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KimotoDragoon - It took me a while on thinking what would be great so I came up with this. Thanks.

AkorinKokoro - Correct, I wouldn't end that story so quickly. Hehe!


The thing about friendship is that

it doesn't last forever.

Years are not forever.

It will end eventually by one of the two people.

Friendship is lost, so is trust.

When trust is lost, more negative feelings succumb.

One of them is most likely to be despair.


Hope's Peak Academy : First Floor

- Gymnasium

- Tuesday

- 3:12 p.m.


DAY 2: RESUMED


It would seem that one of them at the kitchen found out what I was getting in reality, a knife. They assumed that I was plotting a murder so they chased me. After catching me, they took my knife away and returned it. I'm still going to proceed with my plan and get it back. They let go of me afterwards and I remained seated on the floor.

During that scenario, I saw Hagakure holding a box of dolls, I couldn't see his expression since I was from the entrance of the gym doors. Some were surprised and shaking from death coming to them so suddenly. What caught my eyes and ears was Ishimaru who was convincing and begging for sparing our lives, sadly no answer coming from the shaman's mouth. Nothing.

Monokuma was in heaps of joy for letting the mutual killings come to a grand finale after our first day. I guess he's a murder and blood fetishist. In this case, he'll either do it all at once or one by one. It will not matter since he will kill us.

I just don't understand on how Hagakure obtained them when they locked it in their rooms individually, it's 100% fool proof. Maybe they didn't listen to what I said and just faked it, nope they wouldn't do that, it's their lives that are at risk.

The fact that Hagakure attempted a robbery is again impossible with my proposal in instant effect, of course there are extensive possibilities to all situations, an investigation should be an order or rather an interrogation. I'm going to give Hagakure a piece of all of us. To think that he didn't care about us and fell for Monokuma's trick, maybe he did... I don't know. I'm not him. I shouldn't be judgmental to others with the exception of Togami hence his cruel personality.

...

Monokuma after making the announcement gives the microphone to Hagakure requesting him to give out his last words for graduation. This is a high school so some regular standards in normal schools still retain as is. Upon getting the microphone, Hagakure couldn't say anything because he knew that the rest of us are going to be executed. I think he's trying to find a way to forget all of this. I doubt there might be even one. Without an impromptu speech, the stuffed toy snatched it away and began to make the preparations, by calling the rest of us here at the gym.


This is a PA Broadcast

Please proceed to the gym immediately for our graduation ceremony.

I'll punishment you on sight if you disobey, so get to it you bastards!


After that announcement, I had a look around and saw Ishimaru kneeling down crying, Fujisaki was crying as well, lying down on the floor on the other side. Junko got even angrier and decided to go crazy and beat up Hagakure despite the height difference. I needed to stop her but what's the use... Hagakure did self-defense and upon seeing his face, it was heartless and full of neutrality. Naegi on the other hand, was sweating from guilt-ridden death coming straight to his face. Lastly, Kirigiri had a face of questionability, I guess we have the same mindset in situations as twisted as this. I was praying that there's got to be a mistake in all this.

...

And there was, my prayer was answered, I think. How so? Monokuma's expression was in ultimate anger and betrayal, he was holding one of the dolls and threw it at Hagakure. What just happened? He was happy a moment ago and now this. As for him, he was shocked for the sudden flipping of events. Junko was surprised to see this happen almost holding back on her aggressiveness. Is the graduation going to proceed? Or was something else going to be in store for him or us. I can't tell.

"No. No! I won't allow cheating in this school! You think that you are going to graduate huh? Think again!", Monokuma exclaimed. And I would have guessed it, this mistake was something I needed to figure out, maybe not one but two or more.

All our attention were directed to him plus Ishimaru and Fujisaki stopped crying. Either way, the bright side shone upon us since this means that we are not going to die and he's not graduating. Thank God.

"Wh-what? I did what you told me! These are 5 dolls! What else do you want?", Hagakure asked him in pitted rage.

"You cheated! I want you out of my sight! This is despair I don't want! I'm going to start a forest fire in here!", Monokuma pulled out a giant flame thrower in point-blank range. Knowing that he's going to burn the gym down, I rushed towards Junko and the box and get them out of safety. Kirigiri and company immediately made a run for it outside.

"Junko, look out!", I shouted. She immediately looked at me as her arm was grabbed, also taking the box with me. Since I brought it with only one arm, some of the dolls were left behind as they fell from it and were instantly in flames. I had to get a quick look while running and those dolls resembled Maizono, Hifumi and Celes. Wait, didn't Monokuma say that if you are going to incinerate your doll, you will be punished? Was Monokuma aware of this or maybe the anger filled his stuffy head.

