Progeny x Prodigy

Another manga redraw!!!

Original panel beneath the cut.

‘Her lips curved into a smile that made his chest clench. It took Byakuya some good few seconds to realise he wasn’t breathing, then he had to remind himself to inhale, exhale and repeat. Memories of her lips locked against his bled in, of how wet and warm they had been. How they had vibrated against him as she moaned and tangled his hair between her fingers.

He could have kissed her right now. No one would see. No one would know.

But he would know.’

Chapters: 10/? Fandom: Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Dangan Ronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, Dangan Ronpa 3: The End of 希望ヶ峰学園 | The End of Kibougamine Gakuen | End of Hope’s Peak High School, Dangan Ronpa Series Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Fukawa Toko/Togami Byakuya, Kirigiri Kyoko/Naegi Makoto, Fukawa Toko & Naegi Komaru, Shingetsu Nagisa & Togami Byakuya Characters: Togami Byakuya, Fukawa Toko, Kirigiri Kyoko, Naegi Makoto, Naegi Komaru, Asahina Aoi (Dangan Ronpa), Hagakure Yasuhiro, more to be added, Shingetsu Nagisa, Utsugi Kotoko, Daimon Masaru (Dangan Ronpa), Kemuri Jataro Summary: When a project is set up to help rehabilitate the former Warriors of Hope, Togami finds himself the guardian of Nagisa Shingetsu. He also finds himself troubled with confusing feelings toward Fukawa…

Comments: Chapter 10! This was a bit tricky to write, and it came out a lot longer than I intended haha.

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Chapter 10: A Life I Never Chose

When Byakuya was a child - younger than Nagisa, his meals would sometimes be tampered with by his staff. Not all the time, but enough that he would regularly sift through his food for shards of glass and check for odd smells and discolouring. Though, even when he did find poison present, his mother would still insist he finish the meal more often than not. It was due to this training of his body that Byakuya developed some immunity to most poisons. This was also why during Sakura Oogami’s murder trial, he hadn’t been concerned about any traces being present when he drank protein from a bottle that had previously contained poison. The conglomerate had prepared him well for future assassination attempts. Not only for the poisons in food, but for the poisons in emotional bonds too.

On the morning of Byakuya’s second day at teaching, he served rice, soup, grilled salmon and fermented soy beans for breakfast. Nagisa still only grabbed himself a handful of cereal, but this time, he looked at the food, said it looked good but he wasn’t that hungry, then he bid Byakuya a pleasant morning before leaving. While Nagisa didn’t taste any of what Byakuya had made, it was a start. Better than the last couple of days, at least, when Nagisa had treated Byakuya like some mould on the wall.

Upon arrival at the main school building, Byakuya stopped by the teachers’ office. The sharp stink of cheap coffee and cologne stung his nose as soon as he walked in. Several of his coworkers were hunched over desks, scarfing down breakfast as they worked. Egg sandwiches. Onigiri. Pork buns. Byakuya’s lips pursed in disgust as he observed their greasy fingers groping their phones and laptop keyboards. Had they no shame? They had the previous evening to get all their work done in time for today.