Hello readers and welcome to my new chapter. So, no virus. No allergies. No computer problems. No wi-fi problems. Nothing that stopped me from updating in under a week and a half. Yes!
Also, I finished watching Danganronpa V3. And let me say, the ending was….mind-jarring. If any of you have played/watched the entire thing, you know what I'm about talking about. I won't say anything spoiler ish about V3, for those who have yet to play/watch it, but I will say this: In my opinion, it makes Danganronpa 1 look normal.
So, in this chapter, it's all free time events. I hope you guys enjoy.
P.S. Don't interpret that the smirk on Spirit's face when they talked about Hiro's fortune as he's gonna show them the alternate ending. It could just mean that he knows something the cast don't, and is amused. That said, I might reveal to them the alternate ending, though not actually show it to them on screen.
Disclaimer: I do not own Danganronpa.
Editor: You guys all seem to be pretty interested with Yasuhiro getting his ass kicked o_o leave him alone! Weedman has rights too! (Actually, I too, am looking forward to that specific FTE! :D) Also, this would've been up yesterday but one of my assignment requirements got AFTER I submitted it so I had to look it over again. Anyways, this update should still be one of the faster ones given our unlucky streak so far :P
Q: Will you be planning to make a Class 78 watches "The Luckster and his Luck" fic?
L: I personally have not read this fic, but as far as I know, it's a collection of one-shots that detail how Makoto hooks up with each girl and then takes things to the next level? Anyways, I don't know if Spirit wants to do this, but I personally refrain from writing sexual stuff. Sorry!
S: Yeah, same here. I don't plan on ever writing smut, and doing a reading on a smut fic would be really uncomfortable. Also, I'm willing to bet that a majority of the Danganronpa cast would be very uncomfortable with reading something like that, especially the luckster himself.
Q:Will you reveal the actual reason Leon broke into the Washroom as stated in the Manga?
L: To my knowledge, the mangas for the most part are non-canon, and even then, there are two adaptations of the manga, one for the game, and one for the anime. I personally have not read the mangas so I can't comment more on this than I would have liked.
S: Like Lucky said, the games are non-canon, so the reason for Leon breaking into the bathroom will continue being ambiguous on this fic. I plan on sticking with the canon stuff, maybe with the occasional mentioning of the non-canon moments.
Chapter 28: Watching Ch 2: Boy's LIfe of Despair Part 5
The scene changed to Makoto walking in the hallway. 'I'll check on Toko. See if she's alright, and maybe talk to her.' Makoto decided.
After a moment from pressing Toko's doorbell, she hesitantly came out from her room. "W-What do you want?" Toko asked him.
"Well, I just wanted to check up on you, that's all." Makoto told her.
The writer looked at him with confusion and suspicion. "W-Why would you want to check up on me?"
"Welp, it's not like she's any better now." Leon commented.
"S-Shut up!"
"Well, I mean, you know," Makoto said, trying to come up with the right words. "We're trapped together, right? If we're gonna be friends, it's good to make sure we're alright."
"Huh?" His words seemed to startled Toko. "What'd you s-say?"
Makoto looked at her in confusion. "U-Um…."
"After the p-part about being trapped," Toko clarified. "We're gonna be wh-what?"
"Uh….friends?" Makoto repeated, wondering what's wrong. That brought a snicker out of Toko.
"Whaddya mean, friends?! You think I'm stupid?" Toko questioned him aggressively. "You're trying to trick me! I've already been h-hurt once before….I'm not gonna l-let it happen again….!"
"Damn. You really are paranoid." Mondo stated. "Who the hell stabbed you in the back and rubbed salt deep in the wound?"
"L-Like I would tell you!" Toko shot back.
'Youve been hurt? What happened….?' Makoto thought in concern.
"Come on, y-you don't really care about m-me," Toko continued. "You don't want to kn-know about me! I know that….!"
"N-No, that's not true….!" Makoto protested.
Toko scoffed. "Fine. Then t-tell me…."
"Tell you what?"
"You know why they c-call me the Ultimate Writing Prodigy, right?" She asked him.
Makoto nodded. "Yeah, sure. You've won all kinds of literature prizes and stuff."
"Then tell me wh-what I'm good at," Toko demanded. "Tell m-me what my genre specialty is! If you r-really wanna convince me you give a crap, you sh-should at least know that….!"
