"Why does this keep happening!" Chase asked, on his knees.
"I don't know…" Arianna sighed.
Xi looked around the room "Well, the only course of action right now is to investigate the body so we can figure out who killed her…"
"But we still need to find Eliza…" Delilah said. "She could be dead too!"
Chase quickly got up "No! She wouldn't… she wouldn't just die! I know she's still alive! And I will go find her!" He ran out of the room to go find her.
"We are down to six people, it seems…" Xi said. "Well, that just means the culprit can be less people. So it's easier for us…" He smirked "I don't know why the killer would even bother killing someone off which such little amount of people…"
Suddenly.
Bear.
"Wow guys? What's with the smell? It smelled like someone died in here!" He looked over at Marisa's body "Woops! I forgot someone DID die here! Which reminds me! I've come to deliver the Monokuma File!" He handed a file over to Nonam. "You better get to work! Also, I heard there's still a traitor on the loose! Puhuhuhu!" He laughed, before vanishing
Nonam let out a long sigh before turning on the Monokuma File
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Monokuma File #6
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The victim of this case is Marisa Campbell, the Ultimate Journalist. She had been pierced by several rapidly traveling spears. She was killed at about 7:45 am. The only other injuries she has are two lacerations in the cranial area
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Well that isn't much information…
"Hey, Nonam…" Delilah asked. "I wasn't here when it happened but the time of death was five minutes ago… did you see her die?"
"Yeah… I did…"
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However, soon, a trail of blood was visible.
What? Blood… oh god no!
He started to follow the path of blood, coming across various messages plastered over the wall.
"Can you save them?"
"Time is running out…"
"Make a move, boy…"
What the hell is all of this? And why is it written in blood. More specifically, who's blood!
Soon, he reached a door. An ominous door. He hadn't seen this door before, however, there was something odd about it. On the other side, beeping noise could be heard.
What is this?
He opened the door towards him and stepped in. The first thing he noticed was that a person was sitting on a chair, wrapped in a cloth to cover who they were. A timer was going down, and he had first seen it at 37 seconds left. He didn't like the look of that and went to take a step forward. However, something stopped him.
What is this… glass? Shit! No!
Taking a look around the room, Chase was to his right, Arianna was facing him. They had a worried expression on their face. They must have come into the room while he was looking around. They couldn't go any further into the room because of the glass.
Twenty seconds left.
Chase was trying to punch the glass so it would break. Yeah, that wasn't going to work.
Fifteen seconds left.
Arianna ran out of the hall to look for something.
Ten seconds left.
What the hell is going to happen?
Five seconds.
The walls had small holes open.
And suddenly.
The wind blew, but not just the wind. Something else was in there too.
Spears of sorts. And multiple of them impaled the target, probably killing them instantly.
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"So that's what happened?" Delilah started to think "I think that memory will be very useful in solving the truth!" She quickly walked away.
What was her deal? No… there's no time for that! I need to investigate Marisa's body.
Nonam took a few steps towards Marisa.
The spears appeared to be pretty deep into her skin. So deep that it comes out the other side. In total, about eight spears were stuck in her. All, drawing a lot of blood.
Dammit… why couldn't I do anything to stop it from happening! That damn glass!
He looked over at the glass.
Well it's been reduced to nothing by both Arianna and Chase. Why was I too scared to even do anything…
Nonam was looking around the spears when he took notice of her head "Huh…?"
Arianna walked over to him "It looks like she sustain damage to the head…"
Nonam slowly nodded "Yeah. That's what it says according to the Monokuma File. It was probably to knock her out. But why hit her twice…?"
"Well an easy explanation would be the first one didn't work" Arianna started "But it's never that easy, is it?"
"No it isn't…" Nonam looked at her head again.
I didn't notice it earlier, but why is her hat missing?
"She also appears to have her mouth taped… how… how was it there. There shouldn't be any tape here. Same thing with those spears… and the rope… and the bag used to cover her face. None of those objects could have been obtained on this floor…" Nonam started to think even more deeply "Something is amidst…"
"Well I'll tell you something!" Arianna mumbled. "It's been beeping every since I got here and it hasn't stopped…"
"Beeping… noise?" Nonam thought back.
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Soon, he reached a door. An ominous door. He hadn't seen this door before, however, there was something odd about it. On the other side, beeping noise could be heard.
What is this?
He opened the door towards him, and stepped in. The first thing he noticed was that a person was sitting on a chair, wrapped in a cloth to cover who they were. A timer was going down, and he had first seen it at 37 seconds left.
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"Well now that I think about it, I heard it before coming in. It's probably still beeping because no one stopped the timer…" Nonam looked around and eventually turned off the object that was making the sound.
Weird, why use two different objects for the same system…?
He walked over to the timer, which was still apparently flashing zero.
When I walked in, this timer had 37 seconds remaining. Is is safe to assume that it started at a minute. Which means the killer must have been left 23 seconds before we got there. How did none of us see them… unless…
"Hey Nonam, you weren't here when me and the others tested out the room right?" Arianna looked at him.
He walked over to her and shook his head "No, but I assume it's used to shoot out stuff?"
"No. It actually only shoots out wind. But someone must have added the spears…"
Added them? Hmm… I see they are also still open. So it doesn't close right after being used… I think this is it for now…
He was going to leave until he noticed something. On each door, a broken string lay attached to the handle.
Well this is an odd choice…
He opened the south door, which opened into the room. "Hmm… is was pointless to tie string here… the doors opened inwards, so it wouldn't stop anyone from entering…" He walked over to the West door and opened it, which also opened inwards. He came to the conclusion that all three doors were like that.
"Hey, Nonam…" Arianna said walking over to him. "I'm not sure if I'm just not remembering… but I don't remember being woken up for the night watch…"
Nonam started to think too "Yeah… I woke up when the Monokuma Announcement played…"
Strange… Eliza should have woken me up, and Marisa should have woken Arianna up. So how come neither of us woke up...
"It could be that something happened to Eliza and Marisa…" Arianna said.
"Well I'll head out of the room now…" Nonam said.
Arianna looked over at Marisa and sighed "I'll stay here… Marisa would have probably done the same…"
Nonam nodded and, upon exiting, he noticed something interesting. The floor was no longer a maze, and instead, was a normal floor. "This must because the killing happened…" He frowned. "Well, now's not the time to think about that. I should probably head over to the map…" He walked over for a bit, getting lost in the actual hallways. Soon, he arrived at the actual maps.
So Delilah said it showed a live footage of the map. She also mentioned it wasn't interactive and it didn't show our position…
He walked over and tried tapping on it to test the claim, however nothing happened. "Yeah, she was right. It also doesn't show where any of us are. Of course, that would make finding Eliza much too easy…"
Unless it wouldn't have shown… no… I can't talk about that. Also this is showing the map before it resorted to normal. Hmm…
He looked over at where everyone had been.
