Hajime Hinata

**Hajime Hinata** is a character featured in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch. Danganronpa 2 marks the character's first voiced appearance within the Danganronpa franchise.

## Chapter 1 - Destination Despair

"..."

"No, I don't think the killer moved the body."

"Byakuya was probably killed... under the table."

"It probably has something to do with the knife we found under the table."

"Byakuya probably noticed the knife was hidden there."

"So in order to get it, he moved under the table."

"No, Byakuya was probably the only one who was able to see in the dark."

"If he was using those night-vision goggles we found under the table, he could have seen what was happening."

"Yeah, that seems to be the case."

"O-Other way around?"

"Where's your proof that the killer used them?"

"Can... I hear your opinion one more time?"

"No, Byakuya was definitely the one who brought those night-vision goggles."

"Inside the duralumin case Byakuya had with him during the party..."

"...we found a smaller case for storing night-vision goggles."

"Plus... Byakuya was the only one who could have taken the night-vision goggles out of the case."

"...Since he was carrying it around before the blackout in the first place."

"There was duct tape left under the table where the body was found."

"They probably hid the knife by duct-taping it to the underside of the table."

"Everyone! Can you please take a look at this?"

"It looks like a threatening letter someone sent to him."

"What if the glowing paint was the mark? With that, you'd be able to get the knife, even in the dark."

"In actuality, the knife we found under the table..."

"...and the duct tape stuck to the underside of the table were both marked with glowing paint, right?"

"No, I think Peko is telling the truth."

"I-It's nothing like that at all! Nekomaru's account is actually Peko's alibi."

"Everyone else besides Peko was in the dining hall after the party started, right?"

"Seriously... Stop it."

"No, it's impossible that laxatives were slipped into the food in the dining hall..."

"Because... Peko wasn't the only one who ate that food. Akane ate some of it too!"

"It's just as Mahiru said... The blackout was caused by a power surge."

"Of course, that's not a coincidence. Someone caused it intentionally."

"When you found them right after the blackout, the irons were still on, right?"

"Yeah! It seems that's how the killer caused the blackout!"

"What the heck?!"

"No, just because people were in the dining hall..."

"...doesn't mean they're not a suspect!"

"The irons are just one reason the blackout occurred, but they weren't the direct trigger."

"The direct trigger... was when the air conditioners in the dining hall and office clicked on!"

"The timers for both air conditioners were set to 11:30 PM."

"N-Nagito?! Wh-What happened to you?"

"Well... You HAVE been saying this whole time that there's no way a killer could be among us."

"Y-You're changing your story again?!"

"Nagito, there's definitely something wrong with you!"

"Everyone calm down."

"Then why did Byakuya die?"

"Let's try examining the situation. Mahiru's diagram might be useful here."

"..."

"The killer must have used the desk lamp to move to that table in the dark."

"They didn't turn the desk lamp on. They used its power cord."

"They could have felt their way to that table using the power cord, right?"

"By doing that, the killer was able to move to the table, then use the glowing paint to find the knife."

"Nagito! It was you, wasn't it?"

"Judging from everyone's positions before the blackout, the only person near the power cord was you!"

"Nagito... Weren't you cleaning the dining hall all morning?"

"If so, you would have had a chance to hide the knife."

"If you factor in the power cord and the time you spent cleaning, you're the only one who could have done it!"

"Nagito, tell me you object to this... Frankly, I don't wanna believe it either."

"We investigated together. You were so kind. I can't believe you're the one who killed Byakuya."

"Nagito, say something!"

"Huh?"

"You're the Ultimate Lucky Student. Then... did you...?"

"..."

"E-Enough! That... I don't care about that anymore!"

"More importantly, why did you kill Byakuya? Answer me!"

"That knife might not be the murder weapon. That's what you wanted to say, right Mikan?"

"H-Hiding?"

"No, that's not it."

"Even if we couldn't see what happened in the dark, I'm pretty sure someone could have heard it."

"Isn't that right, Ibuki?"

"You were the one who told me, remember? How everyone was shouting during the blackout?"

"..."

"Are you trying to say something like, 'Why didn't Nagito have any bloodstains on him?'?"

"You're talking about the bloodstained tablecloth we found in the storage room, right?"

"That's true. The tablecloth was pretty big, so even if you tried to hide it and take it with you..."

"I feel like I'm onto something, but... It's still not clear what that is."

"..."

"I got it! The killer must have stabbed Byakuya from under the floorboards!"

"The floorboards in the old building are full of gaps and there was no carpet laid out under the table."

"If they stuck the weapon through one of the gaps, they could have stabbed Byakuya to death."

"I don't know that yet, but I have a feeling there's someone here who does know."

"Hey, Gundham. You dropped your earring in the dining hall, right?"

"About that earring..."

"About that hell hound earring... You dropped it beneath the floorboards, right?"

"Is it safe to say that... that earring is the one hanging from your right ear?"

"Gundham wasn't wearing an earring during the investigation."

"And if he had it on by the time the class trial began..."

"Then that means Gundham was able to retrieve his earring from beneath the floorboards during the investigation."

"No, Fuyuhiko definitely has an alibi. Isn't that right, Chiaki?"

"..."

"...But is really impossible?"

"It might be better if we examine that possibility a little bit more."

"I know! The killer had a light with him!"

"There was one nearby for sure. See? It's written on the kitchen's equipment list."

"It's the portable stove."

"The portable stove isn't powered by electricity and it's also small enough to carry around."

"So the killer used the portable stove to move from the hallway to the storage room during the blackout."

"I don't doubt what Kazuichi said!"

"What are you trying to say?!"

"Nagito, did you forget? Or are you just pretending you forgot?"

"There should have been a wall that blocked light."

"I'm talking about the fire door in the hallway."

"If you close it, it would form a perfect wall in the hallway."

"Plus, the hallway rounds a corner just beyond the fire door."

"So even if there was a small gap in the door, as long as they passed the corner, the light still wouldn't peek out."

"Who cares about that right now?"

"..."

"Teruteru... Could it be you?"

"Of course, that's simply my assumption... so if you have an objection, please speak freely."

"Because... the portable stove used in the murder came from the kitchen."

"Nagito! Why are you interfering?"

"T-That's..."

"The mark you're talking about is the glowing paint that was applied to the knife, right?"

"No, that's not it..."

"It's not like I wanna blame you! I just..."

"..."

"Just because we heard Teruteru's voice in the dining hall doesn't mean he was literally IN the dining hall."

"Remember the floor in the dining hall? It was full of gaps, right?"

"So even if you shouted from under the floor, it should have sounded just like the voices in the dining hall."

"I probably can."

"If you're claiming that you were in the dining hall when the power came back..."

"...then you should know how Mikan was positioned at the time, right?"

"No, this is a very important question."

"Well, Teruteru? If you were really in the dining hall at that time, you should know the answer to that."

"It was a pretty clever way of tripping. There's no way you'd forget about it so easily."

"Nagito! What are you doing?! Why are you messing with the killer like that?!"

"That's it! The weapon must be the iron skewer!"

"Before the party, as Byakuya was confiscating all the dangerous items, he spoke to Teruteru."

"Could the iron skewer had been hidden... inside the piece of meat on the bone?"

"Impossible? That's what Byakuya and I thought. That's why we overlooked it."

"But in fact, the only place you could hide the weapon was inside the food that couldn't be inspected."

"Out of all the dishes you prepared, the only one that could hide a weapon as long as an iron skewer is..."

"The meat on the bone!"

"So, we need to do it!"

"Let's try going over the whole incident, beginning with right after the party started."

"Byakuya had us gather in the dining hall of old building near the hotel."

"He was extra cautious about a murder occurring that night because of a threatening letter he received."

"Therefore, he decided to throw a party so he could monitor us."

"Though one person didn't come, the rest of us assembled at the dining hall and the party was underway."

"But, at that time, the trap set by a certain someone was already in motion."

"They plugged three irons into the outlets in the storage room, which nearly capped the power usage."

"Additionally, they prepared something else that would activate at 11:30 PM."

"The air conditioners in the office and dining hall. They had already set the timers for these."

"Thanks to the irons maxing out the power usage, the breaker was tripped when the air conditioners kicked on."

"Since the windows in the old building were covered, the blackout plunged the dining hall into total darkness."

"But when that happened, Byakuya took out a specific item that he brought in his case."

"That item... was the night-vision goggles."

"Byakuya was so concerned about a murder occurring that he brought a variety of security equipment with him"

"When he put on his night-vision goggles, Byakuya witnessed a certain someone making a suspicious move..."

"He saw Nagito guiding himself with the desk lamp's power cord so he could get under the table."

"That's right. Everything up to that point was all part of Nagito's plan."

"The murder warning to Byakuya, the source of the blackout... It was all Nagito."

"While the blackout was happening, someone else - the real killer - began making their move in the kitchen."

"The killer probably already knew about Nagito's plan, so they knew a blackout was coming..."

"That's why the killer prepared all the items they would need to commit their crime in the dark beforehand."

"They needed a light source, which was provided by the portable stove in the kitchen."

"They needed a weapon, too... This had also been hidden in the kitchen beforehand."

"The long iron skewer used in the churrasco dish. The killer hid that inside that meat with the bone in it."

"With the weapon and portable stove in hand, the killer stepped out into the hallway."

"First they closed the fire door in the hallway so their light source wouldn't peek toward the dining hall."

"Then, guided by the light, the killer headed toward the storage room and grabbed a specific item..."

"That's right. A tablecloth to block the blood splatter."

"With this, the killer finished their preparations and snuck under the floorboards through the secret passage."

"They probably turned off the portable cooking stove at that point, or left it near the entrance of the door."

"The floor in the dining hall is full of gaps, so there's no way they could've safely held a light source."

