Naegi woke to the sound of Monobears broadcast.
"Good morning you, bastards! It's 7 in the morning. Time to wake up! Lets all strive to do our best today!"
Naegi groaned. He didnt want to get up out of bed yet. But he knew that the others were waiting to meet him in the lunchroom.
The young lucky adolescent boy flung his sheets off his body on the bed. He waited a few moments then began to rise up and out like a robot. When naegi stood up he realized he had to pee really really bad so he sprinted to his bathroom. After he used his toilet he promptly washed his hands and threw some water on his face. He looked at himself in the mirror and said "i'll shower later."
Then he picked up his jeans off the floor next to the tub (Naegi slept in his boxers) and slid them onto his legs and pulled them up to fit snug against his buttocks and crotch area. Snapping the button in place, all he needed now was his shoes and hoodie.
Naegi stepped outside his bathroom to find his hoodie folded on the dresser with his shoes on top of it.
He grabbed his shoes and put them on his feet. Then he pulled the hoodie off the dresser and proceeded to put it on as he left his bedroom. But before he even opened the door. He noticed an envelope that had been slid underneath his door at a 90 degree angle. He picked it up and saw an official Hope's Peak seal on the back. Naegi ripped the side open and let the indexcard-like piece of paper fall onto the floor. He bent down, picked it up and read:
"Maizono Sayaka lost her virginity at the young age of 13 to an older boy she met backstage after a concert."
Naegie looked confused, and surprised at the same time. He didn't know where this note came from, or what it was supposed to mean for the future. He noticed at the bottom it read "-Monobear" with a picture of monobear humping a pixelated image of Maizono. Naegi would never get that image out of his eyes. He stuffed the note into his hoodie pocket and proceeded to leave for breakfast. Just in case, Naegi locked the door.
As he walked into the cafeteria, he noticed that there were quite a few people missing. In fact, only Togami was there. Togami gave naegi a sneerful look. His eyes looked deadly. Naegi didn't know why Togami was acting this way.
Naegi took a seat a few away from Togami and looked down the table to him while he ate his breakfast.
"Would it be too hard to ask for you to wait until the others have arrived, Naegi-kun?" Togami said in a demeaning tone.
Naegi looked up from his bowl. "Well, I'm hungry, Togami. Nobody is stopping you from eating, you know."
Togami looked around to see if anyone was coming. Not a person in sight or hearing distance. He looked at the time. It was 7:20 am. His stomach growled and Naegi heard it.
"Fine" Togami succumbed Naegi's pitiful logic. "This would only happen once" he thought.
Several minutes later Togami came back with some freshly made pancakes that were topped with fanned strawberries.
Naegi stared in awe.
"Where'd you learn to make that, Togami-kun?"
"One of our maids showed me when I was at the peak of my childhood."
Naegi was surprised to think that Togami would affiliate himself with the staff of his house. Considering that he had very low opinions about Naegi and the other students, who weren't even staff. Who were considered his equal. Techincally speaking.
Naegi waited a bit for Togami to fill his stomach and maybe not be so grumpy. He asked awkwardly, "Hey, Togami-kun?"
"What is it" Togami answered harsly.
For a minute, Naegi debated asking, but knew it had to be important so he decided to do so.
"Did you receive a envelope this morning?"
Togami stopped chewing and put down his fork. "Why do you ask"
Naegi looked away and said "Uhm, well..."
"Did it say anything about me?" Togami questioned forcefully.
"No, no! I swear. I guess that means you got a letter, then."
"Yes..." Togami said after a second or two.
"What did yours say?" He continued.
Naegi's eyes went wide "It stated that Maizono-san lost her virginity at the age of 13 to an older boy she met at one of her concerts..." he trailed.
Togami smirked. "Is that so?" He laughed a bit. "Well isn't that funny."
"Why is that funny, Togami-kun?" Naegi said looking at Togami irritatedly.
Togami caught Naegi's glare and continued, "Well it must be a lie, shouldn't it?"
Naegi thought for a moment.
"The one I received is probably false too." Togami finished.
"What did yours, say, Togami-kun?" Naegi questioned
Togami appeared to be in thought for a moment and then broke the silence with "It said: 'Celestia Ludenburg once killed a man because he would not believe that she was a witch. She conjured her magic in front of him and used it to slay him.'" Togami laughed some more. "These are ridiculous" he said.
"They must be made up by that mechanical stuffed bear, Naegi-kun"
Naegi took in the thought seriously. Maybe Togami was right.
After they had finished breakfast, and waited 10 minutes, then both of them began to worry.
Naegi spoke down the table to Togami. "Maybe we should go look for them?"
"'We'?" Togami questioned. "How about you look for people, while I go find that monobear character."
"Why do you need to find Monobear?" Naegie asked.
"Because he probably knows where everyone is Naegi-kun. Are you that dense?"
