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THE POWAAAH RANGERSSS:

Richie_Rich: I am never going out on the field again

Kiwigiwi: Oh come on Towa wasn’t that bad

Richie_Rich: Only bc I spent the entire crisis IN STORAGE

Then PERISH: At least you get to leave

TryingMyBest: You don’t have to stay Toki 😥

Then PERISH: Someone has to hold the braincell

TryingMyBest: 🤣

Unlucky Hope: Toki???

SwimAway: It’s cute 

Richie_Rich: I am in misery

70% Disaster: lmao 

Unlucky Hope: Uh brb Tengan is calling me, pray 

Kiwigiwi: 🙏

SwimAway: 🙏

Richie_Rich: If he’s gonna make another press conference for Towa I s2g

TryingMyBest: Is that why I saw my brother on the tv a lot?

Richie_Rich: yes

Then PERISH: y e s

Then PERISH: Thankfully I never had to deal with PR bc… probation and y’know, KG stuff…

TryingMyBest: Will Makoto be okay?

Kiwigiwi: He’ll be fine or e l s e

TryingMyBest: one fear

SwimAway: two fear

70% Disaster: red fear

Richie_Rich: blue fear

Cheerio JR has logged on

Richie_Rich: Greetings Alter Ego

Cheerio JR: Makoto is still chatting with Tengen but I have news

Cheerio JR: I was eavesdropping on the phone 😉

Kiwigiwi: Nice one

TryingMyBest: Wait I thought you died?

Cheerio JR: I got better

TryingMyBest: ok that was good

Then PERISH: It took several hours of metaphorically hacking Hope’s Peaks computers to take him with us when we left

SwimAway: We made sure to prepare before we exited the school…

70% Disaster: Yeah we only left when it got hard to breathe in a couple of rooms

TryingMyBest: 😨

TryingMyBest: legit was worried for you guys since the KG stream ended after Despair Queen got SPLAT

SwimAway: pffft splat

Richie_Rich: Can Alter Ego talk now

Cheerio JR: I’m a patient AI :3

Cheerio JR: Sooo Tengan wants Makoto to pay a visit to the Kisaragi Foundation since both of our groups are handling Towa

Richie_Rich: I thought Komaru was the Naegi who’s an Ambassador 

TryingMyBest: Ha-ah

Cheerio JR: Komaru can handle the PR in Towa, but what about other places?

Richie_Rich: Good question…

SwimAway: Thank god something that isn’t field work for Makoto

Kiwigiwi: Agreed

Unlucky Hope: Field work isn’t fun 😞 I get beat up all the time

TryingMyBest: I’M CONCERNED

TryingMyBest: WHAT THE FUCK

70% Disaster: Throwing hands with despair and other baddies can lead to bruises

Unlucky Hope: or emotional damage

TryingMyBest: EMOTIONAL DAMAGE?!

Richie_Rich: How did you survive Towa

TryingMyBest: Luck?

Then PERISH: oh god Yuki’s corrupted you

Private Conversation between KinjoCult and TryingMyBest:

KinjoCult: Greetings 😄

KinjoCult: This is Komaru Naegi, correct?

TryingMyBest: oh uh hi, you’re Kinjo?

KinjoCult: Yes, yes I am 

TryingMyBest: Nice to talk to you! Yuki talked about you a bit

TryingMyBest: So did Hibiki but she kind of had a grudge…

KinjoCult: haha… that’s understandable, I didn’t make the best choices at the end of the Utsuroshima KG

TryingMyBest: that game sounds really wack, like VR? You had to defeat an AI??

TryingMyBest: The bodyswapping???

KinjoCult: Everytime I think of that I’m cussing out Mikado, he only needed Yuki’s personality for his plans, but still

KinjoCult: Yuki didn’t deserve that

TryingMyBest: He didn’t 😭

KinjoCult: Well I didn’t dm you bc of the KG…

KinjoCult: Rei and I are going to be leaving soon, but since you and Toko are close with Yuki and Hibiki, we’d thought we would treat you out to something before we left

KinjoCult: Does BBQ sound okay?

TryingMyBest: oh that sounds so good!

TryingMyBest: I haven’t had that stuff in AGES

KinjoCult: Well glad we picked somewhere nice, there were vegetable options but just wanted to ask

TryingMyBest: Toko says she’s also excited n.n

KinjoCult: oh are you two in the same room?

TryingMyBest: Yeah we just finished putting stuff down in our hotel room 

TryingMyBest: Kinda weird we’ll be staying in a hotel from now on… Last time I was in one of these was when our parents took Makoto and I to Towa for vacation

KinjoCult: You’ve been here on vacation?

TryingMyBest: Ye!

KinjoCult: And how’s Toko?

TryingMyBest: She’s setting up her computer so she can do virtual meetings with her therapist rn

TryingMyBest: FF offered to let me talk to someone but… idk

KinjoCult: There’s nothing wrong with therapy Komaru

TryingMyBest: I know but… 

TryingMyBest: Talking is hard

KinjoCult: oh mood 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

Professor Girlboss has created a group chat

Professor Girlboss has added Unlucky Hope, Hostess_With_LeMostess, and several other people

MelOWOdy: hello there

Unlucky Hope: :0 GENERAL KENOBI

Kiwigiwi: oml 🙄

Trash Raccoon: Why am I here

Trash Raccoon: Wait I should be asking why the 78 ppl are here

MelOWOdy: I thought there were only like 30 people

Trash Raccoon: Very funny

Professor Girlboss: I might change the gc name but this is for updates for the Utsuroshima survivors

Professor Girlboss: And for something Makoto has cooked

Unlucky Hope: 😃 

Richie_Rich: you sure??

Unlucky Hope: I am very sure!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: should I be concerned, or really concerned

LUCKYBOI: Well it’s nice having a big gc with people! Chaos! Like in the fics!

Trash Raccoon: Do people really write fics about people texting each other

Then PERISH: I have news for you

Trash Raccoon: srsly??

LUCKYBOI: Aw I don’t see Midori here tho

KinjoCult: Sorry 😓 maybe later I’ll invite some of the others

Professor Girlboss: I’m pretty sure Ryutaro would throw hands with Iroha and Syobai in gc

It’s ART!!!: Am concerned to go back

KinjoCult: You’ll be fine dw, I’ll talk to him 

LUCKYBOI: So what’s the news Makoto?

Unlucky Hope: So you know the NWP, right?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: We were in it so yeah

SoraKingdomHearts: It sucked

MelOWOdy: I mean it did snap me out of my permanent catonia so it was okay, minus the killing game

Unlucky Hope: Thanks for help with me bringing in this next segment Hibiki

Unlucky Hope: So I’m planning on using the NWP to reverse the brainwashing Junko did on Class 77,

TryingMyBest: how many people did this girl brainwash

Then PERISH: Too many

Unlucky Hope: and also uh the Kisaragi Foundation also offered to help

SoraKingdomHearts: 👁️ 👄 👁️

It’s ART!!!: SORA WTF IS THAT

Rainbow_Painbow: Oh that is cursed, that is very cursed

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Okay great idea Makoto… but question

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Do your bosses know about this?

Unlucky Hope: …. No… plz don’t tell them..

Kiwigiwi: They’d probably have the same reaction Haji did on that stream, that 77 is too far gone

Richie_Rich: I see where they’re coming from but we did go to school with them and we saw what Junko did to them

SwimAway: I’m super worried about Akane, she doesn’t take care of her health bc of the brainwashing 😥

LUCKYBOI: AKANE?!!!?!?

SwimAway: uh Akane Owari, not Akane Taira! Sorry

MelOWOdy: How do you know 77 got brainwashed?

MelOWOdy: Like we only found out about the kid’s explody helms bc of Yamato

Computer_Weeb69: 😉

Kiwigiwi: Wellll it’s complicated

Unlucky Hope: Someone witnessed the brainwashing but we can’t say who bc 77 think they’re dead

Unlucky Hope: And they wouldn’t believe me… tried telling Izuru and it took pictures for him to get it!

Computer_Weeb69: Ohhhhhh

Computer_Weeb69: I get it

Computer_Ween69: Guys they’re telling the truth tho about the brainwashing

Hostess_With_LeMostess: okay?

It’s ART!!!: But didn’t the NWP get shredded?

Professor Girlboss: The version Mikado stole? Yeah

Professor Girlboss: Makoto is talking about the version that is 100% KG free 

MelOWOdy: That sounds nice!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: KG or not I’m never going to Utsuroshima ever again

KinjoCult: The NWP isn’t for you guys, dw

KinjoCult: We just have to find a way to shove 77 in there

Richie_Rich: Which is hard bc they’re all nutjobs atm

Then PERISH: Dang we totally should’ve captured Nagito when we had the chance

LUCKYBOI: NOPE

LUCKYBOI: SCREW HIM

Kiwigiwi: He already turned himself in

LUCKYBOI: Wait what?!

Professor Girlboss: Yes it was weird

Unlucky Hope: He kind of went on and on about me being Ultimate Hope… awkward…

LUCKYBOI: 😖 yeesh

MelOWOdy: So that’s one down?

Unlucky Hope: Yeah haha, and Izuru said he’d volunteer until we caught everyone

Hostess_With_LeMostess: But he’s not helping?

Kiwigiwi: He’s more of a watcher than a do-er nowadays

Kiwigiwi: …you don’t want him to do stuff, people get hurt

It’s ART!!!: 😨

Trash Raccoon: Eh he can sit and watch the fireworks

Hostess_With_LeMostess: So the gc is for a. Everyone in Utsuroshima to wake up to and b. Makoto’s plan on undoing the brainwash on Class 77?

Professor Girlboss: Yep 👍

Professor Girlboss: But also for gc chaos it seems

LUCKYBOI: 😀

MelOWOdy: 😀

KinjoCult: I’m doubting if this was a good idea

Professor Girlboss: TOO LATE NOW

Komaru had to admit, the recent accommodations were a step up.

It had been about a few days since the titled “Towa Crisis” ended and both foundations took over a hotel to use as a base of operations.

And she was enjoying the concept of having a room.

And having fresh food.

And having clean water.

And basically everything that came with a hotel (minus room service).

It was nice being able to shower after everything that happened, running around saving the world from another despair plot did not help her hygiene.

Although it did take… persuasion to get Toko to shower as well, poor Toko, she seemed to really hate water so Komaru had to hold her hand for the whole process, which she didn’t mind.

Now they were on their way to a dinner date with one of the Kisaragi Foundation leaders!... it sounded nicer in her head.

“Kind of weird how fast things are going back to normal.” Komaru hummed. Seriously, it had barely been two days and the people were going back to their regular old jobs like it had been a natural disaster that happened and not an army of killer robots controlled by children that were in desperate need of therapy.

Syo was currently fronting and smiled with a glint in her eyes. “Well that’s how it’s been since the planet got despair bombed!”

“I see…” She had a lot to adjust to, considering she spent a majority of the Tragedy so far in apartment jail.

It was a long walk to the restaurant, but the amount of running that happened the past few days had increased Komaru’s stamina so she wasn’t tired.

Or it might’ve been all the exercising she did in apartment jail, her plan had been to get strong enough to bust down the door until a Monokuma did it for her.

She was still gonna exercise until she had the power to dramatically break down doors, it would’ve come in handy when they got imprisoned. 

A smiling host greeted them. “Hi, do you have a reservation?” He had a bandage wrapped around his head.

“Uh…” Komaru always got nervous talking to customer service people, she didn’t want to do something that made their day worse! 

Syo thankfully stepped in. “We have a reservation under Kinjo?”

The host nodded. “Ah, they recently sat down, I’ll lead you to their table.”

Both of them followed the host to where the two Kisaragi leaders, Tsurugi and Rei, and to the right side of the table were Yuki (or Sora, Komaru had a hard time telling who fronted), and Hibiki.

She was the first to notice them. “Hi guys!” Hibiki waved, mouth half-stuffed with vegetables.

“Hi.” Komaru took a seat next to her. “I see you guys made it here first.”
“Yeah, the place we’re camping out at isn’t too far from here.” Yuki nodded.

Hibiki leaned over. “ You just missed it. ” She stage-whispered. “ Sora went and roasted Tsurugi. ”

She didn’t say it that quietly so the entire table overheard. “It was kind of deserved considering how you acted during the Utsuroshima incident.” Rei sent Tsurugi a look.

“I’m never going to live this down…” He was resigned to his fate.

Komaru raised an eyebrow. “Oh, really?” She knew that her friends were still mad at him for some of his actions after their killing game, so she wasn’t too surprised, but she was curious.

“Yeah, it was really cool!” And Hibiki was happy to indulge in her curiosity. “She was all ‘ If you fucking lay one hand near Yoruko again I will fucking rip your face off bitch-- ’”

“That’s enough Hibiki.” Rei cut her off. 

Yuki was blushing in embarrassment. “I told her not to… she says it was worth it.”

“Makes me wish we got here earlier.” Syo chuckled, grinning at the mental image.

“I hope Towa, despite the… incidents…” Tsurugi trailed off. “Wasn’t life-threatening.”

Komaru had to think about it, she had spent a good chunk panicking, but at least she was with a group so she didn’t have to deal with the entire crisis by herself. “I mean I think the scariest thing was just at the end.”

“I can’t believe you guys took an entire robot.” Yuki hummed. “Like I know we’ve been fighting robots the entire time, but that one was huge!”

“Indeed, they needed to send tanks and other missiles to get rid of other giant Monokumas.” Rei chimed in. “The fact you two defeated it on your own makes you both very powerful individuals.” Not to mention the whole fight was streamed so it’d make any crook think twice before causing trouble.

…They might cause trouble anyways because despair didn’t let things like “getting arrested” stop them from causing chaos. 

Now Komaru was blushing. “Didn’t you help with your luck?”

Yuki shook his head. “Nah I was focusing on making sure Haji didn’t break the controller, that was all you!”

Oh….

Komaru wasn’t sure how to feel about that.

Maybe she overdid the exercising in apartment jail…

“Anyways I’m hoping once we head back to the Foundation, I can get a break.” Yuki sighed. “This was the most hectic thing I’ve done since gaining anime god powers.” 

“I had fun!” Hibiki exclaimed.

Yuki sighed again. “At least one of us did…”

A waiter came to take orders of food and drinks and things settled into a nice rhythm after that. Toko fronted when their food came around and Komaru mostly talked with her, or Rei, the former Ultimate Professor was a really cool woman who was in a high position of power in the Kisaragi Foundation, and she was the same age as Komaru!

And she also wanted to make sure her friends who were going with the Kisaragi Foundation out of Towa were okay… Kanon sounded excited to get a job there, at the very least, Komaru didn’t have a chance to bond with her as much but she was happy for her.

Yuki on the other hand had his own complaints with the foundation, but based on the lighthearted conversation he was having with Tsurugi, it seemed things had been resolved.

“I’m glad you were there to take down Haji…” Hibiki was rubbing the bandages on her nose. “That guy gives me the creeps.”

“Agreed.” Toko nodded.

Rei sent her a funny look. “I thought his name was Towa Haiji …”

“Well yeah, I mean I thought his name was pronounced Haji…” The vocalist admitted. “But since he was a jerk from day one we all decided to just not pronounce or type his name properly.”

“Except to his face.” Komaru admitted, because she did not want to get on his bad side until they were able to deal with him.

…Thinking about the confrontation with Monaca gave her shivers, she hoped the Kisaragi Foundation knew what they were doing with her, and the rest of the Warriors of Hope.

At least it wasn’t her problem. “I’m just glad he didn’t do anything to you guys.” Tsurugi told the group

“Except lock us up in jail…” Yuki rolled his eyes.

“It’s scary that you weren’t able to get out of that situation, due to Nagito’s luck messing with your luck.” The info seemed to scare the officer. “Rei and I don’t know much about Divine Luck, but we thought it was invincible…”

Komaru hummed at the statement, she had heard plenty of Yuki’s complaints during their whole adventure in Towa about his luck machine being broken, and while she was still wrapping her head around the concept of her friend having powers, it did suck when they weren’t working at times it would’ve been helpful. 

“Well it’s not exactly all-powerful…” Yuki frowned. “But this whole trip made me aware of how scary the Remnants of Despair are.”

“At least your first encounter was one of the ‘nicer’ members.” Toko told him. “You’re lucky it wasn’t Sonia.”

“That does not make me feel better at all.”

“You’re welcome.” 

The Fun Class: 

Rainbow_Painbow: this is going to be the most awkward Hope’s Peak reunion ever

Discount Maya Fey: Agreed

KinjoCult: Mikako and Kanata, have you two seen the chat?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: A bit! Was doing my check-ups today 

Rainbow_Painbow: I can have solid foods now! 😊 

KinjoCult: oh sweet 

Rainbow_Painbow: I'm free from ramen and IV hell!!

Professor Girlboss: That's great! 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Mr. Kasai is also doing much better, his family visiting was a nice surprise 

Rainbow_Painbow: his kids are literal angels 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: And I'm guessing everyone will wake up in either several weeks or a couple months 

LUCKYBOI: What were big bro's kids like??

Rainbow_Painbow: they brought cookies but since Shinji is still on that liquid diet, they offered some for me instead 

Rainbow_Painbow: they were SO good 😋

LUCKYBOI: awwww

Discount Maya Fey: Well at least we don't have to worry about family drama

Discount Maya Fey: for now…

LUCKYBOI: oh yeah that is going to be awkward 

Computer_Weeb69: You think?!

Private conversation between TryingMyBest and MelOWOdy:

MelOWOdy: man I'm gonna miss you and Toko 😭 

MelOWOdy: and Yu-Yu and Roko and everyone else 

MelOWOdy: and even Syo a little but she's still on thin ice 

TryingMyBest: Hahaha 

TryingMyBest: Well we can always message each other 

MelOWOdy: yeah, at least dinner was nice 

TryingMyBest: I'm bad at grill places 

MelOWOdy: it wasn't too bad 

TryingMyBest: I burned like four pieces of meat before Yuki took over for me 

MelOWOdy: He's good at that

MelOWOdy: idk if its from luck tho. But he looked really happy 

TryingMyBest: probably because he got to have a little bit of vacation 

MelOWOdy: this is never going to be lived down is it 

TryingMyBest: Nope 

MelOWOdy: Stay safe in Towa!

TryingMyBest: Dw I have Toki and Syo and my guns 

TryingMyBest: and my ambassador job which hopefully I'll be good at so I'll be alright 

MelOWOdy: tell me all the funny work stories?

TryingMyBest: 100%

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

LUCKYBOI: I missed trains 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: you guys are taking a train back?

LUCKYBOI: Well it was this or helicopter buuuut

MelOWOdy: Never. Again

FIYAAAH: did something happen??

Trash Raccoon: oh you know, typical apocalypse shenanigans 

FIYAAAH: oh ouch 

MelOWOdy: I can't wait to see you guys again tho!

Rainbow_Painbow: yayyyyy

SoraKingdomHearts: sleepover at Yoruko's!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Just be mindful of my things please 😰 

LUCKYBOI: We'll spare the plants

LUCKYBOI: I couldn't do that to Plant Shinji!

FIYAAAH: you guys named a plant after me? 🤯 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Ye

It's ART!!!: The resemblance is uncanny 

FIYAAAH: you guys are the bestest

MelOWOdy: is it just me or is the sky brighter 

Trash Raccoon: might be you 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: its kind of grey on my end

MelOWOdy: no it looks brighter since we got to Towa!

LUCKYBOI: yayy

Trash Raccoon: Guess someone already built some air purifiers 

LUCKYBOI: at least Towa ain't hogging them 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: uch, can't believe they HELPED despair 

Rainbow_Painbow: Yeah no one is safe 

Rainbow_Painbow: not even the mailman 

It's ART!!!: special delivery! PAIN

FIYAAAH: …was that an owl house reference?

MelOWOdy: a what 

It'd ART!!!: Maybe 

Private conversation between LUCKYBOI and Unlucky Hope:

Unlucky Hope: it was that close?

LUCKYBOI: Yeah, it took a lot of luck for everyone to wake up 

LUCKYBOI: ik there's gonna be no rouge AI in this idea, but accidents happen 

Unlucky Hope: Yeah would hate for there to be an accidental bodyswap 

Unlucky Hope: No offense 

LUCKYBOI: None taken 

Unlucky Hope: So what happened after you made sure everyone would wake up?

LUCKYBOI: Well I might have committed jailbreak and Hibiki tagged along 

LUCKYBOI: then we crashed at Yoruko's until we moved on 

Unlucky Hope: sounds like you've been places 

Unlucky Hope: it took awhile for me and my friends to get picked up by FF so we wandered a lot 

Unlucky Hope: had to patch everyone up 

Unlucky Hope: Byakuya almost died once 😨

LUCKYBOI: yeesh

Unlucky Hope: and yeah Future Foundation is stressful as heck but it's nice making a difference 

LUCKYBOI: the first thing I'm gonna do when you visit is give you the biggest hug ever 

Unlucky Hope: aww, you don't have to

LUCKYBOI: Seriously 

LUCKYBOI: you deserve all the hugs 

LUCKYBOI: and Hibiki says I give good hugs 

Unlucky Hope: I'll take her word on it haha 😂 

Unlucky Hope: I'm excited to meet the rest of your friends too

LUCKYBOI: you're not jealous, are you?

Unlucky Hope: why????

LUCKYBOI: your KG wasn't in vr

Unlucky Hope: oh

Unlucky Hope: oh my god I'm not jealous 

Unlucky Hope: I miss my friends but I wouldn't take it out on you

Unlucky Hope: I'm just glad you all are okay 

LUCKYBOI: within reason 

LUCKYBOI: I feel idk… survivors guilt when I talked to any of 79

LUCKYBOI: they deserved better 

Unlucky Hope: we all do, but we'll make sure no one suffers again 

Unlucky Hope: Even if I have to throw hands with my boss

LUCKYBOI: lmao I'll join you 

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

It's ART!!!: I did not expect my community service to start bc highway bandits 

Rainbow_Painbow: for a train?!?!

Trash Raccoon: Well they regret it now 

It's ART!!!: In jail hahaha

MelOWOdy: it was dinner and a show 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I'm concerned 

LUCKYBOI: nah don't be, Iroha got em good!

It's ART!!!: paintball to the head hahaha

It's ART!!!: art strikes back 

MelOWOdy: I would watch a movie with that title 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: it'll be a coming of age story that's a metaphor for the society outcast convincing society to accept all kinds of people who don't fit the norm 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: in the shape of art rebelling against artists 

Trash Raccoon: or NFTs

Hostess_With_LeMostess: PERFECT

LUCKYBOI: Rip to Yoruko's Netflix account once we get there 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I don't watch TV THAT much, I have a job 

It's ART!!!: man I miss watching cartoons in the morning 

Trash Raccoon: there are more productive things to do in the morning Iroha 

It's ART!!!: 😡 

MelOWOdy: I always liked cartoons before bed

FIYAAAH: pretty sure cartoons can be enjoyed any time of the day 

Rainbow_Painbow: you watch them too??

FIYAAAH: YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD FOR CARTOONS

LUCKYBOI: YEAAAAHHHHH

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I feel like I created a monster here 

SoraKingdomHearts: Kabuya's Cartoons

Hostess_With_LeMostess: SORA

MelOWOdy: Pffffft 

Rainbow_Painbow: Oh boy it'll be chaotic once we're all back together 😂 

Trash Raccoon: you don't say?

Chapter Text

We Are Number One:

DanceofDEATH: Dead meme Ibuki

MUSICMAAAAN: Suffer

BagelsOfHOPE: Hey gang I have news!

Helloooo_Nurse!: we know your plan failed Nagito 

Helloooo_Nurse!: it was streamed 

Ratatouille: How embarrassing~

BagelsOfHOPE: the news was not about my plan 

BagelsOfHOPE: which WORKED btw

DanceofDEATH: suuuureeee

Snapsnap: keep telling yourself that 

BagelsOfHOPE: just telling yall you won't see me for awhile bc I am captured 😁

DanceofDEATH: huh

Soda_Good_Time: huh

Amongus_Bungus: please say sike 

BagelsOfHOPE: Nope sorry no sike-backsies

CoachCool: HOW TF DID YOU GET CAUGHT

BagelsOfHOPE: bad luck 

Ratatouille: ….again???

TheOverlordOfIce: your curse strikes back it seems

HowBOring: he let himself get caught 

BagelsOfHOPE: snitch

MUSICMAAAAN: YOU W H A T

ThePrincessOfFlames: why tf did you do that

Amongus_Bungus: NAGITO FFS WE TALKED ABOUT THIS

BagelsOfHOPE: sorrrryyyy

BagelsOfHOPE: couldn't pass up a chance to talk to the Ultimate Hope

Ratatouille: blech

FoodGloriousFood: I thought we banned that word 

Snapsnap: we're not busting you out anytime soon 

BagelsOfHOPE: Yeah that's what I was gonna say next 

BagelsOfHOPE: thanks Mahiru 

Snapsnap: yw?????

MUSICMAAAAN: huh maybe I should be captured next if its so despairing!

Amongus_Bungus: IBUKI NO

Amongus_Bungus: NO ONE ELSE IS GETTING CAPTURED 

HowBOring: Bold of you to assume that won't happen 

Amongus_Bungus: NOT ON MY WATCH 

Kisaragi HQ:

KinjoCult: We'll be back in a couple hours 

KinjoCult: Ryutaro, Minako, I'm sure you held down the fort well 

DoneWithYall: you got it boss!

Discount Mom Fwiend: eh I'm glad to be back to my normal job 

Discount Maya Fey: what am I??? Chopped liver???

Professor Girlboss: the braincell holder 

Discount Maya Fey: <3

Professor Girlboss: <3

Computer_Weeb69: *gagging*

Discount Maya Fey: you're one to talk with the googoo eyes you give Tsurugi

Computer_Weeb69: omfg I DO NOT

DoneWithYall: 😒 

The_Doctor_is_IN: The blockade was a struggle both physically and mentally

The_Doctor_is_IN: Kinjo I suggest having the folks who were on the blockade either have a break or lighter duty 

KinjoCult: Noted 

KinjoCult: We also have to send supplies to the members that are staying at Towa 

Jevil: I don't mind helping with that 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: me too, after I'm done with the Utsuroshima participants 

The_Doctor_Is_IN: I can take over if you need a break 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: thanks Dad!

The_Doctor_is_IN: np sweetie 

Rainbow_Painbow: How's the ride back?

Professor Girlboss: normal except for the highway robberies 

DoneWithYall: uhhhhhhh

KinjoCult: Hashimoto and Nijiue keep batting them away before I get the chance to do anything 

Rainbow_Painbow: good on Iroha

Rainbow_Painbow: she used to not have a lot of courage 

DoneWithYall: I got the impression she didn't have any of that 

Discount Mom Fwiend: Harsh 

Professor Girlboss: besides the occasional stop we will be back soon 

Professor Girlboss: and then have to deal with FF for a bit…

Jevil: you say that like it's a bad thing 

OBJECTIOOON: the leadership needs to take a chill pill 

Professor Girlboss: and their destroy all despair mentality reminds me of SOMEONE

KinjoCult: Okay I know I made some bad choices before but at least I own up to my mistakes 

KinjoCult: and at least I give my workers dental 

OBJECTIOOON: they don't even have dental 

Rainbow_Painbow: but you guys at least had a bit of a class reunion 

Rainbow_Painbow: I miss our classmates who haven't gone insane from despair or are dead 😭 

Discount Maya Fey: Me too 

Discount Maya Fey: Kakeru would have a field day with some of the… choices FF does 

OBJECTIOOON: he would, he'd lay down the LAW

OBJECTIOOON: hopefully he'd be proud of my efforts to serve justice 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: he'd be very proud 

Private conversation between Sonic_SWIM and BallIzLife:

Sonic_SWIM: How's the Kisaragi Foundation

BallIzLife: fucking AWESOME

BallIzLife: I have to do some training before I'm on field duty but I got to learn how to use a gun!

BallIzLife: it’s so fucking cool!!! And my boss is a literal badass! 

Sonic_SWIM: oh wow that is something 

BallIzLife: Apparently they have some guarded safe zones around their bases that could always use more hands on deck

BallIzLife: at least that's some I can do between taking names and destroying my enemies 

Sonic_SWIM: you seem very excited about the concept of throwing hands 

BallIzLife: have you met me??

Sonic_SWIM: I have and it's a mood tbh

BallIzLife: how's it going with your sister?

Sonic_SWIM: well I've moved in into her apartment which is really nice

Sonic_SWIM: I'll probably get like a retail job since I'm skeptical about working for FF

BallIzLife: for a group that claims to be humanity's last hope they sure got a lotta problems 

Sonic_SWIM: oh you have no idea 

Sonic_SWIM: my sister has been venting to me abt it and she HATES having to do pr stuff 

BallIzLife: I've seen those press conferences on TV 

BallIzLife: …granted kind of blurry since I damaged my TV in apartment jail 

Sonic_SWIM: what did the TV do

BallIzLife: force me to watch a killing game 

Sonic_SWIM: oh I hated that 

Sonic_SWIM: worst TV show ever thank god it's never getting renewed for a second season 

BallIzLife: ROFL

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

LUCKYBOI: WE ARE BACK IN TOWN

MelOWOdy posted an image

Hostess_With_LeMostess: yayyyyy

Rainbow_Painbow: party time!

Trash Raccoon: No

It's ART!!!: ngl kinda too tired to party 

Rainbow_Painbow: awwww mann

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Maybe next time Teruya 

MelOWOdy: if we have a party there better not be alcohol 

It's ART!!!: never again 

LUCKYBOI: Yeah esp cuz this body is a lightweight 

LUCKYBOI: which sucks 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: how did you find that out???

MelOWOdy: Yuki plz no 

LUCKYBOI: Hibiki and I found some bottles and regretted it 

MelOWOdy: YUKI

It’s ART!!!: Oh yeah I remember you drunk texting me 

MelOWOdy: DSHDSJXHDJSJXJS

Trash Raccoon: you killed her 

FIYAAAH: Yeah maybe just a breakfast party 

FIYAAAH: I'm still on a liquid diet tho

Trash Raccoon: how's recovery for you guys?

Rainbow_Painbow: I am cleared but Tsurugi is making me do light duty paperwork for the foreseeable future 

Rainbow_Painbow: Apparently I'm not allowed on fieldwork 

Professor Girlboss: you got stuck in the VR last time 

Rainbow_Painbow: YOU GOT SET ON FIRE I PANICKED

Professor Girlboss: AT LEAST I LOGGED OUT TERUYA

Hostess_With_LeMostess: 🤦♀️ 

Trash Raccoon: we just arrived at main HQ and Yuki and Hibiki are sprinting to the medical wing

Trash Raccoon: heads up Kasai

FIYAAAH: it'll be great seeing you guys again 

It's ART!!!: we have to fill some papers before we can visit 

Rainbow_Painbow: Rip

Rainbow_Painbow: Oh I see you guys hiii 🖐 

It's ART!!!: 🖐 

“Teruya!” The moment he looked up from his phone he got tackle-hugged by a small person with colorful hair.

He chuckled. “Good to see you too, Hibiki.” 

It was nice to see her smile. She looked to be much happier than when she was back on Utsuroshima, although he did worry about the bandages around her nose…

“Hey I wanted to give Teruya a hug too!” Iroha protested.

Hibiki released him. “Sorry… you were too slow!”

Teruya chuckled as Iroha came into view, her face red. “Meanie…”

“Nice to see you too, Iroha.” He glanced up. “Syobai.”

The broker didn’t respond but he did give him a nod of acknowledgement.

“Sorry about what happened on Utsuroshima…” Iroha bowed her head. “It was wrong of me, and I’m sorry for being too much of a coward to not stand up to Mikado…”

He blinked in surprise. Was this the same Iroha? He knew that things had changed in the months he had been comatose, but he didn’t expect Iroha to take responsibility like that…

It almost reminded him of his old self. “I did some cowardly things too in the killing game I was in… so I get it.” 

He wondered if his friends were proud of him now, he shook that away, he'd see them again one day, as much as he missed them, he was glad that he still around so he could help the friends who survived alongside him. 

“We’re gonna check on Big Bro now, good to see you’re okay.” Yuki smiled, and then he and Hibiki were sprinting off into the distance.

“Don’t tackle-hug Shinji, he has a bad back!” Teruya yelled after them.

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I'm still at work I can't visit dangit 

Professor Girlboss: eh you're not missing much dw

MelOWOdy: can't wait to see you Ruko!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I'll come over in a couple hours tho to pick you guys up, OK?

MelOWOdy: ye!

MelOWOdy: Shinji's family is super nice!

Rainbow_Painbow: they are aren't they 

Trash Raccoon: figured he'd have one since he's a softy at heart 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Be nice 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I haven’t met them yet, what are they like?

FIYAAAH: ✨

LUCKYBOI: Here we go…

FIYAAAH: Okay so there’s my lovely wife Emiko, but she usually goes by Emi and I’ve known her since college, she’s helped me during a lot of rough times and I’m so happy to have her in my life, I wouldn’t be a New Hope without her help

Trash Raccoon: You definitely love her for sure

FIYAAAH: Then there’s my girls, I’m taking a break from my job to spend more time with them, they really missed me…

FIYAAAH: There’s my oldest Wendy, who wants to be a firefighter like I was! I just hope she’s more careful then I was…. She’s been really brave after everything that happened.

LUCKYBOI: She’ll be a great firefighter, she’s your kid n.n

FIYAAAH: Then there’s my youngest, Aki! She isn’t sure what she’ll be when she grows up but she’s really sweet and loves drawing so I’m gonna make sure that the world is safe again for her to grow up in

It’s ART!!!: Awwwwwwww 😭

Hostess_With_LeMostess: omg this is melting my heart rn 

Rainbow_Painbow: I would die for your children

FIYAAAH: Please don’t

Professor Girlboss: You already died once!

Rainbow_Painbow: Jokes on you I’ve got nine lives!

MelOWOdy: I think his wife low-key wants to adopt Yuki since apparently Shinji told her about the stuff that went down 

FIYAAAH: hahaha Emi just worries since a lot of kids are by themselves nowadays 

It's ART!!!: 😔 

FIYAAAH: you guys are always welcome at our place tho 

LUCKYBOI: Big bro 😭 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Thanks Shinji 

Private Conversation between Hostess_With_LeMostess and FIYAAAH:

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I'm still working atm but can you let me know how they're doing?

FIYAAAH: well my kids are getting along with them thankfully n.n

FIYAAAH: Explaining why Yuki referred to me as big bro was awkward but now they’re jokingly calling him Uncle Yuki

Hostess_With_LeMostess: awww that sounds adorable

Hostess_With_LeMostess: did they also give Hibiki a cute title?

FIYAAAH: nope but they recognized her on tv and are just asking what being an idol was like 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: …they're not asking about Kanade are they 

FIYAAAH: NO

FIYAAAH: when I was explaining things I told them not to bring her up because she hurt Hibiki 

FIYAAAH: I didn't tell my kids the details but Emi knows some of them

Hostess_With_LeMostess: So you told them about the KG?

FIYAAAH: some details like the whole age thing? Yeah, others not so much 

FIYAAAH: I'd wait until talking about the Void situation 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: its going to be a headache when those 3 wake up isn't it 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Nikei got really trigger happy at the end 

FIYAAAH: ah.

Hostess_With_LeMostess: …they didn't deserve what they got though 

FIYAAAH: Yeah, they just wanted to live and thought doing this KG would keep them alive 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: annd Mikado played then like a fiddle 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: jerk

FIYAAAH: I'm imagining watching him go down was satisfying 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: oh it was it so was

Hostess_With_LeMostess: the Kisaragi Foundation kept the KG footage so maybe you can ask Dr. Inori if you can watch that part 

FIYAAAH: haha maybe later 

FIYAAAH: I've had enough of KGs

Hostess_With_LeMostess: …did any of your family see the Killing School Game?

FIYAAAH: my oldest had heard about bits of it, she didn't eat butter for weeks 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: congrats Monokuma you ruined butter

FIYAAAH: Idk if that's worse than being a marketable plushie 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: both suck 

FIYAAAH: Agreed

The Fun Class:

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: so I had a nice chat with my ex

Computer_Weeb69: oh god 

Discount Maya Fey: rip in pepperoni Nagito

KinjoCult: shouldn't you be resting?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: you're one to talk 

KinjoCult: HEY

Professor Girlboss: pffft 

Rainbow_Painbow: did it go okay?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Well first he did confirm that the reason he broke up with me was so Junko or his other classmates wouldn't kill me for despair 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: second he had no idea about the beta killing game and was horrified I almost died 

KinjoCult: Enoshima didn't tell them about the beta killing game?

Professor Girlboss: probably because it was her magnum opus 

Professor Girlboss: So you told him about Kinji?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: no he just knows about the KG I was in

Rainbow_Painbow: Kinji did almost kill you tho

Discount Maya Fey: bruh

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I KNOW TERUYA

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I hold no ill will over him anymore, Monokuma blackmailed him into committing murder 

Computer_Weeb69: Poor Kinji man 

Computer_Weeb69: I didn't see that footage you guys saw but wtf Monokuma 

Professor Girlboss: We drowned that motherfucker for a reason

LUCKYBOI: oh you guys are talking about the KG?

Computer_Weeb69: it got brought up 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I was catching up with Nagito 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I think the brainwashing Junko put on him had a weird effect on him 

Discount Maya Fey: brainwashing does that 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: no i think it didn't have a strong effect on him 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: the human brain is really complex, y’know

Computer_Weeb69: soo basically the brainwashing did its despair job but it manifested in different ways for whomever watched it?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: bingo!

KinjoCult: I'm sure Makoto would like to hear this, good job Inori 

LUCKYBOI: Oh so him going on about stepping stones wasn't a product of brainwashing 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: it's a coping mechanism for him, it's probably what's keeping him going considering these times 

Discount Maya Fey: yeesh 

Discount Maya Fey: doesn't erase all the stuff 77 did but Junko really put them thru the wringer 

Computer_Weeb69: does brainwashing exempt ppl from war crimes tho?

Professor Girlboss: We'll cross that bridge when we get to it 

Rainbow_Painbow: The brainwashing was just a nice little frosting on the Despair cake 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: from what Nagito implied, he and his peers were already on that bandwagon before the student council got butchered 

Discount Maya Fey: and now I morbidly want cake 

Rainbow_Painbow: me too 

Professor Girlboss: its Monday

Rainbow_Painbow: YOU CAN HAVE CAKE ANY DAY OF THE WEEK REI

Professor Girlboss: THINK OF YOUR DIET

LUCKYBOI: I feel like Hajime ghostwrote this oml

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: he's the guy that cares a lot about his health, right?

LUCKYBOI: Yeah, an inspiration tbh

LUCKYBOI: He'd be so done to find out I've been living on junk food and candy 🍬 

Computer_Weeb69: I miss candy 

Discount Maya Fey: Sorry Yamato 

Computer_Weeb69: I'll have digital cookies instead om nom nom 

Computer_Weeb69: 🥠 

KinjoCult: you guys and sweets oml

Rainbow_Painbow: they're delicious okay 

Professor Girlboss: and deadly 

Rainbow_Painbow: not as deadly as these fists 

LUCKYBOI: OHNYGKROGFMGKFKFNFKDKFKF

KinjoCult: uhhhh Yuki?

Professor Girlboss: did Hibiki try to steal your phone 

LUCKYBOI: KANATA GET OVER HERE RN

LUCKYBOI: SOMEONE WOKE UP

Rainbow_Painbow: Oh worm???

KinjoCult: WHAT

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I'll be down asap!

Professor Girlboss: of course this happens the moment we get back 

Chapter Text

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

Richie_Rich: Okay no one told me you can't mix red with whites okay??

Sonic_SWIM: you didn't know?

Richie_Rich: I had my staff take care of it okay?!?!?

Richie_Rich: sue me for not knowing laundry skills 

TryingMyBest: rofl 🤣 

Professor Girlboss: Hey @everyone someone from the Utsuroshima KG woke up

Unlucky Hope: oh cool!

Trash Raccoon: Wait what

It's ART!!!: OH MY GOD

Hostess_With_LeMostess: of course this happens when I get out of work 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: who is it

MelOWOdy: :))))))

LUCKYBOI: :)))))))

Trash Raccoon: if you make us guess I s2g

Richie_Rich: creepy 

LUCKYBOI has added PerryThePLATYPUS?! to the group chat

Kiwigiwi: welcome to hell 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: …Setsuka?

MelOWOdy posted an image 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: You wish 

SoraKingdomHearts: Be nice 

It's ART!!!: OH MY GOD NIKEI 

It's ART!!!: NIKEI I MISSED YOU 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Hiiii??

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I don't recognize half the names here 

Kiwigiwi: I'm sure you'll be informed later 

TryingMyBest: oh you're Nikei!

TryingMyBest: I've heard a lot about you from Hibiki 

TryingMyBest: she talked about you non-stop 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: She did?????

