It happened. The first murder happened so easily.
It wasn't going to end there.
"Yumiku-san, you here?" I ask and walk in. "Yumi- Oh my god!"
There was a decapitated body on the floor with dry blood spewing out of where the head should be.
"Yumiku..." I whisper. "Please... Don't let this be you..."
"What happened- Oh god, not again!" Morgan says.
"Sis- OH MY GOD!" Senshia shrieked and fainted.
"Bing bong bom booooooom! A body has been discovered! After a brief period of investigation, a school trial will be held!" Monokuma says.
"Yumiku..." I whisper. "Morgan, go get everyone..." I say.
She runs out to get everyone.
"..." I inspect the body.
Evidence: Yumiku's Body
Evidence: Decapitation
Everyone arrived shortly after.
"So... Yumiku is dead." Cyeraine said.
"Cyeraine, you know swordplay, how was this decapitation taken?" I ask.
"Hmm... I believe an elongated sword was used at a 65 degree angle. There were no signs of a struggle except for the fact that the murderer would've had to pin her to the floor then cut her head off." Cyeraine replied.
Evidence: Cyeraine's Testimony
"... That means that there was a struggle." I say.
"Or someone she trusted came in." Cyeraine replied.
Evindence: Trust
"Also, look at this Cyeraine. It's a note Koden left. 'To my dear sis.' Perhaps she couldn't take it." Fukura says and smiled.
"Why are you smiling?!" Morgan asks.
"Because, in all my time as a soldier trying to rid this world of Monokuma's followers have I ever seen one try to kill themselves." Fukura replied.
"Yumiku would never follow that stupid bear!" Akane says.
"The Ultimate Despair, hide more than you think." Fukura said.
"I may only be in high school, but I know a lot about the battlefield."
Evidence: Koden's Goodbye Note
"Eh, this period of investigation is over! You may either immediately commence to the trial, or check out the second floor!" Monokuma says.
We all went to check out the second floor. Yaaaay a frickin' pool. Wooo. At a time like this.
"Let the trial begin!" Monokuma says.
"Well, Mavero. Someone she trusted? A struggle? The signs point to you!" Fukura says.
"What?!" I say. "I promised her I wouldn't kill anybody! Why would I kill her?!"
"Because. People do anything to survive. Break promises, betray friends, family, lovers, allies, themselves. It's all a cycle. You're the most honest when you're about to die and the least honest when needing to get out of dying." Fukura replies.
"I feel this is the truth." Kurasēre says.
"It makes sense." Koizu says.
"It may make sense, but I swear I'd never do a thing!" I reply.
"Would you? I... I don't even know anymore." Akane says.
"Mavero... Please say it's not true. Because his statement..." Oichi says.
"There's no way such a naïve little bitch like him can murder someone. No offense." Célyne says.
"None taken..." I reply.
"What are you talking about woman?! Must I explain it all?!" Kurasēre says.
"It's simple. He shows a friendship with her, and she is someone he could've talked to here, even to protect his own sanity.
If he did want to escape, he would've murdered someone else and she could've defended him." Célyne replies.
"Good statement Célyne Kirigiri, but this is all a game. Gamers like him go for the harder difficulty.
Not to mention, how do you know if he truly wanted to be friends with her? How do you know that he was faking this 'naïve bitch' personality?
How do you know that he didn't simply go in, slice her head off and placed her on the ground?" Fukura asked.
Evidence:
Yumiku's Body
Decapitation
Cyeraine's Testimony
Trust
Koden's Goodbye Note
"This evidence proves it!" I say. "Cyeraine. There were signs of a struggle and I'd have to pin her to the ground. Correct?" I say.
"Yes. However, his statement is possible." Cyeraine says.
"You've got that wrong!" I say.
"Look at her room! There's no blood anywhere else!"
"Hmm... Perhaps." Cyeraine replies.
"If that is that case then it could've been a suicide." Burēdo says.
"You've got that wrong!" I say.
"She doesn't have a sword. And she was always in her room. Not to mention
Koden's Note mentions that he wants her to go on. That'd inspire her to live!" I say.
"Maybe. However, someone could've slipped the sword in order to kill her later." Fukura says.
"Well, now that I think about it my elongated sword was missing. Then it came back with blood on it." Cyeraine replied.