"I'm guessing the two of you had this conversation before?" Taka inquired. "If so, what would've happened if he didn't knew the answer?"
"I w-wouldn't be surprise and scoff at h-him." Toko answered. "M-Maybe tell him to go away."
"Glad I did know." Makoto said with a nervous chuckle.
Makoto answered with only a second to think about it. "It's romance, of course."
"Oh….you a-actually knew?" Toko asked in shock.
"Your biggest success was 'So Lingers the Ocean', right?" Makoto continued. "Everyone says it's your masterpiece. The book was such a hit that fishermen shot to the top of all 'Hottest Men' polls….right?"
"H-How did you know all that….?" She asked, looking like she's about to panic. "There's no way you c-care about me….!"
"I'm telling you, I do!" Makoto insisted. "I mean, we're friends, aren't we?"
Toko shivered, wrapping her arms around herself. "S-So, straightforward."
"That honest nature of is amusing sometimes." Celeste remarked with a giggle. A few nodded in agreement while Makoto flushed a little once again.
That caused Toko to recoil in shock. "I'm blind! Your s-straightforward nature blinded me!" With a scream of a banshee, she ran back into her room and slammed the door.
All the while, Makoto looked on in confusion. "I'm not really sure….does she hate me now?" He sighed to himself. "So much for checking if she's alright."
"Did that happened when you first spoke with Toko?" Sayaka asked Makoto curiously.
The luckster nodded. "The difference was that I tried to small talk with her, and that we were in library. I has checking the books there, and saw Toko reading alone."
"Hmph. And I-I was enjoying being a-alone, thank you." Toko grumbled. But inwardly, she's glad Makoto made the effort to talk to her. It helped open up that inferior shell she made for herself, if only a little.
Makoto was about to leave, when heard somebody nearby. "No…."
"Huh?" Curious, he turned around to see Chihiro standing around , a cute frown on her face.
"No….!"
"What's wrong, Chihiro?" Makoto asked, walking towards her.
"Ahh, it's hurt…." Chihiro responded, looking as if she's struggling a little.
"Huh? What's hurts, Chihiro?" Hina asked, automatically concern.
"Did something happen to you?" Sayaka asked, equally concern. Some of the others also looked immediately concern for the programmer.
Chihiro waved her hands rapidly from the concern being received at her. "No, no, it's okay. If i remember correctly, it's nothing major."
"Huh?" Immediately, Makoto grew concern. "Did you get hurt, Chihiro?"
"Oh, well….not really." Chihiro answered. "I got bit by a mosquito last night."
That settled the group down. "Oh, good. Just a mosquito bite." Sayaka said in relief.
"And how much do you want to bet Chihiro let it bite her?" Leon remarked in amusement.
"Hey!" Chihiro pouted.
"A mosquito….?" Makoto repeated. "Oh, I figured something serious had happened, since you were saying how it hurt."
"Oh, did I give you the wrong impression?" She asked. A guilty look entered her face. "S-Sorry!"
"You don't have to apologize. It was my own fault." Makoto reassured her. "But you said it hurts? Did it really bite you that hard?"
"Yeah, see? Look." Chihiro held out her arm, which revealed a big red bump on her pale skin. Makoto's eyes widen in alarm at this.
"Holy cow!"
"Yep. She definitely let that mosquito get a good bite out of her." Junko stated. "Just like last time."
"No argument here." Leon agreed.
"How dare such a vile creature attack the innocent!" Hifumi shot out.
"It's way past itchy now. It really hurts….!" Chihiro whined a little.
"But why's it so big?" Makoto inquired. "Did it bite you while you were sleeping or something?"
"Oh, no. I was awake." Chihiro informed him.
"But you didn't notice?"
"No, I noticed. But…."
"But what?" The luckster asked.
"Well, I felt it bite me, and I looked down at it." Chihiro explained. "But I didn't do anything. I just sat there and watched it suck my blood…."
That baffled Makoto. "You just watched? Why didn't you smack it?"
"Cuz….that would've killed, right?" Chihiro answered.
Sakura sighed. "You are far too kind Chihiro. Even more so than Makoto and Hina."
"Heck, you still haven't changed that much now." Mondo added. Chihiro pouted a little more.
"Well, bugs are living things too. I don't want to kill them."
"Well yeah, but…."
