#drv3 cameras

[fried-manto]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[kokitschi]

kokichis death still fucks me up. he chose to go out like that. can you imagine the amount of self hate you need to have to do that to yourself.

[humblefryingpan]

Maki (absolutely fucking covered in scars) : I'm uh... a babysitter?

Shuichi : what kind of nightmare kids have you been babysitting???

I feel like maki not having scars in the canon is really stupid, like that skin is WAYY to perfect for someone who kills and has been tried to be killed a lot of times

[undeath1245]

DRV3 alternate ending idea

This post was started around 2020; might as well rehash it.

Right after the events of DRV3, Saihara, Harukawa, and Yumeno make their way out of the school and into the real world, only for them wake up at a bus stop in further parts of Tokyo. Each of them were also wearing their old outfits they wore in the prologue. They don’t remember anything that has happened in the killing game, only the fact that they were heading home from a school trip to the central wards in Tokyo. They briefly converse with each other about their school trips vaguely being similar before the bus finally arrives, and each of them step right inside, ready to reunite with each of their folks.

As the camera pans from the bus, we then see a small silhouette of a teddy bear as he giggles, “Upupupupu!”

[uraalice]

okay I've decided to flesh out the au from this post more info under the cut!

So this starts as both a canon divergence in dr1 and the cast of drv3 being treated as if their killing game is real and not part of fiction. in this timeline, mukuro finds out junko was planning on betraying her and works up enough willpower to kill her first. she manages to do this in a camera blind spot, so any outsiders watching don't know the mastermind is dead. mukuro continues to pretend to be junko, but eventually fakes her own death to have better control of the killing game. she ends up "winning" the game with enough of the class having murdered each other. when she gets out and is able to meet up with the remnants, she lies to them and says after essentially "winning" junko felt that her own ultimate despair would be to end her own life.

the remnants let mukuro act as a successor to junko and explain that they've been working on another killing game (this is with the cast of v3) they've gathered people who are close to some of the participants to be used for motive purposes, but one of them (miyadera) had to be kept in a hospital. some of the monokuma robots near the hospital were going rogue/berserk so mukuro goes there to find pick up the hostage and see what's going on. she's starts to experience mixed feelings and a bit of guilt over what happened with junko even though it's also helped with gaining her own independence. this all gets worse when she finds a cellphone with a junko ai loaded onto it (think of something similar to shiro/kuro kuma in despair girls / a prototype for the junko ai in sdr2)

This ai acts as like a guide for mukuro but it still pretty "playfully" hostile to her.

once she finds miyadera, she has to bring her back to the remnant's base while hiding what she's doing this for more info later

[danganronpa-theories-v3]

Is Shuichi the mastermind of V3?

I've had a few thoughts about four chapters and Shuichi's involvement in them.

FIRST CHAPTER So, the first case had an unreliable narrator as Kaede. While playing the game for the first time, Shuichi felt like a really good and reliable guy to me but after analyzing the game again and looking at other people's theories, I think Shuichi might be strongly connected to the mastermind to the point of being one. A detail that strucks out about Shuichi is his parents being an actor and a screenwriter. This is important considering the game's ending. I believe it means there's a possibility of him having good acting skills and feeling comfortable being a character in a "fictional" world. In the first chapter, Shuichi had quite a few opportunities to notice what Kaede has been up to.

He leaves her around shotput balls, soon-to-become murder weapons.

He had an opportunity to see that the books were put in a very strange fashion.

Clearly, he withheld information about the cameras from everyone including Kaede for no obvious reason.

It is very possible he messed the cameras up in some way (https://www.tumblr.com/fit-artichoke8738/649993708004130816/problems-with-the-library-cameras-drv3-ch-1).

SECOND CHAPTER The most suspicious thing about the second chapter was the way Ryoma died. I suppose there's no arguments against Kirumi being the killer but did she kill Ryoma the way Shuichi said she did? https://youtu.be/HXuq50Bt6PE?t=341 - Monosuke here even touches on the topic of the cause of death although in the usual wacky way. Monosuke has a "slip-up" in which he says it was practically impossible to put the body in the piranha tank - you had to lean through the window and that would count as breaking the rules. All that when other characters emphasize that the trick would work only if someone carefully put the body in the piranha tank. Ryoma had a crack on his skull. Could Kirumi have killed him with one blow and leave his body without any other manipulations, and then someone decided to make things more interesting? Perhaps, to give Shuichi another chance to shine as a detective?

