We are finally at Chapter 14! As usual, I'm going to address the previous reviews before moving onto this chapter.
doomqwer, thank you for that comment, and I appreciate that. Yeah things kind of got tense for those two, since the end of the last chapter, didn't it?
From the Guest, I'm glad you're enjoying the story so far. That was indeed the idea I had going, as mentioned before, that I wanted to see the events of Danganronpa IF continued, and how it would effect the next chain of developments that happen in the main canon timeline.
I hope everyone is still enjoying the story and I hope you guys enjoy the next chapter as well. Enjoy!
We reconvene now in a familiar room in a certain location, as we see Monaca "grieving," as she held her hands to cover her face, and Kotoko right beside her trying to console her. They had just heard from the Monokuma Kids working under them that Jataro had apparently now "died," as well. It was the same throne room where they had Masaru's funeral in the past.
"Jataro's not coming back huh? He's gone like Masaru too from what I heard from the recent news from the Monokuma Kids," Kotoko said out loud, pondering about what just happened earlier. "Well it's not like I care. I hated him anyway,"
"Taro probably got himself killed… cut, ground down, crushed and stretched, squashed into paste, burned and eaten!" Monaca cried out as she referred to Jataro with that name. "Poor little Taro… even though I hated him,"
"Anyway, Monaca… why are we not holding a funeral this time?" Kotoko questioned. "Since we had one for Masaru in the past and all,"
"Oh… that. I got bored of that. Doesn't really matter, since we can't even fill the coffin anyway," Monaca answered back, as if she had no care in the world. Kotoko felt concerned and had sweat drip from her face, seeing how much Monaca just disregarded Jataro, even if she herself didn't like him that much.
"Well… if you got bored of it, I guess we really don't have to…" Kotoko said back, trying to not sound a bit nervous. Kotoko then something on her mind she wanted to ask, as she grew curious about something. "But ummm… do you really think Jataro really died Monaca?"
"Hmmm?" Monaca sounded back to Kotoko, as she looked at the other girl now, as Kotoko felt sweat continue down her face.
"I mean… if he did die, we should have found his body, right?" Kotoko questioned, still sounding a bit nervous. "I was just a teensy… bit curious. That's all,"
Monaca hearing this, made her wheelchair and herself face Kotkoko directly after hearing this. Monaca's facial expression turned into one of her own questioning as she looked even more directly at Kotoko.
"It sounds like you're saying Monaca is wrong," Monaca said, sounding doubtful.
"Huh!?" Kotoko said in a panic like manner, as her face tensed up even more. Monaca did not look pleased as she began to yell and flail her arms.
"LIKE I SAID! YOU'RE TRYING TO SAY MONACA IS WRONG! YOU'RE QUESTIONING MONACA!" Monaca angrily yelled out, as she continued to shake and her wheelchair shook as well.
"No, no, no! Not at all! There's no way Monaca would be wrong!" Kotoko replied in complete panic now, as Monaca was now upset at her, as she now continued to ramble due to her panic. "And speaking of wrong, aren't the people who put Worcester sauce on fried eggs just wrong! It's so obvious that fried eggs taste best when you drown it in maple syrup, right!?"
Monaca just continued her temper tantrum while Kotoko chattered her teeth from what she was seeing of Monaca before her.
"Look, I was just a little curious that's all! My head's just a little out of place right now is all… I'm just a teensy bit curious! Like about why mailboxes are always white, or how enemies become friends right after a fight!" Kotoko rambled nervously.
"You… don't have to worry about things like that." Monaca said seriously, as she now felt calmer then before, but still looked at Kotoko seriously.
"I'm sorry! It's not like I have bad feelings towards you or anything!" Kotoko said nervously, as she then went on her knees in front of Monaca and was now begging in front of her. "So please don't hate me! Keep loving me forever and ever!"
Monaca hearing this from Kotoko, began to calm down and soon even formed a smile, as she looked pleased now.
"Yep, yep. I already know that. It's not something to apologize over. I know you're a girl that's very sweet and very… gentle," Monaca said gently, as Kotoko then looked at Monaca with a confused expression.
"Huh? Gen…tle?" Kotoko said as her face then went blank. Her mind began to replay old memories that had to deal with her past as she began to remember voices from it.
