"Well, this particular swimsuit isn't exactly suited for things like beach volleyball but I was hoping to walk around and sit in the shallow water before I lay down…"

"Boo, that's no fun. Just come lay down with me, dumbass. Who in their right mind wants to go into that nasty ass ocean anyways? Fucking idiots."

"Boo, that's no fun. Shut the hell up, Harumi. We came here to have fun, not sleep under the sun."

"Kaori is right. God, I can't believe you're still being this much of a bitch when we're at the beach, Haru - where's my swimsuit?"

"Ehe…"

"What is...is this string? Why is string here?"

"I hate to say it but I agree with Harumi...I'm not exactly fond of the beach. I'm only here in case of an emergency."

"You guys are no fun. Didn't you hear about the amenities they're giving us? We're gonna have so much fun!"

"R-Really…? I wa-was...I was just gonna p-play in the sand…"

"But before we go do all of that...do you want to help me with something, Shun? I promise it'll be fun."

"Come on ladies, let's get this show on the road!"

"W-Wait! Has anyone seen my hat?"

"You don't need your safari hat in the water, Sasaki, come on!"


"Yosuke...why do you have so many pamphlets? ...Actually, you know what? Never mind. I don't want to know."

"To spread the word of our Lord, Jesus Chri-"

"He just said he didn't want to know. Jeez. Do you ever listen? Not cute at all…"

"BAHAHAHAHAHA! You're so funny, Toshiro!"

"You know, I've been wondering, why is it that you only call Toshiro Haruki by his name, Sting?"

"A-Are you of all people really asking that…?"

"Why are you people wasting time speaking here? I have no desire to spend any more time here than I have to."

"I don't care what you guys do...sleeping under the sun...warm…"

"Ah, Japan's beaches are beautiful...th-this is going to be fun."

"Hehe...I agree. Speaking of fun, sunburns won't be. I have plenty of sunscreen here if you guys need help."

"Ooooh, rub some on me, would ya?"

"I challenge you ALL to a game of volleyball - and don't underestimate me! Just because I'm an Ultimate Gamer doesn't mean I'm not athletic!"

"...I have something to do. Bye."


"Is this thing on…?" a bored boy's voice asks.

"Yes, yes it's on - come on, Ryu! We're burning daylight here!" another boy's excited voice urges.

The first voice and the one behind the camera, Ryu, sighs and the camera pans up to a boy with fair skin, styled brown hair, and green eyes. He's wearing a plain white t-shirt and dark blue swimming trunks with bright yellow stars all over them.

"I left my protagonist's meeting with Seizo and Sora about an hour ago - that means Class 80th should be at the beach by now!" the brunette boy says.

"This is the part where you ask me what 'protagonist's meeting' means."

"I really don't care, Tatsumi." Ryu sighs.

The brunette, Tatsumi, pouts. "And this is why I asked you to be my cameraman. I knew you wouldn't be doing anything fun at the beach." he says.

"...I wanted to go swimming." Ryu sighs, sounding a bit disappointed.

Tatsumi either doesn't hear him or ignores him, reaching into his pocket to answer his ringing cell phone.

"What do you want, Ryoji...what? No, I'm busy, go ask Sachi or Sumire…" Tatsumi says, walking off camera to continue his conversation in private.

Ryu moves the camera to face him. His dead looking grey eyes stare into the camera as he repeats, "I wanted to go swimming." and pans the camera down to show off what he's wearing: plain black swimming trunks and a matching pair of black goggles dangling around his neck. "See? I was dressed for it." Ryu sighs.


The camera pans up to show Tatsumi sitting in between two very scary looking students: a girl with green eyes and neatly cropped brown hair and a boy with long braided black hair and dark eyes (oddly enough, he's also wearing gloves). They both tower over Tatsumi and they both look miserable.

The girl, wearing a plain black bikini, and the boy, wearing a tight-fitting tank top and black trunks, stare at Tatsumi like he just murdered each of their mothers.

Tatsumi just smiles happily. "What is up guys, it's Tatsumi Endo here, the Ultimate Paparazzi! Here we have Juriya Inaba, the Ultimate Surgeon," he says, gesturing at the girl. "and Akifumi Yatagarasu-"

"You will refer to me as Armen if you wish to leave this beach alive."

"-excuse m-me, I mean, Armen, the Ultimate Forensic Expert!" Tatsumi corrects himself, sweating nervously. He quickly bounces back into his cheerful self though, "So!" Tatsumi beams. "Rumor has it that you two-"

"We what?" Juriya sneers. "We're 'dating'? Don't be ridiculous." she says coldly, crossing her arms. "I would hardly even call us friends."

"Precisely." Armen agrees, glaring daggers at Tatsumi. "I couldn't have said it better myself. We both just prefer the company of individuals with IQs higher than ten." he jeers.

Tatsumi deflates. "N-No...I was going to say that you two hate the beach and-or swimming but here you are…"

"Oh." Juriya and Armen say in unison.

"I told you they weren't going to be the best ones to interview." Ryu sighs from behind the camera.

Armen snaps his glare back to the camera, or more precisely, the one behind it. "Why are you Class 80-B people even here?" he says. "This was supposed to be a Class 80-A outing."

"Mai and Sasaki told me I need to get out more…plus I wanted to go swimming."

"Who the hell are Mai and Sasaki? More of you 80-B trash?"

The camera pans up and down.

Juriya blinks. "Did you just answer him by saying yes with the camera?" she asks like it was the greatest act of stupidity she's ever witnessed.

The camera pans up and down.

Tatsumi pinches the bridge of his nose. "Come on, Ryu." he says. "I think I see-"

"Would you like to hear about our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ?"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIII!"


The camera shows Ryu crawling away from the camera to sit beside Tatsumi, a girl with short lemonade pink hair, and a foreign boy with brown and red hair and light turquoise eyes on the sand.

"How long do you think they're going to go at it?" Tatsumi asks.

Ryu shrugs.

