Current Lore

"**Current Lore**" is the placeholder name given to the set of lore taking place in the current seasons. This lore has so far followed the story of Rimoto Piozumu Academy, and more specifically of two applicants to the school Nathan Kabet and Nakata Yataro. With the conclusion of the most recent season, the lore has been revealed to be the events planned by Okano Keichi. For a more in-depth story of what took place in each game, go to the pages for each season. Events on this page are listed in chronological order, and may not be the order they happened in real time.

## Before the Killing Games

At a young age, a man named Rimoto Hakka would begin creating business in any way possible, most of the time simply doing fundraisers and giving away the majority of his projects in the name of helping people. As he grew up, he realized that school was not helping him as much as it was helping other kids, because he felt like he already knew the things that the school was teaching him. As a result of this, one day he would begin crafting his Ultimate Academy for kids like himself who don't get as much help from the normal school system, and to help them all develop their own unique gifts as he had seen in different people throughout his life.

Among these people he had seen in his life with these unique gifts, he would contact 29 of them and formed The Ultimate Coalition. The group would be those in charge of the new Rimoto Piozumu Academy, and would set out to give exceptional students a way to be challenged in a school environment, and to have their talents brought out further than they already were. Different members of the coalition would be in charge of the different divisions of applications. One member in particular, Miya Katumi, The Supreme Scout, was in charge of the 7th division. This story starts off looking at one in particular, application group 7-B.

Each application group featured 36 students, over the course of three months they would be tested physically, mentally, and socially. After taking all of their attributes into account, 18 people in each group would be admitted to that class in the academy. Two students in Group 7-B, Nakata Yataro and Nathan Kabet would become best friends during the application process. Becoming rivals of each other who instilled the other to become better. At the end of the application period, Nakata came out on top, and Nathan become jealous, hating that he lost. He created a lie about Nakata, and gets him kicked out of the academy, losing the spot he and earned at the top of his class.

Nakata felt betrayed by this, he had even invited Nathan to live at his house for the second half of the applications after learning that Nathan did not have any family who he was staying with. And over the next year, Nakata would begin scheming how he would get his revenge. He would train his body and become a very skilled fighter, along with becoming proficient in creating robots.

## S6 - Shallow Words

After a year, ready to begin his revenge on Nathan Kabet, Nakata Yataro kidnapped the class that he was denied from, Class 7-B and trapped them in a warehouse no longer used by the academy a few miles from the city where the academy was. Nathan would be forced to watch the killing game, while Nakata would take Nathan's place in the class and play along in the game to further get under Nathan's skin.

Nakata created two types of robots; the Fukushu robots that would run the game, and robots that had a humanoid shape, as revealed in the fifth chapters motive, that had been used to take the class's place in society so that no suspicion was arose.

During the game at some point, Miya Katumi would see weird electricity signatures at a warehouse that the academy had no longer used, that being the warehouse where the killing game was taking place. Miya would break into the building, and attempt to trick Fukushu into allowing all of them to go free. After the fifth chapter, Miya hacked Fukushu into believing she was a student so that she could go around the building freely without threat from the doll. However as a response to Miya appearing and doing this, Nakata took matters into his own hands and stabbed Miya, killing her.

At the trial, Nakata was outed as the mastermind by Theodore R Wyvern, Asuri Torena, Motoki Maekawa, Rei Kimura, and Sankara Nobakku. After Nakata was defeated, he told them his intentions for the game and begged for forgiveness. He showed the chair where Nathan was being kept, and it was now empty. Nathan then comes from behind the throne, in the cloak that Nakata used to kill Miya. The survivors of the killing game tell them both to stop fighting, that their feud has caused the death of so many great people. Neither of them care. Nathan orders then all to leave the trial room... and go outside while he finishes his business with Nakata.

The five survivors walked to the nearby city ignoring the screams from both Nathan and Nakata in the building behind them and found the academy, where they met and talked to Takai Kado, The Supreme Astronomer, who said that he will help them. Months go by after this incident, and neither Nathan or Nakata have been found yet, but Takai had gone to work taking down the robots that were set up to take the places of the kidnapped students.

As a result of the fight, neither Nathan or Nakata were killed, and both ended up retreating into hiding.

## S7 - Plight of the Forgotten

A few months go by, and Nathan Kabet begins a plan to do even more revenge onto Nakata Yataro than had been done to him. He kidnapped the 17 students who did not make it onto the academy in their application group, and put them into a killing game at the original location of their application, a town designed to match those of old towns in the wild west. To meet the 18 player count that Nakata had in his initial game, he also kidnapped the son of the CEO of a very powerful company, Clover, to have them be after Nakata aswell.

