Chapter 4 - To Those We Sing a Requiem

**To Those We Sing a Requiem** would have been the fourth chapter of Danganronpa Re:Birth by danganrebirth-voices.

## Plot Points

These things would have happened/been revealed:

### Daily Life

* The groups decides that Seishi (aka Zen) is too much of an liability and ties him up to prevent him from doing anything. From that point onward, he is kept in Classroom 2-B and is guarded daily by the remaining participants.
* Marin ends up becoming more of a leader, imposing rules to try and keep everyone safe. Narumi and Mitsunari help her, as the three have developed into sort of a trio over the course of the previous chapter's events.
* Mikoto reveals more information about herself to Ayumu. Meanwhile, Kasumi and Kazuomi mourn the deaths of Misuzu and Aruma respectively. Joliette, the dog Aruma received due the previous motive, is now in the care of Kazuomi.
* In Chapter 4's motive, everyone still alive would have had a loved one revealed to have been captured. And each character would have a rule/personal regulation. Everytime this rule/regulation is broken, the loved one gets tortured somehow.
* Kazuomi would have attempted suicide, but would be saved by Ayumu. This is over the guilt of Aruma and what he believed was killing Seishi/Zen.
	+ The scene was intended to be a fakeout death for Chapter 4's victim since Kazuomi fits the mascular character archetype of Danganronpa.

### Class Trial

* Ayumu would have had a Rebuttal Showdown against Mikoto Itsuki and one against Mitsunari Koga. He also would have had a boss version of the Rebuttal Showdown against Marin Mizuta.
* Ayumu would have had an Argument Armament against Narumi Osone and one against Marin Mizuta.
* Marin turns out to be the blackened of this case. She killed Seishi (aka Zen) in an effort to save him, so Narumi (who attempted to poison him) wouldn't get executed. She tried to reach into his mouth to help him breach, but ultimately ended up accidently suffocating him.

#### Closing Arguments

*NOTE: The Closing Arguments of the case was revealed on the DRRBV's Discord server.*

**ACT 1:**
This case began this afternoon, near the end of Mitsunari's shift. He, Narumi and the culprit agreed to watch over the victim after the events of the last trial. They were supposed to make sure that no one attempted to kill them, nor let the victim escape.
Zen Katagiri, the Ultimate Hitman was the victim of this case. He was being imprisoned in Classroom 2-B, having been handcuffed to the heater there. Zen called out to Mitsunari and complained that he was cold, asking him to turn on the heater he was chained to. Without really giving it a second thought, Mitsunari turned it on and went back to his position. Although he thought nothing of it, the heat was crucial in Zen's plan. The handcuff's chains became brittle because of it and Zen was able to break out easily.

**ACT 2:**
Sneaking past Mitsunari, Zen made his way down the stairwell near the classrooms. There, he bumped into Kazuomi. Kazuomi, surprised by Zen walking around freely, immediately got into a fight with him. They struggled for a few seconds, alerting Mitsunari, and the fight ended when Kazuomi ended up pushing Zen down the stairwell, breaking his left leg and passing out. As Mitsunari made his way to the scene, Kazuomi ran away from the scene, towards his room.
Worried that he'd stress out the culprit even more, Mitsunari hoisted Zen onto his back and carried him back to the classroom where he'd been kept. He placed him in his original position next to the heater, and went to the infirmary to try and help heal Zen's wound. It's at this point Kasumi also passed by the classroom, and noting that there was no one keeping guard, she went in to check on Zen. But, he had already regained consciousness and taunted her over the murder he previously committed. He provoked her, and in her rage she began to strangle him with her bare hands. He passed out again, and Kasumi panicked as she thought that she'd just killed him. She used the blood from his broken leg and smeared it around his neck, trying to cover up the handprints she'd left there. She then tried to cover the neck area further by using Zen's coat and tying the sleeves around his neck like a cape. As she ran away from the scene, she accidentally stepped into Zen's blood and tracked footprints matching her own shoes.
Panicked and frustrated because he couldn't find anything in the infirmary that would help Zen's broken leg, Mitsunari returned to the classroom to figure out what to do next. But as he stumbled upon the crime scene Kasumi left behind, he thought that someone had murdered Zen while he was in the infirmary. Finally giving in, he ran off to find Narumi and the culprit.

