I've seen and heard many strange things in my time at Rising Angel. But I don't think I've ever heard gunfire or missiles before. Even through the thick walls of the academy I could hear a battle being waged outside.

"Hey Monokuma, what's happening outside?" I asked.

"Nothing you need to concern yourself with. Now let's get to the real show here, the trial of the century." Monokuma responded. I shouldn't be surprised, since when has that teddy bear ever given us helpful information if it wasn't to benefit the killing game.

"How is this going to happen, after all this isn't a normal trial?" Milo questioned.

"The trial will proceed as any other trial, the questions as the murder victim and the answers to said questions will be the evidence." Monokuma explained.

We have three questions so I guess that means that there are three victims, but the answers to said questions are next to none.

"I think we should start off with the easiest question, the wolf one." I suggested.

"We discovered several secret rooms holding a single item pertaining to each of the questions. The room for the wolf question held a book on Norse mythology, specifically Ragnarok, the Norse version of the apocalypse. The wolf is Fenrir, son of Loki and fated to kill Odin during Ragnarok. Odin is king of Asgard and the most powerful of the Norse gods." Kagura said.

"So Fenrir is the answer, simple enough. However, what does that have anything to do with this situation?" Milo asked.

"Something, otherwise Monokuma wouldn't have even brought it up. Maybe it's a hint at his end game or the traitor's identity." I responded.

"Well what now, we don't have any answers anymore. At least, none that we can pinpoint to which question." Alyara said.

"Then we first decipher what the answers mean and then match them to the questions." I suggested.

"What answers, we only have the one and it's a name." Milo said

"Haruka Kubata, I believe." I said.

"Kubata, I've heard that name before." Kagura said.

"Can you recall anything, if you remember Kubata it can't be a coincidence. With Monokuma there are no coincidences." I said.

"I think there was a case my father was involved with. A double murder and a missing girl. My dad came home one night after being called in to help investigate a crime scene back in his final days as a rookie cop. I remember him coming home one night with a solemn look on his face, he hugged me and told me to go to bed. I did but I woke in the middle of the night so I went down to get a glass of water. I found a police file on the dining table, it was about a double murder and the disappearance of a girl. I can't begin to describe the things I saw. The police report concluded that the parents had killed their daughter and eventually killed each other afterwards. The daughter's body was never found and a couple of her things were missing. I also read in the report that she may have been sexaully and physcially abused. I had nightmares after reading the report, but my dad was there to comfort me. He said he would never be like those horrible parents." Kagura said.

"Please stop." Sayu said, looking down at the floor. I could barely see her eyes, but her eyes looked completely different than before. They looked like a person who has been eroded by time. In that moment I realized something.

"Maybe this missing daughter is the Despair traitor." Milo suggested.

"No, I don't think that's it. Isn't that right Sayu." I said.

"Yeah. Tell me something, when did you realize?" Sayu asked.

"Just now, I wouldn't have put it together without what Kagura said and your reaction." I responded.

"Honestly this isn't how I wanted things revealed, I didn't want this revealed at all." Sayu said.

"I am so lost ." Ramos said.

"Oh good, so I'm not the only one." Alyara said.

"I had a feeling this might happen, Monokuma does have a habit of revealing our secrets." Sayu said.

"Sayu, you don't have to do this." I said, trying to reassure her.

"If I don't we all die. As some of you have guessed Sayu is not my real name, my real name is Haruka Kubata." Sayu or Haruka revealed.

