Capital Punishment: Ordeal by Death!

**Capital Punishment: Ordeal by Death!** is the name of Saiko Aishi's execution, as featured in Danganronpa 52: Despair From the Heart.

## Sequence

*Excerpt taken from Chapter 11 of Danganronpa 52: Despair From the Heart*

Before anyone could react, a hidden door near the back of the trial room swung open, and a clamp attached to a chain shot out, making a beeline towards Saiko.

Before he could even cry for the others to save him, the clamp snapped around his neck and dragged him through the doorway, which soon slammed shut.

The doorway was dark and long, and Saiko desperately dug the heels of his boots into the ground in order to slow the chain’s pull.

It didn’t work. The hallway got longer and longer.

Eventually, when it seemed that the hall would never end, it dragged him out into what looked like daylight, with the concrete floor turning into a dirt track.

Monokuma was pulling the chain by a horse-drawn carriage, whipping the horses (which were similarly coloured in black and white) to go faster and faster.

Before Saiko could react, the clamp suddenly released him, and he was thrown into a cinderblock prison tower, with the drawbridge-style door slamming shut behind him.

Wincing from the hard landing, Saiko attempted to take in his surroundings in the torchlit room, but before he could do anything, another Monokuma popped up in front of him.

A Monokuma wearing an executioner’s hood and wielding an equally fitting axe.

“Capital Punishment: Ordeal by Death!” - Saiko Aishi, Ultimate Historian’s execution

The executioner Monokuma slashed the axe at Saiko. He was able to dodge before he lost any limbs, but the blade cut his hairtie and necklace loose and grazed across his shoulder.

The executioner Monokuma evidently wasn’t done, as he went in for another slash, which Saiko also managed to dodge just in time.

And another.

And another.

And another.

Eventually, he accidentally slashed the rope keeping the door shut, causing the door to slam open, revealing the dark sky outside.

Saiko saw this as an escape, and sprinted out before the executioner Monokuma with his heavy axe could catch up to him.

As he kept running through the plains, a cliched Victorian village began to take shape around him, with buildings folding up around him like a pop-up book.

And with these buildings, came villagers. Or, rather, more Monokumas dressed as the kind of peasant villagers you’d see in a movie.

A number of these villagers assembled in an angry mob to block his path.

One of them cried “Kill him!”

Saiko panicked and started sprinting in the other direction.

The mob chased after him, throwing rocks at him and chanting.

“Kill him! Burn the witch! Make him suffer!”

Saiko still kept running, but was eventually stopped by two more muscular Monokumas dressed in royal guard attire.

He had nowhere else to run.

A stake with firewood around it appeared in a clearing in the village.

It didn’t take long for Saiko to guess what this was for.

One of the guard Monokumas grabbed him and tied him to the stake, and the villagers cheered as the other set the firewood ablaze.

The fire began to climb up the firewood as Saiko attempted to struggle against the rope restraining him.

If the fire was able to burn enough of the rope away, then maybe-

Before he could finish his train of thought, he heard someone leaping up behind him.

He turned around.

The executioner Monokuma had leapt up behind him and was just about to swing his axe.

He screamed.

The executioner Monokuma swung his axe and sliced his head clean off.

The rope binding his body burned away, and the now decapitated body of what was once Saiko Aishi crashed to the ground, as the firewood behind it was fully enveloped in flames.