Danganronpa gt au where Naegi had been a borrower living in hopes peak when the tragedy began and the 78th class got locked in.
The other students and even the mastermind don’t know he’s there but he still tries to find ways to help. During investigations he’ll move hidden evidence into more convenient locations and it’s only when Kyoko starts to notice evidence popping up randomly that she suspects something else might be going on >:)
Being the detective that she is she starts to hide near the crime scenes to try to catch which of her classmates was messing with evidence, but nothing could have prepared her to find out it was a borrower the whole time. She doesn’t want to scare him off because she deduces he’s trying to help, so she starts leaving things for him in more convenient places. After everyone’s done eating for the morning she’ll stay behind to leave pieces of her left over food out near air vents because that’s where she saw the tiny escape to. She also always has her eye out for glimpses of the tiny boy hiding around the school. She spots him a couple times but never says anything in fear of him running away.
As the killing game progresses and it becomes more clear there’s a mastermind behind everything she decides she needs to ask for his help more directly since he can be places without being seen. One day along with the food near the air vents she leaves out a sticky note message telling him she will keep his secret safe if he will help her figure out who’s behind this. Unfortunately she doesn’t get a response but the food goes missing anyways.
It’s only when Celeste is killed that she truly meets the borrower. Instead of Celeste giving Kyoko the key Makoto brings it to her through the ducts in her room. She pretends to be asleep so he can leave if he wants but he stays on her desk until she can’t ignore him anymore. Very cautiously she goes to talk to him and while he seems nervous he gives her the key, explaining that Celeste had dropped it before her execution. It’s a brief conversation and she can tell that the borrower is still terrified of her, but she’s happy that she has him on her side now against the mastermind. Every night from then on he would drop into her room to discuss anything he’d discovered and she quickly became attached to the tiny regardless of her intentions to stay disconnected from everyone.
It all goes smoothly with him helping her investigation into the killing game until a week passes with no killings after Sakura’s death.
Monokuma brings them out for a new motive and tells them about the presence of Makoto, saying he does count as a student after all since he’s also trapped with them. Kyoko tries to act indifferent, but shes shocked, having no idea how the mastermind found out about him. Although in her head she blames herself since he’s been out in the open way more since they started talking.
From then on she has two things to worry about: the mastermind’s game and making sure the tiny stays safe. They come to an agreement for him to stay with Kyoko during the day since having him with her keeps him out of sight. And no one would suspect the cold and quiet Kyoko to be protecting the secret student after all :)