THIRD CHAPTER Korekiyo's behavior during the third trial was a bit suspicious. Korekiyo acted as if he didn't remember killing Angie or perhaps didn't do it at all. He was ready to prove his innocence till his dead sister persona told him to "admit defeat", otherwise he would probably try to defend himself further - and that's already after the Closing Argument! But he wasn't really nervous nor did he put much of a fight when the students suspected him in killing Tenko. You can say he simply realized he isn't going to be executed for this but obviously killing Tenko would make him the prime suspect in Angie's murder, especially if he knew he used the same floorboard to kill both of the girls. I think another thing a lot of people already noticed is that Korekiyo only asks about what would happen if there are two blackened after the second murder already happened. and he does it in front of everyone. And he doesn't even get the answer at that moment because Monokubs (seemingly) didn't expect this to happen at all - this to me outrules the possibility Kiyo asked about this before. Korekiyo also is the first one to say "We should investigate Tenko's death as well, just in case" after it's revealed only the Angie's killer is the blackened, basically asking to be outed as her murderer and possibly appreciated as one, with his genius seesaw trick and all. Before the Closing Argument, Shuichi says, "Kiyo..I want you to confess! No…I will force you to confess!". Sounds strange if we consider the possibility Kiyo might not have anything else to confess for.

FOURTH CHAPTER The 4th chapter… something tells me Shuichi had a hand in Miu's murder. One of the most suspicious things is how Kaito was the last to appear when everyone's logged out. He said, "What's this all about!? What was that body discovery announce-" when there was no body discovery announcement. It is EXTREMELY suspicious that he knew someone was dead beforehand. He even goes on to repeat that obvious lie, saying "when that body discovery announcement woke me up, I rushed over here". For some reason, Shuichi doesn't question this one. After Shuichi said he was going to reveal the culprit, Kokichi says, "Even if the culprit is Kaito?". Is Kaito the culprit?

@fit-artichoke8738 theorized about the possibility of Body Swapping (https://www.tumblr.com/fit-artichoke8738/648228491354144768/body-swapping-in-the-virtual-world-drv3-ch4). As far as I recall, Miu didn't specify at the beginning that you can log out as anyone, so that makes not mentioning that you can log in as anyone less improbable. https://youtu.be/LVrHupB88y4?t=2880 - In this sequence (Gonta bringing the bridge), we see events not only through Shuichi's perspective, something that the game didn't do very often. What was the reason for that? During the trial, Kokichi was quite angry at Gonta, pressuring him to make solid arguments to defend himself. Some people say Kokichi just wanted to kill everyone after he had the card key and saw what the "real world" was like. But he also said (in yellow, mind you) that he wants to live with his super angry sprite. If this line was genuine, then why would he pressure Gonta to defend himself so much? Perhaps because Kokichi thought that Gonta might not actually be the culprit?

This first line came after Miu explained everything. Isn't Gonta smart enough to at least listen to what Miu just told everyone? Maybe I'm wrong but this bit feels like someone putting on an act. The second line - and then again, Gonta questioned something that was explained a few seconds ago.

So these chapters have these questionable moments that make me think Shuichi has something to do with the game's mastermind if he isn't one to begin with.

[vespertin-y]

Brick by boring brick by Paramore is a drv3 song. Please discuss.

o7

well, the parallels aren't exactly subtle, are they? not only is the subject of the song a woman who's abandoned reality to live in storybook delusion, the lyrics about camera angles and the reveal that she is willing to commit senseless torture to get what she wants practically radiate This Is A Tsumugi Song.

i won't individually discuss the rest of the lyrics since i think i'd just be repeating myself (go listen to it yourself if any of you haven't! it's a bop), but i will say i find the POV/singer here to be a very interesting character in this interpretation...not only do they refer to themselves as someone she's left behind, later they offer to help her come back to reality and put her fantasy six feet under...makes me think about her relationships pregame and how they fared.

[flutteringfable]

THE GRUMPS HAVE DISCOVERED THE CAMERA MOVEMENT YOU CAN DO IN TRIALS IN DRV3 LETS GOOOO

[kkat-astrophic]

Ramble of V3 Ending:

I'm very upset that the ending of drv3 was so good but not executed correctly. Which is ironic because a big part of danganronpa are the executions ahaha.

But what I mean is, Smoogs (my beloved) showed us the OTHER franchise characters, and said it was the 53RD SEASON OF DANGANRONPA (!!!) and that the whole universe was fake.

BUT!!! Never did she show us: contestants of other seasons (from s3 to s52 - even if they were unnamed it would have made her lies more believable), ANY udg characters (I would be frothing at the mouth if Takaaki or Taichi somehow were shown on screen /j.) she didn't give us Daiya or Takemichi content either. AND THE WARRIORS OF HOPE?? She should have shown us the Warriors of Hope, I need more Masaru Daimon content, and Tsumugi was the perfect person to supply that at the end of a franchise.

The main thing I think what this trial was MISSING was the V3 characters themselves.

