Monokuma: Good morning citizens! It is now daytime, I hope you all have a wonderful day!

(Hm, he made another time announcement, guess he'll be doing that for now on, but why?

Whatever, it woke me up at least.

I'm still feeling full from how much I ate yesterday, but I'll head to cafe anyways.

Everyone else is probably on their way too, the cafe will be our morning meeting spot for...the indefinite future.

Once I opened my room door I saw other guys passing by.)

Chris: Good morning Ryan!

Tom: Good mornin'!

Ryan: Uh yeah, good morning guys.

(This might take a while to get used to...)

(I rode the elevator with the other guys, as it went down it stopped on the girl's floor.

Violet, Jenn, and Beck had called the elevator.)

Violet: Oh sorry, we'll use the other one.

Ryan: Nah it's fine, there's enough room for all six of us-

Tom: But Beck can't come in, she'll try to blow us up!

Beck: No I won't! I don't even have any fireworks on me, tragically.

Tom: There's nothing tragic about that at all.

(The three girls joined us in the elevator, and it ended up being more cramped than I was expecting.)

Violet: Hm...this is a bit awkward.

Ryan: Whatever it's a quick trip down-

Tom: Hey!

Beck: Ah! What?

Ryan: What's going on?

Tom: She was reaching for her pocket, she does have a firework!

Beck: No I don't! What are you doing?!

Tom: What do mean what am I doing I'm stopping you from-

Beck: I was just scratching my hip why are you still holding my hand?

Tom: Huh I'm not holding your-AH!

(Tom through his hand back and accidentally smacked Chris in the face...at least that's what I think happened, I can't really see.)

Chris: OW!

Tom: Gah s-sorry!

Beck: You should be apologizing to me not him.

Tom: But I-

(Jenn pulled out her microphone from her pocket, and elbowed Chris in the face while doing so.)

Chris: OW!

Jenn: Breaking News: Young love spurs in crowded elevator!

Tom & Beck: What do you mean "young love"?!

Violet: Teehee, you guys are so cute.

(Finally, the elevator reached the lobby.

We all quickly dispersed.)

Ryan: Alright from now on the elevators have a three person capacity.

Jenn: Yeah that was way too tight, I could feel Ryan's pervy hands all over me.

Ryan: What are you talking about I didn't touch you at all!

Jenn: Well somebody did-

Ivy: It was the ghost!

(Ivy jumped out from the cafe entrance to join our argument.)

Tom: There's no such thing as-

Ivy: No! A few moments ago a ghost woke me up! It said to me loud and clear "Good morning! It is daytime, I hope you all have a waffle day!". I'm not sure what that waffle part means but perhaps it's some kind of cryptic-

Chris: Wasn't that just Monokuma's announcement? Everyone heard that-

Ivy: It was defiantly a ghost and if you guys hear it again let me now so I can catch 'em in the act!

(After that bizarre tidbit Ivy went back into the cafe.

Everyone is as crazy as ever today.)

(We all went into cafe, picked up some food, and took our seats.

After a few minutes, everyone was in the cafe.

Once again we were having casual banter as if what's really happening...wasn't happening.)

Ivy: Hey Claire, you wanna go ghost hunting with me later?

Claire: ...whatever...

Ivy: Sweet!

May: I really doubt there are any ghosts here.

Benny: Nah there's gotta be ghosts, that might be why the whole place is abandoned. Like, there's a dangerous ghost that scared everyone off.

Jack: If that's the case you are all lucky I know several "spirit sealing" spells.

Chatty: Wow try sayin' that five times fast.

Violet: Spirit sealing spells spirit sealing spells spirut stu-OW I bit my toungue!

(Everyone chuckled at Violet's cartoon-ish clumsiness...wow try saying that five times fast.)

Paige: Actually, instead of ghost hunting, I have an idea for something we can all do today.

Suds: What is it?

Ryan: If it involves pies or seltzer water I'm out.

Paige: No no we won't be clownin' around-

(Paige paused as if that was supposed to make us laugh...of course Violet and Cat laughed a bit 'cuse they're idiots.)

