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DRT1.1.5-6: Byakuya-sama is God, sections 5-6
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Danganronpa Togami Volume 1: Multiple Counts of Attempted World Domination
Chapter 1: Byakuya-sama is God
5
BORGES=LOGLOOKUP
#01102815
TITLE "WORLD DOMINATION PROCLAMATION"
Dobrý večer.
For those of you with no money, no talent, and no time, there's something I'd like to ask you. What do you find enjoyable in your lives?
I am Byakuya Togami. That's right: the Super High School Level Heir. As the heir to the Togami family, I am the one and only reason why you should look forward to its future. I am so overwhelmingly above you that we are as far apart as monkeys and the moon.
There's something I'd like to ask you frustrated monkeys. What do you find enjoyable in your lives?
Personally, I can't understand what it must be like to live while knowing that your life has no value, but I imagine it's unbearable. That would be why you bully your classmates. You envy your neighbor's new car. You crush excellent subordinates underfoot. You kill children who have a future. You resent the unfairness of talent. And then you destroy the world.
Have you ever thrown a fit because you couldn't play the piano well? Have you ever cried into Mommy's bosom because you didn't make the soccer team?
You'll never advance that way. You're just little babies. Those long limbs of yours are just for show. You have to grow up.
Let me ask you. What do you need in order to grow? The answer is an enemy. A powerful enemy to take down and capture.
I will become the Enemy of the World.
I'm saying that I, Byakuya Togami, will become your enemy. You should be sobbing with delight.
Now, to get to the point. This is a World Domination Proclamation. Either kill me within the next 24 hours, or else find the "pitiful cattle" hidden somewhere in this world.
If you can fulfill either of these conditions, I will relinquish to you the right to be Byakuya Togami. You may use it to live hard and fast. You may use it to purchase nuclear weapons. You may use it to create a utopia. You may use up my authority and assets however you please.
However, if neither condition is fulfilled within 24 hours, I will consider you as having no value after all, and I will take over the world. I will control, and I will assault, and I will crush.
I'll prove to you how serious I am about this. I stake the Togami name on it.
Well then. Na shledanou.
6
"It sounds just like you." Even I couldn't distinguish the recording I'd just replayed from the real thing.
"What a beautiful, charming voice." Byakuya-sama had been prepared to deny it, but his expression was serious now. "So this is the charlatan who stole everything from me and took my place? I'll concede that they did a good job mimicking my voice."
"Just 'good'? It's exactly the same."
"But the speech itself is third-rate. I despair to think of how something like this was broadcast across the world while attributed to me."
"Really? But it does have that authentic Byakuya Togami feel."
"What did you say?"
"...Huh?"
"What have you been watching me for this whole time? If you're so incompetent that you can't even spot something like this correctly, you shouldn't have the honor of writing Journey Under the Midnight Sun. Why don't you hand over the title of Blue Ink?"
"M-My deepest apologies!" I guess I made him mad.
"Only someone losing against the world would make a World Domination Proclamation. It's only frustrated losers who desire to have the world subdued under their control."
"Now that you mention it, the speech did seem designed to provoke people."
"There's nothing an oaf finds more stimulating than watching someone else acting like even more of an oaf than they are."
"Well, that's unfortunate."
"We can assume that my impostor has a severe inferiority complex. There's no doubt that they've been ignored by the world, living life like a good-for-nothing. That's how they can make such an overcompensating proclamation."
"You dismiss people as easily as breathing, don't you? You wouldn't take over the world, then?"
"Do you announce, 'I will now commence eating bread' each time you eat some bread? There's no need to proclaim something that you could do whenever you felt the whim."
"You're very straightforward about your deflection, Byakuya-sama."
"What is this 'pitiful cattle' referring to?"
"I have absolutely no idea. Except..."
"Do not hesitate without my permission."
"I can make a guess."
"What a coincidence. I can, too. They might be referring to that."
"But even if they were, then how does the person impersonating you know about that?"
"Hmph. There's no need to reason that one out. We will capture them and hear it from them firsthand. Correct?"
"As you say."
"When did this waste of a speech air?"
"About an hour ago, right at 6:00 PM. The deadline is tomorrow, also at 6:00, so as far as time goes, we don't really..."
"...need that much."
"Excuse me?"
"The Czech Republic is 7 hours behind Japan. That's plenty of time to expose the identity of the impostor, prove my innocence, and then fly back home in time for tea. And we can make it to school on Monday, too."
We had come to Prague for the weekend, while we were off school. I'll grant that we're enrolled in classes, but I really don't think Byakuya-sama needs to go to so much trouble to attend every class when his schedule is already so packed. But he's always said something like, "Being present and on time is the least I can do. I'll stake the Togami name on it." And he's always followed through on that, every single day.
"Byakuya-sama. If you don't make it back in time for Monday, I'm still going to write everything faithfully in Journey Under the Midnight Sun. I'm not doing you any favors on this one," I said, trying to light a fire under him.
But Byakuya-sama just glared at me, eyes filled with irritation. "Are you mocking me? Are you saying this mere impostor is going to give me any trouble?"
"I didn't mean..."
"Let me tell you right now. Sometimes you try to act sassy. But if you think you can get away with that just because you're a little older than me..."
Suddenly, there was a gust of air. A tepid wind blew through the alleyway. Right as I tried to fix my now-disorderly bangs—
I heard a roar.
It split open the sky. The ground shook, and Prague's famous stone paving started jutting up in places, leaving holes. Far in the distance, I saw black smoke.
"Hmph. I don't have much opportunity to see my power from an objective standpoint, but that was bad enough to send me careening into self-loathing."
And so began our 24 hours of despair.
Stay tuned for the next update next Sunday (PST)!
