Nazuna Tōakitsu

**Nazuna Tōakitsu** (遠秋津菜砂) is a supporting character from *Danganronpa Kirigiri*. She is a student at St. Anne's Academy, and participated in the Libra Girls Academy Case Duel Noir, and later begins work for the Detective Library.

## History

### Prior Life

Nazuna attended St. Anne's Academy, which was an all-girls high school. She was placed in Class 1D and became friends with Tsukiyo Nada. In addition, there was also a girl by the name of Hana Takezaki that was also attending there class, but was on the lower caste in terms of how rich she was. On January 12, the girls hailed a taxi to get to school, because there was bus delays occurring that day, it turns out said taxi was really with the Victims Catharsis Committee, who kidnapped them for the Libra Girls Academy Duel Noir.

### Libra Girls Academy Duel Noir

At the Libra Girls Academy, both girls were tied up, gagged and placed in coffins. When Yui Samidare wakes up after getting knocked out by the culprit of the case, her pursuit leads her to the room they were in. Upon seeing the movement from the coffins, Yui opens it up to find both in their trapped state. After taking a moment to frisk them for any signs of them being the culprit (namely having a black cape on them), she then freed both from the coffins, but they were still bonded without a key to free them. Tsukiyo called for Nazuna and when she said that Yui attacked her, it was met with the detective claiming otherwise. Yui grabs their student IDs out of their breast pockets to garner more information before asking, and getting confirmation, that both were actually classmates. When Yui asks about their knowledge on how they came here, they say they don't know. Tsukiyo becomes incredibly suspicious of Yui and wants them to 'judge her before God does'. However, Nazuna is more level-headed of the two and believes that if Yui was the culprit, she would have done something already.

As such, Tsukiyo quickly falls in line with that line of reasoning. Nazuna asks if Yui knows whats going on, but her memory only goes as far to the bus that would travel to the Libra Girl's Academy. Yui informs them that she appeared because of a warning a murder was going to take place, which unfortunately as the case as their classmate, Hana, was murdered. Tsukiyo complains says they never even heard of Libra Girls Academy. When Yui takes out Hana's ID, both claim to not to have talked with her much.

Both girls try their best to remember what happened before remembering and relaying their taxi exploit, which Yui reasons to have been caused by the Victims Catharsis Committee. Tsukiyo wonders if its because her parents have money is the reason why she was kidnapped which caused Yui to ask if they were rich. Ultimately, Tsukiyo says there a people richer than them and Nazuna replies it doesn't make much sense to go after Hana since she was in the poorest rung of their class. Yui leaves the two to go investigate some more. However, when she returns announcing that she found the key, Tsukiyo tackles her and orders Nazuna to search her pockets. However, once its clear that that Yui doesn't have the key both are surprised. Frustrated, Yui shoves Tsukiyo off her and stands, introducing herself and stating that (once again) she was a detective. Yui calls a truce, with both girls nodding in agreement, and she uses the key to free them from their bonds. Nazuna wants to see Hana's body and convinces Tsukiyo to go along with it since they owe it to their fellow classmate. Yui leads the way while talking about the chapel of the place, to which they note that for a place that was supposed to be abandoned for seventeen years it was pretty clean. Yui thinks its because the Committee goes out of their way to clean each Duel Noir location.

When they reach, the body is nowhere to be found with a suspiciously clean room. Yui freaks out wondering if the culprit moved it, but Tsukiyo wants to head back so she can make it to her violin lesson in time. They try to turn back, but the door refuses to open no matter how hard they try to pull it. This causes Tsukiyo to freak out, complaining that she hasn't even gone to the bathroom yet and how there wasn't even food or soft mineral water in their location. Nazuna wonders how a door that doesn't even have a lock can trap them inside, to which Yui notices that the track on sliding was on the hallway side, not inside like the others time. Yui concludes that it must have have been a trick being performed by the culprit.

After some time debating, Yui concludes that the location of this Duel Noir was a scale of some kind, since Libra means scale. The building being that way would explain how the culprit can move a body and have a clean room, whilst being able to escape from it. Thus, all three try of a way to lift the scale so that they could get out. These attempts ranging from throwing a chair at the ceiling, to Nazuna going on Yui's shoulders, and to Tsukiyo suggesting they all jump at the same time. By then they have given up, though Yui reassured that her friends will come to save them and check in on her at noon, which prompts Tsukiyo to remind her that she has no way of knowing when noon is. Yui begins to ask if they know why someone would want to target Hana Takezaki. While Tsukiyo has no clue, Nazuna has heard rumors that Hana drove one of her former friends to suicide back in high school. Nazuna went to explain that Hana was being bullied by some other girl who demanded 100,000 yen to move onto to another girl. Hana paid up and thus her former friend took the brunt of the bullying until she killed herself. Nazuna also explained there were also reports that Hana herself was the true leader of the extortion group, but there was no way of knowing was true and false. When Yui asked about their zodiacs, Tsukiyo confirmed both were Leo's. Eventually, Yui thought to try and break down the door with the chair, but before that could happen Salvador Fukuro Yadorigi entered room. After confirmed with Naz and Tsukiyo that he was apart of her team. Wanting to take them to breakfast, Salvador guided all three girls to the church of the academy which would lead them to the outside. Before that could happen, the culprit dressed in a black cape appeared and struck Salvador on the head with their pipe. The St. Anne Girls scream, but a furious Yui chases after them. Yui demands for them to give up, but when she gets closer a nail gun is pointed at her. It's then that she meets the culprit of the case and member of Yui's team: Sachi Mizuiyama. Sachi reveals that she killed Hana due to an altercation that happened before the Duel Noir, she doesn't care about losing the Duel Noir, but instead wishes to hold Yui captive so that she loses the Twelve Duel Noir Challenge. Thus, allowing Gekka Ryūzōji to remain on the Committee, since she was Gekka's devotee. During this talk, Nazuna and Tsukiyo had taken Salvador's body and left. As a result, this causes the scale to let in the Myst'ry Research Society that Salvador brought with him into the room who manages to knock out and subdue Sachi.

