Kyo Haku

Kyo headshot by Romeo.

Minoru Hiyori [Lovefriend] (alive)

Love [close friend] (alive)

*“Open your eyes, Kayda. They were blackout drunk last I saw them, and drunks like that can’t commit* a calculated murder*."*

— Kyo attesting in Trial 2.

**Kyo Haku (京伯)** is an antagonist of Danganronpa: Guessing Game and a participant of the Towa Incident Killing Game. The killing game is not tied to a real Danganronpa game, however, it is instead featured on Quotev (@postdespair), and therefore, hosted online. Her title she provides at first is Ultimate Poet, but really, she is revealed as the Ultimate Hacker.

## History

### Early Life

To her great chagrin, Kyo in fact lives on a farm with her twin brother and father. Her mother's status was never stated, but it can be presumed she is either dead or has fled the country. Kyo's father was neglectful, and implied to be an alcoholic. Kyo and her brother Eiichi both grew interested in their respective ultimate talents due to their difficult upbringings. She found interest in programming and eventually hacking.

### Primary Events

At around twelve or thirteen years old, Kyo made her first large-scale hack on a government-sanctioned website. After this and several less significant breaches, she grew to be known as an underground hacker-for-hire.

When Kyo was thirteen, her father accidentally shot her in the shoulder while on a range. Her father, in an unusual moment of sobriety, helped nurse her back to health and taught her how to remove a bullet. Incidentally, the imaginary event of her love hotel takes place a short period of time after this, in which the player portrays an ideal friend that helps her with her confusion surrounding the event.

At sixteen Kyo hacked Makoto Naegi. Naegi was so impressed by this event that he offered her enrollment in Hope's Peak Academy.

## Talent

### Ultimate Poet

*"Well, I'm the Ultimate Poet," Kyo introduced, "I figure that's not really risky to say, 'cause since when did T. S. Eliot ever know how to kill anyone?" — Kyo speaking with Xhom.*

Kyo starts out by claiming to be the ultimate poet. She has a poem at the ready that she read to Love, and expresses what seemed to be genuine feelings about disliking people that don't take poetry seriously to Xhom. It is later revealed that she stole this poem, along with some opinions and the ultimate talent itself, from her brother Eiichi Haku.

Kyo pretends to know very little about hacking while under the guise of a poet, including one instance where she contemplates ways to find help: *"Wonder if we could hack one of the arcade machines and send an S.O.S. signal out-- ah, that's probably not how hacking works." – Kyo talking to Minoru in the first chapter.*

When she reveals her true nature as a hacker, she admits she does not like poetry at all. Interestingly enough, however, she still uses the name Prufrock as her online alias, a reference to the poem *The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock* by T. S. Eliot.

god ily kyo

### Ultimate Hacker

*“It wasn’t hard. Apparently nobody’s heard of my brother, since nobody questioned how*I *could be the Ultimate Poet if Eiichi Haku already was. I just took a few of his poems, easy.” — Kyo when asked why she faked her talent.*

In the second chapter, Kyo reveals her true nature as the ultimate hacker. She finds a way to breach all of Kei Satsu's cameras and monitors, and periodically releases files and clues throughout the game once she has accessed everything. She is savvy with computers and extremely talented in programming, even writing a malware program to disable the killing game's technology while inside the game.

Kyo reveals as a part of her talent that she can access the camera feeds of everyone at any given time (excepting the sixth dorm room, which turns out to have belonged to Yuuki Hyakuya). She mocks several players for their habits when no one can see them, and uses her omnipotence to tease Minoru Hiyori on several occasions.

Despite her initial malice, Kyo's hacking abilities end up being an integral part of the game, as she uses her access to the monitors to gather important evidence or information on multiple occasions, and is able to deactivate the game temporarily during the fifth chapter. She is also able to retrieve the audio file between Yuuki Hyakuya and Kaname Zabatsu off of Infokuma, which later proves to be an important piece of evidence that helps lead her to the true identity of the mastermind.

