Fanganronpa: Epigone

Chapter One- A Kin's Will to Live II

One by one, each student's face contorted in anguish as they got to the end of their video.

"What is this?" Umeda was the first to speak and rise from his chair, "this is... it's fake... it has to be... Monokuma!"

The bear popped back out and stood on top of Umeda's computer.

"You called?"

Umeda angrily reached out to grab Monokuma but Matsuyama jumped up from his seat to stop him.

"What are you doing?" Umeda seethed.

Matsuyama held the boy's arm firmly. "Violence against the headmaster is not allowed."

"You think I care!?"

"Do you want to die?" Masaru asked and Umeda grit his teeth.

"Tell me this isn't real," Asya's voice cracked, "tell me this is just edited."

"The only way you'll get an answer is if you graduate!" Monokuma said, too cheery for what was happening at the moment.

"This is ridiculous," Shoji said, "my parents never really approved of what I do anyways."

"So, you're just going to let them die?" Valini asked wide eyed.

"By the looks of the video, they're already dead."

"Do not say that," Mizuno scolded him, "just because your relationship with your family is poor doesn't mean we feel the same way about ours." She spoke strongly but Masaru could see the tears in her eyes begging to fall.

Masaru hated how he couldn't feel anything towards the video because he didn't even recognize the two faces that spoke to him. He wanted to cry and weep like the others but all he felt was nothing. Just a slight dull ache.

"See," Nao said observing her fellow classmates, "already formulating plans."

"Shut it!" Margot snapped on her then turned to Monokuma, "first you kidnap sixteen students then you kidnap their families? Yeah, the police are definitely not going to notice what's going on."

Monokuma was silent and stared at the girl before everyone's computer turned back on. Masaru looked down at his to see the same bloody room except this time the two police men who entered it were dead on the floor, their bodies torn apart. He heard the others gasp and figured they were seeing the same thing.

Masaru looked back up only to see that Monokuma was gone, leaving them to dwell in their own misery.

"I wanna go home," Winona sniffed.

Valini had tears streaming down her face and bolted out of the computer room which was now unlocked.

"I knew this wasn't going to be good," Seto said as his nails dug into his palms.

"We have to stay focused," Priscilla told everyone, "this is what that thing wants, for us to dwell in despair."

"Well, he's succeeded," Umeda spat out then was the next to leave and Asya followed after with tears running down her cheeks.

Matsuyama walked over to Priscilla. "Just give everyone some time. Whether or not this is real or fake, we still have no reason to believe otherwise."

Masaru walked out of the computer room before things got more depressing and Toma and Mizuno followed after him.

"What are you doing?" Masaru asked, looking over his shoulder.

Toma pointed to the room beside Masaru's. "Going to my room."

"Right," Masaru said then glanced at Mizuno.

"Do I need a reason to stand here?" She asked, eyes red and puffy.