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When I finally woke up, I found myself in an unfamiliar place. The room appeared to be empty for the most part, excluding the bed I found myself on. The bed was entirely decorated in red, and the floor was dark gray with a sort of pixel like pattern. It appeared to be a carpet, and the walls were firm gray walls that appeared to be reinforced. Probably for keeping people captive. The only light was coming from a weird glowing blue column in the corner, and after taking all this in I only then noticed another person was present in the room.
“Finally awake I see-”
The man who had spoken looked quite unusual… He was pale as paper with hair that looked like cum-stained stuffing. He had gray eyes, and a choker around his neck. There was a chain attached to said choker, and he was wearing a black jacket with red and grey accents. His outfit looked like it was designed by a child in an emo phase. He was wearing kinky boots- like the type the authors friend wears.
“Hello? Miss Komaru? I have important information so you must pay attention.”
I snap my attention back to him and what he is saying.
“Where am I?”
“Immediately, worrying about just yourself… how average of you.”
“Wh-what? I don’t understand what you mean…?”
“Being average isn’t bad- it means you can relate to other average people. It’s just a shame you are completely average. Oh well- they will get upset if you don’t start the test soon.”
“They? Who are they? What is happening, why is this happening?”
“You will be tested to see if you can make it all the way to where they are safely… but I will assist you in this endeavor.”
He then handed me the gun from earlier… only it looked slightly different.
“I had to adjust it- for game balance purposes. It will still be beneficial to you even with the adjustments I made.”
“Wh-what did you do to it… what will I even need it for?”
“Eager to start the test aren’t you? For the test as I said earlier, you will be making your way to them. You will know when you are there. And- a word of advice. Even when you find your way to them, hide the gun. If they know about it they will take away your only advantage.”
“Wait- are you making me start right now? Will you at least tell me where they are? Please just answer some of my questions!”
“Now now, all of your questions will be answered in time- you would not want to keep them waiting…”
“Keep who waiting-”
Before I could finish the sentence I was forced to leave and the door slammed shut behind me. I looked around and only saw a locked metal door, along with the room I came from. The area I came from appeared to have no way to go back, but next to the metal door was a button that appeared to be glowing red. I looked around and there was nothing else in the area, so I used what was apparently called a move bullet on the button. As soon as I did that the door opened up, and I went through. After that I encountered some of the monokumas, and used the break bullets to destroy them. I discovered that when they were hit in the eye they died immediately, and the next shot I fired would be a one shot kill. Using this information I found my way to a large door that I presumed to be where ‘they’ were supposed to be, and pushed open the door.
After opening the door, I was greeted by a group of children. They had been talking, but as soon as I opened the door it went quiet before they began whispering back and forth.
“She’s here! I knew she would make it!”
“It’s too bad she didn’t die in the challenge… She would have been pretty to use for a diorama.”
“NOT AS STRONG AS ME RIGHT MONACA?”
“Of course Masaru! You’re the strongest!”
“...Is it just me or are we getting off topic.”
I looked around confused… it was children. Is this who I was supposed to come see?
“U-um… who are you guys?”
The blue haired kid cleared his throat and started to finally explain my situation.
“We-” He gestures to him and all the others. “Are the warriors of hope. Honestly, we didn’t expect you to pass that test, but you surprised us-”
As he was talking, the red haired kid interrupted him to his dismay. The former looked pissed off, but didn’t say anything.
“Shouldn’t the leader be the one in charge? And who’s leader again? ME.”
The blue haired kid rolled his eyes and spoke up yet again. “Well if you insist on going ahead and introducing yourself, you may as well introduce yourself fully.”
The red haired kid then glares at him and balls his fists.
“FINE THEN. I WILL. You probably are super eager to know who I am, and I’m Masaru Daimon! I’m the hero class for the Warriors of hope! I’m the former ultimate P.E., but I don’t go by that anymore. Instead of that, now I’m the ultimate leader! In the warriors of hope, I’m the leader! I give out the orders, and we all know how great of a leader I am!”
They all roll their eyes, and some mumble to themselves about how the only reason he is leader is because he won a game of rock paper scissors. The kid- Masaru- grows flustered and seems mad.
“HEY- I won fair and square. You guys are just jealous- anyways like I said my name is Masaru, and if I were you I’d try to remember that!”
He stopped talking, and grinned. I took a better look at him. He had spiky red hair, and a pair of white headphones on. He had blue eyes, and was wearing a sporty outfit that was mostly red, white, and black. He seemed to have a bunch of little cuts and bandages on, but I figured it was probably from tripping and little things like that, that he probably got while playing around.
