Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles

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The Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles, (才囚学園) is the main setting of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony and the location of the Killing School Semester.

History

There are multiple versions explaining the true nature of the Ultimate Academy, and most of them come from the allegedly fabricated memories implanted by the Flashback Light onto the sixteen participants of the Killing School Semester.

Flashback Light: Ultimate Initiative

According to the Monokuma Kubs, the sixteen participants of the Killing School Semester were scouted by the government through a program called the Ultimate Initiative, which existed to cultivate national talents. They were recognized for being prodigious in a particular talent and are granted the prestigious Ultimate title. Consequently, they received special handouts for being Ultimates, including free school tuition, voting privileges, eligibility to run for elected office, and an earnings grant. It was said that many students would do anything for the honor of being chosen as an Ultimate. Upon being exposed to the first Flashback Light, Kaede Akamatsu, the Ultimate Pianist, confirmed the Monokubs' explanation as being factual.^[1]

The Ultimates in the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles Series attended different high schools and were said to be difficult to find, unlike students at Hope's Peak Academy who honed their Ultimate talents under that institution.^[2][3] As such, the Ultimate Academy became a mystery to the Killing School Semester participants, who were collectively unaware of its existence prior to their kidnapping.

Flashback Light: Hope's Peak Academy

Upon being exposed to the Flashback Light a day before the sixth body discovery, the remaining survivors were made to remember that the sixteen participants actually attended the rebuilt Hope's Peak Academy instead of different high schools. They were all in separate classes, and as the only remaining students surviving the global virus pandemic caused by the falling meteorites, they were selected for the Gofer Project. Consequently, they were sent to space in a gigantic spaceship colony that is the Ultimate Academy.

While pretending as the mastermind, Kokichi Oma, the Ultimate Supreme Leader, claimed that thanks to the school's barrier, the academy complex had plenty of oxygen supplies. He also claimed that the sky on the other side of the barrier was manmade meant to help the participants forget that they were on a spaceship. The true mastermind, Tsumugi Shirogane, corroborated his story by generating this specific Flashback Light. As such, she successfully manipulated the remaining survivors into believing they were Hope's Peak Academy students and Kokichi was the Ultimate Despair who hijacked the Gofer Project and masterminded the killing game.

The Mastermind's Assertion

At the final class trial, Tsumugi claimed that the memories implanted by the Flashback Light were merely fabrication and the academy was actually a film set of the 53rd season of Danganronpa, a television show by Team Danganronpa. Due to several holes in Tsumugi's story that make her an unreliable narrator, however, whether or not she was telling the truth is deliberately left up to the player's interpretation.

If Tsumugi's claims were true, it is unclear where the film set is situated within the world. Similarly, it is never confirmed whether Team Danganronpa repurposed the academy from any of the past killing games or if the company created it brand new. Monokuma and The Monokubs, however, asserted that the entire facility was built to specifically cater to the sixteen participants, with the research labs as the primary example.^[4] For instance, the art supplies in the Ultimate Artist Research Lab belonging to Angie Yonaga happened to suit her tastes well. Meanwhile, swords or any other weapons of similar length were missing from the Maki Harukawa's Ultimate Assassin Research Lab since she stopped using a sword after a botched mission using a katana.

Regardless, the school was undeniably run by the school's self-proclaimed Headmaster Monokuma and his five "children", the Monokubs along with the Exisals. They install a campus-wide siren that would blare should anyone violate a school regulation.^[5]

Destruction

• Description
• Gallery

Main article: Ultimate Annihilation

The Ultimate Academy was annihilated by K1-B0, the Ultimate Robot and audience surrogate, after he accidentally lost his antenna that connected him to the outside world during the execution of Kaito Momota, the Ultimate Astronaut. However, he agreed to help his classmates safely explore areas they had yet to investigate until dawn. Shuichi Saihara, the Ultimate Detective, then convinced him to participate in the final class trial, which ended with the audience abandoning Danganronpa and allowing K1-B0 to finish what he had started.

Once he ensured the academy was in utter ruin, K1-B0 pressed a self-destruct button and launched himself directly into the End Wall, shattering the glass cage in a gigantic explosion and revealing that the outer part of the dome was encased with Team Danganronpa logos. The remaining survivors, Shuichi, Maki, and Himiko Yumeno, the Ultimate Magician, were spared from the execution and decided to see for themselves whether they have changed the outside world.

Destruction by K1-B0

The Survivors of the Killing School Semester

Staff and Students

	Monokuma Headmaster (Staff)	Monokuma Kubs Children of Monokuma (Staff)	Shuichi Saihara Ultimate Detective
Angie Yonaga Ultimate Artist	Gonta Gokuhara Ultimate Entomologist	Himiko Yumeno Ultimate Magician	K1-B0 Ultimate Robot	Kaede Akamatsu Ultimate Pianist
Kaito Momota Ultimate Astronaut	Kirumi Tojo Ultimate Maid	Kokichi Oma Ultimate Supreme Leader	Korekiyo Shinguji Ultimate Anthropologist	Maki Harukawa Ultimate Assassin
Miu Iruma Ultimate Inventor	Rantaro Amami Ultimate Survivor	Ryoma Hoshi Ultimate Tennis Pro	Tenko Chabashira Ultimate Aikido Master	Tsumugi Shirogane Ultimate Cosplayer

List of Rules

The Ultimate Academy enforces strict rules among its student body. Students who violate these rules may be exterminated with extreme prejudice by the Exisals—highly mobile, bipedal weapon platforms. There are a total of five Exisals at the Ultimate Academy. Each one is a different color and piloted by a Monokub.

• Rule #1: Students must live at the Ultimate Academy for the remainder of their foreseeable future.
• Rule #2: Once a murder takes place, all surviving students must participate in a class trial.
• Rule #3: If the blackened is exposed during the class trial, they alone will be executed.
• Rule #4: If the blackened is not exposed, all remaining students will be executed.
• Rule #5: If the blackened survives the class trial, they will graduate and re-enter the outside world.
• Rule #6: The killing game and class trials will continue until only two surviving students remain.
• Rule #7: "Nighttime" is from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. The dining hall and gymnasium are off-limits at night.
• Rule #8: Violence toward Monokuma, the headmaster of the Ultimate Academy, is strictly prohibited.
• Rule #9: Monokuma will never directly commit a murder.
• Rule #10: Your Monopads are very important items. Please do not damage them.
• Rule #11: The "Body Discovery Announcement" will play when three or more students discover a body.
• Rule #12: With minimal restrictions, you are free to explore the campus at your discretion.
• Rule #13: Students who violate these rules will be immediately exterminated by the Exisals.
• Rule #14: Further, there may be new additions to the school rules according to the convenience of the headmaster.

The following rules were added later:

• Rule #14: Swimming is prohibited in the pool during nighttime. Touching the water is also against the school rules.
• Rule #15: If two different murders by different murderers occur at the same time, only the one whose victim was found first will be the blackened.

Overview

• Description
• Post-Class Trial Prizes

The Ultimate Academy was ostensibly a school, including classrooms, a dormitory, and so on. The building itself had the sense of being abandoned for a long time and thus has been reclaimed by nature, with the ground floor particularly affected. Tall grass and wild flowers grew from the ground in most of the ground floor hallways, and throughout the building, many of the rooms had vines and ivy growing from the ceiling.

Many rooms and hallways throughout the school also had loose wiring, broken objects, poor lighting, and windows sealed by barbed wire. In contrast, the areas which appear to have been fully purpose-built for the Killing School Semester were strikingly different to the rest of the building with very modern furniture and fixtures, and with little or no dilapidation whatsoever.

After each class trial, Monokuma and the Monokubs reward the students with objects they can use to unlock new areas. The Monokubs also mobilize their Exisals to progress the school renovation. By Chapter 5, the greenery is cleared out and almost all infrastructures and facilities are accessible to the remaining survivors. Shuichi describes the school as gradually becoming more "mechanical."

Despite the lush greenery and other natural resources, no single bugs apart from those confined in Gonta Gokuhara's Ultimate Entomologist Research Lab existed anywhere in the academy. Instead of bugs, Nanokumas, a swarm of extremely tiny Monokuma-like robots with a resemblance to insects and cameramen covered every square inch of the campus. They recorded the footage of the killing game and transmitted it wirelessly to the killing game's overseer, Motherkuma, who parsed the footage before sending it off to Monokuma, effectively replacing the function of surveillance cameras.

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

End Wall

The campus comprises of a five story school building and various areas on its courtyard sealed inside a giant glass dome the Monokubs dub as the End Wall, where skyscrapers from the nearby city could be seen in the distance. It was erected to separate the fictional world of Danganronpa from the real outside world, and thus it could not be climbed or demolished and none could leave as it lacked entrances or exits.

However, this claim remained debatable as no explanation of how the students were brought into the academy was ever given. Furthermore, Himiko and Maki speculated that there was a possibility that the outside world was just as fictional as the killing game and that Danganronpa still continued in that world.

Similar to Jabberwock Island depicted in the Neo World Program, the wall simulates day progression. Gonta who possesses 20/0.625 vision somewhat notices its artificial nature, noting that the stars he used to view at night are absent at the Ultimate Academy.^[7]

Research Labs

A notable aspect which sets the Ultimate Academy apart from Hope's Peak Academy is the inclusion of research labs (研究室), facilities tailored to each captive students' unique Ultimate Talent. They could be found in different locations throughout the whole school, with many becoming accessible after each class trials. The rooms were each uniquely furnished, often very lavishly, and contain equipment with which the Ultimate student could practice their skill. Apart from Angie's, the research labs have no locks, becoming accessible to anyone at anytime. If the lab owner dies before their Ultimate research lab is opened, the lab will remain closed.

Monitors

• Description
• Broadcasts

High-tech monitors are installed at every inch square of the campus, even at remote locations such as the underground passage. They are utilized by Monokuma and the Monokubs to broadcast announcements. Shuichi describes them as being gaudy and assume they are custom made due to being expensive-looking.^[10] They lack any surveillance equipment to spy on the students as that task is already delegated to the Nanokumas. It is unknown from where Monokuma and the Monokubs broadcast their announcements.

Shortly before the death of Rantaro Amami, the Ultimate Survivor, a promotional video BGM blares out from every monitor to signal the First Blood Perk time limit is almost up. Tsumugi claims that Monokuma plays the obnoxious music at such a high volume to pressure the students to kill as well. Regardless of Monokuma's true intentions, its loud sound drowns out the shot put Kaede rolls through the air vent to the library. This ensures that any arguments saying that Rantaro would notice the sound as it travels to be refuted, making the assumption that only Kaede can kill Rantaro logical at the time.

Many monitors become collateral damage during K1-B0's fight with the Exisals in Chapter 6.