"But thanks to the glowing mark they painted earlier, the killer was able to get beneath the table."

"At that point, Byakuya had just stopped Nagito after seeing him do something suspicious."

"Under the table, Byakuya found the knife that had been hidden there..."

"If only he had retreated, he probably wouldn't have gotten killed, but..."

"He had to retrieve that knife. And, at that moment..."

"The killer lurking beneath the floorboards stabbed straight up with the iron skewer."

"The killer had been waiting in the dark for the moment when the glowing paint began to move."

"After they murdered Byakuya, the killer..."

"...purposefully shouted from beneath the floorboards to make it seem like they were still in the dining hall."

"Afterward, they came out from underneath the floorboards and rushed back to the kitchen."

"And then, after hiding the murder weapon in the kitchen, they rejoined the group as if nothing had happened."

"There's only one person who would've been able to commit this crime..."

"Especially if that person is someone who'd think of an unexpected way to hide a weapon inside food..."

"Isn't that right, Teruteru Hanamura?!"

"That's what happened! How about it? Did I get anything wrong?"

## Chapter 2 - Sea and Punishment, Sin and Coconuts

"Girl A is probably... Mikan Tsumuki."

"That timid tone... That definitely sounds like Girl A."

"Based on the list of names in the staff roll, I can't think of anyone else who would be Girl A."

"Girl B was short and foul-mouthed. She's probably Hiyoko."

"Girl C is Ibuki."

"Girl D is Mahiru... The victim in this case."

"Aren't you Guy F, Fuyuhiko?"

"In the game, Guy F... "Kuzuryu"... mentions that he has a little sister."

"This is what Guy F said in the game."

"It's pretty clear. There's no doubt that Guy F had a little sister."

"Plus, the sister actually appeared in the game. That's why the name Kuzuryu appeared twice."

"The dead high school girl who was the first victim in the game is the only person I can think of."

"The reason Girl E was killed is because she killed the first victim in the game."

"I'm surprised you went through all this trouble."

"First of all, the sound the girls heard wasn't the window breaking."

"A vase."

"After the murder, a broken vase was discovered in the classroom next to the music room."

"I got it! The killer must have used gravel to attack the victim."

"What if the gravel was put inside some sort of bag?"

"If the weapon is something that appeared in the game, then so is the bag..."

"...and the only thing I can think of is the school swimsuit."

"If you tie the swimsuit like a bag and stuff it full of gravel, it'd make an effective weapon."

"How about it, Monokuma? Are you satisfied now?"

"The piece of vase that became an important clue in the music room murder... Girl D got rid of it."

"It should've been... Guy F."

"I'm not sure the two events are unrelated. At the very least, the killer has definitely played the game."

"As proof, Mahiru, who was killed in the beach house..."

"...and Girl E, who was killed in the game, were both killed by a blow to the head with a metal bat..."

"There's no way we can ignore that connection."

"Wait a minute... You should've been at the beach house, Hiyoko."

"But... These footprints in the sand in front of the beach house... Aren't they yours?"

"Only during your morning walk, huh? Will you still claim that after you take a look at this letter?"

"The place where Hiyoko was hiding... Are you talking about the closet?"

"..."

"About that gummy... Did Hiyoko really drop it?"

"It's true Hiyoko likes to eat gummies, but she only eats a specific brand."

"Mahiru didn't block the door. Her death... was instant."

"The killer, of course. They're the one who blocked the door with Mahiru's body."

"That's why there were bloody drag marks left on the floor."

"Hey, Fuyuhiko... Why do you keep insisting that Hiyoko is the killer?"

"If Hiyoko moved the body..."

"...then she should be covered in blood!"

"No. Washing it off in the shower is impossible because the shower in the beach house was out of order."

"Listen to me, Fuyuhiko. Hiyoko mentioned this before."

"Which means... Hiyoko can't change by herself. It's impossible for her to put on and take off her clothes."

"This letter... Doesn't it look like its contents are different from the letter Mahiru had?"

"Mahiru's letter said to meet at 2:30 PM, but in Hiyoko's letter..."

"It's also strange that both letters wanted to change their meeting spot to the beach house."

"It would be plausible if one of them said it, but for both letters to say the same thing?"

"The killer must have forged both letters!"

"So based on what the letter said, you went to the beach house at 2 PM, right Hiyoko?"

"Let's stop. Believing every little thing Nagito says is a waste of time."

"Just as you thought?"

"..."

"Do you think the killer might have been hiding?"

"No, there should have been a place for them to hide. A place you didn't look, Hiyoko."

"The killer was probably hiding in the closet."

"After you woke up, you said you rushed out of there, right?"

"Then you probably didn't look inside the closet very carefully."

"What about the surfboard case in the closet? I'm pretty sure they could have hidden in there."

"Yeah. They were quietly holding their breath and hiding very close to you."

"A-Anyway, the killer hid silently, and after making sure Hiyoko left..."

"They finally left the surfboard case."

"What's wrong with that?"

"If they just needed to wash off the blood, they didn't necessarily have to use the shower."

"They could have just as easily used something else."

"The drinks inside the refrigerator. Couldn't the killer have used those to wash off the blood?"

"W-Why?"

"We can't assume they used just one drink."

"They could have used a bunch of them to wash it off!"

"No... There WERE water bottles inside the refrigerator."

"That was AFTER the incident, right? But before the incident, there WERE water bottles in the fridge."

"And the killer took all of those water bottles and used them to wash the blood off their body."

"It's not a fallacy. There should have been evidence inside the trash can."

"Evidence like a lot of thrown-away plastic water bottles. Isn't that right, Chiaki?"

"..."

"Hm?"

"Peko... Is it you?"

"I remember when were all meeting up to go to the beach. Your appearance when you came to the diner..."

"If the killer really did wash off the blood with water bottles, they'd have to drench their entire body."

"But there were no towels in the beach house and it would have taken a while for the water to fully air-dry."

"So you said you went swimming so you'd have a cover story!"

"Hold on, that's strange. Didn't you just say THIS earlier?"

"You told me you didn't see anyone. Don't try to tell me you forgot about that."

"If the roadside and beachside doors aren't an option, the only other thing I can think of is..."

"Well, nothing really... except that small window in the shower room!"

"Peko! You carry that bamboo sword on your back at all times, right?"

"If I recall correctly, you had it then too."

"Despite the fact that you had a swimsuit on, you were still wearing your bamboo sword."

"Yeah. Peko used that bamboo sword as a step stool and escaped out the window."

"Well, Peko? Do you have anything to say?"

"F-Fuyuhiko? Why do you even care?!"

"If she used her bamboo sword as a step stool, she could have recovered it with her sword bag."

"When she leaned her sword against the wall to use as a step stool, she tied her sword bag to it."

"And after she climbed up to the window, as long as she hauled the bag up toward her..."

"...she would have been able to recover her bamboo sword."

"..."

"Justice?"

"..."

"Peko... Is this your true identity?"

"Let's go over this incident one more time and then let's end this."

"The incident began this morning... when Mahiru spoke to Hiyoko."

"Mahiru most likely played "Twilight Syndrome Murder Case," the video game provided to us as the motive..."

"She probably wanted to discuss it with someone else who also appeared in the game as a character."

"Hiyoko accepted Mahiru's invitation and they promised to have a more detailed conversation about it later."

"However... someone else overheard their exchange: the killer."

"The killer eavesdropped on their conversation and used their promise to devise a specific murder plan..."

"By preparing a specific item, they planned to manipulate the two's actions."

"That item was the letters... They sent fake letters to both Mahiru and Hiyoko."

"The letter Mahiru received told her to come to the beach house at 2:30 PM..."

"And the letter Hiyoko received told her to come to the beach house at exactly 2:00 PM."

"By providing different times, the killer was able to lure them to the beach house separately."

"Hiyoko totally trusted that letter, showed up at the beach house at 2:00 PM just like it said..."

"...and was drugged into unconsciousness by the killer lying in wait."

"After putting Hiyoko to sleep, the killer immediately hid her inside the closet..."

"...so they could frame her as the killer later."

"At 2:30 PM, Mahiru arrived at the beach house."

"She was completely unaware that she had been targeted for murder..."

"Approaching her from behind, the killer struck the defenseless Mahiru with a specific weapon."

"The metal bat that was left at the scene of the crime."

"The bat was brought down onto the back of Mahiru's head, and with that, she took her last breath..."

"According to Mikan's autopsy... Mahiru died instantly, so she probably never knew who killed her..."

"With that, the killer achieved their goal of killing Mahiru and began to tamper with the crime scene."

"They dragged Mahiru's body so that it blocked the door leading to the road..."

"Also... the mask found at the scene of the crime was something the killer personally left..."

"I'm not really sure why... My guess is it's something similar to a calling card."

"That's how the crime scene we discovered was created."

"However, by moving Mahiru's body, the killer got blood splatter on them."

"Plus, the shower room had no water because it was out of order, so they couldn't wash it off..."

"But the killer expected something like that to happen."

"Instead of the shower, the killer used something else to wash the blood off their body."

"They used plastic water bottles that were inside the beach house refrigerator."

"We can assume they carried the bottles to the shower room before the sequence of events had happened..."

"In place of showering, they washed the blood off their body with water bottles instead."

"However.. they had no choice but to dispose of the empty bottles in the beach house's trash can."

"Littering is against the rules, and it would've taken too much time to throw them away somewhere else."

"After the killer washed off the blood, they hid in a specific spot inside the closet Hiyoko was in."

"That's right."

"The killer hid inside the surfboard case that they had already emptied beforehand."

"They probably did that to make sure Hiyoko didn't mess with the evidence they planted, too."

"After some time had passed, the sleeping drug used on Hiyoko wore off and she woke up."

