Danganronpa: Boiling Point

Chapter 32: Midway Mayhem

(Author's Note: I used http://www.rezsoft.org/deal as a "Deal or No Deal Simulator", and Random Number Generator Plus to determine what boxes had what quantities, as well as which boxes Shishano picked. It was completely random!)

As the 7am Morning alert woke me up the next day, I rolled myself out of bed and got dressed for the day. I decided that, after I ate breakfast, I wanted to check out some of the games in the Carnival Room, and maybe talk to anyone who happened to show up as well.

I made me some French toast and pancakes for breakfast, with powdered sugar on the French toast and maple syrup on the pancakes. Afterwards, I put away my dishes away and headed upstairs to the Fourth Floor. I followed Nekomaru and Fuyuhiko up the stairs, though they both stopped at the Third Floor together. Fuyuhiko mentioned needing to build a mechanism of some sort, but I did not pay much attention.

As I arrived on the Fourth Floor, I took a closer look at all the games in the Carnival Room. My eyes were drawn to the "Stay or Go?" game, with the 20 boxes. It cost 100 Monocoins to play, and I had more than plenty at this point. I scanned my E-Handbook, and the game started.

Twenty boxes showed up on the screen, showing amounts from 1 to 100,000 Monocoins. After about three or four seconds, the boxes had lids dropped over them, with a number on each one, and started shuffling themselves around. Slow at first, then faster and faster, before suddenly stopping, asking me to select a box. I selected Box 10.

Next, I was instructed to select 5 boxes. Having no real rhyme or reason, I went with Box 3. Selecting it on the screen, the box's number slowly pulsed several times, then the box exploded on-screen! When the debris cleared on the screen, a message showed on the screen. "750 Monocoins". This meant that amount was now removed from the game, and could not be my reward.

Ok, could be worse, I suppose. Next, I chose box 5. Box 5's number started to pulse, then exploded, just as Box 3 had done. I sighed when I saw the number. 1000 Monocoins.

Not the worst possible start, but this was not going well. Deciding to go to a higher number, I went with 16. I was rewarded with an exploding box revealing 300 Monocoins.

Still not the greatest start, but the highest quantities are still on the board. Granted, Monocoins were only good in the Store and for betting and playing games, but still, I was intrigued with this game thus far.

I went with boxes 9 and 20 to wrap up the round. I hit paydirt on Box 9, revealing the 1 Monocoin and removing it from the board! Box 20 had 400 Monocoins, still not great, but could be worse.

The boxes went dark, and an offer presented itself on the board: 24,175 Monocoins: Stay or Go? There was no chance of me taking that offer. I chose to Stay.

This time, I only had to pick four boxes, instead of five. I decided, for no particular reason, to go with 18, 6, 13, and 15.

All in all, I did pretty well this well Box 13 had 5,000 Monocoins, but Boxes 18, 6, and 15 each had very low numbers: 75, 10, and 25 Monocoins, respectively.

A new offer presented itself: 23,715 Monocoins. With most of the large amounts still on the board, I chose to Stay.

Someone approached me from the right. Surprised, I spun around, coming face to face with Rantaro. He took a few quick steps back, my reaction to his approach likely surprising him.

"Hey, sorry there, Shishano. I was just looking at some of the games here," Rantaro apologized.

I smiled back, accepting his apology, then glanced back at the game. It was still asking me to select three boxes.

After thinking for a little bit, I decided on 19, 14, and 11. Box 19 had 100 Monocoins, Box 14 had a mere 20 Monocoins, and Box 11 had only 5 Monocoins inside!