Shuichi Saihara wasn't fond of Kokichi Ouma at first, but a killing game trapped in a school with fifteen other people can change someone's mind. A lot. Though Monokuma says the only way out of the Ultimate Academy is to murder a classmate, perhaps... there is another way? ((Disclaimer: None of the top chapter art or cover art is mine, only the ones in the story directly are mine, or they're an edit. Or they're a picture from the original game.)) SPOILERS!!! For Danganronpa v3 [[words: 100,000 i think]]

What if Ouma wasn't crushed in the hydraulic press? What if someone took his place? What if everything was different on the day of his death?

Kokichi is being tormented with constant nightmares from how the killing game is affecting him. Shuichi is noticing something about Kokichi is off after a new motive... This story has a lot of topics that could be seen as triggering so please proceed with caution Started: November 12th, 2019 Ended: October 16th, 2020