Funny / String Theory (NeoStarReset)

• Chapter 3.18 is full of this, the first trial has some of the students still fool around a bit when they’re still getting used to the discussion. Prairie manages to pull out so many moments of secondhand embarrassment that the reader would either laugh at her or experience the same amount of embarrassment as Prairie:
  • Right after the moment Monokuma announces the start of the trial, Kokichi immediately requests trading places with Kiibo. This places him right beside Prairie, much to her annoyance. Prairie, even several other characters, request for Kokichi to be put away but Monokuma seems to revel in the derailment Kokichi brings to the trial.
  • Kokichi goes to town when it comes to pestering and embarrassing Prairie, up to the point where Prairie almost leaps out of her place and strangles Kokichi in anger.
  • She only stops after Maki threatens them to shut up or she’ll make them the next two victims next time.
  Maki: Hey, you two. If you keep disrupting the class trial and wasting our time, I promise that the next body discovery announcement will be for two.
  Kokichi: She started it—
  Prairie: [Smacks Kokichi’s mouth shut] I’m sorry, you’re right. We understand.
• Maki, of all people, has one during the first trial when she points out what hydrogen peroxide does. Kokichi “subtly” points out his suspicions on how an Ultimate Child Caregiver knows that it can cover the smell of blood, to which she aggressively replies that of course [[realityensues people who have periods would need it for monthly usage]]. Not like it absolves her from the suspicion of faking her talent.
• While Prairie isn’t a panty-hunter completionist like what a typical player of V3 would be, she does have several… unique experiences in the love hotel.
  • The first night has Kaito dropped into her room without Prairie knowing the Love Suite rules. He follows the same script as the one in the game but Prairie was gobsmacked over his advances, especially the kabedon, that she mistakes it for sexual harassment and kicks him in the balls. She still has a grudge over that moment in the trial even after she learned that he was in a drugged state.
  • Meanwhile, Kokichi walks into Prairie’s room during the same hour as what the Love Suite event would be. It turns out he actually had a Love Hotel key draped on his neck, meaning he was only acting like he was a “visitor” and only acted like he was under the Love Hotel’s influence. This is after he got Prairie to “proclaim” her love for him, which she only went along with to prevent him from having a bad night.
  • It’s revealed in the trial that the guest for that night was actually Kirumi, and Kokichi was the one who got her, which explained his cranky attitude the morning after. He admits that he gave Kirumi a bad experience as he declines her fantasy and instead demands her to “deep-clean toilets”.
• Several of the Running Gags fits here:
  • Prairie’s first introduction to Tenko has her saying that Prairie can call onto Tenko anytime she wants in case there’s any degenerate male threatening her. Cue Prairie’s fifth introduction with Rantaro post-Ultimate Awakening and she spots a certain degenerate-male hating student right when Prairie was running away from Rantaro’s questioning…
  Prairie: Help! There’s a degenerate male chasing me!
  Tenko: Keep going, I'll handle him, sweetheart!

  • It happens again during the start of part 3 when Prairie was running away from Rantaro after a particularly nasty spat between the two. This time, Tenko dunks him into the garbage dump.
  • The resulting rant Tenko goes into after doing so is also hilarious, jumping into conclusion as to what happened before that she needed to be calmed down by Prairie before she beats Rantaro to pulp.

  Tenko: Right where you belong, you menace! I knew Prairie would eventually see the light when it comes to degenerate males like you! How dare you chase around a poor girl! It's because she's showing so much skin all of a sudden, isn't it?! Or... did you take her dress off yourself?
  • When Prairie gets so ridiculously embarrassed that she faints, the circumstances around it are usually pretty hilarious.
    • Chapter 2.16 has her accidentally straddle Kokichi while bantering and brings this ensuing conversation:
    Kokichi: Speaking of lies, if you really don't like me, do you mind getting off?
    Prairie: [Narration] Getting… off? Of what?
    Kokichi: This is just going too fast for me! I prefer things nice and slow before I'm mounted by anyone, you feel me?
    Kokichi: Furthermore...I'd rather make out with a fish.
    [Prairie blacks out.]
    Kokichi: [laughing his ass off] I was not expecting you to pass out! Holy shit, Prairie Dog, that was gold!
    Prairie: Shut up and stop talking to me. Go talk to a fish.
    • Chapter 3.2 brings more where just talking about Rantaro with Kirumi gives Prairie what Kirumi calls, “severe case of swooning”.
  • Prairie resorting to physical violence after Kokichi broke the camel’s back when it comes to Prairie’s temper (and she has considerably put up with a lot of his shenanigans compared to other characters) after the speech he gives her in chapter 3.16 can come across as the two reenacting a slapstick comedy routine. She even hits him so many times in a row that his sense of direction broke for a while…
• Prairie can be pretty creative when it comes to thinking of insults for students who irritate her, but nothing is as funny as when she completely avoids using Tsumugi’s name during the time her introduction irritated her as well as when she learned that she was the mastermind, and instead uses a variety of cow-related insults for her.
• This monologue Prairie has in Chapter 3.16 in an attempt to dissuade herself from ever thinking she’s jealous of Kokichi’s “favorite female friend”:
  [Narration] I don't get it?! It's Kokichi! It's freaking KOKICHI! Am I seriously jealous of him having a favorite female friend?! No, no, that doesn't make any sense no matter how I look at it! I wouldn't want to be his favorite anything! Then, then...! It must be the girl herself! He said she had a huge rack, right? Then that's what I'm jealous about! It makes sense! My breasts aren't microscopic like Himiko's, but they sure aren't the biggest either! Okay. Okay, I think I'm good now. Glad I could analyze my feelings properly without any denials.
  My face isn't getting any less warm.
• This line during the start of Chapter 3.4 from Shuichi during the big Rantaro-Prairie fallout:
  Shuichi: Kokichi, when old married couples argue, the wife doesn’t fling herself out of a window.