(NDRV3 Spoilers!) The first body has just been found, bloody and crumpled on the library floor. Kaede's just as shocked as the rest of her classmates, but for an different reason entirely. Monokuma waves around the First Blood Perk, allowing the killer to leave unscathed. Wanting a Class Trial, Kaede doesn't take it. But someone else does. And it changes everything.

Waking up with no memories was one thing. Waking up with no memories alongside a perpetually upset Rito woman was another thing entirely.

The last 16 ultimates of the world, that have yet to perish during the 2nd tragedy or become corrupted by despair, have been taken to an underground facility for their protection until the tragedy ends and all roots of despair are taken care of. Unbeknownst to them, they were only heading to their fates in the grip of despair.

Castle Elpida, and its surrounding kingdom, was meant to be a place where ultimates, once Remnants of Despair, recently brought back into the light of hope, could recover as a sort of 'rehabilitation.' However, despair had trailed the recent ultimates that were sent here. Will they fight with what little hope was given to them and resist despair's surreal affliction? SYOC OPEN