Chapter 1

Solo Monodam

Honey Eating Monokid

Passed Out Monokid

Drunk Monokid

Class Trial begins

Chapter 2

First broadcast without Monokid

Monokub Kitchen

Monokub Kitchen

Monokub Kitchen

Monosuke close-up

Monosuke close-up

Chapter 3

Beaten up Monotaro and Monophanie

Emergency Announcement

Emergency Announcement

Emergency Announcement

Solo Monophanie

Monokuma's Employee

Second Body Discovery Announcement

Second Body Discovery Announcement

Chapter 4

Monotaro hitting on Monophanie

Monotaro hitting on Monophanie

Monotaro kicking Monophanie

Monotaro kicking Monophanie

Lonely Monotaro

Lonely Monotaro

The Monokubs's final announcement

The Monokubs's final announcement

The Monokubs's final announcement

The Monokubs's final announcement

The Monokubs's final announcement

Chapter 5

Monokuma's Announcement
(Absent)

School Building

Classrooms

• Description
• Gallery

Three classrooms exist within the campus: Classroom A on the first floor and Classroom B and C on the second floor. Apart from different wall colors, they largely share the same features, which include unusually high-tech LCD screen blackboards, multiple desks equipped with a monitor on each, a bulletin board, a bookshelf, and two empty lockers.

Classroom A is situated nearby the stairs to the basement, which Kaede and Shuichi occupy as a lookout while attempting to expose the mastermind. Moreso, Kaede intends to role a shot put through its air vent, which leads to the library, and bludgeon the oblivious mastermind to death. Shuichi assumes the vent was installed to control the humidity in the library. It is a tight squeeze for one person of a medium build to crawl in.

After their kidnapping, Kaede and Shuichi first wake up and meet after they exit the lockers in Classroom B.

Classroom C first opens in Chapter 1. Tsumugi utilizes this classroom, more specifically a desk with a secret hologram display of a keyboard, to generate a new Flashback Light. By touching the keyboard, Tsumugi activates the Flashback Light Setup displayed on the blackboard. Upon confirming which fabricated memories she wishes to implant on the students, the Flashback Light pops up inside the locker.

To obfuscate the room's purpose and avoid being caught, the classroom immediately reverts back to normal when the door is opened. Similarly, a switch is required to activate the keyboard display, knowledge only known to Tsumugi.

Locations

Classroom A Entrance

Classroom A
(Chapter 3 onward)

Classroom A
(evening)

Classroom B

Classroom B
(Chapter 3 onward)

Classroom C

Classroom C
(Chapter 3 onward)

Classroom C
(Chapter 6)

Classroom C
(Chapter 6)

Classroom C
(Flashback Light Setup)

Classroom C
(Flashback Light Setup)

Classroom C
(Flashback Light Setup)

Observe Mode

Classroom A - Chapter 1 & 2

Classroom A - Chapter 3 - 5

Classroom B - Chapter 1 & 2

Classroom B - Chapter 3 - 5

Classroom C - Chapter 1 & 2

Classroom C - Chapter 3 - 5

Events

Pre-game Kaede exiting a locker in Classroom B.

Pre-game Kaede exiting a locker in Classroom B.

Pre-game Shuichi falling out of a locker in Classroom B.

Kaede exiting a locker in Classroom B.

Kaede exiting a locker in Classroom B.

Shuichi falling out of a locker in Classroom B.

Kaede and Shuichi checking the basement stairs from Classroom A.

Kaede cheering up Shuichi.

The students heading toward the basement as seen from Classroom A.

Tsumugi generating a Flashback Light

The First Floor

The first floor, as marked on the school map, is separated into Near Dining Hall and Hallway to Gym area. They are separated by a shutter near the seating area.

• Map
• Hallway

Ultimate Magician Research Lab Gymnasium Dining Hall Warehouse Classroom A Restrooms

Near Dining Hall

Prologue–Chapter 3

Chapter 4 onward

Chapter 6

Chapter 6)

Stairs to basement

End of Hallway

Hallway to Gym

Chapter 4 onward

Near Dining Hall

Entrance Hall

The entrance hall is initially blocked with iron grates. It opens ever since Kaede and Shuichi finished investigating the basement for the first time, allowing the students to enter and exit the school building at will.

The entrance hall collapses in Chapter 6, revealing an underground passageway leading to the Ultimate Supreme Leader Research Lab. Shuichi speculates that if it hadn't been destroyed by K1-B0, the staircase would have been unlocked by a mysterious item just like the other areas.

Entrance Hall Door

Girls Bathroom

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• Gallery

The girls bathroom is accessible when playing as Kaede in Chapter 1 and as Shuichi during the investigation portion of Chapter 6. The wall behind the utility closet conceals a passageway leading to the basement's hidden room where Motherkuma resides. Prior to its accidental discovery by Himiko, only Tsumugi is aware of the passageway's existence. Moreover, she frequently enters the hidden room from the girls bathroom, most notably before killing Rantaro. Tsumugi also shows her "Cospox" to Kaede in the girls bathroom.

Locations

Girls Bathroom Entrance

Girls Bathroom
(Chapter 6)

Girls Bathroom
(Utility Closet)

Girls Bathroom
(Entrance to the Mastermind's Room)

Passage to the Hidden Room

Pathway to the Hidden Room

Events

Tsumugi accessing the hidden room from the girls bathroom

Tsumugi showcasing her Cospox

Boys Bathroom

The boys bathroom is accessible only when playing as Shuichi from Chapter 2 onward. Unlike the girls bathroom, it has nothing out of the ordinary.

Entrance

Boys Bathroom

Warehouse

Since the prologue, the academy's sizeable warehouse supplies the students with everyday needs and criminal goods alike. For instance, Korekiyo Shinguji, the Ultimate Anthropologist, retrieves a saw and matches from the warehouse to execute a seesaw murder trick during a sham seance. After killing Angie, he also obtains ropes to hang the wax effigies in her lab so as to create a locked room mystery. Similarly, Kokichi, with Kaito as his accomplice, acquires a video camera to record his own death and a tripod to adjust the camera's height.

In contrast, there are also several items utilized for either mundane or altruistic purposes. For instance, swimsuits worn by the girls during the Everywhere Parasol present bonus scene are taken from the warehouse. Miu Iruma, the Ultimate Inventor, modifies the available RC helicopter into a "drome," an aerial photograph device she employs to draft the library's floor plan during the first investigation. She is also responsible for modifying the disposable cameras intended by Kaede and Shuichi to secretly photograph the mastermind. Likewise, it is Miu who rummages a shelf with different chemicals prior to her introduction with Kaede and Shuichi.

Professional gymnasium equipment such as a high jump bar, mats, hurdles, and shot put balls stored in a wooden box are stored in the warehouse as well. Kaede and Tsumugi obtain one shot put each and incorporate it into their respective murder plots. Kaede specifically uses duct tape Shuichi retrieved to keep the flash function of a hidden camera she sets up on, while Shuichi himself set up a security sensor also taken from the warehouse.

Despite its seemingly endless variety of items, black gloves similar to what Kirumi Tojo, the Ultimate Maid, wears are missing from the warehouse, causing her to unwittingly leave incriminating evidence behind while transporting the body of the Ultimate Tennis Pro, Ryoma Hoshi. Kokichi assumes that this may have been an intentional decision made by the sadistic Monokuma.

Dining Hall

• Description
• Gallery

The students gather at the dining hall for their daily breakfast. It consists of the main dining area, the demo-exclusive kitchen, and the terrace area. Kaede and Shuichi can access the dining hall through the terrace door as a faster alternative than the entrance hall. It is off-limits during nighttime. While alive, Kirumi takes it upon herself to cook for her classmates.

Throughout the killing game, the dining hall bears witness to various events involving the students such as bonding activities, heated arguments, physical altercations, and chaos triggered by either the killing game hosts or exposures to the Flashback Light.

There is a seating area located nearby the dining hall and the school store, which Kaede and Shuichi seldom utilize.

Location

Dining Hall Entrance

Dining Hall
(Chapter 3 onward)

Dining Hall
(Chapter 3 onward; nighttime)

Dining Hall Terrace

Dining Hall Terrace Door

Demo-exclusive kitchen

Seating Area nearby the dining hall

Events

Monotaro accidentally destroying Monokuma

Kaede and Shuichi begging Miu to modify their disposable cameras.

Kirumi, Miu, Korekiyo, and Tsumugi at the dining hall shortly before the first murder occurs

Shuichi showing up without his hat for the first time.

Kaito punching Kokichi.

School Store

The MonoMono Machine can be found inside the School Store starting from Chapter 1, where Kaede and Shuichi can use their Monocoins to draw presents.

School Store Entrance

School Store

Hallway to Gym

Ultimate Magician Research Lab

The Ultimate Magician Research Lab (超高校級のマジシャンの研究教室), belonging to Himiko, is first found in Chapter 2, after the Ancient Passport concealing the hallway leading up to it is unlocked. The door to it is blue, with a magical insignia inscribed on it.

Inside the lab, multiple contraptions typically utilized during magic shows are stored. These include a guillotine, a saw, a body sawing box, a human-sized sword stabbing box, a huge cauldron on fire Himiko claims for storing her mana in, and a birdcage for the doves big enough for someone of Shuichi's stature or smaller to fit in. Although Himiko is disappointed that her lab confuses "real magic" with "magic tricks," she is nonetheless impressed by its thorough collection.

To execute her underwater magic trick during her magic show, Himiko employs a large water tank, a timer, the stairs, and the piranhas stored in a smaller tank taken from her lab. The tank has a secret segment near the top that opens up, an exit for Himiko after she dives into the water. It comes with a pulley that makes carrying the heavy tank to the gym easier for Kaito and K1-B0.

Ancient Passport

Hallway to the Ultimate Magician Research Lab

Geometric Pattern Door

The Geometric Pattern Door is the first floor entrance to the Ultimate Astronaut Research Lab located on the sixth floor. It is unlocked by the Last Real Key in Chapter 5, revealing a spiral staircase that leads all the way to the research lab.

Ultimate Astronaut Research Lab Entrance

Ultimate Astronaut Research Lab Entrance

Spiral Staircase to the 6th floor

Gymnasium

• Description
• The Amazing Himiko's Magic Show
• Gallery

Similar to the Killing School Life, the gymnasium is often used by Monokuma, this time alongside his Monokubs, to summon the students. In fact, the students have been gathered in the gymnasium before the killing game officially commences, wherein the Monokubs expose them to the First Flashback Light.

The gym features a platform at the rear center, two basketball rings, a light control panel used to raise and lower the batten, and a window covered with red curtains connected to the courtyard's swimming pool area. Lockers for each students are also prepared outside of the gym's entrance.

In Chapter 5, Kaito collects weapons from Maki's research lab and brings them to the gym, dubbing them as the Ultimate Anti-Monokuma weapons meant to defeat him. However, Kokichi, who devises his own plan to end the killing game, brings the Electrohammers to the gym on a trolley and offers his classmates to equip them instead. They are weapons invented by Miu that can disable any electronic machines on contact.

