Survival In The City II
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Looks like things are good despite getting a few reviews, and now the story takes a suspenseful turn as Naegi's group are about to face an emergency which would put them in harm's way and they must find a way to survive their next trial before being enveloped by despair...
Ch. 5: Kyōsei Hinan
The time now is 12:30, and the scene shifts to the Naegi house where Naegi, Maizono, Kuwata and Ohwada are having lunch, and the three boys complimented Maizono for being a good cook, which she smiled and thanked them for their compliment as they eat their lunch, and thankfully the doors and windows are shut tight so that the scent of the cooking wouldn't go outside and alert any despaired neighbors towards the Naegi house.
"Ah..."
"This is good..."
"You're a good cook..."
"Thanks..."
"Maybe you should change to "Super High School-level cook"..."
"Yeah...I think that would suit you better..."
"She's right..."
"Come on., guys..."
After a few minutes, the four teens finished eating, and both Naegi and Maizono helped clearing the plates, and thankfully, the water supply is still intact and both began cleaning the dishes, while Kuwata began cleaning the house to tidy up the environment and Ohwada began receiving a radio call in which he answered it, and the call came from Kirigiri and there the "Biker" and the "Detective" talked, in which she gave him an emergency message which Ohwada slowly became concerned.
"Hello...can anyone hear me...?"
"Huh? Kirigiri?"
"Ohwada!"
"What's wrong...?"
"Listen..."
"...you serious?"
"Yes...turn on the TV and you'll see..."
"Okay, I understand..."
Taking Kirigiri's word, Ohwada went and turned on the TV, and to his dismay, the footage showed about the events of what happened to Hope Peak Academy which happened two years ago before the Class of 78 were captured where the Student Council were the first victims of Enoshima. Kuwata, Naegi and Maizono came and there Ohwada told them about what Kirigiri said right now, which the three other teens are starting to feel the tension.
But the next several footage showed how they died and how the class trial went on, and Naegi gritted his teeth, seeing that Enoshima is truly to be blamed for what is happening to Japan right now. However, a commercial ad began to air in which Enoshima began posting the pictures of the 14 escaped students, and there Naegi, Maizono, Kuwata and Ohwada became alarmed when Enoshima announced that she will "give a reward" to anyone who would capture the 14 students and brought them back to Hope's Peak Academy alive.
"Oh no..."
"She can't be..."
"That Enoshima bitch..."
"What is she up to...?"
"Looks like she wants us back at the academy..."
"Why?"
"To make us despair and kill each other..."
"Makes sense..."
Ohwada then peeked through the windows and so far the despaired neighbors did not appeared to go and check the house as they assumed that the escaped students are on the streets and he told the rest to stay hidden, and said that they may have to leave the house at night so that they can sneak out through the darkness so that they won't be noticed, and Naegi and the rest nodded and decided to pack some rations and plan their escape.
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Several hours later, the time now is 17:00, and both Kuwata and Ohwada took a bath and are forced to borrow the clothes left on the closet, while the scene shifts to Naegi's bedroom where Naegi slowly took out his family album where his family's portrait are there, and he slowly felt sad as he has no idea what befell his parents and Komaru, and Maizono was silent as she too wondered what became of her dad and her idol band, and felt guilty of attempting to frame Naegi of her would-be plans to escape the academy. She then decided to make amends by becoming "Naegi's support".
"My family..."
"Naegi-kun..."
"Sorry...I just..."
"I'm sure they made their way out..."
"Really?"
"There's no blood here or corpse...which means they may have evacuated before the "tragedy" started...so there's hope that you'll see them again..."
"Maizono-san...thanks.."
"It's okay..."
Maizono's words helped him and he became beamed with determination not to let tragedy eat him and thanked Maizono for cheering him up in which she smiled and said this is the least she could do to make up for trying to frame him but he said that he has forgotten that and all that matters is they all stay together, and alive, and by then Maizono checked on his wounds and said that it needs cleaning, and he blushed as he would be forced to "bare himself" to her though she giggled as she thinks this would make her a good caregiver.
Several minutes later the scene shifts to the bathroom where a naked Naegi is being bathed by Maizono, who is wrapped only in a towel and soon he is fully bathed and she began drying him with the towel while making sure to take care of his wounds. Then she began cleansing the wounds and apply medicinal ointments and when she began putting a gauze pad, she then puts a plaster to tape it, and the wound is cleansed and covered, and there she is finished, but then she went silent as she recalled how he nearly died at the academy and Naegi gently took her in his arms, assuring her that he won't die and the two teens embraced, and she felt at ease in his arms.
"..."
"Maizono-san..."
"Sorry...I felt...worried back at the academy...I thought you'd die..."
"But I survived..."
"..."
"We'll get thought this...I promise..."
"Naegi-kun...thanks..."
"..."
The two glanced at each other and mutual attraction enveloped them until they seemingly went to a trance as she slowly went closer to his face and Naegi froze, feeling that she is about to kiss him but he couldn't bring himself to move or rebut, and as the their lips are about to "connect", they snapped out as they regained their composure and both blushed, embarrassed yet they are still in each others' arms. but awkward tension erupted when they heard Ohwada and Kuwata's voices near the door of the bathroom, which was still opened.
"Darn...that Naegi...he didn't take advantage of his "luck"..."
"Come on, Kuwata..."
"Not yet...I wanna see them take the "next step"..."
"Oi...you're not thinking of..."
"Naegi would be "" if he gets a kiss from Maizono-san...then do the "you know what"..."
