Akihiko paced the dorm lounge, muttering to himself, a scared look on his face. Junpei attempted his best to calm down dear Aki, but to no avail.

"C'mon, Senpai. It'll be fine-"

Akihiko grabbed him by his collar, looking horrified. "It's not going to be fine! Mitsuru is going to execute us! Do you not understand?" He began shaking him violently. "Mitsuru! Is! Going to! Kill us!"

Minato grabbed a magazine, rolling it up and smacking Aki in the back of the head. "Calm down."

"Minato's right." Junpei wriggled away from Aki's grip. "It's not like we can't look for him. We still have three days to go and find him and I mean, c'mon, how long could it really take?"

As if to answer his question, Minato's phone began ringing, 'Burn My Dread' hitting all of their ears. Minato froze. "That's Yukari's ringer."

"Don't answer it!" A few rings went by before it stopped. Then, Junpei's began ringing. It was also Yukari.

"She's going to flip if we don't answer, man." Junpei went to answer his phone, only having it smacked out of his hands.

"Are you mad? If we even hint something's wrong-"

Just then, Akihiko's phone began ringing. His face went pale as he checked his phone. "It's Mitsuru…"

Everyone looked at each other, horrified. Even Minato's face went pale. He heard about Mitsuru's executions and didn't want anything to do with them. "You have to answer."

Akihiko nodded, answering his phone. "Hello?" A muffled voice could be heard from the other end. "No, no, they're here and we're all okay. They just didn't hear their phones ring." More voices could be heard. Then, Akihiko's face went even paler. "Oh, no, you don't have to leave early!" Junpei and Minato both got paler as well hearing those words uttered from Akihiko's mouth. "No, I told you nothing's wrong!" Akihiko just nodded as if he was talking face to face with Mitsuru. Then his eyes grew wide. "Um, I think he went out, why?" Obviously he was talking about Shinji. "Oh, okay, I'll tell him." He looked like he was about to cry. "Yeah, I'll see you then…" He then hung up.

"Um… Senpai?" Junpei tried his best to look calm, but it was failing.

"The girls are coming home tonight."

"Shit." Minato began walking towards the stairs.

"Oh, wait! Where the hell are you going?"

"I'm packing."

Junpei nodded. "I'm right behind you, man."

"No, you aren't!" Akihiko bolted, catching both of them by their collars. "Like you said, we just need to find Shinji and get rid of the evidence and hope he's sober."

"Why does he have to be sober?" Junpei tried to smile jokingly. "We could just say he was out drinking without us, right?"

"You think he'll let us get away when he's going to be executed himself?" Akihiko looked at him, horror in his eyes. "He will tell her it was all our idea, which it was!"

"Technically, it was Minato's idea, remember?" Junpei winked at him. It was obvious he was trying to save himself from the horrors coming their way.

Minato just looked at Junpei for a second, a mix of anger and horror on his face. "What? That's bullshit and you know it!"

"If Akihiko agrees with me, they'd totally believe it in a-"

"Traitor!" Minato shot towards Junpei, hands aiming for his throat.

Akihiko separated them. "No one is turning on one another! We'll just pretend last night never happened, okay?"

Both of them nodded slowly. "So, where do we start? It'll take forever to find Shinji." Junpei held his leg where his tattoo still sat.

"Let's start somewhere easy: Physical evidence." Minato pointed back towards all the empty liquor bottles.

Everyone nodded in agreement, grabbing the bottles and rushing them out to a neighboring dumpster. Junpei nearly threw one of the bottles in their trashcan and paid for it dearly with a kick from Minato. He really was not screwing around now.

Finally, all the bottles were out of the house. The three set down, breathless. "Okay, what's next?" Akihiko looked around.

"Uh, Senpai… Your nose stud." Junpei smirked and laughed to himself as he received a death-glare from Aki.

He pulled out the ring slowly, eyes watering. For a boxer, he couldn't take needle pain very well. "Okay, that should-" Minato then threw a punch, landing right between the eyes. Junpei looked stunned by this action. Aki was just pissed, holding his now bleeding nose. "What the fuck?"

"I was hiding the wound."

Aki held a punch back of his own. "Okay, I understand you're freaking. But next time, warn me!"

Minato just nodded. "Now, about Junpei's tattoo…" Minato eyed it evilly. He didn't want to be executed.

Junpei ran behind the couch, getting out of reach. "I'll take care of it later, I swear!"

"Okay." Akihiko looked over at Minato. "Now, what stupid thing did you do last night?"

Minato looked down and shrugged. "My pants were off, so what?"

Junpei just scoffed. "C'mon, you had to have done something stupid-"

Just then, Minato's phone began ringing. He picked it up and checked it, worried that it would be Yukari again. He then sighed a sweet sigh of relief. "It's only Yuko." He picked it up. "Hey, Yuko, How's it going?" Minato nodded a bit before his face went back to being pale.

"What's wrong? What's she saying?" Junpei walked up to Minato, trying to eavesdrop on the conversation.

Minato just pushed Junpei away, concentrating on Yuko's words. "Hang on, what do you mean you were here last night?" There was a short pause. "I don't remember shit from last night, Yuko. Please, if you know something, tell me." Another pause. "Okay, I'll see you guys in a bit." Minato hung up, his face showing pure horror now.

"Minato?" Akihiko shook his shoulder, trying to get his attention. It didn't work, though. Minato just stared at the wall like he'd just seen a ghost.

Finally, after a few minutes of trying to get him to talk, Minato spoke. "Yuko's coming over. Apparently I invited more people to come over and drink with us."

Junpei looked around. "Like, how many people?"

Minato lifted both his hands, which were folded into fists. He lifted a finger for each name, still staring at the wall. "Hidetoshi, Kazushi, Chihiro, Keisuke, Bebe and Yuko."

"Six people? That'd make ten of us total!" Junpei looked back at the bar, doing math in his head. "Did we even have enough liquor for that?"

"Guess so." Minato twitched a bit. "She said she didn't drink much and she remembers everything that happened here, so she said she'd fill us in."

"That's great! Maybe she can tell us what happened to Shinji!" Akihiko sighed, a smile finally on his face. Minato, however, was still blank-looking. "Minato, you okay? This is good, right?"

Minato didn't move. He just spoke. "She seemed pissed that I didn't remember last night…" He tried to swallow, but couldn't. "I think… I think I did do something stupid last night."

Akihiko and Junpei's eyes widened. They both knew what Minato was thinking: He may have fooled around with Yuko. Akihiko patted his shoulder. "Wow, Yukari is going to kill you."

Minato tried to speak, but passed out choking on his words. It took him a few minutes to wake up then he sighed out his words. "I am fucked."

"You mean you were, right?"

"… Shut up, Junpei..."