Epilogue
It's been years since this has all happened. Me and Saionji are still in a relationship. Hell, everyone involved still in their relationships. Ikusaba and Komaeda are still together, as well as Hinata and Nanami. I'm still close with all of them, as well as with Owada, and even the Imposter a bit. The more things change, the more they stay the same, I guess.
The entire experience made me learn a lot about myself. Before everything had happened, I was kind of a delusional egomaniac who loved nothing but to fuck with people. That last part is much of the same, I still will fuck with everyone. It's just there's more to life now than just that, with Saionji and all. Not long after we graduated from Hope's Peak, me and her would get married. It was a long process due to the way Saionji's family works, but it ended up going just fine. Now we're together forever in our own house, perfect for whatever we want or need to do.
Komaeda did end up being the father of Ikusaba's child. Just his luck, of course. Pretty good for me and Saionji considering there would probably be a lot of trouble about who's child it is if I did end up being the father. It would be incredibly awkward if the first child me and her ever raised wasn't even ours. Would definitely be awkward for them, as well. Plus, we probably aren't ready to be parents yet. I haven't seen too much of Ikusaba and Komaeda as parents, but they don't seem too bad. A bit ignorant, sure, but it's fair. They didn't really know too much about it beforehand. I don't know much about their family history, but from what I understand, neither had real parents of their own. Well, Komaeda kinda did but they've been dead for years before I met him.
Even through the time that has passed, I still am the same person appearance wise. I am still in fact four feet and ten inches tall. I even still do the girl act, although not with people I'm close to. Someday I'm gonna tell the world that I'm a guy. I don't know when, and I especially don't know how I'll prove it without flat out showing my genitalia online. However, I can't say I haven't tried methods to make myself look more masculine to show the world my true self. I thought forever that I could just grow a mustache or something to make myself look like a guy, but as it turns out I still seem to lack the testosterone necessary to do that. The same can't be said about Saionji. No, that doesn't mean Saionji grew facial hair. I never really brought it up, but Saionji was actually shorter than me, standing at four foot two for this time. However, not too long after we officially got together, she went on a complete growth spurt. Though five foot six isn't exactly tall by most people's standards, she still towers over me. It was a minor annoyance, but an annoyance I had to live with.
But that small, small inconvenience isn't going to stop me and Saionji. I love her, and she loves me back. There's nothing that is ever going to stop that. Not in a million years. We often think about how completely ridiculous our relationship started. Not every couple can say that they both attempted to kill each other before they got together. Yet still, we both ended up saving each other's lives one way or another. Although, I probably saved more lives, not to brag or anything. If Enoshima had gotten away with her plan, then there's an extremely good chance that one or neither of us would be alive. That should be obvious, but it's the truth. So many people could be dead right now if not for me, Ikusaba and the others. It doesn't feel right that I of all people may have helped saved the world by, quite honestly, not doing too much. It's so weird how shit works out sometimes.
We're still in contact with all of our friends and Hope's Peak, and they're all doing decently well for themselves. Ikusaba retired as a soldier not only to look after her child. Most military type people wouldn't do this, but it began to make sense after Komaeda won the lottery for several hundred million yen. Turns out this is something the man has done multiple times at this point. I can never say I liked Komaeda during our times at Hope's Peak, but as much as it pains me to say it, I don't dislike him anymore. I almost say I kinda like him. Sure, he still obsessed over hope, but he's less crazy about it. He stopped wearing the bandana blindfold only a few days after the trial, thank god, and I'm glad for his recovery into complete sanity. Meanwhile, after the trial, me and Nanami actually started to become fast friends. Sure, Saionji is still the primary girl in my life and there's nothing I would ever do to change that, but Nanami is actually really fun to be around. Most of the time when I'm with her, it's me, her, Hinata and occasionally Saionji playing video games together, but sometimes we can just have a nice time talking together about our lives. She's gotten a surprising amount of money playing video games, more than a lot of people do on normal jobs. Not long after the trial, I apologized to Hinata for the torture and ridicule I had given him over the last little while, and we're cool with each other now. Somehow, even Komaeda apologized to Hinata. I have absolutely no clue how it happened, but it did, and now they're good friends.
