[ Day 308 - Closed ] ( We are sentimental slaves on broken knees, we're on empty... )

[bulletofhope]

Who: Makoto Naegi (bulletofhope) and Ibuki Mioda (scary_music) + Komaru the Furfrou.
Open: NOPE. It's closed, locked and even boarded shut.
When: Day 308.
Where: Naegi's apartment.
What: Naegi and Ibuki discussing what happened in their world and its implications.
Format: Any?
Warnings: Spoilers for the Dangan Ronpa series, obviously.



[ Shortly after this entire encounter with Togami, Naegi had ended up shutting himself away in his apartment for several days to contemplate what he'd just learned about their world from him.

It was unusual, to say the least, seeing Togami again after spending a long time in this place without thinking about what could have happened to their friends - it was always in the back of his mind, though, and part of him then would have been happy to see anyone again from their world.

However, after a ridiculously long session of proverbial teeth pulling from him he wasn't so sure. Among other things, he'd learned that Oogami had killed herself to end the fighting after being outed as Monobear's mole, that the Junko Enoshima they saw killed was her twin sister Mukuro Ikusaba, and that Junko herself was the mastermind and had perished after the game was stopped.

To say nothing of The Worst, Most Despair-Inducing Incident in the History of Mankind and everything that came to pass with it. So... even if they did find a way back home, their world was more or less in ruins. And the worst part is he still doesn't know what happened to his parents or Komaru.

The Furfrou he'd named after her seemed to notice his depression, for he soon found himself being distracted from his task at hand by a floofy white mane rubbing against him and barking at him in encouragement. ]

A-ah... thanks, Komaru...! You didn't have to...

[ And yet she did anyway. He laughs for a few more moments before he gets up from the table... well, now he's distracted enough that he's gesturing for her to follow him so they could play outside, oblivious to the guest that was waiting outside his door... ]

Comments

[scary_music]

Well, before Izuru-chan was Izuru-chan, he was a reserve course student. Hajime-chan. [... she really didn't know Hajime at all before the simulation but... given what she knew, it wasn't hard to figure out which of her classmates in the simulation was him] So, like, the reserve course students thing was put in because Hope's Peak needed money and stuff, so they made a separate course for people who'd put in loooots of money. But they were kinda treated crappy compared to us...

Hajime-chan volunteered for some weird program that changed him into Izuru-chan... pretty much he became the Super High School Level Everything. But it... also messed him up a bunch that he just went with Junko's plan. The first killing game was broadcasted to the reserve student course, which Izuru-chan was in, too, so they thought their money was used to just make murderers. With Junko-chan and the rest of us pushing them further, it just... kept getting worse from there.

[bulletofhope]

. . . so it was more or less a domino effect that led to everyone killing each other, it sounds like.

People were angry that they thought they were paying to make murderers, so they fought against them, and then at some point things just... went straight to hell, it seems like...

[ Yep. And no handbaskets to be found anywhere... ]

[scary_music]

Yeah.

And not even with a hand-basket.

[...]

[bulletofhope]

. . .

Somehow, I feel like Enoshima-san wouldn't have even wanted to use the handbasket at all...

[ . . . ]

[scary_music]

Maybe we should make a hand-basket to make up for it!

[bulletofhope]

Uh... but how do you even make a handbasket for going to hell in? Wouldn't you need something that wouldn't catch fire...?

[ NAEGI... ]

[scary_music]

We'll make asbestos handbaskets!

[bulletofhope]

But wouldn't it be bad if the asbestos got into people's lungs?

[ A beat. ]

Oh, wait, what if we provided breathing masks with the handbasket?

[scary_music]

If we're in hell, we don't need to breath anymore!

[bulletofhope]

. . . oh, right. I didn't think about that...

[ A beat ]

What about lowering it, though? Asbestos rope, as well, or...?

[scary_music]

One of us just needs to carry it down with us!

[bulletofhope]

. . . wouldn't they need, like, fire protection, though? Or is that moot?

[scary_music]

It's probably moot!

... but why do we need a hand basket in hell, anyway?

[bulletofhope]

. . . maybe it's how they get food, drinks and tormented souls delivered to Hell for their own uses?

[ NAEGI... ]

[scary_music]

Hell needs to catch up with the times and get delivery trucks or something!

[bulletofhope]

Maybe it can't?

[ . . . huh? ]

I mean, if it's that hot in hell, I would imagine that delivery trucks would have trouble making it there and back out without breaking down somewhere along the way, right?

[ NAEGI... ]

[scary_music]

We just need an asbestos delivery truck, then!

Kazuichi-chan could've probably figured out something cool...

[Or he would've called the two of them idiots or something. Then again, Kazuichi is enough of a dork to maybe play along with their line of thinking]

We could always ask Colin-sama-chan!

[bulletofhope]

Yeah, that could work! Then the trucks could withstand the heat and still deliver things there safely...

[ Oh, geez, what is even happening in here... ]

Maybe? I've been told that Colin's good at engineering things...

[scary_music]

He totally could! He's a super futuristic engineer from the farrrrr off future! He's totally cool, too!

[Some people might disagree with that last statement]

[bulletofhope]

Well, he must be amazing if you're close to him, right? Everyone I know speaks well of Colin...

[ Naegi nods in emphasis. So he clearly can't be that bad of a guy, right? ]

[scary_music]

Yeah!

If he was from our world he'd probably be the Super High School Level Futuristic Engineer or something!

[bulletofhope]

That sounds really cool, I won't lie... "futuristic engineer" sounds like a mouthful, though...

[ And this from the class with titles like "Literature Girl", "Fortune Teller" and "Disciplinarian", Naegi? ]

[scary_music]

[Ibuki laughs at that]

If you think that's bad, try going around as the Super High School Level Light Music Club Member, Makoto-chan!

[bulletofhope]

. . . good point! There's also me, being Super High School Level Good Luck and all...

[ Naegi joins in Ibuki at laughing, because yeah, she did have a point; their titles were ridiculous... ]

[scary_music]

[Her laugh dies down as a stray thought hit her, though...]

It sucked being stuck with that title when Ibuki kinda moved on from light music, though.