Chapter 1 First Trial and Betrayal

Its been three days since the first day we arrived in this hellish school. All of us students constantly would avoid each other in case one had a dark thought in their mind. Thump! "Yoshiko! Be careful, alright?" "S... Sorry! Jun... Junichi-San!" Yoshiko and Junichi were consantly in the library, looking for a book that might give others clues on how to escape this school. Yoshiko's braided, aquamarine hair was a little messy.

"Jun-san? Will we... Be... Able to... To escape?" Yoshiko would ask Junichi only for him to shake his head in sorrow. "I don't know Yoshiko, I haven't found a history book about the school yet, and I found a few of them, but they were damaged and unrepairable." Yoshiko and Junichi both sighed, wondering if there was a surviving copy. "I think their search is in vain. Even if they found a surviving copy, Monokuma could have easily torn some pages out." Gorou said, shaking his head sadly. "I can't even get upstairs, its been blocked off... Even the strength of Masaki and Shou wasn't enough to overpower that gate." Gorou told Katsu. "Well, I guess we just have to keep on looking, who knows? Our parents might notice we are gone and may call the police or something." Katsu said smiling, trying to put some hope into Gorou's spirits.

"yeah, bet yer socks off!" Monokuma said, walking around and looking at us. "I made sure the police or anybody will get to yers!" Monokuma laughed and then walked away. "He really does want someone to commit a murder, doesn't he?" Natsumi walked by, observing Monokuma's tools he gave everybody. "He gave us these weapons, hoping someone would commit a murder... He must be up to something odd." Natsumi said to Gorou and Katsu, both nodded their heads at the therapist's observations. "We got to agree with you, Natsumi, he seems to want to cause some trouble." Gorou said as he and the therapist walked to the kitchen to get some food.

"Junichi, I think I found something!" Yoshiko called for the author to come close to her, a book in her hands. "I think this is a book of the area's history. It might not be as useful as a book about the school itself, but I hope it would do." Yoshiko handed Junichi the book, examining it and then smiling, Junichi hugged her. "Great work, Yoshiko." Junichi praised the young librarian. Kin and Avaron walked by and saw Katsu. "Katsu? Is it fine if you talk to us?" Kin asked, playing around with a piece of ribbon on her dress.

"Yeah whats wrong Kin, Avery?" Katsu walked to the girls. "We were here to propose an alliance, you know. In case one does try to kill, we won't kill each other." Avaron explained, confusing Katsu a little bit. "We will be willing to overthrow anyone who proposed alliance who decided to murder, are you in the group?" Kin explained a little further, gaining Katsu's interest, he really wanted to get to know Avaron and Kin a little better anyways. "Yeah, I can be an ally. Who else is in?" Katsu asked, a smile on his face. "Sango, Shou, Ichiro, and Yoshiko." Kin told Katsu, the lolita smiling.

Soon it was time for everyone to head to their rooms as they entered the night hours. Katsu locked his door tightly, making sure no one murdered him at night, as he drifted to sleep...

Katsu woke up at around 4 AM. He yawned loudly and decided to go out and make himself breakfast, as he walked out to the hallways of the rotting academy, he stepped in some wet, pink fluid. Quickly noticing what the liquid was, Katsu ran and followed the pink droplets until they became and formed a pool... Around a certain aqua haired librarian. "AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Katsu screamed loudly, Yoshiko's body was stabbed with a knife, the knife still stuck to her back, she also had a nightdress on, meaning she was killed around nighttime, she also had a expression of horror and shock filling her blank eyes and face.

Soon, Junichi and Setsuko heard Katsu and both of them also let out screams. "A body has been found! A body has been found!" Monokuma made a broadcast, he was happily dancing in his chair, proud a murder finally took place. "This... This isn't happening!" Setsuko's hands clasped over her mouth as tears rolled down her face, her magenta eyes focused on Yoshiko's body. "Why...? Why did it have to be you, Yoshiko... Why would anyone kill you!?" Junichi's brown gaze couldn't keep away from the body's fading, gray ones. "This is a nightmare!" Katsu said, Yoshiko has been killed.

It wasn't long until everyone, still in night clothes, looked at Yoshiko's body with horror and dismay. Suddenly, in everyone's night pockets, was a sudden vibration. Katsu found what his was, a ID notebook that the school kids used to carry around before the school became a killing spree. The notepad said "Name: Yoshiko Nitta. Died: 12:48 AM. Killed by a butcher knife, knife still stuck in her back." The pad showed all the information of Yoshiko's murder. "This notepad tells everyone about the murder of one, the time and all the rest of the info is all correct. All that is missing, is you all have to find out who the blackened person is!" Monokuma chuckled, everyone gasped.

