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"Confusion and Familiarity" Prologue [PART 4]

Written by the fantastic Mod Tai!

Ding Dong- Bing Bong!

A bell? Rantaro and Kirumi looked at the monitor in front of them and 5 little bears were sitting on the couch. 

"Everyone, make your way to the gym, please! The opening ceremony can finally begin" and with that the monitor turned black once again.

What the hell? what ceremony are they talking about?

It didn't took long for everyone to gather in the gym. Soon the chatting started and the gym became pretty lively.

"Hmm, it's pretty amazing seeing all 16 of us Ultimates gathered together" Kaito showed everyone his thumbs up with a carefree grin.

"Pardon me, but… we should be on our guard. We don't know if and when danger will strike" Keebo reminded everyone and the group became silent for a few seconds.

"D-Don't say that… I'm scared, so scared! I don't know… what to do..." Kokichi sniffed and Rantaro carefully watched him.

"You don't have to be scared! Atua will protect us all!" Angie smiled brightly and Kokichi's mood quickly changed.

"Ohhh, that's a relief! Pheew!!" Kokichi noticed Rantaro's stare and stuck his tongue out with a funny grimace. 

What a weird child. But in the end Rantaro couldn't help but laugh about the grimace.

"Seriously, is y'alls heads full of weed or somethin'? I'll whack them out of your skulls if you need me to!" Miu called out annoyed from all the noise and different chatter in the gym, but suddenly a loud, familiar noise could be heard in the gym and then huge robots appeared before us.

"Wow, Keeboy! Are you related to those monsters?" Kokichi pointed at those monsters with a mischievous grin. 

"O-Of course not! That's robophobic! Stop those comments right now, Kokichi!!" Keebo was angry and Kokichi was laughing, but the fear was clearly visible in everyone's eyes, even in Kokichi- and Keebo's eyes.

"These aren't monsters! These are Exisals!" one of the monsters- no, Exisals spoke. 

"They're highly mobile, bipedal weapons platforms" they continued proudly. "Weapons?" Someone called out from the back of the group with a panic.

"Alright, chill out, no need to panic… We're probably not in danger, because if they wanted to kill us, they would have done it by now" with that Rantaro casually walked over to the Exisals.

"You clearly want something, that's why you have the guns, right? Wait, let me guess… you're gonna force us to do something and if we don't do it...we will get hurt" Rantaro continued with a hand in his chin. "Well, you have our attention. So what do you want?"

"Huh, aren't you a clever guy..." Monosuke spoke in a mocking way.

"I will start! Listen up! Here is what we want you dumbasses to do-" 

"KILLING GAME" suddenly Monokid was cut off from Monodam, who didn't said anything until now.

"Hell yeah, It's a-"

"KILLING GAME" Monodam interrupted Monkid again.

"H-how DARE you, Monodam!" Monokid yelled angry and upset.

"Hey, if I-I heard him correctly-" Keebo whispered to himself.

"My sweet little cubs~" a new voice was echoing through the gym and Rantaro felt a shiver down his spine. 

"That voice!" Monophanie called out, the other cubs stopped fighting and the lightning in the gym shut off.

"I am the God of this world!" a new bear, similar to the Monokubs appeared on the stage.

"It's the one and only Monokuma! Nice to meet ya~!" He announced himself, ignoring all the confused looks from the students.

"Even when the prologue is going wayyy too long and is very tiresome to read and write- I will allow it, because you cubs are sooo cute!" Monokuma seemed like he talked with himself, but to be honest… who knows who he is talking too?

"Well, that may be, but I'm more concerned about the "Killing game" you have mentioned earlier" Rantaro walked up to the front, but Monokuma only chuckled mockingly.

""I want you students with your Ultimate-level talents to participate in my killing game!" Monokuma stared down on us, waiting for a reaction.

"Gentlemen not hurt people!" Gonta shouted,but Monokuma was unimpressed by that.

"The academy is surrounded by a huge wall. You can't escape and as long as we have the Exisals… you can't defy us. In other words I have the power of life and death over each and everyone of you! Muhahaha!" and again Monokuma laughed hysterical as if all of this was the funniest joke he ever heard.

"Y-You gotta be kidding me! Why would friends kill each other?! You're totally insane!" Tenko yelled with all her courage she possessed.

"... Who said you guys were friends? You are all enemies out to kill each other! But the point is that it's not enough to simply kill someone. You also have to survive the class trial" Monokuma talked very close to the microphone he was holding.

"What is the punishment if you get exposed in the so-called class trial" Kiyo asked and Monkuma smiled satisfied.

"Simple- it's an execution! If you do a crime, you get punished. That's the most basic rule-  up this is a Killing game so the punishment should be a bit more… permanent and that's all… so let's start this heart-pounding killing school semester already!"

