Another day appeared for the city of Tokyo as the streets began to slowly be filled by vehicles and people. At a huge hotel an alarm blares inside a bedroom for a few seconds before a hand shot out of a bed and quickly stopped the noise. As the sheets of the bed began to move a groan could be heard before the Ultimate luckster, Makoto Naegi sat up still half asleep, he gave an audible yawn before stretching, he then scratched the back of his head before scanning his entire room. "Ok then." he said before he slid off his bed, literally as he face planted on the floor, to add insult to injury the alarm clock then fell on his head.
The luckster grabbed a towel and opened his bedroom door revealing the dark living room, not paying heed to it the boy made his way to the bathroom and began to take a shower. After some time he came out of the bathroom still wearing his pajamas but he seemed more refreshed and awake. Walking back into his bedroom Makoto then proceeded to change into his usual attire of a black shirt with his signature green hoodie and matching black pants.
He went back into his living room and opened his curtains letting the sun shine into the dark room. Afterwards he then made his way into the kitchen and put on his apron, "Now what to make?" the luckster pondered for a moment before snapping his fingers figuring out what to make, he grabbed some ingredients from the fridge and laid them out on the counter, then began to cook.
Not long after Makoto began to cook a door creaked open and the Ultimate Detective Kyoko Kirigiri came out of her room clearly still half asleep: she was wearing noting but a large white t-shirt and wrapped in her arm is a pillow.
"Morning Kyoko." Makoto greeted but the girl merely looked at him before greeting back drowsily "Morning~" Makoto smiled at her before turning back to his cooking and telling her to take a shower. Complying with the boy's suggestion the detective went back inside her room and grabbed a towel before going into the bathroom.
Once she was out she managed to take in the scent of the luckster's cooking. "What's cooking?" she asked walking over to him, "Bacon, eggs, salad and french toast." Kyoko began to smile brightly at the list of food, "What's the occasion?" she asked trying to joke with him, "Hehe nothing just felt like it is all." Makoto responded. Kyoko giggled at the response before returning to her room to change then walked over to the couch and sat down while grabbing the remote for their TV then opening it to the morning news.
Soon after another door swung open and an energetic Junko Enoshima, the Ultimate fashionista, came bursting out fully awake!
"Morning!" she chimed surprising the other two people in the room, "Ara, you're up and ready." Makoto said turning to his sister, "Mhm. I was up an hour before you all, so I already had my shower and decided to stay in my room." she explained with a smile.
Junko then skipped towards her brother and looked at what dishes he was making and her eyes glimmered when she saw the variations, "French toast?! You're making french toast Mako?" she asked with excitement clinging to his shirt, her brother nodded in response focused on the task that was his cooking. The girl celebrated and began to twirl around earning a small giggle off the detective at her childlike behaviour.
However Junko's celebration was cut short when the last door in their apartment swung open and the overslept Ultimate Soldier Mukuro Ikusaba stomped out of her room looking slightly annoyed, she had several bags were under her eyes and her clothes were crumpled like it wasn't washed or ironed before, the funny part is? It was a fresh shirt just last night, "Ugh... What time is it?" she groaned grabbing her face and slipping her hand into her messy bed hair, "Its 8 am." Kyoko told Mukuro, the soldier continued to groan before dragging herself to the bathroom.
"Junko?" Makoto asked turning to the girl.
"Midnight." she answered immediately.
"That's 3 hours less from usual." Kyoko added.
Mukuro since her childhood had been a huge gamer girl, it had become a little game for the two other siblings to know when the soldier would collapse from fatigue. Usually she could last till 3 am or just slightly more but during that particular night Mukuro had indulged herself in an online battle arena game that ended up draining her more than usual.
Once Makoto had finished cooking everything, everyone was already up and ready. Junko and Kyoko was watching the morning news while Mukuro played a game on her phone.
"Ok everyone food is ready." Makoto announced and the girls quickly stopped whatever they were doing and sat down to eat their breakfast. "Finally I was hungry!" Junko exclaimed, Makoto served his dishes and then sat down next to Kyoko.
"Thanks for the food!"
After breakfast everyone changed to some outdoor clothes and headed into the city. Makoto wanted to go buy some groceries since they had little food left, Junko wanted to get some makeup and a magazine, Mukuro had a new game she wanted to buy so she went as well, and finally since she had nothing else in her agenda Kyoko decided to follow the siblings.
Everyone decided to split ways in pairs, as usual it was the twins and Makoto with Kyoko.