"Kotoko, you were so cute, as always!" an adult said to her, as she found herself shivering nervously before this adult in the past. "The director, the producer, the sponsor, everybody was super happy! Now… there's another business you have to attend to, and your mom is going to come with you, okay? It's going to be alright… Kotoko is just so sweet… everyone will be gentle with you… very gentle,"
Back to the present as Kotoko's face began to freak out, as she looked as if she had seen a ghost and began to sob loudly.
"No! I don't want… gentle!" Kotoko sobbed out, as she began to cry now. "I'll do anything please… just not that! I'll do my best with singing and acting! So please! Anything but gentle!"
"Oh, ooopsies! I totally forgot that gentle is a bad word for Kotoko!" Monaca said with fake politeness. "To make you end up like this… it's as I've always known, the Demons are the worst."
Monaca then wheeled her wheelchair right before Kotoko, and then began to hit her face repeatedly with her right fist, while Kotoko continued to cry as the pink haired girl was too distraught by her memories from her past.
"How can they be so blind? Blind to their foolishness, ugliness, obnoxiousness, bad smell, boringness… to their own damnation. Even blind to the fact that they scarred Kotoko like this," Monaca said as she kept hitting Kotoko while saying all of this. She then hugged Kotoko, and patted the other girl's back, as the pink haired girl soon stopped crying and only sobbed. "But don't worry. Monaca won't be gentle,"
After some deep breathing, Kotoko finally calmed down, as she looked back at Monaca's face with an expression that looked all over the place.
"Demons… are filthy, smelly, ugly chunks of meat, and are more worthless than dirt, and disgusting filthy demons, deserve a disgusting filthy death!" Kotoko said out loud, sounding angry, as her face then turned angry as she now began to shout. "They should all choke on their own poop and suffocate! They should just hold it in, and hold it, and hold it, until their intestines explode!"
"Geez Kotoko… that's so gross. That sounds like something Jataro would say," Monaca said back, with a bit of a revolted expression. However, a familiar voice then sounded out, interrupting the two.
"Ummm… what are you two doing?" Nagisa asked, with a confused expression, seeing Monaca hugging Kotoko, in the middle of the room. His face also had sweat drip down, seeing how close Kotoko was with Monaca, being hugged in that manner.
"Oh my, oh my! Are you perhaps… jealous?" Kotoko taunted, standing up and away from Monaca as she was now feeling better and back to her usual self. Nagisa's face turned really pink, as he walked in front of the two, sweat dripping from his own face, as he tried to deny what Kotoko just said.
"What are you talking about? What do I have to be jealous of?" Nagisa said, trying to keep his cool but doing a bad job at it.
"It's not like I'm jealous of you… is that what you're trying to say?" Kotoko continued to taunt with a smirk. This caused Nagisa to look more annoyed.
"Like I said, it's… it's not that at all!" Nagisa answered back, as he felt himself getting riled up.
"Hmmm? What do you mean by jealous exactly?" Monaca asked out loud, which just caused Kotoko to squeal from what she just heard.
"Kyaaa! Monaca you're just so innocent! I could just put whipped cream on you and eat you up!" Kotoko said, while Nagisa had a blank expression form on his face, not sure what to think or feel from what Kotoko just said.
"I don't get it at all!" Monaca said. "Anyway, more importantly… Nagisa you mentioned there was work to be done right? Did something happen?"
"I have a plan prepared," Nagisa said, as he had a vicious grin appear on his face. "A plan to take out the Resistance,"
"Really Nagisa?" Kotoko said, sounding intrigued. "You have a plan to take them out?"
"Yes. I have recently formed a plan. A plan that will take out the remaining demons that form the Resistance. As long as the Resistance continues to exist, our paradise cannot be completed," Nagisa continued to explain.
"Amazing Nagisa! That sounds amazing!" Monaca praised, as she wheeled herself right besides the blue haired boy, and gave him a hug, which caused the boy to blush intensely, and Kotoko to have a mischievous expression appear on her face. "Well done!"
"Hey Monaca! Hey!?" Nagisa said surprised with a blushing face that looked like as if his face suddenly got splashed with pink paint. Monaca just looked at him with a curious face, while he kept blushing, and Kotoko kept smirking at the sight.
"Hmmm? What's wrong?" Monaca asked to Nagisa, as she stopped hugging the boy who tried to calm himself down, from what just happened.
"It's nothing! You're just… a little close to me… and all," Nagisa replied back, trying to not sound nervous, as he had sweat on his face now.
