youre_smashing | Dry Toast

Naegi-kun.

[ on her knees was a shsl soldier, cradling his head on her lap ]

You're alive, right?

[When he finally regained consciousness, he didn't expect anyone to be around at all. He was a bit disoriented as he opened his eyes and saw a fuzzy shape above him. He could feel his head laying on something soft, and it was actually a really nice feeling. Makoto blinked a few times to try and focus his blurry vision...

...and as soon as he realized who she was, he got up like a shot, scrambling away from the girl on hands and knees. Whatever memories she may have had of their former lives, they were memories he didn't have. At least not yet. All he knew was that this was Mukuro Ikusaba, the Ultimate Soldier. Junko's sister.

Member of Ultimate Despair.]

Y-you!

[He felt himself start to panic. He knew she was part of Junko's plan, and had been deceiving them all along. But Junko killed her... And then blew her corpse up. If she was still alive, she could have been resentful of Junko's actions. But then again, Junko was absolutely stark raving bonkers, so maybe Mukuro got off on it as much as she did. Either way, he looked at her with caution when he finally got over his initial shock.]

W-What are you doing here? How are you alive?

N-Naegi-kun!?

[He quickly crouch down next to him. Nothing more however, he wasn't never quite sure how to handle this kind of situations. He couldn't be dead, could he? Chihiro's hand was hesitant from going any further than gently shaking his shoulder.]

[Did you hear the Body Discovery Alert? Then he was still alive. And that shaking did the trick. Makoto's eyes blinked open slowly, and gradually he realized he was looking at a familiar face.]

Chihiro... You ARE alive...

[He smiled a bit. And then, almost without thinking, he added:]

You changed your hair.

It was sort of an abrupt decision...

[He smiled rather bashfully. It kind of seemed like a good idea at the time- No, it is still a good idea. It was partly to it that he felt more comfortable nowadays.]

A-anyhow! It's good to see you again, Naegi-kun. [He frowned.] Though, Ishimaru-kun didn't told you I was here when you first arrived in the school?

I'm glad to see you too. [As he sat up, he registered what Chihiro was telling him, and looked at him with some confusion.]

When I first arrived? You mean I've been here before? I can't remember... Did it happen again...?

You don't remember...?

[Aw geez, not this timey wamey again.]

Um... It's not because of her! But... This is kind of hard to explain... I was here since about October 2012, I was around for some time, but i had to leave about February 2013 for two months, only returning on July instead. Before I left, only Ishimaru-kun, Celes, and I were the ones from Hope's Peak. By the time I got back, there were more of us attending in Smash Academy, and Ishimaru-kun had informed me told me you were here at some point.

Basically- what I'm trying to say is that this school has some sort of strange... illogical property to it. Most rules of time and space doesn't really apply here.

[The more Makoto listened, the stranger things got. He was relieved to hear that Junko's mind-alteration had nothing to do with his current state, although the fact that this happened anyway still worried him.]

I guess it's good that some of you remember and know what happened, but... Are you saying there's time travel involved here? That's a little hard to swallow.

[He nodded.] It is, I don't blame you for not believe me at all.

But it's more than that. It's not just... pulling people from certain point of linear time, there are alternate timelines and not to mention alternate realities you could only imagine, Naegi-kun! It was like we came straight into a never-ending serial of Dr. Who.

[Cough. Being a bit too forward there, Chihiro.]

Erm... I'm going at to much aren't I? Sorry about that... I mean it, though. Murphy's Law, Newton's or any scientific law for that matter doesn't apply here.

No! No, it's okay! It's just a lot to swallow at once... What's Doctor Who?

But... Where are we? How did you get here?

We're in Smash Academy, the school is just a bit on the outskirts of Final Destination City. Um... I'm not quite sure where we are exactly aside from that and that we're pretty far from Japan...

As for I got here, it's strange actually, I woke up with an acceptance letter. It was all a blur mostly, but I remember clearly that my parents had taken me here.

So that means... this place escaped The World's Most Despair Inducing Incident?

[He totally forgot that Chihiro wouldn't have known about that, considering he was dead by the time they learned about it themselves. But something else caught his attention, and he latched on to that quickly.]

Wait, you saw your parents?! They're okay?! But I thought everyone... [He still worried about his own parents and his sister... Were they okay? What happened to them? But hearing that Chihiro's parents were fine gave him hope, however slight, that they might have survived or escaped too.]

