Chapter 1: Trapped (B)
First, we discover we're trapped in a deadly "game" with no normal way to escape. Then, after we refuse to abide by the "game"'s rules, we're threatened to be killed the way Ms. Kirigiri was... I don't understand any of this. It made me sick to refer to any of this as a game; it was just human trafficking in a way. He somehow got us all together, then did something to us. And some people from the "Future Foundation" had probably tried to save us but wound up as victims too. None of us deserved this...! "Damn it..." I muttered under my breath. After guiding Chidori to her room for the night, I locked myself in my room. I didn't want to face the others any longer than I had to. I was scared... Scared someone would kill me if I said something out of line or if they got desperate and would come after me. There wasn't anything remarkable about me so whether I lived or died in this doesn't matter... In here, it was encouraged to commit murder.
I lay in my bed, the tears momentarily stopping as I brought Chidori to her room, only to start again when I was alone. I lied on my bed, holding my knees to my chest. I must look like quite a wimp, or at least I thought so... I don't know when or how it happened but eventually my eyes closed and I drifted to sleep. I may have been sleeping but my mind was very awake. I was... seeing something I guess... but it was hazy and felt distant. I don't even remember what I saw. The only thing I could remember was the feeling. How would I describe it...? I guess, you could call it a sense of yearning; longing for whatever it was I saw. But I woke up feeling like that. It kept ebbing me at the back of my mind, that sense of want. I wanted to go back...
...? Go back? To where? I guess I had dreamed about home... my family and friends. I wondered how they were doing. They were probably enjoying life, and forgot all about me... It happened before. No, but what else could I do?
Ding dong ding! Then HIS voice rang out over the announcements. "Good Morning Everyone! Get ready to greet another beee-yutiful day! Breakfast is served in the Dining Commons so if you're hungry I recommend a hearty meal~!" Even hearing his voice, I could feel the pit in my stomach only deepen. But, he wasn't wrong. I was hungry since I didn't have anything to eat yesterday. I might as well go and see if he's being honest and won't try to poison the food. I forced myself to get out of the room on account of my rumbling stomach and made my way to the Dining Commons. Luckily, after Monokuma's "presentation", we all looked around the enclosed campus space and got a good feel of where everything was. There was a school building where classes were probably going to be until Monokuma took control, Dining commons for meals Monokuma would apparently provide, a campus store filled with a wide variety of supplies, the gym and our dorms. Nothing too noteworthy based on those facts alone.
When I entered the Dining Commons only one person was present. "Chidori..." I found myself saying out loud.
"Oh, hello." Chidori replied. She seemed bummed about what happened yesterday.
"Are you gonna be okay?" I forced myself to ask. I didn't want to talk at all, but Chidori seemed to need someone.
"...I don't know..." Chidori sighed. "I can't cry anymore though so I stopped... then when Monokuma said there'd be breakfast I decided to see. He's not lying. It's buffet style..." I looked around and confirmed a lot of typical breakfast foods laid out. There was an abundance of food set about and it looked more edible than I could imagine. Did that stupid bear or whoever's controlling him make this? Chidori and I sat alone in the Dining Commons in silence for a few minutes slowly eating some food and then doors came bursting open. Almost all the guys came in rowdy as hell, oddly enough Tatsuya and Shigeo weren't present and Saburo still had that silent and blank expression on his face.
"Geez, it's like a cemetery in here or something!" Yoichi laughed, probably a little to hard.
"I agree!" Yukio exclaimed. Why were they happy? Were they coping differently? If so, then people are more different than I imagined...
"Hajime!" Kazuhiro shouted.
"Just Jay please...!" Why wasn't anybody listening to that simple request!? "You know what, if you're going to call me by a full name then call me by my last name..."
"Okay. Kazuki!" The Ultimate Heir was shouting. "Isn't it such a beautiful day!?"
"...huh...?" I muttered.
"He said, isn't it beautiful today!?" Masato laughed. What the hell had gotten into the four of them?
"Uh, are you alright...?" Chidori asked, mortified by their cheeriness.
"Never better." Yukio replied with a grin.
"B-but... the person we watched yesterday-"
"-Fake!" Yukio cried.
"What are you talking about!?" I shouted at him, probably with more irritation than necessary.
"That whole "execution" thing was totally fake." Yoichi laughed. "You actually think Monokuma can kill someone like THAT? That's totally unreal!" I half expected him to say gnarly any time due to his laid-back comment.
