Danganronpa: The New Face of Despair

Part4: Despair Counterattacks (Chapter 12)

Chapter 12: Powerless

The members of the 14th Branch of Future Foundation were watching the screen as the Remnant of Despair recognized as Yuuko Mori was talking to them. They knew it was her behind that mask when she called Ethos 'sweetheart'.

"Does the cells downstairs have TVs?" asked Asahina, concerned, "I mean, I think Ethos should see this..."

"No, they don't but we can bring a monitor down and connect it." said Kirigiri.

"Yeah! Exactly! Let's show to that traitor bastard that all his work will be meaningless! That he failed!" exclaimed a male agent as he stood up, his face was mostly covered in bandages.

Everyone recognized him as the one who insulted Kirigiri of 'burger hands'. As he kept yelling that the robot armed man was just some filthy traitor, most of the agents present were giving him a nasty glare but he was just ignoring them and imposing his opinion.

"Alright, we get it. Shut up!" growled Hagakure uncharastically, "I'll go downstairs." he stood up and left the room.

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Ethos was alone in a white room, still dressed as usual in his suit. They took Jessie, his sledgehammer, away from him but at least they left him his prosthesis. He was sitting at a table, thinking of how he will explain himself to the heads of Future Foundation. He could ask some advice from Naegi and he should prepare his guts to be punched at least twice. The major problem was: would they listen to him? He knew that Munakata, the head of the 2nd branch, if he's not convinced would want him executed.

He was "kind of okay" with that, he regretted his choices during the tragedy, wanted to redeem himself for his sins... Who was he joking? He was scared. He doesn't mind to die but doesn't want to. He was actually more scared of his old friends from class 76 reactions, will they want him to live or would they think that he's a Remnant of Despair? Would Sohnosuke, Ruruka and Seiko really going to vote for execution without listening to him? Will they execute an old friend? Well, friend is actually a pretty big word. Ethos saw them as friends but they must certainly see him as an acquaintance or old classmate.

Ethos was in penury. He sighed.

Then knocks at his door, he lifted an eyebrow. Who could it be? And why knock? His first guess would be it's Naegi, but he knew that this was impossible since it's pretty obvious that the superiors wouldn't allow him to get too close in case the brunette decided to 'protect/save' him, aka betray Future Foundation once more.

"Enter." he said loudly.

And to his surprise it was Hagakure that entered the room with a trolley and a TV on it. Hagakure smiled at his friend as he set the screen so the Ultimate Destruction could also see the event.

"Oh, for me? Thank you." Ethos smiled, Hagakure returned the gesture.

"How are you, man?" the clairvoyant asked, "We are worried for you upstairs. Is everything good here?"

"Yeah, it's not that bad. I have access to two rooms only: my cell and this one where I spent most of my time playing with my robot arm like Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story."

"Oh. W-Well, when everything with the kaijus are over, we'll do our best to get you out of here! I predict that everything is going to be okay for you!! So don't give up! I gotta go. See ya!" grinned Hagakure as he left the room, leaving a smiling black and red haired man behind.

Ethos looked at the screen and saw Godzilla, standing up in the center of the ashes of Central Park, he was good as new and looking up to the sky. A roaring engine was heard as the new Monokaiju appeared on the screen. Ethos immediately started to analyze the robot.