"Ohh, before I forget- youre free to murder however you like too… stabbing, strangulation, poisoning and then we have: shooting, drowning, crushing your victim to death. I don't care, you can use any method you want and you can kill anyone you like… That should be all- I wonder how it will turn out, puhuuhuhuu~" Monokuma added and with that a big chaos started in the gym.

"Risking our life in a killing game… how absurd" Kiyo crossed his arms unimpressed from Monokuma's speech.

"Well, it doesn't seem like it will be boring, though!" Kokichi had this mischievous look on his face again and didn't seemed to be care at all.

"That- That has to be a lie, right? Right??" Tsumugi was trembling near the corner of the gym. She looked really scared.

It was so loud that Rantaro couldn't concentrate on who was talking in the first place. Impossible to keep track, he took a deep breath.

"We won't participate in your game, Monokuma! Nobody is interested in your game about killing or getting killed" Rantaro spoke up and Keade quickly joined him.

"Yes! We won't accept that! We will never accept that!"

"Well, as the headmaster it's my job to force you to play…but a resistance makes things always way more entertaining for everyone~"

What? Everyone? Who is he talking about? 

Rantaro thought for a second, but he got cut off by the squealing laughter from Monokuma and the Monokubs in the Exisals.

Everything is so messed up!

The academy is surrounded by a cage,

16 Ultimate students are trapped in this academy…

talking stuffed animals and deadly weapons.

new friends forced to play some kind of killing game!

and against our will… we became characters in this totally messed up story.

[protag-rantaro]

"Confusion and Familiarity" Prologue [PART 3]

Written by the fabulous Mod Tai!

Where should I go next? Hmmm...

He looked around and noticed a big door at the end of the hall. Of course, he immediately walked towards the big door, but the moment he reached out- something held him back.

What is this? A deja vu?

Strange, I feel like I have been here before, but that's impossible, right? 

He overcame his own thoughts and tried opening the door, but it was locked.

Seems like I was wrong after all or…? 

He closed his eyes and stopped walking.

That's really not the time now. I should just move on. Next station are the stairs leading to the basement.

Rantaro headed down the stairs with caution and in the basement he found… a game room? and a new person! 

"Sheesh, what a strange place. Didn't expected a game room when we're trapped in here- hmm, but it seems pretty cool. Compared to prison anyway..." he turned around with a sigh. 

"Hm, I'm Ryoma Hoshi, the men called the Ultimate Tennis pro… no longer exists. I'm nothing more than an empty shell" he stared Rantaro directly into the eyes and he backed up a little. 

"Hey, Ryoma? Are you alright? Is there something you want to talk about?" Rantaro asked and reached out his hand, but Ryoma turned around uninterested. 

"No, it's nothing. It's not like me to talk so much… anyway, I'm warning you, little one- it's dangerous to just walk up to a killer like me" and with that he left and Rantaro was completely confused.

I guess, I should try to find out more about him when I get the chance. He seems very interesting like most I already met.

Now, let's see if I can remember the way to the library, because earlier nobody seemed to be in there, but maybe now someone is…?

Rantaro entered the library and looked around curiously. The library was really packed up with a lot of books and that made Rantaro a little happy. 

He enjoys reading a lot and since they probably won't be able to escape that easily he will have enough time to read a few books in here. While looking around he noticed a girl with long brown hair sitting on the ground.

"Hey, are you alright?" no answer.

"I'm Rantaro Amami and you?" the girl turned around and quietly watched him, before standing up from the ground.

"Maki Harukawa, Ultimate Child Caregiver..." Rantaro waited for her to continue, but nothing came.

Huh? That's all?

Maki seemed to have waited as well since she took a long pause before continuing.

"... surprised? I don't look like someone who would like kids, right? Because I don't. They just come on their own. I'm not good at taking care of them and I'm not friendly either..." she played with her ponytail a little before looking back at Rantaro. 

"But Kids are intuitive! If they like you so much to come on their own... they can probably tell that you're actually a good person, Maki!" Rantaro encouraged her and Maki blushed lightly at that comment.

"It's just…! I grew up in an orphanage and got saddled with helping out a lot, that's all!" she tried explaining and Rantaro kept on smiling, while listening. 

"Don't worry! I'm sure we will get out of here pretty fast!" a blonde girl walked around the corner together with Shuichi, who Rantaro parted ways with earlier.

"What makes you think that a group capable of this would just simply let us walk out of here?" Maki asked, not believing any word the blonde girl said.

"If they won't end this then we will! I know we can do it if we work together!" she placed a hand on her chest and smiled brightly.

Wow, she is hella optimistic and-

His thoughts got interrupted by the brown haired child caregiver.

"You're a naive fool if you think you can end all of this so easily" Maki pointed out and Rantaro nodded silently. She was indeed right about that.

Maki turned around to get the book she had read earlier and walked to another corner of the library.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself! I'm Kaede Akamatsu, the Ultimate Pianist!" she smiled gently and they shook hands.

