Chapter 100: Brother Chuang Takes You Through the Danganronpa Plot (...)
Tsukino and Chiya stepped aside to make way. Hinata Hajime, who seemed unsurprised by the sudden opening of the door, nodded to Chiya as a greeting before walking in.
After he entered, Tsukino and Chiya closed the door.
This wasn't the first time Hinata Hajime had visited Tsukino and Chiya's dorm. After all, they all lived in the West Campus dorms, and given their good relationship in class and the inevitable inconveniences of dorm life, they would occasionally need to go to each other's rooms for things like borrowing items, or to play online games together in the dorms.
However, it's rare to see a serious discussion like today.
Although judging from the current atmosphere... it's not that serious.
After closing the door, Tsukino and Chiya turned to walk back, but stopped after a few steps. Their eyes unconsciously fell on the paper bag that Hinata Hajime had placed on the table. However, before he could ask anything, Hinata Hajime seemed to sense his confusion and began to explain.
“These are some snacks,” Hyuga Hajime said. “I don’t know if you and Tsukino have had breakfast. If not, these will be good for you. If you have, they can be a snack while you chat.”
He smiled at Tsukino and Chiya: "Of course, you can leave it if you can't finish it."
So that's how it is. No wonder Hyuga now possesses all the Ultimate High School Level items... Tsukino and Chiya opened the bag and peeked inside. Inside were rice balls, three-colored dumplings, and daifuku, each one looking delicious just by its appearance.
Wait a minute, could these snacks be...?
A bold idea suddenly popped into Tsukino and Chiya's minds. He took the boxes containing the sweets from the bag and placed them on the table. He opened the boxes, picked up a rice ball, and took a bite with a sense of awe, savoring it carefully.
Tsukino and Qianye:! !
Hajime Hinata couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Haha...it seems it suits your taste quite well." Wow, how amazing.
Hinata looked at Tsukino and Chiya with a curious gaze, who seemed to freeze up after taking a bite of the rice ball, feeling a sense of rarity at the same time.
Is this all you're capable of making Tsukino Kazuya's expression waver? But... even so, Tsukino Kazuya, do you know that no matter how expressionless you look, your background seems to be filled with happiness, like flowers are falling from the sky?
As if the air around them was filled with the gentle fragrance of happiness, Tsukino and Chiya forced themselves to remain calm and mechanically chewed the last bite of their rice ball.
It's just a rice ball... yet it's made to taste this delicious!
It wasn't just that it tasted good; while eating the rice ball, Tsukino and Chiya felt their mood improve and experienced a strange sense of happiness. The fatigue from staying up late the previous few days and not sleeping well last night was also swept away.
Is this... the Ultimate High School Level?
After finishing their first rice ball, Tsukino and Chiya silently reached out to take the second one, while their other hand tremblingly gave Hinata Hajime a thumbs-up.
That's incredibly impressive.
While both are considered Ultimate Level, Ouma Kokichi's "Ultimate Level Leader" ability doesn't seem to be as concrete in concept.
When Tsukino and Chiya first heard about this talent, they understood it as a kind of leadership... However, in daily life, Ohma did not show much in this regard - after all, he had not personally seen how Ohma interacted with his subordinates, and most of the others had a complicated feeling about Ohma and generally did not follow Ohma's requests in daily life.
Well... after all, his demands are often things like "hand over all property" or "run laps around the school." Although Tsukino and Chiya sometimes seriously agree with him after hearing such statements, most people still choose to refuse decisively.
However, it must be said that Ohma Kokichi does possess quite a few skills befitting the identity of an "evil mastermind"... although most of those skills are only displayed by Ohma when he wants to pull off more interesting pranks.
In comparison, Tsukino and Chiya were the second undergraduate students they personally interacted with... which means that Komaeda Nagito's talent seemed much more concrete.
Logically speaking, "luck" should be a more abstract talent, but Komaeda Nagito's performance forcefully demonstrated "this is luck" through his strength.
That's truly terrifying.
And now... Hyuga Hajime has also proven the terrifying nature of the Ultimate High School level talent. To be able to make rice balls to this extent has far surpassed the delicious limits of rice balls that Tsukino and Chiya had ever eaten.
However, even though all the signs were reminding Tsukino and Chiya that the person in front of them was different from before, the atmosphere in the dormitory room did not become unfamiliar.
