"Oh my! You all voted correctly! What an unexpected and unpredictable outcome!" Monokuma laughed wickedly. "The blackened who killed Miu Iruma, the Ultimate Inventor, is Korekiyo Shinguji, the Ultimate Anthropologist!"

"Yayyyy! Bravo, bravo!" The Monokubs cheered for us. It was over. Everyone, including Kiyo himself, had voted for him, and we were correct. Even at this stage, it was hard to swallow. I felt my body release the tension I had been holding this entire time as we each walked off our podium and moved towards our culprit to question him.

"Phew! Thank goodness we managed to get through the class trial again!" Kokichi said as he wiped sweat from his forehead.

"Th-There's nothing good about this at all…!" Tenko cried out, a mixture of anger and sadness in her voice.

"Why? Why did you kill Miu? Why did you plan to kill someone in the first place?" Keebo asked in a soft, quiet voice. He managed to keep his composure during the trial, but now that it is over, the emotions he must be feeling...I think I can imagine them quite well. These kinds of emotions are always the strongest ones. The ones that flood your senses and overpower you. They're the worst kind of emotions you could feel.

"Gonta...no can believe it. Why Kiyo kill someone? Kiyo so nice before…" Gonta muttered.

"...It was because of the motive video I received." Kiyo admitted.

"Of course. It comes down to that." I sighed.

"B-But whatever was on that video couldn't have been that bad, could it?" Kaito asked.

"Puhuhu… Human beings have always been easily frightened into doing reckless things. They've always been selfish, self-centered, cowardly creatures." Monokuma giggled. "Give them a push, and others might brush it off, but some humans are made of weaker stuff."

"That's why I hate humans! They burn down the forests we call home! They pollute the rivers we drink from! I'll never forgive humans!" Monotaro screamed.

"But is that really a reason to destroy them? Some humans are really nice!" Monophanie argued.

"Enough with the commentary. We're trying to have a serious discussion." Ryoma rebuked the kubs, silencing them with his stern words.

"Kiyo...your video must have contained the person you care for the most, right? That was your sister. What...happened in the video?" Kaede asked.

"It...I…" Kiyo began before he sighed. "I'm sorry. Words fail me at the moment. My video was just...overwhelming, even for me."

"It must have been hard, but you need to tell us. Otherwise we can't accept this outcome." Kaito told him.

"Please Kiyo. Tell us." Rantaro said. "We all care about you. We're friends, so we need to know why you did what you did."

"...It was horrible." Kiyo said. "It's funny. We were only talking about luck the other day, but to think I was so unlucky as to receive my own motive. How truly ugly."

"Hmmm? Y'know, I meant to bring this up earlier cuz it's been bugging me for a while…" Monokuma cut into our conversation. "But all this talk about the videos being switched… What does that mean, exactly?"

"Huh? What are you talking about?" I asked in an annoyed voice.

"Nyeh...don't play dumb. You're the one who switched up all the motive videos."

"She's right. Didn't you just give a few people their own video and give the rest of them random videos?" I asked him.

"...No, I didn't." Monokuma said as he turned to his cubs.

"Uhhhh…"

"Ummm…" The Monokubs started to sweat as they turned away from their father nervously. Wait...did they actually screw up with this motive?

"Oh? Was I not supposed to ask that? Did you cubs screw up again, hmmm? Like when Mister Wakuri first came here? Hmmm?" Monokuma asked with an angry glare.

"Not supposed to?" Shuichi repeated.

"Wait, then-" Kaede never got to finish the question as the Monokubs started arguing with each other.

"I-It's all Monophanie's fault! She passed them out without checking the names!" Monosuke claimed.

"Whaaaat!? I didn't know! Monotaro should've checked the names, too!" Monophanie yelled.

"Wait a minute! I don't even remember passing out any videos!" Monotaro shot back.

"IT-WAS-MY-FAULT." Monodam then said.

"What?" The Monokubs gawked.

"I-APOLOGIZE. I-SHOULD-HAVE-BEEN-MORE-CAREFUL. IT-WAS-ALSO-MY-FAULT- THAT-THE-BLACKENED-WAS-FOUND-THIS-TRIAL. I-AM-SORRY." Monodam bowed apologetically.

