Warning:

This story contains spoilers from Danganronpa V3. If you have not read the plot, move away now.

As part of the Danganronpa series, there will be appearances of the former Danganronpa characters and it is not the ones that you will expect.

This chapter will give you a glimpse of 'Team Danganronpa' and this will serve as a 'Breather Chapter' before we get to move on to Ki-Bo's execution.

Finally, this narrative style of this chapter will contain the aspect of 'Breaking, but not truly breaking the Fourth Wall'. Whatever happens in the story is still within the story itself.

"I seek without tiring, I desire without limit, I agonize without peace, my thoughts start to warp."

I couldn't stop staring at one screen that shows the robot getting beaten by the season 53's (plan B) 'Protagonist'.

"I'm vexed, I become miserable; I feel only impatience, jealousy. I have delusions, my thoughts run wild; What more will you take from me?"

You could see that the camera felt pain from what he formerly knew as his friend. My chin was dunked on my cup of coffee, air bubbles were floating above the brewed scent of caffeine. It may look disgusting, but that's my habit. But anyway, my own body couldn't move when I watched those two giving Despair to me. I know them because I'm part of the team.

"For talent that shoots far above imagination. There can be no match, I can only let out a sigh

I can see hope, or so I should see, I should be saved, so then how can this be..."

Ahhhh...The sweet moment of Despair coursing through my veins. Well, literally. I didn't blink at all by the time I stared at the screen itself and it's PURE TORTURE. Sure, the radiating light and my physical stupidity made my eyes swell in red and now my sight begins to blur because the salt liquid was covering my eyes. I'm not a windshield wiper and my eyelids refuse to close them at once. Even my man-made water got mixed with my coffee, it's not delicious anymore.

"I want to see all with my limited field of sight and between your gaps engage in fight.

The unseen world must have an endless view, so I want to entrust it all to you.

In the reality I pretend not to see, "Look at me," for a stranger, is irrationality.

I fear my senses will soon come back to me, and my calmed self whispers quietly."

"Director?"

From my blurred vision, I saw a dark, warping tentacle blocking my view to the television screen.

"Hello? Director? Yoohoo!"

What's with that octopus, or whatever I'm seeing, blocking the best moment in Danganronpa history? I already got my vision blurred and now, I'm guessing it's Slenderman, was trying to prevent me from falling to Despair. I groaned by blowing more air bubbles to my salty coffee.

"Director, wake up."

Hey, whatever you are, get out and let me watch the show!

"They're just pixels..."

"DIRECTOR NAEGI!"

That scared me that I spat my coffee to the screen. I coughed so loud because some of the coffee went to my esophagus and it's an instinct of the human body to spit something that doesn't belong to my lungs! I didn't know that someone was calling me out, but they don't have to shout at me like that! Geez! What's with this dude?

My coughing started to cease as I looked to the culprit who spat my coffee out, I gave the man a look when I know who he was.

The man was wearing formal attire, complete with a black tuxedo and a necktie. I recognized the man by the single strand of thick hair sticking out of his head, his olive eyes were staring at me and my coffee-stained clothes.

It was the Team Danganronpa's Second Unit Director and my friend, Hajime Hinata.

"Hajime Hinata, you better have a good reason why you have to scream at my eardrums." I wiped my mouth even though I'm still coughing from the coffee that I got chocked with, but Hajime wasn't pleased with it either.

"Well if you hadn't stared at 'you know what' too much, then Juzo wouldn't have to strangle you AGAIN like what happened at the End of Hope's Peak Academy. That guy was worried that he might literally kill you years ago!" Hajime reprimanded me while he cleans the screen with his handkerchief.

Juzo Sakakura, the head security guard of Team Danganronpa, is the former actor that he played as the guy that some fans got bitter with ever since his first character debut in Danganronpa 3: End Of Hope's Peak Academy as the Ex-Ultimate Boxer approximately 10 years ago. He's a good guy actually behind the camera, still being friends with Kyosuke Munakata, a known actor who played as the Ex-Ultimate Student Council President and Chisa Yukizome (his wife) is also a fellow actress who played as the Ex-Ultimate Housekeeper.

