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some loser ([personal profile] kyaaa) wrote in [community profile] duelnoir2016-10-09 05:12 pm

DRT1.5.5: Me and the School and I (The Second Half), section 5

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Danganronpa Togami Volume 1: Multiple Counts of Attempted World Domination
Chapter 5: Me and the School and I (The Second Half)




5

"The Togami family operates on a hereditary system, but apparently it uses a special system known as the Legacy Crown Championship. To put it simply, it's a Battle Royale with the seat of the next head at stake. The family members fight to crush each other," Kanai continued, as he stood on the darkened school grounds. "During the last Legacy Crown Championship, a serial murder incident broke out. This is called the Worst Incident in Togami Family History."

Even I could tell that I had fallen expressionless. It had been a long time since my face had looked this way. It was almost as if the muscles in my face had completely stuck to my skull.

"Oh my, why the long face?"

"How do you know about the Worst Incident in Togami Family History? Only a very few people should..."

"There's some truth to all legends, isn't there? No need to act so shocked this late in the game. The Togami family doesn't have a patent on looking into top-secret data that was never released to the public," Kanai explained calmly. "Most of the people involved with the Worst Incident in Togami Family History were killed during the incident. And—

You and Byakuya Togami are among the few survivors."

I didn't have to use Borges for this, when the Worst Incident in Togami Family History was perfectly burned into my mind, into the most instinctive levels of my memory. So much so that if I just closed my eyes, I could vividly see the tragedy that happened that day. People would probably call that trauma, and I would have to agree with them. I mean, those dark and depressing days of one murder after another... they'd become a priceless memory for me.

"Byakuya Togami confessed everything. Including the fact that both of you borrowed the Kudan's power to resolve the incident."

"Then you don't need me here."

"We want the information in your own words as well."

"Y'see, Togami-oniisan didn't know the most essential part of the Kudan~" The Chief was sitting on a chair, enjoying some tea without sparing a glance towards Byakuya-sama's fallen corpse beside her.

"Chief. Are you all right?"

"I'm all right. Listen, punk, I don't have any sweets, so at least let me have a nice teatime~"

"That tea has the truth serum in it."

"Waaaaaaaaah! I'm gonna die! I'm gonna confess everything embarrassing I've ever done and then I'm gonna die!" The Chief dug some pills out of her chest pocket and gulped them down frantically. "Pheeeeewwwwww. Good thing I'm a genius~. If I wasn't so much of a genius that I had put an antidote in my pocket for no reason, I would have died..."

"They do say there's a fine line between idiocy and insanity."

"It's a fine line between genius and insanity, punk~!"

"And so," Kanai said, turning back towards me, "we would like to have you cooperate with us. You should know the most essential part of the Kudan."

"And if I don't cooperate?"

"We will have you take the truth serum."

"I just took all of the antidote, so there's not aaaany more," the Chief said.

"Doesn't that make it the same in the end?" I raised my voice in protest. "Whether I tell you willingly or whether you make me take the truth serum, either way, the Hasegawa Research Institute gets information about the Kudan."

"We are the ones in charge, here. We would appreciate your understanding regarding our terms necessitating our benefit. Furthermore... the results are not entirely the same. For you, it is a choice between life and death."

That being the case, then this would be where the game began. A game with a choice: to despair, or not to despair?

Two options appeared.

> Cooperate with the Hasegawa Research Institute
> Don't cooperate with the Hasegawa Research Institute


What should I do? Which should I choose? Which option will bring me hope?



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