"...Guh…." Fujisaki once again was outside, sitting against a tree while holding his face against his knees.
"Hey, Chihiro." The Ultimate Programmer turn to the side to see the Ultimate Daredevil walking up to him, "There you are, come on, classes are about to start and I don't want Taka to lecture me about being late….Again." he said before noticing that his friend had red eyes. "...Are you okay?"
"Huh?" Fujisaki quickly clears the tears of his face, "Y-Yeah, just….a little depressed…" she said with a weak smile.
"...You know that you're not tricking me, right?" Ragna's word struck Chihiro hard. "...You know, I passed by Mondo and Leon, they had a very worried expression on their faces…" he bent down to be at his size.
Seeing that Ragna had once again seen through him, Fujisaki began saying sadly, "...I-Is just that when I confess about me been a boy… I-I promised to get stronger…" he began to slowly cry, "B-But even today, I-I can't stand up to others in order to make them stop…" he then pushes his knees to his face. "Even with all of those efforts…. I still feel weak….and I hate it!"
He suddenly felt a hand on top of his head, making him look up to be face-to-face with Ragna, who had his eyes shadowed by his hair.
"Fuji….tell me," Ragna's voice sounded serious, "Do you truly hate it?" The Programmer was confused by his words, "Do you truly hate your weakness?" Fujisaki clears the tears off his face before nodding, "...If so, do me a favor," the white-haired raised his head up with a small smile.
"Grab ahold of the feeling, that there, is the proof you haven't given up fighting."
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"...What?" Makoto asked with trembling eyes
She...had to be mistaken….She has to be…. Right?
In front of him, was still a crying Fujisaki, behind the terrify Makoto, everyone was sweating a lot, Leon and Hiro were paled as a ghost. Hina had a hand close to her mouth while her eyes were shaking, Sakura was sporting an angry scowl while her hand was getting clenched, Kyouko was glazing hard, and even she was clenching her glove hand and Mukuro had a neutral expression but you could see the sweat rolling down her face.
Sayaka, however, she was the worst as her eyes and body shook in absolute fear. "W...What...did you say?" in all her strength, she asks before she yells out, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN RAGNA'S BODY?! DO YOU THINK THIS IS A STUPID JOKE?!"
Her outburst surprise everyone, and make the Programmer jump in fear, she was about to walk forward, when Makoto grab her by her arm tightly, "Makoto! Let me go!" she ordered.
"No! Sayaka, you're not thinking straight, you need to calm down-" the brunette tried to speak only for the Idol to shout at him.
"Calm down?! How can I be calm down?! She just said that Ragna was dead!" She counters back. Despite her gender, she was slowly making the Luckster loose grip, but then, Kuwata grabs a hold of her as well.
"Get a hold of yourself!" Leon said as he struggles with Makoto against the bluenette, for an Idol, she was really strong.
Seeing that she was breaking apart, Mukuro decided to speak up, "Sayaka," the soldier girl gazed at her, "I suggest you let Fujisaki explain herself, she said the body of Ragna, not that he was dead."
At her words, Maizono began to calm down, just for a bit, before slamming her face on Naegi's chest, shivering. The Luckster simply wrapped his arms around her in response, giving her comfort.
Once she calms down, Kyouko turns to Fujisaki who was been guarded by Sakura when she saw the Idol breaking up. "Fujisaki….can you please explain what happened?" She asked, her heart beating like mad for some reason at the words Chihiro said.
Fujisaki, still crying, close her eyes, "...I...I wanted to be stronger….I wasn't ready to say my secret… That's….why I asked Mondo for help…"
Everyone, including Maizono, perks up at her words, ('Mondo? He was here?')
"So it was Mondo who you were with," Oogami said with crossed arms.
"B-But wait," Hina interrupted, as she looks at the cosplaying boy, "W-Wouldn't that mean that he was here? Then why was Ragny here?" She asked.
"...I-I don't know...I was...just telling Oowada my secret and that I wanted to be strong like him...and then, he said that it was a laugh that I thought that." He holds his tiny head, "And then, he...he became furious and raised the dumbbell…"
Chihiro stares in confusion at the angry Oowada who raised his dumbbell and was swinging to hit the Programmer...when suddenly, the Daredevil appear out of nowhere, protect Fujisaki and took the hit to the head. Later on, Ragna fell down to the floor, blood coming out of his head as Fujisaki stares in terror.
