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A bliding light filled totally the room. Then the group in the gymnasium regained collectively conciousness. They looked at each other, then looked at the stage where Monokubs was, because they had disappeared. On their place was held a young man with messy light brown hair, similar to the hairstyle of Makoto Naegi in Danganronpa 3, to the exception that he was much older, almost around thirty. The originality came especially from the suit : it was in the colors of Monokuma. The left-hand side was white, the other one was black and red. He loudly welcomed the new pupils of the academy :
" Hello, and welcome in Danganronpa 53 ! "
As waited by the newcomer, the candidates applauded and cheered him. Smiling in the face of this enjoyment which followed the announcement of their official entrance to the game, he continued :
" First of all, I should apologize in the face of these beginnings… rather strange I would say. Exisal - The huge robots which followed you - Monokubs, discount of your suits and the blinding light were totally planned. All this was a protocol, a first situation scenario as much for us as for you. Thus now, as you were able to suspect it, I am …
- Oh yes ! You are Oda Sosuke, the Ultimate Imitator? interrupted a girl from the long dark brown hair dressed in red of an incited voice. You are new Mastermind, aren’t you ? "
The interruption of the teenager in both braids made him laugh, of an admiring and amused laughter: " I see that there are connoisseurs here! So yes, I am Oda Sosuke, Ultimate Imitator from Danganronpa 40. Now, I work for Team Danganronpa, but I am not Mastermind, but one of the managers of Danganronpa 53, which means I am the one who shall head you during Killing Game."
In an unexpected way, other clamors arise, less numerous than previously. He ignored that some were enchanted that them dying or living are his decision. Or maybe that it was the fact to see a celebrity having risked its death several times for the first time, he thought.
To please this group of fan gathered for this special opportunity, he decided to indulge itself by taking the voice of Monokuma whom he had worked several times:
" I would thus be your headmaster for this school year! Nyahahahah! "
This change of voice was welcomed by applauses and new cheers. Since Danganronpa 41, Oda wasn’t only simple candidate who survived, it also became the official voice of Monokuma, and all these iterations. After all, it was its talent, the one that Team Danganronpa had given him, the one who had made him go public.
" So, he continued, you probably wonder why real Monokuma did not appear yet, or still why we have not asked you yet to kill each other. It is very simple, in fact: we call this moment, in Team Danganronpa, an Inter-Prologue. It is the moment between when you entered the Academy, and the real prologue, which is going to begin and last in six days. It can seem to you strange, but it is the moment which our scriptwriters need to finish completely the script of the season where you’re going to participate. Simply put, we are going to leave you, during six days, the time to get acquainted and to discover the academy where you’re going to leave during the rest of this season. Your characters are completely written - as you can see it with your suits - but the scenario isn’t completely. The way you act, the people whom you speak, what you will say and go is going to be thourougly analyzed by our scriptwriters, and is thus going to manage the direction which you will take during the game. So, we are going to leave you totally, free of your movements. Just know that cameras are placed in all the academy - obviously - and that you can discuss with us with your Monopad with the function Messenger, which will be deprived by the end of the inter-prologue. "
He had a break, to leave some time to the candidates to absorb this new information.
" Questions? Sorry, I was maybe too fast, it is my first time as manager of season.
- Yes, made the little boy for the purple hair, you do not go to say who is Mastermind?
- Of course not, but free to you - not, free to you - to look who is it.
- I would have a question, says shyly a young man bluish black hair hidden under his cap, are we - really - obliged to speak to the other people?
- No, one force you to do anything. Know just, as I told it to you, that this type of reaction will have consequences on your role during the game.
- I too would have a question, asked a girl the blonde hair, who had already shown her skepticism previously, what is the interest to make all this - meet each other and let us freely explore the academy - without being already in character? "
Up to here, Oda expected all these questions. According to these perceptive colleagues and writers, it was completely normal questions for this type of situation. Nevertheless, the question of the girl with fair hair made him think for one moment. For him, that was obvious, but for other people, it could be disturbing. Furthermore, the question of the girl - Who was called Kaede, according to the files of the candidates - was immediately followed by a " Yeah, why? " Of another boy, taller than the other ones, with the strong voice, wearing badly its jacket.
" Let us say that your personality and your reactions will not be even at this very moment that when we shall wash you the brain for your character. For the scriptwriters, it is more interesting to make like that that by brainwashing you directly. Besides, since that nobody here - except for me and the staff of Danganronpa 53 -, will remember what happened for these six days, it is way more complicated to brainwash you all directly to put you in character to brainwash yourselves later to make you forget these six days.
- As a result, nobody will remember these six days? Repeated the boy - Kaito - who agreed on the question of Kaede previously.
- Of course not, that would be totally stupi-..
- And so, if we win, we can see what happened during this time ?
- If you want it. "
It was false. The "winners" had, of course, totally the right to reach any top secret file they wanted which belonged to Team Danganronpa. They were survivors, the survivors, after all. What was false, it was that there were winners.
Nobody wins in Danganronpa. Not the murderers, not the survivors, the victims even less. Not even the mastermind.
The only winners were Team Danganronpa.
" Well, he resumed, it is not that I hate you - quite the opposite, you will all make History in some way, I promise you - but I have to go back to work with the other managers. So, I am going to leave you with your Inter-Prologue, which will be the one that you want. In six days, but I’ll remind you, we make an appointment here, for your brainwashing. But before that, make what you want, we remain at your disposal, and once again: congratulations! "
He turned back, then disappeared in the same blinding light. In his departure, sixteen candidates of the season 53 of Danganronpa applauded and cheered Oda Sosuke, the puppeteer who will manage their lives and their deaths in the next days.
And so Inter-Prologue began.