Marisa had taken the East, which is also where she died. Chase had taken the classrooms around the area, which explained why he entered from the West door… Arianna had been inspecting the South… which explains why she entered through the South Door. I had the North which once again explains that. Xi had the center and Delilah had the West. It's strange how the three of us arrived to that room. Ah! That's it, the paths somehow only followed one direction. It was linear. How did I not realize that?
He glanced over to beside the map and saw a box, which, probably contained wires, against the wall.
Checking this won't hurt…
He opened it up and checking it actually proved to be worth it. "What? Two cords are cut?" He mumbled to himself. There appeared to be a wire labelled 'L' and a wire named 'T' that were cut. "What could that mean…?"
"It means you should fuck m-" Delilah, who had appeared behind him, said.
"No thank you." He said coldly.
"Meanie!" She pouted.
"Hey…" He turned to look at her. "I have a question!"
She tilted her head cutely "What's the question?"
"You had first watch… right?" He crossed his arms.
"Yeah, Chase, Xi, and I did." She confirmed.
He decided to get to the point "So when it came time for the switch, did that actually happen?"
"Yeah! Although Xi didn't bother waking up Marisa, so Chase had to do it. I woke up Eliza and immediately went to sleep. So I'm not sure how long Chase stayed up for." She smiled at him "Is that all?"
He slowly nodded "Yeah, I'll make sure to remember that…" He started to walk away.
"Are you down to fu-"
"No"
"Meanie…"
He quickly got away from there and started going over the North-West side. Suddenly, he heard the sound of something hitting metal. But it wasn't calmly hitting it. It was hitting it like someone was panicking. When he turned the corner, he understood where it could be coming from. There were a long row of lockers. He rushed over to where the sound was originating from. Soon, he stopped in front of the locker which was producing the sound. He remained frozen for a bit, trying to build up the courage to open it. He grabbed the door and opened it quickly, which now that he thought about it, was probably a very poor idea.
A body fell out of the locker and landed on him. The person was squirming around trying to break free. Muffled screams could be heard coming from them. However, they couldn't speak because of the tape. This person, like Marisa, was tied up. The person was also crying a lot and was probably pretty scared.
It was Eliza…
"Eliza!" Nonam called out. He took off the tape from her mouth and now her crying became heard. He untied the rope from her and she lunged in for a scared hug. She probably needed one.
"W-who died?" She asked.
"Who died…" Nonam repeated.
She slowly nodded. "Yeah… I heard the body discovery announcement when I woke up in the locker…" She wiped the tears from her eyes. "So… who died!"
Nonam remained silent for a bit before speaking "Marisa died…"
Eliza froze for a moment before looking at the floor. "W-why her…"
Nonam looked down at the floor. "Could you tell me what happened during the night…?"
"O-ok.." She said.
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Marisa looked over at Eliza, who was sitting down against the panel of glass. "You don't need to be afraid. I highly doubt someone will try and kill anyone with so little people left. If someone dies, that means that they have less people to pin the blame on"
"Y-yeah… you are right…" Eliza said.
Soon, the sound of glass lowering was heard.
"Huh?" Marisa put her hands were the glass panel separating both groups were. It was no longer there. She smiled and scooted besides Eliza, who had noticed the whole thing. "I'll make sure you live. Alright. I can't imagine someone like you dying in a place like this…"
"M-maybe that's how I survived this long… because people would feel bad about killing me…" She whimpered.
"Well, maybe that is true. But don't think of it like that…" Marisa smiled. "Think of it like-"
And then everything went dark.
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"So she stopped talking and then you passed out…?" Nonam started to think.
"I-I think…" She mumbled. "I don't know exactly! I wasn't looking at her at the time!" She said shyly. She looked over at the locker she was in and grabbed something from in it. "This… was what was with me in the locker…" It was Marisa's hat.
"Oh…" Nonam said, his voice lower than normal.
Eliza let out a sigh and put on the hat "Oww…" She took it off and looked inside, before putting it "Well… we just gotta try out best for Marisa!"
"Right!" Nonam said. Although he noticed something on her head "Wait… remove the hat…"
She slowly took off the hat.
On her head, there was actually a laceration there. Like she had been hit on the head.
"You were probably hit by something…" Nonam started to think. But what…
Eliza put the hat back on "I-I need to find out where she is…!" She ran off without Nonam.
He was going to stop her, but there was probably no stopping her.
Hmmm… there's still several more things I am missing…
He started to head back to the crime scene and bumped into Xi.
"Oh! Xi!" Nonam said.
Xi didn't really acknowledge him and seemed to be thinking on something else. "Hmm…?" He finally looked down at Nonam, noticing him. "May I help you?"
"I just want your opinions on things. Your group encountered the room, right?" He asked.
"We did… When we first encountered it. Stepping inside the room would activate it. Marisa was the brave soul to want to do so. Then, all access to the room closed off with glass panels. A sixty second timer started. At five seconds left, the holes in the wall opened. And at zero seconds, the wind started blowing out. And then the glass panels lifted up to let everyone in…"
"Hmm… interesting…" Nonam started to think.
Whether I choose to believe his words or not… but a lot of inconsistencies were said with what actually happened… Unless it has to do with how the maze works! Ever changing! Hmm… This could be useful for the trial…
He continued to make his way towards the wind room when he ran into someone else. It was Chase.
"Please tell me you found her or something! I looked everywhere!" Chase asked.
Nonam smiled "I found her in a locker and she said she was going to investigate the scene of the crime."
"Would she even know where it is?" Chase crossed her arms, a little angry at Nonam for not getting her there but also really relieved that she was still alive.
"No, our group never went there…" Nonam said "I found it because I was investigating the area…" He looked at Chase "Hey, why did you go there? You should have been exploring the classrooms…"
"Yeah I was, but when I was getting closer to the East side, I heard a lot of running and I ran over to check. I couldn't find Marisa, so I made my way to that room and when I entered. You and Arianna were already there…"
So either me or Arianna were the first ones to enter the room… does that even really have to do with the case?
"So I guess I should head to the wind room and check to see if Eliza is there…" Chase sighed. He started to go straight towards the room, but Nonam stopped him.
"Hey, can you come check something else with me. I need to confirm something…"
Chase let out another sigh "I guess I could…"
The walked a bit to the area where Nonam had been exploring and he had his suspicions confirmed. The blood on the wall were still there.
"Why is there blood here?" Chase called out.
Nonam looked around "So there wasn't blood on your side?"
"No! There was no blood. Why did your side have blood?" Chase was reading the words in his head.
That… I do not know…
"Well the blood leads up to the room. So it's most likely they dragged the body…" They made it into the room. Inside, Eliza was sitting down in front of Marisa.
"Eliza!" Chase called out, running towards her. He gave her a hug, but she was too in the moment to realize it.
