Danganronpa Zero

Section Eleven

Note: There was no good cut off point for this section, so sorry its really long :P

Huh? Rain?

I noticed it while entering the central garden from the back garden of the Biology Laboratory. It seemed like rain began falling at some point. The rain wasn't too hard, but it was strong enough for sounds of it hitting the trees and grass to be heard.

But this level of rain won't be enough to stop me. As the cold rain engulfed my body, I aimed towards the lined up school buildings and dashed off from the East District's central garden.

Due to either the rain or because it was possibly during lecturing hours, there weren't many students around in the central garden. Either way, there were students running as if fleeing from the rain, and others who were calmly walking under umbrellas. As I ran ahead at full speed without any kind of protection from the elements, I must have gotten some odd looks towards my direction.

This kind of thing would normally have nothing to do with me, but for some reason this particular time I felt a bit annoyed.

I felt a violent irritation develop as those people standing from a safe place watched me as if examining some kind of swelling tumor.

Even so, I continued to tell myself that it had nothing to do with me as I ran straight through the central garden.

At that rate, I eventually exited the East District and ended up at the Central Plaza, and then-Once again I caught sight of groups of students. Most likely they were heading back to their dormitories in the South District. Different colored umbrellas in hand, they seemed to enjoy chatting with each other as they slowly walked down the pavement.

Glancing at them from the back of my eye, I dashed off from the pavement.

There probably isn't any clear-cut road leading to the North District's Ex-School Building, so unless I cut through the Central Plaza I won't be able to proceed.

The grass at my feet was wet, and there were puddles developing here and there as well.

Reaching the now half-vacant North District, my figure soon disappeared from other people's vision, seeing how there wouldn't even be many people in this area on a rainy day like this.

The grass at my feet became more and more bare as I proceeded, and the number of trees began to decrease as well. Eventually the land presented itself to be almost like a wasteland.

After progressing through the wasteland for a bit, an artificial structure came into view. That's...I see

As I looked up at the building, I began to slow down my running pace.

Hope's Peak Academy Ex-School Building.

Just looking at its solemn appearance didn't give the impression that it was some abandoned building. But... Not having done so for quite a while, I checked out my Ryouko Otonashi Notebook.

It seemed that this building had already fulfilled its role, at most half a year ago. If that was true, then it wouldn't be strange for this building to still seem like it was used not too long ago.

But the tall fences that surrounded the building seemed to shout that it was already finished. Plates were even stuck on the fences detailing "Hope's Peak Academy North District Planned Construction Land, DO NOT ENTER".

While straightening out my unsteady breath, I walked at a slow pace around the fence. To enter the Ex-School Building, it seemed that there was no other way than to climb over these but,

Then, once again I could feel that itchiness in my head.

Still not used to it, my face grimaced, and then suddenly a thought floated into my head.