"Wait, so it was an accident?" I asked.

"YES. THOUGH-I-DID-THINK-THIS-WORKED-OUT-FOR-US-IN-THE-END, THE-PLAN- WAS-FOR-EVERYONE-EXCEPT-YOU-TO-GET-THEIR-OWN-VIDEO. IT-IS-MY-FAULT." Monodam answered me.

"N-No, Monodam… It's not your fault." Monophanie told him.

"It's all our fault! I'm sorry, too!" Monotaro apologized.

"Ah, it seems I misunderstood." Monokuma nodded, slight anger being held back in his face. "I completely forgot that the plan all along was to redistribute the videos."

"D-Daddy!" Monophanie cried out in joy.

"It's not your fault at all, kids. It's my fault for forgetting." Monokuma told his cubs.

"Fatherrrr!" Monotaro yelled happily.

"THANK-GOODNESS." Monodam sighed. Okay...now I'm completely confused. Was it an accident, or was it planned? I don't think I'll ever know. I guess the only thing that we can confirm from this was we were screwed either way with this motive.

"Wh-What the hell is this mushy, feel-good crap!?" Monosuke yelled. "You're all idiots! I'm through getting along with you dummy bears!" Monodam then turned to Monosuke with a death glare. Guess we know which cub has been marked this time.

"I'm sorry to cause so much trouble. Please continue your boring conversation." Monokuma told us.

"So the Monokubs distributed the videos at random, though we all were supposed to get our motives. I truly have poor luck." Kiyo sighed.

"So when you picked it up and turned it on when we first got them, you were completely unaware it was yours." Keebo said.

"What was in it?" Tenko asked.

"Why don't we all watch the motive video together?" Monotaro asked as he took out a Kubs Pad and hooked it up to the giant monitor in the room.

"Yes, that would be much better! Let's hurry before Daddy gets bored again!" Monophanie said as she turned the monitor on.

"Alright! Back by popular demand, it's time for the motive video! Who's the most important person in your life? And now, without further ado…" The video then showed an image of Kiyo in a hospital room with someone who looked similar to him, though they were female and looked slightly older than him. She had a kind expression, despite looking extremely ill, and she looked to be engrossed in whatever anthropologic subject Kiyo was speaking to her about. "Korekiyo Shinguji, the Ultimate Anthropologist. He has traveled the world far and wide in his pursuit of learning about different cultures and beliefs, but that desire stems from the most important person in his life: his very ill sister. He cared for her more than anyone else in the world. In fact…" The video then showed...Oh...Oh my. That is...a very intense kiss. Umm...I can't tell if it's supposed to be romantic, or forceful. It's just making me...a bit uncomfortable looking at it. "These two siblings loved each other so much that they became lovers! He loved her, and she loved him. What a...lovely...relationship. Unfortunately…" The screen then changed to an image of Kiyo looking over his sister, but now, she had a white sheet covering her face. "Love wasn't meant to last. With his sister, the only person he could truly care for, the one who drove him to become who he was, and the one who made him 'Korekiyo Shinguji', was now gone. Dead as dead can be." Monokuma then popped up in front of the image and laughed. "Korekiyo Shinguji, you know what you need to do now, right? What's the one thing that you can do for your sister now? You know the answer, and I think you know that you're sooo close to finishing it. So you better work hard to finish the job for her!" With that, the video cut off.

"Wh-What!?" Kaito was the first to react.

"Y-You're your sister's lover!?" Tenko cried out.

"That brings...an entirely new meaning to sibling love…" I said, trying to make a joke, but ultimately failing.

"Is...that video true, Kiyo?" Ryoma asked.

"Yes. It is." Kiyo nodded. "She was the most important person in my life. I loved her, and she loved me. It is not that hard to grasp. She was my sister, and my lover. The fact that we were siblings meant nothing to us. It might be called 'forbidden love', but none could stop the love we shared. The only time I felt at peace...was when I was enveloped in my sister's warmth." Kiyo then held himself tightly as he made a sad face. "But...I had no recollection that she had passed away."