"Awww! You're such a shy boy Nagisa. Meow!" Monaca said in a cheerful tone as she begin to spin herself in a circle, using her wheelchair and feeling happy. "With this plan of yours… if it works, we can finally build the children's paradise! If that happens, the Warriors of Hope will finally level up to Saviors! With that said, since your our new leader, I will continue to have high expectations of you!"
"Of… of course. High expectations for me!" Nagisa said, as he continued to try to calm down from before.
"Yep, yep, yep! Did you hear that Mr. Advisor? Our children's paradise will finally be ready in the future soon!" Monaca said gleefully, while both Nagisa and Kotoko's face felt reluctance pop into them, hearing Monaca address their advisor that was sent by Big Sis Junko, to assist them. Monaca figured she let their advisor discuss this current development with them as well. "Hey… you're listening, right Kurokuma? Oh, that's right… I'll let you talk now,"
The three faced the throne like chair that was in the room now, as a black Monokuma was seated there the whole time, staying silent. He was half black on his left side of his body, and half dark gray on his right side of his body. He wore a dark gray fedora hat which had a white and red feather on it, a golden chain with a golden padlock around his neck and a golden star, had golden teeth, a black tie, a black heart shaped eye patch over his right normal eye, only leaving his left red eye exposed, and finally a brown cigar on his mouth. He was Kurokuma, and he was the advisor to the Warrior of Hope, given to them from Junko.
"I can finally talk again!" Kurokuma shouted out in a stereotypical gangster like accent, as the black bear jumped up and down in glee. Nagisa and Kotoko felt pained expressions coming onto their faces, while Monaca frowned, wondering if she should have let the robot bear speak again. The bear began to ramble insanely long and fast, as words and sounds emitted from him, as he was quite the chatterbox. "Phew that was tough! I shall not be silenced! Nobody's going to close my yap, especially when I got stuff I want to say! Especially since I'm so good at talking! Hey did you know that Spider-Man is officially spelled with the hyphen in it, and you got to include the hyphen as part of his name officially? I didn't know till I searched it up recently! Anyway, what the hell are we all talking about? Are we going to turn adults into sausages to get grinded up and then get sold into supermarkets! I definitely want to see that! Bahahahaha!"
Kurokuma then continued to ramble, as Monaca, Nagisa, and Kotoko all looked at each other and just sighed. Monaca wanted to let the bear in on whatever Nagisa's plan was, but she remembered why she told their advisor to not talk before, as the bear continued to ramble on and on, talking about the most random things.
We see both Komaru and Mukuro walking in the area of Towa Riverside. While it stopped raining, lots of puddles now formed in the area, and the clouds were still gray and cloudy. Both remained silent to each other, as the two continued to walk down. Both felt conflicted over the silence, but at the same time, did not want to talk to the other. Kameko continued to scurry about in its insect cage, oblivious to the hostility both girls now had for each other.
The silence was soon interrupted as both girls saw multiple Monokumas ahead, as the Monokumas were stationary, looking ahead of them, and thankfully not looking behind, where they see both girls. Mukuro noticed they were all standing in a large puddle of water, formed from the rainfall earlier that day. She remembered that Komaru had just gotten the paralyze SD card back for her Megaphone Hacking Gun. Mukuro sighed and decided to stop being silent, as she decided to say something.
"Komaru. Those Monokumas are standing in the water. With your paralyze bullet-" but before Mukuro could finish speaking, Komaru just took out her Megaphone Hacking Gun, had it ready to use paralyze bullets. Komaru fired one of the yellow electromagnetic bullets, hitting one of the Monokumas standing on the large puddle from afar. The Monokuma that was hit, soon began to go nuts with electricity, as well as the other Monokumas also standing on the wet puddle, as they all began to short circuit like crazy. Soon they all blew up into metal scrap, as the electricity was too much for them.
Komaru just stayed silent, as she walked forward, not answering Mukuro back, while the soldier girl just rolled her eyes, but continued to walk after the other girl. Komaru felt conflicted as she continued to walk, as a part of her wanted to thank Mukuro for the advice, but she still didn't really want to talk to her, if possible. The two continued onwards as they were heading back to the Resistance Base. The two fought and destroyed any Monokumas on the way in silence, still not choosing not to speak to each other.
After some time had passed, the two had finally made it back to the Resistance Base. They had noticed that many of the adults that were around, were still as apathetic and all over the place in general and as usual, not that they could blame them. Greeting them upon seeing them return, was Yuta who was happy to see the two girls.
