Shoot Down The Angel Challenge

The **Shoot Down The Angel Challenge** also known simply as **Shoot Down The Angel** are 3 Duel Noir cases plus a special game featured in the sixth volume of *Danganronpa Kirigiri*.

The detectives of the Shoot Down The Angel Challenge are members of the Detective Library, with Johnny Arp hosting such an event.

## History

### Challenge Start

Following the Zodiac challenges end, On January 19th, Yui and Kyoko were called to a family restaurant nearby their school, thanks to a note by made by Johnny. There, they met Licorne first, who remarks they haven't changed as he watched them chat about how to eat a bowl of ice cream. Licorne wanted to sit by both of them, but was ordered by Yui to remain where he was. When he asked if he could come back to them, Yui considered it, but Kyoko pointed out that he was just having fun. It was then that Johnny burst through the window of the restaurant on his motorcycle, much to the shock of the other bystanders there. Through their talk, they learn that Johnny isn't really opposed to them, but at the same time, he would like to challenge against them in a 'fun' game. Licorne pokes fun of him for being so childish in his motivations. While initially Kyoko was disinterested in their antics, even when Johnny was willing to hand over a valuable pass to get to Mikado, Johnny appeals to their pride as a detective to get them to stick around and listen.

Johnny orders Licorne to take out a box with rifle bullets and explains that they are going to play essentially a shooting game, with Johnny acting as his team's sniper and Kyoko's hers. These events are a best two out of three and take place at locations for on-going Duel Noirs. They will not know the detective of the case nor will they know the culprit. They will only know the item contents of the Duel Noir. They are not acting as detectives but rather outsiders, trying to influence the proceedings of the Duel Noir. Yui and Kyoko win if they can stop the Duel Noir before a murder can occur via their own rifle by any means necessary. Licorne and Johnny win by shooting Kyoko's ribbon. Both sides can only used three bullets per round and they are colored green, yellow and red. Such bullets are meant to be used in that order as well. Licorne hands Yui and Kyoko a timer that will count down the moment the detective assigned to the Duel Noir opens it. As a last minute addition, only the third bullet could be used to shoot at someone directly. Such challenge will happens two weeks from now to give the girl's enough time to prepare.

As Yui grills into Johnny to ask information about the Victims Catharsis Committee, Licorne interjects with his reasoning being that since they haven't lost yet, they shouldn't give out more information (which earns Yui's ire). After Johnny leaves for his date, Yui asks if Licorne really won't come back to them and if he had a plan for going through with this with Johnny. Licorne admits that he doesn't feel like he can grow or develop anymore talents, and that he has a hunch that in the future things won't get better. He goes on via an analogy that his skills would become gradually more useless and that eventually the only way to really proceed is to 'die'. In this case, he would prefer to go out in a duel. That said, he also said that after Johnny's game is over he is going off to study physics and astronomy and cosmic physics since he knows there are unsolved mysteries left in that area. Though not before sneaking into Area 51 to find out about aliens. When Yui asks about his participation in this game, Licorne responds he's the same as Johnny in that he's doing it for his own happiness. This earns Kyoko's scorn and claims she won't go easy on him. With that settled, he takes his team's half of the items and departs, stating the next time they meet, he'll be looking for them via scope.

To prepare, Kyoko and Yui practiced at a shooting range for a few weeks to hone Kyoko's sniping skills, while she herself supported Kyokoby acting as the observer for each shot her friend fires. After they were finished and they returned to their dorm, Yui comments that they have just finished wrapping up their own little detective club, but Kyoko says that as a member of the Kirigiri Family, such things like joining clubs wouldn't fly. This causes Yui to ponder how much Kyoko means it since she's publicly registered in the Detective Library. On that front, Yui has noted her rank has gone up to six and that Kyoko had passed her by being rank five.

During this time, Yui also asked how Kyoko came to know Johnny and he noted that he didn't make a bad impression on her, as well as he was the one that taught her to shoot. Yui comments on the act that while Johnny isn't hostile to them nor is loyal to the Committee, they still have to fight him at all. Kyoko responds that that its all because of Johnny's pursuit of personal happiness. Yui notes that while he can't quite respect him, she feels as though Johnny does feel closer than the other two Executives. However, Kyoko cuts her off and reminds her that its doubtful Johnny would ever convert to their side. Yui eventually presents her theory that Mikado was probably trying to take the name of Kirigiri from her. Kyok says the Kirigiri name isn't really that valuable, but she does wonder why Yui is so keen on the idea. However, Yui (still sworn to secrecy on Jin's behalf) can't say a thing and Kyoko drops the matter. Kyoko says that Mikado can have the name if they want, but no can deny Kyoko is a true detective.

