Saturday, August 28th 2010.
9:23Am
(DANGANRONPA Music Plays...)
The past couple of days Naegi was observing the school as much as he could after he had that conversation with Kyoko at the central plaza. In a sense he felt that waiting around and doing nothing was quite boring, but looking at the nature outside kept him moving quite happily.
He didn`t come across anyone from his classmates in particular throughout this week, since they were all busy working on their homework and a lot of them were in their dorms some of the time. Which in that case was practically good news for him since he doesn't want to have attention being drawn to him; as it already had in the past.
Especially having Junko become aware of his existence, although at the moment she only believes these unrealistic denial thoughts of the information about the future Naegi. Not to mention that she`s totally unaware of him and Kyoko investigating on her with their strategic skills, but the only thing that`s keeping Naegi anonymous is his sophisticated non-criminal alibi.
In any case, Naegi's presence is in fact slightly different from his fourteen year old self roaming around in Hope`s Peak grounds. He knows this because Kyoko mentioned it to him a few days ago stating that his features, age and height might give away his existence.
Knowing all of this he walks making his way up the marble-paved stairs, he reorganized his thoughts about the situation and the ideas of what he was planning to do next while he was walking through the school.
His stomach begins to growl as he abruptly stopped in his tracks and held his one hand flat against his stomach.
'I'm hungry? well I didn't eat anything today. It would probably be a good idea that I go to the dinning hall...as much as I don`t like to steal. I have to know that I belong here. I need food to survive.'
Naegi takes out the schedule from his other pocket and reads it displaying the events:
(Saturday, August 28th 2010)
7:00Am- Wake up!
7:15Am- Be at the dinning hall for breakfast
8:00Am to 9:00Am- Free time
9:00Am- Go to home room class
11:00Am- Go to the Art Room
1:00pm- Be at the dinning hall for lunch
3:00pm- Return to home room class
5:00pm- Be at the dinning hall for dinner
6:00pm- Free time
10:00pm Lights out!
'Now`s the perfect time to go to the dinning hall'.
Placing the schedule back into his pocket, he turns around back to the stairway and makes his way there.
'...I wonder what else there's to this school that I have been missing?'
He takes the small flip phone out of his formal brown uniform pants. It is the phone that Kyoko gave to him five days earlier when they met up at the Central Plaza around 6pm that day.
He looked at the small blue light screen that is in front of the cover. The time read 9:25Am, he flipped it open and looked through his messages and found only one message from August the 24th.
From: Kyoko
To: Igean
Time sent: 3:47pm
No update. Stay alert. I'll receive information and notify you as soon as I can. For now stay out of sight.
Naegi frowns as she hasn't replied to him for some time, although they met every evening to update on their day. So far nothing much has happened but for an ordinary week at Hope`s Peak Academy. Unfortunately, yesterday for some reason she couldn't meet up with him because she had to investigate on another case. He knew it was best not to ask her what it was about since its almost impossible to get anything out of her.
'I'm realizing that patience is a virtue. So as long as it takes for her to do her business, means I can somewhat work out with mine'.
Closing the flip phone he thinks about the silly fact that his secret name was his last name spelled backwards saying: Igean. The fact that having his anonymous atlas name be Igean was embarrassing; not to mention he didn't come up with it.
Central Plaza 6pm (Flashback)
Kyoko: Take good care of it, it was my fathers old phone.
Naegi: Don`t worry I`ll be extra careful with it.
Kyoko: Will have to come up with an atlas name for you. If it comes down with your or my phone being stolen, then they won't know your true identity.
Naegi: That`s a good point!
Kyoko: Hmh, Okay so how about we name it...
She turns to look at him with a little smirk.
Kyouko: Igean.
He opens his eye a bit puzzled and surprised from her idea.
Naegi: ...Igean?
Kyouko: Yes. It will be your last name but backwards. What does it sound too conspicuous?
Naegi: No its perfect! I mean I was just confused by what it ment for a second.
Kyouko: So Igean it is then. Well I will be going now.
She stands up from the huge fancy gazebo they were sitting in and she begins walking off it.