"Why did she have to go…" She mumbled.
"Well… that's what we need to figure out…" Nonam said.
Hmm… how did she even know how to find this room?
Nonam was going to ask something when suddenly.
Ding Dong! Dong Ding! Ding Dong! Dong Dong!
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Suddenly, a screen lit up revealing Monokuma's face. "You've all been investigating for too long! I'm starting to get bored. And you know what that means! Trial time! Please make your way to the elevator and get ready to fight for your lives! Monokuma! Out!" With that, the screen turned off.
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"I guess we have to go now…" Nonam said.
Eliza slowly stood up, adjusting the hat she had taken "Let's… let's…" She took a deep breath. "Let's do this…" She walked out of the room.
Chase rubbed the back of his head "We better go too…" He left the room.
Yeah… we are going to give this all we've got! For Marisa and everyone else who has fallen before!
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Nonam arrived at the elevator, which was already opened. Everyone was inside it, waiting for Nonam to get in.
"What took you so long?" Xi sneered.
"Was just thinking on the way here…" He said "I've gotten you out of trouble twice already. What's a third time?" He smirked as the elevator door closed. It started to lower.
This should be the final trial. Only one more person is going to go… it's a terrible thought. But that's what we've come to have to live…
After a while, the elevator doors opened, and the trial grounds were seen.
The podiums were there for them, empty. Although ten of the places had images. One for Catrina, with two musical notes crossed against each other. One for Christopher with an X across it. One for Terra with an skull covering. One of Jenna with an x on her face. One with Gabriel with a x on his face. One of Tristan with an x across his face. One of Arti with two small swords crossed against each other. And one of David, with an X across his face, although it looked like it was bleeding. One for Larisas with a broken heart. One for Marisa with the X in a special font.
Everyone slowly walked to their podiums. When everyone settled it, it was finally time to start.
Marisa had taken up the mantle to leading us. It took some time for her to get to speaking to everyone again after Tristan died.
Several pictures appeared.
One of Arti reaching for his Katana in his sheath. The picture was redded out.
One of Eliza this time, she was wearing Marisa's hat, covering the top half of her eyes with it.
One of Terra, with her arms crossed, looking the other way. The picture was redded out
One of David playing around with a knife. The picture was redded out.
One of Jenna adjusting her glasses, clearly flipping someone off. The picture was redded out.
Not only did the person who did it kill her. They made sure we were watching. But that was probably unintentional
One of Arianna rolling her eyes.
One of Marisa writing things down in a notebook. The picture was redded out.
One of Tristan holding a mouse in his hands. The picture was redded out.
One of Catrina listening to headphones. The picture was redded out.
One of Chase with his hands behind his back, acting chill.
One of Christopher looking worried. The picture was redded out.
But still, that person needs to be among us!
One of Larissa holding her hands together. The picture was redded out.
One of Xi looking like pure malice with his crazy eyes.
One of Delilah with an adorable face, trying to be seductive.
One of Gabriel, covering his mouth, in deep thought. The picture was redded out.
One of Nonam, right in the middle, looking confident.
And I will figure out who that is in this trial of life and death!
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Class Trial
In Session
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"So what should we discuss first?" Xi asked.
Nonam looked down and back up "Well, we should discuss about how the Forever Maze worked in the first place. It's highly likely it was involved in the murder in the first place."
The special mechanic that the maze has that makes it Forever, is…
"Well, for one. The maze is ever changing. And there is no set intervals to when it changes. It's at random and with no warning. I barely was able to hear it change. Which is what got our groups separated at first. From that event alone, we can conclude a few things… No one could have set it up prior!" He started to get deep into thinking. "Because there would have been no way for them to anticipate when we reached that point. There also doesn't seem to be triggers in the maze persay. Because it took forever for that glass panel to reveal the other group"
"Yeah…" Eliza nodded. "And even then, the glass panel opened up at random during the night. When everyone was sleeping. So it's highly unlikely someone made it open."
"So it's probably either Monokuma controlling it, or completely random…" Arianna said.
"Pretty much…" Nonam replied.
"Actually!" Monokuma called out "It's all random, for the most part!" He let out a little laugh.
Xi shook his head. "Way to be ambiguous…"
"I try my best!"
Eliza let out a sigh "Let's just ignore him for now…"
Nonam resumed control of the conversation "So with it being so random, we can't be sure the killer had a say in it. But we also can't say they DIDN'T have a say in it. The only thing we found was a live map. But that might have not have been the only thing…"
"There wasn't much else they could use…" Chase brought up. "We didn't find anything else"
"Yeah, but the map didn't do anything. I tested it out myself!" Delilah said.
"How do we even know you are telling the truth…?" Chase looked at her.
"W-what?" Delilah was taken aback "are you accusing me!?"
No, I think she is telling the truth, because...
"I tried to change the maze from the map. But it didn't work. It was just a screen. So it wasn't interactive…" Nonam said.
"Oh, alright. My bad Delilah." Chase said.
"Dick"
"Bitch"
"Fucker"
"Cunt"
"Eggnog"
"What?"
"Moving on!" Eliza said impatiently. "We should talk about the events of last night!"
"Yes. The events of last night would help with what happened" Arianna said "We split into three watch groups. The first one, contained Chase, Delilah, and Xi. The second one consisted of Eliza, and Marisa. And the last one, Nonam and I. As for the groups that were formed by the maze. Chase, Marisa, Xi, and me. And for the other side; Delilah, Eliza, and Nonam."
"However…" he started "We were never woken up. Which leads me to believe some thing happened during the the second watch…"
"It did!" Eliza said "The glass panel lowered, for one. Then, suddenly. I think both me and Marisa were knocked out…"
"Then whoever did all of this must have taken Eliza and hid her…" Nonam said.
"And returned back with everyone else…" Delilah said.
"It could very well still be Marisa who did that…" Xi said.
"What? Why?" Eliza crossed her arms.
Xi chuckled "She could have knocked you out and brought you somewhere. And then pretend like she was also knocked out."
"S-she would never!" Eliza yelled at him "She's not like that!"
"Well, did any of you see her with an injured head?" Xi said.
Well… not when she woke u- wait. We only saw the injuries she had after we found her dead body! How is that? What were hiding her injuries?
"Her hat…" Nonam mumbled "When she woke up this morning. She was wearing her hat, and was clutching her head. We didn't notice her injuries because of the hat. But when we found her later, she had it removed, so we saw the injury…"
"Makes sense…" Xi said "I noticed that Eliza has taken up to wearing it."
Eliza her the top of her eyes with it "S-so what…"
"Nothing. Just an observation." Xi looked back at everyone else. "So someone attacked Marisa while she was on the East side and trapped her in the room. But how did Eliza acquire her hat?"
