CLASS TRIAL: IN SESSION!
"Puhuhu, here we are!" Monokuma said, fist pumping to the air. "The final class trial! An epic heartpounding ending to the killing game! What will happen? Will the students be able to figure out the identity of the so called mastermind and get to leave? Or will they fail and be executed? Either way, there will be kills!"
"Who are you talking to?" Eunji groaned.
"Just to be clear.." Miyumi said. "If we do figure out who the mastermind is, you will actually execute yourself? No slippering around and getting yourself out of it?"
"There hasn't been an execution in the past two cases! I am a bear of my word! If I lose, I'll be executed!" Monokuma replied.
"Okay... so... where do we even begin?" Yeeun asked.
"Well... how about we start with who the mastermind can be...?" Naomori asked.
Okay... this is it...
The debate to find the mastermind is about to begin...
I'm sure we can do this...
We will find them!
-NON-STOP DEBATE!-
-START!-
"So... the mastermind..." Miyumi said.
"The person behind this whole killing game..." Youngjae said.
"Who can they be?" Izumi asked.
"Well... I think there's an obvious answer in some regard..." Naomori said.
"What's that?" Yeeun asked.
"It can't be one of the dead students." Naomori replied.
"THAT'S WRONG!"
-BREAK-
"No... I don't think so." Eunji said.
"Eh?" Naomori asked.
"I mean... think about it." Eunji said. "Naomori, did you investigate the morgue?"
"Right, that place..." Naomori said. "I think I did, but by myself."
"Yeah, pretty sure I saw Naomori go downstairs towards the dorms." Youngjae said.
"So, everyone saw it?" Eunji asked.
"In our own seperate times, yes." Youngjae replied.
"Okay, so here's something I noticed..." Eunji said. "There were 16 freezers in there, one for each of us."
"Yeah...?" Naomori asked.
"9 of us have died, correct?" Eunji asked.
"Well, yes, I can do math." Naomori said. "What's the deal?"
"One of the freezers was empty." Eunji replied. "Which means that someone could actually not be dea-"
"Your theory is wrong!"
ARGUE!
NAOMORI
"Whoa, now isn't that a little farfetched?" Naomori asked.
"How so?" The idol questioned.
"I mean... isn't it entirely possible there was an empty freezer because there just wasn't a body to store?"
"I don't get what you mean." The idol replied.
"Lemme explain..." The herbalist stated.
-REBUTTAL SHOWDOWN!-
-TRUTH BLADES!-
-START!-
"I mean, let's really think about it..."
"Of all the executions and bodies we found..."
"There is one person who possibly isn't in there!"
ADVANCE!
"You're being kinda vague..."
"So like..."
"Could you get on with it?!"
"I didn't think I'd have to spell it out for you..."
"You know who's body is missing, because they don't have a body...?"
"KAZUHIKO! He was incinerated!"
"I'LL CUT DOWN YOUR WORDS!"
-BREAK!-
"No, that's incorrect." Eunji said. "Monokuma himself told me that Kazuhiko was still stored in a freezer despite his... grotesque execution."
"Really?" Naomori said. "But... that doesn't make sense...?"
"Maybe it was Takashi's body that was missing?" Izumi said.
"Um, do you see his body here?" Seungyeon asked. "In case you forgot, Takashi literally died here!"
"Besides, that doesn't make any sense." Miyumi said. "Kaori and Takashi died on the same day. Why would there be one body missing if they cleaned them up at the same time?"
"So... what you're saying is... someone who died... didn't actually die?" Youngjae said. "I'm sorry but... t-that's crazy...!"
"But it would make sense." Eunji said.
"Um..." Yeeun fell silent. "Isn't it just possible that they forgot to store a body?"
"No, I don't think so." Eunji said.
"Why not? Monokuma and the Ultimate Despair have shown they're utterly incompetent when it comes to this stuff..."
No... I know that it isn't possible... because...
