MissMage52

What if Kaito had pretended to die from his illness during his execution?

What if he, along with Himiko, Maki, and Shuichi was a survivor?

What if he still struggled with his illness even after the events of the 53rd season of Danganronpa?

And what if he still remembered Maki’s confession?

PROLOGUE: REMEMBER YOUR PROMISE

“I’ve never felt this way before! I’ve always fought to kill, but... this is the first time I’ve fought to protect someone! And... I’ve never... been given a nickname like ‘Maki Roll’ before, either. And I’ve never... met someone as stubborn as you before... And... I’ve never... fallen for someone before. That’s why I won’t let you kill Kaito! I absolutely won’t let you!”

Kaito smirked, replaying the words over and over in his head as he finally glanced over the stars surrounding him. He was living his dream right now. If he died, he’d be perfectly content.

But his promise to Maki, he couldn’t break it. As he said to her, he wouldn’t die that easily. He told her not to worry, to run while she could.

He promised her that he would be fine.

But dead wasn’t exactly fine.

It was a slim chance. He was cured of the poison from the antidote, sure, but his lungs filled up with more blood than oxygen after he took the antidote.

Even though the sight of space around him was beautiful, the sight of him was unruly. The lack of oxygen made him a sickly white, almost turning blue. Sweat rolled down his face, drenching his clothes. His jaw was firmly set, in attempts to prevent coughing and vomited more blood from his system, with it spurting out and dribbling down his chin, covering and staining his sweat-soaked clothes.

Kokichi had promised this plan would work. That Monokuma and the mastermind would be fooled, but no. Maki wasn’t safe after all, nobody was. They were all going to die because of him.

He was the hero of the story, after all. A true hero never lost to the villain. He just couldn’t let the mastermind win, not if he had anything to do with it.

A large cough slipped out and blood splattered on the window, obscuring his lovely view of the stars. He wasn’t as bright as them, but suddenly an idea popped in his head.

It wasn’t a guarantee, but if he tried it, he could live. He could fulfill his promise to Maki, and be the hero he was meant to be. Besides, he had lived his dream of going into space. Now, his focus was to save his friends.

He forcefully coughed out the blood, the thick fluid emptying his lungs and pooling on the floor of the small spacecraft.

His lungs welcomed the oxygen inside, but with the strange amount of oxygen intake and blood loss, Kaito flopped over from the wave of dizziness. But through the dizzy haze, he smirked. His plan was gonna work, he was gonna be the hero he was meant to be.

He played dead, he calmed his mind and let his heart rate slow. Even as he felt the rocket plummet, he laid there, calm as a frozen lake in his own blood. When it finally crashed and the door swung open, he let his body tumble out, limp. Even if he was out of the spaceship, he didn’t want Monokuma to put him back in. He couldn’t screw around, he couldn’t quit the act now.

Sounds of rubble falling down and wreckage reached Kaito’s ears. The sound of footsteps running off. Feeling uneasy, he ever so slightly opened his eye. The coast was clear, but the room was about to collapse.

Gathering up his strength, he slipped out of there before he could get squished like Kokichi. Even though he screwed up their plan, he wasn’t going to let the bastard’s sacrifice go to waste.

He sneaked around the camera’s blind spots until he came across an abandoned room, with the camera destroyed, exhausted, he slumped over and decided to camp out there until he got his strength back.

Not long after he decided to rest, he could hear a destructive commotion of lasers outside. Damn... is this the execution Monokuma was talking about when he said he was gonna killed everyone...?

He sat there and thought of Maki and Shuichi, his sidekicks. He thought of Kiibo, Himiko, and Tsumugi. He wouldn’t let them die. He wouldn’t let the mastermind win.

“I kept my promise... Maki Roll...” He said with a pained tone. “Now you and everyone else... have to keep yours...”

END OF PROLOGUE

Doctor - “Good news, they’re finally awake.”

Kaede Akamatsu - “Really?! They are?! Oh my god-”

Doctor - “I wouldn’t go in there, Ms. Akamatsu.”

Kaede Akamatsu - “What? Well why not?”

Doctor - “They still have their memories of the game, but they never got to keep their ingame personalities.”

Doctor - “Shuichi, well... he may be dangerous...”

Kaede Akamatsu - “There’s no way he’d be dangerous. I’m going anyway.”

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Kaede Akamatsu - “Shuichi! Oh thank god, it’s-”

Shuichi Saihara - “Kaede... I love you...”

Kaede Akamatsu - “Shuichi...”

Shuichi Saihara - “You brought me so much despair...”

Kaede Akamatsu - “I know, I’m so sorry-”

Shuichi Saihara - “Don’t be. In fact...”

Shuichi Saihara - “...I want you to bring me more...”

Kaede Akamatsu - “Shuichi?”

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So my AU is that the entire V3 game was just a simulation. Everyone is alive and well, and they all have their memories of the game.

Well, not quite.

You see, for the ones who died, they get to keep their in-game personas, as well as just their memories of the game. They have no recollection of their lives before Danganronpa. 

For the survivors, as soon as they exit the simulation, they revert back to their pregame personas. Not only that, but they have their memories of what their lives were like before the game. And their memories of the game are seen through the eyes of their pregame persona.

So here’s where SaiMatsu comes into play:

Kaede was the first blackend, so she doe not have her memories of what she was like before the game. And she also has her in-game persona.

Shuichi, on the other hand, was a survivor. Therefore he has reverted back to his pregame personality. And he has all the memories of what life was like before Danganronpa.

All his memories of V3 are also seen through the eyes of his pregame personality. He remembers loving Kaede and feeling betrayal after she was the first blackend. Feeling the amount of despair, seeing her die right in front of him. Leaving him.

My headcanon is that Pregame Shuichi is a despair freak. He loves to feel it. So the amount of despair Kaede brought him in the game, he adores it. And he becomes infatuated over the amount of despair when he found out Kaede was framed and wrongly executed.

So he becomes a bit... clingy to Kaede. He wants her to cause him even more despair.

And Kaede, hearing how much despair she had caused Shuichi while she was gone, she feels bad about herself, guilty. So she is internally beating herself up over it.

I have a story idea that I am telling through TikTok (I just got my Kaede cosplay and I love it), and I will probably post up the videos on here. I have Parts 1 and 2, and I have up to Part 6 planned out, though there will be more.

I will also post up the sripts. As long as you don’t snitch to my watchers on TikTok, I’ll post up the part scripts up on here first, then make the videos.