Underneath Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu's eyepatch hid what was perhaps his most prized possession: the eye of the Ultimate Despair, Junko Enoshima. Sure, the other Remnants had grafted her other body parts onto themselves, but he was the only one who got to see through the eyes of despair itself. Though he couldn't actually see through it, the real satisfaction was knowing a part of him was made of pure, raw despair.

What Peko Pekoyama got was Junko's right hand. She had to fight for it but was lucky enough to get one hand while Nagito Komaeda got the other. She wanted so badly to wield her sword with the hand of despair. She was willing to give up the dexterity she trained so hard for. She would make sure Junko's legacy lived on in the form of her, her master, and the rest of her former classmates.

Said master was currently orchestrating an attack on a nearby safehouse. The inhabitants of the safehouse, of course, were unaware that the Remnants knew of their location. Poor fools.

"Peko, you got that?" Fuyuhiko asked the gray-haired girl.

"Of course, master." She confirmed. The days where Fuyuhiko would complain about her calling him "master" were long gone. He now held the title with pride.

This group would be an easy one to take down, so he left the reinforcements behind this time. He had total faith in Peko. He casually leaned up against a giant rock that had somehow ended up here with the rest of the debris. A day like this one was as beautiful to Remnants as a sunny summer day would be to normal people. The menacing red sky created the perfect atmosphere for honing despair.

Understanding her master's subtle nod as an order, Peko took off towards the abandoned store just as the two had planned earlier. Little did she know, three of the Future Foundation's best members were watching her from the rooftop.

It had taken them an entire day to track the two Remnants down, so they couldn't let this opportunity pass. The only athletic one present-Aoi Asahina-had briefly been trained in martial arts. Fortunately, she was able to practice with her friend Sakura when they were still in the killing game, so she was already quite skilled at fighting.

Makoto's job was to guide her with instructions given through his microphone-equipped headset, which was connected to Hina's earpiece. This was to ensure that she knew where the enemy was at all times. Finally, they had decided that Kyoko Kirigiri's role would be "the talker."

The Foundation had ordered Makoto's team to capture their targets or to kill them if necessary. Makoto had come up with a different plan. One that the Foundation couldn't know about yet.

He would claim the target escaped, but in actuality, take them to a secret section of the Foundation's base containing the Neo World Program, a Psychotherapeutic Communication Simulator that he knew was developed partially by his friend, Chihiro Fujisaki, before the tragedy. Forcing the captured despairs into this program would put them into a computer-generated world where their memories of despair would be replaced with those of hope. That was the plan: to erase the effects of despair on the Remnants of Despair themselves. It would be tough to do this behind the Foundation's back, but he had the proper identification to get into the building. Besides, Hina and Kyoko were with him.

Hina was currently awaiting orders in an alleyway behind the abandoned store. Making Fuyuhiko and Peko believe that it was a safe house was their trap. They'd left small pieces of evidence to make it seem like there were people inside. Empty food cans scattered around the lot, the occasional turning on of a light...they were all done on purpose.

They'd waited long enough, and now it was time to capture Peko and Fuyuhiko. Or, at least, attempt to. The three Foundation members had never seen a Remnant in person before. This would either end in success- putting Makoto's plan into motion- or with their defeat.