## Appearance

Kyo has red eyes and blonde hair. She is relatively tall, with a fairly thin build. She is implied to be nice-looking, as Love calls her pretty on numerous occasions during the events of Guessing Game, and she is described as "very attractive" by Jae Fitzgerald at the end of Internal Corruption. Also i mean look at her.

During Guessing Game, Kyo wears a black hoodie with an insignia of her old school on the front. She wears a button-down white shirt underneath, and a red tie that has the same school insignia. She wears a black pleated skirt, black and white striped socks that reach her mid-thigh, and black tennis shoes. She also has a black choker around her neck, and has multiple ear piercings. She also has a tongue piercing. She wears a simple crossed barrette in one strand of her hair.

   She carries a black cross-shoulder laptop bag that carries her laptop and other various possessions.

Her hair is blonde, with messy bangs and an ahoge that hangs down over them. She wears her hair up in pigtails, with some choppy short strands in the back still down.

In Internal Corruption, her appearance is mostly the same, except her hair ties are now blue. Frosty, the artist that drew her, confirmed this was because of Minoru, who is commonly associated with the color blue.

Interestingly, Kyo's design rather resembles that of Junko Enoshima, with the red and black color scheme and hair in two pigtails. Kyo's antagonistic nature is meant to emulate that of Enoshima somewhat, though she is certainly a more heroic character in the end.

## Relationships

### Minoru Hiyori

Kyo's first impression of Minoru is when he's under the guise of "Xhom." She initially approaches him because he happens to be the first person she sees, and she pretends to be a standard 'concerned bystander.' She was interested in him because of his counterintuitive reactions. However, she quickly recognizes that he's faking *his* identity, similar to her. She becomes immediately suspicious of his refusal to share his talent, deciding he's someone who might be "fun" because there's clearly more to him than meets the eye. Kyo either doesn't notice or doesn't seem to care about the apparent distrust Xhom feels toward her, instead continuing to play her amiable characterization until the conversation ends.

Kyo does Xhom's Love Suite later. She thinks she does a decent job, but she does not realize that one cannot win *Xhom's* love hotel because it is the suite of his falsified persona, not his real self. He compares himself to a chess pawn and offers to let her use him, and she is bewildered by this.

At the first chapter investigation, Kyo suspects Xhom of having cut off her hair and placing it at Ayumi Kobayashi's murder scene. She tries to coax the truth out of him by saying that he is the "only person" she can trust in this game, because they're "similar pieces on this chess board." This is a reference to Xhom's calculating nature, and also a subtle indication that she knows he lies about his personality. When he reacts passive-aggressively, she gives up, but starts acting flirtatious toward him before she leaves. This is not indicative of genuine romantic interest, but only an attempt to get under his skin.

In the second chapter when they meet again, Kyo initially crashes into Xhom. She initially apologizes for suspecting him at the trial, flippantly declaring that their animosity is "behind" them. Despite this, the conversation grows tense very quickly. Kyo notices that Xhom is acting different, as he has decided to drop his innocent persona around her. She notices, and seems to grow bored of the pretenses, instead asking him to share his honest opinions of the game and his motivations. The two of them share a tense assertion of their true natures, noticing and distrusting their mutually deceiving natures. She does, however, admit she still *does* trust him *because* she knows he will be deceptive, going so far as to hint at the video of Yuuki and the despairs that she will show the next day.

When Kyo reveals her true nature as a hacker, she comments on Xhom in particular, revealing that he speaks to himself when in private and also outing his *talent,* which he had refused to share with her. Despite this, she later has a calmer discussion with him. They choose to start over, exchanging proper introductions and having a more genuine conversation about closing down Hope's Peak Academy for good. Kyo considers it "bonding over collusion," and wonders if this is trust, before dismissing the idea.

In the third chapter, Kyo buys and gifts Xhom a maid dress at the arcade as an apparent joke. She also offers to start an information exchange deal with him, showing him the book on Hope's Peak information she received at the prize counter. Xhom shows her his Book of Blackeneds, and they plan to hack Infokuma as well. Kyo calls him an "enigma," and though she seems to be joking this still is indicative of her growing to like him.