"Hey! I'm glad to see you're both back here safe!" Yuta said with a smile. He then noticed that Komaru was carrying an insect cage that had a stinkbug in it. "Huh? What's the deal with the stinkbug?"
"It's important." Mukuro said, while Yuta looked at Mukuro confused, from hearing this.
"What? How's it important?" Yuta asked.
"I would hope Mukuro answers you about how it's important. Since she has all the information about so many things, unlike us," Komaru stated bluntly and in a frustrated manner with the soldier girl looking annoyed. She walked up to Mukuro and gave the insect's cage that Kameko was in, back to her. "I'm going to head back to my room and call it a day. See you,"
"Wait… what? What's wrong Komaru?" Yuta asked, as Komaru was about to walk off, but stopped hearing that from him. "And the thing is, I need to tell you two something,"
"What is it?" Mukuro asked before Komaru could say or do anything else, curious to hear what Yuta had to say to them "What do you have to tell me and Komaru?"
"Ms. Hagakure said she needed to speak to you two about something." Yuta said to both girls. "I don't know what she has to speak to you two about, but she said it was important,"
"I see… thanks Yuta for the info," Komaru said, with a bit more warmth, feeling better. "I guess, we'll both see her after we're done here,"
"No problem Komaru," Yuta said with a grin. Mukuro then walked up to the teenager boy, and handed him Kameko's cage, with the stinkbug. "Huh? Why are you giving this cage to me?"
"I need you to do something for me. I know in the past you said you wanted to help out, isn't that right Yuta?" Mukuro asked. Yuta nodded back to the soldier girl, though he was still unsure where this was going exactly. "I need you to take care of this stinkbug."
"You want me… to take care of the stinkbug?" Yuta asked, looking confused now. "You still haven't told me how it's important though."
Komaru looked towards Mukuro's face, wondering if Mukuro would do it or not, while Mukuro looked annoyed at the younger teenager, before answering Yuta back.
"The stinkbug belongs to someone I know. Komaru and I found it being held by one of the Warriors of Hope at Towa Tower. It was taken hostage by them, to use as leverage," Mukuro said, while Komaru looked a bit surprised that Mukuro was being more open now, compared to before. "I know this sounds weird and all, but I need you to take care of it, since Haiji will probably keep sending me, Komaru, Yukimura, and Kanon out in the future in Towa City, and I need someone here, I both trust and I believe can take care of this stinkbug well."
"Ah huh… that's interesting," Yuta said, surprised that the children would do that. He then smiled and smirked. "Well sure! I can take care of this stinkbug! Does it have a name?"
"Its name is Kameko," Mukuro answered. "Can you do this favor for me?"
"Of course! Anyway I can help out," Yuta said with confidence.
"I'm trusting you Yuta, so please take care of it well, and don't let anything happen to Kameko," Mukuro stated as she walked to the boy teenager and handed the insect cage with Kameko inside it, towards him.
"I will. You can count on me," Yuta said with a nod, as he then carefully took the insect cage from the soldier girl. "By the way, how did the whole Towa Tower thing go with you two? I know Yukimura and Kanon brought back a hostage from it,
"It went alright. It proved to be a pretty educational experience, considering I started learning things I should have known about before," Komaru said a bit coldly, while Mukuro glared at her. Yuta now sensing that the two weren't in the best of moods, for some reasons remained silent, as Komaru continued to talk. "We managed to contact Future Foundation, which is the organization that Mukuro is part of, but some issues came up,"
"Basically, I can't get you and the others out of here, till the remaining people I intend to save are found and secured, because if they come here now, the kids causing all this madness, will go more out of their way to harm the remaining people I intend to save and cause more trouble in general," Mukuro added.
Yuta just nodded, understanding what they just told them. He bid the two girls bye for now, as he held Kameko's cage, and headed for his room in the Resistance Base. Before Mukuro and Komaru could walk further and meet with Hiroko, they heard another familiar voice call out to them.
"Hey! You two!" said the familiar warm voice of Shirokuma, as the robot bear walked up to the both of them. He then immediately hugged Komaru, while Mukuro just glared at the bear, still feeling Shirokuma wasn't what it fully seemed. "Yay! You two made it back safely! I want to hear the whole story of how it went at Towa Tower!"
