Dangan Ronpa:return to Despair Academy

Investigation

"Kimiko!"

Yoichi rushed through the crowd and knelt by Kimiko.He started shaking her vigorously until...

He stopped cold.Kimiko had given a large yawn and was rubbing her eyes sleepily.She was alive.Yoichi gave a shaky sigh and started to back away as she slowly woke up.

"K-k-Kimiko you're o-okay!"Tomoko cried as tears continued to spill down her face.

Kimiko,now fully awake,looked around at the crowd of people staring at her.She sat up amongst her pile of blankets.

"Ow!"She flinched where she sat and grabbed something from underneath her.

A small new screwdriver sat in her hand,some mysterious red liquid coating the tip of it.

"What's wrong?"Kimiko asked,forgetting about the screwdriver and standing up to comfort Tomoko,whose sobs had grown in volume.

"It's happened Kimiko."Takumi said,looking green."Yoshie is dead."

I didn't want to believe it.But if Kimiko was standing before me,alive,than the only person who could be dead was, Yoshie.

Kimiko's face was a blank slate for five seconds,devoid of all emotion.Finally after complete silence she simply said,"Show me."

Surprise drew itself across nearly every face(except of course Igao's, who had been looking at Kimiko with a look of deep interest)Masaru mumbled,"Follow me."and we all left the storage area.

I had never seen a body in real life before.My grand parents had died long before I was born,and my relatives were all very healthy,so I had never been to a funeral.I tried to prepare myself,even though I knew that once I saw Yoshie's corpse, my leftover strength would melt away like a Popsicle in the hot summer.

Masaru unlocked the gate in front of the incinerator.And there,poking out of the dark machine,was a pale foot.We couldn't see anything else.

"We should take her out of there."Akihiro suggested solemnly."I highly doubt she would wish to remain in the incinerator."

Nodding their heads Yoshio and Akihiro walked over to the incinerator and pulled the corpse out and set it gently on the floor.

Anything that had once remained of the lovely Yoshie was literally burned away.I couldn't make out any discernible facial features,as her face was blackened,with a few embers still glowing in the corners of what could've been her mouth.She was mostly bald,with a few burnt hairs clinging desperately to her charred scalp.Any clothes she had once worn were gone, but the torso was burnt so badly it was essentially flaking apart as we stared.As her feet were sticking out of the end, they were still white and intact,although bare.

We could only look at her in horror.Yoshie had been excited to come to Hope's Peak Academy.Excited to make friends.Yet she was killed...Killed...by one of us...

"PUHUHUHUHUHU!!!!!!!!"

Monokuma seemingly appeared,something he had been doing constantly,and begun laughing his twisted laugh.I could only stare at him in content as his hysteria eventually died down.

"I guess now is the perfect time to introduce it!"He giggled.

The four tones ran on the intercom system.The familiar static buzzed on the screen mounted on the wall,along with the insignia.They both cleared away aftere a few seconds,revealing another Monokuma with a new martini.

"A body has been discovered!After a certain amount of time,which you may use however you like,the 'class trial' will begin!"

Then the screen turned black once again.