"Really?" Shuichi asked.

"It's strange. Watching that video for the first time...it was similar to when we found that flashback light. The more I watched, the more I started to recall." Kiyo told us. "When I saw...when I remembered that Sister had died, I was distraught. Sister was the one who gave my life meaning. If she was gone, then where did that leave me? I would be alone. Completely, utterly alone. So, after thinking about it, I knew what I had to do." Kiyo then gave a dark expression. "I...had to kill for her."

"K-Kill?" Kaede muttered.

"Yes. Sister was ever so lonely. She was always going in and out of the hospital due to her illness, so she could never make friends. Even if I was her brother, and even her lover, I could never be her friend. So, as one last tribute to her, I decided I would send her 100 friends. I would kill them and send them to the afterlife where she is, so she doesn't have to be lonely again."

"100!?" Gonta exclaimed.

"My, my. Then have you already killed many? Your video said you were close to finishing it." Angie asked.

"I...I...I don't know." Kiyo answered.

"You don't remember?" Maki asked.

"No. It was the only thing the video didn't help me remember. But if I was close to finishing, then I had to escape! To send the last few friends to Sister!"

"Y-You're crazy!" Tenko shouted.

"You may call it what you want. I don't care! For the one I love more than anything, I would do anything! I would sully my hands with as much blood that is required. I would destroy myself and the world around me for her! Nothing can stop me from wanting to do that for her!" Kiyo yelled at us.

"So you wanted to kill all of us with the trial, then? That would send your sister plenty of friends." Ryoma said.

"No, I didn't want to kill all of you." Kiyo shook his head. "I only wanted to send girls to be my Sister's friends, though there were some exceptions with the men here, I will admit."

"So, you were planning to kill one of the girls originally then? Is that why you killed Miu?" I asked.

"I was planning on killing a girl, but not Miu. Of the girl's here, with the exception of Maki and Miu, they were all what I would consider worthy." Kiyo responded.

"Worthy?" Maki asked.

"You were much too cold and uncaring. You weren't a good fit to be my Sister's friend." Kiyo explained. "Miu was vulgar and lewd. I didn't want her to be Sister's friend at all, yet I must admit, my thoughts on her have changed slightly after I was forced to kill her."

"Changed?" Shuichi asked.

"You deduced correctly. I had grabbed the hook and had gone to the empty room to examine if my little plan that I had would work. I was planning a trap with a seesaw mechanism in the empty room to use during a seance I wanted to do with some of you. But Miu had apparently followed me, and what happened next surprised me."


"Hold it, Kiyo! The hell do ya think you're doing!?" Miu shouted as she entered the empty room, pulling out a ray gun device as she did.

"Miu? What on earth are you doing here?" Kiyo asked, slight shock in his tone.

"I saw you took a hook from the warehouse. That's hella suspicious! You plannin' something!? If so, drop the hook, masked creep!" Miu shouted again as she aimed the device at Kiyo.

"Oh? What is that? Some kind of gun? Do you plan to kill me, Miu?" Kiyo asked with a curious voice.

"Ha! As if!" Miu laughed. "No way this gorgous girl would do something that dumb!"

"Dumb?"

"Monokuma wants us to kill, right? He's gonna do everything he can to get someone to kill. That's why you're doing whatever the hell it is you're doing now, right? It was 'cause of something Monokuma showed you?"

"..." Kiyo began to glare at Miu as she continued speaking.

"If that's the case, if there's always someone who's gonna want to kill, then we have to be proactive, don't we? We need to make it impossible for people to do this shit again! We can't just trust each other, which is why I made this baby!" Miu said as she gestured with her gun. "If I really am the most useful person here like he said, then I can do something as simple as this. I'm Miu fuckin' Iruma! My inventions will send the world into a new golden era! So nobody, and I mean nobody, is gonna kill when I'm around!"

"...You mean...you…?" Kiyo found himself flabbergasted at Miu. From his observations, Miu was selfish, egotistical, and arrogant. Why does it seem like now she's...selfless? It didn't make any sense to Kiyo. Something about the girl had...changed, ever so slightly, and he couldn't piece together what it was.

