For the new readers of The Ultimate Punishment, I greet you welcome. You may call me by the name of Trishia, DestinyWing is just a username after all. I would like to give some reminders for the people who started to read the first chapter that this story is released BEFORE the English Dub was announced, so I follow a lot of fan translations or interpretations from the Japanese version of the game. This story is currently Beta Read by two authors, CelestiaLightoftheGalaxy and Plummy Plums, and I try my best to write a story in paragraphs despite English being not my first language.

With that further ado, welcome to The Ultimate Punishment.

Warning:

This story is contained with spoilers involving Danganronpa V3. If you hadn't seen it, move away now.

And so, the Junko-Enoshima-Ringleader-Mastermind-Whatever-Wannabe Tsumugi Shirogane announces the mechanics for the final voting...

One on One.

Hope against Despair.

If the three voted Hope, then the Junko-Enoshima-Ringleader-Mastermind-Whatever-Wannabe Tsumugi Shirogane will get executed. However, there is a catch. Since the rules of the game must have two survivors, two people had to sacrifice themselves and get executed also in the game.

But if they voted Despair, then only Ki-Bo will be one who'll get executed in the trial. Then only the game would continue until there are two people left in the game. Of course, the Ultimate Hope would obviously pick Hope as a way of eradicating Despair and finally end the (53rd) killing game of the century. As usual.

But oh my~! The Junko-Enoshima-Ringleader-Mastermind-Whatever-Wannabe Tsumugi Shirogane has some more tricks up her sleeves! Would this 'Despair Inducing Mastermind' be ever stopped? She just killed our beloved 'protagonist' Kaede Akamatsu, the Ultimate Pianist. Who framed her, sent Kaede to her execution, strangled, stoned, and CRUSHED to our 'protagonist's own death?! How long is this killing would last?! Look at the poor babies!

Himiko Yumeno, our cute Ultimate Magician, was once a lazy girl who lost two of her beloved friends at the hands of the disgusting, woman killer. And even if she begged our mastermind in returning her memories back, it's impossible because the Flashback Light can only implant even more false memories. Heck, even our writers preferred the Himiko they know rather than her old self. She's just so cute!

Maki, Maki, Maki Harukawa! The Ultimate Assassin, or, Child Caretaker. But whatever! Everything had been scripted for her to falling in love with her 'precious' Kaito Momota, who sacrificed his own life just to save his girlfriend from getting executed. While the makers were in a rush and thus had to do Jin Kirigiri's execution all over again, which FAILED, it just didn't matter as long as Maki was there.

Oh, don't forget Shuichi Saihara. The (show's Plan B) 'protagonist', the Ultimate Detective. That boy is a treasure, a timid boy who lost his love and became the protagonist that the whole world watches from the cameras. It's so sad that Shuichi went blank when we showed him his audition tapes. The whole Team Danganronpa were there to watch the finale that everyone had been working on.

And lastly! ...Um...Uh...Who's the fourth one again?

Bah! Who cares about that stupid camera? That junk's disposable anyway, we can always get a new one!

But anyway!

Oh those children! They've already succumbed to their own Despairs, what will they ever do?!

Well that makes our viewers worldwide flush with adrenaline! That's our Tsumugi! Injecting the characters with despair until they die!

CLASS TRIAL

VOTING TIME

Shuichi Saihara looked at the screen on his trial podium, it flashed the class trial voting system early for some odd reason. His eyes were still blurred from crying too hard, the shock of this...reality show he'd been participating. Everything he knew, everyone he loved, it was all nothing but a lie. Kaede Akamatsu, the girl who inspired him to face the Truth, was nothing but a lie. Kaito Momota, his close friend that sacrificed his life to save Maki and end the game, was also nothing but a lie. Surely, Himiko and Maki got the same reaction when he looked at the two girls. They were silent, but they were looking at Shuichi after, thinking if ever the Ultimate Detective knows about this. The truth is, he doesn't.

The screen's timer started ticking, and his heart dropped when he saw all of his 'classmate's faces being marked with a cross on it. The cross symbolizes that they're done. Finished. D-E-A-D. Dead. And it was only five of them remaining; him, Maki, Himiko, Tsumugi, and Ki-Bo.

Though the voting was twisted for the show's grand finale, it's either Tsumugi or Ki-Bo, the representatives of Despair and Hope, will be given their fates in the end. One has to be executed in order the survivors to be free from the killing game...if there were two of them though. Which is unfair to all, there were four people remaining, the rules said that it had to be two! The Mastermind already said it, while cosplaying the so called 'Characters' from the previous shows.

He was stressed out because of this conflict that he couldn't even think, two people will have to sacrifice themselves so the other two would live. Ki-Bo, the show's Ultimate Hope, had already volunteered to be sacrificed. Shuichi tried to stop the robot from doing such a reckless act, but Ki-Bo already had his fate locked.

"Please...do not worry...If it's for the sake of Hope, then I will accept my decision for it. I will not let Despair to win!" The Ultimate Hope had said, and there's no turning back.

"Ki...Ki-Bo...!" Himiko looked at the robot who wanted himself to be sacrificed. These surprises are really getting into her brain too much. Sadness, anger, disgust. It's a mix.

Now that Ki-Bo volunteered, only one person was needed left. Three persons; Shuichi, Maki, and Himiko. One of them has to raise their voice and say "I will sacrifice myself!" or something.

Unless, they picked Despair. If they did, then Ki-Bo will be executed. And the Mastermind gave them a privilege to stay in the Ultimate Academy forever, they don't have to kill anyone anymore they execute Ki-Bo this instant. But that's unfair also, killing a robot was also like being 'robo-phobic' to Ki-Bo.

Now why was it odd to have the voting system opened early? Shuichi doesn't know. He doesn't know anymore, and he stayed silent once more.

He couldn't even afford to care when the screen in front of him went static.

VOTING TIME

Ultimate Pianist, Kaede Akamatsu

Ultimate ? ? ?, Rantaro Amami

Ultimate Inventor, Miu Iruma

Ultimate Supreme Leader, Kokichi Oma

Ultimate Hope, Ki-Bo

Ultimate Entomologist, Gonta Gokuhara

Ultimate Detective, Shuichi Saihara

Ultimate Cosplayer, Tsumugi Shirogane

Ultimate Anthropologist, Korekiyo Shinguji

Ultimate Aikido Master, Tenko Chabashira

Ultimate Assassin, Maki Harukawa

Ultimate Tennis Pro, Ryoma Hoshi

Ultimate Astronaut, Kaito Momota

Ultimate Magician, Himiko Yumeno

Ultimate Artist, Angie Yonaga

Chapter Beta Read by: CelestiaLightoftheGalaxy

Author's Note:

Greetings, this is the first Danganronpa V3 fan fiction. I also posted this in Archive On Our Own.

For the people who watched the whole plot of Danganronpa V3, this is a 'what if' scenario if Ki-Bo was voted to get executed. The spark came from a fan made MMD video in NicoNicoDouga where there is a Ki-Bo execution, it's a must watch, the animation is so good.

So anyways, here's the drill. Pick Tsumugi or Ki-Bo to be executed. The italics are the dead ones and the bold are the alive.