i don’t know what any of that was about, but okay.
would you stop blowing things up?? what is even the point
Shuichi and the others decide to try to go talk to him and get him to stop.
he says he wants to destroy the school to end the killing game.
they try to convince him that they can stop it together and that there’s still hope; Shuichi says there could still be somewhere for them to go, though he’s mostly just basing that on what Kaito told them before his execution about someone watching.
still, though, that possibility is their hope. they still have things to investigate in the school; they can’t just give up now.
great, thanks, now that you’ve blown half the place up you’re willing to stop and cooperate. couldn’t have just spoken to everyone before the explosions, noooo.
he says he’ll wait until dawn. what gives you the right to place a time limit on them??
once it hits dawn he says he’ll end the killing game and kill himself? okay
Monokuma shows up and says that the killing game is eternal and can’t be stopped.
also, destroying school property like that is ~an act of mutiny~. so now Kiibo’s going to have to fight off Monokuma and his stupid “kubs”. u_u
at least they’ll be distracted while Shuichi and the others poke around, i guess. still, what the heck. the guy just starts blowing things up without speaking to anyone else about it... geez... how inconsiderate...
Shuichi, Maki, Tsumugi, and Himiko all go into the school and decide to try to find the actual mastermind, because they think there could be someone in the school controlling things. they all split up, but before Shuichi can leave the school’s entrance--
a hole in the floor in front of him is created by some of the damage to the building.
aw. i was wondering where it was, since it hadn’t shown up yet...
since there’s damage to the door, Shuichi can get in.
Shuichi looks around and most of his comments are “this seems comical” or “this seems like a kid’s idea of what an evil organization would have”
he won’t play with the RC helicopter :(
...not that he has time to, but.
Shuichi finds this book about the history of Hope’s Peak. Maki shows up while he’s looking at it and he asks her to tell him what she remembers about the history of the academy. she sighs, but she does it.
what she says is what he remembers as well, but it doesn’t match the book, and the book is apparently the most accurate account of the school’s history.
you can’t keep what you found from me, that’s unfair! i want to know now too :(
well, whatever he discovered, he decides he needs to go to Kokichi’s room and figure out more about him, since he found this book in his lab.
...don’t the rooms lock after the person dies?
Shuichi’s remembering some kid asking him if he’s part of the Gofer Project; Shuichi says he’s not because he’s just a normal high school student. the kid was convinced all the kids were still alive despite the fake funeral thing and he was calling them ~heroes~.
oh, it was a delayed flashback light thing from the one Monokuma used after the trial. Maki apparently also remembered something like that.
time to go to Kokichi’s room! which i guess isn’t locked, because they get in easily.
awww, the whiteboard is too tiny to see on Tumblr. it’s funny, though--he’s got “annoying” written by the “kubs”, “suspicious” by Maki, “trustworthy!” by Shuichi (aw)*, and “weird” by Kiibo.
--oh no, i accidentally hit it away! D: come back, whiteboard!
* or it’s “trustworthy?”, i can’t tell. either way it’s cute
Shuichi says they don’t have time to look through them, but Maki says she’ll do it. that way Shuichi can keep looking at the rest of the room.
speaking of the rest of the room, Kokichi had a bunch of stuff from the past murders. i was kind of wondering where that stuff goes after the investigation... and Shuichi commented on the missing inner tube after Kirumi’s trial.
Shuichi finds one of the motive videos on Kokichi’s bed and decides to play it. he doesn’t think it’ll be Kokichi’s video, but he wants to check it out.
once Shuichi’s done seeing that, Maki tells him he can go and she’ll keep looking through the blueprints, because they rely on Shuichi most in situations like these. before he goes, though, she wants him to look at something she found.
it’s like a scavenger hunt! let’s go!
Maki thinks it’s probably just a prank, but Shuichi thinks it needs to be checked out. i agree, let’s goooo
oh, good, this is the right place. i had no idea what that note meant by “garden”.
Shuichi has another flashback before he leaves this area.
oh, good, Shuichi thought it was stupid as well.
anyway, the reason is ~*hope*~. you guys in the DR universe have serious problems when it comes to “hope” and “talent”.
Kiibo also had a flashback, so he ends up crashing through the roof of the area Shuichi’s in. he offers to destroy Rantarou’s lab’s door so Shuichi can get in there and check it out.
