High Seas Radio Drama

**High Seas Radio Drama** is the name of Tsutsuji Washio's execution, as featured in Danganronpa: Heights of Despair.

## Sequence

*Excerpt taken from Chapter 37 of Danganronpa: Heights of Despair*

**[Fade to black. We fade in to see Monokuma sitting relaxed on his throne. A big red button with a screen rises up in front of him. Monokuma draws a miniature gavel, his bright red eye glinting wickedly, and slams it down on the button. We zoom into the screen to see an 8-bit representation of Washio being dragged kicking and screaming away by Monokuma, as retro game music plays quietly in the background.]**

**TSUTSUJI WASHIO HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY.**

**TIME FOR THE PUNISHMENT!**

We see Washio, quivering in fear and restrained to a swivel chair, in a small, old-fashioned broadcasting booth. The paint on the walls is chipped, the shelves of vinyl behind her are cobwebbed, and the equipment is clunky and outdated. Squirming against her restraints, the Radio Host gasps as a record with Monokuma's face printed on it drops from the ceiling onto the turntable, before the needle slowly moves across to touch the vinyl.

[OST: Punishment Feat. Hell-icopter]

Abruptly, a miniature radio mast erupts from the floor next to Washio, causing her to flinch and squeeze her eyes shut. The mast breaks through the roof of the booth, and without the additional support of the roof, each wall of the room falls away one by one. Washio opens her eyes slightly and is shocked to see that the broadcasting booth was a smaller box in a colossal flooded warehouse. Water laps against the sides of the open space, which has been painted to look like the horizon of the open ocean. The remains of the recording booth sit on a piled-up heap of sand barely poking above the water, with the radio mast almost resembling the stereotypical palm tree on a desert island. Washio's head flits back and forth in nervousness as she desperately tries to get a bead on what will ultimately cause her demise, and we see her perspective as her eyes lock onto Monokuma, standing on a floating wooden platform and dressed in a sailor's outfit, on the far end of the room.

**HIGH SEAS RADIO DRAMA**

With a flourish, the Jolly Roger unfurls from the top of the radio mast, and we see Monokuma take notice. He jabs a paw into the air, and the wooden platform begins trembling him, throwing him into the water. The platform suddenly erupts out of the deep, revealing it to be the crow's nest of an ornate galleon, with a banner featuring Monokuma's scarred eye and the words "MONOKUMA PRIVATE NAVY", and a figurehead of a mermaid Monokuma carved into the prow. The ship quickly picks up speed, accelerating towards the recording booth, and Washio screams with her eyes shut tight, expecting the ship to ram into her at full force.

At the last moment, the galleon spins to slow down, screeching to a halt in front of the island and catching Washio with a gigantic woosh of water. As she coughs and sputters, Monokuma springs up from the deck of the ship onto the railing, now dressed in an admiral's costume. Pulling a spyglass from his coat, we see through Monokuma's eye as he focuses first on the half-drowned Washio, before panning up to catch sight of the Jolly Roger flag, zooming in as he angrily gets a closer look. He tosses the spyglass aside and draws a cutlass. Immediately, five ports open on the side of the galleon, heavy cannons slamming forth from each and training on Washio. The drenched Radio Host has only enough time to gasp in fear before Monokuma swings down his sword.

We see only the barrels of the cannons as they fire over and over into their target; we are spared the grisly aftermath. Fade to black momentarily before fading in to a shot of the completely demolished island and booth, the Jolly Roger flag limply floating in the water before sinking down into the depths. Monokuma doffs his hat, in mocking respect to a worthy pirate adversary.

**The execution is over.**