Extra: Fiction is not boring after all.

Kokichi Ouma was an extraordinarily boring person.

Kokichi has only one older brother, who had long since moved to Kyoto as part of his internship at the National History Museum. Kokushi is always fascinated by the country's past and explained it to everyone in the best way. When the older brother was at home, Kokushi stood out in all, sports, art, grades, popularity, everything, being honest, Kokichi never cared to be in Kokushi´s shadow. His father is the manager of a medium-sized architecture and international business company. His mother a housewife who had her past as part of a circus in Europe in her youth. A family that stood out a little more than the rest, above average.

And then there was Kokichi Ouma.

Watching Kokichi try to dance or play sports is the equivalent of seeing a chicken with epilepsy trying not to die, a horror insight, or for some else, a great entertainment. His grades were averages, nothing to stand out or regret, in the middle of ranking in imperial capital´s imperial high school. Likewise, he also didn't enjoy his time in school for being the victim of bullying by some random gang with problems in a home gang. Kokichi only shows to the world on his shy and passive side. There is only one thing he liked to do.

Lie

White lies to try to make himself look more attractive to others, a relatively normal and boring life. An internal war between two completely different facets, of staying in the shadows all his life, or trying to create a ladder of lies to make Kokichi noticed. Problems for a random teenager if you think a certain way. After his routine beating by the gang, Kokichi saw that boy again, someone his age who came to pick up his younger sister, always with something from Danganronpa on him. Like many in today's world, that series dominated the minds of several young people and adults, so something lasts so long it must do certain things well.

Kokichi Ouma never understood Danganronpa success.

Kokichi could consider himself a casual follower of Danganronpa, had good things when a case is well built, almost always being between chapters first and fifth, but also has so many flaws. The creatives didn't come out of their parameters such as the double murder in chapter three and the death of the bara in chapter four, always having Junko Enoshima as the final boss, the villain recycled since the first killing game, broken and wasted characters. In contrast, others force their survival, etc.

And Kokichi could go on with how toxic the Danganronpa fandom is, with senseless ship wars. That would be a waste of neurons.

"Hey Kokichi, we plan to see the premiere of—"

"I'm sorry, I'm busy."

Lie, Kokichi had all the afternoon off where he would only watch the same YouTube videos lying in bed, not that he was a scary introvert, well, just a little. Kokichi already knew they would use him to bring food from the store and dump him in some dark corner while he had an anxiety attack. What a boring life.

Lying saved him from his demons. From the world.

Kokichi came home alone after a rain caught him in the middle of the road. His father was at work and will come back very late. At the same time, his mother went on a trip to see Kokushi after his promotion at work, something that had previously been impossible, knowing how overprotective his mother was with him.

Partly he understood why. Kokushi told him when Kokichi was a baby. Some strangers tried to steal him in Romania, all while their parents were careless in a sloppy shop. Kokichi loved his mother, but he had to lie a lot and fake confidence so she wouldn't get a nervous breakdown years ago, could say not even his family didn't Kokichi really was. Not even himself.

Kokichi lay down on his bed to play a game called Mage and Demons, a top-rated online RPG game in Japan where you created your character and explored a vast magical world where you chose your path. He is arguably a bit famous for being the lone player who has the highest level between lone wolfs, offers from guilds to ask him to join had every day, yet he preferred to play alone still. Kokichi squeezed his inbox to see how many offers he had today, discarding all but one.

The Crimson Mage extends you a formal invitation to be part of her guild: The White Owl.

Do you accept the invitation?

Yes/No

Any average person would have accepted a stronger guild offer in the game immediately, more so with Crimson Mage as the master of such a guild. Still, he was not an average person, another internal battle over deciding. Kokichi sighs, leaving the message without answering for another day, choose to kill a boss today, and then time will tell.

The next day there was a state of joy in his school, of course, it's not because they are invaded by the emotion to learn to be a better citizen and solve the homework together, quite the opposite, they spoke today is the casting for the 53rd season of Danganronpa. Basically, all students in this school would participate, like the rest of the high schoolers in this city.

Kokichi drank his orange juice quietly, listening to his class talk about the end of Danganronpa 52. Rantaro Amami survived another killing game after his debut in Danganronpa 51, to Kokichi, Team Danganronpa forced Rantaro´s survival to leave a great legacy on his character, for sure Rantaro would die first in the new season.

