Chapter 1: Funky Carnival of Despair [Everyday Life 1]

The morning was very bright in the city, a city which sheltered nineteen people which didn't have anything wrong. Or, maybe, something was wrong for some people…

At any rate, the one who woke up first was Yoshida Kaneko, Super High School Level Maid and Historian who would not have any problem to wake so early in the morning, two hours before morning time would be announced. She was preparing breakfast for everyone's sake. The only one who could cook masterly was only her since she mostly changed absent chef to cook in Togami Group's household. She was only cooking some bread and beverages, and maybe some jams.

While waiting the bread was ready to eat, she made some beverages and jams to flavor the morning later. Sometimes, she looked to the window where she could see the dark sky. She couldn't see the sun rise since there was a wall which covered this city in to a shelter, but it didn't cover the sky. So, they still could tell the time. So, they could see the sun when the time entered noon.

"Someone is here?" a male voice which was very baritone but normal, somewhat like an old experienced soldier. She could reply that voice, but she was more focus to concentrate to her cooks, that's why she didn't reply.

"Hey, we woke up so early! Let's sleep again!" a easy and light voice but very cool if you could modify some parts and you could get some rocker voice. A few footsteps could be heard but it stopped only in second.

"Shut up! Don't being a gay to me and get back if you don't want to take breakfast!" that baritone voice replied, but easy and light one just giggled, felt that success to tease that baritone voice's owner. Those two males started word-fighting which Yoshida didn't care too much. She continued cooking until all done and plated them to plates and bowls. She put the jams to bowls and bread to plates. When she still prepared the breakfast, she heard another footsteps and voices, and now there were two females' which added.

"I just remembered that we haven't eaten anything from yesterday," a happy voice but filled with starving sound from her stomach.

"M-Maybe we should go to the kitchen, maybe there are some foods," a low voice but not sad recommended them to go to the kitchen.

"I will just wait here," an average voice said as some footsteps could be heard from the canteen.

Slowly, kitchen's door opened and a wavy blonde girl with black-red sailor fuku uniform and orange and light blue-haired girl with raincoat walked in to the kitchen, Suzuki Haruka and Hiyayaka Atsui. They noticed Yoshida was cooking the breakfast, and came closer to look what Yoshida did.

"Yoshida, can I help you?" Suzuki asked slowly as looking to Yoshida's handmade breakfast. She took a spoon and took a full spoon of strawberry jam and feed it to her own mouth.

"This is so delicious! You are so professional at this!" she praised her and tasted other jams. Yoshida just smiled thinly and continued cooking.

"If you want help me, please bring the jam," Yoshida said as holding two plates, full of bread and walked to the outside of kitchen.

"Hiyayaka-san, please help me out," Suzuki said as bringing jars of various jam's flavors. Hiyayaka who heard Suzuki's request helped her bringing the jars, full of jam with various flavor.

People who were gathering at guest room last night except Suzuki and Hiyayaka were staying in the canteen, Miyazaki, Kamiyara, Hanenagai, Yusaburu, Olwen, Abe, and Motoro. Miyazaki was sleeping on the table, together with Kamiyara, Hanenagai, and Abe who still sleeping with other style like facing the floor, crouching on the chair, and still sitting like normally but still sleeping with eye closed. Miyazaki just finished talk-battle with Yusaburu and he pissed off and almost hit his belly, but he got sleepy and slept in second and fell to that rocker and he brought him, made him sit on the chair but his upper body fell to the table and nicely slept. Kamiyara and Hanenagai were walking to the kitchen when they were still regaining half-consciousness but they slept again. And Abe was walking while sleeping, and now he was still sleeping with upright sitting position.

Those who were still sleeping were the most people who got so much fun and laughs last night. Miyazaki who had very humorous condition that night was always joking and laughing until around three hours because how funny was the movie and fell asleep. Hanenagai who had childish personality has laughed so much since Miyazaki's taste of humor almost same as his, and of course he was tired because laughing. Kamiyara wasn't that care about the movie, but it seemed that he laughed so much about Miyazaki's jokes. And Abe, he talked about his identity being a SHSL Food Criticism and got tired.

"You know, it is too morning to wake up," Yusaburu said as yawning because how sleepy he was.

"Just sleep in your own room, would you?" Olwen irritated because he was always asking about how sleepy he was.

"I don't want to sleep lonely," he hissed slowly and yawned again.

"I don't give a sight," she replied, still irritated.

