Chapter 3: Couple Despair's Lake [Everyday Life 1]

09:07 AM

Yoshida blinked for a while and then got up slowly. She shook her head as looking to her environment. It was her room, of course. She just fell down to her bedroom after finished the trial. She had two friend killed by her two friends and her two friends executed in front of her own eyes, and everyone's. She slowly walked to the bathroom in her room for taking a shower. In no time, she was ready to work. As making her clothes neat, she walked to her door. But when she wanted to open the lock, it was already unlocked.

'I'm sure that I had- oh…' Yoshida remembered. She just fell off to the bed and took a deep sleep yesterday. And, she forgot to close and lock the door. How dumb she was, last night she tried to prevent crying last night, so she quickly rushed to her room.

She peeked to the outside of her room. It was silence, and she didn't know what time was it. She looked to her room's clock, and it was around nine o'clock AM. Just, how did she sleep that long? Maybe an affection of feeling deep inside her heart, she thought.

When she wanted to open the door, someone held the handle of the door and opened the door. Shohi, the one who opened the door moved a little from her way. Yoshida walked to outside, as looking to Shohi's face, then closed the door.

"What are you doing, Shohi?" Yoshida asked as walking to the canteen, and Shohi followed her. He held his forehead and closed his eyes as walking.

"You are really careless," Shohi slowly said, still closing his eyes. "How would you forget to lock your own room and let the danger roaming around!" Shohi glared at Yoshida who only could show a surprised face without replying.

"At any rate, are you alright?" Shohi opened his eyes as looking the other way, avoiding Yoshida's face. "Physically and mentally," Shohi added.

"I can't say I am alright mentally," Yoshida answered honestly, sighed as closing her eyes.

"Did you cry last night?" Shohi asked slowly, as looking Yoshida's face which was all red.

"I-I don't know," Yoshida slowly said, rubbing her own face with handkerchief. "Where are others?"

"The others had their breakfast and now they are exploring other opened area," Shohi explained simply.

"You don't explore?" Yoshida asked straightly.

"I have eaten and explored the city," Shohi explained, as looking to other way.

They came to the cafeteria in the mansion. As Shohi just said, the cafeteria was empty with no one inside, and a bunch of dirty plates was there.

"Who did cook the food?" Yoshida asked slowly as walking to the kitchen, wanted to cook something.

"Wait," Shohi called her, and she stopped her steps. "I'll cook for you,"

"Huh?" Yoshida surprised a bit. "You can cook?"

"Professionally, I can make you the most delicious food if you want" Shohi smirked with confident aura. "Just leave it to me," hearing that, Yoshida just let out a little giggle.

"Wait," Yoshida called him. "Please answer my previous question,"

"Suzuki cooked porridge," Shohi explained, without glance at her as entering the kitchen. Yoshida just stayed silent, waiting with sitting on the chair.

'Did he hit his head pretty hard? He seemed pretty bright but when I looked him the first time in this day, he seemed pretty tired,'

Yoshida sat on the plain chair that didn't have any dirty plates. But when she looked to the dirty plates, something popped in her mind.

'He lied. If they ate porridge, they must use bowls,'

09:15 AM

Miyazaki looked to his electronic handbook, and it was showing a map of third area. He just sighed since the area wasn't that large. The places that had all people's interest were only a large green park with a big lake and game center, oh and some abandoned places that opened. Now, he was on the way to the mansion since he finished exploring.

If he remembered, Jake, Kawashima, and Motoro were checking the abandoned places, some of them like Yusaburu, Kamiyara, Suzuki, Hiyayaka, and Hanenagai paid a visit to the park with the big lake, and the left like Makabe, Abe, Kitae, Miyazaki, and Ikeda visited the carnival game center. Yoshida and Shohi haven't met them from that morning. They planned to go back to the mansion around ten o'clock AM since the area wasn't that huge as they expected, oh plus discussing about Olwen's Map.

"Miyazaki," a girl voice called Miyazaki's name, and the weapon master looked to the back. Ikeda was standing behind him. "Do you want to go back to the mansion?"

"Yeah, it was pain in the ass so I want to go to the mansion sooner," Miyazaki answered as yawning. "Why?"

"Nothing," Ikeda shook her head. "Just, can I go with you and discuss something?"