I wish WISH WISH!!! That Tsumugi (as Kaito) made Maki lose hope, that Tenko made HIMIKO lose hope! I wish that Tsumugi explained her plan to frame Kaede... as Rantaro and Kaede! I WISH!!! That she dressed up as Miu, I wanted her to be Korekiyo! But because she didn't this only leads us to believe that she too believes that she is a fictional character in this franchise, and that the only power she holds in the V3 universe is the knowledge that she just granted Shuichi, Keebo, Himiko and Maki to.

Another thing I noticed was that Tsumugi noted "in the promo video at the start, everything is fake" or something along those lines, but never did she turn into Chisa Yukizome, or Future Foundation Kyoko, or any of the characters from DR3, nor did she use Mukuro/Fake Junko sprites.

This particularly annoys me because, you know when you first play UDG and you get excited because it switches styles? It goes from animation to anime to the standard visual novel style. This makes the game more fun and easy to enjoy. AND THEY COULD'VE DONE IT IN V3!

They used real faces as the sprites in the back for the audience (on the TV/Cameras), so they totally could've mixed the styles and have Shuichi react to "my reality is just a different anime style... why are these people 3d wtf?!" which would really hammer in the "fiction" thing. Imagine an anime sprite of Chisa or something (< hasn't seen DR3)

Like I know this is a big stupid ramble and there are holes in my story, but I just want to know it's fiction, I want Tsumugi's existence to be fiction, I want a more closed ended ending AND THEN we get the pan shot of the survivors. It's literally The Truman Show but Tsumugi is the only "actor" in it.

And if Tsumugi ISN'T fiction.... she just devoted her whole fucking life to a ficitonal anime girl, who died in her anime show...

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FYI I know alot of this information, tbh I don't really understand the V3 ending... and I just want answers to it, I need a danganronpa timeline that includes years and stuff.

[diagonal-queen]

thungo thursday pt2

ep 6 (put it under a cut because this one is LONG)

fukuchi be like 'the agency couldn't possibly be smart enough to- oh wait nvm i forgot ranpo existed lol' like more than once and i think that is testament to the fact that RANPO BEST BOY

'have you forgotten? we're terrorists' ICONIC BEHAVIOUR

man and i complain about doing one 37 hour work week. after this one week the agency needs to take a NAP. AND THE MAFIA TOO. imagine there's like just no criminal activity or anything for like three days and everyone's like ?? but on day 4 atsushi and akutagawa are fighting to the death at the port and everyone is like 'ah. business as usual' lmaoooo

omg every time the hunting dogs song comes on i get so hyped lmao im like yESSS ACTION

'that man, that demon, the evillest most scawy man ever in the world....etc etc' and its just some guy doing the most coy babygirl pose a guy can possibly do

wait DAZAI WHAT DID YOU DO. HOW DID YOU DO IT

taneda btw deserved none of this he was just some nice old dude and then sigma fucking stabbed him lmao

dazai is like the personification of the perjury mechanic in drv3. 'go on lie. you gotta. lie now. cmon pussy you wont'

OH MY GOD CHUUYA

my god fyozai is so fucking babygirl. also wdym dazai?? if the two of you were the last ones on earth you should just have gay sex. its not that hard smh

oh no dazai falled down through the flore

OH MY GOD MYKOLA AND SIGMA

BESTIE??

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dm me if you want to receive a free 2min audio file of me laughing about this (i have a headache from laughing. my throat fucking hurts so bad. i'm pretty sure it's actually bleeding. my eyes are moist with tears. BESTIE???????)

do you even needa ask why i'm here?? ⭐️❤️☺️ *voice drops 6 octaves* i'm here to murder you 👹👹👹

and then after that fyodor was just like 'teehee he's so romantic x' like bro

dazai: *turns to the camera like he's on the office* waow

i love mykola's little laugh it's so silley

omg they're actually animating him so well. bones must've seen the reception from s4 and decided to step it up 💀

dazai and fyodor are simultaneously evil grown men and bimbo highschool girls and it's such a look. 'omg ur friends are so cute <3' 'omg right???' also mykola my beloved i want to be yours forever pls

i love how bram's acting all tough like aya can't just open the casket and leave and render him thoroughly powerless lmao

omg the official anime aya and bram sillies begin. we've been waiting for this for months folks so far so good

it was already pretty funny that aya is carrying bram like a backpack but actually seeing her running with him on her back is like a billion times funnier especially since this shit is life or death. but she just got a whole entire vampire on her back no problem sjhsksjssjhj

sigma: watashi wa shiguma me: fucking superb you funky little toddler

imagine if it was a fucking prank this whole time and mykola just injected them with a slow-working sedative or something that would be so funny. like all of this for nothing sksjksjsjks and then he just stabs fyodor or something the end. boom world save

oh ok nvm the vampires can talk just fine i guess lmao. also i genuinely cant tell if im supposed to be taking this episode seriously or not. one second people are being brutally slaughtered next moment silley little guys??? such is the way of bsd i guess

'you're a failure of a woman' my dude she is literally 10 years old she is nowhere close to being a woman shut your misogynistic ass up lmao

OKAY BECAUSE ok ok listen i was wondering what music they were gonna use for bram and when i heard the ending music i was like 'ok a little anticlimactic but i understand' and then it TRANSITIONED into the ACTUAL ENDING??? 10/10

hehe. bestie

[spontaneousglitterbees]

So I'm still learning to mix, tips would be very appreciated, but.

