The Greatest Japanese Hero
Disclaimer:
Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche
The Greatest American Hero is owned by Stephen J. Cannell
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 and this time the wheel is rolling as Kirigiri is making her move to investigate the political conspiracy by searching for Yui Sumidare, and this would lead to a rather somber result which will eventually get Naegi involved in this latest caper...
The Kyoko Kirigiri arc moves in as part 2 commences...
At her house, the scene shifts to the living room as Kirigiri made numerous attempts to contact Yui, both in her telephone and cellphone, but she gets no response, and she is showing signs of getting anxious and worry, since this is about a political conspiracy that Yui accidentally got stumbled in to. Fuhito noticed this and talked to his granddaughter to ease her stress seeing how close she is to Yui so that she can focus better in her work.
"Kyoko..."
"Ah, grandfather..."
"Are you okay...? You looked rather...stressed..."
"It's about Yui..."
"Yui...? You're friend? What about her?"
"It's like this..."
"...you can't be serious..."
"I am..."
Fuhito is rather surprised when told of why she was acting anxious and couldn't believe that the Minister of Justice would be involved in a political plot until he was shown of the e-mail attachment message and now he is starting to see why his granddaughter is acting a bit impatient, but then he suggests that he go to Yui's house so she can see and talk to her personally so she can get more answers from her.
Kirigiri took this suggestion to heart and intends to pay a visit at Yui's house once she finds an open schedule within the week.
As Kirigiri went to her room, Fuhito studies the e-mail attachment and listened to the recorded conversation and slowly became concerned as this means that Kujo intends to usurp the Diet's power from within and decided to aid his granddaughter in exposing the corrupt politicians to the public with the best of his abilities.
"Looks like I may have to get myself involved...even though Kyoko should be working on this alone..."
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. 15: Tantei no Rachi
As the days went by, Kirigiri had to put her feelings about the case aside in order to concentrate on her studies, managing to cover her emotions through her stoic appearance though Naegi managed to guess about it though he opted to not ask her about it since he felt that it is not his business and not butt in on her personal life so he let her be for now.
As lunch break arrived, some of the academy students started to have crushes on her and one by one they approached and asks her for a date, in which she politely turned them down even though she maintained her stoic appearance so as not let them read her movements and the male students were either downed by her response or are disappointed that getting through her won't be as easy as they expected.
"She shot you down?"
"What about you?"
"She turned me down..."
"Maybe she's got a boyfriend already..."
"Maybe she's not interested in boys right now..."
"I'm not giving up..."
"I'm gonna make her mine..."
"She will go out with me one way or another..."
Meanwhile, Kirigiri's classmates, notably Asahina and Ohgami, invited her to go on a swimming party which also includes Maizono and Celestia, but Kirigiri politely declines as she claims she has something personal to do, and she thanked Asahina for the invitation, and Asahina started to wonder if Kirigiri is starting to become distant or if she has "domestic problems" though Ohgami reasoned that perhaps it is due to her title of "Super High School-level Detective" and thinks that Kirigiri is focusing on a certain case which she wants to focus personally.
"...eh? Is that what you think, Sakura-chan?"
"From the looks of it...after all...she has a lot of things on her mind being a detective..."
"But...she needs to unwind for a change..."
"That is up to her, Asahina..."
"So...what now?"
"We leave Kirigiri alone for now...and focus on the rest..."
"Okay..."
"Good..."
Kirigiri soon leaves and went home, and upon arriving at her house she took out her cellphone as she attempts to call Yui but there was no answer, and when she attempts to call her by telephone she got a dial tone in which she realizes that the connection is broken and now she is starting to feel worried as she hasn't got a hold of her for nearly a week and with the next day being Saturday, she decided to head for the Sumidare house and pay a personal visit. She hoped that her hunch and intuitions are wrong as she do not want THAT scenario to become a reality given the "evidence" sent to her a few days ago.
-x-
The next day, Kirigiri arrived at the Sumidare house and there she asks the neighbors if they noticed anything unusual for the past few days, though they say they did see a van came and some people in "business suits" escorted Yui's parents with them and left while Yui was last seen a few days ago before leaving the house, and there Kirigiri is filled with worry as she decided to enter the house and is forced to pick on lock of the door in order to get inside and once inside she looked around and surveyed each room, seeing that Yui's parents' room are tidy enough but when she checked Yui's room it was in a disarray, in which she suspected that the people are looking for something which Kirigiri guessed what it was.
