The screen turns on again.

There were 13 votes on Hikari, one on me, and one on Chikara.

"I misclicked," says Reiko in Chikara's voice.

"Doesn't matter when majority vote's on Hikari already," replies Kodo.

"Our voting is finished! Will you all get it right, or have you chosen the dreadfully wrong one?" asks Monokuma.

I'm confident in my answer. Hikari was the only one who could've done it.

"Hikari Himura is... GUILTY!"

"No! Please! Stop! It's all wrong!" shouts Hikari. "I just wanna go home, dammit!"

"There's no time to stall! IIIIIIIIT'S PUNISHMENT TIME!"

Monokuma does a flip and strikes a red button with a toy mallet.

"Hikari Himura was been found guilty. Time for the punishment!" A pixelated Monokuma drags pixelated Hikari off the screen.

Hikari was in the center of our trial room. A giant metal claw attached to a rope grabs him by the neck and takes him to an open area. It's nighttime, and we see clusters of stars spray-painted onto the sky. Meanwhile, Hikari is tied to a large firecracker, and Monokuma lights the fuse. He tenses up.

I keep switching my sights on Hikari himself and the fuse slowly burning out. Other fireworks burst into the sky as it goes down. A centimeter away, and Hikari shoots upward, leaving a trail of smoke and yellow sparks. The firework reaches its height, and bursts and crackles into a large ball of yellow twinkles and guts.

A cracked glass lens with a short, burned out leather strap falls out of the sky and lands in front of the firework battery.

That monstrous Monokuma...