Nobody asked for this. Nobody (else) wanted this. And yet! Here it is. A cover of Waltz of the Departed (from Evillious Chronicles) but it's about the ghosts partying during trial 6 of Danganronpa V3. Bizarre, but I mean. It's my blog, I guess.

I had Solaria sing even though it's from Ouma's perspective, mostly because I couldn't get Kevin to sound close enough to try and make it sound kind of like Ouma. and also I like Solaria, so.

Original produced by mothy, creator of Evillious Chronicles

vsqx by vibking

based on Octosan's translyrics

Inspired by PsySoubi's english cover

Lyrics under the cut!

Tonight at the trial, survivors debate.

"Victims" and their "killers" unite to spectate.

As the jester's voice echoes these hollowed halls,

Let our dear departed all join in a waltz!

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The adventurer invites the pianist

The inmate smiles to the maid, still restless

Rather than place blame and guess who's next to die,

How 'bout we make sure that it's the mastermind?

--

Bright spotlights high, audience cries,

Once she's been cornered, she dons a new disguise,

Through his frayed wires, true Hope still shines,

Angling the camera, it's all by design!

--

Targets and culprits spinning in a haze,

Fondly recalling their brief high school days

Cast off your mask, weapons drop to the floor,

We have nothing left that we can lose anymore

--

So, then are they evil? I don't think that's right.

Driven by fear, duty, grief, mercy, and spite,

Surely they're no saints, but we're still all the same.

We were all children in this killing game!

--

As the boy sings, spirits arise

Dancing and twirling past unseeing eyes

The detective, posted on high,

Smiles as he breathes an affectionate sigh.

--

Stained and the spotless, chaotic array,

Only way to win is never to play,

Count your scores settled, make room to despise

This whirling cacophony of truth and lies

(La lu li la lu li la lu li la lu li la la, la la la. La-ah)

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Targets and culprits dance on without end,

at least we haunt this place beside our friends,

Cast off your brave face, weep so you can cheer,

The end of the killing game is finally here!

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Stained and the spotless look up to the sky

With all of our love, you better live long lives

Though we may not know what's waiting in store

Let's meet again someday, so we'll never be bored!

[silicon-tmblr]

DRV3: Resolute Rebellion - Character Intro 17...?

"Hello world!"

A tool used to test incomplete modded scenarios in the Prologue and Chapter 1, where Kaede is the protagonist still.

Incomplete files might still attempt to find Kaede on lines that haven't been edited yet. As the game will crash or softlock when it attempts to place the camera on a character who is not loaded on the map, Crash Handler Kaede prevents these situations by remaining loaded on the map regardless.

They're a peppy spirit, much like Kaede herself. Without any worries in the world, they perform their duties by receiving signals via the ahoge/antenna on their head.

[lemonatethemoongod]

DRV3 HEADCANNON!!

kiibo cant see vampires. like at all. even in media kiibo just cant see them thru his camera eyes.

[austajunk]

Okay. Maybe I’m totally off-base with this and all, but the first time I saw and even heard about the movie, Nope (2022), my first thought was that its core subject of spectacle and exploitation of trauma reminded me of DRV3.

Now let me be clear. I think that Jordan Peele’s themes in Nope run a great deal deeper than V3. That’s obvious. Alongside the commentary of spectacle, we have the exploitation of nature, trauma, minorities, erasure of the black people in the film industry and their contributions, the whitewashing of the west and cowboys etc.

But when it comes to the core theme of spectacle and violence and trauma being exploited, I think V3 and Nope line up pretty well. Teenagers willingly exploit themselves and put themselves through a traumatic (and life-ending) experience to be plastered up on cameras for the entire world to see and “enjoy”. To get addicted to the drama. Spectacle in the V3 world is so monetized and sensationalized that it’s on its 53rd season.

One thing I don’t see a lot of people discussing about V3 is how its executions are so much more violent and cruel. While the executions in previous games had this certain ring of cruelty to them, they were always more so overdone with comedy, save for something like Chiaki’s execution which is supposed to provoke the more horrified and hopeless reaction from the audience. In previous games, you got turned into butter or deep fried or even made apart of the Lion King Stampede to get Segata Sanshiro-ed at the end!

