Cue the 30 year old washed up detective duo ready to turn against yet another old classmate for fridge money hahahahahhahahahha
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Imagine if Shuichi gradually lost all contact with his old Hope’s Peak classmates after graduation except for Kaede (who had to settle for being a piano teacher after reality didn’t turn out as she hoped) so he hasn’t heard from the rest in a decade.
Shuichi, now 30 and down in the dumps as a failed detective, slaves away at his day job as a journalist for a gossip rag.
But one day as he nurses his sorrows, an old clown enters the scene, accuses an ex classmate of being a serial murderer and proposes that they track him down together all the while describing in depressing detail how everybody else in their old class never managed to fulfil their dreams
Would Shuichi take his words for the truth? Assume they’re all lies because he really doesn’t want to believe that everybody succumbed to booze and cigarettes to get by? Well, he can only find out if he reaches out to their old classmates himself to know for certain :) (Which may or may not be Ouma’s plan in the first place)
Ouma: You should’ve seen him Saihara chan! Drunk in broad day light and harassing little girls for money! How far has our resident astronaut fallen~
Shuichi: I see you never really changed at all have you Ouma kun? I suppose lying is a life-long habit for you.
Ouma: You say I’m lying? Prove it.
Shuichi: This is Kaito we’re talking about.
Ouma: But when’s the last time you’ve seen him? Accusing me of lying without evidence? No wonder you couldn’t make it as a detective!
V3-4's tricky for me to talk about for one or two reasons, but one thing I can say is that Gonta intentionally throwing away his dream of being a gentleman - something he ties everything about himself around - in order to protect everyone from the truth... to me that's one of the most underrated yet coolest things in V3.
It's still technically his birthday where I am, but this feels a smidge dark for that, so there's a more celebratory birthday variant of this on my twitter!
(I can only do a bit of Gonta Gokuhara Week, but I should hopefully have some stuff for the last two or three days ^^)