The goal was to frame Nakata for this second killing game, causing him to not only be in prison for his own crimes, but for crimes done by Nathan aswell to reflect how a previous lie of Nathan's had ruined his life in the first place. Throughout the game he did as much as he could to replicate the game that was created before by his enemy. After the first trial, he also threw himself into the game, to keep better surveillance on the students.

The fifth motive was one that showed everyone dreams of their ideal life. And when Nathan subjected himself to the motive, he saw himself being friends with Nakata, them both being in the academy. After the fifth trial, he had finally convinced himself that the game should end. To do this, he brought Ayako Suzuki, a member of the killing game to a secret room where there was a book that detailed the outline of both killing games so far, only leaving out who had ended both of them. He told her to fight him. The winner would face a final trial, and no matter what happened, Ayako would be written in the book as the one who ended both killing games, giving no credit to himself as he wanted to repent.

He won the fight and killed Ayako, and faced the last trial, where he turned himself in, trying to lead the survivors to the answer as quickly as possible. As he was about to send himself into an execution, Nakata broke into the area and told Nathan that he wouldn’t get off that easy. And did the same thing Nathan when he destroyed the previous killing game.

The 6 survivors, Garry Grater, Opal Petrovich, Akira Hashiru, Hironaka Haruka, Kazuoki Doko, and Charlotte Dupont left the facility as Nathan and Nakata fought in the trial room once again. When they reached the city, Opal split off from the group as the rest went to the school for answers. When there, they ran into Takai Kado who had returned from destroying one of the robots made of the season 6 cast by Nakata. Akira berated Takai for allowing the second game to happen, while he pleads saying he had no way to protect the students who were not at the school. But despite this, Takai still vows to help them and take down Nathan and Nakata, saying he will begin his personal search for them.

At the killing game, the area was blown up as the two fought and the group walked away, and as a result of the explosions they lost each other, and neither went down. Some time after, a car arrived at the site of the killing game and investigates the wreckage, the people inside looked around, taking an item from the bedrooms, and making an unsettling discovery in the security room located under the town.

## S8 - Mirrored Fate

Amari Kamlyn and Takai Kado have many conversations about what to do regarding the actions of Nathan Kabet and Nakata Yataro up to this point. Takai expresses his want to help the both of the two and have them both face authorities and help calm them down from their current mental state. Amari on the other hand says that they should instead focus the blame onto one of them, as a scapegoat, and change the memories of everyone to fit the narrative that only one of them were evil.

Amari continues her plan saying that she could get them both to hate what they have done before changing the memories, and tells Takai they could host a final killing game, two simultaneously featuring new applicants to the academy. Nathan and Nakata would both be invited to host one and be told that if they do, they can draw the other out of hiding. Takai is against this plan entirely, which Amari does not take well, thinking Takai is simply dismissing her ideas regardless, and becomes even more motivated to go through with her plan.

She contacted the Supreme Assassin of the coalition, Dyson Kyosko, and his brother, Cyrus Kyosko. The public did not know of Cyrus' existence, and Dyson went by Cyrus' name publicly. The three of them would begin planning the killing game using 27 of the applicants to the academy in its second year of applications. They contacted Nathan and Nakata and told them each about a plan to get the other out of hiding, both agreed to the opportunity. It was agreed that Dyson would watch over Nathan's group posing as a student, while Cyrus and Amari watched from the sidelines and made sure everything else stayed in check.

By using the next stage applications as a disguise, all of the students willingly went to the amusement park where the killing game would take place. On the same day, both killing games began, where Nathan and Nakata both told the students how they had nothing personal against them, and they were working for the academy to choose who would make it into the school (This cover story given to them by Amari).

Throughout the game Nathan and Nakata would get to know the students more and realize similarities between the ones they were now subjecting to the killing game and the ones that they had killed before in the previous games. Over time in the first four chapters, they would begin to regret what they were doing according to Amari's plan. When the fifth chapter began, the games merged and when they began to fight, Amari stopped them, and forced them to never leave each others side for the remainder of the chapter of the game. Over that time they would be asked by the participants why they hated each other so much, and they would realize that while they may hate the other person, they were just as awful if not more than the other.

At the start of the sixth chapter, they tell the group they no longer hate each other and apologize on stage before the group, here it is also announced the game will end in 3 days and everyone will be able to leave as long as no one dies. In this time, Cyrus tells Dyson that Amari plans to kill all of the students before leaving so that none of them can tell the story of what happened there. After learning this, Dyson finds Amari on the final day and shoots her. At the trial, the students piece together the two different people who had posed as Dyson during the game, since Cyrus had swapped in for a while, and the group of 9, Seta Torvald, Oliver Afrand, Jason Janaway, Sana Arakaki, and Mikami Miki from Nakata's game, and Katie Cross, Zaraha Phonaz, Jou Andori, and Zenkichi Otohashi from Nathan's game, correctly vote Dyson as the mastermind.

