Ryo, Lorenzo, and I stepped out of the train, where we saw everyone gathered around outside. Amy-chan was standing on the stage, breathing into a microphone to test out its volume. Daquan was setting up some steel beams to hang lights from as a ladder was positioned near the stage, while Azizah was installing wires and sockets behind the stage. I could also see Asa handing out cookies to everyone else, who were each gathered in their own groups.

"Ah, so you three have made it," I heard Michiru call out. She jotted our names down on her clipboard and looked at us. "Though Kanon, I must say I'm quite surprised not to see you with Masaki this time," she muttered to me. I couldn't help but blush profusely as she mentioned that.

"Um... I, uh... wanted to hang out with Ryo!" I sputtered out. "Y-yeah, the two of us were hanging out."

Michiru nodded. "Right, right. Anyway, just make sure that you all stay here, okay? I'm going to be keeping watch of everyone who enters the train again." e Then, Lorenzo piped up, saying something completely unrelated to the topic at hand. "Y'know, Michiru... smart girls like you are hard to come across."

I huffed a bit as Lorenzo finished that sentence. Yes, I understood he was just flirting, and I knew that Michiru was definitely smarter than most of us here, but did he have to go and throw me, as well as every other woman in the world, under the bus like that?

Michiru nodded, not taking her eyes off of her clipboard. "Mhmm. Yeah, sure." She muttered, sounding like she wasn't even paying attention to him.

Lorenzo sighed as he started to walk away from Michiru's direction. "Never mind..." He murmured as he instead approached Yuki and Guadalupe, who were adjacent to us. Oh no, this wouldn't be good. I followed Lorenzo along, just to make sure he didn't say or do anything stupid. "Hey, Yuki!" Lorenzo called out in a flirtatious manner. Yuki turned her head to the Ultimate Entrepreneur and raised her eyebrow.

"Lorenzo, what do you want?" Yuki asked him. Guadalupe also gave him a side-eye as Lorenzo took a minute to adjust his tie.

"I've been wondering. How can you be around snow so much, if you're just so hot?" He flirted, raising his eyebrows at Yuki. The Ultimate Extreme Snowboarder just gave a huff, and then kneeled down and pulled up a gray snowboard with the name "Hatano" written diagonally across it in white letters from underneath the train. "Hey, how did you do that?" He asked. I honestly didn't know either.

Yuki shrugged, and without answering his question, whacked him over the head.

"Ow!" Lorenzo shrieked as Yuki put her snowboard back underneath the train. "Geez, I was just giving you a compliment!"

"Girls don't like nice guys," I heard Kaemon blurt out. "Just forget about it."

"Clever observation there, Kaemon," Michiru noted. "But speaking as a woman myself, I actually love nice men. Turns out men like you just aren't as nice as you think."

Kaemon and Lorenzo went completely silent for a few seconds before Utamuro approached us.

"Hey, Lorenzo, Michiru?" Utamuro began. The two of them turned toward Utamuro, who appeared to have something on his mind. "Umm... Amy-chan says she'd like to wear a new outfit for her performance tonight, so I'm going to need to go inside and work on a new outfit for her.

Michiru nodded and then turned a page on her clipboard, and wrote Utamuro's name on the paper. "Alright, just be back before too long, okay?"

Utamuro nodded. "I'll make sure of it! After all, I am the Ultimate Clothing Designer! I can have a new outfit finished in no time flat!" He then ran inside the train in a flash.

While I was out here, I looked around the area where everyone was outside. Rai, Aiko, and Hikooki were standing near the window of the train, with Hikooki staring off into the corner of the courtyard while Rai and Aiko were talking with each other about something. Tame and Kenji were underneath the same tree as before, sitting in total silence. Shiro was in their own corner, staring up at the sky, while Tomoe was sitting in the back trying to work a video camera. Strangely enough, it seemed that Masaki, Hideki, Toko, Sen, and Saeko were nowhere to be seen.

"We're about to start any minute now..." Michiru noted. "Alright, I'm going back inside the train to look for the others. Lorenzo, you've volunteered to be my assistant event planner, so you're coming with me."

Lorenzo jolted a bit and then nodded. "Y-Yeah. I'll go look for them with you," he replied as the two of them went back inside the train.

"Hey Kanon, you excited for the show?" Daquan asked me as he approached, his arms covered in dust and burn marks. I cringed a bit as I saw his arms, but he was still smiling as if he wasn't affected at all. "We all put a lot of work into making this concert the best ever. Now, all we're waiting on is the new costume," he told me.

"Yeah, I'm excited!" I replied. "I bet this is going to be great! I just can't believe you set all this up in the matter of a few hours..." While I shouldn't have been so skeptical of the Ultimate Steelworker's abilities, it still bordered on inhuman how quickly he was able to set it all up."

Daquan chuckled a bit and patted my shoulder. "Nah, this is nothing. You should have seen the time my Uncle Nelson and I helped with an entire construction site!" He boasted. "But really, I just hope you have a good time."

"Hey, thanks, Daquan." I thanked him and nodded.

"Don't mention it. I'm just happy to help out." He replied.