Paige: -We...should have a party! A karaoke party!

Chris: A karaoke party?

Paige: Yeah! We can all hang out at the karaoke bar, eat Cookie's awesome food, and sing our hearts out!

Beck: That's a great idea!

Cookie: Yeah, I can cook up something special.

(Everyone else agreed to Paige's plan, even the other dudes but I'm sure they weren't keen on the whole "singing" part.)

Benny: Do we all have to sing though?

Paige: Of course, it'd be a pretty lame party if we all didn't-

Ryan: I abstain.

Paige: -It can be a duet or whatever, as long I get hear everyone's voice and see everyone's smiles! That's what a karaoke party is all about!

Chatty: Sounds like a plan to me.

Paige: Cat I want you to sing too, and I do mean you, not your puppet.

(Cat suddenly got nervous, Paige has a point though. This whole time, as far as I know, nobody has heard Cat's real voice.

She has just been talking through that puppet, without moving her lips at all.

It's weird but maybe she is just...that shy.)

Paige: Alright, I'm gonna go start setting the place up.

Beck: I'll help too!

Cookie: I can go see what ingredients I have to work with.

(Beck, Paige, and Cookie left the cafe and made their way to the karaoke bar across the street.

I don't really understand what there is to "set up", but I guess Paige can't hold in her excitement.)

(A short while after they left, everyone finished their breakfast and we all went our separate ways.

I returned to my hotel room.)

(A karaoke party huh...can't say I remember ever going to something like that before. It should be fun.

Though, I am defiantly not singing.)

(Guess I have some free time before the "festivities" start.

I better find something to do.)

-FREE TIME START-

(Hm...maybe I can try to hit it off with Claire.

Wonder where she is.

I wandered around the city for bit and eventually saw Claire, she's alone in the alleyway by the theater.

That's an...interesting spot.

I greeted her and she greeted back, but actively chose to not start a conversation.

Guess I'll have to.)

Ryan: 'Sup, you lookin' for dead rats or somethin'?

Claire: ...yes...

Ryan: Ah...that's cool...

Claire: ...

Ryan: ...

Claire: ...

(This sucks.)

Ryan: So...why do you like dead things so much?

Claire: ...cuse...

Ryan: 'Cuse...why?

Claire: ...

Ryan: ...

(Whelp, I tired. She may be attractive on the outside, but on the inside, she's a brick wall.

I'll just go hang with-)

Claire: Stories.

Ryan: Huh?

Claire: Dead things tell stories, I like listening to those stories.

Ryan: What do mean?

Claire: You can tell a lot about something's life by looking at its corpse. Just by looking you can learn a happy, tragic, or melancholic story.

Ryan: That's...uh...

Claire: Why are you weirded out? You're the one who asked.

Ryan: Yeah but, you realize people are normally grossed out by dead stuff, right?

Claire: They shouldn't be. Death is the happiest event any living thing can experience.

Ryan: That can't be right. If it's so "happy" then why are you alive?

Claire: You need to live a life to have a happy death. Sometimes death can be sad...

(She paused as if she was recollecting something.)

Claire: ...But if you live a long life, then death will be a euphoric experience. It doesn't matter if your life was good or bad, just as long as it ends properly.

Ryan: Uh...that's...neat?

Claire: ...

Ryan: ...

(I feel like she just split her heart out to me and now she's being silent again?)

Claire: Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go ghost hunting...apparently.

Ryan: Ok, bye.

(She walked away, without saying "bye" back. I'll pretend she did.

Man, she might be the weirdest one out of everyone here...but for some reason...I still want to get to know her.)

+1 Friendship Fragment

1/5 Claire Fragments

-end -

(I returned to my room.

Oh! Looks like I got a message on my tablet.

Let's see here...it's from Paige, sent to everyone.)

"The party will begin at 5! Be there or be square!"

(Yeesh she's way too excited about this idea.

I shouldn't even go, especially if I'm being force to sing, it'll just be a drag.

But...uhg...I guess I owe it to everyone based on the way I was acting before.

We're all friends now and I trust them, I need to make sure they know that without me having to be sappy.)

