(A/N: OK, the poll didn't out as I planned, so after asking WulfyRoxas about it during a Twitch stream, I've decided to put Bea and Allister in Killing God Havoc. Melony will also make an appearence since I wanted a representive from all eight gyms. Anyway, can you put together the pieces behind Himiko's murder?)

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Begin Deadly Life

"Why did this have to happen?" Kaede asked to no one in particular, giving voice to the similar thoughts the rest of us had.

Even Kiyo was less composed than he normally was, unlike when Rantaro died, as he was the first to go into the room itself and closed Himiko's eyes. He gave the wound on her neck an unreadable glance but chose to leave the body otherwise as is, so the others would be able to see how she was when they found her.

"H-Hey you pervert, that's the girls room-" Tenko objected before cuting herself off, which seemed to be out of nerves and habit more than anything as the Monokubs' murder file being available was enough of a sign that Kiyo wasn't the first guy to 'trespass' today. And unlike any of the cubs expect Monophanie, he at least looked the part right now.

"Do we really have time for that bloody nonsense right now?" Tokuko asked. "He was just providing her some respects in sense that makes sense to anyone."

"Are we sure this is the scene of the crime? I think everyone else was still outside when this happened." Kaede asked, taking in how spotless everything in the room was aside from the obvious.

"We'll all just need to gather up alibis then to double check then! I'll get to it~" Angie said as went off to rejoin the others.

How can Angie stay so chipper after Himiko just... Weren't they friends? Or is this cheerful attitude just an act right now? I thought to myself.

"Hey, Sharla..."

I turned to face Miyuji, who had tears building in her eyes.

"Before this... we were having a great time, right..? We were recovering from the motive videos... We... were having a lot of fun... But... why..." She muttered as tears streamed down her cheeks. "WHY DID SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN?! Someone, tell me!"

"Miyuji..." I said. "It's gonna be OK, we'll find who did this."

I walked up to where Kiyo was and took a look at the back of Himiko's corpse. Sure enough, a small puncture wound was there with blood seeping out.

"The apparent cause of death is a puncture wound to the back of the neck, but the Monopad is being rather vague on how exactly it killed her, only proving she died a few minutes ago." Kiyo explained "Given how she was touching the area after the show ended it could have happened around then and simply needed more time to start bleeding out like this, as I don't recall her hands being bloody when Miss Chabashira and I asked what caused her confusion prior to her leaving. It wasn't like her to lose focus mid-act like that."

'Miss Chabashira' is oddly formal for him to use, isn't it? I off-handily thought before asking "Could she have been injected with something during the show? Normally voids of information there can give some sort of clue to what happened, right?"

"How can you both be so calm about this?!" Himiko's-" Tenko was nearly screaming at us, as her attempts to keep herself from crying and stay calm despite the current situation quickly began wearing down.

"That's why we need to focus right now Tenko! I… I know it's hard, but we need to put off grieving for later. When we'll have more time to do it right and no one else's life is in danger." Kaede said, trying to calm her down along with Miyuji and Tokuko.

It was around that point the others who arrived started making themselves known, bustling about trying to find any clues here regarding the current condition of Himiko's body. No traces of anything that could have been used to hurt her could be found, no mirrors broken or even the floor so much as scuffed.

As the stage was our best bet for the crime scene, that's where our efforts became redirected, much to Kokichi's frustration.

Reduces the likelihood of anyone else getting hurt tonight this way. I thought to myself.

Me, Miyuji, Tokuko, Kaede, Kiyo, Kokichi, Maki, and Miu were in charge of investigating the upper level where Himiko must've been hurt. Meanwhile, everyone else checked the stage area for anything suspicious and Angie and Shuichi flitted about between them gathering alibis.

There wasn't too much up here to be found, it's mostly just dust and a system of pulleys that I assumed was installed by Himiko with Miu and Gonta's help hidden behind the banners that Angie made. I assumed that they were put up to hide the source of Himiko's 'magic'.

Could something have gotten caught in them and hit her by accident on the way up during her 'Wingardium Leviosa' act? I thought.

"Well, what do you know, youse guys even bothered ta spruce up like an actual court'd like for a change."

It was Monosuke who said that and Monophanie who appeared before them, as if out of nowhere. From the ruckus on the other side of the canvas sheets, it sounded like Monokid was loudly bullying Monodam again while Monotaro tries to interfere down below too.

"It's a shame this had to happen, but I least I didn't have to see any nasty bodies this time. Seeing Daddy's before was bad enough as it was. But... wasn't there trouble somewhere else too tonight?" Monophanie wondered, unaware of what was happening now.

Miu's stress from before came back with a vengeance as she verbally lashed back. "Dah fuck you talkin' about? If you mean you guys messing with my shop then yeah, duh!"

"Huh? Nonnuva us did anything like that you sleazy broad! Not our fault one of your 'buddies' tried offin' ya earlier, yaknow. We're not the ones makin' you unpopular here, that's all on you toots." Monosuke sniped back, which made the inventor flinch in panic.

"W-What?! Is that what you think that was, a murder attempt?" Kaede asked in fear.

"I hardly see why any of us should put stock into what you are claiming, by all accounts I've heard it seemed more like a form of sabotage was the goal." Kirumi muttered. "However as I feel it must be asked now, what exactly would have happened had two murders happened tonight? It's an unusual notion, in a game where only one death is needed and this could just end up leaving more evidence to be used against you."

