The next day after the class trial was over and done with, the bodies of Sayaka and Junko had been collected and the blood washed away as if they had not even been there. Not only that, but the second floor of the school had been opened up to the group. Upon investigation of the floor, they had found a swimming pool with locker rooms and a library. And to boot, the bathhouse on the first floor was unlocked to the public. As the group checked out the library first, a laptop was discovered in there, but it appeared to be broken. Then, Makoto had discovered a letter in a desk in the library.
"To the headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy." he read as he opened it up. "It says the school has been closed down. It also says it won't reopen till the problem here is resolved."
"What does he mean by that?" Aelita asked.
"It appears to be that this academy had already been inactive beforehand." Kyoko summarized.
"And whoever the mastermind is, they took advantage of the deserted academy and created this strange stage...but, it matters not to me. Since this is all a game, I'll easily win." he said.
"How can you say that? People's lives are at stake!" Natsu said in anger as he tried to approach Byakuya but was held back by Luffy and Ichigo. "Keep it together. He isn't worth it." Ichigo said.
"Besides, didn't you vote for Leon as well as everyone else? That makes you just as guilty as everyone here." he summized.
"Stop! The one who is to blame isn't Leon or Sayaka. Its the mastermind behind all of this!" Makoto said as the screen behind him lit up showing Monokuma.
"Attention Students and Guests! It is obvious that within your speech you are trying to convince each other that you are just. Its too obvious." he said cruely before the screen cut out. As the group stared, Chihiro collapsed onto the ground and started to cry on the ground. "Hey, cheer up. We're going to get out of this." Mondo assured her.
"So, starting the useless friendship game again?" Byakuya asked Monda.
"Okay, that's it. You're dead!" he said before being blocked off by Soul. "Keep your cool. Byakuya's just toying with you and its not cool." he said as Byakuya left. After that argument was over, Hina, Sakura, Celeste, and Chihiro headed to the pool in order to relax a bit. But when they got to the door, they found it to be locked. "Why won't it open?" Hina questioned.
Monokuma then appeared on the screen and explained it. "Easy. These locker room doors only open when you swipe your e-handbook across the screen. And as a maximum security measure, only girls can enter the girls locker room and only boys can enter the boys locker room. The e-handbook lists their gender on it. And if you think about letting someone inside, I'll shoot them to bits with the gatling gun immediately." he said.
"But what if someone lends someone their e-handbook?" Celeste asked.
"Hmm. I had not thought about that. I'm going to add a new rule saying lending people your handbook is no longer allowed. That should fix it." he said admiring his brilliance.
"Suddenly, I'm no longer in a swimming mood." Hina said.
Meanwhile in the library, Toko watched Byakuya from behind a bookcase as Makoto just walked. "Toko?" he asked.
"Hey!" Byakuya said startling both of them. "Leave immediately and you, take a bath. You stink." he said as the two left immediately with Toko looking down. "I don't believe it. He really cares for me!" she said. "What?" Makoto asked. "This has to be the beginning of some true love." she gushed and blushed as she went down the halls. Makoto just smiled as he went into the cafeteria only to see Mondo, Taka and Natsu waiting for him.
"There you are!" they said to him. "We need you to be a judge for us." Mondo said.
"Yeah. White suit here says we don't have any spirit because we like to fight!" Natsu said.
"Well, its true isn't it?" he asked as he, Natsu and Mondo dragged him off. They were then in the bathroom as Makoto watched the three endure a very hot sauna battle.
"Your face is getting red, like one of those spa monkies!" Mondo said.
"If you want to get out, I understand." Taka said.
"Please, I'm getting all fired up in here." Natsu replied.
Makoto just left the three in the sauna as he returned to his room. The next day as Makoto returned to the cafeteria, he saw the three laughing it up. "There you are, Makoto. Thanks for judging for us." Taka said to him.
"What's going on here?" Makoto asked.
"Well, while we stood up tall in that sauna, we became bros for life. Doesn't matter who won, what matters is that we like eachother now." Natsu said. Just then, an announcement came on. "Attention all students, please come to the gym!" Monokuma said.
The group soon arrived to the gym where Monokuma stood on his platform. "All right. Since things are starting to get dull, I have decided to introduce a new motive." he said cheerfully as he passed out packets with names of the students. The only ones who didn't recieve a packet were the heroes. The students looked at the paper inside each packet and were shocked at what were written on them.
"Each of these packets contains an embarrassing secret or memory. If someone doesn't kill within 24 hours, I will reveal them on the air for everyone to hear." he said before leaving. Soon, everyone returned to their rooms to ponder this. Meanwhile with Happy, as he walked down the halls, he found Chihiro's door open and walked in. "Hey, Chihiro. Are you still upset about..." he started before looking at Chihiro getting dressed for something else. They each looked at eachother for a moment before Happy said, "What?!"
The next morning, everyone awoke and walked into the cafeteria the next day as did Happy with a shifty look on his face as he sat with the heroes. "Happy? Is everything okay? You seem sort of jumpy today." Tsuna asked the blue cat. "I'm fine. I was just on a top secret mission last night." he said.
A couple of minutes later, Byakuya came in and held Makoto's shoulder. "Would you come with me? I have something to show you." he said. Makoto then followed him to the second floor locker rooms. Byakuya extended his hand to the girls locker room door knob which opened to Makoto's surprise. As Byakuya opened the door, Makoto was in disbelief! He saw Chihiro dead and crucified with a message behind her saying Blood Lust. Her eyes were emotionless. There was no doubt about it: Chihiro Fujisaki was dead with blood running down her body. "I found her like this when I left the library." Byakuya explained as Makoto just looked at the body.
As they did this, Taka stepped in and saw this. "Another one killed?" he explained as the PA activated. "A body has been found! All students will have time to investigate before we begin the Class Trial. You all now have access to the boys and girls locker rooms despite gender." Monokuma said as the screen went black.
"What was that?" Makoto asked.
"That's right. You were unconscious during the first one. That was the dead body alert. When three or more people discover a body, an alarm goes off and alerts everyone. Now, shall we begin?"
Everyone then began to investigate the locker rooms and found several clues: the super model poster that should be in the boys room, a coffee stained rug that should be in the girls room, the extension cord hanging Chihiro, a dumbbell and a broken e-handbook.
"There's still one thing I don't get. Who would arrange the body like this?" Aelita asked. "I think I have an idea. Have you all ever heard of Genocide Jack?" Byakuya asked.
"Genocide Jack? You mean that serial killer, right? I heard that this person is a student here as well." Makoto said as Byakuya handed him a case file. Makoto looked through it to see the arrangement of the body was similar to CHihiro's.
"Wait! I just realized something! Where's Toko?" Usagi asked.
"I went by her room and asked her to come, but she refused. She said she broke her promise and let 'her' out." Naruto said.
"Her?" Usagi questioned before the P.A activated again."Since I am bored, let us begin the Class Trial right away." Monokuma said.
And so it was about to begin again, another do or die class trial to find the killer.