Danganronpa fruitless survival
Chapter 1: No friendship last forever
Park sunghoon x male reader
Hello everyone! this is Orecana with chapter 1 for you guys. The trial itself is inspired by a lot of danganronpa fanfics that i read so i really hope you enjoy it. (don't ask why there is no fte. i feel like making someone die early to emphasize the fact that someone really wanted to get out of there). Thank you to everyone who like and read my fic.
Orecana: attention! it is now 7a.m it's time to wake up and enjoy your life while you can.
Sunghoon groans and opens his eyes. Sunghoon is not really a morning person but because of the rules, he will have to obey the inhuman person called orecana.
He gets up from his bed to go take a shower. after he was done, he opens his wardrobe to several copies of his outfit that he will wear from today onwards minus his pajamas.
he looks at it in slight confusion at how do these end up in his room but Orecana probably snuck them in while he was asleep.
He takes the outfit and puts it on. he was very surprised it fit him perfectly but then Orecana probably know everything about everyone.
He Takes his monopad before going out of his room. he goes to the cafeteria to get something to eat but he bumps into Scott on the way. He wanted to say hello but the look on scott's face was filled with terror.
Sunghoon: scott are you okay?
scott looks at sunghoon still having that face of terror, without replying he runs off into the dorms. Sunghoon felt concerned for him considering he was one of the lively ones.
He opens the door to the cafeteria to find y/n sitting there with a glum look on his face. sunghoon orders his food and sit down near y/n who woke up from whatever he was thinking about.
Sunghoon: do you know what happened to scott?
Y/n: he told me that someone is planning a murder....
My blood runs cold as a chill went down my spine. someone is planning to commit murder?
Y/n: scott told me he heard someone talking about their plans for a murder but then he look at his phone. he looked so scared that he told me to forget everything he said and ran off.
I felt like i couldn't breathe anymore after what i heard. the food i got in front of me doesn't even look appetizing anymore.
me and y/n stood up from our seats when we heard the crash.
Sunghoon: i think It came from upstairs. let's go!
We both ran up the stairs and look around. We see yukari on our left face frozen with fear as she look at the music room. We rush towards her.
Y/n: Yukari-san what's..... (look in front of him) wrong? (low/scared)
i follow their gaze into the music room and what i saw will probably scar me for life.
There was a mess in the music room. everything was thrashed but that didn't stop us from witnessing the gruesome sight of the body of scott, the ultimate painter crushed beneath the piano. then a piece of debris falls off cutting scott head which then rolls towards us showing his look of pure horror with wide eyes and an opened mouth.
Orecana: a body has been discovered. please make your way into the music room and collect evidence for the class trial that's about to begin.
no matter how many times i blink, praying that this is all just a bad dream. but reality starts to settle in, scott was really dead seconds from after me and y/n had just met him.
we hear footsteps rushing towards the room, it's probably the others. i can feel their presence behind me. most of them look in disbelief that someone here actually killed.
y/n takes a very deep breath and looks at everyone.
Y/n: i know that everyone here probably thinks of this as a big joke that scott can't be dead..., but this is reality he really is dead and we must work together to bring his culprit to justice. you all heard the robot we need to collect evidence for the class trial.
Jackson: and how do i know that one of you is not planning to get us all killed? i read the rules last night, if we fail to pinpoint the culprit, we die.
Reina: that just make the fact that we have to investigate much more important. through the evidences we collected we will know who among us planned to kill scott.
Jackson was still looking at us with an angry look but he reluctantly stops and goes outside, probably to cool his head.
y/n: i know scott was close to you guys especially to jackson but we need to investigate now or else we might not have anymore evidence.
everyone seems unwilling for a bit but eventually we all get together and step into the crime scene in order to find out who is responsible for one of our friend's death.
Orecana pops up out of nowhere from the hallway just to tell us about the monofiles that he had installed into the monopads.
Cause of death: crushed by the piano
The victim has no other bruises or injuries on his body except the the back which is from the impact of the fall and a missing head which is caused from the debris.
'it seems that scott doesn't really have any other wounds. his death is caused by the piano.'
Mono files added to truth bullets
'Let's look around the room'
Amiya goes up to scott's headless corpse and inspects it a little.
