Title: No Simple Way to Say It
Fandom: Dangan Ronpa
Rating: PG
Characters: Junko and Mukuro, Gen
Warnings: Spoilers for Dangan Ronpa, unhealthy relationships
Length: 200 words
Prompt: School
Author notes: I decided to try one of the more unusual fan_flashworks challenges for this one, and wrote this using the Up-Goer Five text editor, which restricts me to only the thousand (or 'ten hundred') most commonly-used words in the English language. Therefore the narration in this is a little... stilted, to say the least.
Summary: Two sisters go to high school together. They also decide to make a new world together. One is very happy about this. The other doesn't know what to feel. What do you do once you've gotten your (sister's) heart's wish?

(Alternately: In the aftermath of Despair, Junko and Mukuro have a talk.)



"Look," she said. "I love you. I will never not love you. You can't change that."

"You hate me," her sister replied. "I know you do."

"I only hate you because I love you so much." She laughed. "Isn't it beautiful? You are nothing, but I stay with you anyway. You are no better than an animal, and yet I let you live. I feel sick every time I look at you. That's what family means."

Her sister said nothing. For a long time, they were both silent. The school was still and calm. Nothing moved. The dead bodies never had anything much to say. The sister never did either.

Finally, the girl got up and left the room.

Her sister knew that she should feel something about all this. The death, the fear, the bodies on the floor. The end of the world was here. This was what they had worked for. Should she be happy or sad?

All she felt was cold and empty. It was like there was a space where her heart had been and all her thoughts had fallen right out of it. She wondered if this was what death felt like.

She hoped not.