After that, Lin Xiao and Hinata were ready to look around again, but at this time they received a video notification from Monokuma.
"Puff, the exciting graduation exam has officially begun. All of you gather and go to the gymnasium."
The time has come, in this case... that means Monokuma will also reveal part of the secret it has hidden, right?
At the last moment, Lin Xiao calmed down. He had a premonition that everything was about to end... and the choice was in their hands...
After entering the gymnasium, everyone was there, but before they had time to say hello to each other, the scene suddenly changed, and a bright light was so dazzling that people could not open their eyes.
When I came back to my senses, I realized that the place I was in now was actually the ancient ruins, surrounded by gray stone slabs... The entire building had a solemn and simple feel.
In addition, there is a location similar to a school-level trial, and there seems to be a voting button on it... Is this the venue for the graduation exam?
Soon everyone got used to it and started to get noisy...but the noise quickly calmed down.
Because the villain has appeared, that is, Monokuma has arrived. He is very happy: "You are finally here! Congratulations! You are still the first batch of people to pass the level! Although you spent a while in Hope's Peak Academy, you are still
Here we are. Arriving at the examination venue in the ruins of Jabbawok Island!"
Tsuri: "Although it's called the Graduation Examination Hall, it has such a gorgeous name, but it's actually pretty much the same as the previous trial court..."
Monokuma sighed and said: "The Tribunal was actually created like this. This is the origin of coming here."
Zuo Tian: "Who cares? As long as the graduation exam is over, we can go home? Right?"
Monokuma: "Of course, as long as you can make up your mind."
Kuzuryuu: "Then, what should you decide to do?"
Monokuma signaled everyone to take their positions, and when everyone was ready.
Monokuma: "Then please pay attention to the LED touch screen on the seat...The rules this time are simpler than the previous trials. There are options of graduation and repeating...You only need to choose one of them and press the corresponding button.
Okay... All members will vote and decide your final outcome based on the principle of the minority obeying the majority... Of course, if you do not choose either option, it will be considered an abstention... and will not be included in the final results...
.Anyway, those who have died will be regarded as abstaining..."
Everyone became silent after hearing this, probably thinking of the dead guy...
After a long moment, Artorya said: "Is it that simple?"
Sinmu: "I feel like something bad is going to happen..."
Sonia: "Monokuma, is this your trap?"
Wei Chui: "Things have become more complicated..."
Kurosaki: "What will happen after the voting ends? What if we choose to graduate?"
Monokuma: "Of course there will be something called a graduation program, and then you can go home."
Zuo Tian: "Let's start quickly, can we press now?"
Monokuma: "No, no, you can't press it now. You guys haven't made up your mind yet, right? You will be drowned by the trend of social reference..."
Zuo Tian: "Shut up, so what can I do? I'm going to press it anyway!"
Monokuma: "Oh my, are you like a lost lamb? I'm so anxious... It's up to me to decide whether I can continue the graduation process..."
Hinata: "After what majority decision vote, it's not over yet?"
Monokuma: "Oh haha, after the voting...I will judge none of you to decide whether you can graduate."
Kuzuryuu: "Asshole, that means even after we vote, we still can't graduate unless you agree?"
Zuo Tian: "Sorry, I shouldn't have been so cruel to you just now, hehe..."
Kurosaki: "Is there any trap in this? Monokuma!"
Monokuma: "Don't worry, I won't disapprove of your graduation... This is just a formality, and the reason for doing this is just out of necessity...
In short...Whether you are willing or not, you still have to solve the mystery...After you vote, we will then enter the graduation process!"
Monokuma also has a last resort, that is, the challenge of the graduation exam must be launched, but now it has been changed to solving the mystery?
Sonia: “Why do we have to do something so complicated?”
Monokuma: "I'm waiting for a protagonist."
What did Lin Xiao think of at the moment? Could he be waiting for the person who designed this program? Someone from the future agency?
Hinata: "Are you trying to delay time?"
Zhongli: "Who is the protagonist...?"
Yuibuki: "Protagonist? Isn't it us?"