"Bwahaha! What? Did I scare ya? Makes sense. This gorgous girl is a fuckin' genius, after all! Ain't no one who would want me as an enemy!" Miu cackled.

"...Why? Why are you acting like this? I would have thought that you would have eventually tried your hand at killing someone else." Kiyo asked, his curiosity and frustration finally starting to get to him. Miu hardened her glare at Kiyo, staying silent for a while before finally speaking.

"I might have. I was sort of thinking about it, in the back of my mind. It was gnawing at me. I didn't want to stay here with a bunch of fuckin' idiots! They all think that a few hugs and a little trust will prevent one of us stabbing everyone else in the back. This is a killing game! There isn't anyone you can trust! People are gonna die no matter what!" Miu then gave a sigh. "But...I got to thinking. These ignorant, lame, trusting idiots...are actually my friends. They appreciate me. That...hasn't happened a lot. So I might as well stay and keep an eye out for them, since only someone like me can do that. And if he's right, then maybe I can help everyone escape. We'll live." Kiyo just stared at miu in disbelief. This was a side of Miu he's never seen before. This side of her...it was...it was…

"...It's really quite beautiful." Kiyo grinned under his mask as he spoke. "I think my plans have changed. I think perhaps you are worthy, Miu. That is, if you can stay like that before you die. I do have to ask, do try to refrain from being so vulgar in the afterlife. I want you to be one of my Sister's friends, after all."

"The hell are you talking about?!" Miu yelled. "Like hell I'm dying here! I have the gun here!"

"Yet you wouldn't kill me, would you? You just said so yourself. The people here are your precious friends. You wouldn't dare put them in any danger with the class trial, would you? You also don't want to die, even for them, right?" Kiyo asked in a dark tone, causing Miu to start backing away slowly.

"Sh-Shut up! If you take another step forward, I'll shoot you!"

"Go ahead. Do it. Maybe then you learn just how much danger that 'precious someone' in your video is in." Kiyo chose his words carefully, knowing full well he didn't know who could possibly be on Miu's video. But his threat worked, with Miu losing focus for just a fraction of a second because of his words.

"W-Wait...how do you-" He had made his opening. Kiyo didn't waste this chance he had created and dashed towards Miu. Miu, now completely taken aback by Kiyo's sudden movement, refocused her gun and fired at her target. Luckily, she still managed to hit it. It was never Kiyo she was going to shoot. It was the hook. Upon the particles hitting the hook, the hook completely froze in the air where Kiyo was swinging it. Kiyo was shocked by this, but that didn't stop him. He simply let go of the hook and kept running towards Miu. Miu didn't even have time to do anything else by the time Kiyo knocked her down and grabbed her throat with all his strength.

"I will tell you this: you are more beautiful in character than even I realized. Perhaps I should have taken a closer look at you to see if you could act like this. Oh well, I suppose it won't matter in a few minutes. How fleeting life is…"


"Y-You…" Kaito muttered angrily after Kiyo explained exactly what happened in the empty room.

"As I said, I initially found Miu lacking in the right qualities to be Sister's friend, but her selfless act before her death, her desire to help work towards escape with everyone, it was something I found myself admiring."

"So Miu really was trying to prevent a murder…" Shuichi sadly said.

"Yes, but I can't help but wonder…" Kiyo began. "Where did those words and convictions come from? I can't imagine Miu just started to feel that at a whim. For someone to change like that, there must be a trigger. Someone to push them towards it. So I wonder…"

"..." I felt the color drain from my face. Suddenly, the room felt cold. The words Kiyo told us that Miu said before she died...they replayed inside my head repeatedly, as if I was trying to solve some grand puzzle.

"Rin, is something wrong?" Kaede asked in a concerned voice. "You look...like you did when we found Kirumi's body."

"Wait...Rin, were you…" Rantaro tried to ask before I felt my knees start to give in.

"N-No… Not again. This can't...be happening again." I shivered as I began to fall to my knees. "Why did Miu...repeat the words I told her? That was...just an off-hand comment I said while talking to her. So why? Why did she feel like she had to follow through with the words I believed in? With my conviction…?"