At the chapter three murder, Kyo is clearly distressed at Xhom's apparent death, acting short-tempered and demanding to find out what happened. She and Love discover that he *faked* his death, and at the trial the two of them attempt to cover for him, Kyo going so far as to lie about how he must have been killed. However, at the trial Xhom appears and reveals his true-ish identity as *Minoru Hyakuya.* Kyo is entirely frustrated at this, and after the trial confronts him for lying about his identity as Hyakuya. As a creative form of anger, she kisses him instead of punching him, chiding him for lying one too many times. She does discuss Minoru's information on Shirokuma later in the conversation, however, and they do the despair test together.

Kyo and Minoru discuss themselves as Kyo gets Infokuma working. Kyo insists that Minoru not sacrifice himself, and asserts that she would rather not die. When Minoru steals Infokuma to blow up the wall, resulting in his punishment, Kyo chides him for his stupidity but helps patch up the wound. When asked why, she dismisses him and explains that she knows what being shot is like and can empathize. When further pressed, she admits she doesn't know. Minoru hugs her and offers his notebook, which surprises her and makes her worry that they're becoming friends.

In chapter four, Kyo invites Minoru to the dance. They engage in a friendly conversation and attempt to dance together, despite neither knowing how. Later during the investigation, Kyo and Minoru are both tired and frazzled, but try to find the evidence Shirokuma gave them. A distressed Kyo confides in Minoru that she saw Love murder Riku and Ayano on the security footage. The two of them fall asleep together for several minutes before the trial, and they seem to trust each other as confidants at this point.

At Love's trial, she and Minoru convict Love, but both are the ringleaders in their attempt to get Love out. Minoru helps Love get into the walls as he had in the previous chapter. After the trial, the two comfort one another, and Kyo asserts that they deserve to finish their dance if they get out of the killing game alive.

Kyo does Minoru's love hotel, this time with his real self instead of his falsified persona. She comforts him far better than he would have expected, creating a route of her own. He is entirely placated by her, and she admits to him that she cares for him strongly, despite the fact he won't remember.

After the chapter five guessing, Minoru all but disappears. Kyo implies that she would have told him about her falsified mastermind status, had he been there to hear. At the fifth trial, Kanji refers to Kyo as Minoru's "concerned loved one," and offers the term "lovefriend" instead when Kyo balks at this.

At the final trial, Kyo drops her mastermind act immediately upon Minoru's return, instead anxiously asking if everyone outside is safe, which he confirms.

After they leave the game, Kyo explains to Minoru that she did his love hotel. She explains that everything she said to him in it was true, and that she realized what he wants most: to be trusted, and trust someone back not to use him. She explains she wants to be that person. She explains she cares about him in a way that's different than Love, implying romantic feelings, and as she stumbles for a word for those feelings she cites Kanji's phrase "lovefriends." As the game ends, she hugs him and rests her head atop his. ttheey are in lvoe

### Love

Kyo's initial impression of Love is via Minoru, as he mentions them in their first conversation.

When she meets Love themself for the first time, she is able to judge their flirtatious character and plays the part of someone interested in that, playfully flirting with them. Their relationship is, on the surface, much more friendly initially than with other members of the cast, but she is only getting close to them under the assumption that they will be an asset to her if she ever needs to use them. She reads Love one of "her" poems (actually stolen from her brother Eiichi), and they appear to enjoy it. The irony is that neither Kyo nor Love actually think the poem is very good. She then asks them personal questions about what being an informant is like, with the ulterior motive of getting in with them.

Despite her apparent interest, she does not actually trust Love very much, assuming they may have cut off her hair and placed it at Ayumi's crime scene if Xhom had not.

In chapter two, her trust in them seems to be renewed, as she alludes to the fact she hacked the killing game - but she does not confide in them, claiming she does not want to be a "spoiler." Love offers that they protect one another, and she agrees, though she privately does not know what she would ever do to protect them. She goes further with flattery, saying she is glad *they* are the one to protect her.