Chihiro continued. "It must have been really hungry to suck that much blood. If it was that hungry, it would've been really sad not to let it have anything."
"But….it's just a mosquito." Was all Makoto could say.
"Mosquitos are living things too, though." Chihiro argued softly. "It might have its own mosquito family…."
'It will be hard to get her into killing.' Junko remarked with a mental sigh. 'Well, there's one thing that could get her into a killing spree…..or rather, him, into a killing spree.' Yeah, she knows that Chihiro is a boy. It didn't take her so long to figure it out, thanks to her Ultimate Analyst ability.
She wonder what would happen if Chihiro's got threaten to have that secret be revealed…..oh, the thought of that despair excites her so much!
"S-Sorry. I know that's dumb…."
"No, really, you don't have to apologize." Makoto reassured her once again. "But don't go scratching it, okay? That'll just make things worse."
"But what if it gets so itchy I can't take it?" Chihiro whined once again.
Makoto thought about it for a moment. "Well….in that case, just take the tip of your fingernail and push it into the bump. That'll help."
Chihiro's eyes widen slightly at that. "Wow, I had no idea….!" A smile lit up her face. "You're so smart, Makoto!"
Sayaka couldn't help but let out a tiny squeal at the smile. "That smile of yours is so very cute, Chihiro!"
"Like a tiny, little animal!" Hina agreed readily. "I just want to hug and cuddle if you smile like that!"
The programmer's adorable nature caused everyone else to lighten up in their own unique ways.
'That smile of hers. It's like a cute, tiny little animal.' Makoto couldn't help but think. 'Does she do that on purpose? If so, that's a whole other level of scary.'
"Indeed, that is scary." Hifumi agreed. "She could take advantage of any guy, and even girls, and use them however she like."
"I-I wouldn't do that!" Chihiro denied. "It's not nice to use people like that!"
The two petite Ultimates began walking together. "But anyway, don't you think it's kinda strange?"
"Huh? What is?" Makoto asked curiously.
"Well this school is completely sealed off, right?" Chihiro rhetorically asked. "So how'd a mosquito get in?"
"Yeah, Miss Fujisaki have a good point." Hifumi agreed. "How did a mosquito got into the school?"
"It probably came from the Greenhouse." Kyoko answered easily. "Several bugs have gone their before."
"Maybe there's somewhere here in the school where bugs can live and grow. Some kind of….nature-y spot."
'A "nature-y" place in the school….? Well, I can't say for sure that there's not.' Makoto thought to himself.
Another idea popped into Chihiro's mind. "Or, or, or! Maybe there's a secret passage somewhere that leads out of the school!" Chihiro suggested excitingly.
'A secret passage….' Makoto shook out of the thought. "Well, even if there's not, I'm sure we'll get out of here somehow. As long as we all work together, I'm sure we'll be out of here in no time!"
"You're right! Working together is super important." Chihiro agreed, a smile on her face. But then, smile slowly went down and she let a heavy sigh.
"That didn't sound good.." Mondo noticed.
That got Makoto's attention. "What's wrong? That seemed like a pretty heavy sigh…."
"Oh, sorry…." Chihiro apologized. "It's just, everyone else is working so hard to get us out of here, but I'm no help at all."
"That's what you're thinking about, Chihiro?" Sayaka shook her head. "You shouldn't feel guilty or sad about that. It's not like there's much to help with."
"And besides, you did more than Celeste, Toko, and Hifumi does." Leon pointed out. "When we first started looking around, the first three just stand around at the gym when they first started searching around the school."
Chihiro looked down. But can she do more for the group?
"Th-That's not true at all!" Makoto protested.
"It's okay, you don't have to try and make me feel better." Chihiro said, looking down sadly. "I know it's the truth. I'm completely useless without a computer in front of me. At least if I were a little stronger or something, then I'd be able to help somehow…."
"Listen, you'll get your chance." Makoto insisted. "I'm sure there'll be a time when your skills come in handy. So you don't have to worry much, okay?"
Chihiro couldn't help but look up at this. Is that really true? Could her skills….come in handy? A smile entered her lips at the thought. She certainly hopes that's true.
Chihiro looked up at this. "My skills might….come in handy?" A smile entered Chihiro's lips. "If I get a chance, I'm gonna work super hard to chip in! When it comes to computers, you can count on me!"
'You're right about that.' Makoto silently agreed on. 'No matter what anyone might say, you're still the Ultimate Programmer!'
