Prologue

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Everything about this place was bright. Beautiful. Makoto's lips curled into a smile as he looked up at his new school. Hope's Peak Academy. It was a fitting enough name. Just the sight of the place lifted his spirit and filled his heart with hope. The feeling was almost perfect. Everything was so right, yet so wrong. A terrifying, odd, unfamiliar feeling. Naegi hated it.

 'It's okay, right? I'll be fine. Sure, I'm the one normal student here, and sure, I'm not as talented as they are, but that won't be a problem. Hopefully.'

 Makoto's mind went off at a thousand words per minute, his anxieties slowly piling up on one another. What if he wasn't good enough? Or smart enough? Or he did something stupid? He got rather lucky, considering that he was the first one to arrive. That meant no one making fun of him, or calling him dumb, or saying that he doesn't belong. An hour alone, in his new school, without anyone else there. 

 Perfect. As he walked through the gates of Hope's Peak Academy, every feeling of safety he had ever felt went away. Despair coursed through his veins, putting every vulgar vision possible into his mind all at once. His legs gave out, eyes shut. Paralyzed, terrified, half-dead. 

"Welcome to Hope's Peak Academy, Makoto Naegi!"


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