Makoto and Kyoko went to the supermarket, list in her hand Kyoko read out the items that they needed to buy while Makoto grabbed them and placed the items in their cart. "Is that all Kyoko?" Makoto asked turning to the girl which she responded with a nod.
Ever since Junko had forced the luckster and detective to have a date in the amusement park the two have returned to being close friends despite the fact that Makoto now knew about Kyoko's feelings.
"That should be all of it." he said joyfully as he placed the grocery bags on the floor. Taking out his phone the luckster went to his contacts and called Junko, after some time the girl picked but she sounded like she was struggling to talk .
"Hey bro~." she said squeezing her words out of the speakers. "Junko? What's wrong? You sound like Mukuro during a new game's premier." the luckster replied. His sister giggled from the other side but she still sounded like she was just managing to get some air out of her, "Yeah, well its a huge sale where I am and..." but before she could finish her sentence Makoto heard, "Hey don't pull my hair you hag!" after hearing that Makoto immediately knew what was happening, "Sorry about that, anyways-" Makoto cut her off as he now knew why, "I get it. We'll wait for you." Junko gave her thanks and apologised stating that she may arrive late due to the sale before she cut the call. Makoto explained the situation to Kyoko who seemed confused at first as to why women would squeeze each other for makeup and clothes.
While Junko was grabbing her makeup, the two Ultimates met up with Mukuro who also had just finished her own shopping and the three then went to a cafe where they decided to wait for the fashionista.
After waiting for half an hour Junko finally found them (with the help of Makoto telling her where they were), when the others took a glance at her they jumped back when they saw the horror that was Junko. Her hair was completely in shambles, bits sticking out and other sort of things stuck to it; her makeup smudged or was smudged on her, they couldn't tell; and her clothes were a mess, her jacket unbuttoned and a sleeve was ripped off, her tie was gone and her ribbon was also torn with the red part ripped away.
"Don't...ask." she spat with annoyance.
The others just nodded in fear at what the fashionista might do, Junko sat down and sighed, "Man that was tough." she said as she slid down on the chair. "What happened in there?" Kyoko asked with curious about her experience and noticed it was worse up close with hair having bits and pieces on them, "Yeah was that a battlefield or something?" Mukuro added, "The old hags in the sale were vicious. They ripped clothes of other women and I could've sworn one was trampled on." everyone went a dark shade of blue imagining the scene. For Kyoko it almost sounded like a crime scene would appear anytime soon for her to investigate on, for Makoto, he imagined the times he had to deal with similar situations but except replaced the people with bulls, and for the soldier it was a full on bloodbath no lives spared, a total warzone. Not wanting to hear more of it they all decided to drop it and head home for the day.
Once they had returned home Junko went into her room to change into some fresh clothes while Makoto, Kyoko and Mukuro went and put the food away for dinner.
It was Hopes Peak's monthly one week break, so the school was closed during that week. Many of the students either went home or if they had a career went and focused on those instead. But for Makoto it was usually a time to clean up the apartment, so that's exactly what he did after he bought the groceries.
Putting on an apron and wrapping a piece of cloth on his head Makoto looked like an old timely, yet modern maid.
Since all of the girls were in their rooms Makoto took his time dusting everything and wiping the appliances. Once everything was spic and span the boy then went ahead and began to vacuum the apartment, after the living room it was the bathroom it was the same process scrubbed everything down till it shined.
Makoto sat on the couch when he had finished cleaning but, now that he had nothing to do and it was still early. He turned the TV on hoping to find something interesting to watch but nothing appealed to him. Sighing Makoto then went to his room and sat on his desk doing some homework he decided to do out of boredom, except he finished it quite quickly, which surprised him.
After minutes of trying to do multiple things in order to sedate his boredom Makoto ended up just lying on his bed looking at the ceiling.
"Mako!" Junko exclaimed as she busted into her brother's room jolting him into a sitting position, "Junko?! Wh-what is it?" he asked surprised, "Let's all go out for lunch!" Makoto blinked and snapped his head towards his clock and saw it was lunch time, he had dozed without even knowing. Junko saw the surprise and confusion spread across her brother's face causing her to tilt her head in confusion as well, "Something wrong?" she asked curious, "Uh, its nothing... sure let's go out." he replied with a smile, Junko shot a wide grin before leaving the luckster's room.
Everyone headed out into the city once more and searched for a nice place to eat, soon enough they find a small cafe where the inside was ornate and was designed to look like a Victorian shack with lots of trinkets placed on shelf and beams.