"Rantaro Amami and I know being optimistic can be really helpful, but do you really feel like this is going to end so easily? I mean, I asked the others and all of them can only remember their names and talents and I… I can only remember my name, not even my talent. It's like we all have amnesia or something like that" Rantaro explained and shared his observations with them, but Shuichi cut him off.

"... but that's not normal if everyone here has amnesia-" The detective was getting quieter and quieter by the second and Rantaro put his hands to his hips. 

"Maybe, we're all in a pretty abnormal situation then or something simple like brainwashing or group hypnosis...well, it doesn't matter now, does it?" Kaede took a step back in surprise and stared at him, waiting for him to continue talking.

"Well, I just hope we can get along since we won't go anywhere any time soon... sounds suspicious, but I promise I'm not a bad guy or anything" Rantaro ended his sentence, shrugged and left Shuichi and Kaede behind in the library. He still has to meet a lot of other people.

He stopped at a small gate and it seems like someone was already waiting there for him. They stood up from the bench they were sitting on and walked up to him.

"You wonder "who is this?" Yes, I will make that clear first. My name is Korekiyo Shinguji... I am called the Ultimate Anthropologist. However, please call me Kiyo and for anthropology, would you like a simple explanation?" Kiyo asked politely and Rantaro nodded clearly interested in what Kiyo has to share.

"Anthropology studies costumes, legends, folk tales, songs and much more. For example… certain aspects of birthdays or new year celebrations. It's a study that examines the thought behind culture, faith and costumes… and I believe that human beings are truly beautiful. Every aspect of humanity, even the ugly parts are beautiful- to me, at least" Rantaro listened carefully to Kiyo's little speech. 

He was truly interesting, maybe a little bit weird, but still interesting.

"What beauty will I be able to witness in our current situation, I wonder? Kehehee, people are wonderful!" 

"Wow, you sure are something else, Kiyo! But that's good, I'm sure it will never be boring with you- by the way my name is Rantaro Amami, nice to meet you" they both shook hands and chatted for a little bit, before Rantaro decided to finally step through the door he was curious about the whole time.

He opened it and was immediately greeted by a bright light, a gentle breeze and he slowly opened his eyes to see…

"A cage?" Rantaro said out loud. 

To be honest, not surprising.

I mean, I already knew it's not going to be easy to get out of here…, but giving up is not something I ever want to do.

Rantaro walked around and noticed two people in the back of the field. He quickly rushed over there to introduce himself.

"This cage is nothing compared to the universe!" One of them yelled and the taller one looked down in confusion. 

"Oh, ups! I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Kaito Momota, Luminary of the stars! Even crying children adore the Ultimate Astronaut! How about it? Pretty cool, right? I mean I wasn't in space yet, but I'm the first teenager to ever pass the exam!" The purple haired male posed proud and the taller one clapped.

"Wow, really? Don't you need a college degree to even take the exam?" Rantaro interrupted their conversation and Kaito jumped in front of him with a huge grin.

"Actually yes, I had a friend who got me in there, but I got caught in the end and was like in pretty deep shit, y'know? But they decided they liked me and let me in anyway! Cuz I aced the exam, too" Kaito explained and he was a little speechless by Kaito's confession.

"That was pretty damn reckless, but it's really impressive as well!" Rantaro admitted, but he was so impressed that he almost forgot how this could have ended as well.

"Well, sometimes you have to be reckless to reach your dreams and make them reality! Everyone told me it was impossible, but I never gave up and aced the exam. Limits don't exist unless you set them yourself!" Kaito seemed to be an optimistic person as well… just like Kaede earlier. 

Hmm, that can be a good thing, but it can also turn out very bad… I may have to keep an eye on them if things go the way I think they are, but they are very friendly and nice so far.

"Gonta thinks that sounded very cool!" The other one smiled and  clapped a few more times in his hands. 

Third person? Rantaro looked up confused, but simply accepted it. I'm sure there is a reason for it and I don't know about it yet.

"Hehe, Thanks dude! Now introduce yourself as well!" Kaito showed a thumbs up and 'Gonta' nodded firmly.

"Uhm, Gonta's name is Gonta Gokuhara. Gonta's talent is Ultimate Entomologist. Kid Gonta bigger than other kids. Other kids scared of Gonta...so kid Gonta play alone often. That how Gonta came to like bugs, but then Gonta really focus he end up lost in forest" he explained and both Kaito and Rantaro stared at him.

"But they found you and everything was alright, right?" Kaito asked with wide open eyes. 

"Yeah, but took 10 years though" 

"10 YEARS?" for a second Rantaro had to steady Kaito so that he wouldn't fall backwards right out of his slippers. 

Why the hell is he wearing slippers anyway?

"Don't worry! New family took care of Gonta!" Gonta continued to explain his situation and the other two sighed in relief. 

"I hope they are nice people" Rantaro smiled, but Gonta looked confused.