"Where is the head though? Is this her?" Célyne asks, everyone shocked and staring at her. "It's really simple. I've figured it out. I finished exploring the second floor early and came back. I examined the body again. It's a recycled corpse of someone who has the same figure as her."
Everyone was shocked.
"If anything. Monokuma. I noticed you dragging a struggling body up to the third or fourth floor last night. Yumiku could still be alive." Célyne explains.
Everyone- especially me- was calmed by it.
"Eh... Damn it. I wanted to see a whole bunch of executions, because you guys just aren't fun! Seriously, Xpyro picked out a horrible cast!" Monokuma said.
"Who's Xpyro?" I asked.
"He's the maker of this story." Célyne said.
"Let's stop breaking the fourth wall, it's giving me a heeeeaaaadache!" Senshia explains and pouts.
"You and your retarded mental conditions aside, shall we look for Yumiku?" Fukura asks.
"Bitch, I will put you in a casket." Senshia says.
"I'd love to see it!" Monokuma says.
"Was someone looking for me?" Yumiku, limping in says.
"Damn it! Why does nothing work out it my favor?!" Monokuma says.
"Yumiku..." I whisper and smile.
She looked starved, sleep deprived, and beaten.
"Bitch, when this is over, I'm going to kick your ass and use you as a fucking pillow..." Yumiku says to Monokuma in a sleepy tone.
"Upupupupu... I've got my next motive for murder anyways!" Monokuma says.
"Nobody unfortunately will be dying today... Except the person randomly picked to be executed! It's voting time!"
Everyone was surprised.
"I need someone to die today!" Monokuma says.
"And it's spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinning!"
Guilty:
Isaac Kurasēre
"W-What?! No... No, no NO!" Kurasēre yelled.
"To the execution!" Monokuma said.
Kurasēre was thrown onto a platform over a beaker.
"Arsenic..." Kurasēre said.
"A victim in life, tends to stay in life... A victim in death... Will... Be shown to die wonderfully!" Monokuma says and has a machine grab him by the arms and dangle him over the beaker.
"HELP!" He yells which causes a tear in his arms.
"The more you yell, the more painful the execution will be!" Monokuma says. "LIKE THIS!"
Monokuma's yelling caused a visible tear halfway in his arms that was bleeding all over.
Everyone leaped back, scared and ready to scream.
"AAAAAUUUGGH!" Kurasēre yelled which almost tore both of his arms off.
"Man, all the good puns argon!" Monokuma says.
"Stop! I didn't kill anyone! I don't deserve this!" Kurasēre said.
"Wait..." Monokuma says. He pushed a button which caused a syringe to prick his back and melt it away slowly.
"Ngh... Ngh.." He was trying to resist screaming.
"AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGHHH!" He screamed, and the machine tore his arms off and he fell into the beaker, disintegrating his flesh and muscles, to the bone.
Isaac Kurasēre. Was dead.
"Upupupupu... Nyahahahaha!" Monokuma laughs.
"How is this funny?!" Yumiku yells at Monokuma.
"Watching people in despair is ALWAYS fun!" Monokuma says.
"Thanks for watching! Oh, too bad the nurse can't HELIUM! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Ugh.." Yumiku was angry, I knew that much.
I knocked on Yumiku's door.
She answered it and I came in.
"You cleaned up the place." I said.
"I asked Morgan to help, so she sent Senshia to. Apparently she hates cleaning." Yumiku says.
"Interesting. I'm just glad that you aren't dead." I say.
"Good riddance, am I right?" She says.
"Stop that." I say, annoyed with her joking around. "Don't joke about you dying. Please."
"Sorry mom, I didn't know." She replies and sits.
"How come you're taking this lightly?! I worried my heart out thinking that you were dead! Gone! that I broke my promise of not letting you die!" I say.
"I appreciate your worry. I take it lightly, because I am alive after all. You can say that you don't know me. It's true." She replies.
"I'm not going to say that." I reply. "If anything, I want to get to know you. As your friend."
"Well, which me?" She asks.
"Who you truly are." I responded.
"... I don't know who I truly am anymore." Yumiku says.
"Who did you used to be?" I ask.
"... Who you got to know." She replies.
"Then that's who i want to get to know." I reply and then look at a photo.
"Yumiku, who are these people by you?"
"That's my father, my mother, my brother and I. I was six at the time and my brother had blond hair." Yumiku replies.
"Really? You looked cute at six." I reply.
She smiled and giggled a bit.
