After introducing themselves, the people gathered in the entrance hall began discussing the situation. Indeed, any normal person would have realized something was wrong. According to their memories, they were supposed to be new students arriving at this school. Yet after entering, they had suddenly lost consciousness, only to wake up and find themselves asleep somewhere in the school.
Not only that, their communication devices had vanished. Then there were the heavy steel plates covering the windows, the completely sealed entrance, and those things on either side that looked like heavy machine guns... It would be stranger not to find this suspicious!
Fang Zheng did not join in their discussion. Instead, he stood in a corner and silently considered the situation before him.
Fang Zheng was fairly familiar with this world. He had played all three Danganronpa games: the Danganronpa 1 he was currently in, Danganronpa 2, which replayed the events in a virtual world, and Danganronpa 1.5, which followed Makoto Naegi's younger sister. Thus, he understood this world's background fairly well.
Simply put, someone known as "Ultimate Despair" had triggered the largest and most heinous incident in the world, causing despair to spread and destroy the entire world. The people before him had actually been survivors brought into this shelter for protection.
However, the mastermind had killed Hope's Peak Academy's headmaster, seized control of the place, and somehow erased two years of everyone's memories. That was how this mutual-killing game of despair had begun.
Although their memories currently remained at the point when they had just enrolled, they had actually been companions living together for two years.
As for the mastermind... there was no need to dance around it. He might as well state the conclusion outright.
It was Junko Enoshima, the "Ultimate Despair."
In truth, the Junko Enoshima