"Damn!"
Then she saw the "letter" which is addressed to Yui and saw the "free pass" to a hotel, and she examines it in which she finds it dubious, if not suspicious so she went to the telephone and attempts to call Fujisaki, but to her surprise, she discovered that the cable line of the phone was severed, which explains why she couldn't reach this house by telephone, and now she is becoming more concerned at the thought of Yui's whereabouts so she uses her cellphone to contact Fujisaki, and after getting through, thee two had a conversation.
"...really?"
"Yes, Fujisaki-san...can I ask for your help?"
"Okay...what do you need?"
"...like this..."
"...okay...what next?"
"...that..."
"Okay..."
"Thanks..."
The scene shifts to Fujisaki's house where it shows that Fujisaki is typing on her laptop and is doing what Kirigiri asks, and the scene zooms in on the laptop's screen detailing the map of Japan, and there it shows that the place that Yui went to, is located at Wajima, near the Notto Peninsula, which is a rather tourist-like place which is mostly covered in beach, but when attempting to research on the WOLF NATION HOTEL, the search results were negative, and Kirigiri sensed that Yui may have went to a trap, and believing that Yui is still there, Kirigiri took the risk by going to Notto Peninsula and thanked Fujisaki for her help.
Kirigiri then leaves immediately and boarded a bus that would take her to Notto Peninsula, and braces herself for anything as long as she gets to find Yui safe, unaware of her friend's fate.
-x-
Meanwhile, the scene shifts to his office where Masamune Kujo is sitting on his chair, awaiting news on the development of his "request" which involved Kyoko Kirigiri, and there his aide began talking to the Minister of Justice to ease his anxiety as he is getting a bit impatient because it turns out that after examining Yui's laptop they discovered that the file where Yui recorded their "private conversation" has been sent to Kirigiri's e-mail, and now Kujo faces a threat of being exposed though his aide assured to him that it won't happen.
"...I see..."
"Now you know...and that's why I'm a bit worried..."
"No need to worry, sir...I'm sure there is something you can do..."
"I will..."
"Then you need to relax..."
"I can't relax knowing that the Kirigiri girl is onto me..."
"Surely, sir...you can try talking to her and..."
"Wait..."
By then his telephone rang and Kujo answered it, and there the caller told Kujo that one of their spies saw Kirigiri boarding a bus and is heading towards the vicinity of Toyoma, and there Kujo told the caller to keep an eye on her and then Kujo dialed his cellphone to call someone else and there he told the unidentified caller to prepare themselves in capturing Kirigiri.
-x-
Elsewhere in Tokyo,Naegi is meeting up with Maizono and there they started to hang out and though he told her he feels ashamed that she gets to treat him, Maizono stated that this is her way of thanking him for saving her, and yet he could only blush at her smile and beauty and felt that he should have been the one who should treat her, but she said this is okay as she led him towards Tokyo Mall and the two teens began walking inside to see which place they should go first, which Naegi deciding to let her call the shots.
"Okay...I'll let you call the shots..."
"Sure!"
"So...where to...?"
"Follow me..."
"Eh?"
"Trust me...you'll like it..."
"Um..okay..."
"Let's go!"
As they are strolling around the mall, their presence caught the eyes of several mall strollers who recognized Maizono and are awed by her beauty and charms, and they are glad that she was rescued and safe, though they are also surprised to see her hang out with a rather "ordinary boy" though they felt that Naegi is "lucky" to hang out with a popular idol, some are even jealous at seeing him getting close to her and wished that they were in Naegi's place.
"Wow..."
"That kid's LUCKY..."
"He must be a friend of hers..."
"I'm jealous of him..."
"I wish I were in his place..."
"That could've been me..."
"I want to date her..."
"Who's that brat?"
As the two walked around, the teens are being approached by several youngsters (aged 10 and below) who are fans of Maizono's idol band, and are asking for her autograph, in which she obliges, entertaining the children while Naegi looks on, pleased to see her back to her usual self after everything she went through, and is also glad that there are no more persons who are after her yet he is starting to sense something deeper towards her which seems more than being her friend yet he had to brush those feelings aside for now so as not jeopardize their friendship.
By then some of the children noticed Naegi and approached him in which, in child-like curiosity, began asking what his relationship to Maizono seeing him with her.
