Danganronpa: Infinite Despair
Chapter 4: The monster among us, part 2: Abnormal Days.
The group carefully walked over to Takeshi's body, the stench of blood filled the air of the music room. Whoever killed him did it in a brutal way but not as brutal as Hikari's death, Matsu peered over Minato and Kenji's shoulders and sputtered out. "Oh great… Who's gonna do the autopsies now…?" Toji glared at the Otaku and walked over to Takeshi's body; he looked down at it and sighed.
"Oh why don't we ask him so he can magically come back to life and tell us who murdered him!?" The Graffiti Artist replied looking right at Matsu, Kenji and Minato but the moment he stopped talking, Toji spoke once more but this time looking right at Takeshi's body. "Yo Takeshi… Why don't you tell us who murder you huh? Oh you can't? Well seems like we are doing this investigation ourselves." He added while shaking his head and mingling with the group, Kenji glared at Toji and grabbed his e-handbook.
He began to read over the Monokuma File and decided to begin this investigation.
~Investigation Time~
Monokuma File 4:
The Victim was Takeshi Narukami.
Time of death was around 5:30AM.
The body was found in the Music Room at 10:30AM.
Cause of death was a pair of medical scissors that was lodged into his throat and there are signs that he was strangled to death.
Other than that his hands were cut up and the murder weapon was left at the scene.
~Truth Bullet Obtained: Monokuma File 4~
Looking down at the doctor's body, he bent over and placed a hand on the body's chin. Turning it the left slightly, he saw the medical scissors and noticed that they were inserted deep into his throat almost to the hilt of the scissors moving the tie from around the doctor's neck. Kenji saw that around the front of his neck was red, he suggested that the tie was used to strangle and the scissors dealt the finishing blow.
~Truth Bullet Obtained: Pair of Medical Scissors~
~Truth Bullet Obtained: Red marks around Takeshi's Neck~
Moving his gaze to Takeshi's hands, Kenji saw that they were cut up by some sort of blade. Grabbing the doctor's wrist he began to inspect the wounds on his hands, Takeshi's fingers were cut badly even Kenji who could stomach the amount of blood he has seen so far gag in repulsion. However something about the way they were cut up seemed off, placing his hands together in prayer the lucky student pulled the scissors out of Takeshi's neck like how the doctor did for Hikari and placed one of Takeshi's fingers inside of the blade and closed the scissors lightly. The blade fit the slash marks and Kenji sighed, he had a feeling that he was right about this. It seemed that the killer used the scissors to attack Takeshi and he tried to defend himself using his hands or maybe he tried to nab the blades away from his attacker.
~Truth Bullet Obtained: Slashes in Takeshi's hands~
~Truth Bullet Updated: Pair of Medical Scissors~
Getting up from beside his friend's body, Minato tapped Kenji on the shoulder and pointed down again. Looking down he saw that there was a strange yellow powder on Takeshi's pant legs, placing his index finger in the powder and raising it to his lips to taste it like Minato did with the protein powder. But all he heard was "What the hell do you think you are doing!?" followed by a slap to the face from the Gamer.
Holding the side of his face, the lucky student turned his head and gave Minato a highly confused look. "Ow… What was that for!?" Kenji shouted but Minato sighed and also placed his finger in the powder, he rubbed it in between this thumb and middle finger before sniffing it and wiping his hands on his shorts.
"You were about to taste poison you idiot, that yellow stuff… it's from the chemistry labs." Minato replied and Kenji's eyes went wide with surprise, he gazed down at Takeshi's lower body and wondered to himself. How did Takeshi even come in contact with the poison from the chemistry labs in the first place? More importantly however, why did he have poison on him in the first place?
~Truth Bullet Obtained: Yellow Poison on Takeshi's legs~
Deciding that the area was completely free of any other evidence, Kenji decided to enter the Chemistry Lab to find the mysterious poison that Takeshi had on him. Rummaging through the cabinet he noticed that one of the bottles was indeed missing, thinking back on it the bottle that went missing was the same bottle that Minato tested out but it had the protein powder in it. However he noticed that another bottle had also gone missing this time from the chemical cabinet, looking down at the label on the shelf the lucky student noticed that the missing bottle was the one with the yellow poison.
"…It seems that the killer took the poison AND the protein powder, just what were they doing with both bottles in the first place?"
~Truth Bullet Obtained: Missing Chemical Bottle~
~Truth Bullet Obtained: Missing Protein Powder~
Hearing someone enter the room, he turned around and saw that Meiko was looking at him from the doorway. "Akira is awake, just barely though… She might've seen or heard something last night." The Fashion Diva muttered, Kenji walked up to her and gave her a reassuring smile before setting off for the Infirmary where their friend was sleeping. Upon reaching the room, he noticed that Matsu and Toji were looking inside when something was thrown at them. Kenji noticed that it was a chair so he opened the door fully to see that she was changing.
"Ah sorry about that, I wanted to ask you something about last night." He asked, she slipped on her shirt and sighed. Akira then turned around and grabbed two chairs, the body modifier then placed them by one of the desks and sat down where she kicked her feet up on the table and smiled at Kenji.
