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Love Arc Chapter Thirty-One: A Naegiri Wedding?!

Original Release: August 28, 2020 (Fanfiction.net), August 29, 2020 (AO3)

Summary

After cleaning the Boys' Bathroom on the second floor, Makoto finds himself kidnapped by his friends and forced into a wedding ceremony with Kyoko. Will Makoto be able to bring everyone back to their senses before he has to say "I do"?

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• Foreshadowing: At the beginning of the story, Leon notes that he's smells something off that no one else seems to notice. It's later revealed that the smell came from a hypnosis potion.
• Not Me This Time: When everyone's snapped out of their hypnotized state, they naturally accuse Junko of setting up the prank. She insists that she didn't do it due to her also being hypnotized.
  Junko: Oh come on! I was hypnotized too, you know! Just because I pulled those pranks on you guys last fall, that automatically makes me a prime suspect every time someone pulls some shit?
  Everybody sans Makoto, Chihiro, and Mukuro: YES!
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Makoto's quickly able to tell that something's affecting Kyoko as well when he sees her being walked down the aisle by Jin despite the two's relationship not being fully mended yet.
• Precision F-Strike: Kyoko gives one when Makoto asks how her grandfather would react to hearing that they got married.
  Kyoko: And as for my Grandfather… Fuck what he thinks. He’s made my life a living hell and I won’t let his Kirigiri traditions keep us apart, my little Koto!
• Wedding Episode: Subverted. Despite everyone setting up a wedding between an unwilling Makoto and a hypnotized Kyoko, they're only doing so due to them being put under hypnosis and the "wedding" is cancelled when everyone's cured of the hypnosis.