That's where the whole complicated time and space thing comes in. Which... [He slumped in defeat.] are quite the parts I'm still trying to make sense of.

B-but... from what I could remember... I can promise you t-t-hat [He curled both his hands, trying to take control of his breath.] neither me or my parents shouldn't be alive.

[They should be dead. He should be dead. And yet, he had experience at least two temporal abnormalities even before properly attending this school]

I don't think... I really get it... B-but that's still great! You're all okay, right?

......... I-I don't know about them but...

[There are times where he wished he didn't remember any of that.]

I'm sorry, I probably shouldn't have said anything...

[Now he felt bad. It was one thing to wave around his hope in the midst of despair, it was another to try and contradict someone's reality.]

But we can all work through it together! That's what friends are for!

[Why look for friends when you can find THIS GUY instead.

Kiyotaka's too busy to be putzing around on the quad when Makoto wakes up, but he can certainly be found elsewhere on campus, stamping out crime one tardy student at a time. A rewarding way to spend the start of a free period before he hunkers down with some textbooks for the next hour, really.

But his routine might have to be a little altered for the sake of a familiar face. That trendy hoodie, that ahoge...! There's no mistaking it!]

Oh! Naegi! It's you!

[The sight of Ishimaru looking so chipper, so upbeat, so... not-white-haired-lightning-eyed-crazy, was somewhat startling, considering what he was like the last time Makoto saw him. And he reacted in kind.]

Kiyotaka! Er, Kiyondo, or Ishida, or-- I mean, you're alive too!

[Of course that's the first thing he says. If Kitty here had a thousand yen for every time someone told him how dead he's supposed to be he could pay off the family debt and retire young. He's just not going to let it bother him right now because he is much more bothered by other things.]

Have you forgotten my name? Of course it's Kiyotaka! ...You've forgotten that you've been here before too, then, haven't you?

Er, right, sorry! I haven't forgotten your name! It's just last time I saw you, you were... You know what? Never mind.

No, sorry, I don't... I saw Chihiro earlier, and he told me that there's some weird time and space thing going on here.

I see...

[Disappointing and troubling news, to be sure, but he can't actually say he's all that surprised. He knows how Smash operates by now. And... regrettably, after having been told a few things by a few people, he can kind of guess what Makoto means by how he last saw him.

NOT... GONNA DWELL ON IT...]

Right, that kind of thing happens all the time! Don't worry, I'll gladly bring you up to date on everything you need to know! Tell me what's been covered!

[IS THIS REALLY NECESSARY.]

That'd be a good idea... I've got a few questions. Who's still here and alive? I've seen you, Chihiro, and--

[He doesn't know whether Kiyotaka knows about the whole Junko/Mukuro thing, so he struggles for a moment to figure out how to say this next part.]

Er, "Junko".

[Oh, he knows...]

Not to worry! That's actually her sister! She was in a disguise when we met her, did you know that? She showed up here very much the same way... I'm surprised she is still doing it, if that's how you met her!

[HOLD ON he's gonna prattle off the cast without giving Makoto room to interject yet, READY-]

But besides the three of us, my brother - [NOT EVEN HIDING THE RELIEF HE FEELS TO SAY IT] - Asahina, Hagakure, Yamada, Togami, and Alter Ego are all here, alive and well! Ludenberg and Oogami were also present at one point, just as you used to be!

[Okay NOW he can talk.]

Uh, yeah, I did... I just wasn't sure if YOU did. She's not. But it's kind of a long story.

[Wow, Ishimaru is very... thorough.]

So they were all here too... [Four of those were names he wasn't surprised about. Sakura being alive was good. Celes... He had mixed feelings about her, after what she had done to Ishimaru and Yamada. But he pushed those thoughts aside. She was alive too. He'd have to come to grips with what she had done later.] That's a relief.

[And here's Leon, still wandering around clueless of what's going on.

He approaches you as he notices you laying around.]

'Ey Naegi, you alright?

[Feeling a bit awkward considering what happened...]

[When Naegi realized it was Leon talking to him, the cogs started turning in his mind and a rush of thoughts hit him all at once. He could still remember Sayaka's body lying on the floor of his bathroom... Remember the look of fear on Leon's face when he was being dragged off to his execution... Leon took Sayaka's life, and they all took his in turn. It was hard to look him in the face and not think of what he had done.

But then he remembered, Sayaka put him in that position. And Monokuma in turn put her in that position. They were all playing his game for his entertainment. And now they were free.]

