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DRT1.2.11-12: EVE burst error, sections 11-12
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Danganronpa Togami Volume 1: Multiple Counts of Attempted World Domination
Chapter 2: EVE burst error
11
"You see plenty of scenes in video games, and manga, and novels and the like where people talk in front of the corpse, but they're not realistic. They don't take the corpse seriously enough. It's impossible for anyone who's not a seasoned pro to pull off a stunt like that. So why don't we talk about corpses somewhere where there aren't any?"
We were in the living room on the first floor. Pretty fancy-looking carpet. Old-fashioned sofa. Replica Mucha adorning the wall. Large table with antique teacups and sugar bowl.
In that room overflowing with European taste, the boy who was apparently the group's leader was talking away. He was a middle school student, wearing a student cap with his school uniform. It went beyond retro and straight into cosplay.
Plopped down next to him was a large boy, wearing the same uniform, but carrying a biscuit tin, eating them messily like Gorilla-Imo.[1]
The last one was a girl in a sailor fuku, preparing some tea. "Heh heheeeh~. Here you are, sir. Some Darjeeling. It's probably that!" She sat some black tea down in front of me.
"Beer."
"Yes?"
"Don't they at least have some beer in the fridge?" I asked, as coercive as I could manage.
"Yeeees~! You don't look like you could possibly be a minor, so I'll get that for you straight away! I love answering requests, after all!"
A bokukko, huh.[2] Everyone's coming overequipped these days.
Despite the chaos in the living room, Aoba drank the tea that had been poured for her. Goddamn resilient as ever, that girl.
"Incidentally, you have some nerve, surviving like that," the boy said. "Don't tell me you're the 'anomaly' we were contacted about... You don't look like it, though."
I couldn't react. I'd never once been called an "anomaly", after all.
"Do the words, 'the world is made of locked rooms' mean anything to you?"
I still couldn't react. I mean, the world isn't made out of locked rooms, so.
"Sorry to keep you waitington, sir~!"
The beer bottle that the girl brought me had a label that said Pilsner Urquell, and even though personally I would have rather had Sapporo beer or Kin-mugi or something, I didn't complain. I chugged the entire beer at once.
All righty. Time to ride the wave of booze power and make it through this.
"I'm an adult. Uhh, what I mean is, I don't really feel like hearing what a kid has to say."
"So you think we should be ashamed of ourselves."
"Are you guys working with Byakuya Togami?"
"How do you come by that reasoning?"
"It wasn't really reasoning."
"You're right; it wasn't." The boy nodded. "Deduction. Conjecture. Inference. It was nowhere in the vicinity of any word bearing the illustrious character for 'surmise'.[3] A monkey could have asked that question."
"..."
"But even so, let's assess the fact that Byakuya Togami's name has come up at this place, in this situation, and with this timing. We are, indubitably, Hope's Peak students."
What did he just say? Hope's Peak?
"Bam!" "Hi-yah!" "Pow!" The three students jumped on top of the sofa, striking some weirdly old-fashioned poses.
"The moonlight is love's dying message! I am the Super Middle School Level Myst'ry Maniac, the President!"
"I don't look at spoilers just for show. I'm the Super Middle School Level Myst'ry Fan, Vice Prez!"
"Yello. I'm... uh, I don't really care for myst'ries, so I'm just the regular ol' Treasurer!"
"We three, in the name of puzzles!" "Risk our lives in battle!" "And we go by the name of—"
"Hope's Peak Academy Affiliated Junior High School Mystery Research Society!"
Mmmm, this is a little... They sure are in the humanities, all right.
All of their movements were a little off the mark. But they looked pretty pleased with themselves, breaking a refreshing sweat. They were giving off some kind of youthful energy, a little.
In response to all of that, I—
"Aaahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"
—burst into laughter.
12
Hope's Peak Academy. A government-sanctioned school that only accepts high school students with exceptional talents, operating on a strict scouting-only system. Although they do have affiliated schools prepared as an option, it's not like they'll let you go through to the high school in an escalator system. That barrier of needing to be scouted is always standing in your way.
Even so, there are students who think that taking part in activities at the affiliated schools will make it easier for scouts to get them in their sights, and even those who enroll in a curriculum designed to efficiently find talent and effectively draw it out, and still others who think mingling with the students from the school proper will make them "awaken to their talent".
But, well, most of them don't get accepted to the school proper. The vast majority graduate from these affiliated schools and then go on to a completely normal high school.
Not to mention, Hope's Peak organized a reserve course in addition to the affiliated schools, but I can't even laugh about that one. They stack up the cash from people who want that Hope's Peak brand name, and then call them the "trash class" behind their backs.
And from my perspective, the affiliated schools and the reserve course are both the same. No real talent. No genuine talent. No different from moles.
So I just bust out laughing. Don't try to go Outside and throw your weight around like you're something.
Translator's Notes
[1] Gorilla-Imo - a character from Dokonjou Gaeru, an old Japanese cartoon. The nickname means Gorilla-Potato, but his real name is Imotarou Gorira. But as one might expect, he is drawn kind of like a gorilla potato.
[2] bokukko - a girl who uses the pronoun boku, which is traditionally masculine. Though there are many examples, they are uncommon enough that this is a notable character trait. Here's the TV Tropes article.
[3] surmise - in the original, all of the words (reasoning, deduction, conjecture, and inference) started with the same character, 推, rendered here as "surmise" just to differentiate it from all of these other related words. This character is also the first character in the Japanese term for the mystery genre.