In Chapter 2, Angie and Himiko hold a magic show in the gym to ease the tension caused by the motive videos. Himiko intends to perform the Extreme Water Magic, Underwater Escape Act, which requires her to escape the water tank within 60 seconds. If she fails, she will be devoured by the piranhas dropped from the suspended tank, a deadly challenge pitched in by Angie. However, during a back route of the second class trial, Himiko claims that her piranhas only eat dead flesh like Ryoma's.

To accommodate the show, K1-B0 and Kaito carry equipment from Himiko's lab, such as the stairs and the large water tank. They are then placed within the stage Angie painted and built. The tank, unbeknownst to everyone but Himiko, has a panel on the side that could open, which she employs as her escape hatch. It is connected to the inside of the staircase facing away from the audience. To ensure she exits undetected, she requests Kirumi to sew the curtain to cover the stage and also the banner for decoration purposes. Once she exits the staircase, the soaked Himiko accidentally creates a puddle on the backstage before she dries herself with a towel and changes uniform.

The piranha tank is placed directly overhead, and according to the its manual, it syncs up with the timer so that the bottom would automatically open when timer reaches zero. Only the front side and the lid are made of glass while the other sides are made of wood. Himiko and Angie raise the piranha tank above by attaching it to the gym's sturdy lighting batten. Shuichi further assumes that they use a ladder next to the stage to further their prepwork. While setting up, Angie and Himiko temporarily seal the gym.

Behind everyone's backs, Kirumi plots to murder Ryoma and frames Himiko during her magic show. Around 8:55 p.m, while preparing for the show in the gym, Kirumi, while alone, uses the ladder to reach the piranha tank and removes the glass lid to put inside the tank. She uses it as a partition to force the piranhas to one side of the tank and free the other side to hide Ryoma's corpse. As such, the piranhas get crowded together, creating the illusion they multiply overnight. It also causes the water to get cloudy and murky, further concealing Ryoma's body from the magic show audiences' view before it drops into the large water tank along with the piranhas.

Afterward, Kirumi prepares to create a ropeway mechanism to transport Ryoma's body from his research lab to the gym. First, she climbs up to the gym's window using the ladder once more. Once there, she opens the window and ties one end of the rope to the window frame. The rope is then thrown out the window toward the pool.

Past midnight, Kirumi drowns Ryoma at his research lab, connects the tennis net cable with the rope she ties at the gym, and slids toward the gym with Ryoma's body on a rubber inner tube. To avoid crashing through the window, Kirumi uses her own hand as a brake. The transport process inadvertently leaves behind a distinct mark on the gym's window frame.

Kirumi has to go through this trouble since the gym is off-limits at nighttime. However, Monosuke confirms that standing on the windowsill is permitted, allowing Kirumi to safely dump Ryoma's body to the suspended piranha tank. Afterward, she detaches the rope from the window after using the ropeway. Then, she retrieves the rope from the side of Ryoma's lab, before tossing it to the gym from the pool window, explaining why it is discovered on the backstage during the second investigation. She also leaves the windows wide open as seen while Himiko is performing and subsequent Ryoma's body discovery.

“

Today, Ryoma is fish food... And tomorrow, he'll be fish shit. — Miu Iruma[14]

”

Following Kokichi's suggestion, Gonta and Tenko Chabashira, the Ultimate Aikido Master, throw K1-B0's metallic body at the tank to safely retrieve Ryoma's remains. Consequently, the bloodied water rush out to the gym's floor mixed up with the fragments of the broken water tank glass.

The students join effort to clean up the mess carefully to prevent disturbing the crime scene. Gonta collects the fully stuffed piranhas in a bucket, while Ryoma's belongings, including his clothes, monopad, and room key are gathered together. He also leaves behind the handcuffs Kirumi put on him.

The remnants of Ryoma's body and Himiko's magic show disappear completely after the second class trial concludes.

Location

Gymnasium Entrance
(Himiko's talisman)

Gymnasium Entrance

Gymnasium Entrance

Gymnasium Entrance
(Chapter 4 onward)

Gymnasium
(Chapter 3 onward)

The Amazing Himiko's Magic Show Stage
(backstage)

The Amazing Himiko's Magic Show Stage
(closeup)

The Amazing Himiko's Magic Show Stage
(piranha tank)

Boys lockers

Girs lockers

Events

The students gathered in the gym
(Pre-Game)

The students ambushed by the Exisals
(Pre-Game)

The Monokubs' entrance

The Monokubs's entrance

The Ultimate Wardrobe for the students

Kaede pre-Ultimate Wardrobe

The students in the Ultimate Wardrobe

The students ambushed by the Exisals

The start of the Killing School Semester

Kaede reading the school rules on her Monopad

Himiko's Magic Show

Himiko's Magic Show

Himiko's Magic Show

Himiko's Magic Show

Himiko's Magic Show

Himiko's Magic Show being interrupted by Gonta

Ryoma's corpse being dumped into the water tank during Himiko's Magic Show

Ryoma's corpse being dumped into the water tank during Himiko's Magic Show

The students panicking at Ryoma's corpse being dumped into the water tank during Himiko's Magic Show

Ryoma's corpse being eaten by piranhas

Ryoma's corpse being eaten by piranhas

Ryoma's remains

Himiko's water tank trick explained

Himiko's water tank trick explained

Ryoma's body in the piranha tank

Gonta theorizing about the rope trick set up

Gonta theorizing about the rope trick set up

Gonta theorizing about the rope trick set up

Gonta theorizing about the rope trick set up

Kokichi showing up with the electrobomb and electrohammers

Maki threatening Kokichi

The Second Floor

The second floor is divided into two areas. The first area consists of Classroom C, Classroom B, and the Ultimate Pianist Research Lab. Kaede and Shuichi can roam around the hallway since the prologue, though the latter two of which are only available from Chapter 1 onward. By placing the Dragon Gem on the Bronze Dragon Statue's mouth in Chapter 2, Shuichi prompts the statue to self-destruct, opening up another hallway, the Ultimate Maid Research Lab, the Ultimate Entomologist Research Lab, and a treasure chest containing a Flashback Light.

• Map
• Hallway

Ultimate Pianist Research Lab Ultimate Maid Research Lab Ultimate Entomologist Research Lab Classroom B Classroom C

Hallway 2F

Bronze Dragon Statue

Bronze Dragon Statue with the Dragon Gem

Hidden Passage behind the Bronze Dragon Statue

Ultimate Pianist Research Lab

The Ultimate Pianist Research Lab (超高校級のピアニストの研究教室), belonging to Kaede, is accessible from the third Free Time Event segment in Chapter 1 onward. Upon entering her lab for the first time, Kaede discovers that the grand piano, perched on a platform, is well taken care of and has already been tuned properly.

The lab is completed with different CDs lined up on the shelves. They are mostly classical music and works of minor and major composers from various eras and countries. Among them is Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune, which Shuichi places in the lab's player and listens to following Kaede's execution. There is also a blackboard behind the piano, music notes scattered across the floor, and piano stools and music stands circling the grand piano.

Kaede's research lab is featured from her second Free Time Event onward, where she teaches Shuichi how to perform a piano duet.^[16] In Angie's second Free Time with Kaede, she suggests a collaborative art piece where she paints and Kaede plays the piano.^[17] Another student who shows interest in Kaede's lab is Maki. In her final Free Time introduction in Chapter 1, she asks Kaede to show around her lab.^[18]

Ultimate Maid Research Lab

The Ultimate Maid Research Lab (超高校級のメイドの研究教室) is decorated and furnished in a Victorian style, which was the time when employing a maid was considered a status symbol, as said by the lab's owner, Kirumi.

The main room features a dining table with parents and child doll figures supposedly representing Kirumi's masters. Cleaning appliances, such as washing machines, vacuums, and pressure washers are stored behind the closet door. Kirumi deems these tools useful when she performs her cleaning.

Ultimate Entomologist Research Lab

The Ultimate Entomologist Research Lab (超高校級の昆虫博士の研究教室), which door is decorated with butterflies, belongs to Gonta. The room itself is full of greenery and has its walls lined with insect specimens. These samples thoroughly impressed Gonta that he believes it was made with "love and care." Books about insect are arranged on top of the table as well.

The lab houses an extraordinary amount of bug cages inhabited by larva and eggs. They are hatched and released by Gonta during the Insect Meet and Greet with Shuichi, K1-B0, Korekiyo, Tenko, Himiko, and Tsumugi as unwilling participants. Feeling guilty, Gonta allows his classmates to leave as he forces Kokichi, who tricked him into kidnapping them, to enjoy a solo Insect Meet and Greet session.

Following Gonta's execution, Shuichi discovers that some of the books are left open, leading him to assume that Gonta was in the middle of reading them. He also speculates that the lab is destroyed during K1-B0's rampage, though no other creatures than the Nanokumas were caught by the Bugvac.

Kokichi waking up Shuichi in Gonta's lab

Insect Meet and Greet

Treasure Chest

A treasure chest containing a Flashback Light is discovered by Angie and Shuichi next to the Ultimate Entomologist Research Lab. It implants the students with allegedly fabricated memories of the Ultimate Hunt.

Treasure Chest

The Third Floor

The third floor opens up after the Bronze Dragon Statue in the second floor is destroyed.

• Map
• Large Door

• Ultimate Assassin Research Lab
• Ultimate Tennis Pro Research Lab

A painting of a large door conceals the staircase to the fourth floor. It is located between the Ultimate Assassin Research Lab and the relaxation space. It is unlocked using the Magic Key after the second class trial concludes.

Relaxation Space

Large Door

Large Door destroyed

Staircase to 4th floor

Ultimate Tennis Pro Research Lab

• Description
• Ryoma's Murder

The Ultimate Tennis Pro Research Lab (超高校級のテニス選手の研究教室) belongs to Ryoma. The room has an indoor tennis court which features large machines swinging racquets, tennis ball baskets, umpire's chairs, a scorekeeper, and a 50 feet long tennis net according to Kaito's estimation.

Unique to Ryoma's lab, it has a shower room at the back that doubles as the Ultimate Prisoner Lab. Kaito and Shuichi assume that Monokuma remodels it to resemble a prison to "better" suit Ryoma's prisoner status. It contains three showers, three handcuffs, two prisoner uniforms, a large stone sink, and a window that overlooks the pool and is parallel to the back of the gym. It can only be explored during the investigation portion of Chapter 2.

Entrance

Door to the Shower Room

Past midnight after learning about his motive video, the depressed Ryoma meets Kirumi, who intends to take his life in his lab. Sensing her bloodthirst, he pretends to clean up the tennis balls lying around, signaling Kirumi to kill him.

Kirumi then knocks him unconscious and handcuffs his wrist knowing that the pain from drowning would wake him up and prompt him to resist. He struggles as Kirumi shoves his head to the shower room's sink filled with water, leaving scrapes on the cuffs and sinks before he eventually drowns.

