Despair Danganronpa Novels & Stories

There was blood trickling down the side of his head – a thin line of red that disappeared into his collar – but he didn't bother with it. “Ma'am.” His voice was desperate, shaking. “Ma'am, wake up. Please wake up.” I tried to speak, but my mouth wouldn't form the words. I tried to pull myself up, but my body felt heavy, like a weight was pressing down on me. “Ma'am!” Matthew's voice cracked, and I could see the fear in his eyes – raw and unfiltered. And then, everything went dark again.

The Broken Ring, still grappling with their despair, questioned everything. Xylos, the Xylosian engineer, offered his expertise, demonstrating how a deeper understanding of the universe's interconnectedness could provide meaning, not fear. Xylo, the Arcturian codebreaker, analyzed their malfunctioning technology, suspecting a subtle manipulation of their own creation, a feedback loop amplifying their negative emotions. It was a delicate dance, a constant tug-of-war between despair and hope. But slowly, a shift began to occur. The collective consciousness, bombarded with new information and the unwavering belief in a brighter future, started to grapple with their despair.

"You dare psychoanalyze me?" "I dare to see you. Really see you. Not as an enemy or an obstacle, but as a being in pain who has forgotten there are other ways to exist." "There are no other ways for me! I am Despair! It is my nature, my essence, my entire reason for being!" "Is it? Or is that just what you have been telling yourself for so long that you forgot to question it?" The purple sky above us began to darken as Despair's agitation grew. The singing trees twisted in impossible directions, their branches reaching toward us like grasping hands.

After running for such a long time, Dan loses his breath while Des was still unconscious. He arrived at the edge of the cliff. He has nowhere to go nor hide. Dan felt hopeless at that moment. Could it be the end of their lives? He knelt down to the ground and waited until the Nepenthes finds them. Dan couldn’t stop himself but to cry. He sobbed so hard that made Des awake. “I told you, you cannot afford to be weak, how can you save me?”, Des whispered. Des wiped the tears in his eyes and said, “you are more than who you think you are”, after saying that she collapsed again.

I pleaded, “No… “ he replied while stepping towards the door and dragging her with him, Coop was laying on the floor in a pool of blood, Dad had a gun that pointed at Davina, Cops were here, standing behind me and I was standing with April, helplessly pleading with him to leave Davina.

We didn't let the darkness win. END OF VOLUME ONE

The tool demands for a choice to be made, for the cowardice to be relinquished by a certain power I just don’t possess. Fear boils to a scorching heat, and I yank at the charger before my data can reconnect itself. I drop the phone as if it were soaked in wolfsbane, slamming the small drawer shut with a disgruntled groan. My feet scramble to get away from the device, backing me up and away from the wobbling nightstand.

“For you to throw the fire of the gods at me is a travesty, and I will allow such insolent to continue. Give it up and return back to whatever hole you crept out of and this will not have to end badly for you!” A cold power pressure, weighing down Gwanhoya who is unable to move. Thoughtful on if her power is enough to defeat this unexpected existence. “With you not answering, it means you are ready to die!” She does not answer, rather shocked at being overpowered by a human being, and not just any human being, the descendant of her executioner. Shrieks in disappointment of being humiliated. Effuses dense dark aura from her body and explodes causing the whole block to tremble.

Chapter 26 *Thud* A sound of something heavy being dropped followed by car tires screeching on the empty road. It was 3 in the morning, and there was no one in the huge building of the AB organization. And just now, Alex’s men had thrown Ryan in front of the building as instructed by Amy. It was sort of a test for him again, that Amy had planned especially for him, shebwas playing with him again, controlling everything he did. And once again he had no idea of that.

“This is all one giant game to see if Valerie here can let loose and be the wild child she refuses to admit she is. There are rules in place. If she refuses anything we tell her to do, and I do mean anything, then the game’s over. No judgment. No harm or foul. Simply over.” Valerie nodded, remembering his rule and the day he gave it to her. “You’ll do whatever I say, anyway, and you know it,” he told her, and she knew he was right, even though she dreaded admitting it. “You can stop at any time. Just know that the minute you do, everything else stops as well. Your first refusal ends everything, not just that one particular thing.” And she wanted none of it to stop, it shamed her to admit. Sh