Danganronpa: Poisoned Hope (Fanganronpa)

Chapter 4 - Thorns Of Past Loving Memory

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Chapter Four - Thorns Of Past Loving Memory
Daily Life

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Stretching my arms, I slowly woke up to the sound of Monokuma's voice coming from my monitor.

"The morning announcement already?" I yawned as I sat up. "Maybe I should've gone to bed earlier..."

As I got out of bed, I glanced at my bedside table to see Gin's notebook.

Memories of yesterday fill my mind.

Toshiro's change.

Tama's body.

Ichika's corpse.

Gin's execution.

Kei's identity.

It was all such a rollercoaster.

...I should finish reading that notebook before anything.

Grabbing it, I began flicking through the pages, although Kei had ripped most of them out.

Let's see here...

I didn't really see anything important which was weird, since Kei had told me he found it useful to him. Throughout the notebook, Gin's handwriting got messier and messier, the last page even stained with bloody fingerprints in the corner.

Those must've been his frantic thoughts of panic after killing Ichika and Tama...

Finally, I had reached the page about that small out of place rock we found at the pool.

After reading, I learned that all Gin knew was that it was unnatural in some way...

Well, none of us are geologists, but I guess he did a better job than most of us.

But how did Kei find this stuff useful? It's just obvious facts...

I closed the notebook and sighed before looking at the time.

The breakfast meeting has definitely started by now. I hope they don't mind that I'm late...

I quickly stood up and started to get ready for the day ahead of me.

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Rushing down the hall, I reached the doors to the dining hall. Taking a deep breath, I opened them.

"Sorry I'm...late?" by the time I had finished my sentence, the tone of my voice had changed to one of confusion.

There were only 5 people in front of me: Arashi, Mei, Mizuki, Haru, and Reina. The table would usually be set with food, plates, cutlery, and much more, but this morning it was completely empty, and the normal smell of cooking food from the kitchen was nowhere.

They all sat in a chair, fiddling with their thumbs or doing their own thing. It was dead silent, so they quickly noticed my voice coming from the doorway.

"Oh, good morning." Haru greeted me first.

"Hi, Kuro." Mei followed, waving towards me.

"Hiya, Ku!" Mizuki enthusiastically said, not matching with the quiet and miserable tone of the room.

"Good to see you're not dead, Dumborin," Reina smirked after looking up to see me.

"So...hungryyyy..." Arashi cried, sprawled onto a chair.

"What's going on?" I asked as I took a seat beside Mizuki.

"We have no idea," Haru explained. "Toshiro has food already prepared for us most if the time...but he's not here, so we've just been sitting here."