There were only thirteen places available out of the sixteen there are, the new face of the series called Rantaro Amami, a teenager who is part of the Danganronpa team, and the robot/cameraman named K1-B0.

"Hey Kokichi, are you going to go to the casting?" one of HIS classmates asks out of nowhere.

"Kokichi in Dangan? No one can take Monokuma away as the mascot of the series."

Of course, I'm sure he dies first in the easiest case in Danganronpa history, even surpassing Maizono's case."

"Come on guys, the fact that Kokichi doesn't want to go to the-"

"Yes, I'm going to go."

Simple words that left his classmates cold, watching a serious Kokichi as he squeezed the empty juice box, measuring his shot into the nearest trash can. He lied automatically, Kokichi manages to get their attention even if it is based on deception, never consider changing his everyday schedule by attending a casting. To keep this attention, He would waste his time on it.

The juice box went into the trash in a perfect shot.

The convention center is bursting with fanboy teens of Danganronpa, waiting impatiently in the long lines to get a form and then enter the interview, lines minimum would last about three hours in the row as the queue started two blocks outside the building. All the excitement of the world for having the minimum possibility of entering the number one series in the world.

After several hours of standing and waiting for the pain to move a couple of meters, Kokichi and his acquaintances arrived at the application tables. Kokichi took a form and just went to a place with fewer people. He wanted there to be a time difference between him and his acquaintances to be more comfortable, for sure they forget his mere existence in a couple of minutes. It's a pretty basic form, name, age, date of birth, high school where you are or studied, contact email, an ultimate title used in the game, since you see Danganronpa, you have a murder plan, you prefer a specific method for your death.

Yes or no questions, which would then be explained in the interview. What shit, this made ideas easier for creatives, it's connecting the talents and murders that best suit a possible plot, rightly the series was always disgusted at the level of narrative logic. Kokichi took out his portable console to play Mage and Demons online. He was in no hurry to answer something so basic.

"Come on, Himiko. It wouldn't hurt to apply, right?"

By sheer instinct, Kokichi looks beside him, seeing a girl a little lower than him with a videogame console, her older sister looked like encouraging her to participate in the casting. For this girl uniform, it is from a private high school for girls, dream forest high school, what a more childish name for a school.

'DICE wins! Do you want to raise any skill points?'

Shit, he forgot to turn down the volume of the game console, it attracted the unnecessary attention of some people around.

"Why don't you accept my invitation to join?"

Kokichi almost had a heart attack from seeing a feminine face near him, end up falling off on his ass on the cold floor, and made some people laugh. What is the deal of this girl?

"I-I-I am sorry? W-What are you talking a-about?" Kokichi tried to ask by keeping his shyness from making a fool of himself. Again

"Sorry, I'm still in surprise to meet the human behind the famous DICE" the girl sat on the floor next to him with her pink game console in hand "I am—"

"Himiko" shit, shouldn't say that "I-I- am sorry, I-listen to your sister to call you by your name"

"Ok..." said the girl named Himiko in case it needed to be clarified "I'll let that go just because I'm really interested in joining the owl."

To join the owl. Wait a minute.

"I am Crimson Mage" Himiko show him her console with the avatar information. Kokichi had no choice but to believe it "now that I found you in the real world, I'm not going to leave you alone until you give me an explanation."

Kokichi didn't have it.

"Because I don't decide to accept or not, I like being a solo player, plus I also have a proposal of—"

"You're a liar," Himiko interrupted Kokichi dry.

"What?"

"One of my younger sisters was like you when she was little, she stutters when tells the truth, and out of nowhere she takes confidence to lie to me, experience tells me you are similar."

For the first time in a long time, Kokichi had been caught, discovered in his game of lies. And it felt good.

"Kokichi Ouma, known in Mage and Demons as DICE, a pleasure to meet you," Kokichi extend his with a small smile.

"Himiko Yumeno, known as White Owl master in Mage in Demos, The Crimson Mage, the pleasure is all mine," they gave each other a typical handshake. Still, Himiko had to endure her annoying sisters teasing her because she is talking to a boy. Kokichi blushes a little bit for this.

They talked to each other a little of their experiences in the game, giving each other advice on different levels and level up, a friendly conversation between two strangers. Now, about Danganronpa.

Himiko told him she never saw a single chapter of the series in her life, that it was her mother who asked her to go with her sisters to the auditions, she doesn't even know why she agreed to come here in the first place. Now she will enter because she had nothing better than do, so her remote possibilities to enter. Himiko wanted to be a mage in Danganronpa, not the magicians who do their tricks for kids, but the mage in the game. To be remembered and don't be forgotten, being something before you die.