Mukuro just continued to glare at Shirokuma, as she did not want to answer the bear, while Komaru fell quiet, as she was still not at her emotional best, as she had a frown on her face. Shirokuma noticed this as, he decided to speak more.
"Are you two alright? I'm guessing you two must be tired, after everything that happened over there," Shirokuma said. "I heard some of it from Yukimura and Kanon, how you two and them fought a lot of Monokumas today. Also thank you all for finding another hostage with Mr. Fujisaki! He's a nice person too!"
"Well we were on our way to seeing Ms. Hagakure to speak to her about something, before we call it a day," Komaru said quietly back. "Hey Shirokuma… how are all the adults holding up?"
"They seem fairly… apathetic," Mukuro added, as both girls and Shirokuma looked at the adults around, in the area.
"I bet they're all just shy! It's not everyday you see two beautiful high school girls, like you two!" Shirokuma complimented, as Mukuro rolled her eyes at what she heard, while Komaru had a small smile form from such a thought. Shirokuma then turned to face the adults and shouted the following to them. "Hey everyone! Aren't you glad these young girls came back to us?"
Silence was the only response as the adults, either weren't listening to Shirokuma to begin with, or were too tired and distraught with what has been happening lately to answer back.
"See? Totally welcoming!" Shirokuma said warmly, seemingly oblivious to the fact they said nothing back. Komaru blinked her eyes, not sure what to say, while Mukuro looked annoyed.
"What are you talking about? No one said anything back when you just said that," Mukuro stated back, wondering if Shirokuma was messing with them, or if he was that unaware.
"Hey Shirokuma... I'm going to go rest after Mukuro and I see Ms. Hagakure," Komaru said quietly, still feeling down from what happened earlier. "It was nice seeing you,"
"Komaru… why are you so down? I heard from Haiji you and Mukuro tried to contact Future Foundation. Did it not work?" Shirokuma asked concerned.
"No, the connection worked fine. It's just… the connection got cut off from the Warriors of Hope and some other… unexpected developments happened," Komaru said, feeling mixed now, as she felt awkward about how she and Mukuro felt towards each other from before.
"I see… so that's why you're so down," Shirokuma said, looking sad himself. "I'm sorry. Do you want me to pat your head?"
"Why? So, you can then stab her with your claws, without her expecting it?" Mukuro commented, annoyed and still suspicious of Shirokuma.
"No! Of course not! I would never do anything like that!" Shirokuma said. "I don't do stuff like that!"
"I know. It's okay Shirokuma. You're one of the few people I can still trust anymore," Komaru said, while Mukuro just sighed and looked away, feeling annoyed again. "Well we should get going. We really need to see Ms. Hagakure. It was good to see you Shirokuma,"
"Same! See you two in the future! Be well," Shirokuma said in a jovial manner as the bear was smiling, as he walked off from them. Mukuro and Komaru looked at each other, with Mukuro looking annoyed while Komaru just sighed. The two walked off, looking for Hiroko before finding her with an unlit cigarette in her mouth, just like their previous encounter, standing in the same general location she was at the Resistance Base, from where they met here from before. Hiroko seeing the two approached her, smiled upon seeing the girls again.
"Yo, Koko and Muku. How are you two?" Hiroko said in a calm but playful mode. Komaru just frowned, while Mukuro just sighed and looked frustrated back. "Huh? You two have food poisoning earlier today, or something?"
"We're… not in the best mood," Komaru answered back.
"Sorry to hear that. Something happen?" Hiroko asked both concerned and a bit curious. "I heard you both went outside earlier. Well I figured you two would."
"You figured we would?" Komaru asked, curiously, while Mukuro wondered why Hiroko would say that as well. "What do you mean?"
"How should I put it… there's something about you two with some others here, that's different from everyone else," Hiroko explained. "How can I say it… the air around you two and some of the others are pretty different. Always trying to face forward and all, while around here, most of the other people feel the air is just getting heavier and they're just feeling stressed out in general. I mean… stuck in a dark and moldy place, who wouldn't be?"
Mukuro and Komaru looked at each other, unsure what to say back to Hiroko regarding that, as Komaru merely shrugged, while Mukuro then decided to ask Hiroko a question.
"Did you wish to speak with us? Yuta said you had something important you wanted to talk to us about," Mukuro asked.
