The Greatest Japanese Hero
Disclaimer:
Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche
The Greatest American Hero is owned by Stephen J. Cannell
First off, many thanks to those who reviewed this fic, I really appreciated it and this gave me inspiration to work on the next chapter after the Sayaka Maizono arc concludes, and here you are about to read a new story arc which involved two detective-themed Danganronpa characters: Kyoko Kirigiri and Yui Sumidare, who appeared in the novel "Danganronpa Kirigiri", and here these two "lady detectives" would play a role in this arc, as the previous chapters showed Yui discovering a political plot and the corrupt politicians were onto her, and at the end of last chapter, Kirigiri receives Yui's e-mail yet she couldn't contact her.
Here you will see what happened to Yui and this is where the Kyoko Kirigiri arc would commence...
At a hotel, somewhere in Tokyo...
The scene shifts to a penthouse-type suite, where the Minister of Justice, Masamune Kujo, is standing in front of a closed window, staring at the skies. He appeared to be in deep thought as he has a lot on his mind and though it appeared to be a serious one, he is calm and collected and doesn't seemed to be worried over something and he simply sipped a glass of wine while listening to the news about Sayaka Maizono being rescued from her abductor which became a sensationalized media coverage which Kujo doesn't seemed to care about.
However, he seemed to be thinking of something as he recalled the events that happened a few days ago, and he thinks about it carefully as he felt a bit uneasy about what happened at a previous hotel that he stayed at, in which he remembered Yui Sumidare talked to him at the previous hotel stating that he took the room SHE already used, though Kujo is sure that Yui may have heard his conversation with his political conspirators..
-FLASHBACK-
"Can I help you, young lady...?"
"Um, I'm sorry to say but, you're in the wrong room..."
"Pardon...? Did you say we are in the wrong room?"
"Yes...here's my proof...I was here earlier..."
"I see...my apologies..."
"It's okay..."
"We'll be going now...sorry for intruding..."
"No problem..."
-END FLASHBACK-
However, Kujo seemed to be relieved as he contacted someone and paid them to deal with the problem and is now awaiting the results and hoped that it would yield positive results as he heard that the ones he hired were top-notch professionals and hoped he not regretted his decision if they turn out to be not what he had hoped for.
By then one of his trusted aide came inside and talked to Kujo, and a discussion took place and there the topic is revealed to be that of Yui Sumidare, and this piqued Kujo's curiosity as Yui's name is mentioned and there his aide brought to him a laptop and the USB file which contained some video and audio files of his "private conversation" a few days ago, and there Kujo adjusted his eyeglasses as the discussion began.
"Sir..."
"Yes..."
"About that girl you briefly talked at a hotel a few nights ago..."
"I already solved it..."
"You did...then the person you talked to..."
"Yes...that is right...I hired a mercenary group to do the task..."
"Then you..."
"Correct."
Masamune Kujo nodded seeing that he did the right thing in hiring a group to deal with the problem and now no one will expose him of his plans to force the current Prime Minister to vacate his position so he can take over and intend to replace the current Diet with a "shadow government" he is conspiring with.
Believe It Or Not by Joey Scarbury
(Opening Song from The Greatest American Hero)
Look at what's happened to me,
I can't believe it myself;
Suddenly I'm up on top of the world,
Should've been somebody else.
Believe it or not,
I'm walkin' on air,
I never thought I could feel so free;
Flyin' away on a wing and a pray'r,
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it's just me.
Just like the light of new day,
It hit me from out of the blue;
Breakin' me out of the spell I was in,
Makin' all of my wishes come true.
Believe it or not,
I'm walkin' on air,
I never thought I could feel so free;
Flyin' away on a wing and a pray'r,
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it's just me.
Ch. 14: Tantei no Shi
A few days ago...
As Kirigiri is preoccupied on solving the Sayaka Maizono abduction, Yui Sumidare arrived home after staying at the hotel she was staying, still holding her laptop and is considering telling her parents about what she discovered about the conspiracy involving the Minister of Justice, and she is now worried that they may have been onto her despite the perfect alibi she made, and now she is considering contacting Kirigiri as she felt that she may be the only one she could confide about her discovery, and as she entered her home, she saw her home still the same and called her parents to let them know that she is home.
"Mom...dad...I'm home!"
Getting no response, she decided to take a rest when she saw a letter in which she opened it, and she is perturbed when the letter says that she must meet with her parents at a hotel stating that they have won a free stay, and that she is to meet them there by noon. With the name of the hotel and the room number, Yui became a bit suspicious as her parents would inform her first if they won anything and yet she got no notice from them, but then a thought hit her as she clutched her bag which contained her laptop where the file she sent to Kirigiri is still stored there.
"Why would they...?"
As Yui went to her parents' bedroom, she saw that most of their clothes are gone along with their suitcases, and she went to her room, where it appeared to be neatly fixed, and she became worried as she is suspecting that something is indeed strange so she used her cellphone to call her parents, but she got no response other than a continuous ring, and she became more worried after getting no text response from them and now she is considering getting help yet she couldn't do so in the open given the position of the politicians involved so she decided to sent a text message to Kirigiri before setting off towards the hotel the letter stated.