"Rin…" Ryoma tried to comfort me, but could find no words. No one could. It was happening again. This pressure that's all around me...This guilt. I...I killed another one of my classmates. I killed another one of my friends. If I didn't say that to Miu...she would be...she wouldn't have…

"I-I told her...don't do anything stupid...I...told her…" I wanted to cry, yet just like the previous times before where I felt this horrible, no tears would fall. I was still unable to cry from my friend's death.

"So it was Rin's words that encouraged and influenced Miu and her actions." Kiyo noted. "I believe I understand now."

"U-Understand what?" I asked hesitantly.

"Those words Tsumugi left us." Kiyo replied, making me stiff at the mention of that. "She told us you were a killer. I believe I know what she meant by that."

"Wh-What?"

"You care for your friends deeply. For them, you try to take the best actions to protect us and aid us. You would do all and give all just to save one. Yet, despite this, your actions seem to inadvertently lead people to their demise. It's like you're cursed." Kiyo explained before he turned to me with a look of pity. "How many people have you unintentionally led to death? Just how cursed are you, I wonder?" The words he said began to sink in. I'm...cursed? Ha… Hahaha… Maybe he's right. At this point, I feel pretty cursed. This is...all my fault. It's always my fault.

"Kiyo! Stop it! Rin didn't do anything wrong!" Kaito yelled.

"I know. I'm not shifting the blame to Rin. I believe that he's a noble soul. But it is an intriguing question that has to be asked. We still don't know who exactly Rin is or why he's even here. Not even Tsumugi knew that much." Kiyo clarified.

"Still, Rin is our friend. You can't just say that." Rantaro shot back.

"I suppose so. I do apologize." Kiyo told me, though I still didn't feel better from that.

"So that's it. That's why you did what you did." Keebo muttered, a mixture of feelings showing on his expression. "It's too impossible to understand… Too...Impossible…"

"Yes. That is the reason. I wanted to kill for Sister after I watched the motive video and learned she had died." Kiyo confirmed.

"Killing Miu...for dead sister… That wrong! That so wrong!" Gonta shouted.

"Do not get so worked up. I will tell you all this. There's one thing I've learned during these past few days." Kiyo then gave us a crazed look as he continued. "Death only changes a person's form. The soul will always live on, whether in an afterlife or as a ghost. My role is over here. I have finished my explanation to you all. My friends." Kiyo then looked up with a twisted, fragile smile under his mask as he spread his arms out. "I think I shall go see her now… My beloved sister…"

"H-Hang on…" I managed to say, getting back on my feet, though I was stumbling a bit as I did.

"Rin, easy there. I got you." Kaito said as he helped me up by putting my arm around his shoulder.

"Thanks, Kaito." I told him before I looked at Kiyo, my face still drained of color from earlier. "Kiyo...Before you go...I have to ask you something. Something important."

"Then as your friend, I will do all that I can to answer it before I depart on my final journey." Kiyo told me. "What is it you must know?"

"Who was it...that you were talking to? During the end of the trial, I mean." I asked. "You talked to yourself a bit, but when you did, you spoke in a feminine voice, and your posture changed. It was almost like you were possessed, but that's not what was happening. You were imitating someone, trying to convince yourself that they were there with you. So what was that? Who was that?"

"..." Kiyo didn't answer me, only giving me an expression full of sorrow.

"If...you don't mind, I'd like to take a guess." I said. "That person...that you were imitating...it was your sister, wasn't it?"

"His sister?" Rantaro asked.

"Kiyo...the reason you did all of this...the real reason you did all of this, it was because it was your way of coping, wasn't it?" I asked him. "You're sad. Sad that the person you loved more than anything might be dead. From how you spoke of her, she must have influenced you in such a way, that if she were absent in your life, you would be a completely different person. That actually...reminds me of relationships I've seen before, I think. But none of them were healthy."

"What are you trying to say, Rin?" Maki asked me.

