Persona non Grata

**Persona non Grata** is the name of Claus Toranosuke's execution, as featured in Danganronpa: Operation V.K..

This execution was never executed, as Claus never killed another player. However, it was discovered behind Class 5-B in Compound vK, and two surviving participants were able to view a demo for how the execution would proceed.

## Sequence

*Excerpt taken from Chapter 90 of Danganronpa: Operation V.K.*

Inside the door was what looked like... a school headmaster's office, leaving exceedingly little doubt as to whose execution this was. Gavin and Claus both stared at each other for a moment, rolling their eyes and smirking. Nice, dull blue carpeting, plain-looking walls, a Japanese flag, a mahogany desk, all that good stuff. The terminal was at the desk, so Claus sat down at it and took a moment to luxuriate in the wonderfully comfortable chair. “Great!” Claus said. “Good chair. Its comfort level is quite high.” Anyway, then he pushed the button, but the instant Monokuma appeared against a background of a waving American flag, he threw up his hands, yelled, “Come on!” and stomped away. “You do it!” He yelled at Gavin.

Gavin awkwardly sat down in the chair and started watching. “...*Persona non Grata*, the execution we've planned for Claus Toranosuke, the Ultimate Principal!” He tuned into Monokuma saying.

Nanako, Junko, Yashiro, The Claw, Claus at the desk. He stared down at a paper, sweat on his brow. “Hope's Peak Academy (Science Building) has been struck by an unfortunate incident.” Monokuma explained. “A *criminal lawsuit*, from its headmaster's brutal murder of, open bracket insert person here close bracket!” His narration paused for a moment as, from the window behind the desk, shouting began to be heard.

A gaggle of service drones, dressed up in little 'average citizen' outfits to represent the teeming masses, swarmed in through the door, holding picket signs, saying, 'IMPEACH TORANOSUKE!', 'TORANOSUKE FOR PRISON 2196', 'THIS TIGER SHOULD STAY ENDANGERED', and other such catchy political slogans. They quickly began advancing on Claus's area, and he backed away slightly in his swivel chair until another army of 'secret agents' or something- they were wearing little suits, what else could Gavin say- began pushing them back.

Claus was ferried with his chair through the wave of drones into a secret passage in the ground, taking him slightly downward into what appeared to be a faux parking lot. Before long, he was shuffled into a black van with tinted windows. “Sorry, had a bit of an interruption from a Complainey Janey in the background. Where are we? Ah, yes. So they put him in the van in order to escape from the angry masses.”

The camera zoomed out, though, to a higher encampment, where a stealthy drone sat carrying a cute little sniper rifle. “Unfortunately for him, though, there's an assassin after him, too! Probably also an angry parent or something. But wait!”

Then, there was another drone with a gun behind the sniper drone. “There's a second assassin too! Now they have to do battle in order to determine who gets the honor!” They started battling each other in a frantic match of gun-kata, until a third assassin jumped out of nowhere with a katana and cut the guns in half. The handgun drone, though, seemed to know martial arts, so it punched (how? look, drones can do a lot,) the sword out of that drone's hand, only for it to be caught by a grappling hook launched by a fourth drone. All the while, the van was being started up.

This almost nonsensical comedy of errors only escalated once the twelfth drone produced its naginata, only for Monokuma to appear on the ground, roll his eyes, and pull out a gatling gun. “Hitmen. Can't ask 'em to do anything.” He revved up his gatling gun, planted it on the van's tinted window, and unloaded, firing bullet after bullet after bullet into the van's interior, right where Claus had been placed. When he ran out of bullets, he caught more guns from the battle of the drone hitmen, planting their bullets into the gatling gun to continue firing. The amount of bloodstains coming out of the other side of the van was *almost* comical.

The van stopped again, and a driver drone came out of the van, stared at Monokuma, and handed him a restraining order. Monokuma sighed, shrugged, and walked away, leaving his gatling gun right there. “And that's the story of how I was banned from all Japanese schools ever.” Claus grumped a bit in the corner in response. Oh, so he was watching after all.