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Main installments: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc | Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair | Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School | Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Spin-offs: Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls

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Fridge Horror

• The music in executions is (most likely) a case of Painting the Medium and exists only to for the player. Which means that what the students actually heard during the executions was Leon's crying and pleading for help as he is pelted with baseballs, Mondo's screaming as he is electrocuted and Celestia's body getting crushed as the truck hits her. Sweet dreams.
• In Chapter 1, before the murder actually happens, everyone makes a big deal about what bullshit Monokuma is spouting if he actually thinks the students would ever resort to murder. Besides, Makoto thinks, they all seem like such nice people, don't they (Mondo's bad temper, Toko's paranoia, and Byakuya's jerkass tendencies aside)? Well, obviously, a murder does happen, but that's obvious when it comes to this game. The Fridge Horror kicks in when Monokuma executes Leon, the first murderer: everyone crowds around to watch the execution up close! Everyone! Nobody tries to stop the baseball machine from beating Leon to death, nobody throws up, nobody even averts their eyes. They just... stand there, like members of a lynch mob who aren't actually participating in the lynching. Certainly they all call Monokuma a monster, say this is too cruel, etc., but that's after the execution is over. While it's happening, they all crowd around outside the batting cage like solemn judges. This is the player's first clue that all the students are capable of murder, and thus everyone is a suspect in every case.
  • Or, more likely, they were too horrified to act. There is such a thing as being shell-shocked, and it was a particularly heinous death.
  • Their facial expressions suggest that they're too scared to do anything. Too scared to protest, to move, to even look away. Even Kyoko and Byakuya, who've likely seen some terrible things, are standing in terror at what Monokuma is both capable and willing to do.
• What would have happened to Sayaka if she succeeded in framing Makoto? She would have learned how her friends in the idol group died and nothing more, because Monokuma gave a Literal Genie question in the video. If she was released into the outside world, she might have had to find out about their death by herself.
  • Sayaka's friends were never confirmed to have been killed, just kidnapped. Additionally, in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, one of her bandmates, Ayaka Haneyama, was confirmed to have at least survived up to the attack on Towa City. Whether or not she survived afterwards is unknown, but at least one of Sayaka's friends was alive and well when she put her plan in motion.
• In Chapter 4, Alter Ego's execution involves it getting compacted into a metal ball by getting smashed by an excavator's claw, which is bad enough on its own. But Monokuma made it worse by making an offhand comment about not wanting it to go to waste, implying it was originally meant for someone else. Considering the events just prior to the murder, that was supposed to be Sakura's execution.
  • Oh, ho, it's even worse than you let on. You notice how Alter Ego was destroyed with demolition equipment? It's very likely that Monokuma was going to wring the maximum amount of despair out of Sakura by destroying her along with her most cherished family heirloom: the 300-year old dojo, the very same one she tried to protect by assisting Monokuma.
  • Speaking of which, with the revelation of the mayhem in the outside world, what are the chances that the dojo has already been destroyed?
  • Speaking of Alter Ego's execution, as he earlier mentioned that Naegi carrying him under his shirt tickles, Alter Ego (or at least the laptop) must be touch sensitive. Which means that he feels pain during the execution like any other one, too.
    • You can actually see Alter Ego wince in pain after the first hit. He's entirely aware of what's happening to him.
  • Uh, Jossed. All the students who didn't get executed had a separate execution planned, and Sakura's involved getting overwhelmed by an army.
  • It’s likely that this execution was originally intended for Sakura, but was given a new one so as to not reuse the first one.
• In Chapter 4, Sakura's suicide note implies that she was originally completely willing to commit murder to protect her dojo, but Monokuma told her to wait after Sayaka starts the killing game before she had the chance to, and she grew softer after spending time with the other students. In Chapter 1, Hina has Sakura stay with her on the same night Sayaka attempts to murder Leon. If the implication is true, that means Hina brushed with death and nearly died at the same time as Sayaka.
