Myst'ry Research Society (DRT)

For other similarly named groups see Myst'ry Research Society

The **Myst'ry Research Society,** also known as **Hope's Peak Academy Affiliated Junior High School Mystery Research Society,** are antagonists featured in *Danganronpa: Togami*. They served as underlings to the Ultimate Imposter during the World Domination Proclamation, and were the progenitors of Operation: Global Locked Room Transformation.

## Members

 **The Vice President** | Super Junior High School Level Mystery Fan
 **The Treasurer** | Unknown
 **Myst'ry Research Society's Allies** | Unknown

## History

### Prior Life

During their junior high school years, the Myst'ry Research Society made enough of a name for themselves to be scouted into Hope's Peak Junior High Division. During this time they became started a club that revolved around mystery novels. During this time there, they came into contact with those from the main course, namely those with Despair High School. As a result of this contact, they learned about Hope's Peak Academy intentions with the Bible Plan and their plans involving the creation of Ultimate Hope. It was also thanks to this contact that they became aware that Hope's Peak was doomed to collapse. With this revelation, the trio snapped and fell into despair. Wanting to make new identities for themselves that were not affiliated with Hope's Peak, they aligned themselves with Despair High School.

### K2K System

Due to the K2K system obfuscating the text, and Suzuhiko's *Ambush Technique* also misrepresenting the dialogue from his perspective (which in itself may also be a K2K fabrication), it is unknown how much of the above text is fabricated.

# Operation: Global Locked Room Transformation

During the World Domination Proclamation, the trio also went to Prague as the Ultimate Imposter's minions. They were given their own set of underlings and funding to accomplish their ambition before being tasked with spreading the Despair Novel all about Prague, all while working on their Operation: Global Locked Room Transformation, which was to turn the entire world into a series of locked room mysteries and was on-going in other locations globally. During this time, the trio arrived into Cesky Raj and got to work, though received word of an 'anomaly' that had killed some of their allies. During one of their locked room set-ups they would come into contact with the Moleman and Satomi Aoba.

Feeling that talking in front of a corpse would be unrealistic, the President had the group there move into the living room, with the Treasurer getting drinks. After the Moleman easily deduces that they were probably working with 'Byakuya Togami', the trio introduce themselves as being from the Junior High Division and strike old-fashioned poses, complete with their own motto. However, because he considers the affiliated schools to be as low of a par as the Reserve Course, the Moleman could only laugh at them, which perplexes them greatly. When the Moleman begins mocking them for their pride as junior high students, Vice Prez shoots back they weren't apart of the 'trash class' like the Reserve Course and that there were plenty of graduates from the affiliates. However, the Prez just tells him to let it go as it was clear the Moleman wouldn't respect them. The President then asks the Moleman about their age, but that is met with a vague response involving the rotation of the Chinese Zodiac.

Satomi stirs the topic back towards the group and their relation to 'Byakuya', where they reveal he is their sponsor and what allowed them to go about their plans. It's during this explanation where Satomi is confused by this using 'Myst'ry' instead of 'mystery', something that does catch them off guard and whats dismissed by their guests as a weird aesthetic choice. The President moves the topic towards the bodies that they decorated in likeness of both in universe such as the Takeda Haunted Mansion Case and fictional mysteries. However the Moleman just continues to poke through them, leaving the President dejected at how off the rails things have gotten. The Treasurer tries to give him a pep talk to cheer him up, but all her talk either makes him just as dejected, confused on what side she's on or forces him to cover her mouth due to her offering to take off her sports bra.

During this talk, the mention of the locked room operation is brought up, much to the Moleman's confusion. The President confirms them and shoots that their guests wouldn't understand, as well as informing that while 'Byakuya' wasn't interested in mysteries he did give them the funding and personnel to do what they want to make their dream global. The President points out they should probably get on with things and is asking the duo if they have any locked room preference before the trio kills them before the Vice Prez screams out and points at Satomi.

Vice Prez reveals that she, is in fact, an idol that is apart of Sayaka Maizono's group and that she is the fourth popular member of said group. He gushes and asks for an autograph, and even bugging the President to give him some paper for one (during this exchange, the President is quite taken aback over his Vice President being an idol fan). However, during this tirade on his explanations as to why he likes the number four girl of Sayaka's group (which involves him believing that liking the most and least popular is too mainstream), the Moleman uses this distraction as a mean to toss a table at the three, grab Satomi and escape from the trio in his car.

The trio gives chase in their jeep and eventually catch up to the duo which got into a serious car wreck thanks to 'Byakuya' dropping a satellite on their location at the airport. While the Moleman was mostly fine, the wreck had left Satomi gravely injured. When the Moleman begs if they could save her, they utterly refuse, with the Vice Prez even remarking he can simply move on to the third rank girl in Satomi's group. With the Moleman's life taking a turn for the worse, the President walks up to him and presents the Despair Novel.

As the President reveals that Hope's Peak was the cause of the Despair Novel, the Moleman remarks that if Hope's Peak didn't exist, this craziness wouldn't have happened. However, the club retorts that even if Hope's Peak never existed, something similar would take its place and such events will always come to pass. It's then that the President gives the Moleman the offer to read the Despair Novel, all while going deeper into why it was created. Namely, the administration of Hope's Peak wanted to create a novel that could bring people of any kind of despair into hope again, akin to how the *Complete Manual of Suicide* prevented more people from committing suicide.

The club then revealed that Hope's Peak would be shutting down, which immensely shocks the Moleman and has him in despair. With an almost bitter smile on his face, the President offers up the novel to the Moleman and claims he wants to see his despair, and that reading it will at least give his life some bit of self-respect since his life had been roughly terrible. However, the Moleman refuses and rips up the novel. The club laughs and allows the Moleman to take Satomi in their jeep, while they accompany him to see how long his hope lasts while he does his best to save her life. During their drive, the Moleman finds no luck in getting any hospitals to take Satomi as they had their hands full already with other casualties from the satellite drop. During this time the club either was remarking that his efforts were futile or was caught up in their own antics.

All three were later surprised when during their drive to Detsky Island, the Moleman deliberately hit a female Hope's Peak student, Blue Ink, with the jeep. From there he got out of the car and began brutally stomping on her and even ripped her arm off after stabbing it with a knife from the jeep. Before he could slit her throat, the Moleman was kicked in the crotch and then flipped over with a surprising amount of strength. As the girl used her remaining arm to lift the near unconscious man up, she demanded his name and he uttered out that it was Suzuhiko Ōtsuki. At that moment, Blue Ink blacked out and during that time unconscious, the main personality of the Ex-Super High School Level Hitman resurfaced and went on a slice rampage. During this rampage, Suzuhiko killed the Vice Prez and Treasurer by slicing them in half, as well as their jeep. The President only survived due to Suzuhiko being too groggy after waking up to properly focus.

Crawling from the wreckage of the jeep and human remains, the President looked in horror at Suzuhiko and came to realize that he was the 'anomaly' that killed their allies. While Suzuhiko's memories of his other personality were fading, he does remember enough of the President to go about mocking him and rubs in the fact that he actually did have a talent all along, and that the personality that they sympathized with was nothing more than just a lie. While the President is stunned by this development, he asks about Satomi, to which Suzuhiko responds he thinks that she was lying about her broken heart. This actually relieves the President who thought he forgot about her, but Suzuhiko responds that it doesn't matter before slicing the President in half, thus putting an end to the Myst'ry Research Society.