Alive students: 10
Chiya's P.O.V
We were already out of the cafeteria for a second and I could feel a huge amount of guilt. We have no choice but to get Mieko dead or alive or else we all would die. I know that I don't want to die in this horrible place, but to betray Mieko? I never want to betray anyone, especially if they did this to save us from the next previous unknown motive.
"Chiya-chan?"
I looked up as everyone else suddenly stopped and looked at me. Suma was the one who looked at me in concern and stood in front of me. "Are you okay? You have been silent and sad the whole time." She asked in concern.
I shook my head and looked down. "No. I'm not okay. I really don't want to do this to be honest." I said. "Guys, are we really going to betray our classmate like that?"
As I asked that question, everyone looked away from me and stayed silent. By seeing the sad look on Suma's, Nao's, Yogi's and Demiyah's faces, I could tell that they were feeling guilty for that as well.
"Are you nuts? Are you really going to throw your life away for that sneaky thief?" Yukito asked as she glared at me. "You do know that she is the one of the two who are responsible for giving us this motive! We are the victims here and she is the culprit!"
"That is not true!" I said as I glared back. "Sure she did steal the old motive, but she might have done that for a reason! She maybe wants to end the murder game and save our lives from this place by stealing it, so that Monokuma wouldn't give use a reason! And why are you calling her a culprit if we are the ones who are hunting her down?! She is the real victim here in this motive!"
Yukito was about to speak again, but was stopped by Tetsu's firm hand on his shoulder. He looked at her for a second and then stayed silent. Tetsu walked towards me and placed her hand on my shoulder.
"Chiya, I understand the guilt that you are feeling. We all don't want to betray her, heck I don't want to betray her either even though she is annoying. But we have no other choice. It is our lives or hers. However, I do promise you and everyone else that I will catch her alive and well if I see her." She said as she put her hands away from my shoulders and then looked at the others. "And you guys should promise that as well. We will not kill her. We will only catch her alive! And when one of you caught her, then you have to convince her to give the old motive back so that she would be spared as well."
"But..um..Isn't that impossible? I mean..she is the SHSL Thief after all. A thief never gives back the possessions they stole, right?" Nao asked as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Then there is no choice but to get the old motive by force." Tetsu added. "But I do know that this motive has to be stopped now. And this murder game has to be stopped as well before anyone else would be killed. We and Mieko will make out alive if we end this right here right now."
Everyone, including me, were staring at her for a few seconds until Suma started to clap. "Wow Tetsu! Your speech was amazing! This would have been great for an article." She said with a smile as she keeps on clapping.
"But still..how are we going to catch her? She could be anywhere." Demiyah asked.
"I think that Tetsu already knows a plan. And also very impressive since she thought about it faster than I did." Miwa said as she held her hand under her chin. She then looked at Tetsu with a serious glance. "So tell me, what is your plan?"
"Mieko could be in every room of the school building, but we do know that there are only three floors open in this building. So since we are with nine people, it is the best to split up in three group of three people to let each group check on one of the three floors. The groups have to make sure that they check every single room on the floor. " Tetsu explained.
"Okay. Sounds like a good plan, but how can we tell everyone that we catch her or if something bad happened?" Yogi asked.
"Then you have to scream like your life depends on it." Suma said. "If you scream loud enough, then everyone can hear your scream and they will come to you."
"I agree." Miwa said as she nodded. "So did everyone get Tetsu's plan?"
Everyone, including me, agreed with a nod or with a "yes". I was relieved and glad on the inside that everyone wants to have her alive. We still have to catch her alive, but at least not killing her.
"Alright! So here are the groups! If you guys are not happy with the group, then you have to deal with it! Understood?" Everyone nodded in agreement as Tetsu asked that question.
"Good! Now..." Tetsu looked at everyone with a serious glance. "Suma, Masayasu and Yogi, you three are checking the rooms at the third floor. Yukito, Chiya and Miwa are looking at the second floor while me, Nao and Demiyah stay in this floor to look for Mieko. Did everyone get what I just said?"
"Yes!" I said as everyone said the same word as mine. Miwa and Yukito walked towards me while the others joined their groups.
"Everyone, I want to give you all some piece of advice before we all go to our seperate ways." Masayasu said as everyone looked at him. "Make sure that you don't lose your partners. Keep an eye on them and you all have to stay focused, especially in this situation."
"Thank you, Masayasu-san." Miwa said as she bowed slightly. She then looked at me and everyone else. "Alright everyone, let's move out. Good luck and be careful."
My group and Masayasu's group walked away as Tetsu's group stayed in their position. I looked back at both of the group in concern. I don't know what would happen if we find her, but I do know that she might be mad as everyone. I just hope that nothing bad would happen to them.