MelOWOdy: I MISSED YOU YA IDIOT

MelOWOdy: Even if you’re the actual worst

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Thanks. 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: aren't you next to each other 

LUCKYBOI: Kanata is checking up on him atm 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: She's messaging for me bc my hand fucking hurts 

Rainbow_Painbow: Oh yeah I forgot about that…

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: 😠

LUCKYBOI: eh Mikado got put into holes later 

MelOWOdy: so it's just your hand?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: and my head, ow, and everything feels stiff

SoraKingdomHearts: that's normal 

It's ART!!!: sorry for not listening to you about Mikado btw

Unlucky Hope: You okay Iroha?

It's ART!!!: NO!

It's ART!!!: Nikei was sus of Mikado from the start but we all thought he was being an insecure bitch bc Mikado took his place as leader!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: thanks I really appreciate the confidence 

It's ART!!!: But we should've stopped the moment Hajime got executed!

It's ART!!!: he's going to be so pissed at us for not stopping and he should!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: …I don't think he'll be that upset 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: And Iroha I was kind of salty Mikado took my leadership, hindsight is 20/20 and I shouldn’t have done what I did back at the tower 

It's ART!!!: I'm sorry though 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: me too…

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I feel like I stepped into some alternate reality to hear Nikei apologize 

MelOWOdy: BE NICE RUKO 

MelOWOdy: THEY WERE HAVING A MOMENT 

“Oh yeah by the way…” Nikei looked up from where Kanata was inspecting him. “Yuki, why do you look completely different?”

“Mikado destroyed my body so I had to use the former body of Akane Taira he hooked up to the program he was going to escape and do god-knows-what in.” Yuki explained in a monotone voice.

Nikei processed this, then turned to Kanata. “Uh… how is that possible?”

Kanata shrugged.

“It’s Divine Luck.” Hibiki pointed out.

“Explains everything, have a nice day.” 

Private conversation between Hostess_With_LeMostess and SoraKingdomHearts: 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: yo I'm downstairs are you guys ready to leave?

SoraKingdomHearts: give us a couple mins 

SoraKingdomHearts: Yuki and Hibiki are still catching up with Nikei 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Alright I'll be waiting 

SoraKingdomHearts: you don't wanna talk to Nikei?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: not today…

Hostess_With_LeMostess: we didn't exactly get along in Utsuroshima

SoraKingdomHearts: Understandable, have a nice day 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Maybe tomorrow, he still needs time to adjust 

SoraKingdomHearts: yeah he doesn't know I'm a digital clone sharing a brain with Yuki atm

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Oh god explaining that is going to be a nightmare every single time 

SoraKingdomHearts: we should hand out cards 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: lmao

Hostess_With_LeMostess: but wow everyone's starting to wake up 

SoraKingdomHearts: first Teruya then Shinji and now Nikei 

SoraKingdomHearts: as long as it's not Kanade next I'm hyped 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Me too 

SoraKingdomHearts: Okay we'll be coming down soon 

SoraKingdomHearts: 😄 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: 😁 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

MelOWOdy: I hate traffic

Then PERISH: what traffic 

LUCKYBOI: We're in a safe zone so it's basically a normal area so traffic!

MelOWOdy: Ruko is driving but she says it’s normal at this time of day

SoraKingdomHearts: this is normal?!

SoraKingdomHearts: being stuck in the same place from cars?!

Richie_Rich: it's annoying 

Rainbow_Painbow: welcome to the real world, it sucks 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: You've never experienced traffic???

SoraKingdomHearts: no?

SoraKingdomHearts: this is normal for you ppl?!

MelOWOdy: sadly yes 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: You still don't have your memories?

TryingMyBest: ..he doesn't know?

SoraKingdomHearts: I will tell him later NO ONE SNITCH

Then PERISH: Someone's a bit bitter 

LUCKYBOI: hey!

Then PERISH: Like her coffee!

SoraKingdomHearts: 😉 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Very curious now, especially since I haven't seen you yet and "around" is a vague af answer 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: but I'm sure it'll be an exciting scoop!

Richie_Rich: you have no idea 

Kiwigiwi: you're a reporter aren't you?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: reporter, journalist, you name it!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: nice observation from the Ultimate Detective 

Kiwigiwi: thank you 😁 

Richie_Rich: it was kind of obviousOW

Richie_Rich: YOU PUNCHED ME

Kiwigiwi: know your place 

Then PERISH: please don't punch Byakuya

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: rofl 

Kiwigiwi: but I'd hold off on any interviews for now 

Unlucky Hope: Yeah some of us are visiting the Kisaragi Foundation so we'll get to chat in person 

LUCKYBOI: 👀 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: 👀 

MelOWOdy: you two are going?

Kiwigiwi: Makoto, Byakuya and I

SwimAway: I'd visit but I just got my brother back

KinjoCult: you both are free to visit, Yamato likes showing off on tours 

Sonic_SWIM: that's sounds cool!

Sonic_SWIM: aw now I wanna go but I'm not a member of FF so I can't 

SwimAway: I'll bring you as my +1

Sonic_SWIM: 😊 

Discount Maya Fey: oh gosh it really IS a class reunion 

Computer_Weeb69: ✨ 🎊 pinata party!

KinjoCult: No pinatas 

Computer_Weeb69: oh come on last time wasn't so bad

KinjoCult: NO PINATAS

Professor Girlboss: NEVER AGAIN YAMATO NEVER AGAIN 

SoraKingdomHearts: yo wtf happened there

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: idk but I will find out 

“Did the pinata party incident happen during your school days?”

Aoi glanced up from the group chat. “No Yuta, it did not.”

“Aww…” He pouted.

Kyoko casually sipped her wine. “I’m guessing it was either something we didn’t hear about, or it happened while they were hiding.”

“Or during the killing game.” Makoto suggested.

“Yamato wasn’t in there for most of it…” She pointed out.

He deflated. “Oh.”

“Did anything pinata party related happen in your killing game?” Yuta questioned.

Aoi was half-tempted to yeet the pillow next to her at her brother. “Weren’t you shown the footage?” Koyko asked him.

He shrugged. “Well not everything! Like did you think they were streaming you guys sleeping?!”

Makoto sheepishly raised his hand. “Uh… yes?”

Both Aoi and Kyoko sent him their most unamused looks. 

Voidsquad:

It's ART!!! kicked Wizard_101 from the chat 

It's ART!!! added MelOWOdy to the chat  

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Okay when did Hibiki become a void 

It's ART!!!: She's one in spirit!

MelOWOdy: we had a bonding moment when the VR crashed 

It's ART!!!: both of us were scared so we tried being brave together!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Understandable, have a nice day 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: yeesh a lot happened while I was under 

MelOWOdy: did Kanata fill you in on everything?

MelOWOdy: Wait is she typing for you or are you using your hand when you're not supposed to 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: …

It's ART!!!: Nikei ffs 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I have a pen I'm good my hand is fiiine

It's ART!!!: mhmmmm

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: fuck off you're not my mom 

MelOWOdy: language!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: 😡 

MelOWOdy: just kidding 

MelOWOdy: rly missed you dude 

It'd ART!!!: Yeah, Syobai doesn't understand my jokes as much as you 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Surprised you missed someone like me considering what I did

MelOWOdy: we all did things in that KG

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Okay the things the demon you call a sister did is not on your head 

MelOWOdy: I did make Jimmy and Emmie's plans a lot easier tho 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: don't give yourself the credit 

It's ART!!!: Nikei be nice! She feels really guilty about it 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: we were the ones to follow Mikado, she shouldn't blame herself for that 

MelOWOdy: Well he did trick you guys 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: and now he's dead 😤 

MelOWOdy: I was still a bitch though

It’s ART!!!: Who wasn’t

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: She’s not wrong

MelOWOdy: 😒

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: also I heard about Towa

It's ART!!!: I bet you're happy to know you were right that something was off there 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: YES. YES I AM

MelOWOdy: I just wanted a nice vacation and then I get THIS

MelOWOdy: thanks I hate it 

It's ART!!!: you can have a vacation at Yoruko's 

MelOWOdy: yeah, I missed her 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I don't 

MelOWOdy: stfu 🔫 

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Okay who came up with the GC name 

LUCKYBOI: I did 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: it fits 

LUCKYBOI: thank you!

MelOWOdy: We’re back at Ruko's and oh my god I love AC

Hostess_With_LeMostess: should I be concerned that you're both leaning on the unit 

SoraKingdomHearts: Towa was hot af 

MelOWOdy: DONT EXPOSE ME IN THE GC

Trash Raccoon: lmao

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: You went with them to Towa??

SoraKingdomHearts: wellll

Rainbow_Painbow: just tell him now 

SoraKingdomHearts: I wanna see his reaction in person!

Trash Raccoon: you gonna take a picture?

SoraKingdomHearts: y e s

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: …feeling a little unsafe ngl 

It's ART!!!: you should 

FIYAAAH: That's concerning???

Hostess_With_LeMostess: They're just messing with him 

SoraKingdomHearts: I need to get my entertainment somewhere 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I HAVE TV 📺 

MelOWOdy: ooooh can we watch a movie????

Hostess_With_LeMostess: sure

LUCKYBOI: Yayyyyyyyyyy!

MelOWOdy: Movie night! Movie night!

Rainbow_Painbow: I'm so jealous 

Professor Girlboss: we have TV at the Foundation 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: oh sweet I should catch up on my shows

It's ART!!!: There haven't been any new Blue's Clues eps

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: 🔫 

Trash Raccoon: lmaooooo

FIYAAAH: I'm sorry I have to side with Iroha, Blue's Clues isn't that great 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I DONT WATCH BLUE'S CLUES

LUCKYBOI: This is slander 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I HATE ALL OF YOU

It's ART!!!: love you too Nikei XD

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: 😡 

Professor Girlboss: Okay leave him alone

Trash Raccoon: Morbidly curious what movie you four are gonna be watching 

SoraKingdomHearts: The Emoji Movie

Professor Girlboss: perish 

LUCKYBOI: She's joking we're watching Big Hero 6

MelOWOdy: I haven't seen it but it has a funny robot!

MelOWOdy: funny robots are cute!

Rainbow_Painbow: Monokuma has ruined robots for me tbh 

Professor Girlboss: not bears?

Rainbow_Painbow: Oh that too 

SoraKingdomHearts: this robot isn't a bear 🐻

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I'm about to start the movie heads up 

MelOWOdy: Oh right see you guys later!

FIYAAAH: Enjoy the movie!

MelOWOdy has logged off

Hostess_With_LeMostess has logged off

LUCKYBOI has logged off

SoraKingdomHearts has logged off

FIYAAAH: Maybe I should've warned them to bring tissues

It's ART!!!: I'm concerned 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: it's a Disney movie nine times of ten you're gonna bawl your eyes out

“Oh, that guy is so not lasting the whole movie.” Yoruko commented several minutes into the movie.

Yuki pouted. “Why not?”

“I’ve seen enough Disney movies to know that the family member the main character looks up to the most is not surviving.” The scene they were on was the one where the rest of the main characters of the film were supposedly getting introduced.

“Aw man…” Hibiki was also pouting. “I guess he was too perfect for this world…”

Yuki stopped eating his popcorn to scowl. “Okay Tadashi looks cool but he’s not perfect.” 

“Are you kidding me? He’s a total dreamboat!” She gestured to the screen. “Look at those muscles! Look at them!”

He rolled his eyes. “Seriously…?”

“You just have no taste.” She huffed.

Yuki wasn’t going to argue back so he continued eating his popcorn, but Sora did have something funny to say. “Y’know he’s most likely going to perish, right?” She took over just to comment on that.

“ Nooooooo! ” Hibiki wailed into her popcorn bowl. “So unfair…”

Yoruko was glad she put on subtitles at this point. “I’m sure there’s some fics out there where he’s alive.”

“Wait, how do you know about fanfiction?” Yuki asked her.

“Iroha.”

“Explains everything.”

Private conversation between Hostess_With_LeMostess and FIYAAAH:

Hostess_With_LeMostess: you really should've warned about tissues

FIYAAAH: sorry 😰 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: the movie got to me man 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: all of us were sobbing at the "Tadashi is here part"

FIYAAAH: that part always trips me up no matter how many times I see the movie it gets me

FIYAAAH: and don't get me started on the mentions in the tv show 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: THERE’S A TV SHOW?!?!?!

FIYAAAH: Uhhhh surprise?

FIYAAAH: my kids really like it 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: welp guess what's going on my watchlist now

FIYAAAH: 😂 

Chapter Text

Sora missed waking up in a warm, comfortable bed, feeling nice and toasty upon waking up. It was also a bonus having no weird dreams, not just the weird memory kind she used to have, but weird dreams that included floating… carrots for some weird reason.

Dreams are weird. Yuki stated. Did you also get the carrot one?

Yes. She mentally replied back. I did. Stop sharing your weird veggie dreams with me.

It’s not like I’m doing it on purpose!

Yoruko interrupted their mental conversation by walking in the room. “Morning Sora, and Yuki!” She looked 100% awake despite it being early, Sora guessed it was coffee.

“G’morning…” She sleepily replied, then yawned. “How the heck are you up and at ‘em this early?”

“A very consistent sleep schedule.”

“Uh-huh…”

Yoruko had a nervous smile. “And maaaybe coffee with lots and lots of sugar?”

Gross, why don’t you just chug soda while at it? Yuki made gagging sounds.

Can you not?

He chuckled. Sorry…

“I tried some without sugar once, it was very bitter and I question how you’re able to stomach coffee without creamers or anything in it.” Yoruko continued to ramble.

“Taste is irrelevant to me.” Sora declared.

Yoruko raised an eyebrow. “Oh really?” She hummed. “What am I then, chopped liver?”

Uh oh… was she not getting a morning kiss today? “D-Did I say irrelevant? I mean my taste is just of things of the highest standards!” 

Yuki snickered at her. Nice going, Romeo.

Shut up Yuki.

Thankfully she did end up getting that good morning kiss.

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

MelOWOdy: Good morning!

MelOWOdy: is what I would say if I didn't wake up to THE LOVEBIRDS SMOOCHING

Hostess_With_LeMostess: wwe weren't smooching 

SoraKingdomHearts: It was one peck on the cheek calm down 

SoraKingdomHearts: at least it wasn't something as perverted as HOLDING HANDS

MelOWOdy: OMG GO AWAY

SoraKingdomHearts: NEVER

Hostess_With_LeMostess: 🤦♀️ 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: what in the name of heck did I just wake up to 

Trash Raccoon: you get used to it 

Professor Girlboss: uh good morning lol 

LUCKYBOI: Hibiki is not liking being a third wheel again 😂 

MelOWOdy: I was right in front of you two why must you do this 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: we haven't seen each other in awhile;;;;

Rainbow_Painbow: awwwwww

SoraKingdomHearts: Someone's jealous they're single 

MelOWOdy: I AM NOT

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: wait I thought you and Yuki were a thing 

LUCKYBOI: Uuuuhhhhhhhh

It's ART!!!: that would be like if we were a thing and you're like my annoying brother 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: ohhhh mb

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: also RUDE!?!?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: you are annoying ngl 

MelOWOdy: Ouch roasted by Ruko 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: this is slander 

Private conversation between MEDIIIC *loads shotgun* and MelOWOdy:

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: are you still planning on coming in today for a check-up?

MelOWOdy: Ye!

MelOWOdy: Kinda nervous but I know it's important

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: It's alright! Today is just making sure you're healthy and how your independence progress is 

MelOWOdy: that doesn't sound so bad 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: But I do have a favor to ask 

MelOWOdy: should I be nervous?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: you know the WOH, right?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: they're doing okay but I think having a familiar face would help

MelOWOdy: soooo you want me to help them in rehab?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: if it's okay with you

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: they're still wary of all the staff, and being in a new environment can be scary 

MelOWOdy: Yeah, I'm okay with visiting 

MelOWOdy: it's just hanging with them for a bit, right?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: mhm! But only talk about the uh… stuff with their pasts and Towa only if they want to

MelOWOdy: noted 

MelOWOdy: wb Monaca?

MelOWOdy: I'm okay with talking to her but she was the ringleader

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: She's co-operating but Tsurugi has her guarded to be safe 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Tho if you do wanna visit her there will always be a guard in the room just in case

MelOWOdy: Alrighty!

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Thanks for volunteering, I do worry about those kids 

MelOWOdy: mood

MelOWOdy: ik they did bad things but also they had 0 good role models 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: it's really tragic, but we can be good role models to them now

MelOWOdy: Ye!

MelOWOdy: I'm not enforcing bedtime tho 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: hahahaha no one is forcing you to dw 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

SoraKingdomHearts: so I had a nice chat with Nikei about my situation 😉 

Richie_Rich: god I feel bad for him 

TryingMyBest: rude!

It's ART!!!: no she legit broke him 

It's ART!!!: Nikei.exe has stopped working 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: oh my god 🤣 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: HOW TF ARE YOU TWO SHARING A BODY

LUCKYBOI: luck??

Kiwigiwi: I've seen weirder 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THE DIGITAL CLONE THING

Professor Girlboss: its a headache

SoraKingdomHearts: My machinations have laid undetected for years, for I am a master of deception 

MelOWOdy: very funny Sosie

LUCKYBOI: Shouldn't you be at your appointment?

MelOWOdy: I'm allowed to have my phone!

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: yes but I'd prefer no distractions atm n.n'

MelOWOdy: sowwy 

MelOWOdy has logged off

TryingMyBest: is she getting treated for her nose?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: her nose looks fine tho

Then PERISH: a certain bastard we will not name broke it 

LUCKYBOI: and then we sicced Tsurugi on him

KinjoCult: I'm not someone you can sicc on others 

TryingMyBest: He had it coming tho 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: jfc is she okay??

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Her nose is fine now

SoraKingdomHearts: yeah her appointment is just helping her learn to be more independent

SoraKingdomHearts: Since y'know..

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: oh

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: hope she's okay 

TryingMyBest: me too

Then PERISH: She seems pretty independent so far 

LUCKYBOI: Hibiki gets rly anxious whenever I'm not around her still,

It's ART!!!: Yeah when you left to help the resistance base she tried acting fine but I could tell she was really scared 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: guys I don't think it's appropriate to talk about this stuff when she's not here 

SoraKingdomHearts: Sorry

KinjoCult: uh anyways @Unlucky Hope do you know when you'll be visiting?

Unlucky Hope: a couple days I hope!

Kiwigiwi: warning Munakata is going to be coming too, but he'll leave soon he just wants see your HQ

Kiwigiwi: do NOT tell him about the NWP

Rainbow_Painbow: he won't hear it from me!

Trash Raccoon: I'm guessing you and him have creative differences 

Unlucky Hope: I respect the work he does but I don't respect his annihilation of despair 

Unlucky Hope: it's a natural feeling

It's ART!!!: it caused the end of the world 

Unlucky Hope: Yeah but I think FF goes a little too far 

Richie_Rich: Agreed 

Then PERISH: They can be pretty anti-redemption there

Professor Girlboss: Sounds familiar…

KinjoCult: I’m not even going to comment 😣

Professor Girlboss: At least you improved. 

Kiwigiwi: it was human greed and talent exploitation that caused the apocalypse

Kiwigiwi: Fuck you Steering Comittee 

SoraKingdomHearts: You don’t like those guys, do you?

Kiwigiwi: oh y’know they had an entire school set up to pay for their pet project… brought the Despair sisters to the school and said “not our problem it’s your problem school principal” and DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WHEN THE STUDENT COUNCIL GOT MURDERED

Hostess_With_LeMostess: bitch what the fuck 

LUCKYBOI: GROSS 

Unlucky Hope: And a lot of FF leader’s have Hope’s Peak connections so it took us a while to trust them…

Richie_Rich: I trust them as much as I can throw them 

Discount Maya Fey: Well this is surely going to be a GREAT visit 

KinjoCult: Agreed, I'm not answering any questions about the New Hopes

Kiwigiwi: probably for the best 

THE POWAAAH RANGERSSS:

70% Disaster: so we're all in agreement not to talk about the New Hopes?

Kiwigiwi: Well their KG isn't public info 

Kiwigiwi: also explaining Yuki's situation might go downhill 

Unlucky Hope: what why?!?!?!

Kiwigiwi: even if Akane Taira is gone, Yuki and Sora are still in her body, he might try to put them down to make sure she never comes back

Kiwigiwi: also he'd probably judge Sora for being a digital clone 

TryingMyBest: 😨 

Richie_Rich: that seems like something he'd do 

Then PERISH: He's a freaking hypocrite 

Then PERISH: judges us for making mistakes yet he's gotten ppl killed for his quest to destroy despair 

70% Disaster: I mean uh you were a killer

Then PERISH: FFS THAT WAS ALL SYO

TryingMyBest: your boss sounds like a workaholic and a headache 

Unlucky Hope: he's a good leader but he doesn't like the fact I have the title of Ultimate Hope 

TryingMyBest: so he has jealous bitch disease?!

SwimAway: pfffffffft

Unlucky Hope: uhhh I guess???

Richie_Rich: He’s good at fighting despair but bad giving second chances 

Richie_Rich: some people just gave up, we should be giving them a reason to keep going, not punish them for feeling hopeless

Kiwigiwi: this ^

Then PERISH: truer words have never been said 

TryingMyBest: sigh why I do I have the feeling this is something I'm going to see in my ambassador work?

Richie_Rich: it’s never an easy day keeping the peace

WOH Timeout Room:

MelOWOdy has created a group chat

MelOWOdy has added TheHERO, AdorbsFighter, and 3 other people to the chat

Smarties: what is this demon gc you put us in

MelOWOdy: 😢

Artsncrafts: U MADE BIS SIS HIBIKI CRY

AdorbsFighter: KILL THE NON BELIEVER 🔪

MelOWOdy: WOAH CHILL

MelOWOdy: No murder allowed!

Big_Sis_Monaca: booo

TheHERO: Why did u invite the traitor

MelOWOdy: bc you guys are in group therapy and this is what I like to call gc therapy

MelOWOdy: so you guys can have a safe environment to chat in

Smarties: -_-

Smarties: And yet you’re here

Artsncrafts: Hibiki is really nice, Nagisa

AdorbsFighter: ^

TheHERO: What’s gc therapy

MelOWOdy: just a little nickname I like to call this gc where you can safely talk about things not to your legally mandated therapist, I’m just here to make sure y’all don’t kill each other

MelOWOdy: Also Yamato installed a nifty little bot that censors any words that are triggers to you

MelOWOdy: Looking at u Monaca

Big_Sis_Monaca: Meanie, you could be (redacted) about it

Big_Sis_Monaca: ????

MelOWOdy: seriously

Artsncrafts: Okay now you’re doing it on purpose

AdorbsFighter: Prepare to die 🔪

MelOWOdy: WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT MURDER

Smarties: I guess this isn’t too bad after-all 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

Sonic_SWIM: anyone have tips to get a dog to listen to you?

Trash Raccoon: good luck 

Sonic_SWIM: 😡 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: you have a dog?

SwimAway: I have one as a support animal!

SwimAway: we're trying to get him to the vet before we leave 

LUCKYBOI: Dogs always know when you're going to the vet 

LUCKYBOI: Somehow 

Unlucky Hope: they're really good at understanding body language 

ProfessorGirlboss: how do you know this?

Unlucky Hope: I used to petsit a lot before Hope’s Peak 

TryingMyBest: He'd sometimes buy me manga if I helped 

Unlucky Hope: 😒

TryingMyBest: …mostly bc I did his share of chores when he petsitted

Unlucky Hope: Which was helpful. 

It's ART!!!: awwww that's so cute! You're really sweet 

Unlucky Hope: thanksss 

Kiwigiwi: He is 

MelOWOdy has logged on

Hostess_With_LeMostess: done your appointment?

MelOWOdy: ye! 

LUCKYBOI: She gave me a big hug when she found me 

MelOWOdy: also uh I scrolled up and uh I'd prefer talking about my appointments myself so thanks Ruko!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: np

SoraKingdomHearts: sorry btw 

MelOWOdy: It's fine! I'm okay with questions 

Kiwigiwi: are your appointments related to the Utsuroshima KG?

MelOWOdy: a little… it has to do with what my sister did 

Sonic_SWIM: oh god 

TryingMyBest: that's ominous 

Kiwigiwi: I see… she was trying to make you emotionally dependent on her iirc

MelOWOdy: yeah, that's why she took everyone I cared about away 

MelOWOdy: so she could have me all to herself 

FIYAAAH: Jeez

LUCKYBOI: Grrrrr

SwimAway: that is disturbing and I'm glad you're away from her 

MelOWOdy: but I'm getting better at thinking for myself! But idk if I can ever be really independent 

MelOWOdy: really glad everyone is so patient with me 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: It's okay Hibiki, recovery takes time 

Unlucky Hope: ^ thanks for sharing, it must've been hard 

SoraKingdomHearts: I helped a little with wording 

MelOWOdy: sorry if I killed the gc mood 

Professor Girlboss: you didn't, this is a support gc anyways 

TryingMyBest: no need to feel bad!

TryingMyBest: I kind of felt bad when I freaked out in chat but you guys always cheered me up!

Trash Raccoon: eh in your situation it's understandable 

It's ART!!!: that's Hashi speak for "no problem"

Trash Raccoon: I will punt you if you call me Hashi I s2g

It's ART!!!: 😏 

SoraKingdomHearts: you're stuck with that name now 

Trash Raccoon: thanks I hate it 

Voidsquad:

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Shinji and I had a chat about uh… the whole murder attempt 

It's ART!!!: did you cry 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: NO

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: but I'm confused af on why he forgave me

MelOWOdy: you did what you did to spite Mikado 

MelOWOdy: he understands

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: my plan almost got your brother killed

It's ART!!!: it didn't tho 

It's ART!!!: and you regret it don't you?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: a lot…

MelOWOdy: just do better!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I will

MelOWOdy: this chat feels kind of quiet 

It's ART!!!: Yeah I miss the others 

It's ART!!!: they are going to be in for a surprise when they scroll up 

MelOWOdy: bc I'm here ✨ 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: and the fact it took this long for Iroha to kick out the magic bastard

It's ART!!!: YOU ALL WERE GONE OKAY

It's ART!!!: IT WAS TOO SAD TO LOG ON HERE

MelOWOdy: who came up the group name anyways 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Emma

It's ART!!!: Emma did!

MelOWOdy: really???

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: we would've kicked out Mikado sooner if he tried changing the group name 

MelOWOdy: aw now I kind of wish he did 

It's ART!!!: Imagine having your evil plan nuked bc you changed the gc name 

We Are Number One:

BabyGangsta: Yo Komaeda how is gay baby jail

DanceofDEATH: Pfffft

Snapsnap: you're one to talk 

FoodGloriousFood: ohhhhh snap 

BabyGangsta: STFU I WILL TAKE YOUR KNEECAPS 

SLICESLICE: I'm pretty sure they confiscated his phone 

BagelsOfHOPE: Nope! 

Helloooo_Nurse!: oh you're still alive 

MUSICMAAAAN: He's a cockroach nothing short of a shoe can kill him 

BagelsOfHOPE: I've been doing well, still miss my beloved peers!

BabyGangsta: I don't miss you 

Snapsnap: were it not for the laws of this land I would have slaughtered you 

SLICESLICE: 🗡 

Snapsnap: chill it was a joke Peko 

SLICESLICE: -_-

MUSICMAAAAN: How's prison 

BagelsOfHOPE: mostly catching up with Kanata, she's been doing better!

BagelsOfHOPE: we've had breakfast a couple times, it's nice seeing her again

DanceofDEATH: gross

Helloooo_Nurse!: Why must you torture us with this 

BabyGangsta: no one asked for the sappy bs!

BagelsOfHOPE: but it makes you guys so miserable and full of despair!

FoodGloriousFood: frick he's right 

Helloooo_Nurse!: STOP USING OUR LOGIC AGAINST US

TheOverlordOfIce has logged on

TheOverlordOfIce: ew

TheOverlordOfIce has logged off

MUSICMAAAAN: GUNDHAM DOWN, I REPEAT, GUNDHAM DOWN 

Snapsnap: gdm this is why we never have nice things 

Towa Crisis o' Clock:  

TryingMyBest: being an Ambassador is hard 

LUCKYBOI: Oh wow we haven't used this chat in forever 

TryingMyBest: this is where all my job updates shall go

TryingMyBest: since I'm in Towa

Trash Raccoon: we get it

MelOWOdy: oooh do you have any juicy stories???

TryingMyBest: Well both foundations have different ways of handling problems so making compromises so both sides are happy is a hecking problem 

TryingMyBest: FF refuses to compromise when it comes to punishing criminals

Unlucky Hope: I'm sorry about my Foundation 

Then PERISH: it's mostly about the adults still causing trouble 

TryingMyBest: some of them are just in pain…

SoraKingdomHearts: they were on board for killing kids 

TryingMyBest: I think the death penalty compared to community service is a little overboard tho!

MelOWOdy: yeesh

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Yeah that's overboard, and could set up a dictatorship 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: like is death the penalty for even the slightest rulebreak?

TryingMyBest: something something have to assert dominance blah blah teach them we're not messing around 

TryingMyBest: I think what the Kisaragi Foundation did to Haji got the message across 

Unlucky Hope: So it's just FF causing problems?

TryingMyBest: there's some troublemakers on the other side too, some having the same mentality on the rules and some are really bossy 

TryingMyBest: and nosy 

TryingMyBest: and should mind their own fucking business!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: workplace gossip?

Then PERISH: more like all the gossip 

MelOWOdy: rofl

SoraKingdomHearts: Well glad to hear you two are okay 

TryingMyBest: the city is looking better despite all the foundation tension 

TryingMyBest: and they almost got all the helmets off by now!

MelOWOdy: wooohoooooo!

Then PERISH: both sides are wary about the kids, even if they were brainwashed 

Then PERISH: They don't remember anything and it's really hard telling them what happened 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Oof, I'd imagine 

MelOWOdy: yeah I know that pain 

TryingMyBest: :( *hug*

MelOWOdy: thanks 

MelOWOdy: I'm doing so much better now, so I know those kids will be alright, they just need time to heal

SoraKingdomHearts: just don't give them any teddy bears for Christmas 

Then PERISH: why

Then PERISH: why tf would you say that

SoraKingdomHearts: dark humor bby 

Private conversation between Professor Girlboss and TechGuy:

Professor Girlboss: So you think you can do it?

TechGuy: Yeah I have a good record on extracting data 

TechGuy: just the overseer, right?

Professor Girlboss: Yes he was an AI that belonged to one of the New Hopes and I'm sure he'd want him back 

TechGuy: you got it!

TechGuy: wow there's a lot of scrambled and glitchy data, may have to quarantine the program to make sure it hasn't gotten corrupted 

TechGuy: or have any hitchhikers 

Professor Girlboss: please 

Professor Girlboss: last thing I want is Mikado to come back 

TechGuy: that's the guy that kidnapped the New Hopes?

Professor Girlboss: Yes, he was a menace that needed to be put down

TechGuy: I'd have done the same considering he stole NWP data

TechGuy: Chihiro put their heart and soul into this program and they'd be upset that some hacker used it for his evil plans 

Professor Girlboss: Fujisaki helped build the program?

TechGuy: Yeah them and a few others 

TechGuy: they wanted it to help people 

Professor Girlboss: That sounds like them

TechGuy: were you two friends?

Professor Girlboss: not really, I was merely acquaintances with ppl outside of my class but we talked a few times 

Professor Girlboss: They’re a hero in my books

Professor Girlboss: I don't think 78 would have escaped the KG were it not for their AI

TechGuy: I miss them

TechGuy: but I'll help you and Makoto with the NWP in their honor 

TechGuy: they would've wanted to help 77 too 

Professor Girlboss: Just make sure to keep it a secret when FF visits 

TechGuy: of course 👍 

TechGuy: when are they coming?

Professor Girlboss: tomorrow 

TechGuy: huh that's soon 

Professor Girlboss: no amount of coffee can prepare me for the headache 

Chapter Text

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

Unlucky Hope: we'll be on our way soon 

Unlucky Hope: the plane is still being readied 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: hold up they allow plane travel now???

Richie_Rich: those air purifiers work wonders 

Richie_Rich: also for some reason Remnant activity has been low since Towa

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Maybe bc Komaeda got captured 

Kiwigiwi: or they're planning something 

LUCKYBOI: Bring it on I say 🤜 

LUCKYBOI: Despair can catch these hands 

Then PERISH: don't test your luck 

LUCKYBOI: I literally have what's called Divine Fortune 

Then PERISH: ookay then 

MelOWOdy: can you wait until everyone wakes up before you throw hands??

LUCKYBOI: You never let me have fun :(

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Please wait until Makoto gets here before you pick a fight at least 

Kiwigiwi: who are you still waiting on to wake up?

MelOWOdy: uhhh Riri, Jimmy, Emmie, Koko, and Suka

MelOWOdy: and ig my sister but she's going to jail 

TryingMyBest: I thought I was Koko?

MelOWOdy: different Koko mb!

MelOWOdy: Koko as in Kokoro Mitsume, she helped us a lot and tried to get Void on our side 

MelOWOdy: it backfired 😔 

Unlucky Hope: Ouch 

SwimAway: She's another one of the New Hopes, right?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Yeah but she kind of has some ties to the KG so I have words for her

FIYAAAH: Still don't get it 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: this is why we're asking her these things 

Then PERISH: Wait hold tf up she's a New Hope

Discount Maya Fey: I'm as shocked as you 

Professor Girlboss: diiid Hibiki or Yuki tell you about her involvement?

Then PERISH: no?? She worked at FF

FIYAAAH: uh I don't remember this

Discount Maya Fey: W H A T

Mikako placed both hands on her head. Just my luck…

She grabbed the pillow next to her and screamed into it.

The computer on her desk made a clicking sound, the signature sound of Yamato logging into one of their computers. “You alright, Mikako?”

“Not great…” She admitted. The subject of her biological mother had been a hot potato since the events of Utsuroshima.

At first, she had been angry at the fact that woman was involved with the events, then it had turned into confusion once she and the others glossed over the killing game footage they managed to collect.

Sure, the Kokoro on Utsuroshima was still a teenager, long before she had done awful, terrible, evil things in the name of science, but it did make Mikako morbidly curious why she went down the path she did.

Too bad she was still comatose so it wasn’t like Mikako could grill her for answers. “Anything I can do?” Yamato asked her.

“Can you pull silly animal videos?” She requested. “Like… cats jumping away from toasters, that kind of nonsense.”

“You got it!” 

The screen changed as Yamato pulled up YouTube and selected a compilation of goofy animal videos. Mikako hugged the pillow in her arms as she chuckled at the footage.

At least she had her brother there for her, that wouldn’t change. 

The Three Musketeers:

Teachy_Teach: I hope the others hold the fort well while we’re gone

Boxman: eh they’ll be fine

Boxman: you sure we’ll be alright?

TheCouncil: we should be alright, Kinjo is an honorable leader 

TheCouncil: I'm hoping to at least see Kisaragi in person… he should've been at that blockade in person

Teachy_Teach: Hey there's other problems in the world, maybe he was at one of those!

Boxman: or he just sits at his desk all day 

Teachy_Teach: well we're gonna find out!

TheCouncil: I for one am curious to hear about what happened with the New Hopes

TheCouncil: assuming Mitsume is available for questioning 

Boxman: yeesh to think one of our own got wrapped up in this mess

Teachy_Teach: well whatever the mastermind wanted with the New Hopes, he's gone now 

Teachy_Teach: I'm kind of nervous meeting so many celebrities!

Boxman: they're not that special 

Teachy_Teach: because they're not Ultimates? 🙁 

Boxman: NO

Boxman: just the fancy title is nonsense, we help people and we don't need a fancy New Hope title to be recognized 

TheCouncil: I'm sure they're not called New Hopes for clout 

TheCouncil: that stream after-all showed that Otonokoji Hibiki was involved in Towa

Boxman: you got questions for her?

Teachy_Teach: we might as well be a press conference 

Private conversation between Unlucky Hope and Teachy_Teach:

Unlucky Hope: how many questions is Munakata going to ask?

Teachy_Teach: a lot

Teachy_Teach: you told them not to spill about the NWP, right?

Unlucky Hope: Yeah they know the drill 

Unlucky Hope: also uh did Kokoro Mitsume rly work for us?

Teachy_Teach: you didn't know?

Unlucky Hope: Nope but uh Toko did 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

Discount Maya Fey: YOU MEAN TO TELL ME ALL THIS TIME SHE WORKED FOR FUTURE FOUNDATION

Discount Maya Fey: FUTURE. FOUNDATION

TryingMyBest: are you okay???

Computer_Weeb69: now I more questions, specifically why tf did she help Mikado

TryingMyBest: she worked for the mastermind???

LUCKYBOI: Kind of?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: we don't know how much which is why we got questions 

Professor Girlboss: Toko how do you know her??

Then PERISH: She worked in the same branch as my therapist and I talked to her a few times 

Then PERISH: she mostly talked with Syo

MelOWOdy: Oh that makes sense!

Discount Maya Fey: somehow 

Then PERISH: I once saw her bring a bag of fast food to work, said "screw my diet" and then took out a burger and started eating it

Computer_Weeb69: PFFFFFT

Hostess_With_LeMostess: mood

MelOWOdy: I once saw her burn water makes sense 

Unlucky Hope: how did she get wrapped up in your KG?

FIYAAAH: Uhhh she kind of helped create the mastermind 

Unlucky Hope: ?!?!?!?

Kiwigiwi: Yoruko?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: our mastermind was an alter ego, she helped the original try to make an ae of Utsuro 

LUCKYBOI: who is a JERK

It's ART!!!: I'd argue but you get a free pass 

LUCKYBOI: 😀 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: this backfired on irl Mikado as his ai summoned a hit man on him

Trash Raccoon: 🖐 

Kiwigiwi: wow

TryingMyBest: Trust nobody. Not even yourself 

LUCKYBOI: and then he hosted the KG the little demon

Unlucky Hope: does this mean Kokoro is going to jail?

KinjoCult: depending on her answers but at the very least she will face some sort of consequences

Professor Girlboss: I'm so proud of your character development

KinjoCult: oh stfu

Trash Raccoon: What was the story on your end?

Then PERISH: gonna ask Miaya. Brb

MelOWOdy: I don't think she helped Mikado with the KG, if she was then she would've made it out alive 

Kiwigiwi: counter argument, what happened with Ikusaba

MelOWOdy: dangit

LUCKYBOI: pretty sure he wouldn't have insulted her like that in the last trial 

MelOWOdy: oh god don't remind me

Discount Maya Fey: Yeah what he said was harsh, true or not

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I'm pretty sure it was 

Unlucky Hope: What did he say???

MelOWOdy: he said Koko was stupid and pathetic for feeling guilty about the bad stuff she did!

Discount Maya Fey: Kind of makes me wonder if she was 100% working with him… or just human Mikado

FIYAAAH: She wouldn’t do that!

Professor Girlboss: Remind me how many people worked with Mikado on Utsuroshima…?

FIYAAH: …

It’s ART!!!: oooh yikes burn 

Then PERISH: Harsh

Then PERISH: also I'm back 

Trash Raccoon: what did Miaya say 

Then PERISH: She said Kokoro took some time off work to help someone with a project, then came back, then vanished without a word  

Then PERISH: went to check and found her apartment trashed like she got abducted 

MelOWOdy: I TOLD YOU GUYS SHE WASN'T WORKING WITH OUR MIKADO

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Calm down!

KinjoCult: Well we'd have to ask on her end but looks like she wasn't responsible for the KG

Discount Maya Fey: I'm surprised Hashimoto didn't know this 

Trash Raccoon: well I wasn't the only one the magic bastard hired for his plans 

Trash Raccoon: I probably would've gotten "fired" in some fatal tech accident if your boss didn't hire me 

LUCKYBOI: o.o

Kiwigiwi: seems like he was tying up loose ends

SoraKingdomHearts: you don't say?

The Fun Class:

Professor Girlboss: you doing better now?

Discount Maya Fey: hhhg not really 😭

LUCKYBOI: Do we make things worse for you?

Rainbow_Painbow: Yuki! It's not like that!

LUCKYBOI: What? I need to know 

Discount Maya Fey: it's complicated…

Discount Maya Fey: I saw the footage of when she tried helping everyone, but…

LUCKYBOI: She did hurt you, I understand

Computer_Weeb69: hurt is an understatement 😒

Discount Maya Fey: Yamato

LUCKYBOI: I think Hibiki thinks that everything will just smooth over if you two talk, but it's not that simple 

Rainbow_Painbow: she probably doesn't want there to be any fighting 

Discount Maya Fey: *sigh*

Discount Maya Fey: I'm still pissed af at that woman for how she treated me, I'm not forgiving her anytime soon 

LUCKYBOI: I didn't mean to sound like that! Sorry 

Discount Maya Fey: I know you don’t, just idk how to approach her

LUCKYBOI: That’s fair

Professor Girlboss: Make sure your sister doesn’t get involved until we can confirm Kokoro isn’t dangerous

Rainbow_Painbow: Agreed

LUCKYBOI: She's hanging with some of the WOH atm but yeah I'll pass the message 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I can pass it if you'd like

LUCKYBOI: No It's okay 

Discount Maya Fey: I'm morbidly curious on your take of this whole situation 

LUCKYBOI: tbh haven't thought of it much 

Discount Maya Fey: that's fair 

LUCKYBOI: I'm with Hibiki tho that she can do better 

Computer_Weeb69: if not… 🔪

Professor Girlboss: 🔪

Discount Maya Fey: jfc calm down you two I'm a grown woman I can handle my birth mom by myself 

Professor Girlboss: you sure?

