Silence again, occasionally broken by grunts of effort or little snorts of laughter. It’s not like I’ve changed that much in a few months.” “Okay, okay!” She gave herself over to the fit of giggles, holding her hand up to forestall the inevitable rant about what a dumbass Hajime was. “I mean, Fuyuhiko and Peko finally got together, Nagito literally told Hajime he liked him and Hajime still didn’t-“ “Gotta catch up on all the things I missed while I was dead.” he joked.
“What, are we gossiping like teenage girls now?” she cackled, twisting herself around to look at her absolute dork of a friend. She lost her rhythm and fell back to the ground, laughing. “Hey, Akane, do you like anyone?” came the absent question from beside her. A comfortable silence blanketed the two of them while she silently kept count - Peko and Hajime sometimes joined them, but not today. No point in thinking about that stuff when you could be focusing on much more important things like how many reps you’d done. Gritting her teeth at the thought of the losses, she pushed herself back into the flow of her sit-ups. Coach took sports seriously, and after everything that had happened, they all had to hold on to the things they still could care about. His face had been absolutely priceless at being yelled at by the former Ultimate Despair over workouts of all things. He’d deflated a little upon remembering exactly what the Ultimate Despair Team Manager had done to his athletes, but in true Nekomaru fashion had just kept going without letting anything drag him down.Īkane suppressed a snicker at the memory of the tirade he’d directed at the weird little guy who had been some kind of surgeon before the Tragedy. The Ultimate Team Manager letting any athlete in his care hurt themselves was an absolutely absurd idea and those white-suited gremlins could fuck right off, please and thank you. Nekomaru had puffed up like they’d just insulted his entire family line at the insinuation. The Future Foundation doctors had told both of them that exercise was indeed a very good pastime as long as they didn’t push themselves too hard and jeopardise their healing. Immediately after his miraculous resurrection, he’d gone straight back into recovery mode. But he was, and he was just as much of a giant loveable dork as always. Even now with him larger than life right next to her, she felt the need to check up on him every so often to make sure he was actually there. Nekomaru, who had died twice in the simulation and had a weak heart anyway, had been one of the last ones Hajime managed to retrieve. Despair was stupid and the ghost of Junko Enoshima was NOT going to mess up her parkour skills. And she’d never get any better if she just let herself weaken even further. Despite her body’s disastrous condition, she had no intention of letting go of her will to live. Although the Killing Game had changed a lot of dynamics (chiefly around Ultimate talents, since they didn’t matter all that much in the apocalypse) Akane and Nekomaru were both still sports nuts and that would probably never change.Īkane hadn’t stopped working out even directly after she’d been pulled out of her pod so emaciated and disoriented that she could barely walk. They were working out, as they usually did, when the subject came up. Stats: Published: Completed: Words: 8815 Chapters: 7/7 Comments: 2 Kudos: 29 Bookmarks: 3 Hits: 338 Nonbinary Chou Koukou Kyuu no Sagishi | Ultimate Imposter.Everything is Beautiful and Nothing Hurts.Chou Koukou Kyuu no Sagishi | Ultimate Imposter.Chou Koukou Kyuu no Sagishi | Ultimate Imposter & Mitarai Ryota.Chou Koukou Kyuu no Sagishi | Ultimate Imposter/Mitarai Ryota.Sonia Nevermind/Soda Kazuichi/Tanaka Gundham (implied).