Despair | Danganronpa AU

Prologue: 02

This is a pretty lengthy chapter, sorry.

Welcome To Despair

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"Nng..." I groan. My eyelids were sort of heavy as I stare blankly at the wall. I rub my eyes to get rid of the remaining sleep they had and observe.

"Wh-What?" I ask nobody in shock. "Where am I?"

I woke up with my head resting on my arms at a desk. My body feels abnormally heavy. I don't normally doze off in class unless it was really boring so... why was I sleeping here? I don't recognize this classroom either..

"I should probably take a look around first.."

I stand up and look down at the desk I was sleeping on. I didn't even notice there was a pamphlet there till now. I also notice a line of drool on the desk. I wipe it off with my sleeve and pick up the paper.

"An orientation guide?" I murmur, opening it up. I raise an eyebrow. "It's a cheap-looking pamphlet with something handwritten on it.."

"The next semester is about to start. Starting today, this school will be your entire world," I voice out. "...my entire world? What the hell? Is this someone's idea of a sick joke?"

I place the stupid "guide" on the desk and again observe the room. The first thing that stands out to me are the metal plates on the areas where the windows are supposed to be held up by really rusty looking bolts.

"What the heck?" I stare at the metal plate suspiciously. Walking up to it, I use the back of my knuckles to knock on it. Yup, sounds like metal. But why? Why are there metal plates on the windows?

I notice the clock at the front of the room. "Woah it's already 8:00. Has it really been 50 minutes?"

So what might've happened was that I was so wound up, I passed out in the main hall. Did someone carry me here? If that is certainly true then... obviously this is a classroom in Bangtan Academy! Wait but if that's true... that raises more questions than the amount that was answered. I groan mentally.

The metal plates over the windows are strange in itself. It's like a prison. Nothing makes sense anymore, I knew coming to this school was a bad idea.

"I'll just go back to the main hall... I'm already late, everyone's probably waiting."

I step out of the classroom and am suddenly welcomed with a hallway lit with pink lights. Wow, weird. I wander the halls and see a vibrant big red door. It gives me the chills so I turn away and try navigate myself to the main hall. The hallway colors keep changing.. the abruptness between the color change hurts my eyes.

"Oh there it is."

I enter the main hall.

And I was greeted with everyone else.

"Well look who decided to show up," a male rudely remarks.

"Rude.." I mumble.

"Today's supposed to be our first day of class, be nice," says another.

"So counting him, that makes fifteen. Seems like a good cut-off point, but I wonder if this is everyone.." another voice says.

Standing before me were the Ultimate students, hand picked by the school. I look around at everyone, taking in everyone's faces. I recognize one of them, the one I admired; the Ultimate Lyricist...

Just as I thought, everyone had auras around them, and it suffocates me.

"H-Hello..." I stutter, shy under all the attention. "My name is Jeon Jungkook. Um.. I'm really sorry I'm late. N-Normally I'd get here on time! ...but something came up and I had fallen asleep abruptly.."