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Danganronpa Togami Volume 3 Part 12 (Summary)

Oh boy things are getting crazy this chapter.

Thanks to @enoshima-pyon @shockersalvage​​ @jinjojess​​ @hopeymchope​​ 

CHAPTER 15- Trust, Choice, Hope, Despair, Pity, Sympathy, Sacrifice and, just maybe, a Conclusion

1.

> Enter Prague Castle

> Do not enter Prague Castle

2.

St. Vitus Cathedral is the largest church in the Czech Republic. It is located in the heart of Prague Castle. It is both a symbolic building in the Czech Republic and a royal tomb that has been there for generations. This representative building in Europe was said to have been built over six hundred years, so there should be many architects involved in its construction, and it is not known whether its construction policy has ever been offset. I pray for the soul of the original. That is, if there is such a thing.

3.

Then to follow on as usual.

4.

The story is simple. A young man tried to take over the world. 

A young man had extraordinary adventures one after the other, until finally, he got what he wanted, and was able to return home safely. And he lived happily ever after.

The problem is all of the means that were taken to that end.

5.

This story should have a happy ending.

6.

As soon as we entered St. Vitus Cathedral, we saw that God was standing in front of a large altar. The light shining through the stained glass shrouded his whole body, and his blond hair and blue eyes shone because of the thin pigment in his skin. God is bathed in this light enjoying this right of His. He huffs and says, "The time is five o'clock in the afternoon, not too late but not too early. I suppose the same could be said about my expectations."

The beautiful and charming voice echoed through the church, and I felt blessed.

Byakuya Togami.

My God.

"Sorry I am late, Byakuya-sama."

After only a few hours of reconvening, I felt as if I had been away from him for a hundred years, my voice trembled.

"I didn't say it was not too late or too early. Don't make me overturn my recognition."

“I am very sorry, I have kept you waiting.”

"I didn't wait for you at all. It was you, 'Blue Ink', who is currently covered in scars."

“I guess this is the so-called summer experience.”

"Can you write ‘Journey Under the Midnight Sun’ in your state?"

"About that..."

"Do not hesitate without my permission."

"I lost Borges. I am no longer the Super High School Level Secretary. I can't write ‘Journey Under the Midnight Sun’ anymore."

"Since you can't write ‘Journey Under the Midnight Sun’ I have no more uses for you. Wherever you now wish to go, then go."

"This is where I want to be and it’s not ‘Journey Under the Midnight Sun’ that brought me here, either. I heard that broadcast from you."

"I didn't intend to call you here."

"Alright."

I didn't take his words seriously. He looked at me. I felt that the situation raised some red flags. He deliberately cleared his throat and changed the topic. "If you have any questions, I can answer them for you, and only you."

Shinobu asks him how he managed to escape the train wagon, and he says that he borrowed a phone and called Sonia. She thought he was the Impostor since their voices are the same so she opened the door and he escaped. She was also the one who threw the incendiary bomb at Shinobu.

"You borrowed a phone? How is that even possible?"

"I borrowed the phone from a soldier who pointed his gun at me. That other party happily loaned it to me, and even said, 'I have always supported you.'" 

After all, even now there are people who support Byakuya Togami as a result of him being Super High School Level Heir and know he is unlikely to do anything as rash as world domination. As a result, it’s no wonder people are still supporting him.

Kazuya arrives on the scene and Byakuya at first asks if he would be angry with him, though Kazuya says to forget about it. Kazuya has something that he is missing and reports on Minoru’s death. Byakuya responds that he won’t pity Kazuya’s loss and states he will never die. He’ll crush Kazuya’s ambitions, achieve world conquest, and then lead the Togami Family towards a new frontier. 

“I’d stake the Togami name on it.”

Shinobu interrupts to ask what he intends to do about the Impostor, to which Byakuya begrudgingly responds he will let them escape. He says that there is no need to worry about him, since he received a leak saying that all of the Despair High Schoolers fled.

"Oh, I won't run away."

The voice comes from behind and Shinobu turns around. It’s the Impostor, standing on the altar with them, wearing the same style clothes, the same parted hairstyle, the same glass and the same everything as Byakuya, next to a silver coffin. The only difference being the large amount of fat, which the Imposter proudly bulges out. Imposter smiles behind their glasses and says "Heh, on this stage, I am also one of the actors. Of course I won’t leave. Let's start the performance and complete this story."

Apparently, when Byakuya was retrieved, so was the Imposter and thus they have been together in the castle for the time being. Byakuya says his victory is at hand, but the Imposter comments that the Imposter will win. Byakuya’s history will lose to the story the Imposter wrote. The Imposter lists examples of times where people in history created falsehoods and promoted them as truth towards the outcome they want. Imposter remarks that Blue Ink would know about that all too well.

