The Luckster And The Detective
Hello, and welcome to my third Danganronpa fanfic. While "Survival In The City" was quite successful and "Enoshima's Erotic Escapades" is currently ongoing, I decided to try another fic since this series is quite one of my favorites and after re-watching the anime several times on my USB, it started to give me inspiration to try out another fic while awaiting the anime version of Danganronpa 2, which I hope it would be aired soon.
Right now an idea popped in to my mind and decided to set up a story wherein Makoto Naegi gets embroiled in a situation due to his "luck" and yet he gets to play a "lucky" - or "unlucky" - hero of this fic which some readers would relate, and this happened before the events of the game and anime.
At the same time the main characters for this fic will be Makoto Naegi and Kyoko Kirigiri. After watching episodes 7 towards 13, I find these two…well...have strong chemistry, and decided to pair them up, where they would slowly get close in which romance builds in. As to why the title, well...it was inspired from a 1987 American film, "The Big Easy", as this includes drugs as the main plot device which Kirigiri will be involved solving this kind of case...and Naegi inadvertently gets roped in.
This fic is set a two years before the start of the anime.
Lastly, why an M-rated fic? Aside from the violence that would be depicted here, there will be a love scene as well, though it'll be an integral part of the story, unlike others romance fics that uses hardcore ones.
Well, that's the summary I can tell you right now, but you'll soon see where this would lead to, so here is the opening chapter, so read and enjoy!
Disclaimer:
Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche
Ch. 1: Rakkī Jiko
Hope's Peak Academy.
This is the school where the students attend to. To enroll, one must be top in their field of expertise and also must be a high school student. The students do not apply for the school but instead the school invites them. If they graduate from the school, they are almost certainly guaranteed for a successful life ahead. Students who attend the school are given the title "Super High School-Level".
Hope's Peak Private Academy is an exclusive, government-sanctioned school accepting only students with exceptional abilities. Its stated goal is to raise the future "hope" of the nation, and for that reason, it became known as "The Academy of Hope". It's a source of envy for average high schoolers, as it's common knowledge that one can gain great success in life just by being a Hope's Peak graduate. Certainly, many Hope's Peak graduates are now employed in high positions in every field of the professional world, so that statement is not an exaggeration.
There are two requirements to becoming a Hope's Peak student:
A) One must be currently enrolled in a high school and
B) One must super-excel at their field of expertise.
Hope's Peak doesn't hold any standard entrance exams, as the academy insists that the things tested by these kind of exams are meaningless for its purposes. Instead, students are scouted for by the academy's staff, who serve as both educators and researchers of extraordinary human ability. Some say Hope's Peak Academy's faculty members are much like parents, who made it their life's mission to find talent and nurture it in their children.
Hope's Peak Academy is not a traditional learning facility like other schools. It provides education for the talented, but at the same time it also researches that talent. The teaching staff aren't simple teachers. They're also scientists who research human talent. In order to provide even more funding for their experiments a special program was instated
Before any of the stories take place, Hope's Peak was a small-scale facility that could survive on a government subsidiary and graduate donations. The research was often blocked by a lack of resources, though. The school's steering committee was not satisfied with the state of the research, so they instituted the preparatory school system in order to bring in more money.
The gist of it is that the actual Ultimate students are affiliated with the main school, but there is now a separate facility attached to it, called a preparatory school. It's located on the west quarter of the campus, while the main school remains here in the east quarter, so we don't intermingle much. The prepatory school doesn't scout its students and it relies on a regular entrance exam to choose among applicants. The teachers are chosen the same way. The actual teachers of the main Hope's Peak are scientists who work and live at the school, while the prepatory school has regular teachers coming from outside.
Even though it's just a regular high-school, isn't it there was a flood of applications because a brand name is a powerful thing. People didn't care that it was just a preparatory school. The prestigious Hope's Peak Academy had finally opened its doors to the public.