"Who cares about your opinion," Yusaburu exclaimed in anger, and yawned again.

"Oh yeah, Suzuki and Hiyayaka took a bit long time," Motoro slipped their conversation and they stopped fighting.

"I don't know, I don't give a-" Yusaburu stopped his words as noticing kitchen's door opened and saw bread which been brought by Yoshida, and it smelled very delicious, along with Suzuki and Hiyayaka who brought jars of various flavor's jams.

"Hey, it smells very delicious! Can I eat one?" Olwen asked while looking to hot bread which recently baked and ready to eat.

"Just one, and leave some for the rest of us," Yoshida answered as taking a loaf of bread and cut it by her knife. Olwen took two slices of bread and spread one side the banana and strawberry jam. She quickly ate it and felt deliciousness covered her mouth. All people who didn't sleep in the canteen ate their food. Not so long, their foods have finished and they rested for a while in the canteen. Some of them were eating snacks which could be found, and some people were just staying silent since didn't have anything to talk.

"What time is it?" Slowly but sure, Miyazaki woke up and faced everyone who was awaken before he got his consciousness.

"Some minutes before morning time's announcement," Yoshida said as pointing the clock which hanged above kitchen's door, five minutes before morning time announcement. Miyazaki looked to his front, smelling that there was a nice smell of food. There was some bread on the plate. Without any voice or sound, Miyazaki grabbed a slice of bread and spread peanut jam and ate it without a sound.

The clock showed that the time was seven o'clock in the morning, and the monitor turned on and showed Monokuma.

"It's seven o'clock AM! Wake up!" Monokuma could be seen from monitor, and said that as loud and fast as he could. After he finished announcing, the monitor shut to black.

"We woke up already," Motoro mumbled.

"Hey, have all of you taken a bath?" Yoshida asked as cleaning some empty plates.

"We just woke up, so we haven't," Olwen said honestly.

"I recommend you to go back to your own room and take a bath, because there will some people who will come later," Yoshida said as going back to the kitchen.

"Let's wake these guys," Yusaburu murmured as shaking Miyazaki's and Kamiyara's body, and of course they woke up in second, with still dazed look, and that was unusual action from Miyazaki, if he knew that Yusaburu even touched him, he would try to knock him down. But, might be he was still sleepy. Kamiyara woke up and regained consciousness quickly. Motoro shook Hanenagai's and Abe's body to wake them up. They woke up quickly and regained consciousness but slower than Kamiyara.

"Hey, somehow I remember there is a mass bathroom, so let's take a bath together!" Yusaburu suggested, and of course the girls shook their head, but the boys nodded, agreed that they would take a bath with a gay, except Miyazaki. He was still dazed and not fully awake.

"I think we will leave Miyazaki here! Bye gals!" Yusaburu waved and left the canteen. Hanenagai, Kamiyara, Abe, and Motoro followed him, didn't forget to wave their hand to the girls. There were only Suzuki, Olwen, and Hiyayaka who were in the canteen. Yoshida was in the kitchen, no one knew what she was doing in the kitchen.

"Maybe we should take a bath too, thinking that there will be other people come to here," Suzuki said as stood up and walked to the entrance of the canteen. Olwen and Hiyayaka nodded as following Suzuki. They were leaving Miyazaki, sleeping on his own.

Usually, Ikeda woke up very late in this type of condition, but now she was trying to open her eyes while she was still sleeping with her dark green nightgown on plain white bed. Her instinct just said that she must not sleep any longer in that room, noticing a security camera in corner of her room would watch every move of her. When she checked her room's bathroom, there was a security camera too, but it had an angle which couldn't record shower and toilet which covered by curtain, but every move could be seen too. It was still bothered her, she always felt that there was a person who watched every of her move, maybe others too.

Without any word, she went to the bathroom and took a quick shower because her worrisome about the camera. She could just make it wet by shower's water, but she predicted something bad will happen.

After Monokuma appeared, she straightly went to her room and took a deep sleep after changing her clothes to dark green nightgown. She even still wore a headphone and heard some calming songs, and lucky it calmed her a bit.

After some minutes cleaning her own body with shower and calming her mind with coldness of the water, Ikeda turned off the shower, used her towel to cover her body, and walked to her room to wear her usual clothes, a pale green tube top and flare jean pants, and pale green flip flop. When she combed her hair, she noticed two things which couldn't be ignored to wear, a pale green headphones and a jade pendant. After combed her own hair, Ikeda wore those as fast as she could. She plugged the headphone's plug to her cell phone, turned on her phone, and opened the music player application which played her favorites music.