With that Naegi didn't stop her and stayed sitting in the gazebo silently.
(Flashback ends...)
The phone he has in his hand was an interesting piece of technology to him. He never really looked at it much but when he had nothing else to do he would somewhat glance at it. Now thinking about it, he kind of wished that his parents bought him one that he could use. Although he actually never really liked asking much from his family. He believes that family is the best gift that you could ever be able to have in your lifetime.
Thinking about his family made him worry about them a lot of the time and when he walked around the school he would wonder about what had happened to them after the outbreak. From what he could recall in his memory from the video he received from Monokuma, it was his family that did a greeting video directly to him asking about how he was enjoying his time at the academy ; from the next second after that it showed that his family disappeared and that the room they were before sitting in was a disaster.
'Mom...Dad...Sis, I hope you're doing alright, I hope that you survived'
Still looking at the closed phone, with a worried look on his face he places it safely back into his pocket and stands up from sitting on the stairway.
'Well lets keep moving'
Moments later he arrives to the cafeteria noticing that it was a ghost town, he quickly sneaks making his entrance to grab an apple and leaves the area.
As he slow walks his way near the gym with the apple in his hand, his phone vibrates in his pocket and he stopped in his tracks. Surprised from the random notification, he takes the phone out of his pocket ; and opens up the flip phone.
(DANGANRONPA Music Ends...)
"It's from Kyoko". He clicks to open the message.
To: Igean
From: Kyoko
Time sent: 9:31Am
I need you to meet me by the gift shop. Be quick, I'm already there.
(Extra Lessons For The Unlucky Music Plays...)
His face grown to a serious expression while he flipped his phone shut, he places it back in his pocket and quickly makes his way to the gift shop. By the gift shop he could see Kyoko holding a document folder in her one hand, as she was crossing her arms waiting for him.
Kyoko turns her head to the right seeing Naegi make his entrance towards her way, she uncrossed her arms lightly frowning and she walks her way a little over to him.
"I'll get to the chase, this document folder I have with me obtains information about the Ultimate Physicists' " Kyoko replied, giving him the folder.
Naegi looking at the folder, he then turned it over and looked up at Kyoko shocked.
"Kyoko?! How did you get this?" Naegi asked, resisting not to care if she didn't give him a straight answer.
"...Lets just say it wasn't in the archives room" she said crossing her arms, unintentionally looking past the hall from him.
"Thank-you Kyoko" Naegi suddenly replied right after her comment. She looked back at his way a bit shocked but more calm and serious, she felt that his kind generosity was just a habit; she uncrossed her arms as he was opening up the folder.
Naegi slides the paper out of the folder and reads it through as it displayed in front of him:
Physicist Department
Student #1:
SHSL: Ultimate Manger Physicist
Name: Minoru Ueno
Gender: Male
Birthday: October 16th (Libra)
Height: 172cm (5"8)
Occupation: High essential skills with inspecting the machines inside the laboratory, organizing on planning the charts, letters, and all documentation for the students within the physic's lab.
Student #2:
SHSL: Ultimate Mathematical Physicist
Name: Seiki Sekiguchi
Gender: Female
Birthday: February 12th (Aquarius)
Height: 158cm (5"2)
Occupation: Obtains the skills of researching on all quantum theories, analyzing on machinery's mechanism and collaborating on new inventions.
Student #3:
SHSL: Ultimate Biophysicist
Name: Rena Chi
Gender: Female
Birthday: October 29th (Scorpio)
Height: 190cm (6"3)
Occupation: Extremely skilled with bio-chemistry, elaborating new solutions with medicine and researching on proteomics and genomics.
Student#4:
SHSL: Ultimate Classic Mechanical Physicist
Name: Chokichi Katsuo
Gender: Male
Birthday: May 2nd (Taurus)
Height: 184cm (6"0.5)
Occupation: Skilled in the law of physics, inventing new machines and developing plots on the equation structures of engineering.
