Danganronpa: Suspiria
Disclaimer:
Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche
Suspiria is owned by Dario Argento and Seda Spettacoli
Hello, and here is my fourth chapter of this Danganronpa fanfic. Many thanks to those who reviewed it, and now this chapter will show Kirigiri finally taking some "ballet lessons" which she didn't take due to some circumstances, and this time she finally spend her first days here with some unforeseen consequences which highlights the beginning of her current life and death situation...
Yesterday...
After that, both Oruga and Kirigiri went to Blanc and told them of their plans that they will board at the nearby dormitory just a block from the academy, in which Blanc appeared to be fine with it and the two girls leave and later went to the nearby dorm to put their belongings there. At the nearby dorm, Kirigiri and Oruga were chatting until she turned on the TV, where a news is being aired, where an article mentioned the death of Patricia Hinguru, and there Kirigiri asked Oruga if she "sensed anything strange" before coming to Germany which she deny it.
"Whoa...that's the girl I last saw...speaking of which...I haven't seen her since last night..."
"..."
"Something wrong, Kirigiri?"
"Did you sense anything...strange since you came here?"
"Hmm...no, so far nothing..."
"And about Patricia...sensed anything from her before you last saw her?"
"No...nothing really...why?"
"You see..."
When Kirigiri mentioned about seeing Patricia leaving the academy last night and about her odd look, Oruga stated that she doesn't know anything and Kirigiri decided to let it slide seeing that Oruga is unaware of what is happening and she decided it would be best that she would not ask any more questions about the night before so as not to arouse suspicions, and that she would try to look around the academy tomorrow when she gets a chance as she becomes quite suspicious about the place and why Patricia had a frightened look upon leaving the academy, and why she was killed in a rather brutal manner as Patricia is said to have no enemies, and how the other victim was killed alongside Patricia.
Outside the dormitory, an unseen figure is seen outside, and is eyeing the window where Kirigiri and Oruga are staying, and after a few moments the unseen figure disappeared as the night went on.
Now...
The scene shifts to an unknown location where several figures are convened, and though they are covered in silhouette, the voices can be heard and they appeared to be female, and are hidden under druid clothes, in which they are discussing something, and there they are are looking at a table where a photograph is laid, and the person shown in the photo turns out to be Kirigiri herself, as they seemed to be laying out some plans for her.
Hoshikuzu no Ring by Asami Imai
(Opening Song from Corpse Party: Tortured Souls ~The Curse of Tortured Souls~)
Omoitakusu yureru moji wa anata ni wa todokanakute
Sora wo mai hoshi ni naru hikari ga setsunai yo
Fumishimeta ashimoto yuraide shimau kara
Te wo nobashite kureta ano koro wo omoidashiteru
Kirari hoshikuzu-tachi atsumete mite mo
Namida poro poro poro koborete kieiri sou de
Gyutto yubi no sukima mune ni ateta no
Itsuka kudakechitta yakusoku wo RINGU ni kaeru
Ch. 4: Akademī shonichi
The next day...
The following morning, Kirigiri arrived at the academy to begin her one-week free ballet lessons, and went to the locker room to change in to her ballet uniform, and there she slowly noticed that the other girls her age were not socializing wioth each other, often giving stoic expressions and did not even acknowledging her presence, which Kirigiri felt suspicious and further gave her a reason to doubt this place yet she nevertheless opted to pretend knowing nothing.
"So far...nothing..."
As Kirigiri came out of the locker room and is about to head to the area where the ballet lessons are about to take place, she is met by Blanc, and there Blanc once more offers Kirigiri a dormitory room within the academy to stay in, but she politely declines Blanc's offer, claiming that she already made arrangements and that she will be leaving by the end of the week, though Blanc appeared to be understanding and accepted Kirigiri's choice.
"Good morning, dear..."
"Yes, good morning."
"This is your first day here to start your lessons..."
"Yes...I hope I would enjoy my stay here..."
"Same here...anyway...I thought I'd like to offer you a place here since we have dormitory rooms that is inclusive of our..."
"Thank you, but I'll decline...I already made arrangements...and I will only be here for a week..."
"I see..."
"Thank you for understanding..."
