Neo Danganronpa 55

**Neo Danganronpa 55** is the second installment of the series. Its participants are surviving students from Hope's Peak Academy's 4th class. It was masterminded by Jacques Hughes.

## Participants

* Andrew, Ultimate Fighter
* Aria Abe, Ultimate Babysitter
* Aurora Knightingal, Ultimate Spy
* Corin Coranth'ija, Ultimate Threadweaver
* Dante Benedicci, Ultimate Punisher
* Iris Aileen, Ultimate Librarian (Ultimate Adventurer)
* Keiko Matsuda, Ultimate Mycologist
* Lex Dance, Ultimate Dancer
* Marielle Morley, Ultimate Poet
* Natalie Spark, Ultimate DJ (Ultimate Android)
* Seamus Lusk, Ultimate Protector
* Shiori Watanabe, Ultimate Metalworker
* Vivian Tamochi, Ultimate Programmer

## Summary

Neo Danganronpa 55 began with each participant waking up in their room. After having a little time to talk and look around, Monokuma appeared and informed them that they were inside a killing game. Their first motive was quickly announced: they would not be given any additional food until a murder occurred, and the food that they had now was laced with heroin, meaning they would starve to death more quickly. As if to prove this point, one participant, Aurora, was found dead inside her dorm room a few days into the game, having starved to death.

When food ran out and people grew desperate, several different people formulated plans to kill. In the end, Shiori Watanabe agreed to be strangled by Natalie Spark. This was not hidden from anyone, so the trial for this case was short. Natalie was executed, to the horror of all the others.

After that, more places opened up. The participants were able to access the outdoors, including a carnival ground, a lake, and a maze. Their next motive was that any successful killer would be permitted to rescue one other participant upon graduating. Also at this time, Vivian and Aria captured a teenage girl they found lurking around named Akihi. She was an employee working behind the scenes who was obsessed with Danganronpa and despair. Akihi was soon caught and killed by other crew members who left her mutilated remains at the circus.

Student A soon took advantage of the motive and killed Corin. Although all of the evidence pointed towards her as the culprit, many of the participants remained suspicious. So when Student L confessed to the killing, despite the evidence, the majority voted for Student L as the culprit. When Monokuma revealed that Student A was the true killer, he gave Student A the choice to either save all her classmates but leave them and Student L behind, or to have Student L graduate along with her. Student A stunned everyone when she chose Student L.

Despite his threats, Monokuma did not execute the rest of the participants, claiming that the viewers wouldn't like that. Instead, he had them vote on one person to execute in place of the blackened. The group voted for Dante, who was then executed.

In Chapter 3, participants gained access to some science labs and greenhouses. Here, they found evidence that one of Natalie's creators was involved in the killing game. As a motive, students were offered the Necronomicon, a book that would bring someone back from the dead. Ultimately, the motive was unnecessary. After learning that Student C betrayed
the class to the killing game's organizers, Seamus flew into a rage and murdered him with a sledgehammer. Aria caught him in the act, so yet another trial came and went quickly as the culprit was already known.

A shopping mall was opened in Chapter 4, but participants had little time to enjoy it before being given their worst motive yet: masks that could not be removed and that slowly sank spikes further into the wearer's head until it would puncture their brain, killing them. On one of the last days before the spikes would become lethal, Keiko and Vivian discovered the morgue hidden inside the mall. In it, they found clones of the same white-haired girl over and over. They also found a computer with a USB port.