Danganronpa: Days Before Despair

Chapter 10~Vandalism At Hope's Peak

Super High School Level Judge Ayameko Etsuko's POV

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK-!!"

A scream pierced the air as I ran to return to the dorm room. I didn't even have to glance backwards to know that Sabastian was following me to wherever the scream had originated from. My fears were confirmed when we arrived at the doorway to my room.

The door was slightly ajar, making me gulp nervously. I cracked open the door a little further so that I could enter the room, but when I did, I wished that I hadn't, as the scene was far behind what I like to think of as 'satisfying'.

There was a boy with blue hair slumped against the wall. He wore a light blue shirt under a white lab coat type thing. Around his waist was a belt filled with bottles of strange mixtures of even stranger colors. The boy wore black jeans and tennis shoes the color of his hair. I noticed goggles propped up in his bloodstained spiky hair as well.

But the more shocking thing was how there was 'BLOODBATH FEVER' written all over the wall in the pink known as blood. I gasped and realized how terrifying this truly was. I had heard of a serial killer, so why had they come to our room?!

I then noticed how there were tatters of objects I knew as my own covered the floor. Chouko, supposedly the one who had screamed, pointed at the closet while trembling. I ran up to her and noticed what she was pointing at with such unhappiness.

A sheet that had previously been hanging on a hanger in the closet had been cut up with scissors, leaving it tattered and nearly nonexistent. It was barely being held together, weakly and in a very few spots. I gasped and heard Chouko groan angrily from beside me. "My Napstasheet!!" she yelled furiously, storming up to her sheet and beginning to attempt and piece it together again, though her efforts were proven to be in vain quite quickly. There was no way that thing was going to be put back together without some serious sewing surgery.

I glanced around the room once again. "How did this happen?!" I heard Sabastian demand. He picked up a pair of scissors from near the 'Napstasheet' that Chouko had been screaming over. "And what are these supposed to be?! They look like some little kid's school supplies!"

"A little kid with some serious issues!" Chouko agreed, her face still in clear despair over losing whatever her sheet was supposed to be to the scissors' fury.

At this point in time, I realized how much toilet paper littered the ground of the room. I guess that whoever did this had a whole lot of free time and some reason to hate us. But how would that make sense? I don't know anybody of who would feel the need to do this. I haven't been here long enough to make any enemies. Chouko, though, could have easily done it (don't tell her I said that). She did tend to irritate people with her imitation tendency.

"I made this to be like the Undertale character!" Chouko roared unhappily, picking up a few pieces of her strange sheet and carrying them over to her bed before attempting to piece them together. That was quickly proven to be a lost cause, sadly. I suppose she'd have to make another sheet from whatever 'Undertale' is supposed to be... I've never heard of it, most likely the result of growing up abroad.

"What's all the noise about...?"

Elec came into the room next, robotic hands in his pockets coolly. When he noticed the ocean haired boy slumped up against the wall, he gasped. "Y-Yazu!" he exclaimed in shock before turning to me. "Go get somebody who can help us!"

"You can't order her around like that, you know!" Sabastian shouted at Elec, face growing red from anger.

"It's fine, Sabastian," I assured him as I ran for the door.

So much for being able to chill with Sabastian while Chouko played that computer game she always screwed around on...

Super High School Level Actor Chiyosu Sunadu's POV

Akane and I snickered from her dorm down the hallway. Vandalizing that room was quite fun. Reason for it? It was fun. Why the room of Ayameko and Chouko? Well, Chouko impersonating people is a bit of a copy off of my acting. Call it... Getting even for her taking my abilities. Does that provide you with a sufficient motive? No? Then again, why should I care about what you think?

"That was fun," Akane grinned. "I didn't know what I was missing out on until now, truthfully."

"I love doing this stuff. I did it all the time before coming here, though I'd act my way right out of it if the case got taken to court," I smirked. "It sure was a simpler time than when all of this excessive homework happened..."

"Maybe we'd get off school for doing more serious vandalism," Akane wondered aloud. "I know I'm sick of my science teacher I have fourth hour. She always chooses the scientist guy we attacked over me."

"By the way, adding that message was a nice touch, Akane," I told her. "Good idea to attack that dweeb and write that stuff in his blood. Makes the suspicion fly towards that serial killer that's been bouncing around the media recently and directs it away from us, which is always a cool thing."

"Thanks," Akane smiled. "It was my pleasure."

"Who's room do we mess up next?" I questioned. "That's the real question we should be asking ourselves now, if you ask me."

"Maybe Elec's. After all, it's not like he would do anything to get back at us, anyways. He's too... Innocent to do anything violent," Akane commented.

I nodded. "Okay. What kind of things do you want to do to it this time?" I asked.

"That's a good question..." Akane frowned. "I guess that we should start planning for it, then."

I smirked. "We should, indeed."

Now this is the kind of things we should be learning at this foolish school.

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Chiyosu Akane nu-

-Digital