When I opened my eyes and sat up I was greeting by quite a pleasant sight. Mondo was taking his white singlet off, revealing his superb muscles and tattoos.
"What are you doing?" I questioned.
"Awh sweet, you're awake." I turned to see Hagakure sitting cross legged upon a chair beside me.
"I just need to relax." Mondo said answering my earlier question. "I've seen a fair bit of violence in my time but… it's different here." He said putting his hands behind his head and stretching his back.
"Ugh!" I moaned lurching forward, my hand firmly against my mouth.
"What's the matter?" Hagakure question urgently, leaning towards me.
"I just remembered what happened." I replied behind my hand.
"The trial's going to be soon." Mondo said sitting at the foot of the bed.
"So do we all have to look for clues?" I questioned composing myself.
"There's no rule about it." He replied.
"Cool." Hagakure commented. "I never was any good in the court room."
"Do I even want to ask?" I questioned with a smile.
"Nah it's better you don't know… It had something to do with three lettuces, an accordion and the prime minister of Australia." The man with the dreadlocks confessed.
"Of course it did." I said with a smile.
"Last time I went to a trial I got three years jail." Mondo said.
"What for?" Hagakure asked.
"Assisting in a murder." Mondo replied nonchalantly.
"You don't say… Why'd you do that? There's no judgement here man." Hagakure pressed.
"I'll just say this, once you're in a biker gang, you're in it for life." The shirtless man said with a slightly insane smile.
"You're so hard core…" I said gazing in awe at the man before me. Mondo winked at me and grinned. "Oh by the way Amethyst, Monobear wanted me to give you this." He handed me a white envelope.
"Am I the only one to get this?" I questioned nervously.
"No, we all got them. It's a new motive." Mondo explained. I swallowed thickly and tore open the envelope. It read:
Amethyst was once the mistress of a corrupt politician.
"How does Monobear know that? What's he going to do with this information?" I questioned.
"He said he's going to announce it to the outside world unless someone kills someone." Hagakure answered. If everyone finds out, this could be detrimental to my career… I thought to myself. However I wasn't worried too much, it would impact me that much if anyone found out. It would only impact the politician in question; however I didn't really care about him anymore.
There was a knock upon the door to my room. Mondo opened it and Ishimaru marched inside.
"Miss Amethyst, are you quite alright?" He questioned.
"Yes, I'm fine." I replied.
"Very good, very good." Ishimaru said nodding. "Yes well, the trial is about to begin so please assemble in the gym." Mondo pulled his singlet over his head.
"Where's your jacket?" I questioned, standing.
"I put it over Junko." He replied walking out of the room followed by Hagakure and myself.
"That's very chivalrous of you." I commented, as we all followed Ishimaru into the gym. Once we arrived I spotted Mondo's jacket lying upon the ground, Junko was gone. He walked over and put his jacket on, ignoring the blood stains.
"Mondo, aren't you going to wash that?" I questioned.
"Nah, it's seen more blood than that." He replied.
"Hey everyone." Hagakure greeted the group. There was no reply, everyone looked extremely worried.
"We have to enter that elevator to reach the court room." Kirigiri said to us, as she walked towards it. I held Hagakure's hand as we stepped into the cage like elevator. We stood towards the back,
"So who do you think did it?" He questioned me loudly.
"Ah… I don't want to answer that." I said looking nervously at the ground. After a moment we exited the elevator and walked into the court room. My podium was beside Leon's and Chihiro's, I nodded at them sadly before the trail began. The trial began with many students yelling out their ideas as to what happened and who was the culprit. I didn't want to have anything to do with the trial; it wasn't my place to put someone to their death. I quietly observed the students deconstruct the situation, my eyes welling up with tears each minute that came closer to someone's execution. Everyone was innocent in my eyes; the only individual to blame was that twisted teddy bear.
"Therefore…It was Leon!" Announced Naegi. I gasped and looked at the nervous man to my left.
"What the fuck are you talking about?" Leon hissed looking menacingly at Naegi.
"It all adds up." The short, mousy brown haired boy replied. Naegi began to explain once more how Leon was the culprit. I noticed Leon's hands were trembling as he gripped the podium desperately.
"Are you stupid? Are you stuuuupid?" Leon taunted. "It was you Naegi! You're not fooling anyone!"
"Just admit it." Mondo hissed, "You're embarrassing yourself."
"No way, no way! I didn't do it! Naegi's just trying to fool you all!" The frantic man turned to me, his strikingly blue eyes wide in panic. "You believe me right Amethyst? You're nice! You believe me."
"I believe… the only individual to blame here is that bear." I replied, avoiding eye contact.
"Time to vote!" Monobear announced. With a trembling hand, I am sorry to say, I voted for Leon. I couldn't deny the facts and I felt as though death would be better for Leon than living in the prison of a school any longer. I had thought of voting for no one, or even myself. However I quickly dismissed that idea since there could be a possibility more than just my self was planning on doing so, and that could result in all of us dying.
"I'm sorry." I said as tears dripped down my face.
"Leon has been found guilty!" Monobear announced happily.
"No… No!" He leapt up and began scratching at the walls desperately. "I had to do it! Any of you would have done the same thing!" I looked away from the sad sight and sobbed into my hands. "There's got to be an escape!" He yelped, just before Monobear grabbed him by the hair and tugged him away...