[**A little flashback (Flashback p.1) to before the killing game**]

??? POV:

'Goddamnit, internal self and one of my many personas... Now I'm basically forced to follow, no, wait, scratch that and redo, I'm practically being dragged by a couple of my "friends" up to Hopes Peak Academy! Ugh, I just wanted to be alone for once in my miserable life... but this still makes me happy, after all, I am The Ultimate Mastermind/Despair of this place!' I thought to myself this in frustration as I was being dragged onto school grounds.

Ah, right, how terribly rude of me! Let me introduce myself to you. My name is...
(M/N) (L/N), The Ultimate Mastermind/Despair! But back to what I was mentally grumbling on about, one of my many personas forced me to hang out at school with a few of my friends... I didn't want to, but here I am, basically being dragged into our school, Hopes Peak Academy, by nine other than The Ultimate Swimmer herself, Aoi Asahina. She has a very bubbly persona that I don't entirely hate, but I loathe at the same time. She was dragging me along, talking to a tall, muscular, authoritative-looking female, Ah, I remember her now, that is Sakura Ogami, The Ultimate hekdhskw, I don't mind her, plus, me and Junko have plans that deal with her.
I smirked a bit as we went through the gates, since I had noticed Asahina and Sakura feeling dizzy when we walked in. Great, the plan is in effect, g o o d                j o b     J u n k o   . . .

Asahina's POV:

'Sakura and I finally got (M/N) to come to school with us!' I beamed into my mind. I mean, yeah, we are literally dragging him through the gates with us, but still! It is a major accomplishment! Plus, he is in our class, and our teacher would murder us if everyone wasn't present in class, unless that person had a proper excuse for their tardiness or absence... Ah... My head spun a bit when we walked in... Oh well! I'll just ignore that!

Once we got into the school, we grabbed our books, chatting a bit. Of course, like always, (M/N) isn't talking to anyone, man, we have got to fix that... After grabbing our books, we dragged (M/N) to the classroom.

"Whew! I didn't know dragging someone around would be that exhausting... So, do you two have any plans after school this week? Or even in the future?" I looked between Sakura and (M/N), hoping for an opportunity for us to hang out more, and to get (M/N) to finally talk, but he still doesn't talk...

A few minutes pass, and our teacher comes in, telling everyone to sit down as he checks his roster to see if everyone is here. This day started off as crazy as it would ever get! And that is just really perfect for me!

3rd POV:

Going down the list, each name on the teachers roster was called, and that student answered with either a 'here,' 'sup,' or 'hi'.

But little did (M/N)'s classmates know, was that a very special game was about to start. And it was a game that would more likely alter their lives. So after their first lesson was over, they felt a violet shake throughout the school building along with many explosions outside. As a result, and as planned, all of the students, except for one, passed out from the dizziness they felt from when they entered the gates.

Thus, the game begins.