"When I found her, it was in the locker with her… She was on the North-West" Nonam said. "Which gives two possibilities. Marisa found Eliza, the unlikely situation. And the most likely one, is that the killer went back to Eliza after they activated the timer…"
"And it's unlikely that Marisa went to see Eliza because they were on opposite ends?" Chase asked.
Xi smirked "Yes…" He started to think some more. "So let's assume that the killer went to dispose of Eliza after…"
"D-dispose of me? W-why?" She stumbled through her words.
Arianna chimed in "Well I don't think they would just kidnap you to separate the group… I feel like they had a different motive for that…"
"Well, she could have originally been the intended target…" Xi suggested.
Original target… could that be it?
"I-I could have been the original target?" Eliza mumbled. "W-who would want to kill me?"
"Same person who killed Marisa…" Xi said coldly.
"But why would Marisa end up dead?" Arianna started to think.
"The killer probably had to change targets for one reason or another…" Delilah said.
"That could have happened. But why were they found on opposite ends. The killer wouldn't have had time to go back and forth…" Nonam started to think.
"I don't know! You tell me" Delilah crossed her arms.
"Well I don't have the answers to everything…" He mumbled.
"It probably has to do with the map…" Xi said.
"The map?" Nonam started to think.
"We all went our own ways throughout the the maze. But it felt like we had no choice but to press forward…" He said.
"We did…" Nonam said.
"Press forward? What exactly do you mean by that?" Chase asked.
The thing about the maze at the time is...
"Well, the East side of the maze wasn't really a maze at all. It was linear. So you had only one way to go, and that was the Wind Room, the scene of the murder" Nonam said.
"Wait, did you say… one way?" Chase looked like he realized something.
"Yes… Did you realize something?" Nonam asked him.
"I… I don't know…" Chase said. "I need more time to think…"
Nonam looked back at the others "Well, let's go back about the map. I didn't mention this before, but I remember two cords were cut. They were marked 'T' and 'L'. But that's all it said. I think it highly as to do with the case…"
"Well it should… "Arianna said "If it's connected to the map, then of course it has to do with it."
Nonam started to think "However, I don't know what it had to do with it…"
"Well let's figure that out now…" Xi said.
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"Well, we know for a fact it helps the map out…" Arianna said.
"But what oh what do the letters mean…?" Xi started to think. "Location could be one of them…"
"W-what if one of them standed for touch…" Eliza suggested.
"Oooo! Transceiver for T" Delilah said.
"No…" Arianna said.
"..." Chase did not participate in this conversation. Rip
"Well, L could also mean Live" Xi suggested.
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"Now that I think of it! L would be live, as the map never updated to what the maze now was. It still showed the maze before the murder…" Nonam said. "And T, would be for touch!" He called out.
"But I thought we already debated it wasn't a touch screen…" Xi said.
"Well we only had Delilah's words to go off of…" Nonam looked over at her.
"Well it didn't work when I tried it" She said. "So unless there was a way to turn it on. Then it can't stand for touch!"
Nonam started to think.
No, I think she was the one to use it… and there's proof…
Nonam looked right at Delilah "You were the only one who could have! You tested it in front of us and that was the only time someone could have used the panel. And it couldn't have been set up by someone from the other side. Because the glass panel was still there. You are the only person who could have!"
"That's just assuming someone dropped the glass panel in the first place! It's highly possible someone wasn't expecting it to drop down. And used it to their advantage." She crossed her arms.
"Well, that would only leave the first shift with that logic. Because no one would stay up for something they didn't know was going to happen."
"Marisa left the East side…" Chase said.
"What?" Nonam looked over at him.
Chase looked up at Nonam "When I was investigating the rooms, I saw her leave the East side. I had presumed she had reached a dead end. But now that I think about it… it was not. So she turned around and left for no reason… So she must have gone down a different path…"
"Well there were only really four other paths to go down. West was divided in North-West and South-West. And then there was the regular North and South…"
What direction would she have gone in…?
Nonam thought deeply "I think she headed North West… It would explain a lot of the events that happened…"
"Wasn't Delilah hanging out in that area?" Xi brought up.
"Well I was, but I didn't see anyone go there. I sticked mostly to the West, on the Southside…" Delilah said.
"Well Marisa should have encountered the person who had taken Eliza. But what exactly was she planning on doing?" Nonam asked,
"P-probably to attack the killer" Eliza said.
"And what is that assumption on?" Xi asked.
Eliza looked nervous as she took off the had and showed what was inside. Inside was a knife inside a small sheath, neatly stuck to the top.
"So it would seem Miss Campbell had a weapon…" Xi said.
"B-but she wasn't going to use it on us!" Eliza defended "It was for the killer"
"Well, she must have been carrying it around long before we even arrived to the maze... " Xi pointed out.
"Y-yeah… so…?" Eliza looked down.
"She was probably carrying it around for self defense. Arti and David always carried around weapons…" Nonam said
"Fine…" Xi shook his head "Let's resume to the topic at hand. So Marisa went to interfere with the killer."
Nonam nodded "Right! Although there's was so little time between when we split up and when Marisa died. I'd say ten minutes had passed. How long into the search did Marisa leave?" He looked over at Chase.
"Less than a minute in…" He replied.
"So from the map we saw. The maze actually wasn't that long. We just got lost quickly yesterday. So it's reasonable for someone to move back and forth from one point to another. And since Chase was inspecting the classrooms. He probably wasn't always checking the hallways…"
"I wasn't… The classrooms were scattered around the hallway leading to the Wind Room. I also checked the closets that were there…"
"So Delilah could have easily have snuck past him…" Eliza said. "A-after she went to get me! She must have been caught by Marisa!"
"No! I wasn't! I didn't even go there!" Delilah said.
"Well you are the one who sent everyone off to the direction they went. Except…" Nonam started
Yeah… someone else besides Delilah chose where to investigate…
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"Marisa herself decided to investigate the East side." Nonam said "So it's strange that she suddenly even left there in the first place. So my only guess is that she knew that Delilah was up to something and followed her…"
"So that would explain her hat…" Eliza said.
"And the changed target…" Xi added.
"Enough! I didn't kill her!" Delilah yelled out. What was strange, was that there wasn't one hint of a lie.
"Then try and defend yourself better!" Nonam said.
"What even knocked them out?" Delilah asked.
What?
"What knocked them out…?" Arianna started to think "There was nothing that could have been used to knock Eliza and Marisa out."
"Was there really nothing?" Nonam asked.
"D-do you still not believe me?" Delilah cried out.
It's not that I don't want to believe her. But the situation seemed completely in her hands!
"Hmm…" Nonam started to think "I think I know what you used. It was the only thing that could have been used!"
And that object was...
"You used one of the spears, before you placed them in the Wind Room…" Nonam said.
"The spears?" Eliza asked.
