Kenji a smile.
"Yeah I am, but you shouldn't worry I only beat up those who gets on my nerves, and so far none of you have gotten on them" Kaori shrugged and walked away from Kenji, while he did the same thing and walked in the other direction really fast.
As Kenji walked to put some distance between him and Kaori, he ran into another girl who was writing notes into a little notebook, he introduced himself and she slammed the notebook shut and turned to him with a slightly annoyed look on her face, Kenji saw that like the others she was also wearing a school uniform namely the female uniform of St. Hermelin High School on the other side of the city, though she was wearing a noticeably longer skirt than the other female students. She has short blue hair that seems to be a carryover from her days as a delinquent.
"Nice to meet you I guess, I'm Asuka Yoshida, don't get in the way of my creativity or I swear to god that wall will wear your face!" The girl replied.
-Asuka Yoshida or The Super High School Level Author is one of the best writers of her age, she was a former gang leader who reformed her ways to become an author, her book series 'Longing for you and longing for the moon' has reached the number one top charts on all sorts of websites and book stores although her own autobiography on her time as a gang leader has gotten some popularity-
"So… What do you need Kenji?" Asuka asked very bluntly as she opened her notebook and began to write furiously inside of it, Kenji looked over her shoulder and he saw that she was writing notes about the third book in her series. Asuka turned around and slammed her notebook shut glaring at him; she quickly walked away to another group of students.
Standing in complete silence Kenji walked the other way to talk to another female student who was away from the group of socializing students, when Kenji introduced himself she looked at him and smiled.
"Hey nice to meet ya, I'm Akira Hohaku" She replied giving a half cocky smirk to Kenji.
-Akira Hohaku or better known as The Super High School Level Body Modifier is one of the best tattoo artists and piercing specialists in the country, or hell even in the world she won a competition in America last year which earned her a spot in Hope's Peak Academy-
"It's a pleasure to meet you too, Akira! I must say it's strange that you are in our class actually" Kenji replied scratching the back of his head, she smiled and nodded at him however like Kaori she cracked her knuckles and grinned at Kenji. He had a feeling that this wasn't going to end well with both Akira and Kaori trapped in the same building, the two parted ways with Kenji going in the other direction away from the both of them.
He bumped into another girl who wore a blue dress adorned with various candies on it; she also had a large blue bow on her head. The girl gave him a pleasant smile and Kenji swore for a moment that she had disappeared from his sight for a second, he held his hand out for her to shake it and she did indeed shake it. "Oh hello there, my name is Sora Kigiri. It's a pleasure to meet you."
-Sora Kigiri is the Super High School Level Sweets Connoisseur, her sweets are considered to be one of the best in the country but her unusual demeanour is considered strange by some and this has caused her to gain a few fans apparently-
Kenji didn't know what to say to her in the first place, it was strange that he met the girl that caused his small sweets addiction back in his final year of middle school. The two didn't say much but the obvious 'Hello' or 'Nice to meet you' but she left and went to talk to Meiko and Asuka, he recovered from that awkward conversation quickly and moved onto another student who was checking out the girls from afar, the student is a young slender man with short, brown hair and brown eyes. He wore a black business suit with white stripes and matching cap, white collar shirt, white shoes, and black shaded sunglasses.
When the male student saw Kenji looking at him, he turned around and held his hand out similarly to how Kenji held out his hand to Sora. The lucky student held his hand out too and shook the male's. "Hey, my name is the Eikichi Takeba. I'm the Super High School Level Casanova, baby!"
-Eikichi Takeba is what he just said, he's the Super High School Level Casanova and is rumoured to have gained a harem of girls by the time he was in middle school. Most guys are extremely jealous of Eikichi's way of getting all types of girls.-
"Hmmm interesting… All these girls, the tomboy gang leader, a cute actress and even a fashion diva… I wonder if I could get a chance to score with them?~" Eikichi said with a small chuckle while Kenji rolled his eyes and quickly backed away from Eikichi who walked over to Kaori and tried to hit on her.
Only for him to get a punch to the stomach, and in an instant the Casanova fell to the ground as the others ran away from the scene.
The Lucky Student smirked and walked over to another girl who was admiring the trophies in the cabinet, when he approached her, she turned around and smiled at him while holding out a hand which he grabbed and shook just as he did with the others. She had short brown hair; the girl was wearing a beret, and she had green eyes. Her outfit consists of a white dress shirt, a yellow overcoat and small brown boots with thigh high socks.