While Himiko played her turn in a single game between them, Kokichi looked at his registration sheet, in a way she had given him an idea, a simple experiment to have fun for a while, letting one of his sides take over, just for this occasion.

How long have you been watching Danganronpa? It doesn't apply to me.

Do you have a plan for murder? No.

Do you have a preference for your own murder? No.

At least Kokichi positively answered a specific question.

Do you have a Super High School Level title for yourself?" Yes.

And it was his turn for the interview.

"Kokichi Ouma" Kokichi sat in the middle of a dark room, with an intense light illuminating his body in addition to that large camera pointing at his face, he only managed to distinguish three shadows in front of him, ready to interrogate and destroy him.

"Here," Kokichi responds icily.

"You're currently a high school student, correct?" the shadow on the left asks, with an obvious voice modulator.

"Yup"

"In your application form, it says you haven't seen a single episode of Danganronpa..." Kokichi could hear the guy's pencil banging on the right, "why are you auditioning, then?"

Kokichi just raised his shoulders "because I'm bored."

"Because you are bored?"

"Yup," there was silence for a couple of seconds until he heard papers being moved.

"What would you like your Super High School Level title to be?" finally asked the shadow in the middle.

Kokichi looked up at the ceiling, playing with his fingers as he thought "a supreme leader," he replied after a small moment of pondering him.

"Like some president?"

"No," Kokichi said, denying with his finger, "a supreme leader is more interesting than a prime minister or president for sure."

"A president is forced to be good and tell the truth," Kokichi began to explain, "a supreme leader is the opposite, hidden in lies and playing with others about his true purpose, is someone evil."

"So, it's your purpose to come here to clear that up?"

"Of course not, if I get into this stupid program, I'll look to do something new. Someone covered in the shadow of lies, I am looking to make your boring killing game more interesting for everyone, hiding my emotions from others but also have fun. Being the definition of evil and mysteries."

"Why would you say it's so important?" asked the shadow of the middle again with interest asked again, not anyone came all this way to insult the Danganronpa.

"...Be not boring, is to leave your mark on everyone else despite your death, that's what a killing game is all about."

Another minute of silence, where he could hear the shadows speaking each other outside the microphones as they moved their papers, then nodding between them. "That would be every Mr. Ouma," said the shadow on the right "will hear from us in two weeks."

"Ok," Kokichi got up to leave the room, stopping at the entrance "by the way, some things were lies; it's up to you to discover the truth."

Kokichi Ouma finish the rest of the day tired, making such an effort to denote confidence was a lot for him, at least it was different, an experience could count on pure truth for the first time. When the mail of the Danganronpa team arrived two weeks later in his e-mail account, Kokichi never opened it. For sure, it is a rejection letter for stupid reasons he will not understand. It is not he was interested. Kokichi put on his earphones and started a mission in Mage and Demons, following the orders of guild master and first friend in a long time.

To shock everyone in the community, the solitary DICE finally joins a guild, becoming the right-hand of The Crimson Mage.

If only when he was kidnapped in the middle of the street generated more commotion. A typical day went to a nightmare when men in suits force him against his will to enter a car, being ignored by everyone else, understanding how this world is rotten, and deserved to burn it down. They all lived in their lies. The next thing Kokichi remembers, he came out of a locker in some weird classroom, even with his school uniform on, wondering what the hell he was doing here. He couldn't also ponder it when someone else came out of the locker, a little red-haired girl he knew recently, Himiko Yumeno.

She started getting hysterical, trying to find the men who kidnapped her, trying to understand what she was doing here. Kokichi had to hold her shoulders to calm her down her. Panicking won't do any good. For fear of the unknown, Himiko hugged Kokichi without caring about anything, she barely knew him in person, but it's the only thing Himiko knows now, had to find support, and he is here. Despite the shock of being hugged by a girl other than his mother, Kokichi calms her by hugging her back. After discussing their options, she once calmed down, they chose to go out the door and seek help or a way out, they saw something that defied all logic.

A giant robot and that thing had found them.

"Students-localized," said a robotic voice, "please-come-with me."

"This is bad, we must run," Himiko said completely frightened, Kokichi couldn't argue more.