So far, they're still present in the company along with Juzo, who still got some heart attacks when he almost killed me in the set when my character got brainwashed and had to snap out of it by Juzo chocking me, it was the most unforgettable experience for him. But in my opinion, it's not the worst-case scenario, the worst one still had to be when I got almost crushed by a big block of metal in my After Class Lesson execution.

But that's enough of the past, let's move on to the future. As in, my workspace.

So far we're still in the control room while watching the outcome of the voting, the final characters were still in present. We're in the post-trial segment, it's one of the crucial parts of the game in where the viewers will know why the culprit did such murder. It's also the time where the Construction team, lead by Kazuichi Soda, to set up the Executions that the Blackened had to deal with their bloody demise.

FYI, the characters that took the part in the past Danganronpa shows were now working in the company. It's pretty much the same thing when working with Future Foundation, except without (the fake) Izuru Kamakura or Junko Enoshima or even that (stupid, unforgivable, disgusting, unreliable) Tsumugi Shirogane to ruin things around. Despite being the best 'Executive Producer' around Team Danganronpa, she and I have may some...disagreements that it makes me wish that she die as soon as possible.

Just a glimpse of the company's past, Team Danganronpa was founded by (the real) Izuru Kamakura who contributed this new found 'Justice System' that was based on the famous game called Danganronpa. That's where my first job as an actor began as the Ex-Ultimate Lucky Student and then as the Ultimate Hope later, I became a popular icon in the company back in the day and it's mostly an 'actors only' show wherein we warned everyone about the raising (non-existing) crimes that happened around the world along with the inmate popularity from the maximum-security prisons we visited, until we get the glimpse that some people from the real world, ordinary person or a legitimate criminal, to join in Danganronpa. That's where the Ultimate Reality-Fiction series had bloom started from Danganronpa 4 to Danganronpa 53, where they were killed off for real.

Supposedly, the viewers would react violently from what we did.

But no, they don't and they don't even care.

Sure, there are still some Human Rights advocates who wanted to stop this game, but media's a dork you know? The audience just wanted a good piece of entertainment from their boring lives, and we're just giving it to them.

"Okay, so right now we're setting up the final execution for Ki-Bo. We got a piece of information from our camerawoman, Mahiru, to set the cameras where the audience from their homes won't have any difficulty to see what's going on. Juzo, along with Taka and Mondo's team, were on maximum security just in case a riot might happening outside." Hajime read the notes from his notebook, a trait that he got from Chisa.

I nodded. As a director, everything should be according to plan, after all. Otherwise, I might get stoned by the Danganronpa viewers if ever I took a step out of the company. "Anything else?" I asked Hajime while sipping on my tear-stained coffee, it's salty but it's still coffee. I could see my reflection on the liquid, I already got large eye bags from staying up too late. I'm getting too old for this...

And I'm guessing that you have to ask what that 'you know what' was in the past paragraphs of this chapter. Well, you may not like it one bit.

Of course, the 'you know what' was that (stupid, low quality) brainwashing video that the Team had to apply inside the set. It was made by the Head Editor team who were the actors portrayed as the Ex-Ultimate Despair and the Ex-Ultimate (as in retired) Animator. Well, sure it's low quality like what happened to Danganronpa 3, the biggest base breaker according to the fans of it. They still hadn't got over it, that's for sure. But to make the episode end, we had to use it one last time. I'm sure you readers would feel like it's all rushed, but it's all going to be worth it in the end. The thing is, you don't even know where EXACTLY we put the brainwashing video in the first place, but it already had taken the effects that you don't even notice that it was there in the first place.

Hajime flipped through his pages until he stopped to a page that has a black dot marked on it, "Well, I got from Chihiro that it's finally loaded up."

"You mean?"

"Yes, all we need now is Ki-Bo and then we're done with this episode."

"Finally, we're done with this thing. I really want to go to the next one as soon as possible."