"Not people, wolves! Cuz of forest family Gonta learned to speak bug and animal and as thanks Gonta wanna show new family what great gentlemen Gonta is" he stated happily and smiled proud.

"W-WOLVES?" and again Rantaro had to catch Kaito so that he wouldn't fall. He sighed defeated.

"That's all you heard? Seriously?" Rantaro turned his head to look Gonta in the eyes. 

"I think your forest family would be very proud of you so just be yourself! By the way you two- I'm Rantaro Amami, nice to meet you!" he pushed Kaito back on his feet, they chatted a bit, but after some time Rantaro had to leave these two behind.

Who is still missing? We're 16 students and-

Rantaro didn't know how, but somehow he found a little waterfall and a girl was curiously watching him.

"Yaahoo!! My name is Angie Yonaga and I'm the Ultimate Artist!" She quickly introduced herself with a very positive attitude.

More optimistic people? Oh well, that's going to be hard to keep track over. At least, they are all really nice, I guess.

"I'm Rantaro Amami, you're pretty cheerful, aren't you?" he asked, not sure how to respond to her positivity.

"Nyahaha!! There's no reason to carry bad thoughts with ya! You gotta live everyday like it's big, cheery and fun… so says Atua!" 

"Wow, it's amazing how positive you are- wait… Atua?" Rantaro tilted his head in confusion and Angie laughed again.

"The god of my island, Atua, is always with me, speaking to me with his divine voice… Atua also makes the art, I only offer my body as his vessel! Do you want to offer something to Atua? Boy's blood is also an acceptable offer!" Angie spoke slowly but clearly and Rantaro laughed loudly. 

That's a nice joke-

please tell me it's a joke…

please?

And then he ran for his life.

Some time passed until Rantaro found the rooms for each person. 

Finally, I'm so exhausted, I need a break… 

The moment he wanted to open the door with his picture above it someone stopped him. 

"I'm sorry, but I haven't introduced myself yet- I'm Kirumi Tojo, the Ultimate Maid. Please let me know if you need any kind of help or service!"

"Nice to meet you, Kirumi! I'm Rantaro Amami! I hope we get along well and you don't have to talk so formal, it's not necessary!" He assured her, but Kirumi didn't seemed to care much. 

"Do you have any plan what to do from now on?" she asked and Rantaro stopped in bis tracks.

"That's a tough question… it's more like what can we do… I guess we have to wait and see what happens, do you have an idea, Kirumi?" he thought hard, but nothing came to his mind. 

"As a maid my only desire is to fulfill the desires for others so please think about what you desire for yourself. No matter tge situation, no matter what happens… I am here to serve everyone" Kirumi gently put her hands together and smiled lightly and Rantaro smiled back at her.

Okay, I get big mom vibes from her… hm, we will see how this will turn out later.

Ding Dong- Bing Bong!

[protag-rantaro]

"Confusion and Familiarity" Prologue [PART 2]

Written by the amazing Mod Tai!

Darkness surrounded him.

Where am I?

He opened his eyes, but his vision stayed blurry.

What happened?

He tried to move, but he quickly realised it was impossible. I'm locked inside something?

he pushed the door in front of me as hard as he could. It took a few tries the door opened and he stood in a classroom.

"Classroom?" He talked with myself, carefully inspecting the room, trying to remember how the hell he got stuck in a locker in the first place. 

Well- it doesn't really matter now, does it?

A rumbling interrupted his thoughts, he turned his head towards the second locker and in less than a few seconds another person stumbled out of it.

He rushed over. "Are you alright?" he asked and offered his hand to the other person to help them get up.

Wait-

"W-Who are you? Where am I?" the person started panicking and refused to take the hand offered in front of him and rather pushed himself back against the lockers door.

Something feels wrong? Did this happen already? It feels familiar…

"Hey, did we already meet somewhere?" Rantaro asked bluntly and Shuichi started thinking. 

"No, no- I don't think so, but something feels wrong" he confessed with his finger pressed on his chin.

"Ah! I'm Shuichi Saihara, Ultimate Detective! Nice to meet you…?" Shuichi reached out to shake Rantaro's hand.

"I'm Rantaro Amami, Ultimate- eh? Hmm, to be honest- I can't remember my talent..." Rantaro stopped in his tracks, confused.

Why can't I remember my talent? Something is definitely wrong, but what? Hm, maybe I don't possess a talent at all?

"Oh, you can't remember? Hmm, maybe it's because of something that happened before we woke up in these lockers?" Shuichi pointed towards the lockers with a serious expression and Rantaro shrugged. 

"Maybe, but if that's the case then- what happened before?" Rantaro thought out loud and this time Shuichi shrugged and walked towards the door.

"Let's go out of here and look around" he suggested and Rantaro agreed without hesitation.

The two boys walked through the seemingly endless hallway. Rantaro tried opening ever door they passed. Sadly, without much success. He sighed frustrated.

Why is every door in this building locked? Can't it be easy for a change?

