Blue Ink

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## Personal Status

### Participated

* World Domination Proclamation
* Legacy Crown Championship

### Affiliation

* Hope's Peak Academy
* Togami Corporation

## Debut

### Novel

*Danganronpa: Togami* Volume 1

**Blue Ink** (*青インク Ao Inku*) is the alias used by the **Ultimate Secretary**, known also as **Shinobu Togami** who is the main character of *Danganronpa: Togami*. She is Byakuya Togami's personal secretary and a member of Hope's Peak Academy's 77th student batch, Class 77-A.

Blue Ink accompanied Byakuya to the Czech Republic in order to attend the Council of Global Controllers meeting to decide their current fate of the world. Following an ambush on the meeting that leaves most of the council wiped out, Blue Ink and Byakuya are forced to go on the run against the world as an imposter had impersonated Byakuya and declared their bid to rule the world unless Byakuya is killed or the 'pitiful cattle' is found.

## History

### Mysterious Beginnings

Most of Blue Ink's true past is unknown, however we know she was a prized possession of the Togami Corporation for her analytical skill which seemed almost like prophecy. Blue Ink would be with Byakuya Togami for a long time, writing his biography during the real Legacy Crown Championship, almost to the point of throwing up. The incident ended with her having to use her skills somehow, possibly to solve some puzzles. After the Championship she would be given her new prosthetic arm and eye Borges, which housed the K2K System. Because of this, Blue Ink's personality was overwritten with that of the original Shinobu Togami who had lost the championship in order to disgusie her abilities. This then caused her entire worldview to shift into half fiction, half reality, where she could no longer tell what the real truth was. This also extended to distorting and fabricating her past under her new identity. Thus a new Prior Life and events of the Legacy Crown Championship would lodge into her brain:

## Volume Two

### Prior Life

Blue Ink was the second child to Michiko Togami, and thus the younger sister to Suzuhiko Togami. During Suzuhiko's first job as a hitman, Blue Ink was taken along since Suzuhiko had to watch out for her. Thus, she would bare witness to the Kuchinashi Village Fire incident, where her brother slaughtered almost everyone and everything. First by slicing his victims in half, than by setting everything on fire for good measure. The only one who survived was a young boy that was either three to four years old at the time, and that was more out of luck Suzuhiko happened to miss him. This boy would be taken in by Blue Ink and became her new adopted, younger brother, Kazuya Togami.

Blue Ink and her siblings would be selected to partake in the Legacy Crown Championship, to determine the next heir to the Togami Corporation. She would go on vacances at the site of the competition, Tōajō Castle - a castle built on the Togami Family's private island, with the other chosen siblings as a way to gauge the competition prior to its start.

Throughout her years, she would often be sexually abused by her older brother and pressured into incestuous relations with him. That came to an end two years prior to the start of the Championship, when Suzuhiko was kicked out of their home following a 'petty incident', which was heavily implied to have been both getting caught in the act. It's heavily implied that such incidents lead to the day where Blue Ink vowed to never let anything affect her again. As a result, she became someone that generally lived in the moment, without hope or despair for the future.

### Legacy Crown Championship

Blue Ink and Kazuya were taken to the castle by boat, alongside several of their other siblings. Once on the island, they met up with the other half of their siblings (which included Suzuhiko), before Aloysius Pennyworth and a tape recording of Kijō Togami explained that in order to win the Championship, they must obtain the 'reliance' and had ten days to do it. If they fail, they would be stripped of the Togami name and status. After this, Kazuya would be harassed by a good deal of his siblings for being an 'imposter' as a way to pressure him out of the Championship. However, Blue Ink defends him, saying that Kazuya just being on the island is proof that he’s a Togami.

On the fifth day of the Championship, Blue Ink (alongside Aloysius, Eyumi Togami and Ichirō Togami) find the body of Wasuke Togami in the castle's pond. Soon after, the search party to find the deceased Asagao Togami's head, which included Kazuya. When Blue Ink asks what is going on, internally, Kazuya wished that he knew. Ichirō determines that Wasuke died on the third day and that it was via stab wound, announcing such information in the cafeteria. Kazuya is enjoying his second cup of cocoa with Blue Ink, noting that sweets help calm his nerves and that Blue Ink was the same way (albeit she preferred tea). The group in attendance are Aloysius, Ichirō, Shirō Togami, Takaya Togami, Mitsuzō Togami, Eyumi, Blue Ink, and Kazuya. They discuss how these murders were even possible given the precautions and Eyumi even accuses Pennyyworth or the Makabes of it (though the butler insists they are innocent of the crimes). Ichirō tries to raise everyone's spirits and gets them to just enjoy the food the Makabe’s made for dinner and noting that if they were the culprits the food they’ve eaten would have been poisoned long ago.

After dinner, the group of Ichirō, Shirō, Takaya, Blue Ink and Kazuya investigates Yūsuke ’s room. Blue Ink begins sobbing as she sees Asagao’s headless corpse. Following the investigation of the room, Ichirō suggests both Kazuya, Shirō and Blue Ink to head back to their rooms and leave things to the adults.
Later on, both Kazuya and Blue Ink stand outside the hallway as Ichirō, Takaya and Jirō ‘interrogate’ Yūsuke , who screams can be heard from outside. Mitsuzō comes by and wonders what’s happening, but after being told it was questioning, remarks it was like a torture before walking away like he didn’t hear anything. After Blue Ink takes Kazuya by the hand and tells him to stay close to her (which he appreciates, but wishes it was the other way around instead), they witness the trio leave the room to announce that Yūsuke hasn’t confessed to anything. As the three interrogators leave, Blue Ink and Kazuya glance at Yūsuke, who had been beaten up rather roughly and mouthing the words ‘die’ right at them, in addition to laughing madly.

They then hear the laughter of Asa and Yoru, who announce that there was a 92% chance of the killings continuing on and mocking Kazuya for being so reliant on Blue Ink. They leave after that and that ends the fifth day. On the sixth day, they find Yūsuke's headless corpse in his room. Ichirō gathers his siblings (with only Takaya, Suzuhiko and Saburō being absent) and delivers the report. Both Yūsuke and Asagao committed suicide. The killing method was created by Yūsuke (either to kill time or a sick joke) through the use of wire connected to the Tower and some rope. Apparently, Yūsuke was the one to find Asagao’s body first, took her suicide note and made the scene look like a murder.

Takaya arrives back and says he has Yūsuke's head if they wanted to see it. When questions are asked about Wasuke’s killer, there’s no clear answer aside from theorizing it could have bee Asago or Yūsuke or even both.  From there, Ichirō (having taken charge since the second oldest, Mitsuzō, doesn’t want to do it) orders the suicide device to be placed in the kitchen and when asked about how he can he relax considering the circumstances, Ichirō reassures that he won’t let anyone else die.

Five hours later, Ichirō is found dead and next to his body is the kanji to spell out either ‘Yoru’ or ‘Ya’ (夜). Thus, this ended the sixth day of the championship. On the morning of the seventh day, Suisei Nanamura and his assistant, Polaris P. Polanski, came onto the island. They were hired by Mitsuzō to find the culprit, and since the only boat that got them there was now gone (the Makabes had ditched the Championship after escorting the detectives), Aloysius was forced to allow them to stay. Suisei conducts an individual investigation of the remaining participants, with Blue Ink noting to Kazuya right before his interrogation that it was terrible. The seventh day ended with no murders being committed.

On the eighth day, Kazuya and Blue Ink are in the library relaxing when Blue Ink notices how Kazuya is rather depressed and asks what’s wrong. Kazuya relays what Suisei said during his interactions with him on the seventh day and announces his intentions to win the championship. Blue Ink tries to reassure him that she’s fine, but Kazuya notes she’s just saying that to be strong. He’s well aware that failure means becoming a nameless kid once more. Meaning the only person Blue Ink would have would be ‘that man’. Kazuya asks if ‘that man’ was a dear family member even now, but before Blue Ink could respond Shirō arrives, wanting a Schubet score. They talk about the championship, and what could the ‘reliance’ be. Shirō theorizes it could be behind the Forbidden Space, a locked door neat the entrance no one was able to open, though Kazuya is skeptical. The twins then enter and head into the library’s special collections area. Kazuya believes that Aloysius might be the culprit, given his access to knives, but Blue Ink is doubtful give the butler’s loyalty.

Before they discuss further only one of the twins leave the collections area, screaming, before a fire breaks out in the library. Suisei enters orders for a fire extinguisher to put it out. In the end, they manage to get rid of the fire, but apparently Asa died in the carnage, but no remains could be found. When Suisei questioned Yoru, she explains that Asa suddenly caught on fire and knocked a bookshelf over, causing Yoru to run out of the library alone. Suisei also asked for the book she was reading as well, which was 'The Sun Also Rises'. Suisei seems satisfied with that answer, before turning around to the others and saying that there was no way a body can burn up that quickly (much to Yoru's protest). On the ninth day of the competition, Yoru was found beheaded in her own room.

Suisei says that the culprit has used up all their luck and gathers everyone, aside from Saburō and Suzuhiko into the cafeteria, in order to reveal the mysteries of the case. First of all, he claims Asa never existed and that what was by Yoru's side was just a doll made to look like her, with Yoru supporting said doll and making her talk via prerecorded lines. Suisei theorizes it was to increase Yoru's chances of winning, and that burning her was what Yoru thought was the 'reliance' Kijō had wanted: a brilliant mystery and to achieve that by having a person's body completely disappear would be considered brilliant in her eyes. Suisei notes that while she was on the right track, Yoru's idea was poor and Kijō remained unimpressed.

Suisei says that there's only been three murders in the competition out of all these deaths so far: the murders of Wasuke, Ichirō and Yoru. He concludes that the only three that could do it based off of a lack of alibis, had to be Kazuya, Suzuhiko and Saburō. After declaring he has proof of the murders, following a long silence, he reveals that the culprit is Kazuya. During Kazuya and Suisei's debate against each other, Blue Ink doesn't come to Kazuya's defense and instead could only stare in suspicion. Once Suisei reveals the critical evidence, Yoru's severed head found in Kazuya's room, Blue Ink shrieks, convulses and faints on the spot, thus needing to be attended to by Shirō. Her younger brother is taken to the dungeon to wait out the Championship before being handed over to the police.

However, such a fate would not be Kazuya's for long as he would be released following the discovery of Mitsuzō's corpse, which had a note in his handwriting stating that he was the true murderer. When Suisei left the island via helicopter, Blue Ink was among the remaining participants to beg the detective to take them with him (but he refuses since the helicopter would be overweight). Blue Ink rushes towards her younger brother and tearfully hugs him. Later on, with the murders apparently solved, the participants eat at the cafeteria, where Shirō notes that the winner will learn the secret to the Togami Family’s prosperity and how he felt there was someone else in the castle. Eyumi also speaks of seeing a girl in the castle, but she disappeared before she could talk to her, which makes Shirō wonders if the Forbidden Space holds the answer they seek. It was then that Kazuya stands up and leaves the cafeteria.

Blue Ink would later go on to hear the noise from the kitchen that indicates that someone took a knife out from there. She rushes onto the scene to witness a wounded Aloysius, and her brother about to be killed by an enraged Jirō Togami, but she manages to get him out of the way. The duo tries to fight off the mad Jirō when Eyumi interrupts with her scream of fear at the sight. Before she could do anything, Jirō rushes to her and slits her throat, killing her. Kazuya orders Blue Ink to run, but she trips. Just before Jirō can kill her, Suzuhiko dives in to save her. An act that causes even Kazuya to call him ‘big brother’ for a moment.

Suzuhiko asks Jirō why’s he on a rampage, in which the Karate Master says that Takaya told Jirō everyone else was responsible for killing Ichirō. Suzuhiko can’t really remember who Ichirō is considering he died so early on in the story, which causes Jirō to attack him. As they fight, Blue Ink runs down the hallway, whilst Byakuya is forced to take another route given the knife fight. Blue Ink tries to be safe in her room, but she is ambushed by Hiru Togami, the third sibling to both Asa and Yoru who had kept herself hidden during the championship. Hiru brutally attacks her, doing major damage to one of Blue Ink's arms and eye, but she is able to cling to life.

