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Like I said in the OP, I have a couple of theories about the overall plot so I guess I'll get into those.

1. Byakuya wasn't Byakuya

This might be a stretch, but I'm a little suspicious about Byakuya in this game. Ignoring the obvious thing about him being overweight, his personality seemed... off. Byakuya in the first game was a selfish jerk, making it very clear that he didn't care for any of his fellow students and repeatedly showed no empathy whenever someone died. This is the guy who in Case 2 stumbled upon the crime scene first and chose to alter it just to make the investigation harder on everyone else for his own amusement. He was arrogant, pretentious, and didn't care about anyone.

But in this game, all of a sudden he seems to care a lot about his fellow students. He takes it upon himself to be the leader and vows to protect everyone. He even makes the ultimate sacrifice to protect Nagito. Now if that's not the most out of character thing Byakuya could possibly do I don't know what is. So I'm inclined to believe that maybe Byakuya wasn't what he seemed.

2. The events of DR1 and DR2 are happening simultaneously

Now this only works if theory 1 is correct, since Byakuya obviously appears in both games. So the ancient ruins look exactly like Hope's Peak Academy. Hajime himself even points it out. They even draw attention to the door on the front locking them out... which looks exactly like the door locking the DR1 students in. What if both games are happening at the same time? Sure the outside of the ruins looks bad, but the inside could be perfectly fine. When the DR1 students left the school at the end of the first game we actually didn't see what was on the other side of the door. They could have very well have been on the island. I know that the school is shown to be in the middle of a city, but what if that was just a fake memory implanted in their minds? If their memories can be stolen, then they can have fake ones put in, right?
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