~~HANGMAN'S GAMBIT~~
What shows that Monokuma and the Ultimate Despair have some level of care when it comes to the class trials?
The _
M
CORRECT!
"NOW I UNDERSTAND!"
-BREAK!-
"Don't you remember? The evidence room we were in." Eunji said. "Monokuma and his group went through the effort of collecting every little thing from the cases. So it's not really farfetched to believe they would make sure they actually collected every body for those cases!"
"Yeah, that's right, actually..." Yeeun replied. "Huh..."
"But... to think that someone who died is actually alive..." Izumi said somberly.
Yeah...
My mind wonders to everyone that has died...
They all died... and we saw it with our own eyes...
Jutaro was stabbed, Reika was cut to death, Ichiro had his throat slit, Ayaka was shot, Masahito was strangled, Kazuhiko was incinerated, Hirokazu was poisoned, Kaori was stabbed and poisoned, and Takashi killed himself...
They're all dead...
So...
"Maybe... I'm wrong..." Eunji said.
"Eunji." Miyumi said. "You know the truth. I can see it in your eyes. So please, tell us."
I... know the truth?
-NON-STOP DEBATE!-
-START!-
"I mean, the others have to be dead." Izumi said. "We saw them die."
"Yeah." Naomori replied. "Jutaro is dead, we all saw his body."
"Reika is dead, she was cut to death in front of us." Izumi said.
"Ichiro is dead, he was lying on a puddle of his own blood." Seungyeon said.
"Ayaka is dead, she was shot and killed by a poison dart." Naomori replied.
"THAT'S WRONG!"
-BREAK-
"I..." Eunji said. "We're not exactly sure that Ayaka was shot with a poison dart, after all."
"Huh?" Naomori said.
"According to my investigation, the poison dart didn't smell anything like poison." Miyumi said.
"Well, to be fair... it was used like a month ago." Naomori said. "Poison doesn't last that long."
"Still, I believe that Ayaka's execution isn't all it was cracked up to be." The detective stated.
"What does that mean?" Seungyeon said. / "I am confused." Izumi stated. / "Um... what...?" Naomori asked.
"You mean..." Seungyeon / "Ayaka is...?" Izumi / "ALIVE!?" Naomori
-MASS PANIC DEBATE!-
-START!-
"But that's impossible!" Seungyeon. / "How could she possibly be alive?" Izumi / "Just because the poison wasn't on it now doesn't mean she was never poisoned!"
"How exactly is it impossible?" Miyumi / "I mean... a lot of weirder things happen." Youngjae / "I can see your point, but things aren't always as they seem." Yeeun
"I mean... we saw it... didn't we!?" Seungyeon / "Yeah but... for her to be alive..." Izumi / "What do you mean by that?" Naomori said.
"We did, but we could have been deceived." Miyumi / "It does sound farfetched, but..." Youngjae / "I mean, what if the poison was ineffective?" Yeeun
"I HEARD IT!"
-BREAK!-
"Yeeun has a point." Eunji said. "Remember that note we found? Most of the words were erased, but from what Miyumi read, we can easily make out what it was supposed to say."
"That being?" Naomori asked.
"Poison was not effective, must retry." Miyumi said. "Whoever was developing the poison dart must have tried it on a subject, and well... it didn't work."
"Okay, but... there wasn't a date or anything." Naomori said. "It could have been at anytime."
"Why would they keep something that's old?" Eunji said. "Besides, we found it at the second desk!"
"I can confirm that everything at the evidence desks were relevant to the cases!" Monokuma said. "Although, darn... we forgot to get rid of that note..." He raised a claw. "But we weren't expecting you kiddos to snoop around so soon!"
"So..." Youngjae said. "You mean to tell me that... Ayaka is alive...?"
Ayaka... alive...?
Could that really be true...?
But... after everything we went through together...
"Let's get one thing straight, though." Miyumi said. "Just because Ayaka is alive, it doesn't necessarily mean she's the mastermind."
!
"What do you mean?" Yeeun asked. "Who else could it be?"