To transport Ryoma's body to the gym, Kirumi removes the cable from the tennis net and hangs it from the window facing the pool, which she then connects to the rope from the gym window at the pool. She returns to Ryoma's lab with the rubber inner tube and transports his body using a ropeway mechanism. Due to the strain, Kirumi unwittingly leaves behind a distinct marks on the frame mirroring to that of the gym's window.

After his flesh is eaten by Himiko's piranhas, he leaves behind the handcuffs Kirumi puts on him.

Ultimate Assassin Research Lab

The Ultimate Assassin Research Lab (超高校級の暗殺者の研究教室), initially thought to be the Ultimate Child Caregiver Lab, has its door decorated in red. During Chapter 2, the lab owner, Maki, refuses to let anyone in to keep her true talent a secret. Her secret is exposed by Kokichi after the second class trial concludes, leaving her no choice but to let her classmates inspect her lab.

The lab is a comprehensive arsenal with various weapons Maki can wield stored on the shelf. These include naginatas, hammers, chainsaws, knives, and so on. There are also sickles with six-inch blades, one of which Korekiyo uses to kill Tenko. Instead of real firearms to prevent the students' revolt, a sheer number of airsoft guns are lined up on the wall. Shuichi assumes that should Kirumi discover these firearms, she would have used them to take her classmates out to escape and resume her prime minister duty.^[19]

The lab also provides a shooting range and a red cloak that loosely resembles to that of Maki's Argument Armament sprites, though they are in different colors.

Among the plethora of weapons, only katanas or weapons of similar length are missing from Maki's lab. This is likely intentional knowing Maki no longer uses these types of weapons after a botched mission involving a katana.

In Chapter 5, Kaito collects various weapons from Maki's lab and brings them to the gym for the remaining survivors to use to fight against Monokuma. However, this plan is abandoned after Kokichi offers them Electrohammers as alternatives.

Three black cases containing a crossbow can also be found in Maki's lab. She teaches Kaito how to assemble one, giving him the idea to use it against Kokichi, who kidnaps him to the Exisals' hangar. One of the crossbows is then delivered by Himiko at Kaito's request, and another utilized by Maki in her attempt to kill Kokichi and free Kaito.

The Monokubs rebelling against Monokuma in the Exisals

The Fourth Floor

The fourth floor opens up in Chapter 3. It has a distinct Japanese horror interior inspired by a made-up story about a brutal murder which supposedly took place within this floor. The soundtrack "Spirit, Praise, and Beauty" plays whenever Shuichi sets foot on the fourth floor.

Multiple barriers that block access to other areas, such as the pane of glass and hanging scroll behind a shrine gate, can be removed by using the Golden Hammer in Chapter 3 and Octobrush in Chapter 4, respectively.

• Map
• Hallway

Ultimate Anthropologist Research Lab Ultimate Artist Research Lab Empty Room (Left, Middle, & Right) Computer Room

Hallway

Hallway

Hallway

Pane of Glass

Pane of Glass breaking...

...revealing a hidden passage.

Hallway to the Computer Room

Kokichi's fake death

"It's a lie!"

Hanging Scroll

Hanging Scroll
(combined with Octobrush)

Staircase behind the Hanging Scroll

Empty Rooms

• Description
• Angie and Tenko's Murder
• Gallery

Three empty rooms exist on the fourth floor. As the name suggests, they are dusty rooms devoid of any features apart from the dimly-lit candles. Should the candles go out, these rooms turn pitch black due to the lack of windows. Moreover, the floors are unstable since they are layered on top of crosspieces instead of being firmly nailed. However, Gonta assures that nobody can fall through them easily as the floorboards are thick enough to leave no gaps between them. There is a hole in the corner of each room as well.

While preparing the seance murder, Korekiyo uses the floorboard as a seesaw by cutting the crosspiece supporting it. He makes the same preparations for all three empty rooms to divert suspicion away from him and to whoever picks a room, which ends up being Himiko. Kokichi discovers this trick after accidentally falling through a cut floorboard in either the left or right room.

While investigating the middle room's under floor, Maki and Shuichi discover that they are spacious enough for two people to move on all fours. Some of the woods have corroded and are broken off, allowing them to peer into the next room. They further discover that the hole is caused by natural rot, and they can easily access the neighboring empty rooms from it.

Each rooms are haunted by the ghosts of destroyed mascots. The left room is haunted by Monosuke, the central by the still active Monokuma, and the right by Monokid.

While cutting crosspieces in the middle room late at night, Korekiyo is caught red-handed by Angie who intends to obtain a candle. Since he is hellbent on employing the seesaw trick and not wanting a future witness, he decides to strike the unsuspecting Angie in the head using the floorboard he loosens. Then, he wraps duct tape around her injury to stop the bleeding and carries her to her research lab before he kills her there.

Following Angie's body discovery, Korekiyo offers to hold The Caged Child Seance to channel her spirit. Of all places, the middle empty room is chosen by Himiko. This allows Shuichi and Maki to discover Angie's dried bloodstain beneath the floor, helping the students to determine that Korekiyo kills both Angie and later Tenko.

The seance's participants include Korekiyo, Tenko, Himiko, Kokichi, and Shuichi. To ensure he can kill Tenko properly using the seesaw trick, he draws a magic circle encircling the cut crosspiece using purifying salt. He then instructs Tenko to rest upon the small stone Himiko brings in the middle.

Next, several items taken from the Ultimate Anthropologist Research Lab are placed over the bowing Tenko. Kokichi and Shuichi place the iron cage, then Korekiyo drapes the white cloth over it whilst secretly placing the murder weapon, a sickle from Maki's lab. Finally, Korekiyo capitalizes the weight of the wooden dog statue on top of the cage to keep the sickle in place.

After the preparations are complete, Korekiyo instructs Kokichi and Shuichi to blow out the candle and begin the seance in complete darkness. While the participants are singing The Caged Child song, Korekiyo guides along the lines of the magic circle to reach the floorboard that has its crosspiece cut off the night before. He then stomps on the floorboard, lifting it up like a seesaw and raising Tenko's body toward the sickle, killing her.

Once the deed is done, Korekiyo follows the salt back to his corner, finishes the ritual, has the others light the candles, and instructs them to remove the seance equipment. While the others are shocked by the body discovery, Korekiyo picks up the sickle and drops it under the floor through the hole in the corner of the room. Everyone then unwittingly works toward his favor by stomping over the magic circle, thus destroying the evidence. However, K1-B0 has already taken its picture before Shuichi replaces his participation.

During the investigation, K1-B0 brigthens up the room using his newly installed function.

After the third class trial, any evidence of the seance and Tenko's body are removed from the empty room.

Locations

Empty Room - Left Entrance

Empty Room - Left

Empty Room - Middle Entrance

Empty Room - Middle

Empty Room - Middle
(seance preparation)

Empty Room - Middle
(seance preparation)

Empty Room - Middle
(sabotaged seance)

Empty Room - Middle
(lit up by K1-B0)

Empty Room - Right Entrance

Monokid's ghost

Monosuke's ghost

Events

Korekiyo sneaking up on Angie

Korekiyo about to knock Angie unconscious

Korekiyo explaining to Tenko about how the ritual works

Tenko laying down for the ritual

Tenko, as the spirit medium followed the ritual preparation

Tenko's whole body covered by the cage that placed by Kokichi and Shuichi

Korekiyo placing the white cloth over the iron cage

Korekiyo placing the white cloth over the iron cage

The students placing the dog statue on the cage

The students placing the dog statue on the cage

The students prepare to sing The Caged Child

The students removing the dog statue on the cage

Korekiyo removing the white cloth

Korekiyo removing the white cloth

Himiko trying to check on Tenko after the Ritual

Kaito grabbing Maki in fear

K1-B0 showing off his new flashlight function

K1-B0 showing off his new flashlight function

Shuichi theorizing how the culprit killed Tenko

Shuichi theorizing how the culprit killed Tenko

Shuichi theorizing how the culprit killed Tenko

Ultimate Anthropologist Research Lab

• Description
• Gallery

The Ultimate Anthropologist Research Lab (超高校級の民俗学者の研究教室), belonging to Korekiyo, is rather large compared to the other labs. It has two entrances, around five floors total, and various historical items on display in exhibit cases, on the walls, or on tables. Paintings adorn the walls while weathered and old books and scrolls are packed into the bookshelf. The lab reminds Shuichi of a museum or library.

One of the most precious collections in the lab is the original copy of the Caged Dog Village Book. It contains the history of the fabled Caged Dog Village said to have been destroyed long ago. The village had a reputation for using dark arts and spells, prompting a feudal lord who feared their power to ravage it. Spells and dark arts rumored to be extremely potent were also inscribed by the author, a female sole survivor from the village.

Among the dark arts documented in the book is The Caged Child seance. In fact, this lab features tools and objects needed to perform the seance, such as the large wooden dog statue, folded white cloth, and iron cage. Korekiyo attempts the seance in one of the empty rooms, not out of anthropological curiosity, but to incorporate it into his murder plot. He faithfully follows the step-by-step and the plethora of requirements down to a T. However, he intentionally ruins the process by killing Tenko, the spirit medium, at the end, rendering it unknown whether the seance would work in less murderous circumstances.

Another exhibited precious relic is a golden katana, though Korekiyo reveals that it is merely coated with gold leaf. It is rusted but looks about a yard long and still sharp. After Kokichi carelessly unsheathes the katana, the gold plating immediately flakes off due to its old age, proving its authenticity. Korekiyo uses this katana to murder Angie and create a locked-room mystery in her research lab.

Following Korekiyo's execution, the seance tools used in the middle empty room are moved back to his lab with the exception of the Caged Dog Village book, which Kokichi retrieves and safekeeps in his room.

Door to Hallway

Back Door

Bookshelf

Missing seance book

Ultimate Artist Research Lab

• Description
• Angie's Murder
• Gallery

“

Shuichi: The same classroom has two different kinds of locks for the doors. That's mildly infuriating. Angie: No, no. It's perfect that they're not the same. Symmetry is a western beauty ideal. They like symmetry and the golden ratio and such... But I think asymmetry and partition functions are more beautiful.[8]

”

The Ultimate Artist Research Lab (超高校級の美術部の研究教室) belongs to Angie Yonaga. Its ceiling beams are exposed and its walls are almost entirely white, save for the large splatters of paint scattered here and there, and dimly lit. It has all of Angie's favorite art supplies including several crafting tables, easels, blank canvases, crafting and sculpting tools such as chisels and wooden hammers, multiple buckets of paint, and brushes all over the floor.

Unique to Angie's lab, its front door has a cylinder lock while the back door has a sliding lock to accommodate Angie's preference of being alone while creating art. It originally comes with a key before Monodam engulfs it, which Angie pays no mind as she only needs to lock the door while she is working inside. Similarly, Angie is unbothered by the lack of completed pieces, stating that Atua requires no references to create art.