Sinmu: "What? It turns out we are just supporting characters!"
Saionji: "No, no, you are the only useless supporting character, Sinmu."
Monokuma: "There's no need to think about it and get entangled, it has nothing to do with you."
Sonia: "How could it have nothing to do with us? We are all involved, right?"
Monokuma sneered and said: "It doesn't matter whether you are involved or not. From the overall perspective, you are just a bunch of fish...So, it has nothing to do with you. As long as you don't talk nonsense, play your role well."
That’s it…”
Zhongli: "Wait...wait a minute! What does "trash fish" mean?"
Monokuma: "Those things are no longer important."
Kuzuryuu roared: "Asshole, are you looking down on us?"
Monokuma: "Pfft, pfft... What else do you want to do? I am a god-like existence. You should have understood a lot of things, right? This world is now under my control...
"Even so, there are things you can't do... So if you have any purpose and intention, you should know it as soon as possible... This is the final battlefield, isn't it?" Lin Xiao.
Monokuma put away his anger and said: "Then let's start, but I'm just telling you the truth."
Everyone looked at Monokuma, and then he said: "I did want you to see the outside world, but it is indeed suspicious to start this topic... But you have also investigated a lot of things, right?
Let me first ask, what is the true face of this world?"
Zuoda: "Huh? What is the true face of this world? What kind of problem is this?" This idiot didn't do any research at all. He was just looking for Sonia, so he didn't know anything...
Hinata replied: "This is a virtual world...it is based on Jabal Walker Island..."
Monokuma: "The answer is correct...Whether you believe it or not, this world is not a real world, but if you want, you can call it a game world...Understand. This is just a large game!"
Zhongli: "Are you serious?"
Saionji: "Is there such a thing?"
Yuibuki: "Amazing unfolding..."
Kuzuryuu: "Don't fool everyone, you bastard! Is this all this nonsense that brought us here?"
Zuota grabbed his head with his right hand: "If this is a game, then are my words displayed in a dialog box? How is this possible..."
Monokuma: "I know, I know, you can't believe this kind of thing... Will it only make you fall into unreal despair? But who cares? I reproduced all the suspense and
Puzzle, because this is a game, so I can disappear and appear at any time... You can also eat food that suddenly appears, and you can live on an uninhabited island where there is no one. Everything is false.
...That's why these things can be done..."
Lin Xiao: "We can already determine these things... I just want to know why we are forced to kill each other."
Monokuma replied: "Because this is a game!"
Zuoda's eyes widened: "So many crazy things happened... Is it just a game?"
Zhongli: "No wonder there are delicious foods popping up out of nowhere every day... Is it because of the game?"
Sonia: "The incredible appearance and disappearance of Monokuma and Bunny..."
Atria: "Why would you do such a thing?"
Monokuma: "Oh, pfft, I know you're angry, but it's actually quite fun, isn't it? A world that only exists in the game, this closed space, this game world, is the real stage for a murderous school trip!"
Zhongli: "It's impossible to say goodbye, I won't believe it."
Monokuma: "Recall how surprised people were when they saw a plane taking off for the first time. What would it be like to see an electric light for the first time? Are you also surprised and startled when you see a car for the first time?
, but then everything became fine once you got used to it, and isn’t it simple and easy to understand to create a virtual game? This kind of thing has been around for a long time, right?”
Sonia: "Please don't compare this kind of thing with reality... With so many terrible things happening, how can it be just a game."
Zuo Tian: "I, if it is a real virtual world, then we...are we...?"
Kuzuryuu: "Are you a fictional character we just made up?"
Tanaka: "How is this possible? I don't feel any evil power at all. Only the Demon King can do this kind of thing."
Monokuma shook his head: "Future Organization used the New World Program to create this world... This program can directly synchronize the user's brain, allowing the user to be in a virtual world, that is...
.Your body still exists in the real world, but now... you are completely immersed in the game world, just like a dream... To put it simply, you are now in a virtual game
It’s just..."