However, she, unlike most of the rest of the cast, recognized Love's discomfort at changing in public during the second motive. She was immediately able to infer things that had likely happened in their past, and later offered them genuine reassurance. Additionally, after revealing herself as the ultimate hacker, she refrains from using Love's secrets against them, pretending she doesn't know. She and Love mutually agreed during that conversation that they didn't truly feel anything for each other, they were simply allies in this situation.

A few days later, she comes across Love getting drunk because it is their birthday. She remains businesslike, making them stop drinking and speaking with them, learning about their brother Hate in the process. They confess that they miss their sibling, but later deny this when she brings him up again.

At the chapter three murder, Kyo expresses agreement with Love's distress at Xhom's apparent murder, later working with them to discover the falsification of his murder. She and Love attempt to cover for him until he reveals himself as Minoru Hyakuya. After the trial Love joins Kyo and Minoru in a conversation, jokingly offering to "watch" as they see Kyo kiss Minoru. However, the trio discuss their situation and contemplate the possibility that any of them are remnants, each deciding to do the remnant test, where Love is revealed to be a despair.

Kyo quickly discovers Love's status as blackened, and is a major party in convicting them. However, she feels bad about this because she realizes at this point that they are her first real friend, and she does not want them to die. Kyo starts a riot, pinning down Kei Satsu and encouraging Love to try and escape their execution. She is unsuccessful, and Kei apparently executes Love.

In chapter six, when Kyo learns about the faked executions, her first question to Minoru at the final trial is if Love and everyone else outside are okay. After the killing game they are implied to remain close friends.

### Kayda Mioda

Kyo did not have much to do with Kayda for the first several chapters. She vaguely dislikes her at first, talking down to Kayda when explaining she was the ultimate hacker. In chapter three she does not act very sympathetic to Kayda losing Bunnou Hinode, to whom Kayda became very close. In chapter four, Kayda goes to Kyo to ask for her evidence about the mastermind, and Kyo responds with halfhearted flirting, but makes it clear she does not care for the other. She offers some of her information halfheartedly.

As part of the chapter five motive, she and Kayda are assigned as partners. Kayda conceived an idea to catch the mastermind in the act by recording them. Kyo agrees, but only does this so she can later double-cross Kayda and pretend to be the mastermind herself. They also investigate, finding hints to Yuuki's past and accessing room six, and Kyo accidentally watches the hope video, becoming embarrassingly cheerful in front of Kayda for several minutes.

At the chapter five investigation, Kyo insists that Kayda not fall apart, as now is a poor time for that. When the blackened is executed, Kayda becomes distraught at the prospect of her dead friend, and Kyo appears sympathetic, going so far as to pull her off Seiko's corpse. However, in doing so she realizes that Seiko's corpse is not real, and chides Kayda for not noticing sooner.

Kayda and Kyo later return to the mastermind's office to finish Kayda's plan. Kyo reveals she stole the real recorder and replaced it with a fake, and claims the identity of the mastermind, kissing Kayda and locking herself in the mastermind's room.

Kayda plans to find and kill Kyo, though at the final trial when Kyo comes clean she claims she always knew that Kyo was not the mastermind. While Kayda provides the closing argument for Kaname Zabatsu's murder, Kyo provides the *final* closing argument and reveals Kaname's role as the mastermind.

### Kei Satsu/Yuuki Hyakuya

Kyo first thinks Kei resembles Junko Enoshima, and is a "crazy bitch." However, she acknowledges Kei is pretty. Throughout the game, Kei and Kyo have tension due to the fact Kyo keeps hacking the game. Kyo uses her own knowledge as a reference of what Kei knows, and to put her back in her place.

At the chapter four trial before Love is executed, Kyo holds Kei down in hopes of helping Love escape. Kei mocks Kyo when this plan fails, calling her "hopeful," which Kyo denies. After Love's execution, Kyo swears to break the game, and even if she dies, to take Kei down with her.

Later she shuts down all the electronics in the entire mall, majorly inconveniencing Kei. She also writes "fuck you" on the stage as protest.

Kyo manages to piece together that Kei is Yuuki Hyakuya, voting for her in chapter five. When this is correct, she realizes she has everything wrong and pieces together that perhaps Kei is not the enemy.