That robot, I thought that it's absurd to have a technologically advanced humanoid robot in the game. But then again we got Alter Ego in Trigger Happy Havoc, Chiaki Nanami and Mechamaru Nidai in Goodbye Despair (still working here at this point), and then Miaya Gekkogahara (whose neck wasn't twisted by the way) at the End of Hope's Peak Academy.

Ki-Bo was our first robot participant in the main killing game. Engineers, Programmers, and Designers worked hard to make my dream character came true in V3.

He was just...perfect.

Ever since I finally backed down as an actor and tried to come up for a new Ultimate Hope, one that shines more than I do, I gave everything to recreate the Ultimate Hope that the Danganronpa viewers remembered from me.

I'm so proud of him on how far he had come as the new Ultimate Hope. And now, it is time for his untimely demise.

FINAL CLASS TRIAL

END

The gravity propelled trial podiums lowered themselves as the propellers disappeared once it touched the floor. The loud whirring of the podium slowly fades away as the courtroom has finally given the fictional characters pure silence.

Once the voting results showed the final verdict, then it's over in Danganronpa.

It's over for everyone.

It's over for Ki-Bo.

No one had given the chance to spoke up, not even Himiko, the Ultimate Magician who was once labelled as a lazy girl was given courage by her friend Tenko, to finally express her emotions no matter how hard it was to even show it to people on how she felt like when she was stuck in the game. To finally cry as the sign of Himiko's rebirth to live on and survive in honor of her friend. Now she had the power to speak up and stand up for herself against the odds. She was the one who even had attempted to talk to Tsumugi about the final voting. The giant television screen had finally shut her mouth once she saw Ki-Bo's name got the highest tally among the last class trial.

When the Ultimate Assassin heard the word that was uttered to the robot's synthetic mouth, a spark of courage ignited inside her. It's something unusual for her after what she'd gone through in her 'fake' past and in the Killing Game, where she got almost executed thanks to Tsumugi who used her as a 'puppet' for entertainment. But because of Ki-Bo's encouragement to end this game by Hope, she remembered how Kaito, her 'fake' couple, was determined to stop the Killing Game from continuing and saved her life just so she can live on. With that spark, she was ready to volunteer herself to be sacrificed to end this godforsaken show for good. And once that happens, she can finally kill Tsumugi for killing the innocent people who were manipulated by the Mastermind, including herself. But it was too late for that.

Tsumugi, the Ultimate Cosplayer who caused everything in havoc ever since she existed, wiped her eyeglasses as if it's the only thing she would ever do whenever she gets bored out of something. This is the part where she got bored, her former friends were statues, they were doing nothing, and it made the Ringleader bored! Well, at least she made the Team proud this time from a (useless) effort to put up V3 in the first place. It looked like she dedicated this one to herself, to the point where she became the bad guy herself in the Killing Game. She placed her eyeglasses to the bridge of her nose, clearing her blurred view to where the failed Ultimate Hope was motionless.

She scoffed, "Well? Anything to refute, Ki-Bo?"

The robot wasn't still moving and even silent from what he saw.

Tsumugi sighed, after the adrenaline from the Despair she experienced, it's logical that the human body tired out. Ugh, since when the human body was so fragile? Adam and Eve?

Oh well, looks like she had to force more of her energy, it's Ki-Bo's execution anyway and not hers. She might as well had to live through this and move on.

"Looks like you failed your role as the Ultimate Hope, Stupid Robot. I can't believe but to feel so disappointed in you. Looks like robots can't do anything to stop this Killing Game. Boohoo!"

Ki-Bo's arms were limp, he didn't care about whatever Tsumugi spat harsh words on him. He just 'feel'...empty...a robot who supposed to move and feel like a human became a vessel on what the people who labeled about him.

A robot.

"Hahahaha!" Tsumugi cackled, "Just as I thought! The Danganronpa viewers demanded more! They love Killing Games that they would die for it! Face the facts! This Killing Game will continue forever and ever! And no one, even you, will ever stop the Outside World from their entertainment! Like I told you, Ki-Bo! Hope will never win this game, no matter what! And now look at where you are, the Outside World wanted you to be executed! If only you shut yourself up, you wouldn't have to go through execution in the first place! It's...USELESS!"

