Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair

Chapter 52: BELL OF CATASTROPHE

Fourth Class Trial (Part Three)

Chiaki: "...I-I never... expected the Funhouse itself to be the Ultimate Weapon!" She actually sounds surprised, not something everyone's used to. "...Oh well, let's just press on ahead." Well, that didn't last long.

Sonia: "I-Is it really all right to accept the situation so easily?!"

Chiaki: "I mean, that's not what's important. The thing that's really important is the killer who used the building structure... like, who's Mechamaru's murderer?"

Kazuichi: "Is it really okay to believe the building is the weapon? Nagito said it, you know?"

Nagito: "There's no way I'd lie at such an important moment. I don't want to die either..."

Fuyuhiko: "What happened to the bastard who kept saying how much they didn't mind dying?!"

Nagito: "He's right... there was a time when I thought I could become a stepping stone for your hopes, but... I will sincerely retract that remark."

Akane: "Retract?"

Nagito: "I'm disappointed too, you know... if this was a murder for the sake of hope, I'd happily sacrifice myself."

Gundham: "Kehehe... you say such falsehoods, per usual. There is no such thing as murder for the sake of hope. Murder is simply murder. Forcibly sacrificing others for one's own desires... even one as diabolical as I would avoid such actions!"

Nagito: "I see..."

Akane: "It's fine... let's just leave him alone and find out who killed Coach Nekomaru as fast as we can!... Just so you know, it's not like I'm getting hungry or anything, you know." She may say that, but the drool forming and beginning to fall down her chin was telling another story.

Sonia: "A-Akane! You're drooling waterfalls?!"

Hajime: 'Nagito... as usual, I can't tell what he's thinking. I have no idea if he's serious or not.'

Chiaki: "Anyway... if the killer used the building structure, why don't we think about how they used it?"

Hajime: "How they killed Nekomaru..."

Chiaki: "It might be better if we clarify the cause of death first, don't you think?" Nekomaru's cause of death. He was horribly damaged, as if he was beaten senseless with a blunt object. But if he was beaten with a blunt object, it wouldn't be a kill that utilized the building's structure.

Hajime: "That's it... I think he might've died from falling."

Gundham: "Died from falling?"

Hajime: "If the Funhouse's secret is that it's a structure where both towers and houses are vertically connected... then the killer made use of its height and caused Nekomaru to die from falling."

Akane: "Are you saying they pushed him off? Where'd they push him off from?"

Hajime: "That... I don't know yet..."

Gundham: "Hmph... don't just make things up when you don't know the method. Where in that building would you even be able to push someone off in the first place?"

Akane: "It might be possible in the tower. You could push him off the fourth floor when the elevator is on the first floor."

Fuyuhiko: "Did you forget how the elevator functions? When it's on the first floor, the door on the fourth floor won't open."