The Metamorphosis in Room 101

**The Metamorphosis in Room 101** is the name of Osamu Oyamada's execution, as featured in Danganronpa: Behind Bars.

## Sequence

*Excerpt taken from Chapter 54 of Danganronpa: Behind Bars*

  After the animation ends, the monitor turns to static for a brief moment before switching to show Oyamada in a dark room, strapped down to what looks like a dentists' chair. Despite his situation, Oyamada looks more tired and angry than terrified and sad. I guess all the pain he's gone through doesn't make death as scary to him as it was to the other three killers.

        A Monohebi dressed in a white lab coat soon slithers to a panel on near Oyamada and presses a button on it with his tail. A large video monitor immediately descends from the ceiling to hang right in front of Oyamada's face to show all sorts of graphic imagery, from brutal murders to horrifically botched surgeries to gruesome accidents. Although he is visibly uncomfortable at the terrible sights in the video, Oyamada is still mostly unfazed.

        Clearly unsatisfied, the Monohebi presses another button on the panel, causing the video monitor to shoot back up into the ceiling and be replaced by something even worse: a cage full of frothing rats the size of cats. The rats claw at each other and, once they see him, Oyamada. At first, the cage is a few feet from Oyamada's face, however, it slowly but surely creeps closer and closer until the cage is merely an inch from his face. Oyamada is now struggling against his restraints and closing his eyes tightly, trying to get as far as way from the feral rats as he can, which is not very far.

        Despite how the Monohebi in the lab coat is obviously pleased by Oyamada's increased alarm at his situation, it presses another button on the panel, a wide smirk forming on its face. The rats in the cage all immediately explode violently, causing Oyamada to be covered in their blood, bones, and tissue. He's starting to cry and shake slightly now, saying words that I can't hear through the monitor.

        Unfortunately, the Monohebi in the lab coat is still not done. It presses one last button, causing all the lights in the room to turn on suddenly, revealing a life-size, cruelly-made doll replica of Terajima splayed out on the floor. Once his eyes adjust to the sudden change in lighting, Oyamada stares at it in confusion. All the while, the Monohebi hurriedly slithers out of the room. What? Why is it running away?

        As if in my response to my silent question, the Terajima doll starts to shake, with parts of its body also jerking in unnatural, sporadic ways. The shaking and jerking grow more and more violent until something bursts out of the "skin" on the doll's arm: a monstrously large insect's leg. Oyamada stares at it in fear as more and more legs burst out of the doll. When all eight legs are out, the doll slowly gets on its feet and begins to approach Oyamada. He struggles against his restraints fiercely, breathing heavily and crying as the doll with eight monstrous insect legs gets closer and closer.

        The "doll" reaches the foot of Oyamada's chair, the rest of it finally falls apart to reveal the creature beneath it: a gigantic hairy spider-beetle hybrid with the antennae, claws, and large black shell of a dung beetle and the legs and eyes of a spider. Oyamada starts screaming at the sight of his two most feared bugs merged into one horrifying creature, violently attempting to break himself out of the restraints binding him to the chair, but to no avail. He's stuck in place as the monster from his worst nightmares stands right in front of him.

        The spider-beetle hybrid begins moves its legs on either side of Oyamada's chair so that the underside of its body scrapes alongside Oyamada's legs, and then his torso. Oyamada screams and screams, not even in fear anymore but in pure desperation. The creature all of a sudden stops moving and, for a second, it looks like it's going to creep away from Oyamada.

        But then it plunges its two beetle claws into the middle of Oyamada's chest and rips his still-beating heart out of his body, causing a bloody fountain to stream from where it once was. Although I can't hear him, the sight of his agonized face and the arching of his back tell me Oyamada's screams must be deafening.

        The spider-beetle moves to eat the heart it ripped from Oyamada's body, but before it can, the Monohebi in the lab coat rushes back into the room and shoots it full of holes with a machine gun. The now-dead creature collapses onto Oyamada, whose movements gradually slow down but whose anguish never once lessens. His face is frozen in excruciating pain and agony even as he slumps against the chair and the motion of his chest rising and falling of his chest stops altogether.

        When he's been completely still for a few seconds, the monitor turns off.