-x-
Several hours later, Yui arrived at the place where the letter stated, in which the hotel is located quite far from Tokyo, in which the area is near a beach and is situated in Wajima, and there she is getting suspicious as she has never heard of such a hotel before, judging from the local people she asked and she only found the hotel based on the map provided on the letter, and she approached the hotel, in which the name is displayed as WOLF NATION HOTEL. Yui braces herself as she hoped that her parents are inside as she went there and headed straight for the reception where the receptionist, dressed in tuxedo, bald-headed and wearing shades, greeted her and Yui showed him the letter, where a "free pass" is included.
"Good day,miss..."
"Good day..."
"I got this free pass..."
"Ah, yes...you must be Yui Sumidare, right?"
"Yes..."
"Your parents arrived...and they are enjoying themselves..."
"Can you tell me where they are?"
"Of course..."
The receptionist then told Yui that she gets a free stay while informing her that her parents are in the assigned room waiting for her and she hurriedly went to the 8th floor to see if her parents are there, not noticing that some "hotel guests" are also bald and wearing shades, while at the same time their right hands appeared to have "wolf tattoo" on them, as with the hotel receptionist, but because she was preoccupied with finding her parents, she failed to notice it.
As Yui heads toward an elevator, her mind is racing non-stop, as she had a feeling that something is not right, but she had to take the chance believing that her parents are there, and upon arriving at the 8th floor via the elevator, she checked the room that the receptionist and entered it, where she is surprised to see that the hotel room is empty and that there are no beds or curtains, only a cabinet in which she dropped her backpack and opened the cabinet door, where she is shocked at what she just saw.
"KKKYYYAAAHHH!"
Yui's parents are hanged inside the cabinet room where their bodies showed signs of being tortured to death, and as a shocked Yui stepped backward, she felt something and turn around, where men in white shirts and camouflage pants and boots opened her backpack and took out her laptop, and soon they found the file which contained the video footage of Masamune Kujo and his conspirators making the plot to assassinate the Prime Minister, and Yui realized now that she unwittingly walked in to a trap, as the men smirked and are walking towards the cabinet to bring out the corpses.
"Thank you...for coming all the way here..."
"You..."
"We are pleased that you came..."
"Why kill my parents? They have nothing to do with this!"
"Routine session...and it's nothing personal...just business..."
"But..."
"Sorry...we're only doing this as a professional...and we're told to silence you once you came in...right towards our trap..."
"!"
Realizing what she got herself into, Yui bolts out of the room and managed to get a head start, taking a corner, and thinking fast, she realized that there maybe others waiting for her at the ground floor and instead of taking the elevator or fire exit, she saw a laundry bin and slides through it, and this gives her the time to sneak out as her pursuers did not know this and they assumed she either took the elevator and/or fire exit, so they took those route to go after her, not knowing that Yui got ahead of them as she landed on the basket on the ground floor, and landed safely due to the number of clothes she landed on.
Then she sneaked her way out and saw the "hotel guests" discarding their disguises and are revealed to be mercenary soldiers, and overheard them stating themselves as "Fenrir", and so Yui sent an emergency text to Kirigiri about "Fenrir", her parents' abduction and murder, and the conspiracy plot involving the Minister of Justice, before she hid it inside her underwear and ran towards the "back door", where she realized that the hotel she got in was indeed a fake, and upon reaching outside, she saw one of several parked dune buggies outside and seeing a key, she drives it and rolled out, escaping, but the bald-headed men in white shirts and military pants and boots, who are revealed to be soldiers of the mercenary "Fenrir", saw this and boarded their vehicles and chased Yui throughout the beach, until the chase reached the road, and it was a tense one as they intend to catch her.
"Please...help me...!"
Yui was getting scared as she realized that she is hanging between life and death, and then realized that the Minister of Justice has indeed sensed that she intend to expose him and has hired her pursuers to go after her, and her parents were caught in the crossfire and now she is the next to be killed off, and sensed that pleading for her life is out of the question and all she can think of now is to stay alive and get away from her pursuers and get help.
However, someone shot the back tire of the dune buggy she is wearing and the vehicle skidded and went to a beached area and crashed, though Yui jumped off at the last minute and there she is confronted by the men who are ready to draw their guns, but then one of them raised a hand and the others lowered their weapons and Yui is pondering her next move, when the man confronted Yui and a conversation took place, in which she felt that he is stalling her plans to make a getaway.
"Be not afraid..."
"We are a very religious group..."
"..."
"We are divine..."
"..."
"But there is no heaven or hell..."
"..."
"You will go to a place where you can never tell..."
Hearing him stating "religious terms", she slowly guessed that he is "offering prayers" in preparation to her death and she slowly backed away from him until a bullet struck her knee and she fell down, and is grimacing in pain as another bullet struck her other knee and she is now immobilized, and there she saw who shot her and is shocked to see a female soldier doing this, and she is at the same age as Kirigiri, as the shooter turns out to be Mukuro Ikusaba, and there she reached for Yui's pocket and retrived a spare USB flashdisk and dropped her sniper rifle before bring out a gun and shot Yui in the head, killing her on the spot. One of the mercenary soldiers checked her body and confirmed her death.
