A True Gentleman

Next up on Fluffuary: KazuKoi (Kazuichi Soda x Mahiru Koizumi) from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair! AND IT'S A RARE PAIR GOD HELP ME I AM 5EVER IN RARE PAIR HELL.

I have beaten Danganronpa 2, but haven't watched the DR3 animes yet, so no spoilers on those yet, and don't nag me if anything doesn't line up with the canon of said animes. This is just when they finally manage to wake up the comatose students... of course Chiaki was Dead All Along, or rather never even existed in the first place (being an AI) so...

Implied HinaMiki, Sondam, FuyuPeko and Akane x Nekomaru, as well as Ibuki & Ultimate Impostor friendship. Ultimate Impostor uses they/them pronouns.

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A True Gentleman

The day had finally come. Nearly six months after the Alter Ego Junko incident, the students who survived the ordeal - Hajime Hinata, Sonia Nevermind, Kazuichi Soda, Akane Owari and Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu - managed to awaken their friends who had "died" in the simulation, retrieving their consciousnesses from the deepest recesses of the program and bring them back to their comatose bodies.

"Well... it's time," Hajime said, a hopeful tone in his voice.

"They... they'll still be the same people we knew in the simulation, right?" Sonia asked anxiously. "They won't... attack us or anything, right?"

"You remember what Makoto and the others said?" Fuyuhiko tried to put the Ultimate Princess at ease. "They hypothesize that since we emerged from the program with different personalities than our time as Ultimate Despairs, that the program likely did the same to them. They just weren't able to join us right away."

"Hope you're right..." Kazuichi murmured in an uncertain manner as the five watched the occupied pods, waiting for one to open. Within seconds, one of them did.

"Uhhh..." The voice - a female one - groaned. When she reached her arm up into the air, the group immediately recognized the uniform.

Peko Pekoyama was the first such student to recover.

"PEKO!" Fuyuhiko shouted, his emotions taking over as he ran to her.

"Hey Fuyuhiko, don't get too excited!" Akane cautioned him.

"I have to make sure she's okay!" Kneeling next to Peko as she slowly sat up, he waited until she seemed stable enough to talk to her. "Peko... are you feeling alright?"

"I'm... a little dizzy..." Peko murmured before Fuyuhiko gave her a nearby oxygen mask to help her regain her bearings. "Young... Master..."

"I'm just..." Fuyuhiko began, holding back the tears of joy and relief he wanted to shed. "So relieved... to see you again..."

"So you... forgive me?" Peko weakly asked.

"Of course, dummy!" Fuyuhiko softly hugged her.

"But... what about... Miss Mahiru?"

"Don't worry about that for now," Fuyuhiko said, his voice cracking. "Just want to make sure you're well enough to be back on your feet..."

Within seconds, another pod opened. This time, it was Nekomaru Nidai, the Ultimate Coach, who emerged.

"Nekomaru...!" Akane ran to him, immediately offering him an oxygen mask as he sat up.

"Hoho, I knew you'd have my back, Akane," Nekomaru chuckled heartily before coughing.

"Nekomaru... you're still this optimistic, huh...?" Akane started to cry.

"Hey... why ya cryin'?"