They were all gathered in the gymnasium, shocked from the revelation of executions and school trials. Mukuro stood to the side, waiting for her cue.
"I have taken the liberty to add everything I just said to the school rules. Please check them when you have time!" Monobear exclaimed happily.
There's my cue.
"H-hey, wait just a minute!" she yelled angrily at Monobear.
"What you're saying, it's all so demented!" Going through the script in her head, Mukuro thought of her next line, as Monobear responded exactly as she knew he would.
"Huh..?" he innocently replied.
"What's up with this 'school trial' thing?! I don't wanna take part in anything like that...!" Now he would respond, "...why?" exactly the way Junko said she would.
"...Why?"
"Isn't it obvious...! Why do I have to try to figure out who the culprit is? Isn't that all messed up?" Mukuro had her face in an angry expression, exactly like Junko taught her.
"So what are you saying? You're not going to cooperate? If you don't, I will have to penalize you!" Monobear menacingly relpied.
"Huh? Penalize...?" Mukuro knew exactly what Monobear was talking about, of course, but she had to pretend to be shocked and fearful.
"Maybe I'll... lock you up in a dark scary cell..." Yea, Monobear would threaten her and put her in a cell as punishment for "harming the headmaster". All part of the plan that Junko created.
"Just shut the hell up! I don't care what you say, I'll never go on with something like this!"
"It's your body. Do as you please!" Monobear stated. It was coming up soon, Mukuro noted in her head.
"Isn't it you who always do as you please?! Telling us to kill each other! I don't want anything to do with it!" She acted angry again, though it was hard when she was actually getting a little bit antsy.
"Seeing such overwhelming determination... it's truly exciting! Nevertheless..,"
"I will not bend the rules for your sake. I'm a bear of high principles, you know."
That hadn't been part of the script, as far as Mukuro remembered, but she assumed Junko had thought of the line and added it in on a whim.
Looking back on it, Mukuro supposed she should've noticed Junko was planning something.
"If you try to sway me..." Monobear looked really angry now, at least for a mechanical bear.
"I'll get you first!" Then Monobear came charging at "Junko". Mukuro was silently glad that her sister had gotten back to the script. She wouldn't have known how to react if she kept veering off in a different direction.
As Monobear neared "Junko", she stepped on Monobear with her boot, in "surprise", "fear", and "anger".
"Gyuuu...!" Monobear said.
"There, are you satisfied now?" Mukuro asked, "angrily". She still hadn't gotten the hang of acting like Junko. There were just too different. So it was a good thing that the others had their memories erased, or they definitely would've noticed.
"I should ask you the same thing," Monobear replied neutrally.
"Huh?" Mukuro was actually a little nervous now, Monobear was on the brink of "punishing" her.
"Violence against the headmaster is forbidden. It's against the school rules..."
Now it's time for the punishment, exactly like the script.
"I have no choice but to..." Mukuro had absolutely no idea what was coming. She probably should've.
"..invoke my summoning magic! Save me! Gungnir the Spear!"
...Huh?
In a split second, several long, sharp spears appeared and were sent flying into Mukuro as fast as they appeared.
"..."
It hurt. For Mukuro, who had never ever gotten a flesh wound before, pain was an absolute rarity. It hurt a lot. There was a lot of blood. Pouring out of her mouth, out of holes all over her body...
Mukuro was used to seeing blood. But it had always been on others, never her...
"What...?"
"Isn't... that... strange...?"
"Why... was... I...?"
Why did she... stab me...?
No... way...
This... wasn't... in... the... script...?!
Mukuro's eyes were wide open in shock. Despair overcame her as she realized...
Junko killed her. Her beloved sister, Junko, had killed her.
Shock numbed the pain, but only slightly. The others' cries of surprise, fear, and shock were in the background, but she couldn't hear them that clearly. With a thud, Mukuro's body hit the ground, laying on her back. Oh god, that made the spears stab through her more. It hurt so much.
Thankfully, the pain didn't last too long.
She couldn't feel anything. Just nothing. Like being unconscious, but forever.
Except it wasn't forever. She wasn't sure how much time had passed, but light passed over her eyelids. Conscious thought didn't reach her for a few seconds.
But when it did, her eyes snapped wide open. But she closed them just as quickly. She blinked, dazed from the shock of dying and confused about her whereabouts. As her eyes readjusted to the newfound light, she figured out she was sitting at a desk, inside a familiar classroom.
And staring at her with eyes wide open and hand covering her mouth, was Sayaka Maizono, the first murder victim.