Yoshida: "It's the so-called virtual character, right? It replicates the body of the user in the real world and exists in the game?"
Hinata: "But... we are not ordinary avatars, right?"
Monokuma: "Your avatar is formed by removing certain parts of the body from the real world..."
Kurosaki: "What was removed? Could it be?"
Lin Xiao: "What was removed was our memory in school...right?"
Atria: "If you understand it this way, we are virtual characters created from the memories before we entered school?"
Sonia: "That's why we don't have memories of Hope's Peak Academy...?"
Zuimu: "But in this case, it suddenly feels like science fiction... Are we unreal?"
Monokuma: "How many times will it take? It's not science fiction, it's a game!"
Saionji: "This is impossible...how can I be a virtual character?"
Lin Xiao pondered for a moment and said: "I found a newspaper in the faculty office earlier, and there was a photo of Xiyuanji's classmate on it... But she looks more mature than the Xiyuanji we know..."
Hinata: "Well, that's it. Saionji-san, do you know about this?"
Saionji: "Know? Know what? What does this mean?"
Lin Xiao: "Since we are virtual characters now, our appearance is the same as before entering school. But in the real world, we have already experienced school life, that is, we have grown up so much...
..."
Hinata: "But Saionji-san still looks pretty and mature compared to that photo... If we are avatars and intercept our memories before entering school, this matter can be explained clearly.
..”
Xiyuanji said in horror: "This..." Then she didn't say a word.
Sonia: "...In this case, Saionji-san is the proof?"
Monokuma: "Saionji-san has grown up a lot in the academy. It seems that the other dwarf, Kuzuryuu, has graduated."
Kuzuryuu: "Dwarf! You bastard, what are you doing! Maybe you are just making these things up, Monokuma!"
Monokuma sneered: "If you lose your memory, your body will also grow...right? Then you won't feel that your body changes so fast, because you have no memory...so you can't recognize each other, and the other party has
You don’t know what the changes are.”
Sonia: “Because we didn’t even know each other before we lost our memory!”
Hinata: "Hey, Kuzuryuu, haven't you known Benkozan-san for a long time?"
Kuzuryuu was shocked when he heard this and said: "Yeah... Now that you mentioned it, this is strange... No... It's really weird... Our memories in school...
.How much time was taken away?”
Monokuma said: "Only the creators of the New World Program and the Future Agency know the details, but it should be in 2-3 years..."
"Such a long time..." Kurosaki didn't dare to accept it.
Kuzuryu: "Bengosan and I meet almost every day... If we lose the memory of 2-3 years, we will notice the increase in age... If this is the case, we should not enter the game now.
This look..."
Zhongli: "Maybe the amnesia is just Monokuma's lie..."
Monokuma: "That's just because you don't want to accept it..."
Lin Xiao: "Maybe this is true..."
Hinata: "We met the AI of the Future Organization and understood this matter..."
Saionji: "Have you met AI?"
Yuibuki: "What kind of guy is he?"
Sinmu: "Could it be a big monster... something very scary..."
Hinata: "Anyway, things are bad...but this is indeed a virtual world...called the New World Program..."
Zuo Tian: "You are, are we just going to accept reality?"
Zhongli: "I can feel my heartbeat...and the smell on my body, and the pain...so what are these things we have on our bodies now..."
Black and White Xiang: "This is a game, but it doesn't mean everything is a lie. Have you heard that if you are deeply hypnotized or suggested and believe that you have been burned, real burn marks will appear on your body...
.”
Hinata: "So, if our brains firmly believe that something happened, then it doesn't mean the same thing as if it really happened?"
Sonia: "...I remembered a story, which is very similar to this method...In a distant country, there was an experiment done on death row prisoners...The prisoners were blinded
Put on a blindfold, tie him to the bed, cut some wounds on his toes for bleeding... The prisoner was locked alone in the laboratory, and the sound of blood dripping echoed in the room, but in fact his blood was not drained.
He was just forced to listen to the sound of water dripping on the ground...but he believed that he was about to bleed to death...but in the end the prisoner really died..."