Read the rules before commenting! They're different from the DRK rules!!
Danganronpa Togami Volume 1: Multiple Counts of Attempted World Domination
Chapter 1: Byakuya-sama is God
5
BORGES=LOGLOOKUP
#01102815
TITLE "WORLD DOMINATION PROCLAMATION"
Dobrý večer.
For those of you with no money, no talent, and no time, there's something I'd like to ask you. What do you find enjoyable in your lives?
I am Byakuya Togami. That's right: the Super High School Level Heir. As the heir to the Togami family, I am the one and only reason why you should look forward to its future. I am so overwhelmingly above you that we are as far apart as monkeys and the moon.
There's something I'd like to ask you frustrated monkeys. What do you find enjoyable in your lives?
Personally, I can't understand what it must be like to live while knowing that your life has no value, but I imagine it's unbearable. That would be why you bully your classmates. You envy your neighbor's new car. You crush excellent subordinates underfoot. You kill children who have a future. You resent the unfairness of talent. And then you destroy the world.
Have you ever thrown a fit because you couldn't play the piano well? Have you ever cried into Mommy's bosom because you didn't make the soccer team?
You'll never advance that way. You're just little babies. Those long limbs of yours are just for show. You have to grow up.
Let me ask you. What do you need in order to grow? The answer is an enemy. A powerful enemy to take down and capture.
I will become the Enemy of the World.
I'm saying that I, Byakuya Togami, will become your enemy. You should be sobbing with delight.
Now, to get to the point. This is a World Domination Proclamation. Either kill me within the next 24 hours, or else find the "pitiful cattle" hidden somewhere in this world.
If you can fulfill either of these conditions, I will relinquish to you the right to be Byakuya Togami. You may use it to live hard and fast. You may use it to purchase nuclear weapons. You may use it to create a utopia. You may use up my authority and assets however you please.
However, if neither condition is fulfilled within 24 hours, I will consider you as having no value after all, and I will take over the world. I will control, and I will assault, and I will crush.
I'll prove to you how serious I am about this. I stake the Togami name on it.
Well then. Na shledanou.
6
"It sounds just like you." Even I couldn't distinguish the recording I'd just replayed from the real thing.
"What a beautiful, charming voice." Byakuya-sama had been prepared to deny it, but his expression was serious now. "So this is the charlatan who stole everything from me and took my place? I'll concede that they did a good job mimicking my voice."
"Just 'good'? It's exactly the same."
"But the speech itself is third-rate. I despair to think of how something like this was broadcast across the world while attributed to me."
"Really? But it does have that authentic Byakuya Togami feel."
"What did you say?"
"...Huh?"
"What have you been watching me for this whole time? If you're so incompetent that you can't even spot something like this correctly, you shouldn't have the honor of writing Journey Under the Midnight Sun. Why don't you hand over the title of Blue Ink?"
"M-My deepest apologies!" I guess I made him mad.
"Only someone losing against the world would make a World Domination Proclamation. It's only frustrated losers who desire to have the world subdued under their control."
"Now that you mention it, the speech did seem designed to provoke people."
"There's nothing an oaf finds more stimulating than watching someone else acting like even more of an oaf than they are."
"Well, that's unfortunate."
"We can assume that my impostor has a severe inferiority complex. There's no doubt that they've been ignored by the world, living life like a good-for-nothing. That's how they can make such an overcompensating proclamation."
"You dismiss people as easily as breathing, don't you? You wouldn't take over the world, then?"
"Do you announce, 'I will now commence eating bread' each time you eat some bread? There's no need to proclaim something that you could do whenever you felt the whim."
"You're very straightforward about your deflection, Byakuya-sama."
"What is this 'pitiful cattle' referring to?"
"I have absolutely no idea. Except..."
"Do not hesitate without my permission."
"I can make a guess."
"What a coincidence. I can, too. They might be referring to that."
"But even if they were, then how does the person impersonating you know about that?"
"Hmph. There's no need to reason that one out. We will capture them and hear it from them firsthand. Correct?"
"As you say."
"When did this waste of a speech air?"
"About an hour ago, right at 6:00 PM. The deadline is tomorrow, also at 6:00, so as far as time goes, we don't really..."
"...need that much."
"Excuse me?"
"The Czech Republic is 7 hours behind Japan. That's plenty of time to expose the identity of the impostor, prove my innocence, and then fly back home in time for tea. And we can make it to school on Monday, too."
We had come to Prague for the weekend, while we were off school. I'll grant that we're enrolled in classes, but I really don't think Byakuya-sama needs to go to so much trouble to attend every class when his schedule is already so packed. But he's always said something like, "Being present and on time is the least I can do. I'll stake the Togami name on it." And he's always followed through on that, every single day.
"Byakuya-sama. If you don't make it back in time for Monday, I'm still going to write everything faithfully in Journey Under the Midnight Sun. I'm not doing you any favors on this one," I said, trying to light a fire under him.
But Byakuya-sama just glared at me, eyes filled with irritation. "Are you mocking me? Are you saying this mere impostor is going to give me any trouble?"
"I didn't mean..."
"Let me tell you right now. Sometimes you try to act sassy. But if you think you can get away with that just because you're a little older than me..."
Suddenly, there was a gust of air. A tepid wind blew through the alleyway. Right as I tried to fix my now-disorderly bangs—
I heard a roar.
It split open the sky. The ground shook, and Prague's famous stone paving started jutting up in places, leaving holes. Far in the distance, I saw black smoke.
"Hmph. I don't have much opportunity to see my power from an objective standpoint, but that was bad enough to send me careening into self-loathing."
And so began our 24 hours of despair.
Stay tuned for the next update next Sunday (PST)!
Read the rules before commenting! They're different from the DRK rules!!
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