Mastermind Kaede Akamatsu

## Aliases and Titles

Ultimate Despair
Ultimate Pianist (fake)

Mastermind

## Killing Game Status

Alive, Still Making Killing Games Alongside Shuichi

## Personality

Kaede is still the same, very kind and confident. Except, this time she actually manages to commit the murder in the first chapter, and Shuichi ends up not finding out. plus, instead Tsumugi Shirogane is executed (falsely) for murdering Rantaro Amami. Kaede makes sure she doesn’t mess up at all, which Shuichi Saihara basically “helps” her with. She is a little manipulative, often dragging Shuichi with her. Kaede started the killing game due to wanting to feel despair. She currently has a crush on Shuichi, which she knows he most likely doesn’t feel the same way, and so due to that she plans never to confess.

## Killing Game

### Chapter 1

She of course fakes waking up in a locker, of course still in the same classroom as Shuichi Saihara, pretending to be shocked. Later when Shuichi reports to Kaede about the secret room in the library thing, Kaede makes sure to be more careful, and avoids using the hidden door to enter the secret room.

### Chapter 6

Once Kiibo, Keebo, or K1-B0 starts destroying the school, Kaede gets very annoyed at him ready to kill him. However, she decides not to as she knows Shuichi will be sad. When Shuichi decides to redo the first trial, this makes Kaede happy due to his smartness and a little worried he might find out the truth of the case. Once Shuichi begins suspecting Kaede as the mastermind, she decides to just give up, knowing she'll get nowhere no matter what she does.

### Epilogue

Kaede ends up executing K1-B0, Himiko, and Maki. Leaving only herself and Shuichi to live. Kaede makes sure to never let him escape, and once he finally decides to not run away from her and try to like her, they both then end up just continuing killing games, and soon Kaede lets Shuichi take over some when she knows she can fully trust him.

## Relationships

### Shuichi Saihara

The two wake up in the same classroom, and become best friends later on. Unexpectingly, Kaede ends up developing a crush on him within chapter 3, which she knows he most likely doesn’t feel the same way, and so due to that she plans never to confess. She adores his hope to escape.

### Kokichi Ouma

Kaede finds Kokichi as an interesting antagonist, however sometimes is a little annoyed by his actions. For example, when he pretended to be the mastermind. She ended up loving the despair he gave to Gonta and the others. Kaede started getting a little worried for Kokichi when Maki kept attempting to strangle him.

### Tenko Chabashira

Like in the real game, Kaede still flirts with Tenko a lot. However, most kind things she says about Tenko are lies to get her to like her.

### Tsumugi Shirogane

In the beginning, Kaede found Tsumugi annoying by usually ignoring her or Shuichi whenever they wanted to talk to her. Kaede was quite disappointed in Tsumugi when she committed the first murder, but also happy due to someone finally committing a murder, which made Kaede like her a little more. In the other chapters, Kaede is usually sad Tsumugi died so early.

### Maki Harukawa

Kaede and Maki are good friends, and Kaede loved the amount of times she was like Shuichi. Though, she started getting a little worried for Kokichi when Maki kept attempting to strangle him.

### K1-B0

Kaede liked Keebo at the start, but found him later on annoying.

### Kaito Momota

Kaede despises Kaito, due to him always calling Shuichi his sidekick and never giving Shuichi and Kaede any time to spend together.