Suddenly, Masaki walked out of the train, with his hands in his pockets. He instantly walked up to me, and I giggled a bit while trying to hold in my blushing.

"Hey, Kanon. What's up?" He asked me.

"N-Nothing... just kinda waiting for the show to start, what about you?" I asked him.

He shrugged and leaned against the train. "Not really much," he replied. "I see that everyone else is out here right now, except for a few. What time is it?" He asked me.

I looked down at my phone, to note that the time was 7:30 pm. In only two hours and thirty minutes, it would be night time again, and time to go back to sleep. "Seven-thirty," I replied. Masaki nodded.

"Alright," He replied. "You know, I'm really hoping no one dies. I don't think anyone would kill anyone else right now, but I just... I still hope nothing happens, you know?" He told me as he walked up to Asa and grabbed a few cookies from her. He handed two of them to me.

"Try them!" Asa encouraged me. "I spent a very long time on these cookies, so please eat as much as you'd like! But also remember to save some for everybody else."

I nodded, trying not to think too hard about what Masaki told me. I took a bite out of one of Asa's cookies, and instantly I felt my hands stuffing them into my mouth. They tasted so perfet, as if someone rolled up heaven and put it into a cookie. "This is amazing!" I complimented her, with a mouth full of cookie crumbs.

Asa giggled at me. "Just remember not to talk with your mouth full! It's impolite, you know!"

My eyes widened as swallowed it down instantly, my face flushed red after Asa finished that sentence. I just hoped Masaki didn't think I was weird or gross after that moment.

Masaki, Asa, and I talked for quite some time, waiting for Utamuro to be finished on Amy-chan's costume. After some time, Masaki's eyes widened.

"Oh, shit." He whispered. "We need someone to stand guard while they're all in the train," Masaki noted to us.

"I think Michiru is already doing that," I replied.

Masaki shook his head. "She's taking roll of everyone who's still there. We need someone to actually stand guard, in case Michiru isn't there during a murder."

Asa and I nodded for a few seconds, trying to figure out who would be fit for the role of security guard.

"What about Hideki?" I asked.

Masaki shook his head again. "No way, the guy is way too gung-ho about this. We need someone more subtle, more casual."

Suddenly, Hikooki walked toward us. "Ahem," He cleared his throat. "I could do this. Let me let you guys in on a little secret," He began, leaning toward Masaki, Asa, and I. "I'm suspicious of Lorenzo," He whispered to all of us. "The way he talks like he knows something all of us don't, the way he volunteered to help Michiru plan this event out of nowhere, how casual he's being... he's definitely planning something,"

We all stood there in silence for a few seconds before Masaki spoke up again. "I can see what you mean..." He muttered, nodding.

After a few seconds, Lorenzo walked back out again and approached us. "Hey so, I've decided that I'm going to wash some clothes for us. I need to wash off some of mine, and I'm wondering who else would like their clothes washed?" He asked us.

Hikooki leaned toward us again. "See what I mean?"

I nodded, seeing exactly what Hikooki meant. Lorenzo spoke in a tone that was all too casual and cool-headed. The way he offered up something like this, the way he tried to make us acquainted with him. The first thing a murderer does is make you feel comfortable with them.

"Oh!" Yuki called out. "I keep sweating in everything I wear. Go into my room, and you'll find plenty of my clothes."

"Mine too!" Guadalupe called out. "I really work up a sweat when I work out!"

Lorenzo nodded. "Okay. I'll go get the washing machine ready." He dashed off back into the train, disappearing from sight again.

"This isn't going to end well..." Hikooki muttered. "I'm gonna go stand guard." Hikooki walked back up to the train, leaving the rest of us behind.

After a few more minutes passed, the lights on the stage flickered on. An assortment of pink, blue, and yellow lights flashed around the stage as Amy-chan was spotlit up front. But weren't we waiting for her outfit to arrive?

"Okay, my new outfit is taking a while to arrive here, so I'm just going to begin my show now!" Amy-chan announced. We all cheered and clapped as Amy-chan made a pose onstage, and the intro to a J-Pop song began. I even saw Tame take off her headphones and Kenji take his eyes off of his book as they turned to face Amy-chan.

Azizah approached us, dusting off her hands. "So, what do you all think of this light display?" She asked us.

"You didn't install anything dangerous in there, did you?" asked Kaemon.

Azizah shrugged. "Nope, just regular spotlights. Nothing too fancy or out of the ordinary."

Kaemon scowled and crossed his arms at Azizah. "I've got my eye on you, you know."

"I think it looks great!" I told Azizah. "You did a fantastic job on these lights!"

Azizah smiled at me and nodded. "Thank you. I'm not usually the type to listen to music, but this should be fine,"

"We all set?" asked Daquan.

Asa scratched her chin. "We're still waiting for some of the others. Miss Nura, Mister Harada, Mister Kawata, Miss Rakuyama, Mister Ricci, Mister Ikehara, Mister Ozawa, and Mx Matsura are currently not present."

"I'm tired of waiting!" Amy-chan shouted out. "Anyway, they're going to have to catch these next few songs, because I'm starting now!"

