Prologue: Isekai'd into a Killing Game...

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"Ugggh...where am I?" I said. Moments ago, I was in my room binge watching Let's Plays while drinking rum, now I woke up in darkness.

"Pufufufu...I see you're awake, Catherine McHall. Or at least conscious" a snarky voice said. I puckered my lips, that voice sounded familiar.

"Who are you? What is this place?" I asked.

"Me? Well I'm not anyone in particular, but I do assign souls to their next life. Right now you're in what you can call purgatory" the voice answered.

"I'm dead?" I blinked.

"You drank yourself to death, tsk tsk" the voice responded, "Funny for someone who rarely consumes alcohol."

I pinched myself in the nose at the revelation.

"Anyway, normally I would give you your next assignment and you wouldn't remember any of this, but the boss wants to try something new: A butterfly effect" the voice said.

"Butterfly effect? Are you saying I'm going to change the outcome of a known universe?" I gasped.

"If you wish, truthfully" the voice said, "But I will warn you, failure to change the script at all will result in you reliving that life again as the person you're going to be."

"What?" I blurted out.

"In this experiment, you will live the life of Miu Iruma but with your memories as Catherine McHall. The boss is curious how a self-aware character of a story they know would react. If no action is taken, you will relive the entire life of Miu Iruma without knowledge of your past life; this is how reincarnation is normally done." the voice answered.

Miu Iruma...wait, no...as in the Ultimate Inventor from the Danganronpa? Also jokingly called the cum dumpster by Kokichi in the English Dub.

"My next life is supposed to be Miu Iruma?" I grimaced. Miu was a really awful character in V3, even being eye candy didn't help that much.

And I would become the bitch for real if I didn't invoke a change to the story? Gross.

"Pufufu...Indeed" the voice teased, "The cycle of life and death are unfair, but at least you have one less problem this time."

"Well...that's true" I admitted, "But still, I find this game to be really sadistic, Monokuma."

"I'm not Monokuma" the voice retorted, "But the boss can be like that. Admittedly, I'm curious to see how this plays out myself."

I sneered at the fake Danganronpa mascot.

"I will say this, if you manage to win the game you will get to choose your next life and invoke it any time. Otherwise you will be wisped away to your following future" the voice said.

Ok, I like the sound of that. I can finally live out one of my fantasies for real if I win.

Of course, it won't be easy. Foremost, I can't have Gonta be manipulated into killing me. That means convincing Kokichi to kill someone else.

But the only real option would be Himiko, and she couldn't pose a threat.

Fuck, my chances of winning the game were small, given that becoming a blackened would be certain death.

"You can think things through later, time to move on Catherine...or should I say Miu Iruma?" the voice said moments before I blacked out.

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When I wake up, I find myself in a warehouse of sorts...the place where Miu's introduction took place.

"Ok, we're starting with our ultimate selves and not the monokub screw up" I hummed to myself.

And I'm supposed to be for looking drugs...not a bad idea given my circumstances.

Bump

"Oh, sorry I didn't see you there" a female voice said.

"It's fine, I wasn't fucking paying attention" I remarked.

"So you're also an Ultimate?" a male voice stated.

"Are you shitting me?" I played my role up, "You never fucking heard of me? I'm the Miu Iruma, the Ultimate Inventor. And whom the crap are you?"

"Um...Shuichi Suihara, the Ultimate Detective" Shuichi said.

"I'm Kaede Akamatsu, the Ultimate...Pianist. I will be honest, I never heard of you"

"Oh...you wound me" I gasped, "Kidding, most of my stuff isn't on the market right now. Though you may have heard of those gag contacts that became the lamest fad."

"I have" Kaede said, "Say...what are you doing here?"

"I'm trying to find some drugs, so I get super fucked up and hopefully forget this bullshit nightmare" I replied earnestly.

"What? You can't do drugs! That's illegal!" Kaede shouted.

"Tch, which bitch is going to stop me?" I scoffed, "You? I would like to see you try."

"Hey, there's no reason to be rude" Shuichi rebuked.

"Whatever" I clicked my tongue, "Being thin skinned will get you killed one day."

"..." Kaede frowned, "I think we should move on, Shuichi." The boy just nodded before following behind the blond girl.

Once out of sight, I dropped the act. In original canon, Kaede would be executed for killing Rantaro with a shot put...or so everyone thought. It was actually the mastermind that killed her, a fact only exposed in the last chapter.

I could kill Tsumugi, which would change how the story proceeded, but it was possible she wouldn't be exposed as the mastermind.

Team Danganronpa, the real mastermind, could assign the role to someone else to maintain suspense and the ratings. They could even cover for my murder and make me the mastermind. I didn't like that prospect, because I would inevitably be killed in the end.

But I really want to protect Kaede from an unjust punishment. The only way to do that is to become Rantaro's murderer and make sure that is the truth.

"Maybe that's the way it should be" I think to myself, "Maybe I should head into my next life without a choice, like it should be."

Ding Dong Bing Bong

That was the announcement for everyone to meet in the auditorium for the opening ceremony of the killing game.

A game I will start, all for the sake of proper justice.

But in my determination, I foolishly forgot the theme of Danganronpa...despair.

I was about to suffer the greatest despair I ever known and I could not escape it.

A/N: Recently binge watching Danganronpa V3 let's plays and got the motivation to write this prologue. Like all things I write, updates will happen on when I can be arsed to do so.