The girl grumbles and crosses her arms. "I don't care what she and Kanna do. You three are blocking the sun." she says and throws herself back on her towel. "Move."

The unpleasant girl is wearing an off-shoulder ruffled white and red one piece with thin straps. There's not a speck of water on her so similarly to Juriya and Armen, she hasn't stepped foot in the water.

Tatsumi glances down at her. "Who even are you?" he asks with distaste. "I'm the Ultimate Paparazzi and I only know you as Ikigai Gen Cho's daughter. How did you get into Hope's Peak, Harumi? As far as my sources tell me, you-"

Harumi gasps, affronted, and sits back up. "EXCUSE you! Silence! Who do you think you are to refer to me in that way? Do you know who I am? You'd be dumb not to, I'm one of the most famous girls in all of Japan! The soon to be head of the Danuja Dynasty…"

Ryu, Tatsumi, and the foreign boy exchange a look.

"...hm, now are we starting to connect the dots?" Harumi asks. She huffs when the boys don't answer her. "Hmph, pathetic, I should've known Hope's Peak wouldn't clarify my arrival with you people. This reminds me of the day I met Takako Uehara during one of her dumb shows, she seriously had the nerve to ask me why I was hiding backstage. Ugh, very well, I'll only introduce myself once so listen up." she says as if this were the most difficult thing in the world. "I am Harumi Gen Cho, soon to be heir of the Danuja Dynasty as I am known as the Ultimate Confect-"

Harumi shuts up and all four of them freeze when the girl is suddenly doused in seawater.

Harumi's eye twitches.

The four of them slowly look up to see the culprit: a grinning girl with shoulder-length black hair and wide green eyes. She's wearing a plain white one piece and a single white sandal. A white woven sun hat rests on top of her head with a white ribbon tied into a bow around the band of the hat, a smiley face pin attached to the ribbon.

Tatsumi beams. "Y-Yume Nii, the Ultimate Comedian!" he says in awe.

Yume, pleased at being recognized, lets out a hearty, dramatic laugh and drops the now empty bucket she's holding onto Harumi's head, covering the heiress' face. "That's right, the Lion of Laughter has arrived to make your sunny day that much brighter-!"

"You have five seconds to run." Harumi's muffled voice says from under the bucket. "Five…"

"-and it seems as though my job is already done!" Yume smiles. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta run."

"...three…"

Yume bolts.

Harumi tosses the bucket off her head (Ryu leans back to dodge the flying projectile) and screams as she starts running after Yume.

"Yikes." a girl with ginger hair says as she takes a seat next to the boys. "Who pissed her off?" she asks.

Tatsumi gasps. "M-Mai Rinzaki, an Ultimate Masquerade Ball Dancer!" he beams.

Mai is wearing a simple black one-piece swimsuit with gold floral lacing on the sides.

"That's me." Mai nods. "Don't mind me, I'm just here to watch the game." she says, gesturing at the scene behind the camera.

Tatsumi smiles giddily and nods earnestly. "R-Right!" he says. "Whatever you say!" Tatsumi agrees as the foreign boy wordlessly moves to take Harumi's spot, sitting closer to Tatsumi.

Tatsumi smiles and turns to him. "So, Mister Firefighter, if you don't mind my asking, what caused you to move all the way to Japan?" he asks. "My sources say that you only got recruited by Hope's Peak after your move, right? So that can't be the reason." Tatsumi pries.

'Mister Firefighter', also known as Valentin Del Rio, smiles kindly at Tatsumi. "I-I am sorry, Señor Tatsumi, lo siento, but I do not...I do not feel ready to answer that quite yet." he apologizes.

Valentin is wearing a pair of navy blue swim trunks with white drawstrings and the design of a red and amber flame spreading across the right leg.

"Awww," Tatsumi whines. "Come on, why not?"

"Well, Señor, I did only just meet you when you sat next to Señorita Harumi and I." Valentin points out.

Tatsumi sighs. "Fair point." he says. Then, he perks up. "So you're saying you'll talk to me when you've known me for longer than five minutes!?" Tatsumi asks excitedly.

Valentin nods slowly. "I...I suppose." he agrees.

"SCORE!" Tatsumi cheers, standing up.

Valentin blushes shyly, bringing his knees to his chest as he continues watching Kanna play volleyball with her.

All of their eyes widen suddenly.

"R-Ryu! Ryu, get the camera!" Tatsumi says, running past the view of the camera.

Ryu scrambles to grab the camera from the sand and runs after Tatsumi.

The camera displays a shaky view of the sand and Ryu's feet running to catch up with the paparazzi. A few seconds later, the shakiness stops and the camera pans up to show Tatsumi standing beside a beautiful girl with dark brown eyes and black hair and an unimpressed boy with blond hair and green eyes. At their feet, a girl with shoulder-length blueish silver hair lays face down in the sand.

"Is she alive…?" Ryu trails off, confused. Not even the Ultimate Spy can understand what exactly the other girl is doing.

The beautiful girl looks at Ryu, panicked. "Don't say that!" she cries.

The blond boy pokes her with his foot and opens his mouth to speak-

Suddenly, the audio cuts out. A few seconds later, text pops up on the screen.

I'm real sorry, guys! The audio here got corrupted for some reason but I'll explain the best I can!

The picture freezes on the four of them. An arrow pops up, pointing at the girl with black hair.

This is Kanna Kawagiri, the Ultimate Influencer! I'm a big fan of hers!

Kanna is wearing a white and pink vertically-striped bikini. The top is strapless. All in all it seems much more suited to sunbathing then anything...so why was she playing volleyball with her and the boy?

The arrow pointing at Kanna shifts to point at Kano.

This is Kano Hanazaki, an Ultimate Gamer! He's so cool!

Kano is wearing red swim trunks with a black skull pattern.