"Come!" Kokichi took Himiko's hand, starting to run at full speed down the aisles of this place; this must have been a bad dream. It was until they reached a large red door, they hoped to find the escape of this nightmare. However, they would take the second surprise in a short time, more students from other schools gathered in a kind of post-apocalyptic gymnasium.

"Don't worry Himiko, I'm here," Kokichi whispered as they walked toward the other students.

"Oh! Are you a couple?" asked a brunette girl with albino hair. They both blushed and parted a little, denying with their heads, a pity. Kokichi enjoys holding her hand.

"That doesn't matter, we need to know where we are," said a boy who used a black mouth cover, in which another pair of students arrive, running away from robots. It was until they saw someone very much like Rantaro Amami come Kokichi got an idea of what was going on. It all was confirmed when Monokuma arrived on stage after his supposed kids.

They had been selected for Danganronpa 53 or called V3. All had even given them their outfits for their respective characters.

While most celebrated being accepted, even that boy Kokichi knew from the school entrance managed to enter as the ultimate detective, eagerly awaiting brainwashing, to begin with, the story. Himiko approached him. She looked so cute in her magician's clothes.

"You don't look bad in that crazy outfit," Himiko giggled in a friendly way.

"Same opinion here, loli version of a magical girl," Kokichi replied with a playful smile.

"Let the best win this game that neither of us expected to play" Himiko accepted the high five with a slight blush. They had nothing to lose now, enjoy and see the result when it's all over. Hopefully, their characters get along with each other.

Never mattered Himiko won, and Kokichi died in chapter five, left his mark as he wanted, made him play the minds of his classmates and audience as he wished to. Second place in the popularity ranking behind Shuichi Saihara, a little above Himiko who finishes fifth.

After the therapy Team Danganronpa makes participants take to avoid traumatic consequences of stress and death, Kokichi looked at the cloudy sky with a glass of water. Meeting the real human beings behind the characters is what more exciting than therapy. None expected him to be an introvert behind a character as energetic as the ultimate supreme leader.

"Are you still thinking about your legacy?" someone asked from behind, Kokichi doesn't need to turn around to know it is Himiko, who recharged on the glass to see the sky.

"No, I was thinking about how different our characters are to reality."

"I know, I never thought people as good as Kaede and Tenko were such bitches, Shuichi is a crazy fanatic, only Kirumi and Miu are alike with their Danganronpa version."

"Hey, Himiko, I want to ask you two things," Kokichi said, "first, do you think all of this was worth it for you?"

Himiko looked at him for a few seconds before looking back at the sky. "Maybe, my sisters would envy me for entering Danganronpa and winning, although they expected me to die first to receive more attention. At school, I probably will go from being an ordinary person to a goddess, when the only two things I share with my character are laziness and love of true magic," Himiko smiles.

"And although our characters didn't get along except for the scene at the end of the class trial three were in your character, you gave me a push to stay in the game. I got to meet an ally at Mage and Demons, and a friend in the rea world."

Kokichi pondered the answer for himself. His character is already cult in fandom, making theories about his lies and his true nature, removing the adult art that disturbed him a little. Perhaps his life will improve for the better for once. Combining the character and the human being is a strategy he will use.

"And the second question?"

"Eh?"

Himiko giggles, "You said you had two questions for me. Ask me the other one, silly."

Kokichi looked at her totally lost, trying to remember what that question is. Once suddenly, he blushed, he remembers so nervous the boy looks away.

"Once we finally can leave the therapy, you are free on Tuesday afternoon to go for something to eat? And then we can go play video games in my house...wait, forget that, it's a lie- " a warm feeling in his hand stopped him from talking. Seeing Himiko smiling and with pink cheeks is a beauty to the eyes.

"On Tuesday I go with my sisters to see my grandfather, but I know a cinema with good promotions on Friday night, and they release a movie I want to see. Nyeh, even if it's a pain, I'll give you the privilege to use my mana in you," Himiko replied, saying the last part by mimicking her Danganronpa version.

"Nishishi, that sounds not boring at all, as I plan from the beginning, of course, I'm lying" both laughed when you played their characters, definitely Kokichi´s confession in his book given to Kaito to Himiko is a part they always remember.

"A toast to Danganronpa. Thank you for existing"

Kokichi Ouma is no longer a boring person.

Much less with a girlfriend as cute as Himiko Yumeno.

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A/N: Thanks for reading my Oumeno week work :)

P.D: This fic was inspired by a work I love about pregame Himiko called Extraordinarily Ordinary by kisikil. Please read it and follow the writer