Nonam nodded. "Yeah, it would make sense. It was the only weapons we found. And even if we investigated them thoroughly, we wouldn't notice blood on them. Not in a room full of blood…"
"T-that doesn't prove anything!" Delilah cried out.
Alright, this is weird. Normally she would be more calm and collected about this. But now she is being irrational…
Nonam started to think. "This also goes with how Xi reacted when he saw us. He looked at both me and you. Probably trying to figure out how we found the place so easily. Unless you stumbled upon it randomly, you shouldn't have found it so quickly, especially if you were exploring the West!"
"I didn't do it! You gotta believe me!" She kept saying.
Nonam shook his head. "Yelling won't help your case. If you did not do it! Then prove it!"
"This crime couldn't have been done by any of us!" She called out.
…?
"What… what do you mean?" He seemed sceptical. "So far, all the murders have been done by one of us!"
"But how would any of us carried all of those spears?" She cried out. There were way too many!"
"Well, of course they were already there…" Nonam said.
She shook her head. "If they were already on the floor, then how would I have found them? I was with you and Eliza the entire time!"
That is right… I was with her the entire time, she would have no time to find them.
"Then you placed them beforehand!" Chase yelled out.
"I wouldn't have been able to! Monokuma had it blocked off!" She was really fighting for her life.
"N-not true! Marisa found a way in. She pushed a panel into the wall!" Eliza pointed out.
Strangely enough, Monokuma stepped in. "Strangely enough, only Marisa ever pressed the panel."
Why is Monokuma stepping in here of all times?
Delilah looked like she came to the sudden realization. "T-then Marisa had to have done i-"
"No!" Eliza called out. "She wouldn't do that!"
"B-but who else would?" Delilah took a few steps back.
Nonam started to think.
"Is it simply possible Monokuma let her into the maze?" Xi asked. "If so, that would explain a lot of things."
"Like what?" Chase turned to look at him.
"Well, Monokuma wouldn't just let her in. Unless…" Arianna was now in deep thought.
"Every trial, save for the third one, you've always asked Monokuma for help." Nonam pointed out. "Monokuma isn't quick on helping any of us. But you just gotta ask, and the answer comes to you."
"Duh! It's because I'm hot!" She giggled.
Monokuma joined in "Also, I was just giving clarification on stuff. If anyone had asked, I would have answered."
"Then answer this!" Eliza called out. "Was the killer given access to this floor by you!"
"..."
Chase looked over at Monokuma "Hey, keeping silence puts us at a disadvantage, because your silence is-"
"I did not give the killer access to this floor." Monokuma said.
Xi thought a moment. "Did you give access to anyone else besides the killer?"
"..."
"Well?" Xi smirked.
"Yes."
What the hell does that mean?
"Well." Arianna started. She seemed bothered by what Monokuma said, but she still needed to get to the bottom of this case. "So someone did have access. So they could have easily placed the spears werever."
"And the person who placed them can't be Marisa, because the person who did asked permission to go." Eliza said.
Delilah pointed a finger at her. "She could have asked Monokuma about the panel! He would have said so if you asked." She said.
Said so if she asked…?
"And how would you know that as fact?" Nonam asked. "Unless he gave you that information himself!"
"W-what!" Delilah seemed freaked out. "S-slip of the tongue!"
Yeah, a slip of the tongue that condemns you.
"For you to even remotely know that info!" Nonam called out. "It means you must be working with him!"
"Um… Um…" She started to freak out even more.
Eliza realized what Nonam was getting at. "And to be working with Monokuma! Must mean you are the traitor!"
The room fell silent, except for Delilah, who was freaking out.
Busted!
"Y-you got it all wrong!" Delilah said.
"No, it's starting to make perfect sense. Someone would have killed you off by now." Chase said.
"R-rude!"
Arianna glared at Delilah. "A lot of things start making sense if you are the traitor! So why don't you just admit it!"
Then, Delilah fell silent. "..."
Chase sneered. "Got nothing to say?"
"..."
"S-speak! You killed Marisa and betrayed us all!" Eliza said.
"..."
Xi scoffed. "What a crazy bitch."
"..."
"Delilah," Nonam started. "Just speak!"
"What's the point?" She said, looking at the ground.
"Huh?"
"What's the point in fighting against it?" She looked up at Nonam.
"Well if it's wro-"
"Alright!" Her mood seem to completely change. "What if I am the traitor? What exactly are you going to do?"
Eliza pointed at her. "S-so you are the traitor!"
"Yeah, I guess I am." She smiled.
Chase sent glares towards her. "Then why aren't you scared that we caught you?"
She gave off a smug shrug, which seemed out of character for her. "Who knows? Maybe I wanted to get caught?"
"Why would you want to be caught?" Arianna asked.
"Hmm, I sense a trap." Xi looked over at Monokuma, who had gone silent now.
Delilah gave off another shrug. "Sense what you want."
"No." Nonam started to think. "I think he is right. This is a trap, everything lead up to this reveal. And it seems to perfect!"
Delilah simply stared at Nonam with an evil smirk.
She was planning something… but what? No, I can't let my mind wander. We got the traitor right in front of us, and we can't let her escape! But, but why does it feel like everything will go wrong?
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Class Trial…
Interlude…
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"Delilah, what's your end goal?" Nonam asked her.
"My, end goal?" She tilted her head. "Oh, to take care of some troublesome ends!"
"W-was Marisa one of those ends!" Eliza called out.
"She was." Delilah smiled. "Although I was going to let her live." She sighed. "If only she hadn't gone after me, she wouldn't be dead. Well, I mean, you would be, but that's not the issue."
"W-w-what! H-hey!" Eliza called out. "That is definitely an issue!"
"No, I don't think that is the pressing issue." Xi said. "Monokuma's words are what the pressing issue is."
"In which way?" Chase crossed his arms.
"Do you not remember what he said?" Xi looked over at Chase.
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Monokuma joined in "Also, I was just giving clarification on stuff. If anyone had asked, I would have answered."
"Then answer this!" Eliza called out. "Was the killer given access to this floor by you!"
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Chase looked over at Monokuma "Hey, keeping silence puts us at a disadvantage, because your silence is-"
"I did not give the killer access to this floor." Monokuma said.
Xi thought a moment. "Did you give access to anyone else besides the killer?"
"..."
"Well?" Xi smirked.
"Yes."
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"So if you gave Delilah access to the top floor, but not the killer. Does that mean Delilah is not the killer?" Xi looked at Monokuma, now.
Delilah giggled a little. "Of course I'm not the killer! Would little ol' me kill som-"
"Yes"
"Bitch"
"Slu-"
"We don't have time for this!" Eliza shouted abruptly. "W-what do you mean you aren't the killer!?"
"Did you not hear what Monokuma said? The killer didn't come to this floor before everyone else!" She giggled some more. "Which means, I'm not the killer!"
"T-then who is?" Chase was starting to freak out.
