Endless Endurance Examination

**Endless Endurance Examination** is the name of Hisaya Sashihara's execution, as featured in Danganronpa: Behind Bars.

## Sequence

*Excerpt taken from Chapter 67 of Danganronpa: Behind Bars*

        Just after Monohebi says "punishment time," a metal clamp shoots out of the wall, clamps around Sashihara's neck, and drags him out of the courtroom.

        As with the other four times, the video monitor on the wall turns on and displays an animation with a pixelated sprite of Sashihara getting dragged offscreen by a similarly pixelated Monohebi. The caption "Sashihara has been found guilty. Now commencing the punishment" appears above the animation.

        When Sashihara is dragged all the way off-screen, the animation and caption both swiftly disappear and are replaced by the site of the execution, which this time is a medium-sized room with a big glass window in its side and a huge PVC conveyor belt as the floor. While Monohebi sits comfortably behind the window, Sashihara stands in the center of the room with two large dumbbells in front of him. Monohebi taps a button on a panel, causing obnoxiously bright text reading "Time to LIFT!! Get pumping!!" to appear on a large monitor facing Sashihara. He obeys, easily lifting the weights despite their size.

        Nodding, Monohebi presses another button and the conveyor belt floor starts moving at a slow pace. Sashihara begins to jog in response, smiling at how easy he's keeping up with the conveyor belt's low speed. Monohebi then presses yet another button, which causes the caption "Warm Up OVER! Time to TURN UP the heat and the speed!!" to appear on the top of the screen. Immediately after the caption disappears, the conveyor belt's speed increases rapidly and the walls of the room begin to glow red with heat. Sashihara drops the dumbbells and starts to run rapidly, beads of sweat swiftly turning into rivers as he gasps for breath. It's then I notice that he's been barefoot this whole time, adding an extra layer of pain to the ordeal. Yet even despite the struggle he's enduring, I can see that he's still smiling.

        Seeing Sashihara's smile too, Monohebi frustratedly presses another button. Another obnoxious caption, this one reading "Weights have been dropped. Punishment: depleted oxygen!" appears on the screen. Sashihara begins to gasp even harder, barely able to keep up the pace. While before he was able to keep his position running in the center of the room, now he's slowly sliding back towards the back wall, which the dumbells are now pinned against. Still, he keeps a smile on his face.

        Monohebi now presses several other buttons. He turns on a giant wind machine, increases the speed, and turns up the heat even more. Even so, Sashihara keeps on running and smiling.

        Although he is visibly annoyed at Sashihara's tenacity, Monohebi holds down another button, which causes the wall with the monitor to lift up in the ceiling and the speed of the treadmill floor increase. Beyond the wall, the floor is solid and unmoving. The snake smirks, obviously hoping Sashihara will take the bait and try to escape through the new hole in the wall.

        But that's not what Sashihara does. Instead, he looks at the floor and shakes his head, laughing to himself. He holds up a middle finger to Monohebi and says something that looks like "Fuck you."

        He then suddenly stops running, which makes him promptly collapse and tumble toward the back wall. When he rams into it, the speed of the conveyor belt keeps him pinned against the wall as the friction between his body and the belt causes burns and bruises to quickly appear all over his body. Soon enough, a few of his fingers and toes are ripped away by getting caught in the small gap between the floor and wall. But Sashihara doesn't scream. A stubborn smile stays on his face the whole time, even after he's long dead.

        When the monitor eventually turns off, I just look at it blankly for a moment, not fully digesting what I saw. Sashihara-kun...you're really dead...