"My parents were absent most of my life, always off doing one thing or other. They didn't really have a marriage, it was more like a prison for everyone involved. Maybe they did love each other at one point, I'll never know. They never really paid attention to me most of the time, they never bought me clothes or food, I had to do that all by myself and when they did notice me they beat me, saying "I shouldn't be so rebellious" or "I should focus on being at the top of everything at school and not go snaking to sleep with boys.". They neighbors knew this too, they saw the signs but never did anything about it. One night they got drunk and burst into my room. They began to touch me, I told them to stop but they continued to touch me. The next thing I knew they were lying on the floor in a pool of their own blood. It all happened so fast but after all I could feel was relief and freedom. I gathered up some of my things and positioned my parents bodies in way that made it look like they murdered each other. I found a fire not far from my house and threw some things in it to make it look like my parents tried to burn the evidence of their crime away. From that day since I became someone else, I became Sayu Akizuki. And I'm sure Kagura has already figured out my occupation." Sayu said.

"It all makes sense, I read a police file on a criminal mastermind known as the Creator. You mentioned you created the identity of Sayu Akizuki, that coupled with your intelligence, deductive skills and you've just explained to us you are the Creator." Kagura concluded.

"I'm sorry, sorry that you had to live a tortured existence. Sorry that you had to kill your parents to escape." I said.

"Maybe...maybe she's the traitor." Ramos said.

"What?" I asked, surprised at this sudden accusation.

"Think about, a tortured childhood, abusive parents, kills said parents, goes on the run from the police, becomes a criminal mastermind, is vague and mysterious about her past until confronted by Monokuma, and is incredibly intelligent which means she could totally pull the killing game off." Ramos said.

"I can't believe you would say something like that, after everything we've been through together. I know she isn't the traitor, that much I am certain. In this whole crazy mess of a life we've been having I know she is not the traitor." I said.

"If you trust her then so do I." Alyara said.

"Yeah, I trust your judgment." Milo agreed.

"Look at this, you've become our hope. You've earned it." Kagura said.

"I feel like I'm going to throw up." Monokuma said.

"Yeah well you can shave that feeling all the way up your...wait." I said.

"What is it?" Kagura asked.

"Sayu is the Creator. She creates false identities, these identities are lies to those people who know them. She is the Creator of lies." I said.

"Great, that's another question answered. But, that still leaves one question left. And we don't even know if there is a traitor among us." Alyara said.

"No, there's a traitor among us. It's the kind of the thing Monokuma would do." Sayu said.

"Yeah but we never found any evidence of the traitor. And Monokuma promised he would share hints for the answers to the questions. Monokuma has cheated." Milo said.

"Did I? I seem to recall showing you the hint." Monokuma said, his voice betraying nothing.

"What do you mean?" I asked, though there was a part of me that already figured out what Monokuma meant.

"You put it together. Secret rooms, how I knew about Alter Ego, How you knew there even was a traitor among you." Monokuma said.

"No, NO! I don't believe you." I said, realizing how it all fell together.

"You're a smart boy, you know it's true." Monokuma replied.

"What's wrong, what is Monokuma talking about?" Kagura asked.

"The traitor is none other than Serra Raven." I said.

"About time somebody figured it out." Serra Raven threw open the crimson curtains behind Monokuma and calmly walked towards us all, with a smug look on her face.

"W-W-what is happening? Serra what are you doing?" Alyara asked, her breathing growing more rapidly.

"You haven't been paying attention have you. I am the Remnant of Despair." Serra said, taking up her empty space at the courtroom debate area.

"You were the one who told me about the traitor being the group in the first place, I never suspected before. You were the only one besides me and Kagura that knew about Alter Ego. When Monokuma destroyed it the bear implied that I knew about Alter Ego and the traitor, alone these two things don't mean much but together." I said, still trying process this new revelation.

"That's right my dear friends. This might be a cliche but I am author of all you pain, well most of it. I realized Kouki was becoming a beacon of hope for the group so I thought might as well mess with him. I gave him hope by telling him our friendship was real, and telling him that I came from an organization that as going to save them and the world. But caused him despair by revealing a traitor amongst the group, someone who was acting like a friend but in reality was the person causing the killing game in the first place. By telling him about Kagura not being the traitor I gave him hope, but what I wanted out of that relationship was to have both of them pull each other down into despair. I publicly revealed the existence of Alter Ego and the traitor not only as extra motivation for murder but also cause strife and despair in the group. Everything that you've done has all been part of my plan to cause despair in the group, they don't call me the Ultimate Strategist for nothing." Serra explained, a wicked gleam in her eyes.