"Yep. Looking at all the facts there's no way she was truly killed!" Masato told us. "It just feels illogical, yeah?" The other three guys nodded while Saburo remained silent. He stood by his brother's side through all of this.
"I swear..." I sighed in annoyance. I don't know why I was so bothered. "If you guys were being any more laid-back you'd all be comatose!" With a huff I stormed off. Without really thinking I went off in any random direction, away from their laughter. Why did they not think it was serious? We could all be killed by someone who would take this seriously. I ran into the school building and sat in a classroom alone to calm down. I got all my thoughts in order and slowly calmed down. Maybe they're right. It might have been fake. But I was still worried because others might take Monokuma seriously. Seeing as I had a lot of spare time, I decided to wander the inside of the school building. As I wandered, I felt guilty about yelling at them; they were probably just as anxious as I was and were just trying to hide that anxiety by laughing it off. I felt like a terrible person now...
I had wandered onto the second floor somehow and found a library. Maybe a book will get my mind off of this. Inside I was baffled by all the genres they had, even they had sub topics as well. What library even has these topics? Adventure, Humor, Fantasy, Romance, Horror etc... They even had some school books for studying. I grabbed a fantasy novel and started reading. I flipped through each page intricately and became enraptured, guess I'm a fantasy guy. I lost track of any sense of time as I became more and more interested in what the author was portraying in my mind. All that was there for the author was H.H. Whatever that meant.
The announcement for lunch rang out through the library so I put the book down and wandered to the Dining Commons. When I walked inside I had the sudden urge to leave as I bore witness to two people were arguing. "What did you just call me!?" Emiko shouted in irritation. Natsuko simply turned and then said,
"You're an egotistical bitch who's more concerned about what her daddy's gonna buy her rather than the task at hand." Natsuko replied harshly. "Honestly, all you've done is complain about how your father hasn't sent anyone to save you, rather than focusing on what we could be doing instead!"
"And what exactly gives you the right to say that!?" The Fashionista blurted. "So what if I complain about my dad? He needs to get anyone here as quickly as possible! I'm not gonna kill anybody just cuz some dumb toy says we have to!"
Emiko's response seemed to get Natsuko tongue-tied as she was now stammering. They were the only two in the Dining Commons so no one was there to intervene except for me. I didn't want this escalating any more so I blurted out "Hey guys, er... ladies..." Their attention snapped to me in a heartbeat and I almost felt my blood run cold as the glares they were giving me pierced my confidence. "D-don't you think you're getting a bit um... intense?" I tried to talk to them as clearly as possible but I was fairly nervous about it.
"Tch..." Emiko scoffed. "I wasn't going to..." Her eyes darted to Natsuko who immediately took offense to it. Crap, I think I only made things worse!
"What is the meaning of the extra bitterness in a savory class such as ours?" Shigeo cut in as he walked in as well. "I can understand tensions are high due to certain individuals..." He must've been talking about Monokuma. "However does that mean we have to abide by his rules from the other day?" I wanted to argue that the bear could kill someone at anytime just because he felt like doing it or because they broke a simple rule. I remember when the first killing game was televised he killed Junko Enoshima in a heartbeat. However, it got more messed up as it wasn't Junko the Fashionista but Mukuro Ikusaba, her twin sister. At first I couldn't wrap my head as to how they could be twins but someone explained to me that it was possible they were 'Fraternal' twins and not identical twins.
"...Sorry." Natsuko apologized with a bow. "It just bothers me that Kamiko always complains about her father..."
"Fine. I'm sorry too." Emiko sighed.
I wasn't paying attention anymore as my mind went in circles trying to understand why I thought of Junko/Mukuro (whoever you want to call her) first. Wasn't it that Pop Sensation, Sayaka Maizono, who died first? "Hajime," Shigeo addressed me.
"How many times do I need to repeat myself?" I sighed as I was snapped back to the current moment at hand.
Shigeo sighed and just said. "It's informal to address a peer you just met with a nickname. I was raised with a proper upbringing, so using such shortened names was viewed as disrespectful unless you were "friends". So I'm sorry if I offend you."
"I grew up with similar ideals." Natsuko added. "Which is why I address everyone with their last name."
"N-no. It's my fault, I should've asked..." I told him. "I'm just not a fan of my first name is all..."
"Well, I don't know how to remedy that situation." Shigeo admitted. "But for now, I hope you bear with me." I gave him a nod. "Good. But, are you alright?" He asked, changing the subject entirely.
