Once again, another floor was unlocked. However, no one wanted to search it right away. We were too busy thinking of the deceased and, once again, we felt despair. We all retreated to our rooms for the night, all meeting in the dining room when we woke up.

"Hey, Aiko." Yukio said as I took a seat.

"Hello" I replied before beginning to eat.

"I think we should explore the new floor." Kenji suggested after a few minutes, breaking our silence.

Arata nodded, "That'd be wise."

After we all ate, we went to the new floor and looked around.

"This seems normal enough." Kichi pointed as we walked through the hall.

"Yes, but doesn't every floor seem that way at first?" Goro asked.

"Let's keep it that way." Priscilla said.

"I don't want anyone else to die…" Takeshi said with a sniffle.

"If people want to murder someone, let them. You can't stop them if they're THAT desperate to get out." Kichi told him.

"Stop acting like you know everything." Kenji told her. "You're like five or something."

"Am not!" Kichi yelled, "I'm nine! You're all so mean!" She exclaimed before running off, tears streaming down her face.

"M-Mistress Kichi!" Yoshiko called out before running after the blonde.

"Faking" Arata commented.

Priscilla nodded. "It is predictable when she'll start crying…"

"What a crybaby." Takeshi added.

"You're one to talk." Eleanor retorted, making him cry.

"Hey! Don't make him cry!" Kenji scolded her.

"I didn't mean to! It's just true! He's always-"

"Apologize."

"Sorry, Takeshi." Eleanor sighed.

"It's fine." Takeshi replied with another sniffle.

"You're all too friendly…" Goro said. "Yeah yeah! It's annoying!" Kuro added. "Kuro, be nice." Neko told the other puppet, earning a punch from Kuro.

"Fight! Fight! Fight!" Kenji and Motoko exclaimed.

Arata took Kuro and Neko off of Goro's hands. "Now is not the time for this." He glared down at Goro who glared back.

"Give. Them. Back." Goro demanded through clenched teeth.

"After we're done searching.

"GIVE THEM BACK NOW!" Goro jumped onto Arata in an attempt to attack him and get his puppets back. Yukio grabbed Goro and pulled him off, pinning him down to the ground.

"Hey! Don't fight!" Yukio exclaimed, looking worried.

Arata stood off, brushing his suit off as if he had just fallen. He looked very offended.

Priscilla took the puppets back and gave them to Goro who was then led downstairs by Kenji.

"Honestly, attacking me over puppets…" Arata gave an irritated sigh.

"you kinda asked for it." Eleanor pointed out.

"Are you an idiot? He'd kill for those puppets." Priscilla told him. "Don't make him mad."

"I'll keep that in mind." Arata replied.

"Hey, get to the ballroom, bastards!" A voice suddenly exclaimed, we all looked up to see Monokuma on a monitor.

"Another motive?" I asked.

"Most likely." Arata replied, looking a little unnerved.

We all headed downstairs and into the ballroom. Kichi, Yoshiko, Kenji, Goro, and Isamu were already there.

"AH! KILLER TEDDY BEAR!" Isamu cried out as Monokuma popped out.

"Upupu, am I that scary?" Monokuma asked.

"What do you want now?" Kichi asked, her arms crossed and eyes narrowed into a glare.

"My, aren't you pissy today. Buuut, if you must know, I have two huge announcements!"

"Two?" I asked.

"Yep I think you'll all be beary excited!"

"What's the motive?" asked Arata

"Do we get more beer!?" Isamu yelled.

"Well, maybe if you kill." Monokuma said.

"Huh?"

"Kill and get whatever you want!"

"Whatever we want!?" Motoko cried out.

"Yep! Whatever you could ever wish for! Well, except for world domination, I don't want any of you ruling the world..."

"So we can wish to get out?" Arata asked.

"If you're talking about the closet, that's all on you. But along with getting out of the mansion, you get your wish!"

"Did someone die in the closet?" Isamu asked.

