Sorry this is so short. It just made more sense to cut it like this because of what will happen after this.

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Daily Life

The next morning, Sorey woke up and headed to the cafeteria. But he was surprised and pleased to see Jude sitting at the table. He even had a plate of food in front of him.

However he wasn't eating and he looked like he hadn't slept since the trial.

Sorey opened his mouth, but he was about to ask something like "Are you okay?" He was obviously not.

So he settled on saying, "I'm glad to see you out."

Jude didn't say anything. In fact he looked like he didn't hear him. At that time, more of the others were showing up and saying something similar to Jude. A few of them even asked if he was okay? Regardless, he didn't respond to any of them.

The air was a lot different now that Jude join them. No one was cutting up or talking much. And Jude kept sitting looking absently at his food.

Just before they were all done eating. Monokuma then jumped in. "Good morning," he said in a sing song way. "Are you all ready for your next motive?"

"Don't tell us you're going to make us watch those videos again," Kanonno said and squeezed her eyes shut like Monokuma would show them their video's right there.

"No, this is a new motive. The old one won't work no more," Monokuma said.

"Wait, does that mean the people we saw in our video are safe now?" Asbel demanded.

Monokuma cocked his head. "Umm…" he started to say and he seemed to start sweating (somehow for a robot bear). "Sure, lets go with that."

"Wait, what about those videos you showed us," Yuri snapped as he jumped up from his chair. "We all saw things destroyed. So what, was that all fake or something?"

Sorey's eyes widen. If what Yuri was suggesting was true, then that meant Milla killed Kor for nothing. Somehow that was far worse then.

"No those were real," Monokuma said calmly. It about made everyone's heart stop. Gramps and the others were still in danger. "I can't give any spoilers, but those are still considered motives. I'm just adding a new one because some of you weren't motivated at all."

Velvet, Sorey realized. She said she saw nothing. This is bad. Velvet was already motivated. If Monokuma gave her another one, she might do something reckless.

"Drum roll please for your next motive," Monokuma said. But no one did that. Monokuma then pulled a picture out from behind him. "If you successfully graduate, you get to leave and have ten million dollars, I mean gald. Whatever the hell that is."

"You're really trying to bribe us to killing someone?" Yuri said sounding annoyed.

"No way would any of us kill over some gald," Lloyd argue.

Sorey was starting to think they caught a break. Probably not even Velvet would take that. So they still only had to deal with the motive videos.

"Upfufuf," Monokuma started chuckling. "You never know," Monokuma started to say. "Someone may be needing money to start a journey. Or maybe they need to wipe away a huge debt. Who knows. Well, happy plotting." With that, the bear jumped down from the table and disappeared.

"Ludger, you're drooling," Stahn suddenly exclaimed.

Everyone looked back to see Ludger wiping his mouth. "It was the food," Ludger defended. But he wouldn't look anyone in the eye.

"Ludger, are you needing money?" Kanonno asked.

Ludger dropped his head. "I have a huge debt to pay," Ludger admitted.

"Thanks for the honesty Ludger," Yuri said. "Don't take this the wrong way, but no one should be alone with Ludger."

Ludger just nodded weakly. It would be best to keep the temptation away from Ludger.

"Anyone else own or need gald?" Asbel asked.

"If we get out of here, my parents will pay all of you," Luke offered.

That was surprising generous of Luke. Sorey was surprised. Then again, it was a way to keep themselves. This might be the only time when throwing money at a problem would work.

No one else said they did, so it was just Ludger they needed to worry about. They all got up to make the day pass quicker.

Sorey noticed that Jude wasn't getting up. He was still in the same position as when they first started eating breakfast.

"Jude," Sorey started to say.

Yuri came up to stop him. "He needs some space for himself," he said.

"But," Sorey started to argue. He couldn't just leave Jude alone. He probably just needed a friend.

"Jude is now in the same boat as the rest of us. He just lost the one person he thought he could trust. Now he feels what it's like to be alone in a killing game," Yuri explained.

The rest of them had already gone through those feelings. They each at least had someone they were comfortable being alone with. Jude had lost Milla, the person he thought he could have relied on. Sorey started to imagine being in his shoes, but stopped. He didn't want to think about one of his friends being here with him no matter how secure that made him feel. Looking at Jude, Sorey wondered if this was how everyone that first day.

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Free Time!

There was still plenty of time left in the day. Sorey wanted to talk to Jude, but he still wasn't responding.

Sorey decided to try talking to Velvet again. He felt that if he tried a bit more he might be able to learn a bit more about her. But she wasn't saying anything. She clearly didn't want to talk to him. He took it as progress though since she wasn't threatening or glaring at him.

"So do you want to share anything or will I be talking more about myself?" Sorey asked.

"I definitely don't want to hear any more," she snapped. There was a bit of pain on her face.

"Velvet, are you okay?" Sorey asked.

Velvet was silent for a moment. "Velvet, please just talk to me," Sorey said. "If something is bothering you, I want to help however I can."

"You are the one that is bothering me," Velvet just snapped. "Why...why are you like him? Are you just here to torment me?" She then stormed away.

Sorey had just been so startled that he couldn't even think of what he could have said to her. But he really wondered who he reminded her of.

Sorey completed three out of four friendship fragments.

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There was still a little bit of time left, so Sorey decided to talk with Lloyd again.

"Lloyd, so I've been researching a bit about blacksmithing in the library," Sorey told him.

"You're really excited about that, huh," Lloyd said casually.

Lloyd wasn't talking like he did last time. "Did something happen?" Sorey asked.

"Well...I've just been thinking and I'm kind of board with the idea. I'm glad my Dad taught me what I know, but I think I want to do more. I'll of course still show you what I know," Lloyd quickly added the last sentence.

"Oh, I get it," Sorey said. But he wasn't able to hide his disappointment. "So what are you wanting to do when we get out of here?"

"I definitely want to finish the journey I was on. After that, I think I want to travel the world in a boat," Lloyd told him.

"Wow, that would be cool," Sorey said. Although he had read how dangerous the sea could be with storms and monsters. Regardless that would be amazing to just go anywhere you wanted. "There's probably no telling how many ruins you'd get to explore."

"You're really into that stuff, huh?" Lloyd commented.

Sorey just grinned. "I guess you could say that's my dream. I want to explore all the ruins."

Lloyd then gave a nervous laugh. "Man, you might get along perfectly with Professor Sage. I don't know how Genis will feel about that."

"Professor? Are they an archaeologist too?"

"I guess that's what she is," Lloyd said with a deep sigh. "She goes crazy whenever she sees old stuff and tries to figure them out. She'd spend countless hours studying them if we let her. Dude, you look just like her now," Lloyd said the last part a little startled.

"Please Lloyd, introduce me to this person, she sounds amazing," Sorey asked. There was probably no telling what he could learn from her. Plus he and Mikleo would get a whole new perspective on investigating ruins.

Lloyd actually looked scared at that. "No way, there shouldn't be two ruin maniacs. No one would be able to handle it," Lloyd stated and started moving away.

"Come on Lloyd," Sorey begged as he followed after him.

Sorey completed two out of four friendship fragments with Lloyd.