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Given the source material, it's a given. But the executions here are no less terrifying than the ones from the source material:
- First Case: "Detective of Love Whodunit: Shot through the Heart!" Shuichi chooses to lie and lets himself be the culprit and executed in Kaede's stead, kickstarting the plot with a brutal execution. Shuichi is dragged to a room with see-through walls and odd statues of Monokuma dressed like cupids placed at the walls and ceiling. Kaede can see him through the walls and has to watch him be shot at the leg by a Monokuma statue before he's ganged up by more Monokuma statues brandishing a pipe, a knife, a candlestick, and a wrench before he's beaten up with the aforementioned items, with the Monokumas purposely missing the vitals to drag this execution as much as they can. Kaede is then given a Hope Spot when Monodam strangles Monokid with the rope that was going to be used to hang Shuichi...only for that to be shattered when one of the cupid statues fires a flaming arrow at his heart, stopping at the surface of his skin instead of piercing through his heart...and Shuichi is then incinerated from the inside out.
- Second Case: Korekiyo is the culprit, having fought Kirumi in a Duel to the Death, and his execution is the same as the source material's...only because aspects of his character were ommited and Kiyo is presented in a far more decent light, all Black Comedy aspects are removed, making it a far more horrifying execution than the original.
- Third Case: "Wax Angel: Burned by the Light": Both Gonta and Himiko are the victims of this case, but because of the "First Come, First Served" rule, only Gonta's killer is executed. Nonetheless, Angie's fate is a horrifying one: She's placed on a cardboard island setting with drums playing in the background as a fake Volcano causes hot wax to fall from the sky and stick to Angie's body while the latter is clearly agonizing from the pain, but doesn't stop praying nor breaking her serene expression. Monokuma is then kicked into the set by Monodam, facing a similar fate. The wax keeps sticking to their bodies until they become a wax statue in their entirety...A hammer is brought down on angie, tied to a string, and a light tap from the hammer ''shatters Angie to small shards'' before Monodam grabs the hammer himself and does the same to Monokuma.
- Fourth Case: "Ages of Invention: Reinventing the Wheel". This time, Miu is up on the chopping block for what is the most nightmarish execution of this story. Unlike Kiyo and Angie, who accept their fate with dignity, Miu is screaming throughout the entire execution as she is trapped to a spinning wheel on the ceiling of her execution chamber along with Monotaro, Monophanie and Monodam. As the wheel rotates with the screaming Miu trapped in it, a projector flicks on, reading “The Stone Age” before the first Monocub is smashed by a large stone hammer, switching to "The Bronze Age" before the second Monocub is smashed by a large copper hammer, followed by the wheel Miu is trapped to speeding up, scattering the crushed Monocubs' remains across the chamber while the screen then reads "The Iron Age" before the final Monocub is crushed by a metal hammer, dragging on the execution for as long as possible to instill as much despair in the already broken Miu, who continues to scream in agony and scream to K1-B0 for help her. The screen finally reads "The Execution Age" before a guillotine comes down on Miu, missing her the first time and then successfully decapitating her the next. And had the ceiling of the Trial Grounds not shut off beforehand, Miu's decaptiated head would have fallen before the other students.
- The lead up the the execution deserves mention as well: Much like the source material, the entirety of the Fourth Case is a massive Tear Jerker. Before the trial ends, Miu has a gradual My God, What Have I Done? when she realizes that the victim, K1-B0, one of the few people in there that she trusts completely, was killed by a trap she set up...to kill Kokichi...and it gets worse when more evidence pile up against her and she realizes she is going to be executed...getting to a point where she begs one of the other students to Mercy Kill her so she doesn't have to go through the execution. A Hope Spot is given when Miu hijacks an Exisal and fights the other Exisals for her survival...but she lets her guard down and is dragged to her execution by a chain clamped around her neck. Made even worse by the fact K1-B0 has to watch her die while she's screaming for his help.
- Fifth Case: "King of Lies: The New Burning of the Versailles Witch". Much like the source material, this case involves the culprit hiding in an Exisal to create a murder Monokuma can't solve with usage of a hydraulic press. Only this time, it's Kokichi who is the culprit, and much like the Queen of Liars, Celestia Ludenberg, he is executed via being burned alive. Only, he drank a bottle of poison beforehand, and it kills him before he can suffer a gruesome fate of Kill It with Fire. But until then he's feeling the inital stages of being burned alive on top of slowly dying via poison. While undoubtedly a Moment of Awesome for Kokichi much like what Kaito pulled in the source material, it is still not a pretty way to go.