I used to write the biography known as "Journey Under the Midnight Sun". I was devoted to writing a book that was purely composed of historical facts and excludes all virtual components. My efforts ended in failure. I wrote only the things I wanted to see. I saw it, and all of it was fabricated. It was a fictional work. ‘Jesus Christ is a white man’. [1] ‘Takeda is a stupid man’. [2] ‘The Empress Dowager Cixi is cruel and tyrannical’. [3] ‘The Japanese army is brave and warlike’. [4] It's a fabricated story all too similar to those. A fake book that people can't stand. A story of falsehoods far removed from the truth.

"Heheh, the truth is not important at all. Stories have the powerful ability to warp and distort history. Listen, Mr. Authentic, no matter how perfect your history, I will impose a story that suits my ideals, push others down, be greedy, endless. A history you cannot overturn."

Byakuya calls his bluff, but the Imposter is confident it can be pulled off.

“However, before my story starts, other fake books must be exposed to their true colors. It is enough to have one fake book in the annals of history. I will cut off all the other fake books and make decisions for them in their stead." says the Imposter.

As soon as he says that, a person drops from the ceiling. It’s the Super High School Level Soldier, Mukuro Ikusaba. She immediately charges Shinobu, who thinks that the reason she was saved by her from Yuika was that everything was planned. She must be one of the Despair High Schoolers.

“You will not harm my sister!!”

Kazuya quickly intervenes, using his dim light-blue lightsaber to hit the military knife the attacker is holding and making it fly away. However, she is holding another one on her left hand, and uses it to cut open Kazuya’s right arm. An unidentifiable red-black liquid spurts out. The lightsaber gradually disappears. But she doesn’t stop there. She kicks him on the ground and presses him under her foot. She then stabs his left eye with her military knife and pulls it out of its eye socket. She then gives it to the Impostor and steps aside.

“Heh, and here… is the first book.”

Shinobu is horrified by the scene of the Impostor playing with Kazuya’s left eye. As a reaction she shielded her own eye with her hand, and came to a realisation. She also had an empty socket. Her right eye, where Borges once was. Not only that but his right arm, where her fake arm also was. 

A prosthetic arm and eye?

"...return it to me," Kazuya turned his face with only one eye towards the Impostor "Give me my talents, give it back to me, give it back to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee----"

"Kazuya Togami, don't call false abilities talents," said the Impostor "Your sword is not a talent at all. It’s a mechanically made fake. How can that be called a talent?"

Kazuya exclaims that Imposter is wrong, and that the sword was a gift given to him by god himself in his time of need, and not to joke around like that. He will not accept what Imposter says as true.

"What are you talking about..." My voice was shaking. "And Kazuya... your eyes, your hands...what happened?"

"These? Sister, what are you talking about? They have been like that from the very beginning."

“From the very beginning? When was the beginning you are talking about?”

“When my village was attacked, I lost them then.”

"Impossible..."

"Heh heh, it seems that the older sister and younger brother are completely immersed in the fake book’s unreality. Kazuya Togami, Don’t you understand that not only was your sword fake, but your memory as well? The K2K system is installed in your eyes."

"So what?"

"So your existence is illusory. You have had a very long dream thanks to the K2K system of the failed 'Bible Plan'. That's all. Did you like your dream? After all, it was a dream tailored for you."

"I am me, I am Kazuya Togami and this will not change!"

“The Kuchinashi Village fire and the Biggest, Worst Incident in the History of the Togami Family are events that did happen but they have nothing to do with you. You were not there when they happened, this is the reality.”

"No! I am Togami Kazuya! My body burnt up in Kuchinashi village. My hope burnt up at Touajou Castle!"

"The judgement begins."

The Impostor picked up Kazuya’s eyeball and crushed it without hesitation.

"AGH!” cried Kazuya, but then he fell silent, staring with his mouth open wide, body stunned. I knew that when his eyeball was crushed, something vital in his heart was destroyed.

"Heh, can you still say that you are Kazuya Togami? The memories of the 'Biggest, Worst Incident in the History of the Togami Family', the memories of 'Blue Ink' and the life connected with the Togami’s, these are closely related. Everything is a dream that starts with the story AI's K2K system. Now that has been destroyed, that history and those stories have abandoned you, you are not Kazuya Togami. You are no one."

“No, I am… I am Kazuya Togami…”

Tears rolled down Kazuya’s face. Seeing my younger brother quietly cry tears of failure, I was upset. I stood in front of Kazuya, screaming at the Imposter and said, "You are not allowed to bully him!"

“Older sister, ‘Blue Ink’.”

“I am Kazuya’s sister.”

"Your memory is also utterly and completely false."

She turns it around to him and asks isn’t he is in the same boat? However for the Imposter, his lack of identity is his strength and he never has to wonder ‘Who am I?” unlike Shinobu or Kazuya.

"I will not worry about this kind of thing, because I am who I am."

"I have said it a hundred times. Your current self, your 'I' is an ambiguity created by the K2K system."

"Even if my memories are all falsified, I am still alive like this. Even if there is nothing in my mind to rely on, I have this flesh and this consciousness."

