AN: Yooo! I'm sorry for taking so long uou also this is rly short ahh && two notes, I've never wrote romance that's not pre-established so can you tell me if this is going too slow/fast + im trying to keep togami true to his character so he might be sorta cold and stufff for a while! && I've dropped some veeery subtle hints between these three chapters so you could sorta guess the Mastermind, Syo, and the mole! Plus there will be a sort of best friend/sibling character like Mukuro was in the original games, but they will not serve the same purpose. (no one is going to pretend to be the mastermind and then die like Mukuro did!) Enjoy guys! Please r & r!
Having calmed down, I made my way to the cafeteria where they should have been having a meeting.
However, no one was to be found standing in the cafeteria. Scrutinizing the table I noticed there seemed to be crumbs on the table like they'd eaten something, but left. That's peculiar, where did they go? Obviously they were somewhere in this school, unless they found a way out in the span of a half hour. But I doubt that, some of those idiots looked like they couldn't even find their way out of a box with specific instructions.
Ah, well. It would have been awkward trying to explain how I'd found them here in the cafeteria on sole luck anyways.
I figured while everyone else was MIA, I might as well just go do some exploring of this place I was supposedly stuck in for my whole life. I knew about the dorms and the cafeteria, but there should be more rooms about than that, I mean, the school looked pretty big from the outside, certainly more than one floor too.
I saw some other rooms on the ElectroID when I looked for the dorms on the map installed into the IDs, which only confirmed my theory. I frowned and rubbed my chin, that might be a good way to start exploring, I would investigate whatever rooms listed on the map that I haven't visited yet. There's also the possibility I could run into someone else, which I'm not entirely sure whether that would be good or bad.
Ignoring that notion for now, I reached down into my pocket and pulled out my ElectroID, opened the map function of it and immediatly noticed the rooms and entire floors blacked out. I'm guessing they were not accessible to me at this time, though hopefully that will change. Otherwise, they wouldn't even be included on the map.
Having seen the dorms, cafeteria, gym, my eyes skimmed over the device until I realized the only place I hadn't been was a video room of some sorts. I suppose a indoor theater or something of that nature? Well, I guess they needed something to entertain us, not that cheap, trashy, commoner movies or television was a very good source of that.
Regardless, I pivoted on my foot, and walked sharply out of the cafeteria, intending to find the new room.
I walked down empty hallways, not seeing a soul present. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they all had holed up somewhere to have a group cry, pathetic as it was, that was a thing that pathetic imbeciles did, yes?
In that case, I was glad to have missed their little pity party.
As my trail of thought came to an end; I stopped near a pair of double doors, the only thing standing out about them being the pictures of cassette tape adorning the otherwise blank yellow doors.
My eyes darted down to the electronic map, this was the right place. After I'd confirming the location, I placed a hand on the door handles and pulled the doors open.
Inside the room computers and DVD players sat in neat rows, each pair of computer and DVD player had walls around it for privacy. A stuffed blue office chair was assigned to each of the pairs. After a couple rows, the room broadened out to reveal a huge white screen, not unlike a movie theater screen, and two identical boom boxes hanging on the wall.
After another short investigation of the room, I found no evidence of any DVDs to watch or the TV's having any cable or channels to offer. The only thing I could think of was if that bear was trying to bore us into murdering each other, he was doing a fine job.
"This room was completely useless, just as I expected." I said to no one in particular. I supposed the right thing to do would be to return to the cafeteria to see if anyone had returned from their useless little pity party or whatever they had done to disappear so quickly.
Resigned to finally meeting the others, I swung open the door and walked out. Only to collide with someone after turning a particularly sharp corner.
I heard a soft grunt as I staggered backwards, and observed someone with lesser grace than me fall backwards onto the floor. I sneered in distaste and spat, "Watch where you're going." The person lying on the ground rubbed the back of their head as they slowly looked up to stare at me, "Ah! Togami! What are you doing here? Where have you been?" Ah, so I'd run into Makoto Naegi again. I was slightly disappointed that I did not instantly recognized him by his ridiculous hair style.