"Welcome!" a voice greeted the Ultimates they looked at the person and was surprised to see that the server who greeted them was none other than their fellow classmate, Sayaka Maizono who was dressed up as a Victorian Maid.
"Maizono-san?!" Upon laying her eyes on Makoto, Sayaka immediately blushed a deep red before quickly taking a few steps back, lowering her head and began to fidget around. "Oh, Na-naegi-kun I-I didn't know you knew of this place." she said quietly but the luckster and the others still heard her. "We-well we were just looking around and found it." he said laughing sheepishly.
Maizono glanced up at the smiling luckster and couldn't help but smile when she saw the luckster laugh, seeing this Mukuro merely looked at her brother with a deadpan look, then glancing to her side and saw the Detective and Fashionista leaking with murderous intent. "This is gonna be a long lunch." Mukuro thought before sighing.
Sayaka sat everyone down and took their orders as well as recommend things to them, "Today we have a nice Omurice with sweet potato fries as its sides. Then I'll have an ice coffee" pondering his pick Makoto soon decided to go with the Omurice, "I'll take the Omurice then." writing down his order Maizono then turned to the others, "Ooh there's a nice burger steal here. I'll have that with orange soda please." Junko said to the Idol which the latter wrote down on her notepad, Mukuro decided to have what her sister ordered while Kyoko ordered a Caesar salad with her favourite Luwak coffee, "Ok I'll go put your orders in." Maizono said before leaving the four to their own to put their orders in and tend to other customers. While waiting Makoto started to look around the cafe spacing out as he continued to observe the place, "Makoto?" Kyoko called out but the luckster could not hear her, "Oi~!" Junko waved her hand in front of his face but still didn't do a thing, finally Mukuro snapped her fingers next to her brother's ear snapping him out of his trance. "Huh?!" the luckster said surprised, "You ok? You've been spacing out." Mukuro explained, Makoto nodded and responded "Sorry, I was just thinking."
"What about?" Kyoko asked next.
"Maybe I should get a job here." he replied which caused Junko and Kyoko to freeze before they burst out saying "EH!" this made Makoto jump to the edge of seat. "A job?!" Junko exclaimed, "You don't need a job Hopes Peak already gives us an allowance, and Muku extorts off me for extra cash!" the last part of her sentence made the soldier shout "Hey!" before pouting slightly.
"What made you want to take up a job Makoto?" Kyoko asked although it could be seen she didn't care for the reason, after all Maizono was here and she didn't want a rival to compete with for the luckster. "Well I notice that every one week break we have I have nothing better to do at the apartment, getting a job would help spend more time productively and also earn a little cash on the side." the luckster explained. The girls tried to come up with reasons to counter Makoto but they couldn't and fully knew well that most of the time Makoto takes care of them like a mother but without that he really had nothing else to do in the apartment.
"What are you all talking about?" Sayaka's voice made everyone turn to her who had their food, "Oh, I was planning on getting a job here." Makoto told the idol as the girl placed the food down, Sayaka looked at the luckster with her eyes that glistened like stars. "Really?! I'd love for you to come here and work." she voiced overjoyed which annoyed Junko and Kyoko who really didn't like the idea that Makoto and Maizono would be spending time together on their own.
Makoto nodded making Sayaka smile, "I finally get to have some time with Naegi-kun, I'll use this as an opportunity to get closer to him." the other two girls were seething with anger at the bubbly aura that Maizono emitted, meanwhile Mukuro sat in there not paying heed to the others and just ate in peace.
Time passed and Makoto started to prepare their dinner oblivious to the two pouting girls on the couch, "How are you two still not accepting that Makoto wants to get a job?" Mukuro asked walking behind the two women.
"Its not fair Sayaka-chan gets to hog Mako all to herself. I have to share him here." Junko complained in a mumble as she hugged her knees.
"Well its not like he's yours to begin with Junko-chan." Mukuro replied.
"Sayaka Maizono is the most dangerous person of them all. If Makoto spends enough time with her and she wins him over... I'll have no chance in winning." Kyoko mumbled as she rested her forehead on her hands.
"Is Makoto like a pet or something?!" Mukuro exclaimed, she looked at the two defeated women and sighed "Come on you two don't get so down, Makoto said he won't start till next week Saturday. So stop moping." she told them before making her way to her brother who was happily cooking their dinner.
