Meanwhile, with Keiko…
When Keiko opened her eyes, she let out a gasp of surprise when she saw that she's no longer in the interrogation room. Instead she's in some kind of small velvet blue-coloured room with black chains hanging and swaying slowly on the ceiling above her and heard the sound of water dripping into the toilet in the right corner of the room before she slowly sat up from the wooden bed that she's lying on, look down at herself and saw with more surprise and confusion on her face that she's wearing a black and white stripe prisoner's outfit with black chains on her wrists and another chain (a leg iron) on her left leg instead of her Shujin school uniform before she stood up, turned and walked toward the cell door that's lock and partially bound by chains and glance at the 2 little identical fair-skinned, bright yellow-eyed girls named Caroline and Justine (one with braided hair down her back while the other tied up into twin buns behind her head and with black and dark yellow-coloured eye-patches covering their left and right eyes as they hold an electric shock baton and a clipboard in their hands) wearing matching long sleeve blue shirts, blue hats with the letters "O-Y-O-O" and "X-M-R-N" on the hats, black shorts and knee-length socks and black shoes on their legs) and at the elderly yet bizarre-looking old man named Igor with a long nose, pointed ears, bloodshot eyes (that look like they could popped out of his eyes) and wearing a black suit with white gloves on his hands as he sat on a chair behind a desk (which had a stack of papers, a lamp and an opened ink bottle with a blue and white feather quill inside the bottle).
"Greetings, Trickster… It would seem as though you have been killed. But why were you killed? Why did you have to die? Do you remember?" asked Igor one question after another to Keiko.
"Remember what?" said Keiko in confusion to Igor.
"It seems you forgot an important fact while your consciousness was hazy. Indeed… your "death" was a necessity for your escape from certain doom that's planned and executed by your enemies. What a tremendous plan. How might you be capable of executing such a feat?" said Igor quite proudly to Keiko.
"That's because…" said Keiko as she try to remember but unable to remember anything.
"Well then, let me help you rouse the memories which are missing…" said Igor as he briefly raised and waved his right hand a little to help Keiko in recovering and remembering her missing memories.
"The first time I sensed something was off… That's right. It was during the school's festival…" thought Keiko as she started to remember.
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Multiple flashbacks…
After Junko's done in talking to Keiko, her boyfriend Goro and her friends Mallory, Akira, Morgana, Ryuji, Ann, Yusuke, Aglaia, Makoto, Keith, Futaba, Haru and Jason and becoming a new member of their group via threatening and blackmailing, Junko walked past them and left the PE office room and Akira, Ryuji, Ann, Yusuke, Aglaia, Makoto, Keith, Futaba, Haru and Jason glance at each other before they left the room too, leaving Keiko, Goro, Mallory and Morgana in the room.
"Hey, they're going?" said Morgana.
"Yeah, we know and can see that but…" said Keiko before she fell silent and shake her head a little at Morgana.
"Keiko…" said Mallory concernly to Keiko.
"… You realized it too, then. It was our conversation about pancakes, right? There's no way she could've reacted like that if she haven't heard me." said Morgana.
"But if that's true, that means she has an ulterior motive and we can't trust her…" said Keiko worriedly to Morgana about Junko.
"Hey, it'll be alright, Keiko." said Goro reassuringly to Keiko as he put his left arm around her shoulder and pull her close to him to reassured her.
"My thoughts exactly, Madame Keiko. It was your social studies trip. We met her in the hallway of that TV station…" said Morgana.
"Yeah, that's right, we did…" said Mallory as she, Akira and Goro nodded in unison at Morgana.
"There's no way this is the first time she's heard my voice. This whole deal of her joining our group, working as a normal journalist alongside your boyfriend and Niijima's older sister, suggesting and having your boyfriend to joined us too feels sketchy somehow." said Morgana.
"Then we need to do some research on Junko Sakurai without letting her know about it, Morgana." said Keiko before she glance at Goro. "And will you help out too, Goro?" asked Keiko.
"Of course I will, Keiko." replied Goro as he nodded at Keiko.
"You better or I'll throttle you, Akechi." said Mallory warningly to Goro.
"Maly! He already said that he will help out so stop picking on him." said Keiko as she slowly shake her head at Mallory.
"Alright, Keiko." said Mallory as she glance and nodded at Keiko.
"Yeah. That was my plan too and glad to hear and know that all of you will help out. Okay… Let's get everyone else on the same page right away.
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Goro Akechi came into Leblanc (while both Keiko and Mallory are working with Morgana watching them and Sojiro stepped out to buy groceries from a nearby supermarket) and holding a file folder under his left arm before he approach, put the file folder down on the table in front of Keiko, Mallory and Morgana and open the file folder.
"Here's all of the newspaper clippings and paperworks on Junko Sakurai that I managed to find out so far and bring and show them to you three. Turns out that Junko Sakurai isn't her real name and that she's not who she say she is. The real Junko Sakurai has already passed away in a tragic factory explosion accident 50 years ago so whoever she is, she's using Junko Sakurai name as an alias, you three." explained Goro to them about Junko Sakurai.