"Last night you say? Well I do remember something…OF COURSE!" She suddenly shouted, the Lucky Student gave her a confused gaze but she ignored it and continued on with her explanation about the events of the night before. "I was half out of it when Takeshi handed me some sort of a drink, he said that it would help me regain my strength but someone came into the room and told him to stop. He turned around and all I could hear was a struggle going on, I tried to get up but couldn't… I heard the sound of glass breaking like a cup was knocked on the ground and the sound of scissors being snapped rapidly, it was like… He was trying to fight someone off but the fight was taken to the hallways and I heard someone running up the stairs followed by the other person running after them too."
Kenji was surprised; someone actually attacked Takeshi while he was trying to help with Akira's condition.
~Truth Bullet Obtained: Akira's Testimony~
Nodding and recording everything in the small notebook that he had, Kenji decided to investigate the infirmary for any evidence. Walking over to the surgical tools, he noticed that one of the medical scissors was missing. The ones that disappeared were a medium sized pair that sat in between the small pair and another large pair of similar shaped scissors, were those scissors used in Takeshi's killing?
~Truth Bullet Obtained: Pair of Missing Medical Scissors~
~Truth Bullet Updated: Pair of Medical Scissors ~
Turning his gaze away from the surgical tools, Kenji noticed that there was broken glass on the ground by mini fridge. Picking up a shard of it which looked like the bottom of the cup, he noticed that there was yellow powder caked on the sides of the glass. Pulling his e-handbook out of his pocket, Kenji began to compare the yellow powder and saw that they were identical looking. Meaning that someone was trying to poison someone else again using the glass but was this the glass that Takeshi was going to give to Akira?
~Truth Bullet Obtained: Broken Glass~
Setting the glass down, Kenji placed the shard down on the floor and saw a strangely shaped object inside the trash can. Pulling out said object out of the trash, he saw that it was wrapped in some sort of a glasses wipe cloth/handkerchief covered with blood with an anime girl on it. Reading the title aloud "Heretic… Angel Mochi… Mochi Princess…? Meh whatever, I'll give it to either Minato or Matsu since they are into this sort of thing anyways." He pulled off the cloth and pulled out a small amber coloured bottle. Kenji was looking through the bottle's opening and saw that there was some yellow powder left inside of the bottle, setting it beside the broken cup he poured whatever was left in the bottle on the table and compared it to the yellow powder that was in the cup, on Takeshi's pants and in the little bottle.
"That's strange, that chemical bottle is here… Did Takeshi take the poison for himself…?" Kenji muttered as he noted everything down in his notebook.
~Truth Bullet Obtained: Amber coloured Bottle~
~Truth Bullet Updated: Yellow Powder on Takeshi's Legs~
~Truth Bullet Updated: Missing Chemical Bottle~
Turning on his heel, he left the infirmary and decided to check the kitchen. Maybe there was a connection to Akira's poisoning and the poison that was on the glass and on Takeshi's pant legs, upon entering the Dining Hall he noticed that no one was around but the Professor. She saw him and smiled before leaving the room, but she turned around and faced him "Monokuma said to bring whatever evidence was left after the second class trial, he mentioned something about finding the real purpose behind, Shinichi's death…" and with that she left to join the other students, Kenji just stared at the Professor's back in confusion.
Pulling out his notebook and flipping to the pages that had all the evidence from past trials and even the evidence that Minato had added when he took control of the third trial, he finally found the evidence from their second trial and memorized it all before stuffing his notebook back in his pocket.
~Truth Bullet Obtained: Second Class Trial Evidence~
Entering the kitchen the Lucky Student began to look through the pots and trash, hoping that he could find another piece of evidence that would connect Akira's poisoning to the poison that he found. However as he was going through the trash, he noticed that one of the pots was thrown in the second trash can beside the sink. Pulling it out he saw that the same yellow powder was caked on the bottom of it too, "So… The culprit cooked that dinner for us and put the poison with the food while we weren't looking huh…" Kenji muttered as he peered back into the trashcan and saw another amber coloured bottle.
Setting the pot down he reached in the trash and pulled out the bottle, seeing that the powder inside was white he guessed that this was the missing protein bottle that he was looking for. "…So it seems that the culprit tried to use the protein powder and thought it was poison until they found the real bottle of poison… This case is getting more annoying by the second…" Kenji muttered as he set the bottle down and recorded his evidence in the notebook.
~Truth Bullet Obtained: Cooking Pot caked with poison~
The Lucky Student then heard one of the screens switch on and Monokuma appeared on it, "Upupupu~ alright I hope you gathered all your evidence since the Class Trials will begin immediately! Please make your way to the big red doors on the first floor, see you all there!" He said in a happy tone of voice that was grating to the ears, Kenji sighed and quickly left the kitchen where he ran into Meiko. The two silently made their way to the large doors where the remaining 13 students all stood around and waited for the elevator to arrive
When it finally did arrive, the students all shuffled on it as Kenji slammed his hand down on the button and the Professor closed the doors behind them all. He looked around at his fellow classmates and wondered who the traitors could be, was one of them already dead? Or are they hiding among the remaining students waiting to strike at any moment? Kenji pushed these thoughts to the back of his mind as the elevator descended lower and lower into the school.
"A trial of life and death, a trial which will decide our fates… This trial will prove if we have the guts to convict one of our own again… This is a game of life and death! Let's end this trial."
Chapter 4, Part 2: The Monster Among Us, Abnormal Days… End.