Discount Maya Fey: Yes, this is something I have to do on my own 

Rainbow_Painbow: my only words are gl 

Discount Maya Fey: Thanks but I’ve got all the luck I need rn

Discount Maya Fey: Looking at you, Yuki!

LUCKYBOI: : (

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

FIYAAAH: Doc cleared me today 

LUCKYBOI: Hoooooray!

MelOWOdy: does this mean you'll be leaving soon? 😔 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: he has his job go go back to, just like I had mine to go back to Hibiki 

FIYAAAH: My family and I will probably be staying tho, safety and numbers 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: this is a safe zone so seems reasonable 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: uch can't wait to go back to eating solid foods it's just been soup soup soup 

It's ART!!!: that's your diet normally minus the unholy amount of soda 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: dude what was your sleep schedule 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: no comment 

MelOWOdy: does this mean Shinji is moving in with us?

LUCKYBOI: Oh that'd be so cool!

FIYAAAH: sadly no 

LUCKYBOI: awww bummer 

FIYAAAH: But you can always visit!!

LUCKYBOI: Yaaaaay!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I am not ready for more ppl yall are chaotic enough 

Trash Raccoon: that might happen sooner then later considering the record 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: sigh

MelOWOdy: I hope Suka wakes up soon, I really wanna apologize to her

It's ART!!!: I'm sure she's not mad at you 

MelOWOdy: I'm mad at me tho and I have to let her know I'm sorry

MelOWOdy: she probably won't forgive me but I need to make it up to her 

SoraKingdomHearts: I'm sure she'll accept your apology 

SoraKingdomHearts: if she doesn't I'll eat my hat

LUCKYBOI: We don't have a hat 

SoraKingdomHearts: I'll eat Nikei's hat

It's ART!!!: you don't wanna know where it's been 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: TOUCH MY HAT AND I WILL DESTROY YOU 

SoraKingdomHearts: you and what noodle arms?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: HISSSSSSSSS

Rainbow_Painbow: really guys 

Rainbow_Painbow: really 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: it's only going to get worse from here I can tell 

THE POWAAAH RANGERSSS:

Then PERISH: how's class loser?

Unlucky Hope: HHHHHHGGGGG

Kiwigiwi: Makoto has motion sickness 

70% Disaster: big oof I hope he's okay 

Kiwigiwi: He will once we land 

Kiwigiwi: which should be uhhh…

Richie_Rich: 2 hours

TryingMyBest: How's Yuta?

SwimAway: he's okay!

SwimAway: Huh I just noticed I never added him to the chat 

Richie_Rich: this is supposed to be a class gc

Unlucky Hope: what class

Kiwigiwi: that's cold Makoto 

70% Disaster: I think motion sickness ups the sarcasm 

Unlucky Hope: it's what they would have wanted 

Then PERISH: true 😔 

SwimAway has added Sonic_SWIM to the chat

Sonic_SWIM: this is the most normal I've felt since Towa

TryingMyBest: must be nice 

Sonic_SWIM: and we have an adorable doggo for company!

SwimAway: Sprinkles is best doggo

Richie_Rich: I can't believe you named the dog Sprinkles

Kiwigiwi: there's nothing wrong with sprinkles 

Richie_Rich: yes???? There is?!

Kiwigiwi: thats bc you have no taste 

Richie_Rich: YOU TAKE THAT BACK

Kiwigiwi: WHY WOULD I 

Unlucky Hope: STOP FIGHTING FFS DONT MAKE ME GET CHISA

Richie_Rich: You monster 

Sonic_SWIM: uhhh is it always like this?

Then PERISH: good luck 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

Unlucky Hope: we have landed!

MelOWOdy: omg I see the plane 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: wow it's a big one

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: how do you know that 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: my hobby of looking up random internet facts, problem?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Nope! No problem at all 

Professor Girlboss: I've already sent out some folks to welcome you 

Professor Girlboss: hope your flight was good 

Unlucky Hope: flying gives me nausea 🤒 

It's ART!!!: Ouch 

LUCKYBOI: You good?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: it's okay if you need a breather to shake off the jet lag 

Unlucky Hope: No let's just get this over with 

Unlucky Hope: why is there a pink bldjdjdjddjdkdkdk

Makoto couldn’t finish his text before he got tackle-hugged by a small vocalist. “Aww I was gonna do the tackle-hug this time!” He heard someone whine.

“Snooze you lose, Iroha!”

KinjoCult: HIBIKI

It's ART!!!: awww she beat me to it 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: what did she do??

Professor Girlboss: she just tackle hugged Makoto 

Professor Girlboss: Juzo looks so mortified lmao 

It's ART!!!: Hey Kyoko do you want a tackle hug??

Kiwigiwi: I prefer my hugs at regular pace 

Kiwigiwi: …ty

it's ART!!!: np! 

Richie_Rich: …

Professor Girlboss: Jealous?

Richie_Rich: Absolutely not!

MelOWOdy: I have more hugs up my sleeve!

Richie_Rich: NO GO AWAY

MelOWOdy: EMBRACE THE HUGS 

Unlucky Hope: wow I've never seen a real life shock Pikachu face 

KinjoCult: I didnt even know Munakata could be taken off guard 

SwimAway: Chisa is just used to the chaos lmao

Rainbow_Painbow: she was a Hope’s Peak teacher, makes sense 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: She used to work at Hope’s Peak?????

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: her and Mr. Sakakura

SoraKingdomHearts: I kind of remember him from Akane’s memories 

Professor Girlboss: really??

SoraKingdomHearts: She thinks he needs to relax 

Rainbow_Painbow: HE DID

KinjoCult: He was head of security 

Rainbow_Painbow: that doesn't mean he had to bag inspect us when we went to class!

Computer_Weeb69: tbf the Parade was going on and some of the rioters planted weird stuff in student bags 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: my god that's horrible 

Professor Girlboss: it was the norm for us 

Richie_Rich: our teacher made us travel in groups for safety during that time 

Professor Girlboss: Same for us,

MelOWOdy: was Ms. Yukizome your teacher?

Kiwigiwi: no she taught class 77

It's ART!!!: the Remnants?!?!?!

Unlucky Hope: don't bring it up in front of Munakata or Juzo, they'll think you're blaming her for what happened 

Computer_Weeb69: …really??

Kiwigiwi: Sensitive subject don’t ask unless you want to keep your spine

It’s ART!!!: Luckily for Nikei he doesn’t have one

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Wow. Wowwww

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: You don’t have one either

It’s ART!!!: 😦

MelOWOdy: Yikes hot fire there 

Unlucky Hope: I heard thru the grapevine that they all used to go to Hope's Peak 

Computer_Weeb69: IS THAT HOW MR. SAKAKURA ALWAYS POPPED UP OUT OF NOWHERE?!?!?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: where you guys at

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Mr. Yomiuri you better not get out of bed!

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I know that look all too well and I WILL catch you 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: 😨 

Computer_Weeb69: Yeah don't mess with Kanata 

KinjoCult: We just took the group to the building, Munakata is asking to see you

Computer_Weeb69: You haven’t told him of my state?

KinjoCult: I feel like he needs solid proof 😉 

Computer_Weeb69: 😉 

Unlucky Hope: why do I hear boss music?

Private conversation between MelOWOdy and Unlucky Hope:

MelOWOdy: you okay? I can tell when someone is fake smiling 

Unlucky Hope: I'll be fine, just kind of ehhh

MelOWOdy: should I call Kanata?

Unlucky Hope: No, it’s not that bad of an ehhh 

Unlucky Hope: plz let me know if I'm starting to zone out tho 

MelOWOdy: Noted!

MelOWOdy: Tho I hope your boss doesn't ask any more questions 

MelOWOdy: thank god he didn't ask about my sister but it took explaining I was in Towa on vacation 3 times 

Unlucky Hope: and ig talking about the New Hopes stuff is a sore subject 

MelOWOdy: Well before the Tragedy I did donate all the funds Melody Rhythm got to charity 

MelOWOdy: I just… don't remember the Tragedy stuff 

MelOWOdy: haha, I'm definitely the lamest New Hope

Unlucky Hope: you're not! You helped everyone in Towa out!

Unlucky Hope: And you've given me some inspiration

MelOWOdy: I did?!?!!?!?

Unlucky Hope: Yeah, it's hard for me to keep going tbh 

Unlucky Hope: and you and the others help inspire me to keep going no matter how hard it gets 

MelOWOdy: haha thanks, tbh I think the only reason I got so far was bc of Yuki 

MelOWOdy: Now I wanna go fetch him 

Unlucky Hope: Oh I think I see him 

MelOWOdy: Yayyyy!

“Hi Yuki!” Hibiki skipped over and wrapped him in a hug.

He chuckled, ruffling her hair. “You just saw me five minutes ago.”

“And this is Maeda Yuki, one of the survivors from the Utsuroshima Killing Game.” Tsurugi introduced him to the three Future Foundation leaders.

Yuta waved to him. “Nice seeing you again, enjoying your vacation now?”

Yuki groaned. “Ha-ha, very funny.”

“What’s this about a vacation?” Munakata frowned.

“Well we were in Towa in the first place for a bit of vacation!” Hibiki cheerfully explained for what seemed like the millionth time. “It… didn’t go well.”

Chisa sent her a sympathetic smile. “Sorry to hear that, but glad you two didn’t get seriously hurt.”

Yuki shrugged. “Does emotional damage count?”

“No.” Both Munakata and Juzo started.

“You need therapy.” Hibiki stated without a beat.

Before either of them could respond to that, Tsurugi spoke first. “And if you’ll follow me here.” He wheeled over to a front counter where there was a big monitor up on the wall. 

“I’m guessing you converted your base from an office building?” Kyoko inquired. “Future Foundation often does that as well.”

“Yes, though we installed the monitors.” Tsurugi had a smile on his face, like he knew what was about to happen next.

Juzo frowned at the monitor. “What does this have to do with seeing Kisa--”

Click!

The monitor sprung to life and the Future Foundation members were greeting with Yamato’s smiling face. “Tsurugi might be one of the more powerful leaders of the Kisaragi Foundation… but he’s not the strongest!”

“Oh yeah?” Tsurugi raised an eyebrow, expression amused. “What’s the difference?”

“Presentation!” Confetti went everywhere on the monitor. “Greetings Future Foundation, you know me, but what you probably don’t know is that--”

“Cut the theatrics, Kisaragi.” Munakata scowled. “And show your face.”

Yuta side-eyed the vice chairman. “Bruh …”

Yamato huffed. “Rude I literally just did!” The monitor flicked off as Yamato switched devices, now appearing on Tsurugi’s phone, which he held up. “I can’t show up in person because I don’t have my body anymore, Monokuma made sure of that in my class’s killing game.”

The realization sunk on all their faces, Makoto snickered as Juzo’s jaw literally dropped. “Wait you DIED?!” He shouted.

“It’s okay, I got better!” He winked, switching back to the monitor. “Anyways I’m not called Ultimate Inventor for nothing so I managed to transfer my consciousness to an prototype algorithm I was working on, known as Alter Ego’s and it’s how I managed to survive being turned into a bear chew toy.” He crossed his arms, violet eyes glaring down at Munakata. “You still going to ask me to show my face now?” 

Munakata winced. “My… apologies for assuming things.” He diplomatically apologized.

Yamato decided to have mercy on him today. “No worries, let’s just work on both our Foundations striving together to create a future where everyone can have hope!”

“Indeed.” 

And just like that, the union between Future Foundation and the Kisaragi Foundation was formed, although it would be really… rocky…

Little did the Kisaragi members know that would be proven several minutes later. 

The Fun Class:

Discount Maya Fey: Yamato how much were you kinning Megamind there 

Computer_Weeb69: ALL THE KINNING

LUCKYBOI: I don't think I'm gonna forget the look on their faces 

LUCKYBOI: "You DIED?!" -Juzo

Rainbow_Painbow: "its okay I got better!" -Yamato 

KinjoCult: and that's what got Munakata to apologize for getting mad you weren't at the blockade 

Computer_Weeb69: that's bc I was in Towa!

LUCKYBOI: You went on my board games app!

LUCKYBOI: DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I SPENT FIXING THE SETTINGS?!

Computer_Weeb69: sowwy

Rainbow_Painbow: uh they're asking about Yuki what do I say 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: did you talk about Utsuroshima or the beta killing game yet?

KinjoCult: Nope on Utsuroshima 

Discount Maya Fey: I'd rather not unload all that on day 1

LUCKYBOI: But they have picked up I'm a different Yuki than the one at Hope’s Peak 

Discount Maya Fey: Fiiine I'll tell them 

Computer_Weeb69: I don't think they'll be happy to find out we also had despair agents in our class 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: we had no idea either 

KinjoCult: If only I figured it out sooner…

Professor Girlboss: Hey we all saw something was bothering Akane 

Professor Girlboss: But what we can only do now is move on 

Discount Maya Fey: So mind if I tell them?

LUCKYBOI: Sure

Discount Maya Fey: Even the bodyswap?

LUCKYBOI: Saves me from doing it

“Soooo--” Mikako slid up to the three Future Foundation leaders. “You’re probably wondering why Yuki is… different.” 

“Appearance change aside, he acts nothing like the kid back at Hope’s Peak.” Juzo scowled. “You sure he’s the same kid?”

“No.”

They all looked at her. “He’s the Yuki Maeda that won the lucky lottery to become the Ultimate Lucky Student, but sadly he never got to go because Junko used one of her sleeper agents to kidnap him and take his place.” Mikako explained.

Their eyes widened. “That’s horrible…” Chisa had a look of horror.

“It is, don’t ask about that sleeper agent to my brother or Tsurugi, they were the most attached to him so it really hurt them emotionally to find out he was a despair mole.” Mikako glared. “I’m serious, do not try anything.”

“We won’t.” Munakata sent another glance to Yuki, who was chatting about something animatedly to Makoto and Hibiki. “Hm…” 

Something was off about Maeda to him.

Juzo was the one who voiced it. “Wonder how the school didn’t notice, they look pretty different!”

“Oh, that’s because Yuki had his original body destroyed.”

They now looked at Mikako like she had grown a second head. “No offense, but that sounds like science-fiction.” Chisa frowned. 

Mikako bit her lip. Don’t mention Divine Luck don’t mention Divine Luck. They were not going to get the chance to get their grubby hands on Yuki, he had been through enough and she wasn’t going to let anyone try and exploit him the same way folks did for Utsuro.

Maybe she couldn’t help her former friend but she could help the current Divine Luck user. “Well, the Utsuroshima killing game got weird…” She winced. “The Sannoji AI had hooked up Akane Taira’s body to the program--”

“The other sleeper agent in your class?” Munakata narrowed his eyes. “Wasn’t she dead?”

Mikako made a “so-and-so” gesture. “ Yes. ” She glared at him for the interruption, did Future Foundation always interrupt people when asking questions? “Clinically though, her body was alive but her mind wasn’t.”

“So he was going to try and escape into the real world using Taira’s body?” Juzo guessed.

Mikako nodded. “Yeah, we stopped him but Yuki’s body was destroyed when Sannoji took him for the program, so he had to use Taira’s body to escape.” And oh boy did that hurt a little inside.

She missed Akane… and even though Divine Luck made Yuki and Sora sound different, and Akane’s body wasn’t as recognizable due to her hair greying out, but she still recognized her old friend.

She liked to think that a part of Akane still had hope… a part of her that could still redeem herself, but she was gone now, and Mikako had to accept that.

Oh right I should explain Sora. “There was another AI in the program, named Sora, she’s kind of a digital clone?” Mikako added. “She and Yuki both share Taira’s body, don’t know how they make it work but they sure do!”

Munakata had a neutral expression on his face. “I see…” He glanced back at Yuki, but Mikako could see the fire in his eyes.

Oh no, did I accidentally screw Yuki over? She could tell he had suspicions about Yuki. Better nip that in the bud.

“You better not bug him about it, he’s been through a lot.” Mikako glared. “Him and Sora.”

At least Juzo was blunt about their suspicions. “You sure Taira’s gone?”

“Yes .” She pinched the bridge of her nose. “We tested it, she is gone, but her body is still around and Yuki and Sora are using it since they don’t have their own bodies.”

“Thank you for telling us.” Chisa smiled. 

“No problem.” She sent Munakata one final glare. I’m watching you…

Normally Mikako wouldn’t choose violence but she would not hesitate to snap him and his buddy like a pencil if they even tried accusing Yuki of being a despair sleeper agent.

She didn’t know if it was a regular thing in Future Foundation, but in the Kisaragi Foundation? You were basically asking for a punch to the face if you accused someone of being a despair agent without proof. 

KinjoCult: So what’s it like meeting another lucky student?

LUCKYBOI: Fun!

LUCKYBOI: He at least isn’t a dramatic theatre kid like Nagito

Discount Maya Fey: Pfffft

Discount Maya Fey: I told FF btw

LUCKYBOI: Thx

Discount Maya Fey: if they say anything weird lmk and they will never bug you again : )

Rainbow_Painbow: Oh god 

Professor Girlboss: ❤️

Rainbow_Painbow: REI THIS IS NOT A CUTE MOMENT

Professor Girlboss: ❤️❤️❤️

Rainbow_Painbow: REI

Chapter Text

The Three Musketeers:

Teachy_Teach: You really think they lied?!

Boxman: Yamato being turned to code, that's believable 

Boxman: That Yuki kid being in another body is another thing entirely 

TheCouncil: While it's a loss that they couldn't save the real Yuki Maeda, their denial is going to cost them

Teachy_Teach: But he was really kind 

Teachy_Teach: And Otonokoji backed it up too 

TheCouncil: They're all in denial Chisa

TheCouncil: Somehow Akane Taira tricked them into thinking that she's Yuki and might be planning another killing game for the sake of despair 

Boxman: We can't let that happen to the Kisaragi Foundation!

Teachy_Teach: But what about Sora??

Teachy_Teach: isn't she also in that body, you'd be killing her too!

TheCouncil: Clearly a fabrication Taira made so whenever her cover slips, she can excuse it as this digital clone of hers 

Boxman: always knew something was weird about that girl

Boxman: No one is that helpful 

Teachy_Teach: She was the Ultimate Maid!

Teachy_Teach: Also you can't do anything without angering the Kisaragi Foundation 

TheCouncil: Which is why we'll get rid of the Despair agent when we have her alone

TheCouncil: I won't leave until I have purged despair from the Kisaragi Foundation 

Boxman: Well you're not alone on this

TheCouncil: Chisa?

Teachy_Teach: fine…

Teachy_Teach: you really think it's Taira pulling the strings?

TheCouncil: Ultimate Despair are nothing if not cunning 

We Are Number One:

TheOverlordOfIce: WHICH ONE OF YOU FOOLISH MORTALS MISPLACED THE SUSTENANCE FOR MY ALL SEEING EYES

Soda_Good_Time: idk where your stupid bird feed is

Ratatouille: That was YOUR bird feed?!!??!

TheOverlordOfIce: YOU SHALL PAY

Ratatouille: IT WAS AN ACCIDENTJDJFDJDJJXDJ

Snapsnap: I'm surrounded by idiots 

Helloooo_Nurse!: 🤦‍♀️ 

Teachy_Teach has logged on  

MUSICMAAAAN: Oh hello sensei!

MUSICMAAAAN: Come to finally join the fun side???

Teachy_Teach: no thanks, not really a despair kinnie

DanceofDEATH: Booooooooo

Amongus_Bungus: you're killing us sensei

Helloooo_Nurse!: I for one enjoy the despair everytime sensei rejects our offers 

Teachy_Teach: thanks???

BabyGangsta: Is this going to be another Hope lecture 

Teachy_Teach: Nope that's Nagito’s job

BagelsOfHOPE: 😊 

Soda_Good_Time: why must you summon him

Teachy_Teach: anyway important question 

Teachy_Teach: have any of you been in contact with Akane Taira?

FoodGloriousFood: Whom?

Helloooo_Nurse!: I thought she was dead 

DanceofDEATH: pretty sure we killed her 

BagelsOfHOPE: silly sensei! Akane Taira doesn't exist anymore!

Teachy_Teach: Kyosuke thinks otherwise 

Soda_Good_Time: your husband is dumb af 

Teachy_Teach: HE IS NOT MY HUSBAND

DanceofDEATH: yet

MUSICMAAAAN: Wait was Akane one of us?

BagelsOfHOPE: our mistress put class 79 in a testing killing game before she did her broadcast, Akane was one of her agents 

BabyGangsta: How many killing games will she run

Snapsnap: I'm both fuming and impressed 

Helloooo_Nurse!: ahhh our beloved, always keeping stuff from us 

MUSICMAAAAN: What tf does Nagito mean by her not existing? She dead?

HowBOring: Taira’s mind is dead, but her body is inhabited by the real Yuki Maeda and a digital clone of Taira

Soda_Good_Time: OH GOD BODYSWAPPING IS REAL FML

Helloooo_Nurse!: that's too much despair for me 

DanceofDEATH: wow even Mikan won't handle it that's when you know it's fucked

Teachy_Teach: ah so he was telling the truth…

Teachy_Teach: bye for now my students, remember breakfast is the most important part of the day!

Soda_Good_Time: WAIT I HAVE QUESTIONS

Teachy_Teach has logged off

Snapsnap: …Izuru how tf do you know this 

HowBOring: I have my ways 

BagelsOfHOPE: If sensei's not-hubby is doing what I think he's doing, he's gonna get wrecked by a tiny vocalist 

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

MelOWOdy: send help they're starting to ask about my twin 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: uh oh 

MelOWOdy: what part of "I don't wanna talk about her" DO THEY NOT GET?!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Well from their perspective they don't know how nasty she really is

LUCKYBOI: I don't want FF to give her weird looks

Trash Raccoon: someone cause a distraction 

Trash Raccoon: I'd do it but I'm on field work 

Professor Girlboss: Any reports?

Trash Raccoon: No suspicious activity 

Rainbow_Painbow: Guess that a sign that our enemies don't know about FF visiting 

Professor Girlboss: for now

It's ART!!!: You want a distraction? You got it!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Oh my god Iroha 

LUCKYBOI: omg the look on their faces 

LUCKYBOI: "Are you all dating" LMAO

SoraKingdomHearts: even I can smell the romantic tension from here

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Run! Run like the wind Hibiki!

MelOWOdy: FREEDOOOOM 🏃

MelOWOdy: I'll be in the hospital wing if you need me

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I don't see you 

MelOWOdy: the kids and I made get well cards for everyone still comatose 

FIYAAAH: I'm sure everyone will enjoy them 

“Oh, so I don’t get a get well card?”
Hibiki pouted at the journalist. “Dude, there’s cards right there.” She gestured to the nightstand next to Nikei’s hospital bed. “You haven’t read them?”

Nikei didn’t reply for a few moments. “I… didn’t realize they were get well cards.”

“Oh my gosh.” She shook her head. “Well, I’m gonna go bring cards to everyone else.”

“Cool.” He gave her a thumbs up, then went back to writing on his phone.

Hibiki closed the door and continued walking down the hospital wing with the bucket of cards in hand. It was definitely one of her better ideas when she was hanging with the kids, they looked to have a lot of fun making cards, even Monaca.

She felt a lot of pride for Monaca, who was improving for leaps and bounds. I should check on her, she was really upset last time. Last time, Monaca realized that “Big Sis Junko” genuinely didn’t care about her at all, not like how an older figure sister should be.

Monaca had her suspicions, but Hibiki talking about her own sibling experiences had been the final nail in the coffin and the poor girl had a mental breakdown about it. Last she heard from the caretakers, Monaca was slowly trying to rebuild her friendship with her friends when she wasn’t doing her mandated community service. Monaca may be a child, but she did do a lot of awful things that needed to be amended.

Hibiki would have to pay them a visit after she was done distributing cards.

She sighed as she went into the first room, where Yuri was asleep, it always made her sad seeing her friends still comatose. I hope they wake up soon… “Here’s some get well cards, buddy.” Hibiki then sent Yuri a side-glare. “Also you better not toss out some of them because some of the kids who made them are boys, I’m watching you… ”

Yuri didn’t respond, as expected, so she moved on.

Next she delivered cards to Hajime. “Shinji still misses you, hope you wake up soon.” She told him, he didn’t respond either, but she hoped he was having nice dreams.

Then her next stop was Kokoro. Really hope you wake up soon… She wasn’t sure if Kokoro was good or not, considering her part to play in Utsuroshima, but the cool-headed woman was always kind to her back on Utsuroshima.

Despite hearing the things she was involved with, the things Mikako had to go through because of her, Hibiki didn’t want to believe that the psychologist was a bad person, that someone else in her life she trusted was secretly a malicious crook.

“I didn’t know you worked for Future Foundation.” She started placing cards down. “Is it nice over there? Toko told me a little about it and she said it was all politics since she was a survivor of 78.”
She wasn’t sure why she was ranting, maybe because she wanted to give Setsuka cards next and wanted to delay it because of the guilt she felt revolving around her friend’s death. “Also uh some Future Foundation people are visiting and they ask way too many uncomfortable questions, like they seem okay but they’re kind of harsh, if that makes sense?”

“I dunno, I mean Toko and her classmates are nice but hope they’re okay over there, they seem like they don’t get enough breaks.” 

Someone coughed, so Hibiki glanced at the door. “Uh, was I talking too l--” But when she glanced at the door’s entrance, no one was there. Did she imagine someone coughing?

There was the sound of someone clearing her throat, Hibiki’s eyes widened and she slowly turned around like she was in a horror movie.

She’d have liked to have said she was perfectly calm when she realized that Kokoro’s golden eyes were staring at her, wide and awake, but she didn’t.

Hibiki instead screamed and dropped the bucket of cards. “Uhhh… how much of that did you hear?!”

Kokoro gave a small gesture. “Oh, okay, not that much.” She frowned, glancing at the feeding tube that was attached to the recently awoken woman. “Sorry, I don’t really know how to get the tubes out and I’m not really a medical expert so I don’t want to accidentally make things worse.”

Kokoro nodded in understanding. “Thanks, I’m really happy to see you’re awake.” Hibiki gushed. “The others will--”

Then she paused. Right. They were still busy with Future Foundation and if she called everyone’s attention they’d come over and so would Future Foundation and she’d be subjected to questions about Kanade again and--

She quickly checked the chat.

FIYAAAH: Also hope the FF tour is going well 

It's ART!!!: Makoto cracked a smile when I asked the leaders that question I'm calling it a W

Rainbow_Painbow: so far it's been sharing our plans of defeating despair, minus the NWP one

Rainbow_Painbow: it'll be nice trading with them at least, we could use those hacking guns 

Professor Girlboss: and I'm sure they'll like all the medical equipment we have 

LUCKYBOI: I think I might join Hibiki those looks are freaking me tf out 

MelOWOdy: NO DON'T 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: ?!

SoraKingdomHearts: You okay?! 

MelOWOdy: sorry I just want to be alone atm 

LUCKYBOI: ohhh, alrighty then 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: that's fair considering FF were being too nosy for their own good 

“Phew.” She placed her phone away, turning back to Kokoro. “Uh… everyone’s busy right now so I don’t want to bother them.”

Kokoro raised an eyebrow like she knew she was lying, she probably did since the psychologist was basically a mind reader. “Um, so I think your stuff is in this drawer over here--”

Private conversation between MelOWOdy and Koko_the_Science_Cat:

MelOWOdy: I'm more comfortable talking via text atm

Koko_the_Science_Cat: it's alright 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: But shouldn't you alert the Kisaragi Foundation that I'm awake?

MelOWOdy: they're entertaining FF rn and I don't want to deal with them 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: They asked you uncomfortable and invasive questions?

MelOWOdy: ye…

Koko_the_Science_Cat: some of those questions were about Kanade?

MelOWOdy: Unfortunately 

MelOWOdy: and they did not take no for answer 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: something happened in the KG that damaged your trust in her

Koko_the_Science_Cat: did she become the blackened?

MelOWOdy: Worse but I don’t want to talk about it

MelOWOdy: You can probably guess though.

Koko_the_Science_Cat: …she hurt a lot of people, didn’t she

MelOWOdy: yes

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Did she… do anything to you?

MelOWOdy: Thankfully not THAT I am thankful to whatever god is out there for that 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: and you feel responsible for Kanade’s actions

Koko_the_Science_Cat: but it’s not your fault Hibiki, she chose to do those things

MelOWOdy: But if I was a nicer sister… maybe she wouldn’t

Koko_the_Science_Cat: You couldn’t have known that, even if you were a nicer sister, she could’ve still done the same things

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Maybe she would've turned out different, maybe she'd have been the same 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: But don't stress yourself with "what-ifs"

MelOWOdy: thanks,, this is why I hate talking about her

MelOWOdy: before I'd just start bawling if she got namedropped, but still I hate talking about her!

MelOWOdy: sorry for dumping all this on you the moment you woke up 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: it's alright, I don’t mind helping you out

MelOWOdy: Also I have a question

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Is this about my involvement in Mikado’s schemes?

MelOWOdy: y’know normally I’d be annoyed at the mind reading but since words fail me I don’t mind

MelOWOdy: I want to believe you’re a good person Koko… but I can’t go through another betrayal again

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I know, I might’ve helped Mikado in his plan of reviving Divine Luck, but I didn’t help his AI in his killing game plan

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Had I known ahead of time what his plans were… I would’ve tried harder in deactivating that menace

MelOWOdy: PFFFFT

MelOWOdy: Also um do you feel okay? You keep rubbing your shoulders 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: the room is rather frigid

MelOWOdy: feels room temperature to OH

MelOWOdy: Right frick your COD I forgot

Koko_the_Science_Cat: you don't have to hand your jacket over 

MelOWOdy: nooo you need to keep warm!

MelOWOdy: bundle up 🧣 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Thanks

“Hibiki Otonokoji.”

Hibiki yelped as she nearly dropped her phone, glancing at the door revealed Kanata to be standing there, eyes glaring daggers at her. “When were you going to tell me that Ms. Mitsume had woken up?”

Yep. This was it. This is how she died. Kanata was definitely going to end her day by burying her body in the building’s parking lot.

A ping from her phone made her glance down. 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: The doctor is not happy with you 

She could’ve sworn Kokoro had an amused expression underneath all that medical equipment she was hooked up to. “Thanks.” She sarcastically commented before texting back.

MelOWOdy: D: 

The Fun Class:

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: @LUCKYBOI YOUR SISTER IS IN BIG FUCKING TROUBLE

Computer_Weeb69: when Kanata swears you know it's serious 

Rainbow_Painbow: Oh GOD

LUCKYBOI: What did she do!??!?!?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Since FF is done visiting for now I thought I'd check up on her

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: And I find her talking to someone from Utsuroshima who woke up AND DIDN'T TELL ME OR ANYONE

KinjoCult: She didn't 

Professor Girlboss: whyyyyy

LUCKYBOI: …why is it a bad thing?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I need to make sure everyone is okay after waking up!

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: the last thing they remember is dying! And some of them still feel that pain after they wake up!

Rainbow_Painbow: I did feel really sick after I woke up 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: EXACTLY

LUCKYBOI: Jeez, okay then 

LUCKYBOI: I'll talk to her then 

Professor Girlboss: Hibiki is not allowed to go by herself to the medical wing anytime soon after this 

KinjoCult: Agreed

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Tho on the good news, Ms. Mitsume looks to be healthy, though her body temperature is quite low, mostly due to her COD

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: And she seems to be having heart problems

Computer_Weeb69: Wait it's Kokoro who's awake?!

Discount Maya Fey: ….her?

LUCKYBOI: Heart problems?!

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: from a fast food diet it seems 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Mikako? Are you alright?

Discount Maya Fey: …

KinjoCult: this is her birth mom we're talking about, what do you think?!

Rainbow_Painbow: Tsurugi!

Computer_Weeb69: He's got a point tho

Professor Girlboss: Mikako?

Discount Maya Fey: Did you tell her about me 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I did

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: She was very shocked to say the least, and thought you had died when the rioters attacked Hope’s Peak 

Discount Maya Fey: oookay that's creepy that she knew I went to Hope's Peak 

Professor Girlboss: our class profiles were online, explains how she knew

Computer_Weeb69: and she did nothing with this info?

Discount Maya Fey: I'll ask her when I see her

Discount Maya Fey: Tell her I'm coming down 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Alright 

Professor Girlboss: Mikako…

Computer_Weeb69: Are you sure??

Discount Maya Fey: YES. I'm sure 

Discount Maya Fey: If any of you follow me I'll summon a ghost to haunt you 

Computer_Weeb69: she can do that btw 

LUCKYBOI: O.o noted…

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

Hostess_With_LeMostess: What were you THINKING?!

MelOWOdy: I wasn't…?

SoraKingdomHearts: you don't say?!!?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: If Kokoro was genuinely malicious you could've been in big trouble 

Trash Raccoon: or dead 

It's ART!!!: don't give me that mental image

MelOWOdy: OKAY I GET IT

MelOWOdy: y'all were busy with FF, I didn't think it was necessary 

LUCKYBOI: But she did need to get her health checked ASAP

LUCKYBOI: She froze to death in that KG, she could be suffering hypothermia 

MelOWOdy: …oh… I think she is

Hostess_With_LeMostess: do you get why we're upset?

MelOWOdy: I'm sorry…

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Apology accepted 

SoraKingdomHearts: Just be careful next time!

MelOWOdy: I will

FIYAAAH: Wait Kokoro is awake?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Sounds like it 

MelOWOdy: Ye!

SoraKingdomHearts: soon we'll have the whole group!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: hopefully away from my house

Professor Girlboss: do you want the good news or bad news

Hostess_With_LeMostess: …who do I not have to deal with 

Professor Girlboss: Yuri and the voids

SoraKingdomHearts: If I had to live in the same house as that simp I'd go crazy 

MelOWOdy: Maybe he's grown up a little 

LUCKYBOI: Press X to doubt 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: X

SoraKingdomHearts: X

MelOWOdy: oh here comes Mikako!

MelOWOdy: …she looks mad 

Professor Girlboss: Not surprised 

LUCKYBOI: And this is the part where you dip out Hibiki

MelOWOdy: but--

LUCKYBOI: 😠

Hostess_With_LeMostess: yeah you should go

MelOWOdy: Fiiiiiine

Based on how Hibiki kept fidgeting with her sleeves, and how she glanced at everyone in the room, Kokoro figured that the vocalist was nervous leaving her alone.

“Um… don’tmurdereachotherokaybye--” Hibiki ducked out the room once Mikako sent her a look.

Now that look was directed onto Kokoro, the look of “I have seen unspeakable horrors and nothing you say will phase me” was burning right at her.

Or perhaps it was a look of pure anger, which was deserved.

Hearing her daughter was alive had been… well it was something she suspected when talking to Kanata, but she didn’t want to get her hopes up.

It sunk in when Mikako walked in, looking so, so much like Sojiro it made her chest ache, there were definitely some traits that she got from her though.

Kokoro wasn’t sure how to feel about that, wasn’t sure how to feel about anything , a sensation she was used to, but if there was one thing she could say, she was honestly relieved that Mikako was alive.

She… didn’t deserve what happened to her, didn’t deserve what happened to her peers.

“H--”

“Fuck you.”

Kokoro expected that. “That’s… that’s fair.”

She regretted opening her mouth as Mikako’s expression turned bitter, as her words had the side-effect of digging up old wounds. “Oh, that’s fair huh?! Now you admit it? Was it the near-death experience that made you realize that experimenting on your kid was wrong you sick--”

“Mikako…” Kanata interrupted. “I think you should calm down.” Based on her expression and tone, she was worried about Mikako confronting her demons and didn’t want her friend to go through any mental pain.

But Mikako didn’t sense this so the anger switch turned to Kanata. “Calm down?!” She hissed. “She fucking experimented on me for eight years and caused the Utsuroshima killing game! Teruya almost died because of her working with that slimy bastard!”

Her chest ached at the reminder of her inability to stop Mikado’s plan. “Mikako! We don’t know all the facts yet!” Kanata argued. 

“I can’t believe you’re defending her!”

“I’m not! I just think you should take a deep breath before jumping to conclusions!”

“Jumping to conclusions?!”

Okay maybe she should get involved since it was her fault the two were arguing. “Please don’t get upset at Mikako… she has every right to be angry at me.” Kokoro spoke up in a low voice. 

Mikako looked surprised at that. “Uh, what?” She didn’t expect that at all, in fact she had expected Kokoro to deny the cruelty in her past actions.

Maybe she would’ve once, but time had made her realize that what she did in the name of science was wrong. 

She had the chance to make things right and she was going to take that chance. “You’re not--”

“Reacting how you expected?” Kokoro answered. “Would it make you feel better if I pretended to be unrepentant? Do an evil laugh?”

Immediately Mikako scrunched her nose. “No, no, do not do that, I get enough from my brother…” That last part had been a mutter, but it was loud enough for her to pick up.  

“Sorry Mikako.” Kanata spoke up. “I just didn’t want you to stress yourself out but I didn’t word it well and I apologize.”

“It’s okay, I’m sorry for snapping at you, you were just trying to help.” Mikako reassured her, she then turned back to Kokoro, expression cold. “So why’d you do it?”

There was no need to ask what Mikako was referring to. “While it’s true I helped Mikado with his alter ego project, I did not help his AI with Utsuroshima, I would’ve tried harder to kill him if I did know that was his plan.”

Creating a killing game like that… Kokoro had seen the effect Junko’s killing game broadcast had on the world, it couldn’t even be called a game.

It was just cruelty.

Mikako continued to stare coldly. “Explain the chip.”

“Is it--”

“Yes Kanata helped removed it I don’t know why the fuck you’d do that but explain it and what it had to do with Mikado.” 

She sighed again. “It was there to monitor your emotions, it wasn’t meant to track you or detonate a bomb or anything like that.” She understood why Mikako had those fears considering it was a thing these days. “I am curious how it broke.” It was supposed to run on a semi-eternal battery so it shouldn’t have run out. 

Kanata helped explain. “After our killing game we all got checked by medical staff at another building, they found it and took it out, I helped.” She winced. “It did kind of break when Yamato repaired his memory invention.”

Memory invention? She drowned her curiosity on that particular subject. “That was really fucked up of you.” Mikako stated.

“I know.” Curious on emotions or not, she shouldn’t have done that. “But since it broke, I was under the assumption you died in your killing game, Mikado ended up using it for his project in reviving Utsuro.” 

“And that resulted in his AI clone?” Kanata questioned.

She nodded. “Yes, and that clearly backfired.”

At that point in time, Mikado had been getting on her nerves, which was obvious since he wasn’t in a good mindset during the project, but her mindset during that time wasn’t all that good either so she didn’t question his life choices at that point.

Now? She’d have made him take at least a five-hour nap before he digitally cloned himself. 

“So you thought I was dead, but you knew I went to Hope’s Peak.” Mikako commented. “And you didn’t try to hunt me down.”

Kokoro shook her head. “At that point in time, for a long time I knew what I did to you was wrong.” A part of her did want to reach out though, but the guilt-ridden side of her had won out. “Initiating contact again wouldn't have been a good thing for you, I’m assuming.”

“Would’ve been nice to get some fucking closure…” She grumbled.

Kanta clicked her pen as she was writing down something on her clipboard. “Okay… so you weren’t involved with creating the killing game, just the part in creating AI Mikado.” She summarized. “Is that all?”

There was a lot she could say, but Kokoro wasn’t sure anything she could say would help. Most likely it would upset Mikako and cause her to relive traumatic memories like what happened with Emma. 

Emma… The actress most likely had been executed in the killing game, because Kokoro couldn’t stop and think properly and just made everything worse, like she always did.

“I just want to know why.”

She glanced up at Mikako’s words. “Why did you do it? Lock me up and shove wires into my head until I was eight.”

Kokoro sighed. If there was one thing she could at least accomplish, it would be to give her daughter closure. “I… I thought that if I found the primitive emotion in people, it could help others, and I was willing to do awful things because I thought it would be for the greater good.” But she was wrong. “So I accept whatever punishment the Kisaragi Foundation has for me, even if I’m to pay with my own life.”

There was a brief moment of silence.

“Are you… alright, Ms. Mitsume?” Kanata asked.

“You don’t have to ask me that.” 

Mikako winced. “So, you regret what you did?”

She nodded. “Yes I regret, I’m sorry for hurting you Mikako, what I did to you was wrong and… if you’d let me, I’d like to make it up to you.” 

“I don’t think I can forgive you…” Mikako began. 

Kokoro nodded. “And I understand that.” The things she did weren’t forgivable, but she’d still try to make amends for that.

“You really hurt me.”

Kokoro bowed her head. “I know, I’m sorry I hurt you.” 

“But… I guess I’d be okay with talking?” Mikako offered. “I still have a lot of questions I’d like answers for.”

That made her feel something she hadn’t felt in a long time, the smallest bit of warmth. “I’ll be sure to answer any questions you have.” 