"Yeah, wouldn't it make sense for the mastermind to fake their own death so that they can work from the shadows?" Naomori asked.
"That does sound reasonable." Youngjae replied.
Hold on...
But that doesn't make sense...
"Why would Ayaka send Ichiro after her?" Eunji asked.
"It could be possible that her entire story was fabricated." Naomori said.
"No, that actually sounds a bit too far." Miyumi said. "We have all the facts of the case. Ayaka was innocent."
And let's not forget...
Question Time: What else proves that Ayaka isn't the mastermind?
A. Her personality.
B. The murder weapon.
C. The 7-5-1 vote
"That's it!"
"Don't you remember? The vote during the class trial!" Eunji said. "It was 7-5-1, putting Ayaka in the majority!"
"Huh, you're right..." Naomori said.
"But we're running off the assumption that Ayaka is alive." Izumi said. "I'm sorry, Eunji, I know she was close with you and all, but it's still utterly ridiculous to believe that she survived her execution."
"But don't we already have the evidence?" Eunji said. "The poison dart was ineffective, it said that."
"Doesn't necessarily mean she's still alive." The hacker replied. "The Ultimate Despair could have killed her, after all."
But... that doesn't seem right...
SELECT A TRUTH BULLET!
SELECTED – Eunji's Memory
"Here's my answer!"
"But..." Eunji fell silent. "You guys remember when I was sent to the Ultimate Despair's hospital?"
"Yeah..?" Izumi asked.
"Well... I could have sworn I saw another room in there... and it was occupied..."
The hacker pondered for a bit. "But that doesn't mean it belonged to Ayaka. It could have just been another member of the Ultimate Despair."
!
"Yeah... Izumi makes sense." Naomori said.
"I'm sorry, Eunji, but..." Yeeun said. "She is right..."
"Heh." Seungyeon said. "Yeah, why would they care for somebody who wasn't one of them?"
"But we can't be so sure." Miyumi said. "After all, there was a lot more to Ayaka than we thought."
"Huh?" Eunji asked.
"I'm not saying she was a part of the Ultimate Despair, but there was something special about her." The detective said.
"I agree." Youngjae replied. "Ayaka is a bigger piece to this puzzle than we think."
Ugh... I feel like we're going to get nowhere if we're not on the same page!
HOLD ON!
"Puhuhu! It seems like you kiddos are split!" Monokuma remarked. "Looks like for the final time, it's time for the debate scrum!"
Yes...
We need to do this...
We can't move on if nobody believes that Ayaka is still alive!
The podiums started to slowly depart the main class trial room, going in a line towards another room in the class trial set. Eventually, all podiums split even into a 8-8 left-right side, showing a split between the students.
Topic: "Is Ayaka alive?"
Left side: "She isn't!": Naomori, Seungyeon, Yeeun, Izumi, Reika, Kazhuiko, Ichiro, Masahito.
Right side: "She is!": Eunji, Miyumi, Youngjae, Takashi, Kaori, Hirokazu, Ayaka, Jutaro
-DEBATE SCRUM START!-
"I'm sorry, it just doesn't make sense." Izumi said.
I got this!
"It doesn't matter if it makes sense or not, truth is what it is!" Eunji said.
"But to believe that Ayaka is alive after we watched her execution..." Yeeun said.
Miyumi!
"Is it really so hard to believe that the poison dart used in her execution failed?" Miyumi asked.
"But even so, couldn't they have just killed her anyways?" Seungyeon asked.
Youngjae!
"But according to Eunji, she saw an occupied room in the hospital." Youngjae said. "If they had just killed her, there wouldn't have been a hospital room!"
"But Eunji's memory could have been fuzzy." Naomori said. "And even, who's to say it belongs to Ayaka?"
I got this!
"But there's so much more to Ayaka than we know, if you let us discuss this some more everything can be clear!" Eunji said.
-CROUCH BIND!-
"THIS IS OUR ANSWER!"
