Death Defying Mystic Torture Box

**Death Defying Mystic Torture Box** is the name of Noboru Kyoyama's execution, as featured in Dangan Ronpa: Forever Despair.

## Sequence

*Excerpt taken from Chapter 44 of Dangan Ronpa: Forever Despair*

Just like always, Monobear started by whacking his big red button with his big cartoony mallet. Just like always, the platform with the button on it displayed an animation, this time with Monobear dragging Kyoyama-kun off the screen in 8-bit. And just like always, words filled in the screen, this time saying, “GAME OVER. Kyoyama-kun has been found guilty. Now commencing execution.” A chain shot out of the wall and grabbed Kyoyama-kun by the neck before removing him from the courtroom.

When we looked to the projector, we saw first a close-up of Kyoyama-kun’s face, but the scene quickly panned out to show he was standing on the roof of an enormous building…at least twenty stories, from the brief look we were able to get of it. Not only that, Kyoyama-kun had even more chains on him than before; in addition to the shackle around his neck, he had one around each of his wrists and ankles, with chains attached to them. Although, where the chains were connected to was still a mystery…

Within a few seconds, though, the chains started to retract, pulling Kyoyama-kun toward the edge of the roof. He resisted weakly, but the force of the chains quickly dragged him off. Only once he started falling, we got to see the ground, which was almost entirely hard concrete, and I could see the chains were attached to stakes there. The only reason they were retracting was because they were being pulled down by five teams of Monobears, one for each chain.

As Kyoyama-kun neared the ground, still thrashing in midair, another team of Monobears hefted a big rectangular frame toward the big building and set it down on the ground. It was like the frame of a box, made of metal bars but without any actual sides, but it had a cushiony-looking block of foam on the bottom. It was a little taller than the height of a person…

And Kyoyama-kun fell straight into the top of it. He hit the block of foam, which…I guess padded his fall, but he still looked awfully disoriented. The chains stuck out of the openings in the frame, but the Monobear teams quickly closed up the box with vinyl sheets, encasing Kyoyama-kun inside this trap.

At that point, the camera panned out once again, showing another mechanism just a few meters away from the box—a pulley system holding a large collection of terrifying-looking blades suspended in midair. There were all different types of blades, from swords to large knives, and they made me shudder to look at. It also appeared that the blades were only being suspended thanks to a single Monobear holding a rope in place. The Monobear was holding a stopwatch, and for a split second we saw it was counting down from 30 seconds.

Right after that, the scene changed to show us Kyoyama-kun inside the box. He pulled harshly at the chains for a seconds, but seemed to realize they weren’t just going to come off. So instead, he worked on undoing them—by twisting his hand in just the right way, he was able to undo the shackle on his right wrist, and then he used his free right hand to unshackle his left wrist.

Outside, all the Monobears watched the box while the one holding the rope swayed from side to side. The stopwatch showed there were only 15 seconds left until…probably something terrible. Back in the box, Kyoyama-kun managed to free his left ankle, and then his right, but when he moved to undo the chain on his neck he seemed to have more trouble. The scene alternated rapidly between the stopwatch, which was at 5 seconds now, and Kyoyama-kun, still trying to break the last shackle.

4 seconds left, and Kyoyama-kun’s face was turning red. 3 seconds left, and the Monobears all started laughing to themselves. 2 seconds left, Kyoyama-kun finally got the chain open. 1 second left, and he pushed the front panel of the box open with all his strength…

But the Monobear holding the rope became startled by the sudden movement, and let go of the rope.

The blades swung forward at the box, pinning the door closed with Kyoyama-kun still inside…and we didn’t see Kyoyama-kun after that except for his silhouette against the vinyl sheet, immobile inside the box.

When the projector shut off, no one said a single word.