"I...I pass out after seeing his body down…" He finished explaining before whimpering. "I...I...I didn't know he was there…"
Everyone stared at him with widened eyes, except Oogami, Kirigiri, and Ikusaba.
"Mondo's anger finally reaches him," Ikusaba said with her eyes hardening.
"Even Ragna told him to control it," Kyouko said, a little bit of anger in her voice.
"To think I would have failed at my duty to protect you from him, now my fellow fighter and acquainted is down," Sakura said, clenching her fist tightly.
As everyone, either look away or were on the verge of crying, the small Programmer spoke up, "...I'm sorry…" he said as he let his tears fall down, "I-I never...I-I just...thought that, i-if I make this step...I would become stronger…" he began to grab the skirt, "But...all I did...was push Oowada too far… I'm sorry...that my weakness killed Ragna…"
He kept crying without stop, he really didn't ask for this, he just wanted a male to help him get strong….but, it looks like he can't ask for that….
"No."
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"...H-Huh?" Fujisaki look up to see that the one speaking was Maizono, who even with teary eyes, she looked at him hard.
"...You... don't need to apologize," the idol walks up to him and to everyone's shock, she hugs him, "...You just did what you thought it would help you… Unlike me, you search for a safer solution to help you...and not decided to follow that stupid bear's treat…" Maizono smile at her, "You weren't been weak...you were been strong…"
Fujisaki was taken back by her words, "She's right," he turned to Sakura who sports a small smile, "It takes some real courage to take a step forward and surpassed your own weakness… Be proud for standing up to it."
"Yeah! I mean...look at us," Hina spoke up while looking awkwardly away, "Some of us... didn't even had the courage to expose or do something about our secret."
"Y-Yeah, I mean, mine isn't worth killing and I haven't said it!" Makoto said while scratching his cheek embarrassingly.
"H-He's right! Between everyone here, you decided to make a step, and I'm older than anyone here!" Hiro said, trying to cheer up the mood.
"Yeah! You're brave enough to even do something about it, unlike some of us!" Leon said as well.
Everyone words, with Kyouko and Mukuro's small smile, touch the heart of the Programmer, making him cried and place his face on Sayaka's chest.
"Yah! And you make that corn headed brute to run like a little bitch! You have some serious bravery!"
Aaaaaaaaaaand that unbearing voice ruined the mood.
Everyone turned in surprise at the robotic Headmaster, who was trying to raise a dumbbell with his paws, "Seriously, I have to give you a medal, kid. The only thing I made him do was almost break the rule of hurting this sensible bear, that brute doesn't know how great I am for only warning him!" after that, he kicks the dumbbell, which causes him to began hopping on one foot.
"...Why are you here?" Mukuro was the one to spoke up, looking normal at the Headmaster but her guard was up.
"Why am I here?" Monokuma turn to them with a confused expression, "Do I need a reason to check on my beloved lab rats? I mean, sure, even if I were to used you all, I care for your safety ya'know?"
"Like if you care for any of us!" Asahina yelled with an angry expression.
"I do career!" Monokuma yells as he points at them, "I even went as far to come and tell you that the hardass found our dear biker!"
That caught everyone's attention, "What?" Leon asked.
"Where is he? He had some questions to answer us." Sakura said with her wrath coming out.
"Upupupupu! Then please, make your way to the class on the first floor! He's….having the quiet trouble to get him out!" And with that said, Monokuma disappeared.
"Let us not wasted anymore, we need him to tell us everything, and what he did with Ragna," Kyoko said as they all exit the room.
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"BRO! OPEN THE DOOR!"
Ishimaru bang the door to the class for the ten time. He was more worried as his sweat drops from his face. His eyes looking through the window of the door, where inside lies the Biker Gang Leader, sitting on a chair, his face shadowed by his hair and not bothering to even look at the door.
"FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING! OPEN THE DOOR!" he bangs the door once again.
"Ishimaru!" The Moral Compass turn quickly around to see Makoto and the rest, "We got here!"
"Where's Oowada?!" Leon asked first.
"He's in there, but he won't come out!" Taka explains as everyone look inside the window.
"Hey, Mondo!" Leon began to bang the door, "Open up you bastard! You have a lot to explain!" he tried to open the door, but fail to.