"I can imagine how badly Hiyoko must have panicked when she came out of the closet."

"I mean, she made plans to see Mahiru, who lay dead right in front of her..."

"From the shock and panic of being considered a murder suspect..."

"...Hiyoko fled from the beach house."

"However, Mahiru's body was blocking the roadside door, so her only option was to flee toward the beach."

"Because of that, she left footprints in the sand. Everything was a trap set by the killer to frame her."

"After Hiyoko left, the killer finally came out of the surfboard case..."

"...and placed a gummy that they brought with them to shift our suspicion toward Hiyoko."

"Ironically... placing that gummy is what helped clear our suspicion toward Hiyoko..."

"Finally, the killer began preparing to escape from the beach house."

"They couldn't risk leaving their footprints in the sand, so they escaped the beach house using a different route."

"...the small window in the shower room."

"However, that window is rather high up and can't be reached easily... Which is why the killer used..."

"...the bamboo sword they always carry with them!"

"The killer took the bamboo sword out of its bag, tied the bag to the sword's handle..."

"...and used the sword as a stepstool to reach the small window, while holding the sword bag in their hand."

"As long they're able to reach the window, all they had to do was pull the bag to retreive the sword."

"And so the killer left the beach house and appeared before us as if nothing had happened."

"But... their wet hair and swimsuit didn't dry right away. There also weren't any towels at the beach house..."

"So when the killer met up with us, they said they had been swimming for a while as an excuse..."

"So how about it?! This is the truth behind the incident you caused! Isn't that right, Peko Pekoyama?!"

"Are you serious?!"

"That's right! According to what Sonia said..."

"If she had it translated, that means that it wasn't written in English, right?"

"Peko, you're not Sparkling Justice. There's no way that's possible!"

"Would you be able to do that?"

"What do you mean? "Fulfilled it's purpose"? "Too late"? What are you getting at?!"

"What do you mean?"

"Are you talking about the body discovery announcement?"

"Is it Fuyuhiko?"

"I didn't think it was necessary to confirm it if it didn't have anything to do with Mahiru's murder, but..."

"There's no doubt that game is based on actual events. That much is clear if you saw the ending prize."

"The photos awarded for beating the game are not actual in-game screenshots."

"They're all actual photos, with the surrounding scenery cropped out."

"You... knew all along, Fuyuhiko. Didn't you?"

"You knew whether or not the first victim in the game was actually your little sister, right?"

"Because... whoever beat the game first and received the ending prize..."

"It was the envelope, right? The person who received the ending prize... It was you, wasn't it?"

"Young master?"

"What the hell?"

## Chapter 3 - Trapped by the Ocean Scent

"Then... let's start with when we split into the Hospital Team and Motel Team because of the despair disease."

"The Hospital Team consisted of Nagito, Ibuki, and Akane, who were infected, and Mikan, Fuyuhiko, and me."

"I woke up at my cottage on the day the incident happened."

"Mikan came by to wake me up and told me that Nagito had recovered from his symptoms."

"We immediately headed over to the hospital and after we confirmed his recovery..."

"I made Mikan rest in the on-call room since she hadn't slept all night while I waited in the hospital lobby."

"And then... I saw the incoming signal light on the surveillance camera blinking before our scheduled time."

"When I pressed the button to turn on the monitor, what appeared on screen was..."

"...a video of someone wearing a hospital gown and a hemp bag on their head climbing a step-ladder."

"I tried to stop them, of course!"

"I rushed out of the hospital and ran to where the video was being recorded - the music venue."

"...But it was too late."

"By the time I arrived, the person wearing the hemp bag on their head was already hanging from the ceiling."

"I thought I should tell the others right away so I headed to the motel."

"Because it was close to the music venue and, unlike the hospital, there were more able-bodied people there..."

"...At least, that's what I thought, but the only person who came with me was Chiaki."

"After I heard from those two that Ibuki disappeared, I had a feeling she was the person wearing the hemp bag."

"So I immediately led them to the music venue.

"That's when we heard the body discovery announcement not once, but twice in a row..."

"When we removed the hemp bag... Just as we feared... it was Ibuki."

"Lie?! Why would I lie?!"

"Do you doubt me?"

"I'm not the killer! I mean, there's no way I'd be able to imitate that movie."

"Huh?"

"Nagito, what are you doing?!"

"What warm-up?! This isn't a game, you know!"

"Yeah, I'm positive."

"I couldn't have been gone for more than ten minutes."

"Hold on a sec! There's also a possibility that the door was locked from the outside."

"There was a semitransparent glob stuck to the venue door. Maybe that's what they used..."

"That semi-transparent glob... must've been glue."

"That glue was only applied to the areas where both doors touched."

"By pouring it in the gaps of the closed door, they must have sealed the venue door from the outside!"

"That scrap... Isn't it part of the wallpaper in the storage room?"

"In the music venue storage room, there should've been black wallpaper that's the same color as that scrap."

"There was also a tear along the edge of the wallpaper, wasn't there? If so..."

"I got it! Hiyoko's body was hidden BEFORE we found it!"

"No, the body was already taped up and the killer hid it, along with the pillar, using the wallpaper."

"Yeah, by wrapping the wallpaper around the pillar, the killer was able to create a slightly larger pillar."

"So when I first discovered Ibuki's body... Hiyoko's body was already there!"

"However, because it was concealed within a slightly larger pillar, I didn't realize that at the time!"

"That's how they hid Hiyoko's body, and then peeled off the wallpaper as soon as I left the music venue."

"The reason the killer imitated two of the murders from the movie was so we'd mix up the killing order."

"Just as Sonia said, Ibuki stepped on 'something.'"

"That 'something' was blood... There were faint blood stains on the soles of her slippers."

"It means Ibuki was still standing when Hiyoko was mortally wounded."

"Which means Ibuki was still alive at the exact moment Hiyoko was killed!"

"Does that mean you have a rebuttal?"

"..."

"As long as Ibuki's body has no open wounds..."

"There's no doubt that that blood is Hiyoko's!"

"That's not it. The reason there was no blood on the floor is because the killer wiped it away afterwards."

"...Yes, I do."

"If you look closely... there's a streak on the floor where blood was wiped away."

"If the time of death wasn't mentioned in the Monokuma File, just to keep concrete evidence from us..."

"I saw it at the hospital... right before Monokuma's morning announcement."

"And I saw the body at the music venue a little AFTER Monokuma's announcement."

"Hold on... Not all of us are missing an alibi."

"In fact, Mikan and I both have alibis!"

"Up until I saw that hanging video, Mikan and I were actually together for a while."

"I-It's not like that! She just came to tell me Nagito's condition had improved."

"Are you saying... there was another reason?"

"..."

"..."

"So... You're saying the truth behind Hiyoko's murder is hidden?"

"It's just as Sonia said. She went to the music venue of her own free will."

"Hiyoko locked the room she was staying in before she went out."

"Then they couldn't have hidden her room key that deep in her kimono. They would've put it somewhere more obvious."

"Otherwise, there's no point in messing with the crime scene if nobody finds the key!

"At the time, you were the one who actually took out the key, right? Then something like that-"

"N-No! That's not the issue!"

"But Hiyoko's room was locked."

"The key was deep inside her kimono, remember?"

"It's more likely that Hiyoko locked the door herself."

"There's no reason for the killer to put the key in Hiyoko's kimono!"

"The killer probably didn't realize she even had the key!"

"The reason Hiyoko's kimono was messed up was because she wasn't able to properly wear it."

"Yeah, it's also the reason why she decided to go out on her own."

"Yeah, she went to the venue on her own just to fix her messed up kimono."

"That's the reason they imitated the movie to falsify the murder sequence."

"Hey, Nagito... Any ideas?"

"So what do you think?"

"..."

"That's strange. That's very strange."

"If Ibuki used the stepladder to hang herself, it's strange that there weren't any footprints on it."

"Yeah, that stepladder was completely clean. No footprints or bloodstains at all."

"Yeah, I'll definitely try."

"That's right, I remember now! There was definitely something strange about that video."

"What's strange is that stepladder I mentioned earlier."

"It's true that the steps of that stepladder weren't dirty, but on one side..."

"There was a blood stain. Right on the left side of the stepladder."

"However, that contradicts the video I saw at the hospital."

"There weren't any blood stains on the stepladder in the video. It was completely clean."

"Even so, the fact is the stepladder had blood on it at the actual crime scene..."

"...but the stepladder in the video was completely bloodless..."

"That's right! Besides the stepladder, the filming location must have been different too!"

"I mean the video I saw was NOT filmed at the music venue."

"It was filmed somewhere else."

"That's it. The killer just brought the camera from the music venue."

"With it... they made me think it was a live feed from the venue, when it was actually from somewhere else."

"Yes. At least when I first discovered Ibuki's body."

"But when Hiyoko's body appeared, the killer probably put the camera back too."

"Well, that's true, but..."

"In order to hide that the camera was missing, the killer did one more thing to the remaining monitor..."

"The killer smashed the monitor to pieces, destroying it."

"As long as it was in pieces, you wouldn't be able to tell if the camera was actually there or not."

"My attention was so focused on the body that even I couldn't have noticed something like that."

"And they destroyed it and left that in pieces as well."

"It's possible that it was filmed at the hospital's conference room."

"That's exactly why the killer did something to make those two places resemble each other."

"What the killer did was..."

"...make the music venue - the crime scene - look like the conference room!"

"They did that by using the black curtain hanging at the back of the stage."

"You're referring to the candle in the music venue, right?"

"In the video I saw, a candle was used for lighting. But if you think about it, that's pretty strange."

"The music venue has good lighting, so there's no reason to even use candlelight."

"That candle was likely placed there just to make me think it was the same candle that was used in the video."

"As long as this all matches us, it should be no problem to say this is decided."