“

Angie used this to make effigies. But they didn't have traces of a soul. A soul desperate to live, struggling, fighting for life... That's something that can never be replicated. — Shuichi Saihara[20]

”

The lab features a lump of wax that Angie uses to create the lifelike effigies of Rantaro, Kaede, Ryoma, and Kirumi in preparation for the resurrection ritual. She also needs some fire for the ritual and decides to retrieve a candle from the empty room, unknowingly walking into Korekiyo preparing his murder seance. Not wanting a witness, he strikes the unsuspecting Angie in the head, knocking her out.

Korekiyo wraps duct tape around Angie's injury to stop the bleeding and carries her to her research lab. He makes an oversight by not noticing the duct tape peeling off and slipping under Angie's body, which Shuichi and Maki discover while inspecting her body. Angie dies by being stabbed in the back of the neck with the katana Korekiyo obtains from his lab.

Korekiyo then hangs Angie's four effigies upside-down using ropes to overwhelm the room with an occult atmosphere and to create a locked-room mystery. He sticks the katana into Kaede's effigy near the back door and spins the effigy around to twist up the rope. After enough turns, he lets go and heads for the back door. Once released, the effigy begins spinning, and the katana with it. The handle of the gold leaf katana then hits the sliding lock, locking the door. The students believe Korekiyo attempts this trick multiple times until he succeeds.

Angie's body is discovered after Kokichi successfully lockpicks the front door. During the investigation, the ritual guidebook, the Necronomicon is found lying next to Angie's body.

Following the third class trial's conclusion, Angie's body and any trace of her murder such as the wax effigies vanish from her lab. The lighting becomes noticeably dimmer as well.

Locations

Front door

Crime scene

Chapter 4 onward

Events

Shuichi theorizing how the culprit locked the Art Lab door

Shuichi theorizing how the culprit locked the Art Lab door

Shuichi theorizing how the culprit locked the Art Lab door

Shuichi theorizing how the culprit locked the Art Lab door

Computer Room

For the Virtual World explored by the students, see: Killing game simulator

• Description
• Miu's Murder
• Gallery

“

If this computer weren't here... Miu never would have planned a murder. I know I shouldn't think like that, but I can't help it... — Shuichi Saihara[9]

”

The computer room features a large computer installed with the killing game simulator program. There is also a treasure chest containing a Flashback Light implanting the students with the memories of their fake funeral. Ever since the computer room's opening in Chapter 3, Miu pulls all-nighters modifying the killing game simulator's original program in preparation for killing Kokichi inside the Virtual World.

Once she finished her setup in Chapter 4, Miu convinces the remaining survivors to log into the Virtual World using the nine visors she has prepared for them. Kokichi, who already knows what she's actually plotting, helps prepare the nine seats for everyone's comfort as their bodies become unconscious.

The visor has two plugs: the red for consciousness and the blue for memory. However, Gonta accidentally plugs the cords into the wrong ports, causing a connection error between his brain and avatar. As a result, he forgets everything that transpires in the Virtual World.

To make it appear as if Kokichi dies in the real world, Miu logs in last and places the bottle of poison she retrieves from Shuichi's research lab on Kokichi's seat. Her plan ultimately backfires after Kokichi enlists the help of Gonta Alter Ego to dispose of her instead.

Once Miu freezes Kokichi's avatar in the Virtual World, Gonta Alter Ego creeps up on her and strangles her to death, and the shock kills Miu in the real world.

Following Gonta's execution, Miu's body and any other evidence are cleaned from the room.

Locations

Entrance

Virtual World preparation

Crime scene

Miu's body

Events

Miu forced by Kokichi to bow and beg for the students to enter the killing game simulator

Miu forced by Kokichi to bow and beg for the students to enter the killing game simulator

Monotaro analyzing the killing game simulator

The Fifth Floor

The fifth floor, which comprises of three research labs, first opens up in Chapter 4.

• Map
• Hallway

Ultimate Cosplayer Research Lab Ultimate Detective Research Lab Ultimate Survivor Research Lab

Statues

Hallway

Ultimate Cosplayer Research Lab

The Ultimate Cosplayer Research Lab (超高校級のコスプレイヤーの研究教室), belonging to Tsumugi, is a large warehouse surrounded by concrete walls and flooring, with a giant studio set for cosplaying in swapping backdrops at the back.

The lab has a separate gothic and realistic bar set as well, the latter being added due to Tsumugi's former bartending part-time job. Lights and cameras are facing the switching sets in the back, and she has two cosplay outfits of Sachika Hirasaka and Yuma Mashiro from the Spike Chunsoft game Zanki Zero: Last Beginning out in the open. In the corner of the room, there is a workshop with sewing machine and work table for Tsumugi to make and repair costumers.

Yuma and Sachika's costumes

Tsumugi serving Shuichi her signature non-alcoholic cocktail

Ultimate Detective Research Lab

The Ultimate Detective Research Lab (超高校級の探偵の研究教室) belongs to Shuichi. It has a rustic, old-fashioned feel to it. A rocking chair is sat nearby a burning fireplace, and a work desk with scientific equipment and books stacked on top. Present is a hat rack, showcasing several bowler hats. Furthermore, the lab contains a bookshelf with around 50 files detailing presumably every murder in all Danganronpa series to the 52nd, as "the newer files have photographs, but the older ones have illustrations."

A large cabinet full of different types of poisons, from those that can inflict various symptoms to the ones causing instantaneous death, is situated at the other corner of the lab. Upon use, Maki assumes Monokuma will immediately replace them, rendering any attempts to dispose of these poisons futile. Maki, however, ends up using the slow-acting Strike-9 poison in her attempt to kill Kokichi, whom she thought was the true mastermind. Before Maki, Miu similarly retrieved a small bottle of poison she used as a diversion in her failed plan of killing Kokichi.

Ultimate Survivor Research Lab

• Description
• Gallery

The Ultimate Survivor Research Lab (超高校級の生存者の研究室) is first found in Chapter 4, but it becomes permanently locked since its owner, Rantaro, dies before its discovery. Unique to Rantaro's lab, the actual door is concealed behind an extravagant door that blends perfectly together with the fifth floor's interior.

Shuichi attempts to open the extravagant door using the Last Real Key in Chapter 4, prompting a trap to explode and almost hurt him. It takes K1-B0's rocket launcher to destroy both entrances in Chapter 6, allowing his classmates to investigate the lab.

The lab's walls are red and covered with portraits of people with red marks on their faces, resembling the class trial's deceased portraits. The entire area is in disarray, obfuscating the purpose and meaning of his talent. Roses decorating the span of the floor, with a large round table in the middle, several unconventional chairs surrounding it which resembles the courtroom.

A giant two-part vault is in the back, hiding the USB stick containing the video message Rantaro recorded for himself before participating the Killing School Semester. It can be viewed by plugging the usb to a provided laptop on top of the round table.

The vault can be opened by inputting the correct combination, "Horse A" on the right dial adorned with Chinese zodiac animals, and "Gemini B" on the left dial with astrological signs. These hints are hidden in grass and boiler room as "horse a" and "twin b", respectively.

Extravagant Door

K1-B0 destroying the entrance

Destroyed entrance

Unlocked giant vault

The Sixth Floor

The sixth floor, the highest floor of the Ultimate Academy, opens up in Chapter 5. It is accessible through the spiral staircase behind the geometric pattern door on the first floor, and contains only the Ultimate Astronaut Research Lab.

Staircase to Ultimate Astronaut Research Lab

Ultimate Astronaut Research Lab

• Description
• Gallery

The Ultimate Astronaut Research Lab (超高校級の宇宙飛行士の研究教室), belonging to Kaito, resembles a spaceship simulation with a cockpit in the middle and large planetarium devices projecting stars on the ceiling. Being located on the top floor, the students can peer through the school and the courtyard from the lab's window.

Upon becoming accessible in Chapter 5, the students discover a file about the Gofer Project within this lab. Furthermore, hidden behind one of the walls is the room where the participants in The Gofer Project allegedly spent years in cold sleep. A Gofer Project participant list is laid on top of the Cold Sleep Room table, which, according to Tsumugi, also includes the profile of Kaede's younger twin sister, whom Kaede herself never mentions in the main story, Free Time Event, or Love Across the Universe bonus mode.

Spiral staircase landing

Entrance

Chapter 6

Basement

The basement is divided into two areas. The first area is accessible from Prologue onwards by the stairs adjacent to Classroom A on the first floor. The second area is hidden beneath the entrance hall and is only accessible during Chapter 6.

• Map
• Hallway

Library Hidden Room Game Room A/V Room

Hallway

Basement layout during the first murder

Library

• Description
• Rantaro's Murder
• Gallery

The library is disorganized with books scattered on the floor and on top of the bookcases, causing Shuichi to wonder whether the library or the academy itself was occupied prior to the Killing School Semester. Kaede also notes that the room is filled with the scent of old musty books, while Shuichi finds that the books' bindings are still in excellent condition. They are mostly written in foreign languages that neither Kaede nor Shuichi recognizes. Expert-level textbooks and a perpetually rotating globe can be found here as well. The books are packed together tightly onto the bookcases that Kaede is unable to put her feet on when she attempts to climb the shelves and reach the air vent. The only way to reach books on higher shelves or the vent is by utilizing the provided moving ladder.

The library has three entrances: the front double doors that lead directly to the basement stairs, the rear entrance that faces the hallway, and a hidden door with Monokuma's black and white pattern behind a moving bookcase. It connects to the hidden room where Motherkuma resides. Unlike the other bookcases, this moving bookcase has no books on top and closes on its own like an automatic door after a period of time, hence the noticeable markings it leaves on the floor in front of it. Moreover, a card reader lock is installed on the door, which Shuichi sprinkles with dust to detect whether it was used. True to his assumption, the dust is gone by the next morning, indicating that the mastermind, Tsumugi, enters the hidden room from the library to create a new Monokuma copy after he was accidentally destroyed by the Monokubs. By this point, the only individuals who are aware of the hidden door's existence other than the mastermind herself include Shuichi, Kaede, and Rantaro, who possesses the complete map of the Ultimate Academy as a part of his Survivor Perk.

“

If only I had realized that Kaede was acting strangely... Maybe things wouldn't have ended up this way... — Shuichi Saihara[13]

”

Due to Shuichi's valid theory and the mounting pressure from the First Blood Perk's time limit, Kaede secretly plots to kill the mastermind instead of following Shuichi's suggestion of catching them red-handed. To expose the mastermind, Kaede and Shuichi set up two hidden cameras modified by Miu on the library's exit and entrance as well as security sensors on top of the moving bookcase. The unassuming Shuichi watches as Kaede set up her murder trick: removing the vent grate, laying it inside the air duct, moving the pile of books on top of the bookcase, and placing open encylopedias on the final bookcase.

Kaede then tampers with the hidden camera linked to the security sensor, using duct tape to keep the flash function on. Once the camera flashes and the security receiver on Shuichi's person activates, Kaede rolls a shot put ball into the vent rolled through the air duct from Classroom A that came out of the library's vent, hoping for it to fall on the mastermind's head, killing them.