"Kiyo, what was your sister like? Was she someone who would have wanted you to kill in her name? Was she that cold hearted? Or are you just using her as an excuse to release that pent up aggression and sorrow in you right now?" I felt my face scrunch up in pain as I continued speaking. "Kiyo, you weren't like this before the motive video. So I can't help but wonder...if you were just manipulated."

"...What?" Kiyo asked me with a shocked look.

"Did you really have any proof that your sister died, or did this video just give you that feeling like the flashback lights? How much of it is true? Did you really kill for your sister, or was it because you were going mad with the surge of emotions you were feeling at the prospect of her being dead? Would she have even wanted this!?"

"Y-You… Don't act like you know what I'm feeling…" Kiyo growled angrily.

"I'm saying this because I know that feeling!" I shouted. "That pain in your chest that never goes away. That gnawing sadness that feels like it's going to consume you whole at any moment! That never ending dread, as if the world is collapsing in on itself, leaving you to pick up the pieces! That's what it feels like to lose someone important to you, isn't it!? Don't tell me I don't know that feeling! And I know just how overwhelming it can be. Just how easy it is for that sadness and anger to take control without you even realizing it!" That's right, I do know it. Not just from this killing game, either. I've always had this feeling on my back. For the longest time. "Please, just tell me the truth. Let me remember you as my friend instead of some murdering psychopath! I don't want you to be a MONSTER in my memories!"

"I...I…" Kiyo tried to speak, but Monokuma interrupted him.

"Alright, time's up! We need to get this started or else this will be one of those longer chapters…" Monokuma groaned loudly. "It's the moment you've all been waiting for: Punishment Time!"

"Punishment Time!?" I shouted. "No! I won't accept this! Not until Kiyo answers me!"

"Rin, there's no such thing as a death that can be accepted. Why do you think so many different cultures have funeral rites?" Kiyo told me with a regretful smile. "The living must find a reason, however forced, to accept death when it happens. How you come to terms with death also determines how you live, yes? If you truly know this feeling, then you must know that as well."

"K-Kiyo…"

"You were right. This was just the unfortunate answer that I reached after watching the motive video. This was my way of coping with my loss. I let the dark emotions take over. The cracks on my soul that the video caused to form shattered me." Kiyo then gave me a serious expression, one that seemed to see through my soul. "How about you? How have you lived a life so full of regret and death without letting the cracks break you? How will you continue facing that pain and sorrow? That is the question I will leave you all."

"Now then, I've prepared a special punishment for the Ultimate Anthropologist, Korekiyo Shinguji!" Monokuma shouted, ignoring us as he set up Kiyo's death.

"I do believe there is an afterlife, so I promise you all this: I will watch over you all as a ghost! As your friend, I will watch over you! And not just me. Everyone who's died so far will be watching and cheering for you to survive! Don't repeat our mistakes! Become stronger. Stronger than I was and face your pain and sorrow stubbornly like an ox!" Kiyo said as tears started to form in his eyes. "I swear… I will be watching...forever and ever… I will always be praying for your victory in this game."

"Let's give it everything we've got! It's...PUNISHMENT TIME!" Just like before, Monokuma shouted cheerfully as he raised a gavel high into the air above a red button and slammed it down. The monitor above us now showed an 8-bit Monokuma dragging Kiyo away like with Tsumugi.

GAME OVER

Korekiyo Shinguji has been found guilty!

Time for the punishment! :)

The chain shot out of nowhere and forcibly attached itself to Kiyo's neck, and before any of us could react to save him, he was dragged away to the pits of the trial grounds. The monitors changed once again to show the new scene. The place where Kiyo would be executed, along with its title card.

Punishment of the Brazen Sinner

Ultimate Anthropologist, Korekiyo Shinguji's Execution: Executed

Korekiyo was thrown onto a platform like a ragdoll by a masked Monokuma who was wearing ancient Executioner attire. Korekiyo had ropes binding his arms together, and he had been stripped of his clothing above his waist, including his mask, revealing old scars around his body. Some of them might have been from his travels for his study, but now we would never know their exact origins. Korekiyo looked out across the stage and saw multiple corpses of girls lining the benches, as if they were happily enjoying the execution. Before he could fully take in what he was seeing,

SLASH!