After hearing some tracks of music, Ikeda decided to go to canteen, or cafeteria which she could find some foods there. Slowly, she opened her room's door which she unlocked it, but the door was stuck by something in front of, and only let a small gap to take a peek. Of course, she took the chance and looked to the outside. Something which stuck her door had black color and a bit fluffy but hard and heavy from she could predict from afar, not touching that thing. Slowly, she poked the thing which made her door stuck.

And some snoring familiar voice could be heard from the front of her room. She knew this, a familiar voice. No, exactly voice in her head.

'Miyazaki… Why is he sleeping in front of my room? And he is standing…' Ikeda thought as trying to open the door by pushing it, but weight of Miyazaki's body couldn't be compared with Ikeda's power. But, it seemed that his body moved a bit, and then she could notice perfectly that he would wake up in some seconds.

Slowly, Miyazaki woke up with slow move, and sometimes he stroked his own head to regain his own consciousness. He made his own hair more messed up than he always did. Sometimes, he hit his head for no reason, maybe for the same as accidently messing his own hair. After fully woke up, he turned his head to the door behind him, and found Ikeda looked to him with confused look.

"Geez, Ikeda! Why are you here?! And when did you come out?!" Miyazaki surprised as taking a step to his back, almost jump-scared. "You can't just sneak up without saying anything!"

"It is not my 'active' skill to sneak up, it is 'passive'. I don't need to active it," Ikeda said simply as turning on her music player with lowest volume, wanted to hear if Miyazaki said anything. "And why were you sleeping in front of my room?"

"I-I don't think I know," Miyazaki mumbled as rubbing his messy hair and smiled as wide as he could. Ikeda felt somewhat warming in her heart.

Miyazaki was one of people who could notice her existence very fast and be kind to Ikeda. He even teased her a lot and made her pissed a lot. He was her good friend, the one who could notice her, and made her feel easy in a conversation. Other people who could still notice her a bit slower than Miyazaki were Yoshida, Kokoro, and Kawashima, but still sometimes slipped up her existence. The other beside those four could notice her in some minutes.

"I woke up on the table at the canteen and rushed to my room to take a fast shower to regain consciousness. But, after I went out from my room, I was slacked up near your room and taken a deep sleep accidently, so yeah…" Miyazaki explained, still had unconsciousness in his head, and sometimes yawning.

"Table at the canteen? Were you supposed to take a sleep in your own room?" Ikeda asked, detecting some contradiction in her sense.

"How could I say it? I was watching some movies with others, and slept together in guest room." Miyazaki explained with some yawns cut his sentence.

"Together?"

"Yep, with… if my memory serves right… Kamiyara, Hanenagai, Yusaburu, Suzuki, Olwen, Abe, Hiyayaka, and Motoro,"

"Suzuki, Olwen, and Hiyayaka? Girls slept together with boys?"

"Of course not! Girls' and Boys' place were different!" Miyazaki was fully awoken and regained his consciousness.

"Oh, okay,"

Silence was between them. Miyazaki seemed forgetting something that he wanted to tell to Ikeda. She could tell that from his face, serious and hard. If he wanted to do some business, he would think it when he faced with the problem or the destination, and his destination was Ikeda.

"Man, I am hungry!" he felt his hungriness in second.

"Why wouldn't you go to the cafeteria?" Ikeda suggested. When she said that, Miyazaki remembered what was he forgotten.

"Oh yeah, I think I remember! Would you go to the canteen with me?" Miyazaki gave his hand to invite Ikeda. Actually, he always invited her to eat together, but she noticed that the last time a month ago, and that was very long time for her.

"Okay…" Ikeda agreed, and Miyazaki's mood was changed in second as bright as a star which ten times bigger than a sun.

Actually, Kitae Kamiko didn't want to wake up early, just what she did this morning. And now, Sei was sitting on the chair, facing her face which looked her very deeply, full of flirty or you could say predator's look. She hated that, hated that Sei will come closer to her and dig her privacy.

"Now, what would you like to breakfast, Kamiko-sama?" Sei bowed his body and wore a melting smile, and she didn't care about that. But, Sei always gave her annoyances every time he spoke to her who focused to her sketchbook, sketching some sorts of abstract beautiful drawing.

