Myst'ry Research Society (DRK)

For other similarly named groups see Myst'ry Research Society

The **Myst'ry Research Society,** also known as **Ōu Daitōitsu University Mystery Research Society**, is a group featured in Danganronpa Kirigiri. They were involved with the Kareobana Academy Case and Libra Girls Academy Case Duel Noirs, part of the Twelve Zodiac Duel Noir Challenge.

## Members

**Gorō Anbō**

**Erī Wan**

**Kōsuke Kanzashīchi**
 **Tōru Uchida** | Tōru

**Rei Naruko**

## History

### Prior Life

After enrolling in Ōu Daitōitsu University, third-year student, Columbo started a mystery club dedicated to the genre, and proceeded to get four people interested in the matter, thus becoming their club president. These people were: Tōru Uchida (Tōru), Erī Wan (Ellery), Kōsuke Kanzashīchi (Kōsuke) and Rei Naruko (Gray). However, during this time, they would get into a feud with the Black Magic Club, since the room the mystery club uses for their club meetings was previously the Black Magic's room.

Sometime later, Tōru's sister would get into a fatal accident, but it was later revealed to Tōru by the Victims Catharsis Committee that it was deliberate. In actuality, it was Gray, who was a Black Magic Club spy, who had cut the brakes of his sister's vehicle and thus caused her to get into such an accident. Not wanting the rest of his friends to get harmed, Tōru agreed to take apart in a Duel Noir.

### Kareobana Academy Case

On January 11th, Tōru presented a warning letter to the society to come down to the Kareobana Academy and was addressed by the Black Magic Club. If they failed to appear something bad was happened, so they left to the mountains for it thanks to a taxi funded by Ellery. There, they found the body of Gray in the gymnasium and proceed to blow out the candles around her body in fear of the gym catching fire and set up base in the one classroom with a working stove. They tried to go back down, but found the landslide blocking their way out.

When they came back, they met Salvador Yadorigi Fukurō and come to realize he is a detective once he shows them his DSC card. This makes Columbo freak out and orders the rest of his club to not touch Salvador, while also ordering his one hand to keep still. However, the society believes that the culprit has to be Saki Fushie. Saki is the leader of the Black Magic Club and has only let the women join ever since getting elected. Under her leadership, they claim that the Black Magic club casts curses on people and hold secret meetings, but are still around since no one can prove any wrongdoing. Salvador, however, dismisses the possibility and believes the culprit is just using the society's enemies as scapegoats. Thus, leading to the possibility of one of the society members being the culprit. The club members look at each other warily, but dismiss it under the basis that they all came together for the four hour trip to the academy. Gray was determined to have died about four hours before their arrival since Kōsuke and Ellery were both medical students. Thus, Salvador holds back on judgement of them.

The group heads back to the gymnasium to investigate, with Tōru noting the wax on the floor and Columbo finding burnt string. Once their investigation is complete, Salvador makes to leave, but is asked to reveal what he knows about the crime, to which Salvador jokingly asks if they really want to know. Back in the classroom with the stove, they discover that their heat source has run out. The society panics, but Salvador assures them by saying his boy scout knowledge has given him the knowledge on how to light a fire and orders them to round up the rest of the candles.

As they go back to the gym to round up the candles, Salvador explains the trick of the case involved using a sharpened candle that would fly over the drugged Gray until the special wick for it would burn up and plunge the candle into the body of Gray, killing her. He says that this trick was done to likely give the culprit and alibi, which causes suspicions to arise, but the society do vouch again for the integrity of each other. As the group heads back to the classroom, they hear a helicopter outside, which is piloted by Licorne.

The group accepts the ride from Licorne who flies off, but notes that everyone but Tōru would be allowed to leave. That's because Tōru is the culprit, who admits his motive to his friends. This causes the rest of the society to be frustrated with him for being tempted by strangers and not coming to them for help. During the helicopter ride, all four would eventually fall asleep. As they slept, Licorne asked Salvador to reach into Tōru's pocket and get his ID card. Once he did, and saw his birth date was May 5th, it clicked to Salvador that the culprits were those who zodiacs aligned with the case. When the helicopter stopped, Salvador and Tōru's friends left the helicopter to the Libra Girls Academy Case, whilst Tōru stayed to be taken to the authorities.

### Libra Girls Academy Case

Wanting to assist Salvador further as he went to the Libra Girls Academy to meet with Yui, the society (minus Tōru), leave the helicopter as well. Initially, they were investigating and tearing down the boards that sealed the entrance to the academy. However, once inside, they ended up tripping the scales used for the trick that allowed them to meet a captive Yui Samidare being held up be the culprit, Sachi Mizuiyama, with a nail gun. Having mistaken Yui's warning as a cry for help, Columbo orders them to charge at Sachi. Sachi tries to fire at them, but Columbo's calls to Ellery who blocks the nail by opening her umbrella. Columbo then orders Kōsuke to attack, who obeys and knocks out Sachi with a running dropkick.

With Sachi defeated, the club apprehends her and they join with the two girls who had held onto an injured Salvador. Following the completion of the case, the society went to the police station to help report what had transpired in the Duel Noir.

## Trivia

* The Myst'ry Research Society's aliases comes from various parts of detective fiction:
	+ Columbo's alias stems from Columbo, a character from the titular live-action series, and named himself that because of how if one were to say his full name in English really fast, it sounds a bit like Columbo.
	+ Kōsuke's alias comes from Kōsuke Kindachi who is a fictional Japanese detective of his own titular series that spans over 77 novels.
	+ Ellery's alias comes from the name Ellery Queen, which is both a pseudonym for the co-authors (**Frederic Dannay** and **Manfred Bennington Lee)** and the name of the main character, who was a mystery writer that helped his father (the police inspector) solve bizarre murders in New York.
	+ Tōru's alias comes from Rei Furuya, also known as Tōru Amuro, who is a character in the Detective Conan series.
	+ Gray's alias stems from Cordelia Gray, the main protagonist of two mystery novels written by author P.D. James.