• Chapter 5's bad ending. It's actually set up like a happy ending at first: after Kyoko is executed, the murders stop for good. So everyone lives life in bliss inside the school, as depicted in a photograph you see while Makoto is narrating. What makes it both "fridge" and "horror" creeps in through three ways: first, Makoto, Byakuya, Aoi, and Yasuhiro are alive in the photograph, but Toko is not, she's just a photograph like all the previously killed students. It's never explained whether Toko was killed, committed suicide, or was executed. Second, the murders may have stopped and life in the school may be happy, but these students were all Ultimates when they arrived, which means they're trapped in a gilded cage where the world can never appreciate their potential. Third, there are three children in the photograph. A boy by Byakuya, a toddler by Makoto, and an infant by Yasuhiro. The thing is, Toko is dead...which means Aoi is the only one who could've given birth to the children...which means Aoi is continuing the students' family trees inside the school by herself! Although that last one might be less Fridge Horror if you interpret the situation as Aoi making the best out of the situation as it's possible, and thus having three men to herself in a sort-of harem.
  • On the other hand... Since we don't know when Touko Fukawa died, it's not unlikely that her death happened quite recently. Therefore, there's at least the possibility that one of the three children might be hers — including the boy fathered by Byakuya. Does this mean that she fell victim to Death by Childbirth, and maybe by giving birth to the child of the guy she either loved or believed that she loved? Remember, the infirmary of Hope's Peak isn't much different to the one of a normal school and most likely not outfitted for childbirth, which can be pretty risky if not supervised. Plus Touko is a rather slender girl, unlike Aoi who at least is quite athletic and has wide child-bearing hips... Eeeeeeep.
  • Also, Aoi so far has only given birth to boys. (Unless Touko was the Missing Mom of one of them). Which means potentially they're gonna have to keep trying to get a girl, if they want to continue their bloodlines. Incest ahoy.
  • You're also forgetting that the air purifying machine will stop working when Junko dies. Though she might live longer than the remaining students, she won't live forever. And then those kids that only knew life inside the school would have to leave or suffocate inside— and considering that Junko has the only means of opening the door to the outside world, well... the odds of survival are not in their favour.
    • Junko will get bored after experiencing the despair of her "winning" and putting the others in despair so much that they choose to stay in the academy (weather it be in the main bad end or they somehow decide to choose "Despair" in the final trial,) so I’d imagine she probably would kill herself at some point afterward, giving everyone just enough time to have kids and get comfortable, shutting down the air purifier and forcing everyone outside. In that scenario she could still ascend to godhood, just through her own hand instead of becoming a martyr. If that galvanized her followers, then that means that any tenuous peace that was established during the “downtime” in the outside world would be crushed, which would be equally, if not more, demoralizing as the way things go in canon. We know Junko understands that you need to first have hope in order for it to get crushed, and since on a meta level she’s more about upending established, predictable tropes in media, I think it would just be a change from “villain dies but isn’t defeated so easily” to “happily ever after gets interrupted.”
  • That, or Toko was just taking the photo and Byakuya held her photo as a place holder.
    • That is clearly a Memorial Photo, indicating that Toko is dead.
  • Word of God has stated that Toko died in the bad ending from an unspecified explosion, and that Aoi is the mother of all three children.
• You saw the Fridge Brilliance entry about the last execution? If no-one deliberately tampered with the crusher, then Junko (or rather her Monokuma personality) deliberately designed that Hope Spot to deny herself despair. She's that fucked up.
  • Actually, someone may have. Alter Ego has already shown that he/she/it can tamper with executions when he/she/it stopped the crusher during the Chapter 5 punishment. Who's to say Alter Ego didn't want to give Junko her last bit of despair before her demise?
  • Uh, to anyone else, that'd be an Asshole Victim. To Junko, that "last bit of despair" is basically a chunk of candy.
• Everyone is wearing clothes that are either casual or the uniform of a different school, despite having all been shown in the past as wearing the Hope's Peak uniform. There's no real reason for all of them to have changed into their old clothes, so Junko must have stripped and redressed them to keep up the illusion that they had not yet been to the school.
  • Mercifully not the case. The headmaster's videos show that they redressed themselves into their game outfits of their own will after the WMDIEitHoM hit.
  • This point also leads to some Fridge Logic: How did nobody notice that they aged two years? Considering almost all of them are teenagers, they should have grown a lot in that time.
