If you told Makoto that he was gonna despise being on a field trip to a beach, he would call you a liar.
Now he regrettably admits they would have a point.
It all began the day he entered Hope's Peak Academy, he had won a raffle after the worst day of his life ever, he had thought it was a bone thrown at him after such a horrible day, now he knew it was just to twist the knife while he was down.
Super High School Level Lucky Student, yeah right.
Once he arrived at Hope's Peak he found himself in a room with all his classmates without an opening ceremony, without knowing how he entered and locked into that room.
And as it turns out, everyone else went through the same thing.
Great start, don't worry, it gets better.
Suddenly a black and white bear with a passion for bear puns and being creepy named Monokuma shows up, claiming to be their teacher for the school trip at a beach…right at the beginning of the year.
Suddenly he does a "magic trick" and the walls of the room fall down to reveal a beach, a fucking beach.
Naturally everyone panicked over the fact, the bear said they had to be there befriending each other and gathering "Despair Fragments" as they went along.
The name was non indicative, he guessed he named it like that because when he suggested the more appropriate "Hope Fragments" the bear gagged and told him he was going to be punished if he suggested it again.
Anyways, after those news, his classmate:The Super High School Level Fashionista Junko Enoshima, fainted on the spot and while everyone, including her own sister, left to explore the island, he stood there making sure she was alright.
He introduced himself and helped her just in case she was still in shock, he also reunited with his childhood friend and the Super High School Level Idol Sayaka Maizono.
Most people eventually settled down and decided to enjoy their time at the beach…that was until she appeared.
Dark Magical Girl Disaster ✮ Usami, or just Usami as they call her. She looked like a winged rabbit with purple clothing that gave her an evil magical girl theme. She appeared proclaiming that the game was about to start.
Monokuma got offended that someone with such an horrible fashion style was trying to take over his territory, but Monokuma got his ass kicked by Usami (with the magical girl staff inserted into a rather painful place) and then changed into a form called Usakuma, looking like a gray bear with dark red eyes.
Junko said she fucked up a perfectly fine design and honestly? He agreed.
Afterwards Usami stated that if they wanna escape this island, they must kill someone in order to leave, there's also a machine that had a countdown, what would happen once it finishes? They don't know and they're scared to know.
And what's even worse? Apparently they were missing two to three years worth of memories…yeah, things were going from bad to worse…and this was just starting.
Everyone was on edge about everything that they just heard, Makoto was sure nobody was going to kill each other, but not only his attempts to defuse the situation didn't work, he was eventually proven wrong.
But at first things were…relatively peaceful, Usami blocked the entrance to the other islands with her…team of Dark Magical girls…
Monokuma promised he would help them escape but nobody really trusted him, for all they know he could be in league with Usami, only he and Junko gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Afterwards while they were on edge they managed to relax a little, nobody was thinking of killing each other…and then the first motive dropped.
Usami showed them videos of their loved ones with the transmission cut off, saying that if they wanted to know what happened to them and regain their school memories, they had to commit an murder.
She also revealed that an organization called World Ender was the one who took away their memories, trapped them there and was controlling Monokuma, making them distrust him even less.
Though Makoto didn't know why they were taking her words at face value, this could just be a ploy to make them not trust Monokuma, something which Junko agreed with.
Sayaka nearly had a panic attack over what she saw and Makoto tried to console her, she told him she did a lot for her dream to become an Idol and that she needs to know what happened since it was very important to her, Makoto reassured her he would get her out of here and find her memories.
That didn't work out.
Trying to calm things down, Taka suggested they do a party to calm things down a notch, most people agreed but a few like Byakuya, Toko and Kyoko did not want to go.
So everyone else, there were some people like Sakura and Mukuro making watch.
There was a contest to see who would take care of the preparations, he lost (so much for luck) and was the one taking care of it.
However, at one point there was a blackout, there was panic for a time but once the dust was settled, one horrific sight was shown to them.
Sayaka Maizono had been murdered.
Usami then told them to investigate the murder because there was gonna be a class trial in which they had to find the killer, if they got it right only the killer would be executed, but if they got it wrong, everyone but the killer would be executed.
Junko aided him in the investigation, he was quite distraught over it since he cared for Sayaka, but once they investigated with the time they were given.
During the class trial they ended up discovering that Sayaka was actually planning a murder first, but got thwarted and overpowered by her killers.
But then they ended up finding out who set up and motivated the murder:Junko.
For a few seconds she seemed distraught and shocked over it…until she broke into a peal of deranged laughter and showed her true nature as someone who loves despair over anything else and found this whole killing game fun. She even found it hilarious rubbing it in on him that he helped her so much at first, saying stuff like.
"Aww, were you so stunned by my beauty that you wanted to help me? It's fine, I got plenty of idiots like that, you're not the first or the last sweetie"
Which wasn't even true! He just helped her cause he wanted to!
Being distraught upon learning the true natures of Junko and Sayaka, Makoto resolved to shoulder on with the class trial.
He found out that despite Junko's machinations and trying to paint herself as the killer, she wasn't the killer, but it was actually Leon.
After proving it to him for real, Usami executed him.
Deciding that Junko was too dangerous, everyone (but him) decided it would be better to tie her up so she doesn't cause any problems, but they were stopped by Mukuro who threatened anyone getting close to her sister.
