Danganronpa v1 [Talentswap] [Female reader: You are Mukuro]

Prologue

A/N: Beware: Lots of DR spoilers! The protagonist's existence is literally a spoiler!

Like I said, new victims, new culprits! Mystery Mastermind! So if you're looking for more content similar to the game, I hope you'll enjoy this!

Even if a ship is tagged, its probably going to be at most just heavily implied (edit: I lied, Mukuro/Kyoko is gonna be endgame), but my biases definitely come through. Hope you enjoy!

1st person POV b/c I want to mimic the style of the original game. At the time I began this, there was hardly any Mukuro content. There's slightly more now, I would consider this a heavy re-imagining and re-interpretation of her character.

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The building stood before me, taller and much more intimidating than I had ever imagined. The sun, climbing high in the sky as the day moved onward, caused it to cast a dark shadow over me as I gazed upward in awe. Kibougamine Academy, or as it more commonly known, Hope's Peak... It was said that attending was a near guarantee for success in life. Students do not apply, they are recruited. Only the best of the best had the chance attend. And, to my utter amazement, I had been recruited for this upcoming class for my talents as the Ultimate Detective.

In a place like this, there had to be at least a few good mysteries worth solving. Naturally, as any good detective ought, I had made sure to do plenty of research beforehand. The forums on the school website had all but ensured me that my class was full of all sorts of fascinating characters.

An Ultimate Moral Compass rumored to be a pushover?

A swimmer who does not attend a single practice?

An Ultimate Good Luck who had marks more outstanding than the majority of the supposed "gifted" students?

A gambler whose luck knows no bounds?

As intimidated as I was by the whole process, I was itching to meet my classmates. What sort of secrets would I uncover at my stay here?

Well, at the very least, I knew I had one mystery worth uncovering--Junko Enoshima.

If truth be told, I had always been curious about my baby sister, but to think that she had grown up to become an Ultimate Pop Sensation was almost unfathomable. And to discover the truth in this way? To be reunited like this, recruited by the exact same exclusive private school?

It had seemed too crazy, too farfetched to be the truth, like a scenario straight out of a cheesy movie or a bad fanfiction. On the other hand, she sounded so happy when she wrote to me that I desperately wanted to believe her, despite my doubts. I mean, it wasn't every day you received a letter from a superstar--who also happened to be your long lost sister.

Of course, upon this new development, I did my usual poking around. Mother had always been unusually cryptic about my past. Well, perhaps not so unusual for her. Privacy just seemed to be a Ikusaba family trait. Still the truth was never hidden from me for long. As far as I could tell, it was, indeed, the truth.

Junko Enoshima, Ultimate Pop Sensation, was my baby twin sister.

Still standing outside the school, I hugged my arms close to my chest, trying to get a grip as I took slow, deep breaths. I did not want to show it, but I was nervous. It was more than just my classmates I had to impress; it was my sister, too.

Maybe I was being ridiculous. It was uncharacteristic for me to care so much about what others thought of me. The job of a detective was to be invisible, after all. I would be professional and nothing more. Being impressive? It never seemed important before, but this was my sister after all—my family. It was as if I was sprouting a new and unfamiliar desire to gain her approval.