Speed Racer Retires Permanently

**Speed Racer Retires Permanently** is the name of Yoshi Date's execution, as featured in Dangan Ronpa: Forever Despair.

## Sequence

*Excerpt taken from Chapter 2 of Dangan Ronpa: Forever Despair*

Monobear produced the same mallet he used in the first trial and whacked the same red button with it. Just like in the first trial, a little animation played, this time showing Monobear dragging Date-san off the screen, accompanied by the words "GAME OVER. Date-san has been found guilty. Now commencing execution."

A door opened on one wall, just like last time, and a chain shot out of it. The shackle at the end of it wrapped around Date-san's neck--and I caught the briefest glimpse of Date-san's terrified face just before the chain retracted, dragging Date-san out the door where it came from.

Monobear turned on the projection screen again to show us what was happening to Date-san. Surrounded by a large four-turn racing circuit, Date-san sat in a shiny, new-looking, red...golf cart. Of course it was a golf cart. A closer look at her told me that her wrists were tied together, and a closer look at the cart told me that it didn't have a steering wheel. In that case, how exactly was the cart supposed to work, I wondered...

Monobear stood on top of a tall platform, holding a checkered flag. He waved it three times, and after the third time, the golf cart Date-san was in sprung to life on its own and began to drive at high speed down the racetrack. Date-san just sat there, unable to do anything or really move at all, looking understandably frightened.

The cart continued on its way down the circuit and rounded the first turn. It was travelling at a very high speed by that point, so its tires squealed and Date-san herself was thrown to one side of the cart. Still, she couldn't move her hands, and she definitely couldn't try to leave the cart or else she'd hit the road pretty hard.

As she rounded the second turn, Date-san turned her head to look outside the golf cart. Maybe she was trying to guage whether she could exit the cart without being hurt too badly? I think that's what she was doing, anyway. She then scooted in her seat to one side of the cart and looked out of the cart again...b ut that's when things went from bad to worse.  From behind Date-san's golf cart, an actual sports car drove up beside her. It was black on one side and white on the other; and its driver was Monobear. Date-san stared at Monobear, who waved at her and then began to swerve slightly in his car.

Date-san looked nervously between the cart she was in and Monobear's racecar, just in time for Monobear to inch his car a little too close to Date-san's. Their vehicles brushed against each other for a second, and then Date-san's cart edged away toward the outer wall of the racetrack.  As they both went around the third turn of the track, Monobear repeated that offense, bumping a little harder into Date-san's cart and causing her to get dangerously close to the wall. Date-san stared at the wall next to her with wide eyes while Monobear did it once again, pushing her right up against the wall now.

They rounded the last turn of the racetrack, and Monobear suddenly veered far away from Date-san's cart. Date-san looked confused but relieved--for about a half a second. Then, Monobear fired his engine particularly loudly and veered back toward her at top speed, colliding with her golf cart almost head-on. The golf cart spun out of control and promptly crashed into the outer wall.

That would've been bad enough. But then it exploded. I stared, floored, as the cart and the wall around it went up in flames, which burned out after a few seconds. After the dust cleared, Monobear waddled up to the rubble that was once the racetrack wall and sifted through the debris. He looked into the hole he made, giggled visibly to himself, and turned around to face the camera, holding up a golden trophy with the words "First Place" on it.

Then the projector shut off again.