-BREAK-
"Fine." Izumi said. "Let's continue along the lines that Ayaka is alive..."
"I mean, we already know there's an empty freezer bed." Eunji said. "Which means that somebody who died isn't actually dead. We know that Ayaka's poison dart didn't work the way it intended, why is it so farfetched to believe she survived?"
"Well..." Izumi said. "If Ayaka survived... why wouldn't she be here?"
!
"Huh..." Youngjae thought for a bit. "I mean... if you meant to execute someone and they didn't actually die, wouldn't you feel embarrased to just let them go back like nothing happened?"
"Yeah, Youngjae is right." Miyumi said.
"You know what? Let's think about to case 2." Seungyeon said. "Maybe that'll clear things up."
"Yes, sounds right." Eunji said. "And maybe... just maybe... after we clear it up... we can get closer to discovering the mastermind!"
-NON-STOP DEBATE!-
-START!-
"So... it all began with Ichiro trying to kill Ayaka." Seungyeon said.
"And Ayaka fought back and disarmed him..." Izumi said.
"And Ichiro used Ayaka's hand to kill himself!" Youngjae said.
"But what does it all matter? Why would Ichiro do that?" Naomori said.
"Hmm..." Miyumi pondered.
"It could be that Ichiro wasn't actually himself." Seungyeon said.
CONSENT!
SEUNGYEON&EUNJI
"I agree with that!"
-BREAK-
"That actually makes a lot of sense." Eunji said. "Miyumi herself said that she believes Ichiro wasn't acting out of his own free will."
"What, for real?" Izumi asked. "But what could cause him to act like that?"
I know this...
SELECT A TRUTH BULLET!
SELECTED – The Ultimate Hypnotist
"Here's my answer!"
"Don't you guys remember? Jutaro was the Ultimate Hypnotist." Eunji said. "He specialized in this kind of stuff."
"Hold on... are you saying that JUTARO is still alive?" Naomori asked.
"No." Eunji said. "I'm saying that it was someone els-"
"That is an error I cannot ignore!"
ARGUE!
YEEUN
"E-Eh?!" Eunji was shocked by this sudden objection.
"Okay... so..." Yeeun said. "How can you think that someone else besides Jutaro could have hypnotised Ichiro?"
"I was going to explain it..." Eunji said. "You see-"
"I don't think any others could have been as efficient as him." Yeeun said.
"I'll show it to you." Eunji said.
-REBUTTAL SHOWDOWN!-
-TRUTH BLADES!-
-START!-
"I understand your intention..."
"But hypnotism is such a strong talent to learn..."
"You have to be good like Jutaro, but he's dead."
ADVANCE!
"But Ichiro was totally weakminded."
"I think even an amatuer could have hypnotised him into doing whatever they wanted!"
"Don't you agree?"
"While that does make sense..."
"Hypnotising him into killing is way too big of a hurdle!"
"I don't think there's anyone capable of doing that!"
"I'LL CUT DOWN YOUR WORDS!"
-BREAK!-
"No, that's wrong." Eunji said. "According to Miyumi, Jutaro was actually teaching hypnotism to other people."
"Oh?" Yeeun asked.
"Yeah, and sure you probably wouldn't become a pro, but wouldn't you be very efficient at it if you were taught by the greatest hypnotist himself?" Eunji replied.
"Yeah... that does make sense." The songwriter replied.
"So... who did he teach hypnotism to?" Naomori asked.
"He taught it to Miyumi, Ayaka, Takashi, Youngjae, Naomori, and Seungyeon." Eunji replied.
"There it is, Ayaka again." Naomori said. "Any notice the strange link between her?"
"But according to Eunji's testimony, Ayaka was hospitalized." Miyumi said. "There's no way she could be doing everything in the bed!"
"Hmm..." Youngjae pondered for a bit.
"I'm pretty sure the evidence was collected by the mastermind themselves." Eunji said. "If Ayaka is hospitalized, there's no way she could do that all by herself!"
