Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair

Chapter 53: EMISSARY OF EVIL

Fourth Class Trial (Part Four)

Sonia: "Gundham!"

Gundham: "Kehehe... I was simply at a loss for words after being dumbfounded by your pathetic assumptions. In fact, I shall deny the very basis! Your assumption has been wrong since the beginning!"

Hajime: "S-Since the beginning?"

Gundham: "Based on your assumption, I hung Nekomaru from the fourth floor of the tower, and made the floor descend to the first floor. From there, after returning to Strawberry House, I was present when the alarm at the lounge went off, correct? Although going to and fro is busy enough as it is... how would I be able to travel between both houses anyway?"

Fuyuhiko: "I see... the contact elevator was broken."

Gundham: "As I recall, the killer tampered with the Grape House control panel, which shut down the elevator. Plus, the stopped elevator should have been facing the Grape House side. If so, the human who used the elevator would have left it at Grape House. For these reasons, it's an indisputable fact that the killer destroyed the elevator at Grape House!"

Akane: "And what's wrong with that?"

Kazuichi: "If the elevator was broken at Grape House, you wouldn't be able to return to Strawberry House."

Gundham: "However, I was already at Strawberry House. I was present when the alarm in the lounge started ringing. Which means... your assumption is clearly wrong!"

Kazuichi: "A-Are you serious?! And here I thought it's already been decided!"

Gundham: "Fuhahaha, have you learned your lesson, pitiful humans?! You cannot overcome this contradiction!"

Hajime: 'That's wrong, when something is obviously wrong, that's when a contradiction is born. There's no such thing as a contradiction that can't be overcome.'

Gundham: "That elevator was the only means of travel between the two houses. As long as that elevator was broken, your assumption collapses!"

Hajime: "No, there should've been another way to move between the two houses without the elevator."

Gundham: "S-Such a method does not exist!"

Hajime: "Then why don't we ask the person who actually used that method? Nagito, you should know."

Nagito: "Huh? What are you talking about?"

Hajime: "Don't play dumb... you appeared so suddenly that one time because you used that method, right? There's a secret passage connecting the first floor of Strawberry House to the third floor of Grape House. Isn't that right?"

Nagito: "...Geez, once again, I let the Reserve Course show off. But you're right. There's a door on the floor of the Octagon, which is on the first floor of Strawberry House. After I opened the door and went down... surprise, surprise! I ended up in the Monokuma Archive, which is on the third floor of Grape House."

Akane: "Meaning... the third floor and the fourth floor are actually connected."

Nagito: "Plus, once you've cleared the Final Dead Room once, you can pass through it as many times as you want."

Hajime: "If they used that secret passage... they could've gone between the two houses as much as they wanted."

Gundham: "However... what if the killer was unaware of the existence of the Final Dead Room?"

Hajime: "There's no way they didn't know."

Gundham: "That is merely an illusion you have fabricated from your own suspicion! Hmph, if you value your life... you should stop with your scrutiny."