Monika and Lois – the two other pianists in the room – both started wondering how well Kaede could play, being dubbed the Ultimate Pianist.

Genocide Jack: Monokuma has a corpse fetish!

Monokuma: DO NOT!

"Is that actually a thing?" Lois asked skeptically. "A fetish for corpses?"

"Knowing the internet, probably," Lou said.

Yasuhiro: And Kyoko loves cup ramen!

Kyoko, with the famous ramen hat: DO NOT!

Makoto: Explain the top of your head, then! Come on!

Kyoko: Um, um, uh, um...

Naegi laughed. "That's still one of my favorite memories."

"Being trapped in a school garbage disposal after almost getting executed, only for me to show up and save you, but end up getting a ramen cup on my head?" Kirigiri asked.

"Yeah," he smiled. "That was probably the moment I realized... I loved you."

"Can we make it a different moment?"

"Nope."

"What a love story," Abby said.

"Cute, but... weird," Miriam remarked.

"AND ONCE MORE, THE GREAT PAPYRUS IS ABSOLUTELY CONFOUNDED BY ROMANTIC LOVE BETWEEN HUMANS." Papyrus quietly sighed.

Makoto: Do it, you chicken!

Byakuya: She's not a chicken!

Makoto: Yeah, but that is.

Byakuya: (screams, killing one of the five chickens in the garden)

"Uh, Togami-senpai?" Monika asked. "Excuse me, but what the heck?"

Byakuya did not reply.

Aoi: Byakuya, what the fu—?

*Ding dong, dong ding!*

(Body discovery announcement)

"AYO–"

"Oh shit."

"A trial for a chicken?"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?"

"BRO, WHAT?"

"And there goes the little faith I had left in humanity."

"welp."

"WHY?"

"This is ridiculous."

"WHAT THE HELL?"

"DUDE–"

"I-I don't understand!"

"At least they already know the culprit, I guess."

"This... never happened," Makoto said once the room began to calm down.

"Oh, wow, I'm so shocked!" Kokichi exclaimed. "I really thought Monokuma would count that as a real trial."

"Oma, just shut up," Kaito groaned.

"He's obviously being sarcastic, but Monokuma can be incredibly petty," Komaeda said. "I wouldn't be surprised if he had counted this chicken as an in-game death. An excuse to have one more trial, one more execution. To spread even more despair."

"Upupupupupu," Lou quietly laughed, only catching the attention of a few people.

Makoto: Well, well, well, Byakuya.

Byakuya: Well, uh, um, well, you see...

Makoto: No, I think I've seen all I needed to see.

Aoi: Are we seriously about to hold a trial over a chicken?

Monokuma: No, we're holding a Class Trial about THAT!

(Mukuro's body discovery clip)

"Oh my God," Brian muttered in horror.

"W-Woah," Alphys said with a grimace.

"Jeez," Ben whispered.

"Oh, gosh," Andrew said with a shudder.

"The placement of the blood seems suspicious," Mei said.

"The hell are you saying, Furry?" Bakugo snapped, the nickname getting him some odd stares.

"Well, maybe it's because of the art style, but the blood looks like it was just placed on top of the coat. It doesn't look like it seeped through from a wound," she explained.

"Woah, Mei, I think you're onto something here!" Abby shouted.

"I was actually about to say the same thing," Shuichi said.

"Good observation, sidekick!" Kaito exclaimed.

"That does look pretty suspicious, now that you mention it," Chiaki said. "Maybe it's disguising the real cause of death."

Iida gasped aloud.

"Iida-kun? What is it?" Izuku asked.

"Undyne-san," Iida started, hand-chopping in the direction of the royal guard when addressing her, "you were the first to point out the importance of one of the corpses being missing from... wherever that was that they were being kept in, correct?"

"Yeah," she said.

"It was the school Bio Lab," Makoto clarified.

"Ah, thank you Naegi-kun. Regardless, I have a theory!" Iida took a deep breath before continuing. "What if that body was... repurposed? The victim here was already dead, and this death was a setup. The stab wound was faked, and might I add, the fact that they are wearing the coat backwards is even more suspicious."

"That's morbid!" Meg exclaimed.

"That's... clever," Rantaro said.

"That's Danganronpa," Kokichi said with a smirk and a wink.

Kyoko smiled. "And that is, in fact, the solution to this case. Well done, Iida-kun."