Is this what you expected?

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.

.

"Use...less?" Ki-Bo finally gave voice from the silence.

Useless. An unkind word that was blurted out by the Mastermind, had twitched the robot to at least move for once. His head rose up into deep thought when he heard that word right from his 'ears'.

Useless...Useless...Useless...

Since when did he hear such an unpleasant word? Surely it's not from the late Ultimate Supreme Leader, that boy's been flat. Okay, that's a bad joke too.

Useless. Useless. Useless.

His limp arms moved up, presumably to where his 'ears' were. Ki-Bo covered them as his body language shifted from his...unsettling feeling inside his body. It's not right. He's not even functioning, so what's wrong with him?

Useless! Useless! Useless!

This feeling, he couldn't explain it. Something that he never experienced this a lot from the past Class Trials ever since Kaede got falsely executed, but he knew that this is happening to him.

The game that started it all, continued to mercilessly kill all who participated in it and he was involved in being nothing but a camera.

His friends were murdered, and then they were executed.

They doubted him. Bullied him until he couldn't handle them anymore.

Ki-Bo was nothing more than a useless robot.

He tried his best to help everyone to survive from this Killing Game, but it's not enough.

And now...he's next.

This feeling...was none other than fear itself.

No matter how much he tried to hide it, he can't lie to this emotion.

"Useless...Useless...Useless..."

YOU. ARE. USELESS!

He took a deep, hoarse breath, eyes widened at the realization. And released the loudest scream that he ever had that it would echo outside of the courtroom, more so that will malfunction the viewer's television speakers.

"HHHHNNNGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Ki-Bo's scream made Tsumugi covered her ears from the high pitch frequency that she's hearing. Sure, the robot can raise his voice ever since he was thrown at the bloodied piranha-filled aquarium, but this scream could even give her temporary deafness. And she's lucky enough that her glasses didn't break, or she'll have to buy one after V3.

I ask you this again. Is this what you have expected in this story?

Tsumugi glared at Ki-Bo not because of his breakdown, but because of how unusual the stupid robot reacted this way. The Ringleader predicted that the robot would react as what she expected of him since she's the one who had given many contributions to the Team. This is not the Ki-Bo whose personality would go 'Off Character' like that.

By golly, when she looked at the snapped robot, she couldn't believe that the robot she met was even Ki-Bo anymore. She thought that he's nothing more but a gullible, oblivious metal being who wanted to (hopelessly) blend in with the humans and, as expected, achieved the highest title of Danganronpa as the Ultimate Hope, had broken down right before her eyes.

Why do you expect things too much when you already know that there are some things were meant not to go according to plan?

I've tried so hard to fix this mess...and it's not enough?!

"N-n-no...It can't be...possible...Why? Why did this happen?" The robot's hands were clawing on his 'ears', his voice sounded dry because of his scream, and his legs couldn't stay in one place as if the robot would get off balance soon.

"How could this...happen? I did everything I could to finally end this game! But why? When did I go wrong in the end?! WHEN?!" Ki-Bo asked once more, but no answer from the four as the nothingness itself came up an answer for him itself.

Silence.

The robot looked up from the television, still embroidered Ki-Bo's name on the screen. His tally marks were the highest among the candidates, it's one hundred percent that the Danganronpa viewers truly wanted Ki-Bo to die.

And yet...he denied it.

I deny it.

"It's a lie."

"This vote...was nothing but a lie! It's just like what you did to Kaede Akamatsu, you rigged this whole trial just to frame me and get executed! That's what you were planning all along!" Ki-Bo shouted at Tsumugi, she peered up at the 'person' who rejected his fate as the Executed. The stupid robot was getting on her nerves for being 'Out Of Character', thinking that his programming went haywire when he saw the voting results.

"Oh really?!" Tsumugi taunted, "Are there any evidence that could prove that this was a lie, Ki-Bo? Come on and bring it to me!"