But V3’s executions are violent, overblown, rough, and so brutal that they clearly outweigh the comedy. Being hung and dangled over a piano then crushed into nothing. Climbing your way through torture and humiliation only to fall back down and be crushed. Being made into a hotpot (still kinda funny) and being rejected and banished to hell by the source of your trauma.

V3 is mocking all of Danganronpa for its spectacle and removing any meaning behind it. It’s purposely overdone and horrific. But what reminds me of Nope is that both Nope and V3 are projects that split their respective fanbases. A lot of Jordan Peele’s fans are saying that Nope is the worst film they’ve ever seen. That he fell off with this movie. I’ve seen people swear of the DR series because of V3. And honestly, it’s one of the reasons I love both pieces of media so much.

I’ve seen so many people tell me that V3 is their favorite DR because of what it says. Because of its themes. And I think I find V3 so captivating because it’s just everything Kodaka wanted to say to the fandom. Everything he ever wanted to say to the world was in this series and a lot of that was in V3. It split up his fanbase and fans wanted to throw it back at him. And that’s fine. You can hate V3. But the thing is, like Nope, I think V3 is just an earnest and honest piece of media in a way. I don’t think that Kodaka necessarily left as much of himself on the table as Jordan Peele does when he makes his movie. But he and his writers are still saying a lot about how they feel. How he particularly felt when people kept demanding more and more killing games from him. How that’s a horrifying concept. How we see violence and death as something to be exploited for profit and entertainment without considering what’s happening to those right in the line of that exploitation. How it makes us vile and hungry.

I could be off-base with this as I said, but I don’t think I am.

[mythgirlimagines]

DRV3 Wheel of Fate! The survivors are Rantaro, Kiibo, and Kokichi.

Yeah... there'd be a lot to unpack for these three. Ouma I'd imagine gets to face the Consequences of His Actions™ (Chapter 4 was definitely his and Angie's fault change my mind that was literally two of their biggest haters dead). Kiibo has to come to terms with the fact he was the Audience Self-Insert™ the whole time. Rantaro... see the previous V3 ask.

Talk about skeletons in the closet huh.

Ouch ;-;

There were three of them left. That fact alone was enough to make Rantaro want to throw up. But was there anything else he could’ve done to save more of them in the end?

He was still reeling about the information about Tsumugi. It felt like his trust was shattered, with the exception of Kiibo and Kokichi, since they had to work together if they wanted to find a way out.

Kiibo was very much in the middle of an existential crisis, thanks to his apparent role as a walking, talking camera. He wondered how many of his actions were his alone.

And Kokichi… He felt bad about everything that happened. Facing the consequences wasn’t pretty, but he would’ve had to do that eventually, regardless of the outcome.

Things were tense, and probably would be for a while, but at least the three of them knew that there was little else that could possibly get worse for them. Hopefully the worst was over.

[oiladgivememoney99]

DRV3: Despair's Last Legs, Chapter 1 Day 4

DING DONG BING BONG

“Bastards, bastards, bastards! It’s morning now, eat, eat, eat!” Masaru yelled as the Warriors of Hope appeared on the screen.

“Awww… panic attack Masaru was so much better…” Kotoko pouted. “He was so not annoying,”

“At least he’s not too busy to hate me anymore…” Jataro giggled.

“Monaca is glad that the Killing Game can continue uninterrupted!”

“We should all be glad, if Monokuma actually died we’d have to handle this game ourselves,” Nagisa said. “No offence, I don’t trust half of you to not kill everyone over a playground insult,”

“Hey!” Kotoko pouted. “Meanie!”

“I’m your great leader, and I demand that you say how cool I am!”

“Exactly my point…” Nagisa sighed.

Kaede’s stomach rumbled, she left her room with a pep in her step as she left for the Cafeteria, today was the day she’d help Shuichi set up his plan to find the Mastermind, and finally end this dumb Killing Game.

Her walking practically developed into skipping as she made her way to the Cafeteria.

As always, everyone (Miu excluded) was already there eating their breakfast. She sat near Tsumugi and Shuichi as usual.

“Hey Kaede!” Tsumugi smiled at the Pianist.

“Hi Mugi, hi Shuichi!” The Pianist nestled herself between the two people. “What are we gonna be doing today?”

“Well, my current plan is for you and Tsumugi to pick up the cameras, then we meet up at the Library and set up the cameras there,”

Kaede nodded. “Good, good,”

“Oh, and also I say we set up a lookout room in the classroom just outside the basement, there’s a vent in there that leads into the Library, so having someone there means that the Mastermind couldn’t escape through there,”

Kaede smiled widely at the Detective. “That’s actually a good thing to think about, Shuichi, good thinking!”