"Where did the decoy blood come from, though?" Stewie asked.

"In the actual case," Lou explained, "that chicken Byakuya killed was missing, and its blood had been used in the setup."

"I suppose it makes some kind of sense," Stewie said with a thoughtful nod.

Makoto: Holy shit, didn't even notice! So, Byakuya is scared of chickens...

(Later)

*DING DONG!*

Makoto: Ah, my DoorDash is here!

Aoi: How on Earth did you get DoorDash?

Makoto: Don't ask questions...

"Aren't you guys locked in the killing game with no connections to the outside world?" Ashido asked the THH survivors.

"Yeah," Naegi answered. "This is probably another joke the original animator added."

"They add a ton you didn't get to see," Lou said. "Some are pretty good, not even gonna lie."

"Like what?" Kaede asked.

"You've got Hifumi adult-fun-time-ing a body pillow of Celeste, Makoto breaking a hole in the wall and Monokuma making a music video out of Mondo's execution to pay for it, Byakuya shoving a broom up Makoto's ass and another down his throat —twice — stuff like that."

"What the actual fucking deuce...?" Stewie muttered.

Byakuya: What did you even get?

Makoto: Oh, just some... KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN!

Byakuya: WHAT.

Makoto: Ooh, you SCARED?

Monokuma: You could be investigating, but here you are, fucking around with a CHICKEN.

Makoto: You could be killing us yourself, but here you are, fucking around with our LIVES.

Monokuma: (pulls out a gun) Good point!

Makoto: wAIT, NO—

(Gunshot, cut to black)

Jaws dropped around the room.

Denki and Jack both immediately began scatting the 'Directed by Robert B. Weide' theme.

"Uh... guess I'll die, then," Makoto awkwardly said.

"Maybe not," Hajime said as a new image faded in.

Monokuma: Welcome, one and all, to the Makoto Naegi Awards! Starring... Makoto Naegi!

Makoto: Thanks for having me, Monokuma! To Miss Kyoko Kirigiri, for making me touch some guy's genitals, waking me up at night, and we can't forget the time you threw me into a dumpster, I award you a pile of shit!

Kyoko: ...

Makoto: To Mister Byakuya Togami, I award you a 1,000,000 foot square mansion!

Byakuya: Thank you very much, Makoto!

Makoto: But the catch is, you have to live in it with Toko for the rest of your life!

Byakuya NO!

Makoto: To Toko Fukawa, I offer you The Truth!

Toko: The Truth?

Makoto: The Truth that Byakuya will never love you!

Toko: NO!

Makoto: To Aoi Asahina, I award you a dump truck full of donuts!

Aoi: Aw, that sounds great!

Makoto: But they're all moldy!

Aoi: That sounds awful!

Makoto: And to Yasuhiro Hagakure...

Yasuhiro: (sniff) Yeah?

Makoto: I award you the Good Boy award, for doing absolutely nothing wrong!

"What the hell did I just watch?" Bakugo harshly asked.

"I have no idea," Andrew said, completely lost.

Nobody knew what to say. Everyone was very, very confused.

(Fade to white)

Makoto, waking up: Ah, if only that had actually happe— Wait a second, how'd I get here?

Aoi: Well, while you were out, the trial already started, so uh... yeah.

Makoto: Well, did you at least do any investigating while I was asleep?

Yasuhiro: (sniff) No. That's your job, man.

"Why am I not surprised?" Byakuya deadpanned.

"This group can't function without Makoto," Meg said.

"Oh? Uh, thank you, I think," Naegi said awkwardly.

Makoto: Oh for Christ's sake—! Kyoko, please tell me you, at least, did something!

Kyoko: I– I– I found who asked.

Makoto: You did?

Kyoko: Yes, she's right there!

Junko: Hello, I'm the one who asked!

The moment Junko appeared onscreen, Nagito looked ready to kill everyone in the room and then himself. Every killing game survivor became visibly more uncomfortable. All other Danganronpa characters suddenly felt uneasy from this strange girl's presence.

"Who is that?" Monika asked.

"The mastermind of our killing game," Makoto answered darkly. "Enoshima Junko."

"The Ultimate Despair," Nagito spat, words dripping with venom.

"She masterminded ours, too," Hajime said.

"What about our game, Saihara-kun?" Kaede asked the detective.

"Ours was... very different from the others," was his simple reply.