Kaede's plan, however, fails after the shot put misses her unintended target, Rantaro, who visits the library to inspect the hidden door himself. Upon learning from Motherkuma about the botched murder, Tsumugi, who had prepared her own shot put ball, jumps out of the hidden room during the camera interval and bludgeons Rantaro to death. Afterward, she picks up Kaede's shot and leaves her shot put ball at the scene. She also loots the Survivor Perk Monopad from Rantaro's body, before retreating back into the hidden room. She also never enters the hidden room from the library after making Monokuma's spare on the second day, causing the dust Shuichi reapplies to remain on the card reader for the remainder of the killing game and fooling him into thinking that his theory is false.

After the first class trial, in which Kaede is wrongfully executed, the library is cleaned and leaves no trace of Rantaro's body nor any other evidence. The truth behind Rantaro's murder only comes to light during Chapter 6, where the remaining survivors manage to enter the hidden room after K1-B0 destroys the hidden door with his rocket launcher.

Location

Prologue–Chapter 2

Rear entrance

Arranged by Kaede

Visual explanation of the camera layout

Shuichi's explanation of how Kaede's shot put rolls into the library

Shuichi's explanation of how Kaede's shot put rolls into the library

Shuichi's explanation of how Kaede's shot put rolls into the library

Shuichi's explanation of how Kaede's shot put rolls into the librar

The layout of the library taken by Miu's drone

The layout of the library taken by Miu's drone

The layout of the library taken by Miu's drone

Crime scene

Chapter 3 onward

Chapter 6

Chapter 6
(Post-K1-B0's fight with the Exisals)

Events

Kaede opening the air vent

Kaede and Shuichi setting up the cameras and security sensors

A photo of Rantaro entering the library from the rear entrance

A photo of Rantaro moving the bookcase

A photo of Rantaro discovering the hidden camera

Visual explanation of how Tsumugi murders Rantaro from the hidden room

Visual explanation of how Tsumugi murders Rantaro from the hidden room

Visual explanation of how Tsumugi murders Rantaro from the hidden room

Visual explanation of how Tsumugi murders Rantaro from the hidden room

Visual explanation of how Tsumugi murders Rantaro from the hidden room

Visual explanation of how Tsumugi murders Rantaro from the hidden room

The truth behind Rantaro's murder

The truth behind Rantaro's murder

The truth behind Rantaro's murder

The truth behind Rantaro's murder

The truth behind Rantaro's murder

The truth behind Rantaro's murder

Rantaro's body

Rantaro's body after Tsumugi loots his Monopad

A photo taken by Kaede and Shuichi's camera

A photo taken by Kaede and Shuichi's camera

A photo taken by Kaede and Shuichi's camera

Miu showing off her drone to capture the library's aerial view

An accidental photograph of Shuichi removing the camera

An accidental photograph of Shuichi removing the camera

K1-B0 fighting the Exisal

K1-B0 fighting the Exisal

K1-B0 fighting the Exisal

Tsumugi and Shuichi running away from the explosion

Hidden Room

The hidden room is a spacious area where Tsumugi creates spare Monokumas using a sentient machine known as Mother Monokuma or Motherkuma. It has a built-in voiceprint authentication system that creates Monokumas when Tsumugi says the word "birth", which she does frequently according to Motherkuma. The room is designed from the point of view of the Remnants of Despair who admire Junko Enoshima. While Tsumugi is away, Motherkuma is draped over with a red curtain.

The room can be accessed through the secret door behind the utility closet in the girls bathroom and through the moving bookcase in the library. Tsumugi must unlock the card reader to open the door behind the bookcase, but can easily open the door from the inside as it does not have an internal card reader. The hidden room can only be viewed on Rantaro's Survivor Perk Monopad map, though the map conceals the hidden passageway to the girls bathroom.

After killing Rantaro, Tsumugi disposes of Kaede's shot put in the trash can and leaves Rantaro's Survivor Perk Monopad on the table, which the survivors discover in Chapter 6. Once K1-B0's fight with the Exisal intensified, an explosion occurs, subsequently burying the way into the library under the rubble. As such, the students' have no other option but to use the hidden passageway to the girls bathroom as their only exit. The explosion damages Motherkuma and shuts it down for good as well.

With Motherkuma concealed

Collapsed after K1-B0's fight with the Exisal

Game Room

The Game Room is covered with roots and contains multiple broken game machines and a shelf stuffed with board games. It is utilized by Kaito, Maki, Angie, Tenko, Himiko, Gonta, and Rantaro as a stategy meeting point shortly before First Blood Perk time limit runs out. The room is directly connected to the A/V Room, separated only by a sliding door that opens from Chapter 1 onwards.

The Game Room is also featured in a Chapter 1 bonus scene that can be triggered by handing out the Nail Brush present to Tsumugi on the morning after exploring the library with Shuichi. The event will then happen during the second half of Free Time.

A/V Room

The A/V Room is located past the Game Room and is accessible from Chapter 1 onward. It features video racks, a poster bucket, two high quality 5.1ch speakers, several video players, and a projector screen that can be rolled up and put away. The movie discs stored on the video racks are mostly educational documentaries, including the ones about insects that Gonta watched prior to the first body discovery. There are also several movies and shows mixed in, such as the Italian drama film The Legend of 1900 and a plethora of movies with their case "covered with pictures of men and women," as described by Kaede.

Several rolled up video game posters in rubber bands are stored in a cylindrical container. Among them is a poster teasing the possible sequel of Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls titled Ultra Despair Girls 2, which Kaede and Shuichi discover during the first investigation.

Apart from the sliding door leading to the Game Room, the A/V Room likewise has a back sliding door that directly faces the hallway and the library's rear entrance. However, it is poorly built and barely opens a crack, which Shuichi assumes only a baseball and a thin arm can fit through the space. The railing of the door has been collecting dust as no one has moved it in a long period of time.

During the first class trial, Kirumi speculates that Gonta could kill Rantaro from the A/V Room by using the heavy projector screen as a long pole to reach the library door. While her logic is sound, it is proven incorrect as Gonta did not carry out the murder.

Ultimate Supreme Leader Research Lab

The Ultimate Supreme Leader Research Lab (超高校級の総統の研究教室) is located underground, though it is completely separated from the other basement area. It is accessible by entering the secret passageway hidden beneath the entrance hall. As per Monokuma's rule, the lab is supposed to be permanently locked since its owner, Kokichi, dies prior to its discovery. However, K1-B0's explosives inadvertently opens its access in Chapter 6.

The lab resembles a supervillain's lair fitting for the leader of D.I.C.E. It inhabits various faux weaponry used for pranks that are mainly stored on the showcase. These includes handcuffs, empty suitcases, gas mask, two-way radios, and items for disguises such as wigs, glasses, shoes, suits of many colors, and even uniforms for D.I.C.E members. There are also a few clown masks seen lying around, a large replica of a helicopter hanging from the ceiling, a car resembling a Batmobile, a table with plenty of monitors likely used for strategy meetings, and the D.I.C.E emblem placed above the hovering central chair.

While investigating the lab, Shuichi discovers a book titled The Complete History of Hope's Peak Academy lies on the floor. It retells the accurate version of the long history of The Tragedy, which proves that the memories gradually implanted by the Flashback Light are fabrication.

Hallway to the Ultimate Supreme Leader Research Lab

Hallway to the Ultimate Supreme Leader Research Lab

Courtyard

The courtyard is separated into five areas: Front Entrance, Backyard, Nightspot, Plaza in Front of Large Stairs, and Cyber Courtyard.

• Map
• Environment
• Gallery

Dormitory Pool Shrine of Judgement Hotel Kumasutra Casino Ultimate Aikido Master Lab Ultimate Inventor Lab Ultimate Robot Lab The Hangar

"horse a"

Somewhere at the courtyard, a clue to opening the Ultimate Survivor Research Lab's vault, "horse a," is hidden grass. However, Kokichi vandalizes it over time to paint himself as the mastermind, completing the writing with "This world is mine. Kokichi Oma."

The Wisterias

The wisterias is located nearby the staircase to the plaza. Other than for lounging, it is mostly used for Shuichi, Kaito, and Maki's nightly training session.

Locations

Courtyard Front Entrance (Nighttime)

Courtyard Front Entrance (Dawn)

Courtyard Front Entrance (Dawn)

"horse a"
(Chapter 3)

"horse a"
(Chapter 4)

"horse a"
(Chapter 5)

The Wisterias

The Wisterias
(nighttime)

Renovation Progress

Prologue

Prologue & Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 4 onward

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Events

Shuichi and Kaito training together

Gonta flustered after seeing an under-dressed Miu

Maki, Shuichi, and Kaito training together

Maki, Shuichi, and Kaito training together

Maki and Shuichi training without Kaito

Gonta carrying an exhausted Himiko

Kaito coughing up blood after the trial

Shuichi and Maki exercising while Kaito lies down

Shuichi and Maki exercising while Kaito lies down

Maki questioning why Kaito isn't exercising

Kaito, Maki, and Shuichi talking outside

Kaito, Maki, and Shuichi talking outside

Kokichi discusses his "mastermind" plan to himself

Kokichi discusses his "mastermind" plan to himself

Kokichi discusses his "mastermind" plan to himself

Kokichi discusses his "mastermind" plan to himself

Everyone training after the fifth trial

K1-B0 talking with Maki and Shuichi

Monokuma summoning his children to stop K1-B0

Monokuma ordering his children to attack K1-B0

Shuichi asking Monokuma and the Monokubs to stop the fight

Shuichi asking K1-B0 to stop the fight

Shuichi asking for one last Class Trial

Front Entrance

Dormitory

• Description
• Kokichi's Room
• Gallery

The dormitory is a round building that houses sixteen rooms for each Killing School Semester participant. Drawings of the room owner are hang up on each door, and unlike the research labs, they are equipped with locks.

Based on the only four rooms seen in-game belonging to Kaede, Shuichi, Ryoma, and Kokichi, apart from the different color scheme between the boys and the girls, the rooms share the same layout and furniture. These include a bed, desk, trash can, sofa, coffee table, drawers, rug, television, shower room, monitor, closet where several duplicated uniforms the students wear are prepared, and intercom. Kaede and Shuichi describe the bed as comfortable, while Kirumi notes the pillows are adequate.^[21] In addition, the room features a socket which the remaining survivors use to charge their Electrohammer's battery.

The rooms of the deceased are locked by Monokuma. Similarly, the Monokubs can enter the student's room at any time, as shown when they distribute the motive videos during nighttime.

Kokichi's room is one of the few rooms accessible in-game. While inspecting his room in Chapter 6, Shuichi and Maki discover that Kokichi collected evidence from the past cases. These include Kaede and Shuichi's hidden camera and the photos it took, Miu's drone, Kirumi's inner tube, Himiko's magic show staircase, Rantaro's wax effigy, the Caged Child Seance book, and the killing game simulator's visor.

