This was not a good day for Shinji Sakurai. The man in all black slumps down on the park bench and gives a small kick to his concession stand.
"Today's going to be a long day." Immediately, Shinji stands to attention and trains his ears. He hears faint whistling. He looks across the street and notices a young boy about the age of eight.
"Hey! Kid!" The boy looks around, puzzled, and makes eye contact with Shinji. The boy walks across the street and stands in front of the man.
"Boy, do I have a deal for you." Shinji reaches into the stand and pulls out a stuffed animal. It was a half white and half black teddy bear. Shinji pulls a string on its back.
"Despair!"
Shinji set the doll down on the bench behind him. "Go grab your mother's purse, and I can give you this lovable scamp for only 15 monocoins."
"No, thank you," the boy says as he begins to turn around.
"Wait! I'll also throw in this Shuichi action figure." Shinji reaches into the stand and pulls out a blue haired toy that looks like a high schooler. Shinji flipped its ahoge.
"No! That's wrong!"
"Jun!" Shinji turned around and saw a middle-aged woman run across the street. Shinji instantly placed a hand over his chest to cover the Team Danganronpa Emblem.
"This is a bad man. Don't talk to him." As quickly as she came, the woman dragged the boy away along with her purse with 0 monocoins inside of it.
"Well it's back in the cart you go big guy," Shinji sighs as he turns back towards the bench and watches a white glob fall from the sky and land on the stuffed animal. Shinji stares at the soiled merchandise, lies down on the bench, and closes his eyes.
"Hey! What's got you feeling so much-"
"Despair!"
Shinji opened his eyes and looked up. Standing above him, dressed in all white with a Team Danganronpa Emblem on her chest, was a brown haired woman holding up a teddy bear in front of her face.
"You do know that's bird shit right?" Shinji pointed at the splatter that was dangerously close to the woman's hand.
"Eep!" She threw the doll down and a loud crash was heard.
"D-de-de-spair-a-a-air"
"Sorry, Shinji."
Shinji sighed again and looked at the woman in front of him. She had brown eyes that were primed in their puppy dog position. "It's fine Sayaka. It's not like it was going anywhere." Shinji replied while trying as hard as he could to stop the smile that was growing on his face. "What are you here for?"
"I should be asking you that question."
Shinji stared at the woman briefly, "Fine. I've been trying to bring back the show. 53 seasons and years of hard work down the drain because some make believe character says his feelings were hurt. Can you believe that?"
The woman shook her head and looked at Shinji questioningly. "And selling stuffed animals and action figure would bring Danganronpa back?"
"I'm not that stupid to believe that." He opened up a separate tray of the stand and pulled out a bagel. "I was also selling snacks. Want some?" Sayaka nodded. Shinji reached back into the stand. "Let's see. I know I had some "I Can't Believe It's Not Mondo" in here somewhere.
"The boss got it approved."
Shinji immediately stopped his rummaging and gazed at his friend. "Seriously? That means..."
"Yep, we're approved for a Danganronpa 54."
A large grin grew on Shinji's face, "I just hope that this won't end up like last time.
Welcome to my third published SYOC (we don't talk about the other two). The last time I wrote on this site was 4 years ago when I was 14 and figured I had enough writing experience because I wrote five chapters of Adventure Time fanfiction on the Cartoon Network forums. Needless to say, I wasn't that good. I still want to try to become a better writer and I've just been letting plot bunnies fester for the past four years. This time I decided to do a Danganronpa story.
An important fact about this story is that all three games and the anime are real events. After the Tragedy Makoto rebuilt Hope's Peak. The world was mostly recovered from Despair, but there was still that small part of it in the population that wanted to be set free. So, Team Danganronpa appeared and turned the killing games into a fictional series. This was able to soothe and become an outlet for people's despair. Overall, it did the world a lot of good at the time. Danganronpa became the biggest corporation in the world. Then, Team Danganronpa decided to create a real fictional killing game, and you all know the rest (if you played V3).