And here's where crap hits the fan. Disclaimer: I don't own Dangan Ronpa or Ace Attorney.
Chapter 4: The World's Most Despair-Inducing Incident
The students inside the reserve building were horrified at what they were seeing. All of the so-called "special" students, minus the most recent class, the 78th class, killing each other in deliberately planned schemes. The final murder was performed by Izuru Kamukura, the "Super High School Level Despair". Once it was finished, the reserve students were addressed by Yasuke Matsuda, the "Super High School Level Neurologist". "As reserve students," he said, "You have been forced to pay a high fee for attending this school. And now you see the truth regarding what that money was being used for. But fear not, for my friend Kamukura has dealt with the last of them."
Matsuda wore his typical school uniform, though he short was not tucked in and he wore slippers instead of shoes. His hair was a messy black and his eyes were green. He was scouted out by Hope's Peak for having both documented and cured every known type of mental ailment at least once. Kamukura soon joined Matsuda, showing the events that had been played did not happen in real-time. "Know this," Kamukura said, "That while individually you may be ordinary, together you can become greater. This despair you feel, you can push it upon the world, as revenge for misusing your generosity."
What happened next was not so much a man-made catastrophe as it was a natural disaster. The reserve students, led by Kamukura, began causing despair inducing events one after another in coordination, creating chaos that spread like cancer. Before long, the violence and death spread farther and farther. Strong people killed weak people. Weak people killed weaker people. Weaker people banded together and lynched strong people. In only a week much of the world began to descend into despair, with the people slowly becoming desensitized to the violence. And the worst of it was that the reserve students who started it had no idea they were being manipulated by Matsuda and Kamukura.
The 78th class did not expect to return to a war zone when they got back from their vacation. Before they knew it, they were escorted into armored cars and driven back to the academy in secret. The horrors they saw on the way there defied belief. Interspersed among the violence were strange people dressed in white business suite wearing teddie bear masks. Half of the masks looked like the teddie bear Fujisaki had been working with, but the other half was colored black and had a more sinister tone. Even Ikusaba, who had seen her share of war zones, started to feel sick to her stomach.
"It's far worse than I feared," the headmaster said when they got back to the school. The entire building was completely empty; no signs of the other students. And the reserve building had been completely demolished. He closed his eyes. "Students. One by one I will call you into my office. There is an important question I must ask each of you." That question was, "Are you willing to spend the rest of your life here?" The students, knowing the horrors outside and knowing their friends would each give the same answer, all said, without exception, "Yes, I am."
Thus, the entire school was converted into a large shelter. The front door was sealed off with a steel lock that was completely blast-proof. The windows were sealed with steel plates that were screwed in place. The entire school was effectively cut-off from the outside world. It was the headmaster's hope that eventually the disaster would blow over, though he was unsure of when it would happen, if at all. The students settled into their new lives, relieved that they would not be alone within the confines of the new shelter that had been created.
"Interesting," Matsuda said, "The headmaster inadvertently locked us in with him. Which means getting out will be a simple matter of killing him." Kamukura chuckled. "In due time. Let the world wallow in despair first. Our machinations here are not yet complete, and the true game has yet to be set up. Let's lay low, wait it out. Give the students time to relax and let their guard down. Despair is much sweeter when you steal someone's hope. I must ask though, why did you wait until the 78th class has its field trip?" "Because they would have stopped our plans prematurely," Matsuda said, "Kirigiri and Tora alone would have been quick to spot our actions."
"Right," Kamukura said, "And the others would be able to prevent all our murders. Thus our plans to manipulate our newly-formed cult would have been foiled." Matsuda thought for a second. "Just to ask, how long should we wait?" Kamukura considered it. "We waited a year to being this. Why not wait another year to proceed to the next phase?" "That sounds good," Matsuda agreed, "It will give our followers time to finish the set-up in secret. The only tricky part is decrypting Fujisaki's new program for our 'mascot'. The rest has been easy." The two collaborators chuckled at the thought of the evil they would sow.
To be continued...
Short chapter, but it was meant to be. After all, this first story is just the set-up for the two that follow it.