Location: Gym Time: 1:20 pm

Looking down at Junko, confusion ran through my mind. How did she get up there? Why wasn't she with us if she was locked up with us?! I questioned myself.

Naegi broke my thoughts, "Ace, let's get her to the cafe. We'll be able to get our answers there."

"Alright..." I replied. I sheathed my blades and picked up Junko bridal style to carry her out of the Gym. As I was carrying her, I was deep in thought still trying to get some of the answers to this mystery. I must have been really deep in thought because before I knew it we had arrived in the cafeteria.

Everyone was having small talk until we stepped in. When we did all attention went towards me. I merely ignored the sudden interest, placed Junko in a seat, and stretched out my arms.

Togami shot, "You're late."

"Sorry, I'll make sure to come extra early just for you." I exclaimed sarcastically.

"Enough with the arguing," a voice said. We all turned to the direction of the voice, seeing Kirigiri walking into the cafe.

Asahina sighed, "Great. At least everyone's here..."

Leon yawned, "Alright, let's get this over with. What did we find?"

Fujusaki stuttered, "Asahina, Sakura, a-and I all went to the classrooms..."

"We did, but nothing really popped up..." Asahina continued.

Sakura calmly said, "Also, the iron plates guarding the windows where in each and every classroom."

"...Anything else?" I asked unhappy and unsurprised.

Celes chimed in, "Well Leon, Yamada, and I went around the entrance hall and stair cases, but the entrance has a giant safe-like door on it..."

Leon continued, "Not only that, but 2 mini-guns are stationed there, pointing at anyone who goes near."

"I fear what'll happen if anyone were to try an escape through there... "Yamada whimpered.

"Oowada? What about you?" I asked.

"I found nothing other than the Nurse's Office and School Shop being locked." he replied.

Togami suddenly spoke, "Other than that, there is a rather strange red door near the AV room..."

Fukawa stuttered, "Y-yeah, it's pretty ominous..."

Maizuno spoke, "We saw that too. It looks pretty important."

Kirigiri questioned, "What about you four? Who is the girl you brought back?"

My nerves for some reason became shot; making me a little sweaty. I looked at Jade, Naegi, and Maizuno looking to see if any of them wanted to go first.

Naegi jumped into it, "Well, we found her dangling from one of the iron beams over the Gym."

Togami argued, "Impossible, there is no way anyone would be able to reach that height. There is nothing for her to climb from anyway, so wanna try again?"

Kirigiri stepped in, "Togami, were you there?"

Togami chuckled, "No, but I get your point. Proceed."

"Anyway... she fell from it. Luckily I was able to catch her in the nick of time." I continued.

Leon exclaimed, "Wow, you must be super fast to catch her like that!"

Asahina looked confused, "That's really odd though... how and why was she even up there?"

Celes continued the questions, "Yes, isn't it a little odd that a random girl falls from the sky in the middle of the academic coliseum, don't you agree?"

Everyone continued with the questions. Feeling overwhelmed, I started to back up not being able to take anymore of the noise. It all ended with Naegi shouting. He shouted, "ENOUGH ALREADY!" Everyone jumped, looking at Neagi oddly.

Jade also looked pretty angry; jumping in front of me with her face blood red. Jade firmly spoke, "We know as much as you do at this point, so stop bombarding Ace with all of your questions!"

Kirigiri agreed, "We shouldn't be asking Ace these questions. We should be asking her."

I looked at Kirigiri confused, "What do you mean? Isn't-"

She interrupted, "She isn't unconscious and she's been awake for quite some time now," She looked in Junko's direction, "You almost pulled it off, but if you wanna fake being out try to keep your breathing pattern the same."

We heard sucking teeth. Suddenly, Junko sat up wide awake and crossed her legs in front of her. Junko joked, "Awww, I was enjoying my little charade..."

Yamada was dumbfounded, "She was faking the whole time?!"

"How long were you faking?!" I asked bitterly feeling played. She put a finger to her mouth as if thinking, which made me a little more annoyed.

Junko answered, "Weeell... I would say since it was your turn to say what you found..."

Jade lost it, "Are you kidding me? He saved your life and you try to fake being unconscious?! Why I-!"

Asahina jumped at Jade trying to hold her down. Junko jumped to hide behind the seat.

Kirigiri sighed, "At least tell us how you got here..."