Miyazaki nodded as looking to Ikeda. He entered the Monokuma Train that parked nearby, and Ikeda followed him behind. The train started to move and had the mansion as destination.

"So, what do you want to discuss?" Miyazaki looked to Ikeda who sat next to him.

"I don't know…" Ikeda simply mumbled.

"Did you say you want to discuss? Just let it out!" Miyazaki smiled, with some little giggles.

"I'm very sorry if I pry your privacy or something," Ikeda slowly sighed, thinking if that question that she wanted to ask right or not. "You seemed… very off,"

"Huh?"

"I think around this week if I remember, it was day of new term in normal school, and you came to survivors around that time too," Ikeda remembered their past times.

When they tried to survive in the middle of despair, the first party members of SHSLs were Yoshida, Shohi, Ikeda, Kawashima, Jake, and Olwen which were together in the same time in the same place. And the second party members were Miyazaki, Sei, Makabe, Fujiosuki, Kitae, Hiyayaka, and Suzuki, and the people left were the third party that actually had found some other survivors and survived with them. And then they tried to work together to fight despair.

"But when that time, you seemed very desperate in the deep of your eyes, and now… those do the same," Ikeda said slowly with sadness eyes, written in the deep of her eyes. "What have happened? You could tell me," she smiled thinly. She put all warmth that she might save for him for cheer him up, and tried to light him up.

When she looked to his face again, he was silent with no slightest expression, gazed to her face, only object to be looked. His hands slowly moved, and touched her shoulders. Cold sensation from his big hands made her shudder a little. His eyes which were usually fiery bright red, now full with crimson abyss color.

"Why…" Miyazaki seemed murmuring it to himself, continuing the stare that dark as abyss to Ikeda. Her body couldn't move, even her brain forced to do it.

"You… You!" Miyazaki shouted as moving his hand to Ikeda's neck, and gripped it as he wanted to kill someone with choking them to death. Ikeda couldn't see that move, and ended feeling the pain that stuck in her throat. Her breath's space stopped, and her heart's beats were very fast.

"Mi-Miya-Miyazaki! St-Stop!" Ikeda tried to get off his hands with pulled those with her own hands. And it was success, Miyazaki unreleased his grip and Ikeda didn't get choked. Because the surprise, Ikeda fell down to the train's floor and hit her head pretty hard, and she still had her consciousness. When she tried to get up, her eyes met the crimson eyes on her top which were very far, but the deep of his eyes sucked her consciousness to feel pain. But she tried to get off from that gaze and started to feel pain. Her right hand was gripped hardly and the bones inside wanted to get broken by cold strong, weapon master's grip. He wrote a big scary grin, again.

"HAHAHAHA! You know what?!The feelings that he has for you is something suck! HEAHAHAHA! And any rate I miss some blood from a suck mortal! Well, let's-" Before Miyazaki could finish, Ikeda hit his belly with strong kick, caused Miyazaki stopped talking and fainted. He fell to her body. Well, Ikeda actually didn't care about his weight, but something that she cared was something that just happened.

'Why did he…?' Before she finished her question, Miyazaki regained his consciousness and got up from her body. Now, his eyes were normal as he had, fiery red.

"Ukh…" Miyazaki held his head. When he noticed he was on Ikeda's body, slight pink blush was written on his face.

"SORRY IKEDA! Are you alright?" Miyazaki stood up from her and let a hand to help Ikeda got up. Ikeda still could feel a slight pain in her head and wrist. When she touched his hand, it wasn't cold as a while ago.

"My right wrist hurts," she honestly said since she was afraid to lie.

"Hurt? Are you twisted your hand in accident?" Miyazaki asked innocently, made a question mark in Ikeda's head. He just almost broke her wrist, and now he said that she just twisted it in accident? "Oh, maybe your wrist hit something when I fell, didn't it?"

"Umh… yeah…" she lied, since she was afraid to keep that "thing" that just happened.

"Oh, I'm sorry! Wait a minute," Miyazaki took something from his blazer's pocket. It was a bundle of bandage. Slowly and gently, Miyazaki wrapped it around the right hand that he "unconsciously" almost broke. It took no time to wrap the wound.

"Done! Now, feel better?" Miyazaki cheerfully asked, as he always did. Ikeda just nodded lightly, since it was much better with the bandage wrapped on her wound and the light smile from Miyazaki.