These two were playing with c̸̨̛͕̲͚͓̽͆̒̆̊̽̄ợ̸̡͓̩̭̠̭̯̙̋͛͛̓́̑́̒͊͒ŕ̷͓̏̋͝r̵̢̢̞̬̭̜̄̋̈́̽̇̀̎̂͝ǘ̶͚̇̍̾̏̍͒̾̐̋p̷̢̨̡̻͉͇͇͈̲͍̩̆͋͗̉̌͜ṭ̷̠̯̾̔̌̂͂͗̉̾͘̕̕ͅe̶͔͓̘͆̃̏͆͊͆͐͛̚͜͝d̴̜͔͂̏̓̃͒͒̽̈́̿̚̚͠ ̵̦̄t̴̝̱̜̬͔̬̼̥̦̹̃̔̋̓̋͐̏̊̍ȇ̴̡̗͖͉̤̳̻̓̕x̷̗̫̗̖̳̯̤̻͎͈͈̝͗͆͐͋͌̈́̎͠t̴͔͚̤̯̗̦̦͓͊̓̕͜ͅ here over some wager - I know, Kanna doesn't look properly dressed for beach volleyball but in Kanna's defense, she wasn't exactly planning on playing. Miraculously, though, she barely broke a sweat! Isn't that cool?