"Is no used, he stuck it with something from the inside," Taka inform.
"Then, allow me," Sakura said she uses her strength to open the door, but surprisingly, she couldn't, "Hrrrrrrrgh!" She grunts as she pulls as hard as she can. "Impossible...my own strength has failed me."
"What is going here?"
They all turn to see Togami's group coming back, "Monokuma told us that you found the brute, where is he?" The heir asked.
"He's in there," Makoto respond, "But he won't open up to any of us."
"Hmph, so he decided to finally hide," Togami simply stated while pushing his glasses, "It was only a matter of time…" he then turns to the programmer, "And you? Were you hiding as well?"
"Hey! Back off!" Hina stood in front of Chihiro, "This is no time to be asking about who hide! Oowada is in there and we need him out!"
"And why do you need him out?" Celeste asks in curiosity, and then, she notices how the rest look away in anger and sadness. "Did we... perhaps miss something?"
"...I'll explain it to those who weren't present," Kirigiri said as she walks out, "Follow me so I may tell you," she looks at Ishimaru, "You too Ishimaru."
"What? I can't leave my bro alone!" He said back, shaking his fist.
"Don't worry man," he looks at Leon who gave him a serious expression, "We'll stay here and keep an eye on things."
With little convinced, he and those absent left with Kirigiri, with that, Leon, Mukuro, and Sakura tried to open the door with little success.
"Come on, man!" Hiro rests against the wall, "Can he...I don't know, at least tell us to leave him alone or something? Is he even alive?"
"Hey! Don't jinx that one to us!" Leon shouts at him.
"Mondo!" Makoto tried to call him, "Can you at least speak to us!?" The Biker raised his head and look at the window, where the Luckster was looking, and what Makoto saw, made him tremble in fear.
Mondo's eyes were completely lost, he had no life….no hope….only despair...and through it he said, "...Just leave me alone." before returning to his original post.
Sweat roll down Naegi's forehead as he steps back, Mukuro and Maizono stop him, "We….we need to get him out, now." He said.
"But how?!" Asahina asked, "He's the only one who can open it!"
While everyone began to think of a way to open up, Chihiro could only stare down, he was so weak….Because of his selfish act, Mondo killed Ragna…
"Hey, Fuji!"
Suddenly, a voice spoke to the Programmer, making him look around, "...Who.."
"Do you know what a strong person is?"
The voice continued speaking, Chihiro didn't know why, but this voice sounded….familiar….and he felt... comfortable with it.
"Is the one who even though knows he's weak, decides to make something about it."
Those words….he didn't knew….but, he felt something inside him burning, it was so strong that it made him feel...strong. He then began to walk in front of the door.
Maizono notice the small brunette moving in front of the door, "Fujisaki?" Her words made everyone turn to the Programmer.
"What are you doing?" Makoto asked in confusion.
Chihiro never answers as he then knocks on the door, "...M...Mondo!" He calls to the Biker, who look up once again, "I...I want to apologize!"
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"...Huh?" Was all Hagakure could ask.
"J-Just a minute Fujisaki, what are you-" Hina began to say but stop when the Programmer motion his hand to stop.
"...I...I apologize for... throwing everything on you," Fujisaki kept talking, her tears were threatening to fall, but he holds them in, "And….for making you angry… S-So please, accept me apologize...and I won't bother you ever again!" He finished, a single tear falling down her cheek.
"...What the fuck are you talking about?"
Fujisaki gasp as he heard the door of the sauna open up and Oowada appear, still having a gloom look. "You...have nothing to apologize…"
"N-No," surprisingly, Fujisaki respond back, "B...Because I thought you could help me...I didn't...realized how angry it would make you… A-And because of the that….Ragna is-"
"Stop it!" Mondo punches the side of the door so hard, it echos through the walls, making the others tense up, "This is not your fault!" He said before going inside and sit down, "...This….was mine." He said.
"E...Even so," Fujisaki enter the room, followed Sakura and Mukuro. "...I-If it still… something...I was serious about...seeing you as someone strong!"
His words once again struck Mondo's heart, and grit his teeth, "...You're wronged kid…." Suddenly, tears began to fall down the Biker's eyes, "I'm….not strong…!" he looks up, showing his teary eyes, "I was never strong…!"