"Ah, there's the mansion! Come on!" Miyazaki smiled to her and waited for her to stand up. She slowly stood up and followed cheerful Miyazaki.

09:20

Yoshida looked to opened door's kitchen. Shohi brought a bowl of something that she couldn't look to the inside. Shohi served it on the table.

"Don't protest," Shohi said as looking to other way, avoiding Yoshida's sight. Yoshida stared to the food that he had served.

It was a bowl of instant noodles with some vegetables.

"This is sure professional," Yoshida giggled lightly, and Shohi still looked to random way for avoiding his face got a Yoshida's sight.

"Itadakimasu," Yoshida said with some little giggles, and ate it. Shohi looked to Yoshida who focused eating the instant noodles. His face was full of red as tomato. How could he say he was professional and cooked instant noodles? He wanted to cook more than just this but it would take longer time and he was a bit afraid that Yoshida had starvation.

"Thanks for the food," Yoshida said, had finished the noodles.

"You really thanked me for that?" Shohi smirked as little chuckles came out from his mouth.

"If you don't make it, I will die in starvation," Yoshida simply said, like death in starvation wasn't her problem.

"You can make yourself, can't you?" Shohi slightly said.

"You said that you want to cook for me," Yoshida smiled thinly.

"Huh," Shohi smirked arrogantly. "Better to thank me more,"

"Thank you for your food I could die in starvation if you didn't cook for me thank you," Yoshida thanked straightly without heart.

"Put some hearts on it," Shohi sounded like commanding.

"No way," Yoshida snapped the command.

"Then you give back the feeling for save from starvation,"

"Do you mean you want me to vomit all things that I had eaten?"

"Then pay your savior by make me save from my starvation,"

"Are you my savior?"

"I WAS your savior,"

"And what do you want to make you satisfied?"

"Anybody hereeeeeeeeee?" Miyazaki's voice shouted from outside, before banging the door, opening the door, showing Miyazaki's tall figure and Ikeda's average figure that followed him behind.

"Yoshida! Where have you been?" Miyazaki straightly asked. "You all didn't come to the cafeteria when breakfast came. So, all seemed worried,"

'You all? Including Shohi? Shohi must be lying all this time that he had explored the city,' Yoshida slowly thought, as looking to Shohi's face which fell a drop of sweat.

"And any rate, are you two alright?" Miyazaki asked, without noticing Yoshida had glared Shohi all the time.

"So… you have been lying all this time, SHOHI," Yoshida put a scary, dark, face which was a little act. "Why don't you tell me WHAT reason you HAVE to lie?"

"Why must you put scary face?" Shohi was a bit stuttered. But when he noticed Yoshida's face really intimidated his mind. "Okay, I will tell," and then, he slowly exhaled a big long breath.

"You didn't lock your door that night so I kept it in front of your door ALL night," Shohi seemed irritated. "Satisfied?" and then, Yoshida's face turned to a bright, with teary eyes.

"S-Shohi…" and then, she made a tear fell.

"At any rate, you should stay here first," Ikeda suggested. "At ten o'clock, people will gather in here,"

"Oh, okay," Yoshida simply said, and then turned her head to Shohi which was beside her. "Do you want to eat?"

"No, I had-"

GROWL

"Uh oh, seemed that your stomach needs some food," Yoshida said, with a little giggle. Shohi was embarrassed a little since his stomach was really honest.

"I will cook for others too," Yoshida said as entering the kitchen.

It was a little after ten o'clock AM. Suzuki who was checking the park with a big lake with Yusaburu, Kamiyara, Hiyayaka, and Hanenagai was on the Monokuma Train, going back to the mansion. They just discussed about the things that they had found on the lake in the train.

"Well, someone found something?" Kamiyara started the discussion.

"I don't find anything important, just a large park with a big lake," Hiyayaka explained.

"Same here," Yusaburu simply said. "There wasn't anything wrong with that place,"

"But, I think I had a guess," Hanenagai said. "Something is hidden, either in the lake or buried in the ground,"

"Yeah, I don't think Monokuma would make such useless place like that," Yusaburu said. "I mean, Monokuma always had a plan and every of it must have a hidden meaning,"

"So… Monokuma really hides something in either that place," Suzuki concluded. "Or not,"

"Yeah, that guy is really insane," Yusaburu sighed, and everyone there did the same.