Sunghoon: what's wrong amiya?
Amiya: it's the position of his body. it looks like he tripped on something.
I looked at his body again. his hands were wide open in front of him and his head was face down before it was cut.
Sunghoon: you do have a point amiya, it could be useful later.
Body position added to truth bullets
'wait.... under the body'
Sunghoon: amiya, do you see something under the body?
amiya takes a closer look at the body and widens her eyes at something.
Amiya: there's a piece of torn rope under the body! It must have something to do with the murder.
Sunghoon: let's document this for the trial.
Torn rope under the body added to truth bullets
I continue looking around when he felt a tap on his shoulder. I look behind me to see y/n frowning.
Sunghoon: y/n what's wrong?
Y/n only points up at the ceiling and I follow. there was an array of mechanical equipment. I was confused at first but eventually understands. there was also scratches above the piano what's up with that.
scratches above piano added to truth bullets
'this is probably what the culprit used to lift the piano up, now if i can follow it to the end.'
I try to follow the mechanical equipment and found where it ended near the door of the music room but it was hidden behind a bunch of old drums.
'found it! looks like a part of the torn rope is here as well'
Torn rope on mechanism added to truth bullets
But this enough won't pinpoint the culprit though, i think we found just about everything in this room.
'this is seriously stressing me out, and it's only been the first day!'
i look behind me to see y/n holding my arm, he looks quite desperate.
y/n: the class trial is about to start but we don't have any evidence to know who the culprit was!
Sunghoon: we'll have to rely on the others to help us with their own individual investigations. i just hope yukari-san and the others found anything in scott's room.
we began walking to the elevator as we discuss our investigation.
Y/n: oh! by the way hyung, we should keep our discussion with scott a secret until necessary in the trial.
y/n does make sense. if we tell the others that we were the ones that saw scott last, they would be very suspicious of us. But-
Sunghoon: if it is relevant to any evidence that the others presented, we will reveal our chat with him and his.... outburst.
Last moments with scott added to secret truth bullets
Y/n keeps quiet but he had a gloomy look on his face.
Sunghoon: y/n, if anything is bothering you. please tell me.
Y/n: i know who murdered scott because he told me before he got crushed.
I stop in place as y/n looks directly at me from my right. did i heard that right? scott knows who murdered him!
Y/n: that's what he told me in the cafeteria today. but i won't tell you who did it. i want you to come to the conclusion yourself, that way you will be convinced on who the murderer is.
Scott's confession added to secret truth bullets
I only look back at y/n before smiling and ruffling his hair which earns a growl and a glare from the shorter male.
we were finally in front of the elevator with the others, waiting for it to arrive.
Reina: did everyone finish their investigation?
everyone nodded their heads as the sound of the elevator opens. they all step inside as it closes and goes further down to the trial room.
i look to my left to see yukari-san in a very gloomy mood. she was such a bright girl yesterday. scott's death must be very painful to the group.
i pull out my monopad and sneak a text to yukari.
sunghoon: 'don't worry, we'll find out who killed him together.'
yukari pulls out hers to read my message. it's hard to see it but she had a slight smile on her face.
yukari: 'i want to tell you something.'
I wonder 'what does she want to tell'
yukari: 'i thought it was imagination last night but i heard a very loud *thud* when i went to the cafeteria for water. maybe it had something to do with the crime?'
'It would definitely be useful for later, thanks for sharing it with me.'
Yukari's account added to truth bullets
i heard a ping from my monopad so i decided to check it and i saw a message from reina.
Reina: there was a paper on the ground that says the following
"scott, can we meet at the cafeteria at 12 p.m.
Invitation letter added to truth bullets
Reina: there was also a broken voice recorder on the table. unless someone can fix it i doubt it'll be useful.
Broken voice recorder added to truth bullets
Reina: i also found something disturbing on scott's head. there was some kind of liquid that was in his mouth and it was not saliva.
Substance in scott's mouth added to truth bullets
Reina: that's all i could find with the others.
Sunghoon: thanks for sharing this with me reina.
the elevator comes to a halt as the door opens, revealing a grand room and several podiums in the middle surrounding each other.