“A-Ah it’s-”

“Something, it’s something,” Kaede chuckled as she corrected. “And it’s a whole bunch of something, cause it’s our best shot at catching the Mastermind,”

“Y-Yeah, thanks Kaede…” Shuichi looked to the side for a minute before returning his gaze to the Pianist.

“I plain hope this plan works!” Tsumugi said. “I’m already plain homesick being here,”

“I think we’re all a little homesick,” Kaede reassured. “I just wanna sit back, relax and play some Gymnopedie no. 1,”

“Th-That’d probably be really pretty, I’d love to hear you play,” Tsumugi flushed as she complimented the Pianist’s skills, Kaede felt her cheeks dot themselves with a light shade of pink.

“Thanks Mugi! I’ll try to play for you as soon as I can,”

“I’d love to hear you play too,” Shuichi smiled.

Kaede giggled. “Maybe when we get out of here, I’ll hold a concert, just for everyone here!”

“That plain sounds fun!”

“Y-Yeah,”

SLAM

The whole Dining Hall turned towards the man who had loudly slammed his fists down on the table, The Ultimate Astronaut himself, Kaito standing next to Kirumi, Angie and Rantaro.

“Listen up all of ya, cause I got some good news!” Kaito announced. “I’m hosting a huge party in the Game Room tomorrow to raise our spirits, every single on of you are invited!”

“Even the soulless machine?” Kokichi turned his head.

“How rude! I’m perfectly capable of emulating the human soul!”

“Yes, yes, even the nonhumans here are invited!” Keebo made another complaint which was ignored. “Nyahahaha, how divine, how divine!”

“We’re thinking about 6PM in the afternoon,” Rantaro shrugged. “Not too early, not too late, y’know?”

Kirumi cleared her throat. “We wanted to ask if anyone wanted to help us set up; I’ll be able to handle most of it, but all help is appreciated,”

Tsumugi raised her hand. “I’ll help!”

“Nice!” Kaito raised a hand.

“Huh, why?” Kaede whispered in the woman’s ear. “Not that I’m against you helping out our friends,”

“I can make sure that the Mastermind doesn’t interfere with the Party,” Tsumugi whispered back.

“That’s a good idea,” Shuichi nodded. “You should grab the cameras first, though,”

“Sounds good!”

“Hey Mugi, whaddaya talkin’ about?” The Cosplayer jumped backwards, nearly snapping her neck and causing the first body discovery as a particular, small Supreme Leader appeared between them.

“N-Nothing, just discussing plans with my uh… my friends!” Tsumugi smiled at the thought.

“You have friends?” Kokichi turned his head.

Rantaro chuckled as he walked towards the Cosplayer. “Ignoring what Kokichi said, are you up to help us set up now? Cause uh, that’s when we’re going,”

“Ah, about that, I’ll be a bit late. I’m eh… h-helping a friend carry something,” Tsumugi stuttered like the FPS on a Brazillian server.

“Y-Yeah, I need help carrying something!” Kaede reassured, a big, unconvincing smile on her face complimented with an even bigger, even more unconvincing thumbs up.

Angie stared the two women down, with a wide eyed intensity only matched by her eternal smile. “Acceptable! I do expect help making the decorations, though!”

“Of course, me and Kaede just need to go… carry that thing,” Tsumugi said as Kaede stood up to awkwardly tip toe out of the door with her.

“Good luck you two!” Kaito gave a big smile. “I expect your full effort in helping still!”

…

“So…” Kokichi trailed off. “How much do you bet they’re making out in the bathroom or something?”

“Grr… what a degenerate thing to say!” Tenko yelled. “I’ll break your spine if you say anything like that-”

“20 Monocoins,” Angie smiled. “I do not expect them to remain in the awkward pining phase for more than a week!”

“Kyah! Angie’s a degenerate too?”

“I think she was joking, Tenko…” Himiko mumbled.

“No, no, I am simply making money,” Angie shook her head.

“Ignoring that… is attendance mandatory?” Maki asked.

“Well, I can’t exactly force ya,” Kaito shrugged.

“Then I’m not coming,” Maki began to move out of the Dining Hall, just as Kaito opened his mouth- “And I’m not explaining myself either, I don’t need to,”

“Pfft, her walls are gonna break one of these days, heh,” Kaito chuckled.

“I think you got a ways to go until then,” Ryoma said. “Good luck,”

“Gonta think Maki turn new leaf, then we all friends!”

Kaito walked over to the giant of a man to pat him on the back. “See? Gonta’s got the right idea,”

Kokichi tiptoed over to Angie to whisper in her ear like a schoolgirl telling a rumour, the real juicy kind that gives someone an eating disorder for the next thirty years.

“So… how long do you think until creepy girl and space boy get together?”