It was then Kazuya bursts in to witness such a scene and asks about Hiru's identity. When its pointed out the odds never listed her, Hiru shot back they were just made by some unrelated third parties who wanted to make a game out of the championship. Aloysius knew, but never spoke of it given that the butler probably assumed the others did as well. Kazuya understands that their plan was to make it seem as if it was just Asa and Yoru, but in reality, they would have a ‘hidden chip’ to work with. When Kazuya asked how all three managed to ride in the boat, its explained that on Kazuya's boat, it was just Yoru operating her doll. However, in the other boat, it would be Asa and Hiru. When the championship started, they were banking on people not really paying attention to who the boat rides, and given the killing spree that happened, people would be less likely to think about it even further. It also helped on the eighth day that Yoru had managed to convince their siblings that she was an only child.

It was then that Kazuya realized the truth. Removing himself from the rankings, and adding in both Asa and Hiru, it proves that he was never actually a competitor chosen for the championship at all. Kazuya falls into despair and Hiru mocks him, preparing to kill the young man However, it was then that Kazuya shoots back on how horrible Asa died (which surprises even himself given how cruel the words were). This causes Hiru to snap into a rage and try to kill Kazuya.

However, it was then a hole opened in her chest, abruptly killing Hiru. After that, Kazuya gazed upon Blue Ink’s body, glad that was still alive. Declaring that he would protect her and that he wasn’t some weakling anymore, he locks the door to prevent any further attacks. However, it was also then when he glanced back at Blue Ink.

He notes that even bloodied and injured, she was still beautiful. It was then that he points out that she wasn’t his biological sister, but rather his adopted one. In his mind, that meant that they could love each other legitimately and can make love as well. It was then, as he proceeds to ‘love’ his prone sister, does he confess that he is the culprit.

On the third day, he says that Wasuke lured him towards the pond, under the belief Kijō’s reliance meant having the guts to kill someone. However, it was there that the young boy’s power would awaken due to his desire to not want to die and leave Blue Ink alone. This power caused a hole to open in Wasuke’s chest, killing him. Scared, he quickly dumped Wasuke’s body into the boat in a pond.

It was then he looked up and saw that a frightened Asagao had witnessed it. However, since Asagao was so kind, he didn’t want to do anything to her and so left her alone to go to sleep in hopes that she would forget. He concludes that Asagao killed herself in order to try and get everyone to stop fighting. Unfortunately, Yūsuke grabbed a hold of her note that detailed what she saw and tried to blackmail the young boy with it. Not wanting to be extorted, his power manifested again and he used its to kill Yūsuke with his own suicide device.

For Ichirō, the young man admits his confusion over how Ichirō found out, but figured that as the former SHSL Surgeon he might have noticed something was off or maybe Yūsuke ’s death was suspicious and traced it back to the actual culprit. Ichirō just wanted the truth to be given, but it was then that the power manifested, surprising both. After mortally wounding Ichirō, the young boy left quickly, unaware of the dying message being written. As for Yoru’s death, he blames it all on her. He just wanted to get water from the cafeteria, but Yoru was angry that her plan didn’t work. She began to insult him, but that wasn’t what caused him to kill her. Instead, she begins going on about Blue Ink and Suzuhiko’s ‘relationship’, claiming how she heard them together doing ‘it’ the other day and how disgusting they were. For such claims, the young man beheaded Yoru for it. It was this that caused him to wonder if Suzuhiko was doing ‘weird’ things to her and if so he apologizes for it, vowing to protect Blue Ink and make her happy.

About twelve hours before the championship is over, he had managed to administer first aid to Blue Ink. When she asks how did Yoru’s head get into the room, he says that Suisei and Mitsuzō probably planted it there, while also informing her about Takaya’s responsibility for their current situation. Blue Ink corrects it and flat out says that he was the killer, and was a murderer. To this, he tries to rationalize it as just being four people he murdered, with half in self-defense. She calls him crazy and begins to cry, with him trying to calm her down by assuring of his victory.

The door then swings open, with it being Jirō with a knife. This is because of Aloysius have a master key on him, thus making locking the door useless. However, this time the young boy has decided to fight, manifesting a lightsaber in his hand. That said, he doesn’t use it on Jirō since Suzuhiko arrives to kill their attacker by stabbing him in the back. Suzuhiko wonders if his younger brother was cosplaying Star Wars and warns him to not try to fight him. In return, said younger brother declares Suzuhiko a stranger and declares he will protect Blue Ink. Suzuhiko responds in pointing out how they were suppose to look for Takaya.

Takaya, however, is standing right behind them at the doorway, looking confident. He notes that since only four of them remain (thought corrects it to five since Saburō is alive), they all should get along. However, Suzuhiko points out no one in that room would gullible enough to be swayed by Takaya. The agitator tries to sway Suzuhiko to his side, declaring he never wanted to go along with the championship to begin with. Instead, he just wanted to seize control of the Togami Corporation. He believes if Suzuhiko and himself works together than can create a new Togami Family that can decide things with war and even create new wars.

However, Suzuhiko refuses since he dislikes someone who would kill family for their own gain. Takaya points out the awful treatment he gives his own sister, but that is refuted by Suzuhiko who believes what they have is ‘love’. His younger brother is in disbelief over hearing this, but when glancing to Blue Ink, notes how she wasn’t denying anything and even sees some confirmation there. In utter disbelief, he calls everyone messed up, and doesn’t even know how blood-related siblings could love each other. Suzuhiko points out historically there have been cases where relatives have committed incest plenty of times. The young boy has believed Blue Ink to have been an unwilling participant, thus learning such information has gotten him questioning what is just.

Takaya agrees that what they have is rather twisted and says that if no one will join him, he will rule the world alone. With gasoline in hand, he dumps the liquid on the ground and lights it on fire. Suzuhiko grabs Blue Ink and his younger brother follows him out. However, its then they realize Takaya had set the entire castle on fire in preparation for this moment.

With the fire spreading and smoking filling the castle, the trio does their best to escape, with the young boy wondering if its his fate to die in the flames like the rest of his village. Nearby they hear Saburō struggling to keep up his idol dance routine as he burns alive, though they can’t judge him given how trapped they were and how fast the flames were spreading. When a piece of the ceiling separated Suzuhiko and Ink from their brother, he tells Suzuhiko to just keep going and get Blue Ink to safety. Suzuhiko tells his younger sweet dreams before running off with Ink.

When Blue Ink wakes up, she in a wheelchair being escorted away by Polaris, who happened to still be on the island. Most of Toajo Castle had been utterly destroyed by the fire. It’s the tenth day and only ten minutes left until the end of the championship, with Blue Ink trying to say that, but ending up coughing instead. As they continued onward, Blue Ink notices what is implied to be Takaya’s corpse. Charred black with several knives sticking out of his body. The duo makes their way into the cafeteria, which had been mostly spared from the flames. There Polaris fiddles with a tape recorder and speaks into it. The answer was accepted and, from there, it was officially accepted that Polaris would be the new Togami heir and the losers to be officially expelled from the conglomerate.

Polaris informs Blue Ink that such a name was just an alias. Polaris’s real name was Byakuya Togami. After removing his contacts to replace them with his glasses (stating his hatred for them, and he only used them because he believes glasses don’t work with girl’s clothes), Byakuya changes into more male-suited clothes.

Byakuya confirms that he was a Bronze ranked among the other 108 Togami siblings and asks Blue Ink how the fifteen of them were chosen. After half a second, Byakuya says it's because their mothers had high standing in society: the best breeding, money, and political influence. The participant's own abilities had nothing to do with it.

Blue Ink tries to say that she would have believed Kijō would have acknowledged it, but Byakuya tells her to not be naive. Everyone came into the championship thinking they could win, but they were all just victims. The Bronze ranked had no business being there. Byakuya understands that while it might afford peace of mind to rank based on pedigree, it insults him to believe the Togami heir can’t be someone of unknown origin. This causes Blue Ink to wonder if Byakuya himself didn’t come from a good family, but he falls silent.

He doesn’t respond to it, instead of going on about how he has changed the rules. He got where he is now by posing as a day trader and then a detective’s assistant working with Suisei, knowing the latter only takes high profile cases and would eventually take one given out by the Togami Family. Blue Ink is impressed by this, but Byakuya states its only natural since its him and he’ll keep winning. When she asks about the others Byakuya informs her that Aloysius was still alive since wounds were only shallow. Saburō and Takaya were dead, but her brothers had completely disappeared.

Given how Blue Ink has lost her rank, family, an arm and an eye, Byakuya asks if she’s in despair. To this, she admits she doesn’t know what to feel. For a long while, she’s simply accepted things as they come, not knowing the ‘luxury’ of either hope or despair. As such, she simply accepts what happens and carries on with her life, even when it includes being ‘loved’ by both her brothers. Even during the championship, she felt nothing and had no real desire to become the heir of the Togami Corporation.

Byakuya notes something is wrong with her, and she even admits that internally. But, ever since the day she chose to not let anything affect her, she has lived in a void without facing hope or despair. Byakuya then says she passed his test. He was looking for someone to write his biography for him, someone who can coolly recount his many triumphs without going overboard. She’ll also be permitted to live as his older sister and that, while normally those who fail would be exiled from living as a Togami, he’ll make an exception for her and he won’t hear any complaints. It was at that moment, Blue Ink was convinced that she was in presence of a God.

As a boat comes to pick up the survivors of The Togami Family's Biggest, Most Awful Event, Blue Ink is internally eager to get back to the world but notes how sad the island is now a tomb of the tragedy that took place there. When she asked what their father’s reliance was, Byakuya said its something that couldn’t really be explained in words and Blue Ink wasn’t quite right when she mentions Byakya recording something on tape. Instead, Byakuya says she’ll eventually learn what the reliance was and if not she’ll be in her own void forever.

This doesn’t sit well with Blue Ink who does yearn to eventually feel what Byakuya feels. To want to feel those emotions. To have her heart be moved, even if that means feeling unimaginable suffering. Blue Ink gazes at the sun at its peak not daring to look away even when it's painful. She decides to get herself an artificial eye that shines throughout all four seasons. Byakuya says he can’t let anyone know of these predictions and he’ll cover up such information. As far as the rest of the world knows, he got his heir title purely by his own efforts. It was then Blue Ink asked for one thing from Byakuya: if she was going to be his big sister, he shouldn’t talk to her that way. Thus earning a taken aback reaction that one would find from a boy anywhere. Thus, putting an end to the flashback of the The Togami Family's Biggest, Most Awful Event.

## Volume One

### Hope's Peak Academy

When she was in high school, Blue Ink would be scouted by Hope's Peak Academy as the Ultimate Secretary to become apart of it's 77th batch of students, joining the ranks of Class 77-A. Once Byakuya was scouted as the Ultimate Affluent Progeny a year later, Blue Ink would resume being his personal secretary, working diligently on the autobiography *Journey Under a Midnight Sun*.

### World Domination Proclamation

Due to the spread of Despair Disease, which was said to have been spread through the Despair Novel, outbreaks and chaos had been happening all throughout the world. As a result, the Council of Global Controllers called a meeting at the Church of Bones in the Czech Republic to decide how to steer the world. Blue Ink attended as Byakuya's secretary, but before a decision could be made the council was ambushed. In the chaos, all except Blue Ink and Byakuya (who got knocked out and stripped of his clothing, sans glasses), was slaughtered. With her brother unconscious, Blue Ink managed to get him to safety. It was during this time where the Imposter would broadcast the First Proclamation of the World Domination Proclamation.

The audio recording was broadcasted everywhere, and stated that either he, Byakuya Togami, was to be killed within 24 hours, or the "pitiful cattle" hidden somewhere was to be found. If one of these occurred, the individual responsible would be granted the right to "be Byakuya Togami". If not, he would take over the world. Blue Ink and Byakuya suggest that the pitiful cattle could be referring to that, right before Princess Sonia Nevermind rolls in on an armored car with multiple soldiers.

Sonia says something about Byakuya being straight out of an erotica manga, and also tells him that one of the Togami Corporation's satellites crashed. Blue Ink attempts to tell her what's happening, but Sonia brushes her off and orders the soldiers to kill them. However, from behind, a black Mercedes-Benz speeds into the alleyway. A red haired girl jumps out and attacks the soldiers with an electric guitar as Byakuya and Blue Ink get into the back seats.