"We will have a class trial tonight everybody, so stay sharp!" Monokuma walked off, happily skipping around. Katsu examined the knife in Yoshiko's body, noting that it was a small butcher knife, which was why it took the murderer a few times to kill her and also found that Yoshiko also had her throat slit. What the odd thing was, the book about the history of the area around Hope's Peak Academy was stabbed at and covered in blood, but it was on the table and there was no inch of blood found on the table or anywhere near it. Also there was a strange, black cloth that was caught in the book. "Interesting..." Katsu thought, looking at the evidence he was having, he was starting to have a clear picture of what might have happened...

At breakfast, everyone was slient and Katsu kept having the evidence play in his mind. "Judging from her horrific look, Yoshiko might have been attacked by those she declared an ally too..." Katsu looked at his mental lsit of those who pledged alligiance to. Ichiro, Sango, Shou, Kin, Avaron, and himself. Also the black cloth, it could only come from either Shou, Kin, or the black shorts underneath Sango's dress. Katsu got up and instantly decided to check the area.

Katsu looked around the library area, which was drenched with Yoshiko's magenta blood. Katsu was about to stop his search until he came across something... A white piece of ribbon. The elevator to go into a trial was ready and brought everyone down. Monokuma awaited everyone.

"Now I shall explain some rules to all yer young kids." Momokuma cleared his throat and began to speak. "This trial is focused on life and death. The thing is, if the guilty one gets founded out, they will be punished severly." Momokuma said only for Hiromi to interfere. "What do you mean, severly?" Hiromi asked, trying to keep her attitude, but everyone knew she and everyone else were scared. "Well you could call these punishments, executions." Monokuma smiled which frightened the kids. "E... Executions!?" Masaki flinched, he looked at Momokuma, hoping he wasn't serious. "Yes. But only the blackened one will get them if everyone uncovers who it is by a vote." Momokuma pointed to a slot machine that was judged by votes.

"But. If the blackened one has successfully decieved everybody, everyone BUT the guilty will be executed and the blackened person shall graduate." Monokuma explained in further details, everyone had their lives on the line. "And when I mean graduate, I mean they leave the school! Simple as that!" Monokuma smiled happily and he escorted everybody to the trial room. Everyone was amazed at it but what the strange fact was, there was a sign post with a crossed out picture of Yoshiko in one of the sections. "This is a sixteen person jury and I decided, since Yoshiko isn't around anymore, to show everyone where she would have been." Monokuma explained the sign post. Everyone settled in their jury sections and Katsu looked back on the evidence.

"Lets start~!" Monokuma sat his bottom on a large chair, possibly because he was the principal. "The murder took place in the library, around at midnight." Mitsumi explained the setting of Yoshiko's death. "The person must have been strong to hold the butcher knife." Gorou told only for Katsu to realize what he said wrong. "Your wrong Gorou! The butcher knife didn't require much weight to carry, in fact, it was a smaller variant of one! Meaning the killer wasn't too strong." Katsu corrected the young boy. "Well I think Yoshiko must have been studying, but then the murderer found her reading the book on the table and stabbed her." Sango this time made a mistake too.

"Your not correct Sango, the book was on the floor at one point. In fact, the table wasn't dirtied at all! The book was." Katsu corrected the florest girl. "So there must have been something to do with that black cloth..." Katsu said outloud. Katsu looked at his classmates. "Anyone wear any black, stretchy materials?" Shou, Sango, and Hiromi raised their hands. "Because I found this black cloth that was made from a stretchy material, mostly gym clothing!" Hiromi, Sango, and Shou froze.

"T... Thats no... Not m... M... Mine!" Hiromi cried out, her blue eyes were wild. "Can anyone show me their cloth? If its ripped." Sango and Shou walked to Katsu and showed him their ripped clothing, Sango's pants had the same material and a large tear in them. "How did you get that Sango?" Katsu smirked, realizing the killer was right beside him. "I... I... Ya know this is crap! You all are accusing me! An innocent and sweet little florest girl who didn't do anything to you all!" Sango puffed her cheeks with annoyance. Everyone stared at Sango.

"Then how about this white ribbon found I found in the library?" Katsu showed everyone the white piece of ribbon that Sango tied on her head, her pink eyes were bloodshot and her teeth were gritted. "I'll have you all know, I was in my room all night last night." Sango exclaimed, Kin suddenly narrowed her yellow eyes. "That is incorrect, Sango. Remember, me, Avaron, and Yoshiko were talking to you at around 11 PM, before Yoshiko was murdered. When we headed to bed and Yoshiko went to the library to read the history book, you were not in the kitchen or in your room, meaning you must have been with Yoshiko in the library." Kin explained to everyone. "Well I can't hold a butcher knife! They're too big for my small hands and petite body." Sango quickly was in a danger zone. "You are incorrect, Sango!" Katsu yelled to the purple haired girl.