"Well, I don't think s-" Naegi started. "Thats right, you don't think." Togami interrupted. "Dont you want to ask him about the mysterious envelopes?"
Naegi stopped to think for a second. Even though he was slightly scared of Monobear, he knew he had to ask.
Suddnely, "I'm going now." the young heir rose from his chair and then an announcement came on.
"This is an important announcement!" An annoying, but familiar voice boomed throughout the school.
"Today we're going to do something a little different. Everybody must meet in the Gymnasium at approximately 8:30! …...I have a game for all of you! Upupupupupupupuupupupupupupupupupupupupupupupuppupupupupupuuuuuu...!"
"Great" naegi thought. What good could come of this?!
Togami pushed his left sleeve up and locked eyes with his watch.
"It's 8:15. The others must be on there way now."
Togami walked to the double doors and pushed them open with both hands like a superstar.
Naegi stood up and followed Togami to the gym. He was about 15 paces behind Togami. He fastened his walk until he was parallele with the heir. They arrived at the gym within minutes. Togami opened the door to find everyone else already standing inside near the stage.
Walking over, loud and irritated, Togami spoke "Why didn't you come to the cafeteria for breakfast?"
Asahina answered swiftly with "Monobear came to our rooms this morning and told us to wait for instructions in the second announcement!"
Confused, Togami questioned why he hadn't had the same thing happen.
Naegi stood silently. He saw Maizono-san looking at his chest. Already feeling awkward being near her from what he recently read, he looked down towards his shirt, he had spilt milk on it. Togami noticed and muttered to himself. Naegi thought he heard, "disgusting" or "repulsive."
Naegi's thoughts were now found in the darker regions of his imagination because of this milk stain. He thought, "Maizono... how could you.. so young.. I..-" his thoughts trailed off into areas of M-rated material.
Hagakure arched and eyebrow and said "Well, how come you two are the only ones who didn't get the message early in the morning, hmmm?"
"I don't know" Togami retorted. "Why were you one of the ones who were told early in the morning? Maybe you're going to become a victim along with the others."
Hagakure gasped while Sakura reponsded with "Even you know that can't be true. Monobear would never allow such a waste of fun and entertainment to go to waste."
She was right, Naegi thought. What was going to happen to all of them. Especially the ones who had been told, or who hadn't. I wonder if- Naegie's train of thought was broken by a bear popping up onto the stage out of nowhere it seemed.
"Well well well, look what we have here. A bunch of teenagers just inching to get to that killing, right?!" Monobear said sadistically.
Nobody answered or gave any sign of despair to humor him.
"I suppose you all woke up on the wrong side of the bed today then" monobear said slightly disappointed. "Oh, well this game should certainly brighten up your spirits!" he gleamed.
"Now I want all of you to take out the cards you received this morning next to your door!"
Everyone, slightly embarrassed or worried looked around to see everyone else pulling out the cards.
"Upupupupupupupupupupupupupup..!" Monobear sung. "I have a feeling you're going to like this." he paused "Now, I know you're all wondering the saaaame questions! 'Are these true?' 'What part do these have in this game?' Well now I am going to answer your questions!"
Continuing, "I'd like to announce the theme of this game. This game is what I call 'Gossip Grinding!' 'Gossip' because it's all about the talk and who's doin' what with who! And 'Grinding' because you'll be trying to figure out which rumor is true by grinding down the false ones!"
"Doesn't this sound like fun?" Monobear smiled.
"NO-IT-DOES-NOT!" stammered Ishimaru who pointed out his finger at Monobear in a striking pose.
"Well of course you would think so, right?" Monobear teased. Have you found out your rumor yet?
Ishimaru tensed up and started to sweat. "Is it true?" he asked.
"only you can answer that, sweetheart." Monobear cooed.
Ishimaru took a few steps back, now questioning if this bear-bot had a thing for him.
Mondo rose his voice and boomed "SO HOW MANY ARE TRUE?"
monobear giggled "upupuppupupupupuppupupupupuppupupu! Only one!"
Everyone gasped. Out of everyone there. They would have to find out the real one? With virutally no evidence of said "rumor." How evil of Monobear, Naegi thought.
Monobear put his paws up to his mouth and said smoothly, "Well I guess I'll leave you to it!" He twirled and left.
A few seconds later, he returned. "Oh, and one more thing. You have 72 hours from now to figure out which one is true!" He disappeared with an echoing "Uuupupupupupupupupupupupuppupuppp"
"72 hours?!" Fujisaki uttered.
Everyone was in panic. What were they going to do. How would they know which ones was false.
Naegi swallowed hard, and everyone else tensed up. Then, the wisest thing he may have ever said, Hagakure spoke "Well I guess we better get all the rumors out there, then, huh."
Everybody nodded in agreement and started to pass around the cards.
What the hell will Naegi's say?!
