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Chapter 1: Party 'til Midnight at Hope's Peak Academy

Part(y) 3!

"Taka! The heck were you!" Homura roared at me as I reentered the kitchen.

"I-I was with Hayato checking something…" I replied hesitate due to Homura aggressive tone.

"We have done all the hard work ya know!" Homura bellowed using her right hand to point to several bowls filled with different coloured fluids.

"Calm down...the important thing is he is here." Botan spoke.

"Err...excuse Taka but have you seen...errr...Tomo and Akira?" Ilaria spoke in a slightly concerned tone.

"No, I cannot say I have." I replied., sorry." I replied as I can see Ilaria is worried. "Don't worry! I am sure they are fine." I add in a reassuring tone.

"I hope you are...err...correct." Ilaria replied still with a worried face.

"Okay! Let's bring these bowls to the gym!" Botan instructed.

"Aye!" Homura agreed before she walked towards one of the bowls. Botan soon joined her as with relative ease picked up the bowls and placed the two on a serving trolley before Botan started pushing the trolley with incredible ease. Wow! He's strong! I pondered.

"Homura you can take the remaining bowl to the gym!" Botan instructed resulting in Homura approaching the bowl and lifting it also with ease.

"Taka...can you these to the...err...gym-gymnas-gym…"

"The gymnasium." I sighed correcting Ilaria's pronunciation as she pointed to the numerous food canopies on several silver plates which had numerous mini-pastry like foods that were arranged in a spiral manner towards the centre of the platters.

"Sí!"Ilaria nodded. "Just take quattro platters and...err...we can take the other ones later."

"Quattro?" I asked in a confused manner.

"Oh excuse me...I meant four. Sometimes my Italian just…surfaces if that's how you say it in English." Ilaria apologised

"Don't sweat it." I told Ilaria before I approached one of the platters and pick it up the silver platter and departed the kitchen and headed towards the gymnasium. Ilaria followed behind me as we strolled through the corridor. Suddenly Tomo and Akira appeared from around the corner.

"Oh, thank goodness!" Ilaria sighed in relief. "You are...err...okay!" Ilara smiled.

"Relax, I just went to take a shower and freshen up…" Tomo responded as her clothes were now in mint condition.. "I took Akira with me cause I don't trust her not to do stunts in the kitchen."

"The added obstacles make it more challenging!" Akira roared sticking her tongue out.

"Wait, Taka? You haven't showered yet?" Tomo inferred based on the foam patches that decorated my clothes.

"No...I-I had to take care of something." I said hesitantly resulting in Tomo leering at me.

"Well as long as it's all sorted now! The party starts soon so let's rock…" Abruptly Akira did backflip randomly before landing soundly on both feet. "...and roll!" She grinned cheekily.

"Well you two can...err..escort the platters from the kitchen to the...gym-gymnas-gymn…"

"Gymnasium?" Tomo corrected Ilaria who was struggling over the word.

"Sí." Ilaria was now clearly embarrassed as her cheeks started blushing.

"Sure thng!" Akira said enthusiastically before dashing off towards the direction of the kitchen.

"That girl...where does she get all that energy from?" Tomo sighed as she slowly started walking towards Ilaria and me. "I best get going..." Tomo walked past the pair of us. "Oh Taka, if I find you up to something..." Tomo was now leering at me intensely triggering shivers to go down my spine. "You will be the next prey I hunt down!" Tomo departed swiftly after this threat. It seems Monokuma's threat has put everyone on edge. I realized in my head.

"What was that about Taka?" Ilaria wondered.

"I am not really sure." I replied in a slightly nervous tone. "Let's just bring this platters to the..."

"GYMNASIUM!" Ilaria yelled. "Did I say it correctly?"

"You sure did!" I replied causing Ilaria to smile at her sense of achievement as we slowly strolled towards the gymnasium.

"WHERE THE HELL IS ITTTTTTTT!" A loud voice roared before one of the doors to the classrooms ripped open and Teinosuke walked out. His face was riddled with anger. It sounds like he is looking for his real sword. I concluded.

"Teinosuke? Why is violence your solution to everything?" I asked subtly. Teinosuke turned his head slowly 90 degrees to the left to look at me in the eyes. His glare was intimidating.

"Yeah? Use your words not your...err...fist? Is that how the expression goes?" Ilaria said.

"Violence...It's ironic 'cause the only way peace has been obtained in this world is through war." Teinosuke looked down at his hand which clutched it into a fist. "When people learn to love, they bear the risk of hatred."

"Teinosuke...that's not tru…"

"It is true!" Teinosuke bellowed interrupting me. "Hatred, Jealously, Despair rule this world. Why do think everyone is on edge since Monokuma's threat. It is because people only care about protecting themselves from despair. I use violence to get the peace I want. I accept hatred to get the love I want."

"Teinosuke, hope fills this world too. If everyone just had a small piece of hope in them...Just imagine what could be achieved." I smile at Teinosuke, despite the suffering he has inflicted onto me.

"HAHAHAHAHA! You actually believe that!" Teinosuke roared with laughter before withdrawing his sword. "You are more ignorant that I thought! But do not worry Taka, I know your Ultimate talent will come in handy when I spread despair." Teinosuke spoke before departing the scene.

"Taka...don't overthink it. People like him...err...don't change!" Ilaria told me.

"Maybe you are right…" I replied .

Eventually we arrived at the gymnasium which was filled with students placing decorations, moving and setting tables and setting up the light and sound systems.

"FOOD!" Isobel roared as she abruptly started to dash towards Ilaria and me until Masaaki grabbed her around the waist restricting her. Despite this fluid drizzled from her mouth as her eyes opened wide and glistened at the sight of the platters.

"Control yourself…" Masaaki instructed as she started struggling and squirming in Masaaki's grip. Jester quickly walked up to us pointed to a table which had Colette and Homura standing near it.

"Okay!" I spoke indicating I understood before I headed towards the table and placed the platter on the table.

"SAY CHEESE!" Colette spoke before a huge flash was produced from her camera stunning me. "That's a good picture of you guys!" Colette remarked as I was rubbing my eyes. My vision slowly returned and I saw Ilaria and me with surprised faces . The timestamp of the picture was 6:47:53 pm.

" Colette, can you give a bit more warning before you take pictures?" I pleaded.

"Or turn of the bright light...err...thingy!" Ilaria described vaguely.

"Oh, my bad….Out of a scale of 1 to 10 how bright was my flash?" Colette asked but her face close to mine as she lean forward.

"Colette, now is not the time for that!" Homura interjected. "Is there any more food coming?"

"Sí!" Ilaria responded.

"Taka…" I turned my body around to see who spoke my name and it was Hayato.

"Hayato?" I replied.

"Just remember not tell anyone about…you know…" Hayato muffled his voice with his hand. I nod discretely showing my acknowledgement.

"I saw him looking for it on the way here." I informed him quietly.

"I am not surprised... he seems like a guy that doesn't seem to be a guy that stops until he gets want he wants." Hayato replied.

"Okay...you two are up to something." Kohana approached us. "I have seen you guys snooping around especially you Hayato…" Hayato and me stood in silence. "Well are you going to speak or wh...

"AHHHHHHHH!" Abruptly screaming filled the gymnasium which caused everyone to stop what they were doing.

'What the heck was that?" James asked as everyone was looking around to see where it came from.

"It seems to have originated from the corridor?" Daisuke concluded. He was currently standing on a ladder with his hands fiddling with theatrical lights the gym had.

This was the first step of despair.