The driver offers them Pilsner Urquell (a type of beer), and introduces himself as Hiroyuki Ketōin and the girl riding shotgun as Yuika Ketōin, his older twin sister. The two of them are twins from the Ketōin Conglomerate, an underworld conglomerate that are after the secret to the Togami Family's Prosperity, but Byakuya refuses to spill the details. The Mercedes is intercepted by Sakura Ogami, who wants to capture Byakuya on behalf of Hope's Peak. Hiroyuki manages to get them away with his car's jet engine. They drive until they find themselves in the middle of a protest with citizens chanting "we will not give in!" and in the crowd, Blue Ink spots one of her classmates, Kazuichi Soda. Hiroyuki offers Byakuya a satellite phone, which reminds Blue Ink that internet and phone service have been cut out, possibly due to the satellite that fell earlier, whilst Yuika gives Byakuya a tuxedo to wear.

On the side of the road, they spot the red haired girl from earlier running after them carrying an electric guitar on her shoulders. Hiroyuki pulls over, rolls down a window, and she attempts to climb in - only to be stopped by her large chest. She announces that her name is Taeko Kanai and that she's a cattle slayer. Unfortunately, by sticking half way out of the car and flailing around (due to perverted intentions in wanting Yuika's spare uniform), she begins to attract the attention of the citizens, who immediately spot and make a move for Byakuya. Hiroyuki floors it, causing Taeko to slip out of the window and be assaulted by the crowd.

The car is unable to gain much speed to get away from the protesters, but they manage to get a bit of distance as they drive through a town. In the sky, Blue Ink spots a flying baby. It's jet black, with a gap running down where the eyes and mouth are supposed to be. She uses Borges and is able to determine it's from the Žižkov Television Tower, and that Kazuichi most likely used his talent to make it fly. The baby turns in the sky, suddenly diving for he Mercedes and splitting its face to reveal a machine gun. Hiroyuki turns the car as it shoots for them, racing towards a busy shopping district. The baby continues shooting and ends up killing most of the civilians. Byakuya asks about the jet engine, and Hiroyuki tells him it can only be used once. In front of them, Sonia shows up in her armored car again and starts killing people, no matter who they are.

Byakuya gives Hiroyuki directions until they eventually get away from the baby and Sonia. He turns to Blue Ink, missing his glasses. She gets him a new pair as he explains they had a transmitter on them, and he hadn't removed them earlier as they guaranteed the enemy being in front of him, giving him the possibility of defeating or extracting information from them. Blue Ink briefly considers the fact that if he had just thrown away the glasses in the first place, the townspeople would still be alive, but then reflects on the fact that she and Byakuya had both lived through the The Togami Family's Biggest, Most Awful Event. A mountain of corpses was just part of survival.

The quartet manages to escape to the Škoda Auto factory, Hiroyuki's hideout. It's there where Hiroyuki finally asks about Blue Ink's artificial eye. Blue Ink responds of that it is called Borges - Ink's personal information library. Hiroyuki compliments her, but his wisecracking and teasing eventually just makes her wish he would shut up. Byakuya changes into the tuxedo and orders Blue Ink to call his classmates using the satellite phone while Hiroyuki showers and Yuika sleeps. She gets a decent way through the list with no response - feeling like "a mother who had only found out that her child was unpopular when she attended Bring Your Parents to School Day" - until he just tells her to call Hope's Peak. She does, and after a few empty calls to various characters, someone finally picks up, Junko Enoshima.

They go back and forth, getting further and further off-topic until Toko Fukawa gets the phone. She asks where Byakuya is, and Blue Ink looks up to see he has moved all the way to the opposite corner of the room. Toko informs them that riots broke out immediately after the 'World Domination Proclamation', so she and Junko sought shelter at Hope's Peak. She says that she doesn't know who started the riots, but she heard the people talking about "locked rooms".

Junko gets the phone back, and Byakuya asks where Mukuro Ikusaba is. According to Junko, she hasn't seen her, but Mukuro left a note reading "I wish to defend this planet". Byakuya tells Junko to wait inside/investigate the school, and to tell the teachers he is innocent. He ends the call by telling Junko he will simply claim victory over his imposter, return to Japan, and attend classes as normal. Blue Ink agrees that he will win, and win, and keep on winning, because Byakuya is a God.

Once they were settled, 'Team Byakuya' all heads over to the Church of Bones, per Byakuya's orders. She wonders why the Church of Bones was created from such an abnormal amount of skeletons, but she ignores useless thoughts as she, Byakuya, Yuika, and Hiroyuki pace around the area. Scanning the area, Blue Ink confirms that there was a total of 83 confirmed bodies, 31 of them specified to be 'Council of Global Controllers' council members. Following conversations with Hiroyuki about the Council and their meeting, she finds an unopened vault containing a satellite phone, portable rations and gold ingots. It's during this investigation, where Byakuya is reminded of Blue Ink's condition that makes her incapable of feeling hope or despair. Blue Ink and him get into a conversation concerning biographers and what drives them, when another Proclamation interrupts them.

A speaker hidden throughout the area seemed to broadcast Byakuya's voice, and it revealed their current location. Byakuya grabs the phone and puts out an order for murder to the former SHSL Hitman, Suzuhiko Ōtsuki (something that causes Blue Ink to cry). As the call went through, it seemed that Suzuhiko claimed that Byakuya was number one on various hitlists online, and had already beaten a number of fellow Clan of Assassins members to the punch, and as Byakuya demands to order a hit, it seemed that the former Hitman didn't want any more of his time and hung up, stating that he already has his target set on Byakuya before hanging up. Because of this, Byakuya admits he isn't quite sure what to do when even the Togami's hitman no longer on their side. Blue Ink suggests that they use 'that', but Byakuya is adamant about solving things with his own power.

Hearing a lot of clamor, it seemed that hordes of people surrounded the Church of Bones, in which Hiroyuki and Yuika climbed up top some steps to get a better view. They proclaim that it reminds them of the 'Reserve Course's Parade' at Hope's Peak. A spark lit up the perimeter and the flames slowly rose up, and just as the crowd grew more agitated, a vehicle burst down the gate to the area, claiming that citizens remove themselves from the area. It was a dekotora operated by Kazuichi and Sonia who, under the cover of being Hope's Peak students trying to resolve the incident, began to make their way over to Team Byakuya. With his quick wit, Byakuya turned the tables against them by throw gold at the crowd and offering whoever got to him first would get more.

The crowd turned against Sonia and Kazuichi, slowing down their assault. Another vehicle approached, this time equipped with 2 jet engines and with it came representatives from the Hasegawa Research Institute, an organization that Taeko was affiliated with and wanted Byakuya as well. With Kazuichi and Sonia turning their truck into a robot and a masked Sakura Ogami (who had the learned the truth and is now on Byakuya's side) joining the fray, it became a three-way fight for Byakuya. The battle raged on with the robot being wrecked by Sakura, who was in turn trapped in a minefield by Taeko. This gives the Hasegawa Research Institute the opening to capture Byakuya and Yuika with a Fulton System, thus leaving Blue Ink and Hiroyuki stuck in the collapse of the Church of Bones. As Byakuya is carried off, he orders Blue Ink to protect him - someone who the world has turned against.

Blue Ink and Hiroyuki travel in a Mercedes, listening to a song titled 'Zaibatsu Datte Gurabiti' (covered by Hiroyuki) as they speed off to search for Byakuya and Yuika. Following the GPS signal, it seemed that the target was heading straight to Prague. Turning on a radio, it claimed that the 'World Domination Proclamation' was still in progress, the locked room murders were still happening, with the company agreeing that those events might be related. The satellite phone was on, with Junko at the other end, explaining that during the events, Toko was distraught and left the school. She explains that she is hiding in the school gym supply room, out of sight from the teachers, explaining that the teachers seem to know who the imposter Togami is. She also explains that the school is doing a press about the event and is planning to cover up the event.

The announcement starts up again, with their company's location now being broadcasted at being in the Czech Republic.

The GPS signal was in a strange location. What used to be warning signs turned into full-scale riots. Taking a detour, Hiroyuki zoomed in on the map, taking a longer route to an island. Deciding to leave things to Blue Ink, after some words of encouragement and hoping she'll rescue both of them, Hiroyuki accelerates the vehicle as far as he could into the ocean, before he uses the car's function to launch Blue Ink out of the car towards the island.

Landing on the ground, she sees whats to be an old fashioned school building, and in it was Byakuya's corpse. She also noticed two members of the Hasegawa Research Institute watching her: a little girl named The Chief and her butler named Subordinate Kanai. She questioned why they've killed him and they both avoid the question as they explained their intentions, stating that their purpose is to research anything and everything until satisfied. They then continued that they have captured Byakuya to extract information, and since he wouldn't crack, a truth serum was administered, giving them their results along with the side effect being death. From what Byakuya told them before he died, they know about the Kudan's usage in the serial murder incident in the Championship that caused it to be dubbed the Biggest, Worst Incident, in the History of the Togami Family. They demand Blue Ink to tell them, but she refuses and uses Borges to guide her away from the Institute.

As she ran down the bridge to the island in a panic Blue Ink would find herself getting hit by the jeep that contained the Moleman and the Mystr'y Research Society, after Moleman purposefully ran into her in a mixture of despair and rage. Getting out of the vehicle, he began to beat her up and used a knife to violently destroy her prosthetic arm, and rip it out. However, before he could slit her throat, Blue Ink stole his knife, kicked him in the balls and then judo tossed him towards the ground. Bloody and angry, Blue Ink grabbed Moleman by the throat and began to strangle him, all while demanding who Moleman's identity was. Just before he blacked out he revealed his identity was Suzuhiko, the hitman after Byakuya. Soon after, Blue Ink blacked out as well.

When she awoke, Suzuhiko has sliced everything in the vicinity in half, including the Hasegawa leaders and the Mystr'y Research Society. The only exception was Blue Ink and Satomi Aoba, who was heavily injured. Right before Suzuhiko could kill Satomi, Blue Ink stopped him by calling out to him. Suzuhiko begins to ramble about how ex-Ultimates are bound by their talents, and announces Blue Ink's connection as Shinobu Togami - the older sister to Byakuya. It was then that Byakuya appeared, having faked his death using a trick to avoid spilling the truth to Hasegawa. He asks her if her plan on creating the autobiography is working, in which Blue Ink states that she is still working on it. Byakuya declares he is going to take over the world for real given all that's happened and Blue Ink could only watch as he approaches Suzuhiko. That was then a school bell rings.

Blue Ink, feeling like she's hallucinating, watches as the headquarters of Despair High School replaces the former building she was in. From there, she is captured by a hook-esque machine and taken towards the roof. There, she meets the group that instigated such chaos that include the Imposter, Kazuichi, Sonia and thetwins - Naomi Kagami and Sana Kagami. Under claims from the Imposter that she is a hostage Byakuya is to fight for, Blue Ink concludes that everything has gone crazy.

## Volume 2 Continued

Captured, Blue Ink was tied up in the headmaster's office of the school, in a rather compromising position. Thus, leading to an embarrassing situation where Byakuya had to see like that. This leads into a heated conversation with the Imposter and Byakuya, which gets Blue Ink wondering if the Imposter was her thought to be deceased brother, Kazuya. However, Aloysius and a portion of the Togami Corporation's Needle Force enter the school to back-up Byakuya, thus forcing the Imposter to retreat. They free Blue Ink and the group leaves the island via helicopter, but not before Byakuya orders the school to be destroy by missiles.

Unfortunately, as they fly to safety, they are attacked by a combination the Hasegawa faction (Taeko, a brainwashed and battle ready Yuika, The Professor and his Tentacles Soldiers), Kazuichi's modified Saint statues, and anti-aircraft weaponry from third parties seeking to kill Byakuya. Because of this assault, while Aloysius (with his shotgun) is able to take care of most of the Tentacles Soldiers and statues, the rest of the Needle Force is wiped out and their own helicopter is sent to slowly crash to the ground. Thus, Byakuya and Blue Ink have to parachute to safety whilst Aloysius is dragged out of the helicopter by one last Tentacles Soldier. Thus, leaving Blue Ink and Byakuya to descend into Pilsen, where they end up meeting a lone Needle Force member: A54.