As the ballet teacher arrived, Blanc left and Kirigiri joins the other students as they began their first day of ballet lessons, in which Kirigiri noted that some of her classmates tend to ignore each other and only interact with each other when the ballet teacher instructed them and as the lessons went underway, Kirigiri noted that the first lessons appeared to be literal and that the topic is about Classical Ballet as they are led to a classroom and the teacher began lecturing them about the various techniques, and there she saw the topics she is lecturing about:
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Barre
Barre work is traditionally recognised as providing the foundation of all ballet technique. The barre is used to establish posture, turnout, placement and strength, by concentrating on specific movements and isolating muscle groups. This allows the dancer to perfect the movements with the support of the barre. In vocational training, the barre work is important in establishing the technique, whereas a professional dancer uses the barre to maintain their technique, or to focus on specific aspects of their technique that need refinement. Barre work typically combines all the key elements of ballet technique, with the exception of jumps and with a great deal of focus on the legs and feet.
Petit Allegro
Literally meaning 'small and fast, petit allegro traditionally comprises of small jumps and fast, detailed footwork.
Grand Allegro
Literally meaning 'big and fast', grand allegro traditionally comes towards the end of a ballet class and comprises of the largest and most technically challenging movements. Within a ballet, grand allegro is often used to describe the large variations towards the end of a ballet, when the dancers perform large jumps and leaps.
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The lectures lasted for almost four hours and and the time now is 12:00, and there the ballet teacher told the students that the actual ballet lessons will commence in an hour, and for now they should go and take lunch, in which Blanc came and instructed the students to where the dining hall is, and Kirigiri went there and is the first to be on line as she is holding the tray and awaited for the food to be served, while noting that the academy appeared to be normal yet she had a bad feeling about this as she recalled about the details told to her about Patricia Hinguru's mysterious death.
As the food is being served, Kirigiri had a strange encounter with the academy's cook, in which the cook stared at Kirigiri in a rather strange way, though Kirigiri stared back before leaving, as she felt that something is odd at the way the cook stared at her. During lunch, she noticed that most of the other students are not even trying to interact with each other nor interact with her, and there she is slowly suspecting that this may be one of the signs that caused Hinguru to fled the academy before her mysterious, yet gruesome, death.
An hour later ballet lessons resumed, and there the PHYSICAL lessons commenced and Kirigiri is among the students given actual lessons and slowly gets the hang of it, but for some reasons she started to feel strange yet she opted to ignore it and continue the lessons yet she is steadily getting weaker, and the teacher asks if she is okay, which Kirigiri at first tries to reassure that she is fine and ready to continue.
"Excuse me..."
"Yes...?"
"Are you alright? Do you need any..."
"I...I'm fine..."
"Are you sure? Perhaps you should take a rest..."
"I'll manage..."
"Don't force yourself if you are..."
"It's okay..."
However, as the minutes passed by, Kirigiri seemingly struggles to continue the the ballet skills before fainting during a lesson. Strangely the other students are ignorant of her plight amid the teacher calling for help, and a few staff members helped Kirigiri up and carried her towards an unspecified location, whilst the teacher tells the other students to continue the ballet lessons.
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Later that night, Kirigiri awakens to discover that she has been moved into a dormitory room against her wishes. Now she is beginning to feel very suspicious about this and wondered why she is being moved here without her consent and why she wasn't consulted about this. Why wasn't she sent to a clinic and why did she faint like this since she was sure she is fine, until she pondered on the idea that someone may have slipped a sedative in either her food or drink that led to her current situation.
"Looks like I let my guard down...perhaps something is amiss in this academy...i guess I'll play along for now...better check my belongings and see if they either took or tampered my important papers..."
Kirigiri then checked her bag, where her clothes are there, and thankfully she checked the secret pocket where her passport is there and not taken away, and now she is considering investigating the academy to see if there are clues to be found that would link it to Hinguru's murder, and as she leaves the dorm room, she is greeted by some persons claiming to be the academy's doctors.
"Hello, Miss Kirigiri..."
"We are the resident doctors of this academy...how are you feeling?"
"I'm okay now. What happened and why am I..."
"You seemed to be a bit...anemic..."
"And we talked to Miss Blanc and we agreed that you should spend the rest of your stay here...be not alarmed...you won't be experiencing any inconvenience..."
"Me? "Anemic"? How can that...?"
"Fear not...it is not serious..."