We all cheered as Amy-chan began her first song, doing her dance routine as the lights flashed and strobed in time with her music. Daquan and Azizah stood at the side of the stage as Asa stayed put, occasionally handing out sweets to the rest of us. I took a few pictures of all of us, as I relaxed and listened to Amy-chan's beautiful music. I was having such a good time, I almost lost track of where we were, and the circumstances in which we were under.

Then, at around 8:30, after a few of Amy-chan's songs, Sen and Hideki dashed out of the train. Sen walked toward Yuki and Guadalupe, while Hideki walked toward Masaki and me.

"Oh, it's you." Masaki huffed. "What do you want?"

Hideki grinned and crossed his arms at Masaki. "I've just been making sure no one's up to no good on that train there. And I came out here to keep my eye on you, mister Ultimate Thief!"

Masaki sighed and shrugged. "What are you gonna do? I'm a thief, not a murderer."

"Leave Masaki alone!" I demanded. "He's not doing anything bad!"

Hideki chuckled. "An accomplice, eh? I'm keeping my eyes on you." Hideki then stood next to us, as we tried to simply ignore him. Then, we overheard Sen talking with Yuki and Guadalupe.

"Yuki, I regret to inform you that your poster has gone missing," Sen informed her.

"What, how do you know I had a poster in my room?!" Yuki shouted at Sen.

Sen shrugged. "You keep your door open to let the hot air out, don't you?"

Yuki gulped, and then she dashed into the train. "I'll be right back!" she assured Guadalupe and Sen.

"Please hurry before Amy-chan begins her next song!" Guadalupe called out.

After a few more minutes went by, Amy-chan kicked her leg up into the air as the music started again. "Who's ready for more kawaii sugoi music?" Amy-chan asked us all. We all cheered again as she started another dance routine, starting up her singing again. I took more photos of us all around - Amy-chan on the stage, Daquan and Azizah at the side, Masaki, Hideki, Asa, Ryo, and I near the train, Rai and Aiko near the window, Tame and Kenji underneath the tree, Shiro and Tomoe opposite us, Guadalupe and Sen waiting at the train's door for Yuki, and Kaemon playing a game on his laptop off in the corner.

Then, Aiko started to shout something only barely coherent. "Everyone! Everyone! Listen to me!" she cried out. Amy-chan stopped her music as all of us who were outside (except for Amy-chan, Daquan, and Azizah) all dashed toward Aiko, whose eyes were beginning to glaze over as she held her hands up to her cheeks.

"Aiko, what's wrong?!" Rai shouted out, holding onto her shoulders. "Are you okay?!"

"A horrific 'bang!' sound! It rang like the dark lord's bell which tolls as yet another is dragged to the depths of hell!" Aiko screamed. Then, her face wormed its way into a giant, toothy grin. "And it... sounded so beautiful."

Hideki took a deep breath as he pulled his sunglasses down. "Mother of god..." He muttered to himself. "I'm gonna need some smart people to help me with this." He announced. He then looked at me, and then at Masaki. "Kanon, Masaki, you're coming with me. We're getting to the bottom of this."

Masaki stood still for a second, and then turned away. "I... I don't want to work with you, Hideki..."

Hideki shrugged. "Fine then. Kanon, just you then."

"M-Me?" I asked, jumping a little. What if... the worst had happened? There was just no way I was mentally prepared to see what I was about to see.

"You heard me. Come on." Hideki demanded. The two of us went into the train's main room, which seemed just normal enough, except the heater was turned on for some reason. However, the atmosphere was rather... eerie. Something just wasn't right. I could feel my stomach sinking as I mentally prepared myself for the worst.

Suddenly, Michiru and Hikooki ran toward us.

"Did you hear it too?!" Michiru asked, her hands shaking and her face sweating. She was carrying that same book underneath her arm.

Hideki shook his head. "No, but Aiko did. We're gonna check it out."

Hikooki nodded. I came as soon as I heard it. I just... I have no idea where it was..." He muttered to himself.

Hideki, Michiru, Hikooki, and I all walked down the hall, past the food room and into the TV room...

...And before us stood a sight none of us could have ever prepared for.

A pink splatter against and a bullet hole in the wall, with the dead body of Lorenzo Ricci leaning against the wall. A bullet hole was in his head, with pink blood dripping down onto his suit and onto the floor. His eyes were still wide open, looking horrified. Across from Lorenzo was Yuki, unconscious and against the opposite wall, wielding a gun in her hands.

BING! BONG! BING! BONG! We heard the awful bell ring throughout the train. Suddenly, the monitor in the corner turned on, and the face of Monokuma appeared on the screen.

"A body has been discovered!" Monokuma stated, his voice as eerie and creepy as ever. "After a certain amount of time has passed, a Class Trial will begin!"

I stopped. I couldn't possibly believe what I had seen.

"Wha...?" Yuki groaned as her eyes opened up. She screamed as she let go of the gun and saw the horrors which unfolded before her.

"No..." Hikooki muttered out. "I couldn't... stop this..."

"Who... would do such a thing..." Michiru whispered to herself. "My promise... I couldn't keep it..."

Who would kill Lorenzo? Sure, he was kind of weird and creepy to girls, but that didn't mean he deserved this...