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DRT1.2.5: EVE burst error, section 5
it's a shorter section but I've been busy with other things lately...
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Danganronpa Togami Volume 1: Multiple Counts of Attempted World Domination
Chapter 2: EVE burst error
5
For some reason, I thought everything would be all messed up outside. Mountains of rubble, bodies tumbling everywhere, the pungent smell of death... That's what I was expecting to see, but I was pleasantly surprised to see my expectations betrayed.
The convenience store, the residential district that I could see from my apartment window, the charming telephone poles, the mountains surrounding the town—none of them looked any different. The gloomy town looked the same as ever.
As long as you just ignored the part where there were no people to be seen anywhere.
I wanted to try calling out, "Is anyone there?" But I'd be pretty embarrassed if anyone was there, and anxious if there really wasn't anyone, so I just walked in silence instead.
The lights were on in the convenience store, and there was evidence that the McDonald's had been open for business just a little while ago. The houses didn't seem any different, and there were cars with their engines still running, sitting there in the road.
Humans were the only thing missing.
Upon traveling to a certain Eskimo village, it was found that there were no people in it. There were half-eaten meals in the huts, and seal pelts used to make coats that had been left behind. To this very day, it is not known where the villagers went, and why they disappeared.
I suddenly remembered a mysterious story of the bizarre I'd read when I was little.
I didn't think it would happen quite like this. I had had stereotypical images of the end of days, with people dying left and right, the town demolished into rubble, and stuff like that. But what I got instead was just surreal.
I'm not a fan of surrealism, and all the meaning of it goes completely over my head, so all I was getting out of this was a stomachache from the sharp spike of stress. I felt like I was going to throw up bits of hamburger and potato chips.
The people were gone. But the town looked the same as ever, and that sense of immutability made me feel more discomforted than the opposite.
Without realizing it, I had started running. I ran around until I got tired, and when I snapped back to attention, I had come out onto a major street.
"Owowow!" My out-of-shape body screamed in pain, legs cramping up. I collapsed on the spot, unable to bear it. No matter how much I rubbed at them, my legs wouldn't come back to normal. I regretted not stretching before running... No, I'd already well established that stretching wouldn't have had any effect. I was nothing more than a hunk of junk.
Pitiful. Here I was, the guy who was in the middle of the strangest event ever in history, and I was crying over my legs cramping up. Absolutely pitiful.
"Raaah!"
And then, I became the guy who was getting beat up by someone.
Some kind of huge travel bag or something hit me in the face. I tumbled onto the ground. My whole face went numb, losing most sensation. My vision was unsteady, too. When I tried touching the tip of my nose, I found it was covered in blood.
Fucking hell. I fucking knew it. That's just the role I get to play. The world had changed, but not my place in it. I had no talent, after all. I was just some background character.
Filled with pain, anger, and some other feeling I couldn't quite understand, I raised my head, and something appeared in my shaky field of vision. The person lugging the huge travel bag was slowly approaching. Clunk, clunk, clunk! The sound of something heavy being dragged moved right up next to me.
In a barely conscious rage, I used the leg I could move more freely, and kicked.
"Fgyuh!" came a strange scream as the stranger was blown away. Huh? That was a surprise. My kick had actually connected.
And what's more, it had connected with a pretty girl.
Stay tuned for the next update next Sunday (PST)!
Read the rules before commenting!
Find previous chapters at the Navigation Index.
Danganronpa Togami Volume 1: Multiple Counts of Attempted World Domination
Chapter 2: EVE burst error
5
For some reason, I thought everything would be all messed up outside. Mountains of rubble, bodies tumbling everywhere, the pungent smell of death... That's what I was expecting to see, but I was pleasantly surprised to see my expectations betrayed.
The convenience store, the residential district that I could see from my apartment window, the charming telephone poles, the mountains surrounding the town—none of them looked any different. The gloomy town looked the same as ever.
As long as you just ignored the part where there were no people to be seen anywhere.
I wanted to try calling out, "Is anyone there?" But I'd be pretty embarrassed if anyone was there, and anxious if there really wasn't anyone, so I just walked in silence instead.
The lights were on in the convenience store, and there was evidence that the McDonald's had been open for business just a little while ago. The houses didn't seem any different, and there were cars with their engines still running, sitting there in the road.
Humans were the only thing missing.
Upon traveling to a certain Eskimo village, it was found that there were no people in it. There were half-eaten meals in the huts, and seal pelts used to make coats that had been left behind. To this very day, it is not known where the villagers went, and why they disappeared.
I suddenly remembered a mysterious story of the bizarre I'd read when I was little.
I didn't think it would happen quite like this. I had had stereotypical images of the end of days, with people dying left and right, the town demolished into rubble, and stuff like that. But what I got instead was just surreal.
I'm not a fan of surrealism, and all the meaning of it goes completely over my head, so all I was getting out of this was a stomachache from the sharp spike of stress. I felt like I was going to throw up bits of hamburger and potato chips.
The people were gone. But the town looked the same as ever, and that sense of immutability made me feel more discomforted than the opposite.
Without realizing it, I had started running. I ran around until I got tired, and when I snapped back to attention, I had come out onto a major street.
"Owowow!" My out-of-shape body screamed in pain, legs cramping up. I collapsed on the spot, unable to bear it. No matter how much I rubbed at them, my legs wouldn't come back to normal. I regretted not stretching before running... No, I'd already well established that stretching wouldn't have had any effect. I was nothing more than a hunk of junk.
Pitiful. Here I was, the guy who was in the middle of the strangest event ever in history, and I was crying over my legs cramping up. Absolutely pitiful.
"Raaah!"
And then, I became the guy who was getting beat up by someone.
Some kind of huge travel bag or something hit me in the face. I tumbled onto the ground. My whole face went numb, losing most sensation. My vision was unsteady, too. When I tried touching the tip of my nose, I found it was covered in blood.
Fucking hell. I fucking knew it. That's just the role I get to play. The world had changed, but not my place in it. I had no talent, after all. I was just some background character.
Filled with pain, anger, and some other feeling I couldn't quite understand, I raised my head, and something appeared in my shaky field of vision. The person lugging the huge travel bag was slowly approaching. Clunk, clunk, clunk! The sound of something heavy being dragged moved right up next to me.
In a barely conscious rage, I used the leg I could move more freely, and kicked.
"Fgyuh!" came a strange scream as the stranger was blown away. Huh? That was a surprise. My kick had actually connected.
And what's more, it had connected with a pretty girl.
Stay tuned for the next update next Sunday (PST)!
Read the rules before commenting!