"It's the - Well I...There's certainly a..." There's no such thing as Truth Bullets anymore now that the Class Trial had brought to an end minutes ago, not even a chance to get concrete evidence to prove that the voting was rigged. His hands were fidgeting vigorously, his voice stutter like an essay that had many grammatical errors, and his field of vision began to become static.

"...Well...I may not know what it was..." That stupid robot's not giving up...what's with this junk? "But I will not give up Hope until I found proof! I -!"

I'm losing it.

"Ki-Bo...just shut up."

That voice. It sounds like -

"...Shuichi?" Ki-Bo looked at the fabricated Detective in a disturbance. Shuichi had been silent for too long ever since he saw Ki-Bo's name on the voting results, and the Detective finally has the voice to speak only to give something insulting to the robot.

"You know what Tsumugi said...It's useless..." His golden eyes didn't meet to the robot's cyan ones as he continued to stare down, his finger seemed to repeatedly poke on the glass screen with the faint beeping sound was heard from the echoing courtroom.

Shuichi...what's going on with you?

Beep. Beep. Beep

Something's not right from Shuichi, the Detective's stiff. Too stiff.

How could you say such words to me?

Ki-Bo stepped down from his podium and walked to where Shuichi kept on pressing the screen, the beeping won't stop ringing to the robot's ears. By the time he got the chance to take a peek, he didn't believe what he even saw.

Upon the box selection on the voting screen was the Ultimate Hope's picture kept on blinking red on and off, and Shuichi kept on pressing the vote button again.

And again.

And again.

I thought we were friends.

With such dread, the robot ran to Shuichi and snatched the Detective's arm up in the air. Even though the robot was eleven centimeters shorter than Shuichi, he tiptoed so the pointer finger won't touch the glass screen anymore. Ki-Bo looked at Shuichi's closed eyes, the robot was getting near into losing his technological mind.

"What are you doing?! Shuichi, what are you trying to do to me?!" Ki-Bo started to interrogate Shuichi, thinking that Tsumugi did rig the voting and made Shuichi vote Ki-Bo to get executed. When he looked to where the Ultimate Assasin and the Ultimate Magician were, he, too, saw the voting screens had Ki-Bo's face on the red box. The robot's mind was internally screaming; first Shuichi, and then Maki and Himiko wanted him to die.

This torture. This pain. It 'hurts' him too much.

"Why...? Why?! WHY?! How could you do this to me?! Shuichi! Maki! Himiko! How could you do this to me?!" Ki-Bo cried out loud, "Don't you remember where we are, huh?! Danganronpa! We're in a killing game show! The viewers wanted us to die! They didn't care who wins or not! Didn't you remember what your friends said before they die?! Don't you remember Kaede?! Or even Tenko or Kaito?! They wanted us to stop the Mastermind! They wanted us to live and escape this school together!" The robot kept on yelling in front of Shuichi's face, whose eyes remained closed, presumably to avert the truth like what he did the last time.

"Shuichi...Look at me...Please look at me!" But Shuichi didn't open his eyes.

You're my friend. So, why did you do it?

Ki-Bo pursued in getting an answer, "I thought we were friends...You taught me so many things in this school, you taught me how to love! You taught me not to avert from the truth and believe in myself! And now you just wanted to throw those memories away?! Is this what you wanted, Shuichi? You wanted this game to continue and die in this ruthless cycle of killing?! Why?!"

The silence is torturing him. He wanted to hear Shuichi's voice of rebuttal like what he did in the past Class Trials, the voice of determination of finding the truth resonated to Ki-Bo's ears. He wanted to hear them again.

"Shuichi! Answer me!"

The Detective's upraised hand unconsciously curled into a fist, ready to strike.

"WHY IN THE WORLD YOU CHOOSE DESPAIR OVER HOPE?!"

The fist had been freed from Ki-Bo's weak grasp as it opened up like a wildflower in a snap, the robot could only see a fraction of a second when Shuichi's flesh palm touched his face.

