Danganronpa 4-Despair Loop

3

"W-we should i-introduce ourselves... I-i mean i-if you'd l-like to..." A light purple haired girl steps out from one of the other corners, followed by a girl in pigtails.

"Yeah!"

"That sounds right!"

The gym is filled with agreement, so Kayden decides to go and introduce himself to the others, Yuma tagging closely behind him. He first came up to the green haired girl who seemed a little uptight, but smart looking at the same time. She is easily as tall as he is, with long green hair and a couple sunflower clips in it.

"Hm? I'm the one you first come to? Alright, I'll introduce myself." She pushes up her glasses, and looks directly into his eyes. "My name is Kokojo Mizuyuri. You'd probably want to know my Ultimate talent, so I'll tell you that too. I am the Ultimate Botanist." After she finishes with her introduction, she stalks off, apparently annoyed with Kayden. He shrugs, and moves on to the next person. Kayden looks around the room, then looks over at the brown haired girl. She's still talking in another language to the black haired girl, so Kayden walks over and taps her lightly on the shoulder. She turns around, and smiles.

"Oh yeah! We're doing the introduction thing! I'm Miana Hagesawa, and I'm the Ultimate Engineer! So, if you got any problems, I'll help fix it!" Miana takes a hammer from her tool belt and holds it up in a super hero position, then bursts out laughing. Kayden laughs as well, then looks at the black haired girl. She looks up at him, then scowls.

"I'm Yuki Hinishima. I'm the Ultimate Seamstress. Now leave me the hell alone." Yuki glares at him with her piercing eyes.

"Alright!" Kayden nervously said, not wanting to provoke her further. As he backs off, he notices the blonde haired girl almost... studying him. He jumps back, a little startled, then walks over, while her face almost transforms back to normal. He stops, feeling kind of strange. Even though he's only a few feet away, he can still feel her happiness radiating out from her.

"Hey!" She smiles, holding out her hand. Kayden takes it, even though he has no clue who this person was, and they shook hands.

"You look... familiar..." Kayden couldn't quite put his hand on it, but luckily, she seems to know exactly what he is thinking about.

"Mhm! A lot of people recognize me! You're not the only one who's seen me in movies and other stuff, everyone here probably heard my voice before, one way or another!" She places a hand on her hip. "Anyways... My name's Ayane Shirigache. If you didn't already guess, I'm the Ultimate Actress. If you're anything like me, you're really happy to be here, eh?" She smiles again, and this time the smile spread to Kayden. He politely introduces himself, then goes over to the purple haired girl.

"..." She is completely silent, staring at her feet. Kayden gets a good look at her face, and even with her bangs covering her right side, he sees she has an eyepatch on her right side.

"Um... hello?" Kayden waves his hand in front of her face, and she jumps back, startled.

"U-uh, hello..." Kayden notices she's wringing her hands around each other, probably because she's nervous.

"Could you introduce yourself?"

"Y-yeah... My-my name is Sayuri Nakumara... I'm the Ultimate Biologi-"

"And I'm Izumi Ridobani! I'm the Ultimate fucking Bartender!" The girl named Izumi pops out next to Sayuri, cutting her off. Sayuri looks a little terrified, then quickly regains her composure.

"T-thanks, both of you..." Kayden staggers off, and almost trips over the little girl, who was sitting on the floor, but jumped up as soon as he started to step on her.

"Hey! I know I'm short, but could you at least try and watch it?" She huffs a little bit, then looks up at him.

"Oh! I am so, so sorry!" Kayden apologizes.

"I guess it's okay, a lot of people do it, by accident... or on purpose..." She looks down at her weird shoes, which look like a piece of leather with ties on her foot.

"Anywho, we're doing intros, right? My name's Nao! Nao Tenshaba! I'm the Ultimate Irish Dancer!" She giggles and twirls on her tip-toes.

"Irish... Dancer? That's the easy dance, right? Like ballet, but easier?" Kayden looks at her, realizing he just said something incredibly wrong.

"What? WHAT? Easy? Easier? Just because you look at something, you can't assume it's easy! Even being an Ultimate, it still took me a year and a half to master it, and the competitions are HARSH! Even though I won, the first time I went to World, there were a bunch of people who had been dancing their entire lives! It's not easy!" Nao kicks him in the shin, still very upset as he doubles over in pain.

"Ugh... h-how do you kick that hard? And alright, your dance is hard... Just... don't kick me again..." Kayden puts his hands on the floor and helps himself up. Nao just watches him, then smiles when he gets up.

"I don't look like it, but I'm really strong... in my legs..." She giggles and walks off toward Ayane, who smiles and starts a conversation off the bat.

"Woah... Guess we gotta move on, huh?" Kayden turns to see Yuma talking to a wall. Kayden, confused as always, walks over to her.

"Yuma... are you all right?" He reaches her, then looks over and realizes there's a girl with straight red hair.

"I told you. That's it. I am nothing special." The girl lowers her hat, shielding her eyes.

"Aw, come on Koko, you seem much more special than just a normal person!" Kayden looks over at Yuma, who is shaking the shoulder of the girl named Koko, who then slaps her hand away. Yuma looks a little surprised, then walks off, dragging Kayden with her.

As he is walking away, the only other guy comes up and stops him.

"Hey, I'm Naoto Shinohara, and I'm the Ultimate Drummer. It's nice to meet you. Oh, and this is Chinatsu Atodai, the Ultimate Mangaka." He gestures to the girls hiding behind him.

"Hi..." Chinatsu's small voice is soft, but Kayden can hear it clearly.