Danganronpa: 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 here the current story arc picks up where the last chapter left, in which after two chapters, the suspense will now commence as Naegi and the gang are going to the house to RANSACK whatever items they could pick, and Naegi is due to a BIG SURPRISE the moment he snoops around to something...STRANGE, so read on and enjoy!
Several hours later, the time now is 18:45, and the scene shifts outside the abandoned house, where Nagito Komaeda is hiding within the a distance, and he is wearing the super suit that he got from Mt. Bandai, and he has somewhat mastered most of the suit's powers, and through the suit he is able to sense something from the house but for some reason, he chose to remain mum on the issue as he is expecting something good to happen, and he is waiting for someone to arrive at the house, and he patiently waited for Naegi to arrive.
"I sure can't wait to see my underclassman arrive...and see what he would do the moment he steps inside that house..."
-x-
At the Hagakure house, Yasuhuro Hagakure was eating dinner and his mom arrived after attending work, and there she noted that her son missed school today and is seemingly determined to stay put at home and there she joins him at dinner and both began to dine and during dinner she asks him how the day is and asks him why he skipped classes today and he seemed hesitant to tell her, but she gently prodded him to tell her what is bothering him, and he reluctantly told her the reason why he skipped classes and why he did not want to go out tonight.
"...and that is my reason, mom..."
"Geez..."
"Huh?"
"You still believe in ghosts, Yasuhiro?"
"But mom..."
"Grow a spine and get over your fear of ghosts..."
"But...mom...I can't...!"
"Oh dear..."
Hiroko sighed, seeing that her son is still believing in such things such as ghosts, and told him that he has to face his fears and that way he has nothing to be afraid of, though Hagakure was still hesitant to admit that his mom is right, but he decided to try and follow her advice and tries to cope with his fear of ghosts and the supernatural stuffs like the occult, and when things settled, he will apologize to his classmates for not participating in the Special Educations activity and hoped that they wouldn't take it personally on him being scared due to the fortune he predicted.
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. 72: Sanjigen no Tsūro
At the abandoned house, the time now is 19:00, and the scene shows that Naegi and Kirigiri arrived ahead of time, as the agreement with their appointed time of meeting with their classmates is supposed to be 20:00, and Kirigiri is wearing her casual attire, while Naegi is wearing only a trench coat, and as he stepped on the stairs, his right foot went through it as the step broke, showing that the wooden step was already decayed, and Kirigiri helped him up and noted that maybe she should have went here earlier as she felt that something is odd at the house after hearing how the wheelchair moved on its own.
"Maybe I should have accompanied you earlier..."
"Really?"
"Yes...I find it strange after you told me that the wheelchair went down from the stairs on its own..."
"Well...maybe the window was left open and the wind pushed it..."
"That is what motivated me to ask you to comer with me and check this house ahead of our scheduled meeting with our classmates...I want to check this place out. How can you say the window is left open when the front door was locked for nearly several months and there is no way a burglar could climb up at the second floor..."
"Um..."
"I will check the house and judge it with m y own eyes."
"Kirigiri-san..."
Naegi said that he thinks it is coincidence but she felt that it needs a thorough investigation which is why she suggested that they check out the house ahead of the appointed time so as to see if it is safe for their classmates to be here, and as they entered the house, she noted that the place has indeed been abandoned, where the interior of the house is full of dusts, but nevertheless intact, and there were plenty of items to choose from, and Kirigiri went to the stairs to check if there are any open windows to see if a wind is the cause that made the wheelchair move to the stairs.
As Naegi looked around, he attempts to find anything peculiar when Kirigiri went downstairs and told him that all windows at the second floor are closed shut and hasn't been opened since, which baffled Naegi as he wondered how the wheelchair moved on its own that caused it to roll down the stairs, though she is not willing to jump to conclusions and said that this place needs a through check up before she can make any assessments about Naegi's claims.
"Really?"
"Yes, Naegi-kun...I want to look around before I could comment about your claims..."
"Hmm..."
"I will look this way...you check the other side."
"Okay."
"And let me know if you find anything."
"Right."
"Good."
As Kirigiri began to look around, the scene shifts to the sliding door where a brick wall is hidden, and near it, a chandelier is seen, where it slightly moved and is threatening to fall off from the ceiling, and then the scene shows that Naegi found a huge glass bottle with a ship inside, which he showed it to Kirigiri and she assessed it, seeing that it is worth some money and he sets it aside to one place so that he knows which items can be sold or not, and there he decided to do an experiment and removes the trench coat, revealing that he is wearing the red suit and cape, and Kirigiri mentally wondered if this is okay since she saw nothing out of the blue yet she thinks it is okay in case there are burglars here before she and Naegi came.