"Hello there it's a pleasure to meet you, Kenji Katsuragi… My name is Hikari Shinohara and I'm the Super High School Level Actress!"
-Hikari Shinohara, or better known as the Super High School Level Actress has starred in so many movies that it's hard to count how many she had been in, one of her most known movie series is an action series called 'To die and live hard' and there were rumours that she even got training from a real spy and martial artist to do the moves shown in the film.-
"Well then, I never thought that Hikari Shinohara herself would be attending Hope's Peak Academy…" Kenji replied with a chuckle and she also laughed along with him, it was strange to be in the presence of a famous person like Hikari. But she did seem enjoyable and they made some conversation before she decided to join the other girls in some conversation while stepping over Eikichi who was still lying on the ground and groaning.
Kenji made his way towards another girl who was reading a magazine about fighting, she looked up at him and blew a bubble with her chewing gum and looked back down at the magazine. This girl had blonde hair that looked like it had been dyed and she had blue eyes. She was wearing a Seven Sisters High School uniform another school that Kenji was familiar with and that had also been the school that his cousin attended a couple months back before transferring to another school. She also wore a red ribbon like Meiko.
After a couple moments of silence, she finally spit out her gum and looked up at Kenji and smiled at him.
"Yo, I'm Yukari Morishige… You just talked with my brother a few moments ago; I'm the Super High School Level Martial Artist, it's a real pleasure to meet you Kenji."
-Yukari Morishige is the older twin sister to Shinji Morishge, while Shinji is and expert at boxing. Yukari is a master at martial arts, she learned how to use martial arts from her mother and she has won fighting tournaments from around the country although she was never able to beat one opponent whom is known as 'The Orge', like Shinji she desires a rematch against this one opponent.-
The two of them remained silent until Kenji smiled back and also introduced himself, the two of them also made small talk which was mostly her rambling on about her martial arts moves and even Yukari told Kenji that she was going to show him how to become a martial artist like him, but Kenji politely declined for now and the two of them parted ways, Kenji then walked over to the next student who was about the same weight and size as Minato if not a little more on the larger side, the boy had neck-length black hair that seemed to spike up a bit around the middle and he had amber eyes that seemed welcoming and friendly. He was also wearing a sky blue pullover jacket underneath what appeared to be his school uniform from Seven Sisters like Yukari.
When Kenji reached the other larger boy, he smiled and also held out his hand towards Kenji whom promptly grabbed it and shook it just as fast as Minato did.
"Hi'ya! I'm Matsumoto Kishinuma; I see you were talking to my bro, Minato! Anyways I'm the Super High School Level Otaku! It's a pleasure to be your acquaintance!"
-Matsumoto Kishinuma is the Super High School Level Otaku, he's a huge nerd who has a hard on for all things anime, manga, video games and even figurines. If you give him the title of an anime he will explain the plot in great detail and will leave no loose ends in his explanations.-
"Hmmm… It seems that a Social Link might be forming between us, Kenji! I do believe that if we continue to speak we might actually forge a bond and that you might be able to fuse a stronger version of your psyche soon!" Matsumoto said with a slight chuckle as Kenji nodded and also added his own chuckle with was borderline awkward and also strange how he kept throwing in references that just flew past his head, as Matsu was rambling on about things that even Kenji had a hard time wrapping his head around he and Matsu quickly parted ways when the Otaku noticed that Minato was playing his handheld system and ran over to him pulling out his own handheld.
Kenji ended up bumping into a girl who was staring rather intensely at Minato and Matsu, when Kenji followed her gaze it seemed like she was intensely staring at the former while ignoring the latter all together. Kenji then waved his hand in front of her face and she snapped out of her revere, she looked at him and gave him a small smile. He got a better look at her and saw that she was wearing a Gothic Lolita-style outfit, consisting of a white blouse with a Peter-Pan collar, a black jacket that includes white ribbon lacing down the sleeves, fastened by a simple ribbon across her chest to show her red tie with a butterfly pattern on it and the waist of her skirt, which is many-tiered and features white lace, She was wearing knee-high stockings trimmed in ladder lace even longer than Hikari's stockings, red mary janes with a thick heel, a white lace headpiece and a silver, almost weapon-like ring on her index finger. She has black hair in two large twin-drill pigtails, red eyes, gold earrings, and black nail polish and looked rather pale.