"Okay... so... maybe these people know hypnotism... but what does it matter?" Izumi asked.
-NON-STOP DEBATE!-
-START!-
"What do you mean, Izumi?" Miyumi asked.
"I mean exactly that, so some of us got hynotism skills, it doesn't exactly prove anything." Izumi said. "We know Jutaro is dead, and we know Ichiro was somehow made to attack Ayaka..."
"Yeah...?" Seungyeon said.
"But I don't believe there's anything to prove that he was hypnotised." Izumi replied.
"THAT'S WRONG!"
-BREAK-
"Don't you recall?" Eunji said. "The letter you found in Ichiro's bed, it was sent to Ichiro, telling him to meet the sender at the dining hall."
"Shit... you're right." Izumi scratched the back of her head. "How could I have forgotten about that..."
"And Yeeun told me she saw Ichiro at early morning completely out of it." Eunji replied. "So the mastermind must have hypnotised him when he met them at the dining hall!"
"Right, that makes a lot of sense." Naomori said.
"Yeah." Izumi replied.
"Huh..." Eunji said.
Now that I think of it...
SELECT A TRUTH BULLET!
SELECTED – Reika's deal with Monokuma
"Here's my answer!"
"Don't you guys remember Reika's deal with Monokuma? He specifically told her that he wanted Jutaro dead."
"Oh my god." Yeeun said. "So you're saying...?"
"The mastermind must have picked up the hypnotism skills from Jutaro." Miyumi said. "And once he had served his purpose, they promptly had him disposed of."
This brings me...
SELECT A TRUTH BULLET!
SELECTED – Monokuma's targets
"Here's my answer!"
"Monokuma spefically wanted Jutaro, Ayaka, and Izumi dead." Eunji said. "Jutaro was to cover his tracks... but what is the connection between Ayaka and Izumi...?"
Hmm... I have to think this through...
~~HANGMAN'S GAMBIT~~
What do Ayaka and Izumi have in common that Monokuma wanted them dead?
They were giving the others _
H O P E
CORRECT!
"NOW I UNDERSTAND!"
-BREAK!-
"Oh my god." Eunji said. "Monokuma wanted Ayaka and Izumi dead because they were giving us hope!"
"Huh?" Naomori said.
"Hope?" Miyumi asked.
"Think about it." Eunji said. "Ayaka had such a bright personality, and the mastermind probably hated that. That's why they hypnotised Ichiro and sent him to kill her. But they must have made a counter plan in case it failed, so that's why they had him kill himself with her hand if the attack failed."
"That... makes a lot of sense." Izumi said.
"And Izumi had this whole escape plan going on, what with her creating a backdoor into the system so she can take over." Eunji said. "That's why the mastermind wanted them dead!"
"So... the mastermind never got their way with Izumi... but Ayaka..."
"And now that I think of it..." Eunji said. "There is one thing I just remembered."
"You mean the 7-5-1 vote?" Miyumi asked.
"At the time we thought, what the fuck happened? Why did someone flip." The idol replied. "But now it all makes sense! It was the mastermind who flipped their vote to ensure that Ayaka got executed!"
"God damn." Seungyeon said. "So all this time we were just getting played along by the mastermind."
"So, we know for sure that everyone that died is actually dead, right?" Youngjae asked. "Besides Ayaka."
"Yeah, without a doubt." Eunji said. "We got to see Reika's body... and we could all smell Kazuhiko's burnt corpse... and all the victims and Takashi... we actually saw their lifeless bodies. Only Ayaka didn't die."
"But... why did the Ultimate Despair keep Ayaka alive?" Izumi asked.
"That's something I can't explain myself." Eunji said. "Only the mastermind can."
"So... do you know who the mastermind is?" Yeeun asked.
"Well..." Eunji said. "Don't forget that everything has happened because of them. They were taught hypnotism by Jutaro, and they had him killed. They then hypnotised Ichiro and sent him to kill Ayaka. When that didn't work, they voted her to die themselves. They must have known that Izumi was up to something all this time, hence the constant target on her back. So..."