"Get away, flirty loser," Kitae hissed as still focusing to the sketchbook, and Sei still smiled as sweet and wide as he could which always melts almost girls in this world, but not for Kitae and few girls.

"Thank you for that criticism, Kamiko-sama," didn't know what that was about, Sei gave her a word of thanks for that hissing voice, and it always irritated Kitae. She couldn't take down that flirty host's desire to take down all girls he ever met.

"MORNING TODAY GUYS! BE HAPPY!" a normal familiar exclaiming voice could be heard from the canteen where Yoshida, Sei, and Kitae were. The maid was staying in the kitchen lonely, maybe still cooking some additional foods. And that familiar happy voice owner or Hiyayaka ran to the inside the canteen, and before she sat on the chair, she rotated around that chair three times and suddenly collapsed on the chair because dizziness. Suzuki, her best friend followed in and sat beside the dizzy Hiyayaka Atsui.

Some minutes passed in silence between those four people, but be broken in second because a door sound came from the canteen's door. Two figures came in and actually made a surprise between them, a very active and carefree Miyazaki Shin and unnoticed ghostly girl Ikeda Etsuko. The one who noticed were everyone except Kitae who focused to her sketchbook, and those who noticed actually realized her when they sat on their own chairs in same time.

"Morning, Ikeda-san, h-how was your night in here?" Suzuki asked slowly as she always did, almost be too shy to start a conversation. Ikeda thought for a while, after that she took a deep sigh.

"Fine, I guess," Ikeda answered, feeling uneasy because she was becoming the center of mini greeting from Suzuki.

"Morning," three figures entered, Hanenagai, Kamiyara, and Yusaburu walked in and sat near Miyazaki and Ikeda. They seemed very sleepy if you could tell from their eye bag, maybe unnoticed from far, but if you see closer, you could see that black eye bag like a panda.

"Morning!" Hiyayaka replied as came closer to the guys. "Hey, your eyes seemed changing to a panda, miss a sleep?" she asked curiously.

"I think it was because we woke up earlier today," Kamiyara said.

"But I woke up earlier, and I am not sleepy! Maybe you guys are too lazy!" Hiyayaka exclaimed very energetic.

"Maybe you're the one who very energetic," Yusaburu said as walking to the nearby chair and sat on it very quickly.

Someone came out from the kitchen, and there was no one except Yoshida which were in the kitchen all the time. She brought a cup of tea and drank it slowly on the chair near the kitchen, didn't want to walk too far. She might be needed a relaxation after cooking food for those people.

There was no one who came in almost a half hour time until a figure entered the room, Kokoro Kumiko. She sat on the chair near the table where Hiyayaka, Suzuki, Hanenagai, Kamiyara, and Yusaburu sat. Almost they fell to a quite situation if Yusaburu didn't invite Kamiyara to a conversation. Other person came after ten minutes passed, two figures entered and those figures were Motoro, with Olwen followed him behind his back. They sat near the group of Hiyayaka. Another five minutes passed, Abe entered the room with fresh face, drinking the mixed fruit juice which he brought. He sat beside Hanenagai and looked to many directions, maybe learning the room. Almost a half hour passed again, left people who didn't came after morning announcement each, Fujiosuki, Jake, Kawashima, Makabe, and the last was Shohi.

Yoshida finished her tea and came in to the kitchen, might be wanted to take some foods for breakfast to the people who have not taken a breakfast. In no times, she brought the bread which she made at the morning and heated it when before everyone came to the canteen. She served it to the people who didn't take breakfast that morning. Actually, they ate it without any words, so they fell in to silence. After finished, they discussed some plan for later.

"Hey, what will we do now?" Hiyayaka asked slowly.

"We must obey that puppet master first of course, except the killing one," Yoshida answered slowly. "Let's explore this city which could be explored,"

"But, it will take a long time," Makabe said hesitantly.

"We can just make a group," Ikeda simply said the solution.

"Same as what did Ikeda say, we will make groups to five, North, East, South, West, and the Mansion," Yoshida explained and gave a break of her speaking. "We will make something like lottery and I have some papers to do that," As she said that, Yoshida took the little papers which written with number, and the total was twenty with number one until five, four papers for each number. Which she fold to a little pieces.

"Each people will take only one, and the paper will show your group. And we will do another lottery to select groups' exploring destination. What about that guys, are you in mind with that?" Yoshida explained shortly and lucky all people understood. They did that lottery in little time, and they got their own group.