After Kyo pretends to be the mastermind, she speaks to Yuuki in secret and returns the hope video, which Yuuki needs to stay sane amongst despairs. Yuuki gives Kyo the evidence needed to find the mastermind. Kyo considers Yuuki to be an integral part of defeating the game, and seems to respect her by the end.

## Quotes

### Chapter 1

* “Despair, huh? Really? Is this all being broadcast to the world again? Next you’ll tell us you wiped our memories. Did you? Get on with it. Or are you going to save us all a lot of trouble and just blow this place up now?”
* "Xhom, is it? Got it. What's your ultimate? Or - wait, I assume you're one too, since Kei said she was in our graduating class or something. Wonder what her ultimate is..."
* *"*Wonder if we could hack one of the arcade machines and send an S.O.S. signal out-- ah, that's probably not how hacking works."
* "Aw, come on, guys! It's not *that* bad--! Ah, whoops. But anyway." *– Regarding the first motive as she accidentally steps on a corpse.*
* "Go on. Chain me up, *master."*
* "“Huh? No shit it’s mine. Wonder how it got there, huh? ‘Cause I sure didn’t do that. Who goes around *chopping off their hair* at a crime scene? Unless, of course, I made that all up to mislead you. Cuz such obvious evidence is so *clearly* a faux-pas, right? So how can you believe *anything* I say? I could just be completely bonkers! Or I could be a split personality, and not remember anything I did yesterday! Ah, sorry. Kidding. Anyway, yeah, it’s mine. Good luck in investigating.”
* “I’ll be honest... you’re the only person here I can trust, you know? Think we’ve got a real connection. We’re both similar pieces on the *chess board,* you know?”
* *“Mess with the crime scene?* Woaaaaah, you’ve got that wrong! I think the question you *should*be asking, Xhom, is why someone *snuck into my room last night?* ‘Cause, like, whichever one of you it was, you weren’t subtle. And you’re not good at telling when a girl’s faking sleep.”

### Chapter 2

* “Huh? Oh! No, I haven’t had much inspiration lately. Something about corpses chained to your hands just doesn’t have poetic appeal, you know? Nothing like some tragic Romeo and Juliet stuff; it’s just ugly.”
* “It was disturbing, though, having to stay still. I didn’t want to move, because I didn’t know if he would have killed me knowing I was awake. But - it’s okay. The biggest loss was a little bit of my hair, right?”
* “Tcchhh, yeah, dunno how I feel about those guys. I mean - this is some whole cult? Makes you worry it’s like the first game and we’ve forgotten two years of the world ending again. But I am glad someone’s here to watch my back. And I’m glad that person’s *you,* Love.”
* "Oh, really? That's good. And here I've been assuming you don't like me. I worried you were talking about me behind my back to Love or someone! But I'm just paranoid sometimes."
* "Damn it, I can't decide. Well, for a second can we drop all our silly pretenses and fake smile bullshit? I wanted to ask what your thoughts really are on this killing game."
* "*Forfeited?* D'you mean I'm disappointing? You sound like my dad! *Please,* can't you tell I forfeited the day I was born? That's how I *live."*
* "And hey, what about *you,* Xhom? Are you ever gonna give up? Or are you clinging to hope, like Shirokuma said we should? 'Cause somehow you don't strike me as a Makoto."
* "*Hacking*. Pleased to make your acquaintance. It's like someone here said. Don't wanna expose your talents too early on, right?"
* “Uh, honestly, don’t really care much about the information. D’you know how *boring* you all are? --No offense. I was just trying to see if anyone had done anything crazy and weird to hint if they were the mastermind... No dice.”
* “You know you’re like the fourth person that’s asked me that today? ‘What are your future intentions?’ I dunno, I’m making this up as I go. I wanna get past a few firewalls, but I dunno what I’ll find there. You can’t predict *all* the other person’s moves.”
* "Anyway, was it to break into room six? Was that for your stalker list of everything you know about everyone? And hey, while I’m on a roll here - why *didn’t*you tell anyone you’d seen a body? Was it ‘cause *you* didn’t wanna get caught snooping? Innocent mister bunny here skulking around at... night...! Man, I need a nap.”
* "Open your eyes, Kayda. They were blackout drunk last I saw them, and drunks like that *can’t commit a calculated murder.*If it was them they’d probably be passed out beside the body!”