What they don't see when Dyson is taken to execution, is that Cyrus swaps out one more time to save his brother before it begins.

The next day Takai shows up at the front gates of the amusement park with the survivors of the previous two seasons (Without Opal Petrovich who was still away from the academy). He had gotten an alert set up by Amari to go off if she had died, explaining what she did and where to find the students. He arrived and was broken down by the news, feeling guilty about her death, and began a final trial with the 19 present students about who was more to blame for the deaths, Nathan or Nakata. Both of them tried to garner votes for themselves, believing they were the worse person of the two.

When the time ran out for the votes, Takai hit the end vote button on a remote he found in Amari's secret hideout, and to his surprise and shock, it began an execution with Nathan and Nakata in it. During the execution, the votes would slowly be released and in the end, showed a 10-9 vote in Nathan's favor, who was killed by the execution as Takai finally broke the walls to try and save him. However as Nakata cried over Nathan's body, he attacked Takai, only to have Takai flash a device in his direction, knocking him to the ground. The students all looked on in horror and screamed at Takai for what he had done. Feeling upset by this news he used the device to knock everyone else to the ground, making him the last one standing in the area.

A few weeks later, Takai gives a speech at a ceremony with the students, Nakata, and Dyson, announcing the 'truth' of the killing games. However this 'truth' stated that Nathan orchestrated them all, after Nakata beat him in the exams, starting all of the games to scar Nakata's mind forever. After the ceremony, it is revealed Takai also had his own memories altered so that he did not know about the truth of the events. However once a week, his memories are given back and then taken away after. This is of his own wishes, so that he may forever remember the terrible mistakes he made.

## S8.5 - Tainted Visions

A few months after the killing games took place, Taniguchi Satoshi, a member of The Ultimate Coalition would send out applications to form an expedition team to investigate a weird area of cliffs in Africa that were discovered by Miya Katumi before her passing. Students currently enrolled and those who were not enrolled as a student were allowed to apply alike.

Before the expedition began, it was revealed that Takai Kado was still undergoing his memory being replaced and re-given by an unnamed woman figure. One of these nights, Taniguchi would be at the school and overhear what was going on, and was filled in on what was currently happening regarding the truth of the killing games. Because of this, after deciding on his 18 person expedition team, Taniguchi added Nakata Yataro onto his team to see if he could learn more of a truth, or to see if Nakata coping with his past would allow for Takai to stop torturing himself.

The expedition began and was going great for two weeks, when all of a sudden the group found themselves surveying a particular cave, which was struck by a cave-in, trapping everyone inside. There were no survivors, except for Nakata. Before the trip, Taniguchi had put a system in place within the nerves of all participants on the trip that would trick their bodies into sending signals to and from their brain in the event of a severe injury, as long as the body was still in tact, they would stay alive in a near comatose state. After a week, the group was rescued on August 27th and taken back to the academy immediately and hooked up to the rest of the system, which sent the subconscious that was fleeting in all of the participant's into Nakata's mind.

Here, they had no memory of the trip that already took place. And as they arrived at the cliffs, Fukushu showed up, being the incarnate of the evilness that was forgotten about by Nakata, of himself. Throughout the killing game, the members of the team would find different memories of Nakata's. Some being real, some just seeming... off, since they were altered. Even including a memory of Nathan, who the group all believed to be dead according to the news.

Eventually, after the fifth trial, the group found Taniguchi who was originally taken by Fukushu and he attempts to tell them of what was going on. After failing to get Good Nakata on his side, saying the world betrayed them both, Evil Nakata begins a trial posing as the Good Nakata, telling the group they would simply be voting on whether or not they would leave. If they voted yes, Evil Nakata would be able to become the main consciousness of Nakata, having only the current survivors and him make it out, leaving Good Nakata and Taniguchi behind.

After voting no, the survivors ran out of the trial room and attempted to find the Good Nakata and save him, but kept being dragged back to the trial. Eventually they found him, crying at the realization of his true self in his old classroom. The group motivates him to fight back, since this was his mind he should be able to do the same magical and powerful things that his evil self had the capabilities to do. And so, they begin battling while the cliffs begin to crumble around the whole group as they race to the place they are meant to leave.

In the outside world, Takai and the unnamed woman are talking to each other about why Taniguchi hadn't made it to the extraction point yet since the time where their consciousness' were ready to come back had been reached.

As this occurs, Taniguchi explains to the group that he made a device that can trap Evil Nakata inside of a confined space, but someone would have to stay behind to do it. As Taniguchi begins to volunteer, Takai enters the simulation and takes the device from Taniguchi, and attaches it onto Evil Nakata, bringing him back to the part of the mind with the erased memories.

