Danganronpa: Fictional Nexus

Prologue: The City That Never Sleeps... Without One Eye Open

"What... is this?"

I woke up in... some kind of hotel room? The bed feels comfier than sleeping on the floor with those futons Tatsumi gave us, but how exactly did I get here?

I observe my surroundings, it looks pretty normal for the most part, but I look in the closet and see many copies of my uniform. As if things weren't strange enough, there's a whole cabinet filled with the same makeup me and the rest of Franchouchou use to hide the fact we're zombies.

Oh, but I should really get to introducing myself before I explain. My name is Ai Mizuno, or Number 3 as I have been referred to on stage.

I'm a member of the idol group known as Franchouchou alongside my companions. The thing is, we're not an ordinary idol group, our manager Kotaro Tatsumi decided that in order to "save" the Saga Prefecture in Japan, they're gonna need idols. So he thought up a crazy idea to revive seven girls from different time periods and make them into an idol group.

I was a former member of an idol group in my old life, yet this plan was so insane that I was opposed to it. Eventually, with the help of those same companions, I was able to overcome that feeling (although I still remain skeptical of our manager) and we became stars of Saga.

This however, is something I'm not used to. Was I kidnapped? Does anyone know I'm gone? But the more important question was, where am I?

As I continued searching the room, I spy a small device with a screen on it, sitting on top of the coffee table. It looks like a larger smartphone, a tablet I believe, the former piece of technology was released a year before I died. I did some research on a lot of things on Tatsumi's computer to catch up on what I've missed in the past eight years, so this is my first time seeing smart tablets in person.

The tablet turned on, revealing a picture of me and a profile, "Ai Mizuno, the Ultimate Idol.", that's a bit farfetch'd. A message then popped up on the screen, telling me to head over to... Enoshima Park?

I proceeded to look out my window, and a large city, similar to Tokyo or New York was outside! I took the time to put on my non-zombie makeup and then walked out the door, which had my name on it for some reason. I take the elevator to the ground floor, and notice someone shivering there in the lobby.

"W-why am I even out here, it's much safer in my room!" The girl with purple hair said to herself, she's terrified, maybe I could calm her down.

"Excuse me?"

"Ah! P-please don't hurt me!" She cried out, clearly startled by me speaking to her out of the blue.

"It's alright, I won't harm you. Please calm yourself."

"I am calm! (breathes heavily) Who are you?!"

I sighed before I introduced myself to her, "My name is Ai.", I thought that since this situation is pretty abnormal, I might as well not hide anything, except for being a zombie of course. "Believe me when I say that I'm not dangerous, now what's your name?"

"U-um... Bernadetta, but some people call me Bernie... or just me." My tablet rumbled and I saw her profile listed there, "Bernadetta von Varley, the Ultimate Recluse.", it seems like she's too timid to leave her room. Surprises me that a recluse would be outside of all places.

"Y-you've got one of those too? It told me to head somewhere, but I'm not sure where that is..."

"Well, it looks like we're in the same boat. Come on, let's go look around to find a way there."

"Oh um, (sighs) I guess..." She must be really hoping to head back to her room, but we need to know where we are.

We walked out into the city and saw that the place we were staying at was called the Hope-Tel. Ha ha. We spot a sign, uh, I mean a bunch of signs pointing to where we need to go. They look like they were made by a child, with the messy writing. We walked for a while until we reached "Enoshima Park" and someone landed right in front of us, startling Bernadetta.