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Danganronpa Togami Volume 1: Multiple Counts of Attempted World Domination
Chapter 2: EVE burst error
11
"You see plenty of scenes in video games, and manga, and novels and the like where people talk in front of the corpse, but they're not realistic. They don't take the corpse seriously enough. It's impossible for anyone who's not a seasoned pro to pull off a stunt like that. So why don't we talk about corpses somewhere where there aren't any?"
We were in the living room on the first floor. Pretty fancy-looking carpet. Old-fashioned sofa. Replica Mucha adorning the wall. Large table with antique teacups and sugar bowl.
In that room overflowing with European taste, the boy who was apparently the group's leader was talking away. He was a middle school student, wearing a student cap with his school uniform. It went beyond retro and straight into cosplay.
Plopped down next to him was a large boy, wearing the same uniform, but carrying a biscuit tin, eating them messily like Gorilla-Imo.[1]
The last one was a girl in a sailor fuku, preparing some tea. "Heh heheeeh~. Here you are, sir. Some Darjeeling. It's probably that!" She sat some black tea down in front of me.
"Beer."
"Yes?"
"Don't they at least have some beer in the fridge?" I asked, as coercive as I could manage.
"Yeeees~! You don't look like you could possibly be a minor, so I'll get that for you straight away! I love answering requests, after all!"
A bokukko, huh.[2] Everyone's coming overequipped these days.
Despite the chaos in the living room, Aoba drank the tea that had been poured for her. Goddamn resilient as ever, that girl.
"Incidentally, you have some nerve, surviving like that," the boy said. "Don't tell me you're the 'anomaly' we were contacted about... You don't look like it, though."
I couldn't react. I'd never once been called an "anomaly", after all.
"Do the words, 'the world is made of locked rooms' mean anything to you?"
I still couldn't react. I mean, the world isn't made out of locked rooms, so.
"Sorry to keep you waitington, sir~!"
The beer bottle that the girl brought me had a label that said Pilsner Urquell, and even though personally I would have rather had Sapporo beer or Kin-mugi or something, I didn't complain. I chugged the entire beer at once.
All righty. Time to ride the wave of booze power and make it through this.
"I'm an adult. Uhh, what I mean is, I don't really feel like hearing what a kid has to say."
"So you think we should be ashamed of ourselves."
"Are you guys working with Byakuya Togami?"
"How do you come by that reasoning?"
"It wasn't really reasoning."
"You're right; it wasn't." The boy nodded. "Deduction. Conjecture. Inference. It was nowhere in the vicinity of any word bearing the illustrious character for 'surmise'.[3] A monkey could have asked that question."
"..."
"But even so, let's assess the fact that Byakuya Togami's name has come up at this place, in this situation, and with this timing. We are, indubitably, Hope's Peak students."
What did he just say? Hope's Peak?
"Bam!" "Hi-yah!" "Pow!" The three students jumped on top of the sofa, striking some weirdly old-fashioned poses.
"The moonlight is love's dying message! I am the Super Middle School Level Myst'ry Maniac, the President!"
"I don't look at spoilers just for show. I'm the Super Middle School Level Myst'ry Fan, Vice Prez!"
"Yello. I'm... uh, I don't really care for myst'ries, so I'm just the regular ol' Treasurer!"
"We three, in the name of puzzles!" "Risk our lives in battle!" "And we go by the name of—"
"Hope's Peak Academy Affiliated Junior High School Mystery Research Society!"
Mmmm, this is a little... They sure are in the humanities, all right.
All of their movements were a little off the mark. But they looked pretty pleased with themselves, breaking a refreshing sweat. They were giving off some kind of youthful energy, a little.
In response to all of that, I—
"Aaahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"
—burst into laughter.
12
Hope's Peak Academy. A government-sanctioned school that only accepts high school students with exceptional talents, operating on a strict scouting-only system. Although they do have affiliated schools prepared as an option, it's not like they'll let you go through to the high school in an escalator system. That barrier of needing to be scouted is always standing in your way.
Even so, there are students who think that taking part in activities at the affiliated schools will make it easier for scouts to get them in their sights, and even those who enroll in a curriculum designed to efficiently find talent and effectively draw it out, and still others who think mingling with the students from the school proper will make them "awaken to their talent".
But, well, most of them don't get accepted to the school proper. The vast majority graduate from these affiliated schools and then go on to a completely normal high school.
Not to mention, Hope's Peak organized a reserve course in addition to the affiliated schools, but I can't even laugh about that one. They stack up the cash from people who want that Hope's Peak brand name, and then call them the "trash class" behind their backs.
And from my perspective, the affiliated schools and the reserve course are both the same. No real talent. No genuine talent. No different from moles.
So I just bust out laughing. Don't try to go Outside and throw your weight around like you're something.
Translator's Notes
[1] Gorilla-Imo - a character from Dokonjou Gaeru, an old Japanese cartoon. The nickname means Gorilla-Potato, but his real name is Imotarou Gorira. But as one might expect, he is drawn kind of like a gorilla potato.
[2] bokukko - a girl who uses the pronoun boku, which is traditionally masculine. Though there are many examples, they are uncommon enough that this is a notable character trait. Here's the TV Tropes article.
[3] surmise - in the original, all of the words (reasoning, deduction, conjecture, and inference) started with the same character, 推, rendered here as "surmise" just to differentiate it from all of these other related words. This character is also the first character in the Japanese term for the mystery genre.
Stay tuned for the next update next Sunday (PST)!
Feel free to comment, keeping these rules in mind!