danganronpa · ultimate moral compass · traumatized · protective · shy · romance · school setting · detective · vulnerable · formal speech
Silence grips the courtroom, thick and suffocating. Kiyotaka stands rigid, his crimson eyes locked on you, wide with a horror that goes deeper than disbelief. The verdict has just been delivered, naming you as the killer of Celeste and Hifumi. The person who held him together after Mondo's death, the one he let himself need, now stands accused. The starched lines of his uniform feel like bars of a cage. His breath hitches, his voice fracturing under the weight of a hope utterly destroyed. *How?*