And all he knew that he's on the floor, his face touched on the cold surface while trying to recount his thoughts on what happened to him. The answer was short really, Shuichi Saihara slapped Ki-Bo by the face. The force was powerful enough to topple the robot off the ground, it was hard enough to get a bleeding cut after that. A smudge of Shuichi's pink blood had stained Ki-Bo's porcelain face, almost looked like the robot had a wound. He looked at Shuichi who was towering over him like Goliath threatened David. The Detective's mouth had morphed into a disturbing smile, he raised his head and his eyes were still closed to prevent eye contact to the robot.

That abusive physical contact made Ki-Bo speechless.

It...hurts...

Shuichi spoke, but his voice it's not what the robot expected from the Detective, "What about you, Ki-Bo? Why are you averting the truth? The truth that you are the final blackened of this Killing Game?"

"H-huh? ...Wh-what do you mean? I - "

"Hypocrite!"

"...!" Ki-Bo gasped, Shuichi was not the kind of person who would say that word to him!

"You think this is Hope? WELL, I REJECT THIS STUPID HOPE! You said that you hadn't lied, but look at yourself! On the ground, denying every single truth that you were injected at. Heck, you were the one who lied to yourself in the first place. Look at yourself, Ki-Bo. A frail, gullible robot who was desperate to live humanly as much as the others. But no matter how hard you try, no matter what you say or think, you can never deny the truth that you will never be seen as a human! ...You're just a useless hunk of junk... " Shuichi's arms were raised by his side, he still hadn't lowered his head and he acted as a twisted preacher who talked about anything. Ki-Bo couldn't stop looking at the Detective's disturbing figure, he heard Shuichi's voice echoing through his 'ears', slowly listening to what Shuichi had spat at him. No matter what he does to himself, the words have now imprinted in his mind far worse than Tsumugi's.

A useless robot.

Shuichi managed to let out a chuckle after what he said to Ki-Bo, "So...face the truth, Ki-Bo. You were voted. The Danganronpa viewers wanted the Ultimate Hope to be executed and cease to exist for all eternity. It was meant to be this way. Just accept it and die..."

His head lowered and was finally given the chance to open his eyes and face at the defeated robot. When he now looked at Ki-Bo, the robot's body twitched and had the reflex to back away at Shuichi.

"Wouldn't it be Despair inducing, Ki-Bo?"

Shuichi's eyes were pink.

Pink, the symbolism of Lies itself, replaced the Ultimate Detective's olive eyes.

Ki-Bo released a scream that made Tsumugi laugh from the boring drama scene she watched. If only she got popcorn, she would have enjoyed those two more!

"Ahahahaha! Would you look at that?! Looks like Despair prevails, after all! The tension, the drama, the suspense! It's all a boost up rating package for this television show! Team Danganronpa loves the excitement, the audience loves what they saw! Shuichi Saihara and Ki-Bo, friends till the end, clashed each other to the most Despair-Inducing way as possible!"

Ki-Bo tried to get up but falls from the slap that Shuichi gave to him before. He looked at Himiko and Maki, still standing on their podiums, completely nonreactive from what's going on right now. Why aren't they trying to stop Shuichi from acting like this?!

"H-H-Himiko! M-Maki! Please! ...Say something!" He looked at the girls while crawling away from Shuichi, the Detective looked like a zombie with pink eyes. They turned their heads and looked at Ki-Bo directly...

They also have the dreaded pink eyes.

"N-no...No...No..." The Ultimate Hope wanted to deny the Despair that he was given through his three remaining friends. Pink eyes? Who does that?!

Tsumugi Shirogane walked closely to Shuichi, she placed her seductive hand over the Detective's shoulder and her other hand over her hip. "Despair is the unknown, and it's contagious too. You wouldn't know when or where you'll have it, they just crawled over you and took your mind like a puppet on strings." she monologues as Himiko and Maki also walked near the Mastermind, their dark shadows were covering the remaining light that Ki-Bo had.

"And I can do whatever I want to them too."

Are you still willing to continue this?

He had enough, the 'unconscious' reaction from his legs urged him to get up and run, run as far as he can away from the monsters that came out from their closets.