Kiibo does that and then tells Shuichi he’ll help him get anywhere he needs to go. even the place behind the bookshelf? o:
well, first: Rantarou’s lab.
ooh, roses. Himiko shows up, having heard the sound of Kiibo blasting the door.
and there’s a laptop on the table, so...
one file on there and it’s a video. oh, it’s Rantarou’s weird video, but now i get to see the whole thing.
one part of it was the video.
was there something special about his Monopad?
Rantarou got blocked from saying something in the video.
what kind of ultimate survivor gets lured over by a camera’s flash?
Shuichi thinks the mastermind knew his identity and that’s why he died.
Shuichi’s school friends: u gonna fuck some hot girls in space, bro??
yeah that’s definitely what Shuichi’s main concern and priority was
once the flashback is over, Himiko says she’ll check for whatever the other part of Rantarou’s perk was so that Shuichi can continue moving. Tsumugi approaches him just as he’s decided to go to the bookcase room--apparently there’s a new room by Kaito’s lab that opened up due to the destruction, so Shuichi has to check that out first.
it’s the room they were all asleep in.
there’s a thing on the table that apparently has all their information in it. Tsumugi noticed something she wants Shuichi to see.
and Tsumugi is worried about that because Junko also had a twin sister.
what, is it like a rule in the DR universe that if you have a set of twins one of them has to be evil??? no. Shuichi makes a note of it just in case it’s relevant.
now it’s time to go to the library.
Maki’s down there and she has something she found in Kokichi’s room that she wants Shuichi to look at.
Miu apparently made a prototype version of it. it works, but there’s nothing in there.
Himiko shows up--she didn’t find anything in Rantarou’s room. Shuichi wonders if someone took whatever he’d had.
they decide to check out the hidden door, but one of the Exisals shows up before they can even really get close to it.
then he blasts open the door.
they start talking about the mastermind and Monokuma’s voice speaks up, saying it’s time for the “last boss”.
hey, it’s an ugly Monokuma head.
i’m not calling you that.
it claims to be able to make Monokumas, so everyone demands that it do it right now. it doesn’t.
hey, it’s Rantarou’s thing!
he had a map that had every single space labeled, including this secret room!
he was also told about the Monokuma spares, which is probably why he was trying to get into the hidden door that one time.
Maki goes to get the pictures of Rantarou from Kokichi’s room so they can figure out what’s up with the blood on this Monopad.
and what kind of idiot leaves it in the trash? surely there was somewhere better to leave that thing.
Shuichi gets another flashback, this time of when Monokuma first showed up and erased his memories before the killing game started.
Himiko tells Shuichi she’ll keep looking here, so he can go somewhere else to investigate more.
Shuichi and Tsumugi leave the room, but after they do the fight between Kiibo and the Exisal causes the hidden room to be blocked by rubble, trapping Himiko inside.
Shuichi says they’ll have to leave her there for now (Kiibo doesn’t want to risk hurting her by blasting it away) and continue their investigation.
oh, weird, the timer ran out and then it just gave me a huge chunk of time while keeping me in the same place.
since i wasn’t sure why it ran out and thought it might be due to my typing, i had to stop for a bit.
Shuichi found a way to make flashback lights in one of the classrooms; it let him pick from several different versions of memories and then spat out a flashlight into a locker in the room. when the door gets opened, the room goes back to normal.
Himiko found a hidden passage to the secret room; it’s not on Rantarou’s perk map.
Shuichi thinks he’s found enough to figure things out.
Monokuma agrees to the trial because it’s more interesting than fighting Kiibo. he warns them that there will be consequences if they don’t accomplish what they’re aiming for, but everyone left is prepared to accept that. they know they can finish this.
Monokuma makes Kiibo’s gear get removed before the trial starts, and when he shows up again, he’s got his ahoge back.
apparently the Monokubs put it back because he asked them to repair him.
what if every ahoge was secretly an antenna
Maki has the bugvac with her, so Kiibo asks to take a look at it. apparently he can zoom in on things now.
why bother making them in the shape of tiny Monokumas with cameras!
apparently they function as a hivemind and they’re swarming all over the place. what the heck.
they bring up Kokichi using the electrobomb before.
although, Tsumugi... well. it doesn’t matter right now. we’ll see what happens in the trial.
