Phantom Thieves of Hope - A Danganronpa X Persona 5 Story.

Chapter 8: The World Will Know Our Names...

Summer Rain - Persona 6 Imagine

It had been quite a while since Kyoko Kirigiri last decided to visit her grandfather's agency. But in light of all the recent stress she had been under at the academy, she needed a break.

It had only been two days since Haiji Towa's confession, and the news stories had been going wild with hot takes, stories and everything else. But what really mattered to Kyoko was the truth, not the half-baked opinionated articles that news stations just spat out.

Towa's case had been pursued fairly quickly, and he and the other miscreants involved in the scandal had been taken to court. With some assistance from Hope's Peak, the Elementary School children had gained the power to speak up, and near irrefutable evidence had been discovered that proved every last one of the conglomerate's crimes as Towa had stated.

As for the company itself, it was currently still standing. Though Kyoko suspected it wouldn't be long before it totally collapsed. The bigger they are, the harder they fall, at least that's what they say.

As for the other CEOs and Towa's close compatriots, they weren't doing so hot either. By this point in time, in light of what had been exposed about Kotoko, Utsugi's business practices were already dead in the water. Both he and his wife had been the first to be prosecuted, and everyone who was involved in his prostitution and other illegal businesses had come forward and confessed. While some had been more compliant than others, all of them had been arrested and were likely going to serve varying lengths of jail time. However, Junya Utsugi himself was rightfully going to be put away for the rest of his life.

Daimon went down very quickly too, but it turned out that his business was based on illegal practices and forged documentation from the start. To get his business grants, he and Towa Corp had faked academic documents and falsified a CV for funding, which had long been stripped from him. In reality, the man was little more than an angry abusive drunk who just tried to LOOK professional.

Both Shingetsu and his wife had not only been arrested but Shingetsu was completely fired from Hope's Peak. The academy had even filed something of a restraining order against him, allowing them to take action if he even put so much as a toe near the academy. Clearly, his actions were akin to a betrayal for the staff and forces at work, and with the Elementary School gone, what good was he anyway?

From the way Kyoko had heard it, however, Kemuri's case didn't sound especially serious. She had been arrested and was to be charged for being a co-conspirator in Towa's project, as well as being a neglectful parent, but other than that, there weren't many grounds to arrest her. She hadn't abused Jataro aside from forcing him to wear his mask, nor had she laid a finger on any of the other kids, despite knowing what their parents were putting them through. She would still be charged and fined for her misdeeds, but it seemed unlikely she would be sent to serve time. However, her business was most assuredly done for.

Though this wasn't a first, Kyoko had barely slept trying to connect all the dots and figure out things, even though she hadn't been directly involved with the situation. No matter what she tried, there seemed to be no reasonable conclusion as to why Towa just decided to spill his guts like that...

...Well...Except for one...

Still, she'd spent long enough dwelling on all of this, and now she had other things to take care of. She arrived at the Kirigiri Detective Agency and as she passed through, she earned the typical paranoid and/or scornful look from the agents and detectives as she passed them by; though she also received some friendly greetings alongside these, some more serious than others.

The Kirigiri Detective Agency was spearheaded by Kyoko's grandfather, Fuhito, with her being the one to eventually succeed him in the family business. The agency had been around for a long time, despite the anonymity of it, and the Kirigiri line itself was comprised of many talented detectives, dating back to even before the Sengoku period, at least according to the documents she had read.