"Huh?"
"You seemed distant for a moment." He pointed out, "Almost like your palette went blank."
"Oh, no I'm okay." I told him and gave my best smile. I forced it a little but I was doing alright overall.
"If you insist. Anyway, I'm off to try this second course. The breakfast was delicious however..." He trailed off. I almost forgot he was the Ultimate Connoisseur, so his references to foods and tastes made sense for him. He went on a rant to rate the food before grabbing a large plate full of food made most likely by Monokuma. The others began to wander in and they sat down, forming cliques like most normal high school students did. You had your rowdy guys which consisted of Yukio (who seemed to be the head of the clique) Yoichi, Masato, and Kazuhiro. You had the pompous teenagers who included Emiko, Shigeo (surprisingly) and Yukino because of her status as a Doctor I guess. Next we had the group no one understood was together but they were anyway with Kohaku, Natsuko, Amaya and Shinju. Meanwhile myself, Chidori, Tatsuya, and Saburo sat together simply because we didn't have a clique we fit in. It was silent around us while everyone else chattered away like everything was normal.
"It's strange..." Chidori spoke up after a moment of silence. "It's kind of like what we saw yesterday didn't happen. Doesn't it feel like that?" She had a point. Everyone seemed to be oblivious to the fact of death. Especially when it could happen to them. Whenever I think about that stuff I normally get scared of my own mortality so I don't know what other people think.
"Everyone copes differently." Tatsuya said with his rough voice. "It's just a natural thing to pretend that things like that don't happen. I think we're not like them because we don't deny the reality of what we witnessed yesterday."
"Woah, deep..." I mumbled in awe at his words.
"Really?" Tatsuya seemed shocked.
"I mean, yeah... now that you mentioned it, I realized some of us didn't acknowledge the fact that what we saw was death." I went on. "It's not so much who died that I've been thinking about... but how and why. It made me realize that it's my own human life that's just as vulnerable too... I must sound pretty weak now too..." I tried to laugh off my little speech as nothing important.
"Even more deep." Chidori chuckled, trying her best to smile. I could still feel her unease about the situation however. "I'm feeling kinda the same I guess..."
Lunch went by with us, with the exception of Saburo, just stating our true feelings but not truly elaborating on them. After the period ended, we went our separate ways. I debated on whether to return to the library or not but decided against it since I remembered the door that wouldn't open. After returning to my room, I tested the door again and like last time it refused to open. "Great, is there some kind of trick to opening it?"
"You're darn right there is!" Monokuma exclaimed, bursting from right behind me.
"H-how did you get in here...?" I gasped out as I felt my heart almost stop. I did my best to recapture my breath but it wasn't easy with Monokuma in the room.
"Would you believe me if I said I used magic?" He asked mischievously.
"Hell no!" I told him.
"Well, that's not what happened. You were careless and left your door open." He responded. Oh, I guess it's my fault. "Anyway, I didn't come here to belittle whatever common sense you have left. I came to help you work around this glitch."
"'Glitch'?" I repeated inquisitively.
"That's right!" Monokuma said. "Your door wasn't created like the others, so it's what I like to call a little glitchy. The door doesn't fit into the frame quite right so all you have to do is lift and turn the door as you turn the knob." I did as he told me to and it worked like a charm. A little too well to be honest. "Well, I'm done here for now. Happy killings!" He wished me farewell in a twisted fashion and went off somewhere. I shut the door in a heartbeat and locked it. That was weird, if not scary to say the least. I looked into my bathroom and noticed it was clean and pristine since I imagined no one's used it yet. Spooky how he showed up at that moment, like he was waiting to 'help' me. I shuddered as I imagined him putting the faulty door there on purpose just so he could bother me. Someone then knocked on my front door.
Worried it was Monokuma I approached it hesitantly and asked "Who's there!?"
"It's Yukio." The familiar voice answered. I opened the door and Yukio invited himself in. "You busy?"
"Um, not really?" I asked rather than answered.
"Great!" Yukio exclaimed. "Make sure to read this." He said. The boy handed me a slip of paper and took off somewhere else. What a strange guy. He had handed me what seemed to be a folded piece of paper. I opened it and it said "At Dinner, sit at your nameplate."