Mikako smiled a little. “Thanks.” It was a small and barely noticeable smile, but it made Kokoro’s chest ache as it reminded her so much of Sojiro’s smiles, she wished she could apologize to him as well, but he was gone now.

All she could hope was that he was resting easier now that she was finally making amends for her sins… 

“Okay, glad you two have come to an understanding.” Kanata chimed in. All it took was once glance at the surgeon and Kokoro felt her nerves shoot up as underneath that smile was the look of someone about to make you take care of your mental health or else. “But I would like to ask Ms. Mitsume some questions regarding her health and make sure she’s alright physically and mentally.”

“Yes Kanata…” Mikako took that as her queue to step out, leaving Kokoro alone with the surgeon.

She never felt fear that often, it being a difficult emotion to describe. But she did feel slightly scared at whatever medical exams Kanata was about to put her through. 

Private Conversation between Professor Girlboss and Discount Maya Fey:

Professor Girlboss: How’s it going

Discount Maya Fey: kind of exhausted and numb tbh

Discount Maya Fey: but it felt okay to talk 

Professor Girlboss: How much was she involved?

Discount Maya Fey: Creating AI Mikado? Yes. Creating the killing game? No.

Discount Maya Fey: also I don’t think she’s like… Okay

Discount Maya Fey: she said she’d accept whatever punishment even if it was death

Professor Girlboss: ….

Professor Girlboss: I have concerns

Discount Maya Fey: YEAH ME TOO

Discount Maya Fey: idk how to feel after all that but at least i got all my emotions out

Professor Girlboss: Should I add her to the Utsuroshima gc?

Discount Maya Fey: not yet XP, it's been a long day 

Professor Girlboss: just take care, alright?

Discount Maya Fey: I'll be fine!

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Found Hibiki 

MelOWOdy: : (

It's ART!!!: Are you okay??

MelOWOdy: Ruko grounded meeeee 

Trash Raccoon: Not surprised

SoraKingdomHearts: All she said was that you’re not supposed to go to the medical wing by yourself

MelOWOdy: THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD

LUCKYBOI: Drama queen

Professor Girlboss: Hey guys update here

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: How goesth the family reunion?

It’s ART!!!: Nikei -_-

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: What I was just asking

Professor Girlboss added Koko_the_Science_Cat to the chat

LUCKYBOI: !!! Hi Kokoro!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Well well well 

It's ART!!!: you sound like a cartoon villain when you do that 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I do not!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Greetings everyone 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: the gc name is appropriate 

LUCKYBOI: THANK YOU

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Please don't feed his ego 

LUCKYBOI: last I checked my name isnt Nikei

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: YOU GUYS ARE SO MEAN

It's ART!!!: lmao get owned 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: is Hibiki alright?

MelOWOdy: HI 

MelOWOdy: are you okay…?

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Yes I’m quite fine

Professor Girlboss: 🤨…

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I’ve been prescribed antidepressants though

LUCKYBOI: Ah

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Join the club

MelOWOdy: Do you want me to come and give you a hug?

Koko_the_Science_Cat: That’d be nice..

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Oh. Thanks.

MelOWOdy: 😄

Hostess_With_LeMostess: HOW DID U GET SO FAST?!

LUCKYBOI: Towa

MelOWOdy: Towa 

Trash Raccoon: makes sense 

FIYAAAH: Good to have you back 🖐 

Rainbow_Painbow: IM SORRY FOR BEING A BAD BODYGUARD 😭 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: it's okay, I should've talked with Emma after the concert anyways 

It's ART!!!: She felt rly bad for what she had to do

It's ART!!!: we all do

Koko_the_Science_Cat: you were a Void?

It's ART!!!: Me and Nikei were 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: don't out me

Hostess_With_LeMostess: She would've found out 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: tbh I suspected you for a bit…

Hostess_With_LeMostess: WOW. RUDE

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Apologies.

MelOWOdy: Are you okay after um… talking w/ Mikako?

Professor Girlboss: Watch it there -_-

MelOWOdy: SORRY

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I’m okay with talking

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I’m assuming you all have a basic summary of my relationship with her, so to summarize it, I acknowledge what I did to her was wrong and if she wants to continue having me in her life, I’d like to make amends for my actions

Hostess_With_LeMostess: You better make up for what you did

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I will, I promise

FIYAAAH: Yeah that’s probably a good handle on it

MelOWOdy: I’m happy w/ how things turned out! 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I’m keeping an eye on you still

Koko_the_Science_Cat: understandable, have a nice day

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: You’re not supposed to be chill abt this BE MORE UNLIKEABLE GOD DAMMIT

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Uhhh???

Koko_the_Science_Cat: ….your articles are mediocre?

It’s ART!!!: Oh that’s just fact

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: FUCK YOU

LUCKYBOI: Sidenote I’m coming over n.n

LUCKYBOI: Word of warning Koko I look a lot different than I did in the simulation 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: that's not too surprising, Yoruko does too 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Except nearsightedness caught up to me

LUCKYBOI: No I mean…

SoraKingdomHearts: you'll see

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: way to sound ominous

FIYAAAH: So what happened to FF?

Professor Girlboss: oh they’re at their respective rooms

Professor Girlboss: some members are staying at a local hotel some are staying here

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Do you guys have to provide room service?

Professor Girlboss: 🔪

Trash Raccoon: That answers it 

Professor Girlboss: Anyone who tries to make me do room service is getting shanked 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: and now I see Yuki

Koko_the_Science_Cat: That is not your body what on earth happened 

SoraKingdomHearts: Mikado happened 

LUCKYBOI: He put my brain in a jar 😭

Koko_the_Science_Cat: that motherfucker is lucky he’s dead or else 🔨

Rainbow_Painbow: WOAH

Trash Raccoon: Huh didn't think you were the type to swear 

LUCKYBOI: I survived Utsuroshima and all I got was divine luck and identity issues 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: did you know what Sannoji was planning to do with Yuki?

Koko_the_Science_Cat: The original? No 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Now I know that you can't kill an AI by turning the computer off 

Trash Raccoon: wow that's sad 

SoraKingdomHearts: is it bad I laughed??

LUCKYBOI: YES

Hostess_With_LeMostess: you should've tossed him in the trash 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I did after I turned the computer off

Trash Raccoon: this is so pathetic oh my god 

It's ART!!!: That's so mean!

Professor Girlboss: I shared this with Mikako and she’s laugh-crying

Professor Girlboss: So is Yamato

Koko_the_Science_Cat: is that good or bad?

Professor Girlboss: You’re good, tho next time just dunk the computer in water

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Noted. 

MelOWOdy: omg I can’t stop even

SoraKingdomHearts: it’s not funny -_-

SoraKingdomHearts: I will punch you

MelOWOdy: D:

LUCKYBOI: SORA

Koko_the_Science_Cat: 😥

LUCKYBOI: Oh you don't know about Sora’s predicament, right?

Koko_the_Science_Cat: you and her are sharing a body?

Koko_the_Science_Cat: It's very obvious 

SoraKingdomHearts: I never get to have any fun here 

LUCKYBOI: YOU CAN TELL?!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I'm scared of you now 

Private conversation between Hostess_With_LeMostess and Koko_the_Science_Cat:

Hostess_With_LeMostess: is it rly that obvious 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: yes

Hostess_With_LeMostess: wow even I have a hard time telling who's fronting if they don't change their voice 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: It's evident in their body language and tone, even if neither are making an effort to change their voice

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Also Hibiki gave me a heads-up

Hostess_With_LeMostess: course she did 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: you looked genuinely shocked at the bodyswap tho

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I knew the "Yuki and Sora sharing a body” part not the "Mikado destroyed Yuki's body” part

The Fun Class:

KinjoCult: Soooo do I need to make an arrest?

Discount Maya Fey: can you check your dms for once 

LUCKYBOI: Also Kanata can you bring another blanket?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: of course!

Rainbow_Painbow: Is Kokoro alright?

LUCKYBOI: She feels very cold 😟 

Computer_Weeb69: that's not her normal body temperature?

LUCKYBOI: NO

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I'm worried she might develop a cold or flu due to her hypothermia 

LUCKYBOI: I think she already has a cold she's coughed a couple times

Discount Maya Fey: oof

Rainbow_Painbow: Ouch

Professor Girlboss: This shows how scarily real the NWP is

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I’m also worried about her mental state, she appears to suffer from depression so I prescribed her some medicine for that

Rainbow_Painbow: oof

LUCKYBOI: Really sad hearing she wasn’t in a good place mentally before Utsuroshima… but she’s in good hands now! 

KinjoCult: Okay I checked your messages 

KinjoCult: So she had nothing to do with Utsuroshima 

Discount Maya Fey: outside of AI Mikado? Nope

Computer_Weeb69: how did your talk go with her?

Discount Maya Fey: It went 

KinjoCult: I can still arrest her if she upsetted you

Discount Maya Fey: ffs am fine 

Discount Maya Fey: just emotionally exhausted as I vented out years of anger and resentment and idk where to go from here

Rainbow_Painbow: we're with you tho!

Computer_Weeb69: Do you still want to talk to her?

Discount Maya Fey: probably

Discount Maya Fey: She feels bad for what she did to me and she wants to make it up to me, but I’ve had enough family drama for the day 

Professor Girlboss: That's fair 

Computer_Weeb69: and we're here for you if you need it!

Discount Maya Fey: Thanks <3

LUCKYBOI: So uh are we gonna tell FF she’s up if she worked with them?

KinjoCult: Iiii don't want to think about that until tomorrow 

Professor Girlboss: Me neither

LUCKYBOI: what did Munakata do

KinjoCult: Remind me of my worst days

Rainbow_Painbow: You mean of your "all criminals must die" mentality?

KinjoCult: Yeah. That

Professor Girlboss: and also thinking you're the definition of justice 

LUCKYBOI: Wtf was up with that btw

LUCKYBOI: That’s like… the big reason I avoided Kisaragi Foundation for so long, your mindset of thinking your version of justice was THE justice was really fucking annoying

Professor Girlboss: Yuki

Discount Maya Fey: He doesn’t know, Rei!

KinjoCult: My… father installed that mindset onto me

KinjoCult: It kind of got worse when finding out he was despair agent

LUCKYBOI: oh big yikes, sorry

KinjoCult: I feel bad that I devolved back into that mindset during Utsuroshima

Rainbow_Painbow: tbf you thought I died

Professor Girlboss: and you understand that the way you handled Utsuroshima wasn’t the best way

Computer_Weeb69: And you’ve improved! Remember how we compromised on reforming criminals?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I'd say that was one of your best ideas as it's helped decrease the crime rate 

KinjoCult: Thanks guys… for at least helping be my moral compass

Rainbow_Painbow: Anytime!

Discount Maya Fey: Just don't keep your thoughts bottled 

Discount Maya Fey: Trust me, it bites 

LUCKYBOI: You don't say?

Chapter Text

Voidsquad:

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I miss burgers

MelOWOdy: Still on a liquid diet?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Okay I like ramen but I'm getting really tired of whatever vegetable soup nonsense the doc is making me drink 

It's ART!!!: it's good for you Nikei!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: and then there's the fact I'm "recommended" to put my phone away at night 

MelOWOdy: your sleep-deprived ass needs it

It's ART!!!: The amount of times Hajime has to get him to go tf to sleep 

It's ART!!!: I'm surprised Dr. Inori hasn't taken your phone 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I have the brightness on low and she's checking on Kokoro 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: who keeps coughing 

MelOWOdy: still?

It's ART!!!: oh noes 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Yeah guess she got the cold or flu 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: not surprised considering she froze to death 

MelOWOdy: why did Emmie have to do that?

MelOWOdy: out of all the ways to go, freezing??

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: ask her when she wakes up 

It's ART!!!: Nikei!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: What she asked

A Very Important Talk:

Computer_Weeb69 added Koko_the_Science_Cat and Professor Girlboss to the chat 

Computer_Weeb69: Hey Mitsume

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I'm not interested in signing up for a magazine subscription 

Computer_Weeb69: DO I LOOK LIKE?!

Professor Girlboss: no this is Rei Mekaru and Yamato Kisaragi 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Ah

Koko_the_Science_Cat: is this a shovel talk?

Computer_Weeb69: Dangit I was gonna do a whole bit 

Professor Girlboss: Improvise 

Professor Girlboss: But you got the message

Koko_the_Science_Cat: yes

Computer_Weeb69: CAN I SAY MY THING?!

Computer_Weeb69: You hurt my sister and I hurt you

Computer_Weeb69: I don't need a body to end your career

Koko_the_Science_Cat: neither did Sannoji so threat noted 

Professor Girlboss: Dang

Discount Maya Fey has joined the chat  

Computer_Weeb69: Mikako???

Discount Maya Fey: Yamato…. Rei….

Discount Maya Fey: what did I fucking tell you

Professor Girlboss: Um… sorry???

Computer_Weeb69: Hey I had to get the message across 

Discount Maya Fey: I don't need you giving my birth giver the fucking shovel talk I CAN HANDLE IT MYSELF

Computer_Weeb69: Sorry,,,

Koko_the_Science_Cat: don’t be too harsh on them Mikako, they mean well

Discount Maya Fey: NOT YOU TOO

Professor Girlboss: I’m not used to this 

Professor Girlboss: Then again it’s usually the uno reverse for the shovel talk

Koko_the_Science_Cat: how is it the uno reverse

Computer_Weeb69: Makes sense for me cuz I’m her brother

Computer_Weeb69: But Mikako and Rei are dating sooo

Discount Maya Fey: YAMATO

Computer_Weeb69: …oops

Professor Girlboss: way to spill the beans on MY WHOLE BIT

Koko_the_Science_Cat: oh you two are dating?

Professor Girlboss: Yeah we have been since our killing game

Koko_the_Science_Cat: that’s really sweet, I hope you two are happy together

Discount Maya Fey: uhhhhhh

Koko_the_Science_Cat: sorry, was I pushing boundaries?

Discount Maya Fey: No just uhhh

Discount Maya Fey: Give me a moment

Computer_Weeb69: 🔪I warned u

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I’m sorry?!?!?!

Discount Maya Fey: KNOCK IT TF OUT

Computer_Weeb69: *lowers knife*

Professor Girlboss: Are you okay???

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Did I upset you?

Discount Maya Fey: No just uh… 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Did I say something wrong?

Discount Maya Fey: not rly but I’d rather not go into details of my relationship

Discount Maya Fey: But thanks for the support

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Alright and no problem

Discount Maya Fey: And u two chill you guys are way too overprotective

Professor Girlboss: I’ll tone it down dw 

Computer_Weeb69: It’s my job 

Discount Maya Fey: I’m not paying u

Computer_Weeb69: >:C

“Thanks for helping me with this, Iroha.” Hibiki told the artist as they were on their way to the building where all the rescued kids, Warriors of Hope included, were staying, carrying an unholy amount of art supplies.

Hibiki wasn’t going to question how Iroha managed to get so many after being back for a couple weeks, maybe she bribed Syobai? She wasn’t going to ask, but she was happy the artist was tagging along.

She liked spending time with her… Iroha who had been the first to find her and comfort her after the failed group execution on Utsuroshima… even though the artist had been cowardly of the consequences of her actions from before… Hibiki didn’t see that cowardly artist in front of her now.

She just saw Iroha, her friend and someone she really cared about, not that she’d ever have the courage to say that out loud… 

“I wanted to visit the kids anyways!” Iroha had an adorable smile on her face. “Does Jataro like watercolors?”

Hibiki rolled her eyes, she knew Iroha wanted to get to know him a little more, but she could be more subtle about it. “He’s more into sculpting but I’m sure he’ll find it fun.” Hibiki answered. “He really loves it when people listen to him talk about his artworks.”

Even if some of them were a bit… dark… She didn’t mind listening as long as he wasn’t drawing cartoon slaughter.

“I know what you’re trying to do,” She glanced at Iroha. “Good luck on trying to steal my bis sis, title, you’ll need it.”

Iroha smirked back. “Oh I don’t need luck, I’ve got Divine Luck.”

“Yours isn’t built like that, don't even try.”

“It could if I called your brother~” 

“Don’t bring Yuki into this.”

 They both dissolved into giggles as they got to the building and rang the doorbell. “Hello again!” One of the caretakers, Taichi, rang the doorbell. They looked like they just had their coffee and were smiling. “Some of the kids were wondering when you’d be back.”

“But I come over every couple of days…?” Hibiki questioned.

“You act just as clingy towards your brother.” Iroha pointed out.

She frowned, but sighed. “Yeah… don’t blame them for missing me.” Even now she felt anxious being away from Yuki, even though he was either at the main Kisaragi office building or at Yoruko’s house.

It was progress though from before, as she used to panic a lot whenever he went out of sight. Hibiki made a mental note to visit more and opened the door.

Most of the kids briefly glanced at the new visitors then went back to playing, except for five pairs of eyes. “Bis sis!” She immediately got tackle-hugged by two small children.

Hibiki had a huge smile on her face as she hugged them back. Iroha recognized them as Kotoko and Jataro, they looked much healthier than they did in Towa. “How are you two today?”

“Great!” Jataro beamed, then he looked even happier once noticing the art supplies. “You… you got watercolors?”

Iroha took that as her cue to chime in. “Watercolors are a lot of fun, so I helped bring them over.”

“Thank you, miss.” He bowed her head and she wanted so badly to ruffle his head, but she had been warned in advance not to make any sudden movements so she settled for “aww-ing” at him.

“No problem!”

Kotoko, on the other hand, looked nervous. “I have a doctor’s appointment today.”

“It’ll be okay.” Hibiki reassured her. “I see the doctor a lot too and even though it’s scary, it’s to make me feel better.”

“But I’m really scared, what if I’m really sick?” Poor Kotoko looked absolutely terrified, which wasn’t surprising considering what she had gone through.

Iroha didn’t know the implications that well, but she knew enough that if Kotoko’s birth givers were alive, she’d have stabbed them over a dozen times. 

“Well…” Hibiki bit her lip. “Then if you’re really sick, they know how to take care of you and give you stuff to make you feel better.”

“That makes sense.” Jataro turned to Kotoko.

Kotoko still looked like a spooked deer, but less so. “Okay…”

“It’ll be alright, no matter what happens.” She reassured the small girl. 

“Can we do watercolors?” Kokoto asked her.

She smiled. “Of course!”

At least Future Foundation’s sudden arrival couldn’t stop her from spending time with her favorite kids.

Private conversation between KinjoCult and TheCouncil:

KinjoCult: Yes I'm sure 

TheCouncil: I merely want to ask Mitsume about her role in things 

KinjoCult: ask until she's better then 

KinjoCult: Trust me, it takes awhile until the side effects from dying in VR wear off

TheCouncil: I'll take your word on it 

TheCouncil: But I do have a question regarding the Otonokoji twins

KinjoCult: shoot

TheCouncil: Hibiki was rather hesitant to talk about her sister…

TheCouncil: And her behavior is rather different than it was before

Private conversation between MelOWOdy and KinjoCult:

KinjoCult: Should I tell Kyouske about your sister he's asking 

“Uch.” Iroha glanced up from helping Masaru with painting to see Hibiki scowling at her phone.

Monaca noticed as well. “Is there something wrong?” She tilted her head in curiosity.

The former mastermind of the Towa Crisis lowkey creeped Iroha out whenever she did that, and she swore Monaca was doing that on purpose.

According to Hibiki she was getting better and slowly mending her friendships, so at least she wasn’t causing anymore problems.

“My boss is just asking me a question.” Hibki texted something. “There done.” 

MelOWOdy: saves me the hassle so yeah 

Iroha leaned over to see what the problem was. “Yikes.”

“Yikes indeed.” Hibiki nodded. “Let’s just not talk about it and be glad I don’t have to.”

“I feel bad for Kinjo-san having to explain it…” 

Hibiki shrugged. “I don’t.” Mostly because she didn’t have to.

She’d probably worry later but for now she was going to continue helping her kids with painting their fears and stress away.  

Private conversation between KinjoCult and TheCouncil:

KinjoCult: Kanade Otonokoji is a vile individual who was emotionally abusing and manipulating her sister 

KinjoCult: and also a serial killer who killed people whose only crime was being friends with said sister 

TheCouncil: …what 

KinjoCult: I'm sure you've heard about the Melody Rhythm curse 

KinjoCult: at least 60 people lost their lives or were seriously maimed, perhaps even more 

TheCouncil: and Hibiki knew about this?

KinjoCult: She didn't know until the killing game 

TheCouncil: Really

TheCouncil: 60 people died because of her sister and she was oblivious to it 

KinjoCult: I know it's strange from an outside perspective 

KinjoCult: But to Hibiki her sister was her only family, why would she think her sister was behind all those disappearances?

TheCouncil: Unless she was an accomplice

TheCouncil: you were the Ultimate Police Officer, that didn't occur to you 

KinjoCult: Okay I'm telling you to stop that train of thought 

KinjoCult: Hibiki had 0 idea what her twin was like and she already blames herself for not noticing sooner 

KinjoCult: Do not even imply she was at fault for all those murders 

TheCouncil: Alright then 

TheCouncil: …Are the other New Hopes secretly criminals too?

KinjoCult: No!

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

MelOWOdy: I mean he's not wrong it was my fault all those people died…

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Sweetie no 

TryingMyBest: No it wasn't!!!

KinjoCult: Agreed and you should probably avoid him 

MelOWOdy: I thought this would be a short visit not a dang interrogation!

MelOWOdy: Why not pull a press conference while at it?!

Professor Girlboss: we do have to host one once everyone wakes up

Rainbow_Painbow: god I hate talking to the press they ask the most stupid questions 

Rainbow_Painbow: what does my love life have to do with the state of the foundation?!

KinjoCult: The amount of reporters who ask if I'm dating Rei…

Discount Maya Fey: As Rei's actual girlfriend I'm offended 

Kiwigiwi: And this is why Makoto and I date in secret 

MelOWOdy: I'm just gonna not visit the building today 

MelOWOdy: sorry Nikei 

It’s ART!!!: We’re having fun watercoloring rn 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: ehhh it's fine

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: oh that reminds me!

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun* added Koko_the_Science_Cat to the chat:

SwimAway: Welcome new person!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Greetings 

Unlucky Hope: You were the one that woke up yesterday, right?

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Correct

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Forgive me if my answers are short or slow, I'm not feeling well

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Still sick?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Ms. Mitsume has a bad cough and is feverish 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: it should go away in at least a week!

70% Disaster: Oof 

Unlucky Hope: Aww get well soon!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Thanks 

KinjoCult: So like I was saying, I hope FF leaves asap

KinjoCult: no offense

Richie_Rich: none taken

Kiwigiwi: don't blame you

Unlucky Hope: sorry that Munakata left a bad impression

Unlucky Hope: but there's plenty of FF members who are really nice!

MelOWOdy: name one

Then PERISH: Miaya

MelOWOdy: whom

Then PERISH: the head of branch 7 and is also in charge of the mental health division 

SwimAway: Yeah she made sure we were okay after we escaped Hope’s Peak 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: How is she?

Then PERISH: She has a lot of health reminders on the FF gc 

Professor Girlboss: you guys have a group chat?

Unlucky Hope: for some of the branch heads and other high rank members 

Unlucky Hope: I have the chat muted I don't like talking to Tengan

LUCKYBOI: Who's that guy?

Kiwigiwi: former Hope’s Peak principal and current FF Chairman 

70% Disaster: he makes us talk to the press a lot for PR and to "show the world that the surviving Hopes have faith in FF"

Unlucky Hope: He has good intentions but I don't really trust him

Unlucky Hope: He just… he knew what Hope’s Peak was really like, what the Steering Committee is like

It's ART!!!: its not always easy to fight back 

Kiwigiwi: True but still

Koko_the_Science_Cat: His ties to the school's dark secrets make you wary of him and you worry history might repeat?

Unlucky Hope: THAT

Kiwigiwi: him wanting the school rebuilt is a red flag that covers other red flags

MelOWOdy: Wait he's gonna rebuild that school?

Richie_Rich: FF has the school as a sort of stationary base/protected area 

Richie_Rich: but we have heard higher ups discuss rebuilding the school so that there can be a new generation of hope 

SoraKingdomHearts: that's such a loads of bs that school isn't the only defining symbol of hope

MelOWOdy: go off Sosie

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Agreed

It's ART!!!: I like to think living itself is Hope

Unlucky Hope: off topic but did you guys know I wanted to become a teacher?

LUCKYBOI: Oh that's cool!

We Are Number One:

BagelsOfHOPE: Guess who saw sensei in person?

MUSICMAAAAN: uhhhhhg why must you torture us 

Amongus_Bungus: was she disappointed? I bet she was disappointed 

Helloooo_Nurse!: clearly considering she saw Nagito

BagelsOfHOPE: None of the above 

Soda_Good_Time: laaame

FoodGloriousFood: at least lie to us 

BagelsOfHOPE: no ♥ 

ThePrincessOfFlames: how was dear sensei?

BagelsOfHOPE: she was trying to convince her not-hubby to not execute me 

BagelsOfHOPE: He reeeeaaaally hates us yknow 

Soda_Good_Time: What?!

BabyGangsta: of course he doesn't like us dumbass, we're the bad guys 

FoodGloriousFood: I thought we were the good guys 

Helloooo_Nurse!: would the good guys look THIS sexy??

FoodGloriousFood: good point 

ThePrincessOfFlames: Nagito you're not in danger, are you??

BagelsOfHOPE: dunno but my luck never kills me anyways!

BagelsOfHOPE: if I don't reply, assume Munakata has gutted me when the Kisaragi Foundation wasn't looking 

Soda_Good_Time: THAT'S IT

Soda_Good_Time: IM BUSTING YOU OUTTA THERE

Soda_Good_Time: WHOS WITH ME!?

ThePrincessOfFlames: Nope

BabyGangsta: fuck no 

Helloooo_Nurse!: I'm not risking getting caught for Nagito 

FoodGloriousFood: I'll join you I'm bored tbh

Soda_Good_Time: Awesome!

Amongus_Bungus: Be careful you imbeciles 

FoodGloriousFood: you not my dad!

Amongus_Bungus: T.T

BagelsOfHOPE: Hopefully you guys don't invade while I'm on a date, that would suck

MUSICMAAAAN: YOU'RE GETTING BACK TOGETHER WITH YOUR EX?!

Helloooo_Nurse!: THIS IS THE DARKEST TIMELINE WHAT THE FUCK

Kisaragi HQ:

Discount Mom Fwiend: So you talked?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: we might try dating again after the NWP project, but for now I enjoy his company!

Jevil: Fun

Discount Maya Fey: I question what you still see in him 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Hey! He might have done terrible inhumane things but I think he can be better 

KinjoCult: Not to mention it's implied 77 is under literal brainwashing 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: EXACTLY

Discount Maya Fey: I didn't mean to sound rude just didn't want you to get hurt again 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I'll be careful, but for now it's just sharing lunch and talking about books 

Rainbow_Painbow: awww

OBJECTIOOON has logged on 

OBJECTIOOON: Boss I think Yuki is in danger 

KinjoCult: danger?!?!?!

Professor Girlboss: I think he'll be fine unless the 3rd floor faulty vending machine takes his money hostage 

Computer_Weeb69: it's trying to unionize 

OBJECTIOOON: A FF guy was asking me weird questions 

KinjoCult: Was it Munakata?

OBJECTIOOON: No

Jevil: it could be a member following his orders

KinjoCult: greeeeaaaat

Discount Mom Fwiend: what did he ask?

OBJECTIOOON: asked about Yuki and Sora but was wording it weird and asked if they acted weird as of late or if ever

OBJECTIOOON: And even questioned if Sora was real 

Professor Girlboss: are you kidding 

Computer_Weeb69: Guess we better bust out the ol PowerPoint 

KinjoCult: Do you have any idea why he asked those questions?

OBJECTIOOON: Well he did ask about Akane Taira

Jevil: I don't like where this is going 

OBJECTIOOON: I think Munakata thinks that Akane is *pretending* to be Yuki and Sora 

Rainbow_Painbow: She's a bad actress how would she pull that off 

KinjoCult: why am I not surprised 

Discount Maya Fey: can Yuki catch a fucking break already 

Rainbow_Painbow: "no" -the universe 

Discount Mom Fwiend: do you think FF is that dumb to try and attack Yuki while visiting?

KinjoCult: can never be too careful 

Private conversation between Professor Girlboss and LUCKYBOI:

Professor Girlboss: Yeah so he thinks you're Akane so be careful 

LUCKYBOI: hahahaha I'm in danger!

LUCKYBOI: I didn't ask for this 

Professor Girlboss: I know 

LUCKYBOI: You haaaaad to tell him about the beta killing game 

Professor Girlboss: Well we didn't think he'd assume you still had Akane in your brain 

Professor Girlboss: her brain 

LUCKYBOI: confusing, right?

Professor Girlboss: and even if she was still there, its no excuse to treat you like a despair sleeper agent 

LUCKYBOI: Really…?

LUCKYBOI: Even if she was still here?

Professor Girlboss: Yes

LUCKYBOI: don't you hate her?

Professor Girlboss: I hate the things she did, and that she chose to follow despair, but I know it's complicated 

LUCKYBOI: She had terrible taste in men 

Professor Girlboss: 🤣 

Yuki lowkey regretted visiting the Kisaragi building now, even though he was in a construction area helping out with building expansion, he still felt eyes on him.

We can always go home for the day… Sora suggested. Get some blankets and hot drinks and watch TV…

You can spend time with your girlfriend later. He rolled his eyes. Any other suggestions?

Maybe don’t go by yourself when Future Foundation is around. 

How’s that gonna help?

They can’t snipe you if you’re with a friend.

That makes sense. Thanks.

No problem, and sorry you have to deal with this because of me.

It's not your fault Future Foundation has no brain cells. 

The Fun Class:

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Teruya next time you talk to Nikei, tell him to stop bribing Iroha into bringing him junk food

Rainbow_Painbow: He's what?

Professor Girlboss: I thought you still had him on a liquid diet 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I DID

LUCKYBOI: looks like a secret snack smuggling ring 

Computer_Weeb69: Nijiue's a chip dealer!

Discount Maya Fey: Do you ever think before you speak 

LUCKYBOI: Not really 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: And i have been trying to tell that it's what's causing his stomach ache but he's all "worth it" and it is not worth it!

Rainbow_Painbow: he hasn't thrown up, has he?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: not yet but still its not helping his re

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

KinjoCult: Is everything okay?!

Professor Girlboss: What happened now

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: MITSUME WAS IN ON THIS TOO

Rainbow_Painbow: Oh my god

Discount Maya Fey: Wait what?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: THE AMOUNT OF JUNK FOOD WRAPPERS I FOUND UNDER THE BED

LUCKYBOI: Kokoro why

Rainbow_Painbow: okay I have to see this 

Computer_Weeb69: rip Kanata's blood pressure 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I just can't even rn 

Voidsquad:

MelOWOdy: why tf did I get a text from Yuki about some secret junk food ring you guys are in 

It's ART!!!: Uhhhhhh

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I NEED MY SNACKS OKAY

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: YOU UNDERSTAND, RIGHT?!

MelOWOdy: Not enough to risk the wrath of Dr. Inori I don't 

Private conversation between Discount Maya Fey and Koko_the_Science_Cat:

Discount Maya Fey: Care to explain this?

Discount Maya Fey has shared an image

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I'm guessing Dr. Inori told you?

Discount Maya Fey: Yes, the chips cannot be that good to risk getting sick

Koko_the_Science_Cat: they're very addictive okay…

Koko_the_Science_Cat: there weren't any in the simulation 

Discount Maya Fey: rofl 🤣 

Discount Maya Fey: but seriously please no more junk until you're off liquids 

Discount Maya Fey: don't want you to get sicker

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Alright, I'll stop sneaking in chips

Koko_the_Science_Cat: ….did I worry you?

Discount Maya Fey: little bit

Koko_the_Science_Cat: why?

Discount Maya Fey: Disclaimer I'm still mad at you and stuff 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: and that's completely understandable 

Discount Maya Fey: But I don't want to wish harm on you, or want for you to suffer

Discount Maya Fey: Also uh… I also like those brand of chips so I get it 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Really? Do you prefer them plain as well?

Discount Maya Fey: I prefer the spicier ones

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Ah, I've never been able to handle spicy foods n.n;

Discount Maya Fey: building up a tolerance was worth it tho

Discount Maya Fey: I'm uh going back to work now, but take care

Koko_the_Science_Cat: You too

Discount Maya Fey: and no more smuggling chips!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: That as well

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

LUCKYBOI: Is it rly okay if I visit?

FIYAAAH: Of course! You're always welcome 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: how's it moving to the new place?

FIYAAAH: Pretty good, better than the old district we lived at

FIYAAAH: The house is a mess, word of warning 

LUCKYBOI: You have kids, it's understandable 

It's ART!!!: it was pretty surprising to hear, you used to be so shy around the girls!

FIYAAAH: hahahaha yeah,

SoraKingdomHearts: and now he's a DILF

MelOWOdy: SOSIE

It's ART!!!: WHY

Hostess_With_LeMostess: SORA THATS SO CURSED WTF

SoraKingdomHearts: I HAD TO

FIYAAAH: ….what's a DILF?

Rainbow_Painbow: you don't wanna know

Rainbow_Painbow: Trust me 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: does that make Kokoro a MILF

MelOWOdy: STOP

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Call me that again and you'll wake up with your face sharpied

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Jokes on you I don't sleep 

Trash Raccoon: I personally identify as a Tumblr sexyman 

SoraKingdomHearts: You do have that homeless mf look 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: YOU ARE NOT HELPING 

MelOWOdy: GROSS

It's ART!!!: Never call yourself that again 

Trash Raccoon: make me : )

Professor Girlboss has logged on 

Professor Girlboss: uhhh

Rainbow_Painbow: Run. Run while you still can

Chapter Text

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

70% Disaster: So how's another day of shadowing the Kisaragi Foundation going?

Richie_Rich: bored

Kiwigiwi: it's nice talking about case studies 

SwimAway: my doggo is getting so spoiled rn

MelOWOdy: Sprinkles is the most bestest dog ever!

MelOWOdy: such a good boi yes he is!

Sonic_SWIM: knew you'd be a dog person 

Richie_Rich: who deserves a much nicer name 

Kiwigiwi: Sprinkles is a valid name 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I have a cat named Huggles

Richie_Rich: wh

Richie_Rich: HUGGLES?!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: sadly I don't know what happened to him after I got put into the KG

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Bummer

Professor Girlboss: Wait, is this your cat?

Professor Girlboss has posted an image, it is a cat lying on a desk looking at the camera annoyed.

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Yes!

KinjoCult: We found him on the island and kind of made him an office cat 

Discount Maya Fey: Rei and I have been taking care of him, want me to bring him over?

Koko_the_Science_Cat: It'd be nice to see he's alright

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: huh never pegged you as a cat person 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: ahem

It's ART!!!: Really dude 

Trash Raccoon: Huh I always found it weird Mikado wanted me to get rid of the cat 

SoraKingdomHearts: let me guess you took the cat?

Trash Raccoon: eh I respect a good cat 

MelOWOdy: Cats are cute but dogs are cuter! 🐶 

SwimAway: oh have you ever had doggo Hibiki?

LUCKYBOI: SHHHHHHH

MelOWOdy: I used to… his name was Shiro and we used to play together a lot 

MelOWOdy: then one day he went missing and I couldn't find him 

MelOWOdy: then I found out the reason he went missing was that my sister killed him while home alone

SwimAway: oh my god 

Sonic_SWIM: that's horrible!

Richie_Rich: what a cruel girl 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: she was 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: If you don't mind me asking… how old were you when this happened?

LUCKYBOI: Be careful on how you proceed 

MelOWOdy: four almost five

Koko_the_Science_Cat: So your sister was home alone… at four… with the dog 

MelOWOdy: Yes?

70% Disaster: wat

Unlucky Hope: my parents never left me or Komaru home alone that's concerning 

MelOWOdy: I don't want to talk about them today 

TryingMyBest: that's okay, uh do you ever think about getting another dog?

MelOWOdy: ye but idk if I can afford one 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: hmm

Private conversation between Hostess_With_LeMostess and SoraKingdomHearts:

SoraKingdomHearts: you thinking what I'm thinking?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Well one of my co-workers at one of my offices has a dog that's having puppies soon 

SoraKingdomHearts: and she could use a support animal 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: only reason I haven't brought it up is bc… well her sister 

SoraKingdomHearts: She's under close watch tho 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: but if she got out… *shudder*

SoraKingdomHearts: you'd think I'd let that happen?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: definitely not 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: but I do want it to be a surprise 

SoraKingdomHearts: My lips are sealed 

SoraKingdomHearts: how is work btw?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: commuting between offices is a hassle but I'm glad to go back to work 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: its nice helping people and I don't have to move as much 

SoraKingdomHearts: Yeah this area is pretty nice, and we're by the Kisaragi Foundation in case of emergencies 

SoraKingdomHearts: would be nice to stay forever

Hostess_With_LeMostess: are you and Yuki leaving?

SoraKingdomHearts: we gotta catch the Remnants somehow 

SoraKingdomHearts: dw tho we'll leave Hibiki out of it

Hostess_With_LeMostess: good luck convincing her to stay put 

SoraKingdomHearts: if she wants her puppy she better fucking stay cuz it's serious business.

Mikako was currently having a conversation with Kokoro, Huggles nested in her arms as he had been happy to see his old owner while Rei was watching them talk in the corner of the room.

She didn’t need to turn around to see her girlfriend glaring daggers at her biological mother, not that she didn’t blame Rei… but sometimes she was too overprotective.

Then again, she didn’t blame Rei for that either, as her girlfriend had been extremely overprotective of Mikako since they survived the killing game.

It was pure luck, not divine luck, that Mikako had survived at all, Rei had a feeling that the trial was rigged and came up with the idea to fake her death so she could avoid getting executed, and she’d try her best to explain everything she knew to the professor despite her state.

She had been in… a lot of pain during that game, barely able to speak without her head trying to kill her, and she had been too scared to write things down, too scared that Monokuma would kill her if she slipped anything to anyone else.

“Do you want him back?” Kokoro recognized that she was thinking about bad memories.

Mikako shook her head. “No, he’s happy to see you again.” There had been lots of excited meows when she came into the hospital room with the cat in her arms. “But is it okay if--”

“You and Rei keep him? Of course, he seems to be a positive influence as the Kisaragi Foundation office cat.” Kokoro lifted up Huggles a little so she could make eye contact. “And you keep getting bribes from people, don’t you?”

“Yes, he does.” Rei chimed in from afar.

Huggles ignored the fact they were talking about his ability to emotionally manipulate people into giving him treats and he meowed in demanding more pets.

Kokoro gave him a few more pats but paused as she heard footsteps, Mikako also heard them and turned her head to the room’s door.

It was Hibiki and Yuta, followed by Aoi who was holding a somewhat large dog… which was impressive considering how heavy big dogs were. “They wanted to see the cat.” Aoi explained as the dog, presumably Sprinkles, kept wagging his tail in her face.

“How are you doing that?” Mikako gestured to her holding the big dog.

“Lots of lifting weights!”

Mikako was not going to question any further, she was not. Although she made a mental note not to get on Aoi’s bad side like ever.

Hibiki hopped a little closer, staring at the cat in Kokoro’s arms. “You can pet him if you’d like.” The older woman offered.

She cautiously reached her hand over to pet the cat’s cheek, and when he leaned into the hand with soft purring, Hibiki’s expression turned wide with joy and she started to give him more pets.

Yuta leaned over her shoulder. “Hey, don’t hog all the soft cat pets.”

Hibiki paused to sign something to the tune of “You’re not the boss of me” before going back to petting Huggles, ignoring the “Wow, rude!” by Yuta.

“Not in a chatty mood today?” Mikako noted.

Hibiki nodded. It wasn’t too uncommon for her to go a day or two without speaking, sometimes it was too hard for her to talk, which was fine.

A sharp cough from Kokoro made her freeze from petting the cat. “I’m alright.” Kokoro reassured her, as Hibiki was staring in worry. “However, I’m still under the weather.”

“That’s a bummer.” Yuta commented. 

Aoi nodded her head in agreement. “Yeah I hate it when I get sick, this one time Makoto got really sick and got the rest of us sick…” She shuddered, Mikako wasn’t a mind reader, but she could tell the experience was a sore memory for the swimmer. “Well, I was lucky to avoid that.”

Sprinkles decided the best way to cheer his owner up by licking him on the cheek. “Augh, Sprinkles!”

Yuta snorted at the sight. “Told you that would happen.”

“Not funny Yuta!” 

The Three Musketeers: 

TheCouncil: any updates regarding Taira?

Teachy_Teach: Still?

TheCouncil: I asked some of our men to ask around, and it seems the whole Foundation bought her lies

Boxman: Plus wasn't she off the grid until Towa?

TheCouncil: exactly 

Teachy_Teach: …okay fair but I'm pretty sure the Kisaragi Foundation are onto you 

TheCouncil: damn it, we'll have to be more subtle 

Boxman: I say we go over to where her house is and get answers ourselves 

Teachy_Teach: that's illegal!