She then gave Kenji a slight bow before holding her hand out and he shook it, her eyes seemed to make Kenji uncomfortable but he had a feeling that they were just contacts.
"Hello there, Kenji, I'm delighted to meet you. My name is Celestia Ludenberg."
- Celestia Ludenberg, she's the Super High school Level Gambler a girl who doesn't know how to lose... In addition to her love for gothic-lolita clothing, she's a mysterious high-school girl wrapped in a veil of lies. When she plays a game, she always manages to rob everyone of all their money. There are many scary rumours about how she ruined the lives of many men and women who dared trying to challenge her to a game. Then again, you can't believe rumours or else they become reality right?-
Kenji squinted at her and tilted his head; he found it hard to believe that her name was actually Celestia Ludenberg. "You gotta be kiddin' right? Who would a name like Celestia Ludenberg in the first place?" He asked but all that Celestia did was place a hand on her chin and smile at the lucky student.
"Why me of course, It is my name. You may call me Celeste if you like." She replied but Kenji only squinted harder at her and shook his head slightly, but she only giggled at him and turned to look back that the two dorks playing their games.
"Weren't you supposed to be with the 78th class and not the 79th?" The Lucky Student asked and she nodded and turned her gaze towards him, her red eyes were nothing like Meiko's which showed some hint of friendliness but all that Kenji got from Celeste was a cold glare that even make him shudder.
"Well you see I obtained a letter saying that I would be transferred to Class 79 instead of 78, so let's do our best to be friends, Kenji." And with that she turned her gaze once again towards the two dorks and said no more, the lucky student only raised his eyebrows and walked away from her. However he decided to try and get her name one more time.
"How about you cut the crap and give me your real name?"
However she only looked at him from the corner of her eyes and smiled once more at him, "Heh heh... I'm afraid I can't give you that. Celestia Ludenberg is the name I go by."
And with that, Kenji threw up his arms and walked away from their conversation defeated, after leaving Celeste to be herself and watch the others. He bumped into another student who was shaking a red spray paint can and was looking ready to spray the walls with said paint, when Kenji bumped into him. The Boy turned around and grinned at Kenji while holding his hand out towards him and Kenji took it and shook his hand, he had black sideburns, orange eyes, and has two black marks on both cheeks. Like Asuka, he was wearing the school uniform of St. Hermelin High with white long sleeves, a simply dress shirt with a red tie, he also wears a yellow beanie, colorful beaded bracelets, and he carried a yellow backpack with spray cans stuffed in it.
"Hey there man, it's a real pleasure to meet you. My name is Toji Kuzunoha, and I'm the Super High School Level Graffiti Artist!"
-Toji Kuzunoha is the Super High School Level Graffiti Artist, as a kid he used to tag walls all day while skipping school. He was taught by his mother and father who were artists, how to use spray paint so he used that knowledge to become the mysterious graffiti artist who tags walls during the evening and leave works of art on large blank walls.-
The two of them made small talk before Toji was called away by Shinji and the two of them were beginning a plan about tagging the wall with Shinji's help, Kenji chuckled and went his seprate way and ran into a student who was fiddling with his phone, he stood there for a couple minutes before the lucky student finally cleared his throat and the other student looked up at him. Kenji managed to get a good look at him; he had brown eyes and short black hair that is seen under an orange cap with a black clip. The boy also wears a blue hoodie and gray pants and brown shoes. He wears a white wristwatch on his left arm and a blue wristband on his right; he also has a black sling-on bag that hangs from his right shoulder.
"Yo it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Shoji Suzuhara and I'm the Super High School Level Hacker."
-Shoji Suzuhara is exactly what is on the tin, he's a hacker that has become famous in the online community, and one of his greatest achievements was the disposal and destruction of a nasty virus that he and a certain skirt wearing programmer worked together to get rid of it. He's also very good at building laptops and computers from scratch-
"So… Any luck with finding a connection or anything that's happening on the outside?" Kenji asked the hacker, but Shoji sighed and shook his head while putting his phone back in his pocket, he placed a hand on his chin and sighed while looking over at the other students.