“Oh, they’ll be in the awkward pining stage forever, nyahaha!”

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“So uhh… where would Miu’s Ultimate Lab be?” Kaede asked the Cosplayer. “I got so caught up in helping that I forgot to ask where it is… hehe,” Kaede chuckled.

“Oh! It’s in the courtyard, near the building with that weird fountain at the end of the dome,” Tsumugi smiled.

“Okay great, hopefully she’s too tired to be vulgar,” Kaede pouted a little as she thought about talking to Miu.

“Hopefully, hehe,”

Tsumugi led the Pianist to what looked more like a run down shed than an actual laboratory; complete with a rusty metal shutter.

The Cosplayer knocked on the shutter, they heard the sound of Miu yawning within before walking towards and opening the shutter.

The Inventor let out another, somewhat moany yawn. “Whaddaya want Plain Jane?”

“We’re here to pick up the cameras,” Tsumugi said.

“Yeah, yeah,” Miu chuckled, instantly gaining her energy as she pulled out the three cameras and handed them to Tsumugi. “Before ya take ‘em, I should let you know that they have a thirty second interval between shots,”

“That kinda sucks,” Kaede chuckled.

“Well it’s better than nothing, ain’t it?” Miu let out a frustrated sigh. “I’ll be gettin’ my beauty sleep in here if you-”

“Oh wait, Kaito’s holding a party tomorrow in the Game Room! He wants everyone to come, and well… you seem like the kind of person who’d like to party,” Kaede chuckled.

Miu blushed a little. “R-Really? Why the fuck would I go to a party hosted by that dickcheese?”

“Jeez, sorry for asking,” Kaede pouted. “You’re not gonna be able to make any friends if you keep being rude like that,”

“Eeek!”

“And-” Kaede sighed. “Nevermind, let’s just go, Mugi,”

“Ooooo, Mugi?” Miu chuckled. “Are the two flatties fucking in the bathroom?”

Kaede balled her hands into fists. “At least my tits don’t sag like an old woman’s! Ours have some life in them, not like your ugly cow udders!”

Miu squealed from the insult and slammed the shutter, retreating back into her Ultimate Lab.

Kaede let out a frustrated sigh as Tsumugi patted her on the back with her free hand.

“Thanks for sticking up for me,” Tsumugi chuckled. “Miu can be pretty rude,”

“No problem, understatement of the century though,” Kaede chuckled back.

The two walked back to the basement, making light conversation as they met up with Shuichi outside of the Library’s front entrance.

“Okay, here’s the cameras!” Tsumugi handed them to Shuichi. “I gotta go set stuff up right now, good luck with your plan!”

“Bye Mugi!” Kaede smiled.

“S-See you around,” Shuichi said as he lightly waved the woman goodbye as she walked over to the Game Room, Shuichi and Kaede could hear various sounds coming from the room: Angie’s chuckling, Kaito haughtily ordering things for the party, and the placing of what were probably tables for the party.

“Th-That party honestly sounds pretty fun, if the mastermind’s one of us there’s a good chance that they’ll be there,” Shuichi said. “We should go to it, but leave near when it ends to hide in the lookout classroom,”

“What makes you think the Mastermind won’t leave before that?” Kaede turned her head curiously.

“I found this note hidden under the secret door,” Shuichi pulled a note out of his pocket at handed it to the Pianist. The handwriting was very neat, almost like a computer’s.

The Students are holding a party in the Game Room, little do they know that all they’re doing is gathering everyone up for my next motive! They’re taking just a little too long to finally kill someone… it sucks!

Those silly little demons students, silly, silly, silly. I’ll summon Monokuma to them just before it ends, and then boom! This Killing Game can finally smart.

She’d be so proud of me. Tehehe.

-MT

“So, the Mastermind plans to interrupt the party with a new motive?” Kaede looked lost in thought for a moment. “Who do you think the She that the Mastermind is talking about is?”

“That I’m not sure about, maybe the Mastermind has someone above them? They’d have to be apart of a huge organisation in order to capture 16 Ultimate Students,”

“That’s true, that’s true,” Kaede said. “We should show this to everyone once we find out the truth of the Mastermind,”

“R-Right… the truth,” Shuichi looked down.

“You seem sad about that, you were upset the last time I mentioned the truth,” Kaede said.

“Ah, uh, I’ll get into it once we’re done setting up,”

“Okay, sounds good,” Kaede nodded. “Speaking of setting up we should probably do that before it gets dark,” Kaede chuckled.

“R-Right, sorry!”

Kaede hmph’d as the two entered the Library, they didn’t cough at the dust this time. They’ve gotten used to it by now.

“Alright, you set up the cameras at the entrances, I’ll do the hidden door camera,” Shuichi pointed to where he wanted the cameras as he handed Kaede two cameras and a roll of duct tape.

