Kirigiri stood in the middle of the room like she had every right to be there, leaning casually against the bookcase with her arms crossed.
"It certainly took you long enough to notice," she said, unruffled. "I was starting to wonder if I'd need to shake you."
"I hardly expected an intruder in my bedroom in the middle of the night," Togami snapped. He sat up, carefully sliding Naegi off of him, and pushed himself out of bed. If he had to deal with Kirigiri, he wanted the freedom to move. "And you didn't answer my question – what are you doing in here?"
"I came to check on Naegi," she said. "He didn't look like he was doing at all well during the trial."
"No thanks to you," Togami spat at her. "How does that justify breaking in –" He stopped mid-sentence, his own words catching up to him. Kirigiri might be manipulative and obnoxious, but she wasn't stupid. She wouldn't break into a dorm room mere hours after seeing Asahina brutally executed for the same crime. "How did you get in here?"
"Didn't you realize?" she asked. "The door was unlocked."
Togami rolled his eyes. "Don't be ridiculous, it was –"
And then he froze, the events of that evening running through his mind again. Naegi had collapsed just after the door had opened, and it had taken both of Togami's hands to hold him up. He'd kicked the door shut, that was all – and the doors didn't lock automatically.
Kirigiri was right. The door hadn't been locked. He'd been distracted enough by his concern for Naegi's wellbeing to allow them both to fall asleep in a room that hadn't been properly secured.
She raised an insufferably smug eyebrow at him. "Like I said."
Togami glared at her, refusing to admit it out loud. "So you consider an unlocked door to be an invitation?"
"In these circumstances, it might as well be," Kirigiri said, shrugging. "I'm surprised that you of all people would be so careless, after all the fuss you made over Ogami."
"All of which was fully justified," Togami said. "She's an admitted traitor with orders to kill!"
"Exactly," Kirigiri said calmly. "And Monokuma never told us whether the orders still stand, now that the last trial is over. I'd expected you to demand answers about that at the first opportunity."
Togami scowled. So it wasn't enough for her to point out that he'd made a serious mistake – she had to rub salt into the wound as much as she could. She grated on his nerves more than any girl he'd ever met, and he couldn't for the life of him understand why Naegi cared about her opinion at all.
"If you're only here to mock me, then you can get out," he said, crossing his arms. "Actually, you can get out regardless of why you're here. You are not welcome in my bedroom under any circumstances."
"Your bedroom?" Kirigiri glanced pointedly around Naegi's dorm room.
"My point stands," Togami said through gritted teeth.
"Naegi might feel differently."
"If he were awake to hear it, I'm sure he would," Togami snapped, stepping to block her view of the sleeping boy. "Unfortunately for you, he isn't. He collapsed without even making it through the door, because of the injuries he got while alone with you. And if you think that I'm going to entertain even one more word about that self-serving separation you inflicted on us, then –"
"I'm not remotely interested in enforcing that any longer," Kirigiri said, waving a dismissive hand. "I told Naegi as much earlier."
Togami drew back, staring at her suspiciously. He didn't believe for a second that she would retreat on the issue just because of a couple more deaths. "What do you mean?"
"It hardly matters anymore," she said. "I learned what I needed to know. And if Naegi is as badly off as you seem to believe, then it's good that he has someone looking after him. Try not to be so careless about it in the future, though – the next person to sneak through your door might not be so innocent."
"You're about as innocent as a snake." He glared at her. "Now get out."
She gave him a slow smirk before strolling for the door, as if to drive home the point that she was only leaving because she felt like it, not because of his order. He clenched his fists, wishing desperately that he could slap that look off her face – but he knew that the first thing she'd do would be tattle to Naegi about it. Naegi wouldn't understand at all, no matter how obnoxious she was being.
The second Kirigiri was over the threshold, Togami shut the door behind her and locked it with a decisive click. He would have liked to slam it, but that much noise might wake Naegi up. It was a miracle he'd slept through the argument, really – that or a mark of just how badly drained his injuries had left him.
Togami looked over at Naegi, curled up on the side of the bed he hadn't been able to touch while they'd been apart, and an unexpected burst of nausea hit him as the full impact of what had just happened sank in. Kirigiri had been here, in this room, while they were asleep and vulnerable – and she'd been able to do it because he'd left the door open. Careless, she'd called him – well, she'd been right, though he'd bite through his own tongue before telling her so. Forgetting to lock the door had been unforgivably careless, and it was only merest chance that nothing had happened. Kirigiri was bad enough, and he'd have to sort through what she might have meddled with later, but if it had been Genocide Jill or Ogami…
Well, Jill had made no secret of the fact that she'd like to murder him from the day she'd revealed herself. And as for Ogami – who knew what she was thinking now? With Monokuma's order to kill still on the table, she could have seized the opportunity to provide the ransom for whatever hostages the mastermind had threatened.
Although now that he considered the idea – was the order to kill actually still valid? Kirigiri had said it as though it might not be. After all, Monokuma had revealed the order as part of his last incentive assembly – and as far as Togami could work out, the incentives only seemed valid until a murder occurred. They certainly hadn't heard anything further about threats to the outside world, revealing secrets, or promises of money after those motives had caused someone to act. Kirigiri seemed to have concluded that the order for Ogami to kill would be abandoned in the same way – but would it actually be? She couldn't possibly know.
No, there was only one person who could answer the question about whether Ogami's order to kill was still active or not.
Togami looked up into the camera and said, "Monokuma! I want to talk to you."