Nameplates? Since when do we have those in the Dining Commons? I know we have them on our rooms but I wasn't aware we had some in the Dining Commons. Unless, they're coming up with crazy inventions with tools from the Campus Store. I shuddered at the thought of them working on a project together and what it would turn into. Maybe it could be good, maybe not? Now it was stuck in my brain and all kinds of imagery of their projects scared me for some inexplicable reason. A new type of dread washed over me, but in a comical sense. Not like the feelings Monokuma gives me when I get worried, but more like if this were a traditional high school. I couldn't help but laugh a bit at my unease, I was just being ridiculous. In any case, after sitting in the library for several hours and almost having a heart attack from Monokuma, I decided to take a nap before dinner time. So, feeling a bit more at ease with the situation (don't really understand how), I was able to rest somewhat comfortably.
I was roused awake from Monokuma's dinner time announcement. Those announcements were so obnoxiously loud and irritating with his voice. Regardless, I forced myself out of bed and made my way to the Dining Commons. Only a few people were present: myself, Natsuko, Saburo without Yoichi, Tatsuya and Chidori. To my surprise, Chidori was one of the first few of us present. "Chidori?" I called to her.
"Oh, Kazuki." She said. So we're on a last name basis, I guess.
"I'm surprised you're early." I told her.
"Well, I figured moping around about Ms. Kirigiri's death won't solve anything..." Chidori replied. She cut right to the heart of the matter I guess. "So, I'm gonna do what I can to not cry so hard. If anyone else were to die, I'd be very sad. But, I'm gonna hold back those tears and support the others." She gave me a gaze with some kind of fierce determination in her eyes. She seemed very serious about all this.
However, Natsuko broke in with grim words. "We'll see how long you can last with that attitude..." She explained. "There might be someone who takes Monokuma seriously, and at that drop of a hat... they'd kill. This is the only truth." She sounded dead serious on this little thesis she told the few of us who were early. The air felt heavy and everything began to grow silent. Was that really true? Could we not trust others to not take Monokuma seriously? I took him seriously, but I'd never kill someone because I'm sad. I wish I could've told her that, but my mouth refused to move. My lips were quivering slightly as I wanted to speak but was too afraid to. Damn, if only...
"So?" Saburo asked, in his unnatural deep voice. He sounded like a grown man and his body type and facial hair doesn't lie. He closed his eyes and didn't bother to face any of us. In fact, this is the most I've heard him talk. "There's only one thing to do in a crisis like that. Survive." Somehow, he sounded even more serious than Natsuko was. Like he was dead set on living through to almost any end.
"He's right." Chidori chimed in. "I don't know how to put it but... surviving is really important. Like in some of the anime I used to watch, surviving was important." How insightful, Chidori.
"Did you say you watch anime?" Amaya chimed in as she couldn't have timed her arrival with Yukio and his squad any better. "I love anime! Especially when collectibles come out! Some might even call me an Ultimate Otaku..."
"But that isn't your talent." Tatsuya added with a bit of bewilderment.
Amaya laughed nervously while she rubbed the back of her head. "It was a joke."
"Forgive me... I should've realized sooner." Tatsuya sighed, now disappointed in himself. Was he being... bashful? Everything I thought I knew about these people suddenly got flipped a full 180.
"I'm so glad you guys are thinking positively now." Yukio said. "I know the past couple hours were oppressive and we all needed time to cope..." He looked to Chidori and I while he said that. Subtle must not be in his vocabulary. "So, in order to bring us all together as a class I figured we try and eat dinner at the same table."
"Also, no need to fear." Masato butted in nosily. "I did numerous calculations and ran through all probable outcomes, and the chances of someone dying are almost 0%." It may have sounded cool to Masato but, to me and probably whoever else was listening, it was just mundane. But coming from the Ultimate Mathematician, it sounded promising.
"Now we just wait for the others so I can say it again!" Yukio said. I expected him to be unusually peppy from the second I laid eyes on him. I was proven correct. Eventually, everyone else did enter the Dining Commons within the hour and we all stood around Yukio as he ranted on about staying positive. It would be inspirational if it didn't sound so cliched. In my opinion, Saburo's comment was much better than Yukio's winded speech. But, in Yukio's clique, they loved it and were eating it up. The rest of us were confused, watched on in disgust, or weren't listening. "...So, that's why I set up nameplates for everyone to give us all the chance to be happy." I swear, being blindly cheery must be contagious for his group as they all whooped like animals.
