Mako Tsudana’s Magic Rainbow Light Show

**Mako Tsudana’s Magic Rainbow Light Show** is the name of Ayano Teruya's execution, as featured in Dangan Ronpa: Forever Despair.

## Sequence

*Excerpt taken from Chapter 34 of Dangan Ronpa: Forever Despair*

Just like the first two times, Monobear held up his mallet and used it to hit the button. And, just like the first two times, the animation played, but this time it showed Teruya-san as the one being dragged away. The caption said, “GAME OVER. Teruya-san has been found guilty. Now commencing execution.” A door opened in the wall directly behind Teruya-san, who was still smiling, and a chain shot out and shackled around her waist. For a split second I saw her smile disappear, and then she was gone.

Monobear turned on the projector to show us some kind of establishing shot of a large outdoor stage. It was a lot different from the one where Kanno-kun’s execution happened, for example: there wasn’t a curtain or anything, just an overhanging ceiling and steps on either side of the stage. There was also a single spotlight at the front of the stage, pointing upward into a night sky…and something off to the side that made my blood curdle. Even though I never really saw one of these in real life, I immediately knew it was some kind of industrial grinder, standing just to the right of the stage.

Naturally, it was turned on, providing some very loud ambient noise as the “camera” or whatever was giving us this view zoomed in on the stage to show Teruya-san standing in the center of it. She wasn’t being restrained or anything, but she didn’t try to escape. Maybe she just knew that wouldn’t work…?

After just a couple seconds, a panel opened in the floor, and what looked like a kind of robotic arm shot out of it. Its “hand” gripped a lock of Teruya-san’s black hair and…with no warning at all, just yanked it out of her head. She doubled over in pain, but the camera shifted to give a view of the robotic arm moving toward the industrial grinder. It dropped her hair in the grinder, which did what grinders do… And something very strange happened. The spotlight, which was shining pure white up until now, suddenly shone black for a few seconds before changing back to white.

Teruya-san only had a couple seconds to react before more robotic arms shot out of the stage floor and descended on her. Seven of them, specifically. Six of the arms went for her limbs and neck and restrained her while the other one grabbed her red skirt and unceremoniously ripped it off. It took the skirt over the grinder and dropped it in—and right away, the spotlight shone red for a few seconds. Then, the next robotic arm stole Teruya-san’s orange cat ears and dropped those in the grinder too. Sure enough, the spotlight changed to orange.

At that moment, there were only a few of the seven arms holding her in place, and she suddenly fought them off and tried to run away, but it was no use. The arms caught up to her and forced her down on the floor, while one of them yanked her yellow boots off. This same process happened again with her green T-shirt and blue vest, and finally her purple socks. Each time, the robotic arm dropped the article of clothing into the grinder, and each time the color of the spotlight changed to reflect the color of the cosplay item Teruya-san lost.

By this point…we had seen six robot arms do this, and six colors of the rainbow. Teruya-san was left in just a white undershirt and boxers; now, the camera shifted again to a short ways away from the stage. There was a small operating booth, I guess for the grinder, and sitting in the booth was Monobear. There were seven buttons on a control panel in front of Monobear, one for each of the seven colors of the rainbow. Monobear pressed the “indigo” button, but nothing happened, I guess since Teruya-san’s cosplay was all gone.

Inexplicably, a thought bubble appeared above Monobear’s head. Great special effects, I guess… In his thought bubble, there was a blob of indigo, and then an arrow pointing to a blob of pink. The thought bubble disappeared, and Monobear pressed the indigo button again.

Back at the stage, all seven of the robotic arms grabbed Teruya-san’s entire body tightly, and picked her up off the floor. Based on the movements of her mouth, she was screaming, but it couldn’t be heard on the projector. The robotic arms carried her over above the grinder…

And let her go. And she fell.

The camera shifted back to the establishing shot just before she hit the machine, so we didn’t see exactly what happened to her…but a split second later, the spotlight flashed a brilliant pink color.

With that, the projector shut off, leaving the courtroom in silence.