"Everyone's here, you dumbass!" Goro made Kuro say to him.

"I'm here too!?"

"Man, even for a drunk, you're fucking stupid!" A voice said. It spoke with a thick accent and the person wasn't to be seen.

We all looked around but couldn't even find the source of the voice.

"Awe, there goes my surprise." Monokuma said.

A black and gray Monokuma wearing an eyepatch, fedora, gold chain, and a tie walked in. He had the same half evil smile as Monokuma, only with gold teeth and a cigar in the other side of his mouth. "Yo yo yo! I'm Kurokuma!" he exclaimed.

"A-another one!?" Everyone exclaimed.

"Strange…" Goro commented, staring at Kurokuma.

"Strange? I'm not that strange, am I?" Kurokuma asked him, walking over.

Goro continued to stare. "Get away from me." He told the bear.

"Hah! Fucking make me!"

"You're so annoying." Goro muttered, now glaring at him.

"You wanna go, punk!? I can take you DOWN!"

"D-don't fight!" I cried out.

"It might not be a great idea." Priscilla told him.

"I don't want to fight some puppet." Goro said. "I like puppets after all."

"Puppets!?" Both bears exclaimed.

"Someone's controlling you, right? You're puppets without strings."

"And without a hand up your butt!" Kuro added.

"Whatever just get going!" Monokuma said.

"Hey, Yoshiko," Kichi said on the way out, "I'm getting hungry, go make dinner."

"Yes Mistress Kichi!" Yoshiko exclaimed, running off.

"I'm going to go play on the third floor. See you later~" Kichi chimed, walking away.

"Third floor? That's rather specific." Arata said.

"Well, we did ignore some rooms." I pointed out.

"And she didn't look around much. She ran off." Goro added.

"What did that black bear mean when he said "fucking"?" Takeshi randomly asked.

"Ah! Don't say that!" Eleanor told him.

"That's bad!" Motoko added.

"Yeah! Yeah! Baaad! So not cool, man! You're too young for that word!" Kenji scolded him.

"S-sorry…" Takeshi said, looking down, sadly.

"Just don't say that word or anything else that Kurokuma says, okay?"

Takeshi nodded.

"Let's go to the entertainment room, get our minds off things." Motoko suggested.

We all nodded and left.

"I don't get it." Isamu said as he looked through the joke book Hiroaki had left out last time we were in here, it was upside down.

"You're an idiot." Arata told him before going back to his book.

"You're all idiots." Goro mumbled under his breath, being as close as I was to him, I'm sure I was the only one who heard it.

"Hey, Aiko!" Yukio exclaimed. "Wanna play a game with Takeshi and me?"

"Sure." I smiled.

"I'll play too!" Motoko said.

Takeshi walked over with a pack of cards. "Let's play then!"

We sat down and played different card games until Yoshiko walked in to inform us that dinner was ready.

"Where's the beer?" Isamu asked with disappointment when we entered the dining room.

"Ah! I wasn't given any orders to get any alcohol for you… I should've gotten it anyway… I'll be right back with some wine for you Master Isamu!"

"Don't bother." Kichi told her, walking in from the kitchen. "He doesn't need any."

"But Mistress Ki-"

"Do you want someone else to die because of that alcohol?"

"N-no! O-of course not!"

"Good, then let's eat, I'm starved." she smiled cheerfully and took a seat. We all did the same.

We ate and conversed happily, everything was great and amazing in everyway. The food was great, the conversations were great, and everyone was happy for once. There was no despair at all. But we didn't what was going to happen next… All of a sudden Isamu fell forward and landed face first onto his plate.

"He passed out again?" Arata asked.

"But he had no alcohol…" I pointed out.

"Let's bring him upstairs." Kenji said.

"I'll help!" Yoshiko exclaimed. She got up and began to walk over, soon collapsing right next to Isamu's chair.

"Yoshiko!" Kichi exclaimed, running over to the maid's side.

Two announcements went off back to back. Isamu and Yoshiko had died.

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