"That's right. Since you two went outside and have been going outside a lot in general… I have a favor to ask of you two," Hiroko said, catching both teenage girls attentions. "You see, I had some men sneak me more cigarettes today from outside, and one of them found something I think you two might be interested in,"
"What did they find?" Mukuro asked, curious of what this favor was exactly.
"A card with information on someone the kids are after," Hiroko said, as she took out a card from her pants pocket and showed it to both Mukuro and Komaru. Both their eyes lit up from surprise, seeing that Hiroko had another hit list card. Mukuro recognized it as another one of the hostages connected to her classmates.
"Ms. Hagakure, can you hand me that, so I can get a closer look?" Komaru asked, as she was curious to see the hit list demon card.
"Sure," Hiroko said calmly, as she handed the card to Komaru. Both teenager girls got a closer look at the card. It depicted a picture of a girl with the demon name being "Madafujirus," and with her real name as Fujiko Yamada. Mukuro recalled that this hostage was a relative to Hifumi. She also noted that it listed Fujiko's location as the Towa Bookstore. Komaru cleared her throat before reading the description on the card.
"A manga artist demon who made Tara Spa! Before you kill it, make it write lots of manga and put you in a comic book! And if it complains, choke it to make it do what you want! It likes to draw naked pictures of boy Demons, so give it plenty of bodies to draw," Komaru read out loud. Komaru's own eyes then widened in realization from what she just read. "Oh my god! She's the author of Tara Spa!"
"What is that?" Mukuro reluctantly asked, as she still didn't really want to talk to Komaru but was still curious.
"It says she's a manga artist, so it must be the title of a manga, I'm guessing right?" Hiroko, curious herself.
"Not just any manga! A manga masterpiece! The drawings of food are so well done, it's said that reading it will make you start to drool!" Komaru admired happily, while Mukuro wondered, if the drawings were really that good.
"Is that so?" Hiroko said, as she had the odd feeling she saw her son Hiro read this manga in the past.
"So, Teacher's Second Fry was just a penname for her... what a shocking scoop!" Komaru enthused on. "This is big news! Huge news! I hope I can get an autograph from her!"
"We should be focused on saving her before anything else," Mukuro said with a sigh. The soldier girl then took out the hit list card from her black drawstring backpack from her back, that herself and Komaru found at Towa Tower, and showed it to Hiroko. "Komaru and I found this at Towa Tower. It's similar to the card the men sneaking you your cigarettes found,"
Mukuro handed the hit list card of Ayaka Haneyama to Hiroko, as the adult women looked it over, as she went over the information on it.
"You're right. It's just like the card my cigarette guys found," Hiroko stated out loud. "Ah… I remember this person. I think I saw her on TV before with the idol group. The idol group with that famous idol Sayaka,"
"Are you a Sayaker as well Ms. Hagakure?" Komaru asked, while Mukuro felt her eyes rolling again, with this being brought up.
"Sayaker? What's that?" Hiroko asked, curious to hear what that meant.
"It's what all of us fans of Sayaka call ourselves!" Komaru cheered. "She has at least over one hundred million of us!"
"So... what kind of things do these "Sayakers" do, anyway?" Hiroko asked.
"Well, nothing specific... We're just people who like Sayaka and cheer for her. In my case, I buy CDs and merch with my monthly allowance," Komaru gushed out while Mukuro continued to roll her eyes and decided to change the subject.
"Well thank you for the other hit list card Ms. Hagakure. The one for Fujiko. But can I ask, why did you trust us, to give it to us?" Mukuro asked.
"I see you two are always bringing back people which is pretty good. You brought Yuta with you two, when you first arrived here. Then you two brought back Kanon with you yesterday. Then you got Yukimura and Kanon bringing back someone named Taichi today. By the way, the guy in charge here, already got that guy a place to rest, so he's resting right now, in case you're wondering," Hiroko explained. "Both Yukimura and Kanon told me, you two told them to bring him back earlier. So, I figured, if anyone can find and bring back more people to here, it be you two."
"Thank you, Ms. Hagakure. That really means a lot," Komaru said, appreciative that she was being trusted. "I'm glad you appreciate me, unlike some people I know,"
Mukuro inwardly growled, trying not to appear or sound mad, while Hiroko just shrugged at the comment she heard.
"Thanks. Anyway, I already talked to the guy in charge, and I recommend at least one of you check in with him before calling it a day. See you girls later," Hiroko said as she walked away, heading to her own quarters in the base. Soon both Komaru and Mukuro found themselves alone, aside from any adults, apathetically around the area still. Both looked at each other with awkward expressions, trying not to speak to each other, but soon found themselves just sighing.