"The video I saw wasn't filmed at the music venue. It was actually filmed at the hospital conference room."

"The person wearing the hemp bag in that video wasn't Ibuki."

"It was... the killer pretending to be Ibuki."

"The killer put on a hospital gown, wore a hemp bag on their head, and was only pretending to be the victim."

"The reason the killer made a fake video..."

"There's only one possibility I can think of. And if I examine that possibility thoroughly..."

"Then naturally, the killer's identity will reveal itself."

"..."

"Mikan... You're the killer, aren't you?"

"Like I said, aren't you the killer who murdered Ibuki and Hiyoko?"

"But... we're the only ones."

"Thanks to that video, we're the only ones who have the advantage of an alibi."

"But you're the only one who could have filmed that video in the hospital conference room."

"Is that also a coincidence?"

"At that time, you said you were going to the on-call room, but you actually went to the conference room."

"That's when you put on a hospital gown that you prepared in advance, put the bag on your head, and began filming."

"By doing that, you made up a video that showed Ibuki trying to hang herself at the music venue..."

"...and showed that to me!"

"Furthermore, I saw that video at the hospital lobby."

"If someone wants to go to the conference room from outside, they have to pass through the lobby."

"U-Umm..."

"..."

"W-What are you saying...?"

"Hold on... I've been listening to you for a while, and it sounds like you knew about this rope clue all along..."

"What exactly did you say to me during the investigation?"

"Huh?"

"..."

"So that's what happened...! We've been falling for the killer's lie this whole time...!"

"You said Ibuki hanged herself, but that was a complete lie, wasn't it, Mikan?"

"You told us the wrong cause of death! You lied, didn't you?!"

"..."

"..."

"Is that really true?"

"I can't stop!"

"I don't want to do this either! Of course I don't want to do this!"

"But... I need to do this...!"

"That's not it! I suspect them because I wanna believe them."

"..."

"Mikan, you've committed a major mistake."

"As I said before many times, I'm the only one who saw that video."

"But I... never said anything about the camera angle."

"So how can you..."

"...say anything about the camera angle as if you saw that video yourself?!"

"Monokuma mentioned this earlier."

"Whoever bought that bag should've received another one as a bonus prize."

"Which means it's not impossible to use that bag in two separate places."

"So, please... Just stop making desperate excuses!"

"Mikan, it's already over."

"After I go over your crime from the beginning and show that you have no arguments left..."

"Please, just admit it already! In the end, at least let me believe in you."

"The key to this incident is the surveillance camera video that only I saw."

"That's why I'm going to start with that to unravel the knots of this crime."

"When I went to the hospital with Mikan this morning, I noticed a specific thing in the lobby."

"The incoming signal light on the surveillance monitor was blinking ahead of the scheduled time."

"When I switched on the monitor, what appeared on screen was..."

"A person wearing a hospital gown and a bag on their head, about to hang themselves right at that moment."

"That surveillance camera unit was designed for two-way communication with the hospital and the music venue."

"That's why I thought the signal originated from the music venue, so I immediately headed over there."

"But that was the killer's trap."

"In truth, that video was recorded in a different place."

"The killer brought the music venue camera the night before and made their preparations in advance."

"And then, they filmed that video in the hospital conference room."

"By doing so, they tried to make me think the incident was happening in real time."

"When, in fact, the crime had already been committed by that point."

"The person in the footage wearing the bag was actually the killer acting as a fake."

"I didn't know that, so I went to the music venue and found a hanged body wearing a bag on its head."

"Seeing the body before me, I panicked and rushed out of there to get the rest of you guys."

"But... That was also part of the killer's trap."

"After cleaning the conference room, the killer was likely watching the music venue from outside."

"And, as if they were switching places with me, they went inside the music venue..."

"...and began working on their last trick."

"First, the killer peeled off the wallpaper covering one of the stage pillars, revealing Hiyoko's body."

"When I first arrived and saw the hanged body, I didn't notice anything strange about that pillar."

"I didn't expect it to be slightly larger from the wallpaper, or have Hiyoko's body hidden inside."

"Next, the killer destroyed the surveillance camera that was used in the conference room."

"After destroying it, they mixed it with what was left of the surveillance monitor found at the crime scene."

"The surveillance camera the killer used was originally brought from the music venue, but..."

"When they brought it, they made sure to destroy its monitor beforehand."

"They wanted to hide the fact that the camera wasn't at the crime scene."

"In the end, the killer transformed the crime scene into a closed room."

"They broke one of the drumsticks from the storage room and placed it near the music venue's entrance."

"However, they did this to mislead us into believing that the music venue was locked from the inside."

"In actuality, the reason the music venue became a closed room was because of the glue."

"The killer sealed the door with glue and intentionally created a closed room that could be forced open."

"With that, the killer finished tampering with the crime scene and met up with Fuyuhiko and me."

"They helped us force open the music venue door despite the fact that they personally sealed it."

"And they made us discover not just Ibuki's body, but Hiyoko's suddenly present body as well."

"At the time, they pretended to be surprised, but..."

"Inside, they were probably relieved that their plan worked out."

"Isn't that right, Mikan? This crime was orchestrated by you, wasn't it?!"

## Chapter 4 - Do Ultimate Robots Dream of Clockwork?

"We just happened to run into each other on the first floor of Grape House and went to the tower together."

"No, I can't accept that that hammer was the murder weapon."

"A lot of oil was flowing from Nekomaru's body. Just like human blood, right?"

"If the hammer was used to beat Nekomaru, you'd expect some oil to be on it, at least."

"The only thing with oil on it is that broken pillar."

"We tried to move it, right?"

"If Nekomaru was crushed by the pillar, then there should have been fragments on top of his body."

"The pillar fragments were scattered beneath Nekomaru's body, but there weren't any on top of his body."

"If the pillar had been tipped over and crushed him, the fragments should have been on top of his body instead."

"U-Ultimate weapon?"

"We've seen it?"

"If we make it out of this, I'll explain it to you guys."

"Both of those towers... Are they really the same place?"

"I mean, doesn't it seem strange?"

"When we went to Grape Tower from Grape Hall, Nekomaru's body was in front of the door to Strawberry Hall."

"But when we went to Strawberry Tower from Strawberry Hall, his body was in front of the door to Grape Hall."

"If the floor didn't rotate, then that means we need to think about the structure of the building again."

"While we were moving from Grape Tower to Strawberry Tower?"

"But we should've all been together during that time. Even if they tried to move the body inside the tower..."

"But Nekomaru's body wasn't the only thing moved. Are you saying the broken pillar was moved too?"

"Moving the body and the pillar in such a short time..."

"That might be hard even for Monokuma, don't you think?!"

"Moving the body and pillar is possible, but it would've been impossible to move the oil on the floor."

"When the position of Nekomaru's body and the pillar changed, the oil surrounding his body moved too."

"Physically moving all of the oil like that is simply not possible, no matter how you look at it."

"..."

"Hey, Nagito..."

"You're talking about the Final Dead Room, right?"

"You cleared the life-threatening game there and found something, didn't you?"

"You said this photo was taken from the hidden room inside the Final Dead Room, right?"

"If that's the case, then that means that it should've been taken from the first floor of Strawberry House."

"Then... this is definitely strange..."

"This photo doesn't look like it was taken from the 1st floor. The angle suggests it was taken from higher up."

"If the structure of the Funhouse is what we thought it was..."

"Grape House and Strawberry House should link to the tower in the middle."

"Which means... If you're viewing the tower from Strawberry House, you should see Grape House behind it."

"But in this photo, I don't see anything behind the tower. No shadow, no shape, no Grape House at all."

"You're referring to when you suddenly appeared on the second floor of Grape House, right?"

"The top floor... So the third floor?"

"I got it! I know the secret of the Funhouse!"

"In the picture Nagito took from Strawberry House, I didn't see Grape House at all."

"So where did Grape House go?"

"There is only possibility... It was in a position where it couldn't be seen from Strawberry House."

"Which means Strawberry House and Grape House are in the same building, but on different floors."

"If you think about it like that, based on Nagito's picture, it's clear where Strawberry House is located."

"On top of Grape House! That's where Strawberry House is located."

"Because of that, the photo taken from the first floor of Strawberry House was at a high angle."

"Altogether, this means the 1st floor of Strawberry House is also the 4th floor above Grape House."

"Yeah, Strawberry Tower and Grape Tower should've also been different floors inside the same building."

"Just like Strawberry House was on top of Grape House...."

"...Strawberry Tower was also on top of Grape Tower..."

"Nekomaru's body wasn't a dummy. That can be proven by Kazuichi's account."

"Remember? When we moved from Grape Tower to Strawberry Tower..."

"We thought the body had moved, and that's when you said..."

"Right up until that moment, you were disassembling Nekomaru's body at Grape Tower, right?"

"The killer couldn't have known how you'd take apart his body, so they couldn't have build a dummy."

"You must be talking about an elevator!"

"It's the tower itself!"

"The inside of the tower is one big elevator!"

"Which means the tower was designed so that the whole room goes up and down like an elevator."

"So whether you enter from Strawberry Hall or Grape Hall..."

"...it all leads to the same room, right?"

"Is it safe to say that all the items on the floor didn't change?"

"And...?"

"So that's it! The elevator was designed so only the floor moved."

"Which means the whole room wasn't an elevator, only the floor was!"

"That's why we saw different doors in each tower!"

"Which means on the first floor of Grape Tower, the door on the far back wall had a strawberry design."

"And on the fourth floor, which was Strawberry Tower, the different door on the far back wall had a grape design."

"The elevator wasn't just moving vertically."

"Isn't that right, Kazuichi?"

"Come on. You used the elevator while you were holding that compass Nagito gave you, right?"