### Chapter 3

* "Anyway, I didn't r*eally* come here to give you a dress. Thought we could set up a deal system. Exchange of information? I tell you something, then you tell me something of equivalent value. Lying's not allowed, but if you really want you can refuse to answer. That sound okay?"
* "Oh, what, you worried I can hear you? Yeah, I can. So, y'know, maybe don't fuck anyone while you're here. Oh, or reveal stuff."
* “Yo, Socrates. You’re kinda right, reminiscing about how awful it is that we’re in a killing game’s just distracting us. It’s the *third round;*we *have* to get used to it or we *die,*dumbass. Enough with the violin jerkoff.”
* "I think Xhom himself mighta done it. Cuz there was something about a letter, right? He probably lured Bunnou there, let him get all ***bzzzt --*** It's possible there was a struggle first, too -- and Xhom stabbed Bunnou in the process. That's why there's blood in the water. He dragged his body to the piano and let him get crunched, then came back. I heard that on the footage, and you probably did too, Kei. Cause if *I*didn't see what was on the footage, *you*didn't either."
* "Now the person that covered up that camera was Xhom himself. He did the same for his room. But you heard what I heard, right? Water splashing, and Xhom screaming. So he got murdered, right? Nope! *That was fake!*Xhom isn't the screaming type. He tried to make it sound like someone attacked him and put him up there. But he did it himself. That's why there were jars of blood. He wanted to make it look like he got stabbed and his blood was in the water, but it was *Bunnou's*blood. Or whatever that guy's name is. Xhom strung himself up there. He killed himself! He probably wanted to beat the game, and have a murder we couldn't solve, or a blackened who couldn't get punished, or something."
* "I mean, could the bell belong to the -- uh -- you know. The - the cat one. The furry."
* "Okay, so let's just cut to it - what was with that whole hiding in a wall charade? What do you actually know?What were you planning to talk about with Bunnou? Also, fuck you."
* "Yeah. Let's get back to the case. Okay, so you messed with mister binary's corpse, right, *analyst?"*

