"Tweek" Craig shouted at the two dead bodies, he ran towards them but Token stopped him.
"Craig, we don't know it's him calm down."
If Craig didn't I would have, knowing that Butters could be one of those two corpses is shaking me to my very core.
"Heya everybody how y'all doin" Monokuma said arriving on the scene.
"Monokuma, who are these two, we can't tell" Henrietta asked.
"Oh umm, well, that's a good question, funny story about that" Monokuma said clearly stalling for time.
"Don't tell me, you don't know who these bodies belong to either do you" I asked.
"No, I do" he answered, "but I can't tell ya, if it was just two people missing and one body that would be a different story but since it's three missing people and two bodies I can't tell ya. If I tell ya then you'll get an advantage over the culprit, yeah that's it, it's a rule."
"Your lying, I can tell" Henrietta countered.
"Yeah well that's the deal, I know whose dead and who's not and you gotta figure it out, tell ya what once you figure out who these corpses belong to I'll give you a matching Monokuma file" Monokuma answered, "good luck!"
Monokuma left us with a smoked out engine room and two corpses. As much as I was terrified for Butters possibly being dead, I needed to focus on the case. I walked in front of my three friends, entered the room, and began checking the bodies.
"Token, help me out here" I said.
"Yeah sure" he began checking the body farthest from the door. "Guys theirs something underneath this body."
"What is it" Craig asked.
"It's, Butter's monopad" Token answered.
I looked at him my panic level rising even more, just then my hand that I was using to check the upper torso and neck on the body felt something metallic. I turned my hand to look at what it was.
"This body has a Star of David necklace on it. Craig is Tweek Jewish" I asked.
"No just the opposite he is Buddhist" Craig answered.
"Guys, I've got something over here" Henrietta said her tone of voice suggesting concern. She turned to us and held up a small circular object.
"Is that what I think it is" Token asked. He turned to Craig who was on his knee's eyes widened as much as physically possible.
"That's, that's Tweek's wedding ring" he said.
"Is he one of the bodies then" Henrietta asked me.
"It's too early to tell that, Butters's monopad was found under the body, but there's something about this body that concerns me" I answered.
"What is it" Token asked.
"I'm going to the morgue, Craig come with me" I answered. Craig hesitated but eventually he stood up and followed me to the morgue. "You check the desk, I'm going to check the freezers, I have a hunch.
Craig nodded and walked to the desk and I began checking the freezers one by one seeing who was in which. There was only one freezer that was in use without a body to go with it.
"Mike, did you check this desk earlier" Craig asked.
"Yeah why" I asked.
"There's a UA file in here" he answered.
"No way" I said running over to him. As sure as Craig said there was a file on the UA project.
"It had to have been placed here after I searched the morgue." Craig opened the file and on it was the one piece of information we were looking for all this time.
"This is a list of the UA project subjects" Craig said. Craig began reading off the names, "Black, Broflovski, Marsh, McCormick, Stevens, Biggle, Tucker, all our names are on here except for one. Mike, we were right, Eric is the mastermind, he's the only one whose name is not on the list."
"Let's get back to the others, we need to discuss this" I said. We returned to the wrecked engine room and saw Token kneeling next to the second body Henrietta was standing over him.
"Oh, your back" Token said, "check this out." He held up a metallic object that had been melted partially by the blaze.
"Recognize it" Henrietta asked.
"I do" Craig answered,
"It's the handcuffs that Wendy used when she threw Kyle into the pool."
"Yep looks like they're making a second appearance in this case" Token said.
"Never mind that we've got bigger problems" I said.
"We found project UA info in the morgue, info that wasn't there when I investigated the room yesterday."
"What" Henrietta shouted, "well what did it say?!"
"It's a list of all the project UA participants" Craig answered. "We were right, Eric is the mastermind, all of our names except for his are on this list."
"So, if he's the mastermind and the killing game isn't over, that means he's not one of these dead bodies" Token said, he started looking towards us, "which means that the two bodies are."
I stopped him there, "we don't know that yet Token. Until we can confirm with one hundred percent certainty that these two corpses are Tweek and Butters, I'm going to believe that they are still alive. We took one last look around the room, the oil drum and surveillance camera had both been destroyed. Whether or not Monokuma knows the identity of culprit is a big factor. Based on his responses to our questions theirs a chance he could be as in the dark as we are. We walked back up towards the main floor when we noticed that the door to the library had been open, and one of us had opened it.
"You don't think" Craig began.
"One way to find out" I answered already knowing what he was going to say. The four of us entered the library and much to our disappointment none of our missing classmates were in there, but someone had been snooping around in here the evidence on the table was proof enough of that.
I walked over to the table and looked at the book reading the title aloud as I did, "The History of the Killing Game: A trilogy of Death."
"History" Craig asked.
"Yeah apparently there have been other killing games before this one, each one of them had a different mastermind" I answered.
"Who's the author" Henrietta asked.
"I don't know it just says, Project Danganronpa" I answered.
"What's that in the back" Craig asked pointing to a sticky note in the back of the book. I flipped to the page it was on, it took me to two pages in the back of the book the left page was a page of the chapter titled: V3 and the right was the start of the Epilogue. The sticky note read, "we're now part of history."
"This book is freaky, we better put it someplace safe for now, we'll have time to research it more once we handle our current dilemma" Token said.
"Agreed" I said, "we'll put it in the motive video lock box in the kitchen."
We took the book up to the kitchen and I retrieved my key from my room. We placed it in the lock box and hid it in the kitchen once again.
"Alright, let's go over all the evidence one more time" I said sitting down at the table. "We've got the Star of David taken off the body closest to the door, which we'll call Body A, and we've got Butters's monopad underneath the second body near the engine, which we'll call Body B."
"Tweek's wedding ring was near body B as well" Craig said holding the ring.
We had already logged it into the evidence app so if holding it gave Craig a little peace of mind I had no problem with that.
"There was also damage to the fuse box and the engine as well as the oil drum that was completely destroyed and the handcuffs that were melted" Token said.
"Most importantly the project UA list" Henrietta said. "The list that confirms Eric is the mastermind."
There is also the matter of what I discovered in the morgue freezer, but I need to keep that to myself so I can use it later.
"Alright people it's show time, all participants please report to the trial chamber" Monokuma said over the loud speaker.
The four of us entered the elevator and it ascended up to the trial chamber. When we arrived, we noticed that Tweek's, Butters's, and Eric's portraits had all been placed in their spots but there was no red X through them.
"Monokuma we're missing a few participants, where are the others" I asked.
"I told you didn't I, three of them are missing and we've got two bodies, it's your job to figure out who's who" he answered. "Now take your places, the trial's about to begin and I have a feeling this one is gonna be a doozy."
It's starting, the most difficult trial so far, not only do we have to find the culprit, but we also need to determine the victims. The consequences of each scenario aren't good no matter how you do the math. But I can't think about the what ifs right now, I have to focus, not just for the sake of surviving the trial, but for the sake of uncovering the truth. The truth about who is dead, and who is guilty, the truth about the mastermind and the spy, and the truth behind this whole killing game, the secrets are probably in that book and if I want to learn those secrets I need to expose the secrets of this case first.