"And thanks to that, the tower we saw on our right side when we arrived at Grape House..."

"...appeared on our left side when we were at Strawberry House."

"If I recall, an octagon is a shape with eight sides, right?"

"..."

"You're talking about the secret room surrounded by concrete in the depths of the final dead room."

"Learned?"

"..."

"How they killed Nekomaru...?"

"That's it! I think he might have died from falling."

"If the Funhouse's secret is that it's a structure where both towers and houses are vertically connected..."

"...then the killer made use of its height and caused Nekomaru to die from falling."

"That I don't know yet..."

"That sensor should only work if something is moving."

"If Nekomaru wasn't moving inside, the elevator sensor wouldn't have detected anything."

"When Nekomaru's Good Night Button is pressed, all of his functions shut down and he enters sleep mode."

"If he's in sleep mode, the elevator sensor wouldn't have noticed him, right?"

"Didn't the doorknob have scrape marks on it?"

"That might have been where it got scraped by the wire."

"The tip of that wire was tied into a loop."

"If the elevator moved while that loop part hung from the doorknob..."

"The killer took advantage of the elevator's unique feature: only the floor moves."

"By doing that, they created a drop so Nekomaru could fall to his death."

"W-Why...?!"

"It doesn't mean someone had to push him off."

"It's possible that he fell on his own!"

"What do you think would happen if Nekomaru woke up while he was suspended upside down in mid-air?"

"He has an alarm inside his body. As long as it was armed, it would have deactivated his sleep mode."

"Which means the killer set the alarm before they suspended Nekomaru!"

"He fell because the entire doorknob came off."

"Do you finally understand now?"

"When Nekomaru fell to the floor, he ended up colliding with the pillar. Isn't that it?"

"No, the clock inside his chest was a radio clock so it would've been impossible to mess with."

"..."

"You said you checked all the clocks inside the building. Isn't that right, Fuyuhiko?"

"But what if all those clocks have been messed with?"

"So even if you checked all the clocks inside the building, there's no way you'd have noticed it."

"That's right. We should have heard the sound he made when he fell. Wasn't it that rumbling noise?"

"Well, a huge body fell from the fourth floor to the first, and the pillar fell with it."

"It's obvious we'd hear the impact sound."

"Huh?"

"Nekomaru's alarm went off at 7:30, and if we heard the sound of his impact at 5:30..."

"That means our time was off by two hours!"

"That's it! The killer made use of the Monokuma T'ai Chi activity in the morning."

"We wouldn't be able to attend on time, but that wouldn't affect Nekomaru."

"His radio clock had the exact time."

"I see. Now that I think about it, I realize what Monokuma meant when he said those words."

"When you said everyone, you were including us, right?"

"We thought we came to the tower on time, but in truth, it was way past the meeting time."

"The one who wasn't there - it's you, right, Nagito?!"

"You couldn't? What do you mean?"

"Nagito, Sonia, and Chiaki. The three of you were staying in deluxe rooms, right?"

"If I recall, the deluxe rooms are..."

"..."

"Gundham? There's something I want to ask you."

"When the alarm rang at the Strawberry House lounge, you rushed over there too, right?"

"Why were YOU able to hear it?"

"I mean, you were also staying in a deluxe room, right?"

"Nagito was staying in a deluxe room in the same house, on the same floor, and he couldn't even hear it."

"So why were YOU able to hear that alarm?"

"There is only one possiblity - you weren't in your room at the time."

"That's why, even though you were staying in a deluxe room, you still went to the lounge. Am I right?"

"In order to do that, the killer needed to be waiting for Nekomaru at the tower."

"Which means when Fuyuhiko witnessed Nekomaru, the killer was already at the tower."

"Is that... your argument?"

"H-Hold on a sec..."

"Nagito... Something definitely happened to you, didn't it?"

"At some point during the investigation, your behavior became even weirder."

"What... What actually happened? Did you discover something?"

"Since the beginning?!"

"No, there should've been another way to move between the two houses without the elevator."

"Then why don't we ask the person who actually used that method?"

"Nagito, you should know."

"Don't play dumb. You appeared so suddenly that one time because you used that method, right?"

"There's a secret passage connecting the first floor of Strawberry House to the third floor of Grape House."

"Isn't that right?"

"If they used that secret passage, they could've gone between the two houses as much as they wanted."

"There's no way they didn't know."

"There's no way I can stop!"

"I already proved a secret passage exists!"

"The secret passage was at the Octagon!"

"The wire used to string up Nekomaru's body..."

"The hammer that looked like the weapon and the chain on the door in the tower..."

"Those are all the items that weren't in Funhouse. Where did the killer obtain them?"

"Since those items were used in the crime, there's no doubt that the killer went to the Octagon."

"H-Hey... What are you...!"

"W-What do you intend to do?"

"Are you saying... you still have more...? You still have room to argue...?"

"..."

"That's wrong, Gundham."

"You're the one who's wrong."

"Even if you didn't get behind Nekomaru, you should've been able to press the button on the back of his neck."

"As long as you have the power of the hamsters you keep with you!"

"Of course that'd be impossible for a normal hamster, but it would've been possible for Gundham's."

"In fact, we saw that with our very own eyes, right?"

"How about it, Gundham?"

"Let's first go over the many tricks the killer prepared before they committed the crime."

"First, they destroyed the contact elevator."

"This separated Nagito and the others in Strawberry House from our group in Grape House."

"Next, they lured Nekomaru out by himself by turning back all the clocks in the Funhouse by two hours."

"Additionally, in order to secure an alibi, the killer went to the Strawberry House lounge..."

"...and set the wall clock's alarm to 5:30 AM."

"After finishing their preparations, the killer went to Strawberry Tower with the necessary tools in hand."

"They obtained these tools from the Octagon, which you can enter once you clear the Final Dead Room."

"This means the killer discovered the secret of the Funhouse faster than anybody else."

"That secret being Strawberry House and Grape House are actually the same building."

"On the morning of the incident, Nekomaru woke up and headed over to Grape Tower for a specific reason..."

"There, Fuyuhiko, who was at the lounge by coincidence, witnessed Nekomaru."

"According to Fuyuhiko's testimony, that was around 5 AM, but..."

"By that point, the killer had already messed with out perception of time."

"In actuality, Fuyuhiko witnessed Nekomaru at 7 AM."

"That's also the same time Monokuma Tai Chi begins. Nekomaru went to Grape Tower to participate in that."

"However, because the contact elevator was broken, Nekomaru was unable to go to Grape Tower."

"So he decided to try going to Strawberry Tower."

"But the killer was waiting for him there."

"With the power of hamsters, they were able to press the Good Night button on the back of Nekomaru's neck."

"This forced him to enter sleep mode, rendering him immobile."

"From there, the killer began preparing to use the Ultimate Weapon."

"First, they set the alarm in Nekomaru's chest to 7:30 AM so he'd wake up."

"Then they tied him up with a metal wire, tied the tip of the wire into a loop, and hung it on the doorknob."

"After leaving Strawberry Tower, the killer then destroyed the door button to Strawberry Hall."

"They did this to keep up from entering Strawberry Tower..."

"...and to keep us from discovering the secret of the building structure that they used to kill Nekomaru."

"Then, they used the secret Octagon passageway to travel to Grape House."

"After arriving at Grape Hall, they pressed the button to open the door to the tower."

"When that happened, the elevator-like floor of the tower began descending..."

"...and Nekomaru's body was still inside, dangling upside down in midair from the wire."

"The killer entered Grape Tower to see if their setup was successful..."

"...And placed the hammer on the floor to look to like the weapon, then wrapped a chain around the back door."

"This was done to make us falsely believe we couldn't enter the tower from Strawberry Hall."

"With this, the killer finished their setup and tried to go back to their room using the secret passage..."

"...so they could craft their alibi when Nekomaru died from the fall."

"But something unexpected happened. Fuyuhiko, who saw Nekomaru earlier, was still at the lounge."

"As a result, the killer couldn't return to their room and with no options available, time ran out."

"The lounge's wall clock alarm started ringing at 5:30. Well, actually 7:30."

"To avoid a worst-case scenario, the killer was forced to appear in front of Fuyuhiko with the others."

"When the wall clock's alarm rang, that was also the same time Nekomaru was waking up."

"He woke while he was still hanging upside down, so he couldn't help but sway his body powerfully."

"Originally, the loop of wire was only supposed to slip off the door knob."

"But because there was heavier load than expected, the doorknob ended up breaking."

"Nekomaru fell from the fourth floor all the way to the first floor."

"He crashed into the pillar, which decapitated him on impact, and died."

"The sound of Nekomaru's impact echoed throughout the Funhouse."

"I didn't know where that noise came from at the time, but the killer should've known."

"They should've known their Ultimate Weapon trick had succeeded, and that Nekomaru had died."

"However, by this point, the killer's plan was about to fail, thanks to the broken doorknob and Fuyuhiko."

"Meaning the killer is someone who wouldn't have heard the alarm if they were in the deluxe room."

"They also wouldn't have been able to return to their guest room because Fuyuhiko was at the lounge."

"That someone is Gundham Tanaka. I can't think of anyone else but you!"

## Chapter 5 - Smile at Hope in the Name of Despair

"But Nagito's mouth was covered with duct tape, so he wouldn't have been able to confess anything."

"If he was being tortured for information, they wouldn't have taped his mouth like that."

"Trap?"

"But if you tape his mouth shut..."

"How is he supposed to answer anything?!"

"No, there's no doubt Nagito's mouth was covered with duct tape before he was beat up."

"The blood on his face came from his arm wounds."

"Which means the duct tape was on his face before his arms were even wounded."

"I also agree that opening the door is what started the fire."

"No, not wind pressure. They probably used the Monokuma Panels."