Rantaro complained in his thoughts, not showing any of these emotions on his face and kept going, until they found a weird looking dragon statue in the hallway of the school.

"Hmm, interesting" Rantaro thought out loud. "I wonder why the statue is placed in this hallway and what meaning it has" he continued and carefully, but curiously stepped closer to the statue to inspect it. 

"You're awfully interested in that statue, Rantaro" Shuichi commented and stepped closer as well. 

"Are you secretly a detective as well?" he asked and Rantaro tilted his head to the side and thought for a few seconds.

"Hmm- no, I don't think so" he answered in the end and smiled apologising.

They turned around to leave, but to their surprise stood a blue haired girl in front of them.

how did she even get here? I'm sure, she wasn't here before! Seriously, what's this? Anime logic?

"Hey?" he called out, but she didn't responded.

"Heyyy?" Rantaro gave it another try, but again- no responds.

"Excuse me, miss!" Rantaro stood in front of her and put his hands on her shoulders.

"Are you alright?" he gently shook her shoulders and she blinked once, twice-

"That you would start shaking me- that was truly unexpected! I thought if I ignore you, you would leave" she explained, her expression calm and neutral.

Isn't that a bit rude? And I was worried about her not responding- oh well…

"But you seemed worried about me, that was kind of you... so let's talk now!" her voice and expression changed so fast that Rantaro blinked in surprise, but he shrugged it off and smiled.

"What do you want to start with? My favourite Doraemon episode is 53! The one with security cameras and target practice and-!" she started talking, but Shuichi quickly cut her off.

"How about we start with introducing ourselves? I'm Shuichi Saihara, Ultimate Detective" he started and Rantaro continued.

"And I'm Rantaro Amami, Ultimate- Well, I can't remember my ultimate talent, sorry about that" he scratched the back of his head and chuckled a little embarrassed.

"Oh, my name is Tsumugi Shirogane. I'm the Ultimate Cosplayer!" She placed her hand on her hip and smiled nicely. 

"And you can't remember your talent, Rantaro? That's too bad! I was really curious to know, since you surprised me with your actions right from the start" Tsumugi placed her hand on Rantaros shoulder this time.

"I'm sure, you will remember someday" that's all she said, before leaving. 

They both looked back at the dragon statue.

I wonder what she was thinking about while staring at this statue- guess I have to ask her later.

"Hey, Shuichi I think we will be faster investigating this whole building if we split up" Rantaro suggested and Shuichi nodded. 

"You're right" with that Shuichi left as well and Rantaro kept exploring the school and tried opening every door he could find and this one time- he was successful!

Rantaro walked into the room and was greeted by a boy yelling "Wait for mee!"

What is this? the toddler group?

"Please stop! Don't come any closer! I'm going to call the police!" the boy in white is chasing that other boy in funny clothes. 

"Aw, c'mon lemme touch your body a little~ I always wanted to have a robot friend!" the eyes of the boy in white clothes sparkled and he jumped up and down in excitement.

"Stop this! It's robophobic!" the boy in funny clothes turned towards Rantaro and pointed his finger at him.

"Are you another robophobe? Just to let you know I have a recording funktion. If you make a robophobic remark- I will see you in court!" He kept pointing at Rantaro with a judging look and he raised his hands in defense.

"Actually, I just wanted to know your names?" Rantaro laughed and the robot's eyes widden in surprise. 

"Ohh, I am K1-B0, the Ultimate Robot! But please, call me Keebo!" Keebo smiled happily and reached out his hand to shake Rantaro's. 

"Nice to meet you, I'm Rantaro Amami! To be honest I-" Rantaro got cut off by the boy in white clothes.

"That's not fair! I want to show off as well! I want to introduce myself too! I'm Kokichi Ouma, the Ultimate Supreme Leader! and by the way, Rantaro don't step too close to Keeboy here- I learned the hard way that a robot's breath smells like gasoline!" Kokichi stated and placed his hands behind his back, waiting for an answer. 

"My breath does not smell like gasoline! I'm powered by electricity! your remark makes no sense!" Keebo was obviously annoyed by Kokichi and sighed in frustration.

"Nihishishe~ I know that! I was only kidding~ but of course you wouldn't think it's funny, robots can't understand humor anyway" Kokichu played with his hair, while obviously making fun of Keebo. Rantaro sighed. 

They kinda reminds me of my sisters- 

Rantaro shook his head. That's not the right time for that.

"Don't you dare mock me! I have studied the whole history of stand-up comedy!" Keebo protested, but Kokichi only laughed more.

"Well, maybe you should have watched it instead of studying, Keebo?" Rantaro commented and Keebo gasped offended.

"That's- That's! Urgh! You know what? Nevermind! But let me tell you this- I was created by professor Idabashi, the leading authority in the field of robotics… he installed in me a strong AI capable of maturing like a human brain, that's why, when I was created, I didn't knew anything, I was like a baby and the professor raised me! That means I am just like all of you!" Keebo stated proudly and to be honest? Rantaro was impressed and listened carefully, but Kokichi didn't seemed interested at all.