As for the girl at her feet, that's c̸̨̛͕̲͚͓̽͆̒̆̊̽̄ợ̸̡͓̩̭̠̭̯̙̋͛͛̓́̑́̒͊͒ŕ̷͓̏̋͝r̵̢̢̞̬̭̜̄̋̈́̽̇̀̎̂͝ǘ̶͚̇̍̾̏̍͒̾̐̋p̷̢̨̡̻͉͇͇͈̲͍̩̆͋͗̉̌͜ṭ̷̠̯̾̔̌̂͂͗̉̾͘̕̕ͅe̶͔͓̘͆̃̏͆͊͆͐͛̚͜͝d̴̜͔͂̏̓̃͒͒̽̈́̿̚̚͠ ̵̦̄t̴̝̱̜̬͔̬̼̥̦̹̃̔̋̓̋͐̏̊̍ȇ̴̡̗͖͉̤̳̻̓̕x̷̗̫̗̖̳̯̤̻͎͈͈̝͗͆͐͋͌̈́̎͠t̴͔͚̤̯̗̦̦͓͊̓̕͜ͅ ̵͍͕̺̫̉̀̃c̵̢̳̥͇͇̹̔͒̄̀̂͜͝ŏ̷͈̺̞̻̩̩̝̜͐̉̎̎̂́ṙ̴͕̱̝̙͎̒͊͆̄̈́͘r̷̪̩͎̖̫̿̊̒̃͋͒̀͂̆͗͌̕u̶̧̳͈̹̘̗͍̿̏̍̎͌́̽͘͘̕͜͝ͅp̸̼͇͇͕̟̲̘̤̞̤͜͠t̷̨̢̢̲̩̜͔̣̺̹̼̣̊̒̈ë̵̛̹́̊̓̒̐̋̈̏̔̋̚d̵̡͚̳̫̤͗̒̐͆̀̾̑ͅ ̶̛̛̟͕͍̍̆̇̅̋͆̽̄͜ţ̷͖̠̖̜̟͗̆́͆̑̎̈́̌̾̈́e̴̢̼͉̪̠̟̥̬̠̐̅̓͋͂͠x̴̨̹̰̙̖̖̲͆͝ͅt̶̨͔̳͚̦̘̒̄̔̕ ̸̹̲̊̌̎̉͝c̴͉͍͛̔̎̓͂̍̽͐͑ö̵̖̻̭͓͔̙̌̈́́̔̓̈̆̋ͅr̶̢̲̝̼̼̫̭̦̘̹̅̚ͅr̴̦̰̆̑̈͝͝ư̸͍̱͙̼̰̞͎̝̦̱͓̠͂̓̋̍̊̒̌̀̾̕p̷̼͈̉̈́t̸̢̬͈͕̙͉͙͓͖̍͌̋̅̌͑͋̉͆̈ė̶̛̳͈̈̈́̅̓̾̑͌̕͠d̴̨̨̦̘̗͉̩̣̩̠͉͔͂̎͠ ̶̨̖͍͎̼̻̞̼̃̊͒́̄̒̒̃̒͌̕͠ͅt̵̡̨̟̮̣͆̆́ͅè̷͍̥͎̹͆x̸͎͋̐̊͛̆ţ̴̦̙̥̣͔̫͙̝̝̙͓̽̈́̀̆̉̓͒ ̵̼͆͝c̸̛̝̭̰͐̎̔́̆̋̃̂͛̕͝o̶̢̧͍̽͗͜r̸̖̱̙̻̖̮͕̅͛̀̾͆̇̾̀́̂͑͜͜r̷̯̣̜̣̣̘̘̰̤̣̓̊̀̿̀̎̂̉̾̽̉u̵͎͓̞̭͓̣̩̩̳̝̼͔̿̊̒̓̅̒́̚̚̕͝p̸͖̮̰̱̭̪͕̭̈́͋̄̓̀͋͗́̕͝t̸̡̯̥͎̣͎̦̪͖̠̼̿̀é̶̹̠̏̽̔̀ď̸͉̻̻̪͇̽̏́̋̈́́ ̵̧̥͂̔̋t̵͕̘̜͇̀ͅé̴̘̲̱͍͉̼͔͠x̵̛̩̥͖͍̗̝̺̪́̒̇̌͜ͅͅͅṯ̶̢̜͕̬͙̲̒̓͗̀̿̈́̚͝ ̷̢͖̗͖̭̝͎̎͆̑̓̀̏́̇̅̊c̸̨̞͔̤̰͂̅̆̆̍o̴̯̅̈́̿̏̓̃̓͑̌̕͠͝ŕ̵̢̧̞̭͔̙̹̣͇̺̈́̀̌̊͑̿͗̀̒̀͜͝ͅr̷̛̹̜̜̎̓̿̏̄̓̽̃́͘u̸̢̘͉͖̤͗͛̋̔̕͜͝p̷̱͇̣̣͚̬̈̏̈̅̅̚͝t̷̡̛̝̲̲̜̻̱̬͌͒̈́͜͠ė̸͉͓́̓̽͐̄̏̆͊͝d̸͎̙͍̼͚̼͓̦̞͓͈̙͘ ̶͍̀̆̿͑͌̑͗̑͘t̵̪̠̽́̓̓̆̕̚͜ȩ̴̬̗̞̫͔͓̦̮̪̬̯̓̇x̵̹̬͚̜̱̲͔̜̮̓͛̆͊̊̇̐̑͊̓̚͝t̷̨͍̝͓̲̮̟̅̃͌͋̋̀͐͒͜ ̸̨̧̛͚̟̹̆͂͊̍͋č̶̜͇̱̋̌̆̽̌͐̀̀͊͝ǫ̴̘̓̐͑́r̸̢̧̼̜̻͔̩͉̤͋̓̾̇̾̕̚r̷̲̀̂͐́͑͒͠ͅǘ̸̞͕̤͉̫̲̘̳͎͙͚̽̌͊̅͂͠p̶̧̦̟̭̬̀͒͐̆̋͂͛͑̕̚͝͝t̵̨͕̖͕̰̺̹̻͚̬̖̀̀ḙ̸͔̳̣̝̗̙͎͍̐̀͒́̐̅̔̂̄͛͒ͅd̶͔̹̫͚̀̽ ̶̢͇͔̞͈͐͐͆̃͆̌́̆̉̑̌͜͠t̶̛͉̋͗̃̂̈́̈́͒̏̽͝ȇ̸̢̦͔̯͈̖̩̮̠̞̯̾̎̕x̸̮̺͓̿͜ṱ̷̛̙̮̑̎͆͑̌͗͑͘ ̷̡̛͕̘̪c̷̼̺͖͋͒̿̇͋̀̚͘͝ō̵͚̬̟̠̞͉̱̂͆͒̔̅̐́͝r̵̨̻͍͇͚̂̀̒́̒͂̚r̴̯̘̘͔̦̒u̸̡̥̣͇̮͍͓͉̤̞͕̇̈́̀͜p̸̡̙̦̰̠̜̼̹̗͈͚̓̈́̕t̵̡̥̟̩͍͍̂̋̆̊̏̉͒̐͐̕̚͝ẹ̸̢̱̜͉̮͔͙̩͓͖̖̿̈̅̅͌͠͝d̴̢̡̢̢͍̟̖̱̞̙͌͌͆̀̂̏̔̑͗͝͝ ̷̛̮̖̺̼̻̤̌̿͑̀͑̍͆͗̕̕͜ẗ̴̡̗͖̱̯̜̱̲̲͚̫́͜ȩ̶̬̺̝̗̘̼͉͈̭̇́̓x̴̫͖͈̲̟̤̫̬̦̃̉̽ţ̷̙̬̠͈͇̘́̉͊̽̒̾̈́̚ ̷̧͔͖̥͖̪̂͘c̶̡͓̳̙͙̫̦͎̮̪̦̦͒͊͛̃͊͘o̵̧͔̮̘͂r̶̮̭͖͎̖̰̙̫̹̾r̷̗͔̞̲͕̦̮͆̃́͊̊̒̏̇̀̂͜u̷͙̠̮̫̻̼͔̥͔͖͒̒̈̃͘͜ṗ̶͔̖̯ͅt̴̡̤́̍͌̌̂̊͆́̋̕̕͝e̵̹͈͇̝̓̑͆̈́̓̍͒͐̀̕͘d̶̳̔ ̸̮͍̬̼̬̻̯͍̹́̋̍̽͂ͅt̵̝̩̬͉̖̝̺̤̅̂̿̋̈́̉̀͆̕͠ę̷͙̘̰͖̘̙͈̭͚̙̞̀͂̚x̶͎̟̭͓̳͓̟̘̮͑̑̀̋̍̿̈́ẗ̷̼͔͙̻̬͓̰͎̲́ ̶̨̃̍̂̌̌̇̅͌̕c̷͍̖̘̱̎͒̈̃̆̚ö̷̢̨͔̺̌͜ͅr̶̭̗̪̗͐̅̐̓́͒̐͛͂̎̕r̷͉̐͑̈́̃̉̆ŭ̵̪͙͉͔̘̮̎͑͛̔̈́͐̒̇̒̄̌p̶̙̬̓̈́͝t̵̢͙̜̖̝̟̠͓̗̏̌̈́͒͊͑e̵̛͙̞̽̐̈͗̈̋͌̑͘ͅd̵̢͕̣̳͓́̋̔̎̓̇̚͝ ̴̨̛͉̲̪̬̭͊͗̎͗̿̚t̵̢̨̞̬͈̞̹̖̓͐̓̏͂̂̐e̸̳̦̘̮͚̟͍͒͛x̷̢̟̞̤̞̙̩̬̝͑͌̇̈̄̓͊̉̓͝͠t̴̺͔̦͇͉̜͓̘̜̘̺̬͒̽̏́̀̈́̃̚ ̴̨̪̠̺͓̉̐͋͂̀̀͘ç̶̘͈̮̼̳̈́̌̏͆̂́̚ͅǫ̶̱͈̜͈͎̟̼̣̭̊͊̿̕r̸̦̿̊̿̂͛͌͝r̸̡͇̪͈̯̯͚̯̞̲̖̣̄̆͐̽͛͑̋́͝͝ṵ̵̡͎̱̘͇̺͑̚͝p̴̡̰͔͉͎̗̱͉̙̈̈́̌͆̊̏͜͜t̸̙͍̬̹͓̙̜̂̑̓͌͒͘͝ë̸̞́͆̋̒̒̓̐́̏́̀͝d̸̳͖̟̈́̇͐̈́̑͌̚ ̵̺̠̥̝̣͖͛͋͒̓́͐̈́̏͆t̸̨̠̱͔̟͙̞̭͌̏̋͐̆̑͋̎̑ͅę̸̢͍̭͎̞́̾̒x̸̟̝̟̤͕͖͑̆̋͑͋̀̊̌̔͘̚̕ͅţ̴̡̭͙̫͖̰̩͙̂͂͑͝͠ ̵̢̢̧̛̻̦̻̲̥̟̘͌̏̔̈́̈́͂̐̿͋̚c̷̦̀̐̑̾̋͋ö̷̢̘̼̳͉̘͔̹͎̠̝́̍̍͐̈́̽r̵͙̠̫̠̩̠̭̩̘̬̈͑̂̽̌̂̈͒͑͝͠͝ͅŕ̸̡̦̻̱͈̺̟̝̜̹̫̍̂̍̈́ų̷̹̩̤̜̼̪̀̅̅̓̀͒̒̀͂͐͜p̴̡̫͚͙̖͉̞͉̳̰̐̿̑̊̂̊́̃̓́̚͠ͅt̸̮̗̣͚͎͚͚͌̈͒̓̅͌̊̋̔̐̌͠e̶̤̾d̴͉̺̥͑̈́̋͆̎̇͜ ̴̛̝̱̟͛̒̈́́̈́̽̈͘̚͝͠t̷̮̤͎͕̉̀͜͜é̴̢̩̋͂͒̄͑̉x̵̣̿̆t̶̙̝̰̘̻̣̪̮̱̞͎̹́̄̆̏̒̀̋̐̌̊͠ ̷̨̩̯̤̥͉̙̰̺̘̬̲͊̓͗̔͂̔͘c̷̻̏͝͠͝ŏ̷̢̨̦͔̳̮̹̞̎̈́̑̔͌̈́͛̀̎̚ŗ̵̧̺̲̫̮̳̮̟̓̒͛̾̂̀̾̈́r̶̛̩͍̳͓̭̂̌́̕͜u̵̧͈͉̠̠̺͎͚̓̄̌̿̇͑́̌͌̃͠͝ṕ̶͇͇̭̤̤͔͈͚̮̬͋̓̈́̉͛̏ͅţ̴̨̗̺͚̻̪̝͐̽̄͌̾̊͆̾̏ȇ̶͖̠d̷̡̫͓̑̈́̇̀͗͠͠ ̵͕̈̾͊̈́͘ṫ̵̢̺̫̬̹̜̭̞̊͊̈́̂͊̅̓͘ě̶͍̈́̐̃̐̏̿̈ͅx̸̡̫̤̼͚̘̲̖̙̮̄͗̕t̷̘͈̟͍͓̿̒̑̀̐͛̒̕͜ͅ ̶̺̊̄͋̅̚.