"I'm going to head back to our room… shower and change clothes… and head to bed. You can go see Haiji if you want," Komaru said back quietly to Mukuro. The younger teenager then began to walk away while Mukuro just walked towards the building that had the large meeting room, still not wanting to talk to Komaru if possible. Once she entered, she saw Haiji was there, siting on a chair and looking over a clipboard with some written notes on them. Haiji noticing the soldier girl's presence, spoke to her.
"How did it go, at Towa Tower? I saw Kanon and Yukimura brought back another survivor from there," Haiji said, curious. "Did you manage to make communications with anyone outside of Towa City?"
"I managed to make contact with Future Foundation briefly," Mukuro responded, while Haiji had a mixed expression form on his face, due to hearing the name of that organization. "Before it got cut off, basically they can't risk sending any aid or support at the moment,"
"Why can't they?" Haiji asked, feeling a bit frustrated, and tense. "I thought they were supposed to be helping people?"
"They can't because the children who are behind the chaos here, have hostages and have warned Future Foundation that they can't get involved," Mukuro stated. "What I intend to do, is save the remaining hostages I came to Towa City for. Once I save them all, I'll try to contact them again in some other way since the children cut off our signal."
"I see… well I suppose you better get to saving those remaining hostages as soon as possible," Haiji said. "Out of curiosity, those hostages… they wouldn't happen to be people on those hit list cards? A woman from earlier today came to see me, regarding that, and wanted to talk to me about letting you and Komaru go after them,"
"They are. I intend to save them. As of right now, there are two more hostages I know the locations of. I'm going to search for them tomorrow," Mukuro said.
"Bring Komaru with you. You two seem to be a good team for this kind of stuff," Haiji said. Mukuro looked annoyed at Haiji from hearing this, and Haiji noticing this, added the following. "Like I've said in the past towards you, if you plan to stay here, you follow my rules."
"Hmph." was all Mukuro sounded out, as she left the meeting room, and headed towards where she and Komaru was staying at, for the Resistance Base. "Once I save all the hostages connected to my classmates and get them all out of Towa City… I'm going to expose Towa Group and how they're connected to Junko. One thing at a time,"
Mukuro soon found herself at the quarters where her and Komaru was staying at. She saw Komaru was already dressed in her pajamas and found that the girl was sitting, in the bed the two shared. Komaru noticing Mukuro stayed quiet as she still didn't feel like talking to Mukuro, if she didn't have to, and the other girl felt similarly. Mukuro soon showered, changed her clothes into pajamas, and groomed herself. She then went back to the bed and saw Komaru already was sleeping. She reluctantly sat and went to sleep herself. Both girls for the rest of that night opted to not talk to each other, or even eat, as the mood was still thick with awkwardness and tension between the two, as they just chose to sleep, with uneasy feelings inside of them still towards each other and in general.
We are now checking back with the Warriors of Hope and Kurokuma, as the bear robot was still talking away. Nearby we see Monaca, Nagisa, and Kotoko was sleeping due to the bear's constant rambling and grew bored from hearing him talk. Monaca was slumped up against her wheelchair sleeping, while Kotoko and Nagisa were snoozing on the floor.
"And then Hendrix himself came to my live concert, three times! In my dreams anyway," Kurokuma boasted, despite the fact the three Warriors of Hope in the room were asleep to his rambling. He then smirked and said the following. "By the way, the word massacre is so damn awesome! It has a great ring to it, a beat to it, like the beatbox beating of my heart! M to the A to the motherfucking ssacre! Hahahaha! So yeah anyway, Hendrix was like-"
"Why hello! I apologize for being late everyone!" said the familiar voice of Nagito. Kurokuma stopped talking as he saw the white-haired teenager enter. He was holding a plastic see through bag of what appeared to be chestnuts inside it. Nagito now noticed that the three Warriors of Hope in the room, were all sleeping. "I can see you're captivating them with some tale of some kind,"
"Hey, hey, hey! Where the hell have you been!? You totally missed my hilarious dialogue!" Kurokuma whined.
"I was running an errand for our Miss Fighter. It sure was difficult finding sweet chestnuts," Nagito calmly explained. He walked over to Kotoko and carefully poked her face, causing the young girl to slowly wake up. He then carefully poked Nagisa and Monaca to wake them up as well.