"Thanks." She replied. I saw some of the Yumiku I knew again.
"Do you want some chocolate?"
"Yes, it's been such a long time since I've had any." I reply and she gives me one. I eat it and smile.
"Thanks for the chocolate."
"You're welcome." Yumiku replies.
"So what happened that you were gone?" I ask.
"... This did."
"Upupupupu... You're the biggest threat here. I know that. Or Mavero. Or Célyne. Or Burēdo. But it doesn't matter!
You're going to be locked in this room until you go insane and commit suicide! Since I can't kill you myself!" Monokuma says and leaves the room.
"... You look like you need help." A woman says.
"Kuzuryuu?" Yumiku says.
"... Yes. But tell nobody." Burēdo replies and unlocks the door with a master key. "During the trial, look for evidence about Monokuma.
Or the one controlling him. Or the mole even."
"Okay." Yumiku says. "Thank you."
"No problem. Also, come back before voting time. After, tell me the evidence." Burēdo replied.
"Okay." Yumiku says and they both leave.
"So Burēdo let you out." I say.
"Yes. I owe him. I guess he just wanted evidence." Yumiku replies.
"Anything on the mole?" I ask.
"The mole is someone you wouldn't suspect. It's almost as if Monokuma wanted me to get out and see the files..." Yumiku says and stops.
"Yumiku?" I say.
"I... UGH!" She yells and slams her fist on the night table to where the table is cracked and her fist is bleeding.
"Yumiku! You're fist is..."
"I know." She says.
"Yumiku..."
"It's okay. I should've known his plan." Yumiku says.
"Yumiku, it's not that." I say. I take a red ribbon from on her desk and wrap it around her fist.
"..."
"Yumiku, are you okay?" I ask.
"Yeah. I just... Why is my fist bleeding?" She asks.
That struck me as odd.
"Huh? What do you mean?!" I say.
"I remember you asking what happened while I was gone and... Everything is a blank after that..." Yumiku replies.
"... That's odd." I say.
"It doesn't matter." Yumiku replies.
"In fact, I have something interesting to show you."
She opened up her drawer and showed me a picture.
"It's a picture of you and me at an arcade..." I say.
"I don't get it."
"Exactly. Did I tell you about evidence?" Yumiku asks.
"Yes." I reply.
"This is something I found. Along with another file that I saved onto a hard drive." Yumiku replies and takes out a flash drive.
"It says how our memories were erased by Mukuro Ikusaba."
"Mukuro Ikusaba?" I say.
"Yes. Also, I found another picture." Yumiku replies and shows a picture of everyone at a pool party.
"Hmm... Wait, is that...?"
"Uhhh..." She looked at me.
"Koden is talking to me about something and pointing to you. At least he doesn't look angry." I say.
"Perhaps..."
"Hahahaha... Good job sis... I should've killed you instead. Or your little boyfriend here." Koden said in a flashback.
"Wait.. It said Koden didn't have his memory erased." Yumiku says.
"Meaning?" I ask.
"... He... Was working with Monokuma for one thing. But that wasn't the mole Monokuma was referring to." Yumiku replies.
"... Does that mean?"
"He was a mole. But, there's something else." Yumiku replies.
An envelope was slipped under Yumiku's door.
"Huh?" I say. I pick it up and open the door.
Nobody is there.
I close it and turn to her. I sat on the bed with her.
"What do you think this picture is?" I ask.
"I don't know." Yumiku replies.
I open it up.
"It's a party in the gymnasium." I say.
"Interesing." Yumiku replies. "There's Morgan sitting out. And we are too on the... Other... Side... Of the..."
"..."
"Is this reality?" Yumiku asks.
"That's odd. I don't even remember kissing a girl, much less you." I said and looked at her.
"I guess that's what Koden meant in the note. Survive for the man you love. I thought he meant himself." Yumiku replies.
"... And it explains the 'little boyfriend line.' as well." I reply.
"Well, I guess we aren't just friends anymore I guess. You better get used to it!" Yumiku replies and smiles.
"I guess I will." I respond and smile back.
Student Count:
12
Mavero Reinfall
Yumiku Kurisu
Burēdo Kuzuryuu
Kara Cyeraine
Célyne Kirigiri
Oichi Yosihiri
Serra Espen
Krotén Fukura
Morgan Marakure
Senshia Marakure
Koizu Faravana
Akane Tsunari