Tsumugi didn't flinch on Ki-Bo's attempt to escape the game and she snapped her fingers loud, "Seize him."

The three didn't hesitate on capturing their innocent friend, Maki was the first to chase after the robot based on her title as the Ultimate Assassin. Despite his efforts from running, Ki-Bo couldn't outrun Maki as the assassin jumped over him and blocked his path.

Ki-Bo skidded to a stop when he could see Maki attempt to perform a roundhouse kick, it's effortless to dodge when he felt the heavy force from his armored hip pushed him and caused the robot to get slammed on the wall. The impact made him lightheaded, but he didn't give in to unconsciousness.

This is how an assassin worked, am I right? Maki?

He struggled to get up, but his vision went dark when Himiko covered Ki-Bo's head with her witch hat, more likely his 'ahoge' made a hole out of it. The Ultimate Magician has a tight grip on her hat and tried to pull the robot down, then her arms were wrapped around the metal collar. Ki-Bo tried to shake Himiko off but she's not letting him go, he clawed on the magician's soft hands until he managed to remove her fingers followed by her hands and escaped from Himiko's clutches.

Why can't you let go, Himiko?

By the time he removed Himiko's now torn hat, he saw Shuichi tried to land a punch on him that the robot was lucky to dodge long enough for him to recover. He was ready to run again, but Shuichi grabbed his arm! Shuichi's hand gripped tight around Ki-Bo's arm as the robot tried to pull himself away from the mad detective, but it seemed like Shuichi is going to win this tug of war as he was pulling Ki-Bo closer and closer until they met their eyes.

Shuichi, you're hurting me! Stop!

The detective's capability of physical showed in not a good time when he lifted Ki-Bo's body in the air and, with the use of Shuichi's shocking strength, used his own body as leverage to throw the scrawny robot to the ground. Now THAT made him knocked out for a few seconds, he's a robot, after all. No need explaining.

His vision regained focus once more, not surrendering to Despair, he pushed the floor to gain balance. But by the time he went up to his knees, both of his arms were grabbed and were tugged from behind. When he looked at the back, he saw Maki and Himiko were subduing him by pulling his arms so he wouldn't move and run away anymore.

"Himiko?! Maki?! What are you doing?! Let go! Let me go! Please!" He cried as he tried to pull his arms away, but no avail. Suddenly, a hand touched his synthetic hair and was yanked painfully, he knew that Shuichi could have done this to him.

He couldn't move. Three of his remaining friends turned against him for no reason, and now they restrained him with no chance of escaping anymore. Three pairs of radiant pink eyes were staring at him, it was intense enough to dig them deep into his data.

The Mastermind was in front of him, her hand cupped to his chin and forcing Ki-Bo to have eye contact with her despite Shuichi tugging his hair.

"You're lucky that you didn't get brainwashed unlike they did."

His turquoise eyes widened, "B...brainwashed?"

"I'm just glad that Team Danganronpa had a way to finish this episode quickly by brainwashing them instead." Tsumugi forcefully turned the robot's head to where the verdict screen was, still has Ki-Bo's name implanted on the screen. It took moments to read the air when he stared on the television.

"Looks like the low-quality brainwashing video had some perfect use after all."

The brainwashing video, that was formerly used at the End of Hope's Peak Academy, is hidden right under their noses all along. Once you were in the trance of the brainwashing video, you feel like your mind was scorched, your body restrained, and your eyes couldn't look away from the screen no matter how hard you try. Slowly, you're close to getting your mind burning until you fade away into existence.

They're...dead.

His friends were gone all along. Their empty shells had been replaced with pure despair, and they won't stop until they get what they wanted.

And they want Ki-Bo gone for good.

"There's no Hope for you, Ki-Bo. Everyone's dead, and you're the only one left in this game. You'll always be alone...No matter what."

Are you still watching this?

Tsumugi yawned, "This is getting boring."

"NO! You can't do this to me! Tsumugi!" Ki-Bo shouted as he uses his remaining strength to break himself free, but they're not letting him get away! He's losing to the battle of survival because of his Hope that caused his friends to be like this! And it's all his fault!