(Anyways it's 3 right now, guess I'll go pass time with someone else.)

-FREE TIME START-

(I'll go hang out with Violet if she's around, I need to ask her about her memory.

We were both on the train here together and it seems she has remembered about her talent, so why haven't I?

Where could she be?

I'll check her room...)

*knock knock*

Violet: Coming.

(Oh she's actually in there.

She opened the door.)

Violet Hello...oh.

Ryan: What's with that reaction?

Violet: Ah s-sorry I just wasn't expecting you.

Ryan: Who were you expecting?

Violet: Ah-no I can't tell you, you'll think I'm weird.

Ryan: I'll think you're weirder if you don't tell me.

Violet: Fine, I was expecting Curt. I...I sort of want him to need my help again 'cuse...patching him up yesterday made me happy. It felt nice to treat someone again.

Ryan: That's actually what I wanted to talk about.

Violet: Curt? Oh dear I hope this doesn't become a love triangle-

Ryan: No! I wanted to talk about you and your talent.

Violet: What about it? Even though I'm a vet I still understand how to operate on humans.

Ryan: Yeah but you've...you've remembered your talent.

Violet: Vaguely yes, you haven't remembered yet?

Ryan: No...

Violet: That's strange...I remembered the first night we spent here, in a dream.

Ryan: A dream made you remember?

Violet: Yeah but it was hardly a dream it was more like, like I relived a very happy memory.

Ryan: Really?

Violet: Yup, it was like I went back in time. I was preforming a very risky treatment on someone's dog, the treatment succeeded and being able to see the smile on the owner's face was, just wonderful. After that, my skills just came flooding back to me.

Ryan: So that same thing must have happened to everyone else...

Violet: I don't think it has happened to everyone actually.

Ryan: Huh?

Violet: Well, Benny doesn't have a name tag so I doubt he's remembered his talent.

Ryan: That's a good point...wait...maybe the memory is tied to the name tags somehow...

Violet: Possibly but that wouldn't explain why you-

Ryan: Maybe my name tag is wrong.

Violet: You think so?

Ryan: There's no way to know but, I mean come on, there's no way in hell I'm an educator.

Violet: I think you should give it more time before jumping to a conclusion like that.

Ryan: Maybe...sorry to bother you with all this, I'll go back to my room-

Violet: Ah no it's no bother at all! I-um-I like talking with you...

Ryan: Really...then...uh...

(Violet and I proceed to have a long conversation about, pretty much nothing. We just shared some trivial information about ourselves and had some fun.

It was...nice.)

+1 Friendship Fragments

1/5 Violet Fragments

-end -

(We ended our conversation and I returned to my room.

Surprisingly, it was already 5. Wow, we really talked for that long?

Guess I better head down to the karaoke bar, actually, maybe it'd make sense to be "fashionably late".

I mean, it would be really embarrassing if I was the first person to show up.)

(I loafed around in my room for a bit.

After some time, I finally made my way to the party.)

(Once I arrived I was immediately greeted by-)

Paige: WELCOME!

(She set off a party popper.)

Ryan: Arhg! Where the hell did you get that?

Paige: There was all sorts of cool party stuff in the mall. Check out how cool this place looks now!

(The place was plastered with decorations, balloons, and bright multi-colored lights.

Not to mention, music was blasting.)

Ryan: It certainly is...bright.

Paige: I know right?! Why don't you go grab some steak and sit down.

(Steak?! Sweet.

I approached the bar and received a steak, steak knife, and fork from Cookie.)

Ryan: This looks great, dude!

Cookie: Thank you, hope you enjoy.

(I sat down in a seat next to Curt. The "set up" crew has attached multiple tables together for us to sit at, it's horizontally parallel to the square karaoke stage.

Looks like everyone is here...or...wait...)

Paige: Alright now we're just waiting on one person!

Ryan: Who isn't here yet?

Violet: Benny, I wonder what's taking him so long.

Chatty: That weirdo defiantly seemed excited about the party this morning.

Paige: He even came down earlier to check our set up progress.

(He did?)