"Ugh, s-so much noise..." Kohaku muttered. She then gasped and chuckled as she began to mutter indecent things to herself. I heard them, but it's better if you didn't know. I'm nothing against boy's love, but she took it several steps farther and- Okay! Stop talking now, Jay!
"So, everyone grab what you're gonna eat and sit where you're assigned seat is!" He screamed enthusiastically. One way or another, we all decided 'Why the hell not?' and sat down. I was seated between Shinju, the instrumentalist I knew literally nothing about, and Shigeo. The guy who is good at eating food I guess. Shigeo was seated at the end closest to the door while Yukio sat adjacent from him. The remaining thirteen of us seated somewhere in between. There was a long awkward silence as we picked at our food and ate slowly, waiting for someone to say something. Unfortunately someone did say something. The only one not wasting any time is Shigeo who was wolfing down meal after meal. For a person of refined taste he sure could eat.
"This is lame." Emiko sighed. "What was your plan for this?"
Yukio gave a 'Hmm...' before saying "Well, I was hoping one of you could start talking." A groan escaped Yukino's mouth as she was disappointed.
"Honestly... don't waste our time if you have no value or plan for doing so." She spoke everyone's thoughts with exasperation. "So unless you have a reason for us to stay, then I'm leaving."
"As am I." Natsuko added. Others seemed to follow this statement with grunts of disapproval. Yukio seemed to lose his cool and start to look bummed.
"You don't have to say mean stuff..." He said, tears in his eyes. Oh crap, was he gonna cry!? I didn't want him to cry so I just blurted something without thinking.
"I'll stay here with you." That came out wrong on so many levels, as I noticed Kohaku begin to blush and breathe heavily while she muttered to herself. Others looked at me with shock or sly grins. I regretted saying that. Me and my impulses...
"Jay..." He mumbled. He than began to laugh in a heartbeat. This guy...! "You're such a good guy! Just like my bros!"
His 'bros' all whooped in their own way again. Shit, did I just join a cult?
"Stop that!" Shinju cried. "My ears are bleeding at your discord!"
"If that keeps up I'm going to have to leave." Shigeo said as he began to stand up placing a napkin of his many food remnants.
"Don't go, the party just started getting interesting. Thanks to Jay at least!" Yukio chuckled.
As he began to stand, an expression of shock overtook Shigeo's face. He froze in place, only trembling slightly.
"What's the matter this time?" Emiko groaned, tired of that squad's shenanigans. He tried walking away and that's when I noticed it. His stomach was bleeding.
"Shigeo!" I cried as I leaped for the Ultimate Connoisseur without thinking. In an attempt to catch him we both fell to the ground. His body was pressed to mine and I could feel warm blood gushing from his stomach area onto mine. I wanted to throw up right then and there. Luckily I held it back but Shigeo wasn't lucky at all. He was wounded, pretty badly at that. I managed to finally get myself onto my knees, whilst soaked in another living humans blood mind you. When I did the others started screaming their heads off (save for Saburo who didn't overreact at all) and began to back away from the table and started shouting things like "The food is poisonous!" or just cursing like no tomorrow. I couldn't do anything but watch in horror as Shigeo was bleeding right in front of me, in my arms no less.
"It... hurts..." He gurgled out. He clutched his stomach and trembled. "My... stomach..." He seemed to be distraught from the fact he had been injured in that area, or at least I assume so since that's where the blood was pouring from. It was like sitting and being part of a gore fest. I was still queasy and felt entirely disgusted as to what played out before me. "So...meone... help me..." He pleaded, only to have blood streaming from his mouth and he went stiff.
"Shigeo...!" I gasped out, suddenly thinking I'm a doctor but only using common sense, and I checked for a pulse at his neck. None. Shigeo was now dead. Mortified was the best reaction I could think of. His stare was blank as his mouth was left ajar, his torso and mouth were bloody from some kind of injury and his body was starting to tense up. All the while, his blood had stained my white hoodie with splotches of red and pink.
"Toshiko." Saburo suddenly said, like he was attempting to take command of the situation. "Take care of doing a thorough examination of the body."
"An autopsy?" Yukino asked. "A-alright..." She was doing her best to regain her composure but her voice easily betrayed her.
"Yukimura, take care of Kazuki." He then turned to Chidori and she nodded, almost as mortified as I was. It took quite a bit of strength, but she and Yukino eventually pried me away from Shigeo's corpse. I didn't want to let go of that body. Because this was another person I knew, who wound up dead now. Chidori never left my side and held my shoulder, I could feel her hand trembling. She was scared again, but doing what she could to hide the tears...