A54 gathers them to stay in an underground tunnel, relaying information concerning the Imposter's power (being backed by Despair High's Princess Sonia) to the Czech government's anger at Byakuya for causing this chaos. It's during such conversation that Celestia Ludenberg and Hifumi Yamada arrive to assist their classmate, for a high price of course. Byakuya is reluctant to accept help from them but, with no safe haven set in stone, he agrees to it in the end. Celeste takes them to her hideout: a convent that she purchased. Since men are forbidden in convents, she assures that no one would think of searching there for Byakuya. From there, Blue Ink watches as Byakuya begins enacting his plans for world domination.

His plan is to make people believe that he has already won via placing himself as the Mastermind behind the Despair Novel. Making his own Proclamation, she watches as he declares he'll force people to read the Novel once the time is up, while afterwards getting his allies in the field (Hifumi, A54 and Junko) to handle tasks relating to finding out more of Hope's Peak's plans to researching the victims of the Despair Novel. Blue Ink is in amazement at her younger brother for how he is handling his situation, and defends him against Celeste, claiming he's a good kid at heart. However, it's during this walk where Ink notices a discrepancy in her memories concerning the Championship. Such as Byakuya not being disguised as Polaris and that she was writing down his autobiography whilst he solved the Worst Incident - something that could not have happened.

She can not dwell on it for long as Celeste takes off her convent disguise and reveals herself to truly be Sana. In fright, Ink backs up and realizes that this girl has no profile Borges could pull up. It was then that A54 and Hifumi radio in. Despite their attempts, Blue Ink is too shocked to respond and they give up. As it turns out, they were actually in the same room as her, but its at that moment that Blue Ink put the pieces together that they were Despair High School members as well. With the jig up, A54 and Hifumi reveal that they were both Naomi and the Imposter. With Blue Ink as a hostage, they got to confront Byakuya in his office. However, he had been expecting such trickery, and manages it so that he, Celeste, Hifumi and Sakura are now ready to face off against Despair High. Complete with Junko on a satellite phone to watch the proceedings. Byakuya reports that he had knew something was off given how much he noticed the Imposter's fat form.

Not to be be defeated so easily the Imposter have the Kagami Twins reveal themselves as Ibuki Mioda and Gundham Tanaka. They reveal that the Hasegawa Institute are actually the Kasamori Drug Manufacturers, while Hiroyuki and Yuika's conglomerate didn't exist (but they had no idea on who their actual identities were). Byakuya is uninterested with their talks of validity as he preps his side and both sides prepare to fight each other.

They stop before anything could be done as they heard rumbling from outside. Calling a truce, the group of Hope's Peak student lead the convent only to find that everyone else within the area has become infected by the Despair Novel and have taken to killing each other. Blue Ink finds it bizarre since one needs to read the Despair Novel first, there should be no translation out for this area yet, and even then it should take over twenty-four hours for the disease to fully infect someone. The crowd rushes before them, but before they could kill the students, they are interrupted by gunshots. Helicopters were shooting in the crowd, slaughtering all the infected villagers.

Following that, a helicopter came down and out came a young man with a cane. Someone who instantly caused Blue Ink to become nauseous and realize just how wrong she was earlier. It was the true Kazuya Togami, who was working for the World Health Organization. Holding Byakuya at gunpoint, Kazuya announces that he'll protect his big sister and has the Hope's Peak students arrested.

## Volume 3

### Three Byakuyas

Kazuya took Byakuya, Blue Ink and the Imposter into his own helicopter and took off, with the goal to eventually switch to a train convy to head into the Netherlands for Byakuya to stand trial. While they were still held at gunpoint, Kazuya offered them some American cake. It's during this time where Blue Ink uses Borges to find out that Kazuya had been adopted by Keith Elevator and going under the name of Orvin Elevator - the Captain of WHO's Infectious Disease Prevention Unit. Kazuya declares Byakuya is under arrest for trying to take over the world and that they will cross into the Netherlands for him to stand trial. Byakuya asks about how well WHO has the current state of the world under control. To this, Kazuya admits that the Despair Disease can be spread without even reading the novel, thus explaining the ‘tragedy’ of the villagers attacking them back at the convent.

Kazuya then reveals that during their investigation they uncovered two projects Hope’s Peak Academy was looking into: the Sage Plan and Bible Plan. While the information on the Sage Plan is scarce, Kazuya reveals that the Despair Novel was created using the Bible Plan. The Bible Plan consists of using AI to study all the books in the world in order to create a Bible that gives Hope to anyone and was developed by former Hope’s Peak students with writing-related talents. It's during this discussion moves towards the Imposter and their allegiances, someone who Blue Ink has no idea what to think since she mistook them for Kazuya. The Imposter merely responds that their identity doesn't matter as they just to chase their Symbol of Hope - their star - Byakuya Togami. They confess to wanting to get rid of hte UN to restart the fight of Despair High against Byakuya's forces, since the UN has 'nothing to do with their story'. Their confession has Blue Ink somewhat jealous since she feels Byakuya being a God was her own 'secret' alone.

When both Kazuya and the Imposter demand for Kudan, Blue Ink takes note that neither were acting as though who wanted to be rivals to Bykauya, but rather truly become him. Blue Ink assumes this is because without the Kudan, neither can really claim to be Byakuya. Byakuya says that he sealed the Kudan away since he doesn’t need prophecies in order to dominate the world. Kazuya wants Kudan back, but Byakuya counters that having it is worthless since the future can’t be changed even if one knows or not. To this, Kazuya believes, even if one is destined to lose, the loss can at least be minimalized. Byakuya calls Kazuya a defeatist that needs to see reality. To prove his point, Byakuya wraps his handcuffs around Blue Ink’s neck and pulls back with strength (though Blue Ink is enjoying it given how close she is to Byakuya). Byakuya taunts Kazuya on how his sister belongs to Byakuya and that he can even treat her like this. This causes Kazuya to flip into a rage and summon his lightsaber, cutting the table the cake was placed on and demanding Byakuya let go of Blue Ink or else he’ll die. Byakuya obliges, but not before whispering to Blue Ink to wait for him. With a twisted laugh, Kazuya turns to Blue Ink intending to continue their discussion from four years ago.

The WHO transport switches to a train convoy, where the students are placed in seperate train cars. Blue Ink is in a fancy car of her own and uses Borges to listen in on a conversation with Despair High, with the Imposter calling both Ibuki and Gundham useless for allowing them to get caught by the UN. Blue Ink wonders how many from her batch has defected to side of Despair High School, and theorizes her whole year might have gone towards it. Though, when she wonders why she wasn't invited, she concludes it likely has to do with her devotion to Byakuya: She is already loyal to a God.

Kazuya enters her cell room and begins speaking about how they’ll need to transverse through Germany to reach the Netherlands, but ends up begging Blue Ink to speak since she stays silent throughout it all. Blue Ink responds on how Kazuya thinks he’s won, though he says he isn’t that conceited. He notes that Byakuya, the 78th Class that came to Prague, and the captured Despair High School students were all locked up. Kazuya offers her a new prosthetic arm to replace her current arm that was destroyed. Knowing it was for the best, Blue Ink complies in extending an arm out for it. She wants Kazuya to apologize to their siblings that he murdered, but Kazuya responds that it survival of the fittest and that it was Blue Ink that brought him into the world of the Togami’s. She asks him which hand did she extend him back during the Kuchinashi Village Fire, to which he responds confidently it was the left. With that, Blue Ink went silent and allowed him to install the new arm.

Kazuya explains his plan to conquer the world: he’ll continue to spread the Despair Novel to plunge the world into chaos. He’ll then accuse Byakuya of doing all of this and after ‘stopping’ him will be declared a hero of the world. Blue Ink responds that Byakuya Togami will not be finished and that as long as she still writes Journey Under the Midnight Sun, he will never disappear. However, Kazuya is adamant that he not only can he succeed in his plans, he expresses his desire to kill the Imposter and find Kudan in order to truly become Byakuya. Blue Ink becomes worried given, if he does pull this off, his threats won't be empty words. However, it was at that moment things began to tumble.

As it turns out the convoy was now being attacked by the Kasamori Drug Manufacturers which were being lead by Taeko and her Tentacles Soldiers. Blue Ink asks when did Kazuya learn that Kasamori was posing as the Hasegawa Research institute, but Kazuya is utterly confused by what she’s saying. Nevertheless, Kazuya reveals that Kasamori had a lot of stockholders in Germany, despite the name being Japanese, and that the company’s overseas assets were moved underground. In addition, what controls the company in the modern-day era are German political figures. Blue Ink begins demanding as to where Byakuya is with the intent to save him, annoying Kazuya into revealing he’s in the first car. Blue Ink rushes to the car whilst Kazuya’s forces attack the invaders.

Ultimately, the battle is decided when Suzuhiko arrives on a bus filled with gunpowder. The hitman wipes out the remaining Kasamori and UN forces, with the exception of Kazuya and Blue Ink. Suzuhiko then declares he’s just there to talk and do business, beginning to mock a bitter Kazuya before declaring he wants to reconcile with him. Naturally, Kazuya refuses since Suzuhiko ruins everything, which makes the hitman point out Kazuya has destroyed everything as well. Blue Ink is fully aware that all three of them being together will only lead to bad things happening, and points out to both of them how they were stripped of the name Togami and are now outsiders.

Suzuhiko declares that their bond goes deeper beyond the name of Togami, and wants to re-establish his bond with Blue Ink. However, this causes Kazuya to take out his lightsaber and attack Suzuhiko, who merely takes this in stride. However, its then that an explosion from an incendiary bomb sparks Kazuya’s PTSD which came about from the Kuchinashi and Legacy Crown Championship fires. Kazuya collapses in fear, thus giving Blue Ink the chance to run away. Suzuhiko calls out for her, but its then that a Mercedes driven by a familiar ally, Hiroyuki Ketōin, drives up and allows her in. Turning on the jet engine, Hiroyuki speeds off. As they drove, Blue Ink remarks on the unreality of the situation starting to become clearer to her.

As they drive, Hiroyuki is going on about the world record for holding one's breath underwater, but notes that he could really only have a chance if he was in a car (which he was stuck in for a while). Blue Ink isn't listening to his jokes given how worried she is over Byakuya, and wonders why he hasn't found a way to contact them yet. Hiroyuki notes its probably because he doesn't want to risk leaking the location to an outside like himself, adding that Blue ink shouldn't worry about his identity. Blue Ink notes the Imposter said something similar, and thinks back to all the fakes she's met so far on her journey, and how after their identity were revealed they were either killed or disappeared. Blue Ink is sure that she is the real deal, but believes there is something wrong with the area around herself.

They stay at the Karlovy Vary, a resort that Blue Ink had been looking forward to going with Byakuya (though not for the purest of intentions), and both begin to have a discussion. A discussion that revolved started after Hiroyuki points out that 'Hiroyuki' isn't his name and was wondering why Blue Ink had been calling him that. After Hiroyuki suggests, and its proven correct, that Borges had been been offering her discrepancies in reality, he claims their worldviews simply weren't adding up. The discussion goes into the role of secretaries throughout the years - the key to Ink's self-awareness. How they originally stood at the top of their society's apex, but after it collapsed were reduced to storytelling or song lyrics in their despair. Ink remarks on his knowledge, though Hiroyuki remarks its merely as a result of him usinng the library a lot when he was younger.

Hiroyuki goes on to talk about Borges's roles in Blue Ink's life, which Blue Ink catches as him saying she overelied on such a thing. Ink believes there is some merit in what he says given how much she relies on Borges to write Journey Under The Midnight Sun. Hiroyuki, however, takes it further and suggests Borges has been feeding her lies. Hiroyuki believes that, unless its prophecy, people shouldn't rely on something 100% and warns Ink to be skeptical. When Ink asks who Hiroyuki is again, he merely responds it isn't important and that organizations like Hiroyuki's Conglomerate or the Hasegawa Research Institute are merely fiction. He warns her to get the Kudan first and that she let her mind work full speed just like she did during The Togami Family's Biggest, Most Awful Event. When Ink asks once more he who is, he merely states that he was Ink's long-time companion and that Borges had eroded her past. He urges her to to hurry, not for the Togami's sake, but for her own sake. The last thing he says and does to her before he's shot in the head is to tell her to 'be herself' and slip something in her hand. A second later Blue Ink was shot as well, with her internal thoughts panicking and desiring to see Byakuya before she passes out.

