I make my way onto the Supermarket next. Demos, who looks a lot like he just teleported from the Ancient Greeks to here and the girl with the green/blue colored hair are there. It has pretty much everything a normal supermarket would have, and also has a fun gacha-like machine. I feel like if this was a game there would definitely be an achievement about collecting all different things in it.
Demos: Hello there.
Melissa: Hey Demos and, I'm sorry, I don't know your name yet.
Demos: She still hasn't introduced herself, but neither have you. I suppose I'll go first tho. My name is Demos Callidis, and I am the Ultimate Philosopher.
Melissa: Nice to meet you, Demos. I'm Melissa Moore.
???: Um, hi Melissa and Demos.
Demos: You really should tell us your name sometime, mysterious individual. Or are you perhaps the Ultimate Enigma? Here to confuse us utterly...
???: N-no, I guess I can introduce myself. Sorry for being so awkward. Well, I'm Aozora. Oh you prob wanna know my last name too.
Melissa: If you don't want to say your last name, that's fine Aozora. Do you have an Ultimate?
Aozora: Nah I guess I can say it, it's not like this is online and you will find my house or something.
Silence.
Demos: Well what is it then...?
Aozora: Tsuda.
Demos: And your Ultimate?
Aozora: Um you might judge me for it tho but it's not like I'm dumb or anything, being interested in fashion can mean I'm smart. I'm the Ultimate Dressmaker.
Melissa: Well, that sounds like a cool Ultimate tho! What have you accomplished to get it?
Aozora: I make dresses.
Is any conversation with her this exhausting?
Demos: Well Melissa, what do you think of this Killing Game?
Melissa: I think it's horrible! Who would do this to us!
Demos: A good question, indeed. I have been wondering that myself too. Perhaps the culprit even is among our midst.
Aozora: Maybe we did something bad to whoever did it? That makes sense, right?
Melissa: Maybe, I hope not, I don't like hurting people or doing bad things.
Demos: Even if it somehow is 'our fault', that doesn't make this ethical!
Aozora: Getting rid of 15 awful people is actually good for utility.
Demos: No, you see it wrong! I follow Kant, he would never allow this!
Demos and Aozora are probably smarter than I gave them credit for before this conversation.
Melissa: Anyway, it was nice talking to you both, I should probably start exploring other places.
Demos: Nice talking to you, I should get going too.
I leave the supermarket to head towards the restaurant, and bump into Dale.
Dale: Hey Melissa!
Melissa: Hey there, Dale.
Dale: So I was thinking, ya know, and I feel like we should meet in the restaurant in like 20 mins.
Is he asking me out on a date?
Melissa: Why..?
Dale: Well, everyone's runnin' around exploring and stuff, and then we can discuss our findings. I'm telling this to everyone!
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Danganronpa - Hopeless Despair
Mystery / ThrillerMelissa, a very average student suddenly wakes up in an apartment in a town called Despair Town. Soon she finds out that she and 15 others, the so-called Ultimate Students, are forced to play a killing game! To escape, you have to murder one another...
