PROLOGUE SUMMARY

THE WHO
- Kaede Akamatsu
- Chiaki Nanami
- Aoi Asahina
- Yuta Asahina
- Yasuhiro Hagakure
- Hajime Hinata
- Miu Iruma
- Akane Owari
- Ibuki Mioda
- Hiyoko Saionji
- Kaito Momota
- Kazuichi Souda
- Leon Kuwata
- Makoto Naegi
- Komaru Naegi
- Tenko ChabashiraTHE WHAT
- All 16 participants wake up in Hope's Peak and realize that not only all of their teachers and classmates are gone, but they're locked in.THE DETAILS
- Monokuma reveals the Killing Game.
- Rules and regulations are gone over.

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CHAPTER 1: FROM OUT OF LEFT FIELD SUMMARY

THE WHO
- Hajime Hinata is the victim.THE WHAT
- The first victim is killed, and the first class trial is held.
- The Mastermind is revealed.THE DETAILS
- The motive is videos showing harm coming to the participants' loved ones. Kaede's shows her identical twin sister, Momiji "Momo" Akamatsu.
- Kaede decides to try and commit the first murder via taking a knife from the dining hall. Chiaki finds out about this and stops her.
- Hajime's body is found in his bed in his dorm. Monokuma reveals that he's the mastermind of the Killing Game.
- It's revealed at the trial that Hajime wasn't murdered, rather, he died of natural causes. Monokuma proceeds to prematurely end the trial and kick everyone out of the courtroom.
- Of note, no one is executed this chapter.

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CHAPTER 2: MISMATCHED MISSION SUMMARY

THE WHO
- Yasuhiro Hagakure is the victim.
- Miu Iruma is the Blackened.THE WHAT
- The second victim is killed, and the second class trial is held.THE DETAILS
- The motive is that none of the participants are allowed to eat or drink anything until someone dies.
- Miu builds a rocket launcher-esque weapon to help everyone escape from the school.
- Hiro's body is found in the trash room.
- Everyone freaks out because his blood is pink when it should be red. When Kaede challenges Monokuma about this, he attacks her and renders her out of commission for the investigation. Chiaki investigates in her stead.
- Miu is revealed to be the Blackened at the trial, and she's executed.
- Of note, Miu never confesses to killing Hiro, and in fact adamantly denies it until she's dragged away to her execution.

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CHAPTER 3: TWO BIRDS, ONE STONE SUMMARY

THE WHO
- Komaru Naegi and Aoi Asahina are the victims.
- Kazuichi Souda is the Blackened.THE WHAT
- The third and fourth victims are killed, and the third class trial is held.
- The existence of a Traitor is revealed.THE DETAILS
- The motive is an incurable sickness that will kill those afflicted—Chiaki, Hina, and Komaru—if no one is murdered.
- Tenko takes it upon herself to take care of her classmates in an effort to save them as well as tending to Kaede's injured arm.
- Komaru and Hina's bodies are found in their beds in the infirmary. Chiaki, however, is missing, and Tenko is unconscious on the floor.
- When Tenko wakes up, she doesn't remember anything from the previous day.
- Chiaki's found in Hina's room, unconscious on the floor, and Monokuma forces everyone to leave her there for the duration of the trial. In other words, Chiaki does not attend the class trial.
- It's learned at the trial that Tenko was drugged, and that's why she fell unconscious.
- Kaz is revealed to be the person who murdered Komaru and Hina, as well as the person who drugged Tenko, and he's executed.
- Of note, Kaz never admits to killing Komaru and Hina and drugging Tenko, and in fact adamantly denies it until he's dragged away to his execution.
- Chiaki walks up to her friends after the trial, but she doesn't have any memory of the entire time she was sick.

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CHAPTER 4: WATCH YOUR STEP! SUMMARY

THE WHO
- Ibuki Mioda is the victim.
- Akane Owari is the Blackened.THE WHAT
- The fifth victim is killed, and the fourth class trial is held.
- The school experiences some problems.THE DETAILS
- The motive is a talentswap, which swaps everyone with one of their dead classmates, except for Chiaki, Akane, Ibuki, and Hiyoko, who are swapped with Chisa Yukizome, Koichi Kizakura, Junko Enoshima, and Miaya Gekkogahara, in that order.
- Kaede is talentswapped with Hajime, firmly placing her as a Talentless Reserve Course student.
- Immediately following the motive reveal, the layout of the school starts to shift on everyone. Namely, the dorms slide up and down the walls, sometimes requiring ladders to reach them.
- Hiyoko falls out of her room and breaks her leg when she hits the ground. She is then made to use crutches.
- Everyone starts to slowly regain their real memories on top of their fake memories, leading to mental anguish for everyone, as they also regain memories of horrific executions they had gone through.
- Ibuki's body is found slumped over at a table in the art room.
- After finding Ibuki's body, everyone's talents and memories are restored to what they should be.
- During the trial, everyone eventually comes to the conclusion that Akane must have been the person that killed Ibuki, but for the first time, they all seriously doubt the validity of that claim because Akane neither confirms nor denies their suspicions.
- Even though none of them want to, they have to vote for Akane, and their vote is revealed to be correct. Akane is then executed.
- Everyone leaves the trial distressed and confused.

