Old Despair, New Hope (a Danganronpa adult au)

I'm Sure We'll Be Fine

(Rantaro POV)

We were on the train. Nagito seemed to be internally panicking. "Hajime, my luck's gonna get us in a crash! I shouldn't have come..." Izuru slapped him upside the head. "Can you shut up? Your luck won't get us in a crash. Come here." Nagito leaned on Izuru's shoulder. "I feel a little better... Thanks, Izzy."

Kiyo put his elbow on my shoulder. "Look at that castle! How interesting..."

Suddenly the train hit quite the rough spot.

Nagito immediately panicked again. "Ah- I am going to crash the train!"

The track seemed to be crumbling. "The- The track's crumbling?!"

The train driver hit the breaks suddenly. The train stopped violently leaning forward. My head hit really hard off the seat, and then I blacked out.

"Hngh... My head hurts so bad..."

I felt someone's arms wrap around me. "Kiyo?"

"Thank God you're alive."

I stood up. I looked around to see everyone kinda sitting there. Kokichi didn't seem to care at all, and Nagito was still panicking. I decided to use whatever I had in my bookbag to help anyone who was injured. Mikan was tending to a wound Ibuki had. "Kiyo, you hurt?" I looked back at him. "No, I am fine. Nagito looks injured, however. I looked at him. Izuru had his hoodie on, and there was a large shard of glass in Nagito's arm. Izuru looked at me and gestured me over.

He was reassuring Nagito while I worked on his injury. "Nagito, calm down. It's okay." I carefully removed the shard of glass from his arm. He winced a little. I wrapped a bandage around the wound to make sure it wasn't going to get infected. "There. done. You're gonna be okay Nagito."

Izuru gave me a small smile. "Thanks, Amami."

Kokichi yelled out. "Heyyy... Where's Monokuma? Can't Hara find him easily?"

Ren stood up. "Hara stayed to babysit the Warriors."

Maki was generally quiet. "I believe I saw him, but..."

Monotaro was with Kiibo. "W- What happened to my o-other dad?!"

Kiibo tried to catch him, but he was too fast. Miu caught him. "So, what happened?"

Maki shut up. Fuyuhiko stood up. "Augh, I'm sick of waiting! Where the hell's the bear?" Maki gestured to the forest. He walked in to be followed by Peko. A few minutes later, Peko had something in a bag. It was moving. Fuyuhiko  followed and sighed. "The damn sadistic build-a-bear's back." Kazuichi seemed surprised. "I thought- Is it a different Monokuma unit?"

Peko dumped the bag out. "Thank you. No, I'm not Monokuma! I killed him! No need for a class trial. I am Mononeko! You're in a killing game again! And... The castle's your grounds! I'll give everyone a separate motive. Have fun exploring!"

I said something I really didn't believe, out of instinct.

"I'm sure we'll be fine."