"A huge number of tipped-over Monokuma Panels were found at the crime scene, right?"

"It looked like they were scattered everywhere, but some were laying on top of each other in a single line."

"Just a single line leading from the warehouse door to the fire's origin."

"The killer probably arranged those Monokuma Panels to create a domino effect."

"That's probably why they turned off the lights in the warehouse - so we wouldn't notice them."

"You're talking about the MP3 player, right?"

"That hymn blaring throughout the warehouse masked the sound of the falling panels."

"If the panel was so close to the door that it could barely be opened..."

"...the killer inside the warehouse wouldn't be able to leave, right?"

"You don't mean...?!"

"..."

"What if... it was Nagito?!"

"Hold on a sec! Isn't that premise flawed?"

"No, it shouldn't have been both of his arms."

"The rope on his right arm was completely burnt up. Based on that, you can't say he was tied up."

"It burned because of the fire... Like you said, it might look like that..."

"...but that was part of the trap. There's concrete evidence that proves it."

"Take a close look at his right sleeve..."

"Even though the rope was burnt up, his sleeve wasn't burned at all. Wouldn't you agree?"

"A burn like this, no matter how you think about it, is unnatural."

"That rope was burned in advance so it would look like it was burned in the fire."

"Yeah, that should be the case."

"H-Hold on! There should be a way!"

"The life-sized Monokuma plushie! He must have used that to prop the knife!"

"So the blood on the plushie came from Nagito after he stabbed the knife into his own right hand!"

"Alright, let's do this!"

"Hold on. It's still too early to dismiss the possibility that he used his left hand."

"But there was something off about his left hand."

"The blood stain on the palm of his hand... Don't you think it looks somewhat strange?"

"He only had blood on the lower area of his palm. Beyond that point, the blood stain suddenly cuts off, right?"

"When the blood splattered, he was probably gripping with his left hand."

"That's why there's such a strange-looking bloodstain on his palm and the back of his hand."

"Hey Chiaki, what do you think?"

"Hey, don't tell me you're getting sleepy!"

"That's it! Instead of the handle, Nagito must have been holding on to the cord."

"There was a metal weight at the tip of the cord, but there were bloodstains on that part too."

"Plus, the joint between the weight and the cord had a bloodstain shaped like it was cut off by something."

"..."

"How it was positioned...?"

"The spear impaled Nagito as he was laying face-up. It must have been perpendicular to him just before that."

"Nagito probably slung the cord over the ceiling girder, and using that as a support..."

"...he hoistered the spear directly above him."

"And if Nagito let go of the cord, the spear would have fallen and impaled him while he was laying face-up."

"The blood on the cord probably rubbed off on the ceiling girder, as the spear was falling."

"So, how about it? Using this method, Nagito could've impaled himself with the spear."

"I agree. When I was investigating this case, I kept thinking over and over how strange it was."

"Why did the killer use the knife and the spear so differently?"

"He was probably trying to get us to make a mistake."

"By committing a suicide that looked like a murder, he was trying to steer us toward the wrong answer."

"His goal... was to get us all executed!"

"Yeah... that's our Nagito..."

"..."

"No, hold on a sec!"

"..."

"Sorry, just a little more...! I want you guys to wait just a little more..."

"I can't help feel like... there's still something we overlooked."

"That's true, but..."

"Is it about the Monokuma file?"

"In this particular case's Monokuma File, there's no specific cause of death."

"No, I don't think it's a mistake to call Nagito's death a suicide, but..."

"But... it's not JUST a suicide."

"..."

"Come to think of it..."

"Did Nagito really... REALLY commit suicide just to get us all killed?"

"T-That's not what I meant. I mean it in a bad sense."

"I just remember that his malice always defied our expectations... and that concerns me."

"For example, would that malice just end here?"

"Did Nagito's malice drive him to risk his life for a truth we'd reach this easily?"

"I mean, this is Nagito we're talking about, you know?"

"W-What friendship?"

"..."

"That was definitely a gruesome wound, but... It wouldn't be the fatal wound, don't you think?"

"That's it. I totally forgot about that possibility."

"If the cause of death was something we can't see, then we have to consider poison as a possible method."

"I remember... When I went to investigate Nagito's cottage, I discovered something really strange."

"Inside the refrigerator, I found a bottle of Monokuma's Special Poison."

"No, the warning label on the bottle explicitly states the effect is instant."

"Are there any left?"

"What if instead of drinking the poison, we assume he inhaled it?"

"It's written on the poison's warning label..."

" 'Dangerous when vaporized.' In other words, breathing in the gas is fatal."

"The sprinklers in the warehouse. Thanks to those, we didn't inhale that poison gas."

"Yeah... The true cause of Nagito's death was poisoning!"

"The wounds on his body, the spear in his stomach... It was all to keep us from learning the tru-"

"Huh?"

"W-Well... but..."

"Are you talking about the container the poison was kept in?"

"Yeah... that was written on the warning label."

"Then... does that mean someone got rid of the container?"

"..."

"That's no good..."

"I feel like Nagito is seeing through us."

"By calling this 'Nagito's Suicide', we're trying to take the easy way out so we don't hurt anyone else."

"But if Nagito was here right now, he'd probably be sneering at us."

"He'd probably say something like, 'So that's the extent of your hopes!' "

"But... I just can't imagine ending this by turning our backs on the truth...!"

"...!"

"..."

"I see! I got it!"

"The fire grenades!"

"Nagito put the poison inside one of the fire grenade canisters and transported it to the warehouse."

"Yeah, the container with the poison in it wasn't secretly taken away by someone."

"Instead, it was in a container that didn't need to be taken away in the first place."

"As long as he put the poison in the same container he brought to the warehouse..."

"...it can be hidden with the other fire grenades we used, so there's no need to dispose of the container later."

"Yeah, that has to be it!"

"Hold on... Did you say aluminum?"

"If so, then there's no mistake. Nagito definitely swapped the contents of one of the fire grenades."

"Take a look. We found this under Nagito's bed when we were investigating his cottage."

"It's a dangerous poison, after all. He took extreme caution when swapping them."

"Ch-Chiaki?!"

"Realized what?"

"The... horrifying truth?"

"Are you saying... it was when we all threw the fire grenades?!"

"One of us...!"

"Do you know?"

"It was Nagito, obviously. We just discussed this a few minutes ago..."

"That was also Nagito."

"Don't tell me... he...!"

"He set the warehouse on fire just so we'd have to throw the fire grenades?"

"This wasn't an intentional murder! This was a murder that Nagito forced someone to do."

"And for that reason..."

"...he put the fire grenade that he filled with poison with the other grenades!"

"Setting up a murder nobody can solve... That was Nagito's true goal!"

"That... was his trap all along!"

"Even the wounds all over his body. It was all to mess with the evidence for what actually happened!"

"His true goal was creating a murder that nobody can solve!"

"He wanted to prove to us that there are mysteries that just can't be solved with educated guesses."

"It's impossible..."

"Nagito wanted to create a scenario where we couldn't make a decision. That's why we're at an impasse."

"Is there any way to figure out who the killer is?"

"..."

"I got it. Let's do this then."

"The person who actually arranged this incident was... the victim, Nagito Komaeda!"

"He kept a specific item inside his cottage that he needed for his plan..."

"Monokuma's Special Poison, which he brought with him from the Octagon."

"Using the gloves and gas mask that he got from the military base..."

"Nagito swapped the contents of a fire grenade he took from the plushie factory break room with that poison."

"When he did that, a specific item was left as evidence - the blue aluminum seal on the grenade."

"With that, Nagito finished making the poisoned fire grenade, took it with him to the factory..."

"...and put it back with the rest of the grenades in the break room."

"The next morning, Nagito appeared before us and declared that he hid a bomb somewhere."

"While we were looking for the bomb, that's when Nagito headed over to the goods warehouse."

"In order to set up a fire, Nagito arranged the Monokuma Panels in a line going from the door..."

"...to the curtain, and placed an oil lighter in front of it."

"From there, Nagito set his insane plan in motion."

"First, he hung the spear that he took from Nezumi Castle from the ceiling girder by its cord."

"Then he tied his arms and legs at the back of the warehouse with rope."

"However, he burnt off the rope on his right arm beforehand."

"In doing so, he made sure that only his right hand was free, while his remaining arm and legs were tied up."

"As he gripped the tip of the rope hanging over the ceiling girder with his left hand..."

"...he laid down face-up, just beneath the dangling spear."

"But this was just the beginning of Nagito's plan, and then he did something no one could have predicted."

"First, he covered his mouth with duct tape, and after making sure he was unable to scream..."

"...he stabbed himself with the knife multiple times in his left arm and in both of his thighs."

"Finally..."

"He propped the knife on the plushie, and slammed his right hand onto the blade."

"He didn't just want us to think he was tied up. He also wanted us to think he'd been tortured."

"Through all this, Nagito never let go of the spear."

"His plan still wasn't over. In fact, it was just about to begin."

"Meanwhile, we finally arrived at the plushie factory and found Nagito's message."

"After seeing his message, we instantly made our way to the warehouse."

"But that was part of Nagito's plan."

"We opened the door to the warehouse, which inadvertedly started the Monokuma Panel domino effect."

"The panels fell one after another, until they reached the lighter, tipped it over, and ignited the curtain."

"Shocked by the sudden fire, we rushed to the factory's break room to obtain some fire-extinguishing grenades."

"We then aimed for the fire's origin point, which was the curtain, and unloaded the entire supply."

"It never occured to us that one of those grenades was the poisoned grenade that Nagito had prepared."

"The poison sank to the floor, instantly vaporizing due to the intense heat, and spread everywhere."

"The poison gas quickly drifted to the curtain at the back of the warehouse, where Nagito was."