I then looked back as we were about to reach the stairs to the second floor. As I saw the stairs, I could tell that the search for Mieko has started.
-Small timeskip-
Another door has been shut as we left the Art room. We have checked almost every room in this floor, but Mieko was not in those rooms at all. We walked to the only room that was left in the second floor.
The pool.
We all walked inside our dressing room with our e-Handbooks and then went into the huge pool. The tiled blue floor was dry since no one has swimmed in the pool yet. There was a huge tribune at the left and right side of the pool and a huge diving board, but we couldn't see Mieko as we went inside.
Yukito went to one of the tribunes and checked behind it while I looked around the pool and Miwa in the cabin of the pool. She was not there as I looked around and it seemed that the other two didn't found her either.
"Well she is not in this floor. That's for sure." He muttered as he walked back towards us.
"So what do we do now?" I asked as I looked at them in concern.
"We better should go help the others in one of the remaining floors." Miwa said as she adjusted her glasses. "That way we can find Mieko faster."
"Agreed! Let's go to the third floor the-!" Suddenly a blue campstool flew in the air and hit Yukito on his forehead. It hit him hard as he fell on the ground. He was groaning in pain and he has his ice blue eyes tightly shut as he held his forehead. We could see the blood on his hands as we stared at him in shock.
Miwa ran towards him and kneeled down in front of him. I was about to run towards them as well, but then someone wrapped their arm tightly around me and pulled my back against their chest. I then felt something cold against my throat. I looked down and yelped in fear as I saw a kitchen knife against my throat, ready to cut my throat open. Miwa heard my yelp and stood up in shock as she saw me in a dangerous situation.
"Mieko! Put the knife down! We don't want to harm you!" Miwa said in a calm loud voice as she held her hands in the air.
"Just shut up!" Mieko yelled in anger behind me. "I know that you are lying! You all are lying! You all wanted me to die! I saved you all from the motive by stealing and this is what I get as reward?!"
"M-Mieko, w-what she is s-saying is the truth." I stuttered in fear as I shut my eyes tightly. "W-We don't w-want you to die. We d-don't want a-anymore deaths and m-murders. We w-want you to e-escape with us. Just p-please, give t-the motive b-back and I-I promise that I-I will make it u-up to you."
I started to whimper and tears started to form as I still felt the cold knife against my throat. But after a minute of silence, I felt the knife lowering a bit.
"Oh Chiya. Chiya Chiya Chiya. You're so naïve and innocent, but I'm afraid that you are too late." I heard Mieko whisper into my ear and her voice was so creepy that it made me shiver. "Don't you understand? The motive got me really bad. The motive that I stole is something that I always wanted and it almost brought me over the edge, but now you all made me over the edge. I'm so angry that I rather would kill you all!"
The knife came back to my throat again and my face turned blue as it was about to slice me. "You shouldn't have listened to him. Now you have to pay the price for betraying your classmate." She said in a angry whisper as the knife was moving slowly. I was waiting to feel the blood and see the light, but it didn't happen.
Instead I felt the arms releasing me from the grip. I opened my eyes by surprise as I felt Mieko pulling me in the arm. I saw Mieko smirking at me and standing in front of me. Suddenly she kicked me hard in the stomach and I fell from the impact. I heard Miwa yelling my name as I fell in the water.
Thanks to that kick, I had less oxygen than usual. And it hurted so bad that I couldn't move. Suddenly a hand grabbed mine and pulled me up again and out of the water. I was breathing and coughing as I had my eyes closed. The person brought me back to the shore and held me against the chest as I was shivering from the cold water. I opened my eyes and I looked at Yukito with one eye closed as his wound on the left side of his forehead was still bleeding.
"Are you okay?" He asked as he wiped the stream from the blood. But it kept on streaming even after he wiped it of.
"Y-Yeah.." I answered as I rubbed my arms to keep myself warm. "But your wound..." I then looked behind him and my eyes widened as the concern increased.
"W-Where is Miwa?" I asked as I looked at the spot where she stood. The small puddle where Yukito was laying was visible.
He turned around and he gritted his teeth. "Dammit! Miwa has left us behind!" He muttered in anger. "She might have run after Mieko when I was pulling you out of the water."
Suddenly a door opened with a bang and Tetsu, Nao and Demiyah came inside. They all looked shocked and concerned as they saw us.
"Chiya! Yukito!" Demiyah yelled as she ran towards us with the other two following her behind.
Tetsu looked at Yukito's wound and gritted her teeth in anger. "Dammit!" She muttered and then looked at me. "Who did this? What happened?" She asked in an angry tone.