"First group will be Yusaburu, Kamiyara, Miyazaki, and Kitae, they will check the north area. Second group will be Ikeda, Sei, Makabe, and Motoro, they will check the west area. Third group will be Hiyayaka, Hanenagai, Kokoro, and Abe, they will check the south area. Fourth group will be Suzuki, Kawashima, Olwen, and Shohi, they will check east area. The fifth group will be me, Fujiosuki, and Jake, we will check the mansion." Yoshida explained the result of the lottery. The result was pretty random, and lucky that all people agreed so they started to explore this city.

First Group

"This is the entrance door, right?" Miyazaki said as looking to the steel-sealed door. "But, what the hell this door being an entrance door?!" he exclaimed. The door or you should call it a big gate but sealed with big steel door. If you could see, there was a ten meters steel wall which covered whole of this city, but they could see the sun almost rising to the middle of the sky, but only just a peek.

"This is something like a cage, isn't this?" Kamiyara said.

"I FREAKING KNOW IT! THAT FUCK-ASS ROBOT BEAR IS REALLY SERIOUS, GODDAMN IT FU-" his bad words finally got out for so long time, but his word cut by a familiar voice which wasn't from them, Monokuma.

"Hey, YOU must not use bad words to being nice guy!" Monokuma angered with very red face.

"HEY, HOLY FUCK-ASS SHITTY DOLLY CHIPMUNKS BEAR'S ASSHOLES, HOW YOUR FUCKING SHIT IS DOING?!" Miyazaki said bad words and now more complete than before.

"WHAT DID YA SAY!?" Monokuma angered again, and his face was redder than before.

"OH DO YOU WANT A FUCKING BADASS BATTLE WITH THIS BADASS MORTAL?! BRING THE FUCK ON!" he said as trying to kick that bear, and something came from behind, some spears, but Miyazaki could dodge it, but still ripped a bit of his pants, but he didn't have a injury. With lightning move, Miyazaki took out his daggers and threw it to Monokuma, and it stabbed that robot and exploded in second. That weapon master looked to his back, where he sensed a mechanical sound, a robot of Monokuma flew to him, with a sword on his stomach. After seeing that, he took a wide step to his left, and he could dodge that.

Yusaburu, Kamiyara, and Kitae looked their battle without moving, stunned. His moving was very flexible with that muscular body, somewhat like a professional soldier. Miyazaki didn't have any injury.

Yusaburu somewhat noticed a change of Miyazaki's left eye, from fiery red eye to a black and deep eye.

"STOP OR I WILL GIVE YOU A RAIN OF MAGIC GUNGNIR SPEAR!" Monokuma exclaimed and Miyazaki stopped his fighting with that robot, and Yusaburu noticed that his eyes changed to normal fiery eyes.

"Screw you, puppet master, I will kill you to a painful harsh death," Miyazaki cursed when Monokuma had disappeared from their sight.

"There is not anything important in here," Kitae hissed and walked away to the mansion.

"Wait," Kamiyara stopped Kitae's steps, and looked to something that he found in a glass cupboard beside the gate, an electronic handbook which couldn't be turned on. "There is still something else, in here, like this electronic handbook and a path to the sewer,"

"Sewerage? That's too stinky," Kitae hissed again. "Boys, go down,"

"I don't have any problem," Miyazaki agreed, and took a handkerchief to cover his nose from stinky smell. Slowly, he opened the path to sewer which was near a palm tree in the park and climbed down. Yusaburu and Kamiyara followed by covering their nose. Some steps could be heard in twenty or thirty minutes, and an exclaiming voice could be heard after that steps.

"THERE ARE SOME PATHS TO THE EACH PARTS OF THIS AREA, EVEN MANSION!" Miyazaki exclaimed, echoing in the sewer's cave.

"THERE IS LIGHTY AND COLORFUL CARNIVAL! HEY KAMIYARA AND MIYAZAKI, WANT A DATE WITH ME?" Yusaburu's flirty voice could be heard.

"NO, OF COURSE NO!" Miyazaki angered.

"Maybe we must go out for searching fresh air," Kamiyara suggested.

"But, of course you can accompany me to my date," Yusaburu flirted that DJ.

"Maybe, as friendship,"

"OKAY!"

Almost twenty minutes passed, and they finally came back to the up, and without a hesitation they took a heavy breath.