"Hey, do robots have dicks?" Kokichi asked with a mischievous expression on his face, stepping closer to Keebo. "Dooo theyyy?"

"I'm not going to answer such questions!" Keebo yelled, before leaving as fast as he could and Kokichi hurried after him. 

They are weird, but they seem pretty harmless. They remind me of little kids.

Rantaro chuckled to himself, before leaving himself and decided to visit the warehouse next.

"Dammit! Where is it?" a blonde girl groaned in frustration. 

What is she doing there? Seems suspicious.

She turned around and gave him a knowing look. "Hah! I can identify pervs on sight! And you definitely fuckin' are one!" She pointed at Rantaro, but he only shrugged it off.

"Maybe, you should introduce yourself, before pointing at someone and calling them a perv- by the way, I'm Rantaro Amami" he introduced himself and smiled at her.

"Huh? S-Seriously? You don't know me? I'm the gorgeous genius whose good looks and golden brain will go down in history! I'm the one and only Ultimate Inventor herself- Miu Iruma!" Miu ended her small speech, but she continued talking like there was no tomorrow.

"I can make all kind of gadgets- ones that let you type while you sleep, read while you sleep, eat while you sleep! And now you ask yourself- why? Because I was inspired after I realised how much time we waste while sleeping!" Miu explained and it seems like she got some criticism for her do-while-you-sleep inventions judging from her performance.

"Wow, that's amazing though! You're right- people really waste a lot of time while they sleep!" Rantaro was impressed by Miu's invention ideas and smiled at her. She took a step back, not knowing how to react to that. She didn't seemed to be used to such praise.

"Oh right! You were looking for something earlier- what was it? Maybe I can help you find it?" He suggested with a friendly smile, but Miu looked annoyed.

"Are you dumb? In this kind of situation I gotta find some meds cuz I wanna trip my fuckin' balls off! I want to set my mind free and forget this shitty situation as fast as possible" Rantaro stared at her in disbelief.

What the hell

"Are you crazy? You can't use drugs to get high! You really shouldn't do that, especially not in this situation!" Rantaro crossed his arms and looked displeased. 

"EHH! I won't do it! Really, I won't! So stop being m-mad at me" Miu quickly apologised and Rantaro blinked in surprise.

There is a small line between genius and insanity, but I'm not sure where to put Miu yet…

Miu and Rantaro parted ways and he kept investigating the big warehouse, until he heard more voices from the back.

"Nyeh, are we stuck? What a paiin" 

Rantaro looked around the corner and found two girls talking with each other. One was very small with red hair and tge other one had a big green bow-kinda thing in her hair.

"Oh, I haven't told you yet, Tenko- prepare to be amazed. Fall to your knees. I am Himiko Yumeno, the Ultimate Mage!... But officially I'm called the Ultimate Magician" the short, red-haired girl presented herself with a lazy pose and well- lazy voice as well.  The other one clapped excited.

Ultimate Mage or Magician now? There's quite the difference y'know?

"Please, tell me more!" the other one, Tenko, said with shiny eyes. 

"Alriight, what a paiin- People are keeping my magic a secret by disguising it as a tricks and because of that… I became famous all over the world for performing tricks, but- but I'm not a magician! I'm a mage… nobody believes me..." she sniffed a little and the other one hugged her.

"It's fine, Himiko! I BELIEVE YOU!" she suddenly yelled as loud as she could and Rantaro almost jumped in surprise,but he decided that hiding isn't a good idea in this situation.

"Hey- I believe you too, y'know" Rantaro walked around the corner and waved with his hand. "I'm Rantaro Amami, nice to meet you Himiko and… Tenko, right?" He scratched the back of his head.

"Ah, yes! I'm Tenko Chabashira! HAIYAH! The Ultimate Aikido Master and I will protect myself and Himiko with my Neo-Aikido!" Tenko quickly finished introducing herself.

"Neo-Aikido? Do you mind explaining? I have never heard of it-" Rantaro asked curiously and Tenko didn't hesitated for a second.

"Neo-Aikido is an original form that my master and I completely made up ourselves!" she explained and he gasped a little.

"Really? That sounds amazing!" Rantaro answered, but Tenko didn't reacted the way he thought she would. 

What's with the scary face?

Rantaro looked at her confused and Tenko only groaned annoyed. "I don't like being praised by degenerate males"

"degenerate males? Do you mean men? Are you uncomfortable around them?" Rantaro asked worried, but Tenko shook her head.

"It's a bigger problem than that! If any degenerate male tried to touch me my reflex is to grab them and throw them across the room!"

"Across the room? Can you really do that? that would be really cool! no wait, I mean- hm nevermind, forget it! I don't want to be thrown across the room or worse!" Rantaro held his hands up in defense and laughed awkwardly, but Tenko only chuckled. 