Student#5:
SHSL: Ultimate Geophysicist
Name: Tsuyoshi Chikyu
Gender: Male
Birthday: April 8th (Aries)
Height: 181cm (5"11)
Occupation: Skilled in the natural science of the earth and researching on how all physical phenomena occurs within the everyday geophysical science environment. Subjects listed as: gravity, heat flow, vibrations, electricity, electromagnetic waves, fluid dynamics, magnetism and mineral physics.
"So these are the students that work in the physics lab" Naegi replied curiously, as he finished reading and a moment later he replied before Kyoko could speak.
"So then was this the case that you were working on last night?" he asked suspiciously glaring at her.
"Yes it was" she said hesitating for a moment, before she replied.
"But aren't we suppose to work as a team?" he asked slightly shocked.
"Remember when I told you that you have to stay out of sight?" she asked lightly frowning miserably.
"Y-yeah but-" he said.
"Then we should have no problem." she replied dismissively, intrusting his objection.
'Why doesn't she trust me? I just want to help her out!' thought Naegi.
'If I'm going to trust him, I need to know that I can rely on him to not keep any secrets that he's hiding from me. In any case, I don`t think that I`d able to get anything out of him at the moment. Lets try to stick to the task at hand.' thought Kyoko.
"Now that we know who works in the physic's lab, we can start investigating on who created the time machine." she said looking seriously at him.
"Right let's go check it out" he replied.
They both make their way up to the third floor as Naegi gave the documentation folder back to Kyoko. They soon reach the Physics lab standing before the door and staring it blankly.
Without both saying a word, Kyoko makes her way closer to the door and knocks three times.
(Extra Lessons For The Unlucky Music Ends...)
* KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK*
A few moments pass and there was no answer. She tries again but knocking a bit louder.
*KNOCK!, KNOCK!, KNOCK!*
Still there was no answer.
"I guess they aren't here?" he asked curiously puzzled.
Kyoko opened the door and she started to walk right in. Naegi looked at her a bit dumbfounded and took a stride step over to reach her shoulder with his one hand resting on it ; before she could walk in any further.
"Wait a minute Kyoko, do you think it's a good idea to go in there? Shouldn't we wait until there's one of students there" he lightly cried.
She turned her head to look between him and his hand that rested on her shoulder.
"Take your hand off me" replied Kyoko coldly.
"Uh" he gasped as he immediately took it off.
"I'm sorry, I just-"
She turned around to face him, crossing her arms in irritation and frustration.
(Climax Reasoning Music Plays...)
"Just what exactly Makoto?" she asked as she walked closer to him.
He trembles as he moves his feet back away from the door as she kept walking closer to him.
"Tell me, why are you so anxious suddenly?" she asked more coldly.
"Uh- w-wait a minute!" he lightly cried scared of those cold eyes that were shooting through his fragile body.
Naegi bangs into the wall from the opposite wall of the physics door as Kyoko stopped about 1 foot away from his face. She stared down at him for a long pause as he was speechless to even pitch out any sound from his wind pipe tightening.
"You tell me now. Why should I trust you?" she asked.
"Well because I...I..." he stalled as he lost the words that he wanted to say to her.
'I care for you! Your someone I can't lose! We strived working hard together to survive the mutual killing and getting outside! But how...how am I suppose to tell her about all of this, when she barely even knows me in this timeline. Not only that, but if I tell her about her father being killed by Monokuma/Junko right now...it might separate us from working together. Furthermore, it will probably set the timeline off the charts and who knows what her intentions might be if she did know. I have to try to get her away from the thoughts that question my trust and for her being mad at me ; otherwise I will have trouble with saving the world'
"I need us to stick together. I need you to trust your gut. If you think I'm someone not worth your time then you can leave, but I want to let you know...I'm at all ends to protect this world from the tragedy. If I die, I die and I'd make sure that I'd die before anyone else in this entire school does". he replied seriously.
She stares at him blankly with no expression, she keeps staring at him for a long moment.
'He's really serious about this...but why go through so much trouble? What is the truth for you to protect everyone to take your own life? You must have a reason...not just because they are our classmates. Just why are you doing this? Why?'
"It looks like it seems that I am interrupting something" a man's voice echo's from behind Kyoko.
