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Sixth Reel: Trust [Video]

Answer me something, won't you?

[Grell appears, wearing a red leather jacket and black mini-dress while walking out on the streets of Nova City.]

Why do new arrivals feel the urgent need to tell their life story to a bunch of strangers? Even in the previous world, most make this mistake!

[She shakes her head with a bit of an eye roll.]

Yes, I can understand that you're looking for those familiar to you, but isn't your face and voice enough? Honestly, most of you lot are far too trusting in an unfamiliar world, along with not being very good at ambiguity!

So, enlighten me, hmm?

[The feed ends, but not before some people try to get their five seconds of fame behind her.]

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Probably a need to feel connected to others in a world they're disconnected from. Hope in others and a feeling of closeness.

Though, some of them might be doing it so they can lie, so you think you know them but you don't. There are probably people like that.

Personally I can't imagine telling some random person everything about me. But, at the same time there's plenty of things I don't mind talking about if they come up.

They may run into someone they shouldn't trust.

[Isn't that how so many other people got killed not long ago?]

Oh? What sort of things are you willing to share with strangers? I wonder if it would apply to others.

Well, I guess they just have to find out if they're lucky or not in that regard.

[Though, wasn't believing in someone worth more than suspecting them from the start?]

It depends on the conversation topic and the other person. I suppose topics like, where I was before here, and my own personal talent are things I don't have a reason to hide.

Those are the best lessons~!

[Not at all.]

I can agree with the first, but not the second. Hiding a bit of your talents could go a long way.

I suppose.

[He would always believe in the potential of Hope.]

Maybe, if your talent was something that could be exploited or gave you an advantage in some way. I have a completely unworthy talent though, it's not anything someone could use for anything. I'm just trash so there's no reason to be guarded about that sort of thing.

Trash, hmm? I've not heard someone talk so low of themselves before.

It might be because they're worth something, or they might just be under the impression they're worth something. I however know exactly where I stand.

[EYEBROW RAISE.]

...a bold statement. So where exactly do you stand, hmm?

As someone who doesn't have a worthy enough talent I could never consider myself worth anything. I'm not part of the elite.

However, even though I'm trash and my talent is trash I still have a talent, so it's not like I'm an average nobody with no defining traits. I have no impression that I'm anything more than what I am. So I suppose if we consider those with talent as those who are indeed worth something, and those who are foolishly under the impression they are worth something despite being nothing more than mob characters... I'm somewhere in the middle.

That's a rather profound way of describing a person's worth. Although, even those with useful talents may not be as important as others think. It really does depend on how they use such talents, in the long run.

The talent doesn't have to be useful, it simply has to be recognized. Those who are the best at whatever they do are of course the top of the elite. Such people can even be considered Hope.

[At least this is what he believed due to the structure of his own worlds society.]

In my world there's a school that cultivates such talented elites, and graduating from it sets you as an important figure somewhere and will dictate the rest of your life. It doesn't matter if you're the Ultimate Chef, or the Ultimate Gamer. Graduating will definitely put you in a position of power and prestige and everyone will look up to you as a symbol of hope.

[Not that those particular people would be a symbol of hope to anyone though. At least in Nagito's opinion]

And how are you to know their talents are their own?

[She can't help but think not everyone is as talented as they seem.]

Because you're born with talent or you're not. You either have it, or you don't. No amount of practice, training, wishing, yearning, or effort will ever get you a talent. You might be good at something, you might be practiced at something, but that isn't a Talent. There's a reason why most people are boring and average.

Ah, I see now. You're from that sort of world.

[It's starting to make sense now, if his world is full of people with magical talents or the like.]

Oh? I'm curious what you mean by that.

[The funny thing is his world had no magical talents or supernatural abilities what so ever. Unless you considered his own Luck talent which could reach the levels of just plain ridiculous.]

Are you not from world where talents merge from magical abilities?

Magic? Haha, this is the first time I've ever experienced something like that. My world is quite normal, by those standards of not having events that you would expect from a novel or movie.

[Though at the same time compared to other more mundane realities it was hardly normal.]

Then I'm afraid you lost me, dear.

Talent is simply something you are good at, such as gardening, cooking, gymnastics, or music.

[So why can't a talent be something someone worked on, since they're born with that talent? It still didn't make sense to Grell, because everyone is good at something, but thinking further.....]

So skills and natural talents are not the same where you're from?

Of course they're not. Being talented from birth will always outshine any effort an ordinary person puts into something.

[Though having a talent also locked you into it. You became nothing more than that talent unable to try something else.]

Normal average people learn a skill, but no matter what effort they put into it someone born with that talent will always surpass them.

I think I'm starting to see now. It sounds like a rather boring world.

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Video I kinda don't get it >.>;;

Video Don't worry, Danganronpa world is just really elitist about people with natural skills.

Video Ah, okay then!