I don’t know how low it takes to make it so you have to view the whole post by clicking haha, sorry!
But, I’ve been thinking:
…what if Kaito didn’t exit the exisal during the trial?
Monokuma didn’t know who the culprit was since Kokichi had used an Electrobomb to disable to safety function on the hydraulic press. So, when Maki ‘admitted’ that she was the culprit, or when Shuichi ‘confessed’ he was lying for Kokichi, Monokuma had no way of knowing if this was the truth or not.
Kaito wouldn’t take any chances, after all, it was his already-short life or all of his friends. But what if he truly believed in Kokichi’s plan?
Admittedly, Monokuma would probably just kill them all.
But, as is revealed in the sixth class trial, Kiibo’s ‘inner voice’ is really the viewers watching the game. So, I’m sure they would all be against Monokuma defying these rules he set up himself, yeah?
Since this AU is something I was thinking about recently, I’m not sure how Kiibo would convince Monokuma he was in the wrong. Maybe he would say, “My inner voice is telling me that your action would be against the rules you created yourself!” And since Monokuma is the headmaster, he would recognize the viewer’s frustration, and admit defeat. Though the mastermind would probably get another kill to happen while wasting the rest of the electrobombs just in case.
Therefore, chapter six would roll by, and since Kiibo never got his antenna knocked off, it would… basically just be another chapter five 😅 but Kokichi’s dead now, and Kaito… well, he would probably die due to his illness. But Kokichi and Kaito technically defeated Monokuma anyways, right? Since Monokuma couldn’t punish anyone for the murder of Kokichi Ouma, and Kaito died due to his programmed illness, I figure that the viewers would get quite bored, and Tsumugi (the mastermind) would have to come up with some kind of huge reveal to get the ratings back up.