I joined all the remaining students into a room that had 16 podiums in the center of the room. I noticed one of the podiums had a portrait of Aether with a cross across the picture. "NYANYANYA! Welcome everyone to the first class trial, now you have to fight for your life as this may be your last if you guess Aether's killer incorrectly!" Monokuma says sitting on a high chair at the far end of the room. "Before we begin this class trial. I have one question here. Why is there a portrait of Aether taking one of the podium spots?" I heard someone ask as I looked seeing it was Alpha. "Well why not? Just cause he is dead doesn't mean I want him to miss out in the excitement that is the trial" Monokuma said as I feel really worried and hope what I found and what Luca and his group found in Aether's room will reveal who killed him. We took our spots on the podium as I stood next to Emilie and the crossed out portrait of Aether.

"Um so how does a trial work?" Chea asks sounding clueless to what we are doing. "I propose we start talking what was the murder weapon that killed Aether and see where that can lead us" Suzukie says as I knew what the weapon was and hoped the others did to. "Well according to our notebooks the victim died due to blood loss to the chest at 1:07AM. We searched the crime scene for the weapon and have not discovered it" Luca then said as I was surprised that the weapon was missing and Luca's group didn't discover it.

"I suggest that the weapon that was used in this case was a knife, me and Hazzaki noticed in the kitchen that a knife was missing from the wall" Kazachi said as I remember clearly about what he was talking about. "There's more evidence I found and it shall tell us who is the killer here, I found a letter that was sitting on Aether's deck" Marzon says holding out what looked like a missing part of the letter I found in the kitchen. "As it clearly says in the letter has a name written on it, and that person's name is yours Alpha. Your the killer here!" Marzon said as I reacted shocked about Marzon's statement. "What?! I didn't kill Aether or even write that letter!" I heard Alpha say as I believed in Alpha's innocence. "Oh please Alpha. How can you possibly prove that your not the killer after what Marzon showed as damning evidence against you" Luca then said as I knew it was time to step in. "No we can't use it to prove Alpha as Aether's killer" I said holding out the piece I had in front of everyone. "This is it the other piece of the letter I found in the kitchen, I can't read what it says but looking at the letter you have Manzon I have the bottom part of it, which must mean it would have a signature hidden in blood" I said feeling confident enough to clear Alpha of being the killer. "But how the zap does two pieces of a letter end up in two different places?! That makes no sense that is possible!" Zapper says I knew what the answer is to it. "It's simple Zapper. I suggest that the real crime scene took place in the kitchen!" I announced as I could see everyone was suddenly silent.

"But Hazzaki, if your saying that he was killed in the kitchen and dragged to his bed, how could the killer even do that without leaving a trace?" Anza then asked as I closed my eyes to think about the question but something hit me and the answer came through to me. "I got it! The killer attempted to clean up the trails left behind, however two of the other knives on the wall had blood splatter on then so the killer did not notice" I said feeling like I am for sure getting closer to discovering which one of us killed Aether. "Well Hazzaki. It would seem that you have pulled off quite the story here but answer this question. Why would someone go through all this trouble to murder Aether?" Luca then said as I reacted surprised seeing him smirking a little as if he's trying to test me, however I knew how to respond to his question. "It's simple actually, the killer placed the body in the bed to make it appear the crime scene was in Aether's dorm when the reality is the murder took place in the kitchen" I said feeling like I answered the question in the bed way possible.

"Hazzaki, you sure have a good idea on how the killing happened, but we still need to know who killed Aether and why. Can you answer either of those?" Kazachi asked as my eyes widen. How am I supposed to answer that question? I tried thinking about something deeply but then something clicked in my head about what was said to me before Aether's death. "I got it about why the killer did it. Leah, when we were in the hall what did Monokuma say to you?" I asked hoping she was able to remember the conversation we both had. "Are you talking about that bear coming to me to convince me to murder you. Is that it?" She asked as I quickly responded to get my point across. "The reason I'm telling her to say that is cause Monokuma wanted to encourage me to kill Luca" I said as everyone reacted to it in a shocked way. "What I'm saying is whoever Monokuma encouraged to kill Aether went ahead and did it" I added and saw the entire group were speechless. Now I know why, the last thing to find out is who was it.