“Aye aye Detective!” Kaede saluted as she went to set up the cameras.

It was easier than she expected, all she really needed to do was tape the cameras between two books, turn off the flash. She got the first one done within a minute, then as she was taping the rear entrance one in she heard the sound of metal scratching against the carpet.

It was Shuichi moving the stepladder towards the bookshelf that had the vent above it.

“Shuichi, what are you doing?” Kaede let out the smallest of chuckles as she saw the Detective moving stuff around.

“Ah, well I’m trying to see if I can place the camera up here easily,” Shuichi said as he went up the ladder, casually opening a book as he did so… he seemed to get lost in reading it as it laid on the bookshelf.

Kaede finished up taping the rear entrance Camera “Uhh… Shuichi?”

“Ah, right, just got caught up…” Shuichi chuckled uncomfortable. “I don’t think I can put it up here, it’d either get found or fall down,” Shuichi walked down the stepladder.

“That kinda sucks,” Kaede said. “Oh well, it’ll work anywhere as long as it faces the hidden door,”

“Yeah,” Shuichi moved the stepladder out of the way of the way of the bookshelf, he then quickly taped the camera to the bookshelf.

“Okay great, that’s done!” Kaede smiled. “Now, let’s go to the lookout classroom, I wanna talk to you,”

“O-Oh okay,” Shuichi let the Pianist lead her to the Lookout Classroom.

It was a pretty standard classroom, the exact same as the other classrooms with the only difference being the vent leading to the Library.

“Sit down,” Kaede smiled as she set up two chairs at either end of a desk, Kaede sat on one side while Shuichi sat on the other.

“Uh… Kaede, why are you doing this?” Shuichi pulled his hat downwards a touch.

“I wanna know why you seem… afraid of revealing the truth,” Kaede said, her voice quiet and her tone gentle.

Shuichi sighed. “Remember when I said I only really solved one case?”

“Yeah?”

“I-I’ve always regretted solving it too,” Shuichi pulled his hat down further as he mumbled. “The victim had been abusing the killer’s family for years, h-he had led them all to suicide. So the killer decided to kill him. As he was being arrested he looked at me with this look of… hatred, I’ve never been able to get that look out of my head…”

Kaede nodded.

“That’s why… ever since then I’ve been ashamed of my talent, of revealing the truth…”

Kaede cleared her throat. “It’s not your fault, Shuichi,”

“H-Huh?”

“I said it’s not your fault, he was going to get arrested anyway, so you shouldn’t blame yourself for revealing the truth about him,” Kaede said, raising her voice just a touch to get the point across.

“I-I guess… I just, I just can’t bring myself to reveal the truth ever since then, I don’t want more people to hate me for it, I don’t want to hurt anymore people by revealing the truth-”

“Don’t worry about that, Shuichi,” Kaede interjected. “Sorry for interrupting, but you shouldn’t let your fear control you,”

“Wh-What do you mean?”

Kaede sighed. “I wish I could just play a song to get the point across, or cheer you up, this is the next best thing, I guess,”

Kaede laid her hand on the table, on top of Shuichi’s.

“You can feel it right? I’m shaking just as much as you are,” Kaede chuckled. “I’m just as scared to reveal the Mastermind too, but I’m not gonna let that stop me from revealing the truth; from protecting my friends from this Killing Game,”

Shuichi paused as Kaede removed her hand from the Detective’s.

“Do you get what I’m trying to say?”

“Y-Yeah… thanks Kaede,” Shuichi smiled as he lifted his hat a little.

“Don’t mention in, you’re my friend!” Kaede smiled as the two got up from their seats. “Oh, and hey! Once we get out of here I wanna see you with your hat off,”

“My… hat off?”

“Yeah! I think you’d look nice without it,” Kaede giggled, Shuichi blushed and muttered out a thank you.

Kaede checked her Monopad, 6:00 PM.

“It’s getting a bit late, I think we should split up for now,” Kaede said. “See you tomorrow, Shuichi!”

“Bye Kaede!”

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Kaede went back to her room to collect her thoughts, doing a mini celebration in her head. She’d helped Shuichi even if just a little.

Kaede realised how tired she felt in that moment, apparently setting up that plan was a lot more intense than she had thought it’d be.

She plonked herself onto bed, intending only to take a small nap before near instantly drifting off into sleep.

Tomorrow was another day day day day day day day day day day day day day day day-

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WHAT’S WITH THE SILENCE? THESE ARE OUR FRIENDS.

IT DOESN’T MAKE ME ANY LESS SCARED? WHAT IF WE SCREW THIS UP?

I FEEL YOU, I’M SCARED TOO. I’M NOT LETTING IT STOP ME FROM