### Chapter 4

* “Hey, *Hyakuya.* Didn’t realize when you were talking about hating Hope’s Peak and Future Foundation that you actually worked there! I should reveal to you, too! My name’s actually Rei Kirigiri. I’m Naegi’s daughter. We should go out! Seriously, though  the hell was that? You pretend to *die,* then hide in the *walls,* and then say you’re the Future Foundation spy?"
* "Oh, the despair tests? Like those things where you slice someone's hand and see if they grin? I mean - no offense, but aren't, like, half of us masochists? I'm not really sure if that'll work. Besides, if you ask me it almost sounded like those despairs themselves don't know it."
* "Hey, Shirokuma mentioned room six. Something about something he'd get for the room? Can we, I dunno, blow that up? Or something. It says 'attempting to break into locked rooms is strictly prohibited' -- wonder if it says that just because we obviously won't succeed before we get shanked. It could always be a clue that if we *succeed* in breaking in, we won't get punished..."
* "Oh! Hey, what was all that about using *\*\*yourself\*\** to blow up the wall? You... want to be some kind of kamikaze barricade? What good'll that do? Then you'll be dead."
* "Speak for yourself. I don't really *wanna* die, and I think it's better if you don't either, for now at least. You can't take down Future Foundation if you're splattered all over the walls of Towa City Mall."
* "You know, next time you decide to go blowing stuff up could you let me know first? That was way too fast. But we did learn that punishments aren't necessarily fatal, at least."
* “Why am I doing this? Well, it’s connected to my tragic backstory. I’ve been shot before, and it sucks ass. Even if you’re a pain, I know how to help you, so I am.”
* “-Well, if the game isn’t supposed to be won they must’ve cheated somehow at the beginning. Saying *why* someone is the mastermind is probably the trick, since you could maybe guess the right person and still end up having it be wrong ‘cause you didn’t show your work properly. You know when teachers get all bitchy about that?”
* “... Hmm. Yeah, okay, come in. But first I need you to strip. Can’t have you hiding knives up your sleeves and trying to make a secret attempt to kill me.”
* “Hey, careful there. You sound almost like Naegi.”
* "“I reviewed the video footage... I *saw* Love beat Riku and Ayano. To death, I think. They say they didn’t relapse, but they might’ve...”
* "... So... it looks like it’s Love... All the evidence points to ‘em. Someone *please* prove me wrong.”
* “... I’ve always hated Makoto Naegi. Don’t worry - this - this has a point. But he was so *unbearable*with his stupid saccharine schtick. And hope’s stupid. But, see, in here I’ve been thinking. How do you beat a game you can’t win? Well, obviously you‘re just *lucky.* But I’m not lucky. Nobody here is. None of us are Makoto, because we’re all despairs, or stupid, or assholes. We just *aren’t*hopeful. *Sooooo* basically: we aren’t Makoto, so we can’t win; I thought. And what good is hope? That just means ‘the will to keep going.’ Go *where?* Well, I think I figured it out. If we can’t beatthis game by *playing,* the only way we can beat it is by *breaking*it. ... So if I die for this, tell my brother I hate him.”
* “Run, Love! Just go! Get out! Don’t die here!”
* “What’s wrong with you? Like, genuinely. You make no sense, Kei. You wanna kill us all, but why? Despair? You don’t even know us! Or did you take our memories?”
* "You're wrong, Kei. I'm not hopeful; I told you. But maybe you're right, too. If hope means some drive to keep going, then maybe I've got that. But it's not a good thing. It doesn't fucking matter if I get out of here alive, but I'm gonna personally see to it that this game *breaks.* And I'm gonna do it. Got that? If I can't do it in a satisfactory way, the *least* I can do is make your life hell before I go. And hopefully I'll drag you down with me."

### Chapter 5

* “Tell you what, if we get out of here alive you owe me a dance.”
* “...Hey, Shirokuma, I’ve got a question before we vote. Am I allowed to vote for Kei? Since she was technically part of our class.”
* “... Uh, okay, then. I vote for Kei! She’s shady as *fuck,* and also could easily be the one controlling this. What’s to say she didn’t *make up* Yuuki? Making us go on a wild goose chase like this.”
* "Hey. Don't get all panicked now, okay? You kinda can't afford to let down your guard."
* “... You know what this means, don’t you, Kayda? I think it proves what I’ve been assuming for a long time! Kei *is* agent Hyakuya. She’s the Ultimate Policewoman - or - used to be. That photo with the guy is from Future Foundation!”
* "You've gotta use your divination stuff - I've never particularly believed in that, but let's hope for the best. We might need to force a confession out of someone."
* "Well, okay. Uhhh, Orochi was apparently asleep before being killed. I think there's some weird rube goldberg devicery going on as the murder weapon, considering it's not every day that a *net*falls from the sky and impales you. The knives and net're from the kiosks and stores and stuff. Maybe the person or people who set it up thought they'd somehow get off scot-free if they murdered with some complicated method like that."
* "Last I checked you can't analyze something into having a knife hit a vital area. Same with hacking. Same with, uhh... well, actually, you're kinda a contender, no offense."
* "... Hey. I've... got the hope video. Like, the real one. The good one. If anyone wants to watch it, well... it's a real trip, but it might help prevent more stuff like this. That's later, though. Kayda, why don't you finish off the trial?"
* “Come on. You can’t stay there. You’ve gotta keep going.”

