Chapter Summaries

Wang Yan hired Hinata Hajime to test his games, praising him as a Super High School Level Ordinary Person and offering him a lucrative salary. After discussing Wang Yan’s hacking skills and hinting at Enoshima Junko’s hidden talent, the group prepared to eat and test his new game.

• Wang Yan explained that Hinata Hajime’s utterly average traits made him ideal for debugging and offered him an annual salary of 3,043,000 yen.
• Hinata Hajime accepted the job, and Wang Yan praised him for making the choice ordinary people would make.
• Wang Yan revealed that the school had offered him the titles Super High School Level Hacker and Super High School Level Game Developer, then hinted that Enoshima Junko had another talent.
• Nanami Chiaki said Hinata Hajime looked above average, and Komaeda Nagito apologized for his earlier rudeness and hugged him.
• Wang Yan recruited Komaeda Nagito, Nanami Chiaki, and Hinata Hajime to eat together and test his new game.

Wang Yan secured the Class 77 representative position by persuading Sonia Nevermind and Byakuya Togami to withdraw, then invited the students and Chisa Yukizome to a feast. After explaining his approach to Hinata Hajime, he announced that he had something serious to discuss.

• Sonia Nevermind objected to Wang Yan becoming class representative, but withdrew after receiving his message promising a Joan of Arc-like character in his new game.
• Byakuya Togami objected to being led by a man, but Wang Yan confronted him about his secret, revealing to readers that he was actually the Ultimate Imposter.
• Wang Yan became class representative and invited his classmates and Chisa Yukizome to a meal.
• At the feast, Wang Yan told Hinata Hajime how he had used information about Sonia and Togami to persuade them to back down.
• Wang Yan clapped his hands and told everyone he wanted to discuss something serious.

Wang Yan gave the students a game to test, and Hinata Hajime became engrossed in its collectible-card stories about Hope’s Peak Academy protagonists. After months of playing, Hinata unlocked the Class 77 enrollment scenario, whose ominous title left him unsettled.

• Wang Yan gave each student an Alienware laptop with his new game installed, and Hinata began playing as Li Qiushan.
• Hinata collected cards and built skills and relationships while Nanami Chiaki rerolled character attributes and Komaeda Nagito demonstrated ways to obtain rare cards.
• Komaeda explained how to unlock Kamijo Touma’s Golden Character Card and described other unlikely methods for obtaining rare protagonist cards.
• After several months, Hinata’s collection rate reached 48.8%, trailing Nanami’s and Komaeda’s.
• Hinata unlocked the scenario “The Sunset Glow Before Despair! Class 77 Freshmen Enrollment!” and tried to reassure himself that it was only a game.

Hinata Hajime explored a newly unlocked Danganronpa scenario after Komaeda Nagito obtained Izuru Kamukura’s red character card. They discovered that Izuru looked exactly like Hinata and was called “Senior Hinata” in the game, leaving Hinata unsettled by the possibility that the scenario reflected something real.

• Hinata Hajime completed the Class 77 and Class 78 scenarios, collected Wang Yan’s character card, and played through Wang Yan’s game-development story.
• Hinata Hajime earned an achievement for developing Danganronpa within Danganronpa.
• Komaeda Nagito showed Hinata a red character card for Izuru Kamukura, unlocked in the Class 78 freshman scenario.
• Hinata Hajime and Komaeda Nagito sought Nanami Chiaki’s help and discovered that Izuru looked exactly like Hinata and was called “Senior Hinata” by Makoto Naegi.
• Komaeda Nagito said a Class 78 junior had told him the game’s main scenario was completed a year earlier, before Wang Yan might have known Hinata.

Hinata Hajime and Komaeda Nagito tried to uncover the identity of the last red Protagonist Card, but Wang Yan could not remember who it belonged to. Their questioning was interrupted when Kirigiri Kyoko reported that all thirteen student council members had died, leaving the group facing a new mystery.

• Hinata Hajime and Komaeda Nagito discussed Fujisaki Chihiro's identity and learned that he was a boy who dressed as a girl after being bullied.
• Komaeda Nagito theorized that Hinata Hajime might be Izuru Kamukura, while Hinata wondered whether Izuru could be his ancestor.
• Hinata Hajime and Komaeda Nagito asked Wang Yan who held the final red Protagonist Card, but Wang Yan could not remember and suffered intense pain when he tried.
• Kirigiri Kyoko arrived and told Wang Yan that all thirteen student council members had died half an hour earlier.