"M-Mieko suddenly attacked us. She t-threw a chair a-at him really hard and she t-threatened me with a-a knife. I tried t-to convince her to s-stop and t-to give back the old m-motive, but s-she was too angry a-at us." I said as I was shivering. Yukito noticed that and wrapped his jacket around me since his jacket wasn't so wet.
"But what about Miwa? Where is she?" Nao asked as he kneeled down next to me.
"M-Miwa ran off and m-maybe she went after her w-when he was t-taking me out of the w-water." I said as I looked away sadly. Miwa was in danger now. Who knows what would have happen if she was alone? And why didn't she save us first?
"What? This is bad!" Tetsu said as she stood up. "Nao. Demiyah. You both are taking of the two. I'll find Mieko and Miwa." She said as she ran off. Yukito was about to stand up to stop her, but he collapsed on his knees as he held his wound again.
"No Yukito. You're too wounded." Nao said as he supported him. "And I'm sure that Tetsu can do this alone. She is a strong woman after all."
"He's right. And besides, maybe the others will help her out as well." Demiyah said as she smiled at him. "But for now we have to get you two to the nurse office. Your wound needs to be threated."
Demiyah helped me up as Nao helped Yukito. Yukito wrapped his arm around Nao's shoulder to give himself support in standing and walking. Demiyah and I followed them behind. I don't know if they both will be okay, but all I can do is pray.
-Timeskip-
We both sat on the beds as we were threated by our two classmates. Yukito's wound was already threated by the two. His forehead was wrapped around bandages and you could still the snow white spiky hair. I was wrapped around a warm blanket plus Yukito's jacket. Nao was sitting next to me and Demiyah was sitting next to Yukito.
"Feeling a little better? Or should I get you some dry clothes for you?" Nao asked as he looked at me concern.
"I'm feeling better now. Don't worry." I said as I smiled slightly.
"And what about you, Yukito?" Demiyah asked to him.
"I still have a headache, but I'm not bleeding anymore. That's for sure." He said as he stood up from his bed. "I do thank you both for your help, but I have to find Tetsu, Mieko and Miwa now."
He was about to walk off, but Demiyah stopped him by grabbing his hand. "No you are not going outside, mister. You still need some resting." She said in a strict manner.
"I know, but our friends and classmates are in danger!" He said as he roughly released his hand from her grip. "We can't just sit there and do nothing! Mieko is turning into a murderer! We have to stop her now!"
"Y-Yes, but...I think that nothing bad would happen without us. I-I mean...Tetsu and Masayasu are pretty strong and I'm sure that they can stop her." Demiyah said as she looked at him in concern.
"HELP! HELP! ALERT! ALERT!"
We heard a loud yell coming from downstairs. Our eyes widened in shock as we heard the yell. Something bad has happened or is happening right now, or they found Mieko.
"See?! That's what I was talking about!" Yukito said as he ran out of the office. I dropped the blanket as me ad the others ran after him. We went downstairs and we saw Suma standing there in shock and fear.
"Suma! Are you okay? What happened?" I asked in concern as I ran towards her.
"I have found something terrible! Something disturbing! Something bad has happened!" Suma said as she shook in fear.
"What? Lead us there, Suma." Yukito said.
Suma shakily nodded. "T-This way! Quick!" She said as she ran off while we are following her behind. We ran and ran until we arrived at Mieko's dorm. We didn't know what it was at first, but then I noticed a pool that was flowing under the door. Blood.
"H-Here. I-I think that there is a...a...corpse again. I don't see one here, s-so.." Suma stopped talking as Yukito walked towards the door. He twitched the doorknob and it opened.
"That's odd. The door is open." He said as he looked at us confused. We both walked inside and we saw a horrifying sight as we saw from where the blood puddle came from.
Mieko Kura was sitting against the wall next to the door with the knife that she had onn her right side. Her red eyes and bloody mouth wide open and she was bleeding heavily because of the huge wound in her stomach. It was dripping down her dark blue middle long pants and it became a pool of blood which was now flowing under the door. It was a horrifying and cruel sight.
"M-Mieko is dead?" Demiyah asked as she looked at the corpse in shock.
I thought that I hear Suma mutter something. I looked at her and she was staring in shock at the wall. I was about to aks what was wrong, but instead I gasped as I understood what she was looking at.
Laying on the floor was Miwa Kaiyo. She was laying down on her stomach. Her throat was bleeding badly and her brown green eyes were lifeless and half open.
"A-Another one?" I muttered as I put a hand on my mouth in shock. The others looked at the Miwa's corpse as well in pure shock.
Another murder has happened, but this time...two classmates were the victims...
To be continued! Alive students: 8