After Sachi is arrested, Nazuna, Tsukiyo and Salvador all went to the hospital. At 12:15, Nazuna calls in on an injured Salvador's behalf (with Tsukiyo sleeping right next to her). She relays the details of the Kareobana Academy Case and explains that the Myst'ry Research Society went to the police station to give their report on the case as well. She also relayed a message from Salvador that explained that while he might need to retreat from the front lines he won't stop fighting for the sake of his partner.

Nazuna goes onto gush about Yui and compliment her on her abilities as a detective, considering her mature and wise. She was really impressed by Yui's desire to protect them and think being a detective is quite cool. She asks her if she could be a detective, which Yui assures her that she could. Nazuna asked if Yui wanted to join them for the summer, to which Yui agrees and asks for them to head to the beach. Nazuna accepts and says she'll lose some weight for the summer before ending the call.

### Final Duel Noir

At the hospital, Salvador reunites with Kyoko, alongside Nazuna and Tsukiyo. Prior to the entrance of her two comrades, Nazuna was there alone in the hospital, waiting for Kyoko to wake up. Upon seeing the girl awake, she introduces herself and says she has heard a lot about her from Salvador. Once Tsukiyo and Salvador enter, the latter reveals that due to his injury, his eyesight has gotten worse, thus needing Tsukiyo and Nazuna to help assist him in his goal of taking down the Committee. He says that that the three of them had received word about Mikado's death, and traveled to the site of the observatory, with the intentions of getting the legacy to see if it can get them closer to the Committee and help their cause. That's where they found the wreckage of Sirius Observatory. They would later find both Kyoko and Yui down in the cliff, and would rescue them, though it was too late for the latter. When they got to the hospital, Tsukiyo helped to guide Salvador towards Kyoko, and noted that just because Kyoko was higher-ranked than herself in the Detective Library, doesn't mean she she could act like a bigshot towards them. Tsukiyo also said that Kyoko should feel grateful for them for getting saved, but Salvador reassures Kyoko she didn't need to do that.

Salvador would also reveal that Yui hadn't survived and had shielded her Kyoko with her body throughout the night in order to protect her. Kyoko takes this news with the usual calm stoicness, which cause Tsukiyo to lash out at her reaction before breaking down in tears over the loss of Yui (to which Nazuna needed to comfort her). Following that, Salvador requests of Kyoko's assistance in taking down the rest of the corrupt detectives in the world and the Committee. To this, Kyoko initially refuses with the loss of Yui taking a heavy toll on her. However, after the visit to Yui's grave, Kyoko steels her resolve and joins with Salvador to tackle the detective corruption.

As a result of their groups efforts throughout the years, numerous of corrupt detectives have been taken down and arrested.

## Appearance

Nazuna is described as having red-bobbed hair (pale red in her illustration, when untinted from green) and wearing a sailor fuku.

## Personality

Compared to her friend Tsukiyo, Nazuna has shown to be level-headed, friendly and quite calm considering the circumstances (though Yui notes her to be too calm really). She's quite logical, such as when she deduces that Yui wasn't the culprit given that she was helping them and has shown to be relatively knowledgeable when it comes to gossip pertaining to her classmates lives, such as the situation regarding Hana and her former friend. She's also quite willing to lend a hand in order to escape, such as climbing on top of Yui's shoulder to reach the ceiling (though Yui noticed she was rather dizzy and was mumbling about being so high in the air). After the Duel Noir was over, and she was safe, she showed quite the deal of responsibility by relaying the status of everyone else involved to Yui. She was very grateful and impressed by Yui's courageous attitude, with her actions inspiring Nazuna to want to become a detective herself.

### Tsukiyo Nada

Tsukiyo is Nazuna's classmate and friend, with Tsukiyo even nicknaming her 'Naz'. Despite their opposite attitudes, both seem to quite fond of each other. Tsukiyo, who usually spends the Duel Noir be overly suspect and whining, backs down when Nazuna gives her reasoning and Nazuna is willing to work with her to subdue Yui because they believe that she had the key to escaping their bonds. Nazuna is willing to go along with Yui's plans out of respect for Tsukiyo becoming a too stressed with the Duel Noir. That said, Nazuna isn't above chiding Tsukiyo for not caring much about their other classmates lives.

### Yui Samidare

The detective assigned to the Libra Girl's Academy case. While initially distrustful, and even willing to subdue her in order to get free, Nazuna grows to quickly put her trust in Yui as being on their side. Throughout the case, Nazuna is willing to work with Yui in order to help get free by supplying information or physically working together with Yui to try and escape the room they were trapped in. Nazuna was very impressed by Yui's protective spirit and grew a desire to become a detective just like her, as well being wanting Yui to join her and Tsukiyo in hanging out for the summer. Both of which Yui support wholeheartedly.

**Others**

### Salvador Fukuro Yadorigi

After Salvador was struck down by Sachi, both Tsukiyo and Nazuna dragged his body to safety and were concerned about him. Both would become his assistants and help him in taking down the corruption among detectives, as well as working to dismantle the rest of the Committee.