"There's no doubt about that." Hina chirped. "I would be a mess when it comes to that programming stuff."
"If there's anyone capable of handling computers, it's Chihiro." Sakura agreed with a smile.
Mondo grinned at Chihiro. "Yeah, no one can match our little programmer. Hell, if Monokuma is connected to a computer, I would worry!"
Chihiro looked at everyone in slight amazement in their confidence in her. Makoto smiled at her. "I'm sure I'm right about this. You'll definitely get your chance at computers!"
The smile on Chihiro's face got bigger. "I hope that times come! I know I will work extremely hard on it!"
Curiosity then entered his face. "Speaking of which, how did you get into programming?"
"Huh….?" Chihiro broke out of her excitement at the question.
"Well, I mean….I always assumed most programmers were guys, so…." Makoto trailed off.
Chihiro was silent for a moment. "Is it really that weird….?" Chihiro asked hesitantly.
"N-No, nothing like that!" Makoto reassured quickly. "I was just curious on what got you interested in it. I mean, why programming of all things?"
"That is a valid question." Byakuya agreed. "There has to be a reason you're interested in it." Some of the others looked curious as well.
"Well, I think I'll be explaining that in a second." Chihiro said.
"Why….?" Chihiro mused on that. "I mean, there isn't much of a reason. I've always been kind of weak, ya know. I was never able to run around with my friends or anything. We had a computer at home, so I'd kill time poking around with it. And I found out I really liked it!"
"My dad was a software engineer, and he had a bunch of programs on there that'd he built." She continued explaining. "I found one of them and started playing around with it, adding stuff here and there, and that was how I ended up making my very first program."
"Interesting….what kind of program was it?" Makoto asked her.
"A kind of database software." Chihiro answered.
"Database software…."
"A user could communicate with it, and it would take that information and find what they were looking for." Chihiro explained. "It was a way of interacting with the computer without having to physically type things out."
It took Makoto a minute before he figured it out. "You used voice recognition, is that it?"
"Yep, exactly!" Chihiro confirmed happily. "You could talk to it, and it could talk back. It was a lot of fun!"
"It's amazing that Chihiro was able to create something like that as a child." Taka remarked in awe. "It certainly showed that she earned her Ultimate title."
"Our little computer nerd has both looks and brains!" Junko chirped. 'Both alive and dead!' She mentally added.
Chihiro flushed at this, and shifted uncomfortably.
"It didn't even really sound like me! I would get totally absorbed in talking to it….
'It's like a kid recording themselves and playing it back again….' Makoto couldn't help but think in amusement.
"Yeah, it sure does!" Hina giggled.
"It just makes me want to hug and never let her go!" Sayaka declared, getting a chuckle from Makoto. His blue haired friend is like this whenever Chihiro does something she deems 'cute'.
"The key part of the program was getting it into recognize what I was saying." Chihiro explained. "The recognition accuracy was the most important thing. Japanese is kinda hard, so it was pretty challenging."
"But you were able to do it eventually?"
"Yup!" Chihiro confirmed. "And right around then, my dad found out I'd messed with his software without permission. I thought I was gonna get in so much trouble, but all he said was how impressed he was! The software was able to take natural speech and pull out key search terms to retrieve information. My dad said it worked so well, it was gonna change the face of software interaction all over the world!"
"I have to admit, that's true." Byakuya admitted. "I've more than a few businesses that uses your programming, including the Togami Corporation."
"R-Really?" Chihiro asked in surprise.
Byakuya nodded. "Using voice recognition is fairly convenient for several workers." Chihiro smiled widely at this.
"The development costs are still pretty expensive, so it hasn't spread out that much yet, but…." She shook her head out of the thought. "Anyway, I've been addicted to programming ever since. I can't tell you how happy it made me to be able to make others happy!"
Makoto couldn't help but smile at Chihiro's excitement. 'It's obvious how much you love computers. You seem to just….light up when you start talking about them.'
"Yeah." Leon agreed with his friend. "There isn't a time where Chihiro doesn't light up like a christmas tree when talking about computers."
Several nods of agreement were around while Chihiro flushed a little.
"Ah!" Chihiro's eyes widen when she realized how much she talked. "Sorry, I spent all this time just talking about myself….."
"No, I had a lot of fun learning more about you!" Makoto reassured.