In addition, he received his own motive video much like Kirumi did, and kept a whiteboard where he documented the past cases and identified suspicious individuals among the remaining survivors.

There are an overwhelming amount of cardboard boxes filled with childish fantasy weapon blueprints, which Shuichi assumes to be intentional on Kokichi's part. He determines to lower the chance someone would discover the blueprints for crucial items he commissions Miu to create, such as the Electrohammer, Electrobomb, and Bugvac.

True to Shuichi's assumption, Maki discovers a will containing a clue to solve the Ultimate Survivor Research Lab's puzzle among these documents. Likewise, Maki discovers the detailed blueprint of the Bugvac machine and retrieves its prototype from Miu's lab, allowing the students to discover the Nanokumas' existence with K1-B0's zoom function.

Locations

Dormitory Front

Interior
(nighttime)

Kaede's Room
(nighttime)

Shuichi's Room
(daytime)

Shuichi's Room
(nighttime)

Ryoma's Room

Events

Gonta searching for Shuichi

Gonta finding Shuichi and Ryoma

Pool

• Description
• Kirumi's Ropeway Mechanism
• Gallery

The pool is located in a building adjacent to the gymnasium. It is unlocked in Chapter 2 by using the Ocarina while interacting with the monument in front of the building, prompting the vine blocking its entrance to wither instantly.

Shuichi describes the pool, complete with a diving board and sun loungers surrounding it, as resembling a resort rather than a typical school pool. According to the rules sign, the pool itself is 82 feet in length and 39 feet wide, making the water level look shallow despite its depth. The poolside is 13 feet on each end, and the left and right sides are 8 feet each. Swimming at nighttime, including touching the water, is prohibited to prevent students dying from "an unfortunate nighttime swimming accident" instead of from being properly murdered, said the Monokubs. However, a dead body is classified as an object, thus becoming an exception to this rule.

All manner of pool supplies, such as kickboards, water polo balls, an electric air pump, and sturdy rubber inner tubes, are kept in the pool's tool shed.

The pool is featured in a bonus scene that can be triggered by handing out the Everywhere Parasol present to Tenko after opening up all the new areas at the beginning of Chapter 2, but before going to the gym. Another bonus scene involving the female student council members can be triggered in Chapter 3 by having the Gun of Man's Passion Present before speaking to Himiko in the morning before the third motive reveal.

“

Swimming is prohibited during nighttime. That one rule spoiled Kirumi's otherwise-perfect crime... But I don't plan on thanking Monokuma or the Monokubs for that. — Shuichi Saihara[8]

”

The pool is connected to the gymnasium's high up window and the Ultimate Tennis Pro Research Lab's shower room window on the third floor. With this knowledge, Kirumi creates a ropeway over the pool to transport Ryoma's body to the gym from his lab. She slides toward the gym with Ryoma's body on the pool's inner tube, and uses her hand to grip the rope and slow down. However, the friction causes part of her glove to tear off and drop in the pool.

After dropping Ryoma's body to the piranhas water tank prepared for Himiko's magic show, Kirumi attempts to untie the rope and the inner tube. Unfortunately for her, one end of the rope comes loose, and the inner tube drops into the pool. Similar to the fabric from her gloves, she cannot retrieve it due to the rule against swimming at nighttime, becoming incriminating evidence that leads to her being found guilty. Following her trial, Shuichi assumes the windows are intentionally designed to face each other.

Pool Exterior
(Prologue-Chapter 1)

Chapter 2 investigation

Shuichi looking down at the pool from Ryoma's Research Lab

Backyard

Boiler Room & Underground Passage

• Description
• Gallery

Located behind the school building is the Boiler Room. It has two entrances and becomes explorable from Chapter 1 onward. Due to the greenery that Kirumi assumes would interfere with the machinery, she believes the preparations of the academy as a whole are yet to be completed prior to the students' kidnapping. A heavy manhole and ladder leading to a spacious open area are hidden in grass, with Gonta being the first person to discover it.

Main article: Death Road of Despair

“

The underground passage was a trap. It was a trap to get us to *think* we could work together, then crush our hopes. — Shuichi Saihara[15]

”

Moist, dusty air drifts through the dreary open area adjacent to an old industrial underground passage conspicuously labeled as "Exit", also known as the Death Road of Despair. The students are not intended to clear the Death Road of Despair before Chapter 5 due to its high difficulty level, however, if they do complete it, they will unlock a bonus scene featuring an alternate ending in which the students escape and other in-game bonuses.

Kaede or Shuichi can attempt the minigame as much as they like during Free Time Events, since Gonta leaves the cover off per Kirumi's counsel. However, while Angie reigns as the student council president in Chapter 3, she wants the students to abandon their desire to leave the academy and requests Gonta to bury the manhole with heavy rocks. Gonta reopens it after Angie dies.

“

This place seems less like a building and more like...the inside of a spaceship, or a submarine in some anime or sci-fi movie. — Tsumugi Shirogane[9]

”

Since clearing the minigame before Chapter 5 is optional, Kokichi becomes the first person to canonically reach the end point in Chapter 4 in search of the door that the Card Key opens. He accomplishes this feat most likely with the help of Miu's Electrohammer. To open the door, the operation panel for the electric barrier, similar to the one in front of the Exisal hangar, must either be disabled using the Electrohammer or unlocked using the correct password.

The door opens to the sight of the outside world in utter ruins, which matches the memories implanted by the Flashback Light about the Gofer Project. Even the students immediately suffocate and pass out due to the lack of oxygen. However, Tsumugi claims in the final class trial that it is merely a set created by Team Danganronpa.

After the school renovation is completed in Chapter 6, the Boiler Room is no longer covered in grass, and one of the clues to solve the Ultimate Survivor lab's puzzle, "twin b," becomes easily spotted on the wall. It collapses shortly after as collateral damage to K1-B0 and the Exisals' fight, burying the manhole permanently.

Locations

Backyard/Boiler Room

Boiler Room
(Chapter 6)

Clue to opening the Ultimate Survivor Research Lab's vault

Manhole

Underground Passage Exit

Events

Gonta lifting the manhole cover

Kaede despairing over the realization they cannot get through the Death Road of Despair

The students becoming exhausted at failing the Death Road of Despair many times

Half of the students giving up on the Death Road of Despair

The remaining students opening the exit door

The remaining students opening the exit door

The remaining students opening the exit door

The remaining students opening the exit door

The remaining students opening the exit door

The remaining students opening the exit door

Kokichi controlling the Exisals

Kaito captured by an Exisal

A clue to unlocking the Ultimate Survivor lab's vault

Nightspot

Main article: Casino & Hotel Kumasutra

• Description
• Gallery

The Nightspot area is located inside a castle-like complex. Its gate can be unlocked using the Hexagonal Crank in Chapter 2. The area is comprised of the Casino and Hotel Kumasutra.

A Casino bonus scene can be triggered by handing out the Commemorative Medal Set Present to Miu in the morning after the new area exploration in Chapter 2.

Entrance

Casino

Love Suite

Plaza in Front of Large Stairs

Ultimate Aikido Research Lab

• Description
• Gallery

The Ultimate Aikido Master Research Lab (超高校級の合気道家の研究教室), belonging to Tenko, rises up in Chapter 3 after the Ninja Scroll is placed on the ninja statue resembling Ninja Hattori. It is located next to the Shrine of Judgement.

The research lab is a large and spacious dojo covered with new tatami mats. It has several scaffolds suspended by chains to the ceiling for jump training, balance poles, and automated-moving practice dummies to spar with. A large purple banner hangs in the middle with a logo resembling the patterns in Tenko's bow. Under the banner is a sizable wooden doll resembling the Tekken character Mokujin erected to watch over and protect the lab owner, as speculated by Shuichi.

Following Tenko's death, a bonus scene in Chapter 4 where Himiko spars with Shuichi and Gonta in Tenko's lab to honor her can be triggered by handing out Himiko a Dark Belt present in the morning after the new area exploration.

Ninja Statue

Tenko throwing Shuichi

Tenko throwing Himiko

Ultimate Inventor Research Lab

The Ultimate Inventor Lab (超高校級の発明家の研究教室), belonging to Miu, is unlocked in the later half of Chapter 1 after Monokuma finishes preparing it, though the player cannot enter it until Chapter 2. It is packed with large, dangerous looking tools such as chainsaws and drills that hang from the ceiling, as well as a bed to perform experiments on, and tables that hold chemicals. There is also large screens on the back wall and fancy-looking chairs and couches.

During the killing game, Miu creates many of her inventions in her lab. These include the modified hidden camera Shuichi and Kaede set up in the library, the "drome" she uses to capture the aerial layout of the library, the Electrohammers, Electrobombs, and the Bugvac. She also performs maintenance on K1-B0 and upgrades him with a new light function which he uses while investigating Tenko's death. According to K1-B0, Miu spends most of her free time working on her invention, having seen plenty of half-built machines in her lab.

From Chapter 4 onward, Miu's research lab merges with K1-B0's.

Miu performing maintenance on K1-B0

Merged with the Ultimate Robot Research lab

Ultimate Robot Research Lab

The Ultimate Robot Lab (超高校級のロボットの研究教室), belonging to K1-B0, emerges out of thin air after the Levistone is placed on a pedestal with an indentation in Chapter 4. It is connected to Miu's lab and chock full of a futuristic sci-fi aesthetic. It is primarily blue, with glowing lights from cyan to a bright yellow, and has a window overlooking the hangar, allowing K1-B0 to spy on anyone entering or leaving the building.

There are hologram screens and a station to repair or upgrade K1-B0 at a given moment. Machinery and robot maintenance is the main point of his lab, and for this K1-B0 prefers not to bother using any of the things in there.

After losing his antenna and therefore the "guidance" from the killing game audience at the end of Chapter 5, K1-B0 finally embraces his talent and decides to destroy the school. He arms himself with a rocket launcher and jet pack he obtains from his lab, and drastically improves their power output and functionality through several modifications. As such, he can obliterate any parts of the school with ease and go toe-to-toe with five Exisals for the span of one night.

K1-B0 also installs a zoom function, enhancing his vision to be on par with that of a microscope and allowing him to detect the Nanokumas trapped in the Bugvac.

It is unknown why Monokuma intentionally left this potent equipment in K1-B0's lab. However, once K1-B0 agrees to a ceasefire and participates civilly in the last class trial, Monokuma orders the Monokubs to install a new antenna on him, which unwittingly causes him to hear the audience survey once again.

K1-B0 spotting Himiko walking into the Hangar

Shrine of Judgement

• Description
• Gallery

“

The Ultimate Academy is proud to present its very own morphenomenal trial grounds! — Monokuma[22]

”

The Shrine of Judgement is a conservatory with a bird-cage like design that doubles as the entrance to the courtroom. The interior has been exceptionally well-maintained ever since the beginning of the killing game, unlike its exterior that gets gradually cleaned up after each class trial.