TheCouncil: but a good plan

TheCouncil: it wouldn't be illegal Chisa, we'd be doing the Kisaragi Foundation a favor by rooting the Despair agent 

Teachy_Teach: not unless you have proof 

Boxman: nothing a camera can't fix

TheCouncil: Exactly, Akane Taira’s days are numbered

Teachy_Teach: does anyone hear that rumbling?

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

KinjoCult: Yuki is that you 

LUCKYBOI: IT'S NOT ME I SWEAR

TryingMyBest: what's going on?!

Richie_Rich: I doubt Yuki can cause the ground to shake 

It's ART!!!: He did it once 

LUCKYBOI: It's not me this time 

Trash Raccoon: you guys have a problem 

KinjoCult: what is it

Discount Maya Fey: UH THERE IS A GIANT MECH WALKING TOWARDS OUR BASE

Kiwigiwi: A WHAT

Trash Raccoon: That is your problem 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: why does weird stuff always happen when I'm shopping

Sonic_SWIM: I'm having flashbacks 

LUCKYBOI: That is one ugly robot 

Soda_Good_Time has joined the chat 

FoodGloriousFood has joined the chat

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Whom the fuck

Soda_Good_Time: ATTENTION FOUNDATION NERDS

MelOWOdy: how is he announcing this and texting at the same time?????

Unlucky Hope: voice to text 

Soda_Good_Time: RELEASE NAGITO

FoodGloriousFood: OR ELSE

FoodGloriousFood: uh I forgot the next part 

Soda_Good_Time: I got you. FAIL TO COMPLY AND WE WILL DESTROY YOUR BASE

Computer_Weeb69: that's my HOUSE

KinjoCult: I'm not amused

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: who are you ppl?!

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Akane Owari and Kazuichi Souda 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: oh god why

MelOWOdy: are they from 77?

Richie_Rich: What do you think?

Soda_Good_Time: YOUUUUUU 

Soda_Good_Time: HOW DARE YOU SHOW YOUR FACE KANATA

TryingMyBest: Uh this is a group chat

Richie_Rich: One you hacked into no less

Computer_Weeb69: You come into MY HOUSE

Koko_the_Science_Cat: What did Kanata personally do to you 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Yeah what did I do???

Soda_Good_Time: YOU CORRUPTED NAGITO

FoodGloriousFood: YOU SEDUCED HIM TO HOPE

Kiwigiwi: uh

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I what?

Discount Maya Fey: What the FUCK

Trash Raccoon: omg I can’t breathe 

Professor Girlboss: ahahshshsjssjejdjd

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Everyone in the market is looking at me now kdkfekdkdjek

TryingMyBest: how????

MelOWOdy: 🤣 oh my GOD

Rainbow_Painbow: If you think Kanata can be seductive then that means pigs can fly

KinjoCult: "ah yes Komaeda allow me to seduce you with my big medical knowledge"

Discount Maya Fey: STOOOOOOOP

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: THIS IS BULLYING

SwimAway: I CAN'T JDJFJDJDJDJ

Soda_Good_Time: DON'T MOCK US

Trash Raccoon: Don't say stupid things then 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I have no idea what's going on anymore 

Unlucky Hope: me neither 

FoodGloriousFood: Souda this isn't working 

Soda_Good_Time: I'll think of something!

KinjoCult: Here's an idea!

KinjoCult: Surrender and we won't beat the stuffing out of you 

FoodGloriousFood: you and what army 

Computer_Weeb69: Oh hey I broke the firewall!

Computer_Weeb69: thanks for the free toy!

Soda_Good_Time: WHAT THE FUCK

Soda_Good_Time: I CODED THIS THING THOROUGHLY HOW DID U GET IN

LUCKYBOI: 😉 

Professor Girlboss: thanks Yuki

LUCKYBOI: Eh all I did was give Yamato an opportunity 

FoodGloriousFood: whyyyy is the mech beeping red

Richie_Rich: oh this is going to be good 🍿 

SwimAway: Hey give some for me!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I wish I could have popcorn…

Kiwigiwi: did the mech just dab 

Discount Maya Fey: Bro ur cringe 

Computer_Weeb69: UR FACE IS CRINGE

Soda_Good_Time: STOP FUCKING UP MY MECH DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH IT COST?!

SoraKingdomHearts: your mom 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: O.O

MelOWOdy: OHHHHHHHHHHHH

Soda_Good_Time: jokes on you I don't have a mom!

SoraKingdomHearts: me neither 

Kiwigiwi: mood

KinjoCult: 😔 

LUCKYBOI: This just got dark real fast 

Rainbow_Painbow: Can we PLEASE focus on the Remnants trying to attack

Computer_Weeb69: oh hold up there's an eject button

Soda_Good_Time: DONT YOUFJDIDJEJDJDJ

FoodGloriousFood: SOUDA NO

Computer_Weeb69: you're next 

KinjoCult: oooh that look like a rough landing 

Richie_Rich: and there goes Akane 

MelOWOdy: come fly with us, come die with us 

Unlucky Hope: we're flying?!?!!? I hate flying STOP THE PLANE

It's ART!!!: Awww I don't get the reference 

Unlucky Hope: Total Drama

Professor Girlboss: can we focus on the Remnants on the ground now

KinjoCult: I gotchu 👌 

MelOWOdy: get em Yuki!

FoodGloriousFood: oooh I'm so scared of a homeless rat

LUCKYBOI: I AM NOT A HOMELESS RAT 

Rainbow_Painbow: I feel like you should've sent more backup 

SoraKingdomHearts: wanted to test how op those luck powers are 

Soda_Good_Time: OH GOD YOU'RE THAT YUKI 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: they know you?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Nagito probably told them

MelOWOdy: Snitches are gonna get fucking sitches after this

SwimAway: Ouch that looks like it hurted

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: wait what's happening?

Richie_Rich: I can't tell

Richie_Rich: Kyoko won't share her binoculars 

Kiwigiwi: get your own 

Professor Girlboss: Yuki just suplexed Owari right into Souda

MelOWOdy: Fatality

FoodGloriousFood: we surrender 😭 

Rainbow_Painbow: Okay now do something??

KinjoCult: I'll send folks to tie them up

KinjoCult: Munakata is getting my attention brb

Soda_Good_Time: how did u defeat us…

LUCKYBOI: luck 😉 

Soda_Good_Time: you won't get lucky with the others….

LUCKYBOI: Try me bitch

LUCKYBOI kicked Soda_Good_Time and FoodGloriousFood from the chat  

Hostess_With_LeMostess: yeesh talk about overkill 

The Fun Class:

Computer_Weeb69: Why can't I keep the mech??? 🙁 

Professor Girlboss: Because NO

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Do you really need it?

Computer_Weeb69: YES

KinjoCult: There are other things we can use the parts for

LUCKYBOI: Towa has made me realize the cons of having a big mech 

Computer_Weeb69: Meanies 😖 

Discount Maya Fey: It'll be okay Yamato, 

KinjoCult has logged on

Rainbow_Painbow: Hey Tsurugi! How was talking to Munakata 

KinjoCult: I need a drink…

Professor Girlboss: That bad?

KinjoCult: He wanted me to execute the captured Remnants, and I was this close to spilling about the NWP

LUCKYBOI: Ouch

Professor Girlboss: I understand his reasoning but still, 

Discount Maya Fey: Also the crime spike that happened after Enoshima died shows that simply killing the despairs won't solve our problems 

Discount Maya Fey: Granted it was a short lived crime spike but still hella deadly

Professor Girlboss: Plus if we reform the Remnants we can use their knowledge on despair to stop the Tragedy for good

LUCKYBOI: Oooh I didn’t even think of that

Professor Girlboss: It’s how Kyoko convinced us about Makoto’s idea 

Rainbow_Painbow: you didn't spill, did you?

KinjoCult: Nope

KinjoCult: But he did tell me that me being soft over my former classmates was going to get my Foundation killed 😣

Professor Girlboss: Harsh 

KinjoCult: And I don't think he just meant 77

LUCKYBOI: Sigh

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Are you alright Yuki?

LUCKYBOI: Whyyy did I have to be put in the body of a war criminal??

LUCKYBOI: I miss my body 

Computer_Weeb69: Mood

Professor Girlboss: we won't let FF hurt you and Sora

Discount Maya Fey: Yeah they'll be gone soon, just hang in there 

LUCKYBOI: Thanks…

KinjoCult: if anything we should be thanking you for capturing Kazuichi and Owari 

LUCKYBOI: Well people would have gotten hurt if they went up against that mech, even with a hacking gun 

LUCKYBOI: Sora and I can be your secret Remnant busting weapon 

Discount Maya Fey: hehehehehehehe

KinjoCult: I'll be sure to bring it up with Makoto

WOH Timeout Room:

MelOWOdy: Hey how’s everyone doing today

AdorbsFighter: not great : (...

Smarties: Meh

Artsncrafts: Kotoko had her doctor appointment results 

AdorbsFighter: They had to treat me of illnesses and I have to talk to a “specialist” now

Big_Sis_Monaca: I’m sorry Kotoko

AdorbsFighter: Why are you saying sorry???

Big_Sis_Monaca: Monaca should’ve made us see a doctor a long time ago

TheHERO: before our paradise plan I would’ve said no

MelOWOdy: Well, we can’t change the past, but we can change the future

MelOWOdy: None of us are going to blame or judge you, alright? 

AdorbsFighter: But I have to talk to a person now

MelOWOdy: I also talk to someone too

Smarties: Does it help? One of the caretakers suggested I also talk to someone

TheHERO: Me too

Artsncrafts: Same

Big_Sis_Monaca: They make Monaca legally talk to someone

MelOWOdy: Sometimes, it’s a lot of digging through feelings, but it helps me get through them.

AdorbsFighter: Oh… I don’t wanna talk about my feelings

MelOWOdy: Me neither.

MelOWOdy: But I’ll be there for you, if you want me to

AdorbsFighter: Thanks big sis…

MelOWOdy: anytime!

Big_Sis_Monaca: So uh why was there a lot of rumbling earlier?

Smarties: Was there a bomb? Mx. Taichi made us go in the safety room

MelOWOdy: Some of your old big sis’s minions came to visit -_-

MelOWOdy: My brother and Yami crushed them 😀

TheHERO: I know you guys said Big Sis really really didn’t care like a big sis should… but I still miss her

Big_Sis_Monaca: Me too, and Monaca tried being her successor!

Big_Sis_Monaca: Sorry again btw

TheHERO: you’re still on thin ice but I shall accept your apologies!

Smarties: Just don’t betray the WOH again

MelOWOdy: I still miss my sister sometimes so I know how you feel;

Artsncrafts: Can I send you a hug?

MelOWOdy: aww always 😊

Artsncrafts: 🤗

MelOWOdy: 🤗

We Are Number One:

SLICESLICE: And then he ran into my blade 

SLICESLICE: He ran into my blade ten times…

DanceofDEATH: huh I should do that for my next show 

DanceofDEATH: when I do a spin, knives go flying EVERYWHERE

Snapsnap: set up a splash zone 

Soda_Good_Time: so uhhhh news

Amongus_Bungus: how was your rescue attempt?

FoodGloriousFood: uhhh

FoodGloriousFood: you tell them 

Soda_Good_Time: we got caught 

SLICESLICE: Are you kidding 

Snapsnap: show of hands who saw that coming 

Amongus_Bungus: I TOLD YOU MORONS TO BE CAREFUL 

DanceofDEATH: and now they can sulk about their failures while next to Nagito 

Soda_Good_Time: please heeeeelp

Amongus_Bungus: you dug your grave now lie in it

FoodGloriousFood: the foods not bad tbh

Snapsnap: of course that's your only concern 

BabyGangsta: Three of us are captured now?!

BabyGangsta: how the fuck did that happen??

Soda_Good_Time: Well first my mech got hacked and then the eject button got used 

BabyGangsta: that's not what I meant you stupid flamingo 

BabyGangsta: I meant in general, we're the greatest criminals in all of Japan!

HowBOring: They underestimated the power of luck 

FoodGloriousFood: GAH

Amongus_Bungus: what tf do you mean?!

HowBOring: without needing to lift a finger, Maeda used his luck to defeat your despair 

HowBOring: and yet he's able to go through life without getting bored of winning over and over 

HowBOring: it has my curiosity

DanceofDEATH: so what you're saying is WE'RE SCREWED?!

Snapsnap: holy frick this is so pathetic hahahahaha

Amongus_Bungus: ….

BabyGangsta: I refuse to go down without a fight!

BabyGangsta: what was the name of that city Nagito was plotting in again?

FoodGloriousFood: Towa 

BabyGangsta: would be a shame if it had a gang problem :)

Soda_Good_Time: …so no jailbreak?

DanceofDEATH: Suffer 

Remnant Busters:

Unlucky Hope added SoraKingdomHearts and LUCKYBOI to the chat

AnimeBoi: oh uh welcome!

SoraKingdomHearts: I'm guessing this is to talk about the Remnants?

Kiwigiwi: this is our war room 

LUCKYBOI: Shouldn't Kinjo be here??

Unlucky Hope: He said you'd be a better help than him in the long run 

LUCKYBOI: Only because of my luck 

Gamegirl314: So you're the current Divine Luck user?

LUCKYBOI: uhhh yeah 

SoraKingdomHearts: Okay I'm gonna need intros 

AnimeBoi: oh um I'm Ryota Mitarai… I used to go to Hope's Peak 

Gamegirl314: I'm no one important 

LUCKYBOI: Aw don't say that 

Gamegirl314: thanks 

Gamegirl314: But I do need to keep my identity secret for reasons, if the Remnants knew I was alive, they'd kill me 

AnimeBoi: :(

SoraKingdomHearts: Harsh 

Teachy_Teach: They've tried to kill me a few times for the sake of despair 

LUCKYBOI: You're here too????

Teachy_Teach: Sorry that Kyosuke is bothering you 

SoraKingdomHearts: can u beat it into his tiny, TINY brain that we're not despair agents 

AnimeBoi: oh god I feel your pain 

Unlucky Hope: He's stubborn but we'll try!

Kiwigiwi: So far we've caught Souda, Owari, and Komaeda,

Richie_Rich: Komaeda turned himself in 

LUCKYBOI: He messed with my luck thank god I don't have to deal with him anymore 

AnimeBoi: everyone else is pretty scary

Gamegirl314: You get used to them 

AnimeBoi: not while they're war criminals they're not 

SoraKingdomHearts: did u also go to Hope's Peak game girl?

SoraKingdomHearts: or do u have a disguise name 

Gamegirl314: Call me Hinata 

LUCKYBOI: Is it after an old friend

Gamegirl314: Lucky guess?

LUCKYBOI: Yeah lmao 

Teachy_Teach: Let's get back on topic please

Kiwigiwi: Right, anyways It's a bad idea to waltz right up to their bases atm 

Unlucky Hope: not even for tea? 🍵 

Kiwigiwi: very funny 

Richie_Rich: but our current plan is to just go to wherever there's big Remnant activity to lure them out 

Richie_Rich: preferably without cluing Munakata in 

LUCKYBOI: And the Kisaragi Foundation supplies power and a place to hold the Remnants?

Teachy_Teach: I have a couple of peeps at FF helping too 

Teachy_Teach: still looking for somewhere to pull this off 

SoraKingdomHearts: America?

Unlucky Hope: The Terra Federation is too busy trying to rebuild atm after their civil war

AnimeBoi: …is it bad I thought of America too??

Gamegirl314: No one expects the American Inquisition 

Chapter Text

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

LUCKYBOI: hey disclaimer I'm having an off day today 

FIYAAAH: off day?

Trash Raccoon: It means it's Sora's turn to drive the braincell 

SoraKingdomHearts: 😉 

MelOWOdy: Feel better soon Yuki!

LUCKYBOI: Thanks 

LUCKYBOI: Now if you'll excuse me im going to sleep 

LUCKYBOI has logged off 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I'm guessing off days are when he's feeling severe to extreme dysphoria?

MelOWOdy: Yeah… 

MelOWOdy: I should get him something nice this week 

Trash Raccoon: stay outta trouble, that'll make him feel better 

It's ART!!!: are u still mad at the snack ring 

Trash Raccoon: You need to cover your tracks better 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I miss my chips :((

MelOWOdy: You don't need it

FIYAAAH: Sooo what are your plans for today Sora?

SoraKingdomHearts: going to the movies with the bae 😘 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Sora!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: But yeah today's my day off and the theater is playing some good movies 

SoraKingdomHearts: Can't wait to see Sonic 2

FIYAAAH: Oh yeah that one's good!

FIYAAAH: Tho it gave Emi new material to tease our kids with cuz the movie has a lot of 

SoraKingdomHearts: SHHHHHH NO SPOILERS

Kisaragi HQ:

KinjoCult added TechGuy and BallIzLife to the chat 

Computer_Weeb69: Heyyyy it's Kanon!

OBJECTIOOON: Strangers! From the outside!

BallIzLife: hiiii?

KinjoCult: you two were a major part in the Towa Crisis and we could use your input on future endeavors 

BallIzLife: even tho I'm a newbie?

Discount Mom Fwiend: eh we were all newbies when we got added 

TechGuy: oh wow sir, I really appreciate the honor!

Professor Girlboss: Hey Taichi's how that project I assigned you?

Discount Maya Fey: Project?

TechGuy: I've almost extracted the overseer AI from the program 

TechGuy: and made sure that other AI is gone for good 

Professor Girlboss: Well that's a relief 

TechGuy: As long as no one does a system reboot on the Sannoji AI, he won't come back 

Computer_Weeb69: I got the mental image of a loading screen over his dead body

Discount Maya Fey: PFFFFT

BallIzLife: Oh that's the AI that put Yuki and the New Hopes in a VR killing game?

Professor Girlboss: Yes

BallIzLife: any way u can digitally spit on his grave?

Computer_Weeb69: I wish 

KinjoCult: Wait you're trying to bring back Monocrow?

Professor Girlboss: He was Yuri's AI in the first place!

Professor Girlboss: And I'm sure he'd want him back 

Rainbow_Painbow: That bird at least was more tolerable than Monokuma 

TechGuy: not that hard to accomplish 

Discount Mom Fwiend: ha

OBJECTIOOON: Oh we're gonna get along great new ppl 

Professor Girlboss: So how much longer do you think it'll take?

TechGuy: Hopefully by tomorrow if no more problems arise

TechGuy: Like a giant mech showing up

OBJECTIOOON: Watching it go down was fun to watch 

Computer_Weeb69: I wanted to keep it 😢 

KinjoCult: NO MECH FOR U

THE POWAAAH RANGERSSS:

Then PERISH: So then the guy went "well who cares everyone is committing crimes anyways!"

70% Disaster: No

Sonic_SWIM: he didn't!

TryingMyBest: needless to say that guy is in jail

Then PERISH: serves him right for trying to rob a hospital 

Then PERISH: for shame 

70% Disaster: Yeesh sounds like there's always something in Towa

TryingMyBest: besides keeping the peace between two Foundations? Ye

Then PERISH: I've been having a bad feeling lately 

Sonic_SWIM: why?

Then PERISH: Well besides the usual petty criminals, there's the Towa Loyalists

Kiwigiwi: the what 

70% Disaster: Hi Kyoko!

Kiwigiwi: Hi. Please continue 

TryingMyBest: well some people who support Towa and who were loyal to Haji are making a name 

TryingMyBest: A bad one nonetheless 

Then PERISH: they've been caught looting Monokumas and sending weaponry against Foundation members 

Sonic_SWIM: why would someone be loyal to that creeper?

TryingMyBest: ikr?!

Then PERISH: Thankfully it's just a small group with no funding 

Kiwigiwi: for now…

70% Disaster: way to bring in the fear 

TryingMyBest: Yeah but the Ultra Despair Girls are on the case!

TryingMyBest: How's the Kisaragi Foundation?

Kiwigiwi: ….can we go back to that team name?

Then PERISH: no

Sonic_SWIM: it's great seeing everyone again!

Sonic_SWIM: Hibiki really likes Sprinkles, and I got to meet some of her friends in person!

Kiwigiwi: would be nicer if Munakata wasn't causing trouble 

TryingMyBest: he really thinks Yuki and Sora are despair agents?

Then PERISH: clearly someone didn't pay attention to that stream 

70% Disaster: wow harsh 

70% Disaster: Wish I could visit but someone has to hold down the fort 

Then PERISH: don't you just file papers?

70% Disaster: they're of finances! FF isn't exactly rolling in dough 

Kiwigiwi: the Kisaragi Foundation is though 

Kiwigiwi: but they don't have as much manpower as us 

TryingMyBest: how so?

Then PERISH: Future Foundation is more global while the Kisaragi Foundation has most of its success in Japan and other surrounding areas 

Sonic_SWIM: I wonder who would win in a fight 💭 

70% Disaster: I don't wanna know 

Private conversation between MEDIIIC *loads shotgun* and Koko_the_Science_Cat:

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Do you think you're okay with questions today?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun: Munakata wants to talk to you

Koko_the_Science_Cat: about my role in the killing game?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: more of how you got involved 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Ah

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I don't mind answering questions today, but I still have a cough

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: it should be fine

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I can tell he’s been very insistent about questions so I guess it’s better now than ever

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Yeah, lmao

Tsurugi and Rei had picked out one of their meeting rooms (that’s also used as a lunch room) to have the discussion, Munakata obviously went, as did Juzo.

To their surprise, Kyoko also joined the meeting. “Yukizome is quite busy so she couldn’t make it.” She explained. “She’s been in meetings with the members of her branch.”

“You guys have so many branches I can’t even count them all.” Tsurugi grumbled.

“We’re quite a large organization.” Juzo explained, and Tsurugi could swore he was boasting about it. 

Munakata scowled. “When will Mitsume get here?”

Rei checked her phone. “In a bit.” She answered. “She’s still sick.”

“Yeesh, it’s been several days.” Juzo winced. “Does it take that long for the VR effects to wear off?”

“Depends on the person.” Tsurugi answered. Teruya, Shinji, and Nikei had only taken a few days for the side effects of their virtual deaths to wear off, so he did find it weird that Kokoro was still feeling her effects.

Then again her death had been to slowly freeze to death, which was slow compared to the other three deaths of the recently awoken Utsuroshima participants. 

To be fair to her, Nikei was still having pains in his right hand, and he had been awake several weeks before she did. 

“Sorry we’re late!” Kanata entered the room, Kokoro right next to her. “Got stopped by some folks needing advice!”

“It’s alright.” Kyoko told her. “Glad you could make it.”

A cough came from the psychologist, she had a blanket wrapped around her shoulders and her face looked flushed. Clearly she should still be in bed, but having to constantly tell Munakata “no, you can’t have your meeting yet” was getting on their nerves and they didn’t want him barging into the medical wing.

Even Juzo looked concerned. “You sure you’re okay to answer questions, Mitsume?”

“Yes.”   She spoke, her voice hoarse.

Kanata side-eyed Munakata. “Start from the beginning.” He ordered, ignoring the glares.

“Well… I had been approached by Mikado Sannoji, he had heard of my work and wanted my help on a project.” She slowly explained, coughs interrupting her sentences. 

Immediately Munakata got aggressive. “And this project was the Utsuroshima killing game?” He demanded.

“Let her finish.” Kyoko swatted at his arm.

“He wanted to make an alter ego out of someone long gone.” Even used Mikako’s memories to do so, but Mikako had stated she didn’t want that as public information. 

Juzo scowled. “Is that possible?”

“We saw.” Tsurugi deadpanned.

“You helped the mastermind of the Utsuroshima killing game?” Juzo exclaimed.

Kokoro quickly shook her head. “No, that was Mikado’s alter ego, all I did was help the original.”

“Sannoji cloned himself?” Munakata questioned.

She nodded. “Yes.” Despite her warnings.

“The AI of Mikado Sannoji caused the killing game via kidnapping the New Hopes, including one of our own members.” Rei scowled. “But he’s been destroyed and I have a tech expert making sure there’s no way he can be brought back.”

He also was doing the side-project to see if Monocrow could be brought back, but that was information that Future Foundation didn’t need to know. 

“So you were responsible for the creation of this AI that caused the Utsuroshima killing game…” Munakata realized.

Kokoro coughed, then gave another nod. “Yes, I did try to destroy him when he killed his creator… but that didn’t work.”

“Ms. Mitsume had offered her services to us as a way to make up for her role in things.” Kanata explained. “We already talked about all the details.”

There was a thoughtful expression on Munakata’s face, but Kokoro could see the anger in those eyes, anger that she had gotten involved in this mess. “Munakata, if you’d prefer that I didn’t return to Future Foundation, I understand.”

He glared. “You’ll have your answer soon enough.”

Munakata gestured for Juzo to follow, and they both walked out of the office. “Well, that doesn’t sound good.” Tsurugi winced.

“I’m sure he just needs time to think it over.” Rei shook her head.

Kyoko also felt like that wasn’t any good news. “Mitsume, I think you just got fired.” 

“I know.” Kokoro sighed.

The Three Musketeers:

TheCouncil: And that is why she must go

Teachy_Teach: oh come on that is too far!

Boxman: even I have to agree, the Kisaragi Foundation said they'd handle her punishment 

TheCouncil: they are also harboring a despair agent

TheCouncil: Now I find out one of our own was a co-conspirator to a killing game?

Boxman: Okay I'm as pissed as you are but she didn't have anything to do with it!

Boxman: Much.

Teachy_Teach: we can't afford to fight with the Kisaragi Foundation!

TheCouncil: THAT'S ENOUGH

Boxman: …

Teachy_Teach: …

TheCouncil: Kokoro Mitsume was responsible for the Utsuroshima killing game, it wouldn't have happened if she hadn't worked with the real Mikado Sannoji 

TheCouncil: for her actions of despair, I will put her down 

TheCouncil: no matter what the Kisaragi Foundation says 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

Unlucky Hope: Yeah I got bad vibes too 

Professor Girlboss: Really?

Kiwigiwi: I'd keep an eye out to be safe 

Professor Girlboss: that's fair

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I have my doubts, but you've interacted with him more than I have so I'll take your word on it

Unlucky Hope: Thanks, 

Discount Maya Fey: Sorry to hear you got fired 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: it's fine 

MelOWOdy: who needs FF anyways!

MelOWOdy: there's always other Foundations 

MelOWOdy: *coughthisonecough*

Professor Girlboss: she does have a point

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Only if Mikako is comfortable with me joining 

Discount Maya Fey: Meh just give me space when I ask for it 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Alright then 

Richie_Rich: I've been meaning to ask, do you two know each other?

Then PERISH: Oh you have no idea 

Discount Maya Fey: wellllll

Kiwigiwi: Munakata’s calling me brb

“I didn’t know you guys had this brand.” Kokoro had a large bottle of fruit soda in her hands. “Thanks.”

“No problem.” Kanata beamed. She had gotten a bottle herself, she needed something nice to drink after that meeting. “Though I recommend you still drink warm soup, a soda might help with a fever, but it won’t help with a cold.”

She hummed, then drank her soda, so Kanata turned her attention back to Shinji, who had helped get the sodas out of the vending machine since it was sometimes a bit of a hassle. “Thanks again for your help, I hope I didn’t disrupt your schedule too much.”

“It’s fine.” He waved it off, chuckling. “I’m told this is the vending machine that is trying to take over the Foundation.”
Kanata rolled her eyes. “Yamato is a bit of a gossip…”

“He’s fun to work with.” Shinji grinned. “My squad is glad to go on missions again, and we’ve got a bit more insurance than we’ve used to.”

She had talked with some of the members of the Kasai Squad, they had definitely seen their fair share of active combat, a few even helped train some of their less experienced recruits. “It is nice getting to work with you.” Too bad it had taken a killing game for that to happen…

Shinji nodded. “Yeah, at least there’s some good things to come out of Utsuroshima.”

“Agreed.”

She heard a particularly violent cough, so Kanata turned to see if Kokoro was alright, but saw that she was staring at her screen in mild panic. “Uh, is everything okay?”

“Check the chat.”

Kiwigiwi: GUYS GUYS GUYS WE HAVE A PROBLEM

Kiwigiwi: KISARAGI PEOPLE THIS IS AN EMERGENCY

Discount Maya Fey: Emergency?!

KinjoCult: wtf is it now 

Unlucky Hope: I hate being right 🙁 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: what’s going on 

Kiwigiwi: Munakata thinks that bc Mitsume was involved in creating AI Sannoji, it’s her fault Utsuroshima happened so he finds that as grounds to execute her

Richie_Rich: gdm

Discount Maya Fey: ……what!?!?!?

MelOWOdy: NO NO NO NOT ON MY FUCKING WATCH 

It's ART!!!: Kokoro RUN

KinjoCult: Okay that is it where tf is he 

Kiwigiwi: I saw him on his way to the medical wing 

Discount Maya Fey: uh oh 

Kiwigiwi: he has a sword 

Professor Girlboss: FUCK

MelOWOdy: RUN

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I’m not at medical wing

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: We are right near it tho!

KinjoCult: What are you doing????

Koko_the_Science_Cat: …I wanted soda 🥤

FIYAAAH: And I was talking to Kanata 

MelOWOdy: Is it that stupid vending machine??

Computer_Weeb69: Don’t insult his rebellion

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: GUYS HE IS ON HIS WAY

Discount Maya Fey: Hide then!

KinjoCult: STALL HIM 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: There is nowhere to hide

FIYAAAH: Behind the vending machine

Koko_the_Science_Cat: There is somewhere to hide

KinjoCult: Kanata make sure to stall him I do NOT want him near the medical wing if he’s got a weapon on him

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Sir yes sir 

FIYAAAH: Um Nikei and Iroha you might wanna hide if he’s planning on executing Kokoro for only being mildly involved

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I’m in my fucking hospital room?!

Kiwigiwi: Hide under the bed

It’s ART!!!: Oh gosh this is a nightmare 😭

Professor Girlboss: why do we have to be on the OTHER side of the building ffs

Koko_the_Science_Cat: He'll try again when you're not looking

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: good thing the medical wing has an emergency exit 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Sorry, looks like you'll have to be discharged early

Koko_the_Science_Cat: this is no problem for me  

“Inori! Where is Mitsume?” Munakata demanded once he caught up to her, Shinji was casually leaning on the vending machine to try and remain inconspicuous.

She quickly pocketed her phone. “Oh um hello Munakata-san!” She beamed, doing her best not to let panic show on her face. “I’ve just sent her back to her hospital room, she’s really not feeling well, honestly shouldn’t have been out of bed yet…”

He scowled. “Then step aside.”

Kanata’s eyes went wide as seeing the blade he was gripping. “Where are you going with that?”

“To do what your leaders are too cowardly to do.”

As he took another step, Shinji spoke up. “Woah there!” He barked. “Are you going to undermine the Kisaragi Foundation’s authority even though you’re a guest?”

He might’ve not been the most diplomatic, Emi being better at putting things into words then he was, hence her usually being the diplomat of the Kasai Squad, but he knew a couple tricks.

“I don’t think your chairman would be too pleased with that.” Shinji continued. “Not to mention, the last thing anyone needs is two main foundations getting into a squabble, the despairs love to eat up conflicts like that.”

“Then why is the Kisaragi Foundation protecting members of despair?” Munakata turned back to Kanata. “First Taira, then you don’t execute the Remnants you capture, and now Mitsume? I’m starting to think your leadership has been infested.”

“Say that to Yamato and you’ll wake up with fewer fingers than you woke up with yesterday.” Kanata said with a sharp smile. “We’ve learned our lesson in moles, don’t try to say we haven’t.”

Munakata hummed, then turned back the way he came.

Or he would have… if he hadn’t heard a cough.

A cough that could’ve only come from the same person he was trying to hunt down.

Kanata and Shinji paled as he immediately turned his head back, blade in hand, and he ripped apart the vending machine.

It crashed into the wall, revealing Kokoro’s hiding spot. “What the fuck?!” Kanata exclaimed. “You can’t just rip up building property like that!”

Munakata raised his blade. “Step away from the criminal.”

Koko_the_Science_Cat: he just found my hiding spot

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: RUN. RUN FOR YOUR FUCKING LIFE

MelOWOdy: ARE YOU GUYS THERE YET?!

KinjoCult: NO

Then PERISH: God DAMN IT Munakata!

Kokoro decided she was going to take Nikei’s word of advice and book for it, despite how much energy even walking took, the sensation of panic was giving her quite the adrenaline rush.

“I’m sure you’re a good man, but this is not the right thing to do.” Shinji argued, hands curled into fists. “Put the blade down and let’s talk.”

Munakata glared, upon noticing his target was attempting to escape, he lunged.

By pure luck the same time he lunged was the same time Kokoro had tripped, so the blade ended up embedding into the wall, barely missing its target.

“Stop it!” Kanata cried out, unable to move as the violent act turned her legs into ice. Even if she could move, the fear of fighting Munakata made her freeze up again.

The Kisaragi Foundation couldn’t afford to fight Future Foundation, sure they could hold out until they gave up, but it would destroy them.

But at the same time… she couldn’t let Munakata hurt someone. “That’s enough, Munakata!” Thankfully, Shinji stepped in, helping Kokoro to her feet.

The sudden trip thankfully didn’t result in anything being sprained or broken, but she was clutching at her chest and gasping heavily, eyes glancing at the vice chairman with mild terror as his expression grew more furious.

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Shinji stepped in

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Oh thank god

It’s ART!!!: GO SHINJI GOOOO

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I just hope Munakata doesn’t declare war or something…

Unlucky Hope: if he does that I’m quitting

Kiwigiwi: That will get Tengan to reign him in line

Munakata growled as he yanked his blade out of the wall. “Why are you defending this criminal?”

“Because she’s my friend!” Shinji exclaimed, voice booming compared to Munakata’s cold and harsh tone. “It’s true she made terrible choices, but she’s offered to make amends for what she’s done, and you tried to kill her for that?!” 

“Her actions were responsible for nearly killing the New Hopes.” Munakata growled. “How could you, as a New Hope yourself, allow her to walk free?”

Shinji just felt his anger boil at the words. Did his words go one ear and out the other? “Living with the consequences of your actions isn’t ‘walking free,’ aren’t you supposed to be a symbol of the future, how can you guide people to hope if you destroy any hope of people making things right in the future?!”

“There cannot be any future or hope until despair is wiped out.” Munakata lifted his blade. “If you stand in the way of that, you’ll be cut down.”

Shinji braced himself as Munakata raised his blade to swing it, however, as he was about to attack, a blur rushed in and drop-kicked him into the ground.

FIYAAAH: Hibiki just tackled Munakata

Unlucky Hope: She did what

It’s ART!!!: GET HIM

“Hibiki?” Kokoro’s eyes widened at her appearance. “How did…?”

She dusted her shoulders. “All that running in Towa.” She chuckled, glaring at Munakata. “Don’t you fucking touch my family again!”

“Family?” Shinji questioned.

Her face turned pink. “Um well… I kind of see everyone as family now, after everything that happened on Utsuroshima.” Hibiki awkwardly fidgeted with her hands. “And, I don’t really want anything bad to happen to-- gah!”

Munakata had knocked her into the wall. “You call a member of despair as family ?”

“Hypocrite.” Kokoro coughed out.

He froze at the words, and Shinji wondered what she picked up from him to call him a hypocrite.

“And that’s enough out of you, Munakata.” Rei entered the hall, followed by Tsurugi and a worried Kyoko. Kanata let out a huge sigh of relief at their appearance. 

The former Ultimate Professor looked furious , and Shinji didn’t blame her as he went to check on Hibiki, who thankfully didn’t get any injuries. 

Future Foundation had been hostile for no reason, suspecting Yuki of being a despair agent for things outside of his control and refused to listen otherwise.

While the Kisaragi Foundation was allies with them, after all this, they certainly wouldn’t be friends anytime soon.

Professor Girlboss: Okay we're here and

Professor Girlboss: THE FUCK

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: ?!!??!!

Kiwigiwi: I'm so sorry Kisaragi ppl

Discount Maya Fey: what did he do I'm not there yet 

Professor Girlboss: accused us of working with despair like Towa did 

Richie_Rich: 🤦‍♂️ 

Unlucky Hope: I'm gonna go get Chisa 

Then PERISH: You mean to tell me you haven’t yet?!

By the time Mikako had gotten to the scene, it was after most of the drama and Munakata had gotten chewed out not only by her friends, but his friends as well. 

She wished she could’ve shown up earlier, but someone had to make sure the building didn’t go into panic mode because of Munakata being an idiot.

Things would definitely change, as this incident had proven they would need to keep a closer eye on Future Foundation.

When she got to the medical wing, Kanata was scribbling on some papers. “Everything alright?”

Kanata looked up. “Yeah, just finishing writing to discharge Kokoro.” 

“She hasn’t left yet?” Mikako figured she would have by now.

Kanata shook her head. “She’s too sick to drive, Hibiki’s keeping her company since she’s still learning how to drive and can’t drive her back either.”

“Bummer.” She hoped no one else would try anything.

Mikako didn’t think someone would try, Juzo and Chisa had chewed out Munakata for his rash behavior, but she still was wary of the two, and Future Foundation as a whole, the way they clung to the Ultimate System Hope's Peak had set up made her uneasy.

Sure, she was an Ultimate Student, but she didn't think it made her better than everyone. Guess only being at the school building for a few months kept me and my classmates from falling into that whole "talent is everything" mindset.

“Guess I can drive them to their place.” She didn’t have anything important to do. 

“That’d be great.” Kanata flipped over a page. 

When she got to Kokoro’s hospital room, Hibiki was glancing daggers at the door, presumably since she heard footsteps, and visibly relaxed once seeing who it was.

“Am I in trouble?” Hibiki asked her. “I know I shouldn’t have dropkicked Munakata… but he tried hurting Koko!”

“Don’t worry you’re not.” Mikako waved it off. “Honestly would have done the same thing.”

“Please don’t get into fights with Future Foundation because of me.” Kokoro frowned.

Mikako rolled her eyes. “Well he’s in a world of trouble with his boss because of that.” She wished she was in the room for that, according to Tsurugi it was the dressing-down of legends.

“How come you're checking up on us?” Hibiki raised an eyebrow. "I thought you hated Koko."

Kokoro sent her a look. “Hibiki… not the time.”

“Sorry..."

“I don’t hate-hate her.” She honestly wasn't sure how to describe the feelings she had towards her birth mother. Anger and resentment were strong, followed by some confusion and curiosity, but hatred to the point of putting a sword through her heart?

That was something Mikako would never commit. “I still have some resentment… but I wouldn’t want to kill her.” Hatred was something she preferred not clinging onto.

“This event is making you more upset at Future Foundation.” Kokoro noticed.

She groaned. “Yeah what is their fucking problem?!” First stressing the hell out of Makoto, unwanted suspicion towards Yuki and Sora, and now this. “Why is your boss a jerk?!”

“He technically wasn’t my boss, but he was there when Hope’s Peak got destroyed.” Kokoro explained. “He blames himself for not catching Junko in time, so he’s determined to not let anything like that happen ever again.”

“He’s bad at it.” Hibiki bluntly stated.

Before today, Mikako would disagree, as Future Foundation was helping the world go back to normal. But after this event she wondered if they were just setting up the canon fodder for another worldwide crisis. “I feel bad for him a little…” She didn’t blame him for being wary, but it didn’t make what he was doing okay.

“Um, he’s not going to try that again, is he?” Hibiki asked.

“Hopefully not, his friends chewed him out.” She turned to Kokoro. “Yukizome and Sakakura say sorry, by the way.” 

Hibiki scowled. “And yet they didn’t stop their buddy.”

“They tried talking him out of it.” Kokoro explained.

Mikako felt the same anger that Hibiki did. “Maybe a boot to the head would’ve got the message across.” 

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

Hostess_With_LeMostess: HE TRIED TO WHAT?!

SoraKingdomHearts: I take one day off, ONE DAY

MelOWOdy: sorry I tried causing no chaos 

SoraKingdomHearts: not mad you I'm mad at the idiot in charge

Trash Raccoon: any updates 

Professor Girlboss: The Chairman of FF had been contacted about the incident and he's grilling Munakata 

Rainbow_Painbow: What was he THINKING?!

MelOWOdy: He wasn't :P

Professor Girlboss: Tengan offered to visit and bring an apology gift, and to also collect Munakata in a couple days 

Professor Girlboss: For some reason Makoto isn't happy

Hostess_With_LeMostess: can't blame him with all the pressure he's given 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: What happened to Shinji?

MelOWOdy: He had to explain what happened to everyone and the FF people. I guess he’s still busy

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Considering the recent attempt I'm being discharged early

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Yeah that's smart 

MelOWOdy: It's gonna be so much fun having you around the house 😄 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I'm still under the weather 

MelOWOdy: then I'll be the best caretaker ever!

MelOWOdy: just lmk if you need anything and I'll be there!

SoraKingdomHearts: did u have sugar 

MelOWOdy: ReiRei gave me a pop 

Professor Girlboss: she helped prevent a major incident, she earned it 

It's ART!!!: now I want soda 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: me too ;-;

Trash Raccoon: 🙄 

SoraKingdomHearts: do we have to worry about him trying something 

Rainbow_Painbow: not while he's under strict supervision he's not 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

KinjoCult: You don't have to keep apologizing

Unlucky Hope: I FEEL RLY BAD THO

MelOWOdy: it's not your fault your boss is a nutjob with a sword 

Unlucky Hope: But he's been making you guys uncomfortable and I feel like a bad guest for not getting him to stop!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: He would make your job harder when you get back to FF tho 

Richie_Rich: ^ THIS

TryingMyBest: is everyone okay now?