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CHAPTER 5: GOODBYE TO A FRIEND SUMMARY

THE WHO
- Kaito Momota is the victim.
- Hiyoko Saionji is the Blackened.THE WHAT
- The sixth victim is killed, and the fifth class trial is held.
- The Traitor is... revealed?THE DETAILS
- The motive is lack of sleep, where the participants are physically incapable of falling asleep until someone is murdered.
- The participants begin to auditorily and visually hallucinate those close to them, including their classmates at Hope's Peak and the dead students.
- After Kaito's body is discovered, all of the remaining students pass out where they are and sleep for two days.
- Of note, Kaito's body shows no signs of decomposition despite being left on the ground for two days.
- During the trial, they discover that Hiyoko is the only person who could have killed Kaito, but none of them believe it.
- Everyone tries to cheat the voting system by voting for the person to their right so that Hiyoko will be spared.
- After the vote, Monokuma reveals that one random person's vote will be doubled to break the seven-way tie.
- Makoto's vote ends up doubled, and Hiyoko is correctly voted guilty.
- Tenko attempts to prevent Hiyoko's execution, but Monokuma ignores her and goes through with it anyway. Hiyoko is executed.
- After the trial, Monokuma implies that Chiaki is the Traitor and then kicks everyone out of the trial grounds.
- Everyone shoots down the idea of Chiaki being the Traitor, including Chiaki herself, but Kaede isn't 100% convinced.
- The chapter ends with everyone going to Makoto's room to hide and recover from the trial.

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CHAPTER 6: FALSELY SIMULATED SAFETY SUMMARY

THE WHO
- Kaede Akamatsu, Chiaki Nanami, Tenko Chabashira, Makoto Naegi, Leon Kuwata, and Yuta Asahina are the six remaining students.
- Chisa Yukizome, Koichi Kizakura, and Mahiru Koizumi find the survivors.
- The Steering Committee is the Mastermind.THE WHAT
- The truth behind the killing game they're participating in is revealed.
- The truth behind their fellow classmates is revealed.
- The survivors escape the killing game.THE DETAILS
- Shortly following Hiyoko's trial, the survivors struggle to keep it together.
- Monokuma summons all of them to the gym to try and deliver another motive, but he's shot down emphatically by the survivors. They tell him that they refuse to be delivered another motive, so Monokuma asks what they think is an equivalent exchange.
- Kaede says that she wants one more trial to find their answers regarding the killing game. She offers her life as the bargaining chip, to which everyone else tells her she's insane for suggesting such a deal. Monokuma accepts.
- After a confusing investigation, the survivors proceed to the trial grounds and face off against Monokuma one last time.
- Throughout the course of the trial, the survivors learn that the true Mastrmind behind their kidnapping and the killing game is the Steering Committee, who only kidnapped everyone to test their hypothetical question "What would happen if you locked a group of Ultimates in an inescapable location and told them the only way to escape is to kill each other?" The Steering Committee refers to this as Project Hypotheticals.
- They also learn that, due to the nature of Project Hypotheticals, the Steering Committee couldn't just have them kill each other, or else they would never be able to run multiple trials. This leads to the discovery that all of them have been placed in a simulation in Hope's Peak's basement.
- They demand answers as to why the Steering Committee has been so adamantly after Kaede the entire time, so the Steering Committee tells them that they are simultaneously studying Kaede, and her sister Momiji to an extent, to see if she is a viable subject for an experiment similar to what they had done to Hajime and Izuru. Since Kaede made it to the final trial and otherwise proved herself, they state that they will be removing her for surgery imminently.
- Before this can happen, Chisa, Koichi, and Mahiru break into the basement to stop them. Chisa handles the Steering Committee and takes over communicating with the survivors, telling them that everything will be okay now.
- Eventually, Koichi finds a way to shut down the simulation, so they initiate the shutdown and tell the survivors they'll be waiting for them on the outside.
- The survivors celebrate and hold each other close as the simulation shuts down.
- Kaede regains some consciousness in the real world after the simulation has shut down, having a short, stilted conversation with Chisa.
- The chapter ends with Kaede falling unconscious again, free and safe.

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Epilogue Summary

THE WHO
- Kaede Akamatsu
- Chiaki Nanami
- Aoi Asahina
- Yuta Asahina
- Yasuhiro Hagakure
- Hajime Hinata
- Miu Iruma
- Akane Owari
- Ibuki Mioda
- Hiyoko Saionji
- Kaito Momota
- Kazuichi Souda
- Leon Kuwata
- Makoto Naegi
- Komaru Naegi
- Tenko ChabashiraTHE WHAT
- After the events of Project Hypotheticals, Kaede and her classmates return to Hope's Peak Academy.THE DETAILS
- A couple months after Chisa and Koichi shut down the Steering Committee's simulation, the killing game participants are released from the hospital and cleared to return to Hope's Peak Academy, centering on Kaede during her first day back at school.
- It's established that the Steering Committee have been arrested and are awaiting trial for their numerous crimes, with witnesses including Kyoko Kirigiri, Mahiru Koizumi, everyone that was part of Project Hypotheticals, and several others.
- It's also established that, due to the scandal created from the public learning what the Steering Committee did to the participants, the Japanese government gives the order for Hope's Peak Academy to officially close its doors after Class 79 graduates in two years. As such, the staff are forced to begin looking for new jobs.
- Kaede goes to a "remedial class" created for herself and her fellow killing game participants to aid them in becoming used to a typical school environment again after so long spent away. She speaks to her classmates and reflects on how lucky they are to have all this help, and this is where the epilogue, and Danganronpa: Hypotheticals as a whole, comes to an end.

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