"Sorry man, no dice… there's no Wi-Fi or any type of connection that I can connect to, maybe if I were to locate the data room –if there is one- and manipulate it to give me a connection then maybe I could find out what's happening out there." The hacker replied and Kenji patted him on the back and wished him luck before going to talk to the remaining four students.
Kenji left Shoji to think about the Wi-Fi and connection problems before running into another student, the same student was talking to another one who only looked away from the two of them and went to talk to Celeste who was standing a three feet away from them, Kenji held out his hand and the boy took it and gave him a firm handshake. Kenji managed to get a good look at the student, who just shook his hand. He has brown eyes, black hair that covers his right eye, and pale skin. Overall, he is extremely groomed: He had thin eyebrows and seemingly wears a very light colored lipstick although it looked like chapstick that was applied too many times, giving him a very androgynous appearance, the student was also wearing the uniform of another school that was near where Kenji used to live, the same uniform of Kasugayama High School. He also had a small diamond pendant that was located right above the breast pocket of the uniform jacket.
"Hello there, Kenji Katsuragi. I'm Shinichi Nakamura; it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance."
-Shinichi Nakamura is the Super High School Level Strategist, he's known by many military personnel for his unfailing strategies. You can place him into any sort of problem and he will come up with a strategy to help escape or even come up with one that will help a group of people, there's a rumour going around about him that he had helped some people who were placed in a room and were forced to kill each other however with a strategy, he helped all of them escape without anyone getting injured.-
"Sooooooo… Come up with a plan to get us outta here?" Asked the lucky student but Shinchi placed a hand on his chin and sighed, he calmly shook his head and even Kenji could tell that he was thinking about a strategy to help them all escape. But he ended up walking away from Kenji as he began muttering to himself about proposed plans until he eventually disappeared into the crowd of students.
Kenji quickly recovered from that conversation and walked over to the same student that Shinichi was talking too, when he reached the student he held out his hand and said student took it and gave it a firm shake, Kenji looked up and got a better look at the student. He had brown hair, brown eyes and very lightly tan skin. He was wearing the Seven Sisters uniform like Yukari but it was the male variant, consisting of a black jacket and black pants adorned with white stripes, and wears matching sneakers. Additionally, he wears a white shirt and a red tie.
"I see that you are becoming somewhat known among the students here, my name is Katsuya Ikari… And I'm the Super High School Level Hitman…"
-Katsuya Ikari is the Super High School Level Hitman, he's well known as his nickname of 'The Shadow. Rumours persist that he assassinated some corrupt officials and even the leader of a rival mob family to the Lowell mob family. Not much is really know about Katsuya as he keeps to himself and stays out of the public eye for the most part.-
"…If you are going to say something… Say it now…" The Hitman said with a slight hint of annoyance in his voice, however Kenji shook his head and quickly walked the other direction as Katsuya continued his conversation with Celeste, Kenji quickly made his way across the room to where two other students were making some small conversation with each other, the male one noticed Kenji first and held out his hand which Kenji grabbed and shook. Like with the others he got a good look at him, he is had stylish brown hair which parted at the right and brown eyes. He wears a gray school uniform with black chemise collar shirt with blue and white stripe tie, yellow scarf, and yellow shoes.
"Hey man, I'm Takeshi Narukami. And I'm the Super High School Level Doctor!"
-Takeshi Narukami is the Super High School Level Doctor, at a young age he was able to identify and help cure a disease with his parents and his medical career began from here. He is one of the few requested doctors around the country and he has a waiting list that's backed up to next year, however he will see the more serious cases first over the minor ones.-
"Oh sorry I would love to stay and chat but I see that I need to attend to Eikichi… he seems to be rolling around on the floor holding his stomach, if you need any help or if you got injured just make sure to find me alright!" Takeshi shouted as he ran over to Eikichi to help him and to see if he was gravely injured, Kenji then turned his gaze over to the last student that he had to introduce himself too, however as he reached his hand out for her to shake it she did not take it and only looked at him from the corner of her eyes.
Kenji however took a good look at this girl, she had a voluptuous figure, pale skin, long dark red hair covering her left eye, and red eyes, she was wearing the school uniform of Gekkoukan High like Minato, Meiko, and Shinji , save for the school's jacket and a different white blouse with a big red ribbon and black high-heeled boots.
