#78th class

The jist of this au is that during/after Naegi's execution, he gets time looped back to the start of the game!

Essentially he knows the details of the motives/trials but he doesn't know about the Junko he knows is Mukuro, that the real Junko is the mastermind, nothing from beyond the end of Chapter 5.

The most he knows in regards to that is that there was something funky to do with the fifth trial but he doesn't know what.

Kirigiri jumped.

But something she didn’t predicted happened: the Walrider grabbed her mid-air out of nowhere and started to throw her up and down as if she was a ragdoll. Her eyes were wide open in terror she couldn’t even scream, just gasps. Then it finally let go of her… way too far up from the ground. She fell, she tried to spin in the air so she could survive her fall. But the Walrider ‘saved’ her as it grabbed her again then threw her on the floor, slightly slowing her fall. She grunted in pain, she survived but suffered a lot. She must have broken something. She slowly got back on her feet, she couldn’t hear the Walrider around her. Where did it go? She needed to go back to the Engine room, Naegi’s waiting for her. She reached the Engine room and saw him standing in front of the panel. It’s time to end this, she raised her camcorder, looking for the black ghost.

“Makoto! Disable the failsafe but be careful around you!” she shouted, her fiancé nodded to her.

As he slammed down his hand on the panel and disable the failsafe, he turned to Billy who suddenly started to squirm inside his life pod. Blood spurting out from his every orifice. And in seconds, he slowly started to disappear inside the pod now filled with his blood. They weren’t kidding when they said ‘immediate termination’.

Suddenly he heard some sort of whisper and his partner screamed for him to watch out. He dived to the side, right against Billy’s pod. He just barely dodged the Walrider’s assault. He looked back to where he was a second ago and saw a faint black mist. But the moment he understood what it was, the ghost grabbed him and threw him to the other side of the room. His back colliding against the hard wall. Naegi spat blood as he grunted in pain. He looked up and saw the black mist again, but something more distinguishable was appearing in front of his eyes. The creature grabbed him again and threw him in front of Billy. The patient was still squirming inside the pod, the blood was now at his throat.

Naegi shakily stood up and saw Kirigiri running towards him, but also saw the creature approaching him.

The Walrider jumped towards him, but it’s prey jumped away.

“N-No you won’t!” Naegi shouted before running away.

The swarm quickly gave chase, but as the seconds went by, it was drastically slowing down. It stopped and turned towards the woman who didn’t see it coming and grabbed her to throw her too against the wall. If it can’t get the man, it will get the woman! She gasped as he grabbed her by the neck before she could slide down the wall.

She couldn’t see the Walrider yet, she needed more horror, more fear, more despair. It was about to throw her again but the male detective ran to them and yelled. This man had more terror in him, just one more push and it’s done, it will have a new Host.

It let go of the woman and flew immediately towards the brunette punching him in the face, sending him flying. He was in pain, perfect. The man looked up and his eyes widen up in terror.

He could see the ghost now.

Perfect.

The dark swarm grabbed him by the collar and pulled him up… to slowly put him down.

The human looked at the creature in confusion, the creature was out of juice. It didn’t have enough strength to lift him up. Billy was dead. But that didn’t stop it for one last attempt, it tried to stab the brunette with its hand, but he dodged.

This was the end of The Walrider… It collapsed on the ground and exploded in a little dark cloud.

Kirigiri ran to her partner.

“Are you alright?”

“Y-Yeah… Just hurt… Kyoko… We did it!” He beamed at her.

“Yes, but it’s not over yet. We have to get out of here before Wernicke tries to kill us.”

“Right, let’s g-” He tried to take one step but almost fell face first to the ground, he was that badly wounded by the Walrider.

Kirigiri quickly grabbed him and helped him walk towards the exit of the Engine room. They were too weak now. They must think of a way to avoid Wernicke. They reached the exit door slowly but when they were about to open it… it opened for them… And behind it was a group of soldier, behind them: Wernicke.

Both detectives quickly raised their hands in the air in surrender.

The soldiers raised their submachine guns and pointed at them. Kirigiri was about to jump in front of Naegi until.

“Lower your guns!” one of the soldiers suddenly ordered as they raised a hand.

Everyone obeyed, Wernicke turned towards the said soldier.

“What? What are you waiting for? Shoot them!”

“Wait a second.” The soldier said as the walked past the others to stand in front of the couple, their heavy mask made them unrecognizable as it stared at the duo, “Makoto? Kyoko?” the soldier suddenly said.

The detectives widened their eyes as the soldier reached for their mask and helmet and took it off, showing their female face with dark semi-long hair and freckles adorning their cheek.

“Mukuro?!”

“Wow it is you! Soldiers! Lower your guns!” the old classmate ordered.

Now that they could examine without real danger, they noticed that each soldier had an emblem patch. The emblem of their mercenary army: Fenrir.

“What are you doing?! Your mission is to kill these intruders! They know too much! You can’t let them escape!”

“The mission was aborted the second the target were these two. Not because they are my friends but because Fenrir would be in big trouble if we eliminated them.” She half-lied while winking at her friends.