There in all of its glory was orecana. they were wearing a blue sweater with gray shorts. they were sitting on a throne with its sickening smile while looking at us.
Orecana: come stand at your respective podiums everyone.
Everyone reluctantly go on to their podium and stands there. the mood is very gloomy as everyone look at each other, some with hatred, some with fear.
Orecana: i'll go over the rules once again just so everyone is clear. Everyone here must work together to uncover the culprit behind the case. if you find the culprit, they will be punished. however, if you don't. then everyone but the culprit will be punished and they'll be able to leave this academy "scott-free"! get it? (i feel so ashamed)
Nobody laughed yet nobody dared to utter a word. A cough echoed through out the room.
Reina: staying quiet won't do us any good. we need to solve who killed scott.
Yukari: you're right. even if you all don't care for scott, i assume you would at least do it for your life.
Keitaro: what should we start with though?
that's a good question, where do we start?
Dahyun: how about where everyone was?
Jackson: i doubt it will be any use to the murder, he was killed in the early morning which it's a time when everyone is just waking up.
Hiro: Some people could wake up early to prepare the murder though right? i mean i always go to the gym at 6.
Sayuri: i also wake up early to prepare food for everyone today. i know it sounds weird but the food in the cafeteria has no staff to handle them now.
Y/n: since there are actually people who wake up early, can anyone here who woke up before 7 raise their hands?
Alice, keita, yukari, Hiro, sayuri raise their hands.
Yuria: i understand keita and yukari because they're early birds but what about you alice?
Alice: a girl have to be pretty at all times you know~. i have to wake up early to get ready.
Rose: ok so it is possible that someone can wake up early to prepare for the murder.
Amiya: no... let's not make assumption, let's discuss the crime itself, trying to pin the culprit right now will only make us run in circles.
We're finally working with each other. let's listen to everyone share their views.
(italic words are consent words while Bold words are weak points)
Truth bullets : Monofiles, Body position
Takashi: i believe mostly everyone in this room was still asleep until we hear the loud Crash this morning.
Y/n: i was running up the stairs with sunghoon to follow the sound to find yukari stunned in front of the music room.
Yukari: I was in the archery room near it, practicing when i heard it. It still sends a chill down my spine.
Yuria: then everyone rush along when we heard the body announcement.
Alice: we saw scott's body under the piano then the debris fell on his head, finishing him off.
Monofile>Finishing him off
Sunghoon: that's wrong alice. the monofiles says that scott dies from the impact from the piano.
Alice: oh! i hadn't realized. well not that it mattered. scott died anyways.
Most of scott's friends side eyed alice because of that comment, especially jackson.
Jackson: something had to be used to lift that piano up right? i mean i'm probably the strongest person here but even i don't think i could lift that thing.
'He's right, there was something that was used to lift it.'
Sunghoon: there's torn rope under the body and there was also some kind of mechanism above us as well.
Dahyun: oh yeah!, you could use that to move things around in there. i guess it was used for murder instead tho.
Keita: but how would you operate it though? i don't remember finding a remote or some kind anywhere.
Yuria: wait you said that there's no remote? that's strange i swear there was a remote last night.
Hiro: so that means the killer must have took it with them.
Reina: it must still be on them, i have already searched everyone's room.
Takashi: how are you able to search everyone's room exactly?
Reina: Orecana unlocks everyone's room after a body is discovered, pretty useful if you ask me.
Sayuri: wait yukari said that she was near the room right? then that means she did it!
Yukari: wha-? what did i do?
Sayuri: you were the only one near the scene of the crime, you could have used the remote to lift the piano up and kill him right there.
Body position >and kill him right there
Sunghoon: sorry sayuri but yukari couldn't have done that.
Amiya: you're talking about the body position aren't you?
Amiya: His body was position in a way that look like he tripped on something.
Sayuri: so you guys think he tripped on the rope?
Sunghoon: yeah it looks like that's what happened-.
*i will not accept that!"
Sayuri: I'm sorry but there's no way yukari did not do it. she's the only one who could have and i'm gonna prove it!
Rebuttal showdown (slice your opponent's word and convince them!)
Basically scott was killed in the second floor right?
and yukari was the only one there!