Jenn: Actually, wasn't he against having to sing?

Paige: I don't he'd miss out because of that. He hasn't answered my texts, that must mean he's having a little poopy-time right now.

Cookie: He has been eating a lot of sweets.

Tom: Please shush, I don't want that image in my head.

May: I'm sure he'll be here any minute now. We can eat while we wait.

Paige: Then we can sing our hearts out when he finally shows up! Yeah!

(Everyone began to eat and have casual conversation.

But I'm...I'm a little worried.

Time is passing and, Benny isn't showing up.

I mean...considering the situation we're in...considering...the killing game...he...he could be...

No.

No, there's no fucking way anyone would-)

Beck: Argh! I'm getting sick of waiting! Can we start karaoke now?

Suds: It certainly seems private Benny is preoccupied with, other matters.

Curt: Yeah, maybe he is sick after all.

Violet: Should I go check on him?

Beck: Nah it's fine let that prick poop or jerk or whatever he's doin'. I wanna party damn it!

Paige: I guess we can start.

Beck: Hell yeah! I'm goin' first I'm goin' first!

(Why is she so excited?

Should we really be turning our backs on Benny right now...I mean...

No, he's fine.)

(Beck climbed over the table and ran up on stage.)

Tom: Yeesh what are you so hyped about?

Beck: My karaoke performance has a "special surprise"! It'll make you blow in your pants!

Tom: I don't like the sound of that at all...

(Beck grabbed the microphone, picked her song, and then...

The lights went out? Is there seriously a power outage right-

No wait, they're coming back on.

Oh I see, the lights are synced to her song...I guess that's the surprise she was talking about.

How the hell did she set that up?)

(As her song built up I stared to notice, smoke? Sparks? Fire?

Damn she's even set up pyrotechnics? Guess that's to be expected form her.

She's really going all out with this.)

(As the vocals started I was caught by surprised, this chick can actually sing? Damn.

She has a lot of energy right now, and that energy is spreading to all of us.

Before we knew it, we were all standing up, pushing the tables aside, smiling, and rockin' along to Beck's performance.

This is...awesome!)

Ryan: Hell yeah!

(Why did I just-er-I guess this positive energy has taken over me, and ya know what, I don't give a damn.)

Tom: Yeah!

Ivy: You rock Beck!

Violet: Woohoo!

(As the song progressed, the light show got more advanced, and Beck's smile got brighter.

Is she proud of herself, or is she just happy that she made us happy.

Seeing us all together, having fun, after all the awful things that have happen to us, is that enough...is that enough to make us all feel true happiness.

'Cuse this feeling.

This energy.

This camaraderie.

This is...this is true-WOAH!

Wait I...I'm remembering something!

I see...I see myself in...in a classroom? I'm teaching a group of students and we're all...smiling?

This imaginary scene isn't too different from the real one I'm experiencing right now.

So that's it then, I am an educator. I'm the Ultimate Educator! I finally remember!

Not that it matters anyways...since staying here, may not be bad after all.)

Ryan: Woohoo!

(Beck's performance concluded with an incredible, and likely dangerous, array of fireworks that lit up the whole room.

In those brief moments of light, the looks on everyone's faces were, beautiful.)

Beck: YEAAAH!

(As a grand finale a whole bunch of pyrotechnics where set off at once.

It was an awesome sight, but it filled the room with opaque, grey smoke.)

Violet: Woohoo! *cough* *cough*

Tom: *cough* Oh geeze.

Paige: Grr!

Beck: Sorry *cough* I might have over done it a little.

Curt: Damn it!

May: At least the window is open. *cough*

(I can't see anything but smoke.)

Beck: I should have done this outside *cough* sorry.

(After about a minute, the thick smoke faded.

Once it was gone, I was expecting everyone to return to their joyous selves...for the party to go on...but...

Everyone was frozen...and I immediately saw why.

It was right in front of me.

A sight, that changed everything.

That euphoric fun we were having, will never return.

This party, will not go on.

Because...

Right before our eyes...)

(...

Paige, the Ultimate Clown, is dead.

...)

TO BE CONTINUED...