Dangan Ronpa Part #124 - Super High-school Level Update #112

Part 124: Super High-school Level Update #112

Eh...?!

A father I last saw when I was a little girl... That's who Hope's Peak Academy's headmaster is.

Kirigiri-san's... father...?

Hope's Peak Academy's headmaster...?!

S...So that's why...

T...That's why you reacted that way when Alter Ego told us about the headmaster...

I will... find him...

Eh...?

Don't worry. I will... definitely find him.

Definitely...

W...what's wrong... Kirigiri-chan...?

............

At that time... I did not have any of my memories back yet. Nevertheless, I felt strange emotions deep inside my heart...

Now that I think about it, it was just natural. My goal coming into this school was to meet the headmaster, after all.

I see...

But, let me say one thing to make things perfectly clear, Naegi-kun.

I am not saying the headmaster isn't the mastermind because I am trying to protect my family.

It's simply what I deduced after sneaking into the his office.

Did you find something in there...?

When I sneaked in there, all the shelves and the drawers in the room were messed up, their contents thrown all around.

In other words, it seemed like a person who didn't know the room very well had been going through it.

And that person... is the mastermind..?

That's what I think. And then, in order to confirm my suspicions...

I decided to use this key and go to the dormitory's second floor.

But, why go there...?

Because there was one other thing I found in the headmaster's office.

Are these... floor plans?

They're floor plans for the entire school.

I stole them along with the key and Mukuro Ikusaba's profile.

According to these plans, the second floor of the dormitory is where the school staff's private rooms are.

It appears some of the teachers were living inside the school. But, most importantly...

The headmaster's private room is also over there.

I was sure I'd find some clues about the mastermind over there. And as I was investigating that room...

My memories finally started to return...

I remembered what my goal was... I remembered that it was to meet the owner of the room.

So that's what that was all about... You wanted to go to the second floor in order to investigate the headmaster's room.

But, there are no monitors or security cameras in the dormitory's second floor...

So I didn't notice at all that something happened in this part of the school...

I was completely absorbed in investigating that room. Honestly, that was awfully careless of me...

dormitory's second floor

By the way... what kind of place is the dormitory's second floor...?

I can't really explain it very well... It's just...

The moment I stepped into that place... I couldn't help but think that what happened in this school is far more terrifying then we ever imagined.

W...What do you mean...?

You need to see it with your own eyes. I'm sure you'll get a chance soon.

She seems... completely serious.

I'm not sure I want to know.

something happened

So, you didn't notice that Mukuro Ikusaba was killed?

First, let me make it perfectly clear. I didn't kill her.

I don't believe you did either, of course.

Yeah, I know... But, that makes this whole affair even more of a mystery...

Except for you and me, everyone has an alibi... So, who could have killed her...?

I have no doubt the mastermind has something to do with it.

That school trial was, from the very beginning, his attempt to kill me.

He wanted to kill you...?

He wanted to reveal how I stole and used his important key, and then kill me...

And he used the school trial to do that.

He used... the school trial...?

He had a reason he couldn't just kill me directly.

Are you talking about... the school rules?

...That's right.

"4. You may investigate the school as you please. There are no special restrictions on your actions."

As long as that rule is in place, the mastermind couldn't do anything to me...

That's why he tried to use the school trial to kill me instead...

The mastermind is obsessed with his rules, so he couldn't touch her directly...

It's as if...

...As if the mastermind himself is bound by these same rules...

There is one more thing I have to say about Mukuro Ikusaba's murder.

...One more thing?

If all went according to plan, it wouldn't have been Mukuro Ikusaba who'd be killed...

It would have been you, Naegi-kun...!

...Eh?

you

I... would have been killed...?

You probably have at least some memory of what happened, don't you?

Are you talking about...

What happened that night...?

I can hear them, you know...

I can hear the footsteps of the angel of death...

Eh...?

I can hear the footsteps of the angel of death.

You might also call it a talent for getting caught up in murder cases. It's a talent many detectives have...

...It was the same back then.

I suddenly felt a strange uneasiness rising in my chest, and when I peeked down the stairs from the dormitory's second floor...

I saw a figure in white crossing the corridor.

I followed the figure quietly. Then, I saw it entering your room.

That's probably when what you saw when you woke up happened.

I came right in to stop it, of course.

But, that wasn't where it ended.

After I stopped the masked person from killing you...

That same masked person was suddenly found dead.

I'm sure of it. Everything, from faking the crime scene to placing that locker key in my room...

...They were all the mastermind's doing. He wanted to stop me from interfering again by getting rid of me at the school trial.

I...If that's the truth...

I made the right choice when I chose not to expose her lie...

Thank god I decided to trust her...

the mastermind's doing

...Does that mean the culprit who killed Mukuro Ikusaba was the mastermind himself?

...I don't have any proof yet, but that's what I think.

It's bad, isn't it...? I mean, if the mastermind can just kill anyone just because he feels like it...

...Wait a minute. Doesn't that contradict what you said before?

I mean, he wanted to kill you at the school trial because he couldn't do it directly, didn't he...?

That's right. It is a contradiction.

Not just killing Mukuro Ikusaba...

Even trying to kill me at he school trial. And when that didn't work out, deciding to kill you instead...

...It's all one big contradiction.

So... what does it all mean?

It means who's being cornered right now is the mastermind himself.

...Eh?

It won't take long now...

In just a short while, I'm sure we'll get to see who he really is...

We'll learn the true identity of the second "Super High-school Level Despair".

The second... Super High-school Level Despair...?

The dead Mukuro Ikusaba was "Super High-school Level Despair". There is no doubt in my mind about that.

But... there wasn't just a single Super High-school Level Despair.

There was... more than one...?

The title "Super High-school Level Despair" refers to the group behind that incident...

Are you talking about...

The incident that happened a year ago. "The Worst, Most Despair-inducing Incident in the History of Mankind"...

The group behind The Worst, Most Despair-inducing Incident in the History of Mankind...

"Super High-school Level Despair"...

An organization acting only for the sake of despair. They're the worst. The lowest of the low.

And it's they...

Without question...

...Who are the source of all our troubles.