My existence is indeed ambiguous. I am alive now. I am thinking. Nothing can guarantee me that I am, except for this irreplaceable physical feeling. Even so, I will not waver, I will not collapse, I will stand firmly on the ground. I will clench my teeth and tell me that my memory is not important at all. The K2K system is not important at all, because I can be self-sufficient in this kind of story, at least now.

A scream echoes in the cathedral. It’s Kazuya, who fainted and fell on the ground. The Impostor doesn’t pay attention to him and keeps talking to Shinobu (who is relieved Kazuya is unconscious and hopes he’ll be better when he wakes up). The Imposter is impressed by Shinobu and comments that she has a solid ego, yet it’s still fragile. Imposter however will not be affected by whatever ‘Blue Ink’ says. After all, the Imposter is the one who shall become Byakuya Togami. 

“So if Kazuya Togami is not really Kazuya Togami, then who is he?” questions Shinobu.

“Kazuya Togami… may not be a real person in the first place.” [5]

“I am so tired of this talk already.”

“So then, who are you?”

“I am Shinobu Togami, of course.”

"Your basis is very simple. As long as there are two elements, the mind and the body, you can form the so-called self. Now then, allow me to eliminate all of that for you, just like the anonymous one on the floor as asleep as the dead. Let me destroy everything you know."

"I will not be destroyed, and Kazuya will be revived. If you believe in yourself, you will be able to keep yourself, and Kazuya needs to understand that soon."

"After hearing what I am going to say next, I don't know if you can still stick to the same opinion. Then I will decide for the second fake book," said the Imposter. "Do you know your own true identity?"

"My own true identity?"

"That said, why do you think you were being loaded up with the K2K system in the first place?"

“This is because…”

In order to prevent Hope’s Peak Academy from finding out the existence of the K2K system, K agreed to install it in Borges. At least, that is what I heard.

"If he just wanted to hide the existence of the K2K system, there was no need to put it in your body. Have you not thought about it? Has your ‘God’ not told you anything?"

When I heard him say this, I almost subconsciously turned my eyes to Bakuya Togami. Byakuya’s eyes did not change their colors, and they did not waver, but instead straightened to my sight. If this was a peaceful time, his attitude would have made me happy, but now it made me feel terrible.

But before she can think about anything, he speaks again. Byakuya Togami ordered Borges to be placed in her body. Shinobu comments that it was for the creation of his autobiography, but the Imposter points out that for the Super High School Level Secretary having Borges would be largely pointless. Byakuya knew what kind of havoc the K2K system would bring, yet he still ordered it to be placed in her body. He knew her personality and memories would become warped. Yet, he still ordered it anyway… a ruthless and cruel God, is he.

"The reason why he put the K2K system into your body is because there was a reason for him to do that. He needed to give you a false story that will make you believe in a false history."

I was extremely eager to find the truth from that sentence. I wanted to find out the truth before the Imposter announced it. At least to make myself more calm. However, before I found the truth, the Imposter had already said the next sentence.

"The Togami you hopelessly thought yourself to be was Shinobu.. Shinobu Togami is no longer in this world. She was killed in the Biggest, Worst Incident in the History of the Togami Family."[6]

"...Who am I?"

"You are the 'Kudan', you are the Secret to the Togami Family’s Prosperity."

Translation Notes:

[1]  “Jesus is a white man.” This is a fairly common misconception due to the fact that many anglo-saxon paintings from the middle ages tended to draw him that way. In actual fact, since most of the bible took place in the middle east he more than likely had a bit of a tanned complexion.

[2] “Takeda is a stupid man”. I’m not 100% sure on this one but given context clues in the book I think it's safe to assume it’s referring to Lord Takeda Shingen. Funnily enough his original name was “Tarou” which is also Dadgami (Kijo) Demoncastles original name.

[3] ‘The Empress Dowager Cixi is cruel and tyrannical’. According to documents in China at the time, women in chinese culture were heavily disrespected so there was much slander put against her that it’s actually quite difficult to tell what is the truth and what is not.

[4] ‘The Japanese army is brave and warlike’. To specify this likely refers to the WW2 army as japan no longer has an official “army”, but they have the JSDF, which is basically just a self defense army. What she means by this is the sort of riled up patriotism that all countries in ww2 had to boost morale for their side, however the japanese army did some pretty nasty stuff to POWs and more. The type of war crimes you only hear about in horror films.

[5] If you want my theory, I believe Kazuya was a real person, however this person poised as Kazuya is someone we already do know. The one K mentioned in chapter 13 who worked on the Bible Plan, and became a psycho murderer. As for who the real Kazuya and Shinobu is, I suppose I shall get to that in the next chapter summary.

[6] Byakuya in DR1 also said they were Killed in the Legacy Crown Championship, but specified that he meant dead as Togami’s. This is possibly the same context for the reason I shall get to in the translations notes next time.

To Be Continued

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