"Ugh. Can't believe that not only she keep things from us and using threats and blackmails on us, she even lie to us about her name and who she actually is…" snarled Mallory with an angry look on her face at Junko.
"There, there, calm down, Maly…" said Keiko gently to Mallory, trying and succeeding in calming her down.
"Well, you did good and we're glad that you're on our side, Akechi." said Morgana happily to Goro.
"Yeah, thank you. If you three wanted to showed the others this file folder about Junko Sakurai, go ahead. I'll try to look up and find more information on her." said Goro.
"Good thinking and be careful, Goro." said Keiko concernly to Goro.
"I know and I'll be fine, Keiko." said Goro as he smiled at Keiko.
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Keiko, Mallory, Morgana and Futaba is currently standing inside Keiko and Mallory's attic room after Goro, Akira and the others went home.
"… There's something else we want you to look into. One more person has been on our minds. If it's possible, I want to eavesdrop on their phone conversation." said Morgana as he glance at Futaba.
"Hmm, that'll be tough…" said Futaba with a worry look on her face.
"So you can't do it, Sakura?" said Mallory.
"She can do it, Maly. You can do it, Futaba-chan. You're our last hope left." said Keiko.
"I agree with Madame Keiko." said Morgana in agreement with Keiko.
"Hmm… I'd have to plant a bug directly on the phone…" said Futaba.
"So Miss Mallory is right? It's impossible even for you…?" sighed Morgana with a sad look on his face.
"I didn't say it was impossible!" said Futaba as she scowled at Morgana before she began thinking and managed to come up with a plan. "…Okay! I've got a plan!" added Futaba excitedly to Morgana before she beckoned Morgana to come closer and she whisper her plan to him.
"… That's perfect." said Morgana happily to Futaba.
"What's perfect?" said Mallory in confusion to Morgana.
"Yeah. What plan did you tell Morgana about, Futaba-chan?" asked Keiko curiously to Futaba.
"Don't worry, Madame Keiko, Miss Mallory. I'll tell you two the details later." replied Morgana as he glance at both Keiko and Mallory while Futaba beckoned them to come closer so she can whisper her plan into their ears.
"Futaba's going to do something? I wonder if it'll be alright…" thought Keiko concernly in her mind about Futaba's plan.
"I can see why Morgana think and say that it's a perfect plan." thought Mallory in her mind as well.
"This is gonna be fun! I can't wait!" said Futaba before she start chuckling in excitement and joy.
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Yusuke, Makoto and Jason look around the empty interrogation room with Futaba crouching in the floor with her laptop in front of her as she type swiftly on her laptop and with Goro standing guard outside the room.
"I see. So we're going to use this place…" said Yusuke as he kept on looking around the empty interrogation room.
"It'll be a gamble…" said Makoto as she glance at Yusuke then at Jason.
"I think it's gonna work. You can't tell a thing." said Futaba as she look around the room.
"I sure hope so and that your plan will work, Futaba-chan." said Jason.
Multiple flashbacks ends…
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"It seems you finally remember… This "game" is not over yet. There are still things that must be done, like exposing the one who had the audacity to used and called herself "Junko Sakurai" is the true traitor and an ally of the "Old Ones" who must be sent back to where they come from." said Igor calmly to Keiko.
"Yeah… And my memories are starting to become clearer… That's right. This is what really happened to me at that moment…" thought Keiko as she remember back to the moment after Junko "killed" her in the interrogation room.
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In the interrogation room…
After Junko shoot and killed off the security guard and then Keiko, take away the silencer and put the gun on Keiko's hand to make it look like she's the one who shoot and killed the guard before shooting herself, Junko turned and left the room and after Junko left the room, the dead security guard lying on the floor turned completely black and vanished into thin air while Keiko herself is still alive and sitting calmly and patiently in the room.
"Heh. It worked and joke's on you, "Junko Sakurai". But still, your "Old One" allies did score some points in getting my friend, Maly. We'll find and get you back from them so wait for us, Maly." thought Keiko in joy and relief in her mind at managing to deceived Junko and avoid being killed and die by her hand then in worry and fear for Mallory being taken by the "Old Ones" before the door open up to reveal both Sae and Goro walking into the room.
"Hey, Keiko." said Goro as he walked around the table toward Keiko, gently grab and help her stand up from the chair before he hugged her.
"Hey back to you, Goro." said Keiko as she smiled and hugged Goro back.
"Ahem. Enough with the sappy moment between you two and we need to go right now." said Sae sternly to both Keiko and Goro, who stop hugging each other before they glance and nodded at Sae and swiftly left the room with her.
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In the restroom hallway in the café in Kichijoji…
Consciousness return to Akira and he open his eyes, let out a small groan of pain before he look up and around the hallway for Mallory and the ones that took her and saw a pale-skinned, short grey-haired, grey-eyed guy wearing a long sleeve button up black shirt with light grey pants and black shoes on his feet staring down at him before the guy bend down and help lifted and slung Akira's weak body over his left shoulder and bring him away.