"Also, Monokuma's poison has a unique quality in which it becomes heavier than air when vaporized."

"That poison gas completely surrounded the area where Nagito laid face-up on the floor."

"There, Nagito inhaled the poison, and if it didn't instantly kill him, he certainly lost consciousness."

"Which caused him to let go of the rope in his left hand, and the falling spear plunged into his stomach."

"This is all the information related to Nagito's plan."

"His true intention was to set one of us up as the killer."

"At this time, we still don't know who the killer is, because the killer wasn't aware they killed someone."

"Try as we might, we cannot reach that truth. That was Nagito's trap."

"In conclusion, the fact that we can't determine the killer's identity..."

"...is the true form of Nagito's malice!"

"This should be the truth behind Nagito's trap."

"Nagito believed in his talent as the Ultimate Lucky Student."

"..."

"You're right. The same thing happened when he cleared the Final Dead Room at the Funhouse."

"But his luck doesn't have anything to do with the case this time, right?"

"Who... is it? Who's the target Nagito was after?"

"That's it! The traitor! Nagito was after the traitor, huh?"

"The only thing we CAN do is believe."

"Huh?"

"Ch-Chiaki?"

"You want us... to guess?"

"What? What does that mean?"

"W-Why?"

"Why?!"

"WHY?!"

"Seriously, why?!"

"I-It's... you...?"

"Chiaki... you're the traitor?"

"W-Why?"

"Favor? Me?"

"What?"

"What are you saying? Why do I have to do that?"

"Whether I can prove it or not, that's not the problem!"

"Don't you understand? You may aswell be asking me to kill you!"

"I... There's no way I can do that...!"

"Tch...!"

"..."

"When we investigated Nagito's cottage, I discovered a notebook with an Usami logo on it."

"That's... your notebook, right? The one Nagito stole from you."

"Nagito was probably looking for that too, so that might be why he stole that notebook..."

"But you wouldn't know who the traitor just by reading this notebook. Of course, Nagito wouldn't know either..."

"However, it's different for me."

"It took me this long, but I finally understand..."

"First of all, this isn't Monomi's diary. Apparently, she can't write."

"Someone connected to Monomi... Meaning, it's not a mistake to think that the traitor wrote it."

"Because... there's an entry written in here than only me and one other person would know."

"In the notebook, there was a specific entry..."

"There it is... It's true, I tried to go inside the Final Dead Room..."

"But the only one who knew that..."

"That's right... The only person who knew that is... Chiaki."

"That's why Chiaki is the only person who could've possibly written about this."

"Chiaki probably knew the bomb was a fake. That's why she also knew Nagito's trap was a bluff."

"Of course not!"

"But... then nobody will be saved!"

"That's not it! Sonia shouldn't have been the only one who knew it was a fake."

"Monomi was also there when you found out the bomb at the military base wasn't real."

"You said so yourself."

"Chiaki heard about it from Monomi. That's why she knew the bomb was a fake."

"Sonia...!"

"Knowing it was a fake isn't the problem."

"What matters is who told her."

"What matters is that she heard about it from Monomi!"

"You're right... Monokuma probably knew the bomb was a fake."

"But Monokuma shouldn't have told anyone either..."

"No, he won't lie at times like this. You already know that."

"That's... not it..."

"That's not it..."

"I'm telling you that's not it!"

"We shouldn't believe in Monokuma OR Nagito!"

"We have to believe in Chiaki!"

"It doesn't matter who the traitor is..."

"Even if Chiaki is the traitor, that's not the Chiaki I know!"

"I believe in... the Chiaki who's been with us this whole time."

"That Chiaki is saying she wants to protect us with her life!"

"So the only thing we can do is believe her! If we don't, nobody's going to be saved!"

"H-Hey... Chiaki..."

"..."

## Chapter 6 - This is the End Goodbye Academy of Despair

"This world... This Jabberwok Island we're on..."

"H-Hey...!"

"But... We're not just regular avatars, right?"

"What was removed from us... was our school memories, right?"

"Earlier, in the Teacher's Lounge, I found this strange newspaper clipping."

"There was a picture of Hiyoko, but she looked more like an adult than the Hiyoko we knew..."

"Since we're avatars right now, we look exactly as we did before we entered the school."

"But in the real world, we've already lived out our school lives."

"Which means we've grown that much older... And among us, some aged so much we didn't recognize them..."

"..."

"Hey, Fuyuhiko. You knew Peko for a long time, right?"

"So if our brains believe something is real, it's no different than if it actually happened?"

"Of course, that's also a virtual world."

"That sea, that beach, the buildings, everything... It's all a virtual world created by the Neo World Program."

"It's just like the space we're in right now."

"What we see before us is a virtual environment created by the program."

"It looks real because our brains think it's real."

"What game?! That's not what we risked our lives for!"

"Originally, in the world created by the Neo World Program, a concept like violence never existed."

"The virus that invaded this program is forcing us to kill each other."

"She was the observer of the Neo World Program. Isn't that right?"

"He was probably excluding the other observer."

"Aside from the fifteen participants, there were two observers in the Neo World Program."

"One of them was Monomi, and the other one was..."

"Yeah, you're right..."

"..."

"No, that's not it! Chiaki was really alive!"

"Even if she was a virtual existence, she was really alive!"

"Did you forget? She saved our lives, you know!"

"Sh-Shut up!"

"Hey, what do you mean, 'those of us here'? Why are you lumping us with you?!"

"..."

"Monokuma... What exactly ARE you?"

"Why don't you... just show us your true self already?"

"M-Main cast...?"

"Huh?"

"Aren't we the fifteen survivors of Hope's Peak Academy, who were rescued by the Future Foundation?"

"C-Could it be...?! The survivors of Hope's Peak Academy and the Remnants of Ultimate Despair are..."

"We're all... Ultimate Despair?"

"Th-That was... us...?"

"That's right... There's no way... there's no way we're all Ultimate Despair..."

"N-Nagito...?! Why are you bringing him up all of a sudden?"

"Was it that file that contained all our student profiles? But inside...!"

"Wh-Why...? Why do you know something like that...?"

"He tried... to kill everyone except for the traitor!"

"Th-There must be some kind of mistake! There's no way we're Ultimate Despair..."

"H-He's right! There's no way we'd do something like that!"

"...Ugh!"

"..."

"If that memory I felt was actually a memory from the real world... What Nagito did was..."

"H-He cut off his own arm... and transplanted a woman's arm?!"

"J-JUST STOOOOOOOOOP!"

"Wait... Can we have some time to decide...?"

"No, it's not that... Don't you think this is a little strange?"

"I knew it..."

"Just as I thought... there's something wrong with you!"

"Hold on! Did you say it's foolish to defy the Future Foundation?"

"Then how do you explain your actions?!"

"I saw it... The e-mail that the Future Foundation sent to you..."

"In that e-mail, Makoto Naegi defied the Future Foundation to protect the Remnants of Despair!"

"Which clearly contradicts what this person is saying!"

"Tell me, Makoto Naegi! Who are you?!"

"I-I'm not asking you! I'm asking..."

"Makoto Naegi... If that's who you really are, then tell me this!"

"Why did you make the password to Nezumi Castle 11037?"

"...You can't answer?!"

"Wh-Who cares?! So how about it?! Can you even answer?!"

"That fake was trying to get us out to the real world!"

"Then that's your plan? Is that where your trap is?"

"...Ugh!"

"Wh-What... What's going on...?!"

"A-Are you... Junko Enoshima?!"

"..."

"The countdown at Jabberwok Park... That's the only place we can think of."

"That's the only place we consistently watched that has anything to do with time."

"W-Wrong...?! Then what was it?!"

"What you're saying now is completely different from what you said before!"

"You said whether or not it's a lie, the moment you feel something is real, it becomes real."

"H-Hey..."

"If we go back, what do you get out of it?"

"What benefit do you get by making us return to the real world? Aslong as we don't know what it is..."

"Ch-Chump...?"

"R-Real?"

"Hey, just what do you mean by 'trap'? What is Junko's trap?"

"What?"

"Then... why didn't you just kill all of us?"

"If you did, you could've taken over all of our bodies. Wouldn't that have been more convenient for you?"

"I got it! It's because of the school trip's rules."

"However, according to the rules of the school trip, even Usami had to follow them!"

"That's why when Junko took over her position, she had no choice but to follow the rules aswell."

"So that's your trap..."

"You tried to make us choose graduate so you can take over everyone's body with the graduation program!"

"S-So you're saying you only exist... to fill people with despair?"

"Are you talking about... the Reserve Course's mass suicide?"

"An incident where 2,357 people from the Reserve Course all killed themselves. Junko probably made them do it..."

"If we choose Graduate to get out of here, the graduation program will activate, right?"

"Are you talking about the Shutdown Sequence?"

"As I recall, you said it was a command that not even the teacher can stop!"

"Because... there's not enough people?"

"No, it's probably not just that."

"You guys... are the survivors of the Killing School Life who previously defeated Junko, right?"

"...Hey, can I ask you something?"

"If we do shut down the program... What will happen to us?"

"H-Hold on a second! If we go back to our original selves before we entered the program..."

"D-Does that mean we'll go back to being Ultimate Despair?"

"Are you kidding around?!"

"I got it. You used the surveillance cameras!"

"You were trying to lure the Future Foundation by showing them the footage you were recording, weren't you?"

"In the previous Killing School Life, the surveillance camera footage was broadcast outside of the school."

"You used the cameras that were placed throughout the entire island for the same purpose!"

"T-Trapped? Why would that happen?!"

"As I recall, we also need the teacher's final decision."

"Why not?"

"M-Mastermind?"

"Izuru Kamukura? Isn't that the name of the founder of Hope's Peak Academy?"

"It was written on the placard beneath the portrait of the academy's founder."

