"All you wanted...was despair...?" Serenade asked.
"Yes. You see, even at birth, all that mattered to me was despair, despair to others, despair to myself..." She switched to her cutesy stance. "And I love, love, love it when I spread my despair to everyone, even my sister felt the despair! It was sooooo good!" She switched again to her depression stance. "But of course, my sister can't really spread her despair anymore...not after what happened to her..."
"What happened? Did she lose the despair?" Serenade asked.
"Hell fucking no!" Junko switched to her hot headed stance. "She just got killed off, that's all!"
"She was...killed?"
"Yep!" She switched to her neutral stance. "Although it doesn't seem to matter anymore...because for once, I finally win...I beat the fragments of hope that were your class..."
No...no...I can't let that happen! But...what am I supposed to do?
Of course!
"I shouldn't even have to question it...I have to fight against you and your despair! I don't believe that the world out there is as it is!"
"Hmm? Are you calling me a liar?" She switched to her teacher stance.
"I ain't calling you a truther!" Serenade paused before clearing his throat. "I mean...yes, I am! I don't think the world out there is how you're portraying it!"
"Well...I wonder if your friends feel the same way...?" Serenade looked at everyone individually. They all were either looking at the ground or had a disturbed, pale look on their face.
"Guys..." Serenade's ears drooped.
"How wonderful..." Junko smirked. "To see your friends prepared to sacrifice you so they may live on until the day they die...it's rather despair-inducing...wouldn't you say so?"
D-dammit...she's got all of them wrapped around her fingers...what do I do...? If I don't act now...it's the end of the line for everyone!
"So who do you think it will be? Who's despair will sign your death warrant?"
"....nobody! Nobody will give into your despair, because...because, living in despair isn't really living!" Junko gave a blank expression.
"You really as stubborn as him...no matter, you are not even close to the level he was on...your death is just moments away...sit back and enjoy your last few moments on this plant, 'kay?"
Non-Stop Debate
Evidence Bullets
-Class Friendship
-Monokuma File 1
-Laminate
-The Mastermind
-Tape Recorder
-The School Life of Mutual Killings
-Gold's Shower
-Gold's WeaponSerenade- I can't let you win...not when I still have hope swirling inside of me!
Junko- Y'know, if I die, the air purifiers in the physics lab will shut down...forcing you all to leave this place...
Grimdark- ...
Don't give up just yet!
"...goddammit...no matter what way I look at this...I'm gonna be fucked royally either way...oh well, I can always rebuild my home and start afresh...am I thinking so positively because I met Serenade...ah, who cares?!"
Serenade- I can't let you win...not when I still have hope swirling inside of me!
Junko- Y'know, if I die, the air purifiers in the physics lab will shut down...forcing you all to leave this place...
Grimdark- Doesn't matter what you say...I ain't staying in this hell-hole!
Junko- Your entire lives have been destroyed, why on earth would you want to live in isolation?
Orion- ...
Don't give up just yet!
"Hmm...it is rather curious of me to be thinking about this...but...what if us getting trapped in here was no accident? I mean, it was not an accident that it was our class? Does anyone else believe that too...? No, I don't need to hear another opinion: Serenade has taught me that the only opinion that should matter to me...is my own..."
Serenade- I can't let you win...not when I still have hope swirling inside of me!
Junko- Y'know, if I die, the air purifiers in the physics lab will shut down...forcing you all to leave this place...
Grimdark- Doesn't matter what you say...I ain't staying in this hell-hole!
Junko- Your entire lives have been destroyed, why on earth would you want to live in isolation?
Orion- We have all been through to much to say that we are defeated by you.
Junko- Your families hate you now, y'know? So, honestly, you may as well stay somewhere with shelter and food and warmth...
Olive- ...
Don't give up just yet!
"...I've been thinking, which is usually a bad thing, but...Lock and Tickery both fought for their freedom in here...and they both died...so, is it my job to carry on the wishes of my best friends? Well, whether it is or it isn't, I need to get out of here...for their sacrifices...so that their deaths weren't pointless!"
Serenade- I can't let you win...not when I still have hope swirling inside of me!
Junko- Y'know, if I die, the air purifiers in the physics lab will shut down...forcing you all to leave this place...
Grimdark- Doesn't matter what you say...I ain't staying in this hell-hole!
Junko- Your entire lives have been destroyed, why on earth would you want to live in isolation?
Orion- We have all been through to much to say that we are defeated by you.
Junko- Your families hate you now, y'know? So, honestly, you may as well stay somewhere with shelter and food and warmth...
Olive- Even if I have nowhere to go...it would still be better than living in here!
Junko- But none of that is there in the outside world, whatever shall you do when you're forced to live on the streets?
Digital- ...
Don't give up just yet!
"...you remember the first class trial? I almost died at the hands of you, you made me believe that I had killed an innocent pony...and you honestly think that I will let that go unnoticed? Leaving here will be a minor issue...the main topic? That is defeating the mastermind!"