"Akh, I don't want to explore the sewer anymore," Miyazaki murmured.

Second Place

Sei sat on the chair in the west carnival part while were drinking a tea which he brought, and the other check the place, there were so many lamps there and food stalls, but the game stalls wasn't that much. Ikeda stood up in front of the present shooting game, and her eyes fixed to a brown teddy bear which was in the upper cupboard. Her eyes was filled nothing when looked to that bear, but full of hopes to get that teddy bear. Makabe and Motoro were looking to each parts of the carnival, and sometimes they talked to discuss.

"Woi, Sei, can you help us?" Makabe asked Sei, but he just ignored and continued his activity, drinking tea. Feeling that Sei won't help them, Makabe asked Ikeda who fixed in front of present shooting game stall.

"Ikeda-san, can you help us?" Makabe asked slowly, but he didn't get any response from Ikeda. He looked to something that Ikeda kept looking, a brown teddy bear.

"Ikeda-san want that bear?" Makabe asked again, which surprised that girl and made her face was redder.

"N-No," Ikeda answered and ran to nowhere in west carnival part and of course Makabe surprised because that sudden action.

"So you get something important?" Motoro came and asked Makabe, which made another surprise to Makabe.

"No. What about you, Motoro?"

"Some game stalls in here exchange present or get a present, which full of presents which were war toys, and even real weapons."

"That bear is really serious."

Third Group

"What is this?" Hanenagai said as looking to steel gate which was very dangerous because had electronic wave. "Kuro said that this is very dangerous, we shouldn't open this until the time came,"

"Yeah," Abe sighed in tiredness, they had explored each part of south area

"We shouldn't open that, and seemed that this gate is the only part which is very important. And we can assume that we are in a no-door cage," Kokoro re-examined the electronic gate. "We could say that from this gate and almost ten meters or more limited the city,"

"So, we must kill someone to get out?" Hanenagai almost cried, and in no time Abe comforted him.

"Hey, do you think that house seemed so suspicious?" Kokoro said as pointing to a western-styled house that wasn't looked so abandoned, you could say, very clean,"

"Hanenagai, please don't cry! Don't think about that! I feel a bit sad now!" Hiyayaka almost cried, following crying Hanenagai.

"Kokoro, what are you doing?!" Abe exclaimed as noticing that Kokoro walked to the western-styled house and walked in, the door wasn't locked or blocked. She entered the house and looked to fancy furniture set inside, without being abandoned. Slowly, she walked to each room to check out. The first floor was filled with nothing but furniture. Second floor was for bedrooms and bathrooms, the first one she checked a girl's bedroom, when she looked to the inside, a girl hanged with a rope on neck and a night goggles which she held with right hand, suicide and already delivered to death.

Kokoro didn't surprise because she often saw a dead body since "Mankind's Most Despairingly Maleficent and Monstrous Malefaction". She examined the body. She was not newly dead, but not so long too. That girl was died around a week and still fresh yet cold because the temperature and her condition. Under her, there was a chair. Her hand held a paper strongly, even Kokoro couldn't take it from that corpse's dead hand. Finally, she could take it and read the text inside.

"We can't be like this too long, despair will come to here, and we will get killed. Then we decide to kill ourselves, and we are sure, they are inside us,"

'So despair came to here too, but why the city seemed so abandoned for long time?'

"Kokoro, are you done for your research?" Abe exclaimed from outside, and Kokoro stuffed the paper to her jeans' pocket. Then she went down to meet Abe.

Fourth Group

Olwen examined game's stall in east carnival part, doll machinery. She wanted to take a rabbit stuffed doll. Suzuki looked to the same doll machine, and hoped a doll from someone. They seemed very lonely in friendship problem, and getting some awkward feeling.

Kawashima stood up on the ground, only checked some areas which attracted his attention, and Shohi was sitting on a cart in merry-go-round, Yoshida had slept, or fainted there with a white big teddy bear.

Shohi actually wondered what was that teddy bear. When he found her still fainted, there was a teddy near beside her. He was afraid that was a trap from puppet master, something like a bomb planted there. He just… worried that's all.

That east carnival wasn't that different with his memory when he woke up there. Some sorts things that didn't get any his attention.

Fifth Group

Actually, fifth group had problem, they couldn't check the mansion on time, so they split up, Fujiosuki explored the first floor, Yoshida explored the second, and Jake explored the third floor.