"I thought you dislike wearing that suit?"
"Yeah...but...I guess I would need it in a situation like this..."
"I suppose. In case there may be a burglar here...you can easily apprehend him."
"Yeah...I guess..."
"Now then...we should commence...and hurry...our classmates would show up here in less than an hour."
"Okay..."
"Let's split up."
"Right."
By then Kirigiri told Naegi that she checked the second floor and told him that all the windows are shut closed and have never been opened since, and this baffled him as he told her how can that be as he said that if the windows were closed, then what caused the wheelchair to move and roll down the stairs as what Naegi pointed out, though she is somewhat baffled at what she was told of, yet she said that they shouldn't dwell on that and instead focus on finding any items deemed profitable by selling it to a pawn shop or junk shop.
By then Naegi spotted the vault and opened it, where a safe is hidden, and there he decided to check it out and pulled it and in less than 10 seconds he yanked it out and Naegi landed on his butt, and he stood up and placed the safe on the table and opened it, where he saw the contents which consists of legal documents and it all pertains to an access to an oil field and he told Kirgiri about it and she decided to check it out to see if the the documents are still valid.
"Hmm..."
"What is it, Kirigiri-san?"
"Looks like these documents showed that the deceased person owned an oil field."
"Really?"
"But I need to check it thoroughly...I will take them with me and have it verified."
"I guess you have a point."
"Go check anything else."
"...fine...huh?"
Naegi then accidentally glanced at the fireplace and saw it was burning, and asks her if she set the fire place on fire, and she saw nothing and told him that she did not, and as Naegi glanced at it again, he SAW the fireplace still burning and told her that it is, and when she glanced at it, she saw nothing, and at first she thinks Naegi is seeing things, but then made a discovery on what is going on here, deducing that what Naegi is seeing is due to the red suit he is wearing.
"Naegi...you say that the fireplace is burning...?"
"Yes...didn't you see it?"
"No."
"Huh? How come...?"
"I think the red suit is what's causing it..."
"Eh? Are you saying...?"
"I'm a detective...not a psychic...but...if what you say is true...then perhaps the red suit has the ability to detect something related to...unscientific means..."
"No way..."
Naegi is surprised at what she told him, and he couldn't believe that the red suit is somewhat capable to detecting something and is beginning to think that he suit can detect something that could be SUPERNATURAL in nature, though Kirigiri told Naegi not to get carried away and said that maybe it is just a coincidence, reminding him that the red suit was created by the aliens, hence the suit is made by science and there is no proof that the suit can function on anything that goes beyond the bounds of science.
"..."
"So try not to get stressed and take your time in learning the suit's powers..."
"If only I did not lose the instruction book..."
"And whose fault is that?"
"I was drunk at that time!"
"You know you shouldn't have..."
"Anyway...try to take things slowly..."
"..."
Naegi glanced at Kirigiri as he considered her words and recalled how he got the red suit in the first place and believes that she is right, and decided to leave it at that and decided to explore the rest of the house, and is checking his watch so that he would know what to do should the rest of his classmates decide ti arrive earlier than expected.
-x-
Outside the house, Nagito is observing the inside if the house using the suit's HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGE and he can hear the conversation, and he smirked at seeing how SHALLOW Kirigiri is, as Naegi's red suit do indeed detect a supernatural aura yet she dismisses it due to her detective's intuition, and he is predicting something INTERESTING that would happen soon, and he couldn't wait to see the events unfold from this point on.
"This sure is interesting...I can't wait to see the events unfold...I sure am LUCKY..."
-x-
At Hope's Peak Academy, the time now is 19:20, and the 11 classmates from the Class of 78 arrived and assembled at the school gate, and they are now waiting for Naegi and Kirigiri to arrive as they decided to go to the house at 20:00 or earlier so that once they are done they can go home early, but for some reason they couldn't reach them by cellphone and they noted that Hagakure is still absent and not even coming to meet with them, in which Celes presumed that he got scared of an abandoned house which Togami agreed, calling Hagakure GUTLESS, which the others disagree with the comment.
"Come on, don't be like that, Togami-kun!"
"Hagakure is not like that..."
"Maybe he really is a coward..."
"I told you so..."
"Never mind that...we should instead prepare for tonight."
"Ohgami's right..."
"where the heck are Naegi and Kirigiri?"
"Perhaps those two got scared as well..."
"Stop that, Togami! Kirigiri is not like that!"
"Yeah!"
"Hmph."