Fortunately, all of us was able to evacuate the gym and closed it down. Luckily, the fire alarm rang and sprinklers were triggered everywhere in the dorm. Are all of the dorm rooms affected by the waters? I hope not, I just had my room decorated nicely.

"What the hell is going on now?", Junko shouted at us while the fire alarm rang. Hell. This is hell.

"We'll talk about it later, the sprinklers should at least extinguish the fire for a little while.", Kirigiri answered. "We should take control of the situation."

"But how!? Monokuma has a flamethrower! He can keep the fire blaze going if he wanted to.", I pried while blocking the smoke coming from the gym.

During that situation, I saw Hagakure rushing his way to the dormitory hallways. He won't be stuck in his room, I remember what Ishimaru discussed about auto-locking mechanisms in the doors. I told someone to catch him but they were in the middle of something else that is getting themselves together. So I had no choice but for me to chase after him, but there was no need to do that because he was blocked by Oowada, futhermore he had nowhere to go since he was surrounded. As a result, Hagakure surrendered and gave himself in.

I went to the others to see if they were alright, the smoke must have messed up their lungs for a while. I was coughing too hence the dark cloudy smoke from the flames.

"Go to the cafeteria now, we have an interrogation to do.", I told them while they nodded.

Now is the time to ask him a few questions.


Hope's Peak Academy : First Floor

- Shiki's Room

- Tuesday

- 4:24 p.m.


Before we had our meeting, we all decided to dry ourselves first but three people need to keep an eye on Hagakure. There were even suggestions that they tie him with a rope, is there even rope on the first floor? Or even the storage room? I told them that it's your choice, as long as he has nowhere to go, it should be fine. So some of them decided to get a rope before getting dried up. Oowada, Sakura and Ishimaru were in charge of tracking the movements of Hagakure if he has any attempts of going back to his room. So with that out of the way, I went back to my room to get another set of clothes. I can handle laundry-washing for another time. As I entered my room, I was relieved that the dorm rooms were unaffected by the sprinkler effect. It took me a few minutes to get changed.

When I left my room, I saw Celes with a very dissatisfied look, or rather an apprehensive expression. I knew something wasn't right so I comforted her by having a little talk. When I approached her, she seems to have a neutral mood to me. Was she angry at me?

"Hey... are you still angry at me, if you are.. I'm sorry again. I won't be reckless upon having anger issues.", I said to her.

"As long as you're erratic behavior is swept off everyone's feet, I will spare you.", she replied.

"Spare? Really?", I asked while I raised my eyebrow.

"I apologized to you have I not? Isn't it satisfactory enough for you?", she said. I suppose she's right, at least we are on good terms.

"Anyway, we should get going. I want to figure out Hagakure's plan." I said.

"Yes, let's pin him down to his limits.", she suggested.

Suddenly, Monokuma appeared in the middle of the hallway, walking with a janitor's outfit.

"Oh, aren't you two lovebirds having your time after such an apocalyptic event. Destruction at its finest, so despair-inducing!", he said.

"You did all of this! All because you were pissed by someone who's cheating. I expected much of the headmaster. Tsk.", my anger towards Monokuma lessened and turned into amusement of humiliation. It was one of the first times I felt such a boastful emotion towards someone I hate. It is... amusing.

"Very much I agree with our fellow psychic, he probably knew your emotions at hand.", Celes added. Celes, I can't tell people's emotions. I'm not a SHSL Empathetic.

"Oy, you are working together to pin ME down aren't you?", it's nothing of the sort Monokuma. We just happened to talk to each other, don't make assumptions.

"Anyway, Monokuma can you get the entire first floor mopped up in a jiffy? As the principal, it's your job to make our communal lifestyle here acquaint and relaxing. I'm not meeting my conditions well. Are you still continuing to disappoint us SHSL students?", I told him.

"... You're no fun.", Monokuma told me.

"I beg to differ.", Celes said.

With nothing to say afterwards, he began to mop up the rest of the hallway. I was laughing inside at the headmaster to clean up the hallways. It's driving me to a little more laughter in my inner ego. So I left out a giggle. Celes had to glance at me for a while, was she disturbed? I cannot tell.

"Oh, I'm fine. Don't worry. We should keep going or we might be late.", putting my composure into normality and calmness.


Hope's Peak Academy : First Floor

- Cafeteria

- Tuesday

- 4:52 p.m.


So when we arrived, everyone was here with new clothes and such. Oowada and Sakura were to keep guard on Hagakure's behavior and attempt of escape. Everyone else has to do their part too, the boys most likely and some of the girls as well. This is like a huge representation of a TV show I watched back when I was a kid but this is no show, it was real. I can predict that tomorrow will not be a good day for us, heck there won't be a positive atmosphere around us. I saw Hagakure whose face was sweating and shaking from his wanted task of graduation. We all had a grudge against him, because he was going to have us dead. So to begin the interrogation, we had him sit down at one of the chairs at the smaller dining tables. Since we were positioned in a circular grouping, fighting back would be useless.