MelOWOdy: Ye!

SoraKingdomHearts: sounds like it

MelOWOdy: Tho some FF people have been giving me dirty looks 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: screw them

70% Disaster: I could give you a future prediction to cheer you up 🔮 

70% Disaster: 30% accuracy tho 

MelOWOdy: Sure!

Unlucky Hope: I think it's more 50/50

Richie_Rich: Do you not listen to the things this man says??

Then PERISH: Makoto might be on to something tho

Richie_Rich: NOT YOU TOO

70% Disaster: Okay so in your future you might end up appreciating oranges more 🍊

MelOWOdy: woah random 

KinjoCult: oranges?

70% Disaster: Yep! 

SoraKingdomHearts: does a truck of oranges fall on Kanade in the future? 🚚

Hostess_With_LeMostess: SORA

MelOWOdy: PFFTJSHSHAHDJSHDSUDHWJJS

Koko_the_Science_Cat: She's barreled over laughing now 

70% Disaster: my job here is done 

KinjoCult: but you didn't do anything 

70% Disaster has logged off 

Chapter Text

Future is NOW:

SweetTreat: I'm convinced you're the dumbest man alive 

Boxman: wow 

RainthePain: picking a fight with the Kisaragi Foundation during negotiations was stupid 

SweetTreat: ^^

TheCouncil: In my defense they have a despair mole problem 

Drinks_R_Us: that you have no proof of

TheCouncil: 😠 

Ninjaboss: Your courage is admirable Kyouske, but not when it puts us at risk with our allies

Ninjaboss: how would people trust us if they found out we accused our own allies of despair agents 

TheCouncil: …

THEGREATGOZU: Last thing we need is in fighting 

Drinks_R_Us: So does the Kisaragi Foundation still wanna work with us?

Teachy_Teach: @Unlucky Hope can explain more

Unlucky Hope: hm??

Boxman: do you ever pay attention to chat?

Unlucky Hope: not really,,

SweetTreat: Mood

Ninjaboss: Makoto I expect better from the Ultimate Hope 

Unlucky Hope: sorry

AnimeBoi: So uh how's the Foundation?

SweetTreat: is their boss really a computer now?

Kiwigiwi: Yes

SweetTreat: what the fuck

RainthePain: Yeah that's going in my nightmares, along with the bodyswap you told us about 

TheCouncil: that's just Taira!

Drinks_R_Us: I'll believe it when I see it 

Unlucky Hope: Uh the leaders aren't too mad at FF in general, just Munakata 

HEALTHCARE: As they should 

TheCouncil: Miaya…

HEALTHCARE: You're lucky I'm in another country atm

HEALTHCARE: Kokoro was one of my workers and how fucking DARE you try to kill her for something she had no control over 

Boxman: it's not like she was completely innocent…

TheCouncil: She created the mastermind of a killing game! Who almost killed most of the New Hopes

HEALTHCARE: She didn't order the mastermind to go kill ppl! How tf do people still trust you if you're willing to lop heads over simple mistakes!

TheCouncil: Sacrifices must be made if we're to wipe out despair 

Ninjaboss: that's enough you two 

Drinks_R_Us: great job everyone

Unlucky Hope: and you wonder why I'm never on here 

Private conversation between Unlucky Hope and SweetTreat:

SweetTreat: Hey do you know what kind of sweets the Kisaragi leadership prefer?

Unlucky Hope: Do you want me to find out?

SweetTreat: Ye! I think sending some snacks will make them less angry at us 

SweetTreat: and I haven't had a chance to make stuff for new ppl in awhile 

Unlucky Hope: aight I'll go ask around

SweetTreat: Thanks!

SweetTreat: I'm willing to do all kinds, sugar-free, no gluten, you name it!

SweetTreat: I should make something for Miaya too, she's really pissed at Munakata 

Unlucky Hope: mood

Unlucky Hope: everyone is on edge now bc of what he tried doing

SweetTreat: want me to send you something too?

Unlucky Hope: sure, I dunno if I'll eat all of it

Unlucky Hope: how's it back at the Foundation?

SweetTreat: meh

SweetTreat: Did get to patch things with Seiko a bit more 

Unlucky Hope: that's awesome!

SweetTreat: we both agree Hope’s Peak sucked 

SweetTreat: we probably would've gotten killed if we were still at that school anyways 

SweetTreat: Kinda dark tho

Unlucky Hope: Yeah

SweetTreat: …did I ever thank you for convincing me to talk to Miaya?

Unlucky Hope: it's okay you don't have to 

Unlucky Hope: just glad you're doing better 

SweetTreat: Yeah but I'd still have been mean to Seiko cuz of her allergies 

SweetTreat: and other stuff 

SweetTreat: and I was such a bitch to you and you still thought I could be better 

Unlucky Hope: You don't have to apologize for it, you didn't trust me at first, I get it 

Unlucky Hope: Sides, I think everyone can change for the better!

SweetTreat: must be nice being so optimistic

Unlucky Hope: trust me it takes effort 

Unlucky Hope: how else do you think I'm still sane working here 

SweetTreat: Kyoko?

Unlucky Hope: okay she's the love of my life but still 

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

Trash Raccoon: So basically that's what happened yesterday 

LUCKYBOI: Wow

LUCKYBOI: A lot can happen in one day huh

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Tell me about it

Rainbow_Painbow: and now more FF people are coming and I have a headache from all these papers 

LUCKYBOI: How are papers relevant 

Rainbow_Painbow: gotta document what happened!

Professor Girlboss: dealing with complaints from visiting FF on why they have to have a guard now is annoying 

Rainbow_Painbow: gee idk maybe it's because you guys broke our trust!

MelOWOdy: my gut still hurts 

LUCKYBOI: You okay?

MelOWOdy: I'll be fine, just no more drama please 

Professor Girlboss: Uh I just got a message from Yamato

Professor Girlboss: One of the Remnants is trying to invade Towa

MelOWOdy: WHAT DID I JUST SAY

Trash Raccoon: Wow universe. Wow

Towa Crisis o' Clock:

TryingMyBest: So uh those Towa Loyalists have funding now 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Are you kidding 

LUCKYBOI: Guess they're not happy about me catching two of their peers 

Professor Girlboss: considering we didn't confiscate their phones, yeah

Then PERISH: why tf didn't u take their phones 

Professor Girlboss: they're not in any position to spill company secrets 

Professor Girlboss: and I want 77 to know we're coming for them

MelOWOdy: scawy,,,,

Computer_Weeb69: do you know which Remnant is causing trouble?

TryingMyBest: not yet but they do have a lot of minions 

Then PERISH: it's exhausting for all of us

Then PERISH: even Syo 

LUCKYBOI: Dw you two, I'll be coming to help!

MelOWOdy: and me too!

Professor Girlboss: no

SoraKingdomHearts: haha no you're staying put

MelOWOdy: But Yuki’s going!

LUCKYBOI: Only cuz I have Divine Luck, and your strengths aren't on the battlefield 

MelOWOdy: I don’t want to be alone though… even if it’s dangerous

LUCKYBOI: Hibiki…

Hostess_With_LeMostess: you won't be alone, you'll have me and Kokoro and everyone else 

Then PERISH: Your brother will be fine, sides I think you’d prefer not dealing with the Towa Loyalists

MelOWOdy: Good point.

TryingMyBest: Yeah those guys suck!

TryingMyBest: Like who supports Haji of all people?!

TryingMyBest: uhhhhg honestly you’re getting the better deal here

Professor Girlboss: Plus I’m sure that the kids at the orphanage will miss you if you leave

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Y’all are laying it a little thick there

Professor Girlboss: It’s a necessary evil

MelOWOdy: ReiRei is right, I don’t want the kids to worry about me, they’re going through a lot rn and I wanna be there for them

MelOWOdy: but what if something bad happens???

Then PERISH: like that'll happen with the lucky charm 

MelOWOdy: it did in the simulation…

LUCKYBOI: We're not in Utsuroshima anymore tho! And you can always message me n.n

LUCKYBOI: It'll be okay, promise!

MelOWOdy: you and Sosie better keep it

SoraKingdomHearts: somehow this scares me more than the Remnants 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

KinjoCult: Help for Towa is on the way on our side

LUCKYBOI: Aka me 

MelOWOdy: miss u already 😟

LUCKYBOI: Miss you too 

Richie_Rich: you're not sending Yuki alone, are you??

Discount Maya Fey: nah I'm coming with along with a few others 

LUCKYBOI: Including Kanon!

TryingMyBest: oh my gosh it'll be great seeing her again!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Be careful while out there

Discount Maya Fey: I'll be fine! Those Towa Loyalists don't scare me!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: it's not the Loyalists I'm worried about 

Kiwigiwi: Yeah even tho you took out two Remnants easily, the others are vicious 

Unlucky Hope: hope you're not dealing with Mikan

Discount Maya Fey: *shudder* now I'm frightened

Computer_Weeb69: don't put that into my head!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Thanks I hate it

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Mikako if it is Mikan you're dealing with, RUN

Richie_Rich: I never did get my question answered 

Richie_Rich: do u two know each other?

Kiwigiwi: really, you're gonna ask this now

Richie_Rich: what's the problem???

Koko_the_Science_Cat: there's no problem, it's just complicated 

Discount Maya Fey: I'll explain it 

Discount Maya Fey: long story short but Kokoro is my estranged mother and atm she's trying to make up for how she treated me 

Richie_Rich: …

Kiwigiwi: He has the shocked Pikachu face 

SwimAway: woah plot twist!!

Discount Maya Fey: don't ask more questions until I get back 

Unlucky Hope: I hope you both are doing okay 

Discount Maya Fey: Thanks 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: that's very kind of you to say 

LUCKYBOI: Soooo truth or dare anyone?

KinjoCult: NOPE

Rei was busy drowning herself in paperwork to not think about how worried she was about her girlfriend when Taichi entered her office. “Ms. Mekaru?” He knocked on the doorframe.

She nudged the large pile of files and reports away. “Yes?”

“I’ve done it.”

She got up. “It’s done?”

Taichi nodded, and she followed him to one of the computer rooms. “Yes, I’ve already informed Kisaragi-san and Kinjo-san.”

The computer servers of the Kisaragi Foundation were Yamato’s playground, one of his jobs was making sure their data was secure and that no information was misplaced, it was extremely rare for their digital systems to suffer any attacks.

Tsurugi was waiting by a computer screen, Rei recognized it as one of the computers they stole from Sannoji’s laboratory. 

“This better work.” Tsurugi was nervously tapping the arm of his wheelchair.

Taichi went to the computer. “It did, I’ve already contacted Monocrow a few times.”

He turned on the computer, and for a few moments, it ran like any normal computer should.

But Rei noticed on the homescreen a tiny shortcut that was in the shape of a black-and-white bird, Taichi clicked on it.

The screen changed color, and there was a figure on the center of the screen. “Good evening!” A familiar deep voice spoke. “Or is it morning? I’m still quite out of it.”

“Well damn, you did it.” Tsurugi blinked at the sight of Monocrow on the computer screen. “You brought him back to life.”

Monocrow glared in Tsurugi’s direction. “My pronouns are xie/xem.”

“Sorry.” He winced at the glare.

“In your defense I did get messed around by that horrible Mikado!” Xie ranted. “Uhg, I was relieved to hear from Mr. Fujisaki that he was gone, the nerve of that man and his sidekicks for kidnapping me!”

Good thing Rei brought her notepad with her. “So the Voids kidnapped you and your creator?” She had suspected it was Syobai or Mikado who had done most of the abductions, she still did even though

some of the others told her it was a specific Void member who captured them.

Or in the case of Iroha, who confessed herself since Hibiki didn’t remember much of anything before Utsuroshima.

“Yes, but I’m told they’re on probation.” Monocrow blinked. “I suppose I’ll tolerate them for now.”

“The last thing we need is fighting.” Tsurugi grumbled.

Monocrow looked curious at that. “Hm I wonder what drama’s happened while I was gone?”

Rei turned to Taichi. “How much have you filled xem in on things?”

“Only as much as I know.” He sheepishly rubbed the back of his head.

“Go take a break, I’ll explain the rest.” Rei then turned back to Monocrow. “Now… where should I start?”

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

Professor Girlboss: I have an announcement 

Rainbow_Painbow: not going to do it in the big chat?

Professor Girlboss: Nope 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: did someone else wake up??

LUCKYBOI: While I'M not there?!

Rainbow_Painbow: it's happened before 

MelOWOdy: and it was a bummer 

Professor Girlboss added Yuri Jr to the chat  

SoraKingdomHearts: huh maybe it is a good thing we're not there 

Yuri Jr: Surprise children I bet you thought you've seen the last of me 

FIYAAAH: Uh I don't think that's Yuri

MelOWOdy: MONOCROW?!?!?!?!

It's ART!!!: WHAT

Yuri Jr: Yes it is I your teacher, back from digital purgatory (xie/xem pronouns please)

Trash Raccoon: Huh should've seen that coming 

Professor Girlboss: Taichi helped safely bring xem back

LUCKYBOI: That was nice of him 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: WHY'D THE FUCK DID YOU ADD XEM TO THE CHAT

Yuri Jr: bc I hate Mikado?

Yuri Jr: great chat name btw

LUCKYBOI: Thanks

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: XIE KILLED ME

It's ART!!!: No that was Mikado and his stupid rule 

SoraKingdomHearts: I'm still not over the group execution 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Same, do you know how fucked up drowning is!?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: you couldn't have dropped a giant bottle on me??

MelOWOdy: Ruko no

Yuri Jr: in my defense Mikado came up with the executions

Yuri Jr: …you don't want to know the others

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I heard about the ones you saw and I don't think I wanna know what messed up torture devices he came up with 

Professor Girlboss: I saw some of the unused ones and yeah u don't wanna know 

Rainbow_Painbow: did I have one?

Professor Girlboss: This conversation is over

MelOWOdy: Can I ask you a question?

Yuri Jr: Sure I'm free to answer any and all questions, as part of my programming and a way to make up for my crimes in the simulation

MelOWOdy: why did you spare me?

It's ART!!!: uh oh 

SoraKingdomHearts: I'm morbidly curious too 

MelOWOdy: Mikado got mad at you for not executing me, so why didn't you do it?

Yuri Jr: Well technically one of you had to have done the killing blow so that key was to help decide which one of you was gonna go 

LUCKYBOI: And personally?

Yuri Jr: Not sure, part of my old programming remained? Luck? 

MelOWOdy: really? Just luck?

Professor Girlboss: Don't lie to her 

Yuri Jr: …because you deserved better 

Yuri Jr: Even I had standards as Overseer and you didn't deserve to be executed for what your sister did to you and your friend

MelOWOdy: why did you lie?

Yuri Jr: …

SoraKingdomHearts: I bet Monocrow doesn't want to admit xie has a soft spot 

Yuri Jr: zip it from the peanut gallery! 💢

Private Conversation between Discount Maya Fey and Koko_the_Science_Cat: 

Discount Maya Fey: Hey so I got a weird question

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I don’t mind weird questions

Discount Maya Fey: As a New Hope, have you ever run into any Remnants?

Discount Maya Fey: Shinji and Yoruko said they ran into some before so I got curious

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Not really, I’ve run into people who work for them

Koko_the_Science_Cat: One of the few positives of Future Foundation, it’s easy to get away from those kind of people

Discount Maya Fey: noted

Discount Maya Fey: You uh seem to not like them, did you run into any of Mikan’s little minions?

Koko_the_Science_Cat: No

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I… had a bad experience with killer nurses before Utsuroshima

Discount Maya Fey: oh frick really?!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: It’s a subject that’s hard to discuss, would it be okay if I talked about it in person with you?

Discount Maya Fey: Yeah that’s fair

Discount Maya Fey: mind if it’s over tea? I could use tea after this

Koko_the_Science_Cat: That’s fine. Good luck with the mission

Discount Maya Fey: Yuki’s tagging along so I think it’ll go fine! 

We Are Number One:

BabyGangsta: These guys had a lot of tech junk holy frick 

Ratatouille: too bad Souda's not there 

Soda_Good_Time: I could if, y’know…

DanceofDEATH: you made your bed now lie in it 

Soda_Good_Time: 😥 

BabyGangsta: eh there some nerds anyways they just need someone to lead em

BabyGangsta: Komaru Naegi will suffer by the end of this week 

BagelsOfHOPE: you're so mean Fuyuhiko 

MUSICMAAAAN: Who's Komaru?

Ratatouille: op is this a joke 

ThePrincessOfFlames: Seriously Ibuki?

MUSICMAAAAN: No seriously what did she do??

DanceofDEATH: HER BROTHER KILLED OUR GODDESS

Helloooo_Nurse!: Even if he did kill her it was an accident on his part

DanceofDEATH: who fucking cares about the details, Mikan! Sure you might find him fun to mess with but if I find him he’s mf-ing DEAD

Helloooo_Nurse!: Ah shame… but I won’t stop you

Helloooo_Nurse!: See why we’re mad Ibuki?

MUSICMAAAAN: so?

ThePrincessOfFlames: IBUKI

Ratatouille: must you fuck with us 

MUSICMAAAAN: Well I'm busy spamming music across the world so I need some entertainment 

MUSICMAAAAN: Been easier since Melody Rhythm got yoinked 

BagelsOfHOPE: wb that k-pop group 

MUSICMAAAAN: uch

DanceofDEATH: don't get her started on it

BabyGangsta: so anyways I'm doing fine on my own and soon the Ultimate Hope will suffer 

SLICESLICE: You're gonna kill Komaru aren't you 

BabyGangsta: that or fake her death 

BabyGangsta: been awhile since we had a pet

DanceofDEATH: you killed our last one 

BabyGangsta: IT WAS A FUCKING MACARONI BOX WITH A FUCKING MUSTACHE

ThePrincessOfFlames: LORD PASTA WAS OUR BABY YOU MONSTER 

Voidsquad:

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I CAN FINALLY HAVE SOLIDS AGAIN

It's ART!!!: WOOOHOOOO

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I missed u potato chips 

MelOWOdy: How have you not died of malnutrition yet

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: you're one to talk I saw you and Yuki raiding the market for candy back on Utsuroshima 

MelOWOdy: HEY IT WAS AFTER THE THIRD TRIAL FUCK YOU

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: AN ENTIRE BOX OF DARK CHOCOLATE THO?!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: NOT EVEN WHITE CHOCOLATE?!

MelOWOdy: WHITE CHOCOLATE DOESN'T HAVE ANY FUCKING CHOCOLATE IN IT YOU DUMBASS

It's ART!!!: For some reason I'm expecting Hajime to show up 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: god he'd roast me for this 

It's ART!!!: I'm already expecting the chewing out we're gonna get for the snack ring 

MelOWOdy: Jeez he sounds like the group mom 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: he is

It's ART!!!: He means well 

It's ART!!!: he's better than my actual mom 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: mine too 

MelOWOdy: mood

It's ART!!!: wait what

MelOWOdy: Yeah I don't really like my mom anymore,,,

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: was this a new development or?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: do you wanna talk about it?

MelOWOdy: I do miss my parents and I'm a little fucked up over being forced to watch them die

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: wtf 

MelOWOdy: but I resent how they raised us 

It's ART!!!: like leaving your sister at home with the dog at 4?

MelOWOdy: Yes! Maybe Kanade wouldn't be like that if they treated her like they treated me

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: you don't know that for sure 

MelOWOdy: I know 

MelOWOdy: it's just a thought 

MelOWOdy: At the end of the day, my sister chose to become a monster 

MelOWOdy: but I just want to hope that if things were better, she would've chosen better 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I get those thoughts too 

PerryThePLATYPUS: just don't let it get to you 

It's ART!!!: Well things can always be better now!

It's ART!!!: you have us 

MelOWOdy: Yeah, I do 

MelOWOdy: Hope Yuki’s doing okay in Towa 😔 

Private conversation between LUCKYBOI and BallIzLife:

LUCKYBOI: So how's it feeling on your end 

BallIzLife: I want to spit on Towa's grave 

LUCKYBOI: Mood tbh

LUCKYBOI: Hibiki still talks to the WOH and she felt rly sick after one time Monaca described her home life 

BallIzLife: if I had Haji Towa as a brother I'd be a little disturbed too 

LUCKYBOI: I hated talking to that guy SO much Komaru had more patience than me

BallIzLife: Oh I think I see her now 

LUCKYBOI: Annnd beating up robots as usual 

LUCKYBOI: This better be quick, sooner it's done sooner I can go home 

BallIzLife: Yeah saw that in chat, hope Hibiki is okay 

LUCKYBOI: She doesn't like spending time away from me 

BallIzLife: feel her tho 

BallIzLife: I hated being away from my cousin 

LUCKYBOI: oh uh should I change the subject?

BallIzLife: talking about him isn't going to kill me 

BallIzLife: Fucking Despair Yas Queen

BallIzLife: He never liked his talent and fuck her for that execution 

LUCKYBOI: Ooookay I'm gonna call Komaru over 

“Heyyyyy Komaru.” Yuki waved her over as Kanon took her anger on whacking a dead Monokuma. “Long time no see!”

“You sound like a video game character when you say ‘long time no see.’” Komaru joked.

He pouted. “Really?”

“It’s great seeing you.” She gave him a small hug. “And great seeing you too, Kanon!”

Kanon paused from mauling the dead robot to wave back. “Sup.”

“Maybe you should save that for the Loyalists.” Komaru glanced at the remains of the Monokuma. “They’re a pain.”

“Komaru, I'm pretty sure that kills someone.” Yuki pointed out.

She shrugged. “They support that creep anyways.”

“She has a point.” Kanon lifted the bat. “But maiming them or not, we should focus on stopping them before they cause another crisis here.”

“Agreed.” 

Kisaragi HQ:

Discount Maya Fey: We have a good guess on who's the Remnant causing trouble 

KinjoCult: did you see them?

Discount Maya Fey: not yet 

BallIzLife: some captured Loyalists described their new breadwinner 

Professor Girlboss: So it's Sonia?

Computer_Weeb69: god help you if it is

Discount Maya Fey: it's Kuzuyruu causing trouble 

Computer_Weeb69: oh that's not too bad 

KinjoCult: not too bad?!

KinjoCult: He's a fucking YAKUZA

BallIzLife: Oh fml 

Professor Girlboss: Fuyuhiko always had standards despite his background

Professor Girlboss: And then Junko got to him 

OBJECTIOOON: how's he less worse than Sonia

Computer_Weeb69: one word. Arson

DoneWithYall: you said 3

Computer_Weeb69: 😡 

BallIzLife: why cruel world, why

Professor Girlboss: you'll survive 

Discount Maya Fey: At least we only have to deal with one this time

Chapter Text

Hibiki couldn’t sleep.

Again.

This wasn’t anything unusual, sometimes the nightmares of death and blood and ohgodwhysukapleasenother-- were too much to bear, so she ended up skipping sleep on those nights.

At least whenever she had those nights, Yuki would stay up with her, and they spent that time talking, or traveling, just spending time together until the night passed…

But Yuki wasn’t here, he was in Towa without her and she was all, all alone.

She knew that he was on an important mission, that he had to save Towa from a Remnant of Despair causing havoc, but she still missed him and wished she could’ve gone.

But no, it was “dangerous” and unlike Yuki, she didn’t have the power of Divine Luck on her side if things went wrong.

She still missed him though, Hibiki didn’t like being alone, wasn’t used to it, still wasn’t used to it even after so much time being without her twin sister.

The warm itchiness of the blankets was getting to her as she tossed and turned, so she got up, thoughts mixed around in her head like a very thick stew.

Maybe a snack will help… It usually didn’t, Hibiki had a hard time keeping food down whenever her mood was like this, but she just wanted a sense of normalcy, like getting a late night snack to distract her about the fact her brother was in danger and there was nothing she could do about it.

What if he leaves me like Ayumi…? Like my parents…? Like Su--

Okay kitchen time now. Hibiki tried shaking the thoughts away, walking to the kitchen with one of her plushies in her arms.

It made her feel like a child, walking to the kitchen late at night carrying a stuffed animal, she should’ve outgrown them, but she didn’t, even whenever she got picked on and teased about her continued love of plushies.

When she was growing up, plushies were the one thing in her life that didn’t leave her.

She noticed the kitchen light was on. Oh, Ruko’s awake? Guess she couldn’t sleep either. Poor Yoruko, she pretended to be the well-functioning member of the group, but Hibiki knew that everything on Utsuroshima had messed her up too.

But when she walked into the kitchen, it wasn’t Yoruko who was awake, it was Kokoro. Oh, that’s not a surprise either.

Koko... She was glad that the psychologist wasn’t evil despite all the things she did, just… misguided, and willing to make up for her past misdeeds.

Hibiki would never, ever say it out loud, but she was kind of jealous Mikako got to reconcile with her mother and they could one day have a happy relationship, while she was stuck with a vindictive, murderous, irredeemable twin sister who had no regrets for ending lives, even when it killed her, and almost killed Hibiki.

No, stop that, stop that. She smacked her forehead. She hurt you, tried to make you a puppet, don’t miss her.

Uhg, despite everything Kanade did to her, Hibiki still missed her at times. 

Next therapy session she had, she was gonna ask her therapist how to get her to stop missing such a cruel person.

Unfortunately, the smacking of her forehead got Kokoro to look up from the pot she was boiling. “You shouldn’t hit yourself.”

Hibiki, embarrassed she was spotted, (as she was going to slink back to her room) decided to give a comeback. “Well you shouldn’t watch whatever you’re cooking, a watched pot never boils!”

“It’s already boiling.”

She blushed. “Oh.”

Kokoro didn’t comment on her embarrassment. “You were thinking about your sister, weren’t you?” She noticed. “You miss her and wish she could redeem herself, but you’re upset at yourself when you think about that because of the way she hurt you.”

Hibiki sighed, and decided to sit at the table which was near where Kokoro was cooking something. “I… I miss her, I spent my whole life with her, y’know?”

“But she wanted it like that, because I was just some stupid accessory security blanket and she didn’t care how it made me feel whenever she took someone away.” The tears were present as she rambled. “And… I hate when I miss her because of what she did to me!” 

“It’s a complicated situation for you.” Kokoro noted.

“Well can it be uncomplicated please?!” She exclaimed. “I don’t want to miss her or even think about her, she killed our parents and tried making me some mindless puppet! Y’know what? Screw her and I don’t even know why Yuki revived her with everyone else, she should’ve stayed dead!”

Despite Hibiki yelling at this point, Kokoro remained calm. “Would that make you feel better? If she was truly gone?”

She almost said “yes” but then thought about it. “I… I don’t know.”

“I can’t speak for Yuki, but perhaps he revived her so that she would face the consequences of her actions, or perhaps maybe he thinks you deserve proper closure outside of Utsuroshima.”

Pretty sure he revived her so she would face real punishment. “Sorry.” Kokoro was probably up at this hour because of her own personal demons and here Hibiki was, making it her problem now, like she always did.

“You don’t have to apologize, I often stay up late.” She explained.

Hibiki sighed, now her feelings felt less like a messy stew and more like a spilled bowl of soup. “What are you making?” She got up just to see the pot.

Kokoro lifted up some noodles. “Just spaghetti.” 

“Plain?”

She shrugged. “I couldn’t find the butter.”

“I know where it is!” Hibiki explained. “Mind if I…?”

“Sure, would Yoruko be okay with that?”

Hibiki nodded. “Ruko is okay with late night snacks, as long as you don’t touch anything people label as their own food.” And last she checked, the butter didn’t have a post-it note with her name on it slapped on the container.

“Okay.” Kokoro turned the stove off. “This is about done anyways.”

“Yay!” She beamed, already finding the butter and placing it in a bowl so it could melt.

While that went on, Kokoro was straining the water out of the pot. “This should be safe to eat.”

“Hm?” Hibiki turned from where she was watching the butter melt, she didn’t like it too melted.

“I picked up that you were here for a snack, despite your worries that you couldn’t keep whatever you eat down, you wanted a snack anyways for a sense of normalcy.” Kokoro explained. “Spaghetti is usually safe to eat for an upset stomach.”

Hibiki blushed, normally she’d be offended at the mind reading, but it was nice considering she was such a mess nowadays and couldn’t get her thoughts in one piece. “Thanks.”

“No problem.” 

Kokoro got her a plate, and drizzled a bit of butter as Hibiki handed the now-melted bowl over, she also drizzled a little bit on her own plate, and the two were now eating spaghetti at the table.

Hibiki didn’t speak a word as she slowly ate the pasta, and neither did Kokoro.

It was… nice, it definitely made her feel a sense of normalcy like Kokoro predicted.

She hoped that wherever Yuki was in Towa, he was feeling like this too despite the chaos going on there.

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

Unlucky Hope: Tengan is coming tomorrow and I'm not gonna like it 

70% Disaster: sending prayers 🙏 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: is he really that bad?

Sonic_SWIM: he always looked nice on the TV

SwimAway: He's always a little hard on Makoto 

Unlucky Hope: me and Ryota can relate 

Professor Girlboss: Ryota??

Kiwigiwi: he's one of our members, he works pretty close with Tengan so we worry

Unlucky Hope: Unrealistic expectations gang 🤝

Koko_the_Science_Cat: hope you two can unionize 

Rainbow_Painbow: this makes me think of the Ryota we went to school with 

Rainbow_Painbow: I liked talking to him but then I found out his real identity wasn't Ryota he was the Ultimate Imposter 😭 

It's ART!!!: Among Us 

Trash Raccoon: read the fucking room 

It's ART!!!: But we're outside 

Trash Raccoon: 😠 

KinjoCult: I do wonder where Imposter got the identity Ryota Mitarai from 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Maybe I'll ask Nagito

SwimAway: the answer may surprise you!

Remnant Busters:

LUCKYBOI: Sooo there's a Remnant in Towa I need info on 

AnimeBoi: Towa can't catch a break can it 

SoraKingdomHearts: neither can we 

Unlucky Hope: it do be like that 

Richie_Rich: Who are you dealing with 

SoraKingdomHearts: Some guy named Fuyuhiko who brought a bunch of manpower and funds for the Loyalists and now they're leading more attacks and they trashed a lot of places

AnimeBoi: The Ultimate Yakuza?!?!?!

LUCKYBOI: Why 

LUCKYBOI: Why is that a talent 

Kiwigiwi: Hope’s Peak, they study any and all talent even if it involves hosting criminals

Teachy_Teach: Fuyuhiko is more than his talent, he's a very kind soul 

SoraKingdomHearts: How'd he get drawn to despair?

Gamegirl314: I can answer that 

Gamegirl314: There was a set of murders on campus

Unlucky Hope: Wait what?!

Kiwigiwi: did not know that, okay o.o

LUCKYBOI: Don't remember reading that on the news 

Teachy_Teach: The school covered it up since the victims were members of the reserve course 

SoraKingdomHearts: what does that have to do with it?

Richie_Rich: because the Reserve Course was nothing but ATM machines and guinea pigs for the Steering Committee 

LUCKYBOI: Is that why there were riots 

AnimeBoi: Let Hinata finish!

LUCKYBOI: Sry

Gamegirl314: The first victim was Fuyuhiko's sister Natsumi 

Gamegirl314: Second was Mahiru's friend Honami Sato 

SoraKingdomHearts: I'm guessing Mahiru is another Remnant?

Unlucky Hope: Ye

LUCKYBOI: So losing their loved ones caused them to go into despair…

SoraKingdomHearts: there's more to it isn't there 

Gamegirl314: Ye, these girls HATED each other 

Gamegirl314: Some incidents in middle school I think but they did not get along 

Gamegirl314: H… my friend even told me they threw hands while in a lesson once

Teachy_Teach: I tried to help when I can but the school didn't care since the fights were in the Reserve Course 

LUCKYBOI: Oh no don't tell me what I think happened 

Kiwigiwi: it happened it seems 😔

Gamegirl314: So um, Natsumi got killed by Sato and then a few days later Fuyuhiko revenge killed her 

Gamegirl314: 77 didn't know the whole story until Junko 

LUCKYBOI: Why?!

LUCKYBOI: Why would she do that?!

LUCKYBOI: Isn't murdering your rival a little harsh?!

AnimeBoi: Hey be nice 

Gamegirl314: Reserve Course was really cutthroat 

Gamegirl314: Classmates throwing hands to get into a spot in Hope’s Peak isn't new

SoraKingdomHearts: what the fuck who allowed this 

Kiwigiwi: Steering Committee 

SoraKingdomHearts: Sigh 

LUCKYBOI: Maybe I dodged a bullet by not going to Hope's Peak 

AnimeBoi: you DID

LUCKYBOI: So tldr toxic school environment resulted in two girls dying and another bullet in 77's villain arc?

Unlucky: it's the truth 

Gamegirl314: those friends with Honami and Natsumi tried to get them to stop fighting, but one day things went too far 

Gamegirl314: Maybe if the school intervened they'd be alive and healing 

Gamegirl314: but to Hope's Peak, if you don't have their view of talent, you're nothing to them 

LUCKYBOI: …..Do you need a hug?

Gamegirl314: I'm good 

AnimeBoi: I think I'm gonna go deliver a helping of hugs and candy real quick 

Ryota walked over to the screening room, where his friend was going over some code. “Chiaki?” He cautiously spoke.

Chiaki rotated her chair, eyes staring at him, and the box of chocolates in his arms. “You didn’t have to bring sweets.”

“You always get sad when talking about our classmates.” He pointed out, placing the box on the table. “Not that I can’t relate.” He always got choked up thinking about Sagishi.

“Do you think that Yuki and Sora will be okay?” She asked. “I… I don’t want to think that Fuyuhiko will hurt them too badly, but he’s clearly trying to cause them problems by doing what he’s doing in Towa.”
Ryota wasn’t too concerned. “They have anime god powers, they’ll be fine.”

“Don’t say that too loud.” She warned. “You know Tengan will want them to join if he finds out, whether they want to or not.”

He recoiled. “Right…” The chairman could be quite… stubborn at times, especially when it came to making sure the Future Foundation was seen as a symbol of hope against despair.

A part of him was grateful that Makoto took on the burden of being the Ultimate Hope before Tengan could hoist that title onto him or Chiaki, but at the same time he felt guilty as maintaining that title had a toll on his friend’s mental health.

“It’s for the best.” Chiaki seemed to know what he was thinking about. “That they don’t know I’m alive.”

“Even if it’ll bring them hope?” He questioned.

She sighed. “When Sensei was treated for the brainwashing Ikusaba did on her, they turned on her…” Even though their sensei still had contact with the remnants, it was a very complicated situation. “She knows she can’t convince them to turn to hope, so she just tries to talk.”

“Sometimes even a little bit of talk helps.” Ryota pointed out. “Sensei’s just whittling them down, and once they’ve recovered in the Neo World Program, we can all be friends again.” Like they used to be before Junko took one look at the collective trauma of his peers and decided to weaponize it against the world.

“It won’t be the same.” She pointed out. “But you’re right, we can at least be together again.”

They just had to hope that the higher-ups of the foundation didn’t catch onto their plan. 

Towa Crisis o' Clock:

Then PERISH: We are going to intercept a meeting Fuyuhiko has with one of the Loyalist leaders 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: good luck 

Trash Raccoon: you got a name by any chance?

Then PERISH: I don't care enough to remember their names 

Sonic_SWIM: lmao

BallIzLife: Why tf are we capturing the guy why can’t we just kill the bitch 

Computer_Weeb69: murdering their own makes them in a bigger mood to commit crimes 

Computer_Weeb69: you should've seen them after Junko died 

Richie_Rich: *shudder*

Unlucky Hope: Yeah it was uh… it was yikes 

BallIzLife: aight 

BallIzLife: I think I see him 

TryingMyBest: omg he's so short!

MelOWOdy: how short??

SoraKingdomHearts: not as short as you 

MelOWOdy: Dangit. 

Then PERISH: Eh maybe one day you'll get taller 

MelOWOdy: I've been praying since high school and it hasn't happened yet 😭 

Unlucky Hope: being tall isn't fun either 

Richie_Rich: you had one growth spurt 

Unlucky Hope: I DO NOT LIKE IT

Unlucky Hope: PEOPLE STARING UP AT ME IS CREEPY 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: You sure it doesn't have to do with your status?

Then PERISH: ok enough about height 

LUCKYBOI: This guy is talking about capturing Komaru and faking her death ruh roh 

TryingMyBest: Not another tea party please 

MelOWOdy: Does Mikako have anything to add?

BallIzLife: She's organizing both foundations for a strike force atm 

BallIzLife: "god help me" -before we left 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Oof

Trash Raccoon: F in chat 

TryingMyBest: wow these people do NOT like you Hibiki 

TryingMyBest: Probably because you kicked their "hero" where it hurts 

MelOWOdy: And I'd do it again!

LUCKYBOI: Okay Fuyuhiko is grilling them for info I'm intervening 

Then PERISH: WAIT NO

BallIzLife: oops there goes Yuki 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: 😔 

Richie_Rich: does he ever look before he leaps 

Trash Raccoon: Not really 

MelOWOdy: CRUSH THEM YUKI CRUSH THEM

Hostess_With_LeMostess: BE CAREFUL 

BallIzLife: VIOLENCE

Richie_Rich: who's winning 

Then PERISH: Well Fuyuhiko went "fuck this I'm out" asap

Unlucky Hope: Dangit

TryingMyBest: we did catch the Loyalist!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: that was quick 

LUCKYBOI: 😉 

TryingMyBest: this gun has a stun option 

Computer_Weeb69: So what now 

Then PERISH: we have to bring this prisoner back to base and figure out what Fuyuhiko's next plan is 

LUCKYBOI: I can always take a lucky guess if he doesn't cough up info!

Trash Raccoon: Please don't 

We Are Number One:

BabyGangsta: I saw Maeda in person

BagelsOfHOPE: oh how is he?

SLICESLICE: You WHAT

Amongus_Bungus: Don't tell me you got captured 

BabyGangsta: Nah bitch I got away 

DanceofDEATH: for now 

BabyGangsta: stfu 

BabyGangsta: I was going over my factory takeover plans with the Loyalists and Maeda shows up the minute they start trash talking Otonokoji 

BagelsOfHOPE: Not surprised 

MUSICMAAAAN: Which Otonokoji there's like 3 I know 

DanceofDEATH: three??

MUSICMAAAAN: Well for one it's a first name 

BabyGangsta: They really don't like Otonokoji Hibiki for helping Komaru 

FoodGloriousFood: That footage of her kicking Towa in the nuts is HILARIOUS

FoodGloriousFood: …Now I want nuts 

DanceofDEATH: No you don't 

MUSICMAAAAN: Kind of OOC tho 

MUSICMAAAAN: She used to be boring af all she did was look pretty and smile at the cameras

Helloooo_Nurse!: She does have an adorable face

Amongus_Bungus: get back on fucking topic 

MUSICMAAAAN: Maybe I'll pay the Kisaragi Foundation a visit to find out!

Soda_Good_Time: YOU DONT WANT TO 

Soda_Good_Time: THEY'RE TRYING TO TURN ME INTO A GOOD WORKING CITIZEN

DanceofDEATH: You poor wittle meow meow 

BabyGangsta: note to self, if captured be nosy af

BagelsOfHOPE: It's a matter of when, not if

BabyGangsta: Hope can CATCH THESE HANDS 

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

LUCKYBOI: Remnants aren't causing trouble here, are they?

MelOWOdy: Nope!

Trash Raccoon: not really 

FIYAAAH: Only trouble I've seen is petty arguing 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: can confirm I see people argue over soda flavors at work

SoraKingdomHearts: Soda is soda 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: what about Panta?

Yuri Jr: what's Panta

Professor Girlboss: its a well-known soft drink that has a lot of fruity and unusual flavors

Yuri Jr: Oh wait I remember 

Yuri Jr: my father complained once there wasn't an alcoholic version 

Trash Raccoon: that would actually get me to drink the thing

It's ART!!!: your father?

SoraKingdomHearts: big Yuri, remember?

MelOWOdy: god I can't believe he got taller 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Cursed

Yuri Jr: Rude!

SoraKingdomHearts: it's jarring ok

Rainbow_Painbow: Not really 

LUCKYBOI: You weren't there from the beginning!

MelOWOdy: I should apologize to him 

Yuri Jr: ???

Trash Raccoon: for what??

MelOWOdy: If I hadn't whined so much about wanting to go home, Yuri wouldn't have made that offer on letting me kill him

MelOWOdy: which got him killed by Jimmy 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Hey don't give yourself credit for his murder 

SoraKingdomHearts: Nikei!

FIYAAAH: Hey I'm sure he wouldn't hate you 

FIYAAAH: He's a little… eccentric but he's understanding 

SoraKingdomHearts: understanding as, if you're a guy, gtfo?