"Oh yeah! After we arrived, why won't we play a game?" Hanenagai suggested. "We must relax for some times!"

"Yeah! I think it's a great idea!" Hiyayaka agreed.

"Well everyone! Come to computer room! I had so many presents for ya bastard!"

And then, they all sighed. That was just Monokuma.

"Why does he always interrupt the fun part?" Yusaburu shouted.

"There isn't any help for being angry, let's go to the computer room," Suzuki advised a little.

"Why does he? Is he that impatient?" Hanenagai asked.

"I don't know, but remember what he told about present in previous motive?" Kamiyara said. "He said that there are some presents that await us?"

"He didn't say like that, but the point is right!" Hiyayaka agreed. "What do we do? Should we obey him?"

"We should obey him, since we are hostages and he could kill us all time. Remember when Miyazaki wanted to beat him and he exploded?" Yusaburu said. "Or some of us have seen Miyazaki fought with Monokuma and he almost pierced him by spears,"

"BY SPEARS?!" Suzuki surprised. "Is he… alright with that?"

"He didn't get fatal injury that time, but…" Kamiyara stopped. "I don't know,"

"Hey, ya bastards!" a squeaky voice that owned by the monochrome mayor appeared, and then he just stood up near them. "The present will expired, ya know! If ya all keep gossiping!"

"This is not gossiping," Hiyayaka said. "This is feeling to caring each other,"

"Stop your blabbering, weather gurl," Monokuma angered a bit. "I AM really impatient to wait the gossip ends! So, if I don't see ya bastards' face in five minutes in computer room, I will makesure that punishment awaits ya all!" And then, he disappeared.

"WAIT, FIVE MINUTES?!" Hiyayaka surprised. "Better run first!" And then Hiyayaka ran as fast as lightning as grabbing Suzuki's hand, which followed her running.

"W-Wait!" Hanenagai followed them. And then, there were only Yusaburu and Kamiyara.

"We should go!" Yusaburu shouted. "Hey, care if I take you in bridal style?"

"If you don't mind," Kamiyara giggled. And then, Yusaburu lifted the not-to-heavy Kamiyara's body, and then ran as a groom brought his bride and got chased by dogs.

Then, Hiyayaka was the first one who arrived in computer room, as controlling her breath, still grabbing Suzuki's hand who followed her running.

"Damn it, Monokuma," Hiyayaka cursed in her uncontrolled breaths.

"Yup, a minute and three seconds, new record! You got the reward," Monokuma said as appeared in front of her after she blinked. He gave her a headphone that unplugged from the computer.

"Are you crazy?" Hiyayaka snapped. "This is the reward of breaking the lame record?!"

"Of course, this is magic thing that can make you hear something when you plugged it to your PC and wear it," Monokuma smiled a little.

"Huh," and then she sat on nearby empty seats.

"Monokuma, what are you intending to do?" Suzuki slowly said, still controlling her breaths,

"Giving ya bastards presents," Monokuma chuckled.

"What presents?" Suzuki asked in curiosity.

"It's a secret, ya know, just sit there," Monokuma giggled again as pointing a seat for Suzuki. Suzuki took that seat and sat on it.

And then, Monokuma just stayed silent as waiting the others came.

The computer room filled with the remaining survivors, which had sat their own seat. They faced to the each monitor. Monokuma stood up in front of everyone, was wearing headphone.

"So, ya bastards turned on the computer," Monokuma instructed, and Yoshida turned the computer on slowly. The screen was blank, but slowly image appeared, showing gym of Kibougamine Gakuen, and… there were fifteen students, and had familiar faces, caught all hopes survivors' attentions.

"This is in Kibougamine Gakuen!" Ikeda surprised a little, her eyes fixed to single monitor.

"What are you planning?" Shohi hissed from his seat.

"Oh, nothing," Monokuma giggled a little.

"On the monitor, there are fifteen students? It's supposed to be sixteen, I heard from my old friend," Kawashima explained. "Oh wait, he is here with everyone in his class except a student,"

"MUKURO!" Makabe and Miyazaki said in same time, which caught a little surprise of them, all of them.

"Wait, do you know Mukuro, Miyazaki?" Makabe questioned.

