Dangan Ronpa:return to Despair Academy

The Death of Hope

"Goooooood Morning Everyone!Time to greet another beautiful day!"

Monokumas morning Announcement didn't faze me as I continued to browse the IM connections.All night there has been no activity,but I kept my bloodshot eyes locked on the screen.

C'mon Makoto hack in again!

I had been trying to get a hold of him all night.If anyone would know the best way to handle the mess we had gotten ourselves in it was him.I kept the IM chat server window open all night,hardly blinking, just to see if his name would pop up again.

You're coming back soon right?!So where is your message?!

I blinked slowly and allowed myself to look back at the door to my room for a moment.

If he was right then...

**Seven hours earlier**

My eyes were burning.My eye lids felt heavy and I could barely focus my eyes on the screen anymore.Four hours of nothing happening and I was already starting to feel like it was going to be a loss cause.No names had shown up on the chat list,and trying to mess around with the wifi connection to get a better signal was impossible.We still had no idea what any other passwords for the many other networks could be,so I just stayed on Fumiko's and lay on my belly.

*Knock knock*

Who is it at this time of night?!

Not wanting a repeat of the masked man incident I grabbed the wrench I had brought from the storage room.It was the only thing that didn't look so deadly that I could risk someone seeing me carrying it around.I didn't want to arouse any suspicions after all.

I walked up to the door and without opening it I asked,"Who is it?"

"It's me,Igao."

I sighed in relief.I opened the door enough so he could get through,and closed it behind him.He walked up to my bed and glanced at the laptop still on my bed.

"I take it you haven't gotten much sleep."He commented airily.

I gave another tired sigh and sank on to my mattress,and continued to watch the screen which hadn't changed at all since I looked away. "No,and at this point it's not exactly high on my list of priorities."

"Ha.Smart girl."Igao nodded."But I suppose not smart enough."

I turned towards him,grinning. "Oh and I assume you have a better theory?"

Igao started walking around my room casually. "I do,however I'd like to hear the basis for your claim."

"He mentioned talking to someone else in here,that someone we now know to be Nagito,meaning he'd have to log back in to contact him. If he were to do that I would have seen his name appear."

Igao furrowed his brow,however I could see the ghost of a smirk on his lips. "Fair enough,but I think you're missing a valuable point.If he's already come in contact with Nagito then you wouldn't find his name there."

"True." I nodded. "But that's a pretty big if."

"Yes but do you have any evidence to prove they haven't met?"

"Do you have any proof they have?"I retorted.

Igao chuckled."Touché."

He was silent after that.The pleasant tone that had entered the room when he came around was gone,and it was replaced with a grave tension in the air.He sat on the foot of my bed,the smile gone as soon as it had appeared,and looked down at the floor.