Erī Wan

**Erī Wan**, (王 エリー) known by her nickname of **Ellery**, is a supporting character featured in *Danganronpa Kirigiri*. Ellery is a member of the Myst'ry Research Society that attends Ōu Daitōitsu University and participates in the Kareobana Academy Case Duel Noir.

## History

### Prior Life

Ellery is a Chinese-American exchange student that had decided to enroll in Ōu Daitōitsu University as a medical department student. In her second year, Ellery was apart of a mystery club dedicated to the genre that was created by Gorō Anbō or Columbo. The other members were: Tōru Uchida (Tōru), Kōsuke Kanzashīchi (Kōsuke), and Rei Naruko (Grey). However, during this time, they would get into a feud with the Black Magic Club, since the room the mystery club uses for their club meetings was previously the Black Magic's room.

### Kareobana Academy Case

One day, Tōru presented a warning letter to the society to come down to the Kareobana Academy and was addressed by the Black Magic Club. If they failed to appear something bad was happened, so they left to the mountains for it thanks to a taxi funded by Ellery (though she laments that her salon trips have been brought down to only three times a week). There, they found the body of Grey in the gymnasium and proceed to blow out the candles around her body in fear of the gym catching fire and set up base in the one classroom with a working stove. They tried to go back down, but found the landslide blocking their way out.

When they came back, they met Salvador Fukuro Yadorigi and come to realize he is a detective once he shows them his DSC card (though this was done after Kōsuke blocked him from leaving). This makes Columbo freak out and orders the rest of his club to not touch Salvador, while also ordering his one hand to keep still. During their introductions, Ellery mentions her dislike of her own alias, wanting to be called a female's name like Alice (after Arisu Arisugawa). Columbo explains her status as an exchange student, and notes her name doesn't match enough to be called that, and that Arisu was a male (something that shocks her). Beyond the introductions, the society believes that the culprit has to be Saki Fushie. Saki is the leader of the Black Magic Club and has only let the women join ever since getting elected. Under her leadership, they claim that the Black Magic club casts curses on people and hold secret meetings, but are still around since no one can prove any wrongdoing. Salvador, however, dismisses the possibility and believes the culprit is just using the society's enemies as scapegoats. Thus, leading to the possibility of one of the society members being the culprit. The club members look at each other warily, but dismiss it under the basis that they all came together for the four hour trip to the academy. Grey was determined to have died about four hours before their arrival since Kōsuke and Ellery were both medical students. Thus, Salvador holds back on judgement of them.

The group heads back to the gymnasium to investigate. Once their investigation is complete, Salvador makes to leave, but is asked to reveal what he knows about the crime, to which Salvador jokingly asks if they really want to know. Back in the classroom with the stove, they discover that their heat source has run out. The society panics, but Salvador assures them by saying his boy scout knowledge has given him the knowledge on how to light a fire and orders them to round up the rest of the candles.

As they go back to the gym to round up the candles, Salvador explains the trick of the case involved using a sharpened candle that would fly over the drugged Grey until the special wick for it would burn up and plunge the candle into the body of Grey, killing her. He says that this trick was done to likely give the culprit and alibi, which causes suspicions to arise, but the society do vouch again for the integrity of each other (with Ellery believing Salvador to have been mistaken). As the group heads back to the classroom, they hear a helicopter outside, which is piloted by Licorne.

The group accepts the ride from Licorne who flies off, but notes that everyone but Tōru would be allowed to leave. That's because Tōru is the culprit, who killed Gray because she was a spy working for the Black Magic Club who cut the brakes of his sister's car, something that caused her to get into an accident and crash. Thus, fearing for his clubmates safety, Tōru accepted the Duel Noir. This causes the rest of the society to be frustrated with him for being tempted by strangers and not coming to them for help (with Ellery also adding she'd like the money back for the taxi ride to Kareobana). During the helicopter ride, all four would eventually fall asleep.

### Libra Girls Academy Case

Wanting to assist Salvador further as he went to the Libra Girls Academy to meet with Yui, the society (minus Tōru), leave the helicopter as well. Initially, they were investigating and tearing down the boards that sealed the entrance to the academy. However, once inside, they ended up tripping the scales used for the trick that allowed them to meet a captive Yui Samidare being held up be the culprit, Sachi Mizuiyama, with a nail gun. Having mistaken Yui's warning as a cry for help, Columbo orders them to charge at Sachi. Sachi tries to fire at them, but Columbo's calls to Ellery who blocks the nail by opening her umbrella. Columbo then orders Kōsuke to attack, who obeys and knocks out Sachi with a running dropkick. While Kōsuke was worried that he killed her, Ellery noted that she still had a pulse.

With Sachi defeated, the club apprehends her and they join with the two girls who had held onto an injured Salvador. Following the completion of the case, the society went to the police station to help report had transpired in the Duel Noir.

## Appearance

Ellery is a raven haired woman that wears a black qipao with a white floral pattern. Such hair goes to waist length and its noted by Salvador that her qipao exposes her thighs to quite a degree, much to her chagrin. Ellery also carries a black umbrella around with her.

## Personality

Like the majority of the club, Ellery has a huge interest in detective fiction to the point of being dissatisfied with her own alias because it referenced a male instead of female. She can rather timid and cautious, preferring to hide behind her umbrella when meeting someone suspicious, scared or embarrassed. Her choice to wear a qipao suggests quite the appreciation for her Chinese heritage, though it doesn't stop her from being flustered if someone were to take notice of her legs being on display. She also has a rather generous side given that she funded a four-hour trip to Kareobana Academy for her team, though comments about cutting her salon trips imply she does care about her beauty.

Given her ability to determine the time of death, alongside Kōsuke, it also shows she has a fair amount of prowess in terms of being a medical student. Salvador even notes that her timidity vanishes when doing her job. Her display and split second decision of stopping the shot fired by Sachi shows she's capable of quick action in dangerous situations. Ellery's decision to continue to assist in the investigation and fight against Sachi shows she has a sense of bravery and desire to help. While she also cares for her friends (to the point she doubted Salvador in that it could be her club mates) her request for Tōru to pay her back also shows she has not easily forgiven him for his murderous actions.

## Trivia

* Ellery's alias comes from the name Ellery Queen, which is both a pseudonym for the co-authors (**Frederic Dannay** and **Manfred Bennington Lee)** and the name of the main character, who was a mystery writer that helped his father (the police inspector) solve bizarre murders in New York.