There was only one room that described our feelings after the trial, it was despair. However, even though we felt this hopeless feeling, we found out some great news that gave us a little hope and happiness. A new floor of the mansion was unlocked, the metal gates were open now, but the ones on the second floor were not. However, the new floor was amazing! There was a pool, hot tub, music room, and some other things. Among those other things, was even a room with tons of different alcohols that Isamu found.

We were all in the entertainment room at the moment. There were books and games, and even a TV with a DVD player. Right now, we were playing pool. Well, Motoko, Eleanor, Kenji, Goto, Midori, and I. As for the others, Akihiro was reading a joke book, Priscilla was reading a murder mystery book, Arata was reading a book on politics and the law, and Yoshiko, Kichi, Yukio, Takeshi, and Isamu were playing Go Fish.

We were trying not to worry, and we also tried to forget that it was in this room that Lei-Lu had been murdered.

"Your turn, Aiko." Kenji said.

I lined my pool stick up with the cue ball, it hit the five ball but it didn't go in.

"Me next…" Midori said.

She got three balls in before it was Motoko's turn.

"Wow! Nice shot Midori!" Motoko exclaimed.

"Will you keep it down?" Arata asked.

"Hah!" Kichi suddenly exclaimed, "Go fish!"

"Awe…" Isamu groaned as he drew a card.

Arata sighed and went back to reading.

When it got to my turn again, Kichi stood up and said with boredom, "This is getting boring, can we go swimming or something?"

"Ooh! That sounds fun!" Eleanor exclaimed.

"Yeah," Yukio said, "but I can't swim…"

"I can teach you." Yoshiko said with a kind smile.

"Hope you don't end up drowning him, Yoshiko," Hiroaki said, "wouldn't want there to be another class trial."

"Don't joke like that!" Priscilla scolded him.

"Whatever." He replied.

"I'll watch." Goro said. "I can't get Kuro and Neko wet after all."

"Kuro and Neko?" I asked.

"My puppets." He explained.

I guessed that Kuro was the rabbit and that the cat was Neko.

"Why not take them off?" Arata asked, looking up from his book.

"I would never do that." Goro replied.

"Do you sleep with them?" Motoko asked.

Goro nodded.

"That's a strange fetish, kid." Hiroaki told hm.

"What's a fetish?" Takeshi asked.

"Well-" Kenji started.

Yoshiko cut him off, "Please don't tell him, Master."

Kenji blushed a little. "But he asked…"

"He doesn't need to be corrupted." Arata told him.

Yoshiko nodded.

Hiroaki walked over and whispered in her ear.

Her eyes widened and her face turned bright red. "I-I don't think so! My masters would never-"

He cut her off, "Hey Arata, Kenji, do you guys think that Yoshiko looks cute in a maid's outfit? Or do you think that any girl looks cute in a maid's outfit. You guys have a fetish for maid outfits, don't you~?"

"That's ridiculous." Arata replied to his question.

"Y-yeah! What four-eyes said!" Kenji exclaimed, receiving a glare from Arata from over his book.

"L-let's just stop this…" Yoshiko said.

"Oh fine." Hiroaki said.

"Let's get going." Kich said before leaving.

We all followed.

After changing into our school swimsuits, we all got into the pool.

The pool was big and about eight feet deep at one point.

Goro sat on the side of the pool talking to his puppets, Yoshiko taught Yukio how to swim, and the rest of us all just swam around and goofed off.

We swam for an hour before getting out. It was lots of fun and we seemed to have forgotten what had happened, that was until Monokuma called us to the ballroom.

"What do you want know?" Arata asked him.

"Awe, why so sour?" Monokuma asked him, "Don't you want to know what the new motive is?"

"Motive?" Priscilla asked.

"Yep! Your motive to kill!"

"We don't need one!" Yukio exclaimed. "No more people need to die!"

"He's right." Arata agreed.

"Hah! Too bad!" Monokuma exclaimed. "Besides, don't you remember the rule? You have four weeks to kill and escape otherwise, you'll all die!" He explained before bursting into laughter.

"So that rule still stands?" Goro asked.

"Of course!" Monokuma told him. "But now for the motive! I think this one will be lots of fun because we're throwing a party!"

"A party?" Arata asked.

"Yep! A party where you can do anything! No rules!"