Fujiosuki checked the first floor, where there were guest room, canteen, infirmary, store room, laundry, and bathroom. The guest room was normal, with some sofas, a glass table, cupboard, bookshelf, and a LCD television with DVD player. The canteen was also normal, with some chairs and tables, with glass cupboard which contained snacks and pastries, and the kitchen was normal too, with normal kitchen equipment like knives, cleavers, spoons, forks, shakers, a big desks with few desks to cook with completed with sink and wood board, and some ingredients, big refrigerator filled with fresh dairy products which only could stayed in cold, and opened steel boxes filled with cold and fresh ingredients. Infirmary filled with a plain bed with cupboard filled with some kind of drugs and transfusion. Storeroom filled with daily needs like clothes, snacks, bags, stationary things, and something uncommon like nails, hammer, axe, and ropes, and it saved in boxes, and there was a trolley which could bring three or four mini boxes. Laundry filled with washing machines and some clothes. And the bathroom had lockers with numbers and names, and separated bath.

Yoshida checked the second room, the floor that there were their rooms, a game room, a janitor room, archives room, and computer room. Of course she couldn't check her mates' room, so she only checked game room, janitor room, and archives room. The game room just filled with board games and billiard, with a cupboard filled with trophies. Janitor room filled with cleaning tools. The archives room filled with many books like police case book, history books, encyclopedia, and others. And the computer room filled with computers with high spec.

Jake check the third floor, which wasn't that big as the first or second, the upper floor used to rooftop park, some fancy furniture which was in famous café and a room which contained things, something like storage room.

Some hours passed for exploring this mysterious city, and now they assembled in the canteen's desk for reporting their exploring result and take lunch. They took lunch first and reported the result.

"So, what are your results?" Yoshida asked, standing in front of all people, she was really good at public speaking.

"We found a path to the sewerage which reached until mansion and this electronic handbook," Kamiyara said as handing a sewerage map sketch and broken electronic handbook. The person who took and examined the broken electronic handbook was Shohi, and there was a crack sound came from electronic handbook, a crack on the back.

"This electronic handbook is cracked because expansion which caused by high temperature and the size is different with the normal one, so this electronic handbook was broken because high temperature," Shohi explained as put the broken electronic handbook and Miyazaki took the map sketch and stuffed it to his pocket.

"If anyone searched this map, just ask me," Miyazaki said.

"Who wanted to go to sewerage?" Kitae hissed.

"About west carnival, there was normal, just exchange present place has real weapons," Makabe sighed.

"REAL WEAPONS?! DID THAT BEAR REALLY INTEND TO MAKE US KILL EACH OTHER?!" Abe exclaimed.

"And same as east carnival," Olwen said slowly.

"And other area covered with steel wall and electronic gate," Hanenagai said in disappointed voice.

"Anything to report?" Yoshida asked, but a bouncing voice which very familiar but just had heard once appeared, Monokuma.

"OI, WHY DO YOU KNOW?!" Monokuma pointed to Shohi who ignored outside contact.

"For you all, this almighty electronic handbook had one weakness!" Monokuma's words cut by Shohi's one cold sentence.

"High temperature which caused expansion,"

"Okay, you got it!" Monokuma angered and disappeared in second.

They fell in silent.

"So, what do all of you want for dinner later?"

They had finished their dinner, and it was very delicious and all of the dinner was very clean without any trace of food, a very good cooking from a maid. Then, they wanted to discuss more about the result of Fifth Group's research and Abe wanted to tell his identity.

"That was a delicious dinner!" Hanenagai exclaimed, and took the snack which already served in the canteen. "So, what will we discuss?"

"About the fifth group, there are so many rooms. You should check it up by yourself," Yoshida said. "To be honest, there are many rooms which had many types of function,"

"Then let's check it out," Abe said, but a television sound cut their action. The monitor showed Monokuma who was holding a glass of wine.

"For your all, there are some presents that awaiting you in computer room! Quickly!"

"Where is that room?" Suzuki asked, and Yoshida quickly answered it.

"Second floor,"

"Quickly!"

"There must be something," Kitae murmured. "Akh, so nuisance,"

"QUICKLY! OR I'M GOING TO DRAG YOU THERE BY FORCE!"

"That is not a nice idea , Lady Kamiko" Sei said which made another hiss from Kitae.

"I will lead the way, follow me guys" Yoshida said as walked to their destination, computer room.