"You didn't do anything wrong- until now" she gave him a warning look and both, Himiko and Tenko, left.

Rantaro did too shortly after.

Where should I go next? Hmmm...

[protag-rantaro]

"Confusion and familiarity" Prologue [PART 1]

Written by the brilliant Mod Tai!

I was surrounded by darkness.

Where am I? 

I tried opening my eyes, but my vision stayed blurry.

Who am I?

the darkness around me never faded and I couldn't remember anything.

What happened?

The questions kept swirling around his head and he stretched out his arms to push open whatever was in front of him- was it a door? 

A little more force and it flew open. He stumbled out of whatever he was in and his eyes burned a little from the sudden light.

"a classroom?" he talked with himself and started to look around, trying to remember how the hell he got stuck in a locker in the first place. 

Well- it doesn't really matter now, does it?

A rumbling interrupted his thoughts, he turned his head towards the second locker and in less than a few seconds another person stumbled out of it as well.

He rushed over. "Are you alright?" he asked and offered his hand to the other person to help them get up.

"W-Who are you? Where am I?" the person started panicking and refused to take the hand offered in front of him and rather pushed himself back against the lockers door.

"I don't know who you are or where we are, but I'm Rantaro Amami- nice to meet you, I guess?" Rantaro ran his fingers through his green hair and smiled to calm down the other person, who was clearly still panicking. 

"I-eh I'm Shuichi Saihara...nice to meet you too, I-I guess?" Shuichi stood up from the ground he was sitting on, fixing his hat a little less trembling and seeming calmer than before.

A few seconds passed before Shuichi started walking around and scanned the classroom the same way Rantaro did until he interrupted him.

"Why are we in a classroom?" he muttered to himself and Rantaro shrugged in response. 

"I don't know, but we should try and get out of here" both of them walked towards the door and tried to open it. The door swung open in a few seconds. Rantaro took Shuichi's hand and started sprinting into the hallway. 

"H-hey! not so fast!" Shuichi called out, but Rantaro didn't listen and didn't let go either. 

"We don't know what's going on here so we should hurry, right?" that was all he said and kept running as fast as he could, followed by Shuichi.

Suddenly, some kind of big robot monster started chasing them- or maybe it was chasing them from the start? they didn't really paid much attention so who knows? No... it most definitely was there from the start everything else wouldn't make any sense.

"Where are these coming from?!" Shuichi freed himself from Rantaro's grip and ran faster to escape this weird monster robot. 

Rantaro picked up speed as well and the moment they ran around a corner they found other students still investigating the hall. 

"Hey! Get out of there!" they yelled from the top of their lungs and the students turned around and froze at the spot after seeing this huge monster chasing them down.

"Come on, we have to get away!" 

Rantaro grabbed two of them by the arm and the third shook his head and followed them as fast as he could. Finally they reached a door and opened it with their last strength. 

A gym? Rantaro thought and entered together with the other four students following him. Inside the gym were even more students already waiting for them. 

"Did you all got chased by that monster too?" they asked, while catching their breathes they nodded firmly.

"Ohh, more students? That makes 16 now!" Somebody from the back of the group called out.

"Sixteen?" Rantaro repeated the number thoughtfully and something seemed to click in his head. 

"Should I check about what's happening?" 

"You can't! It's too dangerous! We should stay here!" 

Rantaro turned around, trying to find out who was talking, but it was impossible when everyone was talking at the same time.

"You're all talking at the same time- I don't understand a thing like that, calm down! All of you!" Rantaro shouted and the talking at the same time finally stopped, he sighed relieved.

"Anyway, why does it matter that we're 16? There might be more coming" a boy from the group asked and Rantaro turned around.

"No, I think that's everyone- if it is what I think it is" he put his right hand on his chin.

"What are you?! A fucking know-it-all? Just spit it out already, if you know something!" a blonde woman walked towards him, but they were all interrupted by an unknown voice.

"Now, now be quiet all of you!" just a few moments passed, until even more of those monsters appeared right in front of them inside the gym!

"Kyahahaha! Thanks for bearing with us!" all the students stumbled back in surprise. It felt like a shock was going through their body- or more like they were paralysed, not able to move a muscle.

Why are these here? 

How did they get in here?

"AHHH!" a girl screamed and the boy from earlier started talking again: "damn! we're surrounded by those monsters!"

"These aren't monsters! These are exisals!" one of the monsters- no, exisals spoke. 

"They're highly mobile, bipedal weapons platforms" they continued proudly.

"Weapons?" Shuichi asked slightly panicking and started trembling a little again. 

What are we suppose to do in this kind of situation? Argh, I'm-! Rantaro shook his head to stop his own thoughts.

I can't show any fear- that's exactly what they want to achieve. Rantaro thought, closed his eyes and took a deep breath to say something, but got cut off before speaking one single word, because suddenly these exisals opened and 5 bears jumped out of them and yelled: "Rise and shine with our power combined, we are the Monokubs!!" 