After the Student Council massacre, suspicion and resentment divided Hope’s Peak’s Preparatory Course students from the Ultimates, escalating into a riot at the Safe House. Akane Owari killed thirty-five protesters in seven minutes, and Wang Yan noticed her apparent satisfaction as she slaughtered them.

• Kirigiri Kyoko concluded that one perpetrator had killed all thirteen Student Council members, while Hinata Hajime demanded justice and Komaeda Nagito admired the killer’s talent.
• Wang Yan realized the murderer was likely an Ultimate, and rumors spread that the school was protecting a talented killer, turning Preparatory Course students against the Ultimates.
• The school moved the students of Classes 77 and 78 into the Safe House, but its location was exposed and an angry crowd attacked them with weapons and Molotov cocktails.
• Mondo Owada charged into the protesters to defend Peko Pekoyama and was beaten, while Akane Owari joined the fight and killed thirty-five attackers in seven minutes.
• Wang Yan watched Akane Owari and noticed that her eyes showed a sick satisfaction as she stabbed people.

After the Safe House massacre, Hope’s Peak Academy sealed the campus and allowed unrest among the Preparatory Course students to escalate. Meanwhile, Makoto Naegi underwent the Kamukura Project and emerged as Izuru Kamukura, killing Principal Jin Kirigiri before leaving the underground base.

• Akane Owari received no condemnation for killing attackers during the Safe House riot, while Komaeda Nagito admired her and Makoto Naegi envied Komaeda’s luck.
• Hope’s Peak Academy moved Class 77 and Class 78 to a research base, sealed the campus, and failed to respond to the growing protests.
• Komaeda Nagito and Hinata Hajime revealed that Class 77’s Byakuya Togami was the Ultimate Imposter, prompting Preparatory Course students to demand his death and call for all talented people to be killed.
• Three days later, Makoto Naegi awoke in an underground experimental base after the Kamukura Project and showed no emotion toward the corpse at his feet.
• Jin Kirigiri declared Makoto the Ultimate Hope and renamed him Izuru Kamukura, but Makoto called the matter boring, struck Jin in the chest, and left him dying.

Enoshima Junko analyzed the Student Council massacre and the mass suicides, then accused the survivors of harboring a traitor. She shot Akane Owari before revealing herself as the killer.

• Enoshima Junko introduced herself as the Super High School Level Analyst and presented evidence about the Student Council massacre.
• Junko inferred that two people had been present during the massacre and described a chaotic, despair-fueled fight.
• Junko showed images of the Preparatory Course students’ mass suicides and claimed the mastermind could manipulate and brainwash people.
• Junko declared that a traitor among the survivors had leaked information, prompting suspicion to fall on Akane Owari.
• Junko shot Akane five times, then admitted that she was the killer.

Enoshima Junko revealed that she and Akane Owari had orchestrated the killings to spread despair, then apparently died after Wang Yan shot her. A recording of Junko began influencing the gifted students until Makoto Naegi arrived and stopped it, while Wang Yan prepared to honor his promise.

• Hinata Hajime confronted Enoshima Junko, who admitted she had caused everything with help from Akane Owari and declared her love of despair.
• Enoshima Junko kissed Akane Owari's corpse and claimed she had shared her greatest despair with her sister.
• Enoshima Junko revealed she had taken poison and died after Wang Yan shot her repeatedly, warning that despair had already spread.
• A video of Enoshima Junko played on the computer and urged the gifted students to become agents of despair, leaving them unable to look away.
• Makoto Naegi arrived, ordered everyone to close their eyes, and shut off the video.
• Wang Yan told Makoto Naegi that he would keep his promise.

Makoto Naegi defeated Komaeda Nagito after his luck caused the gun to misfire, but Wang Yan revealed that Enoshima Junko's despair video had plunged the world into chaos. Wang Yan decided to gather their allies and stop society from collapsing.

• Komaeda Nagito, brainwashed by Enoshima Junko's video, aimed his gun at Wang Yan, Makoto Naegi, and Hinata Hajime, while Peko Pekoyama and Sakura Ogami tried to attack him and fell in pools of blood.
• Komaeda Nagito's gun misfired when he pulled the trigger at Makoto Naegi, who knocked him unconscious and said he would need thirteen days to recover.
• Wang Yan showed the group live news of violence and societal collapse spreading around the world as Despair Syndrome infected governments and civilians.
• Wang Yan told everyone to rest and prepare, then decided to unite their strength to prevent the world from descending further into apocalypse.

Wang Yan worked to reverse the apocalypse and helped Mikan Tsumiki deliver messages from Nanami Chiaki and Komaeda Nagito. After completing Danganronpa and killing Enoshima Junko in the game, he heard a familiar voice, recovered a sealed memory, and saw the world turn into streams of data.