It’s nice to see that Mukuro opened up enough to smile and wink like that, the couple thought with a smirk.

“What are you talking about?!” the old scientist asked.

“They are close friends of the head of the Togami Corporation.” Mukuro said.

“Wh-What? I-I… No! I can’t let them get away! Murkoff will have my head if they divulge what they saw here!”

“So it is that bad heh…?” Mukuro frowned, “So anyway, you’re screwed, huh?”

“I’ll talk to your superior!”

“You have them right in front of you.” Mukuro grinned as she bowed.

“You mean-” Naegi started.

“That’s right, I’m the new leader of the Fenrir group!”

“This is amazing, Mukuro!” the male detective exclaimed.

“Tch!” the doctor turned towards one of the soldiers, “You! Kill them all! I’ll pay you all double! No triple!!”

The soldiers started to look at each others as Wernicke sneered.

“That’s mercenaries for you, give them money and they’ll do anything. Now fire!”

But nothing happened.

“What are you doing? I said fire!”

“My men are smart enough to know that they shouldn’t point their weapons at me.” Mukuro said in a dark tone, “You just dug your grave, old man. Arrest him, soldiers and take him away!” she ordered and this time they all pointed their guns at the old man.

“You- You will not get away with this!”

“I think we already did with the early payment.” the Fenrir leader grinned as her men took the scientist away. Then she turned to her friends again, “Anyway, what are you guys doing here? Don’t you have a wedding next month, as in: two weeks?”

“I guess for the same reason as you.” Kirigiri smiled, “One last mission before the wedding.”

To this Mukuro grinned as she affirmed that statement.

“But you guys look really bad. What happened here? This asylum looks like a horror movie scenery.”

“It’s… A long story.” Naegi smiled, waving his right hand.

Mukuro quickly noticed the missing finger.

“Makoto! Your hand!... Your hands ! What happened? Never mind that, we need to bring you to a hospital ASAP!” she exclaimed, “We’ll escort you out, we’re leaving right now.”

“Thank you, Mukuro… But one last question. Can any of your men lift us?”

“I’m pretty sure I can lift both of you!” Mukuro grinned.

It sure was nice to see her open like that after all those years, a shame though that she sounded a bit like her sister.

“Thank you…” Naegi whispered and looked at Kirigiri, they were safe now.

And both at the same time blacked out of fatigue.

“Wow!” Mukuro exclaimed as she ran towards them to catch them before they hit the floor.

When Kirigiri opened her eyes, she was in a truck, she was too tired to move. She heard Mukuro talking to someone… A male person… She recognized that voice…. But where was her fiancé?

She felt a pressure on her left shoulder, it was him. Sleeping.

He must be so tired, unlike her, he didn’t get knocked out, he didn’t sleep at all during their ‘adventure’... She rested her head on his.

They did it. They survived…

She smiled as she reached for his hand.

When Naegi opened his eyes, he was in a white bright room. He panicked at first as he recognized it being a hospital one, but as he saw the good furniture and nothing being broken or bloody, he immediately relaxed.

“Makoto?” a female voice called for him from behind the curtains on his left.

He recognized the voice and could help but smile, “Kyoko…”

She stood up and opened up the curtains, she had lots of bandages and patches around her face and neck. He sat up straight so she could sit next to him.

“How long was I out?” he asked.

“At least 24 hours, you did got a rougher time than me at the asylum. Do you remember what happened?”

“Of course, Mukuro saved us.” He smiled, “ But happened during those hours?”

“She told me that she’ll tell us soon.” She stated, then looked at her fiancé, he was smiling at her, “What’s the matter?”

“Nothing… I just can’t believe we got out of this nightmare and that you’re beautiful.”

His last remark made her blush, it’s not rare for him to compliment her like that but this came out of nowhere.

“Again being romantic in weird places, heh?” she smirked as she leaned down to kiss his lips.

Until they got interrupted.

“Oh! Are we interrupting something?” a cheerful female voice called.

The duo looked at the door to see it open with one of their friends standing at the door.

“Hina!” Naegi smiled.

“Makoto! Kyoko!” she exclaimed.

“MAKOTO! KYOKO! ARE YOU GUYS ALRIGHT?!” Sayaka whispered-screamed as she barged in the room to have a look at their friend.

And one by one, every one of their old classmates from high school came inside the small hospital room to see their friends. The last ones to come in were Mukuro and Togami as he was inspecting the camcorder, but not the video yet.

“I’m so glad to see you guys!” Naegi smiled at his friends.

“But seriously, what happened, dude?” Mondo asked.

“Yeah, you guys looks like shit!” Leon commented.

“It’s a long story.” Naegi said as he raised his left hand from under the blankets.

Everyone went silent at seeing his ring finger missing, except Junko who screeched in delight.

Then everyone started to scream if he was alright, that it’s horrible he had to endure something like this and how would Kirigiri pass the ring if his left ring finger wasn’t there anymore?

“Everyone! Please be quiet! We’re at a hospital!” Ishimaru exclaimed, as loud as everyone else.