"She's dead."
"Good."
"Well done, Ikusaba..."
"..."
"Mission complete."
"What next?"
"We will dispose the bodies...then bring the files to Mr. Kujo...you go back to HQ."
"Affirmative."
As Ikusaba leaves, the mercenary soldiers began digging a grave and soon they buried Yui, along with her dead parents, inside the grave before they leave the scene, making sure that no one else witnessed what occured here and the scene was silent with no one around, as the Fenrir soldiers succeeded in their mission, in which they retrieved the files Yui had and disposing her and anyone connected to her.
-x-
A few days after Sayaka Maizono was rescued...
The scene shifts to Hope's Peak Academy and then zooms inside the classroom as Kirigiri was using her cellphone to contact Yui to no avail as there was no answer, after seeing the attachment of the e-mail sent to her the day after the Maizono case was solved, she became troubled at the thought of the so-called conspiracy involving the Minister of Justice, having heard that he is well-respected and admired by the public, but this...Kirigiri is unsure and with Yui not even replying to her e-mail, she sensed that something is amiss and felt that she had to do something about it.
"Yui...why aren't you answering my calls...?"
By then Naegi came and saw her stoic, yet worrying look and he approached her and asks if there is something going on, in which she replied that it's nothing to worry about, but then Ishimaru came and is telling his classmates about his grandfather being the former Prime Minister and how the scandal affected his family and that he intends not to follow his grandfather's path and carve his own, which the others find it admirable, but then the bell rang and classes are over, and Kirigiri is about to shut down her laptop when Naegi saw Yui's picture and asks her about it.
"Kirigiri-san..."
"Yes?"
"Who's that girl?"
"A friend of mine..."
"She looks...older..."
"Yes...we go a long way before I came to this academy..."
"Really?"
"Yes."
Kirigiri told him that she met Yui three years ago and that they are close friends since then and said that she sent her an e-mail but then opted to not tell him what she knows until she gets confirmation from Yui herself and closes the laptop and leaves the classroom, which Naegi finds it strange until Maizono came to him and said that she is treating him to lunch in the next few days as her way of thanking him for saving her.
"Naegi-kun..."
"Ah, Maizono-san..."
"I'm inviting you to lunch this weekend..."
"Huh? Really?"
"Yup!"
"But...you didn't have to..."
"It's my way to thank you for saving me..."
"Okay...if you insist..."
Naegi is touched by her gesture, and accepted while is also preoccupied at seeing Kirigiri's stoic expression after accidentally seeing Yui's e-mail message though he didn't fully understood the meaning and he is again distracted as Maizono gets Naegi in to a conversation and Kirigiri leaves the academy and is heading home, and as the scene shifts to the streets, the "Detective" is still focused on what has happened to Yui and why she is not answering her calls, since the message sent to her was of prime importance, and there she passed by a hotel where Masamune Kujo and his escorts had exited and there their paths crossed as Kujo glanced at Kirigiri and spoke to her.
"Ah...so it's you..."
"..."
"I heard a lot about you."
"Thank you."
"Your family is quite famous, I heard..."
"Not really..."
"You don't have to be modest..."
"I'm not..."
Kujo complimented Kirigiri and her family which she accepted and complimented him in return before taking her leave, and by then the Minister of Justice boarded his limousine and inside Kujo's expression changed in to that of a serious, yet hostile persona as he picked up his cellphone and called someone, and there a conversation took place and the point of the conversation involves Kirigiri herself.
"Hello..."
"Yes...?"
"Fenrir?"
"That's right..."
"First I want to thank you for a job well done..."
"Thank you..."
"Now...I have another job for you...a new target I want you to capture..."
"Sure...who is it this time?"
After turning off his cellphone, Kujo glances at the window as he expects that things would go his way while glancing at Kirigiri, who is crossing the streets and he stared at her rather intently and is confident that she be taken care of.
On the other hand, Kirigiri sneaked glances at the vehicle as she too is wary towards Kujo as she saw his name on Yui's e-mail message and she is starting to become careful towards him so as not to give herself away and intends to contact her and get details on how deep Kujo's involvement in the conspiracy is, and if she gets enough evidence she will expose him for what he is.
To Be Continued...
Hope you liked this chapter even though it focused solely on Yui Sumidare, and though this was a very important part as it shows the events that happened during and after the previous story arc, which the next chapters will connect on what Kirigiri's involvement in this arc be shown about. Of course Naegi is also getting involved being the only classmate so far to know about his "secret."
With Yui murdered, this will no doubt set off a chain reaction and Kirigiri's reaction would be like if she ever finds out about her friend's ultimate fate...
Also, Mukuro Ikusaba appeared, as well as the mercenary group she's affiliated with - Fenrir! They will be the villains of this arc, and this would mean Naegi is about to get PHYSICALLY involved.
My apologies if you find this chapter rather short, but rest assured the next chapters will be longer...
Preview:
The next chapter shows that Kirigiri investigates over Yui's disappearance, and enlists Naegi's aid, and there she gets to discover something devastating when she gets a clue...