"Duuuh! It's one of you five idiots!" She giggled even more. She tilted her head and winked. "Like I'd actually murder someone directly! I've been pushing people around for a while now!"
"W-what do you mean by that?" Eliza asked.
"Well, before the first death, I placed a bomb in a random locker. And eventually Christopher found it!" She giggled.
Arianna crossed her arms, sending daggers in Delilah's direction.
"Next was, oh! When I made Jenna even more jealous of Terra. And we know how that panned out." She smiled. "Then I might have told Tristan about the library elevator. And maybe something else." She shrugged. "Who knows? Next, was Arti. I told him there was a gun in the training room. I, of course, placed it there. As the traitor, I get unlimited amount of weapons!" She laughed crazily.
"W-why would you ever side with Monokuma!" Eliza cried out.
"For my own survival, nothing personal. I just value my life over everyone's else!" She gave a warm smile. It would be genuine, had Delilah not been the one to give it. "I made the deal when I first got into the gym. Before meeting him, I kinda walked in on him doing stuff. So he struck me a deal. Of course I accepted! I would be crazy not to."
"But haven't you done enough!" Arianna shouted.
She started to think. "Well, this is my last mission! To take out a medlessom person! Any guesses on who that could possible be?" She tilted her head.
"I-it doesn't matter! There is no way you could have set someone up like that!" Elza yelled out.
"Pfft!" Delilah tilted her head. "It was much easier than you would expect. Especially if the person I set up wasn't very smart."
Everyone looked over at Chase.
"Oh what the fuck!" He mumbled.
"No, it's not Chase." Delilah shook her head. I mean they are pretty smart, but they are sometimes blinded by-"
Xi sent a glare towards Delilah. "Just say who it is."
She sent a wink towards Xi. "It's more fun if you guess!"
"Stop thinking this is some kind of game!" Chase yelled at her. "Our lives are on the line here, and you are just going to have fun the entire time!"
"Well duh!" She giggled again. "Life itself is a game! Skill trees, level ups, bosses, except you can't legally kill those. But that just adds to the excitement!" She smiled innocently.
"A-a-are you admitting to killing before?" Eliza squirmed.
"What? Oh heavens no!" She seemed somewhat offended. "I could never kill someone, directly…" She brought a finger to her sly smirk.
"Enough of this bullshit!" Chase was getting increasingly angry.
"Fiiiine!" She pouted sadly. "The person I set up to activate the kill is…" She waited a bit of dramatic affect. "Nonam!" She now had her smile back.
What.
That's what everyone wanted to say, however, the mood didn't allow for it to even be said. No one could speak.
She can't be serious, but, what if she is… I don't think she would lie, especially if it's true about the fact that she set someone else up. Because her life is in danger if she's lying!
"W-what! Nonam didn't activate any trap!" Arianna said.
"Exactly!" Chase yelled out.
Or did I… think Nonam, think!
"Honestly, I can't believe you didn't think I would catch on to your lie." Xi shook his head.
"What lie?" She tilted her head. "Oh! You mean you knew I was the traitor from the beginning?"
"Well, no, but-" Xi seemed like he had already lost the argument.
"You can't see through me anymore, Xi." Delilah said coldly. "Many have tried, but non have been able to do it. Well, besides one, but that was the past. This, is now." Her tone was way more serious now.
Anymore? What does she mean by that. None of this is adding up with what I know.
"Alright." Nonam sighed. "I guess it's me, I don't think she would lie. Especially if she didn't kill Marisa."
"I-I refuse to believe this!" Eliza shouted out. "It's too convenient for her! Having someone else do the murder she planned?"
"It's the truth." Delilah pouted.
"I don't think she is lying!" He said.
Arianna shook her head. "Nonam! Listen to yourself! You can't be the killer, even if it was set up. The evidence shows the story!"
Yeah, but there's also evidence showing that someone needed to be set up.
"Alright, if it's not me. Which one of you did it?" Nonam was now getting serious. "Go on, speak!"
But no one did. No one wanted to say anything. They didn't want to.
"That's about as much as I thought." Nonam said. "Now let's get to proving that it was m-"
"Nonam." Arianna started. "I'm going to have to go against you in order to save you."
"Arianna! Don't do this!" Nonam shook his head.
"S-so will I! I still think Delilah is lying!" Eliza mumbled.
"Am nooot!" She pouted.
"You've lead two trials already. A third one counting this one, so I'm not going to let you get caught in this trap…" Chase rubbed the back of his head.
"Who else will I torment?" Xi shrugged.
Guys, please, stop!
"Is this what I think it is?" Monokuma tilted his head.
"What's what?" Chase asked.
"It sounds like you guys are split! Well, unevenly split, but split nonetheless!" He laughed a little. "We are pr-"
Xi shook his head. "Just get to it already."
"Hmmp! Fine!" Monokuma sounded a little dejected, but took out his key anyways. He placed it in the lock and turned the key. Suddenly, the trial ground started to lift up in the air, dividing the remaining people into two groups.
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Was Nonam set up?
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No he wasn't!
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Arianna
Chase
Eliza
Xi
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Yes he was!
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Delilah
Nonam
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"There's absolutely no way that Nonam could have triggered something!" Eliza called out.
"Aww sweetie, you weren't even there to see what happened." Delilah smirked.
"Yeah, but I was. And Nonam didn't do anything." Chase said.
"Delilah wouldn't have made it easy to see, or else I wouldn't have fallen for it." Nonam pointed out.
"Yeah, but the timer had already started." Arianna said.
"Even then, I don't think she would have enough time to escape after it started. So it must not have been her that said it up!" Nonam yelled out, feeling bad about going up against Arianna.
"She would have if she hide in a classroom!" Chase said.
"Why would I do that? And plus, I had set up the timer to start at the given time." Delilah smirked.
"Tsk tsk! Don't be naive Nonam, surely you must have noticed something was off if you were being tricked. But as of yet, you haven't noticed anything." Xi smirked.
"Like he said, I made sure whatever traces I left weren't suspicious!" Delilah giggled.
"There was nothing at the scene of the crime that could be set up as a trap!" Arianna pointed out.
"Are you just choosing to forget. The closet thing on the scene was string, which was probably used in the trap." Nonam crossed his arms.
"But all three doors had strings on them" Chase pointed out.
"Well I had to be EXTRA sure it would work!" Delilah giggled.
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"It wouldn't matter if all three doors were trapped! I stepped in first so I activated the trap!" Nonam said.
Arianna shook her head. "Anyone could have walked in first! What makes you so sure that you did? And what would have guaranteed you walk there anyways?"
"Well for one, the maze was linear, and now that I think about it." Nonam started to think. "I had probably the shortest path to the room, further proving that I was Delilah's intended target for being framed."
"Y-yeah, but what made you go further down the path?" Eliza asked him.
