Dangan Ronpa:return to Despair Academy

Ogino the Ogre

Igao and Satoru would be the worst study buddies on the face of the earth.

Igao led the way as we made our way past the second floor and down the hall.I tried to strike up a conversation with him but he would give me clipped answers like,

"How many floors do you think this school has?"

"Hard to say."

"Do you want to split up so we can cover more ground?"

"No."

"Do you know anything about what might be up there?"

"No."

As for Satoru he simply ignored my very existence.Something I kinda expected but was still pissed off to see.

We reached the second floor staircase and headed straight up.

The hallways were just like the other ones,bathed in an oddly colored light.We walked into the first door we saw.

Inside was a room that would look quite at home in a bar.There was a large pool table sitting in the center of the room.On one table sat a box with Othello and a deck of playing cards and poker chips.A dartboard hung on the wall right next to a magazine rack.Next to said magazine rack was a black cabinet with three bottles lined up on it.Inside each was a mini Monokuma holding something.There were two black couches facing eachother next to the pool table,a coffee table in between them.

I took all of these in and realized with a start.This is where that muscular chick killed herself.

I felt my heart rate pick up.Calm down,it's not like this is the first time you've been at the scene of a previous crime.Except this time...no one else knows about it,except Takumi.

Satoru seemed all in all uninterested in the room itself,just the stuff inside it."Why would that bear give us such means of entertainment?A pool,a recreational room,what's the point?We are his captives.Why does he care about our entertainment?"

"Isn't it just because this is a game to him?"I pointed out,checking the black cabinet,trying to stay as far away from the black couch."It would be boring just to watch us sitting around in our rooms all day until a murder occurs."

"I believe that may be only part of the reason."Igao spoke up after examining the bottles on the cabinet."He does want to be entertained,but he also explained the alternative to us,which has its own theories to be considered."

"Alternative?"I walked over to the magazine rack to check out the magazines."

"I believe he means the option we have not to kill anyone and live here forever peacefully."Satoru looked incredibly bored with the conversation,as always.

"Monokuma says he wants to bring despair by destroying us,the hope of the world.He hopes that the killer wins the trials because this would mean the one who had killed the rest of the hope out there would join the ranks of despair.I doubt the people outside would take that lightly,especially with the state that world is in now.But if we win the trials,the show goes on and he can hope for another murder by providing us with another motive.Yet he offers us such a simple means of survival.As long as we remain in this school,alive,the world has hope.So that means if we did go with that alternative option, we could continue to give the world hope for who knows how long.I don't know why he would take such a risk."

It was the most I had ever heard out of Igao at once.While he went on with the monologue I just stared at him in awe.Satoru looked interested for a change and stared at Igao while he went on about the matter.