"W-What…?"
"Hey, Mondo!"
A voice inside the Biker's head began to talk as he clenched his hand even more.
"Stop acting like a little bitch already!"
"I...I lie...all my life… because," he suddenly felt a sensation inside his body, he didn't know why, but...it felt... familiar, "My secret...is my weakness… I…"
"You're brother didn't force you to make the promise for the gang!"
"Wh-What are you-?
"I killed my own brother!"
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"...Wait, what?" Hagakure asked, "Did...Did I heard that right?"
"...ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" Leon couldn't help but shout in pure shock, "Okay! Before anything else, is there anyone present that has also killed in his/her past?!" Everyone looks at him, silence feeling the air, "...I'll take that as a no."
"Mondo," Oogami spoke up, her face sporting a serious expression, "Care to explain?"
The leader of the Crazy Diamonds trembles in both anger, sadness, and fear, "...The previous Gang Leader...my brother, Daiya...He and I… Made the Crazy Diamonds...it was our pride and joy, but….Daiya was always the one in front, and I, I was always behind him," he raised his own hands in front of his face, "And then, I started to think….when he step down and pass the baton to me...however, I had the doubt... that I'll be able to be like him...And the rumors keep going," he clenched his fist yet again, "I...I need it to be stronger! Stronger than my brother!"
He stood up, making everyone tense, "That's why, when he retired, I challenge him to a race, to prove that I wasn't weak to the gang...but, in the middle of it, I….I went reckless and went to ahead, I didn't even saw the truck coming in…"
"W-Wait," Asahina place her on her mouth in shock, "Y-You mean?!"
Mondo fell to his knee, "Before I knew it...He pushes me away… And the truck run him over." Almost everyone gasps in shock at his words, "I...I became desperate, he was dying on my hands, I knew I wouldn't make it on time to the hospital!" he began to remember Daiya in his hand, covered in blood. "I just...could only stare and cry his name as he slowly dies in my hands… It was there that we made the promise...of never telling the others of what happened."
"...I see," everyone look at Oogami, who sports a thinking expression, "If they found out that your brother sacrifices himself for you, some members would blame you for it." She explained.
"H-Hold on a sec!" Fujisaki spoke up, "I-If it as you say….then, you didn't kill him at all!"
"Hey! She's right, your brother save you from death! Why would you say you kill him?!" Aoi asked in exaggeration.
"...Survivor's Guilt," Everyone look at Makoto, who had a hand on his chin in thought, "He's blaming himself for challenging him in the first place, which basically says he 'indirectly' kill him."
"...Makes senses," the black haired soldier said.
"And is true!" Mondo yells out, "If I didn't do that stupid challenge, he would be here… and I wouldn't be lying to everyone!"
"You what?!" Hagakure was taken back, "You actually went with it?!"
"Of course I did! Everything he and I did together will be gone!" Oowada shout. "I made him the promise, dammit! Even up today, I still lie to them, I never got the strength to tell them what happened!" he stood up again, "And when that stupid bear showed us those secret...I fell into a depression...and then..."
"I...came to you?" Chihiro said.
The biker nod to him, "...I just...when you told me your reason to tell me your secret… I was jealous," he looks at the Programmer, "Jealous at the strength you have and I didn't…. The strength to change… My mind couldn't take it anymore and before I knew it...I did the one thing I can't ever take back! Because of me…..Red is dead!"
Everyone present stopped breathing at the words that came out of his mouth.
"O-Oy….Y-You mean…"
"Mondo….You...You really…?"
"...Yes," Mondo cried even more, "I hit Red with the dumbbell….I kill him…"
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"DAMMIT!" Oogami punches the wall, creating a small airwave, normally she would be calm, but someone she saw as a fellow warrior died.
"Sakura!" Hina grabs her, stopping for any other of her friend from doing anything else, but she couldn't stop the pain inside her heart and the tears going down her eyes.
"Dammit! He really is gone!" Leon said as he holds his hair and tears, ('How am I supposed to pay him back for saving me now?!')
"Shit! For real?! What the fuck?! Get me out of here!" Hagakure lost it as he began to run around like a maniac.
Chihiro began to cry, but just a little, remembering the person who protected him and Mukuro only looks down, her face showing sadness in it.
But, the Luckster and the Idol were the only ones that were shadowed by their hairs, showing nothing.