"So where do we start? Do we beat him up?", Leon was the first to speak knuckling his muscles.

"How about we slit his throat, that would be easy. I'll go get a knife.", Junko added. You guys are this treacherous when someone tries to kill you huh. She was supposed to storm to the kitchen and get herself a knife, but she was interrupted by Kirigiri.

"Before you do what you like, I would like to ask him a few questions.", Kirigiri butted in. She has a point, it would be wise to get the information about what happened and even before that.

Kirigiri took steps closer to Hagakure and asked, "How did you get those dolls?". A question that was in my mind during the supposed graduation.

"I just found them in the box near the storage room. That's it.", Hagakure answered. Just found it? Don't you mean...

"Where exactly?", Kirigiri emphasized the term 'exactly'.

"Just by the door, I found it lying around and then that's that.", he found it lying around? That's strange. Can he really be trusted though?

"...", Kirigiri put thought into his words and stood there for a while. I don't know what she's thinking but I guess it's about how he got the dolls in the first place.

"Can I go now? That's all I got!", Hagakure seems to be in a hurry or maybe he was scared about Junko and Leon's death threats. Kirigiri didn't say a word and left the cafeteria, I wonder what's up.

"Can we kill him or what? This asshole is trying to fuck with us!", Oowada shouted. Kill. That's what Monokuma wants right? I couldn't think or feel to make a statement after that. I immediately went back to my plan and waited for the opportunity to get a weapon.

"Y-you hate us! I knew it from the v-very start! Imbecile!", Fukawa joined in the verbal riot. I have a grudge too but not that super.

"A traitor amongst us. He will already lose the game any time soon.", Togami said. I don't like to agree with him but he has a point. He might be a traitor because of what he did and given the amount of time left, there's still a lot of time to plot a murder. For him to get back after his failed plan.

"But let me remind you all of that maniacal bear's motive. If one of us don't graduate within 48 hours, we will all be executed. So if you want to live, go kill someone.", he said.

"Shut up! It's not funny! Do you think is a game?", Junko said.

"We are in a game aren't we? Of course it is, usually people like you end up dying first.", Togami answered back.

"Besides, I'm going to win this game but I want this game to last longer."

"I...I... can't live like this. I want to...", Fujisaki cried again. She's a soft one based on her attitude and outfit. No one could say another word after that.

Since we are all here, I need to ask everyone about something.

"Do you guys want to disband my rule? It seems that it wasn't effective, hence the motive drastically affecting it?", I said.

"Togami, don't even think on saying 'See, I told you so' or 'I was right all this time.' alright?", I included.

"I never followed your rule Shiki, I go by my own rules and will never bow down to any of you numbskulls.", Togami said.

"Then why are you here?", Aoi asked him.

"Well, the sudden turn of events caught my attention so I decided to join the train. It was something I couldn't avoid.", he responded.

"Back to my question please?", I interrupted.

What I got in exchange was several nods of yes and nos. So I guess it wasn't that helpful to most of us. I'm an idiot.

"Alright then, my rule will no longer take in place. I guess we are a bunch of rule-breakers huh?", I declared.

The surrounding influence had no changes of mood whatsoever.

"So, is there anything else we can interrogate to Hagakure?", Ishimaru asked. Naegi raised his hand and was angry like the rest of us. He took a little step forward and asked him this

"Hagakure, why... what's with you?", Togami interrupts him again.

"Don't you all get it, he's playing the game just like the rest of us. Escaping this school is his top priority, not us. But to think he'd cheat just like that, shameful.", he gave us a beckoning silence, a silence that wants us to be alone.

Junko was the first one to make her leave.

"If one of us is not going to graduate, just kill yourself. That'd be easier for the rest of us.", she said before leaving the cafeteria.

Leon gave Hagakure a frightening glare, Maizono didn't want to be in this atmosphere anymore and went back to her room. Fujisaki and Naegi joined her. Little by little, they went back to their rooms. The only people left was Kirigiri, Hagakure, and me. I needed to stay here and wait for the right opportunity to get a knife from the cafeteria, but my gut tells me that Kirigiri is aiming for me and Hagakure. I was cornered so I had no choice but to go back to my room. I silently walked my way back, my plan has an increased chance of failure. Damn.


Hope's Peak Academy : First Floor

- Shiki's Room

- Tuesday

- 6:04 p.m.


I went into my room and needed to rethink about my plan. I laid down in my bed in my pajamas and needed to take a murder weapon. If only Kirigiri didn't get in the way, I could have proceeded. Wait a minute, it doesn't have to be a knife now is it? I have a toolbox, I forgot about that.