"That means..." Miyumi said.
"The mastermind has to be one of us." Eunji said. "Somebody who played through the entire killing game."
"Fuck..." Yeeun said.
"That's... not good." Naomori replied.
"I don't like this..." Youngjae said.
The mastermind... the one who put us through this whole killing game...
Is standing right here... with us...
In this very room...
"So... who is it...?" Seungyeon asked.
"Putting together all the evidence..." Eunji said.
There is a common link amongst everything...
The mastermind is...
SELECT SOMEONE!
#1. Eunji Park#2: Yeeun Kim #3: Kaori Minami #4: Masahito Kiyabu #5: Naomori Morita #6: Jutaro Harada. #7: Hirokazu Tsukuda #8: Youngjae Seo #9: Ayaka Suzuki #10: Ichiro Arakawa #11: Kazuhiko Ishibashi #12: Reika Kurosawa #13: Izumi Yamamoto #14: Seungyeon Kang #15: Takashi Okazaki #16: Miyumi Takahashi
SELECTED
#5: Naomori Morita
"Without a doubt, it's you!"
….
"Naomori... you're the mastermind, aren't you!?" Eunji said.
"W-What!?" Naomori said. "Hold on, what the fuck are you talking about?"
"Naomori... is the mastermind...?" Yeeun asked.
"Let's think about it." Eunji said. "Let's think about the people that Jutaro taught hypnotism to."
"Right... Ayaka isn't here, and Takashi is dead." Izumi said. "Miyumi and Seungyeon have made it obvious that they aren't the mastermind..."
"But doesn't that also leave Youngjae as a suspect?" Naomori said. "Why do you suspect me?"
"Me? No way!" Youngjae said.
"There's another thing!" Eunji said. "Do you guys remember who was told to vote for Ichiro in the second class trial?"
" Ayaka, Eunji, Naomori, Masahito, Hirokazu, and Kaori..." Miyumi said. "Hirokazu, Kaori, and Masahito are dead. Eunji is very obviously not the mastermind, and Ayaka is innocent."
"Which means you're the odd one out!" Eunji said. "You voted for Ayaka to die, didn't you?"
"B-But, Ayaka is being kept alive by the Ultimate Despair! Isn't that the least bit suspicious?" Naomori said.
"Like we said, she's hospitalized." Eunji said. "There's no way she can go around collecting evidence! That's only something that someone IN the school can do!"
"Also, I found chat logs in the systems of this school." Izumi said. "Codenames were used, but by the text and messages sent, it was obvious that the sender messaging the Ultimate Despair was someone in here."
"W-Well... I-I..." Naomori said. "Ayaka could still be the mastermind!"
"No, she isnt'!" Eunji said. "And another thing! The poison that was used to shoot her! Let us not forget that you make poison!"
"N-Not this again!" The herbalist panicked.
"I understand it all now." Eunji said. "I'll explain everything to everyone, and you'll be exposed as the criminal that you are!"
Let's do this...
LET'S END THIS!
-CLOSING ARGUMENT!-
At the beginning, there was 16 students, but one of them was...?
Secretly the mastermind
And the mastermind took sight on one person, because of their talent...?
That was Jutaro Harada, the Ultimate Hypnotist
The mastermind...?
Learned hypnotism from Jutaro.
And after they honed in their hypnotism skills, they...?
Sent Reika to kill Jutaro
But the mastermind...
Betrayed Reika
And soon after, one person stood out as a symbol of hope, that was...?
Ayaka Suzuki, the Ultimate Horror Writer
So the mastermind...
Hypnotised Ichiro to kill Ayaka.
But the plan backfired, and Ayaka disarmed Ichiro. But the mastermind had planned for this, by...?
Making it so Ichiro would kill himself using Ayaka's hand.
Seeing that Ayaka survived the attack, the mastermind promptly...
Covered up their involvement in the case.
Then at the class trial, the mastermind...