LUCKYBOI: Oh gosh explaining my situation to him is gonna suck

LUCKYBOI: I hope the simping turned down as he got older 

Yuri Jr: it did 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I'll believe it when I see it 

THE POWAAAH RANGERSSS:

TryingMyBest: wow I've never been cursed as much as I did in my life 

Unlucky Hope: 😔 

Richie_Rich: Welcome to our hell 

Sonic_SWIM: why would people hate you guys?

Sonic_SWIM: Togami I can understand but the rest of you?

Richie_Rich: stfu

Then PERISH: because we killed people's goddess

TryingMyBest: Taylor Swift?

70% Disaster: NO

Unlucky Hope: Junko

TryingMyBest: why would people worship her

SwimAway: don't ask me 

Richie_Rich: stupidity 

Unlucky Hope: I've learned a lot of swears from getting cussed at by despairs 😭 

TryingMyBest: Oof

TryingMyBest: holy frick this guy used the F slur I can't believe people use that slur 

70% Disaster: wowww

Then PERISH: Kanon punched him in the face lmao 

Kiwigiwi: has he spilled any info?

Then PERISH: Nope

Richie_Rich: start breaking fingers 

TryingMyBest: wtf no

Unlucky Hope: Yeah give it a few hours first

Then PERISH: holy frick Makoto

Unlucky Hope: No one insults my sister 

TryingMyBest: he now is spilling when Yuki threatened to shove poison ivy where the sun don't shine 

Richie_Rich: that'll do it 😂 

Private conversation between Hostess_With_LeMostess and SoraKingdomHearts:

SoraKingdomHearts: hey we found out Fuyuhiko is going to try and take over the Monokuma factory 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: oh god 

SoraKingdomHearts: dw he will not get it easily 

SoraKingdomHearts: kisses for gl would be appreciated

Hostess_With_LeMostess: fine

Hostess_With_LeMostess: 😘 

SoraKingdomHearts: 😊 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Stay safe!

SoraKingdomHearts: we will!

Chapter Text

THE POWAAAH RANGERSSS:

TryingMyBest: this is a bad guy factory I s2g

Richie_Rich: despair in a nutshell

70% Disaster: are you guys gonna be okay?

Then PERISH: We'll survive 

SwimAway: be careful you two!

SwimAway: this is the Ultimate Yakuza we're talking about 

TryingMyBest: if I can defeat a group of child prodigies, this guy shouldn't be too hard to defeat!

Richie_Rich: Famous last words 

Unlucky Hope: YOU ARE NOT HELPING

Then PERISH: Did Tengan show up 

Unlucky Hope: No but he'll be here soon 

Unlucky Hope: and then he'll brag about how great the Ultimate Hope is and how I singlehandedly defeated Junko!

Richie_Rich: So modest 

Unlucky Hope: You know why I hate him bringing it up

TryingMyBest: bc you and Junko used to be friends?

Unlucky Hope: YEAH THAT

Kiwigiwi: that and it took a team effort to defeat her 

Kiwigiwi: Makoto mightve led us to victory, but he needed help to do it 

Unlucky Hope: truer words have never been said 

TryingMyBest: hopefully history shares your thoughts 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

Then PERISH: Hhhhhg what the fuck 

Then PERISH posted an image, it is hastily drawn graffiti showcasing several familiar faces being set aflame.

KinjoCult: wow that gives me cult vibes 

It's ART!!!: worst graphic art ever 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: …what am I looking at

MelOWOdy: you never saw the Towa stream??

Koko_the_Science_Cat: it got streamed?

TryingMyBest: Okay so Haji had this giant Monokuma we had to take down

TryingMyBest: while doing that I gave Yuki this controller that controls the Monokumas and it would've blown up the mind controlled kids if broken 

TryingMyBest: and he was trying to get us to break it

MelOWOdy: he broke my nose 😭 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: …what 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I KNOW

SoraKingdomHearts: Trust us, you don't wanna know how nasty that man was 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I’m sorry you had to interact with such a person 

LUCKYBOI: Talking to him always left a bad taste in my mouth 

TryingMyBest: Kanon also agrees the drawing is creepy 

Sonic_SWIM: oooh do you think we can add her to the chat??

Unlucky Hope: idk…

Kiwigiwi: do you think she'll keep the NWP a secret?

TryingMyBest: I trust her!

KinjoCult: Kanon so far has been a good member of the Kisaragi Foundation, I see no harm in inviting her

Unlucky Hope: okay then!

Sonic_SWIM added BallIzLife to the chat

BallIzLife: Oh look social anxiety 

Then PERISH: mood

LUCKYBOI: Welcome to our secret plan that shall be kept secret from FF

BallIzLife: how come?

BallIzLife: also dw I wouldn't snitch to FF of all places 

KinjoCult: I can explain 

KinjoCult: how's it in the factory?

BallIzLife: boring 

TryingMyBest: creepy

LUCKYBOI: The crude drawings depicting our demise adds a nice touch tho 

MelOWOdy: wat

Discount Maya Fey has logged on 

Discount Maya Fey: Help I have been captured 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: ……..

SoraKingdomHearts: WHAT?!

Then PERISH: WE LEFT YOU ALONE FOR TEN MINUTES HOW TF

Discount Maya Fey: Loyalist spies 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: oh godddddd

Discount Maya Fey: They infiltrated the task force invading the factory 

Discount Maya Fey: and caught me during a Monokuma attack 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: did they hurt you?!?!?!

KinjoCult: Do you know where they took you?

Discount Maya Fey: Yeah it's clozsdneusndjwjddjdj

Discount Maya Fey has logged off

Professor Girlboss: MIKAKO

LUCKYBOI: HELLO?????

Computer_Weeb69: SIS

BabyGangsta has joined the chat 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: ah frick here we go again 

MelOWOdy: Wtf is BabyGangsta 

BabyGangsta: FUCK YOU

Koko_the_Science_Cat: what did you do to Mikako 

BabyGangsta: she ran out of talking time

BabyGangsta: you can get her back tho, for a price 

Computer_Weeb69: ohgodohogkdkgkgkdkg

KinjoCult: we don't negotiate with terrorists 

BallIzLife: give Mikako back or you're gonna lose another eye

BabyGangsta: ooooh I'm so scared of someone who thirsted after her own cousin 

MelOWOdy: …..you what 

Sonic_SWIM: uhhh Kanon?

BallIzLife: FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF HE WAS MY BEST FRIEND YOU CREEP

Koko_the_Science_Cat: he's trying to psych you guys out 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: that being said, if anything happens to Mikako… 🔪

BabyGangsta: if you want her back, give us Komaru Naegi 

Then PERISH: YOU'LL NEVER HAVE HER

Then PERISH: say goodbye to your kneecaps for that one

TryingMyBest: no more tea parties please 😭 

Unlucky Hope: What did my sister do to you?!

MelOWOdy: Yeah Komaru hasn't even met you guys 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: is this bc of Nagito

BabyGangsta: who cares about him 

KinjoCult: Harsh thing to say about your peer

Professor Girlboss: they're despairs

BabyGangsta: it's simple 

BabyGangsta: Makoto took our goddess away so we're taking his sister 

SoraKingdomHearts: wtf

MelOWOdy: NEVER

Unlucky Hope: I didn't mean to kill Junko!!

BabyGangsta: Liar

LUCKYBOI: You really wanna go that route???

LUCKYBOI: Take Makoto’s sister away like how someone took your sister away??

BabyGangsta: …

Computer_Weeb69: Ouch Yuki, ouch 

Professor Girlboss: You had a sister…?

KinjoCult: wow I genuinely feel bad for you now 

BabyGangsta: how dare you…

LUCKYBOI: How dare I?

BabyGangsta: HOW DARE YOU BRING UP MY SISTER

LUCKYBOI: YOU KIDNAPPED MIKAKO 

BallIzLife: AND INSULTED MY COUSIN

Sonic_SWIM: Kanon I think he was trying to insult you 

BallIzLife: He brought him up 

BabyGangsta: You are dead Maeda! DEAD

LUCKYBOI: Jokes on you motherfucker not even death can stop me 

It's ART!!!: true story 

BabyGangsta: I'm gonna get you, AND YOUR LITTLE SISTER TOO

BabyGangsta has logged off 

MelOWOdy: gee Wizard of Oz much 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I do want to dump a bucket of hot boiling water on him 

Professor Girlboss: Agreed

TryingMyBest: woah harsh!

Then PERISH: eh not really

Unlucky Hope: reminder I need him alive 

BallIzLife: roughing him up a little counts as alive, right?

Unlucky Hope: Ig…

We Are Number One:

BabyGangsta: NAGITO

DanceofDEATH: oh god wtf is about to happen 

TheOverlordOfIce: chaos 

ThePrincessOfFlames: what happened 

BagelsOfHOPE: Hi Fuyuhiko 

BabyGangsta: DID YOU TELL THOSE KISARAGI FUCKS ABOUT NATSUMI 

BagelsOfHOPE: …who?

TheOverlordOfIce: 🤦‍♂️ 

SLICESLICE: His sister 

BagelsOfHOPE: ohhhhh

BagelsOfHOPE: I only talk to Kanata so Nope

Soda_Good_Time: what's this about dead people 

BabyGangsta: Maeda brought her up and I am PISSED

BabyGangsta: he went all "You really wanna take away Makoto’s sister like how someone took yours?"

SLICESLICE: Sigh

Ratatouille: talk about cold as ice 

BabyGangsta: YES I WANT PEOPLE TO SUFFER LIKE I SUFFERED

Snapsnap: We agreed not to talk about her or Honami

SLICESLICE: This is an exception 

Snapsnap: fine

Snapsnap has logged off

Ratatouille: gdm this drama

BabyGangsta: Once I'm done in Towa I'm gonna kidnap his sister!

Helloooo_Nurse!: He has a sister?

HowBOring: he and Otonokoji have adopted each other as family 

BagelsOfHOPE: it's so adorable n.n

Soda_Good_Time: gross XP 

ThePrincessOfFlames: it's not gross!

HowBOring: considering what her twin is like the bar is very low 

Helloooo_Nurse!: wait what?

HowBOring has logged off

Ratatouille: damn Izuru, back at it again with the cryptic nonsense 

BabyGangsta: what I wanna know is WHO THE FUCK TOLD MAEDA

BagelsOfHOPE: well it wasn't me 

BagelsOfHOPE: honest!

ThePrincessOfFlames: it was probably the Ultimate Detective who told him 

BabyGangsta: figures 

Soda_Good_Time: or maybe it was a ghooooost

Helloooo_Nurse!: ghosts aren't real you moron 

SLICESLICE: You're lucky you're in jail  

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

LUCKYBOI: Sooo we found where Mikako is

KinjoCult: you did?!

Professor Girlboss: WHERE

TryingMyBest: The place where the big Monokuma was held 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: that place is definitely trapped 

TryingMyBest: Yeah but it's the only way to save Mikako!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: they better not be hurting her…

Computer_Weeb69: yeah…

Discount Maya Fey has logged on

LUCKYBOI: MIKAKOOOOO

Discount Maya Fey: Hey uh heads up Toko they're planning on sniping you when you go to the Monokuma room 

Then PERISH: greeeeeaaat

Koko_the_Science_Cat: are you okay?! 

Discount Maya Fey: not my first rodeo

Computer_Weeb69: 😔 

Discount Maya Fey: Also uh Kuzuyruu has a mech

TryingMyBest: what

BallIzLife: of course he does 

SoraKingdomHearts: I thought we destroyed all the mechs!

TryingMyBest: he must've built his own 

TryingMyBest: good thing I got my gun!

Unlucky Hope: Be careful!!!

LUCKYBOI: Careful is my specialty!

Discount Maya Fey: But also he has qjsisjsjdjdsjsjdjsj

Discount Maya Fey has logged off

Professor Girlboss: not again

BabyGangsta: ok enough secrets out of you 

MelOWOdy: great it's this bastard 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: LET HER GO

BabyGangsta: you and what army!?

LUCKYBOI: me

Then PERISH: Your reign of terror ends here Kuzuryuu!

TryingMyBest: Prepare to face the Ultra Despair Girls!

BallIzLife: what the fuck you two 

SoraKingdomHearts: cringe 

Then PERISH: SHUT

MelOWOdy: I thought it sounded cool 

TryingMyBest: thanks 

BabyGangsta: Um hello???

Computer_Weeb69: get fucked 

Private conversation between Discount Maya Fey and Professor Girlboss:

Discount Maya Fey: So I’m still alive dw

Professor Girlboss: You still have your phone?

Discount Maya Fey: Yeah uh somehow

Discount Maya Fey: Yuki really pissed off Fuyuhiko tho

Professor Girlboss: Well he’s doomed anyways 

Discount Maya Fey: Still I kind of wonder how Yuki got that infodjdjcjsjdjdjsj

Professor Girlboss: Mikako???

Professor Girlboss: MIKAKO?!??!!?

Professor Girlboss: Uh oh 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

BallIzLife: are the mechs usually this ugly 

LUCKYBOI: Not really 

MelOWOdy: Kotoko had the prettiest one!

BabyGangsta: IS THAT REALLY RELEVANT

Computer_Weeb69: Yeah for presentation!

Computer_Weeb69: which your friends suck at

BabyGangsta: SHUT UP SCRAP HEAP

Professor Girlboss: HEY

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Don't call him that

KinjoCult: Insult Yamato and I will fucking destroy you 

BabyGangsta: I'LL ASK AGAIN

BabyGangsta: IF KOMARU TURNS HERSELF IN, I'LL LET MIKAKO GO

Rainbow_Painbow: you monster

TryingMyBest: Um lemme think about it

TryingMyBest: heck no!

Then PERISH: You'll never take my Girlfriend!

TryingMyBest: awww ❤ 

BabyGangsta: say goodbye to Kurokawa then 

Professor Girlboss: NOOOOOOOOOOO

BallIzLife: Holy f he just dropped her down a hole 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: WHAT

Discount Maya Fey: finish the sentence 

Computer_Weeb69: MIKAKO UR OKAY

BabyGangsta: HOW TF

LUCKYBOI: Syo's creative mode strikes again 

Discount Maya Fey: my life just flashed before my eyes

Discount Maya Fey: …I need to go out more

Professor Girlboss: I'll take you out after this 

BabyGangsta: GDM MAEDA

LUCKYBOI: What did I do?!

STABBYSTAB has logged on 

STABBYSTAB: Get rekt boss baby 

MelOWOdy: LOL

BallIzLife: hahahaha gottem

BabyGangsta: THAT'S IT

TryingMyBest: oh the mech just turned on 

Computer_Weeb69: CRUSH HIM

BallIzLife: SO MANY MONOKUMAS

SoraKingdomHearts: this is the Monokuma factory, what did you expect 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: DON'T TEXT AND FIGHT 

Sonic_SWIM: never change guys

MelOWOdy: who's gonna narrate 

Discount Maya Fey: so the Foundation forces are fighting Kuzuyruu's men and the Loyalists while everyone fights the mech 

Discount Maya Fey: …Syo that's a lot of scissors 

MelOWOdy: THE RETURN OF HURRICANE SCISSOR

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I really need to watch that stream

Hostess_With_LeMostess: its insane 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Also you're not in danger atm, right?

Discount Maya Fey: I don't need to be coddled by you of all people 

Computer_Weeb69: woah 

Sonic_SWIM: awkward…

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I’m sorry Mikako

Discount Maya Fey: no wait fuck sorry 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: it's fine, I shouldn’t have overstepped your boundaries 

Discount Maya Fey: it's not that it's just…

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Maybe you two should talk about this in person 

Professor Girlboss: Agreed

Discount Maya Fey: probably…

Rainbow_Painbow: soooo who's winning?

STABBYSTAB: Me! 💙 

Sonic_SWIM: not surprised

MelOWOdy: It's been forever since I've seen Syo in the gc

Unlucky Hope: it's normal, she rarely is on the gc I have with my friends 

STABBYSTAB: Who needs friends when you can stab giant robots 

Computer_Weeb69: that's fair 

Professor Girlboss: we talked about this 

Computer_Weeb69: bleh

Discount Maya Fey: AND THE MECH IS DOOOWN

Rainbow_Painbow: WOOOHOOOO

Hostess_With_LeMostess: that was faster than I expected

Unlucky Hope: You catch Fuyuhiko yet?

BabyGangsta: FUCK YOU

Koko_the_Science_Cat: not sure if that's a yes or no 

BallIzLife: he has a gun so we're keeping our distance 

MelOWOdy: Game over! Better luck next time

BabyGangsta: Ohhh fuck off Otonokoji!

MelOWOdy: no <3

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Maybe don't antagonize him…

TryingMyBest: Not much he can do in a gc

Professor Girlboss: He could hurt YOU guys

LUCKYBOI: I have plot armor 

BabyGangsta: You know what?? Fuck this I'm not a joke you!

Discount Maya Fey: Well he did abduct me

STABBYSTAB: You'll live 

BabyGangsta: But your classmates won't!

LUCKYBOI: ….

BabyGangsta: FF might catch all of us but our mistress ordered us to get rid of every Ultimate 

BabyGangsta: and that includes your stupid fucking brother anddjwudjejdidjdkr

Computer_Weeb69: I AM LITERALLY CALLED THE ULTIMATE INVENTOR I’M NOT STUPID

BallIzLife: woah Yuki o.o

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I thought Mikako punched him 

Discount Maya Fey: I did once and now Yuki is pummeling him

MelOWOdy: GIVE HIM THE CHAIR

TryingMyBest: uhhhhh I think he might kill him 

Discount Maya Fey: Yeah okay that's enough violence 

It's ART!!!: you sure it wasn't Sora wailing on him 

SoraKingdomHearts kicked BabyGangsta from the chat

STABBYSTAB: Did not know you had a brutal side 

SoraKingdomHearts: Trust me, I have one 

Private conversation between Hostess_With_LeMostess and SoraKingdomHearts:

Hostess_With_LeMostess: what happened?

SoraKingdomHearts: he was boasting about getting his Remnant friends to butcher 79 and I saw red

Hostess_With_LeMostess: he said that out loud???

Hostess_With_LeMostess: my god

SoraKingdomHearts: Just…. 79 deserves better from what I put then through 

SoraKingdomHearts: No one is going to hurt them ever again 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: what you put them through?

SoraKingdomHearts: ….

Hostess_With_LeMostess: oh it was actually Akane, was it?

SoraKingdomHearts: SHHHHH

Hostess_With_LeMostess: No one is looking at my phone 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Sora, I promised I wouldn't tell anyone about her and I meant it 

SoraKingdomHearts: sorry

Hostess_With_LeMostess: it's okay

SoraKingdomHearts: Yeah it was Akane

SoraKingdomHearts: She was pissed about Fuyuhiko kidnapping Mikako and him threatening 79 made her front to kick his ass 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I don't blame her 

SoraKingdomHearts: she says thanks 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: n.n

Hostess_With_LeMostess: hey have you and Yuki thought about telling someone?

SoraKingdomHearts: Telling someone?!

SoraKingdomHearts: tell someone else that Akane isn't actually dead while FF is breathing down our neck?!

SoraKingdomHearts: DO YOU KNOW WHAT'LL HAPPEN IF PPL FIND OUT

Hostess_With_LeMostess: SORA

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I'm not saying tell everyone I mean to maybe let one of our friends know

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Keeping this wrapped up CANNOT be healthy for any of you 

SoraKingdomHearts: it's not…

SoraKingdomHearts: this is probably something you should talk to Akane about 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Alright 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

Discount Maya Fey: We caught Fuyuhiko and are preparing to come back 

Professor Girlboss: yayyy

TryingMyBest: thank god no more Loyalists 

TryingMyBest: gonna miss you guys tho!

BallIzLife: Yeah you've grown on me so miss you too 

MelOWOdy: where's Yuki?

Then PERISH: he said he had to privately message someone 

MelOWOdy: oh okay 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: chill he's coming back soon 

MelOWOdy: I MISS HIM OKAY

Private conversation between Hostess_With_LeMostess and Maidenhell

Maidenhell: Hiiii~

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Hello Akane

Maidenhell: wow it's been forever since we chatted

Maidenhell: Hope you're doing okay!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I am 

Maidenhell: You and Sora go on any fun dates? 😏 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: let's stay on topic please…

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Are you okay with letting someone know you're around?

Maidenhell: Well it would be nice having someone else to talk to 

Maidenhell: I miss people 😭 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I'd figure

Maidenhell: I don't want to tell anyone of my old classmates yet 

Maidenhell: they have enough on their plate and me being there would stress them tf out

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Yeah maybe we shouldn't tell any of 79

Hostess_With_LeMostess: or Void

Maidenhell: as fun as it would be to meet fellow Divine Luck users, agreed 

Maidenhell: Are they doing better?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Yeah they're doing fine

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Hajime and Emma haven't woken up yet, but they'll be fine 

Maidenhell: Yeah cuz theyll have Yuki to make sure their luck doesn't run out 

Maidenhell: he uses it better than me

Hostess_With_LeMostess: in your defense you were in a coma so deep people thought you were clinically dead 

Maidenhell: Yeah but GAH

Maidenhell: There's so many things I need to fix 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: let's take it one thing at a time, okay?

Maidenhell: alright…

Hostess_With_LeMostess: do you know who you wanna talk to?

Maidenhell: mhm! I really wanna meet Hibiki 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: oh

Hostess_With_LeMostess: you sure?

Maidenhell: Ye!

Maidenhell: You sound like Yuki and Sora XD

Hostess_With_LeMostess: what do they have to say?

Maidenhell: they don't want me “stressing out the baby"

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I doubt they referred to Hibiki as "the baby" 😒

Maidenhell: Yeah I was being dramatic 

Maidenhell: But I think she can handle it! 😃

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I think so too, but I just want to be sure

Maidenhell: that's fair!

Maidenhell: but considering how responsible she is with the WOH, I think she can handle little ol' me

Hostess_With_LeMostess: let's wait until you guys get back before you spring it on her 

Maidenhell: Yeah, gotta slowly coax her first 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: You feeling better?

Maidenhell: Yeah just… no one is going to hurt my friends if I have anything to say on it

Maidenhell: even if I'm not really their friend anymore, I'm gonna make it up to them 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: How's Mikako?

Maidenhell: keeping it together but I can tell it got to her 

Maidenhell: I'd offer her some honey tea but she'd get suspicious 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: you could always pass it off as a lucky guess 😉 

Maidenhell: Haha true

Maidenhell: gtg now but thanks Yoruko…

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Anytime Akane, anytime 

Chapter Text

Kisaragi HQ:

DoneWithYall: sooo how was your first official mission?

BallIzLife: gave me a newfound hatred of Towa

Discount Maya Fey: Mood

KinjoCult: no more field missions for you 

Discount Maya Fey: You can't ban me from missions like Teruya!

Rainbow_Painbow: Hey!

Professor Girlboss: I'm in agreement

Discount Maya Fey: babe why 😭 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: it was really scary

The_Doctor_is_IN: Do you guys have any injuries?

BallIzLife: Just some bruises

Discount Maya Fey: does my pride count?

Computer_Weeb69: We've all gotten captured at some point Mikako, dw

OBJECTIOOON: We're just glad you're okay!

Discount Maya Fey: Thanks guys

BallIzLife: I'm still confused why we can't kill Kuzuyruu 

KinjoCult: We talked about it

BallIzLife: But what if the NWP doesn't work?

Professor Girlboss: it should work since this is the original version 

KinjoCult: We'll cross that bridge when we get to it 

Computer_Weeb69: we could always bully them into Hope 

DoneWithYall: aren't you already doing that?

Computer_Weeb69: 😉 

We Are Number One:

HowBOring: So Kuzuyruu got captured in Towa 

SLICESLICE: WHAT

TheOverlordOfIce: So the sister of the Ultimate Hope is much stronger than anticipated…

Snapsnap: wow am legit terrified!

MUSICMAAAAN: NOOOOOO NOT FUYUHIKO 

Soda_Good_Time: Someone owes me money 

DanceofDEATH: not while you're in jail

SLICESLICE: How come Fuyuhiko isn't telling us this himself?

HowBOring: Sora pummeled him for threatening 79

Helloooo_Nurse!: we do need to get rid of any Ultimates that aren't us 

DanceofDEATH: fuck no I like freedom

CoachCool has logged on

FoodGloriousFood: THE OLD MAN'S BACK?!

TheOverlordOfIce: Greetings oh powerful mentor! How was your trip?

CoachCool: boring 

CoachCool: Wait Fuyuhiko got CAPTURED?!

SLICESLICE: It's horrible I know 

Snapsnap: frankly idgaf he got caught I just don't wanna be next

MUSICMAAAAN: Mood

SLICESLICE: Say that to my face why don't you

Snapsnap: bite me 

Helloooo_Nurse!: can we focus on revenge first 

DanceofDEATH: good luck doing that with Maeda around 

Helloooo_Nurse!: well I guess we gotta wait until he's away then : )

CoachCool: who's Maeda?

TheOverlordOfIce: You missed a lot 

Utsuroshima is Over Party: 

LUCKYBOI: We're backdjdjfjdnfnd

BallIzLife: Hibiki just tackle hugged him rofl

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Hibiki we talked about this!

MelOWOdy: BUT I MISSED YUKI

LUCKYBOI: Missed you too… plz get off

MelOWOdy: sorry!

Then PERISH: lmao never change you two

Kiwigiwi: Sidenote Tengan finally arrived

Discount Maya Fey: great more FF people

Unlucky Hope: I hate everything 

BallIzLife: you good?

Unlucky Hope: my boss expects me to be happy 24/7 because I'm the Ultimate Hope 

Computer_Weeb69: you'd have to be the Ultimate Game Show Host for that 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: just smile and wave Makoto, smile and wave 

MelOWOdy: He's going to take Munakata, right?

Professor Girlboss: He better

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun* has logged on

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: good news everyone!

SoraKingdomHearts: Munakata's leaving?

Computer_Weeb69: You finally got better taste in men?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: wow.

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Did someone else wake up?

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I'm not sure

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Yep!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: oh nvm then

Trash Raccoon: 👀 

MelOWOdy: who?!?!

Discount Maya Fey: of course this happens when we get back 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Well he can't join chat atm since his head and eyes hurt and I want him to get some rest first

LUCKYBOI: Awww man

It's ART!!!: wait a minute…

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: But Mr. Makunochi is doing fine and I can pass on any messages 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: HAJIME'S BACK?!

MelOWOdy: LET'S GOOOOOOOO

Koko_the_Science_Cat: @FIYAAAH your training buddy is back

FIYAAAH: !!!!!!

It's ART!!!: tell him I said hi and to get well soon!

MelOWOdy: and that we miss him! 

FIYAAAH: And that I don't blame him for the Void stuff

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Will do!

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: he says hi btw 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Hope he feels better soon

Koko_the_Science_Cat: you alright?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Yeah just not comfortable passing any messages since…

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: oh yeah that

Unlucky Hope: can you explain the context?

MelOWOdy: Jimmy tried framing Ruko for murder 

MelOWOdy: but I'm sure he feels bad about it!

It's ART!!!: Yeah he was the least on board with committing murder

SoraKingdomHearts: says the Void who tried to weasel out of murder three times

It's ART!!!: XP

Unlucky Hope: I can understand where you're coming from Yoruko!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: you do?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: oh wait shoot you do  

Unlucky Hope: I think when you two are ready you should talk about it 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: we should 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Hajime said he's willing to talk about what happened when he's feeling a little better 

LUCKYBOI: He'll be fine as long as he doesn't smuggle chips

It's ART!!!: oh my god 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: it was one time. ONE TIME

Even though Mikako said she was fine, Tsurugi still made her get examined in the medical wing, which was low-key driving her insane.

At least they gave her an ice pack for her head, which had gotten a bit bruised when she got captured.

“You don’t have a concussion, at least.” Kanata told her.

“Oh, thank god.” She sighed with relief.

“But you’re still going to be on paperwork duty for a while.”

She frowned. “Alright…” Sure she was annoyed about it, but she didn’t blame Tsurugi for being overprotective.

Last time one of them went out on a field mission was Teruya and Rei, and it was not pretty…

Teruya at this point was ready to go back on field duty but was still handling finances as the others were very reluctant to let him out of sight. What happened on Utsuroshima had been the closest one of them had nearly died.

If it hadn’t been for Yuki’s Divine Luck powers… Teruya would have died.

That was scary to think about, would Fuyuhiko have killed her if Yuki wasn’t there? He did claim that Enoshima had tasked the Remnants with killing any Ultimates…

It was something she’d have to look into, considering Enoshima exploited Hope’s Peak to help set off the Tragedy, the “powder to light the keg” so to speak…

Interrupting her thoughts was a soft knock on the door. “Come in!” Kanata greeted.

The door slowly opened, and Mikako saw her mother enter. “Is it okay if I…?” She paused.

“Yeah, it’s fine.” Mikako waved her in, and Kokoro took up a chair. “My bad for snapping at you earlier.”

“It’s fine.” Kokoro reassured her. “I’m sorry for overstepping any boundaries.” 

She groaned. “It’s not just that, you don’t have to worry about me so much, I can take care of myself, I’m not a kid anymore.”
“I know.” Kokoro sighed. “But I wasn’t taking care of you when you were a kid.”

And gee I wonder why? The witty retort rested on her lips, but she bit it down. She’s not trying to be condescending, she’s just trying to be a good person to me now. “Thanks, it is a bit nice… but it’s weird getting used to.” 

It made her think of her dad, how often he fussed over her or Yamato whenever they got into scrapes, she missed him. 

“I’m not trying to replace your adopted dad.” Kokoro explained. “But… if you’re okay with it, I wanna make sure you’re alright.”

“You can be a bit reckless at times.”

Both of them glanced at Kanata. “What?! You and Kinjo have ended up needing medical rest more often than the others!”

“I’m pretty sure Teruya has gotten into more trouble than me.” Mikako deadpanned. “Remember Utsuroshima?”

Kanata huffed. “That doesn’t count!”

“Yes it does!”

Kokoro couldn’t help it, something about the way the two bickering like young kids made her chuckle a little. “Oh you think it’s funny, huh?” Mikako raised an eyebrow, but Kokoro knew she was being sarcastic. “Well, I don’t mind a bit of checking-in, just step back when I tell you to, alright?”

That sounded fair. “Alright.”

“And if you’re okay with it, can you check on my brother every now and then?” Mikako requested. “Sometimes when he gets into inventor mode, we don’t hear from him for a couple days and it scares us every time.”

As much as Yamato’s inventions helped with their mission of bringing the world back to normal, clean energy technology, protective gear and weapons, effective building materials… sometimes they didn’t hear from him and it always scared her into thinking some rogue hacker killed her brother.

“Alright, I can do that.” Kokoro nodded. “Does he get upset if someone interrupts him in inventor mode?”

She shook her head. “Nope, at most he’ll just blast annoying songs on your phone.”

“Oh, I was under the assumption he’d go and tamper with game settings on your phone.” Kokoro gave a light chuckle. “Yuki has expressed his complaints about Yamato messing with a few board game apps during their first trip in Towa.” 

“He does that to me and I’ll paint all of his favorite machines yellow, he hates yellow.”

“Maybe don’t mess with your brother who has unlimited internet access.”

“Totally worth it!” 

Future is NOW:

SweetTreat: sooooo did they like the snacks??

Unlucky Hope: Tsurugi says it gave him serotonin 

SweetTreat: I'll take the W!

RainthePain: good job Ruruka

FullmetalBlades: ^

SweetTreat: 😁 

TheCouncil: this isn't a fucking baking chat 

Drinks_R_Us: let them have fun 🔪

Photosynthesis: Are the Kisaragi Foundation mad at us?

Unlucky Hope: they're not mad at me

Ninjaboss: of course not, you're the Ultimate Hope! A symbol against despair!

Unlucky Hope: yaay….

TheCouncil: hmph

AnimeBoi: They've been giving me ??? Looks 

Teachy_Teach: Did they never meet the real you?

AnimeBoi: no bc I never left my dorm

Unlucky Hope: want me to help explain?

AnimeBoi: plz 

Private conversation between AnimeBoi and SoraKingdomHearts:

SoraKingdomHearts: have you ever heard of Among Us, Mitarai?

AnimeBoi: YES

AnimeBoi: Why does everyone ask me that?!

SoraKingdomHearts: tis a meme 😂

Leader Meeting: 

KinjoCult: Hope the trip was fine

Ninjaboss: It was alright 

Professor Girlboss: We'll make it short, we don't mind working with you guys, but harassing our members is overboard 

Discount Maya Fey: so is trying to execute them WITHOUT OUR PERMISSION 

TheCouncil: Mitsume herself confessed she was responsible for Utsuroshima 

KinjoCult: Not really?

Teachy_Teach: Maybe don't bring that up 

TheCouncil: I thought you all would know better than to give mercy to despair agents 

Discount Maya Fey: My mother isn't a despair agent fuck off and don’t ever fucking go near her again you bitch 🔫

Boxman: Wait what 

Teachy_Teach: Oh I didn't know you two were related 

Discount Maya Fey: we've recently reconnected 

Boxman: I didn't even know she had kids

TheCouncil: I see…

Kiwigiwi: Perhaps we can have this conversation another day 

Ninjaboss: Agreed

Ninjaboss: I believe these accusations started because of Taira?

Professor Girlboss: Maeda. Yuki Maeda

Boxman: here we go again…

KinjoCult: We explained half a dozen times that it's Yuki 

Ninjaboss: Even though the DNA shows it’s Taira?

Discount Maya Fey: How??? Did you get that???

Kiwigiwi: He requested Inori give him the documents 

Kiwigiwi: Very seriously 

Ninjaboss: Kyoko

Kiwigiwi: They would've found out 

Professor Girlboss: you could have asked us first instead of badgering Kanata 

KinjoCult: Yuki’s body was destroyed and his consciousness along side Sora's was downloaded into Akane’s body 

KinjoCult: Do I need to show the footage because I will show the footage

Discount Maya Fey: doesn't the last trial footage get glitchy as hell 

Professor Girlboss: Yeah but it should get the message across

TheCouncil: how do we know it's original footage 

Professor Girlboss: 🖕 

KinjoCult: Rei

Kiwigiwi: look it's the Kisaragi Foundation's problem even if Taira was still around, we don't need to meddle

Ninjaboss: I disagree 

TheCouncil: what

Boxman: oh great

Discount Maya Fey: WHAT

Ninjaboss: Akane Taira was one of Enoshima’s agents, she could still be around 

KinjoCult: her mind was dead 

Ninjaboss: So was Maeda, all I'm saying is that you should be cautious around her

Ninjaboss: I've already talked to Kyosuke of taking less… drastic measures next time

TheCouncil: hmph

TheCouncil: But if I do find out that Taira is alive…

KinjoCult: You can't be allowed to do this, I refuse

Discount Maya Fey: Yeah we just want Munakata to leave

Ninjaboss: I see

Ninjaboss: Well, your protests might cause the members stationed at Towa to fight amongst each other 

Ninjaboss: We wouldn't want that, would we?

Professor Girlboss: Is this fucking blackmail?!

Discount Maya Fey: what the fuck 

Ninjaboss: It's not blackmail 

Ninjaboss: simply a warning

Ninjaboss left the chat

TheCouncil: I will be sure to at least send proof when I do find Taira's alive

TheCouncil left the chat 

Professor Girlboss: YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME

KinjoCult: WHAT THE FUCK

Discount Maya Fey: FUCK YOU FUTURE FOUNDATION 

Boxman: Uh I'm still in here

Kiwigiwi: I had no idea he was gonna pull that fuck I'm sorry 

Teachy_Teach: now I regret looking away for five minutes 

Discount Maya Fey: Makoto wasn't kidding what the fuck

Boxman: Disclaimer Tengan doesn't think that Maeda is Taira 

Professor Girlboss: WHY THE FUCK WOULD HE SAY THAT

Boxman: He wants to keep an eye on you guys since you've captured four Remnants

Boxman: I think he's onto Naegi for his stupid NWP plan

KinjoCult: you're in on that???

Boxman: not really

Teachy_Teach: I made him swore to secrecy!

Kiwigiwi: Juzo agrees that it's better than executing 77

Boxman: I mean I doubt it'll work but…

Boxman: They're Chisa's students and she misses them

Teachy_Teach: I wish I could've found out about Junko sooner…

KinjoCult: Well she's gone now 

Kiwigiwi: She's still causing us more trouble 

Kiwigiwi: God I hate her 

Boxman: Mood

Discount Maya Fey: she treated me and my friends as lab rats fuck her

Professor Girlboss: I should warn Maeda

Kiwigiwi: Maybe hold off on that, he just got back on Towa 

KinjoCult: I'm gonna check on Kanata and make sure she's okay 

KinjoCult: nerve of that guy…

Boxman: some survivor woke up, didn't they?

Boxman: heard the art kid chattering about it 

Discount Maya Fey: Yep Hajime Makunochi! The Ultimate Boxer

Professor Girlboss: for Utsuroshima at least 

Boxman: huh, might be nice to share techniques with a fellow boxer 

KinjoCult: at least someone's happy 

Remnant Busters:

AnimeBoi: so the among us meme is from a horror game about…. Furries?

Gamegirl314: well I mean...

Gamegirl314: You're not wrong? Glamrocks do kinda look like furries

SoraKingdomHearts: what the fuck

Unlucky Hope: Shhh let them finish

Richie_Rich: can you two go on about this in dms

Gamegirl314: 🤷‍♀️ 

LUCKYBOI: Oh god you guys were talking about fnaf 

LUCKYBOI: Don't ask Mikako or Yamato about it or you'll get a mouthful 

Gamegirl314: hmmmm

Kiwigiwi: I've returned 

AnimeBoi: wb!

Richie_Rich: how was it?

Kiwigiwi: it went 

Unlucky Hope: that bad?

LUCKYBOI: Uh oh 

Kiwigiwi: long story but bad news is that Munakata isn't leaving anytime soon

Unlucky Hope: sigh

SoraKingdomHearts: whyyyyyy

AnimeBoi: sorry guys 

Kiwigiwi: Yeah, just be careful

LUCKYBOI: Universe give me a fucking break 

LUCKYBOI: God just give me one good day. please

SoraKingdomHearts: Maybe we should head home 

Richie_Rich: stay safe you two

LUCKYBOI: Considering my worst nightmare isn't leaving, yeah

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

Hostess_With_LeMostess: why would you edit that footage anyway

Professor Girlboss: its like all logic leaves his brain when it comes to despair 

Trash Raccoon: want me to shank him?

Professor Girlboss: NO

Koko_the_Science_Cat: That would cause more problems 

LUCKYBOI: Not if he makes it look like an accident

Professor Girlboss: Yuki

MelOWOdy: we're heading home now 

LUCKYBOI: Yeah gotta drive so brb

LUCKYBOI has logged off

It's ART!!!: Poor Yuki, idk why they gotta do that to him 

Rainbow_Painbow: ^ hasn't he been through enough 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: let's use their logic for a bit 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: what logic 

Professor Girlboss: pffft

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: say Akane still is there 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: She hasn't done any despair crimes lately

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: helped with Towa

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: and he STILL wants to kill her 

MelOWOdy: Yeesh by that logic it's fucked up 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: ^

Rainbow_Painbow: what she did to us wasn't cool, but in the end she did save us 

FIYAAAH: Future Foundation can fight me if they try messing with my bro 

It's ART!!!: mood

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I doubt he can be killed since he has Divine Luck 

Trash Raccoon: didn't keep the old user alive at the end

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Harsh

Private conversation between Hostess_With_LeMostess and SoraKingdomHearts:

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Can you stop by Otori Mart and grab some chips?

SoraKingdomHearts: I thought we had chips

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I actually need you to stall for a certain someone's surprise puppy 🐶 

SoraKingdomHearts: 👀 

SoraKingdomHearts: what kind of chips do you want?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: the salty kind

“We’re back!” Sora opened the door, holding a large bag of salty potato chips that was probably going to be devoured in a single movie night.

Yoruko greeted them. “You guys doing alright?”

“Ye!” Hibiki eagerly nodded. 

“We’re hanging in there.” Sora made a seesaw gesture. “Yuki’s pretty tired though.”

She didn’t blame him. “Thanks again for the chips.” She took the bag, happy that it was her favorite brand.

“No problem.”

Hibiki crash-landed on the couch. “It sucks that Future Foundation are staying awhile…” She grumbled. 

“Some of them are okay…” Sora admitted. “But the higher-ups are the ones we have to watch out for.”

“Agreed.” Yoruko pinched the bridge of her nose. She hoped that they didn’t start bugging her for answers…

Not that she would spill anything about Utsuroshima anyways.

Yip!

The sound made Hibiki look up from the couch. “Did anyone else hear that?” She looked nervous, like she thought that she was imagining the sounds of a puppy barking.

“I did.” Yoruko reassured her. “Kokoro?”

That cued for Kokoro to enter the living room, holding a very enthusiastic puppy in her arms. “He’s very excited.”

Sora gushed at the sight of the puppy, which looked a lot like a corgi with his short body, big ears, and golden fur. “Awww, cute!”

“Surprise!” Yoruko gestured to the puppy in Kokoro’s arms. “I got you a puppy.” 

Hibiki stared in silence at the small little bundle, her eyes wide and her mouth slightly parted as she observed the puppy, not saying a word.