Artoria: "If a lie is too true, or if people believe it, then the lie becomes the truth..."
Lin Xiao: "If we are connected to the New World program, and then our consciousness is uploaded here... So we really believe that this game world is real..."
Zhongli: "Then the island we live on... was also created by the virtual world..."
Hinata: "According to our investigation information, all of this is a virtual world generated by the New World program... This also includes the world we are in now."
Lin Xiao: "What we are seeing now is actually a program-generated virtual environment... It looks very real, but it is actually because the brain believes it... In fact, we are just in a program..."
Everyone was silent, no one knew anything, because this truth was a bit cruel... Everything was a created lie... What would happen if they went back later? This is so unsettling.
Well, what is the purpose of their existence?
Monokuma: "Congratulations on uncovering the true face of this world... Puff."
Zhongli: "If everything is a lie, then what should we believe?"
Kuzuryuu: "Who cares if it's a lie..."
Zuo Tian: "What do you mean?"
Hinata: "By the way... If this is just a game world, then all the facts happen in the game, right?"
Kuzuryuu: "...In this case, the murder we were forced to commit was just a stupid game... The person who was killed should still be alive in the real world!"
Zhongli: "Great, dying in the virtual world does not mean dying in the real world!"
Sonia also became happy after hearing this: "So...are you still alive?"
Sinmu: "This...this is really great..."
Xiyuanji: "Can we still see Sister Quan?"
Wei Chui: "Oh, a happy ending?"
Lin Xiao: "Monokuma, is that true?" Lin Xiao was also very nervous when he asked this question. He also hoped that Nanami and the others were not dead.
Monokuma: "Pfft... If a lie is believed by people, then the lie is true. Isn't this the conclusion you just came to? Young people, are you too naive..."
Atria was horrified: "Are you...their deaths are also real? How...how could this be possible..."
Monokuma: "New World's program is different from ordinary games. The software contains the ultimate reality, including top-notch suggestion and hypnosis. If the player experiences death virtually... they are in the real world.
The brain will also stop moving, the personality will be destroyed, and it will become a vegetative state..."
Lin Xiao was shocked. This was the same as the result of the investigation. No wonder the New World Program was used for other purposes besides treatment...
Kuzuryuu: "What...this..." He opened his mouth in surprise. He probably really wanted Ben Gushan to be alive...
Zuotian grabbed his head with his left hand: "So, the dead people..."
Monokuma: "Their bodies are not completely dead, so I can't say that they are really dead, but if they become a vegetative state, hey, this is worse than death. They will never wake up, they are just empty bodies."
....”
Sonia: "Will you never wake up?"
Wei Chui: "What kind of unfolding is this? My head is dizzy..."
Sinmu: "This is too terrible..."
Kuzuryuu yelled: "Damn it, bastard, why is this happening!~"
Monokuma: "Oh no, not at the damn time. Who would like this kind of game? Right?"
Hinata: "What game? We don't want to play this game!"
Monokuma: "If you want to be angry, be angry with Future Agency. They are the ones who forced you to play this game..."
Zumi: "Future Agency... It was Future Agency that asked us to play this perverted game? In other words, they did all this?"
Atria: "Nanami-san and Usagi are not like this..."
Tatsuno Haru: "But they didn't deny it... they couldn't betray the future organization... they must have been threatened..."
Zuo Tian: "They betrayed the Future Agency to protect us and were eliminated..."
Zhongli: "Could our enemy be an organization from the future?"
Lin Xiao: "No, it's too early to draw conclusions now... According to the New World AI Management Office, originally, in the procedurally generated virtual world of the New World, the concept of violence does not exist and will not be allowed to occur.
of...."
Kuzuryuu: "But such a thing happened... right in front of us!" He seemed a little out of control, maybe because of Ben Gushan's classmate...
Sonia: "Someone was killed, why didn't you stop it..."
Hinata: "AI has a virus that invaded the system and forced us to kill each other..."
Lin Xiao: "That virus is you, Monokuma!"
Monokuma turned his back and said, "It's not a virus, it's a plush bear!"