Chihiro looked surprise by that. "Huh? Really….?"
"Yup!" Makoto confirmed. "I hope you'll tell me even more next time."
"O-Okay!" A smile once again formed on Chihiro's face. "Let's hang out again sometime! It's a promise, okay?" Makoto nodded in agreement.
"The two of you get along so well!" Sayaka said happily. She wasn't really jealous of Chihiro. Her intuition tells her that the programmer isn't interested in her favorite lucky student and vice versa. "Like brother and sister."
"It's really cute!" Hina chirped.
Makoto flushed and laughed a little. "Yeah, I guess we really do."
"It is fun talking with Makoto." Chihiro said with a beaming smile.
The next scene showed Makoto walking towards the library. 'Let's see if I get to know Byakuya better.' Makoto thought to himself.
"Are you actually going towards Byakuya?" Leon asked incredulously. He shook his head. "You are determined to make friends with everyone."
"More like stubborn." Byakuya sighed.
"You're walking into a trap!" Hifumi cried.
Makoto could only chuckle sheepishly at this.
Before he could get near the door, someone walked out. That someone was Byakuya. "Oh, Byakuya!" Makoto exclaimed in surprise. "You finished reading?"
Byakuya nodded. "For today." He narrowed his eyes at Makoto. "I have a question for you."
"Huh? You do?" Makoto asked in surprise.
"Something's been bothering me for a while now, and I can't take it anymore." Byakuya continued. "So to answer my question, I need you to explain to me what exactly your 'Ultimate Lucky Student' title means."
"Really?" Hina questioned. "You've been wondering what his title means? That's what been bothering you?"
"Of course not." Byakuya said with an eye roll. "The explanation will give me the answer to my question, you simpleton. It's not too hard to understand that."
"At the same time, given your intellect, one would think you would have easily deduced what his title means as well." Kyoko replied, to which Byakuya ignored.
Makoto, meanwhile, groaned, knowing the results of this conversation.
"Oh, well…." Makoto thought about his title for a moment. "I don't totally get it myself, but what I do know is that I was picked at random from a pool of normal students."
"So you just got into Hope's Peak by blind luck." Byakuya summarized. He nodded to himself. "Well, that answers my question."
"What was the question….?"
"How a commoner like you, with absolutely no unique talents or abilities, could get into this school." Byakuya remarked. He paused for a moment. "Oh, I forgot to mention boring. How a boring, untalented, utterly genetic commoner got in…."
'Boring? Generic….?'
"Seriously, Byakuya? Did you have to say it like that?" Hina remarked with a small scowl. "And Makoto isn't boring!"
"Jeez, he's not even talking about me and I can feel the sting..." Hiro added.
"This is Byakuya we're talking about." Celeste retorted. "The Togami heir doesn't hold back from stating his opinion."
The words stung the luckster a little. "D-Did you really have to list all that off?"
"But it's the truth." Byakuya stated.
"Maybe compared to you, the Ultimate Affluent Progeny and all…." Makoto insisted. "But even I-!"
But the heir wasn't hearing none of it. "You seem to think title it's merely an issue. But make no mistake, my lineage, intelligence, figure, athletic ability-they are all ultimate. Which is to say, I am the Ultimate Perfection. Feel free to begin calling me that, in fact."
"O-Oh, master." Toko sighed, a bit of drool coming out of her. "Always s-so cool."
The group just ignored Toko. "Damn, I forgot how arrogant the old Byakuya is." Leon deadpanned. "Like seriously, Ultimate Perfection?"
"More like the Ultimate Ego." Junko giggled.
"I'm very glad he mellowed down, somewhat." Kyoko sighed. "Otherwise, he would've been unbearable to be around." The heir decided to ignore his classmates' comments on him.
'He's really taking this to the extreme….' Makoto thought to himself.
"You, who have nothing. I, who have everything." Byakuya continued arrogantly. "We are living proof that all men are not created equal. You have my pity, Makoto. Life can be very cruel indeed." Makoto could only be silent through the derogatory speech.
Taka couldn't help but scowl at this. Geniuses like Byakuya has no respect for those below them, or those who work hard in their life. It's one of the reasons why he strongly dislike geniuses.
Mukuro's fingers clutched her arm rest a little tighter as she listened to Byakuya speak. Usually, she would have felt indifferent to anyone that wasn't Junko or Makoto speaking. 'This is unexpectedly frustrating... I wonder if everyone else feels the same way...'
