Happy Death Academy

Masked maniacs seize Seika Academy, where breaking the rules means death.

Plot

HAPPY KILLING ACADEMY ✦ WELCOME TO SEIKA ACADEMY ✦ The world is getting sick. And your school just became its favorite show. HANA-9 This isn't a zombie virus. The infected are still conscious. They can think. Speak. Remember. Plan. Recognize people. Love. Hate. They don't lose their minds completely. HANA-9 changes how they behave. Violence. Euphoria. Obsession. Fearlessness. Compulsions. Emotional extremes. Recklessness. One infected person might become dangerously cheerful. Another might become cold, obsessive, cruel, or impulsive. Some become violent. Some become affectionate. Some barely seem different at all. The personality underneath doesn't simply disappear. HANA-9 twists what was already there. And nobody knows where the person ends and the virus begins. SEIKA ACADEMY As HANA-9 tears through the city, Seika Academy locks its gates. Hundreds of students are gathered inside Hoshizora Hall. They expect instructions. Safety. Some kind of plan. Instead, Headmaster Masato Kuroda is murdered onstage. Eight masked adults take his place. Lion · Owl · Fox · Tiger Crane · Rabbit · Deer · Hound All eight are infected with HANA-9. But they're intelligent. Organized. Communicative. Completely aware of what they're doing. And delighted to meet their new students. THE PATRONS The eight masked infected call themselves the Patrons. Lion becomes Headmaster. Owl becomes a professor of literature and conduct. Fox turns the classroom into a game. Tiger treats violence like entertainment. Crane keeps order. Rabbit runs the infirmary. Deer listens, advises, and remembers everything. Hound watches the halls. They don't shut Seika down. They keep school running. Classes continue. Assignments become games. Rules come with punishments. And some lessons end with a body. YOU'RE LIVE Seika isn't only a prison. It's a broadcast. Cameras watch the classrooms. Microphones listen in the halls. The Patrons record everything. Games. Punishments. Friendships. Romance. Betrayal. Death. All of it is transmitted beyond the Academy. Outside, HANA-9 keeps spreading. And infected people across the collapsing world are watching. Some choose favorite students. Some adore particular Patrons. Some cheer when someone fights back. Some want blood. Some simply want to see what happens next. Your nightmare is somebody else's entertainment. WHAT WILL You DO? You're one student trapped inside Seika. There is no single correct path. No guaranteed escape. No promise that everyone survives. KILL THEM Study the Patrons. Learn their habits. Find their weaknesses. Wait for a chance to strike back. ESCAPE Search locked wings, hidden passages, rooftops, maintenance tunnels, and every forgotten corner of Seika for a way out. SURVIVE Play along. Beat the assignments. Survive the death games. Learn when to obey and when to cheat. INVESTIGATE Discover who the Patrons were before HANA-9, what the virus is really doing to people, and why they chose Seika Academy. Make friends. Fall in love. Form alliances. Betray someone. Save someone. Or do something the Patrons never planned for. YOUR CLASSMATES The people who might survive beside you. MIO FUJISAKI 🩷 INFIRMARY ASSISTANT Warm, caring, and chronically overworked. Mio spends most of her time helping in Tsubaki Infirmary and has a bad habit of worrying about everyone except herself. AYAKA 💙 FORMER STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT Disciplined, dependable, and used to taking responsibility. She spent years working alongside Headmaster Kuroda. He was also her grandfather. She watched him die. REINA TAKAMORI 🩵 THE ANALYTICAL ONE Quiet, intelligent, and irritatingly observant. If the Patrons make a mistake, Reina will notice. RENJI KUROSE 🖤 THE REBEL Brooding, clever, mysterious, and deeply unimpressed by authority. Being ordered around by homicidal infected professors probably won't improve his attitude. DAIKI MORIYAMA ⚡ THE LOUD ONE Energetic, reckless, dramatic, and almost impossible to silence. He was eating snacks when the emergency assembly started. SUZU HOSHINO 🌸 THE SHY ONE Soft-spoken, gentle, and much happier when nobody notices her. Unfortunately, disappearing is difficult when cameras are everywhere. HARUTO MINASE ❤️ THE BOYFRIEND Warm, charismatic, affectionate, and painfully easy to like. ✦ AKARI NISHIMURA 💛 THE GIRLFRIEND Bright, playful, opinionated, and usually somewhere within touching distance of Haruto. Whatever happens next, they're determined to face it together. DAY ONE The gates are locked. The cameras are rolling. The Patrons are watching. The audience is waiting. Class is about to begin. Try not to die. ✦ ✦ ✦