"...I'm sorry," Oowada spoke as he notice them both, "I know how important Red was for you both…. If you want to hate, go ahead...better yet, let's just end this." he said as he bent down to his knee and bow for them, "I'll take it like a Man."
"...No…" Oowada raised his head up to see a shaking Makoto, "I….I was prepared for this…" he couldn't stop a small tear going to his cheek, "I just...I just didn't though...it was going to be this fast." he holds his fist.
"...*Sniff*... I guess….this is my punishment for what I did...huh?" Maizono smiles up, even though her own tears fell down through her cheeks.
Looks like what Fujisaki saw was no mistake… in a state of jealousy, Mondo tried to kill the Programmer, but by cheer miracle/coincidence, Ragna appeared and protect the cosplaying boy...but in exchange for it, he received the deadly blow to the head…. Ending his life…
Truly, if the Mastermind wanted Despair…. He achieved it in the way he wanted… A friend almost killed his friend...and end up killing someone else…
"So…. The game has finally begun, huh?" Was the voice Byakuya as he pushes his glasses upward.
Kirigiri had explain the absent people what happened, and let's just say that they react the only way we all know.
"Hmm, such a shame," Ludenberg place a hand on her hair and began to twirl it around, "I was expecting to have a gambling match with him...Guess his luck run out."
Hifumi and Touko didn't say a word as sweat was dripping down their forehead and tremble in terror, the writer was inches away of passing out. Taka, however….
"You're lying." Kyouko looks at him and saw the scare expression of him, "B-Bro couldn't have killed him...He couldn't!" She saw as tears wear forming in his eyes, "Bro wouldn't hurt a fly!" He began defending him.
"Have you forgotten that he place a strong fist on his cheek?" Kyouko asked him, making him jerk up. "And unless you can prove that what Fujisaki saw was an illusion… Then I can't help." She stated.
"Grk! Y-You're wrong! I refused to believe it without proof!" Taka stood firm to his defense of his friend.
"Then, how about you heard it from his mouth," Togami said with a smile, "Although, I don't think someone like him can explain himself," he then sighs in disappointment, "And here I thought I could at least have some fun." When he said that, the lavender girl twitch once again, this snobby boy is getting to her nerves.
Togami then stood up from his chair and made his way to the door. "Where are you going?" Kyouko asked him with a raised eyebrow.
"To take a look at the body, of course. I would like to at least see how it happened and state it was." He said as he was about to reach the doors when-
"State? The body is missing."
"... Excuse me?" He turns to Kyouko, and everyone looks at her in confusion.
"The body was move," Kirigiri said, making Byakuya looks surprised, "We only know because Fujisaki told us herself, it appears that Oowada moved it."
"Move it?" Celeste raised an eyebrow, "Why would he need to move it? As far as we all know, there's no place to hide a body."
"T-Then, h-he must h-have burn it," Touko suggest.
"Negative!" Hifumi exclaimed as he took out a key, "I have the keys to the incinerator, so Master Oowada couldn't burn it!"
"...A missing body… Quite interesting." Now Togami was smirking.
Just then, the doors open up, and everyone inside looks to see Leon, Makoto, and Maizono walk in, behind them were the rest, with Oowada looking down on the ground and Oogami looking at him to make sure he didn't break again.
"Hmph, so you actually have the guts to come out?" Togami asked, earning a glare from everyone, except Fukawa.
"Not now, you arrogant bastard!" Kuwata yelled out.
"Bro!" Ishimaru immediately went in front of Mondo, "Please tell me is not true!" He grabs him by the collar as he looks at him with tears, "Tell me you didn't actually do it!" He kept screaming at him….until his voice began to drown in despair at on thought…
Mondo didn't respond back, at least, not how he wanted, "...I'm sorry Bro…"
The Ultimate Moral Compass let go and his face lost all the colors...He then remembered the consequences of killing someone… He was about to lose his first ever best friend….
Before he could continue, however, Makoto spoke up to Kyouko, "Hey Kirigiri….we...have problem…"
"A very serious problem," Sakura said on her neutral.
The Mysterious Ultimate look at them in confusion, "What problem?" She asked and they all turn to the Biker Leader, who took a step forward and look at her.
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"Chick, care to explain what you mean the body is gone?"