    • This one is especially puzzling in the case of Sakura, as official art shows her looking very standardly feminine at least up to some vague point in Junior High/Middle School, judging by the uniforms.◊
    • It's actually hinted that some of them did notice. Though it's never explicitly spelled out, it's likely that this is what Kyoko was talking about when she asked Monokuma what he did to her body at the end of Chapter 3. Sakura also mentions that something has happened to the students' bodies in her final note, which causes Monokuma to stop reading it immediately.
    • But taking this further, why did Mukuro Ikusaba's measurements match the ones in her student profile? The school shut down a year before the game, so she should have grown from that time, right? Yet Kyoko says that they were an exact match. It would be acceptable if her height had finished growing by that age, but not her other measurements.
    • Additionally, in the prologue Chihiro ponders whether he has met Makoto before in life, implying the fact that he had a trace of his memories of the academy remaining. Makoto just dismisses this concept and denies the idea that the two of them have met prior instead of dissecting the statement of Chihiro's.
• At the end of the game, the chickens in the fifth floor greenhouse most likely suffocated and died when the surviving students left — unless they remembered them and went back to get them, which is unlikely.
• One bit of fridge horror sets in once you learn about the two years of missing memories the students had. Some of the photographs found during Chapter 6 suggest that Genocide Jill was both active and infatuated with Byakuya even back then. Given what Syo usually does to guys she likes, how did Byakuya manage to survive long enough to get locked in the school in the first place?
  • This question does get answered during Genocide Jill's free time events, as seen in the Fridge Brilliance entry above.
• Kiyotaka's humorous "Forget Beam!" command takes on a horrifying light when the player finds out that "forget beam" is exactly what happened to all the students.
• Sayaka's first case of "good intuitions" is telling Makoto that she's not a doll — "I'm very much alive!" Apparently she's that used to people thinking of her as a pretty face, not a person.
• Seeing all of both "regular" Toko and Genocide Jill's free time events reveals that Jill eventually traveled all the way to Shikoku to kill the boy who publicly humiliated Toko in elementary school.
• The good ending of the Lighter and Softer School Mode/Dangan Academy is rife with this. Usami causes a time paradox to beat the stuffing out of Monokuma, and everyone lives and promises to stay friends after they leave the school. But they still don't know who was behind Monokuma, they have no idea about their missing memories, Kyoko's father is probably still bones in a box, and they're likely to get an exceedingly unpleasant surprise once they see what's happened to the outside world.
• When Genocide Jill is introduced, she calls herself the Ultimate Serial Killer, which implies that the staff at Hope's Peak knew about Toko's split personality and gave her the title. In addition, this implies that the staff covered up the fact that there is a serial killer among the student body and were possibly studying her regardless of the lives she's endangering and/or took. This is worse when you read Danganronpa Zero and realize this is exactly the sort of thing the staff would do.
• Speaking of the school staff, it's implied in (at least the translation of) School Mode that Kiyotaka's grandfather was a Hope's Peak alumnus, as he's described as "the official Ultimate Manager." In that case, while he fulfilled the school's reputation for guaranteed success by becoming prime minister, he crashed and burned soon afterward. Maybe they just couldn't save him from himself or whatnot, but given all the other questionable things the academy's canonically been up to, you've got to wonder how long they've been turning out screwed-up prodigies.
• When you look at Togami's backstory, the events of the killing game beginning becomes more horrific for someone in his shoes. In order to even acquire his status as the Ultimate Heir, he had to come out as King of the Hill in a battle of wits, skill, and pure cunning against 14 of his own half siblings. And, when he wakes up in Hope's Peak, he finds himself pitted up against 14 students who, due to Junko's amnesia, he would consider to be complete strangers. This is someone who's had to grow up in a life where not even his own family were safe to trust when they were pitted up against one another. As far as Byakuya, who has run the mill in this sort of "game" before, he would have even less of a reason to trust anyone else there. Especially when murders start to actually happen.
• Everything about Toko, really. To have DID (a disorder caused by childhood trauma), enjoy being treated so horribly by Byakuya, be so convinced everyone hates her or is a depraved animal or both, and be a sexually motivated serial killer, all before graduating high school... None of that points to a pleasant childhood.
• Considering what we learn in Chapter 6 of Danganronpa 2, Kazuichi (and possibly Izuru) was the one who provided the Baseball Machine from Leon's execution and the motorcycle from Mondo's. Along with the glimpses of work as an Ultimate Despair, it’s possible that HE was the one who helped Junko in bringing in the Monokumas and the Control Panel.