Serenade- I can't let you win...not when I still have hope swirling inside of me!
Junko- Y'know, if I die, the air purifiers in the physics lab will shut down...forcing you all to leave this place...
Grimdark- Doesn't matter what you say...I ain't staying in this hell-hole!
Junko- Your entire lives have been destroyed, why on earth would you want to live in isolation?
Orion- We have all been through to much to say that we are defeated by you.
Junko- Your families hate you now, y'know? So, honestly, you may as well stay somewhere with shelter and food and warmth...
Olive- Even if I have nowhere to go...it would still be better than living in here!
Junko- But none of that is there in the outside world, whatever shall you do when you're forced to live on the streets?
Digital- I will beat despair! I will beat you! I will not lose to a simpleton like you!
Junko- You all killed your friends off one-by-one...but by staying in here after this trial...I will no longer give you reasons to murder one another...
Beau- ....
Don't give in to despair!
"....what? You think I need words of encouragement to carry on? Oh please, I came this far with one intention, leaving this hell of a school...your death doesn't mean anything to me, Serenade. So don't mistake this for some heartfelt hope."
"What the...?" Junko's face darkened. "What the hell is this?!"
"You see, Junko? No matter what kind of despair you attempt to infest us with, we won't give in to it!"
"You're all freakin' annoying, why don't you all just crawl up and die?!"
Cross-Swords
Evidence Blades
-Class Friendship
-The Mastermind
-Photo Album
-The School Life of Mutual Killings
-The Field Trip of Mutual KillingsJunko- The only thing waiting for you on the other side of those doors is death and despair, nothing more, nothing less! Why would you all want to live in a world you all have no hope of surviving in?!
Serenade- No matter what you try to say to talk us out of it...none of us would want to stay in this hell hole you created
Junko- Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!!! There's nothing waiting for you, you think your family will be there for you...? Hope always dies out!
Hope never loses!
"You really think we'll listen to what you have to say? In the first School Life of Mutual Killings, it said that those students brought hope back into their despair ridden world...and what if we were this dimensions versions of them? That would make us symbols of hope as well...strong enough to defeat you!" Junko's eyes flashed for a second as she took a step back.
"Did...did I just see...?" She had went slightly pale. "No...that's impossible, he isn't in this world! He could never have found me here!"
"What's gotten into her...?" Olive asked.
"Wha-? Y-you as well...? Are all of you just some reincarnations?! No, no, no, no! I won't let them beat me again! Despair...despair...that is the only true way to live!"
"Serenade." Beau smirked. "It's all up to you now...only you can finish these class trials once and for all..."
Beau... Serenade looked at everyone individually again, this time their faces shone with the hope they had been given. Grimdark...Digital...Olive...Orion...I won't lose now! Not at the final hurdles!
Hope's Connection Shootout
Evidence bullets
-Class Friendship
-Photo Album
-Digital's TestimonyOlive- My hope...that's for me to avenge my friends and escape...
Grimdark- I'll have to rebuild everything...but my heart tells me that it's worth the trouble!
Orion- I cannot allow the one that had murdered so many innocent people, and made me feel so useless to win!
Digital- I can't let Serenade meet the fate I almost did...that just isn't right!
Beau- I want to discover myself...who am I really? Why do I feel like...why do I feel like I know everyone...?
Olive- Now that you've mentioned it...I've felt the same way too...
Grimdark- That we met one another...before we had met one another...
Orion- Before all the killings had begun...?
Digital- It seems that way, doesn't it...? None of us could have formed a bond like this any other way...
Beau- Then...is it possible...?
All- That...We have met before?
Try to remember!
"The photo album!" Olive said suddenly. "Those pictures are real, right? So maybe we did meet each other before the killings begun!"
"Whilst that does make it worse of us killing one another off when we were friends...it does show why we all feel so close..." Grimdark folded his arms and smiled.
"I hope...I hope that if it is true...Nimbus felt that way for me before...hold on...was one of those pictures Digital holding hands with Tickery?" Orion asked.
"W-what?! M-me and Tickery...? Well...she did seem like a nice girl..." Digital admitted.
"Then maybe...maybe we had been in Hope's Peak as a class..."
"Junko erased everyone's memories of that time..." Serenade informed them. "We've been friends for a whole year it seems...we just had a little brain problem..."
"The that just makes me more pumped!" Olive says. "We need to stop this psycho once and for all!"
"Together...we are...the Hope's Peak Academy's Hope...." Orion smiled.
"Hope's Peak...Academy Hope...?" Junko repeated. "How...lame...lame...lame, lame, lame, lame, lame, lame, lame, lame, LAME, LAME, LAME!!! You guys aren't symbols of hope! You're vessels of despair, why can't you see that?! Why won't you just accept despair already?!
Don't listen to her words... There was a voice in Serenade's head. Not Shadow's though, it sounded a lot higher, like a teenagers voice. Unfortunately...her despair is to strong, we can't save her from it...but we can save everyone else from being consumed by it!