Even though they're all my friends, I'll still consider Owada to be my right hand man, even after the troubles he had caused me. He's not as overprotective of me as he used to be, thank god. I still wonder why he was ever as protective as me, considering he got to this school by being leader of a biker gang. Every once in a while, he'll take me on his motorcycle and we'll go to a bar and get some drinks. I'm glad we were both able to forgive and forget our girl issues. Speaking of which, although I haven't talked to her since we graduated from Hope's Peak, Maizono is also doing good for herself. She's still one of the more recognizable pop stars in the country. Anything less for her would be bad. Although, I do believe she learned her lesson from the trial. At least I hope she did.
The Imposter still doesn't have a real identity. He still asks that people simply refer to him as the Imposter. But he's actually become a functioning human being after getting his mind almost entirely broken by Enoshima. Many people still don't see how he recovered from it. Komaeda still claims he saved him with his hope, and I'll consider that half right. Seeing the real Komaeda probably reminded him that he himself is not the real Komaeda. This began a series of mental breakdowns for him, where he truly realized how bad it was that he was a nobody and had awful freak outs about his time as Enoshima's broken man slave. It took a couple of years of therapy to stop having episodes about this time. There wasn't much I could do about that, but if there was something I could have done, I would have done it. He's doing great for himself now. Because of his uncanny ability to imitate anyone and everyone, he's decided to become an actor. A good step in the right direction.
Every relationship has its ups and downs. Just because me and Saionji love each other doesn't mean that we don't get into fights about often times minuscule shit. They don't happen often, but they still happen. Some fights are small, some are big. Often times, we think we no longer want to be in this together. But we always remember this stretch at Hope's Peak. This stretch where we saved each other's lives and probably a couple more. All because I like to fuck with people. I still do, but not very often. I still work on computer programs for larger companies where I get paid way more than I really should. They don't know of the act. However, because of the act, I've actually considered getting a second job at a police station, where I could use a personality very similar to the one I use in public to pretend to be a child decoy as a way to catch local predators. I know Kirigiri works with the police force as, what else, a detective, so she might be able to maneuver me into a job similar to that. I still have contact with her, although I don't see her very much.
It really doesn't feel like time has passed that much. I'm surprised I've managed to keep all the same friends I have had since high school. It's so weird that we're all the same. But there is one thing that I've decided has changed about me. Around the time I first had sex with Saionji, I began to regret ever doing the act. Yet after the trial, I realized that it was a blessing. Me deciding to put my own dignity on the line just so I could fuck with people is a risk. But it was a risk I'm glad I chose to take. I still wouldn't necessarily call myself a good person, but I can say I'm a better one. I almost miss these days. But now I'm with the greatest girl I can possibly be with. I'm having the time of my life. All because I decided to be a menace. It paid off, and I love what it has done to me.
Author's Note: I'm gonna take this time to thank everyone who's read up to this point. I don't really consider the first few chapters of this to be that great anymore. They're way too edgy. I understand that that's a turn off, but to everyone who's actually read them all, thank you very much. Sometime in the future I may rewrite this to do things like make the first few chapters less edgy, as well as change the naming to the first names instead of the last, because that began to get a bit inconvenient. Oh well. I'd like to give a special thank you to TheTrueOverlordBear, who reviewed almost every single chapter of this fic, as well as giving me ideas. Specifically, one of his reviews helped me in the way I incorporated Nanami, who I had wanted in the fic since the very beginning. We've actually talked a bit on Discord, and I'm glad I can call him a friend now. If you want to do the same, my discord is on my profile. I already have a future Danganronpa fic planned, as well as some smaller ones in between. I hope to see you then.