### Case Details

For exact details on the cases they visited, please select from the links below:

* Wedeln Mountain Villa Case

* Katashiro Island Case

* Edenside Amusement Park Case

For details about the Shoot Down The Angel Challenge taking place around these cases, please continue here:

### Challenge at Wedeln

On February 2nd, they receive the letter for the Wedeln Mountain Villa Case and go off towards it, arriving during the 4 PM slot. They off towards the villa case, with their aim being to help the culprit's chances of winning by stopping the girls. The culprit's plan was to use a frozen rope to kill their target instead of strangling. However, the rope itself was hidden by a large icicle, and said icicle would be used as a decoy weapon to make people believe the target would be killed by that. When they arrived prior to Kyoko and Yui arriving, they joined the group of seven other people in the villa, who ended up getting trapped there because their bus had 'broken' down. Due to the blizzard, they were forced to head the villa for shelter, burning the wooden furniture on the stove in order to generate heat, with the driver of the bus (who was working with the Committee) being thought to be lost. As the men of the group (sans Licorne and Johnny) burn wood, one of the woman in the group is curious about Licorne from his name, to if he's cold, to whether Johnny is his father or not. Licorne informed that Johnny wasn't his father and that apparently Johnny was looking for more wood to burn. Licorne leaves the scene, much to the woman's wonder, and meet Johnny in an empty room, who was looking through the scope of his rifle. There, Johnny and Lico discuss the Duel Noir, from the culprit's murder plan to the assigned detective's Motosuke Suzuyari capability. Their talk goes on to Kyoko's shooting proficiency, with Johnny not being quite sure since its been a while since he trained her, but has some expectation of her skills. Licorne complains of having nothing to do since Johnny was the one shooting, but Johnny replies Licorne has been helping by tending to the living room the others were in and that while Johnny brings the handsome, Licorne brought the cute (much to Licorne's annoyance). They consider that the duo might be preparing to fire only when day arrives so as to not waste bullet, During the 6 AM, time slot is when enemy gunfire rings out and Johnny goes to fight against it.

Ultimately, Kyoko and Yui target the icicle, not by shooting it directly, but by shooting down a tree branch that causes a mini-avalanche that destroys the icicle. With the piece that culprit needed destroyed, it means a victory for Kyoko and Yui, thus Johnny and Licorne depart to await the next Duel Noir of the second round. However, during their attempt, Johnny had shot the branches next to them. When Kyoko had gone to inspect them, they discover what was carved in the wood 'NICE SHOT' meaning Johnny and Licorne had anticipated what they were doing from the start. Still, they aren't discouraged and go off to prepare for the next round.

### Challenge at Katashiro

Three days later, they recieve the letter for the Katashiro Island Case. They notice the set up seems similar to the **And Then There Were None** novel given its set up, and wonder how to go about this since the Duel Noir would be on an island and there may be a chance they might have to sacrifice a few to save the rest. As they travel by boat to the island, Kyoko comes up with a possible plan they could take, by simply just dissuading those lured there to the island. As for dealing with Johnny, the plan is to use two ships, with the first arriving being Yui (whose rather reluctant about it) as bait to get Johnny to waste his green bullet. Yui thinks it might work out given that Johnny would think of the first two as being 'extras' instead of being necessary for him. They work to prepare, and when the black letter is finally opened by the assigned detective, does the Duel Noir begin. Unfortunately, before they can even enact their plan, Kyoko's ribbon is shot, thus meaning it their loss. Johnny's skill with his rifle, which is effective in accuracy most at 800 meters but can go up to 4,000 means that achieiving even was no big deal. While upset at their loss, they go to check out the island since they had a bad feeling. On said island, they find all nine people with their faces removed. They planned to investigate, but the assigned detective known as Ayako Saiko comes along and ushers them to move along. She wants the credit for solving this case herself, and notes they probably have something else to deal with. Thus, with the second round loss, they duo heads back.

### Challenge at Edenside

The third letter arrives, but unlike the others that had no seal of the Committee, this one had one. They open the letter to find Yui is the assigned detective for the Edenside Amusement Park Case. As they research, Kyoko points out the use of the weapons listed (aside from throwing knives) all relates to firearms, which connects to Johnny. She believes the Committee intends to interfere with this game, making it a three battle, and Yui believes it has to do with Johnny's antics clashing with the Duel Noir. As a result, the Committee tailored a Duel Noir specifically to get rid of both him and Yui, with the 'Victim' of this case being more akin to an Assassin who needs to kill them to win. Kyoko believes that, given there are five weapons listed, they'll have to deal with five people each, much to Yui's chagrin. Yui considers going to Johnny to get him to intervene, but Kyoko points out that Johnny would just find it interesting. Instead, Kyoko believes they should just not participate at all since there are no other partys that need to be saved or in danger, just Yui and Johnny. Thus, if Yui doesn't go (thereby putting her out of danger), it would really just be infighting between Johnny and the Committee. With their minds made up, they decide to remain at the dorm and let Johnny deal with the Assassins, though Yui can't helped but be worried for Licorne's safety.