Everyone decided to not bother her but get away from Junko and never approach her…except himself, because for some asinine reason he wanted to get to know her better after his perspective of her got flipped on it's head.
Then the second motive came in the form of videogames, everyone got one which turned out to be about their closest secrets and the fates of those secrets in the gap from their memories.
This resulted in Chihiro Fujisaki being killed by Mondo Oowada, Taka tried to defend him after having become friends with him but it was no use.
Each time they advanced in the class trials a new island became available, in the third island he, Taka and Hina fell ill from something called "Hope disease" which altered their personality in distinct ways.
Junko ended up taking care of him, for some ungodly reason.
Hina wanted to confront Usami over the horrible things she put them through, but this only got her to nearly be killed if Sakura didn't take the blow for her.
They were finally cured when they discovered the body of Taka, who's disease made him act like a fusion of himself and Mondo, he was not the only one as they found out Hifumi was murdered too.
As a thank you for helping him, Makoto though of a plan to clear up Junko of any suspicion and give her an alibi for when the murder occurred, then he worked together with her, Kyoko and Byakuya to find the killer:Celestia Lundenberg or to use her true name:Taeko Yasuhiro.
And then Sakura returned in a new mechanical body called "Mecha Sakura"
Then it led them to the fourth island, where Usami trapped them in something called the Funhouse and left them to starve until a murder happened.
Honestly, by this point Makoto was sure whoever was controlling Usami wanted to kill them all in any way possible but couldn't personally do it herself.
But that didn't change the point they were starving from hunger…until another murder happened:The murder of Sakura and this time for good.
Makoto managed to make some progress in the investigation process, he was getting surprisingly good at it, but needed to take a risk to get further.
A place called The Final Dead Room.
He found Monokuma stuck there too, Makoto was worried for him and resolved to get them out of here.
After solving the puzzle, Makoto was given the chance to play the life-threatening game of Russian Roulette.
Makoto was about to play the normal game, but Monokuma gave him an idea.
"Russian Roulette is fun and all, but imagine if instead of leaving one bullet in the chambers, you leave five, it would be like Super Russian Roulette, upupupu" The mechanical bear jokes to calm his nerves.
"...That's an interesting idea" Makoto said.
"...what?"
"Usami would be twisted enough to think of an idea like that, maybe if I play that way, I'll gain a better price"
"What!?"
"And maybe this would be a chance to give my talent a go, I mean this is supposed to be Super High School Level Luck, it should be the best of the best, right? It has helped me so far, maybe…"
"What the fuck is wrong with you! You're gonna get yourself killed!"
"Maybe, but if it's for helping my classmates…then I gladly risk my life"
And then, after a moment of Hesitation, he pulled the trigger.
Nothing happened.
"...Guess I'm truly the Super High School Level Lucky Student"
Monokuma was looking at him weirdly.
"What?"
"You're fucked up in the head!"
Makoto didn't really care and went through the opened door.
There Usami appeared, congratulated him for completing the life threatening game on hard mode and gave him a big prize:an extension of the future foundation file they found before and a book about their school years in Hope's Peak Academy, it was everything they had been searching for so long!
Monokuma was suspicious and honestly, he was too, but Usami took him away so all he was left with was investigating the room.
It was filled with dangerous weapons, there was a camera there, a window which revealed a rather important clue that changed everything he knew about the fun house and a way to travel between both houses whenever he wanted.
Well, this was everything he needed to do and more! Now he could definitely catch the killer in record time! He wanted to see Kyoko, Byakuya and Junko reacting to this!
But speaking of his classmates, it was time to take a peak in that journal. He hoped he could see what Kyoko's talent was or how their lives in Hope's Peak were, maybe he could see what their fallen classmates were like.
He started reading with excitement!...and as he kept reading, he realized that this was just like that day that he got the Hope's Peak invitation.
He really was the Super High School Level Unlucky Student…
Junko noticed Makoto acting weird when he suddenly and out of nowhere in grapehouse.
Maybe it was because he was on edge and seemed troubled.
Maybe it was because he showed up with a vast knowledge of not only the murder, but also their classmates with an extended file of the Future Foundation and a Hope's Peak book which despite that, did not have information of their School Years.
She could tell that he was lying when he said that, and she intended to find out why.
But investigation came first, although from the way she could see, he already figured out the killer.
And just as they were walking to the Usami Rock.
"What's your instance on Despair, Junko?"
The girl in question was perplexed about it, didn't he know what she was about.
"I think you already know, Despair is eternal, it's the natural order of things, Hope is only made for furthering Despair"
"Hn…That's interesting, though I believe that the reverse is true…that if Despair is contagious, so should Hope"
"Ugh, miss me with that shit"
"Just as I could call into Despair, I believe someone like you could rise to Hope"
"What are you on about?" She was confused.
"I wonder what I will find in this class trial, people filled with Despair? Or people filled with Hope? Either one will determine what I do forward"
Junko looked at him curiously.
"I think regardless of what it is, you're gonna be involved on it, I wonder what we will do next"
He then turned to her and held out his hand.
"Wanna find out?"
Junko looked at his hand with curiosity…
And then she held it…
What happened next was a wild ride for everyone involved…