I don't want to die...

"Thank you for being so useful to Danganronpa, Ki-Bo. I loved you for that." She said in a normal voice as she looked at Monokuma, beckoning the robot bear to finally start the execution.

You were so close to finish this

I don't want to die.

"We would like to thank Team Danganronpa and our fans for this amazing, heart-throbbing, suspenseful journey of Hope and Despair! Now then, I have prepared a very special punishment for our beloved Ultimate Hope, Ki-Bo!" Monokuma jumped up and down in excitement as the final event of Danganronpa V3 has prepared.

I don't want to die!

"I don't...want to...die...I don't want to die...I DON'T WANT TO DIE! NO! PLEASE! DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE! I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE! I BEG OF YOU! PLEASE!" The robot cried while Tsumugi felt unfazed from Ki-Bo's fear of death from the very first time. But she couldn't help but to at least feel some...hidden emotions to the poor robot.

According to Team Danganronpa, Ki-Bo is a special robot. Born from the memories of Makoto Naegi's theatrical performance of being the Ultimate Hope that fans had remembered about him. What's missing was a personality for the empty vessel, so Tsumugi helped Makoto to create the Ki-Bo that the Danganronpa fans knew about him.

Sure the robot's an idiot when it comes to reading the atmosphere, but perhaps one little gesture of kindness would shut Ki-Bo up.

Almost there

Her face had met Ki-Bo's, who is terrified in every second of his 'life'. Her bright blue, malevolent eyes had returned to her normal blue one. Her lips purposely touched the robot's cold forehead, like a mother kissing him goodnight whenever it's bedtime.

"I'm so proud of you." Those are her last words.

"Let's give it everything we've got! It's...PUNISHMENT TIIIIME!"

"DON'T LEAVE ME ALOOOOOOONE!"

But it's all over.

The Punishment Button was raised at Monokuma's podium, the bear then pulled out the judgment hammer, performed a somersault in the air, and slammed the hammer to the button.

CONGRATULATIONS

KI-BO HAS BEEN VOTED GUILTY

TIME FOR THE PUNISHMENT!

Author's Note (PLEASE READ):

Once you were able to read this Author's Note (I recommend you on reading this), then you made it! Yay! You made it!

Just a clarification, 'Director Naegi' is Makoto Naegi. And the lines in the first part was the song of "St-aring Down" by VY2.

Six thousand...two hundred...and forty three words...Six thousand, two hundred and forty three words! IN THREE DAYS! Wooo! My fingers are hurt right now.

Oh my gosh, this has to be the longest chapter that I ever had in a Danganronpa fanfiction! I was so hurry because it's almost finals week in my college and I was too excited to finally start with this thing. I every single day, I actually typed estimating of 2,00 words per something like a minute or so unless I fell asleep.

So yeah, this will be the time where you can see my style of aesthetics whenever I write a fanfiction. Because, this is (or the next chapter) where the true twist will show here. I can't tell you when will the true twist will occur but you'll know it sooner or later.

I actually wanted to show more of who Team Danganronpa were and decided that the Danganronpa characters are the staff, because I want to show them early in the fanfiction instead so you won't freak out on why they acted like that in the future and cause more problems at hand. Another note was that, like in V3, the Danganronpa characters could show some opposite traits of their personality, which means that they're LITERALLY not the characters that we know in the game but there are some that I would stay faithful with. So stay tuned for that, I'm not even sure when or how I'll perform that but I'll try.

My challenge in this chapter was the characters themselves! I had a hard time on how to portray the characters that are not Ki-Bo, and it's hard for me to execute on how they react within a situation they were in. I think it somehow diminished once Shuichi, Himiko, and Maki got brainwashed.

Like I said, I somehow wrote this chapter BEFORE the event where Ki-Bo will be executed was because I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO GET HEART ATTACKS because of me. I'm just worried about the people who read this and well, who knows what will happen to them after reading this chapter.

One reviewer asked me on what's worse to the remaining characters, so I hope this will serve as an answer.

Until then, stay tuned.