"Okay, the more that dude speak, the more I want to punch his fucking lights out." Mondo mumbled/growled. Some nodded in agreement to this.
"And because I pity you so much, perhaps someday I'll allow you to hear my tale of glory." Byakuya declared. He then walked away from the luckster. "Consider it a blessing, a gift from me to you, to allow you to bask in my glory."
"Yeah, I would return that gift to the cashier. REFUND PLEASE!" Junko said.
"Or, chuck it out the window." Leon offered.
"Or, dump it into the incinerator." Sayaka added in.
Byakuya merely scoffed at them.
As Byakuya left, Makoto just stood there, processing everything he heard. "I learned one thing about Byakuya today," Makoto said to himself. "Anytime I talk to him, I need to be prepared for extreme psychological trauma."
"It's a wonder you're still sane, considering how many times you talked to him." Mondo whistled.
Makoto chuckled sheepishly. "What can I say? I can take verbal punishment better than physical punishment."
"No doubt there." Leon snorted.
As he was about to go in the library, an angry voice entered into the hallway. "Ahh, dammit!"
A bit startled, he turned to the direction of the voice to see Mondo, pacing a little and clearly looking angry. "Mondo?" The luckster got closer to the biker.
"Bastard! Dammit bastard son of a bitch!"
"Whoa!" Hina yelped in surprise. "You are really mad!"
"What's the matter bro?" Taka asked in concern.
The biker sighed. "I think I entered my limit being trapped in that fucking building."
And immediately stepped back at the string of curses. "What's wrong? Why are so mad?"
"Why am I mad?" Mondo repeated angrily. "Why am I mad?! Can't you SEE why I'm mad?! I need to get outta here! I need to get out and run wild!"
"Yep. I'm fucking right."
"You exercise fanatics are very jumpy when trapped in an isolated building." Celeste noted.
"I'm so pissed off right now! Shit!"
"I-I know how you feel, but….just don't do anything crazy, okay?" Makoto spoke hesitantly.
Mondo then suddenly made a suggestion. "Hey, how about we have a one-on-one?!"
"One-on-one?!"
"Relax. It's just a bare knuckle brawl. No weapons." The biker stated. "No weapons. Whaddya say?!"
"Are you crazy?!" Hina exclaimed. "Makoto wasn't even able to handle one hit from you!"
"And now you want to fight him?!" Sayaka questioned in disbelief and slight anger.
Mondo slightly looked away at the girls. "Well, I have to get that pent up energy out somehow."
"Then find someone else to spar with." Mukuro said curtly, sending the biker a glare.
"H-Hold on!" Makoto protested, waving his hands. "Friends can't fight each other!"
"But that's the only way I can burn off all this energy!"
"But I mean….I've never even been in a fight before," Makoto argued. An idea then pop in his head. "Oh, I know! Why don't you go ask Sakura?!"
The suggestion surprised Mondo out of his anger. "What….?"
"I mean, you can spar with her, right?" Makoto continued. "You don't have to actually fight, but just….train."
"One problem though," Leon remarked. "Mondo doesn't hit girls."
"Even girls capable of defending themselves, such as Mukuro and Sakura." Taka agreed.
"D-Don't be a fuckin' idiot! I can't hit a girl….!" Mondo protested. "And she's a girl, right? I'd ruin my honor….my mom would kill me!"
"Yeah….are you sure it's just that?" Hina asked innocently. "Could it be because your scared of her?" Mondo stiffened at that.
"N-No, I'm not!"
Makoto merely stayed silent at this, an incredulous silence. "I'm serious!" Mondo insisted loudly. "I can't hit girls! It's not like I'm scared of her or anything! Ya bastard!"
"Oh, you so are!" Hina giggled. Mondo flushed.
"I'm telling you, I'm not!"
Hina merely giggled more, with Sayaka, Celeste, and Junko joining her. Kyoko, Byakuya and Sakura have smirked of amusement, especially Sakura, while Leon and Hiro laughed. Makoto and Chihiro had the decency to hold back their laughter.
Mondo flushed even more, either in embarrassment, anger, or both. "Fuck all of you!"
"Okay, okay, you don't have to shout…." Makoto placated.
But Mondo continued shouting. "Shouting's in my blood, asshole! When I get stressed out, I yell! Shit!"
