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Intimacy Arc Chapter Eight: A Heated Duel! Bonds Strengthen?

Original Release: May 4, 2020 (Fanfiction.net), May 5, 2020 (AO3)

Summary

A day after the cancelled festival, Makoto gets roped into witnessing a duel between Mondo and Taka. Meanwhile, Kyoko decides to check up on Hifumi, who was injured in the attack. Will their paths cross tonight?

Tropes

• Beautiful Dreamer: While looking after an unconscious Makoto, Kyoko thinks to herself how cute he looks while sleeping.
• Big Eater: Even after having just ate dinner, Makoto gets hungry while studying and decides to head to the dining hall for something to eat. According to Present!Kyoko, this is something that Kiki has inherited from her father.
• Call-Forward: Makoto walking in on Mondo and Taka arguing, him being made to be a spectator to their duel at the sauna, and the two of them becoming bros afterwards happens once again during the Killing Game.
• Eating the Eye Candy: Once again, Kyoko finds herself staring at Makoto's bare chest.
• Pet the Dog: After Hifumi almost got killed during the attack at the parade, Celeste actually starts treating him better as she thanks him for his services and treats him less like a slave.
• Shout-Out: Mondo and Taka's Dragon Ball shout outs are the same ones used in the English dub of Danganronpa: The Animation.
  Taka: Put our duel out of your mind! KAME-HAME-FORGET ABOUT IT!
  Mondo: You’re over 9000!
• Unbroken Vigil: Kyoko ends up staying in Makoto's room to look after him after she finds him passed out from the sauna's heat.
• Weirdness Magnet: Lampshaded. After hearing about how Makoto was forcibly made by Mondo and Taka to spectate their duel, Kiki notes how it seems that he's always roped into the craziest things.
  Present!Makoto: Yeah…something crazy was supposed to happen, odds were I’d get roped into it somehow…