"Huh? What happened?" Monaca said with a yawn, as she stretched her arms.
"Kurokuma's constant rambling put us to sleep," Nagisa said, sounding a bit irritated, but a bit sleepy as well.
"That seems to be the case evidently," Nagito said. He then showed the bag of chestnuts he had to Kotoko. "These are the sweet chestnuts you've asked for,"
Nagito handed the plastic bag full of chestnuts to Kotoko, as she eyed and inspected them. After a bit, she turned to face Nagito with a questioning expression.
"Are these chestnuts, properly peeled?" Kotoko asked. Nagito looked confused for a bit before answering back.
"I'm sorry? No, they aren't peeled. Why?" Nagito asked back.
"What are you, nuts!? This is downright nuts!? Kotoko now whined as she now had a pouty expression. "I asked for peeled nuts! Unpeeled nuts are like a completely different food!"
"Ah. As expected of the great Miss Actress, your orders are quite detailed," Nagito said with a sigh. Hearing this, caused Kotoko to have a serious expression form on her face, as she walked right in front of Nagito and looked like she was ready to murder him on the spot.
"You may be our servant, but keep bringing up ancient history like that, and I'll kill you," Kotoko said in a threatening tone, being completely serious.
"Sorry, sorry. I guess I'll peel the nuts for you. My mistake," Nagito said, without a care in the world as he was unphased by what he just heard.
"You peeling my chestnuts? When one of your hands is still messed up? Ewww, gross!" Kotoko said, feeling grossed out. "Let me see if that hand that got stung, is still swelled up and stuff,"
Nagito took off the glove over the hand that was stung before, and when it was off, everyone else in the room saw that it was nearly back to being a regular normal hand, and was an improvement compared to last time. It however still had some minor swelling and redness left.
"Nope! Still a gross hand! Since you're making me wait longer for the peeled chestnuts I want, it's time I punish you!" Kotoko said with mischievousness. She took out a remote that had various buttons on it. She hit one of the buttons, and soon many normal Monokumas wearing chef hats, headed into the room, pushing carts that had cherry and strawberry cakes with white cream on them. Kotoko began picking up the cakes and throwing them at Nagito. "Take this and this! Useless servants deserve to end up like this!"
"Hahahahaha! Good, good! Go for it!" Kurokuma said as he began to laugh wildly from what was happening to Nagito.
"This is noticeably troubling… I prefer salty things to sweet ones," Nagito said, as his whole being was being covered in cake and whipped cream. Nagisa just dismissed what he was seeing with a annoyed expression, not caring what was happening, and then he suddenly remembered something and began to speak out.
"Wait everyone. I just remembered," Nagisa said out loud. "So before I fell asleep due to Kurokuma's rambling, I devised a plan in regard to the Resistance and-"
"Nagisa. Monaca is going to go to bed right now," Monaca said with another added yawn. "I feel too tired after falling asleep earlier. We can talk about your plan tomorrow, okay?"
"But… but…" Nagisa said sounding a bit frustrated. Nagisa then ended up sighing and shrugging. "Well… very well Monaca. Perhaps it's for the best, seeing how Kotoko is preoccupied with covering our servant in sugary food. I'll discuss the plan I have with you and Kotoko tomorrow,"
With that said, Monaca and Nagisa left the room, while Kotoko remained to keep throwing cake at Nagito. Soon once all the cake brought to her was gone, she left herself feeling satisfied, done for the night as well. Nagito left deciding to clean himself up, and Kurokuma went back to being quiet, seeing now there was no audience at all for anyone to hear him talk. It seemed whatever plan Nagisa, had in mind, would have to be discussed in the future. A plan that would supposedly take out all the so called demons from the Resistance.
To Be Continued...
How was that? Notes as usual.
1. Kurokuma is another character that made his debut in Danganronpa Another Episode. His name Kuro means black, as he is a black robot bear, and Kuma means bear as well. Just like in the original, he loves to rant, though in this version it put the Warriors of Hope to sleep.
2. In the original Another Episode, you would give Hiroko the Hit List cards, and then she would send people to those locations to search for them. In this version of Another Episode, the reversal is happening where she's asking Komaru and Mukuro to find them with the Hit List cards.
Well that's about it for now. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and as usual, if you guys have anything you want to say, point out, criticize, etc, don't be afraid to do so. Till the next chapter!