Kyoko turns around to face the man who stood before them.
He wore a grey lab coat with three small black slip on buttons, although he had them unbuttoned showing his white-collar dress shirt. Below that he wore black trousers that were a little too small for him and he had brown running shoes with white laces. He was about average height, with short blonde hair and wore small square glasses with the shade lenses having a black trim all around it. His face was a square jaw and had some facial bristles coming from the sides of his cheeks but they weren't that noticable. Also he has green colour eyes, a small nose and thin blonde eye brows.
From the look he was making, he seem to have a rather cocky arrogant attitude like he didn't care who he bothered throughout the entire time of his day ; with no response he makes his way a little closer to them and stops about 8 feet away.
"Do you need something? Or do you angry birds still need to have your chat?" asked the arrogant man smirking at them.
"Yes were here to speak with the physicists. I'm assuming your one of them? she asked.
The young short hair blonde man laughs delightfully, having his hands both rest on his chest ; then taking his one hand away from his chest and laying forward as wanting to give a handshake but dismissively teasing them.
"Of course, I am the one and only Minoru Ueno the Ultimate Manager Physicist. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance" he happily replied, with his attitude not changing in the slightest.
Kyoko crossing her arms looking at the man with a serious attitude and could tell he was some immature person.
"Kyoko Kirigiri, Ultimate Detective." she replied.
"Wait! Kirigiri?! Then you are Jin's daughter! Am I right?" he asked sarcastically shocked.
"Yes I am." she said blankly.
"Oh hahahaha! Well this is a surprise indeed. I thought you'd be taller but who am I to judge. Sooo!" Ueno replied, now looking behind from Kyoko curious to know the other person.
"Who must you be?" he asked.
"...I am Makoto Naegi...I'm the Ultimate Lucky Student" he replied slightly nervous.
"Lucky or unlucky? Seriously its hard to say which type you would be most of the time. Well I guess you are lucky for making it into this school, this academy does have a bright future ahead for all of us" he replied sharply.
'Not unless I save it...' thought Naegi as the man continued to speak to him.
"Though I'd have to say that you do look unlucky to have such a reputation like that...seriously what's your real talent?" he asked curiously.
"Well we came here for a reason. We liked to know if we could speak with the rest of the students that work in the physic's lab" replied Kyoko, cutting to the chase and trying to change the unnecessary subject.
"Hey! I was talking to him, not you! You'll have to just wait your turn" Ueno shouted, angry as he pointed his finger at her.
She kept her arms crossed as she decides to procrastinate on her subject in silence; as in not wanting to escalate the situation.
"Where was I? Oh yes, so what is your real talent?" he asked curiously.
"Well..." Naegi replied puzzled and disappointed from his question while he looked to Kyoko's way.
"That's your talent? How interesting..." he replied, disappointed crossing his arms.
They both remained silent, a moment later he smirks and looks over to Kyoko's direction.
"So now I can answer you. Yes, there is in fact other physicists' that are in this class" he replied arrogantly.
"Are they in there at this moment?" Kyoko asked.
"Unfortunately, they're all gone. So you'll have to come back later" he replied lifting his hands and curving them downwards to show that he's not sure where they are exactly.
Kyoko looked at him intensively for a moment. After a long pause, she uncrossed her arms walking a little closer to the manager physicist and stared at him.
"Is that so? Tell me Ueno, why are you acting strange right now?" she replied calmly.
"What do you mean? If anything you're the one that's strange in my books" he replied lightly laughing.
'What's with this guy?' thought Naegi.
"I know you're lying. I can tell by the way your eyes dilated" she replied in a serious expression. She is very perspective when it comes to people's emotions although Naegi knew that she was good at hiding hers because she doesn't want people to cloud over her and the other person's judgements.
"So you think that I know something? How would I know where they are? I'm all alone in the physics lab" he asked lifting his confidence.
Kyoko moved a bit closer standing about 3 feet away from the Manger Physicist just like she did moments before to Naegi.
"Oh so now your playing the game you did with your lover boy over there" he smirked half heartedly.
