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WELCOME TO DESPAIR!

Jokes, welcome to this weird-ass fanfic, and thanks a bunch for even bothering to click it. Now let us just warn you here: it's gonna be weird. But funny, don't worry, and we hope you'll find some enjoyment out of this slightly crack-o story (but it won't be crack as in: iT"s ritn liek dis da hole w y thru nd n0body nows wtf iS heppenin). There will be lemon/smut in most chapters, and each individual story will tie into the main storyline/will possibly be referenced in others' chapters too. The filler chapters will outline stuff without any pairings involved, so even if you skip majority of the ships 'cause you hate them, the fillers will give you some idea about what's going on.

There will be swearing, smut, cracky ships, actual good ships, and some other shit that'll be discovered later on. We pretty much compiled a bunch of ships that we love, as well as threw in some others (some we hate, others we didn't even know existed) and put them in a certain order to fit the weirdo timeline we made. Don't be annoyed if your OTP is last or something, 'cause like we said, they've been put in a certain order on purpose. There might be a few OOC moments? Please don't get too pissed if we get a personality slightly wrong. This is during their school lives, but it DOES NOT FOLLOW DR 3 DESPAIR ARC. Like, probably no Izuru, but Hajime will associate to the others and stuff (they're all living on school property in dorms too). We'll probably reference it and have aspects of it, but don't expect a replica.

Anyway, we'll try to have as little author notes as possible, because we know how annoying that can get sometimes (this one's probably gone for too long anyway). We're happy to hear any suggestions/requests and we can do our best to fit them in :) We will try update a new chapter once or twice a week.

Please don't hate on this book either - we've spent a lot of time on it and have warned you about the cracky storyline and random things that will be said/will happen. This is more of a shits and giggles book than a serious fanfic anyway.

Enough from us - let the despair commence! *ding a fucking ling whatever Junko ringing a bell would sound like*

We hope you enjoy!

Prologue

"Hope's Peak Academy welcomes all our new students!"

Hajime sighed as he wandered through the school gates. More people with talents were sent into the school this year, and although he was an upperclassman now, he still felt insignificant and boring. He watched the newcomers flood through the main course's gates, feeling worse and worse about himself by the second. There was even a girl who looked fucking twelve that had just walked by, not to mention all the other people who mocked him silently as they strutted past with their acceptance letters. He sighed again, strolling over to the park bench where he dumped his bag off his shoulder and slumped further down into the seat.

He didn't have a talent, and that was that.

He had met a few people from the main course, who seemed nice, but he could tell were silently judging him. Was he being paranoid? Absolutely. But he couldn't help feeling insignificant compared to them, including Chiaki Nanami, the ultimate gamer, he had become quite good friends with. He still couldn't feel proud of himself when he was around her, but that didn't change the fact that she persisted in playing video games with him. And he did enjoy it, and was extremely grateful to her.

He glanced over his shoulder to see her skipping towards him with a new console in her hand. "Hajime!" She said cheerfully, lifting one hand off her game console to wave as she came to a halt.

"Hey Chiaki." He smiled.

"You don't look so good, are you feeling okay?" She paused her game and stuffed it into her backpack.

"Y-Yeah I'm fine."

"Okay good. Also, remember at the end of last term you promised you'd come to my place sometime?" She changed the subject all-too-quickly.

"You're gonna hold me to that, aren't you?" Hajime smiled.

"Yep. I'm having a few people over tomorrow night for a gaming comp, do you wanna come?"

"Are these… Your friends in the main course?"

"I understand if you don't want to, but they'd love to meet you. They're really nice people."

Hajime didn't want to be a total jerk, but he didn't particularly want to feel shunned by the talented either.

"I-Uh… Maybe…"

"Cool. Let me know, okay?"

"Yeah, thanks."

And with that, she waved goodbye and headed back to the school building for morning classes.

[Meanwhile: School Gymnasium/Opening Ceremony]

"Naegi, is that you?"

Naegi spun his head to be presented with a familiar smiling face.

"S-Sayaka!"

"I didn't know you'd be here Naegi! What a surprise!" She smiled, tilting her head in confusion.

Of course not, nobody expected me to be here. Not even myself.