"What do you mean?" He looked over at him.
She crossed her arms. "Why didn't you eventually turn back?"
"Well, I was thinking of turning back soon, but I saw some blood on the wall, leading towards the Wind Room. So that probably kept me going."
"Well, if someone was going faster than you?" Arianna said. "They, they would have reached the room first."
"What exactly are you implying?" Nonam looked at her.
"What do you think I'm implying?" Arianna crossed her arms.
What do I think she is implying? I think she's implying…
"Are, you implying that you entered first?" Nonam asked.
She nodded seriously "Yes! That's exactly what I'm implying."
Delilah was looking at Arianna, staring deep into her eyes. "Stay out of this, bitch." She said it so coldly.
"I will not!" She glared at Delilah.
Eliza put her hands to her head. "Why is it turning out like this? Why couldn't it have just been Delilah!"
"Because I'm too smart." She giggled.
"Nonam." Delilah looked at him. "Don't listen to Arianna." She smirked devilishly.
"Shut up Delilah!" Arianna shouted. "I'm the one that activated the trap!"
"There was something different about your door. I didn't make it obvious, of course." She continued to smirk.
What was different about my door? Is that what I need to prove to Arianna? But, she doesn't want to listen at all!
"The way the door opened. Both yours and Chase opened into the room. However, now that I think about it, the door I entered from opened outwards.
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Soon, he reached a door. An ominous door. He hadn't seen this door before, however, there was something odd about it. On the other side, beeping noise could be heard.
What is this?
He opened the door towards him and stepped in.
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"I stupidly deduced that my door was the same, forgetting that it had opened outwards. It's probably why Delilah set it up in a way that only I could activate it. Opening it inwards wouldn't pulled on the cord and snapped it. Opening it outwards would have. I'm sorry Arianna, but I did activate it, and there's nothing you can say to disprove it…"
She didn't want to look at Nonam; She was too busy staring at the floor.
"Arianna, please, don't try and protect me. Live for yourself. You do deserve to live way more than me. So please prove to everyone else why I'm the culprit."
She slowly looked up and nodded. "Alright…"
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Act 1: The events that unfolded this morning actually started yesterday. Long before we had met up in the cafeteria, like usual. Delilah, the traitor, had gathered some stuff she would need for a murder. A murder, that she would not commit. She made her way to the top floor of the school, and, with permission from Monokuma, entered Forever Maze. There, she hid the spears, string, rope, and tape, that would later be used for the murder. Once she was done, she left the floor and stayed at the cafeteria for a bit.
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Act 2: Once everyone started to get there. Eliza made a speech of sorts, Delilah, strangely supporting her the entire way. The suggesting to explore the fifth floor was passed around a few times. Delilah and a few others were all for it. However, this was just the start of Delilah's trap. Everyone made it to the fifth floor. However, we soon found ourselves trapped there. It didn't take long for Marisa to find a way out, of sorts. What we had found, was Forever Maze.
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Act 3: Not long into the maze, we got seperated. The two groups formed by the seperations was; Me, Chase, Marisa, Xi; and Delilah, Eliza, and, the killer of this case. We spent time away for several hours, exploring the maze. However, it would have appeared we were just going in circles. After walking for a bit, we settled down against a wall. Little did we know, the other group was on the other side.
Act 4: Delilah soon noticed a map on the wall. She was excited and wanted to see if they could change the maze. At the time she said we couldn't, however, that was a lie that we all fell for. Since it was starting to get late, we decided to call it a night. However, since we were all outside our rooms, it was easy for someone to be killed. So we made three night watch teams. The first was composed of Chase, Delilah, and Xi. The second, of Eliza and Marisa. The last, of me and the culprit. But, we never got woken up until the morning announcement.
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Act 5: After the first team shift ended, Xi went to sleep. Delilah woke up Eliza, and Chase woke up Marisa. However, someone who should have gone back to sleep, hadn't. Delilah had stayed up, ready to put her plan in action. She had set it up so that the glass panel between both groups would lower. Once it did, she struck Marisa on the head, and then immediately hit Eliza, who had no time to react.
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Act 6: She took her away towards the North West of the map, and hid her in a locker. Now, it was time to set up. She took out the spears that she had brought previously, as well as all the other stuff she had brought. She made her way to the Wind Room, where she set all the spears inside the holes in the wall. She set the timer to start at 38 seconds. She returned and went back to sleep, like nothing had happened.
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Act 7: The Monokuma morning announcement played, which woke everyone up. The first thing that was of note, was that Eliza was gone. Delilah, sprinting into action, ran over to the map. She looked to see if it had changed to how she wanted it to; it had. She soon told where people were to go. She specifically told the culprit to go North, so they would get caught in the trap. She decided herself to go West. And Marisa decided to go East. Everyone else was picked by Delilah.
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Act 8: Once Marisa had left enough time pass, she left the East side to head over to the West side. She soon came face to face with Delilah, who had an unconscious body. The body of Eliza. Quickly putting two and two together, Marisa went to attack Delilah with the knife she had hidden. What she didn't expect, was for Delilah to pull out a spear out from the locker and swing her upside the head. This knocked Marisa out for the second time. Now, Delilah had to improvise.
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Act 9: Delilah placed Eliza back in the locker, as well as Marisa's hat. Now, she had to hurry, and make it through Chase. But that was no problem, as he was too busy inside a classroom to even notice her passing. Although this does raise the question, what would she have done had Marisa still been there.
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Act 10: Once she made it to the room, she placed Marisa on a chair. Carefully tying her up so she couldn't escape. She even tapped her mouth shut and put a bag over her head. She finished setting up everything else in the room, she left. She made sure to add blood on to the wall to lure the culprit, who still had a bit before he would show up. I don't know where she got the blood-"
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"I cut my stomach a few times!"
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"... Moving on…"
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Act 11: She quickly got the hell out of there so that she could be as far away as possible from the scene of the crime, for when it happens. Meanwhile, the culprit, Chase, and I, all started to make our move towards the room. The culprit was getting lured in by the blood on the walls. I was rushing over to the room, because I thought for sure Eliza would be there. And Chase must have had the same thought. Because of that, we both arrived around the time the culprit did.
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Act 12: However, everything was set in stone the moment the culprit opened the door. You see, the door was set up with a string that would pull on a mechanism, if the door was opened. So when they went to check inside, they triggered it. Chase and I tried to stop what was happening, but we were unsuccessful. And Marisa was killed right in front of us. Except we didn't know it was her at the time, for we thought it was Eliza.
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And that is how Delilah framed Nonam Nins, the Ultimate… The Ultimate…?"
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"I…" Eliza started. "We never did find out his talent."
"The Ultimate Mimic!" Delilah giggled.
"The Ultimate what?" Arianna looked at her.
She seemed somewhat mad that someone made her repeat. "I said the Ultimate Mimic! Gosh, don't make me repeat again!"