"Seriously...how can they be thinking of "doing that" at a time like this..."
"You'll never know..."
"Seriously, Kuwata..."
Naegi and Maizono shrieked and told the two that they aren't doing anything indecent, and the two other boys showed up, smiling wryly and apologized, assuring to them that they aren't thinking anything indecent and said that they'll be waiting at the other bedroom once Naegi and Maizono are "done", and the two other teens blushed deeper as they feel embarrassed at the scene they are in. As Kuwata and Ohwada left, Naegi stood up as he told Maizono to take a bath and will be waiting for her, in which she nodded and he left as he heads to his room to get some clothes.
Several minutes later, the four teens are assembled inside the master bedroom as they prepared everything that they could bring and that they have to decide on which place they should go to stay over as they need to stay hidden from the eyes of the despaired citizens, and there Ohwada suggested that they head to the hideout of his biker gang, the Crazy Diamond, stating that he believed that his gang is still there though Kuwata and the others questioned if the biker gang is still there or not since two years have passed.
"Crazy Diamond? The gang you belonged too...?"
"You think they're still there?"
"Yeah...and that's the safest place I can think of..."
"But...what if...?"
"Yeah...she has a point..."
"You never know until you see it yourselves..."
"Ohwada's right...we'll have to take a chance...Maizono-san...Kuwata-kun...let's go and do this..."
"Okay..."
"Okay..."
Naegi interjected and said that perhaps it would be worth the shot and see if Ohwada's gang is still there or not, and in case they are not there anymore, then Ohwada can use the place as a temporary shelter and then plan again and see what they would do next, and Maizono and Ohwada agreed which Kuwata sighed as he had to agree to it as well and the four teens waited until it was nightfall, and the time now is 23:00, and the streets are apparently clear as there are no signs of anyone right now.
"Okay...the coast is clear..."
"Looks pretty quiet..."
"Good...then this is a good chance..."
"..."
"Oi...better hold on tight...'cause we'll be speeding up in case we're seen..."
"Okay..."
"Let's go..."
"..."
Though Naegi felt sad that he had to leave his home, Kuwata persuaded him to let it go for now and focus on staying alive, in which Naegi reluctantly accepted and Ohwada and the others sneaked out of the Naegi house and with Ohwada being the driver, the other three teens boards the motorcycle and began to drive away, and minutes later the despaired citizens began invading the Naegi house after watching Enoshima's announcement, having announced the home addresses of the 14 escaped students, but by the time they got inside, the four teens were already gone.
The scene shifts to the streets where the four teens are traveling and are avoiding certain routes that may have some despaired people roaming around and after making a quick shortcut on a subdivision they took a turn and are now in the city proper, where they saw some people are doing acts of vandalism and other despaired acts, and Maizono closed her eyes and buried her face against Naegi's back, scared at seeing what the outside world has become, and Kuwata wondered what they could do to restore the world to its peaceful way though Naegi had to endure the sight and not give in to adversity.
"..."
"Man...what a sight..."
"That Enoshima...causing this much damage..."
"Naegi-kun..."
"Keep silent, guys..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
By then tension mounted as some of the despaired people saw the four teens recognizing their clothes and shouted that they are the targets that Enoshima announced, and Ohwada cursed as he and his friends realized that the crowd are on to them, and speeds up the motorcycle in a bid to outrun their pursuers, as some of the despaired crowd began boarding any vehicle they could find and started to chase their targets.
"It's them!..."
"The wanted ones!"
"Capture them!"
"Bring them to Enoshima-sama!"
"Yes, capture them!"
"Make them despair!"
"Despair in the name of Enoshima-sama!"
"Enoshima! Enoshima!"
The scene looked like a real-life car chase as the four teenagers cruised faster in an effort to outrun their pursuers, who are on board several cars and motorcycles and are armed with any blunt objects and a net, and despite the vast number of pursuers, Ohwada managed to evade their predators while taking care of not dropping his classmates as the three other teens held onto dear life, determined not to fall of the motorcycle.
The scene then shifts to the highway and the chase was close, and one of the despaired pursuers is ready to throw in the net to catch their targets, but then a group of bikers wearing "Momokuma masks" joins in on the chase, but then threw molotov bombs at the pursuers and slowly widens the gap between Ohwada's group and the despaired pursuers, and one of the bikers in the "Monokuma masks" got close to Ohwada and as Ohwada is about to do something, the biker removes the mask and spoke to Ohwada.
"Ohwada-sama!"
"You!"
"Thank goodness you're okay!"
"Yukimaru!"
"Follow us!"
"To the same place?"
"No...we got a new base!"
"Okay!"
Ohwada is surprised to see Takemichi Yukimaru, his fellow biker in the Crazy Diamond Gang, showing up and saved him and his classmates and soon other bikers removed their "Monokuma masks" and revealed themselves as members of the Crazy Diamond, and there the biker gang told Ohwada to follow them as they head to an unspecified place which serves as their new base as their old one has already been overtaken by the despaired citizens.
To Be Continued...
Looks like Naegi's group narrowly survived a potential danger thanks to Kirigiri's warning and Ohwada's biker group led by Yukimaru, who appeared in the game Danganronpa: Another Episode, and now Naegi's group are going to lie low for the time being while awaiting the fate of their other classmates.
More on how Naegi and the gang's challenges and survival on the "outside world" will be detailed in the upcoming chapters.
Preview:
Asahina and Ohgami appears, and they are about to face danger as members of Enoshima's "Ultimate Despair" shows up and challenged Ohgami to a battle.
See you in 3 weeks...
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