Several high school students whose names were picked, mostly based on their area and level of expertise, and are now enrolled at the prestigious academy, and among those chosen was Makoto Naegi, who was given the title of "Super Highschool-Level Luckster" due to his name being picked due to sheer luck, though Naegi sees this as a "bad luck" since most of his moments in life was due to bad luck, with very few good luck events happened.
"Really...how and why was my name drawn? Will I really make it in this academy...?"
Nevertheless, Naegi adjusted well and through a stroke of luck, he managed well in his studies, and at the same time made friends with other classmates, though one of his classmates, Kyoko Kirigiri appeared, and remained, stoic as she is concentrating on her studies, though while he is not looking, she seemed to have developed some interest in him after he first interacted with her, and even though she at first sees him as a classmate, she is slowly finding him...interesting due to his good nature.
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In the next few months things went well in the academy, until a series of incidents where students becoming unruly and started to cause some disturbances within the school and a few students became victims of mugging while the said students are starting to act erratically and even skipped classes and this in turn attracted Kirigiri's attention after she noticed that one of them showed a rather obvious clue - red eyes. This causes her to secretly approached her father, Jin, who is the academy's headmaster and the two began talking over something that made Jin feel uneasy.
"What? Some students have red eyes and are acting erratically?"
"Yes, dad...and based from what I deduced..."
"Yes...?"
"I think those are early signs of drug abuse..."
"This is a serious...no...if what you deduced is..."
"Please let me go and investigate..."
"Okay...leave it to me...just do your thing and don't let them caught you...and be careful..."
"I will, dad..."
Taking his daughter's word at heart, he agreed to her suggestion to allow her to skip some classes so that she can commence her secret investigation on why some of the students began to act rather erratic and showed signs of drug abuse. Jin was getting concerned that the school's reputation would get tarnished should word about the drug trade within Hope's Peak Academy spreads beyond the school grounds.
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A few days later, Kirigiri began skipping classes as she began to stealthily went around the campus to see if she could find any activities that are related to drug trade and while she finds nothing so far, she noticed a high school students moving and acting suspiciously and she followed him where the chase led to a grassy lot near the fence of the academy where a a shady-looking man is waiting at the other side of the fence, and when the two men got close, they are seen exchanging packets, which Kirigiri, who managed to hid behind a thick bush, saw it, and immediately realized that it was the illegal and dangerous drug, Methamphetamine, and there she overheard the two guys talking over something.
"Here you go..."
"Thanks..."
"Glad I made deal with you..."Super Trader"...you sure know how to conduct business..."
"Your welcome...I really need to make some money..."
"Speaking of which..."
"Relax...I have the payment...but need a place..."
"Okay...let's meet after you left school..."
"Got it..."
After that, the two guys departed and Kirigiri overheard the conversation and waited in the bush until it is clear, and there she decided to tell her father what she discovered, and several minutes later, she found out that Jin is having an emergency meeting and she couldn't reach him so she has no option but to tail the academy student, who is known for his title of "Super Highschool-level Trader", and she managed to figure out which class he is in and which route he would take. She knew she can't let him get out of her sight and if she did, then things would get worst.
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Several hours later, it was dismissal time, and the "Super High School-level Trader" is set to leave the academy to meet up with his drug supplier and is sort of in a hurry to get some supplies from his "source" while picking up his bag, which is revealed to be full of money which would serve as payment in exchange for getting a supply of the drug he was given, and while approaching the gates of the academy, he was accidentally bumped into a running Naegi, and both fell down while dropping their backpacks.
"Hey!"
"Ah...sorry!"
"Watch where you are going, you pipsqueak!"
"I apologize!"
"Asshole!"
"But..."
"Get lost before I kick your balls, you dickhead!"
"Geez..."
The "Super High School-level Trader" was livid and hurled explicit words at Naegi even tough the other teen apologized for what happened, and both teens picked up their bags and left the academy gate while Kirigiri sensed that she might have problems as both the "trader's" bag and Naegi are identical yet she chose to go after the "trader" as she intends to find out who is supplying him the drugs, then pin them down before calling the police so as to end the drug trade at Hope's Peak Academy.