The girl at Kanna's and Kano's feet is wearing a simple but tasteful one piece with her hair tied into a small ponytail.

Aren't Ultimates just the best!?

Kanna unfortunately misfired her shot and knocked out her opponent. Don't worry though, she woke up and was right as rain after this!

Suddenly, the audio cuts back in, "Do you want to hear about our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ?"

Screams are heard and then the video cuts out.


The camera pans up from the sand to show Tatsumi watching a blond boy with pink eyes and an awful lot of scars draw in the sand. A few feet away from them, a dark skinned girl with a mane of brown hair and brown eyes is strategically being buried in sand by a small girl with dark blue hair and purple eyes.

"I just want to go swimming." Ryu sighs from behind the camera.

The blond boy is wearing a pair of school-issued dark blue swim trunks, the girl with dark blue hair is wearing a light blue one piece covered in various bright pink Hawaiian flowers, and the girl with brown hair is...well, her swimsuit isn't exactly visible because of the sand.

The video pauses and text flashes across the screen:

Miss Candace is so cool! She's wearing a leopard print bikini and a black sarong - you'll see it later in the video ! (I think?) So fierce!

The video resumes.

"Oooo, that's so cool, Luan!" Tatsumi gushes, stars in his eyes. "Ryu, come over, get a shot of this!" he calls, turning around and beckoning to Ryu.

Ryu mutters something incoherent and heads over to Luan and Tatsumi. He points the camera down at Luan's drawing.

"Oh." Ryu says, sounding surprised.

Luan's artwork is of Tokyo Disneyland. There's a few choice ride attractions and characters, fireworks in the sky, and three stick figures standing in front of Cinderella's castle.

Luan smiles with a mixture of shyness and pride. "I-I, um, I have been trying to expand my...my...r-rep…reper...repertoire?" he tries. "That is the word, yes?"

"Eh, vocabulary isn't exactly my strong suit but I get what you mean." Tatsumi says with a shrug as he continues to admire Luan's art.

Luan smiles again. "I hope to have about fifty feet of the beach covered before Yukiko and Miya arrive." he says, a fond look in his eyes. "Yukiko had so much fun on our trip there."

"That's so nice - wait, what?" Tatsumi blinks, looking back at Luan. "Did you say fifty feet!?"

Ryu slowly backs away, leaving Tatsumi to deal with that, and approaches the two girls.

"What are you doing?" he asks bluntly, pointing the camera at the smaller girl.

"Uh uh uh, honey, over here. You know how she is." the other girl says. Ryu moves the camera to point at her.

"Sorry, Candace." Ryu apologizes, not at all sounding apologetic.

Candace shakes her head as best she can. "It's fine. I know how you are too." she says. "Anyways, to answer your question, Nemiko here is making me look like a monster she saw in a movie." Candance answers.

Ryu doesn't say anything as he moves the camera so that all of Nemiko's work can be seen. Candace has a variety of shells and seaweed placed on the sand covering her body to resemble…

Ryu blinks, doing a double take. "...Yosuke?"

"Yoink."

"Wh...okay." Ryu sighs as somebody runs off with the camera. "At least I can go swimming now."


The video starts as the person behind the camera points it in all directions as if they're searching for something.

"Today we begin our search for the legendary Japanese racoon." the voice behind the camera, a girl, says. "Stories say that its skin is as white as snow and its fur is as red as the blood that runs through our veins-"

"Ah! Blondie, how are ya!?"