Voted Ayaka to die.
But Ayaka didn't die, because...
The poison she was shot with was ineffective.
Learning this, the mastermind soon after...
Started perfecting their poison, which was later used to kill more students.
How were they able to do this?
Using plants
Because they are...?
The Ultimate Herbalist
"I'LL PUT AN END TO THIS KILLING GAME, ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
ACT I
"It started with the sixteen of us, but little did we know... one of us was secretly the mastermind behind this killing game."
"The mastermind was observant, quickly noting Jutaro as a person of interest for his talent as the Ultimate Hypnotist."
"So they took advantage of that, quickly learning hypnotism from him.
"And once they felt they had learned everything from him..."
"They quickly found a means to dispose of him."
ACT II
"So they struck a deal with Reika using Monokuma, telling her to murder Jutaro in exchange for her freedom regardless of the results."
"And so that was done, and Jutaro was dead. But little did Reika now..."
"The mastermind had no intentions of keeping their end of the deal, and she was promply executed."
"Now with their new learned skill at hand, they quickly found themselves a new target..."
"And that was Ayaka, who's happy and bright personality quickly made herself a symbol of hope.
ACT III
"They needed to find a way to get rid of her quick, so the employed their hypnotism skills..."
"And hypnotised Ichiro into killing Ayaka."
"But that didn't go to plan, and Ayaka had quickly disarmed Ichiro. But the mastermind had accounted for this, so Ichiro quickly killed himself using Ayaka's hand."
"Seeing that Ichiro was killed, the mastermind was rather quick to cover up their tracks..."
"But it wasn't over at that."
ACT IV
"At the class trial, after Ayaka was exposed as the culprit..."
"They went against the voting plan, and voted for Ayaka to die."
"But what they didn't expect was for Ayaka's execution to fail."
"Because the poison dart she had been shot with..."
"Was ineffective."
ACT V
"This poison was made by the mastermind themselves, using plants."
"Seeing as this poison first failed, they did everything in their power to perfect the next batches of poison."
"And what a success they were, as the poison killed Hirokazu and Kaori."
"And how was the mastermind able to exploit the properties of the plants?"
"Well, because of their talent, of course!"
"Admit it, you were behind this all!" Eunji said, pointing it at the blackened. "You're the mastermind, aren't you? Naomori Morita, The Ultimate Herbalist!"
The blackened's facade fade away, revealing Naomori who was just shrugging his shoulder with a smug grin.
-BREAK!-
"Well, does that seem about right?" Eunji asked.
"..." Naomori was just quiet.
"Um..." Izumi said. "So... now that we know who the mastermind is... isn't that all...?"
"..." The herbalist was still quiet."
"Do we just vote and get it over with?" Yeeun asked.
"As far as I'm concerned, this killing game is over." Seungyeon remarked.
"This killing game... is over?" Naomori said.
"Yes, it is." Eunji replied.
"Hahaha..." Naomori said. "Hahahahahah,... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Naomori broke into crazed laughter, his eyes shifting into something almost inhuman... like they were glowing a faded green, almost.
"No, no, not at all!" The herbalist laughs some more. "This killing game will never be over! As I, Naomori Morita, the Mastermind, declares it isn't!"
He puts a hand on his hip, his smile condescingly smug.
"Wait, what, so you admit it?" Izumi asked.
"Well why not?" Naomori said. "Hahaha! So fun to finally drop that boring act, oh poor me I'm just a boring herbalist! Can't believe you idiots actually fell for that horseshit!"
"I didn't." Miyumi said. "I could see right through you."
"Haha, sure ya did!" Naomori said.
Miyumi did do that trap during the fourth case...
She knew that something was up with Naomori...
"Okay, hold on." Youngjae said. "What the heck do you mean this killing game isn't over!"
"Because The Grand Game never ends!" The mastermind laughs.
"The Grand Game..?" Eunji asked.
The Grand Game...?
What the hell is that...?
-INTERMISSION!-
