“We can talk about that later. You guys should definitely listen to that cassette fully when you get the chance. Now, we need to find that Nagito fellow and give him a beating.” said Kaito courageously. 

He looked at Kokichi and said “You can choose to join or not. I know you’re not a team player but you also don’t want us to be picked off one by one by some lunatic, right?” 

“Ehh, I’m not keen on doing dirty work such as capturing someone, but I’m interested in seeing how you handle a loose cannon ball, so I’m going.” said Kokichi with a smirk.

Kokichi joined them and the students walked towards the ultimate inventor’s lab. When they got there Kaede pulled the door handle but strangely the door was locked. 

“What?” gasped Kaede.

“Did Miu lock the door?” pondered Shuichi.

“Or maybe it could be Nagito.” said Kazuichi frantically.

“Hmm, Miu and Kirumi went to the inventor’s lab together. Did Kirumi or Miu ever mention locking the inventor lab’s door?” asked Shuichi.

“They didn’t in front of me.” said Maki.

“Kokichi, could you not lockpick this door? You seemed quite skilled in these types of delinquent affairs.” said Korekiyo as he peered at Kokichi with the corner of his eyes.

Kokichi looked at the hole of the door and said somerbly “Nope, that’s a deadbolt lock. I could try to unlock it but we’ll be here all day without relative success.” 

“That’s really bad. If Nagito is in there he could be building a whole ton of dangerous stuff.” said Kaede.

“We still haven’t asked Miu if she locked the door or not. Let’s just hope she did and search other places in the meantime.” said Shuichi.

They all went to the cyber courtyard. When they arrived in front of the door, the door of the building opened by sliding two ways. They went ahead, walking on the black pavement, ears open and eyes sharp. They all searched and soon reached the end of the hallway where the exisal hangar was supposed to be.

“Good thing I brought this.” said Shuichi as he pulled out an electro bomb from his pocket.

“Wait hold on.” said Maki.

“What?” asked Shuichi.

“How did Nagito enter this hangar in the first place? He shouldn’t have access to an electro bomb. Even if he did, that should have disabled the lock on the door.” said Maki earnestly.

“That…that’s a really good point.” said Shuichi and put his hand on his mouth.

“Maybe you guys missed a spot.” said Peko.

“Damn, I knew some of us should have been at the courtyard, see if Nagito makes a move or not” grumbled Fuyuhiko.

“Nah, Unless Kokichi is lying and Nagito was in the Aikido Master’s lab, we shouldn’t have missed Nagito.” said Kaito.

“Haha, why would I ever betray you guys like that?” yelled Kokichi with a laugh.

“There is a place we didn’t check. Shrine of Judgement.” said Shuichi. 

“Ahh, but isn’t that place usually locked?” asked Korekiyo.

“Yes, but we didn’t check it.” said Shuichi.

“We could just throw the electro bomb, check the hangar and then go there.” said Kaito.

“That would just be a waste of an electro bomb. Let’s trust Shuichi’s reasoning and go. We can still observe the door of the cyber courtyard while trying to open the door of the shrine of judgement.” said Maki confidently. 

“Yeah, let’s go then” said Kaede.

They all went and exited the cyber courtyard and arrived in front of the shrine of judgement. Shuichi put his hand on the handle of the door, pulled and easily opened it.
“Huh” pouted Shuichi and went inside, followed by the others.

They were at a garden, the waterfalls streaming down in front of them, and between the waterfalls was a pathway to a door.

“The Monokuma statue is gone. We can actually go inside?” said Kaede.

“Yeah, I never checked this place out so I didn’t know.” said Kaito.     

“Let’s go. Stay behind me.” said Maki.

Maki pressed onwards into the building, the others followed. They all entered the elevator.  It still worked. Descending and Descending, they still had no idea where Nagito was, whether he would jump out of the door to attack everyone.

When the door of the elevator opened, most of them were greeted with a very familiar image.

“What the hell?!” grumbled Fuyuhiko. 

Nagito was not on the ground level, but way up. He was sitting on the chair, the same chair Monokuma used to sit in the class trials of the gifted juvenile killing game. 

“Ahh, hello. It’s a pleasure to meet you all. I was just…exploring and got tired.” said Nagito with a smile.

But his smile turned to annoyance soon as he looked at the Jabberwock Island students.

“What are they doing here? I thought I told you guys, warned you about the evil that is the Remnants of despair.” said Nagito.

“Yeah, you did. Doesn’t mean we have to trust you.” said Kaede.

“Don’t you want hope to win? These remnants of despair will plunge the world into despair and srrow. They did so in the past, if you don’t want to repeat the most awful, most tragic event in human history, I suggest you start killing them.” said Nagito.

“None of what you know is real. The most awful, most tragic event in human history did not actually happen. Nagito, your memories are not reliable. Most likely your personality, talent and history as well as everything you know could have been the result of the flashback light.” said Shuichi.

Nagito looked very irritated towards Shuichi.

“This again? I don’t know what maniacal crazy adventures that happened in your killing game, but you clearly don’t know the big picture, so I’m explaining it to you. But I guess you’re just that stupid and arrogant to not get it.” said Nagito, annoyed while waving his hands.

Suddenly an arrow flew by Nagito’s hand and hit the wall. Maki had fired it.

“Listen to what we have to say. We’re telling the truth and we’re explaining to you why your attempts at trying to eradicate an entire class is wrong and unjustified.” said Maki, angrily.

“Hahaha, okay. Clearly I’m not the one who should be barking big.” said Nagito apologetically.

“I know it’s hard to believe. But please, try to listen. Everything you know, believe in, your past memories are all lies” said Kaede. 

“The future foundation, the remnants of despair, hope’s peak academy, they don’t actually exist in the real world. Hope's peak academy and the jabberwock island we visited after we woke up must have been created by Danganronpa fans. They’re definitely not the actual places.” said Shuichi.

“Dangan…what fans?” grumbled Nagito, annoyed.

“We’re all fictional characters. I don’t know who is responsible for creating you guys or this version of us exactly. But according to my memory an event called Danganronpa 53 happened and the memory as well as the characters of the participants of Danganronpa 53 were made by Team Danganronpa and Tsumugi Shirogane. But I’m not sure if the same people are behind this killing game. It’s very possible that me and my friends standing here could just be brand new characters created by the flashback light and our memories and personalities are just meant to replicate Danganronpa 53’s participants.” reported Shuichi.

Nagito listened to his words with patience. Afterwards he looked a bit confused. But soon he smiled.    

“Kh, kh…Khahahahaha” laughed Nagito wildly.