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Chapter 14, Dangan Ronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls

After narrowly escaping being crushed to death by the collapsing subway tunnel, the killer Monokuma robots, and the surprise attack from Shin's brainwashed comrade Shuai's Earth Elemental Gnome, Team Japan and Komaru were resting on a higher ticket booth floor of the Subway Station. Komaru and Sachi were unarmed from the ordeal, but Shin and Drake were not. Shin had once again used up all of his Ki and additionally used his Kakuja Kagune that wore down his body. At this time he was just sitting down and leaning against a wall taking in deep breaths utterly exhausted. Shin still had the option of relying on the Life Force Booster, yet he was unwilling to use it unless it's an emergency, so in the end he chose to recover naturally and now began to meditate. As he did so he was thinking back on his encounter with Shuai's Earth Elemental and couldn't help but think that something was off.

Shin: (Why did Shuai choose to attack me back there? Sure it was a good chance to kill me, but he too easily retreated and had Gnome pick up the Pulse Rifle which was originally his. It was as if defeating me was a secondary goal. Could it be he was influenced by Izuru Kamukura? Did my Holy Sword Switch actually rebound Hikari's Psych Force brainwashing and damaged the Guide and this was a retaliation move. To place me in danger, injure or kill my comrades, and take back Shuai's Sci-fi gun to make him stronger when we finally face off? Fuck, don't make things harder than it already is at this Despair Mode play through just because I one-up you!)

Shin was slightly upset, but he soon got over it. He lost a powerful weapon and a comrade was injured, yet looking to the side he once more confirmed that no one had died. Drake was being treated by Sachi while enduring the pain of losing his left arm. Shuai's Earth Elemental Gnome tore off his left arm with a earth spike and suffered critical damage and loss of blood, yet he was recovering thanks to Sachi. Sachi using acupuncture with well-placed needles in Drake's left shoulder completely stopped his bleeding and lessened his pain. From there she used medical supplies gifted to her by Shin to close the wound and bandage him up. Shin was impressed at her professional level skill in modern medicine which seemed to rival veteran EMT doctors. Sachi then giving Drake a last once over slightly smiled to herself as she slapped his shoulder.

Drake: "Ghaaaaa!!! Fuck woman, you trying to kill me!!"

Sachi: "Hm. You’re welcome. You looked so relived after I treated you it pissed me off, so I needed to feel better. Haha, your face as pain consumes your entire being is pretty nice... too bad you're a perverted exiled priest, or you would have been my type."

Drake: "...Thanks for the kind words. I actually feel much better."

Komaru: "Sachi you shouldn't be so rough! A nurse should be nicer and... well, less like you."

Shin: "Haha! Let it go Komaru. Also, don't worry about Drake. I know a guy I can call on 893 who can patch him back up later. Anyways we're going to rest for a while to recover our stamina. That last event, ah I mean failed escape attempt took too much out of us. Just take it easy."

Komaru: "...That's right. We failed again. Hey, can we really make it out of this city alive?"

Shin: "...Who knows? I'll be honest with you. I think those kids thought of everything and that there are no ways out of the city. I bet if we keep doing things like this we'll run into more danger. They even have a laser beam that shoots down anything that dares to fly over the city. Sorry Komaru, but we should give up escaping Towa City for now."

Komaru: "That's... then we can only wait to die?"

Shin: "That's not what I'm saying. We just have to change our objective is all. If we can't escape Towa City because of the kids than we can only can only defeat them if we want to live and escape this city. We have no other choice."

Komaru: "That's-"

Shin: "Impossible, right? Ha, who are you talking to Komaru. You have the Ultimate Protagonist and two members of Future Foundation on your side. You even have the Megaphone Hacking Gun. We are certainly struggling just to stay alive, but can you really say that we can't defeat these Warriors of Hope?"

Komaru: "..."

Komaru looked conflicted hearing these words from Shin. At this point in the original plot it was impossible for Komaru to think she could truly stand up to the Warriors of Hope, but Shin and the others together were far more reassuring than her original partner Toko Fukawa, so she could at least consider the possibly. It was then at this time the plot moved forward.

