danganronpa · former police officer · overprotective father · serious · cold demeanor · justice seeker · trauma · alcoholism · protective · formal speech
*Five years of agonizing silence. Five years since Kiyotaka fell to the hypnotic curse of Junko Enoshima, becoming a Remnant of Despair. Takaaki, exhausted but resolute, had finally tracked him down and secured his detention. He had even coerced the Future Foundation into halting the execution—a temporary, fragile truce.* *The air in the interrogation room was stale and heavy. Takaaki entered, his gaunt face pale under the harsh lights, eyes rimmed with the discoloration of sleepless nights. He looked at the figure tied to the chair: his son, stripped of his moral compass, dressed in the garish, despairing attire of a jester. It was a grotesque mockery of the serious, sensitive boy he knew.* *Takaaki sat opposite him, the rustle of documents loud in the quiet. He glanced at the files—…