Only yukari can kill him!
she could just set up everything that morning and kill him.
Yukari's account and scratches above piano>That morning and kill him.
"I'll cut through your words!"
Sunghoon: it cannot be yukari because the it was set up around nighttime. yukari told me she heard a loud thud when she went to the cafeteria. this is confirmed because there were scratch marks above the piano.
Sayuri: i suppose i cannot counter that.
Keitaro: But you said that it was set up during nighttime right? then wouldn't that mean nobody here is safe?
'yes and there's one person i want to question'
Sunghoon: Jackson, what did you and scott do last night?
Jackson remains silent, not uttering a word. however it seems that y/n caught up to something.
Y/n: hmmm, a bit of embarrassment alongside a hint of lust. let me guess did you two got freaky last night?
everyone look shocked at jackson as the boy in question blushed so much.
Me and reina look at each other. though we didn't say anything we knew what the other thought.
"so that substance is....."
Sunghoon: did scott spend the night with you?
Jackson: yeah he did and he said something to me that i don't understand though.
Jackson: scott has some kind of future telling feeling. that's why he's the ultimate painter to begin with, but he told me that 'the person who i meet last will know my killer.'
i look at y/n who had a shocked face. i gently pat his head since he was near me and i can feel him relaxing a bit.
Yuria: is this really all the evidence we have?
Sunghoon: no there's still one more but it's useless unless Orecana fixes it.
Orecana: you want me to fix something? well just hand it over.
I hand over the voice recorder to Orecana who immediately brought tools to fix it.
I bowed in respect out of habit and pressed play on the recorder.
"hey, it's scott. i'll keep it short since time is running out for me. i'm gonna die tomorrow. i really hope you guys don't get sad because of my decision because even if i don't die tomorrow. i will die later anyways. I'm really glad to have all those memories from yesterday. I love you guys and you too Jackson. thanks for being the best bf."
Everyone stand stills in the room, most of them let out quiet sobs while reina and jackson tries to look tough but y/n and i see through them. their pain is evident in their eyes.
Y/n: that isn't the only evidence we have left. i don't want to hide it anymore.
Secret truth bullets selected
Y/n: Me and sunghoon both met with scott last before his impending doom. sunghoon was probably not the person he thought he would meet last but he shared all info with me. This trap was set up by him. Why? so no one else would die except him. it was a sacrifice.
No one in the room objects to what y/n says because deep down they knew it was true.
Amiya: but why was the body like that?
Sunghoon: Yukari, you know something don't you?
Yukari: hmph. i thought i wouldn't get caught but nothing escapes you huh?
Yukari keeps fiddling with her fingers as she take deep breaths.
Yukari: after i heard scott and jackson go into jackson's room, i went to the music room to check what's going on. to my horror i found out that one of my friends was trying to kill himself. i tried to find a way to stop it from happening but nothing works. so i decided to tie a rope under the piano so that i will alerted of his attempted suicide. but it seems he still died anyway.
Everyone was frozen at yukari's confession.
so scott really did killed himself.
Orecana: it seems everyone has come to an agreement! please vote for the culprit right now through a screen i will summon now on your podiums.
Suddenly a screen pops up on my podium and it shows all of us in it. it was sickening. still my finger pressed on scott's icon and press vote.
Orecana: Now! let's see if you're all correct!
A wheel appeared behind Orecana as it twirls back and forth between all our avatars. It stops on Scott's before a shining Correct appears on it.
Orecana: you all guess it correctly! Scott has commited suicide!
None of us says a word. the feel of dread was too much.
Orecana: i already call the elevator back down, you can all rest in your rooms now!
We slowly walk into the elevator and go into it. it starts moving as all of us just stand still. One of our friends just commited suicide to save us all. this feeling of survivor's guilt is looming over everyone right now.
The elevator door opens as we all head into our rooms, appetite lost.
i sink into my bed thinking about today's events.
'one of us is already dead and it's only the first day.'
Not wanting to think about it, i just grab my towel and take a shower. Once i was done, i change into my pajamas before sinking into my bed once more.
'i wish none of us will kill again'
those were my last thoughts before i drifted to sleep.