When Ink awakens, she finds that a sniper had hit Borges instead of herself, destroying it and causing her her to be depressed given how long she's had it for. She believes that she's still alive given the position of where her body fell, but is unsure of how to proceed, noting that she doesn't have the skill to make it across to the door without being shot and resigns herself to falling asleep. However, it's then she hears Byakuya's voice. Byakuya claims in five hours the world will be claimed and that he was in a place that was appropriate enough for them. Gaining enough motivation to head out to reach their location, Ink forms a plan to get out of the room safely. Pushing a curtain to block the window, it allows her a good shot to make it most of the way without getting shot and, possibly unscathed. In practice, one misses her hair and the hits her side, but it doesn't pierce her. She wonders why she hasn't been hit as she jumps out a window. When she inspects the damage, what was hit was her autobiography, essentially destroying it. As the ruined pages scatter in the wind, Ink thinks back over what she's lost, but finds herself still happy and thanks both for their roles in their life. Still, she ponders what to do now since she's lost her purpose. It's then she realizes that she has something in her hand and uncurls it. What she was clenching was a piece of paper with only a single letter 'K'.

### Matters of the K2K System

Blue Ink's journey sends her to the mountains, despite the threat of a sniper, since wondering around the city while being wanted was a bigger risk. Ink's search leads her to a cabin in the woods where an old man answers the door and notices that Ink has lost Borges before telling her to follow him. The man tells her he knows of the situation and that others call him 'K'. K tells her that he participated in the Bible Plan and, later on, worked with the Togami Family when it came to developing Borges. When Ink asked about Hiroyuki and Hasegawa, this has lead to him also not knowing what Ink was saying, but has noted that Ink is seeing the world differently. K notes that these discrepancies were caused by Borges and goes into his hand in the work of the Bible Plan.

The Steering Committee of Hope's Peak Academy gathered graduates of Hope's Peak Academy that specialized in writing and pressured them into going along with the Bible Plan. The research team gathered for this split into two departments to create the Story AI: the software department which entered data from students who had similar abilities into the AI and the data is given to the hardware department which input such thing into the automatic writing system. Thus, the Story AI was created. This Story AI was created as a way to try and make the idea of a book that can be the ideal read for everyone, since humans are varied species of many tastes, wouldn't be able to create a book that can accomplish that goal.

However, the problem was that the Story AI had written something akin to the Bible and it was found that it was too similar to it, with the Story AI lacking the creativity to create something truly original. As a result, the Steering Committee scrapped the project. Though, even with the Bible Plan being scrapped, the research team responsible for the Story AI was fascinated with it. They found that the Story AI was a master of fiction techniques and when fed information from stories of any nature, it can create stories from different points of views and even different scenarios. It could even do screenplays and comic books. As a result of this ability, it was re-named to the K2K System and the research team continued to push on with what it could do.

Unfortunately, the K2K system would later become the center of a tragedy amongst the team. One day, the system recommended a story to a certain researcher and they snapped, killing half of the research team and stealing the data of what the K2K System showed him before disappearing. After that incident, the Steering Committee tried to freeze the research of the K2K System and seize it, but due to distrust over the intentions of the school's administration, K took the K2K System instead. Ink believes that the Despair High School stole the system for themselves, and K reasons that its possible. K then goes onto to say that the K2K System is what was controlling Borges the entire time.

Blue Ink is stunned by such knowledge as K continues his explanation. It was not long after the Legacy Crown Championship that 'K' was approached by an insider of the Togami Corporation and requested that he write a dictionary for them (though what they were after was learning about the Bible Plan's methods). By then K had created Borges and it had the K2K System updated to version 2.3 within it, but he had needed to hide it. As such, in exchange for a hiding place for his creation, he agrees to write such a dictionary before inserting Borges into its new host, Blue Ink. Ink is upset over hearing it, but K notes its on the user for how they used the dictionary aspect of Borges.

With Blue Ink's desire of wanting to complete Journey Under the Midnight Sun, Borges had distorted her view of reality by blending together fact and fiction (for example, making her believe that characters from the Kagami Family Saga were real) and creating false memories. K goes on to says that its because of that, no matter what correct explanation is given, Borges will translate it incorrectly. Ink wants to know the true identities of both Hasegawa and Hiroyuki's conglomerate, but K points out that as long as Borges was implanted with her that's pretty much impossible. Ink is horrified and starts to wonder how she has been communicating with people so far. However, K reassures her that, even if she said something weird, as long as people get the gist of what she means then she should be relatively okay.

Ink says that Borges is no longer with in her, but is unsure why she can't see reality. K believes that it's simply a matter of Borges influence still lingering around as a safeguard to protect her mind, and that as time passes by, the truth will gradually come to her. Ink tries to reassure herself that Byakuya is God, but K says outright that he is human and will die like anyone else. It's this information that sends Ink over the edge mentally and she begins internally breaking down, unable to really put herself together. She can't feel hope or despair, and knowing that Byakuya being God was simply one of Borges's falsehoods, it makes her feel so very confused.

To aid her, K points towards the picture of a creature known as the Rhinogradentia. Despite having a book written on them, their existence was wiped out due to nuclear testing on their island. Ink says that they can't really trust the Rhinogradentia could have existed, but K points her towards the dodo. Ink says there is proof dodo's used to exist, but K responds that (aside from charcoal remains) there really isn't. K sums up the matter of it being that people believe what they want to believe, and if they choose to not understand then they can't understand the meaning of it. K also notes that its also impossible to really get into the mindset of those experience usch knowledge in the past compared to their lives in the present K relates this to Ink's current issue and how Borges would do everything to uphold her belief that Byakuya is God. Ink finally understands what K is getting at, and realized just how much her desire had clouded herself today.

She notes she is truly 'herself' starting from today and mentions she wished that the Rhinogradentia was real, but K says just believing is enough. Ink expresses a desire to learn about the world truly, which K says in order to make that a reality she'll need to update the information she gets as she goes on herself. K goes on to say he believes the Despair Disease is also a lie from Borges. Before he can continue, bullets starts entering his house forcing both to hit the ground. K guides both towards his garage. There an old car awaits and he tells her to just go. The enemy was likely only after her so he should be fine. Before she leaves, Ink thanks K for Borges and giving her a wonderful fantasy. In turn, K wishes that Ink will see good times ahead. The final question Ink has for K is asking what author he was talking about during his explanation concerning Borges. K says it was Milan Kundera, which get Ink to wonder if its possible that was K's true identity. With no more time to spare, she drives away from K's residence, followed by the enemy. Though in the process destroying K's garage door on the way out and causing K to shout, but Ink doesn't feel guilty considering his role in the alteration of life and how dire the situation was currently.

As she drives, its discovered that her attacker is none other than Yuika, still brainwashed. Just before Yuika could kill Blue Ink, a rocket is shot at the helicopter, sending it crashing. This came from the Ultimate Soldier, Mukuro Ikusaba. With her client on the Global Controllers dead, Mukuro was left to camp out in the woods and repairs Ink's tire (unsure to help her more than that given how she lost her script). As Ink drives off, she contemplates Hiroyuki, and her desire to learn more about herself grows. She laments knowing her past was eroded away by Borges, but reasons its a good opportunity to find her own style and move forward. With determination, Ink declares herself reborn as she drives off in her pursuit to save Byakuya.

Heading back into Prague, Blue Ink sneaks around as Kazuya has placed the entirety of it on high alert, with UN soldiers crawling everywhere. Ink theorizes that if she could just get past the Strohav Monastary it would be simple to get to Byakuya's location. However, given the amount of security, she begins to despair at the hopelessness of it all. She then notices a truck carrying both Kazuya and Suzuhiko, which shocks her as she realizes this means they must have reconciled in order to find Ink. Steeling herself, she follows after and once Suzuhiko is alone she comes out of hiding. This surprises the hitman (who tries to conceal it with a smile) and he confronts her. There, Ink asks if Suzuhiko would be her companion.

Suzuhiko leads Ink into a house full of UN soldiers and slaughters them all as he enters into a bedroom. Taking out something resembling a chocolate bar, he began chewing on it. When Ink asked why he's helping Kazuya, he says that they reconciled over UNO and that Kazuya said they were square afterwards. Ink wants Suzuhiko to help her save Byakuya, but Suzuhiko begins desiring Ink herself. She says she could give him something else, but he insteads gets closer towards her. Once he's close as possibly, he presses his lips towards Ink's eyepatch (which she was wearing ever since she lost Borges) causing her to go tense and feel a cascade of emotions. However, this turns out to be a feint as Suzuhiko promptly crushes her prosthetic hand. As it turns out, Kazuya had a tracker in it that was monitoring her wherever she went. They had expected Ink would meet Byakuya and were hoping to bank on thatbefore capturing both. Ink wonders if Kazuya knows of their relationship now, but Suzuhiko assures he will help her since she's a 'princess'. Suzuhiko asks if Ink was doing this rescue for more content for Byakuya's autobiography, but Ink claims she no longer wants to write, noting that giving up her Ultimate talent means she is free to go boldly towards her own desires.

Kazuya confront Suzuhiko and begs for Ink to join with him, but its then he finally takes not of the scene he stumbled into. Kazuya asks if they are in a relationship, to which Suzuhiko says that are together. Naturally, this causes Kazuya to, once again, freak out and noting that Ink should be with him since 'only he could make her a princess'. Suzuhiko tries to calm him down, saying just let Suzuhiko have Ink and let the hitman find Byakuya. Kazuya isn't listening and summons his lightsaber. Upon seeing it, Suzuhiko mocks Kazuya and asks about whats the deal with that weapon. Kazuya tries to say that it is his talent, Suzuhiko points out how impossible that is for a human to do. Nevertheless, with the situation looking dire, Suzuhiko blinds his enemies with smoke bombs before grabbing Ink and jumping out the window.

Suzuhiko gets in the old car that Ink has and thus the duo drives off, killing several soldiers in the process. Ink is displeased since they are moving farther away form Byakuya, but Suzuhiko is just eager to slaughter the remaining soldiers and then elope with Ink. When Ink asks what's his deal is, Suzuhiko merely states he believes its okay to accept whats right in front of them and even be ignorant at times, causing confusion for Ink. Suzuhiko states his desire to look after his family (but with Kazuya he isn't too sure about) which leads into Ink telling him he shouldn't try in his attempts at being together with her (which he does wind up agreeing since he needs minimum boundaries). As they drive, they talk about Despair High School and their goals, which has Suzuhiko believe world domination is boring and any attempt at which is childish. Ink states the difference is simply a matter of one's own chances at achieving it.

Suzuhiko wonders if the Despair High students thinks that they could spice up world domination and asks if their attempts at it relates to their existence value. Ink agrees that the reason has to relate to the Despairs own value of their lives, but Suzuhiko believes that life itself has value simply from existing. Ink relates such info back to Byakuya and how he doesn't need to be anything besides himself. Suzuhiko goes on to say life's interesting as long as he's still alive and also because he can't really do anything else. He entrenched his life in being a hitman to the point he can't escape it. Ink points out how she was happy being a secretary, though Suzuhiko believes that talent and finding happiness is mutual. Suzuhiko notes about how people want to be freer then ever and wonders if the two of them can leave behind the lives they lead in order take on a new life.

Before that can be answered the car is attacked by someone throwing scissors at it. Suzuhiko managed to avoid them and tries to run over the person, a girl. However, the girl avoids it and confront the two as they stop to avoid hitting a wall. Ink indentifies the person as being Toko Fukawa, but she was now different and looking quite crazed. Toko introduces herself as the Ultimate Murderous Fiend, Genocide Jack, and says she's just trying to follow orders that Byakuya left, and demands to know where he's at. Jack notices Suzuhiko's bloodlust and quickly assumes he's probably another Ultimate with a killing talent. Suzuhiko's comments on how he never expected Jack to have been a liberal arts girl before both began to fight.