"I'm not going!" Kichi exclaimed. "And neither is Yoshiko!"

"I-I'm not?" Yoshiko asked.

"No! I don't want to be all alone!"

"Suit yourself," Monokuma told them. "But you might regret missing out on this. It's beary important! Get it, beary~?"

"Of course it'll be important because it's a party! We'll get to have lots of fun!" Motoko exclaimed.

"It's rule free too!" Eleanor added.

"I'll play some music!" Motoko announced.

"This'll be awesome!" Eleanor exclaimed.

The two of them walked away discussing plans for the party.

"This is stupid." Arata muttered, pushing up his glasses.

"It'll be fun!" Isamu exclaimed. "We'll party hard and drink a bunch!"

"No alcohol." Arata told him.

"But there are no rules, remember?" Monokuma reminded him.

"Woo!" Isamu exclaimed before walking out of the room while singing a High School Musical song.

"Why would you throw us a party?" Kenji asked.

"Isn't it simple?" Monokuma asked. "I wanted you guys to have fun! Also, who knows what might happen?"

"I'm not going…" Takeshi said. "It doesn't sound fun.

"I think it does!" Kenji exclaimed wildly. "I'll be the life of the party!"

"Maybe we should all go to see what's going on." Goro said making Kuro talk.

Arata nodded. "Let's do that."

After that we left to go to our rooms. I was just about to take a shower when I heard a knock on the door. I walked to the door and saw Kichi.

"Where's my gem?" She asked.

"Gem?" I asked her.

She pointed to her bracelet. "Yes my gem! It was a sapphire and it was on my bracelet!"

"I don't have it." I confessed.

"Then help me search! Yoshiko won't answer her door so she's probably in the shower or something so you're the only person that'll help."

After I told her that I was about to take a shower myself she started crying and saying something about the gem being her most precious belonging and that her dead father had given it to her. Eventually I gave in and helped her search, but I also found out that everything she did was an act…

We looked around and asked people, but no one had seen it.

"This is hopeless!" Kichi groaned.

"Oh, Midori seems to be holding something…" I informed her. "It looks… Blue."

"Of course! It had to be the Ultimate Thief!" She exclaimed before walking over to Midori.

They argued a little before Arata walked over.

"What's going on?" He asked.

"She stole my gem!" Kichi told him.

"It's mine." Midori replied.

"Just give it back, you can find another on." Arata told her giving her a look that said, "Just do it before I do something to you."

Midori gazed down at the blue gem and sighed.

"Swiper no swiping!" Isamu exclaimed randomly, he had just been sitting in a chair drinking.

Midori handed the sapphire to it's rightful owner before leaving quickly without saying a word.

Kichi place the blue jewel onto her bracelet then left. After that I returned to my room to take a shower.

After my shower I got ready for the party then left to go to the party which was being held in the music room. I was a little late but it didn't matter. As I neared the room I heard loud music and suddenly Kenji ran out of the room.

"I'm out! Woo! Freedom!" He yelled as he sprinted out. "I'm awesome! Believe it!"

I raised my brow and walked in.

Motoko was playing music while everyone either danced, talked, or ate.

I even saw Arata dancing which was strange since he's usually so serious and seems to hate having fun.

But Arata wasn't the only one who seemed different, everyone seemed different…

"Don't drink the punch." A cute voice said from behind me.

I looked over to see Goro standing there with his puppets.

"Why not?" I asked.

"Someone spiked it." Kuro said.

Eleanor walked over with Hiroaki. "Hey Aiko " She exclaimed, I could smell the strong scent of alcohol in her breath.

"Hey Eleanor, Hiroaki." I said, trying to stay at ease.

"Sweet party, huh?" Hiroaki asked before taking a drink of the spiked punch.

"I guess." I replied.

Suddenly Motoko began to sing a loud rock song.

"I love this song!" Hiroaki shouted loudly before beginning to sing along horribly.

I walked over to Priscilla and Arata who were both dancing. "Um, hey guys." I said.

"Hey Aiko!" Arata exclaimed. He hugged me. "Do you like the party?"

I pulled away, blushing slightly, and nodded.

"It's better than I thought it'd be!" Priscilla told me.

Arata started talking in some strange language.

Priscilla began to talk to him in said language.

I decided to leave, I could tell that things might get crazier.