Artorya: "No one cares that you are made of plush material...and that plush material is not cute!"
Monokuma: "Disappointed...Pfft, it seems that the troublesome AI still gave you a lot of unnecessary information..."
Yoshida: "Monokuma...the atmosphere on the island was very peaceful before you showed up...it was indeed you who caused the trouble!"
Monokuma: "Usagi, what's the use of a confused bunny like her in this world? There's no need for her existence anywhere. The ordinary daily life of a group of high school students. Such a story is really boring. Why not
Go watch a third-rate daily drama!”
Zhongli clenched his fists: "Asshole, don't change the subject."
Lin Xiao: "Tumei was originally an observer of the New World Program and was able to directly interfere with us...playing the role of a teacher...but because she was defeated by you, her authority was taken away...
.”
Monokuma: "Hmph, a useless NPC like her shouldn't get this position. I'm just a capable person...and the existence of Usagi is just created by the program to monitor you...
Of course, except Nanami-san."
Hinata was surprised: "Why are Nanami-san excluded?"
Lin Xiao: "Is Qihai also a monitor... Then she is..."
Monokuma: "Yes, she is also an NPC generated by the New World program...Pfft, are you surprised..."
Silence flooded this place... until everyone couldn't breathe...
For a long time...Hinata: "How...how could this happen..."
Lin Xiao: "So she can't betray the future organization...Is this the reason..."
Sonia: "Nanami is just a program NPC and does not exist in the real world... But she has always been with us and helped us..."
Saionji: "Then...she's not human..."
Artorya: "It's impossible, she is a very kind and gentle girl... NPCs can't do this!"
Lin Xiao: "That's right... Nanami-san must be really alive! In the time she spent with us so far, she was often confused as if she was about to fall asleep... But she always wanted to
Protecting everyone, helping everyone...even at the expense of herself...she is still alive..."
Hinata: "Yes...even if she is virtual, she is still alive! She saved us..."
Yuibuki: "Yes... Nanami-san is a good girl."
Sinmu: "But Sinmu is very stupid. When she taught me how to play the game, I never learned it... Wuwu. Will I see her again?"
Hinata: "It must be possible..."
Monokuma: "Don't be so sentimental about a game character, okay?"
Kurosaki: "Shut up!"
Monokuma continued: "Pfft, you are still deceived. Her identity is not just that, she is a servant of the infamous World Terminator!~"
Sonia: "Since you mentioned it...you have called the future agency by this name before..."
Hinata: "It's all lies. The Future Agency is not our enemy."
Atria: "Don't make fun of the Terminator!"
Lin Xiao: "Monokuma, these things are among the information you scatter everywhere. You should know that you can't deceive us."
Monokuma laughed: "Pfft... No, the future machine is undoubtedly the terminator of the world, at least, for us here!"
Hinata: "What do you mean... us here? Don't confuse us with you!"
Saionji: "I don't want to hold such a worthless tanuki on the road."
Sinmu: "It's not a civet cat, it's a plush bear..."
Wei Chui: "Is this what matters to you two? This bear is obviously ugly, and one is black and the other is white, which is unlucky..."
Kuzuryuu: "You three, please be quiet..."
Zuo Tian: "Monokuma, what are you trying to figure out? What's going on with bringing us together?"
Lin Xiao: "Monokuma...who are you? Who brought your virus here? I remember that the AI New World program can only be infected from within!"
Monokuma: "You all know these things? This is really embarrassing..."
Nine-headed Dragon: "Damn it! Answer me quickly!"
Monokuma turned around and took the approach of ignoring...
Artorya: "If you plan to escape, you are just a coward!"
Wei Chui: "I always feel that something will unfold next..."
Monokuma was silent for a while and finally spoke up: "Well, the matter has reached this point, and there is no use in hiding it anymore... In fact, he is a member of the World Terminator...
"
At this time, a voice suddenly came out, and a person appeared not far from Monokuma... The person had a serious face.
Monokuma: "Okay, I've been waiting for you, Naegi... You're finally here!"