"Wait, what do mean you're not the author of all our pain? You created this killing game and forced us to participate in it." Alyara said, she looked like part of her was still in disbelief.

"I can't take all the credit for the Tragedy or the misery of the world, that honor belongs to Junko Enoshima. My life was a dull and boring mess. I lived with an international mercenary group called Fenrir, which led by my father Leonard Raven. One day we found a young woman by the name of Mukuro Ikusaba, and something in her made us take her in and train. We grew close together, I never had siblings and I was kept away from other children wanted a raise a worthy leader to Fenrir, free of worldly bonds. Eventually Junko arrived at our camp, she said Mukuro was her sister and that she needed to talk to her. They went outside the camp and I followed, I overheard them discussing how they were going to take over Fenrir and use to spread despair across the globe. They found me and Mukuro dragged me before Junko but instead of killing me she looked into my eyes. At that moment we became kindred spirits, we both found the dull and boring. See with intellect and abilities everything went according to plan, everything. Do you know how it feels for the same thing to repeat over and over and over again you entire life? I wanted something more, to feel excitement, to feel something new. Me, Mukuro and Junko became the Despair sisters, dedicated to bringing about an end to the boring world we all lived in." Serra said.

"I doubt your father approved of your new goal." Kagura said.

"That's why I killed him, and my mother. They were not expecting that, Junko was right despair is exciting." Serra answered.

"And this, the killing game. Manipulating us, that was for more despair?" I asked.

"You must know the weight Hope's Peak and Rising Angel has on the world. Even in the Tragedy everyone looks to the Ultimates for guidance and hope. Which is why Junko decided start there, bring down these schools and watch the despair spread. Junko and Mukuro started attending Hope's Peak and well I didn't lie about being a Rising Angel alumni. I knew the both school's deep dark secrets and I decided to use Rising Angel's to rally many of its students to open gates to me. You see I had become the leader of Fenrir and I became the main military force behind Ultimate Despair. Me and Junko had the brilliant idea of forcing Ultimate students into a killing game to plunge more people into despair by showing just how low symbols of hope can drop given the right incentive. So the day she blew up Hope's Peak I stormed the school with the help of the students I turned to my side, killed all the faculty and kidnapped you guys to a Fenrir base and when the time came I transported you guys back to the newly renovated Rising Angel Academy. I even killed the students who helped me because they were already in despair and wouldn't be any fun to play around with." Serra said.

"You're not human." I said.

"Just now picking up on that. I am far beyond humanity, you all are just my playthings." Serra responded.

"You think you're a god?" Kagura asked.

"Maybe I do. In any case I'm afraid our little game has come to an end. You answered all three questions. Though to be honest I wasn't expecting you guys to have figured out my role in all of this but I guess the despair inside of you all was just that unpredictable." Serra said.

"Hold on, you said we could go if we answered all your questions." Milo said.

"Heh, I lied." Serra said.

Then the entire room began to shake. I could hear things crashing and breaking, dust and stone began falling from the ceiling. The red drapes covering several hallways of the courtroom fell down as well. I heard a loud explosion in the background and suddenly...darkness.


POV shift: Kagura

I slowly opened my eyes to find the courtroom destroyed, bits and pieces of circuitry and stone lay on the floor. Scorch marks and fires were spread out across the room. I slowly pushed myself up and took a look around the room. I saw Alyara, Milo, Ramos and Sayu all on makeshift beds either talking to soldiers or being inspected by a doctor.

"Hey look, the last one is up. Somebody get Kyoko." I heard a soldier say.

"Last one? What happened to Kouki? Somebody tell me WHAT HAPPENED TO KOUKI!"


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Author's notes

stick around I'm not done with this story yet.