'Sounds like he must be really stressed out….'
"Yeah, no kidding." Hina said, finally controlling her giggling. "And he must be stressed out a lot, since he yells a lot."
"It's just a nervous habit!" Mondo shouted. "What's the big deal?! Other than the fact that it makes it hard to ask girls out! I get all nervous, and I start yelling! So I always get rejected! And thanks to that, I'm on a ten-game losing streak right now! It really sucks!"
Leon's mouth hung open in disbelief at everything he heard, with some of the others being incredulous as well. "Seriously?" Leon slowly turned to Mondo. "You yell at them?"
Mondo looked away from the baseball player. "Y-Yeah! So what?!"
"...I'm gonna coach you thoroughly on the art of dating." Leon told him seriously.
'Please don't.' Sayaka thought.
'Ten games….?' Makoto thought incredulously. 'That's….pretty bad.'
"A very big understatement." Celeste giggled. "Someone really do need to control their temper. And their volume."
"Fuck off, you gothic addict." Mondo mumbled.
"But seeing this side of him, is actually….pretty cute." Sayaka said, giggling. That caused Mondo to snap his head towards Sayaka in disbelief.
"C-Cute?!"
"Yeah! It's very cute!" Hina agreed, a wide grin on her face. Kyoko, Junko, and Celeste also agreed to this, with smirks or grins of their own. And that quickly earned laughter from Leon, Hiro, and Hifumi.
"S-Stop laughing, you jackasses!" Mondo growled, trying to look menacing. But his flustered state only got them laughing harder. "Seriously, I'm not cute!"
Chihiro couldn't help but giggled this time, covering her mouth, while Taka gave his friend a sympathetic smile.
The steam suddenly got out of him, and ended looking depress. "Shit! And I'd forgotten about that, too! Thanks for reminding me, jackass! How're you gonna make it up to me, shitstain?!" He let out a depressed growl before slowly walking away. "Now I'm gettin' all depressed. I'm outta here…."
Makoto rubbed his head sheepishly as Mondo trudged away. "I guess I kinda messed that up," He admitted to himself. 'But I did get to see a side of Mondo I had no idea existed. It was almost….kinda cute.'
"The fuck you just say, Naegi?!"
Mukuro almost instantly stood up from her seat had it not been for her sister's hand holding her back.
"Jeez, calm down will ya? He's not gonna hit him." Junko whispered, then she leaned in closer and whispered more quietly. "And even then, let em at it god dammit! You don't have to make everything boring!"
Makoto held and waved his hands in front of him, pale as a sheet. "It wasn't me! Wasn't me!" He was definitely not getting a punch from Mondo.
Mondo growled before sitting down. "You're lucky it isn't!"
'He'd murder if he heard me say that, though….'
"Damn right I would." Mondo muttered. And he glared at Leon, Hiro, Hifumi, and Byakuya. "And that goes for you guys too! Any of you call me cute, and your ass is mine!"
"G-Got it!" Hifumi and Hiro squealed in fear while Leon merely snickered a bit more. Byakuya merely scoffed, not afraid of the threat.
Chihiro then decided to speak, in hope changing another subject calms her biker friend down. "Does anyone notice that there's more people Makoto is talking to?"
The change of subject did the trick, and got the group focus on that. "Our little hacker is right." Junko stated. "Makoto has been talking to more people."
"Or at least, the video is showing more conversations." Kyoko slightly corrected.
"But why show many conversations now?" Celeste questioned. They all turned to Spirit.
The host sighed, but answered. "Some foreshadowing, some character development, some of importance."
"You seem to like treating our future like a TV show." Byakuya remarked with a raised eyebrow.
Spirit shrugged. "It helps organize everything. Besides, you guys seem to be enjoying it."
That got several sheepish chuckles. "I have to admit, it's enjoyable seeing these talks." Makoto admitted. "Helps push the back what happened….with Sayaka, Mukuro, and Leon." Several in the group couldn't help but be in agreement to that, especially the victims.
Junko, however, mentally pouted. She really hope this light-hearded crap is over soon. She wants to see who dies next! Want to which one of her classmates' deaths she will cry and despair over! She wants her despair high, dammit!
And that's the end. I hope you guys liked this chapter. Next up, some more free-time events, as well as more plot-oriented stuff. Review, favorite, and follow and I will see you guys later.
