Neo Killing Game - Danganronpa x My Hero Academia

Prologue : Yuuei Turned Rogue - Part 3

Yaomomo's eyes widened as she entered the auditorium.

"Shigaraki! Kurogiri!" Her stormy gray gaze flickered from villain to villain. There weren't that many; just Shigaraki, Kurogiri, Dabi, Toga, and Chisaki. But their presence, alone with the powerless students in an abandoned U.A., held a frightening kind of aura just by itself.

"You came." Shigaraki muttered, idly scratching his dry-ass neck. "I was beginning to wonder."

"Please explain what is happening!" Tenya yelled, his arms waving like a robot's.

Shigaraki sneered. "You're so impatient. Let us explain.

"We have brought you all here to play a little... game. As you all know from the announcements earlier, you're all to live here. And of course, you unappreciative brats probably all want to leave. So, we've made a little system. To leave, you have to graduate. And to graduate-"

"You have to kill someone!" Toga suddenly interrupted.

A stunned silence fell over the students as the villains waited for a response.

"Wh-what do you mean?!" Izuku yelped, his voice slicing through the quiet like a knife. "Kill someone?"

"Yes! Kill someone!" Toga sung. "Stab 'em, burn 'em, mutilate 'em! The gorier the better!" She danced around Dabi excitedly, who watched her with lazy blue eyes.

"And there you have it," Shigaraki groaned, waving a hand at Toga in what might've been a threatening gesture. The blonde didn't seem to care as she re-took her place beside Dabi. "Kill someone to graduate. Oh, and because we can't bother watching you idiots all day, and have better things to do than give lengthy explanations of this thing, we made a new toy for you. It's for the occasion. Kurogiri?"

The warp-gate man silently opened a portal, and out tumbled a short, white rodent.

"Principal Nedzu!" Yaomomo called out, a wave of relief washing over her. The principal was here! Maybe he could tell them what was happening.

But as he got up, all the joy in Yaomomo's heart froze, giving way to terror.

The left half of Nedzu's face was black-furred, the dark pelt sewn onto his head, as evident by the blood-speckled stitches. In place of his eye on the black side, there was a red, mechanical lens that flickered and glowed. The left side of his mouth was bent into an awkward smirk.

What scared Yaomomo the most was his right side, though. The right corner of his lips were curled down in a trembling frown, and his beady black eye was shiny with agony. His entire body seemed to be trembling, yet at the same time stiff; perfectly artificial.

"I am Monokuma!" Nedzu yelled. His voice was shrill, robotic, ragged. It was like a bad audio recording overlaid on top of static and glitches. It was as if Nedzu himself was trying to fight the robotic parasite leeched onto him, but failing and being swallowed by its dominant call. A frozen chill ran down Yaomomo's spine.

"Monokuma here will be watching you from the control room. He can also answer questions, talk to you, and enforce rules, that kinda thing. We'll also have one or two members on standby at all times as well, in case something happens," Shigaraki continued.

"Have fun," Dabi sneered. He jumped into the new portal as soon as Kurogiri opened it, waving his hand as he disappeared.

One by one, the villains all filed into the portal, Kurogiri leaving last and closing the portal behind him. This left the group of students staring, terrified, at Monokuma, who was now standing alone atop the podium.

Yaomomo still hadn't completely grasped the whole Killing Game concept. Kill each other? Who would be insane enough to do that? They were all friends. They were Class 1-A. They'd been through so much together. Besides, even if they weren't friends, nobody would have the heart to physically murder another human being.