The girl behind the camera squeaks when a boy with short and spiky green hair jumps up in front of the camera. Faded red eyes stare at her curiously. "Whatcha doin'?" the boy asks. He wears a golden snake coil armband and several gold rings. His swimsuit is a pair of dark green trunks with the design of a black smiley face on the back of the right leg.

"A-Ah...hi, Sting." the girl says uncomfortably.

Sting smiles at the girl obviously. "What the FUCK is up, Miss Prankster? Where's Miss Bookbinder? Aren't you two always together? By the way, are you two, like, dating? Little Red isn't very talkative to everyone else but she talks to you a lot even if she doesn't look happy while doing it sometimes. I don't see her happy a lot. Maybe it's because she's tired. I wanna be her friend. Do you think you could maybe introduce us so she doesn't chase me off with that spray bottle she's been carrying around? That's what she's been doing, by the way, in case you were looking for her. OH, also, by the way, have you ever heard of the hit mobile gacha game turned every-other-device-game Genshin Impact? I've been playing it a lot on my computer - my phone can't handle it. Can yours? When I tried to play it on my phone, like, things didn't load in and things were black and things were blocky. Y'know, I couldn't even see Pai-" his rambling abruptly stops when the nozzle of a spray bottle presses against his cheek.

"You have two seconds to walk away, Sakamoto." a new girl's voice says. "Two."

Sting cringes at the use of his last name. "Oh come oooooooon, Miss Bookbinder! I was just-"

"One."

Sting runs away and cries out, "MONSIEUR BRAHMS DOESN'T LIKE WATER!"

The other girl sighs and walks into frame, staring in the direction Sting ran off to. "Aaaand...he's gone." she says, satisfied, and turns towards the girl behind the camera. "Kasumi, are you-" she frowns, looking down at the camera. "...Why do you have a camera?"

Kasumi's savior is a girl who looks like this is her first time at the beach. She has dark red hair and bright amber colored eyes with dark circles under them. She wears a modest white one piece.

"Soraaaaaaaaaaa," Kasumi whines. "that's not the one I picked out for you."

Sora goes rigid, staring at Kasumi like she's the devil incarnate. "The one you picked out for me was basically string." she hisses. "Are you out of your damn mind, gremlin? You're lucky she packed more than one for some godforsaken reason."

"I thought you would look cute-"

"IT WAS BASICALLY STRING!" Sora cries.

"I regret nothing."

Sora shuts her eyes and pinches the bridge of her nose. "You have one second to run."

"But you gave Sting two-"

Sora opens her eyes and threateningly points her spray bottle at Kasumi. "O-"

"Would you like to hear about our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ?"

Kasumi starts running.

"FUCK OFF, YOSUKE, SHE'S GETTING AWAY! JESUS CHRIST, WHY ARE YOU SO FAST!? YOUR LEGS ARE SHORTER THAN MINE!" Sora screams.

"M-Miss Sugawara! Do not use the Lord's name in vain-"

And then the video cuts out.


The video opens with Kasumi being shielded on three sides by rather tall and decently muscular boys.

"Okay! It's rolling, Kasumi!" a new boy's voice says from behind the camera.

Kasumi is wearing a rainbow tie-dye one piece swimsuit with black straps. Her honey blonde hair is tied into twin buns with excess hair poking out like mini-ponytails. Her ice green eyes stare at the camera in fear.

"Hello, if you're seeing this, that means I'm already dead-" Kasumi starts but one of the boys shielding her quickly cuts her off.

"Oh come on, don't be like that, Kasumi." says a darkly tanned boy with blond hair and black roots coming in. "You know how she is, Sora'll get over it by the end of the day. I'm sure she was just mortified at the thought of having to walk out wearing that because you stole her other clothes-" he stops suddenly, thinking. "You know what? I take that first part back. She'll get over it by the end of the week."

"Hitoshi." Kasumi whines.

Hitoshi smiles unapologetically at her. "You did this to yourself," he says. "these are the consequences of your actions."

Hitoshi is wearing red swimming trunks with a bunch of different little farm animals all over them.

A boy with brown hair and green eyes looks at Hitoshi disapprovingly. "Come now, Toshi, don't make her feel any worse than she already does." he scolds. "Kasumi was just trying to have a bit of fun, right, Kasumi?" the boy asks, looking down at Kasumi with a kind smile.

"Right!" Kasumi agrees. "Thank you, Ken." she pouts and glares at Hitoshi.

Ken is wearing an open mint green button up shirt and a pair of white swimming trunks.

The third boy shielding Kasumi sighs and shakes his head. He's a rather pretty looking boy with blue tipped blond hair and blue eyes. "Boys, just let Kasumi Yuan speak. Sora Sugawara will find her eventually. Do we not look suspicious huddled together like this with Toshiro Haruki standing a foot away with a camera?" he points out.

This boy is wearing light blue shorts with pink and blue floral patterns.

"Takeshi is right." Hitoshi says. "Go on, Kasumi."

"R-Right." Kasumi says and clears her throat. "As I was saying-"

"I just can't help it - you look so cute when you're fearing for your life, Kasumi!" the boy gushes from behind the camera.

Kasumi pales. "Toshiro-"

Then, it's as if there's some kind of glitch in the video. Sora materializes in front of Kasumi, blocking the blonde girl from the camera's view.

"...Oops." Toshiro says.

"LEAVE ME ALOOOOOOOOOOONE!" Kasumi cries and jumps up onto Takeshi, pulling herself up onto his shoulders.

Takeshi wobbles, trying to steady himself as Kasumi goes a step further to stand on his shoulders. "U-Uh, Kasumi Y-"

"I'M A BAD BITCH YOU CAN'T KILL ME!"

That's when everyone else starts panicking because if Kasumi falls onto the sand head-first she will get a concussion.

"K-Kasumi! You're going to fall!" Toshiro panics, running up close to stand beside Sora.

"BETTER TO DIE LIKE THIS THAN AT THE HANDS OF A RACCOON!"