**ACT 3:**
Having found them in <insert location here>, Mitsunari, Narumi and the culprit returned to the crime scene at the classroom. But, something peculiar happended - or rather, didn't happen. The body discovery announcement didn't go off, meaning that Zen was still alive. They all frantically rushed to his side to try and help him, and Narumi offered to cook something quickly for Zen to help. She was supposed to go straight to the kitchen, but Narumi lied - she went to the garden first, by using the same scuba gear trick that Akira did. Once there, she set aside the scuba gear near the well and picked some poisonous berries. Yes, Narumi wanted to commit murder - she didn't want him alive after the events of the last trial, but she wasn't confident enough to directly attack him herself. Poisoning his food gave her the perfect opportunity. After going to the kitchen to cook, she returned with her poisoned berry dish. She fed it to him, and he regained consciousness again, relieving everyone there.

**ACT 4:**
After making sure that Zen wasn't going to bleed out, the culprit relieved Mitsunari of his watchpoint duties because of the stressful event that had just occurred, and both he and Narumi left the area. But not longer after they did, the culprit heard heaving from the classroom, and found that Zen was vomiting up the berry dish that he'd just eaten. Realising that Narumi had poisoned him, the culprit panicked and tried to help him the best that they could do - by clearing out his airways, and trying to get the poison to come back up. But Zen had already lost a lot of blood from his other wounds, and had been through a lot during the day. So, when the culprit put their hands in his mouth to help him breathe... they ended up suffocating him instead. That's the truth of this case. Mikoto came in not longer after and decapited Zen, ending his suffering and making her think that she was the blackened, but... she was wrong. We were all wrong. That was the time that I found Kazuomi in his room, too, so the culprit came towards the sound of my scream while Mikoto took care of any incriminating evidence and got away from the scene. It was only when I noticed the blood near the stairs that I discovered the body.

Even though a lot of us set out to kill him... it was one of the few that wanted to save him that ended up taking his life... I'm so, so sorry...! Marin Mizuta, the Ultimate Weather Forecaster!

## Trivia

* The name of the chapter was revealed on Discord after cancellation.
* On November 13, 2018, DanganRebirth-Voices held a megapoll, and one question was who Chapter 4's victim would be. The results were the following:
	+ Aruma Todoroki (119 votes), Kazuomi Samejima (107 votes), Narumi Osone (56 votes), Marin Mizuta (55 votes), Misuzu Aisaka (54 votes), Akira Tsuchiya (42 votes), Kasumi Izumo (39 votes), Saiji Rokudou (37 votes), Mitsunari Koga (27 votes), Mikoto Itsuki (11 votes), Seishi Yodogawa (4 votes), and Ayumu Fujimori (2 votes).
* On the same poll, there was also the question who Chapter 4's killer would be. The results were the following:
	+ Kazuomi Samejima (117 votes), Aruma Todoroki (88 votes), Mitsunari Koga (50 votes), Kasumi Izumo (48 votes), Marin Mizuta (45 votes), Misuzu Aisaka (42 votes), Narumi Osone (32 votes), Saiji Rokudou (29 votes), Akira Tsuchiya (27 votes), Seishi Yodogawa (17 votes), Mikoto Itsuki (9 votes), and Ayumu Fujimori (4 votes).
* There might have been another kissing scene between Ayumu and Seishi as an unfinished CG of Chapter 4 created by @BlueStylus depicts the two kissing in a hallway. It can be found *here*. Reproduction or use of that file in any way is prohibited, as per the original creator's announcement.
	+ It could also be mislabeled version of the kissing scene between the two happening in Chapter 3. Though, the Chapter 3 scene was happening while the two were showering in the male bathhouse.
* While there is no official animation of Marin's execution, a fan-made intro for the execution was posted by @ShrugMoji on YouTube. It can be found *here*.

## Quotes

> "*Stand down!*"
> ― Mikoto Itsuki (CH:4 - To Those We Sing a Requiem)
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> "*Behave yourself!*"
> ― Mitsunari Koga (CH:4 - To Those We Sing a Requiem)
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> "*Don't blame Big Sis!*"
> ― Marin Mizuta (CH:4 - To Those We Sing a Requiem)
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