Danganronpa: Despair Reset

Chapter 4 - Together and yet further

Three, three trials. Six, six dead. We couldn't do anything. We couldn't do anything against Monokuma. What do we even do against someone who we can't disobey? Am I a killer for condemning them all to their death? Sometimes it feels that way, how ironic that the one who can make the mentally ill better can't help a single person here not kill. Slowly I got out of my room

Amber: Bryan, you seem restless. I am assuming you have been feeling survivor's guilt

I was surprised by how sure she was

Bryan: you aren't?

Amber: sure it's hard for me to keep going on knowing that I indirectly killed three people, but then I remember. Every time I indirectly kill one person I save the others. By that logic we have both saved more lives then we have killed, and those lives are ones we directly saved

Bryan: thanks Amber, I feel better now

Amber: there is no problem, at the end of the day we don't need people feeling bad. You are also someone who can be very useful during trials and a lack of motivation could lead with all of us dead

Bryan: ah... I see

It felt a little sad that Amber didn't seem to care for me as a person, more a use in a trial. Is that how the others see me?

Amber: well now that you seem better you may want to come to the fourth floor

Bryan: it's already open! But I didn't hear any announcement

Amber: well you simply must've overslept

I shrug this off and go up to the fourth floor, of the pattern we have had so far. There will be four ultimate labs, as I got up to the top, which was a very long and tiring climb, I saw Amber?

Amber: ah morning Bryan

Bryan: Amber? But aren't you, or wait weren't you, on the first floor just talking to me?

Amber: I can tell you I wasn't, and if you need evidence I had just separated from Carly a minute ago

Bryan: but I just talked to you!

Amber: hmmm based on your reaction I don't believe you are lying, so that means it must've been Mia

Bryan: what's that meant to mean? I saw you not Mia

Amber: Well during the last investigation, I was able to look around her lab. In it I found outfits of each of us

Bryan: and with her ultimate, she's able to sound just like you, I can't believe I fell for that

Amber: don't worry yourself, without knowledge of it, you wouldn't know

This is definitely the real Amber, after a quick goodbye I checked out one of the doors, it had what looked to be a dish on it, when I entered the clearness of the ultimate lab's owner was there. A fancy place with many tables and chairs, strange machines that made food. With the owner right here I decided to talk to them.

Bryan: so Callum, this is your ultimate lab?

Callum: it's only natural that I'd have to wait so long for my ultimate lab, maybe it's made to symbolise how I was meant to survive this long

Bryan: what does that mean?

Callum: well if we go by the idea that Jared's lab was meant to be locked, maybe the mastermind had ideas on who would die when

Bryan: if that was the case, does that mean the mastermind knows more about us then we thought?

Callum: that's my theory in the making