"H-hey what's up with these stuffed animals? How are they moving?" 

"I-I have no idea!"

"...moving stuffed animals...?"

"It seems like they call themselves 'Monokubs' on top of that"

and so started everyone talking again, without bothering to tell their names. God, that's stressful to only know the name from one of the students. It's hard for me to tell who is actually talking this way…!

"Who is behind all this? Why the ridiculous-" Rantaro spoke up, but got quickly interrupted by Monokid, who was clearly annoyed.

"Shut up! Shut up! All of you are reactin' way too normal! It's boring! So BORING!" Monokid yelled displeased and glared at all the students in front of them. "Actually- don't their clothes look boring too?" Monotaro spoke up and Monosuke cut them off.

"maybe they haven't been given their first memory yet? Hm, easy way to find out: do you guys have any kind of ultimate talent?" Monosuke asked and the students thought quietly about it.

Ultimate talent? I don't remember anything like that-

"No, I don't have one"  Rantaro answered honestly and the other students quickly agreed that neither of them possesses an ultimate talent.

"Wasn't Monophanie in charge to do that?" the Monokubs looked at them. No, even worse they were glaring. "Zzzz" was the only answer she gave regarding the memories. 

"Is she sleeping?" 

"No she is fakin' it, obviously!"

"But what if she is really sleeping?"

The other three started arguing whenever or not the pink Monokub was sleeping and the fourth was keeping quiet just like before.

The hell is going on now? 

"Anyway, seems like you all have forgotten your ultimate talents and became generic high school students!" Monosuke explained in a pretty arrogant voice and crossed their arms.

Seriously, who or what do they think they are?

"Forgotten?" another blonde girl asked shocked. "What do you mean?" She continued questioning.

"Yeah, when I look at the backstory... there is something about the Ultimate Hunt goin' on. Hmm, you've all lost your memories and became different people cuz of the ultimate hunt, but we really need you guys to remember your true selves!" Monotaro scratched his head and hit Monophanie on the back. She shrieked and came back into reality from her fake sleep.

"Yes, and you need to reclaim your sealed talents by regaining your memories!" Monophanie clapped her hands together and smiled brightly.

"U-uhm what are you talking about?" a blue haired girl started talking, stuttering with a quiet voice and looking completely confused.

"I don't get it… What are these sealed talents you're talking about?" a rather short boy, who was keeping quiet until now spoke up as well and was just like the rest of the students completely confused.

"Let's do this already! No one wants to watch a bunch of generic high school whiners!" Monosuke was clearly annoyed about all those questions and wanted to get over this part as fast as possible.

"Let's update your wardrobe first so you guys look all cute and spiffy!" Monokid laughed and obviously made fun of them and their uniforms. 

Fantastic. Rantaro thought sarcastic.

In a flash of seconds they all were changed from the boring high school uniform in better and more casual looking clothes, well- most of them. 

"What am I wearing?" the blonde girl looked down on herself like everyone else who wasn't able to follow what the Monokubs explained. Rantaro only shrugged it off, because all this felt strangely familiar.

"Get ready! Once the seal is broken and you have your memories back, we'll be in the domain of the killing game!" Monokid shouted excited, but the students only looked at each other in confusion and shock.

"Whaa- K-Killing game? What are you-" that was the last sentence Rantaro heard before a light appeared in his head.

A Flashlight?

The familiar darkness surrounded him, a feeling Rantaro never wanted to feel again...

And with that he felt his own body lose consciousness.

[protag-rantaro]

Oooh I like this idea!

Heya, first Anon on his blog! We are glad that you're interested! Have a nice day/night!!💖

-Mod Tai💕

[protag-rantaro]

WELCOME

Hello, I'm Mod Rantaro (she/her)! Welcome to the blog!

This blog is for a NOT SPOILER FREE AU for the Danganronpa v3 killing game. In this au, Rantaro is the protagonist!

As such, there is also a new Antagonist! You also get (a) new friend(s)! (Also, when I say "you" I mean Rantaro but sometimes I just like to use second person when refereing to the Protag since you play as them)

All of these characters are canon characters from the game but they're in different positions and therefore, we can have different character developments!

Some things stay the same, hence the spoiler warning, but a lot of things have changed!

Me and Mod Tai (she/her) (a very amazing person) had created this AU when I had innocently asked: "What if Rantaro was the protag?"

Now we have a blog and I'm not complaining!

You better not- the prologue has 4 parts and is long as hell... xD

Mod Tai is adding that Mod Rantaro is a wonderful and amazing person and her drawings are so pretty I would eat my own arm just to see it... also I love her with all my heart!💕 And I hope that everyone stumbling across this blog will have fun and enjoys our work!💖

Feel free to ask questions and talk about the AU but we won't be spoiling anything just yet!

(Amazing art by Mod Rantaro!)