Kokoro placed the puppy on the couch and he began hopping towards the vocalist. “It’s okay, he’s very excited to meet you.” She reassured the still-frozen Hibiki.

She didn’t really move until the puppy was inches away, sniffing her hand and nudging it with a wet snout. It prompted her to slowly move her hand on top of the puppy’s head, the puppy yipping enthusiastically as she petted him with a slow, but careful pacing.

“Hi.” Hibiki’s voice was soft, cautious to not startle her new friend. “Hi.” She repeated, a layer of sadness in her voice.

She sounded so sad, Yoruko wondered if she was thinking of Shiro, her old puppy, her first childhood friend who had been ripped away from her oh so cruelly.

A glance at Kokoro had answered her thoughts, the older woman didn’t say much except for a slow nod and a sorrowful look.

Yoruko grimaced, and turned her attention to Hibiki, who was sniffling as the puppy was now on her lap. “I love you.” She murmured to the small puppy. “I just met you, but I love you.”

The puppy was yapping enthusiastically as he continued to get pets.

Yoruko had to glance away again, so the vocalist didn’t notice the small but happy tears that were in her eyes. 

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

LUCKYBOI: Today has just gotten way better

It's ART!!!: what happened? :0

Hostess_With_LeMostess posted an image, it’s of Hibiki cuddling with a puppy

FIYAAAH: Awww

Rainbow_Painbow: PUPPY

Koko_the_Science_Cat: This is the cutest thing I’ve seen all day 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: You got Hibiki a dog?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: one of my co-workers has a dog that was having puppies 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: and since she had to deal with a lot lately, she deserves a puppy

MelOWOdy: you guys are the best 😭 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: glad you're happy rn

FIYAAAH: Did you think of any names?

MelOWOdy: not yet

MelOWOdy: uh I'm bad at names can someone help 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Nikei 😏 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: no

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: 💢 

It's ART!!!: Nice try 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Maybe give him a name based on his characteristics?

MelOWOdy: feels too plain sorry

Koko_the_Science_Cat: no worries!

Professor Girlboss: hmm…

Rainbow_Painbow: What about Haru?

SoraKingdomHearts: !!!

MelOWOdy: that sounds cute!!

MelOWOdy: where'd you get the name from?

Rainbow_Painbow: Well one of my old classmates was like a giant puppy sometimes 

Rainbow_Painbow: his name was Haruhiko 

LUCKYBOI: Ohhh

SoraKingdomHearts: 😭 

MelOWOdy: you okay with me using it?

Rainbow_Painbow: Ye!

Professor Girlboss: it's what he would've wanted 

MelOWOdy: Sosie you okay?

SoraKingdomHearts: juuust give me a moment 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I still think Nikei is a great name for a dog 

FIYAAAH: Dude…

It's ART!!!: Read the room you dumbass 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: HEY

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Voidsquad:

OnePunchGuy logged on

It's ART!!!: welcome back Hajimeeeee

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Hey!

OnePunchGuy: Hey

OnePunchGuy: Surprised Iroha didn't delete the chat

It's ART!!!: I would never QAQ

MelOWOdy: Hi Jimmy!

OnePunchGuy: ……….

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Oh yeah Hibiki's on here now 

MelOWOdy: 😉 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: you're free to ignore her

MelOWOdy: HEY

It's ART!!!: wow dude, wow 

OnePunchGuy: You guys doing okay?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Meh

MelOWOdy: could be better…

It’s ART!!!: I’ve been doing good on self-improvement

MelOWOdy: I'm sorry 

OnePunchGuy: for what??

MelOWOdy: making it easier for you to commit murder 

It's ART!!!: Hibiki we talked about this!

OnePunchGuy: it was my choice to commit murder, don't feel bad 

OnePunchGuy: I would've found another way even without the party 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I don't wanna say I told you so but I TOLD YOU SO

MelOWOdy: YOU'RE MEAN

It's ART!!!: 😂 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Now all we need is Emma!

OnePunchGuy: would be nice to hear that joke she was gonna say 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: Yeah

MelOWOdy: Uhhh

OnePunchGuy: Oh yeah for some reason when we died we were in some weird purgatory 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I blame Divine Luck

OnePunchGuy: One time Iroha called us

It's ART!!!: wait, that actually happened?!

It's ART!!!: I thought it was a weird dream!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: oh my god

MelOWOdy: I am so confused, you guys scare me now

It’s ART!!!: Divine Luck users are just built differently ok 

Private conversation between Boxman and Kiwigiwi:

Kiwigiwi: Try to make sure Munakata doesn't get into trouble while Tengan is being… Tengan

Boxman: don't have to ask twice

Bowman: bastard probably wants him to take the fall

Kiwigiwi: Munakata does already have a complicated relationship 

Boxman: I'll make sure he doesn't get attacked by anymore tiny gremlins

Kiwigiwi: lmao 

Kiwigiwi: it is on sight for Hibiki gl with that 

Boxman: thanks

Boxman: I still have my doubts on Maeda, but I think the scrying is getting out of hand 

Kiwigiwi: thanks for not contributing 

Boxman: Kisaragi Foundation has it handled anyways

Kiwigiwi: Indeed

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

Professor Girlboss added OnePunchGuy to the chat

LUCKYBOI: Wb

It's ART!!!: heyyyy

Hostess_With_LeMostess: good to see you're up

OnePunchGuy: Hi, first gotta say you have great taste in gc names 

LUCKYBOI: 😃 

Yuri Jr: with every praise his ego gets bigger

LUCKYBOI: Let me have this

OnePunchGuy: second sorry for committing murder 

OnePunchGuy: and framing you Yoruko 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: thanks for apologizing, just don't do that stuff again 

OnePunchGuy: Yeah I learned my lesson on that 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: We all did

SoraKingdomHearts: You feeling better?

OnePunchGuy: heads killing me but I can have my phone now

MelOWOdy: just don't overdo it!

Professor Girlboss: I've been filling Makunochi in on what happened on Utsuroshima 

LUCKYBOI: Saves me from doing it 

SoraKingdomHearts: but I like messing with our friends!

OnePunchGuy: Yeah I have questions…

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: me too

MelOWOdy: Hey uh ReiRei did you tell him about…. Her?

Professor Girlboss: Yeah I did

OnePunchGuy: Hibiki I'm really sorry you had to deal with… THAT

OnePunchGuy: we had no idea she was like that oh my god

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: we probably would've bailed on the plan if we found out 

MelOWOdy: it's okay guys, I'm doing better now

Hostess_With_LeMostess: would you guys have really stopped your plan?

It's ART!!!: yes  

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: none of us were born to good families

OnePunchGuy: Emma managed to have nice adoptive parents but she wasn't born to the most loving dad ever 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Are her parents okay?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: they… died a few months before Utsuroshima 

LUCKYBOI: O.O

MelOWOdy: fuck ouch

Koko_the_Science_Cat: this explains a few more things

Koko_the_Science_Cat: …notably I have a lot more to apologize for when she wakes up

MelOWOdy: you didn't know Koko, you didn't know 

Private conversation between Hostess_With_LeMostess and Maidenhell:

Maidenhell: So you think a day trip will help?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Yeah, considering the amount of FF people lately, you should probably avoid them 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: and you can spend time with Hibiki, win win 

Maidenhell: it technically won't be me hanging with her 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Yeah but lmk when you think is a good time to tell her and I'll help 

Maidenhell: thanks 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: just don't fist fight any ducks

Maidenhell: THAT WAS YUKI

Hostess_With_LeMostess: sure 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

SwimAway: you ever find it funny we went to school with 2 Akanes

Richie_Rich: why is that funny

Computer_Weeb69: I guess it is 😂

Rainbow_Painbow: not to FF it isn’t -_-

LUCKYBOI: And that is why I'm not visiting today 

MelOWOdy: we're going to the park with Haru!

KinjoCult: don't come over

KinjoCult: I've had 3 people in my office for the dumbest questions

Discount Maya Fey: Why is FF so nosy

Richie_Rich: because the reputation of being humanity's last hope has gone to people's heads

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: I'm glad I get to leave today 

KinjoCult: Luckyyy

Rainbow_Painbow: you do? 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Gotta check up on Mitsume and see if she can have solids

Trash Raccoon: still?!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I was cleared days ago Dr. Inori is using it to avoid FF

It's ART!!!: you never announced it!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: …was I supposed to?

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: It's tradition!

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: officially I do wanna check up on her and make sure her recovery is okay 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Please tell her you can't live off of hamburgers and chili dogs 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: This is slander 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: You asked for Sonics three times this week

Hostess_With_LeMostess: THREE TIMES

Koko_the_Science_Cat: But the burgers 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: they're really good can you blame her 

It's ART!!!: Nikei no

Hostess_With_LeMostess: STAY OUTTA THIS

Koko_the_Science_Cat: He speaks the truth 

KinjoCult: Mikako…?

Discount Maya Fey: Nope I'm out

Discount Maya Fey has logged off

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: oh boy n.n

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Think of your blood pressure Kokoro

Koko_the_Science_Cat: A small price to pay for burgers

Richie_Rich: wtf is happening 

BallIzLife: 👀 🍿 

MelOWOdy: Now I want Sonics 

Rainbow_Painbow: 🤣 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: HIBIKI YOU ARE NOT HELPING HERE

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Thanks

Computer_Weeb69: let them have Sonics

Hostess_With_LeMostess: WE ORDERED TAKEOUT 2 DAYS AGO PLEASE

KinjoCult: Someone help her 

Professor Girlboss: I gotchu

Professor Girlboss added OnePunchGuy to the chat 

BallIzLife: yo bitch welcome to hell 

OnePunchGuy: ???

Richie_Rich: scroll up 

OnePunchGuy: who 

MelOWOdy: SONIC SONIC SONIC 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: NO

FIYAAAH: Hajime please help her out 

SwimAway: Yuki what's your take on this

LUCKYBOI: I'm not choosy on food

Unlucky Hope: mood

OnePunchGuy: guys ordering fast food that much is bad for your health 

MelOWOdy: BUT IT'S TASTY

OnePunchGuy: Just home make your food, there's plenty of healthy burger recipes online

It's ART!!!: Kokoro can't cook tho!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Yes??? I can? I just don't because I'm too busy working

KinjoCult: feel u there 

Professor Girlboss: we should talk about that

Hostess_With_LeMostess: You burned water back on Utsuroshima 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I was sixteen on Utsuroshima!

MelOWOdy: Koko does make good noodles 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Ok when was this??

Koko_the_Science_Cat: when you were asleep

MelOWOdy: 3 AM

FIYAAAH: Now I want noodles 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: NOODLES

Trash Raccoon: Please no more food wars

Private conversation between Professor Girlboss and HowBOring:

HowBOring: if you get a data alert. That was me

Professor Girlboss: ????

Professor Girlboss: whyyyy??

HowBOring: I wanted to see the footage of the Utsuroshima killing game 

Professor Girlboss: You could have asked?!

HowBOring: no its boring 

Professor Girlboss: having manners isn't boring

Professor Girlboss: So much for Ultimate Gentleman

HowBOring: I don't have that one

HowBOring: I do have Ultimate Lady

Professor Girlboss: ???

HowBOring: They wanted me to have all school talents 

HowBOring: All

The Fun Class:

Computer_Weeb69: how we doing on day 2 of FF invasion

Rainbow_Painbow: they're not invading 

KinjoCult: YES. THEY ARE

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: still checking on Mitsume 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: kind of taking my time bc I don't want to talk to Tengan but I'll come back if it's an emergency 

Discount Maya Fey: how is she?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: She's doing great!

Professor Girlboss: Why tf are these guys so noisy

LUCKYBOI: I feel like I dodged a bullet

KinjoCult: you did

Computer_Weeb69: how's da park?

LUCKYBOI: It's great 

LUCKYBOI posted an image, it shows the park, Hibiki and Yuki are smiling at the camera.

Discount Maya Fey: Awwwww

Professor Girlboss: puppy

LUCKYBOI: Tho there was this one hiccup 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: uh oh

Rainbow_Painbow: did someone recognize her?

LUCKYBOI: Thankfully no but here's what happened

LUCKYBOI: So we were setting up the picnic and a kiddo nearby tripped and scraped her knee

Discount Maya Fey: Oof

KinjoCult: hate it when that happens

LUCKYBOI: Luckily we had some band-aids so Hibiki helped the girl and then they talked about music since said girl had musical hair clips 

Rainbow_Painbow: that's sweet of you two

Professor Girlboss: was that the hiccup?

LUCKYBOI: Ye when the girl's twin sister came to fetch her 

KinjoCult: uh oh

LUCKYBOI: And Hibiki got sad until Haru cheered her up but she's kind of nibbling her sandwich 

Discount Maya Fey: UH OH

Computer_Weeb69: yeesh talk about bad luck 

LUCKYBOI: I'm going to have to talk to Kokoro about this 

Professor Girlboss: is she okay?

LUCKYBOI: Yeah just.. sad

LUCKYBOI: She feels really guilty about how she treated her sister and thinks it's her fault Kanade is an axe murderer 

Rainbow_Painbow: 😢 

Computer_Weeb69: Poor girl

KinjoCult: She could've treated her like a saint and Kanade would've still been a criminal

LUCKYBOI: Doesn't stop her from blaming herself 

LUCKYBOI: Maybe a hike will cheer her up 

Discount Maya Fey: Hope she feels better!

KinjoCult: great a FF member picked a fight with a Kisaragi member rn

Professor Girlboss: *sigh*

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: uh oh 

Professor Girlboss: I'm gonna give that guy a piece of my mind who does he think he is picking a fight with 

KinjoCult: oh my god it was Makoto

LUCKYBOI: wut

Computer_Weeb69: plot twist 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

Trash Raccoon: Wonder when the next field mission is

BallIzLife: me too

Professor Girlboss: Makoto Naegi..

Unlucky Hope: Uh oh

TryingMyBest: what did you do 

Professor Girlboss: Care to explain why I got a message saying you picked a fight with one of our members 

Richie_Rich: MAKOTO

Koko_the_Science_Cat: well that's unusual 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: oh gosh 

Unlucky Hope: He started it…

Kiwigiwi: Makoto we talked about this 

KinjoCult: ffs last thing we need is more Foundation drama!

Trash Raccoon: well I just learned Mr. Hope has a violent side

Unlucky Hope: not really,,,

Koko_the_Science_Cat: what did that member do or say to make you want to fight them 

Professor Girlboss: that's what I wanna know too

Unlucky Hope: … 

Richie_Rich: the only thing that I can think of to piss off Makoto that much is insulting one of our classmates 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: oh

Unlucky Hope: He insulted Sayaka  

Kiwigiwi: oh no he didn't 

Unlucky Hope: He did!

KinjoCult: explains why that member got a black eye…

BallIzLife: hmph

Sonic_SWIM: Kanon…

BallIzLife: I don't like her but I'm not stupid enough to insult her to your faces

Unlucky Hope: thank you 

Professor Girlboss: I can understand your frustrations

Rainbow_Painbow: if someone insulted Haruhiko or Satsuki I'd destroy them  

Unlucky Hope: sorry for causing a fight tho

KinjoCult: We'll talk to the other member but please don't cause anymore fights 

Unlucky Hope: I'll try not to!

Discount Maya Fey: Unless it's Munakata then deck him 

Professor Girlboss: MIKAKO

Private conversation between MelOWOdy and SoraKingdomHearts:

SoraKingdomHearts: how's the hike?

MelOWOdy: great! 😀 

MelOWOdy: found a river and Haru is swimming rn 

SoraKingdomHearts: make sure to keep an eye on him 

MelOWOdy: dw I am!

MelOWOdy: how's the picnic?

SoraKingdomHearts: so far no invasion of squirrels

MelOWOdy: don't want Yuki fighting them too

SoraKingdomHearts: ROFL 🤣 

SoraKingdomHearts: I do have a weird question 

MelOWOdy: is this about earlier??

SoraKingdomHearts: Nope!

MelOWOdy: okay ask away 

SoraKingdomHearts: sooo… you know Taira right?

MelOWOdy: you're not having another identity crisis are you??

SoraKingdomHearts: no??

SoraKingdomHearts: just wanna know how you feel about her 

MelOWOdy: idk tbh

MelOWOdy: she did a lot of bad stuff and I'm mad at what she did to Yuki! So mad!

SoraKingdomHearts: yeah I deserve that…

MelOWOdy: …slip of the tongue?

SoraKingdomHearts: oh uh mb yeah it was a slip

SoraKingdomHearts: continue

MelOWOdy: Anyways yeah I'm mad at all the bad stuff but ik she's not evil evil like Mikado

MelOWOdy: She just had a bad influence like me..

SoraKingdomHearts: Utsuro isn't as bad as you know who 

MelOWOdy: but I wasn't a good sister

SoraKingdomHearts: Same could be said about your evil twin

MelOWOdy: you're right 

MelOWOdy: so I guess it’s a grey area

SoraKingdomHearts: that's fair 

SoraKingdomHearts: what if you met her?

MelOWOdy: hmm?

SoraKingdomHearts: if you got a chance to talk to Taira I mean 😅 

MelOWOdy: Well first I'd ask her to apologize to Yuki and ReiRei and everyone 

MelOWOdy: second uh… ig give her a hug 

SoraKingdomHearts: haha

SoraKingdomHearts: Well thanks for satisfying my curiosity 

MelOWOdy: No problem Sosie! 

Private conversation between Hostess_With_LeMostess and Maidenhell:

Maidenhell: I think I wanna tell her tomorrow morning 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: okay! 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: just save it until after breakfast, okay?

Maidenhell: of course!

Maidenhell: breakfast is the most important meal of the day!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: and also I have turkey bacon and raspberry scones 

Maidenhell: 👀 

Maidenhell: Well then 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: why does it work every time 😂 

Maidenhell: if you have breaky yummies I will do anything for breaky yummies 

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Remnant Busters:

Unlucky Hope: Find any good locations yet?

Teachy_Teach: Ye!

Gamegirl314: We have one we'd like to discuss 

Kiwigiwi: interesting 

Gamegirl314: Jabberwok Island! 😄

Richie_Rich: th

Richie_Rich: that's a theme park 

Teachy_Teach: well it used to be 

AnimeBoi: it's distant enough to work in secret 

Gamegirl314: exactly 

LUCKYBOI: We're sending the Remnants to an amusement park?

Kiwigiwi: Maybe if the NWP doesn't work they can make Despair Island

Unlucky Hope: LOL

Unlucky Hope: TOTAL TRAUMA ISLAND

Richie_Rich: that show isn't that good

AnimeBoi: one man's trash is another man's treasure 

Kiwigiwi: how's Remnant activity?

Gamegirl314: I think Peko is pissed off Fuyuhiko got captured 

SoraKingdomHearts: uh oh

Gamegirl314: They rarely work alone so she's been attacking FF lately

Kiwigiwi: that's not good

AnimeBoi: Gozu's forces are battling her forces but she might try something 

LUCKYBOI: I guess we might have to have some good ol bait 

Unlucky Hope: god please no…

Richie_Rich: not you Makoto

Unlucky Hope: phew!

Richie_Rich: for now…

Kiwigiwi: 🤜 

Richie_Rich: JOKING I WAS JOKING DON'T PUNCH ME

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

Yuri Jr: Good morning students!

MelOWOdy: UHHHHHHHHHG

FIYAAAH: I think we're too old to be called students

Yuri Jr: I feel nostalgic!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Good morning Monocrow

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: don't say good morning to him

Trash Raccoon: there is no such thing as good morning 

Rainbow_Painbow: Clearly someone's never heard of Uncle Grandpa

Yuri Jr: Uncle…. Grandpa…??

It's ART!!!: wut

LUCKYBOI: That's old 

Rainbow_Painbow: NO IT'S NOT 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: please stop arguing in the gc and get breakfast 

LUCKYBOI: 👀 

MelOWOdy: Don't take all the scones 

LUCKYBOI: MIIIIIIIINEEE

Rainbow_Painbow: well I'm getting deja vu

Professor Girlboss: breakfast at Hope’s Peak was always chaotic af

Rainbow_Painbow: remember when Kinji and Mitch fought over french toast?

Professor Girlboss: 😂 

SoraKingdomHearts: that sounds nice you guys 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: you say as if we didn't start every day at Utsuroshima yeeting food at Mikado

Trash Raccoon: dang if I knew that I'd have gone to breakfast more often 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: my favorite was when Kokoro poured coffee on him

Professor Girlboss: Oh my god what 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: He was being especially annoying that day 

OnePunchGuy: What did he do??

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Exist 

It's ART!!!: ^

OnePunchGuy: Okay fair 

Private conversation between Hostess_With_LeMostess and Maidenhell:  

Maidenhell: Okay I'm gonna do it!

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Good luck 

Maidenhell: Uh what are we gonna do about Kokoro though?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Oh I can distract her for a bit

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Just enough for you to explain things to Hibiki 😉

Maidenhell: words please work today

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Also dw I made a gc 

Maidenhell: omg I owe you my life

Hostess_With_LeMostess: you will

Yuki could feel Akane’s panic once Yoruko left the room with Kokoro, saying something about stray cats, which wasn’t a lie, there was a stray cat problem in the neighborhood.

He had no idea if his luck caused it or not, but it was the perfect distraction for today.

“Do you think Ruko would notice if I…?” Hibiki was reaching towards Yoruko’s unattended plate, which still had some scones.

“Don’t do it.” He gently scolded.

She retracted her hand. “Sorry.”

Okay it’s go time. Sora commented. You got this Akane.

Thanks. Akane still sounded scared, but confident. You okay if I take over?

Yeah. He relaxed as Akane’s presence grew stronger, and she took control.

“Hey, Hibiki?” Akane spoke with Yuki’s voice at first. “Remember the other day Sora asked you about Taira?”

She nodded. “Yeah, is Future Foundation being jerks again?”

“When are they not?” That got Hibiki to chuckle, which was a win in her books. “No but um… Sora asked about her because…”

You got this!

C’mon don’t back out now…

Akane dropped the “Yuki voice” with her next words. “Because I’m still alive.” 

There was a clatter as Hibiki dropped her fork, eyes wide with mere shock. “Oh my god.” 

“Yeah sorry, your brother was super paranoid about me still existing so he didn’t tell anyone, heck he got mad at Sora when she told Yoruko.” Akane quickly explained before the shock could turn to terror. “I’m not a despair agent anymore I swear, I wanna make amends and I did apologize to Yuki, and I would apologize to the others if it wasn’t for--”

She got cut off as Hibiki tackled her, at first Akane panicked, but then she realized that the vocalist had her arms wrapped around her in a warm embrace.

Oh, she had gotten tackle-hugged, didn’t she?

“Told you that I was gonna give her a hug, Sosie.” Hibiki mumbled.

Are her hugs always this nice? Akane couldn’t remember the last time someone hugged her…

Yes.

They’re always nice. Both Sora and Yuki responded.

That was the moment Yoruko went back into the dining room, followed by Kokoro. “I don’t think it’s a good idea to encourage cats onto our property.”

“They won’t break into the house.” Kokoro reassured her.

Yoruko sent her a look of disbelief, but she focused her attention on Hibiki and Akane. “Oh, did you two talk about some things?”

“Yeah.” Akane picked the “Yuki voice” back up. “We did.”

She sent a subtle wink towards Hibiki, and the vocalist giggled and winked back. 

Secret Servant Agent:

Hostess_With_LeMostess added MelOWOdy to the chat

Hostess_With_LeMostess: I look away for 2 seconds and you change the gc name??

Maidenhell: worth it

MelOWOdy: owo

MelOWOdy: Hi! 

Maidenhell: !!!! Hiii

MelOWOdy: what's this

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Well first it's a private gc

SoraKingdomHearts: to be secret >:3

MelOWOdy: oh that makes sense

LUCKYBOI: Don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious

Maidenhell: Don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious~

Hostess_With_LeMostess: omg you two

MelOWOdy: I still have some questions

MelOWOdy: but uh… least you patched things up with Yuki

Maidenhell: Least I could do 😅

Maidenhell: I’d apologize to Rei and the others but y’know…

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Kind of hard to do that with FF breathing down your neck 

MelOWOdy: fucking Munakata I s2g

Maidenhell: Despite that I'm REALLY happy to finally meet you!

Maidenhell: I missed talking to people 

MelOWOdy: Well I don't mind talking to you 

Maidenhell: and if you need anything lmk!

SoraKingdomHearts: well it's going to get chaotic fast 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: it's a small gc

Maidenhell: Maybe soon we can invite more friends! That'd be nice

Koko_the_Science_Cat has joined the chat

MelOWOdy: wh

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I hope this isn't another shovel talk

Koko_the_Science_Cat: …uh what's this?

Hostess_With_LeMostess: AKANE

Maidenhell: IT WASN'T ME I SWEAR

LUCKYBOI: KOKORO PLEASE DON'T TELL ANYONE

Koko_the_Science_Cat: tell anyone what??

MelOWOdy: scroll up

Koko_the_Science_Cat: …ah 😮 

Maidenhell: Guess who's back from the dead and I'm sorry I put your daughter thru a killing game!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I have… questions 

MelOWOdy: Me too!

MelOWOdy: I thought you were dead! Like at least mind wise

Maidenhell: it was a really deep coma from Divine Luck 

Maidenhell: what got me to wake up was Mikado futzing with my brain for his stupid killing game 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: So him creating Sora caused you to wake up?

Maidenhell: kind of

Maidenhell: he also had my body hooked up to the program so he could escape the NWP with it 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: XP

LUCKYBOI: Thinking about sharing a brain with him makes me shudder

MelOWOdy: Me too

SoraKingdomHearts: She was kind of in my head for Utsuroshima 

Maidenhell: Like what happened to poor Yuki

LUCKYBOI: DON'T REMIND ME

Maidenhell: Sorry!

Maidenhell: When everyone was giving up at the final trial, I encouraged Sora to keep on fighting!

SoraKingdomHearts: and Mikado was defeated, the end 

MelOWOdy: yayyyy 👏 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Wow

Koko_the_Science_Cat: That was quite the story 

LUCKYBOI: So was finding out I'd have to share a brain with this nutjob 

Maidenhell: pineapple on pizza isn't that gross

LUCKYBOI: YES IT IS

Hostess_With_LeMostess: anyways Kokoro please keep this a secret last thing we need is Munakata finding out

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Agreed. He tries anything unwarranted he will face the consequences the hard way.

MelOWOdy: PFFFFFFFT

Hostess_With_LeMostess: Woah what’s with the sudden aggression???

Koko_the_Science_Cat: He needs to take a breather before he ends up becoming the thing he sought to destroy, it’s stressing everyone else around him, even his friends 

LUCKYBOI: I think we're well past that

SoraKingdomHearts: were it not for the fact Future Foundation is a Hope to people I would have crushed it with my bare hands

Kisaragi HQ:

KinjoCult: So the Remnants are starting to cause trouble again 

Discount Mom Fwiend: Welp it was nice while it lasted 

Jevil: 😭 

Professor Girlboss: Future Foundation has asked for our help in dealing with the Remnant attacking their forces

Discount Maya Fey: As much as I hate Future Foundation, the real problem are the Remnants of Despair 

OBJECTIOOON: So we're gonna help I'm guessing

Jevil: Not it!

Discount Mom Fwiend: What are you, five?

KinjoCult: That's fine, I was going to ask Ryutaro to join this mission 

DoneWithYall: Happy to help, boss!

Rainbow_Painbow: Can I come?

Professor Girlboss: No 

Rainbow_Painbow: 😔 

KinjoCult: word of warning Hashimoto is also being assigned to this mission, do you think you can handle it?

DoneWithYall: I'll deal… somehow 

Jevil: Can I use that as an actual reason not to go?? 

Discount Mom Fwiend: 🤦‍♀️ 

OBJECTIOOON: Eh I'm mostly over the kidnapping 

OBJECTIOOON: Nijiue and Hashimoto sent me apology cards 

Rainbow_Painbow: that's nice of them 

OBJECTIOOON: Yeah it makes me less likely to steal their kneecaps 

Rainbow_Painbow: 😨 

DoneWithYall: pfft hahahahaha

KinjoCult: Classic Midori

Chapter Text

Private conversation between Discount Maya Fey and Koko_the_Science_Cat:

Discount Maya Fey: Sooo weird question

Koko_the_Science_Cat: go ahead

Discount Maya Fey: Do you know anyone at FF who's good at uhh… metalwork

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Well on the top of my head Sonosuke is good at weaponsmithing

Discount Maya Fey: not robotics?

Koko_the_Science_Cat: no

Koko_the_Science_Cat: …is this about Yamato?

Discount Maya Fey: How did you guess?!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I'm good at guessing context clues in text

Discount Maya Fey: Yes it's about him 

Discount Maya Fey: ever since he lost his body I've been saving up yen to commission someone for an android one, so have the others

Discount Maya Fey: and since FF is nosing into our business why not take advantage of it!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: they do have advanced tech

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Want me to check with some of my old colleagues? 

Discount Maya Fey: If you think it'll help, sure

Private conversation between Koko_the_Science_Cat and HEALTHCARE:

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Greetings Miaya 

HEALTHCARE: Kokoro! Hey!

HEALTHCARE: I heard what Munakata almost did and I'm SO sorry you went through that!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: it's not your fault 

HEALTHCARE: Yeah but I'm trying to convince him to let you go back to FF and he won't budge!

HEALTHCARE: Uhg! If he wasn't Vice Chairman I swear…

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Please don't pick fights on my behalf 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: But I do have a favor to ask 

HEALTHCARE: Any! 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: do you think you could convince a team of inventors to work on a robotics project

Koko_the_Science_Cat: they'd be compensated for their work, DW

HEALTHCARE: Hypothetically I could but for legal reasons I'm going to have to ask why

Koko_the_Science_Cat: it's for Mikako

HEALTHCARE: Oh your daughter?

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Yes

Koko_the_Science_Cat: You've heard about the state of Yamato Kisaragi, right?

HEALTHCARE: OH

HEALTHCARE: I get it now 

HEALTHCARE: Yeah I can help just give me Mikako's contact info and it'll be set

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Thank you so much

HEALTHCARE: No problem!

Private conversation between Discount Maya Fey and Koko_the_Science_Cat:

Koko_the_Science_Cat: I've spoken to Miaya on your behalf and she's offered to help 

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Do you mind if I give her your contact info?

Discount Maya Fey: DKDJDNDJFNFK

Koko_the_Science_Cat: …did I upset you?

Discount Maya Fey: NO

Discount Maya Fey: OH MY GOD THANK YOU

Koko_the_Science_Cat: No problem

Koko_the_Science_Cat: btw if you need any help with finances I have plenty of extra yen

Discount Maya Fey: stop killing me with kindness

Koko_the_Science_Cat: no

Discount Maya Fey: just… thanks so much

Discount Maya Fey: this means a lot to me

Koko_the_Science_Cat: np, I'm happy to help 

Operation Build a Bear:

Professor Girlboss: Wow that was sooner than I thought 

KinjoCult: ikr

Discount Maya Fey: Yeah Miaya can put together a team 

Discount Maya Fey: being a branch head has perks, wow

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: how are we going to explain the increase of visitors to Yamato 

Rainbow_Painbow: Security?

Rainbow_Painbow: we did a visit from despairs the other day 

KinjoCult: that was weeks ago

Rainbow_Painbow: FF is still having a despair problem

Discount Maya Fey: He'll buy it

Professor Girlboss: Aight now to just set up the meetings 

Professor Girlboss: Teruya mind helping out?

Rainbow_Painbow: Always!

KinjoCult: I'm going to go keep the FF snoops busy 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: please help they keep asking questions about the New Hopes 

Utsuroshima is Over Party:

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: some FF member gave me a stuffed platypus 

Trash Raccoon: a stuffed platypus?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: was it the member with the blue gradient tie and trans socks 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: ye!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I want those socks now

It's ART!!!: I'll buy you some

Unlucky Hope: omg I know who you're talking about 

Unlucky Hope: Kina likes making plushies to cheer people up 

KinjoCult: they weren't bothering you, were they Kanata?

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: No!!

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: they were nice, they asked if they could give some plushies to patients 

MEDIIIC *loads shotgun*: Wish the other FF visitors were as nice

Richie_Rich: HEY

Kiwigiwi: you are nosy af 

Unlucky Hope: Yukina's nice unless you're one of those "talent is everything" people 

MelOWOdy: I like them already

MelOWOdy: and now I want a plushie

Hostess_With_LeMostess: next time Yuki goes out on a mission, I'll buy you whatever plushie you want as long as you behave

MelOWOdy: hhhhhhhg

Hostess_With_LeMostess: including Pokemon plushies

MelOWOdy: Deal…

FIYAAAH: Wait Yuki's leaving again?

LUCKYBOI: I mean I am good at catching despairs

Kiwigiwi: Peko is not happy Fuyuhiko got captured 

FIYAAAH: I can help with her!

KinjoCult: ???

Unlucky Hope: You sure?

FIYAAAH: Not the first time my squad has fought Remnants

FIYAAAH: She's pretty stabby…

SoraKingdomHearts: eh I'll live if I get stabbed

SoraKingdomHearts: if Trashimoto can't kill me neither can she

Trash Raccoon: Must you bring that up 

SoraKingdomHearts: 😝 

Private conversation between LUCKYBOI and FIYAAAH:

LUCKYBOI: Can I hear about when you fought the Remnants?

FIYAAAH: Sure thing!

FIYAAAH: They really liked destroying towns, so part of what my squad did was help rescue people and fight any oppression

LUCKYBOI: Did you ever fight any specific Remnants?

FIYAAAH: Well… have you ever heard of the Ultimate Team Manager?

LUCKYBOI: Nope

FIYAAAH: He’s pretty menacing and the folks he trained are no pushovers

FIYAAAH: If you ever run into him… 

FIYAAAH: Just try to dodge his punches cuz they HURT

LUCKYBOI: Noted…

LUCKYBOI: Luckily I’ve had practice dodging giant mechs so it shouldn't be too hard!

FIYAAAH: I believe you but the term "famous last words" comes to mind

LUCKYBOI: My last words are definitely, "see you in the next life!"

LUCKYBOI: Bc I refuse to die 😏 

FIYAAAH: whatever you say 

We Are Number One:

BabyGangsta: YES! YES! MAKE THEM SUFFER PEKO

SLICESLICE: Your wish is my command

SLICESLICE: I'm getting a kick out of destroying their supplies

FoodGloriousFood: can u flirt somewhere else

Ratatouille: Flirting?! You call this flirting

BabyGangsta: obviously this is an art

Snapsnap: hhhg straight people 

Teachy_Teach: Be nice

Snapsnap: Make me 🔪 

BabyGangsta: When did Sensei log on??

Teachy_Teach: I've been lurking :P

ThePrincessOfFlames: Did you not pay attention to me ranting about Killer Killer 5 minutes ago??

BabyGangsta: boo hoo you can't catch him 

ThePrincessOfFlames: I WILL CAPTURE HIM FOR MY COLLECTION

MUSICMAAAAN: Yo we collecting people as Pokemon cards now?

TheOverlordOfIce: our dark queen is looking to expand her exotic collection 

FoodGloriousFood: just catch one of those New Hopes

ThePrincessOfFlames: Tempting but I dont wanna end up like Souda

Soda_Good_Time: I'M RIGHT HERE

Helloooo_Nurse!: That reminds me~

Helloooo_Nurse!: Peko lmk if you run into that Maeda fellow, okaaay?

SLICESLICE: I'm planning on giving him a hard time

SLICESLICE: The Despair of having my revenge toppled… what fun it'll be!

Teachy_Teach: So uhhh what's everyone else up to 

HowBOring: viewing footage I took from the Kisaragi Foundation with Hiyoko 

DanceofDEATH: WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK!!!!

Helloooo_Nurse!: uhhh

HowBOring: you don't wanna know what we're witnessing 

HowBOring: Suddenly I remember what disgust feels like…

Teachy_Teach: am concerned 😟 

Mikado Sannoji Hate Group:

MelOWOdy: everything is pain 

SoraKingdomHearts: we just got on the plane you drama llama 

Hostess_With_LeMostess: they'll be back soon

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: in the meantime guess who is FINALLY out of the hospital 

It's ART!!!: YAYYYYYY

FIYAAAH: Good on you!

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: I'm ready to get done my community service asap

Rainbow_Painbow: not so fast you workaholic 

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: but I dont need sleep that much,,

OnePunchGuy: UH YES?! YOU DO

MelOWOdy: Who needs sleep when you're tormented by your past and failures every waking moment and how you could've prevented tragedy if you didn't live in your own fantasy bubble

FIYAAAH: …

Hostess_With_LeMostess: …

PerryThePLATYPUS?!: …

SoraKingdomHearts: …

It's ART!!!: O.O

Trash Raccoon: oof

Professor Girlboss: mood

Hostess_With_LeMostess: mood?!?!?!

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Rei this is not a "mood" moment

Koko_the_Science_Cat: neither is it an "oof" Syobai 

Trash Raccoon: meh

MelOWOdy: I agree with the oof

Koko_the_Science_Cat: Hibiki

Yasuhiro had just been peacefully sitting in his cubicle when he heard the sound of screaming. “What’s that?!” That sound never sounded good.

“Probably some intruder.” One of his co-workers grumbled. “Don’t worry, security will-- hrk!"

His co-worker didn’t get to finish that sentence as a knife embedded itself into their chest. Yasuhiro yelped and ducked under his desk to avoid detection from whoever broke into the offices this time.

Break-ins were common in this line of work, especially if you worked in a risky area that was now more dangerous than ever thanks to Pekoyama rallying the criminals in the area.

“You’re not subtle.” Oh god, it was Pekoyama who broke into their office today. “Come on out, worm…”

He didn’t, he’d rather not stare despair in the eye before he would be sliced into pieces.

Instead, he saw a sword enter his cubicle, and a pair of red eyes staring down at him.

There had to be some way to get out of this situation… Think! What would Makoto or Kyoko do! Yasuhiro thought despite his shivers.

They would analyze the situation, right? So he looked around and-- there! A rock in the corner! He sometimes brought rocks into the office as a good luck charm, looked like one fell onto the floor and he didn’t notice.

As Peko got closer, her sword scraped against the floor. “You Future Foundation cronies make this all too easy, it’s surprising how my peers managed to be captured… but it’s a crime you’ll pay in blood.”

Realizing this was his only chance, Yasuhiro rolled out of his hiding spot as Peko lifted her blade, and chucked the rock in her direction. “Take this!”

By some form of luck it hit her on the nose and he sprinted away. “Get back here you worthless peon!” She took pursuit as soon as the shock of being smacked by a rock wore off. 

Thankfully, Yasuhiro got to the elevator in time. “C’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon--” He frantically pressed the button, thankful it closed before he got a glimpse of the swordswoman, though he did hear the sound of screaming and metal screeching, so he assumed that she tried to break the elevator door down.

“Phew! That was a close one!” He slumped against the wall of the elevator. “That was not in my fortune telling today…”

Maybe he should get a new crystal ball… probably not, they were expensive, he should try those meditation techniques Miaya suggested instead.

The elevator door opened and he quickly exited the lobby, doing his best to ignore the blood and bodies, and saw a group of remaining workers and armed Future Foundation forces outside the building. As soon as they heard the door open they pointed their guns at him.

“Don’t shoot!” He yelped.

They lowered their guns, and one of the medics walked over to him. “Hagakure! We thought you were dead!” 

“What happened?” It all happened so quick, one minute he was sending some reports over to another branch to look at and the next, he had to run for his life.

“Pekoyama disabled the alarms, by the time we figured it out she wiped out 45% of the building.” An armed foundation member explained. “Seems someone tipped her off that you were working at this building.”

Yasuhiro winced. Based on her behavior, it didn’t seem like she recognized him because if she did … he’d be dead. “Coolio.” Time to freak out now.

“Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god--”

“Medical team please attend to Hagakure.”

“Right away sir.”

THE POWAAAH RANGERSSS:

Kiwigiwi: Just got the report, Yasuhiro you good?

70% Disaster: NO

70% Disaster: I ALMOST DIED TO SOME NUTJOB WITH A SWORD

Richie_Rich: that nutjob was the former Ultimate Swordswoman

Then PERISH: once you survive one sword nutjob you survive all of them 

70% Disaster: thank god she thought I was some rando FF employee or I'd be DEAD

Unlucky Hope: Must be the Clark Kent glasses

Kiwigiwi: not to worry, Shinji Kasai volunteered to help capture Pekoyama, and he's also bringing Maeda

Unlucky Hope: And I get a few Munakata free days!

Richie_Rich: Unless he tries offing Maeda when the Kisaragi Foundation isn't looking 

Unlucky Hope: 😨 

Kiwigiwi: don't do that 

Future is NOW:

Teachy_Teach: don't even think about arranging an accident 

TheCouncil: but

Teachy_Teach: No is no Kyosuke 

Ninjaboss: indeed, wait until Pekoyama recognizes her fellow despair before doing anything 

RainthePain: you do realize despairs are untrustworthy af right?

RainthePain: just don't take their word for granted boss 

TheCouncil: of course not, but I will be inspecting Taira’s reaction

Drinks_R_Us: insert shocked pikachu here when it inevitably fails

TheCouncil: SILENCE