"That name... It was definitely Izuru Kamukura, right?"

"The Future Foundation... might know something, right?"

"Wh-What? I am... what...?"

"..."

"H-Huh??"

"Hold on! Seriously, what are you talking about?!"

"Th-There's no doubt I'm Hajime Hinata!"

"I've always had that name, ever since I was born!"

"Created hope... Are you talking about the Hope Cultivation Plan?"

"Izuru Kamukura... Project...?"

"Wh-Why... me...?"

"What?"

"L-Lies! That's... definitely a lie...!"

"...Gh!"

"Huh??"

"Huh?!"

"..."

"D-Dis... appear...?"

"...Ahh...ahhhhh...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Was that... me...?"

"N-No...! That... that's not me...!"

"I-It's not me...!"

"..."

"Th-Then... I-I..."

"I-I see... I just need to choose 'Graduate' then... huh..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"I can't do it..."

"I... can't choose..."

"You guys are telling us the world's going to be destroyed unless we sacrifice ourselves..."

"And that... I can't decide... I can't... choose either one..."

"Shut up! Leave me alone!"

"This... this is just too much...!"

"Why do I... Why do I have to be a part of this...?!"

"I mean, I'm different from the rest of you... And I don't even have a talent..."

"But even so... I got dragged into this... And now... my existence is going to disappear?"

"Ha... hahaha, I don't understand it at all."

"It's impossible!"

"For someone like me... it's impossible... I can't choose the future...!"

"Hope... despair... do whatever you want! It's not my problem!"

"Hahaha, after all this time?!"

"..."

"Who... are you?"

"Chiaki...? Is that you...? Why are you here...?"

"Does this mean you're my memory of Chiaki? Because... you should have already disappeared..."

"...Oh well, it doesn't matter."

"Anyway... don't you think they're messed up?"

"Telling us the world's going to be destroyed and to sacrifice ourselves...? There's no way I can choose..."

"For someone like me... I'm just not able to choose..."

"Seriously... I've had enough... I'm tired of being mixed up in all this stuff I don't understand..."

"Not only was I told that I have no talent at all, but if I get out, I'll go back to being Ultimate Despair..."

"And on top of that... I was told I'm going to disappear too. Isn't that messed up?"

"...Hey, you don't want that either, right?"

"I mean, if we lose our memories, there won't be a single trace of your existence left."

"You're going to completely disappear... and none of us will ever remember you..."

"...Huh?"

"Y-You're right but..."

"Yeah... I'm scared..."

"I'm obviously terrified... of that..."

"..."

"Huh?!"

"B-But... even Hope's Peak Academy tricked me..."

"..."

"...Wrong?"

"Y-You..."

"Hey, who are you? I mean... you should've already disappeared, right...?"

"..."

"Hey Chiaki... can you tell me something?"

"Which... Which choice should I make?"

"My hope... the world's hope... Which one should I choose?"

"So you're saying... I should choose for myself?"

"Create...?"

"Do you think someone like me... can do that?"

"I-If I do it, things will turn out okay..."

"B-But... this isn't a game, right?"

"Help...?"

"I have no talent at all..."

"I was even betrayed by the academy I admired so much..."

"I don't want to disappear..."

"I'm not Izuru Kamukura..."

"Who cares what will happen to the world...?"

"I don't want to sacrifice myself..."

"It's not like I'll be appreciated anyway..."

"There's no way we can beat Junko!"

"It's the Future Foundation's fault..."

"Not mine..."

"I can't choose the future..."

"Ah, that reminds me..."

"I forgot to say it again..."

"There won't just be hope... There will probably be a lot of despair too..."

"I don't know what kind of future awaits us..."

"...but our futures are ours! I won't let anyone take them!"

"I've decided... I'm done running away..."

"I will fight for my future! I will fight alongside the future that everyone created for me!"

"It's not for anyone else's sake but my own!"

"I... am not Izuru Kamukura..."

"I am Hajime Hinata!"

"Everyone... let's shut this game down...!"

"There's never only one choice to make... There's no way I'll allow things to end this way."

"The future everyone has created for us should have more possibilities than that."

"Let's leave this place with confidence, and from there we can just create it on our own."

"...The future that we want!"

"It wouldn't be strange if a miracle happened..."

"This isn't a game! We can change the future as much as we want!"

"Because we believe..."

"We believe in our future... That's what makes us different from you..."

"We believe that if we try new things, even difficult things, that everything will turn out okay."

"We believe we can even create our own futures!"

"..."

"I'm not... the one you should be thanking."

"...Well, let's get started."

"And from that point on... we're the ones who are going to create."

"You're right..."

"Time's almost up..."

"That's a relief... but make sure you hold back as much as you can."

"Thank you..."

"Thank you, Chiaki..."

"Phew... I finally said it."

## Miscellaneous Voicelines

"I see!"

"I can prove it with this!"

"Here!"

"You're the only one!"

"This is my answer!"

"No, that's wrong!"

"I'll shoot through that contradiction!"

"I agree with that!"

"That must be it!"

"This world...!"

"Even so...!"

"Even so, I...!"

"I'll never let anyone choose again!"

"That may be..."

"And what's wrong with that?"

"No, that's not it!"

"I'm not convinced!"

"That's...!"

"What does that mean?"

"Continue!"

"But still!"

"Let me hear that from the beginning again..."

"Let me hear your thoughts again..."

"I can't back down!"

"Allow me to cut through those words!"

"I'll survive into the unseen future!"

"I got it!"

"It's all coming together!"

"This is the end!"

"Here's everything that happened in this case!"

"Crap!"

"Damn it!"

"I-It's wrong?!"

"Ngh...!"

"This is my... OUR end?!"

"Is it going to end here?! Without seeing the truth OR the future?!"

"We will never give up!"

"No matter what happens, we will keep moving forward until the very end!"

"I agree!"

"I will cut this!"

"No, that's wrong!"

"I'm not so special that I have to introduce myself, and formalities are always a little embarrassing..."

"Well, this is what's expected... I guess that's how I should think about it."

"My name is Hajime Hinata."

"There's only one reason I came to Hope's Peak Academy... Because I admired Hope's Peak Academy."

"To me, attending Hope's Peak Academy is like being a celebrity or a superhero."

"In fact, instead of calling it admiration, it's more like... it's always been a dream of mine."

"That's why, to feel like a member of society, to become someone I can be proud of, I always wanted to..."

"Huh?"

"...Eh?"

"Ah, um..."

"Ah, then... you're all...?"

"Huh?"

"What? What the hell is this?"

"Hey, you guys! Don't forget about me!"

"Hey hey, wait for me! Let me join in the fun!"

"Wait, huh?"

"Can you even call that tripping?"

"H-Hey! What are you doing?"

"S-Seriously? How do you trip and land like that?"

"H-Hey, what are you doing?"

"Under the floor? Why?"

"Is someone watching me?"

"So this is the new island..."

"The ambience seems different, compared to the first island with the hotel."

"I didn't come here to talk to you. I just came to bring you some food."

"So come on. Eat it."

"Wh-What do you mean?!"

"Huh? Why do you know that?"

"D-Don't change the subject! I'm asking you-"

"W-Well... That is..."

"I don't wanna be tricked by you anymore. Bye now."

"Isn't that... Hiyoko?"

"Doesn't she... seem a little strange?"

"...A little swimming?"

"Huh?"

"If you didn't see anything after you swam for three hours, it's more than difficult. It's impossible."

"Ugh... ughghghgh...!"

"Y-You...! You're a lot heavier than I expected!"

"A massage, huh? Do you have a trainer or something since you're the Ultimate Gymnast?"

"So... how's the window?"

"D-Did you find anything?!"

"Ch-Check it out? Hold on... I'll give it a try...!"

"Then... it's not impossible to go in and out of that window?"

"Is he gonna be okay?!"

"So this is the third island... The ambience is completely different compared to the previous islands."

"F-Fuyuhiko... Are you alright?"

"...Fuyuhiko?! Is it okay for you to be moving around like this so soon?!"

"Fuyuhiko!"

"A-Akane...!"

"I-I can't breathe?!"

"Ughhh... Mikan?"

"Ugh... M-Move... I... I can't breathe...!"

"I-I can't believe it!"

"Urgh... Mikan... again?!"

"H-Hurry up... and move!"

"I... I.... I can't breathe!"

"Huh? What the-"

"No matter how we look at it, this isn't you at all!"

"Is this... an amusement part?"

"That just makes it look even creepier..."

"Is that... a clock?"

"I-Is this... gas?!"

"Didn't I tell you?"

"So this is the last island..."

"I guess it has an ambience befitting of a final island..."

"Wh-What do you mean?!"

"It sure is... dark."

"That's not it. It looks like the sprinkers activated!"

"I see! So that's why you're the only one who knew the bombs at the military base were fake..."

" 'Just my information,' my ass."

"I can't believe he told such a weird lie..."

"Details?"

"Then... it's impossible to obtain new clues from them."

"The file! His name isn't in there, right?"

"There's supposed to be sixteen names worth of profiles, but his name is the only one missing, right?"

"Byakuya. I'm talking about Byakuya Togami."

"Look carefully! No matter where I look, I don't see his name anywhere."

"Is this... a trial ground?"

"But why... am I at a trial ground?"

"And so... the ordeal has ended."

"And from here, our daily lives have started."

"Lives that are much more absurd, nonsensical, and irrational than before..."

"Things are... probably gonna be a lot more difficult now."

"There's no such thing as an answered mystery."

"It's doubtful whether or not things will even end well."

"The future isn't a path. It's like an endless sea..."

"You can try to go anywhere..."

"But it doesn't mean you'll get there."

"Even so, I will keep on living..."

"I will keep on living as Hajime Hinata."

"My future... lies here."