"Everything all right sis?" Makoto asked and Mukuro merely glanced to the other two, "Yeah, everything is just peachy." she replied. As she sat around their table playing a game in her phone, the phone then rang snapping both hers and Makoto's attention to it, "I'll get it." she told her brother as she stood up.
Picking up the phone Mukuro held it to her ear and greeted the person on the other side, "Naegi residence, Mukuro speaking." a voice on the other side surprised Mukuro making her eyes widen and blurt out...
"Mom?!" everyone in the room snapped their attention to the soldier. Junko quickly jumped from the couch and ran to the phone then bumped her twin away before snatching the phone away from her twin. "Mama!" she exclaimed happily, Makoto walked over and told his sister to put in speaker phone. "Hehe still peppy as always my little Junko." Mrs. Naegi said on the other side which Junko giggled to but Mukuro knew that wasn't the case, "Hmm should I tell mom? Nah I'll leave it." she thought as she got up rubbing her head from the fall.
"Hi, mom." Makoto greeted, "Oh my baby boy its good to know you're there as well." Makoto blushed lightly as he laughed embarrassed at what his mother said. "So why did you call mama?" Junko asked, "Oh that's right. It's your one week break isn't it?" Mrs. Naegi asked which the three Ultimates answered with a hum to say she was correct. "Oh good. Your sister said she wanted to visit you three but I wasn't so sure if you guys are out school or not." the woman explained from the other side.
"Komaru wants to visit?! Of course she can! I miss my baby sister." Junko exclaimed as she began to hug herself as if she was hugging her younger sister. "Of course she can mom we'll take good care of her." Makoto said to the phone. "I know you three will. I have no doubt about that, besides any creeps that walk to your sisters will get a slap from me, a punch from your father and a potential castration from Mukuro." Mukuro upon hearing the last bit quickly fired back, "Wait why am I the most violent?!" the rest of her family laughed while she blushed and pouted.
After the call Junko crashed back down on the couch no longer in despair because of the thought that her brother was working with what she called one her 'rivals in love' "Komaru is coming over!" she shouted as she fist bumped the air.
"You must be excited to see your little sister again?" Kyoko asked now also retaining a small smile.
"Of course I am! Me and Komaru did lots of things when we were kids. Its our bond of being the youngest in our family." she said proudly, pumping her chest out.
"Junko you're one of the youngest?" Kyoko asked slightly surprised, "I thought you and Mukuro were twins?" Kyoko was confused but Junko merely giggled at the sight of the detective confused as she could've sworn she saw question marks flying off her head.
"We are, but Muku was born slightly earlier than me." Kyoko replied with "Ah" as she now understood why Junko was younger in comparison to her twin.
"Wait does that mean-?" before her question could be answered Junko nodded already figuring out her next question, "Mako is the oldest!" she said as she presented her brother from afar.
"Hehe well its not that much different since we're all the same age. But yeah I guess I am the oldest." Makoto said as he placed the food on the table, "And as the oldest I'm telling you all food is ready."
Smiling the two girls on the couch stood up and headed over to the table to enjoy a nice dinner before the day ends.
Character Profile: Makoto Naegi
The 'eldest' of the Naegi siblings and the Ultimate luckster of Hopes Peak's Class 78. Makoto is the type of guy where the phrase "Don't judge a book by its cover" applies, he may look like a regular boy but Makoto is considered by his sisters to be a man who can do it all from: Cooking to cleaning the house and even is good at singing and he is definitely smarter than average guy. Makoto is also a considered chick magnet by his sisters, especially Junko due to his kindness which attracts a number of girls to the luckster, but he is too oblivious and dense to notice that so many women over the course of his school life both before and during had become secretly attracted to him, Junko being one of them.
Makoto became the Ultimate luckster due to him managing to win the invitation to Hopes Peak through a random lottery which he did during a festival. At first he thought it was a joke but soon learned that wasn't the case when there were men knocking on his door.
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Author's Note:
Welcome back everyone to the next season of Our Time which is also the last season of Our Time. Anyways the character profiles are actually there to replace ANs as I don't always have a big message to give you guys, so for some chapters I may just have a character profile with of course my thanks for reading the chapter. Reviews and comments are much appreciated as I often want to know how my readers think about the story so don't be afraid to show your opinion, good or bad I'll respect it. Also my ANs are going to be random only appearing when I have an actual message for you dear readers, so that's all I'm never good with these long long messages so my ANs are often quite short. So that's all and I will see you all next chapter, bye!