"Yeah, and you know her too?" Miyazaki questioned back.

"Well, we kinda went to a date," Makabe explained, which caught Miyazaki's big surprise.

"I DON'T KNOW SHE DID THAT," Miyazaki pressed all of that sentence's words.

"Oh right, there is Kirigiri!" Makabe surprised a little.

"You know her?" Shohi questioned, surprised a bit.

"Yeah, Kirigiri… I have known her because I have met his father and he was like taking care of me," Makabe explained, in the end of the sentence, there was a wave of sadness. "After that incident,"

"Sorry to ask, but what accident?" Suzuki asked slowly.

"That accident is something that I don't know," Makabe explained. "Then it must be happened before I got amnesia,"

"Something's wrong," Hanenagai said slowly. "Who knows Enoshima?"

"Enoshima Junko that is Super High School Level Fashion Girl?' Kamiyara confirmed. "Well, I'm sure I know,"

"Her face is different, look yourself," Hanenagai said as pointing to paused screen on his computer's seat. It was pretty different.

"It's somewhat like Mukuro!" Miyazaki said, angered. "Don't say that-"

"Upupu, you betcha," Monokuma giggled a little.

"Enoshima Junko is the one who is responsible to 'Mankind's Most Despairingly Maleficent and Monstrous Malefaction' and despairing project!" Monokuma shouted. "Don't forget yer Ikusaba Mukuro!"

"I know it!" Hanenagai hit the table hardly. "Enoshima is the one of many peoplle who responsible to this! Kuro and Shiro told me when she bombed our home land!"

"I do remember that Mukuro and Junko are a pair of twins," Miyazaki added.

"Yup, she is our leader, and they are one of Super High School Level Despair," Monokuma giggled. "So do you know what if they hang out with all of your deary friends?"

"So, things that happened to us must be happening to them?" Yoshida concluded. "And you must be one of important staff of them?"

"Upupu, I can't tell," Monokuma grinned mischievously. "I'm here just for tell ya bastards that big hint!"

"I remember that all of them remembered each other," Motoro said. "But now?"

"They don't know each other, and I bet they recently woke up from their topic," Kitae looked to the monitor. "There is no other way than you made them amnesia about their life!"

"I can't tell ya bastards more than that," Monokuma giggled a little.

"So, you did this to me, too?" Abe suddenly spoke up. "You make me amnesia and left only my title and how to control my body?"

"…" Monokuma was silent, no more giggles.

"Wait, you got amnesia and left only title?"Miyazaki looked to Abe. "Then, your name?"

"Oh that?" Abe only sighed. "I was given by my dream, I am not sure that it's even my real name,"

"Sorry to hear that," Makabe looked to the emptiness golden eye of Abe's.

"No, that's fine. Amnesia never hurt your mental after all," Abe smiled a little.

"Stop your jibber-jabber, I need to give ya bastards another present," Monokuma brought a box from nowhere and opened the box, and that box filled with SIM Cards.

"So, this is ya bastards' Phone SIM Cards," Monokuma said as taking one with purple-ish color. "Use it for ya bastards' phone. Use it or not, look I care,"

"So, we can use our cell phones?" Yusaburu asked a little, hoping something.

"But it can't browse anything in network, they use MONOKUMA NETWORK!" Monokuma shouted louder that he should, make them closed their own ears.

"This can be used for your phone to text one of us, but of course it won't be happening to outside world," Monokuma explained. "So, let's say good bye!" And then, he disappeared.

"So, which one is which?" Yoshida said as looking to that box. "Who knows this color is someone's?"

"There is a paper that identified the card!" Jake said as handing nearby people, Hiyayaka a paper. "Here!"

"Lemme readthis!" Hiyayaka said as reading that paper loudly.

YOSHIDA: SEA BLUE

MIYAZAKI: BROWNISH RED

IKEDA: SPRING GREEN

KAMIYARA: DARK GREY

YUSABURU: CYAN

HIYAYAKA: SKY BLUE

SHOHI: PURPLE

JAKE: MARACHINO RED

KAWASHIMA: LIGHT GREY

MOTORO: LEMON YELLOW

KITAE: HONEYDEW GREEN

MAKABE: SALMON PINK

ABE: FLORA GREEN

SUZUKI: BUBBLEGUM PINK

"Salmon Pink," Makabe said, a bit disappointed.