  • If the stuff involving Nagito is true in that the Remnants of Despair did go into Hope's Peak after the 78th Class unlocked the main door, it's possible that he too was controlling Monokuma in the post-credits scene.
• In Chapter 3, after Hifumi and Taka are found dead, Hina starts to panic about how the rest of them could also be killed, but is calmed down by Makoto and Byakuya remembering the regulation stating one person can only kill a maximum of two people. This allows the group to relax as they go about their investigation. However, since it later turns out Hifumi killed Taka before he died himself, the killer, Celeste, had only committed one murder - and, if she had an opportunity and motive, she could have killed someone else in the group any time. Including when she and Hina were alone in the nurse's office or bathroom during the latter's Heroic BSoD, or when Makoto was actively finding clues in front of her in the nurse's office with no one else around. Nothing could have stopped her from killing him to keep him from uncovering and revealing further evidence...
• While it's inevitable, at the end of Chihiro has you recommending Mondo to Chihiro. The Fridge Horror comes when: Mondo kills Chihiro, Makoto might remember he's the one who recommended him to Chihiro. Doing this on Story Mode and not School Mode, Makoto might think he's the one who killed Chihiro albeit inadvertently. Again, we know it would happen regardless, but Makoto doesn't.

Fridge Logic

• During the last class trial, the students determine that the Puppetmaster must be inside the school because Monokuma's Control Room is inside Hope's Peak Academy. Since that was the case, why did the students need to determine Mukuro Ikusaba's killer before discovering who was the Puppetmaster or why did they begin to blame Makoto? Through logical deduction, the Puppetmaster was controlling Monokuma during the first trial, which means that only Sayaka Maizono or Junko Enoshima could be the Puppetmaster.
  • Before they realized Mukuro Ikusaba was disguised and died as Junko Enoshima, it was possible she was controlling Monokuma at the time, since she was also a Super High School Level Despair.
  • Monokuma is forcing them to do it in that order. At the one point where they do try and skip ahead and discuss who the mastermind is Monokuma interjects and tells them they need to solve Mukuro's murder first. It sort of helps that they have already figured out the Puppetmaster is the last killer.
• Even given that gender roles are more strictly enforced in Japan than in the West, how the heck did presenting as female allow Chihiro to (implicitly) escape all gender-based bullying from the time he started to when he entered Hope's Peak? Wouldn't some female bullies have gone after him for some non-reason? And depending on when Chihiro began presenting as female, why did none of his tormentors recognize him?
  • For the recognition, it's completely possible that Chihiro is that good of a crossdresser. Either that, or perhaps Chihiro stopped presenting himself as a girl during his time attending Hope's Peak. As for the gender roles being strictly enforced, it's basically been heavily implied, if not outright stated, that Hope's Peak doesn't care who its students are or not. As long as they meet the age requirements and have proper talent, they're allowed into the Main Course. While this may not have avoided as Chihiro's ElectroID (if they even had that back then) from classifying him as male, it may have allowed him to avoid the staff there from questioning the situation of his crossdressing.
  • Another possibility is that he simply moved schools (potentially even to a different town) or became home-schooled and only then began cross-dressing. Taichi's dialogues in Ultra Despair Girls (i.e. how he loved Chihiro and avoiding referring to his gender in the English dub) heavily imply he was supportive of Chihiro's decision, making it possible. There's also the fact that as a skilled programmer, Chihiro could have easily altered any records that would mention his gender at a potential new school.
• On the fifth floor, there's a classroom that looks like the site of a massacre, something that the students deduce, with Monokuma stating that he did not alter the room. Only problem, Danganronpa Zero infers that the event being referred to happened in the old school building, which the game very clearly does not take place in. Furthermore, with the revelation that the students locked themselves in, how is a bloody classroom even there? The Steering Committee was willing to commit brainwashing and outright murder to keep the incident under wraps. Given how the students spent a whole year in the school, why wasn't the room cleaned and why would what was supposed to be a shelter have the site of a massacre there?
  • In-universe, Monokuma was lying. Out-of-universe, it's almost certainly a result of careless retcons. Note that Monokuma also says he had nothing to do with that incident, which Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Danganronpa Zero, and Danganronpa 3 collectively establish is an outright lie (it happened directly because of Junko Enoshima's influence.)