Junko replied, "I don't know. All I remember is walking through the door of Hope's Peak and here I am now."

Togami questioned, "How did you get on the beam?"

Junko shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know, I just woke up on the beam. I was scared I would fall, I lost balance, and he saved me." Togami rolled his eyes, obviously not liking the answer. Junko then got up walking to the rest of the group. She asked, "What do we do now?"

"Well... I guess have lunch and call it a day..." I suggested.

Everyone murmured their agreement and we speedily made sandwiches for everyone. After that, we all went to do our own thing.

I went to my room and jumped onto my bed. After a few minutes of tossing and turning, I looked at my wall where I had posted a picture of Jade because I couldn't think, so I needed a distraction from the world. I dug around through my desk and I found an Mp3 with headphones. Yes! I thought triumphantly. However, I saw that there was a little piece of paper on it. I picked it up, reading its contents:

For Ace Hogana, my favorite student!

~Monokuma

At first, I wanted to chuck the Mp3 out of my room. However, I thought about it. If there is music I don't like on it, it's a goner... Shrugging my shoulders, I put on the headphones and played the music full blast. To my surprise, it had all of my favorite music back to back. Listening to the best tunes ever, I grabbed the notepad next to me and quickly jotted down all of the past events. Then, I sketched out Naegi. For some reason, I decided to draw him with a gun. Nodding my head with approval, I posted it next to Jades picture. After that, I jumped onto my bed immediately falling asleep.

About a couple of hours later, I woke up from my well needed nap. Looking at the clock, I saw it was about to 4:30. Crud! I'm going to be late! I thought to myself. I quickly got dressed and darted towards the cafe.

When I made it into the cafeteria, I saw that Fujusaki was in a seat alone far off to the side. She seemed to be messing with the Electro IDs Monokuma had given us. She then looked up, noticing that I was there. She grinned, inviting me over. She greeted, "Hi Ace. For a moment there, I thought that you had forgotten..."

"Sorry about that. I had didn't pay attention to the time." I explained.

She laughed, "That's okay." It was great seeing Fujusaki like this not being her shy and stutters self. She was more confident about herself, laughing, and being able to relax a little. Fujusaki then asked, "So... what should we do?"

This caught me by surprise because I didn't really have a plan for what to do with Fujusaki. I continued to think and think, and I finally had an idea. Opening up my Electro ID, I continued to scroll down till I found something new. There were GAMES on them. Under it was a message from Monokuma:

You're Welcome!

I made a face to one of the security cameras, thinking of every different insult I could. After that, I turned to an awaiting Fujusaki. "Wanna play some games?" I asked.

Fujusaki's eyes lit up, "Alright, let's do it!"

We played for about 2 hours. We always had one-upping each other with each new game played. It was awesome! After the 2 hour mark, people started coming in for dinner. We were pretty upset that the games had to be put away, but we had just realized that we were pretty hungry. That night, Fujusaki and I volunteered to make dinner. Asahina couldn't wait though, so she got herself a big box of donuts for herself. Leon went green just looking at it. It reminded him of the chow-down event that he had with Asahina not to long ago.

Thirty minutes later, we finished a masterpiece. Macaroni and Cheese! Everyone dug in, tasting cheesy heaven. As we were eating, I realized that Togami wasn't with us. At first, I shrugged it off, I mean, we could be fine without that buzz kill, right? However, an hour went by and still no sign of Togami. Also, Fukawa wasn't here with us as well, and neither was Maizuno.

Curious about their whereabouts, I went over to Kirigiri; who was currently standing off to the side in deep thought. "Kirigiri, do you know where Togami and the other's are?" I asked.

Kirigiri answered, "No, I don't... Come to think of it, I haven't seen any of them since we saw the motives..."

"Not good..." I whisper, trying not to cause alarm in the group.

Kirigiri then asked "Did you check the IDs? I think you can use that to track them..."

"I'll do it now..." I replied pulling out the Electro ID. I turned on the map and was looking through the first floor trying to find them. Neither of them were in the dorm building, so I started to get a little nervous. Where could they be?! I thought.

Then I saw Togami. He had just walked in; carrying what appeared to be a book. However, he wasn't alone. Fukawa was falling close behind, but she had a sickening look on her face. "What now?" I ask tiredly.

Togami replied, "It's started. Someone has been murdered in the AV room."