Korekiyo's senses were completely blinded by pain as the Monokuma Executioner whipped him with a very famous weapon used for punishments and torture: a Scourge, or a Fragrum/Flagellum. It was the weapon used to beat Jesus Christ in the Bible before his Crucifixion. It is a three separate thongs, each having multiple roughly-shaped lead balls attached to them. Each time the Monokuma Executioner would whip Korekiyo with the Scourge, the lead balls that were attached to the whip's ends would beat and tear into the skin on Korekiyo's back. With each blow, Korekiyo would scream out in pain, each shriek piercing the sky with his shattered voice.

It soon got worse, as the Monokubs started joining in this time around. Monotaro and Monophanie tossed ropes around Korekiyo's necks and started tugging on them, choking Korekiyo and pulling him in random directions. Meanwhile, Monodam and Monosuke joined their father with their own Scourges and began whipping Korekiyo's front, giving him the same bruises, lacerations, tears, and scars that have begun to form on his back. And while the Anthropologist was being physically tortured in one of the worst ways imaginable, the corpses of girls all clapped and cheered, reveling in their supposed killer's pain.

The pain from the dozens of whips he had endured up to that point had begun to drain Korekiyo's strength. He began to lose the will to even scream, or even resist. He hardly even realized that his back and chest were dripping in blood now. He was just ready for it to end. He just wanted to see his Sister. To be held in her embrace once again. Then...he would feel safe again. He would be happy. That's when the whipping stopped. Korekiyo looked up, and the person he saw...was his Sister. Everything about her was exactly like he remembered. No, it was even better. She looked healthy, she looked happy! It's finally over. He can finally be with her again. He managed a weak smile, but it was as pure as could be. His sister returned his smile, her sweet gesture giving Korekiyo joy. But then, she crouched down and gave her brother an evil smirk as she picked him up by his neck.

She was choking him, and no matter how hard he struggled to break free, her grip only tightened, and her smirk turned more malicious. Korekiyo's sister, still clutching her little brother's neck as if it was nothing more than a toy, began to carry him towards Monokuma, who had set up the final punishment for Korekiyo to endure. Korekiyo managed to turn his head and saw the only thing that might have been worse than being whipped by the Scourges: A Brazen Bull. They were going to roast him alive. Korekiyo's struggles increased exponentially, his cries of desperation reaching no one as he begged for some other way of dying. He begged his sister to stop, but nothing could stop what had already begun. The Executioner Monokuma opened the side trap door of the brazen bull, and Korekiyo's sister placed Korekiyo inside before slamming the door shut. Korekiyo banged on the trap door, hoping, praying it would open, but it was useless. That's when it started to get hot inside the bronze bull. Really hot. Outside, the Monokubs had made a fire under the bull and were throwing wood to keep the fire blazing as hot as it could.

As the other Monokubs tossed wood into the fire, Monodam stood to the side, thinking. After debating with himself, he walked over to Monosuke and pushed him into the fire. Upon making contact with the fire, Monosuke combusted, turning the fire into a grand blaze that was nearly engulfing the brazen bull. The other two cubs could only watch in horror as their brother became literal fuel to the fire. Inside the bull, Korekiyo's skin had started to melt off him. Nothing could save him now. He was only moments away from death, and he was feeling the worst kind of pain any person could ever have inflicted on them. With the last ounce of his strength, he shouted one last time, yet all that was heard on the outside was a cry of a selfish, sinful, brazen bull.

After another hour or so, Monokuma finally put out the fire. He then opened up the trap door of the brazen bull and peaked inside. All that was left inside the bull was Korekiyo's skeleton. Being inside the brazen bull had burned his bones into something that shone like jewels, so Monokuma took the bones and quickly made bracelets and necklaces that he gave to Korekiyo's sister. The two of them then laughed as smoke from the fire and bull continued to rise into the sky. There is no hope. There are no dreams. There is no truth to be found in this suffering. There is only this cruel reality. In this killing game, there is no mercy. There is no peace. There is no acceptance of death. It will always follow you. Forever and ever.