• Celestia has an in-story fridge logic moment in School Mode when she wonders aloud who exactly has been preparing the meals for the 15 students (the assumption in the main story being that the students are given the ingredients and make everything themselves). She brings up the possibility of Monokuma doing it, when in the main story we find out that the machine is just an extension of Junko (while this version of reality starts up mainly because there's only one Monokuma around, and he needs the students to build back-ups for him). If it really is Junko doing it while the cafeteria is locked up, one wonders when she sleeps.
  • Presumably she has Alter Ego Junko do it.
• If Makoto and Kyoko's execution falls on an April Fool's Day that also happens to be a Wednesday like the blackboard claims, does that mean the killing game is set in 2015?
• Based on the school layout, the iron-plate-covered windows for several rooms don't point outside, they point into other rooms. This is especially obvious with the dorm rooms.
• Why is Kyoko Kirigiri's "ultimate" title treated like a big secret deal? It should have been glaringly obvious to everyone, since she has exactly one thing she's good at and does it with obsessive, monomaniacal focus. Most of the other students are much less single-mindedly devoted to their ultimate ability, so it seems odd that nobody even took a stab at guessing hers whenever it came up. She also says she forgot it herself; couldn't she have at least taken a stab at it when questioned? It's not exactly a difficult deduction to make.
  • How do we know the thought didn't cross her mind once or twice? If anything, it was more of a You Never Asked situation on both ends: the only one in the group to grill her on being too cryptic was Kiyotaka early into the first chapter because she wasn't acting like a team player, and the rest just left it alone until Byakuya opened the question again for the same reason (Aoi pretty much reflected everyone's opinion on the matter when she mentioned that Kyoko rarely talks about herself; put plainly, no one cares). It only seems obvious because Makoto's the only one who she'll occasionally confide in or trust with certain tasks, while everyone else mostly sees her as that quiet girl who occasionally disappears. Kind of a testament to how little interest the group has in getting to know each other, and how miraculous it was that they decided to unite at all. And being good at solving mysteries is vague enough of an ability to mean any number of talents: Makoto's first guess after getting to know her better is that she might come from a family of assassins.
  • Junko mainly tries to hide the fact from Kyoko herself, not that it was enough.
• Why did Celeste make her murder plan so absurdly complicated? There's no way it could possibly have succeeded.
  • Most parts of her plan (having Hifumi play dead, then luring him to another room to kill him there after moving the bodies) serve to make the murder more complicated, but didn't actually do anything to protect her — did she think the group would just shrug off the question of how Yamada's body made it from the first floor to the third? If she wanted to succeed, she needed to present them with a coherent story implicating someone other than her, and the absurd complexity of her plan meant that she couldn't do that.
  • Additionally, why did she go with a plan that required that she call so much attention to herself? She was hugely conspicuous for the entire third chapter, since she had to constantly direct everyone to exactly the right place; even Yasuhiro notices that she's acting out-of-character at one point.
  • Also, her entire plan hinged on Monokuma giving a corpse-discovery announcement for Kiyotaka exactly when everyone discovers Hifumi. If they'd discovered Kiyotaka's body even a little bit early, the whole thing would have been instantly ruined, since that would mean the lack of an announcement for Hifumi would give the game away.
    • Although a possible Fridge Brilliance explanation for this part: If it had gone badly at that point — after Hifumi killed Kiyotaka but before she killed Hifumi — she could have aborted the plan and simply revealed everything in the Class Trial. She wouldn't make any friends, but she hadn't actually murdered anyone yet, so she would have survived — even if Hifumi revealed everything, it wouldn't have helped him or hurt her much, and if he tried to lie to frame her, she could easily win, because she'd be telling the truth, because she knows all the details of the crime, and because Hifumi is a dumbass. She was only committed to things after she killed Hifumi herself; up until then, she had an out if things went wrong.
    • Did she really have an out, though? She helped Hifumi with the costume and everything, so she's an accomplice. I may be misremembering this, but aren't accomplices also executed along with the blackened if caught? Along with not being able to graduate, this is one of the reasons being an accomplice isn't to anyone's advantage.