I smirked and replied, "Tch. That's none of your business, but I'll grace you with saying that I've been out doing something useful, unlike all you idiots who've been chattering away precious time." ...I'd also had a minor breakdown and blew them off in favor of sleeping. but he didn't need to know that. His face hardened slightly, and he sounded slightly annoyed when he replied, "But didn't I tell you we were meeting in the cafeteria? Way back at orientation?"
Of course you had, I'd just chosen to ignore it. But, on an more interesting note, Naegi seemed to think 'way back' was a few hours ago, I idly wondered how long ago he'd consider a week. Moving on, my smirk fell as I stated, "I already said I'd chosen to do things more important than blabber away the day."
Now Naegi looked more than slightly miffed as he angled his face so I couldn't see it and quietly replied, "... You could have told someone, you know?" I raised my eyebrows, "Does it really matter? I saw no point in it, now stop blocking the doorway with your body." I tapped my foot impatiently as he shuffled to the side, got up, and dusted himself off carefully.
Leaving him standing there I continued on my way to the cafeteria, but as soon as I'd walked a couple paces away and was almost out of earshot, Naegi softly whispered, "I was worried about you..."
That was interesting. The little heir was obviously soft-hearted, or had a weak spot for me, both of those were easily manipulated. Both made him an easy victim for anyone attempting murder, I could almost certainly say I would be able to count the days he had until death on one hand.
Not even breaking my stride, I arrived at the cafeteria doors and walked in on a meeting.
The whole class, excluding me and Naegi, were all gathered at the long table that ran down the middle of the cafeteria. Fukawa was the first to notice me, and noted my arrival with a squeak, "H-ah! So the nasty rule-breaker has finally decided to join us." She glared at me as everyone turned to stare and I sat down.
"Yes. Nice to meet you too." I stated monotonously as everyone gaped at me. "Where th' hell have you been dude?!" Oowada yelled from across the table pointing an accusing finger at me while awkwardly standing up. I leaned back into my chair and simply replied with a, "Tch."
Obviously, he was missing the whole point, like the imbecile he was, we were here to discuss escape strategies, not to interrogate me.
"Tch? Huh? Couldn't hear you, detective boy! I sure didn't hear anything resembling an answer either!" I looked up with an expression of loathing, "That isn't relevant to the matter at hand. Sit down, you buffoon." I sneered at him. "W-wait Toges is right, just settle down for now bro!" Hagakure said, coming to my rescue and finally Oowada sat down with a meager glare in my direction.
Asahina tried awkwardly to start off the conversation,"U-um... Sooo, anyone find anything of note while they were exploring?" A couple people made to stand up, but Ishimaru beat them all to it. "Yes I did! I found some dorms equipped with name plates and the necessary bedding and bathrooms. The doors to the dorms are lockable and the girl's shower rooms are also lockable!" He then resumed a sitting position with a satisfied expression on his face and whipped out a deck of playing cards to play with.
Next Fujisaki stood up hesitiantly, "I-I found a video room. It had some computers and stuff, but nothing to watch on them." Hm, It seemed as if nobody had found anything that I hadn't then. But I was a Super High School Level Detective, that was to be expected, a mere photographer or heir wouldn't be more observant than me.
Asahina seemed to take this as a queue to start to wrap up the meeting, "Okay then! No one else have anything?" She quickly glanced around the room and noticed Yasuhiro's hand waving delicately in the air.
"Ah! Yes, Yasuhiro?" Yasuhiro stood up and said, "When nighttime is announced, I doubt any of us will get any sleep, knowing one of us might be already planning murder. I purpose an unofficial rule that we must stay in our dorms during nighttime." Several students nodded thoughtfully at her idea, including Maizono, ENoshime, and Ikusaba.
Oogami quietly said, "That's sound like a very good preposition." However Kirigiri seemed to have something else to say and stood up and stated loudly, "This is an unoffical rule though. Nothing would bar us form breaking it." Yasuhiro nodded in agreement, "Nothing would stop us from breaking it, we'd have to simply trust our fellow classmates."
Trust is such a fickle thing. I doubt I would sleep well anyways.
Asahina perked up, "But it sounds like a good start so let's include it! Alright this meeting is over, let's go back to our dorms."
Everyone dispersed from the room as the first day drew to a close and the nighttime announcement went off.