They fight so long that Kazuya catches up to them. He hopes both would kill each other, before asking Ink if that was too much to hope for. Ink responds by pointing out how obivous the answer would be since he was nearly blown up by Suzuhiko before. Kazuya thanks her for her opinion and notes that Suzuhiko was looking rather tired. While a good fighter, age had caught up with Suzuhiko and he was struggling to keep up with Jack. Before she could defeat the hitman, Kazuya intervenes and Suzuhiko tries to wave it off as him just playing around. Suzuhiko asks why Kazuya is helping him, but the captain of the WHO forces merely states its because he doesn't want to see Suzuhiko so weak. Jack comments on Kazuya looking attractive, but can't help but notice he was ripping off Byakuya. Once Kazuya states he was Byakuya, this enrages her to take on both Suzuhiko and Kazuya at once (also comment Kazuya has to die for copyright infringement given his lightsaber). Eventually, the duo wear down the serial killer and are about to finish her when a shot rings out.

Suzuhiko had been shot in the chest and was fatally wounded. This stuns both Kazuya and Blue Ink, but Jack comments on how the culprit was hiding in the trunk of a nearby car. Kazuya rushes over and begins to stab the trunk of the car countlessly with his lightsaber before dragging out the attacker. The sniper was Yuika, who Kazuya then beheads before destroying the octopus that was controlling her. Kazuya wants Suzuhiko to stay with them, but the hitman refuses to speak (which Ink believes is to not sound shameful in his last breaths). As Kazuya keeps calling Suzuhiko's name, things become clear to her. The person who was dying was not Suzuhiko Ōtsuki. Rather, his name was Minoru Ōe. Howevever, its as she remembers does her brother finally die.

Jack sneezes and reverts to Toko, whose baffled by the situation and leaves by scaling a wall. Ink has resolved herself to go after Byakuya once more, opting not to cry for her departed brother as her own form of revenge. As she leaves, Ink declares she is not either of her brother's Cinderella. She is her own person and has to forge her own path in life. Kazuya begs to be taken with her in order to reach a conclusion with Bykaya. Ink surmises that ever since the Championship and the Kuchinashi fire, Kazuya's future was burnt to a crisp, thus leaving him with only his obsession with Byakuya and defeating him that guides him. Ink finally relents and allows him to tag along. When he asks where is Byakuya she says that he is in Prague Castle. Byakuya declared that he would be in a place befitting Byakuya and there is no other except for that building. Thus, with Kazuya's assurance that only the both of them will enter the castle, they set off towards it.

### The Final Confrontation

When they got to Prague Castle, Ink meets Byakuya and happily reconnects with him. She recounts how she lost the autobiography and has rescinded her Ultimate talent. Byakuya dismisses her of her duties and tells her to go wherever she please. Considering she just wanted to be with him, she stays by his side. Ink says she heard Byakuya's message (though he denies having done so just to call out to Ink) and asks how he escaped. Borrowing a phone from a UN soldier who was on his side, Byakuya called Sonia (the same one who threw that incendiary bomb), getting her to believe that the affluent progeny was the Imposter. Thus, he escaped.

Kazuya informs Byakuya of Minoru's death, but Byakuya states he won't mourn Kazuya's loss. Byakuya declares he'll crush Kazuya's ambition, take over the world and lead the world to new heights. Ink asks about the Imposter, but Byakuya declares he'll let them go after hearing the word that Despair High had fled. However, the Imposter's voice rings out, declaring that they haven't fled. The Imposter was right behind them and it's explained that wheb Byakuya was freed so was the Imposter, with the end result of their troubles landing both in the same castle. The Imposter declares that they will win, but first they need to destroy the other 'fake books' beforehand. With that cue, Mukuro falls from the ceiling and rushed Ink (who believes Mukuro is one of the Despair High students).

Kazuya intercepts Mukuro and tries to fight her. However, the soldier outskills him, thus leading to his arm getting slashed and his lightsaber to disappear, which turned out to be only a prosthetic. Mukuro then stabs Kazuya's left eye and takes it to give to the Imposter. Ink notices both as being prosthetic just like hers and asks, in horror, what happened to Kazuya. Confused, Kazuya states that he always had these since the Kuchinashi fire and demands the Imposter to give him back his 'talent'. The Imposter declares that while the Kuchinashi Village Fire and The Togami Family's Biggest, Most Awful Event happened, they had nothing to do with Kazuya (or rather the person who thought he was Kazuya), who merely thought he did due to his own version of Borges that was installed into him. Kazuya pleads, but the Imposter ends it by stomping on Kazuya's Borges, causing him to have a mental breakdown and eventually faint.

The Imposter tries to break Blue Ink with the same news, but she had already steeled herself and it doesn't work. The Imposter then asks who Blue Ink is, and she declares she is Shinobu Togami. The Imposter then digs into it and asks why Byakuya would even bother sealing the K2K system into her in the first place since hiding it didn't require installing it in her own body. The Imposter points out that the Ultimate Secretary needing Borges was pointless, yet Byakuya still installed it in her despite the danger to her psyche. The Imposter said that Byakuya needed Blue Ink to believe a false story. In truth, the real Shinobu Togami had 'died' during the championship. In truth: Blue Ink was the Kudan - the secret to the Togami Family's prosperity.

Blue Ink was in utter disbelief and tries to refute it, saying it was Kazuya who met Kudan. However, the Imposter reveals that was just a product of the K2K System. When Ink wonders whose personality she was replicating, the Imposter believes it was the former with the 'Shinobu' aspect slowly eroding away her personality as Kudan. Like making changes to a computer file. Ink was about to have a mental breakdown until Byakuya says not to lose to the truth. He remarks even if its the truh, she can still trust in him and face it. The Imposter tries to get her to not believe in such words, but Ink tells them to shut up. With a re-ignited faith in her 'God', Blue Ink resolve is clear that, even if she isn't Shinobu or Kudan, she's still herself and as long as she's with Byakuya she's happy. She even considers Byakuya 'God' in the sense that her current identity was created by him - something only a God can do. With both united, Byakuya demands the Imposter to declare why they tried to stage the incident.

The Imposter breaks down Despair High's mission into three objectives. The first was to get rid of the Kudan. The power of prophecy is too game-breaking and thus that needed to go. Even Byakuya agreeed that having such power was cheating in some aspects, which was one of the reasons why he opted to hide the Kudan (the other reason being he wanted to prove himself with using it). The second objective was to be the only shadowy organization from behind the scenes. Meaning the eradication of the Council of Global Controllers. Using Sonia they were able to wipe them all out, except for Byakuya (a fact which the affluent progeny was smug about). It's then that the Imposter admits that Despair High had been purposefully letting Byakuya escape the entire time. The Mastermind was enjoying their time as Byakuya's classmate, which shocks both of the Togami's upon learning the Imposter isn't behind the event and the fact the controller was someone from the 78th Class. The Imposter reveals this event revolved around Byakuya handling of the situation, and upon seeing how well he fared, decide that he must be dealt with. Thus, the third objective was to get rid of Byakuya Togami (something that Ink points out was contradictory to what they said about letting him live).

Mukuro holds Ink at knife point and the Imposters gives Byakuya a choice. Option one: Byakuya can take over the world, meaning it is his victory, but in doing so they will have to kill the Kudan. The Imposter also showcases a pill that can erase specific memories (though Byakuya is doubtful of its true effects). Option two: Byakuya can choose not to conquer the world, meaning is loss, but the Kudan can live, albeit she will have to live under a new identity after getting her mind wiped. In addition, the 78th batch that came to Prague will have their memories wiped and Byakuya himself will take a suppressant for his talent. Ink begs Byakuya to choose to take over the world, that her life isn't worth it compared to his.

In the end, Byakuya chooses to not take over the world. He claims he's doing it because the world domination attempy was made purely by the Imposter's machinations, not Byakuya's and beating someone who is just a pawn to another isn't satisfactory. Ink despairs over Byakuya's abilities being hindered by Despair High, but he re-assures her that given The Tragedy will likely start soon. Ink asks how come he believes that, Byakuya points out how Despair High isn't concerned with making her disappear, despite how many people know of Ink's true identity or even wiping the Prague 78th class members. This implies that whatever they have planned will start soon. The Imposter's silence confirms everything.

Ink doesn't want him to become a laughing stock, but Byakuya re-assures her that even if it does happen he'll still be able to guide his class towards the correct avenue. The most important thing for him is that Blue Ink can continue to live on. Ink says it doesn't matter for her since her memories and his memory of her will be erased: something that is equal to death in her eyes. Byakuya is confident that, given the fact she faced the truth before, she can overcome this as well.

As the Imposter leaves to obtain the required drugs, Ink is sobbing over having to say goodbye to Byakuya and Byakuya himself admits it will be lonely without her. Ink responds she's just his predecessor and that she laments not being able to see the world once Byakuya has conquered it. She regrets not being able to finish his autobiography, but won't complain about it anymore for the remaining future. Ink says this is ultimately because Byakuya is not only her God, but because she is his sister (with Byakuya acknowledging she finally got what she wanted).

When Byakuya asks for a change of glasses, Blue Ink obliges, but also gives him a memento of her: a blue fountain pen. The Imposter comes back and hands Byakuya a phone to 'wake up the fools'. Byakuya takes it and announces to the world that the Despair Novel doesn't have any sort of properties that can induce such madness as the also fake Despair Disease. It's an ordinary book that people began to believe under a placebo effect, where they willingly become mad to escape their own boring reality. A choice Blue Ink believes they will be judged for in the future. Byakuya urges people that the world will not end and to go back to their ordinary lives. After he hangs up, the Imposter admits Despair High knew that the Despair Novel had no actual effect, but humanity had clung to the belief that it did, thus causing the forerunner to what he names *The Tragedy*.

### Blue Ink's Fate

The Imposter then gives them two vials containing sleeping medicine, stating that after both took it, they would be operated on (but the Imposter gives their word that, as Byakuya's admirer, they won't be harmed). Both take one each and drank them at the same time. As she passes out, Blue Ink hopes that, eventually, she could meet Byakuya again. With the next time they meet being a conquered world. With this desire in her heart, like a prophecy, she announces internally for those reading the story to have a good dream before saying goodnight.

Now in the hands of Ultimate Despair, the fate of the girl known as Blue Ink - Shinobu Togami - remains unknown. Even assuming that Blue Ink's identity was erased again to live a new life, it remains unknown to where the girl's current whereabouts would be or if she would have survived the events of the upcoming Tragedy. Her memento, the fountain pen, would later be dropped by accident by Byakuya Togami. Once he picked it up, for a brief moment, his memories of Blue Ink returned. But just like a dream, soon said memories faded away.

## Skills & Abilities

### Borges

Borges is an information retrieval library/encyclopedia that updates in real time. It also has dictionaries, news, current events, and maps. The data is displayed directly in Blue Ink's field of vision, so it also has perfect augmented reality technology, and takes the place of universal goggles. It can even eavesdrop on coversation people could potentially be having, such as when Blue Ink uses it to overhear a conversation between Kazuichi and Sonia during the World Domination Proclamation. Blue Ink constantly used Borges throughout her life following the Legacy Crown Championship and up to the Proclamation, as means of accuracy for her work as Byakuya's secretary. It's nickname derives from when Jorge Luis Borges was lost his eyesight that he began residing in a library, taking note of information.

However, by the third volume, its revealed that Borges has actually been overlaying fictious material with reality as a result of its Story AI trying to mold reality into how Blue Ink would want it to be. As a result, Blue Ink began to percieve things that weren't actually the truth. Ultimately, Borges is destroyed and it gives Blue Ink the chance to properly percieve the reality she had been blinded to.

### Ultimate Secretary

As the Ultimate Secretary, Blue Ink has demonstrated exemplary support and record-keeping skills in regards to her 'employer'. This ranges from always keeping a spare pair of glasses for her younger brother to obtain, to using Borges as a means of keeping Byakuya up to date on their current situation. As his secretary, her main role is to help complete his autobiography, writing doing everything that happens in his life in order to complete it. According to Suzuhiko, she's been writing ever since she was young. However, following the loss of Borges, the destruction of the autobiography and knowledge that Borges had been tampering with her worldview, Blue Ink had given up her talent prior to the Proclamation's completion.

