Danganronpa 1.2 Beautiful Days

Beautiful Days SDR2: Monokuma and Monomi's Daily Life

Story: Mizusawa Nana (水澤なな)

Illustration: Asaki Touru (明咲トウル)

Ding dong... bing bong, the chimes sounded lightly throughout the island. Hearing the last note, Monokuma struck his pose for the camera, reclining back in the rattan chair. A smile appeared on his asymmetrical, monotone face, liable to rouse unease in the people who saw it, with its mix of cuteness and atrocity.

"–Errr, this is an announcement from the Hope's Peak Academy School Trip Executive Committee. Good morning, everyone! The tropical weather is perfect again today~! Now then, let's go out and give it our all today~!" As he threw out his lines, he tilted the Hawaiian cocktail glass in his hand.

After making sure to get all of this, Monomi flipped the switch on the video camera to turn it off, wiping the sweat from her brow. "...Phew~" Her head was filled with the satisfaction of a job well done.

However. That satisfaction was erased in an instant. Because of Monokuma's bellowing. "Fast! Too fast! Faster than necessary! The right answer would be to linger on my ear-to-ear grin for FIVE MORE SECONDS before cutting it off! But why did you cut it off when you did instead? That shouldn't be humanly possible!"

Cold sweat appeared on Monomi's forehead as she was pressed with a rapid-fire interrogation. "Huh? Huh? Huh? Humanly??? ...I mean, I guess I am a magical girl, but awen't I a cute wabbit mascot?"

"You're about one trillion, eight-hundred and twenty million years too early to talk back to me!"

"Where did such a magnificent yet unbalanced number come fwom?"

"Don't sweat the details. If you're gonna play the straight man for me, I wish you would at least be as sharp about it as Hinata-kun is. Geez, I'm gonna start hating you if you don't have a single scrap of sense! If you can't even turn the camera on and off for me properly, I'll be way better off with nothing but selfies. This is just one of the things you need to kill yourself for to make it up to me! Do a cross-shaped cut in the gut without anyone else standing by to put you out of your misery!"

"Eeehhhhh?! I-Is it really as bad as you're saying it is?"

"Of course it's as bad as I'm saying it is. Geez, I thought I'd go out of my way to let you help with my daily routine, but you can't even do something this simple."

"I didn't even want to help, but you decided on your own to abduct me and make me help anyway! You ogre! Demon! You're no bear–!"

"Shuuut uuuup. Geez, I can't believe you talk back to me on every little thing even though you're just a UCI."

"...What's a 'you see eye'?"

"Obviously it stands for Useless Clumsy Idiot."

"Eeehhhhh~?!" Monomi fell to her knees on the floor, heartbroken, breaking down into tears. "Y-You're howibble. I didn't think you had vewy good intentions, but I thought the bwoadcast was for the sake of the school, so I decided I had to help anyway... You hurt me sooo much!"

"Hmmmm. If it's something I hate so much that it causes me heartburn, I don't care what it has to say, though."

"Eeeehhhhhhh! I twied to be indiwect and not say I hated you flat out, but you still went that far?! Your heart is not a bear's at allllll!"

"Sure it is. But I have such a pure and innocent soul that I cannot tell a lie."

"That's a lie! You liar~!"

"...Oh, maybe I do tell white lies. But that's just to people I hold in higher regard than a Paramecium."

"Are you saying I rank lower than a single-celled ciliate–?! Weeehhhh~ Wehhh, wehhhh!" The tears streaming down Monomi's face formed a pool of water around her, and the dampness caused mushrooms to proliferate on her body.