Puzzle of the Flesh

**Puzzle of the Flesh** is the name of Ruri Bessho's execution, as featured in Danganronpa: Operation V.K..

This execution was never executed, as Ruri never became a participant in the killing game. However, it was discovered behind the Server Room in Compound vK, and the surviving participants were able to view a demo for how the execution would proceed.

## Sequence

*Excerpt taken from Chapter 79 of Danganronpa: Operation V.K.*

With a tap of the 'Explanation' button, the console's screen lit up, and from it, an obnoxious-sounding song that was presumably supposed to be Monokuma's theme began to play as the bear himself appeared on the screen. “Hiya, kids!” He said. “It's your friendly neighborhood headmaster, Monokuma! Now, I have no idea why anyone would be watching this, but I get it, I get it. Maybe something went wrong, maybe our illustrious mastermind is just too stupid to remember how these executions work. Maybe you're the police or something. Whatever! The point is, you clicked the button because you were curious how *Puzzle of the Flesh,* the execution designed for Ruri Bessho, Ultimate Data Analyst, is supposed to work. Well, say no more! Allow yours truly to give you an easy-to-understand explanation for dummies!”

On the screen came another one of his little drawings from the Classrooms, depicting Girl B standing in a trial room, where, on the other side, Girl N, Boy T, and Boy A slammed their desks and pointed their arms at her, selecting her as the culprit. “Our patented MK-Brand The Claw whisks away the murderous Bessho through our many, many passages.” Monokuma explained as the ever-present claw came out and did just that. “She's brought in here, and slapped into the manacles you see before you, to prevent escape.”

The monitors in the explanation lit up. “Miss Bessho is tasked with taking all of this data here out of one side and ensuring it's properly inputted to the other various screens around here. All the while, I, Monokuma,” and Monokuma poked his head in from above, “am controlling the wires you see before you. Each time a mistake is made, I take my wires like, *wha-psh*!” The on-screen Monokuma sent a wire spinning around Girl B's arm. “And tie her up a bit more.”

Eventually, Girl B was completely tied up by the web of wires, and removed from the manacles to be slammed against the server wall. “The wires you see before you punish Miss Bessho for her actions by slowly squeezing her harder and harder, cutting off the circulation to various parts of her body and strangling her! But simple wire strangulation murder is so *gauche*, so once she's losing some of the oxygen to her brain and her eyes are squeezing out of her skull a bit, I liven things up by flipping a lever that sends *metric buttloads* of electricity through the wires! Since a few of them have no doubt made abrasions, the electricity even gets into her body, and Ruri Bessho goes up like a light! The electric current is so powerful it cuts off the broadcast, and your audience is left pondering as to the state of that charbroiled corpse, filling their nightmares for ages.”

The video cut off, rolling a short credits list thanking the composer of the Monokuma theme and basically nobody else.