"How am I wrong Katsu!?" Sango gritted her teeth in annoyance, things were getting rough in the trial room. "Yeah! Katsu just told me they were a smaller brand of butcher knife! Something you could have easily lifted and used, Sango." Gorou countered his former friend. "That is correct. You were easily responsible for Yoshiko's murder." Daisuke stood and glared at the young girl. "I think I got the picture now." Katsu announced as everyone turned to face the blue haired teen. "Yoshiko went to the library to read the history book, the culprit took a small butcher knife from the kitchen and walked in quietly, which is no problem when you are small. The culprit then stabbed Yoshiko several times in the back, which killed her, but you wanted to make sure she was dead. So you slit her throat in case she still was alive and left the knife in her back." Katsu explained the details of the murder.

"But the thing that no one knew was that Yoshiko used her book to try and fend off her danger and had eventually tore off some cloth and ribbon from the murderer's clothing. Since Yoshiko was using the book as a shield, it was then exposed to getting her blood on it." Katsu looked at Sango, whos face was pale from the story. "You then put the now bloody book on the table, it did stand out because it was the only object that was covered in blood. What do you say about your actions, Sango Ota!" Katsu faced the purple haired girl, her head was low and her hands were clenched tightly. "She deserved what was coming to her anyways..." Sango muttered. "You know how much of a quiet and peaceful life that idiot had that I didn't!? I may have woeked with flowers, but I wanted her life where people complimented her duties and didn't bother her!" Sango laughed maniacly. "When i go around town, everyone asked, why am I nursing this flower and why are you a florest and what not! I needed to murder that aqua haired moron! Hahahaha!" Sango looked like she just snapped.

"Well... I guess voting time is up and running!" Monokuma said. The alot machine gone off and then all three faces were that of Sango's and the jackpot was hit. "Congrats! The Super High School Level Florest is the blackened!" Monokuma giggled to himself and Sango just glared at all her fellow students. "Sango, how could you do this? You and Yoshiko were allied with us. We said not to kill esch other." Ichiro told her, his blue eyes were serious and upset with her. "My life had no purpose, alliances didn't effect me at all." Sango said, walking to Monokuma. "Make sure I get a death that is worth remembering." Sango told Monokuma and he grabbed a squeaky hammer and the button he held.

"Now for a perfect execution for our florest!" Monokuma's red eye glowed brightly as he pounded the button with the hammer. A small screen showed the sprites of Monokuma and Sango while Sango was grabbed by Monokuma and dragged away. Sango was pulled by chains that pulled her into a forest and tied her up on a pole. The titlecard called Greenhouse trouble flashed while Monokuma closed the certains so no one would know what would become of Sango. Soon, massive carnivorous plants came by and started attacking Sango, dismembering her and eventually finishing her off.

Blood splattered on the certains and soon the certains lifted, the result sickened and disturbed everybody for Sango's body was horribly gruesome...

That night, everyone went into their rooms, all sick to their stomaches and are completely terrified, Katsu was no exception. A knock on the door awoke Katsu from his shock from the execution and went to see who it was. Standing before him was Shou and Avaron, both held terrified expressions on their faces. "Katsu? We would like to talk." Shou said, tilting his baseball cap a bit. "Its possibly about Sango's betrayal and Yoshiko's death. Am I right?" Katsu looked at the classmates with melancholic green eyes.

"It was, we are scared that since Sango betrayed the alliance and that she commited the first murder, others may do the same." Avaron said, fiddling around with her longer, flame colored ponytail. "We were thinking about an interesting proposition. For you Katsu." Shou said as Kin, Bunko, Ryota, and Junichi stepped in, followed by the rest. "Katsu, would you be qualified as our leader?" Kin offered her hand to him, Katsu looked at everyone with smiles and hope filled eyes looking at him. "You all think I am qualified as your leader?" Katsu asked, looking at everyone's for once in a while, smiling faces. "But of course! Your the only one who seeked Sango out and saved us when we couldn't get the whole picture down! Plus your SHSL High Hope! A rare level!" Setsuko exclaimed loudly, everyone nodded in agreement with her statment.

"Alright guys, I shall help us all leave this dreaded place!" Katsu said, his hand stretched out to join the others's hands an they instantly formed into the alliance. "Lets make sure the deaths stop here!" Everyone cheered and smiled, agreeing that Yoshiko and Sango will be the last of the deaths at Hopes Peak Academy...

How wrong they were...