The Chief

**The Chief** (主任, lit. *Shunin*) is an antagonist featured in *Danganronpa: Togami*. She's a member of the Hasegawa Research Institute, specifically the Chief of its Hokkaido Branch, which is an organization that tried to capture Byakuya Togami during the World Domination Proclamation.

## Appearance

The Chief is described as an elementary aged girl in a lab coat.

## Personality

Compared to her level-headed partner Subordinate Kanai, the Chief acts incredibly immature and hyperactive, often calling others 'punk'. She's immensely proud of her own intellect and often boasts about it to others, though at times her impulsivity and scatterbrained nature could lead to her taking near fatal actions (like drinking the tea she poisoned). According to her, she has known Czech since she was two and has an impressive memory, able to recount her own order down to the specific store. She claims that due to her being a genius, her brain burns more calories than normal, thus requiring her to take sugar to replenish herself or else she becomes hypoglycemic. She has no qualms in doing unethical means of gaining information, such as kidnapping, if it could get her results and has equally no problem if her methods results in someone being killed.

## History

### World Domination Proclamation

During the 'World Domination Proclamation', Subordinate Kanai and the Chief appeared at the Church of Bones operating the Uragan, in order to help with the mission to capture Byakuya Togami. There they used the Uragan's air attacks to attack Sonia Nevermind and Kazuichi Soda's mech. They traded attacks, but the mech had started to get the upperhand on them until Sakura Ogami intercepted the fight, and defeated their opponent with her powerful strength. During this time, the duo was joined by Taeko Kanai who began trading blows against Sakura, whilst they themselves added to the fight by using the Uragan to kick up dirt, thus preventing Sakura from finishing off Taeko. Thanks to their dust attacks obscuring Sakura's vision and hollowing out the ground, Taeko is able to scatter landmines around the area in order to trap Sakura. Thus, giving the Institute a way to capture Byakuya and Yuika with their Fullton systems. With their objective complete, the Institute members leaves as the Church of Bones collapses.

There they transported the captives over to their headquarters at Dretsky's Island, which has an old school campus. At this location, both set Byakuya outside at a white table in order to interrogate him. Both Subordinate Kanai and the Chief tried to threaten Byakuya to spill on what he knew about the Worst Incident in the History of the Togami Family and, especially, about the secret to the Togami Corporation's prosperity. Byakuya refused and thus they tried to force the secrets out with a tea laced with a fatal truth serum. In reality, Byakuya managed to avoid ingesting the serum with use of some fake skin and pouch that was similar to the Gola Del Prete, but to avoid being found out he spilled some information regarding the secret of the Togami Corporation being the Kudan and learning about the the murderous events surrounding the 'Legacy Crown Championship' and that it that required Byakuya and Blue Ink to use the Kudan to resolve such an incident. Eventually, Byakuya pretended to succumb to the serum, which is when Blue Ink arrived.

When Blue Ink arrived, both introduced themselves to her and Subordinate Kanai was ordered by the Chief to recount the events prior to her arrival (though not before giving her a Rokkatei Marusei Butter Sandwich to stabilize her and urging the Chief to get on with things rather than brag about her genius). This recounting also reveals the Institute's stance on wanting to know everything and anything, how they wanted to learn more about the Togami Family for a while (but didn't want to risk a fight with them until the Proclamation), Kanai promising to get the Chief Ovocný Světozor's pomerančový dort se zakysanou smetanou when she starts destabilizing, and covering the fact that they poisoned Byakuya to get the truth regarding the incident relating to the 'Legacy Crown Championship' and the Kudan. From there, they requested Blue Ink to give them her account of the incident or else she would be force fed the truth serum (which no longer has an antidote thanks to the Chief taking it after accidentally ingesting the poisoned tea). After some deliberation, Blue Ink refuses and runs off. Unfortunately for the Institute members, crossing the bridge happened to be a newly awakened, former Super High School Level Hitman, Suzuhiko Otsuki who went on a rampage cutting everything on the island in half from trash cans to his own jeep. This included the duo as well, with the Chief being sliced in half vertically, with Blue Ink noting her innards were spilling out.

### K2K System

It's later revealed that Hasegawa Research Institute doesn't exist and it was only a product of the K2K System overlaying the characters from the Kagami Family Saga over actual people. Instead, the people affiliated with it are from the pharmaceutical company known as the Kasamori Drug Manufacturers. As a result of this, the true appearance, personality and name of the one known as the Chief is unknown.