"The question is Ueno, how would you not know where they are if your, if I must say the Ultimate Manger Physicist? Isn't it your job to keep track on what all the other students do around this academy?" replied Kyoko beginning to corner him in an interrogation.
"Its none of your business!" cried Ueno, frowning angrily at Kyoko.
Kyoko crossed her arms again and shifted her stance.
"As a matter a fact it does concern me. Besides, you wouldn't want me to go to the faculty building to discuss with the committee of this behaviour do you?" she asked curiously.
"Hahahaha. Like they'd believe daddy's little girl! hahaha" he laughed, booming his sound echoing down the hallways. One of the classroom doors opened from about 25 feet from them and a teacher's head stuck out looking down the hallway.
"Excuse me, would you please be quiet. Class is in session!" replied a female's voice with black hair that had a bun on her head.
"Don't worry I was just showing these students the way back to their classrooms" Ueno replied nicely.
"Thank-you" the female teacher replied, shutting the door heading back inside to her classroom.
"Kyoko its okay we can just come back later" replied Naegi gently.
"There will be no need for that" she replied smiling at the physicist and then turned half way to look at Naegi.
(Climax Reasoning Music Ends...)
(New World Order Music Plays...)
She took out a device from her pocket and to their surprise it was an old cassette recorder.
"WHAT?!" Ueno cried dumbstruck.
"Whoa!" gasped Naegi lightly, seeing the cassette tape was still rolling.
"So Minoru Ueno, we could do this the easy way or the hard way? Although I prefer the easy way" replied Kyoko smirking, stilling holding the cassette tape in her hand.
"Ahhh...O-okay you win! They all left a few days ago to go on a long physic's field trip across the other side of the world" replied Ueno in slight irritation, squinting his eyes in disgust.
"When will they return?" Naegi asked, before Kyoko could respond. Both Ueno and Kyoko looked over to Naegi's way and then Kyoko turns back towards Ueno's way.
"You heard him. When do they arrive back?" she asked, as Ueno stared back towards Kyoko's way.
"Uhhh...they won't be back for two months. Can I go now?!" Ueno replied, frustrated now with the interrogation.
Naegi lightly gasped shocked that a field trip could last that long for school here. At his old school he would only receive one day trips for like going to a science centre or going to the outdoors to explore more in the world of geography with his old classmates. He just couldn't comprehend how Hope's Peak can afford that much to allow four students to travel on the other side of the world ; although he guessed that the school had their ways.
"Not just yet. I have a few more questions. First, I'd like to know if you are conducting on a working time machine at the moment? she asked.
"Huh? Haha what! You're crazy you know that! Time travel is just theories, they don't have a possible way to use it mechanically on earth yet" he replied lightly laughing.
"I see, well then could you tell me who I could properly speak to about more on this matter? asked Kyoko, crossing her arms holding the cassette recorder on the hand away from the manager's reach.
"Well you could speak to Chokichi Katsuo who knows about the law of physics, Seiki Sekiguchi which she's great with the mechanisms of machinery, Rena Chi could tell you some theories she knows about the life of conducting mechanisms and or Tysuyoshi Chikyu which he figures out how the environments work within the law of physics" he replied.
"Okay, that'll be all. Thanks for your time. Will be going" she replied, placing the tape recorder back into her uniform pocket and she begins to walk away down the hallway.
(New World Order Music Ends...)
(Distrust Music Plays...)
Naegi looks at the physicist manager while he was looking down the hallway seeing Kyoko continue to make her exit.
Ueno turns to look at him and gave a snarky look.
"Why do you put up with her?" he asked.
"If there's one thing I know about people, its to work with their ups and their downs. No matter what lies ahead!" he explained to Ueno of his opinion.
"Huh... Your one strange guy. Well I`ll be getting back to work, so if you would excuse me" he replied, dismissively showing his cocky attitude before he went back into the lab shutting the door behind him.
Without a second later, Naegi went to catch up to Kyoko who was already turning down the hallway and when he makes it to her he finds that she was in a really weary mood.
"Hey Kyoko" he replied walking beside her now, as they pass one of the classrooms. She doesn't reply to him or give any sign of acknowledgement and he looks at her slightly worried but more frustrated with himself.