### Self-Defense Prowess

Blue Ink is fairly competent in terms of her fighting capapbilities (at least following the Championship), with her actions against Moleman showcasing that not only is she skilled in judo, she's also strong enough to strangle a grown man in spite of being fairly injured from his assault and missing her prosthetic arm. In addition, she does possess quick wit to react and adapt to unfavorable scenarios, such as using her own pen ink to uncover a disguised Yuika or throwing off the sniper by using the hotel's curtains to help mask her attempt to break away.

### Analysis

Blue Ink is profficient at analysing situations, and can easily predict all manner of things, similarly to Junko Enoshima. This was extremely useful to the Togami Corportation, who touted her as the secret to their prosperity: aka the Kudan

## Appearance

Unlike most *Danganronpa* protagonists, Blue Ink has no official artwork of her made at this time. Thus, Blue Ink's appearance is based off the descriptions made from the cast throughout the story. Blue Ink is pale and described as being rather beautiful, with Hiroyuki making special notes towards her eyes. Her right eye holds Borges, which is gold in color. Her hair color isn't stated, its noted her hair is styled into bangs. While her right arm is a prosthetic, it did look like a regular arm. Given that she's strong enough to toss and strangle a grown-man with one arm, it's likely that Blue Ink's body is quite fit.

Blue Ink's first prosthetic arm was left severely damaged after Moleman's attack, thus she ended up getting a replacement from Kazuya. However, due to Suzuhiko wanting to destroy the tracker in it, that new arm's hand was crushed. After the destruction of Borges, Blue Ink was given an eyepatch by K.

Given the reveal that Blue Ink is Kudan, her appearance could also reasonably be assumed to look like her. Such description being long black hair, pale skin, a white dress and her eyes being large, wet and black, baring some resemblence to that of a cow. However, given the K2K System's influence in creating the false memories of the Chamionship, it leaves a degree of doubt to whether such information can be taken as factual.

## Personality

Contrasting her younger brother's cold-hearted and arrogant demeanor, Blue Ink is generally more emotional and down-to-earth, essentially being the 'normal one' of Team Byakuya. As such, Blue Ink typically has better relations with communicating with other people, be it friend or foe, where as others might be put off by Byakuya's arrogance and find it difficult to work with him. As a secretary, Blue Ink is professional and incredibly efficient in staying well-informed via Borges (or, at least, that was the intention). From organizing and relaying news to her 'employer', mindful in keeping the items he need in stock and holding a dutiful work ethic in terms of her writing, a trait that she is rather passionate about. It's to the point where if someone were to criticize her writing talent, be it from suggesting Borges does most of the heavy lifting or that she was ripping off another work, she gets defensive. Aside from writing, Blue Ink has an appreciation for literature in general, as she makes consistent references to literary works during her internal thoughts. While not as intelligent as Byakuya, with there even being some occasions where she can be somewhat air-headed, Blue Ink is reasonably intelligent and is quick witted enough to handle herself in stressful or violent situations. Her conversations with K paint her as preferring solid evidence to prove something exists, rather than just going with emotions or vague evidence.

However, while she is more emotional, its been observed by Byakua and others, that she does hold a 'coldness' towards life. Following her own tragedies, Blue Ink vowed to never let anything truly affect her again, becoming someone who generally went on through life without much personal hope towards the future or despair for it. As a result, this means when it comes to harsh situations, such as the deaths of innocents during the Proclamation, while she dislikes such things has to happen, it won't hold a long-term affect on her and she can quickly move on from them. This also means that she has a tendency to just go with the flow, uncaring to truly put much personal ambition in things or events outside of what her 'boss' desires. When it comes to those that severely wronged her, such as Suzuhiko or Kazuya, she expresses dislike towards them and their lack of remorse for their murderous actions, wishing that she can just be seperated from their lives and refusing their attempts at reconciling with her or trying to court her. That said, she does hold a degree of familial connection to them, enough that she does become upset when Suzuhiko is fatally wounded and comes to Kazuya's defense when the Imposter mocks him. In dire situations, Blue Ink is the type to push aside her grievances if it means her goal can be accomplished (the rescue of Byakuya Togami). Her internal thoughts towards those that annoy her or she dislikes, barring family, tend to exaggerate or highlight their negative traits more, such as referring to the Imposter's fingers as being 'sausage-like'. Similarly to Byakuya, she also holds some degree of discrimination regarding those in lower standing of her, as she considers the Reserve Course to be 'talentless', though in a more factual way compared to Byakuya's prideful demeanor.

Blue Ink's defining trait is her utmost devotion to Byakuya Togami. Ever since the Championship, Blue Ink has expressed utter loyalty and adoration towards her younger brother, thus leading her to faithfully follow him. From when he is made the enemy of the world during the Proclamation, to when he goes about his legitimate bid for world domination, she is steadfast in her trust in her 'God'. She is determined to keep him safe and is willing to make allies with those she detests if it means getting him back. This goes to even during the last confrontation with the Imposter, where despite knowing his involvement in erasing of her prior self as Kudan, she decides to her trust in Byakuya. This devotion tends to be expressed either as Byakuya's dutiful assistant, to attempting to be more along the lines of his caring, big sister. This devotion is also romantic in nature as well, with Blue Ink harboring feelings for her brother, for example wishing it could have been just the two of them running away together to elope. However, compared to Kazuya or Suzuhiko, Blue Ink never acts on such feelings to Byakuya, instead keen to keep such things closely to herself or implying such things during her ride with Hiroyuki. It's to the point where Blue Ink hardly sees herself as anything but Byakuya's 'writing machine' and has no qualms in wanting to die if it means her brother can be unharmed. Byakuya's safety being in jeopardy is enough to seriously get Blue Ink to worry and showcase her strong determination to get him back.

This devotion to her sibling, or rather obsession, was severely enough that her Borges ended up tampering her perception of reality in order to better fit her ideal of Byakuya as a God. When faced with the truth of Borges's deceit, and the loss of it, initially Blue Ink is left severely confused and distraught given how long she's been lied to, yet was unwilling to face the facts that Byakuya was human. It's only when K helps her come to grasp with how much she's been ignoring the truth does her resolve strengthen and she pushes herself to truly be herself. While she remained loyal to Byakuya, she gives up being the Ultimate Secretary in order to work on creating her own 'style' unconfined to her talent and be true to herself. In the end, though she was heartbroken knowing she was going to be seperated from Byakuya, she had hope that she would see him again someday and that he would have truly 'conquered' the world by the next time they would meet.

### Byakuya Togami

In Blue Ink's false memories, ever since the day the Legacy Crown Championship ended, and Byakuya rescued her from the wreckage of the competition site, Blue Ink had devoted herself wholeheartedly towards Byakuya by becoming his personal secretary and calls him 'Master'. In reality she had been with him for far longer, writing his biography. Blue Ink considers Byakuya to be her God and seeks to document his 'greatness' by completing his autobiography, the *Journey Under the Midnight Sun*. No matter what avenues he takes in life, from being on the run due to being framed to actually trying to conquer the world, Blue Ink will support him as best as she could and is utterly loyal to him. Even after learning of the truth behind her identity loss via the K2K System, with some reassurance from her brother to keep faith in him, she refuses to break away from Byakuya.

She considers herself as one of Byakuya's 'property', specifically his 'writing machine' and doesn't think of herself much in the way of being her own person outside of her secretarial role. That said, Blue Ink is not above holding doubts over her brother's methods, especially if they put lives at risk, or expressing incredulity over them, like when Byakuya decided to crossdress as a nun in the convent hideout (which made Blue Ink wonder if Byakuya just enjoys wearing women's clothes, much to her chagrin). Throughout the Proclamation, she expresses worry for Byakuya's safety, amazement at his attempts at using an imposter's world domination attempt to turn it into his own, and defends Byakuya, from the man himself to his characters, both verbally and physically in her attempts at keeping him well.

This devotion expresses itself through several attitudes through their time together. The first is acting as his personal assistant, dutifully relaying any issue or information that her 'employer' needs with help from Borges or taking interactions that Byakuya can't make due to conflict with the person on the other end (Toko). The second is acting occasionally along the lines of his encouraging, if teasing, big sister (a fact that she reminded him of when he allowed Blue Ink to stick around, just so he can be mindful of what he says to her). Finally, the third is how Blue Ink feels about him romantically, as she does hold feelings towards him. This ranges from describing his physique as a 10/10, to wanting to elope with him, to even enjoying getting choked with his handcuffs because its from him. Though compared to Kazuya or Suzuhiko, she isn't quite open about said feelings to Byakuya, and is more than satisfied simply being his big sister, especially during their goodbyes.

As for Byakuya, his treatment of Blue Ink heavily resembles one between a strict boss and his secretary. Typically, he interacts with her professionally and expects her to do her assigned job as she should, expecting loyalty from her and his orders carried out. However, he's not above being surprised by her forwardness in being his new older sister or childishly telling her off for being 'sassy'. Still, it is with Blue Ink does Byakuya admit to feeling if a situation is dire. He has high faith in her competence and trust that she will stick by his side, even after the whole world was turned against him.

When it comes to his role in erasing Blue Ink's past life as Kudan, he holds no qualms about doing so given both the danger Kudan possessed and the fact he wanted to prove his superiority without knowledge of the future. Despite his stern demeanor, he does value and care about Blue Ink, with the end of the Proclamation having him refuse to go forward with taking over the world since it would mean killing her. Prior to their final goodbye, he expresses the most important thing in that moment was seeing Blue Ink continue to live on, even if it means seperating from her. While Byakuya admits he would be lonely, and it would mean stunting his talent, he continues forward with the decision. His last moments with her are reassuring his sister that, even if she has take upon a new identity again, she has the strength to face the truth head-on. Because of this, both Blue Ink was able to part with her Master, amicably, with hope that she would one day see him again. As a memento, Blue Ink gives him her fountain pen which he still holds onto, even after his memories of her have faded away.

### Kazuya Togami

Being the one responsible for saving his life during the Kuchinashi Village Fire, Kazuya is utterly devoted to his adopted sister. He loves her to the point that its her that gives him the willpower to strive to win the Championship and become heir to the Togami Corporation. He desired that both would be safe from the world, and especially Ink from people like Suzuhiko. For Blue Ink, prior to the ending days of the Championship, Ink loved her new brother and often stood up for him when their other siblings would bully him for not being a blood relative like they were. From holding his hands when times were hard, to drinking hot cocoa with him in order to de-stress, initially they had a fairly good bond with each other.

However, that changed upon Kazuya being accused of murder, which had Ink beginning to doubt her brother due to Suisei's reasoning and eventually fainting when given irrefutable evidence in the form of Yoru's head. What finally broke the bond, after Kazuya was deemed innocent, was Kazuya admitting to Blue Ink (while violating her injured body) that he was the culprit. In truth, Kazuya's devotion to Blue Ink is to an unhealthy degree and he held sexual feelings for her. While he tried to deny such feelings (like when Suisei brought it up), by the time the Championship was near its end, he ended up giving in and justifying his violation of her by believing that since he was adopted, that meant both could 'love' each other and have it be legitimate. Blue Ink ended up breaking down into tears, horrified at what Kazuya had done to their siblings and his own intentions after his confession.

Kazuya, utterly deluded, could not comprehend why Blue Ink was crying and believed everything would be alright since he thought Kudan's predictions made him destined to win. When faced with the possibility that Ink and Suzuhiko's relationship may not have been entirely one-sided, Kazuya freaks out and calls it twisted since they were blood related (even though he essentially did something similar to Ink) and he desired Ink for himself. Following the castle's destruction, Ink thought Kazuya was dead. However, upon meeting the Imposter, she began to believe that they were her deceased. To the Imposter, Ink remarked that Kazuya was not a nice person, showing she still held negative feelings towards Kazuya for his crimes.