"Provided that you take the prescription we will give you..."
"What?"
The doctors then tell Kirigiri that she is to be "medicated" with a glass of red wine daily, which she finds it UTTERLY suspicious, and pretended to play along just to get them to leave her alone, and as she went to the hallway, she finds out that the first ballet lessons have ended and the other students are leaving for their dorm rooms, except for one who turns out to be Sara, who saw Kirigiri and started a conversation between the two.
"Ah, hello!"
"Yes?"
"We met at the other dorm across the street..."
"Yes, I remember...and you're..."
"Sara...the name's Sara..."
"I know...what I mean is are you staying here as well?"
"Yes...and Mis Blanc said that I can stay here for free during the duration of our ballet classes here...oh, we're sharing the same room in case you did not know..."
"I see..."
There Kirigiri befriends Sara after the two found out that they are roomed together. The two returned to their dorm room to continue their conversation and there a fast friendship is formed though Kirigiri had to keep her status as a student of Hope's Peak Academy a secret as she still has to ascertain that Sara may or may not be a potential suspect in Hinguru's mysterious death, and pretended that she is a tourist from Japan wanting to enjoy the free ballet lesson she won.
By then one of the academy staff knocked on the door and Kirigiri answered it, in which she is told that dinner is about to be served, and so Kirigiri and Sara prepared themselves to go to the dining hall to have dinner, and arranged their belongings on their closet though Sara goes out first before Kirigiri followed, as she his her passport underneath her clothes as a preventive measure due to the fact that she was transferred to the academy without her consent. After that, Kirigiri leaves the dorm room to join Sara and the other students at the dining hall.
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Several minutes later, the scene shifts to the academy's dining hall, where Kirigiri joins Sara and the other students at the dining table, where you can see that Kirigiri and the rest of the students prepare for dinner, an unexpected scene occurs, as hundreds of maggots fall from the ceiling. Sara was aghast at the scene while Kirigiri remained stoic and collected, observing where the maggots fell and noted that there are some small holes at the ceiling and she is definitely becoming suspicious yet she had to pretend that she is caught by surprise.
By then the academy staff came and began explaining, where the students are told this was due to spoiled food boxed in the attic, which Kirigiri finds it a bit absurd that an academy like this is storing spoiled and expired food, and that the staff member didn't appeared to be embarrassed nor apologetic of this kind of incident. Nevertheless, the staff cleaners came and removed the maggots and the students continued their dinner until the time now is 20:00, in which the students finished their dinner, and by then Blanc came to talk to the students.
"Good evening, everyone..."
"Good evening, Miss Blanc..."
"Good evening, Miss Blanc..."
"Good evening, Miss Blanc..."
"Everyone...I have something to tell you, though I hope that you won't find it an inconvenience to you..."
"What is it then?"
"Something wrong?"
"It's like this, everyone..."
There Blanc told that girls are then invited to sleep in the practice hall overnight, which majority of the students agreed, and Sara invited Kirigiri to join them to stay at the practice hall which the "Super High School-level Detective" reluctantly accepted, and the two girls went to their dorm room to change to their pajamas and went to the practice hall where sleeping bags are prepared with the other students about to settle down for the night.
Kirigiri and Sara are laying next to each other and when the other students are asleep and no one else is watching, the two girls began to talk, and during the night hours, the two girls heard something and Sara identifies a distinctive whistling snore as that of the school's director, who is not due to return to the academy for several weeks, which she heard from one of the staff members, and this further aroused Kirigiri's suspicions as the mystery of this academy is becoming more and more suspicious at the moment.
All Kirigiri needed is the right timing and situation where she would commence in investigating the academy and see if her suspicions are right or not, and to figure if there is some sort of conspiracy among the staff members and Blanc.
To Be Continued…
Things are now wheeling ahead as Kirigiri settles in on the academy to begin her "free ballet lessons", only to encounter something strange before she mysteriously passed out.
Things seemed to have taken a turn as she soon finds out that she was placed in the academy's dorm against her wishes yet she encountered more strange scenes which would make her more cautious about her surroundings.
Things are building up as a few more chapters are left before we reach the climax...
Preview:
Kirigiri's succeeding days at the academy takes another turn and she realizes that something is not right and that's where the danger commences as more mysterious deaths starts to pile up...