Several minutes later, the "Super High School-level Trader" meets up with his supplier of drugs at a snack stand, and there the two meet up and began their transaction where the drug dealer opened a suitcase revealing various illegal drugs,such as "shabu", coccaine, heroin, marijuana and others, which the "Super High School-level Trader" is ecstatic and hurriedly opened his backpack, but to his surprise the contents were not money, but school supplies, such as notebooks, books and a lunchbox, and when he saw the ID, it is revealed that the bag he is carrying belonged to Makoto Naegi!
"What the...?!"
"Hey! Is this some kind of a joke?"
"I must've..."
"Don't fool with me!"
"Wait...my bag...that Naegi brat must've have it!"
"Is that a reason?"
"I'll get it...just you wait!"
"Come on...I'm on a hurry...!"
As the two argued, Kirigiri is watching nearby, and realized that Naegi is carrying the "trader's" bag, and she is compelled to go find her classmate, but then "luck" would intervene when Naegi is passing by the scene and there the "Super High School-level Trader" and the drug dealer saw Naegi carrying the bag, which they realized that the bag that Naegi is carrying is the bag where the stash of money is and the two began confronting the teen which resulted in a tense stand off while Kirigiri is forced to bide her time and see where this would lead to.
"Hey you!"
"What? I already apologized for..."
"Give me that bag!"
"This is my bag! You already have yours!"
"That bag is mine! Give it to me already!"
"This is my bag! You already got yours! All I have are my school supplies!"
"Give me the fucking bag!"
"Let go of me!"
As the "Trader" and the "Luckster" began to grapple over the bag, the drug dealer slowly brings out his gun, intending to shoot Naegi in order to get the bag, and by then Kirigiri came out of her hiding, and approached the drug dealer and uses a roundhouse kick that struck him on the face and fell down, then she kicked the gun so the drug dealer won't be able to pick it up. She then did a side kick on the "Trader" which causes him to release his hold over Naegi, but then the "Luckster" grabbed the "Detective" which caught her by surprise, which seconds later, a speeding van came and struck the "Super High School-level Trader" and the impact immediately killed him.
However, the van suddenly stopped and its window opened where a hail of bullets rained out and Kirigiri dragged Naegi to the ground to avoid the bullets while the drug dealer grabbed the suitcase and boarded the van before making a getaway, and there Kirigiri checked on Naegi to see if he is okay, while at the same time realizing that an organized cartel has somewhat found a way to sell drugs to the students of Hope's Peak Academy.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah...I am..."
"That bag...it belonged to one of Hope's Peak Academy student..."
"That guy I bumped in to...he tried to grab my bag..."
"He's known as the "Super High School-level Trader"...and that bag you have is his..."
"Really?"
"It has a lot of cash...and some sachet of drugs..."
"Ehhh?"
After being told of why he was confronted by the two men, Naegi checked the bag and there he realized that the bag he was carrying belonged to the "Super High School-Level Trader" as the contents revealed to be a huge sum of money and a few sachets of illegal drugs, which Naegi realized that he unknowingly carried the wrong bag, and by then a passing police car came and saw Naegi holding the sachet and began questioning him which Kirigiri tries to vouch for him yet the cop told her that Naegi would have to come with him to the precinct to explain himself, and Naegi mentally wailed as "bad luck" struck him at the most inopportune moment.
To Be Continued…
Hope you liked the first chapter of this fic, and this is just the start, and though you may find it rather odd that this scene resembled a typical detective film that involves a detective making a move to investigate a cartel, this is just the start and I'll be building up the moment where suspense...and romance comes in. As usual Naegi's luck would kick in, though it was a bad one as he is being accused of wielding illegal drugs, but Kirigiri is going to make sure his name gets cleared.
More on how Naegi would get himself out of this mess, and what role is he going to play will be detailed in the upcoming chapters.
Preview:
The next chapter will commence on how Kirigiri and Naegi would team up and start finding a way to figure out on how illegal drugs came from and who is supplying them to the students of Hope's Peak Academy.