"...So it seems like we'll have to wait a bit for them "
"Yeah..." she replied, lightly sighing.
'For some reason that manger seemed really suspicious...what was his intentions for not giving us straight answers in the first place? Did he think we were suspicious ourselves? Was it because of his personality? Or is it something that's entirely different all together?'
They remain silent for a few minutes as they make their way further down to the end of the long hallway and start to walk down the stairway.
'I'll get to the bottom of this...but there's another case in the matter. Naegi...just what are you hiding from me?'
Kyoko looked over to his way as he remain silent with a blank expression on his face.
They soon reach the second floor as he stops in his tracks reaching the bottom step, while Kyoko stopped a couple of steps above him on the opposite rail side he walked on.
"Well we should stay on task, with whatever Junko is planning to strike next."he replied, as he clenched his fist.
Kyoko looked over to his way as he was talking looking over beyond the doors of the hallways of the second floor. Not long after, he turns around to face looking up at her and stares determined with hope.
"...You're right" she replied.
Kyoko starts walking down the last few steps as she quickly pondered in thought.
'Asking him about anything else from the mutual killing now may not help with making the right decisions in our case. I think I`ll just wait and see what he tries to do'
"I'll be heading to class. We'll talk later" she said, making her leave and soon disappeared out of his sight.
'I wonder why she didn't ask me more about what happened earlier? Isn't she mad at me? If I had to guess she probably is not deciding to question me. Only because she knows I don't have the time machine on me anymore. Although that's a good thing! This way it doesn't matter because she trusts me!' Naegi thought, as Kyoko left him by the stairway.
(Distrust Music Ends...)
9:59Pm
Naegi was lying down on full of leaves and comfortable branches that he made to cover him from any sunlight shining at his face. He made a small tipi house as he was now camping in the middle of the forest from the track and field area. The punched hole was still near the bleachers, since unfortunately they're still dealing with Sakura's punishment. From what he knows by Kyoko, Sakura has to pay them back by paying extra fees to her tuition for her schooling.
He frowns when he recalled more than a few days ago about Kyoko hearing the rumors spreading across the school about a peeping tom near the bleachers, she figured out really quickly that it was him. She smirked a bit thinking he was the type for a peeping tom but he confessed that he wasn`t and in the end he didn`t believe him. Now thinking about Sakura he noticed that ever since the day she punched a hole through the bleachers, she became really known at the school and not to mention that everyday students would go check it out.
When it was the 23rd of August he moved to this spot out in the woods, enjoying the fresh air, the bugs, getting away from suspicion and being alone after from a long day of all the chaos that happens inside the academy.
*Ding Dong Ding Dong*
He could hear the bell very faintly from where he was sleeping but in truth he prefered it better.
"Goodnight! Sleep Tight! Lights Out!" replied an automated person's voice as it clicks off a moment later.
He lightly sighs, having his arms crossed resting on his head ; looking up at the tip of the interior of the tipi.
'What will lie next at Hope' Peak academy for me?' thought Naegi, as he dwells on it in his sleep.
(Dream Land)
(Mr. Monokuma's Lesson Music Plays...)
Monokuma appears with an axe and looks at you straight in the eye. He begins saying things as you can't move from your position.
"I'm very pessimistic when it comes to working with people, working together just leads to more problems. Anyways this story is beary suspenseful; but where is the romance! Everyone needs more romance than anything in this time travel twist. It's leaving everyone jumping off your seats and not getting a second to feel calm. Let's throw something in to make this story light! Besides, this is only a what if the Ultimate Lucky Student can get a second chance. Seeya everyone be on the lookout for the story ahead!" replies Monokuma, then the image turns to black and soon awaits the future of tomorrow's lucky star of hope.
(Mr. Monokuma's Lesson Music Ends...)
Author's Notes: 8th chapter is out!
Next time the timeline will move forward again.
Keep posted and I hope that this story is enjoyable!
Also if there is any questions or anything that you would like me to improve on with this story, let me know in the review or PM. Thanks!