"Onii-chan..."
"Yes...?"
"Are you a friend of Maizono onee-chan?"
"Yes...that's right..."
"Are you her boyfriend?"
"Are you?"
"You're close to her..."
"Tell us the truth..."
Naegi blushed and so is Maizono, and the children began teasing the two, and to the teens' surprises, the children began giving their vote of approval on Naegi being Maizono's possible boyfriend, and there several mall goers are surprised to hear this and took the rumors seriously which would soon turn into a media frenzy.
-x-
Several hours later, the scene shifts to Wajima, and there Kirigiri looked around and began asking several people on where to find the WOLF NATION HOTEL, and to her surprise, the people she asked stated that there is no such hotel, but an abandoned building that is not far from where she is standing and Kirigiri became more concerned about what is going on, especially when she showed to the people she asked the letter and "free pass", and it yielded negative results.
"Never heard of that hotel..."
"Me neither..."
"Maybe you got the wrong address..."
"I think someone pulled a prank on you..."
"There's only an abandoned building...you can check that if you want..."
"Thank you..."
"You're welcome, miss...you need anything else...?"
"No..."
In a hurried frenzy, Kirigiri went to the said place, and there she saw the abandoned building, which resembled a low-class hotel and as she entered it, she finds the place was indeed long-abandoned but then discovered that it was recently renovated to a degree and saw the building's sign, which matched the one in the letter and she entered the building and saw the place was "empty" with no furniture and any people around, and seeing that the place is empty, Kirigiri used the stairs and walked towards the 8th floor and soon went to the room that Yui "stayed" and looked around, seeing that there is no bed or any furniture around, and she looked around to see if there is any clues she could dig on.
"Damn...if there is only a clue I could find..."
As she checked the cabinet, it was empty, yet Kirigiri saw dried bloodstain on the wall of the cabinet and two hangers where dried traces of blood are there, in which Kirigiri clenched her fists as she is starting to guess what just happened here, though she had to maintain her cool and tried to figure out what happened and where Yui is and she instinctively closed and locked the door as she sat on the bed and tried to think of her next course, unaware that Yui and her parents' corpses are just quite far from where she is at the moment.
"Yui...where are you...?"
By then a knock on the door was heard and she opened it slightly to see a man dressed as a reverend holding what appeared to be a bible and and is "offering prayers" and "enlightenment" to a still worried Kirigiri, though she soon noticed the Fenrir tattoo on the man's right hand yet she appeared clam and tries to pretend that she is not interested in his offer though the man just simply talked to her.
"Yes...?"
"Greetings...I bring great news from the "one" above..."
"Sorry...I have a different religion..."
"Be not shy...the WORD applies to all..."
"I'm sorry...but I don't think I..."
"Repent now...or you will end up as our POW..."
"What?"
"Gotcha!"
However, the man made a strong kick to the door and the door fell but she managed to evade it and she is about to engage with the man but then several men, each dressed like a reverend, entered the room and pointed their weapons at her and Kirigiri is surrounded and has no means of escaping, and she is forced to surrender as they took her backpack which contained the laptop and one of them pointed a gun on her face and asked if if there is anyone else who is with her.
"Now then, as an agent of KAMI-SAMA...please tell us the truth..."
"..."
"Anyone else with you?"
"No...just me."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. I came on my own..."
"Anyone else who knows about this?"
"No."
After telling them that she came alone, one of the men with a Fenrir tattoo punched Kirigiri on her stomach and she is knocked down and they carried her out of the fake hotel and boarded a van and left just before the rest placed explosives and made the fake hotel explode and the van is heading back to Tokyo where they intend to have Kirigiri undergo a series of interrogations for their client.
To Be Continued...
Looks like things are getting heated up, as Kirigiri is about to get embroiled in a political conspiracy due to her connection with the now-dead Yui Sumidare, and is captured by Fenrir, in which sparks a possible confrontation with Mukuro Ikusaba, who is also a member of that mercenary organization.
Naegi and Maizono gets some screen time and so is Fujisaki, but Naegi's involvement will commence in the next chapter...
Preview:
The next chapter shows that Kirigiri is about to get in to deeper trouble when she discovers that Yui's e-mail attachment and message shows a deeper political conspiracy while Naegi makes a dash to save her from possible torture...and/or death...