I had a mental breakdown, well it wasn't really that much of a breakdown but it triggered because of the feeling of death. Why does death have to be powerful? If I didn't save those people back then I would have perceived a perfect view of dying. What the hell!? Get over yourself Shiki! You're not actually joining the bad side are you? Of course not! That would be a total contradiction to my main accomplishment.

Before I will continue, I needed to give a note to someone who can make full use of the scroll I had under my bed, this piece of blueprints should fall under the hands of a professional. So I decided to give the note to Kyouko Kirigiri, I'm sure she'd take my place in the long run of this school life.

Then I got a knock from my door. It was Celes, she was wearing her sleepwear and just as I knew from the beginning it was hair extensions. Anyway, why would she be on my front doorstep at this time?

"Celes, do you need something?", I asked her.

"I need your assistance. It's urgent.", she said. She was afraid but I couldn't tell what.

"Bring your toolbox please.", she added to which I nodded.

"How abstract, you decorated your room really uniquely.", she commented on my beginner architectural design skills to distinguish from the mainstream arrangement of a bedroom.

"Was that an insult?", I told her.

"Oh, not at all Shiki. I mean it.", she replied.

"Thank you." as I got my toolbox, I went with her and left my room.

As we reached her room, it was... pretty floral. There were her dresses, her customized bed made of roses and more of them on the edges of her room. She really likes to live the royal-England lifestyle. Anyway, she invited me here for a reason and there are two things that came up from my mind.

"Why does your room smell like roses?", while I covered my nose.

"Do you have a dislike for roses.", she says.

"No, it's adaptability I'm talking about. Roses smell nice but... I can't stand it only after a sum of hours."

"Anyway, you told me to bring my toolbox to fix something correct?"

"That's not the only reason I want you here.", she included. So my assumptions are confirmed.

"Can we kindly switch rooms? I.. have a feeling that someone's going to kill me.", so she is afraid after all.

"I thought you weren't afraid, I suppose you're showing weakness correct? Just like how you reprimanded Junko?", I got her sidetracked.

"..."

"Are you going to admit it or not?", I said.

"..."

She hasn't responded yet.

"Nonsense, Shiki.", she's clearly lying I mean why would she knock on my door in the first place. There's a reason for everything.

"Really? Stop lying.", giving a retort.

"..."

"Just give me your key, and I'll be on my way.", that's her way of saying yes, gotcha.

"Not until you give me your key first.", I returned.

So we exchanged our keys and made our way out, I hope she won't mess with my things. Anyways, as I was about to close the door, I noticed that I can't lock my door. Does that explain why she told me to bring the toolbox? To fix it?

I brought out a screwdriver and a bunch of screws to perform several tests to ensure its locking mechanisms function normally. This took me about 15 minutes or so to get it done.

...

Finally, it worked.

So I placed my toolbox under Celes' bed and laid down in her bed.

As I slept, it's more comfy than mine. Is there something else with the foam?

...

I had a premonition of myself again, it was the continuation of the nightmare spree. I was slashed in the throat by the masked man and he did it again. My body felt immediately limp and I tasted my blood. This was the prequel to the previous premonition. After several cuts, he brought my body to a crucified position and anchored a chain on my back, it hurts like hell! I could feel my spine from the metal chain, fortunately it ended there. I don't want any more of this crappy torture bloodbaths in my mind.

Then I started to dream of something else, it was pitch-black and nothing could be seen like a void in space. A black hole. I started to hear a voice saying: "I was obviously lying!" and "I wanted to get out of here more than anyone else!", I can tell it's a girl, a scary one in fact.

Are my dreams supposed to be in par with what's going on? I think I should take consideration of them. Should I use my psychic powers now? I'm afraid of getting the sharp pains again, but it's not like I'm going to die right?

I started to think about the future and I saw people running about, they were screaming, there was an elevator and then a weird room with several stands and a royal throne chair. I stopped right there to avoid headaches, if only there was a library...

Tomorrow's going to be Day 1 of the murder attempts.

There's going to be a killer and a victim before the motive ends.


Night Time begins now

This is a school announcement. It is now 10pm.

The cafeteria's doors will be locked shortly. You are forbidden to enter it.

Well then, good night. I wish you all have pleasant dreams...


DAY 2: END

SURVIVORS: 16


I'm sorry if this chapter was short, I needed to balance the flows of the story and leave the exciting events to cliffhangers. What are your thoughts so far on Shiki and Hagakure's attempts. Leave a review.

I guess this chapter is mostly about the aftermath of the motive and Celes, just like how in the original game it was Naegi and Maizono.

Next chapter will be the investigation.