Wrecking Crew '96

**Wrecking Crew '96** is the name of Yayoi Murasaki's execution, as featured in Danganronpa: Operation V.K..

## Sequence

*Excerpt taken from Chapter 37 of Danganronpa: Operation V.K.*

She didn't turn away from the massive metal claw, and Yayoi was grabbed firmly by it, being shot off into another long hallway by the claw. Within instants, the screens above the students flickered on, and Rin craned her head up to look.

Yayoi, having just finished being shot into the room, stood up off the ground. The room around her seemed to be a brick-laid, tall, square building, with several windows built into the walls, and tiered quite obviously due to steel fixtures on the walls. Despite how late it was, daylight seemed to pour into the room from the windows. There were several ladders around her, and a stairway on one wall, that led up to platforms on higher tiers, strewn haphazardly with little care for proper architecture.

One wall caved in, and a tier of the building collapsed downward. The floor beneath Yayoi began to crumble.

**Yayoi Murasaki's Execution**

**WRECKING CREW '96**

Quick on her feet to register the situation, Yayoi began climbing up a ladder to a higher tier, taking one rung after another in rapid succession. Through the windows outside, Monokuma could be seen sitting in a large, black and white excavator, holding the remote control to a giant wrecking ball that swung around the building. The wrecking ball struck the side of the building again, collapsing another tier as Yayoi climbed, nearly wresting her grip from the rungs—but she kept strong, and climbed up to a platform above.

She swung herself up on top of a platform, and turned to survey her surroundings, only to be greeted with the sight of a large, black, cartoon-esque bomb marked with Monokuma's red bat-wing eye insignia. It loudly proclaimed, on a monitor stuck onto it, a “3,” that quickly became a “2.” Between the choice of a closer ladder that gained her less height and a farther ladder that gained her more, Yayoi looked at the bomb and decided on the closer ladder, climbing away from the bomb as the explosion blew the platform to bits, leaving her hanging over a great, fatal fall. Tiers continued to collapse as she climbed, leaving her ever closer to the edge of death.

Yayoi reached another platform, only to find another bomb, waiting to explode- but instead of climb, she looked towards the windows on the wall. She saw Monokuma outside, in his excavator. In that instant, something flashed in Yayoi's eyes, and her face twisted upwards in a crooked grin. Without missing a beat, she grabbed the bomb in front of her, and hurled it towards the wall between her and Monokuma. The bomb blew a hole in the wall, hastening the building's collapse greatly, but Yayoi took a step back and made a running leap towards the wall, flying several feet in the air and grabbing onto the bottom edge of the hole.

She pulled herself up just as quickly, and surveyed the surroundings of the great, white room she found herself in. The lighting was stark, fluorescent, and bright. Outside the collapsing building was Monokuma, as well as several steel beams marking the edge of the demolition zone, and the wrecking ball swinging around inside it. Several familiar gatling guns shot bits of debris from the collapsing building to bits to prevent a mess. Monokuma's eye went wide as he saw Yayoi on the edge of the building, and Yayoi took that opportunity to grab her hard hat and throw it like a discus towards the bear, knocking the remote control to the wrecking ball out of his hand. He yelped as it fell several feet below, to the ground, and shattered with a spark.

The wrecking ball came to a stop close enough for Yayoi to jump to it, and jump she did, her eyes not on Monokuma, but above and behind him; a stealthy, opaque glass case sat high on the wall, and that, not Monokuma, was her goal. Though the wrecking ball was a tough surface to scale, she scampered up it with ease, and took one more jump into the scoop of Monokuma's excavator, then leapt into the cabin.

“What do you think you're doing?!” Monokuma cried, but Yayoi brushed him off, grabbing at the controls of the excavator and swinging it around, then extending it upwards, giving her a path to climb higher. It still didn't quite reach the glass case she was aiming for, but after a moment, inspiration flashed in her eyes, and she grabbed Monokuma by the head. “Hey! Wha— What the heck do you think you're doing?!”

With the small bear wiggling in her grasp, Yayoi flung herself onto the top of the excavator's cabin. The gatling guns on the walls made an audible 'whirrrrr' as they began preparing to fire upon her for violating the rule against attacking Monokuma, but Yayoi, undeterred, ran up the excavator. “You're pretty bouncy, yeah?” Yayoi said.