Sora facepalms.

Ken starts waving his arms around, running around Takeshi as he warily watches Kasumi to make sure she doesn't fall. "K-Kasumi, please, you have to get down-"

Hitoshi crosses his arms and grins. "No, hold on, I wanna see how this plays out."

The camera is suddenly plucked from Toshiro's hands. "Finally! I've been looking for this." Tatsumi's annoyed voice says. "Toshiro Haruki, an Ultimate Toymaker. To think that you of all people would've stolen this from Ryu." he sighs, pointing the camera at the 'culprit'.

Toshiro is a small, skinny looking boy with average length brown hair and brown eyes. He's wearing red trunks with black stripes.

Toshiro frowns and tilts his head to the side. "Pardon?"

Tatsumi suddenly gets distracted, realizing that he found a rather large group of Ultimates. "AAAAAAAIIII!" he squeals and points the camera at Toshiro again before moving onto each member of the group. "Toshiro Haruki, the Ultimate Toymaker. Sora Sugawara, the Ultimate Bookbinder. Kensuke Oishi, the Ultimate Caregiver. Hitoshi Kimidori, the Ultimate Rancher. Kasumi Yuan, the Ultimate Prankster, standing on top of Takeshi Yamamoto, the Ultimate Tailor - wait, what?"

Kasumi gets distracted by the sound of her name, looking over towards Tatsumi. She smiles, "Hi! Sorry, I just wanted to borrow your camera for a b-bit-" Kasumi wobbles the wrong way and promptly falls forward off of Takeshi's shoulders.

Sora narrows her eyes. "I'm going to kill you, gremlin." she says right before Kasumi falls on top of her, sending them both crashing to the ground.

"...Ouch." Tatsumi winces and the video cuts off.


The video opens on the girl with blue-silver hair from earlier (there's a very noticeable bruise on her forehead) and Sting.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Are you ready for this, Mister Paparazzi!?" Sting cackles. "It is I, Sting, the Ultimate Snake Charmer, and this is my lovely partners, Sasaki Kagaku, the Ultimate Animal Scientist-"

The girl in question sighs. "I guess that's not wrong…"

Sasaki wears a simple rose red one piece with thin shoulder straps and a little waistband that's strapped on to make a small pretty bow.

"-Harlequin, the Ultimate Clown,"

The boy in question waves excitedly. "That's me!" he beams.

Harlequin wears black swim trunks with a red diamond pattern and a loose white t-shirt.

"-and Greyface, the Ultimate Serial Killer!"

"Your government names, please." Tatsumi says politely.

Sting grumbles and crosses his arms. "Minato Sakamoto." he says dryly.

Harlequin smiles, not answering Tatsumi.

The girl, Greyface, gives the camera a dangerous smile. "I have absolutely no reason to tell the camera my government name." she says. "I'll kill you. I mean, I'll tell the camera if you really want me to that badly but then I'll really, definitely, truly have to kill you! BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"...How did I end up in this…?" Sasaki wonders with a sigh.

Sting laughs, patting Greyface and Harlequin on the back. "You're so funny!"

Greyface laughs along with him as she ties her hair up into a ponytail.

Tatsumi mumbles something under his breath and takes a step back.

"You guys ready?"

"Let's go, snake boy." Greyface nods.

The four of them stand in a cross and one by one, they bend backwards into a back arch, shuffling their legs under the person so their back is resting against their thighs. Together, they start shuffling around in the sand.

Sting beams. "A human table!" he says. "Isn't that cool?"

Nobody has a chance to say anything else until a misstep from the mastermind of the human table drops him to the ground and causes a chain reaction of the Ultimates falling on each other and creating a human snowball - sandball - whatever-ball tumbling towards the ocean.

"G-Guys, you're going to fall into the ocean!" Tatsumi cries as the out of control Ultimates roll towards the water.

"DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT!" Greyface shouts.

"DON'T LET GO, GREYFACE, HARLEQUIN, ANIMAL DOCTOR!" Sting cries happily.

"WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER, STING!" Harlequin agrees.

"HELL YEAH!" the three of them shout in unison

"PLEASE LET GO!" Sasaki cries in horror.

"GUYS YOU'RE ABOUT TO CRASH INTO ANOTHER FAMILY!" Tatsumi cries.

"Do you want to hear about our Lord and-"

"YOSUKE THEY'RE ABOUT TO RUN OVER A FAMILY I DON'T HAVE TIME TO LISTEN TO YOU TALK ABOUT JESUS!" Tatsumi screams and the video cuts out.


The camera opens on Yume and Tatsumi sitting beside a dazed Kasumi, the prankster whispering to herself with flushed cheeks.

"What's wrong with her?" Yume asks, poking Kasumi's cheek.

Tatsumi smiles awkwardly. "Ah...how do I say this...? Er, let's just say there was an incident with her and Sora."

"An incident, you say?" Yume raises an eyebrow. "Interesting. I'll have to report this to Yoonie." she says.

"...Yoonie?" Tatsumi questions.

Yume nods. "They have a special interest in furthering a certain agenda between-"

The video cuts off there and the mystery of this 'Yoonie' and their agenda is never brought up again.


The video opens on a five foot tower of miscellaneous objects stacked under a pale boy.

"We did it, ladies!" a girl with pink and green hair laughs. "Y'know, I still don't see how he didn't wake up. He didn't even stir."

"I mean, he is always complaining that he's cold, Shun. This is paradise for him right now." a girl with brown roots coming in through her pink hair says.

Yume smiles smugly. "I told you it would work, Kaori." she says.

Kaori rolls her eyes and smiles. "Whatever. I'll give you that one, stupid comedian." she says.

Shun is wearing a bikini that matches her hair: a light green and pink bikini with dark pink beach shorts. A beach visor is fit snugly onto her head. Kaori is wearing a bikini covered in glittery gray lips.

The three of them turn towards the camera, smiling proudly.

"Well?" Yume asks.

"Are you going to be a stick in the mud?" Shun asks.