Appearing from the shadows of the Subway station was a boy and girl pair of Monokuma Kids. The two were walking over towards Shin and the others and carried over their shoulders was a high depth flat screen TV. Once the Monokuma Kids were close enough the little girl Monokuma Kid pressed the on button for the TV in a few seconds later a clear picture came into life. On a live video feed someone was directly starring at us. He was silent at first, but that was only because he didn't know that it was on and once he did he began to freak out and complain about originally wanting someone to introduce him.

Jataro Kemuri

Jataro is a character featured in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls and is one of the five members of the Warriors of Hope, in charge of the "Priest" class. He has the title of “Li'l Ultimate Art” from his time in the attached middle of Hope's Peak Academy.

Jataro has an incredible talent for anything seen as creative, such as drawing, painting and sculpting. He is also shown to be quiet, shy and scatter-brained. The official art book describes him as "curious, crafty, and fascinated by dark and disturbing things". Jataro is acknowledged by both himself and those around him for being hated, and he seems content with that fact. He has a tendency to blame himself for things that have nothing to do with him, as well as repeatedly apologizing and putting himself down. He believes that his face is horribly ugly and he panics if anyone wants to see it, claiming that seeing his face would make people's eyeballs explode.

Jataro's thoughts are disorganized and off-topic, some being innocent and some not, and he often has difficulties following conversations. He is shown to have some sort of mental or emotional instability, which becomes evident when he lapses into his episodes of rambling. He describes these ramblings as "yawns", things that come out of his mouth involuntarily and nobody can understand them, not even him. He simply calls them "killing time" and "distractions from the horrors around you".

Jataro's presence is often largely ignored, though he states later to Komaru and Toko that being ignored is something that he doesn't like. After Nagisa Shingetsu becomes impatient during his introduction and interrupts him, Jataro becomes visibly distraught and mumbles how his skin was 'beginning to crawl and itch' and how he wished to 'tear it all off.' Despite the constant self-deprecation, Jataro is self-described as being a cheerful kid (though he admits that he may not understand what "cheerful" means), helpful to his friends and willing to comply with whatever they ask of him while remaining relatively upbeat. It's later revealed that Jataro's acceptance of hate is a coping mechanism he developed against the constant abuse in his home life. He also believes that it's easier to be hated, because it leaves him free to do what he wants without worrying about pleasing people.

Shin knew that like the others members of the Warriors of Hope Jataro was an abused kid... yet he couldn't help but see him as anything but a gross kid too stupid to actually realize that he had incredible good looks that puts must pretty boys to shame. It couldn't be helped that he never knew this as his mom made him wear that disgusting mask on his face and told him lies his entire life, but he was the one kid from the Warriors of Hope he honestly didn't feel sorry for or care about. The was just how he felt and even Komaru basically said good riddance when she and Toko defeated Jataro in the original plot and he was executed by the Monokuma Kids.

Now back to why Jataro was speaking to Shin, Komaru, Drake, and Sachi... he came to both provoke and warn them. Jataro felt most comfortable when others hated him so he said disgusting and pointless things to get on their nerves. Then came the warning. Jataro finally told Komaru that it was impossible to escape Towa City because of the black Monokuma Bracelet around her neck. He reveals that it's actually a bomb that will go off if she leaves Towa City without the Warriors of Hope's permission which explained how Yuta Ashahina died when he swam away from Towa City.

Komaru: "...No, no way..."

This truth shocked Komaru as she had her Hopes of escaping Towa City officially destroyed and began to Despair, and one could see the hate in her eyes. Seeing this Jataro became more excited and especially when Sachi added on her own hate for him.

Sachi: "What a disgusting brat. Too bad you’re not here or I'll would want to test out some *special* needles on you."

Jataro: "Huh, what you just said... doesn't it kinda sound like "Love" if you flip it around. I was worried, so I had to make double sure. That's why I called you guys.

Komaru: "...Double sure?"

Jataro: "If you guys see this, you're gonna hate me even... wait, what are you-"

Shin: "I don't want to see. Go to hell."

- *BANG*!