...i feel like i’ve accidentally spelled her name as “Tsugumi” in these posts before, uhh. oops. listen. ...her name is literally right there, why... i have no excuse...
trial time! the “kubs” already won’t shut up and i hate it. Monokuma asks Shuichi why he called this trial.
gotta go back to that first case! he’s found new evidence and thinks that someone else was responsible for the murder, not Kaede.
did he become the ultimate survivor after that? what was he before that, then...
anyway, reviewing things! they thought Rantarou was the only one in the library at the time he was murdered, but that isn’t necessarily true.
someone was in the hidden room. someone had to have taken Rantarou’s Survivor Perk Monopad away from him after his death.
they argue that he just didn’t have it with him, but the photo of Rantarou clearly shows him holding it.
regarding the timing, the mastermind would’ve known exactly what was happening in the library due to the tiny... Nanokumas? i think that’s what they were calling them.
Monokuma claims the Monopad got taken back just because it was meant for Rantarou’s eyes only, so after he died, it was removed. he says it’s not relevant, though, because this is about Rantarou’s murder itself.
Shuichi says that the mastermind was the one that killed Rantarou, though.
i still can’t believe it was just put in the trash can. who does that.
ughhh, i want to care about this trial but i really dislike those stupid bear cubs. just blow them all up already, they ruin everything
anyway... Shuichi says that Kaede’s shot put ball missed, so the mastermind had to fix it in order to keep the game going. that means that Kaede was executed for a murder she didn’t commit.
and now they’re trying to figure out who the mastermind is. Himiko suggests it was a 17th person, but:
it said that the person comes to the hidden room often, so they weren’t always there. if it was someone that had to stay completely hidden, it seems unlikely that they’d risk that.
there’s also the flashback light classroom--it reverts to a normal one when the door is opened. if they were just a 17th person, they could just use their own room for stuff like that.
the unfortunate truth that reveals is that the mastermind is one of them. Maki says it’s possible it’s not one of them right there; Kiibo agrees, saying the mastermind could have faked their death.
in order to really know who the mastermind is, Shuichi needs to know who killed Rantarou. which means he needs to go over everyone’s alibis again.
Himiko and Maki were in the game room. Kiibo was in his room. and Tsumugi was in the dining hall, but she left to go to the bathroom.
the bathroom that has the ~secret passage~. since the card reader dust was still there, that passageway is the only way the culprit could have gotten into the hidden room at that time.
Tsumugi denies that it’s her, saying it was just a coincidence that she was in the bathroom.
the trial continues and Shuichi points out that Tsumugi is the only one that didn’t try to command the “Motherkuma” to give birth to more Monokumas. she specifically told it to “create” more; it only works if the mastermind tells it to “birth” more.
anyway, Shuichi doesn’t want to think Tsumugi is the mastermind. he’d prefer if she could refute what he’s saying. he wants everyone’s help and cooperation to find the truth.
Tsumugi isn’t saying anything to defend herself; they all want her to say anything that would prove her innocence.
Monokuma tells Shuichi to do the manga thing.
gotta be honest, i wouldn’t just stand around staring up if this happened, i’d immediately be backing away.
she has nothing to say to defend herself, though, all she says is that she didn’t do it and it’s obvious their logic is flawed. point out the flaws, then! participate!
Shuichi says the trial is over; Monokuma covered up what she did and the whole game is illegitimate.
she admits she messed up there, but that’s about it. the others start asking about the people watching.
the only reason she cared about things being exciting or the rules was just to replicate the original feel of the killing game.
Shuichi doesn’t believe that. that’s what they remember, but that doesn’t make it true. he brings up the book and asks everyone to say what they remember about Hope’s Peak and its history.
oh, that’s what was bothering him. and the other things... oh, this isn’t hard at all, even with my terrible memory. nice.
Shuichi brings up Rantarou--he said he’d won a previous killing game in his tape, but he’s not one of the students from Junko’s other games they know about.
he also has suspicions about Kokichi. they all assumed he was a Remnant of Despair, but Shuichi doesn’t think that’s true.
i never thought that was true, it didn’t make sense... idk why they were so convinced he was. is it because he lied all the time?? ...i mean i guess he did lie about being the mastermind and set up a murder and stuff, so it’s kind of understandable... and they had a memory of it or whatever.
anyway, Shuichi brings up Kokichi’s motive video and his organization.
it only had 10 people in it, too.
Shuichi talks about the flashback lights and the thing that makes them.
they “implant” memories and i don’t like the hangman’s gambit thing, geez.
the memories being false means that nothing they learned from the flashback lights matters. so even their memories about being students at Hope’s Peak...
okay, well, i apologize for being rude to Naegi before, then. if that plan isn’t real then it’s fine.
anyway, the reason she had them remember Kokichi as a Remnant of Despair is because she wanted to get rid of him; with them remembering Hope’s Peak as well, they’d be likely to target him, like Maki did.
all of the lights served a purpose like that--pushing them to do one thing or another, or feel a certain way about things.