"Or are you going to help us cover all of this and Masaki in sand?" Kaori asks.

"Uh…" Tatsumi trails off.

"We'll let you use the jet skis Hope's Peak is letting us borrow." Shun offers.

"Deal."


The camera finally centers on the resident giant of Class 80th, Yosuke Sakurai, the Ultimate Priest.

"So, will you do it?" Tatsumi asks.

"Do you promise they'll finally listen to what I have to say?" Yosuke asks, crossing his arms. He's wearing a pair of plain black swim trunks so his comically large muscles are on display.

"...Absolutely they will." Tatsumi answers, lying through his teeth.

Yosuke beams. "Then yes, count me in!"


Tatsumi breathes out an amazed 'wow' as he focuses the camera on the tower of students over one hundred feet tall.

It took them a little over an hour but together they successfully made the tower a still sleeping Masaki is laying on over one hundred feet tall too.

Tatsumi sounds absolutely delighted and over joyed, "Only Ultimates could do something so extraordinary!" he says and walks over to the one burdening the weight of all their classmates.

"Yosuke! It's time to pass the camera up!" Tatsumi says, handing the camera to him.

"Of course." Yosuke says, taking the camera. He smiles, "I hope you have a blessed time watching all the footage when it's put together." Yosuke says and passes the camera up.

Takeshi takes the camera and gives it a dashing, strained smile, the weight of his classmates getting to him. "This was fun!" he says. "Definitely a summer to remember. Class 80th supremacy!" Takeshi cheers and passes the camera up.

Armen stares at the camera with a stoic expression. "I dislike the beach and I did not have fun at all today." he says. "...But this right now is fun." Armen says and without even attempting a smile, passes the camera up.

Juriya stares at the camera with a pale face, the weight of her classmates making her head reel. "We're all going to die." she says and passes the camera up.

Sasaki looks like she's about to pass out. "H-Hey…human tower of Ultimates…never seen that before, huh?" she says and passes the camera up.

Candace gives the camera a sparkly, practiced smile. However, it's clear by the sweat rolling down her head that the weight of her classmates is getting to her too. "And to think the apocalypse only ended a few years ago. Look at us now! Beautiful ladies and gentlemen having fun at the beach." she says and passes the camera up.

Harlequin smiles at the camera with all the joy and cheer he can muster. "THIS IS SO MUCH FUN!" he screams and passes the camera up.

Kano looks worse than Sasaki but he still manages an excited, competitive smile. "This…no one's done this…before…" he pants. "I…win…" Kano says, sweat dripping down his face as he passes the camera up.

Val smiles warily at the camera. "I do hope we don't fall, ayúdame Dios por favor." he says. "But at least we had fun, yes?" he says and passes the camera up.

Kensuke gives the camera a charming smile. "This is nothing! I give piggyback rides to tons of children all the time while I'm working." he says. "But…" Kensuke trails off, his smile wavering. "these guys are a bit heavier than what I'm used to." he says and passes the camera up.

Sting eagerly takes the camera and carefully waves at it. "Hi Mom! Hi Dad! Hi-" he pauses. "Oh, that's right. I forgot." Sting says bluntly. "Um...hi Headmaster Naegi!" he smiles and passes the camera up.

Shun stares at the camera, caught off guard from what Sting said. "Um…" she blinks. "Hello...friends?" Shun tries, confused, and passes the camera up.

Toshi is sweating bullets. "This...this is nothing. I do this...all the time...with my animals…" he pants and passes the camera up without another word.

Greyface stares at the camera for a beat and silently passes it up.

Kanna smiles wearily, also sweating bullets. "Do it for the Vine, they said...it'll be fun they said…" she says weakly and passes the camera up.

Harumi chucks the camera the middle finger and passes it up.

Kaori tries to smile strongly at the camera. "This...this isn't so bad. The ones below me have it worse...the weight isn't horrible…" she says as she passes the camera up.

Luan smiles at the camera. "Look at me, Yukiko! Your Papa is so high up - it's like one of those rides from Disneyland!" he says cheerfully and passes the camera up.

Mai stares at the camera, unsure of what to say. A beat of silence and: "If I die here, blame Tatsumi." she says and passes the camera up.

Ryu stares at the camera like it killed his mother. "I just wanted to go swimming." he says and passes the camera up.

Sora takes the camera but stares up at someone instead of looking at it. "Kasumi I swear to GOD I can and will make all of us fall if you don't stop touching me with your toes." she threatens as she passes the camera up.

Yume gives the camera a mocking smile. "Ah, the joys of young love-" ("Shut the FUCK up, Yume.") "-isn't it great? Yoonie will be pleased." she says and passes the camera up.

Nemiko stares at the camera fearfully. She only says one word: "Help." and passes the camera up.

Kasumi takes the camera and grins down at Sora. "What's wrong, baby raccoon? Am I bothering you? Do it, I dare you." she challenges and passes the camera up to Toshiro.

Toshiro smiles cheerfully. "I love my classmates. Aren't they the cutest?" he says and turns the camera to show their last classmate, still fast asleep. "Oooh Masakiiii!" Toshiro calls, reaching over to tickle his foot.

Masaki startles and finally wakes. He sits up, staring at Toshiro in bewilderment. "Toshi...ro…?" Masaki blinks and looks around. He frowns sleepily. "Where am I?"

Toshiro laughs. "You're at the beach!" he says. "Don't you like the sand bed we all made for you?"

Masaki looks down, his eyes widening. He finally realizes that he's sitting on a giant square of sand. He cautiously crawls over to one end and chokes on the air when he sees how high he is and the tower of his classmates. Masaki looks over at Toshiro, murder in his eyes. "You...you people did this?" he asks.

"Yup!"

Without a word, Masaki shoves Toshiro back and creates a domino effect of raining teenage Ultimates.

Masaki lays back on his sand square and sighs. He tunes out the screams of his classmates. "How am I supposed to get down from here?" Masaki asks himself and sighs again. "Worst summer ever."