### Chapter 6

* "Ooh, you got it! Finally, *protagonist.* I *am* the mastermind, dumbass."
* "Hellooooooo? This thing on? Hello, hello! So: this is Kyo Haku. If none of you figured it out yet, I'm the mastermind. And you guys obviously lost the guessing game! Because none of you guessed me. So we're scrapping that."
* "Oh, in case you're wondering: I was the fourth despair. I'm actually good at hiding it, unlike the rest of you fuckers, though. I brainwashed Kaname into despair *\*\*during\*\** the game. But that's not all. I brainwashed *\*\*another\*\** one of you guys, too! And you've got, ehhh... three days to figure out which one of you it is, or else - eh. You know what happens."
* "Soooo... Obviously, since I'm the *mastermind,*I know everything about this case. So I'm not gonna help. Unless you're really stuck. Then *maybe*I'll give you a hint."
* "Oh, wait. *Miss protagonist*knows too, *right?*When *I*did all that work to open room six for her? Anyway, that doesn't have to do with the case. Keep off that for now."
* "Jeez, you call yourself a mastermind *one*time and then everyone hates you."
* "You're Yuuki's partner. The one in those photos."
* "But yeah, we don't. Can I stop this whole thing now, since, like, everyone and their mother showed up? I politely resign."
* "Honestly, I can't tell whether to be flattered or insulted that you guys *fell*for that? Like no 'oh, but Kyo, you helped Love break out' 'oh, but Kyo, you hacked the game like four times' 'oh, but Kyo, you've given us *literally every clue we have?'* Like, I wrote *fuck*on the stage in lipstick! Does that seem like something a mastermind would do to you?"
* "But yeah... you're right, prophet. She stabbed her, and pushed her down the balcony... And honestly, Yuuki, I think I can still trust you. We're all fucked up. Despair fucks people up."
* But I thought about it again. And I realized... *maybe*that wasn't a dead lead. Because if you look at it backwards -- Yuuki wasn't saying *Kei Chan.*She was saying *K-Chan.*The letter K. So the mastermind was narrowed down to *someone we voted for,*based on Shirokuma, *whose name started with K.*That's me, Kayda, and Kaname. That became real useful when I pretended to be the mastermind, by the way."
* "Momo-chan. I thought that was an alias for the fifteenth fucking person here who lied about their name, but it wasn't that. It was a different hint. What's the Japanese word for momo? Peaches! ... Wait, hold on. I think... I think I said that wrong. The... Japanese word for *peaches*is momo. There we go."
* "So, there you go. Kaname was the fourth despair that masterminded this killing game, and forced Yuuki Hyakuya to put on the identity Kei Satsu to try to stop her!"
* "... I... gotta say. I'm sure it's obvious to you guys, but I really have trouble with feeling things. But... I do kinda wish I could've gotten to know Kaname. I had Yuuki's hope video. Maybe if I'd waited a little to 'become the mastermind'... Never mind. The game's over. Let's just leave now, okay?"
* "And I really -- I think I know what that thing you wanted more than anything else was. And if I'm totally wrong, just... don't tell me, I guess. Let me live in peaceful ignorance. You wanted to be trusted. You wanted someone you could trust, who wouldn't use you. And... in there I realized I *want* to be that person. 'Cause I care about you. I think -- you're the first person I've ever really cared about."
* "... That sounds kinda sociopathic. But I care about Love, too -- ahh, I don't know, Minoru, it's different with you somehow. I guess, just... maybe we can finish that dance. And... thanks. For being my... Lovefriend?"
* "... I dunno if I'll go to Hope's Peak after this. But, hey, whatever we do... Maybe a little hope's not so bad."

## Trivia

* Her first name, Kyo (京) is meant to sound similar to the first half of "Kyoko." Her surname, Haku (**伯**), is a reference the character of the same name in Studio Ghibli's film *Spirited Away*.
	+ Incidentally, Haku sounds rather similar to the word "hacker."
* She is ambidextrous.
* Kyo's eyes were always intended to be red. However, in her original artistic depiction, her eyes were pink. This led to some initial confusion where characters presumed she had pink eyes, not red.
* At one point she makes a joke claiming that she is Naegi's daughter Rei Kirigiri. This character does not actually exist, and is additionally impossible because Kyo is only about five years younger than Naegi. However, there *is* a character named Rei Achikita in this universe, to whom Kyo is possibly paying tribute.
* Kyo was originally chosen as the only antagonist in Guessing Game before it had started. However, through letting admin Worm take a shot at being an antagonist, she became a surprise antagonist along with her talent reveal.