Wadai Kugutsu

Mastermind of Killing Game IV

**Wadai Kugutsu** (紐傀儡) is a prisoner of Glum Valley Correction Facility and a participant in the Prison Killing Game featured in Danganronpa IV: No More Despair. His title is the Ultimate Children's Entertainer.

## History

### **Prior to Danganronpa IV**

#### **Early Life**

Wadai's story begins approximately 34 years before the events of Danganronpa IV: No More Despair, during the Great Tragedy in which Junko Enoshima plunged the world into despair with the help of the brainwashed remnants of despair. During this time, Wadai was about 14 years old, and one fateful day, the Remnants of Despair descended on his home town, killing and torturing everyone in site. Wadai was told to hide by his parents, and he was forced to watch as they were slain by Izuru Kamakura. Miraculously, Wadai was able to survive this attack, and he noticed that almost everyone in his home town had been murdered.

After surviving on what he could find in the remains of his town for a couple of months, Wadaiwas rescued by the Future Foundation and was taken to a Future Foundation facility, where he was treated for his physical and psychological trauma that the attack had left with him. He was then taken in and given a job at the Future Foundation headquarters, which he was told he could stay at.

#### **Upbringing with the Future Foundation**

Approximately six months later, Wadai had received word that the Remnants of Despair had been captured and brought to an island, where they would be rehabilitated. Wadai argued with the members of the foundation, claiming that rehabilitation is not enough of a punishment for what they had done to his family, and millions of people around Japan. However, his claims were denied.

After about two years of working with the future foundation, the Great Tragedy had ended, and the world had been rebuilt. Wadai continued working with the future foundation for many years.

In 2025, Wadai was sent as part of a task force to track down every last copy of Monokuma's blueprints and destroy them. Five years later, the now 26 year old Wadai had found the very last copy of the blueprints, which he decided to keep for himself, and notified Future Foundation that the mission had been completed.

#### **Wadai's Master Plan**

Starting in 2030, while still working at the Future Foundation, Wadai began to study the causes of the Great Tragedy, as well as puppetry, and came up with a conclusion. He theorized that as long as there were people out there with a power dynamic over others, (the ultimates in this case), there is nothing stopping another tragedy to occur.

Over the next 14 years, Wadai began working on a plan to save the world from another tragedy, as well as a revenge plan on the group that had caused him so much despair. In 2044, Wadai used his influence to get into a military base, and launch an attack on Jabberwock Island, killing everyone on the island. This event would come to be known as the Tragedy of Jabberwock Island.

Soon after, he had learned that Hajime Hinata, his main target had escaped the island, and was not among the deaths caused by his strike. Wadai decided to try and find Hajime and kill him, as well as continue his other plan.

To cover his tracks, Wadai also blew up the military base, and the future foundation, killing the six survivors of the first killing game. With his death faked, Wadai went into hiding and started to work on the second phase of his plan. Wadai first had created a realistic puppet of a character he had seen as a child, as well as his own recreation of Monokuma. Sometime between 2044, and 2052, Himo had kidnapped three groups of fifteen "Ultimate" students, and forced them to participate in killing games. He had used his own puppet as a self insert in these games, run by Monokuma.

By the third game, one girl named Moku Shiroku, the Ultimate Mycologist had survived, and rather than killing her, he decided to recycle her for the next killing game. He had brainwashed her and given her the title of Ultimate Apocalyptic Survivor. Then, he bribed judges all across Japan to send eighteen more "Ultimate" students to a prison he had reworked into the set of his fourth killing game. He had inserted himself on the bus with the students, and fit in with the rest of them, to meet Moku at the prison, starting the prison game.