Danganronpa RESTART: Resurrecting Despair [Switched Killing Game AU]

A Stalemate Between Hope and Despair

Hajime Hinata stared dumbfounded.

Currently he was... Nowhere. Perhaps the Neo World Program had officially glitched out. His guess was that since both the teacher and student observer were dead in-game, this meant that Makoto wasn't right in his predictions.

It should have been over. The Future Foundation... Chiaki... They all promised  it was now over. That they could create their own future and live happily together. They were promised a future. He had listened to Chiaki, trusted her, surely she didn't lie to him? She couldn't have, she was an AI.

But that was a lie.

The Chiaki he spoke to then seemed different. Still the same, yes, but very different too. It was the same Chiaki who sat next to him and played video games beneath the water fountain. She had known he was a lowly Reserve Course Student, but that didn't stop her. She still tried to visit him, assuring him that talent wasn't something worth obsessing over.

But the Future Foundation can't have lied. They had gone through the same pain, but for them, the deceased never came back. Makoto Naegi... Super High School Level Hope... Did he lie too? 

Hajime longed for an answer as he stood there in a stalemate between Hope and Despair. 

This is not the ending you seek. You want something more out of this. This isn't what we desire Hajime. You can't deny that. 

He didn't want to listen to the voice, he really didn't. He wanted to shut him away, not succumbing to the personality of the abomination he had agreed to.

 
If you start all over, maybe she'll be alive again. She wasn't boring at all. Things could be more interesting if we started all over again.

 
Maybe... Maybe this was the Hope he needed. Perhaps changing his fate could bring her back to life, but if things had it's repercussions, heavy Despair would follow if he wished to see her again. 

But surely it would be okay? Him, the Super High School Level Hope, along with Chiaki Nanami, the Super High School Level Gamer and the symbolism of Hope could surely pull through along with all the friends he had made from the Killing School Trip.

Alright, I agree.

Things would not be the same.

The decision he agreed to could bring more Despair than Hope.

It could bring more Hope than Despair.

Hope is unpredictable. 

Welcome back, Ryota Mitarai.

But Despair was more formidable.

And as they all say...

Be careful what you wish for.

For here begins a timeline which started out as a glimmer of Hope from a boy who had everything. It ends in utter Despair for the boy who lost everything.