• Wang Yan identified people exploiting the apocalypse and handed them over to the armed forces while anti-brainwashing videos helped some victims recover.
• Mikan Tsumiki stumbled into Wang Yan's office and relayed messages from Nanami Chiaki and Komaeda Nagito.
• Wang Yan told Mikan Tsumiki to have Nanami Chiaki and Komaeda Nagito speak to him directly, then sent her back to work.
• Wang Yan opened Danganronpa, used his in-game self to kill Enoshima Junko, and collected the final upgraded red Protagonist Card.
• Wang Yan heard a familiar voice, endured a surge of pain, and remembered that the voice was his own as the world transformed into streams of data.

After reliving a lifetime as the Ultimate Ruler, Wang Yan ended his life, and his main body reversed time across the Danganronpa plane. Back in his student days with his memories intact, he encountered Hinata Hajime and set out to prevent the tragedies that had shaped his first life.

• Wang Yan’s projection recalled how Enoshima Junko’s despair devastated the world, how he imposed order as the Ultimate Ruler, and how he lost his friends over the decades.
• Wang Yan decided to end his life, believing Skynet EGO could maintain the crime-free world without him.
• Wang Yan’s main body reversed time across the Danganronpa plane, and his projection retained his memories as a reincarnator.
• Wang Yan returned to his student days outside Hope’s Peak Academy and ran into Hinata Hajime.
• Wang Yan told Hinata to work for him and insisted that ordinary talent could become special when taken to its extreme.

Rick C-137 and Morty arrived in the Main God Space, where Rick met Orochimaru and agreed to become friends after discovering the space had McDonald’s Sichuan Spicy Sauce. Orochimaru hoped to form an alliance with Rick, while nearby Reincarnators fled to avoid the Cold Lord’s wrath.

• Rick and Morty arrived in the Main God Space, and Rick explained that Reincarnators could be resurrected before trying to bargain for an annihilator.
• Rick spotted Orochimaru, introduced himself, and proposed that Orochimaru invest in him and Morty.
• Orochimaru recognized Rick as the scientist he had admired and proposed exchanging knowledge and resources and forming an alliance.
• Rick revealed that he had become a Reincarnator to find McDonald’s Sichuan Spicy Sauce, then agreed to be friends with Orochimaru.
• The nearby Reincarnators fled, and after Rick, Morty, and Orochimaru left, two Reincarnators entered the empty market and one said he planned to leave the Main God Space.

Zou Hongyang left the Main God Space seeking an ordinary life, unaware that his repeated departures and returns had become a running cycle for his teammates. Later, Wang Yan set out to find the Marvel Supreme Being who had hidden the Aether.

• Yu Zhanpeng tried to dissuade Zou Hongyang from leaving, but Zou Hongyang gave him his equipment and vanished from the Main God Space.
• Yu Zhanpeng’s teammates revealed that Zou Hongyang had left and returned four times before, each time seeking a better new life, and wagered on when he would return again.
• Two weeks later, Zou Hongyang appeared as a novice Reincarnator in the Entertainment Era Plane, where Yu Zhanpeng became his enemy and repeatedly fought him without seriously harming him.
• Wang Yan, having increased his strength and authority over the Myriad Worlds, decided to seek the Marvel Supreme Being who had hidden the Aether.

Wang Yan defeated the threat to the Main God Space, restored the Reincarnators and multiverses, and returned to his role as ruler of Extremal Universe. Before beginning a new cycle, he removed the Law of Necessity so that all lives could choose their own paths, naming the cycle Miracle Generation.

• Wang Yan met OAA, who had taken Stan Lee’s form, and learned that OAA had been protecting him while waiting for him to discover the truth himself.
• Wang Yan encountered He Xie, the force that had destroyed every organization like the Main God Space, and watched it erase nearly all the Reincarnators before its attacks left only Wang Yan standing.
• Wang Yan rewrote the rules governing language and description, dispersed He Xie, and revived every fallen Reincarnator and restored the destroyed multiverses.
• After a trillion years, Wang Yan left Myriad Worlds and returned to Extremal Universe, where the Assistant Program confessed that it had once tried to seize his authority but could not bear the loneliness of his memories.
• Wang Yan removed the Law of Necessity so that living beings would no longer be bound to predetermined fates, declined the Assistant Program’s offer of a spouse, and named the next cycle Miracle Generation.
• Wang Yan sent a note to the Observers beyond the boundary barrier, asking what their reality was, and affirmed that his reality was cherishing what lay before him.