"Makabe-kun, it is nice, isn't it?" Abe said, almost like teasing. "You are somewhat like a girl, so salmon pink isn't your problem?"

"Abe-kun! Please I'm a man, gentleman!" Makabe angered, which actually a joke that he threw to Abe's joke.

"Wait, I am not that pro on color since I haven't gone too much to salon!" Hiyayaka said as looking the list of SIM cards' color. "Kitae, you are an art prodigy, which must know a lot of colors! You can do it!"

"What?!" Kitae surprised a bit. "You don't have to fall all jobs to me!"

"Don't be lazing around and do what you can!" Hiyayaka supported. "You can do it! You can do it!"

"Fine," Kitae huffed as walking closer to the box. "I will do it," And she finished in some little minutes. Everyone took their own card and some of them thanked Kitae, which the art prodigy ignored.

Yoshida was in the kitchen, waiting for lunch and cooked some little snacks, like some bread and covered it with little non-sweet jam and drank a cup of black tea. It was calming, since there was no one there.

"Oh hello Ikeda, not notice you there," Yoshida said as looking to long black haired analyst which looked to her own bandaged wrist.

"Wait, what happened, Ikeda?" Yoshida looked to the analyst's bandaged wrist.

"Nothing in particular," Ikeda said calmly, but her tone sounded hiding something and escaping conversation. "Just a little accident,"

"Hmm," Yoshida hummed a little. "Do you want some of mocha?"

"Sure, if you don't mind," Ikeda nodded a little after saying that. Then Yoshida walked a little there, and picked a cup of mocha coffee. She walked to the table where they sat on the seats near it.

"Here you are," Yoshida put it on the table, and Ikeda could only reply with a little smile. The analyst took it, but the pain that caused by "something" appeared suddenly, and her hand was stiff all sudden and fell the cup to the floor with some mocha and so got broken, and she could only whimpered the pain.

"Are you alright?" Yoshida looked to Ikeda's hand. "I don't think a little accident happened!"

"No, this is alright," Ikeda tried to smile, and Yoshida just stunned by that smile.

"Don't lie, I know you hate liar," Yoshida slowly said, trying to calm her.

"Oh, uh, this is because a lot of accidents," Ikeda smiled a little, trying to make it more believable.

"…" Yoshida stayed in silent. "Well, I will clean the mess first,"

'Thank goodness she didn't notice!' Ikeda thought, since she didn't want to tell the big incident. She stood up and cleaned her clothes from the mess. Not so long, Yoshida had broom and papers. She dried the mocha by paper for absorbing and wiping the mocha without getting it with the broken glasses, and swept the broken glasses of cup with the broom and brought it to trash room. And in no so long time, she was back with things that she used had put in the proper places.

"Ikeda, I met Shohi on the way and he said he want to meet him in the bath room, along with Miyazaki," Yoshida said near the mouth of the entrance. "He said we must call Miyazaki first,"

Ikeda gulped when she said that. She didn't mean that she didn't want to meet him, just… she didn't feel right.

"I… I will wait in the bath room," Ikeda slowly said. "Yoshida… please call him alone without me,"

"?" Yoshida hummed a question. But she didn't like to ask, so she just did what Ikeda told.

Ikeda and Shohi were waiting in the bathroom, not too long though. They just waited there around a little over five minutes ago, and now Shohi didn't feel more patience in him, since it's important. And then, Yoshida and Miyazaki came in to the bath room.

"So, what the heck do you want, asshort?" Miyazaki asked in harsh manner, seemed he had woken up. "Be quick, I want to sleep,"

"If you talk too much, I won't start, Plebeiyazaki," Shohi hissed.

"Both of you, don't mouth-fight or we never start," Yoshida interrupted, and they seemed clicked their tongue.

"So, what do you want, Shohi?" Ikeda asked slowly.

"Oh, here," Shohi handed something. "What do you think?"

And then, their eyes rose up.

NOTE

IT'S STARTING.

I don't have to say right now, sorry for this little hiatus and might be weird chapter. And something you don't feel right must be here,

Oh, and Happy Birthday to Tanaka Gundam (and me)! His birthday is around December 14th, right?

Little question, what SHSL's title do you want to be yours (And maybe dream or maybe suit you)?