They were sitting on each chair in computer room. Monokuma instructed them to sit where there was their own name. Yoshida sat on her chair. When she had a chance, she looked to that room. The room was normal, with several computers with high spec, and there was a CD cassette on her desk, that was labeled with her name. Slowly, she wore the headphone

"Please play the CD which I gave you," Monokuma instructed from the front of the room. As what he instructed, all people entered the CD to the CD room. There was an echoing voice.

"Who are you exactly?"

"You're just raised by Togami's family, and you were being part of Togami Group, but WHO exactly are you?"

"Where are your real parents? Where is your real family? This is your dream, is not it?"

"You must get your memories which is laying out there, and search it"

"Then you must get out from here, must not you?"

That voice, she didn't know who was the owner of the voice. But the softness made that voice was echoing in her heart. Something which was planted in the long past started to grow, and she didn't want to kill anyone, especially her mates.

Being the first one, Yoshida took off the headphone and quickly crouched down, covering her face. With the sudden action, people who was sitting near her; Shohi, Abe, Olwen, Miyazaki, and Ikeda came near her to help her, but Yoshida just crouched weakly, with gripping her own skirt strongly. She didn't fell any drop of tears of sadness, but her mouth threw out and fell down that sadness.

"Why? Why this must come up?" Yoshida murmured all that words, and she didn't move a single bit except her own mouth.

"Yoshida, calm yourself down! What did you hear from the audio?" Olwen calmed her a bit and Ikeda just stayed silent and rubbed her back to helping her breath, but Yoshida was just murmuring and squeaking the same thing. Bravely, Abe took the headphone and wore it. He heard what the audio said, and took off it again.

"This audio is pretty different with mine. This is very deep and a nice attack for our mental. Even this is not my dream, but I can feel how deep it is," Abe explained.

"Yoshida, please calm down, don't be down! It is the puppet master's want from us, despair," Shohi tried to calm her down by holding her hand, but just a bit. And slowly the squeaks and murmurs from her lesser than a while ago, but still spelled out those words. She slowly stood up from her position to very strong standing posture.

"GAHAHAHA! That I want from you: DESPAIR!" Monokuma laughed in front of all people in computer room. All people looked to that bear with disbelief and distrust feeling to their mates. But Yoshida just looked to the Monokuma, in thought she was thinking, she will defeat the puppet master, no matter what.

All people separated and left Shohi, Miyazaki, Ikeda, and Yoshida who were standing in front of the computer room. They still tried to calm Yoshida who still spelled out some desperate words. The one who very affected with the audio was Yoshida, because her audio CD had the strongest effect.

"Are you getting your calmness?" Ikeda asked, and Yoshida slowly nodded with a drop of crying tear which almost fell down from her eyes. "Thanks, I… feel so happy, for having people like you all,"

"I don't think word 'people' will do any good," Miyazaki said, and Yoshida and Ikeda knew what he referred. "The suitable one is 'friend'!" Miyazaki exclaimed, well he is a full of friendship boy.

"I never believe that crap," Shohi hissed, but Miyazaki just giggled in fun.

"Oh? So what do you call it if you alone with Yoshida? 'Perfect couple'?" Miyazaki joked.

"Huh?! Is that a sort of new joke? Not funny!"

"I don't think that you even search a fun in my words!"

"pfft-"

A laughing sound came from two both girls who were ignored all the time. The boys noticed and looked to the girls. Yoshida was almost laughing but hide it with her mouth and Ikeda was almost laughing too but hide it by her poker face.

"What is funny?" Shohi asked with his usual irritated jerky face.

"I don't think there is anything funny. Right, Ikeda?" Yoshida erased her laughs and turned her face to Ikeda.

"Yeah, there is no fun," Ikeda turned her face to a perfect poker face.

"You girls are perfect liar," Miyazaki said with irritated face.

"Hey, it will enter nighttime so let's go to our own room for good children," Yoshida said as walking to her room which was not so far from computer room.

"Girls are very good at avoiding topic, are not they?" Miyazaki whispered to Shohi from far, but that yellow-haired boy just ignored what the dark brown-haired just whispered.

"Don't talk to me," Shohi hissed as walking back to his room. Miyazaki just stood up there, irritated.

If there weren't murders, this normal live will be peace forever…

NOTE

LATE, YES LATE. Sorry for late update, but I typed more. Yeah sorry, I was thinking so much murder ideas.

One everyday life again and we will enter the murder.

Edit: 15/09/2013: Some stuffs were mistaken