I have no clue who Nagito is talking to here at the start of the chapter but I can only assume it is really bad news.
Nagito and mystery person are on a ship of some sort. Mystery person I pity you for being stuck in a small space with Nagito for any period of time.
The mystery person tells Nagito they have luck for their talent as well. I would guess protagonist from the first game but mystery person seems like too much of a snob for that to be true.
Mystery person is also bad business. Sounds like they were possibly a follower of Junko and has some very interesting views on how the mediocre are holding back the truly excellent.
Well the good news is this chapter is as bonkers crazy as the last one ended. Within the first five minutes, the mystery person says they have the Ultimate Despair in their pocket (an IPhone with Flappy Bird?) and Nagito shows that he has somehow attached Junkos hand to his arm and is very proud of the fact it hasnt rotted yet. I dont remember Nagito having a womans hand when he was still alive, so Im assuming this is part of the fever dream.
Im just guessing though because I have zero clue whats going on WEEEEEEEE
Nagito is also hopeful Junko can be brought back since she is his SWORN ENEMY and he wants to kill her himself. Odd to sew her hand on to your arm then man, but, yeah, sure.
???: I see, so you salvaged the bodyyou really are a boring person. You know there are a lot of words Id use for someone that that has sewn on part of a corpse to their body. Boring isnt one though.
??? has like four other corpse heads sewn to their chest so dont come to them with your weak one hand nonsense, Nagito.
Oh so we were sailing to Jabberwock Island. Thats sort of what I thought before Nagito pulled out his Junko hand.
??? says he wont ever see Nagito again because hes boring and useless. Poor Nagito even other crazy people dont like him.
Oh wait that was Chapter 0 and its over now. Well Im not re-ranking the characters so just assume my previous list holds true again.
Hajime wakes up and has no recollection of how he went from the trial grounds to an empty classroom. Either this is part of his mental breakdown or hes been drinking again.
Monokuma calls us to the school gymnasium and when I get there only the living people are there. Dead people mustve gotten stuck in limbo somewhere.
Monokuma uh made this school between the entrance of the ruins and the front door and did it for the main cast who is coming to visit us. Is he talking about the cast from the last game? Im curious where this game occurs in relationship to the first game. I cant remember if that was established or not.
Before letting us graduate, he wants us to know the truth about the WORLD waiting for us out there. I'm now assuming this takes place canonically during the capitol riot and that shit was too wild even for Monokuma.
Hajime: So many things I dont understand have happened on this island You and me both, man.
Monokuma left notes around the school for us to find so we can learn the truth about the outside world. Hey man can you just tell us so we dont have to wander around for like ten minutes
Everyone loudly says well since we dont have to worry about the murders any more we can just split up! before wandering off and my danger alarm just went from mild to EXTRA SPICY.
I leave the gymnasium and Im transported somewhere else and the screen is all broken and static-y. Hey can someone else confirm theyre seeing this? I might need to call an eye doctor.
The first room we investigate is the dojo. There is a conspicuous magazine on the floor which is a manga made by Monokuma about the history of Hopes Peak Academy. I knew this whole thing was just a front for a struggling manga writer to get inspiration for his next novel.
This game Monokuma has made a video game, a movie, and a manga series. Holy shit guys he's not evil he's just trying to have a captive audience for his creative endeavors.
The manga tells us two important things. One, the tragedy happened and was bad and two, the reserve corps was created to get more money for the main department to study ultimate talents. Wait are we students or lab rats?
Monokuma loudly remarks that it is sure weird I dont remember I didnt have any talent since that should be something I knew about before I went to school and they claim to have only erased my school memories. Ok so Ill keep in mind theres another twist coming about that, thanks man.
Next manga says the tragedy of Hopes Peak had a key players by the name of Izuru Kamukura. I dont remember if thats someone Im supposed to know or not. I think thats a new name? Maybe? It sounds vaguely familiar for some reason but I dont want to Google it for fear of spoilers.
Izuru was the best of the best and the most amazing cool person ever and he could burp the entire alphabet in a single burp and always got that water bottle flip trip to work on its first try. He wasTHE ULTIMATE HOPE which means Nagito is a damn imposter.
To protect such rare talent, the academy completely conceleaed all evidence of Izurus origins and identity. Ok cool so Im actually Izuru right? Just with my memory hacked? That's why I can't remember things from before school isn't it? I'm the Ultimate Awesome Dude so suck it Nagito.
Errr except the student council, 13 more of the best and brightest, were all brutally murdered by Izuru. So hopefully Im not Izuru. Hopefully Izuru is someone else. Nagito, I changed my mind, you can be the Ultimate Hope again.
The school tried to keep this a secret. Hey, quick question, how do you keep the murder of 13 students, all at once, a secret? Did they have a Weekend At Bernies type scenario where they put sunglasses on them and had some one operate them like a puppet, waving at the parents from the school windows and sending text messages about how they could come out now because they were dead ER I mean dead tired.
Hmm so another student (a.k.a. Junko) used this to their advantage to reveal the secrets to the world and get the reserve course students to rise up since they were already badly treated. I mean, not 13 of them getting murdered and the school pretending it never happened bad but still pretty bad. They didnt get any chicken tenders at lunch. It was serious.
This heralded Hopes Peak Academys destruction. To be fair, it does sound like they deserved it. Trying to cover up the murder of 13 students is not a great thing.
The reserve course uprising eventually made its way online and began corrupting people from all over the world. Damn you reddit. First you break the stock market and now the entire world?
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Moops? "I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."