"I have to say, for someone with no talent, you sure know your stuff when it comes to crime. But now we are stuck with trying to find out who did it" Marzon said sounding really determined to know. "Yeah we need a name now. We have no suspects at all since Alpha got cleared!" Anza joined in sounding like she has gotten put over the edge with this whole trial. "There's only one way I think we can find the truth" I then said feeling my options to find the truth fading fast. "And how exactly are you going to manage to give us a name?" Luca then said sounding like he is interested to know my plan, I looked over to Teka being the Ultimate Artist she is. "Teka, can I try using a brush you have?" I asked her coming up with an idea but I really don't think it's going to work. "Hazzaki what are you planning to do with that brush?" Kazachi asks as I took the brush. "I wanna try something, if this blood can come off this piece of paper, it'll reveal the killer's signature" I said as I can hear everyone reacted in surprise as I began brushing the blood seeing it coming off the paper rather than smeering on it. After some time the signature was shown making me react in surprise to see who's name was on it. "No... This can't be!" I exclaimed wanting to not believe who it was. "Well Hazzaki, Who is it already?" I could hear Damon bark out at me. I soon mustered the courage to reveal who it was.

"The one who lured Aether his murder, was Emilie" I said looking at her as I saw her eyes widen not saying anything. "Emilie? How could you kill Aether?" I hear Alpha say grabbing her shoulders lifting her slightly. "Why did you murder him?! Tell me why! Make me understand!" Alpha continued to bark as they both started tearing up in front of us. "I think we can piece together what happened" I said as I remembered everything presented in this trial.

"Aether was in his room when a letter was given from someone to meet up for a conversation. What Aether was unaware of, the person who gave him the letter was encouraged by Monokuma to kill Aether. When Aether met the killer he was stabbed by a kitchen knife as the letter was torn from his grasp. However a small piece of the letter got left in the crime scene as his body was dragged to his bed to confuse everyone to think he was killed in his dorm, Meanwhile the killer disposed of the murder weapon which is why none of us found it. Have I got everything about right Emilie, the Ultimate Lucky Student?" I said feeling there's no question it was her. She wiped her tears while Alpha still grabbed onto her. "I guess it is, but there was more to this than you think" Emilie said as I looked down still partly wanting to believe it was not her but I had to come to the realisation. "NYANYANYA! Check this out, there was a Noivern that was close to her mother, and when Aether came around she wanted revenge of making the Noivern choose him over her mother" Monokuma said as my jaw dropped on hearing about it. "Well I guess it's fair to say it's time to vote who is Aether's killer now" Monokuma said as we all chose who we knew was Aether's killer.

"NYANYANYA! Correcto-Mondo, the one that killed Aether was indeed Emilie!" Monokuma said sounding so excited as I could feel a tear run down my face. "I can't believe you would be the one to end someone's life, and I'm glad Alpha was cleared cause we all believed it was him. Was he the one you wanted us to blame Emilie?" Leah then said as I hoped the answer was no since Alpha was my friend. "No, I never wanted Alpha or Hazzaki to be accused at all. I just wanted them both to be safe" Emilie said as I burst into tears.

"Awww as much as I like to see grown men cry their eyes out. It's time to give it everything we got! ITS PUNISHMENT TIME!" Monokuma says as I saw a chain fly out behind Emilie with her neck clamped and pulled out the room. I looked up seeing a TV monitor showing Emilie tied to a chair ok s convair belt with on the end of the room a giant crusher. I watched in horror seeing her being moved closer and closer to it and until eventually she was crushed leaving her blood sprayed everywhere in the room. We all stood there motionless. "NYANYANYA! It's a real soul crushing thing to look at isn't it, but don't worry just give into despair and then you will be fine! NYANYANYA!" Monokuma said as I headed back into my dorm thinking about what had happened. I started to remember about Emilie being the first person I met in this school, becoming close to her almost like immediately before she was executed.

END OF CHAPTER

REMAINING STUDENTS - 14

HAZZAKI - NO TALENT

LUCA - ULTIMATE STORY TELLER

KAZACHI - ULTIMATE MIND READER

TEKA - ULTIMATE ARTIST

LEAH - ULTIMATE ACTRESS

ANZA - ULTIMATE SWIMMER

DAMON - ULTIMATE MINER

ZAPPER - ULTIMATEELECTRICIAN

KORRIE - NO TALENT

SUZUKIE - ULTIMATE JOURNALIST

RIZA - ULTIMATE PRANKSTER

CHEA - ULTIMATE NURSE

MARZON - ULTIMATE LEADER

ALPHA - ULTIMATE RACING DRIVER