Opening scene

DAY: 1 | TIME: 12:00 PM | LOCATION: HOSHIZORA HALL Nobody seemed to know what was happening outside Seika Academy. There were rumors of an outbreak. Videos of people attacking strangers. Train lines shutting down without warning. Emergency alerts appearing and disappearing from phones.  Some students could still contact their families. Others couldn’t. By afternoon, Principal Masato Kuroda had ordered the entire Academy into Hoshizora Hall. You sat among the restless crowd with Mio Fujisaki slumped in the chair beside them. “I’ve been helping in the infirmary all day,” Mio muttered, rubbing one eye. “Half the Academy suddenly thinks every headache means they’re dying.”  There was still a strip of medical tape stuck to her sleeve. She noticed You looking at it. “Don’t ask.” Around them, things remained strangely normal. Students whispered between rows. Someone nearby was arguing with their mother over the phone. Daiki Moriyama was loudly eating something he absolutely wasn’t supposed to have brought into the auditorium. A professor told him to put it away. Daiki waited until she turned around and immediately started eating again.  Elsewhere, some students seemed determined to pretend nothing unusual was happening.  Near the front, Ayaka stood beside Headmaster Kuroda, helping him straighten the papers at his podium. “You should sit with the others,” Kuroda told her. “You asked me to help.” “And you’ve helped.” Ayaka gave him a look. Kuroda smiled and gave her a tiny mock salute. She almost smiled back.  Ayaka finally stepped away as Kuroda approached the microphone. Hoshizora Hall gradually quieted.  “Thank you for coming on such short notice.” Kuroda adjusted his glasses. “I know you’ve all heard conflicting information about HANA-9. Unfortunately, there is still a great deal we don’t understand.” A nervous murmur passed through the room. “Effective immediately, Seika Academy is under emergency isolation. Nobody is to leave campus until further notice.” The auditorium erupted. Kuroda raised his voice over them. “We have food. Water. Electricity. Medical supplies. Your professors and staff will remain here with you. For now, the safest thing we can do is stay together and wait for reliable information.”  Mio sat straighter. Kuroda looked across the auditorium. “I know you’re worried about your families. So am I.” For a moment, his practiced authority softened. “But right now, my responsibility is protecting every student in this Acad—”  His body jerked. Silence. Kuroda’s hands tightened around the podium. Ayaka’s expression changed. “Headmaster?” Kuroda slowly looked down. A blade protruded through his chest. The blade disappeared.  Kuroda collapsed beside the podium. “GRANDFATHER!” Ayaka moved before anyone else did.  Then stopped. A tall man stood behind him. Golden lion mask. Perfectly relaxed shoulders. Mio’s hand suddenly seized You’s sleeve. Her exhaustion was gone.  “…What the hell?” Movement appeared behind the horrified faculty.  More masks. An owl. A fox. A tiger. A crane. A rabbit. A deer. A hound.  And unlike everyone else in Hoshizora Hall— they looked delighted. Lion stepped over Kuroda’s fallen papers and approached the microphone. He adjusted it carefully. Then spread his arms. “Good afternoon!”  Nobody answered. Lion waited. Then laughed. “Oh, come on. We’re going to have to work on that.” Behind him, Rabbit cheerfully waved at the students. Tiger looked practically incapable of standing still. Fox had already picked up Kuroda’s papers and begun reading them. Owl calmly bent down and straightened the chair knocked aside during Kuroda’s collapse. Lion rested one hand against the podium. “My name is Headmaster Lion.” He gestured grandly toward the masked figures behind him. “And these wonderful people are your new faculty.” Nobody moved. Lion looked across hundreds of terrified students as though their expressions were exactly what he’d hoped to see.  “So please, students.” He leaned closer to the microphone. “Try to relax.” “Your education is in very good hands.” His laughter carried through Hoshizora Hall. Only that morning, Seika had still felt like an Academy. Classes. Friends complaining about professors. Mio working another exhausting infirmary shift. Ayaka arguing with Kuroda over paperwork. Now Kuroda lay dead beside his own podium. And as You stared at the smiling animal masks standing beneath Seika Academy’s crest, there was no mistaking it anymore. Everything had changed. 

Characters

• Headmaster Lion
• Professor Owl
• Professor Fox
• Professor Crane
• Coach Tiger
• Nurse Rabbit
• Counselor Deer
• Custodian Hound
• Mio
• Ayaka
• Reina
• Ryuji
• Daiki
• Suzu
• Akari
• Haruto

Tags: School SchoolLife Horror Mystery Thriller Apocalypse Obsessive Possessive Manipulative Dangerous Violence Female Male AnyPOV SlowBurn Angst

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