    • I don't remember anything being said about that. I think accomplices not being able to graduate was supposed to be enough of a deterrent, since that means that the accomplice would have to hope the main killer's plan failed in order to survive.
  • And while she's supposed to be both extremely intelligent and a master at deceiving others, she makes a very basic mistake in her trial — she argues against nearly every single bit of logic anyone else uses (and fires off a Machine Gun Talk Battle very early on), which only makes her more and more suspicious-seeming as the trial goes on.
    • Her strange behavior was likely a conscious effort to build up an imaginary threat-level represented by the robot, and with everyone running around like confused, headless chickens during the incident, it was most assuredly working. It only comes off as obvious to the player because we have the benefit of free-time events, multiple playthroughs, and access to the transcript, whereas normal people don't pick up as easily on drastic characterization shifts. As for the Complexity Addiction, a popular fan-interpretation of her character porports that she has something of a Riddler-like compulsion to control and dominate her opponents as a symptom of her low self-esteem/emotional immaturity, and will refuse any easier, more-pragmatic methods if they somehow imply she's unable to defeat someone in a match of wits/cunning. Had the variables like Hifumi's cleaning cloth, Yasuhiro's printing, the bloody wheel, and Kiyotaka's broken watch not come up, her evidence against Yasuhiro would've been damning enough that any other interpretations or inconsistencies could've been chalked up to baseless conjecture ("maybe he was stronger than we gave him credit for" she could've said; these kinds of arguments are what she argued with during the trial, and they only stuck out because of how badly the plan had been compromised by that point). Basically, she sized her bets and determined she had a winning hand, structuring things like a game instead of an actual crime.
• After discovering the morgue in the bio lab and noticing that there's one fewer occupied freezer than there should be, why didn't they immediately search each one to figure out which corpse was missing?
  • It was never made clear if the units can be opened. The reason that one particular storage drawer was opened, as guessed by Kyoko, was that Mukuro's body was hastily carried in there sometime during the fifth trial and Junko never got the chance to close it (hence why Toko passed out shortly after walking into the place).
    • No, that's wrong! You search the room in Chapter 6 before Toko arrives there and they're all closed. You later go back there after Monokuma's final incentive and find Toko there with one freezer open (the implication being that Toko opened it, then fainted at what she saw).
    • I got it! The reason you can't open the freezers is that Makoto doesn't know how.
• When they have access to Monokuma's control room, why didn't they immediately start smashing the equipment? That control room was the only reason the Mastermind was able to control anything — the fact that the mastermind wasn't there at the moment meant it was safe for them to do as they pleased, and smashing it would immediately strip the mastermind of all their power, ending the game on the spot.
  • Aoi asked Makoto if they could leave under the fear of the room being boobytrapped, which he agreed with (since destroying "school property" is still a punishable offense). They only found out a minute later that The Mastermind was totally helpless in that situation. And it's not as if those two would be able to think that far ahead.
  • That outcome would still play into the Xanatos Gambit that was the sixth trial. Had Aoi and Makoto destroyed the controls, Junko would feel the Despair of her plan being foiled mere feet away from her and she wouldn't be able to do much, if anything.
• After going to all the trouble of re-creating the murder scene in the girls' locker room, Mondo then decides to (somehow) get rid of Chihiro's bag and tracksuit. Why? Their presence would have been entirely expected, and they would have done nothing to implicate Mondo. Instead, getting rid of them only served to help Mondo trap himself into self-implication during the trial.
  • Mondo isn't exactly the brightest bulb to begin with, and at this point he's both in extreme emotional distress and extremely tired due to moving all the stuff between the locker rooms as well as the murder taking place late at night. He's not in any position to be thinking too hard about much other than "must remove evidence".
• At the start of the third trial, the first piece of evidence that's brought up is Yasuhiro's note. Makoto does this by saying aloud that he recieved it shortly before Alter Ego went missing. This is all happens during a time in the story where the students are making an effort to keep Alter Ego a secret from the mastermind, yet Monokuma doesn't question Makoto's statement and none of the other students react to his slip of the tongue. After the trial ends and Celeste knows shes moments away from execution, she continues to keep the secret by handing over the key to Alter Ego's locker without saying what's inside, which confuses Monokuma. Was Makoto's line just an error in the script?

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