Suddenly the PA speaker turned on and we heard Monokuma's voice. "A body has been discovered, everyone report to the botanical garden immediately."

Moments later the remaining students came running.

Wendy shouted as she entered the others following behind her, "who is it, is it Nichole or Eric?"

Token turned around and looked at her his eyes as void as Monokuma's soul. The look he gave Wendy was all the answer she needed. She and the others quickly came in view of the body. All of us shocked in disbelief that another murder has occurred. Token started to break down and ran for the body, thankfully, Butters and I were able to hold him back.

"Token don't" I shouted. "I can't let you touch the body, their evidence we need to collect." As I heard myself say it I knew how cruel I sounded but in order for us all to survive, we needed to sacrifice compassion.

A moment later Eric strolled in casually eating a chocolate bar. "So, the killing game has started up again aye?" "We made it almost a week this time, where's the corpse?"

Token got up and made a mad dash toward him tackling him to the ground. "You smug bastard I hope you go out screaming" Token shouted.

"The hell, someone get this crazy bastard off me" Eric demanded.

Craig and Clyde yanked Token off of Eric and he stood back up. I understand Token's anger and his suspicion of Eric, not only was his crush killed but Eric was the only one out on his own. He's automatically at the top of the suspect list. Nevertheless, I had to rally everyone or this might end badly.

"Alright everyone, listen up," I said. "We have to investigate her death and find the killer just like with Bebe, Butters take Token to the cafeteria and do what you do best, he's no good to us like this."

"Got it" he replied.

"Take Eric with you as well and don't let him out of your sight" I added. "The simple fact of the matter is he was the only one alone tonight so going into the trial he's the most probable culprit, with that in mind having him investigate runs the risk of evidence being lost."

"You don't trust me, Mike, I'm hurt," Eric said sarcastically.

"The only reason that I'm not letting Token throw you over the handrail of this floor is that if he does he'll face execution as well and your death isn't worth it" I said bluntly "So your gonna go with Butters and Token and sit in the cafeteria while the rest us investigate and if you try anything will vote you the culprit as soon as we walk in that chamber."

"My oh my that's risky ya know." The voice of Monokuma echoed behind us, as usual, he's always around when someone is dead.

We spun around quickly to face him head-on, "look we don't have time for your second-rate bear puns or analogies just give us the file and tell us how long we got," I said.

"Fine forgive me for trying to help ya out" he replied. "Here ya go the file is downloaded, the trial begins at midnight you've got three hours to investigate."

"I'm assuming theirs some symbolic and cruel joke to that," I asked.

"Yep surmise it to say, someone's not making it to dawn," he said in a dark and malicious voice.

With that, he vanished as is his specialty. "Alright gang the clock isn't on our side on this one so here's what we're doing, while Butter's calms down Token we investigate, Stan you and Kyle take the body to the nurse's office," I said. They looked puzzled and asked why?

"Sorry to make you do this Stan but since we now have the facilities and the situation you're now our designated medical examiner too. The Monokuma file doesn't have a cause of death it says either asphyxia or poisoning, your job is to find out which, and if it's the ladder you and Kyle search the office for the missing vial."

"We're on it," Stan said. He took my request a lot better than I thought he would.

"Clyde you and Jimmy search her room, Henrietta Wendy and Heidi take her lab, Craig and Tweek you're with me we'll handle the garden as well as Heidi's lab, there's a chance the culprit put something in there to throw us off the trail."

Everyone had their assignments and quickly headed off to search for evidence, once I got all the evidence off of the body, Stan and Kyle carried her body to the nurse's office to examine it. We scoured the garden only finding a hand full of clues, along with the tarp, we also found a used shovel as well as some worn gloves still covered in soil. Add to that the knocked over brick that Butters tripped on and that's all we got.

Heidi's lab turned up nothing it actually looked immaculate and untouched. We finished documenting the evidence when Stan messaged me "Mike come to the Nurse's office, I've got my findings." I sent Craig and Tweek to check on Token and went to the office.

"What do we got Stan," I asked.

"Well the cause of death was indeed poisoning, she died before the tarp even went over her head, I also found some bruising on her arms kind of like she was pinned down."

"Anything else," I asked.

"Based on what I saw at the scene and looking at the body, Nichole was definitely panicking before she died" he answered.

"Most people panic if they think they might die unexpectedly," I said.

"This wasn't that, this was something different I just don't know what" he responded.

"Thanks, Stan, let me know what poison was used when you figure it out," I said as I left the room. When I got into the hall I got a message from Clyde he had found something in there that we all needed to see, he told us to meet in the cafeteria. By the time I got there everyone but Stan and Kyle were there. They were still looking for the missing vial of poison.

"Alright everyone look at this" Clyde said as he held out a motive video tablet.

We were all shocked, "how, you and Mike have the keys right," Tweek asked.

"Yeah it's right here around my neck" Craig answered showing his key.

"How'd she get into the lockbox with only one key," Wendy asked.

"She didn't" I answered. "This motive video must be brand new."

"Well turn it on what does it say," Tweek asked.

Clyde turned on the video and it began to play "this is a message for the Ultimate Author Nichole Daniels, I know you want more information on project UA and I can provide that for you, I just need one thing in return."

The video stops there and the screen fades to black.

"One thing," Tweek said. "What could it be?"

"Clyde was there anything else in her room," I asked.

"Nothing" he answered.

"What about her lab," I asked looking towards Wendy.

"Just this" she answered holding up a note. "It's addressed to Token." She gave him the note, " there was something else" Wendy said hesitantly, "we found this vial of poison in her lab."

We all were shocked and Token's eyes widened at this revelation I could tell that he wasn't trial ready but we're out of time.

"Will worry about the note later, the poison vial takes priority," he said standing up from his chair.

We summoned Stan and Kyle to the cafeteria and had him examine the vial, "it's a lethal toxin called Angel's Trumpet if Nichole swallowed this she'd be dead in seconds."

The evidence we had gathered was all we ended up finding before the trial began, and just like last time, we rode the elevator all the way up to the trial chamber. We didn't want the game to continue, we didn't want to break our promise to Kenny, but unfortunately, we had to step foot into the home of the class trial once more.

The elevator stopped and the door opened just like last time the shudders closed and the podiums rose up from the ground, we took our places and noticed one key difference this time. Kenny's portrait was there with a red X through it just like Bebe's, Nichole's had one as well. The second class trial, to discover the identity of the killer of Nichole Daniels, the Ultimate Author, and our friend, was about to begin we all looked around at each other some had determined looks on their faces, while others were falling into despair at the thought of what another correct answer would mean.

Another trial, another blackened, another execution, and another friend lost, the thought of this happening again and leaving us with the choice of either sacrificing the culprit or being executed in mass would be easy in any normal standards, but these are not normal standards, in order to find out the truth of this place we must discover the identity of Nichole's killer.