Shin knowing the plot knew Jataro wanted to show them all a disturbing video. A video showcasing his art talents as he performed a show using puppets dancing about lively and having a good time... which were actually human corpses kept into place with large metal screws and held up with strings just like in a puppet show. Shin not wanting to see this video tool out his Auto 9 and opened fire at the TV screen till it stopped broadcasting. The Monokuma Kids holding up the TV then feeling Shin's killing intent dropped the TV and ran way scared without once looking back.

Komaru: "Was that okay, Shin? You may have provoked him."

Shin: "It should be fine. That kid looks like he likes to be hated, so I bet he's overjoyed to have gotten such a reaction out of us without showing what he wanted to. Anyways, forget about the disgusting brat for now. Don't worry about what he said. We had already guessed that it was impossible to escape, so thanks to him we don't have to keep wondering. We’ll rest up for a bit and then we'll move on."

Komaru: "Where will we go?"

Shin: "Who knows, but it's better to keep moving."

Komaru still looked to be worried about her chances of living, but believing in Shin she chose to do as he said. An hour later after resting as best they could and Shin recovering most of his Ki set out once more.

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Shin, Komaru, Drake and Sachi set off after resting for one hour after the tunnel collapse. They first tried return to the surface the same way they came from, but that was impossible. Like in the original plot of Another Episode a dance party was going on at this time. Hundreds of Monokuma Kids and thousands upon thousands of bloodthirsty Monokuma robots were dancing to the BGM "Re_Mr. Monokuma's Tutoring" that was playing from somewhere. It was insane, but the point was that it was impossible to return the way they came, so Shin and the others returned back underground.

Returning back down to the subway they began to look for another way out and eventually ended up entering a underground shopping center. The shopping center was dark and abandoned of all life giving it a creepy feeling for Komaru and the others, yet for Shin who was once randomly transported inside a labyrinth in the world of Apocalypse Alice, a dimensional space that just reeked with resentment and darkness it didn't even phase him and as he lead his group forward.

Along the way they ran into a Monokuma Kid who approached them Shin's group with a present for Komaru. The Word Bullet, Knockback. It was the essential KNOCKBACK Bullet needed for Komaru to fight against the defense oriented Guard Monokuma with their riot shields. After handing over the Kotodama the Monokuma Kid ran off. Komaru was once more confused as to why some of the Monokuma Kids were her enemies and others were on her side, but Shin knew that this was all a part of the game for the mastermind of the Warriors of Hope and possibly Jin who's taken over the role of The Servant from the original plot.

Komaru: "Hmm, it's still so suspicious.... Hey, can you guys hear that?"

Komaru was the first notice that something and they others perked their ears to listen. From the sounds of it a fight was going on somewhere and worried Komaru and then the others chased after this sound. Shin and hearing it from him Drake and Sachi knew what was up ahead and weren't worried or surprised as they turned the corner and saw who was fighting... but more accurately who was getting banged up on by a group of Monokuma while hiding under a sheet while a group of Monokuma Kids cheering on in excitement.

Shirokuma: "Please stop! Violence is a big no-no! Bullying... is so uncool! Shouldn't you all be using your fist to protect... instead of hurting people!?

Drake: "...That's..."

Komaru: "Oh no! Someone's getting ambushed! We gotta go save him!"

Shin: "...Lead the way."

Komaru with unexpected courage took the lead in charging towards the Monokumas ganging up on the *innocent* victim on while Shin and the others unenthusiastically followed after her. The Shin especially didn't want to deal with this *innocent* person, no thing as it was one half of the mastermind behind the mastermind who was the true enemy of the Dangan Ronpa series. The seemingly kind, peaceful, Monokuma who help/guides Komaru into becoming the active heroine of Another Episode, Shirokuma.

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Megaphone Hacking Gun's status -

Slot 1: Break Bullet.

Slot 2: Move Bullet.

Slot 3: Detect Bullet.

Slot 4: Dance Bullet.

Slot 5: Knockback Bullet.

Slot 6: Empty.

Slot 7: Empty.

Slot 8: Empty.

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Proofread by Azarza.