Chapter 3 – The Mysterious Murder...

School went on with crappy lectures and Morooka kept getting on my nerves more and more the whole entire lecture. I seriously raked my nails into my legs, despite the white scratches I was making onto my legs, since I wanted to get out of there and FAST! When I felt that my nails had gone into my skin, I stopped scratching myself and folded my arms while listening to him talk. That chick that's sitting by me? She was nice enough to even help me out through his rant.

...As soon as he said "that's all for today," I completely heaved a mental sigh and closed up my book. I don't know what was the worst habit for me that day: Creating scratches on my legs from annoyance, or doodling all over my notebook from listening to him yell at the students.

A guy was coming up to me to talk until I heard a beeping noise coming on the intercom.

"Attention, all teachers," Might've been the principal, I'll never know. "Please report immediately to the Faculty Office for a brief meeting.

All students must return to their classrooms and are not to leave until it is over.

I repeat.."

She said it once more, and then cut it off after she seemed to be finished. King Moron (at least that's what students call him) looked back at us with a glare.

"You heard the announcement. Don't go anywhere until you hear otherwise!" His look turned to me, in which I just rolled my eyes. He looked back at the others and then walked out of the room.

"He's really pissing me off." A black-haired student was talking with me. "I can't believe you had to get stuck into this class as soon as you got transferred."

"Eh, I'll get used to it." I shrugged. Though, something in my heart told me that I wasn't going to anyways. My head perked to the window once I heard a noise sounding like a siren coming from outside.

"Don't those sirens sound really close?" This one dude and his two buddies ran up to the window. "And I can't see a damn thing, either. Frickin' fog..."

"Yeah, the rain's the cause of it, too." The next guy spoke to the one who was complaining.

"Hey, did you hear? I heard the paparazzi's looking all over for that announcer chick." Come to think about it, when I sat down with the Dojimas, there was something about this Yamuni Manamo chick? Mayumi Yamano? Anyways, they were looking all over for her, but it's not like I care. Too much gossip in High Schools anyways. I continued to talk with the guy about where I lived before I moved, until we heard the PDA go off again.

"Attention, all students.

There has been an incident inside the school district." Wait, what?

"Please stay calm and contact your parents or guardians ASAP, and quickly leave the School Grounds. Head directly home...

I repeat..."

"The hell?" I looked back up into the air. "Why does this happen, all of a sudden?"

"I'm going to go check it out." The guy told me. "See you later."

I got off my seat to get my bag, and began to stuff my belongings in there except my MP3 player. That wound hang around the pocket, so I could listen to some of my favorite J-Pop or so. When I was about to go back to my seat to get something else, the brown haired girl that sat by me came up to me along with someone else.

"Are you going home by yourself?" She asked me.

I nodded. "Yep. Why?"

"Why not come with us?" She requested, but then smacked herself in the head as if she forgot something. "Oh! I almost forgot, I'm Chie Satonaka. You know I sit by you, right?"

"I forgot to introduce myself after I blew up on King Moron." I couldn't help but laugh at myself. "I'm Remilia Konagi. Thanks for helping me out back there."

"No problem!" Chie grinned, "Oh, and this is my friend, Yukiko Amagi."

The female called Yukiko was wearing a red version of our school uniform, but was matching skirts with me. She had black hair that was held back with a hairband, and she had really long stockings that perfectly fit into her shoes.

"Nice to meet you..." It seemed like she couldn't think of anything to say. "I'm sorry this is all so sudden."

"No worries, Yukiko-san." If I was going to get any friends, I had to use honorifics.

"Don't apologize like that," Chie whined. "Makes me sound like I don't have any upbringing. I just wanted to ask some questions, that's all!"

I smiled as we began to walk, and that's when I ran into that blond-haired boy that I helped out this morning. He had this really hesitating look on his face, I wonder what happened?

"Oh... Miss Satonaka..." He took out that DVD I saw that morning! Please don't tell me something happened to it... "This... was really awesome. The way they moved was... really amazing.."

He quickly bowed in apology and held it out to her. "A-And, I'm really sorry! It was an accident, please have mercy until my next paycheck!"

She took it from his hand with a look as if she sensed he was hiding something.

"See ya, thanks!" The guy began to pace his steps and walk off from us.

"Uh-oh..." I looked at Chie's face that was beginning to boil with anger. She began to chase after him right after that, too.

"Stop right there, what the hell did you do to my DVD?!" I saw a kick flying from her. Something told me that wasn't very good...

"That's twice today!" I groaned as I ran over to them with Yukiko beside me. How many times is he going to harm himself in the most comical way?

"N-No way, it's completely cracked!!" She cried out. "My 'Trial of the Dragon!'"

Oh shit.

