Thirty-first floor. With a "ding-" prompt, the elevator door slowly opened.

"Where is this?" After leaving the elevator, Susuke Sato kept looking around, trying to figure out why I was talking here.

I walked deeper into the hallway, explaining, "Don't worry, this is where my talent research classroom is located." ”

"Only in the classroom?" Susuke Sato muttered to himself, "No wonder it's so empty." ”

It's not just you. When I first watched this anime, I was also shocked by the fact that there were so few students in such a huge school building.

Later I understood. With the exception of classrooms that occupy an entire floor, various leisure areas, a cafeteria that covers several floors, a "Hope Peak Academy Honor Hall" on the top floor, and the offices of the staff and teachers of each course (the office of the class teacher is located in the faculty building), all other places are "talent research classrooms" for students.

Originally, I thought that this kind of talent research classroom should be the originality of the last generation of Danganronpo...... Now it seems that it was me who seriously underestimated the early creative ability of the Hope Peak School.

Regarding the "Talent Research Classroom", I remember that on the electronic student handbook that Kirikiri Ren distributed to us (Enoshima Shield was also too uncreative. Except for the black and white bear's head painted on the back, which is indistinguishable from the electronic student handbook given to us by Kirikiren), there are several special school rules:

First, students who have made special contributions except during their time at school. After graduation, the right to use the classrooms and the research materials provided by the school will be withdrawn.

Second, in principle, the size of each student's talent research classroom should be 100 meters× 100 meters× 5 meters.

Thirdly, during the student's time at the school, the school will try its best to arrange the student's talent research classroom and provide research materials according to the student's requirements.

Fourth, the school is committed to ensuring that every student's talent research classroom is the student's private space. Any person who, without the permission of the person concerned, intrudes into the other party's talent research room, arranges any surveillance and other surveillance behavior in the classroom, damages or steals the property of the other party's talent research room, interferes with the other party's talent research and commits other illegal and illegal acts, shall be immediately expelled.

Fifthly, the key to the student's talent research classroom is private property while he or she is in school. Except in case of emergency, the act of destroying the door lock or backing up the duplicate key will be fired immediately if discovered.

(To back up this key, you really need a very good level of technology.) As I passed through a room, I touched the door panel. Bank explosion-proof door level material, even if someone can open the door lock, the key core has a small chip. The difficulty of cracking the code and the difficulty of replicating this design...... Think for yourself. ）

There are many more about the school rules for the classroom of talent research. It's just that these are the most important.

It tells us that the classroom where everyone has their own talents is the safest. There, you can do anything without being suspected.

The key reached into the lock hole and spun twice. The door lock lit up a blue light along the edge of the keyhole. Then, with a soft "drip-", the door to the classroom opened.

"Please come in, teacher. I'm sorry, as a freshman here, everything hasn't been laid out yet, please don't mind too much. ”

"You're kind - thank you (this is what Susuke Sato said about me pouring him a cup of coffee from the drink machine in the corner with a disposable cup) - I'm already bothering you."

So far, the classroom is empty. In the center is a desk and a swivel chair, next to which are the usual three-piece sofa sets in hotels.

It's so ironic. In no more than two years — no, maybe a year or so — the brand-new skyscraper that the university had planned to use for another 78 years would be destroyed by the lives of three super-university undergraduate students and 13 pre-university students.

Don't want to ...... I cleared my throat.

Sato-sensei...... If I were you, I would have thought about it now. Because until now, if you give up believing in me, a new student who just met and don't know the details, and look for other ways, it should be too late. ”

While I spoke, Susuke Sato kept looking at me like a madman, and then burst into a mocking laugh.

"I believe you," he said, "though I don't know why. But you give me a different feeling than other Hope Peak undergraduates. ”

Nonsense, I don't belong to your world called Danganronpa! I said in my heart.

"You might be able to find that Kirkiri-san," I suggested, "though she charged...... It could be a bit high......"

"Misty Kiren's daughter, there's no way you'll help me deal with her father!" When the word "Kirikiri" was mentioned, Susuke Sato's eyes suddenly flashed with indignation.

Hibiko Kiri and her father don't have a good relationship...... The words came to my lips and I swallowed them.

Drinking the coffee in one gulp, Susuke Sato's bitter voice slowly told the story-

The family that Sato loves is a family that is both lucky and unfortunate. The unfortunate thing is that they are single-parent families; Lucky...... My father's income is not low, and the family is quite well-off.

Due to the distortion of the family, from childhood to adulthood, Ai Sato has always been an introverted and even somewhat distorted girl. Like that Fuyuko Shikawa (this paragraph was added by myself), Susuke Sato even has some slight paranoia.

Until...... She went to the photography department of the junior high school and met a group of very good friends......

- "Friend? I asked, alarm bells blaring in my head, "You say...... Who? ”

"I don't know...... Susuke Sato replied shaking his head, "Xiao Ai doesn't tell me ......"-

Later, Ai Sato suddenly asked to go to the Hope Peak Preparatory School. Fortunately, there was still a little savings at home, so Susuke Sato gritted his teeth and agreed to the child, allowing her to enter the second best high school in Japan and the most expensive tuition - Hope Peak Preparatory Department.

Although the tuition fee is expensive, seeing her daughter's smile makes Susuke Sato think it's worth it.

Afterward...... When I came home one day, Ai Sato's expression was very bad. Her pupils dilated many times, as if she had been severely stimulated.

Susuke Sato also asked Ai Sato what happened. But no reply was received.

"Later...... Then she disappeared ......"

"Missing?" I frowned, slightly startled. There's no mention of this in the game.

"Yes...... After one of her classmates died in the hands of an outside robber, Ai disappeared ......"

Robber...... Wait a minute! It's a robber!

"And then ...... Ai Sato-san, is she dead? I stared into Susuke Sato's eyes and asked softly, "Died on the way home from the Kyudo Club and was stoned to death with a baseball bat?" ”

Susuke Sato raised his head, looked at me stunned, and asked softly, "How do you know ......?"

"Do you remember...... What is the name of the female classmate who died? I pressed on.

"She?" Susuke Sato looked at me confused. I remember it for a long time, and I was shocked by what I said:

"Her name seems to be ...... Nine-headed dragon vegetable picking. ”

"You must not have remembered who Ai Sato's friend was at the Peak of Hope, right?"

"Yes...... Yes. Xiao Ai never mentioned what she ...... at the Peak of Hope."

You can't go wrong. I got up slowly, and then told Suzusuke Sato a big lie:

"I can help you. On the condition that you have a copy of your key to the faculty building. ”