"Uhh, let's see… if one person commits both murders then it's pretty fuckin' obvious how that goes down. But if the murders ain't related I think Pops said somethin' in the past about usin' a 'first come, first served' rule this time around." The yellow bear explained. "Not exactly how it usually is but should be interestin' enough to spice things up a bit. If two different folks kill anyone before a trial starts, only the case's first murderer counts as 'the blackened' so the second one can't be found guilty or graduate. And only the actual first one, not whichever victim is found first, ya dig? And as it's related ta this it don't matta if more than one person worked on the same crime, only the one who got literal blood on their hands is open to graduation."

They're talking as if this sort of killing game has been played before. What is this supposed to mean? I thought to myself.

"Interesting. And this all applies no matter any other circumstances in any particular, no?" Kiyo asked, looking more troubled by this news.

"Yup! It wouldn't be fair for rules to only apply some of the time right? Best to keep it simple."

"Wow~ Thanks for letting us know that. Now can you two just get lost already? Go pretend to be useful somewhere else, like visit your worthless brothers okay? Or better yet, go and join your dad instead!" With Kokichi's taunting words the two left in a huff to join their still bickering siblings down the ladder so the rest of us went back to work.

The supreme leader was looking for any scrapes along the walls and two barred windows, Miu was brushing around the floor around the footprints Himiko left in the dust on the ground behind the four supporting columns, and Kiyo and Kirumi were working on getting the banners down, to look for any tears that may be related to what hit Himiko and better expose any issues the pulley system may have to everyone.

It wasn't clear what Maki was doing, but she was intently fiddling with one of the hooks that should have gone around the loop on the back of Himiko's coat. With not a drop of blood to be found, it was hard to tell this really was the place where the mage's fatal injury initially happened, so I went down to see if anyone else was having better luck finding something.

With the way the despair bears were fighting it sure didn't look like it. Monosuke had taken away Monokid's guitar, Monophanie desperately trying to referee, and the blue bear was still in the middle of making various dents in the green colored plating on Monodam.

Angie was apparently rather enthralled by the drama before her, egging on the situation with the childish chant of "Fight! Fight! Fight!", which would explain why she wasn't done taking statements yet.

Kaito was trying to round up the doves best he could with birdseed and the like, to make sure none of them were injured or had any other sort of evidence on them, as Keebo checked out the various 'weapons' used in her acts but all of their blades were sufficiently fake enough to rule them out.

Gonta and Ryoma were looking into the pulley system, checking for knots or snags that may have made one of the hooks possibly hit Himiko as she was being released in the upper area.

There's a bit of blood on one and the wire from this angle, maybe that's what Maki's attention caught onto. I thought.

"Angie, if you can't handle it, why don't you let Shuichi take over with the alibis? After all, I had to see everyone tonight anyway to get them dressed up, so he can already take that into account as he sees about the ones topside OK?" Tokuko advised.

"Oh, huh? Okie-dokie~ We don't really need to take Kaede's do we? She was just sitting at her piano the whole time, even when she wasn't playing it, so she was too far from anything to be a suspect, right?" The artist obliged.

"That's right." Shuichi agreed. "We all saw her there and she didn't have anything to do with the show's set up so it should be OK."

Like Tokuko advised, Shuichi took control of gathering everyone's alibis for the night. I took this chance to check Miu's research lab. It might not be related to the trial, but the way that the Monokubs brought it up, it might be a clue.

Once I got inside with Kaede, Miyuji, Tokuko, Gonta, and Keebo, everything looked like it it was left untouched with the exception of a few things.

While a lot of the equipment still looked dangerous, there wasn't any blood here at least. One of the normal hammers attached to the odd long-armed multi-tool was badly damaged as if targeted by mistake, even though none of the other attachments were so much as dented. The syringe I vaguely recall seeing on another arm is missing though, leaving the stump it was on before bare.

On the surrounding tables, various bits of the magenta side paneling was torn up, almost looking like an off-color mockery of the purple and white butterfly wallpaper around them. The series of glass vials and beakers were also smashed on the checkered floor, along with whatever liquids were in them at the time of the incident.

So we won't be able to ask Miu if anything in particular is missing here I guess. The real goal may have been to steal something and then destroy everything to help cover it up, if a syringe and possibly some chemicals have gone missing. But I don't even know what any of these substances would do. I thought.

That was all the six of us had time to look in here however, as the Monokubs announced it was time for the class trial.

All of us went into the elevator in the Shrine of Judgement, and we began the plummet down to the trial room.

Once we arrived, I noticed there were now nineteen podiums surrounding each other and Monokuma's chair was replaced by five judge's chairs decorated to fit each of the Monokubs where they placed themselves.

All of us went to our podiums with Miyuji taking the one between Maki and Angie and Tokuko taking the one between Miu and Shuichi.

As I got onto my podium, an image of Himiko's body flashed in my mind.

Himiko died thinking nothing was wrong when there was. I thought to myself.

An image of the bloodied hook flashed in my mind.

Someone had the chance during her show to kill her... The question is who..?

Like the first trial, images of everyone in this academy flashed in my mind.

I'm certain they aren't one of the four remaining traitors, in fact I'm sure of it! Still, whoever it is won't get away with this... not on my watch. Looks like there's a new mastermind running this game but I can't focus on that now... I have to focus on exposing the culprit in this trial of truth and lies!