"I'm the number one princess in the whole wide world!" Isamu began to sing, he was on stage with Motoko now.

I decided to leave before things got too out of hand.

In the hall I saw Kichi and Yoshiko.

I walked over to them. "Be glad you decided to skip that party." I told them. "Everyone's drunk because someone spiked the punch."

"Those idiots. It was stupid to go." Kichi said.

I nodded.

"Wh-what if someone kills someone?" Yoshiko asked while looking down.

"Then we can easily suspect the people who decided to go to the party and got drunk." I told them.

Kichi and Yoshiko nodded in agreement.

"Goro and I were the only sober ones." I said,

"Kuro and Neko weren't drunk either," I heard Goro say.

I turned around to see the puppeteer pouting.

"Them too." I said.

"A puppet can't get drunk in the first place." Kichi argued.

"Who are you calling a puppet!?" Kuro asked getting in Kichi's face.

She smacked the puppet off of Goro's hand.

"Get that stupid thing out of my face!" She yelled.

Goro glared at her. "How dare you slap Kuro…" He said. "Ooh! You made him mad! You're gonna get killed now!" Neko told Kichi with a giggle.

"I don't care if you're mad you freak!" She replied angrily.

"Please don't fight! Mistress Kichi, Master Goro… Please don't…" Yoshiko told them.

"He started her! And you're just a maid! You shouldn't be telling me what to do!" Kichi yelled at her.

Goro raised his hand as if he was going to slap her.

I quickly grabbed his wrist and picked Kuro off of the floor. I put the puppet back onto his hand then let go.

"We can't fight, we might end up with more deaths and trials." I told them both.

"Whatever." Kichi said before leaving.

A screen turned on. "It is now officially nighttime!" Monokuma said.

I ignored the rest of his message and walked to my room.

The next morning I got up to Monokuma's morning message.

I walked to the dining room for breakfast and our morning gather.

Some of the others seemed out of it. They were either hungover or they stayed up all night.

Everyone was here though. Well, everyone except Arata, Midori, and Motoko.

Arata soon came in holding his head. It seemed that he had partied harder than expected.

"What happened?" He asked.

"You don't remember?" I asked.

"Not too much." He said.

"Well, you got drunk last night, you hugged me, and had a conversation with Priscilla in some weird language." I explained.

"What language? What were we saying?" He asked.

"I don't know!" I told him.

"I remember some of last night, except for that conversation." Priscilla explained.

"Great…" Arata mumbled.

Motoko suddenly stumbled in.

"Oh, hey Motoko." I greeted her.

"Hi…" She replied before collapsing.

I ran over to her to see if she was okay, she had fallen asleep.

"She must be tired." Arata suggested.

Kenji came over and picked her up.

"I'll bring her to her room." He said before leaving.

"Things got really out of hand." I said. "You all drank too much."

"Who spiked the punch anyway?" Kichi asked.

I shrugged."What's 'spiked the punch' mean?" Takeshi asked.

"It means someone put alcohol in the punch." Hiroaki explained.

"Isamu probably." Arata said.

"Or it could've been Monokuma." Yukio added.

"He probably did it! That's why he threw the party in the first place!" Exclaimed Eleanor.

"Wait, where's Midori?" I asked.

"Did someone-" Takeshi started, the tears welling up in his eyes.

"N-no! That's ridiculous!" Yoshiko exclaimed. "She's just shy! She probably didn't want to come to breakfast because we were all here!"

"We need to check though." Arata told her.

I nodded. "Even if she's not dead, we should still look… Hopefully, when we find her, she'll be alive."

"Let's go then." Hiroaki suggested.

We split up into groups and went to look. I was with Yoshiko, Kenji, Eleanor, Yukio, and Hiroaki.

That left Arata, Priscilla, Isamu, Kichi, Goro, and Takeshi on a team together.

They looked upstairs while we checked the downstairs.

"A body has been found!" We heard Monokuma's voice exclaim after searching for a while. "After a short amount of time a class trial will be held."

We all turned to the monitor as it turned off.

"She actually died…" Hiroaki said.

"Wh-what?" Yoshiko asked beginning to panic a little.

"We need to go to where the others are." Kenji suggested.

"Y-yeah." Yukio agreed.

I nodded and we all went upstairs.

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