Shuichi wants to know who this “Junko” is.
oh, good, it stopped. also, uhh, you’re kind of... drooling.
DR reveals the truth: cosplayers are evil
Shuichi brings up the whole “cospox” thing.
uhhh, right, actual game stuff is happening.
that doesn’t even make sense
“Sakura is my muscle waifu”
except i’d never use the word “waifu” ever, even ironically
so anyway this game really doesn’t want you to actually care about it, huh.
hey that ugly kid is there
you can’t mix Roman numerals and Arabic numerals like that
you know, if you’re sick of making these games or you’re bored or something, you don’t have to keep doing it.
well gee, if people want to watch teenagers murder each other in a game like this, i guess there’s just no choice but to continue making it happen
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oh, hey! did you know i’m getting my passport today? i’ve never had one before, so i’m kind of nervous i’m going to mess up the application or something. i think it’ll be okay in the end, but i’m still a little worried. i’m really excited to go to Japan in May, though!
i’ve never even been outside of the US before, so that also makes me a little nervous, but i’ll be with my sister and her boyfriend, so i think it’ll be fine. i do need to make sure i keep studying Japanese, though, because i’m the only one that knows enough to have a conversation or read anything.
we’ll just be wandering around in Tokyo for the ~9 days we’re there, because we don’t want to wander too far and end up being lost or something. there’s plenty to do there, though! i want to eat a crepe~ which offends my sister because she’s been to France and had French crepes, but Japanese ones always look so good... and i’ve never been to France, so it’s not like i’ll know the difference.
in 53 seasons? really? what the hell were they doing
but i was talking about Japan. anyway! yeah, it should be pretty fun. i’m trying to save up as much money as i can. i’m not sure how much i should bring with me, but IIRC they still don’t really use cards much over there.
my sister is going to just withdraw cash whenever she needs it because apparently the conversation rate is better that way, so maybe that’s what i’ll mostly do as well. right now we’re looking at a place in Shibuya to stay at and it’s pretty close to a lot of really convenient things!
money aside, i kind of worry about public transportation. we don’t really use much of it here and it can be tricky to figure out, y’know? though with all the apps and technology around these days, it’ll probably be fine.
you can’t mess with me by using a piano~ you already did that once~
oh! there’s a really cute cafe that sells doughnuts that look like animals in Tokyo! we’re going to try to find it, but apparently it’s in a kind of hard-to-find place. the doughnuts are sooo cute, though.
“ultimate real fiction” just sounds stupid
what was i talking about before? oh yeah, the doughnuts. honestly, i think the food will be a highlight of the trip, i am so ready to try new things and hopefully like them despite how picky i can be.
i think sometime before the trip i might go to one of those all-you-can eat Japanese places with my sister, just so we can try some things we've never had and make sure we're okay eating them. brand new things are fine to try, but you also don't want to get sick or just waste money on food during a trip like that...
i hate fish, so i know that's going to limit me a lot. i think other than fish the most common meat is chicken, though, so that should be fine? and i can have vegetable dishes or whatever, too.
hmmm... i ran out of things to say.
i just chose the option that appeared in front of me, don’t bring me into this. i'm done
she wins: they get to live at the school forever
Keebo wins: they have to finish the game and only two get to "graduate"
this post won't even let me stick any images in here anymore, so i guess i'm going to have to describe everything.
Kiibo volunteers to sacrifice himself so ~hope can win~. Maki also volunteers to sacrifice herself.
Shuichi starts talking about how he rejects that hope, blah blah, Kiibo's like "noooo despair can never be better"
Shuichi says that the people watching want hope, which is why this game keeps continuing and they ignore everything they suffer through to get this point. so if they choose hope here, they're just giving them what they want and it'll never end.
Shuichi wants to know what kind of punishment Maki and Kiibo will get. if it's what he's thinking, everything makes sense, including why Rantarou would participate in another game like this.
the punishment is to participate in the next game; Rantarou must have sacrificed himself last time, which is why he wanted to win this game. so if they choose "hope" here, the game won't end.
he decides he's not going to vote. if no one votes, the audience will hate it. he's done playing.
Shuichi gets the other three to agree and all of them decide to just stop. the audience doesn't like that and decide Kiibo's personality needs to be erased.
Shuichi says he's going to change the outside world, since they're why that happened to Kiibo.
okay i'm sick of not having screenshots, i'm going to do something
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