"S-so, Enoshima was behind the whole game?" Alphys exclaimed. "H-how did she manage t-to balance so much at once...?"

"I can't imagine running a killing game is easy, but I'm not about to praise her or anything," Chris said.

"is she as insane as i'm thinking she is?" Sans asked.

"Yes," the survivors all said in unison.

Byakuya: Oh, that's cool, but when did I ask?

Junko: *GASP*!

Makoto: Damn, bro, you got the whole trial room laughing.

Byakuya: What?

Aoi: Yeah, Byakuya, that was kinda uncalled for.

Byakuya: Oh come on! Whenever he does it, it's funny; whenever I do it, I'm an asshole!

"Oof, I guess," Ashido said.

Junko: (le cri)

Makoto: There, there, it's alright—

Junko: Shut up, I don't need your sympathy.

Makoto: Alright, fuck you! No sympathy, then.

Junko: This mastermind is completely independent!

Makoto: Wait, mastermind?

Junko: Yeah, I'm the masterm— (gunshot)

That's when everyone realy freaked out.

"WOAH—"

"MAKOTO?"

"NAEGI?"

"WHAT THE—?"

"OH MY GOD!"

"EX-FUCKING-SCUSE ME?"

Kyoko: ... Ma... Makoto?

Aoi: Did you just shoot her?

Makoto, holding a gun: Yeah, I shot her. What is she gonna do, punish me?

(Cut to the entrance hall as the survivors leave)

Makoto: After all that, we're finally here. Just me, my waifu (Kyoko), my other waifu (Aoi), this asshole (Byakuya), his waifu (Toko), this methhead (Yasuhiro), and Sakura's dead corpse.

"Well, that was a rollercoaster!" Lou said cheerfully.

"I concur," Holly said, not nearly as cheerful.

"This Danganronpa universe seems... morbid as hell," Undyne said.

"You're putting it lightly," Kaede muttered.

"And we're just getting started!" Lou said, still way too cheerful considering what they had just seen. "There are two more main killing games we have yet to cover. Although, we're a bit short on time, so no commentary for these next two videos, please. If you were a participant of the killing game and want to clarify something, though, feel free to do so."

Thus, in uncomfortable silence, the group watched the following two videos, Danganronpa participants seldom commenting or correcting the videos' ambiguousness on important details:

"So," Lou finally said, "thoughts, anyone?"

"That was twenty minutes of my life I'm never getting back," Byakuya deadpanned.

"I thought this one's story was pretty cool," Peter said.

Brian shrugged. "It's anything but original, though. Innocent people committing horrific acts simply because they have no other options; that's the plot of The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, um—"

"Fahrenheit 451," Monika added. "The Lottery. There are so many fantastic works of literature with similar themes."

"These were real events in their universe, keep in mind," Aizawa said. "That said... it's insanely terrifying to even imagine."

"I thought it was cool to know that we're eventually able to restore order to the world after the Tragedy," Makoto said.

Kirigiri smiled. "I agree. Well, V3 was very different. It's unlikely we'll ever see what happened to the survivors, but it was still interesting to learn our futures."

"I'd love to tell you the truth of the outside world, but I blacked out just before I could see much of anything, then woke up here," Shuichi sighed.

Kokichi tutted, shaking his head. "Now we'll never know the truth, Shumai!"

"I mean, I do remember a little bit," the detective-in-training quietly continued. "But... no details. I know that we got out, and someone was there waiting to help us. Besides that, there's just... nothing."

"That's oddly convenient," Rantaro said.

"Or my timing just sucks," Lou said.

He shrugged. "That, too."

"This series was actually pretty well done," Nagito mused. "It gave a good look into our universe."

"Everyone's always so surprised by how effective these are," Uraraka said.

"Well, I suppose it's because one would not expect such an odd and incredibly short piece of media to give a successful overview of an entire world," Iida said thoughtfully. "And yet, they do. Fairly well."

"Do they, though?" Todoroki doubtingly muttered.

"Anyways, break time!" Lou exclaimed, hopping up from her place next to Holly on the couch . "I need to bring some new people... again."

"Already?" Ben asked.

"Already," she replied. "Everyone, please be nice; these kids have been through some shit and are collecting trauma like Pokémon cards."

Lou snapped their fingers, a swirl of multicolored sparkles flying through the air. From those sparkles, a group of teenagers emerged, unceremoniously plummeting to the floor.