Hope's Peak Academy, a school that scouts students from across the country in search of talent. The ones accepted into the school are known as Ultimates. The Ultimate Yakuza, the Ultimate Mechanic, the Ultimate Princess; anything goes. 17 High School students were picked in the next batch to attend the school. They all believed they'd graduate and leave with their futures set up for them. But things don't quite go as planned. All of them are now trapped on an island with no easy escape, forced into a killing game by a psychotic teddy bear. The only way to win is through betrayal. This weighs heavily on everyone. But throughout the chaos, there is a flicker of hope for two participants. Y/N L/N and Mikan Tsumuiki. The Ultimate Mortician and the Ultimate Nurse. The boy that keeps to himself and the girl that apologizes for everything. The two of them couldn't be more different from each other. Y/N prefers to be away from others, Mikan wants to finally have friends. Realistically, the two could never bond. But by some miracle, a connection begins to form between them. A connection formed by a shared pain. The pain of the past. Pasts they can't forget. Pasts that shaped them into who they are today. Pasts they think they'll never move on from. The future has always looked bleak for them. But as their connection begins to strengthen, they begin to think otherwise. Just maybe, these two broken souls can heal each other. I do not own Danganronpa or any of its characters. The cover art does not belong to me, it belongs to @Deadnooodles on Twitter (or X if you're weird).

What would it be like in a world where the killing game went differently? What would it be like if different people lived and different people died? What would it be like...if this story...had an entirely different hero. A rewrite of the original Danganronpa game, where Chihiro Fujisaki is the main hero instead of Makoto Naegi, and the death order and people who die in the killing game are different than in the original game.