“What does that have to do with anything!?” Monokuma said. “Put me down, you idiot!” But, of course, she did not. Instead, right before reaching the scoop, Yayoi jumped, then hurled Monokuma straight downwards into the scoop. The bouncy bear, shrieking, bounced back up out of the scoop, and Yayoi's feet managed to come into contact with him—and she jumped again, off of him, using Monokuma as a boost to give herself the last bit of height she needed to reach the glass case. She grasped onto its edge and flung herself up onto it, carefully balancing on the edge, her arms wide and splayed.

And the gatling guns...stopped. They didn't fire a single round. Not one.

Yayoi rapped her knuckles on the glass behind her, laughing. At first, it was a slight laugh, but soon, it was a loud, booming, triumphant laugh. “Hey there. You're in there, yeah? What's wrong? Why don't you just fill me full of holes, huh?”

But of course, if The End was in there, she couldn't shoot at Yayoi with the gatling guns. The bullets would tear through the glass and risk harming her, as well. Dust began to fill the air as the fake building fully collapsed, leaving a pile of rubble that was quickly tended to by several small service drones. Yayoi's feet quivered on the edge from the vibrations, but she held strong, keeping herself suspended.

“Come on,” Yayoi urged. “Hurry up. Show me your answer, End!”

The sound of gunfire tore through the air, but it wasn't from the gatling guns. From behind Yayoi, inside the glass, a bullet ripped through her midsection, leaving a hole in her chest. Then a second shot, and a third, and a fourth. Blood trickled out of the holes in Yayoi's torso, but, even as the pain and the force from behind pushed her off of the edge, she chuckled, keeping a smug grin on her face, aimed towards the faintly-visible red-gloved hand holding a gun she could see through the holes in the glass.

With a loud crack, Yayoi hit the ground, her grin never wavering for a second. If the blood was trickling before, it was seeping now, a great pool of red beginning to pour out from below her on the stark, white floor.

She wasn't alone, though. Monokuma began walking up to her still body, staring at her. He gazed at Yayoi with a complex, inscrutable mixture of emotions. “Why...did you do that?” He said. “When you were in the excavator with me, you... you could've tried to save yourself, or run away. Why'd you provoke the guns like that?”

With a sputter and a cough of blood, somehow, Yayoi managed to cling to life long enough to respond. “Maybe...it's something you don't get yet, kid—!!” She gritted her teeth, as several of her limbs stopped moving. “But I... proved my point. That's all.”

“...And what point is that?” Monokuma asked.

Yayoi Murasaki, the Ultimate Foreman, turned her head to look at Monokuma, the last thing she would ever see. With the last of her strength, she croaked out one last thing.

“That she lost,” she said. “I...win. I'm...the boss.”

Her eyes closed for the last time. Yayoi took one last shuddering breath, and finally ceased to be. Her body stopped moving. Blood stopped flowing from her wounds.

But she never stopped grinning.

The screens cut out.

## Alternate Sequence

Later in the story, the terminal describing Yayoi's execution was discovered inside the Clothes Bay, describing how the execution would have played out had things gone according to plan.

*Excerpt taken from Chapter 86 of Danganronpa: Operation V.K.*

“And a beary good morning to you all!” Monokuma said. His verve seemed a bit stronger than last time. “Wasn't expecting to do another of these, but we got a surprise entrant, so let's give it everything we've got! This is Wrecking Crew '96, the execution prepared for the Ultimate Foreman, Yayoi Murasaki!” It was easy for Claus to talk a big game, but his heart lurched at the sound of Yayoi's name.

The animation for this one was a bit hastier, skipping the courtroom and having Yayoi simply land in the building. “Sorry, the animation budget got cut on account of spite for Ms. Murasaki.” Anyhow, Yayoi landed in the building, and things proceeded as Claus and the others had seen in the actual execution itself up until the wrecking ball appeared. In the video, Yayoi continued trying to evade the bombs and wrecking ball as the building slowly collapsed, but as she climbed up the building, the excavator...

Claus sighed. “Of course.” Monokuma switched a lever in the excavator that switched the scoop into a fist, and he and the fist played Rock-Paper-Scissors. Of course, since Monokuma couldn't really make anything but Rock, the fist won with Paper. Monokuma maneuvered the fist above the building, and slammed it down, crushing the building in its wake and leaving nothing but a pile of bloody rubble. Claus rolled his eyes as the credits played. “You know, Luan, I can't help but feel like our resident mastermind is an incredibly tacky woman.” He said, putting his forehead in between his index finger and thumb and shaking his head.