In Chapter 1, a Monokuma statue with a human body is added to the water fountain. Before every trial, the statue breaks the urn it holds before submerging, revealing a pathway and a secret door to the elevator that transports the students to the underground courtroom.

The courtroom is built by the Monokubs and their Exisals. It houses circling sixteen podiums each assigned to a student. Monokuma gets his own throne while the Monokubs' occupy the podiums in front of him. From Chapter 1 to Chapter 4, its backdrop and overall design are unchanged. Its most notable aspect is the stained glass windows, which vaguely resemble the Sayaka Maizono idol group CG from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.

In Chapter 5, Monokuma changes the design to closely resemble Danganronpa 1's first class trial courtroom, while the Chapter 6 class trial is given a brand new all-blue theme with the killing game audience actively watching in the background.

The courtroom is equipped with monitors to broadcast the voting results and other transmissions, a monitor on each podium for the students to cast their vote, and a stool to accommodate Ryoma. A large and separate podium for the Exisal piloted by Kaito is added exclusively during the fifth class trial. During Debate Scrums, the podiums are raised to the ceiling where the students split into two groups and argue until they reach a consensus.

A deceased portrait is placed on a stand at the podiums of the fallen students and Monokubs. It is usually crossed with a red X adjusted to match each individuals. Some even have completely unique marks related to either their Ultimate talents or personality traits. Unique to Kaito and Kokichi during the fifth trial, their portraits are covered with a question mark since Monokuma cannot determine which one is the murder victim between the pair.

Locations

Shrine of Judgement Interior
(Prologue)

Shrine of Judgement Nighttime

Shrine of Judgement Elevator

Shrine of Judgement Interior
(Chapter 6)

Courtroom
(Chapter 5 - aerial view)

Courtroom
(Chapter 6)

Courtroom
(Chapter 6 - post-trial)

Monokuma and Monokubs' seats

Ryoma's stool

Killing game audience

Killing game audience

Killing game audience

Danganronpa V3 true logo

Events

Students in the elevator to the Class Trial room
(Chapter 1)

Kaede encouraging Shuichi to not fear discovering the truth

Tenko, Gonta, and Kaito trying to protect Kaede from her execution

Kaito punching Shuichi

Students in the elevator to the Class Trial room
(Chapter 2)

Kirumi frantically trying to escape her execution

Kirumi frantically trying to escape her execution

Maki strangling Kokichi to keep him silent

Kokichi revealing Maki's true talent: Ultimate Assassin

Students in the elevator to the Class Trial room
(Chapter 3)

K1-B0 printing the magic circle

K1-B0 printing the magic circle

Himiko breaking down after the trial is over

Students in the elevator to the Class Trial room
(Chapter 4)

Kokichi outing Gonta as the culprit

Monokuma revealing Gonta Alter Ego

Kokichi's insanity

Kokichi's insanity

Kokichi hitting Kaito

Kaito coughing up in front of the remaining students

Students in the elevator to the Class Trial room
(Chapter 5 & 6)

The Monokubs making their return

Kaito emerging from the Exisal

K1-B0 being told that he was the audience surrogate

K1-B0's camera

The video feed being broadcasted to the outside world

Deceased Portraits

Angie Yonaga

Gonta Gokuhara

Kaede Akamatsu

Kaito Momota
(Chapter 5)

Kaito Momota
(Chapter 6)

Kokichi Oma
(Chapter 5)

Kokichi Oma
(Chapter 6)

Korekiyo Shinguji

Kirumi Tojo

Miu Iruma

Rantaro Amami

Ryoma Hoshi

Tenko Chabashira

Monodam

Monokid

Monophanie

Monosuke

Monotaro

Cyber Courtyard

Exisal Hangar

• Description
• Kokichi's Death
• Gallery

“

K1-B0: "I feel like I'm on the set of a sci-fi movie. A mecha could pop out at any moment..." Shuichi: ...It took every ounce of my strength to hold in what I wanted to say.[9]

”

The metal door to the Exisal Hangar is opened by the Real Last Key in Chapter 5. Being a facility of utmost importance, Monokuma fortifies the hangar by placing it behind a maze-like hallway and erecting an electric barrier protecting its shutter.

If any being other than the Exisals and their pilots attempts to approach the shutter or the operation panel without turning off the system, an alarm will go off. To turn it off, a 59-digit code needs to be entered in the control panel, with the first 42 digits being 503934857857362940569285811037959390029298778848. No other method but to disable it using Miu's Electrohammer or Electrobomb works, as shown when Maki futilly attempts to break the control panel with her knife.

Since all Monokubs perished and no one was left to man the Exisals, Monokuma allows K1-B0 and Shuichi to tour the hangar once. He gives them the alarm remote to the students that can turn off both the motion sensor alarm and the electric barrier. They have to manually raise the shutter to enter the hangar and either use the control panel inside to restore the alarm system and electric barrier or use the one outside. If left alone, the barrier and alarm will remain off. While kidnapping Kaito with the Exisals, Kokichi forces Shuichi to hand him the remote.

Inside the hangar, all five dormant Exisals are stored. They were painted using the painting machine, which K1-B0 potentially could use to give himself a makeover, and were cleaned using the washing machine while the Monokubs were around.

The room also features a hydraulic press used to scrap decommissioned Exisals. According to the safety notice, the press stops automatically if the infrared sensor detects a living being, though sentient machines such as K1-B0 are excluded. It is controlled by the Press Operation Panel, allowing it to go up and down. In addition, there is an "Emergency Stop" button, which would stop the press.

A toilet is located at the back of the hangar. It is unknown what purpose it serves as originally only Monokuma and the Monokubs have access to the area. Kokichi locks Kaito inside the bathroom after kidnapping him. However, it has a small eight-inches wide window for ventilation. While it doesn't open all the way, it is big enough to allow Kaito to communicate with Shuichi and receive items such as the crossbow case from Himiko.

Kokichi, while pretending to be the mastermind, takes advantage of the Monokubs' absent and hacks the Exisals using a master remote control he commissions from Miu. He commands the Exisals to kidnap Kaito. In addition, he puts them on autopilot and direct to monitor Monokuma 24/7 in the hangar hallway, preventing him from interfering with his plan to end the killing game.

While Kokichi checks up on Kaito at the toilet, he aims for Kokichi's right arm using the crossbow, only intending to disable him. The scuffle bleeds to the main room, though before Kokichi could summon an Exisal with the remote control, Maki opens the shutter, leaps out from Monodam's Exisal, and shoots Kokichi's back with her a poisoned arrow.

Since Kokichi has no idea about the Ultimate Despair memories implanted by the Flashback Light, the infuriated Maki decides to end his life instead of questioning him further. To keep Maki from becoming the blackened, however, Kaito used his left arm to shield Kokichi. Not wanting him to die from poison, Maki bolts out to retrieve the antidote from Shuichi's lab.

Kokichi incorporates this unforeseen event into his plan to help him end the killing game. He closes the shutter, forcing Maki to deliver the antidote through the window. However, Kokichi immediately snatches it and fools Maki into thinking he drinks the antidote.

After Maki leaves, Kokichi disables the unseen swarming Nanokumas with an Electrobomb to ensure Monokuma cannot surveil the hangar. It also disables the safety function of the hydraulic press and the hangar's shutter alarm. Kokichi then coerces Kaito into drinking the antidote. In exchange, he asks Kaito to cooperate with his plan. Believing his plan will work, Kaito agrees to become his accomplice and begin working before Kokichi succumbs to the slow-acting poison.

After fabricating the scene in the bathroom, Kaito drags Kokichi to the hydraulic press, leaving behind swipe pattern bloodstain from the bathroom to the press. With Kaito's support, Kokichi stands in front of the press's control panel and sets up the video camera near the press control panel.

In the meantime, Kaito lays face up inside the press, drapes his coat over their shoulders. Then, Kokichi activates the press and the camera's record button at the same time. The hydraulic press comes down slowly, all caught on tape for the remaining survivors to see. Normally the safety function would have triggered, but the Electrobomb had disabled it. The press gets lower and lower, and just as Kaito disappears from view, Kokichi presses the "Force Stop" button and the camera's pause button simultaneously.

The two then switch places. Kaito, the would-be victim becomes the culprit, starts up the press and camera, allowing the camera to record Kokichi being crushed to death. Kaito later confirms that along with Kokichi's body, he crushes the Exisals' remote control and the last Electrobomb. Now alone, Kaito collects the video camera and tears the hydraulic press's power cord to prevent anyone from determining the identity of the crushed body and the cause of death.

With the press disabled, Kaito returns to the bathroom to flush Kokichi's clothes. Finally, he climbs inside of Monotaro's Exisal to hide, stay still during the investigation, and later participate in the class trial while pretending to be Kokichi using the Exisal's voice changer.

Aftermath

The next morning, the remaining survivors disable the alarm system and the electric barrier using an Electrobomb Maki steals from Kokichi. They intend to save Kaito, only to be greeted by a body discovery announcement. Since Kaito's jacket sleeve sticks out of the press, they initially think Kaito is the murder victim.

Several pieces of evidence are left behind in the toilet. These include a puddle of blood from Kokichi's wound that creates a trail of blood to the press. There are also a black case and the built crossbow from Maki's lab, three arrows used during the three-way confrontation, the empty bottle of the antidote, and Kokichi's clothes that Kaito cannot flush all the way.

Since the Exisals' remote control is destroyed, all of them, except for Monotaro's which Kaito pilots, have stopped moving altogether, allowing Monokuma to resume his host duties. Monokid's, Monophanie's, and Monosuke's remain in the hallway whilst Monodam's, which Maki previously controls, is left inside the hangar with its cockpit exposed. Furthermore, K1-B0, who malfunctions or "feels sick" due to the Electrobomb's jamming effect, had to step out of the hangar until it dissipates.

Locations

Keyholec

Thick Metal Door

Cyber Courtyard

Cyber Courtyard

Cyber Courtyard

Exisal Hangar Shutter

Exisal Hangar
(fifth investigation)

Bathroom Window

Events

Shuichi visiting Kaito in the bathroom window

Monokuma and Cubs Theater
(Chapter 5; English)

Maki confronting Kokichi

Maki confronting Kokichi with Kaito in the hanger

Maki confronting Kokichi

Maki shooting Kokichi but hitting Kaito instead

Maki calling out for Kaito

Kokichi stealing the antidote from Kaito

Kokichi pretending to drink the antidote

The remaining survivors discovering Kokichi's body

Shuichi shocked at what he thinks is Kaito's body

References

Trivia

• Part of the Ultimate Academy's Japanese name 才囚 saishū, meaning "talented prisoner", is homophonous with the word 最終, meaning "final or "last". In addition, the word 最終 saishū is comprised of Shuichi's last name kanji, 最原 saihara.

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