I'm fine... So you're alive, huh, Leon?

[He's not sure about whatever happened at Hope's Peak Academy was real or not, he sure felt alive at the moment.]

If I were dead, would I be talkin' to ya? That'd be some crazy voodoo shit that Shaman guy would be crazy about, dude.

Well, yeah, that's true. But I mean, I saw you-- [Right... Not sure how much Leon remembered from Hope's Peak. Better make sure they're on the same page.]

Um, how much do you remember from Hope's Peak?

Uh... [His usual cocky behavior dies down as blood drains from his face.]

Wh... why do ya wanna know about that?

[Naegi wanted to know if Leon remembered what he did to Sayaka. If he remembered his execution... But seeing the look on his face told him all he needed to know.

He remembered.

He didn't need to drag up old wounds now though, not when Leon was clearly being given a second chance.]

N-never mind... It's okay. So how did you get here anyway?

[Leon's secretly actually pretty glad that Naegi's not prodding further with that topic.]

Uh... To tell ya the truth, I ain't sure how I got here... [He folds his arms across his chest as he slowly gets back into his usual self.]

I see... Well then, what's the last thing you remember before you got here? Did you just wake up here or something? It seems like a pretty big mystery...

The last thing I remember? [He gives some thought, folding his arms across his chest.]

I kinda blacked out, I guess. Then I was fallin' through air or somethin', and I fell into a basket full of balls.

[Of course it had to have something to do with balls. He shouldn't have expected anything less.]

So that doesn't really help much... Just what kind of place could this be?

Ya know... [He gives a pause, thinking some over.] I dunno either. I ended up here like only a few days ago.

Well, if we're both here, it's likely other people we know are here too. We should go check this place out, I think.

Heh, why not?! Sure, man.

[Only because he also wants to go see if there are any ~ladies~ around. Yep.]

Great! Have you seen anyone yet that we know? Or have you not been here that long?

[As long as it's not Sayaka. BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME.]

[AHAHA SAYAKA. Even if she were here Leon would've stayed far away from her as possible for a while.

Leon folds his arms across his chest as he tries to recall the most recent memories ~~ever since he was accepted into the game~~]

Uh... I think I saw Fujisaki and Mondo for a little bit. Also Asahina. And Hall Monitor but he's kinda actin' crazy.

That's--

[Wait, Ishimaru acting kinda crazy... Oh no...]

Define crazy...

Uh... Well other than flippin' people off, I kinda liked how much he didn't care about hall monitorin'.

Uh oh...

Please tell me he's not calling himself Ishida...

Ishida? Didn't catch his name since he looked the same, just acted outa line for a hall monitor though.

[ Much in the same boat as Naegi, Touko was moving at the shuffle of a turtle, unable to collect her memories of how she arrived in this place as well. Contrary to the world she had faced upon leaving Hope's Peak, this place, this school rather, looked nothing like the grimdark world she was used to. Not that anyone could really get used to that.

Somehow someway, she had wound up here, and the gap in her memories wasn't entirely unusual for a girl of Fukawa's circumstances but Hell if it didn't freak her out after a life of mutual killings. Syo was a maniac but Fukawa? No, she wasn't anything like that! Anyone would be freaked out right now!

So to say that seeing Naegi in this unusual place wasn't a relief would be a complete fabrication to the relief that hit her. She's too stunned to approach, but she does call his name if only out of shock. ]

N-N-Naegi-kun?!

[He was admittedly relieved to see a friendly face, especially one he knew was actually still alive. And yet Toko was always a bit of a wild card in his experience. Judging by her appearance and how she spoke, he could tell it was Toko speaking, and not Syo. That... could still go either way.]

Fukawa...! You're here too?

[It's like taking a stroll through a gallery full of dead friends, isn't it? There's one now. That funky hairstyle leaves no margarine for error. He catches sight of you the same time you do him and breaks into pleasant surprise.]

Hey, Naegi! You're back! Where you been, man?

[Working with Future Foundation to try and save the world after it was destroyed. That was the simple answer. But he had no idea how much information Mondo had about the world at large. He was pleased to see Mondo alive, despite knowing what he did to Chihiro. But he firmly believed that it was all Monokuma's fault any of it happened. He couldn't blame Mondo for it.]

Hi, Mondo... Uh, I'm not really back, it's my first time being here... I'm glad you're alive.

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