(Note: I had a map of the 1st Floor of Hope's Peak Academy open this whole time to make sure I was writing it correctly.)

Chapter 3:

. Naegi decided to explore near the dorm area first. He noted that the cafeteria was closed. Probably would reopen in the 'morning'. But he had no idea how long the food in there would last. He'd have to check the food situation with Maizono and Enoshima later in case Monokuma decided to induce murder by starvation.
. 'Murder by starvation'. It would probably be best not to mention those words out loud. He didn't want to be responsible for giving Monokuma any sort of ideas in order to force his way into his desired objective, which was the denizens of this academic prison to murder each other.
. Across the cafeteria, there was a sauna and a public bathroom. Both were locked.
. "Why are both of these rooms locked? If we're going to be spending the rest of our lives here, we might as well have access to everything."
. Naegi pondered a moment before coming up with an answer that at least seemed intuitive.
. "He's trying to close off space on the first floor, and compress us. He's hoping we'll get on each other's nerves so much by constantly being in close proximity to each other that we'll eventually resort to murder to get out of each other's hair. We can't stay in our rooms all day every day for the rest of our lives."
. He continued walking around. There was a trash room and a pair of restrooms. The pair of restrooms struck him as odd because there wasn't going to be any guests in this semi-closed system. The reason came to him a moment later.
. "Wait a moment, the bath and the restrooms? Was it always planned like this? Or is this in case a last survivor locks himself (or herself) out of their room? They still have a way to clean himself (or herself), and eat food, and use the toilet."
. His line of reasoning seemed okay, until he realized something.
. "Wait, but the bath is currently locked. Does that mean Monokuma unlocks more of this place the more unsuccessful murders there are? So, in theory, should we be rooting for someone to murder someone else, because, and I hate to think this, aside from the psychological trauma, it actually improves the lives of the survivors."
. Naegi's eyes narrowed. He did not like where his thought process was taking him.
. "One thing's for certain. This mastermind has set up a very clever meta-game that I can use to my advantage. Hehehe. I'm turning into quite the smart-ass. But then again, if I didn't, the sheer force of the other personalities (and egos in Togami's case) inside this school, including Monokuma's, would overwhelm me. I may be a nice guy, but I'm not going to be a pushover. I want to survive this experience."
. Naegi then decided to turn around and go straight ahead in order to start casing the rest of the school. He walked past the blue cafeteria sign and a sealed off staircase to the second floor, and headed towards where the majority of the school was. He passed the AV room and paused at the entrance hall. He turned and looked directly at it
. "Judging from its lack of damage, I doubt either Oogami's strength or Oowada's rage could put a dent into it."
. He began feeling the door. Sure enough, there didn't seem to be any exploitable flaws in the door.
. "No, it's rock solid. Just as expected. Well, actually, it's more titanium-steel alloy solid than rock solid." Naegi muttered to himself.
. But a little box to his right caught his eye.
. "What's this?" he asked. At the bottom of the metallic, rectangular box, there was scribbled on the some tape some hasty handwriting:

DEAD STUDENTS' IDs.
. "Monokuma's certainly confident he's going to get at least a couple of murders. But what's really interesting is that the IDs of dead students AREN'T removed from play. He expects us to use the deaths of other students as lynch-pins to set up future murders."
. This brought other questions in his mind.
. "In what scenarios would you need to use someone else's ID to get where you want to go?"
. The first answer was obvious: gender-specific rooms. There were probably some rooms that only a male's ID could get into and some rooms that only a female's ID could get into. It would make sense. He'd have to keep an eye out for such rooms on this floor.
. He walked from the box, hands in his pockets. Maybe over the next few days, he could ask for a handwriting sample from the other students and compare them to the scrawl at the bottom of the box.
. "Wait, I wonder if my ElectroID can take photographs?" Naegi stopped and pondered. "Monokuma did act like we were going to have to solve murders in this place, and I doubt anybody here, save for perhaps Kirigiri, has an eidetic memory."
. He walked back to the box, put it under his arm to prevent Monokuma from snatching it, and sat down to begin exploring the functions of his ElectroID. On the outside, there was a charging port and it probably connected to most laptops released nowadays. There was also a headphone jack and its own external speaker. He wondered if anybody else had noticed it. If Fujisaki could somehow get a computer, the programmer could probably get the technical specs on which operating systems the ID was compatible with.
. "Knowing our luck, it'll probably be some nerd version of Linux."
. He continued in much the same way someone explores the new features of a smartphone. He checked the storage capacity, and he saw that it was 128 GB with 127.8 GB available.
. "Probably to insure we never run out of space. But what can we put on here that makes 128 GB necessary?"
. Naegi soon discovered the answer to that question. Monokuma had its own data cloud complete with dozens of television shows, movies, hundreds of albums, and e-books. A user had the option to share their photos with the rest of the group.
. "So that's what all that storage capacity on the Electro ID is for."
. His mind wandered off to another topic.
. "Wait a minute, this is almost like a social network that's exclusively confined to living prisoners of this academy. But there's only sixteen of us including Monokuma. So does Monokuma already have this 'game's' infrastructure ready to go in case he wants to import more students from the outside world? And is it possible that's he done this before?"
. That was certainly a troubling thought, and not one he wanted to extrapolate at 5 AM.
. He found the camera.
. "Ah, so here's where the camera is."
. Naegi took a picture of the handwriting in the box with his ElectroID before carefully placing the box back into his original position. The camera itself certainly sported such impressive resolutions for taking crystal-clear pictures.
. "Hmmm, I'm sure there's a prodigal photographer out there who would love to use this camera."
. His mind turned to another function of the IDs.
. "Now, I wonder where it's possible to get some headphones and maybe some external speakers for this thing."
. He walked through the doors out of the entrance hall and saw the 'Student Store' across the hall.
. "I guess Monokuma unlocked this after he announced all of his intents. But now I wonder if this place has headphones."
. Walking in, there they were, the headphones and the speakers. There was also a variety of other gifts, including ramen, a crystal skull sans Indiana Jones, and portable game systems.
. "Wait, portable game systems? What are the models?"
. Monokuma had stocked up on ... SEGA Gamegears and Neo Gear Pocket Collectors.
. "Goddamn it, Monokuma, what the frickin' Hell? Where's the Vita? Or at least the PSP?... Woah. I guess Oowada imparted his language on me with his punch."
. He spotted a laminated piece of paper on the counter. It had the same hasty, scribbled handwriting as the box.

Welcome to the Student Store, please find some Monokuma coins before purchasing items here. I've hidden Monokuma coins throughout the school, so consider it a built-in scavenger hunt to your lives here. And I've gotten pretty creative with some of their hiding spots, see if you can find them! Sincerely, Monokuma."

. "Of course, Monokuma has to turn everything into a game in here."
. He left the student store and turned right, passing the locked infirmary and a pair of restrooms.
. "Oh, look, another staircase. And this one is also sealed off. Perhaps Oogami could physically dent it, but I get the feeling this is something Monokuma will open up after an unsuccessful murder."
. He turned right again and entered into the room right before the gymansium. There were awards and all sorts of items, school trophies for the math team that sort of thing. There was even a practice sword sheathed inside a scabbard with gold leaf covering it.
. He touched the leaf and immediately stained his pointer finger gold.
. "So this comes off rather quickly. It's not very practical. Is it an award for something?"
. He read the first half of the inscription on the card beneath the sword. The second line which was supposed to name the year of the competition had been filed off.

National Tournament for Female Swordswomen: 1st Place: Peko Pekoyama.

. "Now, why has the year been filed off?" Naegi squinted at the inscription, he could make out 20- , but the last two digits had been so severely filed off that it was impossible to read. Putting the thought into the back of his head, he headed into the gymnasium.
. The gymnasium, where Monokuma had announced the terms and conditions of their stay here and where Oowada cleaned his clock and nearly knocked him unconscious. Oh well, he had to enter it again at some point.
. Walking in again, he wasn't sure what he expected. But the basketballs still weren't picked up. There really wasn't anything that caught his eye in here... except the ceiling seemed to be an optical illusion. It looked like the gymnasium's ceiling went up to about 40 feet, but in actuality, it stopped at the height of the first floor, which was about half that.
. "So what's directly above me?" Naegi questioned.
. Other than the fact that the ceiling was an optical illusion, it was your standard full-court with bleachers. There wasn't much of anything interesting here. But as he turned around, he spotted something bronze and shiny next to the door.
. Naegi picked it up and flipped the coin.
. "I guess this is one of those Monokuma coins that that note made a mention of it. I can't believe nobody else noticed this and picked it up out of sheer curiosity. Maybe nobody else has been to the Student Store yet."
. He walked out of the gymnasium. He decided to head over the AV Room instead. There was nothing inside of it except a bunch of computers.
. "I wonder, since we're the only ones in here. Do we each pick a computer for personal use to hook up with our ElectroIDs? I'll have to ask Monokuma next time I see him."
. He left the A/V Room, and wandered past the classroom he woke up in.
. "Wait a minute, I was the last one to come to. And I woke up in a classroom. There are only two classrooms on the first floor, 1-A, and 1-B. I know all the other rooms were locked because I checked them before going to the main hall. So if that's the case, where and when did everyone else wake up?"

- AUTHOR NOTE: I saw the opportunity to turn the sword into a reverse homage to Dangan Ronpa 2, so I did.
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