Hope is harmony. A just heart, moving toward the light. That is all. Despair is hope's polar opposite. It is messy and confusing. It swallows up love, hatred, and everything else. Because not knowing where you will end up is despair. Despair is even what you cannot predict. Only despair's unpredictability can save you from a boring future.

You know, about torture... If I do it with things familiar to you, doesn't it feel much scarier? The tools you think nothing of using in your daily life. If I use those to mess you up, it leaves real trauma. It's full of despair, don't you think?

A mysterious beautiful young girl, standing in the airport, Junko Enoshima. Waiting for her is... Yes, one of the Despairs, the smelly one... Mukuro Ikusaba. Thus did the event which would later plunge the world into despair, the Biggest, Most Atrocious Despair-Inducing Incident in Human History, quietly begin to move forward. At that time, everyone had yet to realize this.