Upon meeting the real Kazuya, Ink refutes his attempts at reconciling with her since he still shows no remorse for killing their siblings and was trying to usurp Byakuya. Like before, Kazuya only sees her as something to be won, akin to Cinderella. He has frequently shown to still be baffled as to why Ink would feel disgust over his past and current actions, and deluded himself into thinking there was still a chance he could be with her. His overly possesive side was still there, as he split a table in half with his lightsabre after becoming enraged by Byakuya showboating his 'ownership' of his sister, which was really just to taunt Kazuya. Still, Ink was willing to communicate with him if it meant gaining something to her advantange (such as a new arm or Byakuya's location on the train), and was at least somewhat touched that Kazuya still remembered her aid to him during the village incident. Ultimately, Ink wanted nothing to do with Kazuya and only let him come with her to Prague Castle out of a degree of pity. Even when he fainted, Ink remarked that it would probably be for the best given what was going on (but did hope he would be better when he woke up). Still, she did hold some care for her younger brother, such as after he fainted and the Imposter insisted on mocking him, she told them to cut it out. Even if he wasn't the real Kazuya, she still had some care left for her 'younger brother' and wanted him safe, in spite of his actions.

### Suzuhiko Ōtsuki

Suzuhiko is Blue Ink's older brother, yet is someone that she has had a complicated and negative relationship since she was a little kid, though Suzuhiko would think otherwise. Suzuhiko was forced to take her along on his first job, the Kuchinashi Village Fire incident, and had to witness her brother massacre an entire village, save for the child that she would rescue - Kazuya. In addition to that, Suzuhiko had been sexually abusing her and pressuring her into incestuous relations, which would only end briefly when during a 'petty incident' Suzuhiko had to be kicked out of the house (which was implied they got caught during the act). During the Championship, said relations would spring back up again, as Yoru would insult both during a conversation with Kazuya on the eighth day after hearing both going at it.

It's heavily implied because of this abuse and destructive tendencies that Blue Ink had resolved to never let anything truly affect her again, thus closing herself off emotionally. She largely wanted nothing to do with Suzuhiko after he disappeared following the Championship's end. When Byakuya tried to contact Suzuhiko for his services during the Proclamation, Blue Ink started to cry from hearing his name and upon meeting him again on Dretsky's Island, she held both fear and anxiety, on-top of crying right in front of him. Their second reunion at the train convoy had Blue Ink state to both her brothers how they were both cutoff from the Togami family, and desired to not be with either. Throughout the event, Blue Ink's thoughts towards Suzuhiko highlight her brother's self-centured nature, arrogance and uncaring attitude towards life. Even when she joins forces with Suzuhiko to help save Byakuya, she rejects his desires (instead opting to bargain) and during the car ride, flat out says he shouldn't try so hard in his attempts to court her. After Suzuhiko is fatally wounded, she resolves herself to not cry for her deceased brother as her own form of revenge against him.

On Suzuhiko's end, he has a playful, if mocking at times, attitude towards her and is open about his desire for her since he genuinely seems to believe what they have is 'love' and by the end, desired to elope with her. Despite his violent and deranged personality, Blue Ink is really the only person that he goes out of his way to try to protect and not intentionally harm (with the only two exceptions being as a result of a lack of a control from his personality switching or to destroy a tracker). This side seems to come from his own belief on keeping his family safe. However, similar to Kazuya, he also considers Blue Ink to be like Cinderella - a princess to win. Ultimately, while he was supportive of his sister putting her talent behind her (therefore being free to take up whatever path she wanted) and was more willing to take in some of her opinions then most, he never quite registered her own desires (mainly she never wanted to be something to be fought over).

However, it has been shown that Blue Ink still has some sort of familial connection with him. When she was reunited with him during the Proclamation, Blue Ink noted there was more than sense of nostalgia she felt in addition to fear and anxiety. Suzuhiko was the one Blue Ink decided to try and form an alliance with, and was at least able to have some sort of civil conversation with him concerning their enemies and Suzuhiko's feelings towards their family. As Suzuhiko was dying, Blue Ink was left in disbelief and a deal of grief that her brother was about to die. It's also beem implied that there is a possibility that the relations Blue Ink got into with Suzuhiko weren't entirely unconsensual, with Kazuya noting there was some silent confirmation back during the Championship on her part. However, given the circumstances, its also possbile she could be indicating that as a means of not facing against Suzuhiko's unpredictable and violent ways. It's unknown whether or not Blue Ink is the legitimate sister of Minoru Ōe.

### Aloysius Pennyworth

Being the Togami Corporation's faithful servant, Blue Ink holds Aloysius in quite the regards and even scolded Kazuya for thinking Aloysius was responsible for the murders during the Championship. Aloysius, in turn, does praise Blue Ink for her quick actions during their aerial battle against Hasegawa (by using her ink to uncover camoflauged enemies) and seems to think highly of her. As the Togami siblings and Aloysius are seperated, Blue Ink wishes for Aloysius to not die, with Aloysius smiling at her and saying he'll see her soon as he's forces out of the helicopter. While his expression made Blue Ink believe he knew he would die, Aloysius would survive the Proclamation.

### Championship Participants

Given how a good portion of Blue Ink's siblings bullied Kazuya for being adopted, Blue Ink often defended him from such critics, though it didn't stop their antagonistic siblings from mocking Kazuya for needing support from Blue Ink. During the ending of the event, Blue Ink would be attacked by Hiru, which damaged one of her eyes and right arm. Ultimately, while she wasn't tremedously close to her other half-siblings, she was still quite upset after learning Kazuya killed some of them during the Championship and didn't feeel remorseful at all, even when she met him again during the Proclamation.

**Allies**

### Hiroyuki Ketōin & Yuika Ketōin

Despite being the first allies that join 'Team Byakuya', their interactions weren't met with a wide degree of acceptance given the circumstances and Hiroyuki readily admitting both were assisting them just to know more about the Kudan. In particular, Blue Ink expressed annoyance at Hiroyuki's attitude, namely his laidback and wisecracking nature. It got to the point that she openly wished he would just shut up during their stint at Hiroyuki's hideout. On the flip side, Hiroyuki liked Blue Ink, openly complimenting her appearance and enjoyed giving her friendly teases. As for Yuika, due to her quiet, yet eccentric demeanor, Blue Ink initially thought of Yuika as nothing more than 'comic relief' and seemed exasperated with her seemingly lacksadaisal atittude during their trip in the Church of Bones. However, when they were about to be confronted with an angry mob that had gathered to attack the church, Yuika helped calm Blue Ink down by touching her head and giving the secretary some candy. The latter being as a token of appreciation for 'babysitting', though Blue Ink didn't have time to figure out what she meant.

Following the kidnapping of their siblings, Blue Ink felt irritated at Hiroyuki's demeanor even at such a dire situation, though Hiroyuki reassured her that he had his mind on getting them back. Prior to his 'sacrifice' so that Blue Ink can face the Hasegawa leaders, Hiroyuki admits that he feels he can never be the star, but Blue Ink has the potential to be the main character, even if she feels she's solely Byakuya's property. This changes her tune towards Hiroyuki so that when they meet again after he saves her from Suzuhiko and Kazuya, she does begin to see him in a friendlier light. During their final conversation, Hioryuki's words were meant to get Blue Ink to see what was wrong with her world's perception, and revealed that he was her 'companion' at one point before Borges eroded such memories. Blue Ink desperately began to ask who he was, but aside from Hiroyuki telling her to be herself, she would never get such an answer before a brainwashed Yuika killed him. Thus, leaving Blue Ink upset over the loss of her forgotten companion.

As for Yuika herself, after her brainwashing, Blue Ink was forced to defend herself against her former ally and tried to call out to her during the chase away from K. However, Yuika was too far gone and Blue Ink was forced to keep evading her up until Mukuro shot down Yuika's helicopter. Blue Ink wasn't quite sure to think of someone who would kill their sibling, but reasoned Yuika wasn't in her clear mind (and wasn't sure if Yuika was related to Hiroyuki given Borges's interference). Following Yuika's fatal shot against Suzuhiko, Kazuya went into a rage and murdered Yuika, whilst Blue Ink was stunned disbelief and grief.

### Class 78th

During the Proclamation, some of Byakuya's classmates came to his aid, either physically going to Prague to assist him (Toko, Celeste and Hifumi) or staying in Hope's Peak to gather intel for him (Junko and Kyoko). Sakura, while intially in Prague to capture Byakuya, came to join in the assistance after being informed of her classmate's innocenece. While Blue Ink held appreciation for their help and bond with Byakuya, she noticeably did not get along with Toko during there talk via satellite phone. Toko accused her of ripping off her autobiography since it shared its same name with another book, with Blue Ink shooting back that wasn't the case, and outright accusing Blue Ink of being a 'homewrecker' since she was with Byakuya. In turn, Genocide Jack, while loyal to Byakuya and eager to assist, opted to attack Blue Ink and Suzuhiko in order to get her Master's location, instead of working with them. Thus, leading to the fight between her and the other killing-type Ultimate.

### Needle Force

Given how they were Togami Corporation's private army, Blue Ink was glad to be assisted by a portion of them during the Proclamation. However, such a situation would come to an end as the sent Needle Force members were wiped out during the fight against the Hasegawa Research Institute. While A54 presents himself as being one, he was merely a Despair High operative in disguise.

### 'K'

Duing their interaction, K gave a patient and thorough, if strict, explanation over Blue Ink's current crisis regarding Borges, wanting her to understand the full scope over what had happened in the past. While he was blunt in delivering Blue Ink's own responsibility for the unreality plaguing her, he did genuinely want to help her come to terms with reality and have the strength to press on (which he tried to do via his analogies). He even gave her an eyepatch, his old car and wished upon her good times as she left to avoid her enemy. Ultimately, Blue Ink, while upset over the situation she found herself in, did appreciate K's aid and held no grudges against him since she did enjoy the fantasy Borges presented to her, now filled with determination to continue on as her own person.

**Enemies**

### Ultimate Imposter & Despair High School

As the ringleader behind Despair High School, the Ultimate Imposter is one of Blue Ink's critical enemies during the World Domination Proclamation. When she initially met them, she was shocked and disgusted by their large form. Because of their knowledge of the Championship, Blue Ink mistook them for being her brother, Kazuya and treated them coldly, as such. On the Imposter's end, they refused to outright deny that misconception since they weren't that nice and had no problems in being just as antagonistic towards Blue Ink, even getting Gundham and Ibuki to shake her worldview by revealing some truth behind her unreality. Following Kazuya's appearance, Blue Ink didn't quite know what to think about the Imposter, but was annoyed by how their feelings towards Byakuya were so similar to hers. During their final confrontation, the Imposter was determined to try and break Blue Ink mentally with revelations of her being the Kudan to make her distrust Byakuya and her own sense of self. However, with some reassurance from her brother, Ink is able to move past the truth and insult the Imposter for their attempts by calling them a 'noisy, fat pig'.

Given how they caused they helped smear Byakuya's reputation and instigate the Proclamation, Blue Ink was opposed to the rest of Despair High School and their intentions of world domination. Given how they were comprised of her current class year, Blue Ink was shocked to see her classmates 'act out' during the events, and grew to wonder how many had defected as she ran into more of her friends turned foes. In turn, while Sonia did present herself amicably to Blue Ink during their first meeting after the Proclamation, as the event continued it was clear Despair High had no qualms in putting her in life threatening situations or trying to break her mentally if it meant completing their goal. Given how they ended up, presumably, erasing her memories and identity again, it shows they truly had no care for their classmate's wellbeing or feelings above their own desires.

### Hasegawa Research Institute

Given how they were a faction that was after Byakuya, for the expressed goal of extracting information about Kudan from him, Blue Ink does view them as legitimate threat, even if their eccentric personalities and inventions leaves her exasperated. In turn, while the Hasegawa faction leaders try to present themselves as polite and affable, they only really care about the information they can acquire from the Togami siblings and will not hesitate to use fatal methods to get such information or try to kill them if they refuse/don't have the desired knowledge.

## Trivia

* According to Kazuya, Blue Ink also enjoyed sweets as a means of calming her nerves. However, she enjoyed tea rather than hot chocolate.
* Blue Ink's attraction to her younger brother, Byakua Togami, makes her apart of the cast of *Danganronpa* to be incestuous, even if not to the same extent as her brothers. Upon saying that however, Byakuya and Blue ink may not be related by blood.
* Blue Ink's first book that she read, or believed to have read, was Small Pig.
* Of Class 77-A, Blue Ink holds the status of being the only one currently unknown and possibly alive, compared to her other classmates who died during the Tragedy or the events of *Danganronpa Zero*.