"Basically, I can copy certain talents if I wanted to." Nonam said. "Like I copied the ability to lock pick from Xi. I had a mini sword fight with Arti and managed to keep up. All my investigation skills came from Marisa. I was able to act way better because of Arianna, which I used during my entire stay here. It's how I was able to act like I am now. I also even used Tristan's talent." He took out a mouse from his shirt. "This is how I was able to react to the elevator falling, it heard it long before I did, so I was able to save myself and Arianna."
Eliza looked over at him. "W-wait! That means you didn't forget your talent!"
He looked the other way. "I didn't want to draw suspicion on me."
"Well that just makes you more suspicious to us!" Chase yelled out.
Nonam shook his head. "Not to be less suspicious with you, to be less suspicious to him." He gestured towards Monokuma.
"What? Me?" He tilted his body.
"According to what he should know, I wouldn't reveal my talent so easily." Nonam said.
"Well what does that mean!" Monokuma blurted out.
He took a deep sigh and looked at everyone. "If I wasn't restrained by a lot of things, I could have said this a lot sooner. But, I never lost my memory. I don't know why I wasn't affected, but I remember everything."
"T-that's impossible!" Monokuma stood up. "I made sure to have stolen all of your memories!"
"Well apparently you missed me." He shook his head.
"Wow! How exciting!" Delilah giggled. "But that doesn't explain why you seemed so suspicious of some of us." She pouted. "Unless, the past Nonam needed to be suspicious of us!" She giggled. "I know what would help explain this!" She took something out. It was a motive video. She pressed the button on it.
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The screen lit up and played a little video "Welcome everyone, to your first motive! This Monopad should be directed to Delilah Lyi. If it isn't! Keep watching anyways!" Monokuma laughed. "Today's subject is going to be Nonam Nins! What is with him? Such a suspicious guy. But we will get to that later. Did you know that he can almost perform any talent? It's true! He's the Ultimate Mimic! And he lied about not knowing what his talent was. Apparently he got recruited for some thing involving all the other students of the class! I wonder what that is, but it can't possible be good for you!" Then the screen turned off.
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"Recruited?" Arianna started to think.
"Hey!" Delilah yelled. "It's not over!" She pouted. "There's a second part of the video of the video! Oh! Right, I only told Tristan!" She giggled. She pressed the play button five times, and a new video started to play.
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"Hello Nonam." A voice said.
The video showed Nonam sitting in a chair in an office. "Hello sir."
The man let out a cough. "So, you know why you are here, right?"
"You want to recruit me into your agency, sir?" He seemed pretty annoyed by this whole ordeal.
"Exactly. We are signing you off to join class. The 75th class to be exact. You are to be given the title of Ultimate Mimic, but none of the other students need to know that. However, your really talent is going to be the Ultimate Spy. Now under no condition can you tell them that. And also, don't trust anyone there. Understood?"
Nonam, seeming like he really didn't want to be there, stood up, walking away. "Understood…"
And then the video ended.
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"Soooo~" Delilah giggled. "He's a spy sent to infiltrate our class. Which is why he needed to act suspicious of us. Or else Monokuma would catch on that he didn't forget. So acting like he did actually made him less suspicious to Monokuma! The irony." She dropped the video to the ground. "Anyways, discuss!"
Of course, no one really said anything.
"So why were you sent to spy on us?" Chase finally said.
"I… I was sent to spy on you guys bec-" Nonam was starting to say.
"Hey! Want to know what now would be a great time for?" Monokuma said. "A punishment!"
"H-hey! We haven't even voted yet!" Eliza said.
"What? You totally have!" He said, bringing out a fake board with votes. "And it's right! Now! Blah blah blah! Punishment time!"
"Hey! Wait!" Nonam shouted out.
But, it was too late.
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Monokuma took out a small hammer, and hit the button in front of him.
Nonam has been found Guilty. Time for punishment.
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Nonam was standing in a somewhat dim hallway. Wherever he was looking, he didn't see anything. However, he kept seeing stuff in his peripheral vision. But whenever he looked, they were gone. His hand brushed against his pocket and he realized that he was given a handgun. He quickly took it out and started shooting at the shadow figures around him. He assumed them to be some sort of spy. Soon, one grabbed him from behind, and dragged him into the shadows.
He awoke in a dark room, with a table in front of him. On the table was a bucket of water. Before he got time to react, his head was getting dunked into the water. He tried to resist but water quickly entered his mouth. Head out of water, head in water. So on, so forth. Since that wasn't working, they moved onto the next thing. Next, came the knife to the thigh. He got stabbed there multiple times, but still, no sound came out from him. They started removing his fingernails, one by one, in the most painful way they could do it. Nonam started to squirm around even more. Sadly, he didn't know that he had something in his mouth and he accidentally bit down on it. What he had bitten on, was a suicide pill, which killed him seconds later.
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Everyone watching couldn't even keep looking at the screen. They had just witnessed Nonam being tortured, before being taken out by himself.
W-what the hell!
"What the hell was that, Monokuma?!" Arianna shouted at him.
"Hmm? What, he was causing me the most problems. Either that or Marisa, who knows." He took out something and tossed it at Delilah. "Here!"
Delilah caught it, and when she opened her hand, it was revealed to be a USB key.
"I don't know why you wanted a USB full of that kind of stuff, but I don't judge." Monokuma shrugged.
She pouted a little. "I get lonely at times. You know, since everyone keeps dying!" She crossed her arms, like it was a burden to her.
"What the fuck!" Arianna glared at Delilah. "Don't just treat them dying like a burden!"
She let out a shrug with a giggle. "Well I mean, they didn't really matter in the long run."
That was it. Arianna ran over to Delilah to attack her. Although that didn't end well.
WHACK!
Arianna had been hit by a cut off piece of a spear that Delilah hid in the back of her shirt. It was short enough to fit in her pilot uniform. Although this didn't knock her out. But she was bleeding from the mouth.
"Arianna!" Eliza shouted, running towards her. Chase, following close behind her. They both brought her back to her feet.
Xi didn't like the direction this was heading in. "I think it's best if we leave. Seeing her will only piss me off more." Somehow, even Xi was angry at Delilah. Probably because he had trusted her a lot and she went and did this. Soon, everyone left, leaving Delilah and Monokuma alone.
"I honestly don't know why you would do all that for that useless USB." Monokuma said.
"I'm guessing you checked it?" She giggled.
"Of course I checked it! I can't letting you have info that you shouldn't know!" He said.
She tilted her head "Alright!" She walked over to the elevator and waited for it to come back. Once in, she looked down at the USB. She frowned sadly.
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Her voice was kinda different from all her other voices, rather normal and calm, which wasn't normal for her. "Time to end this…" She sighed sadly. Her facial expression had also completely changed. Weird.
