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Hope's Peak Academy is supposed to be a sanctuary for the world's most exceptional students. But when Makoto Naegi arrives expecting opportunity, he finds his future sealed shut behind iron-plated windows and locked doors. Fifteen students awaken with him-each proudly bearing an "Ultimate" talent, each believing their potential has destiny written all over it.
Then the Headmaster arrives.
Monokuma-fully human, fully terrifying-claims authority over their lives. He is brilliant, unflappable, and disturbingly amused by their fear. With a lazy smile, he makes a single declaration:
"The only way to graduate... is to murder a classmate and get away with it."
The school becomes a theatre of despair, and the students become unwilling actors in his cruel pageant. Some cling to hope. Others sharpen it into weapons. Bonds form quickly and shatter even faster-desperation is an efficient solvent.
Among them is Y/N: a quiet "Ultimate Bookkeeper" with encyclopedic knowledge and impeccable note-keeping skills. They are polite, observant, forgettable.
Which is exactly what they need.
Because Y/N is not a bookkeeper at all.
They are the final remnant of the mastermind plan-the last actor embedded after Mukuro Ikusaba's death. Their true talent is the one Hope's Peak never intended to advertise:
Ultimate Criminal.
A prodigy who dismantles systems-quietly, patiently, from the inside.
Their mission is simple: keep the killing game on track.