Danganronpa v5: Another Semester

Prologue

"Wha-" I woke up, trapped in a locker. Fear stoked a fire in my heart, and I began to pound aggressively on the locker door. It wasn't locked, so I fell out immediately. "Ow," I rubbed at my scraped elbows.

"You okay there, ma'am?" A taller man asked me, looking down at me from his spot against the wall. He had a peculiar accent, like a man from the 20s.

"People still have accents like that?" I thought. "Yeah," I pulled myself up, despite the long dress I was wearing, "a better question is, where are we?"

"It appears we're in a classroom," the man looked around.

"Can't remember how we got here," I said, quickly pulling a hand through my short hair.

"Neither can I," he looked around and then jumped, like something had scared him.

"Are you okay?" I walked over to him quickly.

"I just remember I never told you my name and my talent. How....impolite me." He had an odd way of acting and speaking. It made me feel a little disturbed. "I'm Susumu Arakawa, Ultimate Hypnotist." He stretched his hand out as he spoke, and I shook it. He was ice cold for some reason.

"Manami Maruyama, the Ultimate Medium," I replied. He tucked a loose strand of black hair behind his ear.

"Medium..that's quite the interesting talent," He fished a clock out of his vest pocket.

"No wonder he's the Ultimate Hypnotist, he seems to like clocks," I thought. Before he could try anything on me, I proposed an idea. "Why don't we look around and see if anyone else is here?" I smiled a little, wanting to get away from him.

"Wonderful idea, let's go." He agreed and I opened the door to the classroom. As soon as I opened the door, I saw a girl at the other end of a hallway we'd just entered. She turned and said something, as if calling to someone in another classroom. A boy a few inches shorter than her exited the classroom and waved at us. Susumu and I walked towards them.

"Hi there!" the girl said, seeming a little too optimistic considering the situation.

"Hello," Susumu nodded at her.

"I'm Yumi! Yumi Tao to be exact." She smiled brightly after introducing herself. I noticed a guitar strapped to her back.

"Ultimate Guitarist?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Yeppers! Wow, what are you? Ultimate Detective or something?" She tucked her right foot behind her left.

"Medium, actually. I'm Manami Maruyama." I smiled a little. She was pretty cute, and I am very gay.

"The name's Susumu Arakawa, Ultimate Hypnotist," He gave a little bow and shook Yumi's not outstretched hand.

"Oh, I'm Eiko Fujioka." He tipped his fedora, "Ultimate Director,"

"I've seen some of your work, you're quite worthy of being called an Ultimate," Susumu said, playing with his pocket watch.

"Well," Yumi smoothed her skirt, "let's look for mo-"

"Yo, Asuka, there's more people," A girl with short red hair said from down the hall.

"I'm coming," a voice, I assumed coming from whoever Asuka was, echoed from down the hall. A tree of a girl came bounding around the corner.

"Woah! Are you the Ultimate tall person?" Eiko said, backing up a bit.

"No, I'm the," Asuka did jazz hands, "Ultimate Basketball Star!" she lifted up one of her ridiculously long legs.

"And I'm Kotone. Kotone Ikeda," Kotone looked away from us all.

"Ultimate pretends to be a hardass but is actually a big sweetheart," Asuka hugged Kotone who slithered out of her grasp immediately.