Everyone was so excited to go to the school. Hope's Peak Academy, the most prestigious school in Japan. It was only for the best, filling students with hope for years to come. But when they got there, all they found was despair. It wasn't immediate. They were okay, for a little bit. They felt safe, if a little unnerved. And then that damned cat showed up: Mononeko, the school's principal. Treating the situation as a game, he told the students that the only way to get out alive was to kill one of their own--and get away with it before suffering a gruesome death at the hands of the executioner. Everyone was terrified. They were presented with motives to drive them to such terrible extremes. Nobody expected it, but... they began to kill. As she works hard to survive the game, Yuka Murayama fights for her life in an exhilarating adventure where it's kill or be killed... and anyone can be the next victim. Eventually, Yuka learns the one rule of this twisted school: Despair spreads quickly.