Thankfully, just a cough from the lavender haired woman shut them all up. Togami step up.

“It seems that they were sent at Murkoff’s Mount Massive Asylum to investigate what was going on in there that was hurting their own patients. But it was worse than expected and got trapped inside. They recorded what they lived inside this camcorder, Mukuro already saw the content and I was about to analyze it myself. But I need to ask. Makoto Naegi, Kyoko Kirigiri… Is everything inside this video true?”

“Yes.”

“Of course.”

“Perfect. By the way, Fenrir also captured, or rather ‘saved’ the person who called you there.”

“Really? They are alive? Who are they?” Naegi asked.

Togami answered his question, making everyone in the room gasp.

“I see…”

“He apologized countless times to you. He’s being interrogated right now, it seems that he also have video proof of what happened. At least, we’ll have more evidence to punish and destroy Murkoff. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not doing this for you!  I just saw an opportunity to destroy a competitor.” Togami declared, making everyone roll their eyes, that didn’t work anymore. Everyone knew that he loves his friends, even if he didn’t show it like everyone else, “But yes, I assure you the protection of the Togami Corporation, I swear it on my name.”

“What about him?” Naegi asked, concerned.

“We’ll see what we’ll do to him after the interrogation. He did send you two to your deaths, you were lucky Mukuro was in the team that was sent to the asylum.”

“Wait. Don’t do anything to him. He was working there, it’s not his fault. Everything is Murkoff’s fault.” the detective with missing fingers said with determination.

Everyone had a little smile, except Junko who was imitating vomiting at the other side of the room.

“Hmpf, that’s just like you. I’ll see what I can do. Now if you’ll excuse me I’ll go see the content of this vide-”

“Wait! I-I want to see it too!” Sayaka stopped him.

“What?”

“Me too!” Leon, Mondo and Ishimaru followed.

“Y-Yeah! I want to understand their pain! I want to be able to support them the best that I can!” Asahina said with Chihiro nodding next to her.

“G-Guys… But it’s really horrible! I don’t think that all of you should watch it!”

“Are you kidding me? You got your fingers cut and Daddy’s girl here got strangled more than once! I’m on for the ride! A shame I didn’t bring popcorn!” Junko exclaimed enthusiastically, until Mukuro slapped the back of her head.

“I think the choice is yours.” Mukuro added.

“I agree.” Celeste joined in.

“Tch. I’d rather watch it alone… But I guess I won’t mind if you decide to share your experience with your friends.”

“So, Makoto… What should we do?” Kirigiri asked, putting her hand on her fiancé’s shoulder.

“I… I think that… they… they should know.”

Two weeks later.

She was feeling nervous. But seriously, who wouldn't? It was her wedding day! Kirigiri was wearing the beautiful white dress Maizono and Asahina, her maids of honor, made her try out and literally cried over its beauty.

Everyone was there, their old classmates and friends. Even some senpais. Her grandfather was there too, even Jin. Makoto convinced her to invite him. There was also Makoto’s heartwarming family. And was Komaru-chan really crying?

She was walking down the aisle towards the altar where was waiting the priest and next to him was her soon to be husband: Makoto Naegi. He was just dazzling in his wedding suit and he even combed his hair back that made him look more mature. She couldn't help herself but blush.

He really knew how to make her heart flutter.

She stood next to him and they shared a look before turning towards the priest who started the ceremony.

“You look beautiful, the girls made a great choice.” He said sheepishly, his cheeks red.

“Thank you. You look good yourself too, Makoto.” She smiled.

“Th-Thank you, Togami chose it for me. But I’m sure you must have already guessed it.”

“Obviously”

They both chuckled, and followed the ceremony.  

“At this time, I’ll ask you, Makoto Naegi, and you, Kyoko Kirigiri, to face each other & take each other’s hands.” The priest said and they obeyed.

“Makoto Naegi, will you take Kyoko Kirigiri to be your wife, your partner in life and your one true love? Do you promise to be faithful to her in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love her and to honor her all the days of your life?”

“I do” he answered with a determined smile.

“Kyoko Kirigiri, will you take Makoto Naegi to be your husband, your partner in life and your one true love? Do you promise to be faithful to him in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love him and to honor him all the days of your life?”

“I do” she smiled back.

They exchanged vows and rings. Naegi grabbed the ring between his right thumb and a robot prosthetic right index finger, a present from his friends. Kirigiri slide her lover’s ring into his now robotic prosthetic left ring finger, also a gift from his friends after they saw the video. The two of them couldn’t be happier.

Then the end of the ceremony...

"By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride"

Naegi smile widened as he leaned forward and slowly pressed his lips against hers. The feeling of warmth was just the most wonderful feeling they shared.

“I’ll always be with you.” Kyoko smiled.

“Always.” Makoto smiled back as he leaned for another kiss.

GOOD END

Notes:

And it's over! I hope you guys enjoyed this LONG story! Also, I'm hesitating between writing a special chapter about their friends reaction to the video... or maybe a oneshot related to the story? Let me know!

anyway, now that this story is done! I'm gonna start writing my Danganronpa DEMONS AU