An announcement rang throughout the Campus. "A dead body has been discovered. Students have several hours to investigate before the class trial begins!"
As if on cue, Monokuma rose from what I wanted to believe was hell itself. "Well, it finally looks like one of you did it..."
"Did what...?" Amaya asked, clearly nervous about the context.
"You know. Become the Blackened." He went on nonchalantly. One of our classmates... is now a killer!? "Finally! The game can begin!"
"You..." Yukio stated darkly.
"Me?" Monokuma asked, genuinely confused. Yukio was silent for a moment before finally shouting something I never would have imagined.
"You... SON OF A BITCH! ONE OF OUR FRIENDS IS DEAD!"
"So?" Monokuma inquired.
"You should care because it's all your fault, dammit! You killed Shigeo!" Yukio cried.
"Nuh uh." Monokuma chuckled. "This was one of you guys at work. I am proud of the blackened this time, I have to say."
"BULLSHIT!" Yukio seemed furious now. "LIKE ANY OF US WOULD DO THAT!?" Kazuhiro and Yoichi anticipated what he would do next but were too slow to react. In a blur, Yukio pounced on Monokuma!
"Yuudai, don't!" Saburo tried to warn him with a bit more of a serious tone but it was too late. Yukio was punching Monokuma repeatedly. Over and over again. Those punches weren't doing much to Monokuma but I imagine they were annoying to the pilot of Monokuma.
"LIKE HELL I'LL BELIEVE ONE OF US KILLED HIM!" He cried at the top of his lungs.
Monokuma seemed relaxed about the whole thing and stated. "It's against the rules..."
"Huh?"
"...To assault your Headmaster." He said, deftly stopping any further attempts Yukio had wanted to do for punching.
"L-like I give a damn!"
"Rule breakers must be punished for their sins!" Monokuma was sounding deadly serious now. "Please, curse this sinner! Summoning spell, Daggers of Tyrfing!" In the blink of an eye, countless flurries of daggers that seemed to come from nowhere shot out and pierced Yukio's body!
He was now trembling as he attempted to stand back up. "W-what is.. this... f-feeling...?" He asked. It seemed the daggers were enough to cause bleeding, but not kill him yet.
"Upupupu..." Monokuma chuckled. "Did you believe you could 'save' others just because you were known as a 'hero'? Not even you are immune to despair."
"D-despair...? I-I don't... want-"
"-Goodbye." Monokuma said coldly as a final dagger swooped in and slashed across Yukio's throat. Blood spurted from his neck in the most horrific way possible and he fell to the ground on his back. Yukio was now dead.
Students Remaining: (28)
Akiko S. - Ultimate ?
Hajime "Jay" Kazuki - Ultimate Luckster
Akemi Hanako - X (Former Ultimate Actress)
Ryota Takao - Ultimate Sports Master
Akihiro Junichi - Ultimate Merchant
Shinju Suzu - Ultimate Instrumentalist
Destiny Kiro - Ultimate Vocalist
Kazuhiro Hisao - Ultimate Heir
Kohaku Mari - Ultimate Medium
Tatsuya Raiden - Ultimate Combatant
Chidori Yukimura - Ultimate Charisma
Hiroaki Hisashi - Ultimate Fanfic Author
Shin Yuzuki - Ultimate Artist
Chou Ayano - Ultimate Gamer
Amaya Chika - Ultimate Collector
Emiko Kamiko - Ultimate Fashionista
Masato Osamu - Ultimate Mathemitician
Yoichi Kunio - Ultimate Web Star
Juku Kunio - Ultimate Chef
Saburo Kunio - Ultimate ?
Natsuko Ren - Ultimate Traditional Dancer
Shigeo Kyou - X (Former Ultimate Connosseiur)
Ikazuchi Michi - Ultimate Electrician
Miyako Usagi - Ultimate Hacker
Yukino Toshiko - Ultimate Doctor
Izanagi Katsu - Ultimate Gambler
Makoto Takeo - Ultimate Commander/Class President (If you want a better title)
Rei Naoko - Ultimate Student
Atsushi Tamuki - Ultimate Engineer
Hotaru Haruki - Ultimate Botanist
Yukio Yuudai - X (Former Ultimate Hero)
Note: The deceased characters will have an "X" by their name if they're dead. Shout out to DashMaster48 for suggesting to include their talents. Just for the audience to remember