The survivors, Dustin Jackson, Kaori Yonekura, Nao Ono, Ryujin Yaketsuku, Timothy Afrand, and Rover Hayes all successfully make it to the extraction point with Nakata Yataro and Taniguchi Satoshi, where they meet Takai, completely fine. They learn that the version of Takai who stayed behind was the one who had the memories of being unable to save Nathan, now being at peace with being able to save Nakata.

Taniguchi lightly explains how the events of the killing games were skewed to the public, and how he had just recently found out himself, and tells the group about what happened on the expedition. Once they left the facility, the unnamed woman erased the memories of Taniguchi ever telling them this, having them believe that Nakata was simply experiencing extreme loss and that was why all of this happened.

In a post credits scene, Nakata seems to have remembered something new, but doesn't tell anyone about it. He is seen talking to Jou Andori, asking him to deliver a letter across the street to someone he had seen standing there for a couple weeks in a row. This is revealed to be Opal Petrovich, who reads the letter in disbelief. Opal then travels to the location of the second killing game in the old western town, and begins to dig up the wreckage, finding Ayako Suzuki. At first, Ayako thinks Opal is Amari, who had kept her safe there since the events of the killing game, but after realizing it was not Amari, the two stare at each other in silence.

Directly after this, a computer begins playing a message telling the two of them that another killing game was going to take place, and that the message they are currently watching was recorded whilst they participated in their entrance examinations for the academy, providing proof as-well. The message says that they should follow a set of clues and puzzles to find the game and save those still there. Without hesitation, they oblige, and begin their task.

## S9 - Insanity/Order

After the events of the killing game in the amusement park and the academy's public announcement (Mirrored Fates), Faith Malthe the mother of Anthony Malthe (one of the participants who died) had begun hiring private investigators to find out the absolute truth behind the games. Faith had doubts in her mind about Nathan Kabet being able to do all of this on his lonesome without any outside help.

With the amount of resources and connections that Faith had, the investigation proved very fruitful in finding the individuals most likely to have a connection to Nathan in terms of the creation of the killing games. Using news articles, public statements, and personal connections to any participants in the killing game the investigation proved fruitful over the course of a year. However, Faith would be contacted anonymously through an embedded computer program that aided her in speeding up her investigation and gave a list of 16 names that she should look into more.

However, in exchange the mysterious benefactor also wished for Faith to operate a killing game to narrow it down further, telling her that she will find no success in narrowing down the list further. She tried for months beyond this time, but found the person to be correct in that these 16 were the most likely but it was impossible to narrow it down further.

Reluctantly, she did oblige, desperate for finding the person responsible for her sons death since she could no longer attribute any rage towards Nathan Kabet as he was dead. The game began with the 16 people initially given to her being trapped in a warehouse she previously owned that was meant to become Anthony's once he became able and completed his schooling.

She lured them to the factory by unknown means, but they ended up there with no injuries and no signs of being kidnapped at any time. When the game began Faith forgot to give the Fukushu robot she assembled the correct hard drive. As a result, the robot inserted the hard drive with Fukushu's memory into a laptop. The game still continued as normal, with an identical robot to the previous Fukushu's known as 'Kemuri'. During the third trial, Faith received a 17th name, that being Charlotte Dupont. After the trial, she joined the game as a participant. After the fourth trial, Faith revealed herself to the group and told them the exact reasons for the game, that being one of the people remaining was the true mastermind of all of the killing games.

During the fifth chapter a sinister program installed within Fukushu came to light and began to become a force within the killing game. This being pre-recorded messages and tasks set up by the one who gave Faith the hard drive for Fukushu's intelligence and memory. In chapter 5, the robot revealed Kazuoki's talent being a placebo to him, and stopped Akira from committing suicide. It was after the fifth trial that Ayako Suzuki and Opal Petrovich finally found the killing game, where Ayako entered the building to check and see who was there.

When Hannes Lep died in the sixth chapter from this different acting Fukushu sentencing him to an execution, the group was tasked with deciding who out of them had given Faith the code for Fukushu, and thus was the one behind all of the killing games as their mastermind. The trial eventually decides on Okano Keichi as the most likely candidate, and he is correctly voted.

However, as his execution is commencing, Opal finally finds the shut down switch for the killing game, and as she does the fail safe is activated which blows up the academy, trapping everyone inside. A short time later, a car drives by the wreckage and get's Okano out from the area he was trapped in. As it turned out, he wanted to be in the execution chamber, since it would stay the most safe in the explosion.

Okano escaped safely, and back at safety as he prepares for a meeting he listens to a radio broadcast recounting what took place at the factory, as it leaves all of the deaths up to the factory collapsing, with the entirety of the killing game being lost to time.