Who...who are you...?
That doesn't matter...just end this once and for all...it's up to you, Serenade!
Despair Vs. Hope-Machinegun Showdown!
Junko- Lame, lame, LAME!!!
Junko- You're icky!
Junko- Your lives are fucking messed up now!
Junko- Just give into despair!
Junko- It doesn't matter what you attempt to do!
Junko- Upupupupupu!
Junko- Despair is the only way to live...
Junko- Despair! Despair!
Junko- What...are you...?
Junko- Hope is useless!
Junko- You dare to stand against us?!I'm done listening to you!
Junko- Despair into tomorrow! Despair into your memories! Despair into nothingness!
Hope will always move forward!
"Look...I don't have much going for me at all. The only thing I'm good at is music, I'm not the strongest, I'm the smartest, I'm the most athletic...but, none of that matter because even without all those things...one thing I'll always have going for me...is my will to live on!"
"What...what's happening?!" Junko screamed.
"Hmph!" Digital smirked. "Looks like...we've finally reached the climax of this trial..."
"We just gotta push the button that says 'despair' and Junko gets punished...right?" Grimdark asks.
"Yep! And I'm ready to go!" Olive says.
"This is...the moment we all fought for..." Orion smiles sweetly.
"Then let's put an end to these trials...and an end to all the killings..." Beau says. "And it'll be by our own hands..."
Everyone looked at each other before pressing 'Despair' simultaneously, causing the slot machine to activate. The spun the three dials for the last time, landing on B...or rather, landing on Junko's face with the coins pouring out of the dispenser and the red bouquets blossoming outwards.
"The hell...?" Junko gave a stunned expression.
"You've lost for a third time, Junko...actually, no...I suppose it would be four if you count the college students you trapped elsewhere..." Beau smirks.
"A-again...? Seriously?! Even in this world?!"
"What? Still can't accept it?" Grimdark closes his eyes.
"It looks like our 'Super High School Level Despair' is more vulnerable than we first thought..." Digital says.
"But she can't fight it now, right?!" Olive asks.
"Well that juuuuust...! The best thing ever!" Junko started to drool.
"What?" Serenade's eyes widened.
"I...I remember this amount of despair...it was when I went to that school...I created my amazing plan...and it was a failure in the end...I even killed my own sister...and now...to feel this failure again?! It's defiantly rather despair-inducing!"
"Wh-what are you talking about?!" Serenade yelled from the other side of the trial room.
"You see, I get bored very easily...ever since I was born, I was bored. That's why I love these sort of luscious moments...the colossal despair that is death! I love feeling this despair over and over again...for some reason. This is the one thing that never gets boring! I am just so hopelessly happy right now!"
"Why is she...enjoying this...?" Olive asked.
"Anyway, you're prepared to admit your defeat?" Beau asked.
"Ahahahahaha....you think I care that I lost...? It doesn't change a thing! Outside, inside - both are despair inducing places!"
"That's not true..." Serenade told her.
"You're wrong..." Digital interrupts.
"D-Digital...?" Serenade looked at the black unicorn.
"Listen...after almost dying, I no longer fear despair...and nobody else fears it either..."
"Yeah! Because we're leaving here as symbols of hope!" Olive joined in.
"Yeah! Serenade really helped us out in that final moment!" Grimdark smiled.
"Yes, Mr Stereo...if quite something..." Orion says.
"E-everyone..." Serenade looks at them all as if they were total strangers.
"Despair is as contagious as any disease..." Beau says. "But that's also true for hope..."
"Yeah! Looks at us, for example!" Olive says. "We were almost sucked into your despair...but were contaminated by the hope that Serenade had given us!"
"B-Beau! Olive!" Serenade looked at the two.
"Ugh! Would you all stop it with those hideous faces you're making?!" Junko scoffed. "Seeing those looks causes me great pain! But...fine, let me just say one thing...if you're all so hung up on hope, that's not a problem to me...but be warned...only despair will exist in the world you're about to enter...no matter what you do...or where you run...despair is always lurking in the shadows...are you still gonna cling onto your precious hope now?!"
"Of course! Because we-"
"That was rhetorical, idiot! You weren't joking when you said you weren't very bright...I'm almost done with my monologue now though, so whatever...because...isn't it almost punishment time...?"
"You're really gonna execute yourself?" Beau asked.
"Well, when I make a deal, I stick to it!" Junko replied, not even phased by what was about to happen.
"H-hang on!" Serenade leaped over the stand and ran over to Junko. "It's not like any of us want you to die-" Junko shoved him away.
"Shut up!" She yelled.
"W-what?"
"How many times do I have to tell you?! Living gives me no hope! I just wanna feel the despair of death again...so you better not get in my way! So then...let's do this...I've reserved an extra special punishment for last! So let's give it everything we've got, alrighty?! It's PUNISHMENT TIME!!!"