However, Asahina is starting to get worried as she couldn't reach either Naegi or Kirgiri, and Maizono is starting to wonder what Naegi and Kirigiri are up to, and the rest are considering going to the house, but Ishimaru urged them to wait as they all agreed to go to the house at 20:00 sharp, and said they should wait for a while longer for Naegi and Kirigiri to arrive before they make their move, and the others decided to stick with what Ishimaru suggested.
-x-
Back at the abandoned house, the time now is 19:30, and Naegi had just explored the house and so far he has not seen anything weird and thought that Kirigiri is right that what he SAW earlier maybe coincidence, and he is now reaching his trench coat and about to put it on when he glanced at the sliding door and curiosity overtook him and he puts down the coat as he went to the sliding door and pushed it aside, and it showed the brick wall, and there Kirigiri saw it and asks him what is he going to do, in which he said he had a feeling about the what is behind the brick wall.
"Naegi-kun...what is it?"
"I...I sensed something..."
"Where?"
"Behind that wall..."
"?"
"I am sure I felt...something..."
"Is it because of that suit?"
"I suppose..."
Naegi tries to use the suit's holographic image to see what is behind the brick wall, and so far he did not get any, until he touched the wall and his hand phased through it, which surprised him and Kirigiri, and he pulled his hand out and he is surprised at what just happened and he was speechless at what he had just encountered, and Kirigiri is trying to come up with a logical sense on what she just saw, through a detective's point of view, and she tried to think of a theory but is unable to come up with one, until Naegi tries touching the wall again until his head went through it, and the next thing he knew, he is facing what appeared to be the other side of the brick wall, which is pitch black and saw a woman sitting on a chair and facing the fireplace, and he pulled out and is back at the house.
"Kirigiri-san!"
"What?"
"I saw her!"
"Her?"
"There's a woman behind that wall!"
"What?"
"She glanced at me!"
"Are you...?"
Naegi told Kirgiri what he just saw and she blinked her eyes at what she just heard, ans when she touched the wall, she finds nothing but a brick wall and couldn't get through and even placed her ear there and heard nothing, and she said that perhaps this is the effect of the red suit and maybe it is producing effects that neither she or Naegi is aware of, but then Naegi said he would try and find out what is going on and went through the brick wall and phased through despite Kirigiri's protests.
The scene shifts beyond the brick wall and it shows that Naegi is somewhere within what appeared to be a dimensional area which is pitched black and he couldn't see his way through, and as he is about to head to what he saw is a middle-aged woman, a pair of eyes is slowly approaching Naegi from behind, and soon it began to attack the Luckster, and Naegi is now struggling to fight off an unseen opponent, which appeared to be a cat-like entity as it began to scratch and claw Naegi, and Naegi is starting to get the receiving end of the assault despite wearing the red suit, and he appeared to be harmed by the attack and he is starting to back away.
ROAR!
"AAAAIIIEEE!"
ROAR!
"GGGYYYAAAHH!"
ROAR
"OOOOWWW!"
ROAR!
"AAAAHHH!"
The scene shifts to the house where Kirigiri is staring at the brick wall as she glanced at her watch, which shows that three minutes have passed, and she wondered what Naegi is doing in there until she is startled and surprised to see Naegi phasing through from the brick wall and he landed hard on the floor, and her eyes went wide upon seeing him in pain and is quite convulsing, as he is clutching his back, and she went to him and asks what happened.
"Naegi-kun!"
"Uh..."
"Are you alright?"
"Uhh..."
"What happened to you?"
"..."
"What happened in there?"
"Uhh..."
Unable to get a cohesive response, Kirigiri removed the black cape, white belt and the upper portion of the red suit, where she stared in shock at seeing scratch and claw marks on his back and on his chest, and there were light bleeding, and as she checked the red suit, she noted that it did not show any signs of damage, yet Naegi's body did, and she glanced at the brick wall, as she is now getting wary of this house and decided that it would be best to stay away from this place and now she needs to get Naegi to a hospital for emergency treatment.
To Be Continued... .
Hope you like this chapter, and even though Naegi is wearing the red suit, there was no action yet, except that he was attacked by an unseen force...and for the first time, Naegi is harmed despite wearing the red suit, and since the attacker wasn't seen, this means that Naegi is facing his GRAVEST CHALLENGE...
Nagito appeared as well, and is also wearing the other super suit...but he chose not to step in and intervene, but observe. He seemed to know what is going on inside the house yet he chose to let Naegi handle it. What is he up to?
The Class 78 appeared as well, and are unaware of what has happened to Naegi...looks like they too will encounter trouble...
Preview:
Naegi is taken to a hospital...and his classmates are heading to the HOUSE...expect trouble to ensue...
See you in in 2 to 3 weeks...
Reviews are welcomed...
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