The next to speak up was a girl pink hair in long pigtails, with a headband on that had a pair of devil horns on them, along with a bow attached to it also. She wore a white shirt, with a gray jacket, and gray skirt with pink accents. She had long socks with white and pink patterns on them.
“I’ll introduce myself next! My name is Kotoko Utsugi, and I’m the former lil’ ultimate drama! I used to be in tons of plays, and always ended up stealing the show! Since then I’ve abandoned that silly nickname, and now I’m the fighter for the warriors of hope! You may think that the fighting class would be a boy, but nope! I like everything adorbs and pink! I love, love, love, peeled chestnuts, but I HATE unpeeled chestnuts. Isn’t that ironic? They are basically the same thing, yet I love one and hate the other! Oh, oh! Did you know that crocodiles can’t stick their tongue out? Or that sharks are the only fish that can blink with both eyes? Or that-”
The blue haired kid clears his throat and distracts her before speaking up.
“Um Kotoko I think you’re getting off topic again-”
She grumpily stops talking and gestures for him to introduce himself. The blue haired kid had his hair mostly normal, except for two curved spikes on both sides. He wore a gray and white pinstripe suit, with blue gloves and socks. He also wore a yellow scarf, with a pin they all seemed to be wearing somewhere attached to it.
“Hello, I’m Nagisa Shingetsu. I used to be referred to as the ultimate lil’ social studies, but I was good at school studies in general. Since then I have abandoned that title, and I am now the sage for the warriors of hope. I am the vice leader, and I keep Masaru in check. I do not think it is important that you know much about me so I will just leave it there.”
Kotoko looked disappointed and then spoke up:
“Aw come on Nagisa, is that really all you have to say?”
He shook his head at her, before gesturing to another kid.
“I think it’s time that Jatarou took his turn and introduced himself instead… I’d rather this be as short as possible after all.”
The kid he was talking about- Jataro apparently- looked by far the strangest of them all. He had on a weird mask covering all of his face and head, except for his eyes and mouth. He had on a plain brown suit, with an apron on over it. He had various sculpting tools attached to it, and he looked tired.
“Do you know how sometimes when you climb a tree you just think about how painful it would be to fall? How if you climbed high enough and fell it would be like super painful… oh yeah my name is Jataro kemuri. I used to be suuuuper good at arts and crafts, so they called me lil’ ultimate art. I can paint, draw, and all that stuff. I am now the priest of the warriors of hope I guess… oh yeah and I also wonder if the moon landing was faked.”
Nagisa cleared his throat, and Jataro immediately turned to him.
“I’m sorry… did I do something wrong?”
Nagisa quickly replied. “No, I just think we should go ahead and let Monaca go.”
As soon as he said that, a girl in a wheelchair moved forwards and smiled. She had short green hair, with a red ribbon in it. She also wore a blue and white dress with matching blue socks.
“Monaca is the warriors of hope’s mage! Monaca used to be the ultimate homeroom, because she brought everyone together! Everyone would come and work together all because of Monaca!”
They all gave me a look, as if to say ‘if you hurt her we will kill you.’
“Um… it’s a pleasure to meet you all but- why am I here?”
They all looked at me, before sharing a look between them. Nagisa then spoke up.
“Well- we, as the warriors of hope have a shared goal. That goal being to create a kids only paradise.”
He stops talking for a moment, as if considering his phrasing.
“And how we plan to reach our goal is by… killing all adults.”
As soon as he said this, my mouth dropped open and my eyes widened. Killing all adults…? Why would they want to do something like that… I eventually gathered the strength to speak up.
“But- why? Why would you do that?”
Nagisa sighed before turning to the rest of them. “I told you… she wouldn't understand. I knew she’d be just like the rest.”
“Wh-what reasoning could you even have for that…?”
“Let’s just say… we plan on freeing all children from their clutches.”
“I understand you may have had some bad experiences… but that doesn’t warrant genocide .”
They all sighed before mumbling something about a bracelet, and Nagisa walked up to me before forcing the bracelet on me and grinning.
“You will get to be part of a fun game. It’s called the demon hunting game… The rules of this game are that you, the demon, and we, the hunters, will play a game of cat and mouse.”
I was hit by the horror of the moment. I was going to be prey to a bunch children… before I could think this out more I heard the discussion they were having.
First Nagisa spoke up: “Well, I believe we should go with the rules we always use. First to kill the demon wins. And what they win… is knowing they gave our princess happiness”
They all nodded and agreed, and then Masaru turned to me and simply said:
“Let the hunt begin-”
And the ground fell out beneath me, and I fell to what I thought would be my death.