"…I suppose I should introduce myself to you, my name is Mitsuru Shishido… and it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance…"
-Mitsuru Shishido is the Super High School Level Heiress, she's the heir to the massive Shishido Group that works in manufacturing all kinds of machine parts for computers, cars, phones and just about anything. Just about everyone has heard of the Shishido family and its own brand 'Shishido Electronics'. Although the Shishido Family is nowhere as influential as the Togami Family, the Shishido group does have its own place in the market.-
"So you are really that Mitsuru Shishido?" Kenji asked and she nodded, however as he was about to ask her another question. The Heiress simply walked away from Kenji and didn't look back at him; Kenji raised his eyebrows as she disappeared into the group of students, after being introduced to all of his classmates. A woman suddenly entered the entrance hall and she looked winded, like she ran a marathon to get to the room.
"Is everyone alright? Nobody is hurt? Oh thank goodness…" The woman said and everyone looked confused at her sudden appearance, she took a deep breath and smiled at the group of student before clearing her throat and nodding. "Alright now that everyone is here, I should probably introduce myself as well… My name is Saeko Yasuhiro, and I was assigned as the overseer of Class 79. It's a pleasure to meet you all!"
The entire class all introduced themselves to their teacher, and when Kenji had finally introduced himself, he finally got a good look at her appearance. The teacher had long blue hair, tied into a ponytail. She has a yellow coat along with a matching yellow flannel skirt. She wears a white blouse tucked into her skirt along with pantyhose. She was wearing a pair of black loafers.
After finally introducing himself to her, the students all filed out of the entrance hall and into the first floor of the academy, they all looked around the first floor and some even entered the school shop. Kenji decided to sit down on one of the central benches, he started rubbing his temples. It felt like he was hit over the head with a plank of wood, but as Meiko sat down beside him and ear grating voice came through the intercom.
"Would all students please make their way to the gym for the opening ceremony? Thank you."
Both Kenji and Meiko both looked at each other as Minato and Matsu ran towards them, "Oi! The windows… they have been sealed shut!" They both shouted which resulted in both the Fashion Diva and Lucky Student to give them a look of disbelief, but as they were going to investigate their teacher told them to hurry to the gym instead of wondering away from the group.
When all 19 students and the professor all entered the gym, they looked around and saw that majority of the place looked normal and even someone muttered that they thought a trap would've sprung the moment they all walked in the room, the group then stood around the middle of the gym waiting for what felt like an hour or even more until they all heard something or someone laughing, "Upupupu…~" went the voice and everyone turned their gaze towards the stage a teddy bear popped up and landed on the podium.
"It's a… Stuffed toy…?" Both Minato and Matsu muttered, they both turned towards each other and started laugh harder than ever. "It's a freaking teddy bear! Are we supposed to be scared of that thing!?" They both howled with laughter as Minato grabbed his stomach and bent over gasping for air while Matsu had his hand on Minato's shoulder supporting him as he was laughing too hard while he was laughing just as hard as the gamer, Celeste looked back at the two dorks and shook her head.
"I would recommend not laughing at the toy; it could very well kill you if it wanted too." She said while the two of them laughed harder at her suggestion, the gambler only shook her head once more before ignoring the two of them. Others also started laughing at the bear and even Mitsuru chuckled as well, however in the middle of all the laughter the bear suddenly waved its arms and yelled at the students.
"Hey I'm not a stuffed toy! I'm Monokuma and I'm the headmaster of this school! I'm pleased to meet all of you."
And with that slight movement, everyone stopped laughing, while both Minato and Matsu both screamed "That stuffed toy just moved!" and held onto each other, everyone else just looked surprised and even Shoji was amazed that a stuffed toy could move.
"I'm not a stuffed toy! Are you all going to act like the last bunch that was here? How many times do I need to tell people that I'm Monokuma and I'm your headmaster!" The bear replied and the students all exchanged looks of worry or just plain confusion, the professor herself looked confused but before she could speak the bear cut her off and looked over the large group of students.