Everything was perfectly natural, as if nothing had ever happened before. The two of them were just friends who shared food and chatted casually on the weekend, and had nothing to do with anything of great importance.
Then, in this atmosphere, they finally began their conversation.
"Tsukino Kazuya," Hinata Hajime asked, "what are your thoughts on Enoshima Junko?"
Things are different now. Tsukino and Chiya understand that Hinata Hajime already knows a lot of things, including that they secretly investigated Enoshima Junko.
He answered without hiding anything: "So far, we haven't found anything suspicious about her. However... she is still suspicious."
However, the absence of suspicion can sometimes be itself a form of suspicion. Moreover, after the incident involving the cloth strip man, Tsukino and Chiya had already harbored suspicions about Enoshima Junko.
At the time, Tsukino and Chiya only suspected that the connection between Morikawa Yoshiko's death and Enoshima Junko was deeper than what they had discovered in the "truth." So, since they were determined to prevent Morikawa Yoshiko from going down the path of her original tragic fate, they kept an eye on Enoshima Junko's movements.
So far, however, Junko Enoshima hasn't shown anything amiss. This is either because she's genuinely innocent; or... she's hiding it too well; or perhaps, now is not the time for her to start plotting something big.
The matter of the old school building is enough to rule out the first point, and considering Hyuga Hajime's behavior... Enoshima Junko's situation might be more complicated than she imagined.
Compared to future developments, Tsukino and Chiya's original focus was actually on the current Night Parade of One Hundred Demons caused by the doll monster Aurora. So, after the investigation yielded no results, he only kept an eye on Enoshima's movements and did not do anything more about it.
But now it seems...
There's no concrete evidence, so this should probably be called some kind of intuition... Since yesterday, this thought has been popping into Tsukino and Chiya's minds from time to time—
Do Aurora and Junko Enoshima really have no connection whatsoever?
Tsukino briefly mentioned to Chiya his attention to Enoshima Junko since the cloth strip incident... However, although he was paying attention to her, he still couldn't be completely without any oversights, since he neither installed surveillance cameras in Enoshima's home nor arranged for anyone to follow Enoshima Junko around at all times.
"There's one more thing... I think Tsukino and you should know."
After listening to Tsukino and Chiya's account, Hinata Hajime nodded, his relaxed expression visibly becoming serious as they got down to business.
"You should remember the school massacre that happened not long ago, right?"
Tsukino and Chiya were slightly taken aback when they unexpectedly heard about that matter during the conversation.
He didn't mean that Hinata Sōkai was aware of his concern about the school massacre that might have had a chance to change the outcome; it was just that hearing Hinata bring it up now... could it be...?
Tsukino and Chiya: "Was this also Junko Enoshima's doing?"
Isn't this person's presence a bit too strong?
He even resorted to infighting and school massacres when he made his move... He really is a dangerous person.
“To be precise,” Hinata Hajime added, “it was Enoshima Junko who planned the massacre, and the one who actually carried it out was her twin sister, Ichiba Mukuro. In that massacre, only two students escaped because they hid in the school's lockers.”
"Takumi Hijihara, Shuu Shinazugawa." Hajime Hinata gave these two names that have not yet been officially announced.
Tsukino and Chiya noted down the names of the two survivors, then asked, "Was she alone?"
“She’s the only one,” Hyuga Hajime said confidently. “She’s the next ‘Ultimate Soldier.’”
"……I see."
No wonder one person could carry out the massacre of the school. It's not surprising now. These Super High School Level experts are really... are they all monsters?
"In the future, these two sisters will probably do more than just this, right?"
"That's right, after the next batch of freshmen enrolls..."
Just as Tsukino and Chiya had no intention of hiding anything anymore, Hinata Hajime then briefly recounted what he knew.
After hearing about "despair," "the greatest and worst despair incident in the history of the school," "Otonashi Ryoko and Matsuda Yasuke," "the suicide of a student in the preparatory course," "the greatest and worst despair incident in human history," "a new round of infighting," and "the future organization," Tsukino and Chiya fell silent.
He originally thought that the doll-like monster Aurora was the one he should be most wary of.
Unexpectedly, in the not-so-distant future, so many things are still brewing and waiting to happen.
These current ninth-grade students, and future first-year students at Hope Peak High School, are clearly still underage students, yet they've managed to do so many shocking things...
Your Super High School Edition is still too ahead of its time.
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Author's Note: Chiya: In the midst of a rapid completion of the Danganronpa storyline (excluding v3)
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