Soudam Week Winter 2018

The Face of true Despair

Summary:

It was the last chance for them all to end the killing game once and for all. They all did their best to solve all the mysteries given to them by Monokuma.
However Kazuichi can't believe what he heard as the truth is revealed.

Day 4 of the Soudam Week

Prompt: Mastermind | Love/Hate | Ice Skating/Sledding

AO3 version: https://archiveofourown.org/works/17069840

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Infos:

Changes from the canon:
- This doesn't play within the simulation
- None of the Remnants of Despair destroyed their bodies, because it would take too much time to find an explanation for this
- Hiyoko never had a growth spurt or had one before going to Hope's Peak
- Izuru made sure that he looks like he did as Hajime
- Chiaki was a real person and was the only one to not fall into despair. She's still 'the traitor' who travelled with them onto the island, before the Mastermind took over (who's the only who knows that she's the traitor). She had no idea who the Mastermind is and was instructed by Makoto and co. to not say a thing until they could reach the island, because they feared how the others and the hidden Mastermind would react if she told them all. Sadly they couldn't reach the island before she was accidentally killed by Nagito in his attempt to save her
- Monomi was a robot with an AI installed inside of her
- All the trails/murder cases played out like before, with only the slight change of the 3rd trial. The Despair Disease still was there, but it was developed with the help of literal brainwashing and neurotechnology, which was prepared in advanced by them all. Also Mikan's execution was more realistic

All the other changes will be explained within the story itself

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The class trial was going on for what felt like hours now and the last survivors of class 77 hardly were able to make any progress with solving the mystery, and time was running out. Monokuma had given them a bargain that they had to solve every mystery revolving around their killing game, including who was the mastermind, why they were trapped on the island, who the Future Foundation was and why they all supposedly lost their memories. If they managed to solve every mystery they would be able to finally leave this nightmare of an island, however if they failed to solve everything the mastermind would kill them all on the spot.

Kazuichi felt a shiver run down his spine at seeing all the machine guns attached to the ceiling, which were pointing at them all and could activate at any second, killing them all in a storm of bullets and blood if they got anything wrong.

Hajime, Fuyuhiko, Akane, Sonia and himself were in a hurried discussion about all the possible topics that could lead them to the answers they needed to find, while Monokuma was watching them, laughing at their misery and despair. One topic changed into the next as they all compared the evidence they found in this weird ruin that was supposed to hold all the answers according to Monokuma. However no matter how much they discussed and argued, they weren't able to make sense of them all. There were so many mysteries and none of them even remotely made sense at the moment. Kazuichi was feeling desperate and frustrated, but he kept on going together with his friends.

After a while Monokuma had been getting bored of this discussion that just lead to nowhere. For the first moment all of them felt their breath grow ice cold and their hearts drop. Miss Sonia had cried in panic if their time had run out and if they were going to die now, while Kazuichi's eyes were fixed on the deadly machines surrounding him and he felt fear and so much despair at the thought of what could happen now. He didn't want to die.