Ultimate Danganronpa 3: Despair's Final Challenge

Chapter 0

MONOKUMA POP-UP THEATRE NULLA: ULTIMATE DESPAIR

The camera feed turned on and a familiar whimsical and light-hearted voice sounded out through the speaker. "Hello. Hello. Welcome to the show. I know that you all tune into our broadcasting network for one reason and one reason only, and that's to see quality despair programming in real despair time! But for now I thought we could all just unwind and sit back and relax with a nice story. Aww, what's the matter? Did that just make you feel sad that the show's not starting automatically and instead you have to sit through some lame intermission before the excitement starts? Well good. Because sadness is a very potent form of despair, as is boredom, so by all means if the story you are about to hear bores you to tears then feel free to skip over this. Oh but wait that's right you can't, can you? Hahahahahaha, did that make you feel some delicious despair? Because it gave me some."

"Ah, yes in this crappy little world we live in nothing is more precious to us than despair. You all who are watching know just what I mean, don't you? Everything we do in our daily lives we do solely for the sake of feeling despair. We starve ourselves to despair over having empty bellies, we fail at things on purpose just to feel the sweet despair of failure, we live alone and rot alone to despair over having no interpersonal relationships, and best of all we even kill people just to taste their despair of death. Yes, there's no greater despair that one person can experience than watching the despair of someone else. Which is why we kill. We all kill. In our pitiful world everyone kills everyone. It's gotten to the point where killing each other is how we greet one another."

"But I have a question for all you viewers out there. Does anyone actually remember why we started to despair in the first place? It's been a long time after all. It wouldn't surprise me if you all had forgotten with how primal and animalistic the world has gotten. Well that's what our little story is about. The beginning of it all. The beginning of despair. The beginning of our glorious world of anarchy. The beginning of the end. But don't worry, most of you all out there have probably forgotten to read what with the education system being a thing of the past. So our story will have visual aids, despairingly fun visual aids!" The camera turned to show the familiar maniacal teddy bear, Monokuma, sitting in a large chair by a roaring fireplace. Monokuma picked up a large red book off a nearby nightstand and then he sat the book down in his lap. Then he pulled out a pair of scholarly reading glass and put them on so he could read, and then he cleared his throat. "Now let us begin." Monokuma opened the book and then the camera zoomed in to show that the book was actually a pop-up book.

The opening page of the pop-up book showed a childish and crude drawing of the planet Earth and a ring of stick people on the surface of the Earth who were smiling and holding hands like they didn't have a care in the world. "Once upon a time, our world was not so despairingly fun. No, as a matter of fact it was just the opposite of the way it is now. The world was once brimming with hope. People smiled and cared for one another and disgusting feelings like love, friendship, and trust flowed throughout each and every person. The people of the world were so enamored with their "perfect" world that they wished things could remain this peaceful and wonderful forever, and that the coming future would be outlined solely by the hope of creating an even better world. A world without pain, anger, hatred, or violence of any kind. The world functioned according to order and the greater good, and all the bad seeds who threatened that order were removed from the general population and were placed into special institutions called "prisons" where the penalty was that they would remain and rot there until they eventually died."

"This was where they sentenced the people who would be considered perfectly normal in our everyday life. The rapists, the thieves, the vandals, the murderers; you know, the normal people? But sometimes these normal people would commit acts deemed absolutely monstrous to the outside world and when they were removed from society they were removed completely. You all know what I mean, right? Finished, taken care of, toast, sleeping with the fishes. Executed! Some people who broke the order of the world were forced to pay the ultimate price and atone for their sins with their lives."