Danganronpa IF: Maizono no Jikan


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Interlude 1

Outside of Hope's Peak Academy, the world had fallen to despair. The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History had occurred outside of the academy's sealed doors, a series of events catalyzed by the true Ultimate Despair Junko Enoshima and her followers.

During The Tragedy, alumni from Hope's Peak Academy came together to found Future Foundation to combat the despair. At its head, former Hope's Peak headmaster Kazuo Tengan. He sits with his bodyguard, the Former-Ultimate Wrestler, by his side as he watches the events broadcast from within the academy. Other members of Future Foundation members join them, including vice-chairman and former-Ultimate Student Council President Kyosuke Munakata, former-Ultimate Housekeeper Chisa Yukizome, and former-Ultimate Boxer Juzo Sakakura.

"This is troubling." Kazuo muttered for the hundredth time since the broadcast started. Like those trapped within the school, they were trying to figure out the mastermind behind the School Life of Mutual Killing, but so far came up on no leads. When he asked the other Future Foundation branch heads, the only lead they had come up with was Junko Enoshima, though Kyosuke insisted that she was innocent due to the information Chisa and Juzo provided him.

"Is the extraction team in place?" Kazuo asks the Great Gozu, who answers with a nod. His large bull mask covers his face, though his long hair flows out from a hole in the back of the mask. Kazuo had only seen the man's face once, and never asked why he preferred to wear the large mask.

Kazuo had given the 3rd Division a task: rescue the students of Class 78 from their prison. They had expected the school would be guarded, but they did not know how guarded it would be. He taps a button, and one of the screens turns away from the Killing School Life and to a live feed from Koichi Kizakura, decked out in military gear, preparing to storm the school and rescue the students.

"Koichi Kizakura, is everyone in place?" Kazuo asks Koichi, who nods. Koichi's short blond hair falls from under his large, turtle shell of a helmet, and he has to tilt it upwards to keep his hair from falling into his eyes.

"Everyone's as ready as they would ever be." Koichi responds. He specifically requested his branch be the one to extract the students. He never told Kazuo why, but he knew the answer deep in his heart. He made a promise he wanted, no he needed, to keep. "Problem is, this place is a fortress. I don't know what Jin did, but from our scouts it seems impossible to infiltrate."

Kyosuke Munakata steps up from behind Kazuo, his white hair and white suit contrasting with the dark atmosphere The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History cast over the earth. "Giving up is not an option."

Koichi smiles in response. "Of course. I know that. I didn't say I would back down. It's impossible, but I'd like to try and make it possible."

Kazuo closes his eyes and lowers his head. "Do not do anything reckless, Koichi. I know that watching the death of Jin..."

Koichi holds up his hand. The Killing School Life's broadcast began with the first of Monokuma's executions: "Blast Off!". Jin was strapped in a chair, screaming for his life, before being shot up in a rock and killed by the intense heat and radiation, nothing left but his skeleton. He shuddered internally, but on the outside he kept his cool. "I've got a promise to keep to him. Can't let him down now, can I?" he smirks. "Don't worry, we've got this. You know that strange girl from 6th Division? Sleeping Mekuru? She came up with this plan. Apparently saw the position of the guns and everything."

From behind Kazuo, Juzo smiles. "She's quite the odd one, but she's capable."

Kazuo smiles. "Well then, this plan should be quite the success. I can't wait to meet the students again." his smile then turns to a frown. "Though I should probably mention that there have been two more casualties."

Koichi freezes for a moment. Two more casualties. He promised his friend Jin to protect his daughter. If anything were to happen to her, Jin would murder him. In the afterlife, he'd never hear the end of it. "Who?"

"The Ultimate Moral Compass, Kiyotaka Ishimaru." Great Gozu says sternly, reading off a clipboard with data on the Class 78 students. "And, the Ultimate Clairvoyant, Yasuhiro Hagakure."

Koichi sighs. At least Kyoko is safe. "When we break them out, we will see to it that those killed will be buried peacefully." he takes his helmet off and holds it close to his heart, before a soldier runs up behind him. He turns from the camera, his voice obscured by the wind, before turning around. "I should be going Kazuo. We're ready to begin the operation."

There would only be one survivor of the extraction operation. As the mounted machine guns tore apart all the Future Foundation soldiers attempting to break out the Ultimates, only one managed to escape with their life. Perhaps it was luck, or perhaps it was fate. Koichi Kizakura did not know.

The students inside Hope's Peak never knew that anyone had tried to break them out. From the inside, the only person who heard anything was Chihiro Fujisaki, who was studying the door as the Ultimate Programmer. From the inside, she heard the sounds of gunshots, though interpreted it as the sound of fireworks; from behind the thick steel door, it could have been anything from a scream, to a foghorn. She tilted her head before being called away.