Heavy on My Shoulders

" "Shuichi... did you really... miss /all/ of them?" the nurse asks, her voice low and curious.
The question catches him off guard. A whip reaction of 'of course' bubbling up in his throat but never getting past his lips. If he thinks about it honestly, there were people that he hadn't given much thought to. And others that he had views of that were less than positive. And others still that his feelings for proved completely unknowable.
But he also knows that it wasn't their faults. They were programmed to do it by the makers of the game. Given personalities with the means to do horrible things that maybe they would never consider doing had the circumstances been different. But it's also hard to reconcile in his brain that they all still are those people-- their previous selves having been effectively killed by Team Danganronpa and replaced by half-baked characters instead. It's all too much for him to think about. "

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After the events of season 53 of Danganronpa, the participants of the game wake up in a facility where they are promised to be nursed back to health and reacquainted with the outside world. But tensions are high and getting back to a normal life might not be as easy as it seems.