"Now I think we should just cut to the chase… You will all be living here together for the reminder of your life! However if you want to leave there is a requirement of course…"
With those words, the group all had faces of mixed emotions. Most of them seemed pissed or others looked scared while some of them had blank expressions or a mixture of all three, Kaori barged her way to the front of the group and glared up at Monokuma. "What are fucking requirements to leave then!? Don't leave us hanging here you son of a bitch!" the Gang Leader shouted at the stuffed toy, however Monokuma started laughing and jumped down from the stage and walked over to the group of students some of them backed away from the approaching bear. But Kaori stood her ground and glared down at it, "So what the fuck is it then you piece of bear shit, because I wanna get the fuck outta here!" She shouted once more but Monokuma only laughed at her.
"Upupupu~ If you want to leave… You have to kill each other~" Monokuma replied and most of the student's expressions changed to the same one, an expression of fear. "You can stab them, hit them with a blunt instrument, burn them to a crisp, crush them and even shoot them to death if you wanted too!"
Kenji looked among the group and saw that Celeste, Shinichi, Katsuya and Mitsuru were all just watching the situation unfold with no hint of fear on their faces, he then looked at the other part of the group and saw that Minato and Matsu also barged their way to the front. "Oi, cut the bullcrap! There's no way that we are gonna kill each other for you!" Minato shouted as Matsu and a couple of the other students all nodded in agreement with him, but Monokuma glared at the two of them and they both backed away when they saw Monokuma's eye glow red.
Kaori on the other hand walked up to Monokuma and went into a squatting position and glared at the bear, "You have some nerve spouting a fucking joke like that to us." She said with a hint of ferocity in her voice, but Monokuma only laughed at her and pointed at her.
"You mean like your joke of a fashion sense? You are just as bad as the guy with the pompadour who said the same thing as you~" And that sent Kaori into a rage, with one arm she lifted Monokuma off the ground and began to throttle him.
"You wanna say that shit again you little shit, I give zero fucks if you are a teddy bear or some remote controlled fucker! I will rip you into tiny shreds!" The gang leader shouted and the entirety of the class fell silent, even Kenji was amazed at how loud and strong Kaori was, he guessed that's what it must be like to actually see the Super High School Level Gang Leader in her pissed off mode. But he was snapped out that revere when Monokuma suddenly spoke once more.
"Violence against the headmaster is prohibited!" And Monokuma's eye started glowing; the students all looked at the two of them in confusion until Mitsuru shouted at Kaori.
"Throw him away!" She screamed at the gang leader who only gave her a confused look as the beeping became faster and the flashing began to go faster, "Just do it you idiot!" She shouted once more and with that, Kaori launched Monokuma in the air and punted him to the roof the gym where he exploded. Everyone all gasped and Hikari walked over to Kaori and asked if he was truly dead until he popped up once again on the stage, however this time it was both Shinji and Yukari ran up to the stage and with both of their fists extended the twins punched a hole into Monokuma's chest but once again it started beeping and they both threw Monokuma towards the bleachers where he exploded once again.
Everyone thought for sure that Monokuma was destroyed by this point however that was not the case as he popped up once again and landed on the stage, but among the confusion, Katsuya appeared from behind Monokuma and stabbed him with his knife. But like the other times he started to beep and Katsuya threw Monokuma in the air where he promptly exploded, the entire class was shocked when he popped up again for the fourth time and Shoji yelled out.
"This is bullshit! Does he have infinite copies or something!?" The Hacker shouted as the hitman jumped down from the stage and growled, the monochrome bear simply cleared his throat and looked out at the nineteen students, Kenji looked over and saw that the four that tried to attack him were all exchanging looks of disbelief that Monokuma indeed had infinite copies, each ready to pop up and antagonise the students if he so wished.
"Alright, I will let you all off with a warning this one time… However, if any of you were to break the school rules I will have no choice but to punish you all, upupupu~"
The entire class remained silent at those words, although Kaori wanted to say something she couldn't. It was like Monokuma took the fight out of her, when Monokuma saw that they had all given up fighting him, the bear started to laugh at all of them.
"Well then, this concludes our entrance ceremony! But remember…"
"Upupupu… You can't graduate until you kill someone!"
And with that said, Monokuma disappeared from the stage and everyone remained frozen in their places, no one moved an inch. It was like time itself had stopped around them and they couldn't move at all, Kenji looked towards the stage and thought to himself.
'It seems that we have all entered a new chapter of our school life… This truly is…'
'Infinite Despair…'
-Prologue: Welcome back to Despair Academy… End-