Hey guys, how are you all, today? Here's the next chapter. I originally planned for Akari to be paired up with one of the students here. Should I implement that plot point in (and no, it wasn't going to be Makoto. I don't want to make any character here a Mary Sue/Gary Stu. Makoto needs Kyouko to help him with this predicament.)? And this is another reminder that this is an UA (Universe Alteration) and not an AU (Alternate Universe). There might be one case that'll be the same, but the majority of cases will be different. Who do you think will be the first victim? Write your answer in the review section! And I added bold in the chapter! Do you remember what that means?

Nove and Zhen belongs to FireDusk

Nikhil belongs to Nikhilbhavani

Akari belongs to me

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Sleep. One of the most important things a human needs to survive. Something that Akari was disrupted from by Monokuma. She arose on the next day to an announcement made by Monokuma.

"Rise and shine, sleepy heads! It's now 7:00 and this is your morning announcement!"

"Great… we have morning announcements…. Might as well get up now. Who knows what will happen if I don't get up."

She went to her bathroom, feeling icky from sleeping in her clothes. After a quick shower and brushing her teeth, Akari walked out, grabbing her clothes for the day. 'I wonder if anyone else is up right now…' She grabbed and checked her ElectroID, surprised to see that it updated. New info about Junko and Touko appeared along with a hope fragment on their student profile. 'I guess I got close to those two if this appeared.'

As she stepped outside her door, she noticed Chihiro looking at a security camera at the end of the hallway.

"Are you okay? What are you staring at?" Akari asked, walking towards the reserved programmer.

Chihiro squeaked and quickly turned to face her. "N-Nothing really… I'm just trying to learn more about the cameras. Maybe they have a weak spot?"

"Maybe, but we should go to the cafeteria. People are mostly likely there. You can tell everyone there." Akari stated, trying to convince the programmer.

Chihiro agreed with a nod and quietly walked with Akari to the said destination. The cafeteria was larger than the average school cafeteria. It had a red two-toned tiled floor with cream-colored walls. There were tables and chairs, but they appeared to be metal and not bolted down on the floor. Cafe-like signs were on the walls and supported on the floor with random foods listed in chalk. It appeared that everyone was in the cafeteria, sitting in the cafeteria chairs with the exception of Junko who wasn't there. As Chihiro and Akari sat down near the others, Akari felt time slow down. She put her head on her arms and tried to gain her lost sleep back. Her sleep was again disrupted as someone shook her awake.

"Huh? What did I miss?" Akari lifted her head to see who awoken her. As she blinked, her blurry eyes cleared, and she discovered that it was Nikhil who woke her up.

"Everyone is here and we're about to start talking about our situation." He said, yawning and wiping his eyes.

"Oh. Okay" Akari slowly nods and looks around the table, noticing that Junko had arrived and sat in a chair at the far end of the table.

"So, what do we do now? Just live here forever and not fight back?" Mondo asked, feeling irate. He cracked his knuckles, ready to punch his feelings away.

"Fighting is prohibited in a school environment! But I do agree with you for some parts. Our situation does look dire." Kiyotaka loudly proclaimed, pointing at Mondo.

"I-I guess we have to live here since no one here wants to kill anyone…right guys?" Yasuhiro said, looking rather depressed.

"We shouldn't give up." A voice declared from the other end of the table. Everyone turned to discover that it was Kyouko who spoke. "We should keep our eyes open for any opportunity to escape. It might not be today, but we will leave here. For now, we should note anything odd and learn more about this place. Maybe it has weaknesses that we can exploit so we can make our exit."

Nods of agreement took place and threads of hope began to spread throughout the students.

"We should follow the rules, too. I'm sure that no one here wants to be punished by the headmaster, right?" The pale lolita known as Celestia stated, drinking tea from a fancy cup.

"Yes. For now, we need to listen to what the bear says. It might slip up and reveal crucial information."

"We should look around more to learn more in-depth about this place!" Aoi said with a smile. "Maybe something happened while we were sleeping?" Nove and Sakura nodded in agreement.

"But can we eat first? I don't remember eating yesterday, and I'm starving!" Zhen said, lighting blushing as his stomach grumbled.

"And we should assign chores, so no one is stuck doing one thing or nothing at all. Maybe we should have a rotation?" Hifumi stated, pushing his glasses up his face.

As a chore list was created and lunch was made, Akari noticed that Junko was giving someone a weird look. "Are you okay? You're giving someone a strange look." Akari finally stated.

"Yes! I'm fine. I'm not looking at anyone!" Junko nervously said, quickly turning to look at Yasuhiro, Zhen, and Leon, who were chatting about getting laundry duty and joking with Nikhil since he got trash duty with Hifumi and Mondo.

"You don't have a crush on anyone, do you?" Aoi, who was on food duty with Junko and Akari for the week.

"No! With them? Those losers? I wouldn't want to touch them with a meter pole!" Junko quickly defended herself.

"Aww! It's Junko's first high school crush!" Aoi teased.

After food was served, everyone dispersed to check out the school by themselves. Akari found herself in the gym searching near the podium for something.

"Are you looking for something?" A voice from behind Akari asked. She turned around to see that the voice belonged to Nikhil.

"Yeah. I saw that Monokuma disappeared from behind the podium and thought that maybe there might be a trapdoor hidden there. And if there is, then maybe there is a way for us to leave!" Akari stated, happy that her stage knowledge can be put to use in this situation.

"Can I help you out? I might not know much about stages, but two heads are better than one!" Nikhil added.

'Do I really want to hang out with Nikhil? ...yes.' She decided.

"Sure. Go ahead. Two heads are better than one." Akari said.

The two looked around the gym looking for some trap doors. There were a couple in the gym, but they were only big enough for Monokuma to go through.

"Well, we found some, but they aren't big enough for us to go through. Maybe if we had a drone or something then we could get through." Nikhil declared, looking bummed out.

"At least we know that Monokuma uses them. Maybe we can tell the others and anticipate where Monokuma is coming from." She proclaimed.

"It's rather late. We spent a while looking for the trapdoors. I should go now…" Nikhil awkwardly said. He stared down and messed with his ring.

"Yeah… And the night announcement will be coming on soon…." Akari rubbed her arm, staring at the door. She hasn't used to talking to people of the opposite sex for a long period of time.

"Well… bye then, Akari." Nikhil waved goodbye and started to leave the gym.

"Bye."

The two walked their own rooms. When they looked at their IDs, they noticed that they received a hope fragment from the other. As Akari entered her room, she felt herself smile. 'Maybe we can escape. I might like some of the people here.' She fell asleep with a smile of her face, not knowing that someone was keeping tabs on her.

"They know too much. This could compromise my plan." The mastermind stated, looking at someone through their monitors. "Get rid of them." They sat in a chair with a smirk. Their accomplice stepped into the light and kneeled, smiling up at the mastermind.

"Anything for you." The accomplice stood up and bowed.

Who do you think the mastermind wants to get rid of? Who is the mastermind? Who is their accomplice? Why was Junko acting strange? Maybe you'll find out next chapter!