As the duo watch a news report on the Katashiro case announce it had been solved, they get a call from Licorne. He announces that Johnny was killed by the Assassins of the Duel Noir (with only three left as Dragunov and M60 have been killed by Johnny), and that he himself was critically wounded. Licorne apologizes for having to call since he knows that the two would come to rescue him, and that their attackers were banking on him luring the two there. Yui reassures him that they'll save them, and with that the call ends. The duo prepare themselves and make their way over to the amusement park. As they get there, they find a wounded Licorne, who managed to stabalize himself for a bit. However, that won't last long and Kyoko advises Yui that they need to defeat the other three Assassins hidden throughout the park first.

They head to the mirror maze first to investigate Johnny's body. Kyoko notices that its strange the mirrors on are intact, since the bullet that killed Johnny should have continued to hit the mirror. However, neither the mirror nor the walls had bullet holes. What they found was that the shot hit the ground instead, meanign it came from the ceiling. There Yui finds a literal loophole for the shot to come in through. They deduces the one to kill Johnny was TAC50, whose line of sight would have to be from the ferris wheel. Kyoko investigates further and finds a hidden camera behind one of the mirrors. She explains that no matter how good of a shot one might be, they can't hit if its they can't see. As such, the camera there is to help line up the shot so that when the loophole is open, they can fire.

As the duo reaches to the ferris wheel, Kyoko realizes her mistake since the TAC50 was 150 cms too big for anyone to sit in the ferris wheel cockpit. As they looked through the camera they discover the M4 connected to a ferris wheel cockpit and seems to be floating in midair. They go to investigate and find M4 is actually on a tripod connected to a laptop, meaning one of their attackers was an unnmaned weapon. It worked that it was meant to fire as soon as someone's face was in view. To neutralize it, Yui the ferris wheel moving without so that the top didn't have cockpit and broke the controls so that no one can get it running again. Thus, this meant only two enemies left.

They stole the laptop of the M4 and checked inside of it. The creator of the program was a Joshua Lindberg who had stolen other people programs to use for the M4 tracking one (including the likes of a junior high school student, heavily implied to be Chihiro Fujisaki). However, when they head back to the maze, they conclude that while only TAC50 could've killed Johnny (based on damage), they are unsure where they could've fired. Its then that Kyoko thinks of the security office and searches there, The place is clean, indicating someone was there recently. They work out that the culprit is hiding in an underground passage of the amusement park and fired from below, with the bullet stalling in the air for a few seconds before falling and hitting Johnny.

The duo heads into the undergrounde passage after formulating a plan. Avoiding the cameras, Yui gets close to TAC50 who holds her at gunpoint. Her calls 'ugly four-eyes' and demands Kyoko because she was 'cuter' and wanted to violate her, then kill Yui, and then violate her in front of Yui's corpse. This causes Yui to snap at him, which causes him to get angry and fire at Yui. However, this was simply a trick devised by them. They had brought a mirror and angled it to make it seem like Yui was in front of him. This allowed Kyoko to take a clear shot with her rifle and knock away his gun with one shot. Kyoko demands he gives up, and TAC50 complies. Yui finds handcuffs on his table and then handcuffs him to the pipes, essentially defeating him (while also shuddering as to what he going to use them for). Yui notices a room labelled power management room and goes to inspect, only to see in horror what was Throwing Knives body. Her ghilllie suit was in rags, specifically the chest was open, and there blood everywhere. When Yui asked what did TAC50 do to her, the man only laughs and tells her to take a guess.

They go to Licorne to find him regaining consciousness. Yui is relieved and goes to his side. However, it was at that moment that they are ambushed by Throwing Knives who was still alive, but before she can do any harm was killed by a headshot from a far away distance. Yui is left in shock over who took that shot, however it becomes clear when Kyoko's ribbon gently spreads open.

## Participants

### Hosts

**Mikado Shinsen**

**Tōkichirō Endō**
 **Johnny Arp** | 000

**Licorne**

### Detectives

 **Ayako Saiko** | 950

**Yui Samidare**

**Kyoko Kirigiri**

### Other participants

 **4 Unnamed Men** | -
 **Unnamed Woman** | -
 **Fishing Boat Captain** | -
 **M60's Driver** | -

## Aftermath

* Following the challenge's end, Johnny is forced to leave Japan and go on the run as a result of being hunted by the Committee. Thus, another Executive is removed and the Committee's power is weakened further.
* After discharging from the hospital, Licorne leaves Japan to head to the United States of America, but not before warning Yui to not pursue the Committee further or else she might end up going in too deep.
* Prior to his departure, he gives Yui access to a locker. Inside contains a black letter that held a business card for Tōkichirō Endō.