"I think mine's cracked, too..." The boy was wincing. "C-Critical hit to the nads..."

"A-Are you going to be okay?" I really felt bad for him, since that bike crash could've caused it.

"Y-You're that girl... from this morning.." The boy gave a quick glance at me, but then completely went back to focusing on the pain.

"What does he mean by that?" Yukiko questioned.

"It's...nothing." I lied.

"Who cares? Let's go, Yukiko. Remilia." Chie closed the case back up and walked off with the rest of them.

…

As we began to walk down the hill leading to the flood pane, this student came out of nowhere and asked Yukiko on a date, but Yukiko was completely oblivious to it! The boy had a different uniform from us, and looked...really atrocious, just like King Moron.

"I-I'm not going..." Yukiko shook her head.

"Fine!" He yelled, and ran off on his own leaving her dazed; she was also looking at Chie with panic in her eyes.

"W-What was that about?" She then turned to me.

"What it was about?" Chie was astonished at what seemed to be her best friend. "He was asking you out on a date!"

"Seriously..?"

"Yeah," I nodded. "That was really creepy though..."

"It went over the top when he just called you 'Yuki' all of a sudden!" Chie noted.

That's when I saw the same boy I had seen before with the yellow bike. "Turned down another lovelorn fool, huh? You got me the same way last year, too.."

"I don't remember doing that." She stared at him.

"Really?!" He coughed a bit. "Then, why don't we hang out sometime?"

"I'd rather not..." She sighed.

"That'll teach me to get my hopes up." He looked at me with interest. "Don't pick on the transfer student so much."

He rode off, and Chie cried out that she was curious.

"Sorry, I dragged you into this..." Yukiko sighed.

"I told you, don't worry about it." I gave a thumbs up, "There was a lot more where that came from back where I lived."

"But, now everyone's staring..." Chie whispered to us. "Let's go!"

…

"Oh, you came here because of your mother's job?" Chie stopped walking, which caused us to stop as well. "I'm sorry to hear about your father."

"I don't mind." I smiled sadly. Few months back, my father died from cancer, so while my mother went overseas I had to come to Inaba and leave all my friends. "I just don't talk about it much."

"I see..." Chie heaved a sigh of regret, but looked out to the left to show me the field. Good God, it was big! "There really is nothing here, huh? It's what makes it nice... but, there isn't much attraction to this town due to it. Oh!

There is something from , though. I think it's our pottery or something that makes it famous..."

"Really?" I was curious to know more about my surroundings. I mean, I just made two more friends, how better could it get! "Oh, there's the Amagi Inn! It's the pride of Inaba, and Yukiko's family runs it."

"It's just an old inn, Chie..." Yukiko freaked.

"No way!" Chie chuckled. "It's been in all sorts of magazines as a 'hidden treasure.' It's a really great inn, and someday Yukiko's going to take over it! It's what keeps the town going."

"I think that was half-true..." Yukiko sighed.

"So tell me," Chie grinned, "Any eyes on any particular boys at school?"

"Chie... Don't start it with asking questions like that again.." Yukiko made a moan of annoyance at her.

"She's popular at school, but doesn't have a boyfriend. Ain't that weird?" Chie laughed a bit. "Then again, have you ever had a boyfriend?"

"No..." I sighed. I'm not really into dating, I just want to make friends.

"You shouldn't believe what she said, I mean it's not true that I've never had a boyfriend-" Yukiko stopped herself. "Wait, let me reword that. What I meant to say was, I don't need a boyfriend. Gee, Chie..."

"Haha, sorry Yukiko!" She gave a devilish grin. "It's a big chance to talk to someone in the city, and you barely said a word!"

Chie then looked straight ahead with a face that was filled with curiosity. "Hey, what's that?"

She walked ahead, so Yukiko and I followed her only to find a few people, policemen, and... wait...policemen?!

"So that high schooler left school early, and when she came down the street..." One lady's voice began to fade.

"Whoa, who could imagine that hanging from an antenna?" Another lady was speaking.

"I wanted to see it, too..."

"Oh, you just missed it. They took it down a few minutes ago!"

"I think it's terrifying, I can't believe a dead body showed up around here..." Whoa, whoa. Hold on a second.

"Did she just say a dead body?!" Chie's eyes widened. It was then that I saw Uncle Dojima walking down to meet up with us three with a.. somewhat annoyed face.

"Hey, what're you doing here?" He asked me.

"We were kinda curious..." I scratched my chin in nervousness.

"I'd clear out of here before you get in our way." He grunted. Oops. "That damn principal, I told him not to let the students through here..."

"Hey, Remilia, you know this guy?" Chie turned to her. I simply nodded.

"I'm Detective Dojima, her guardian..." He scratched the back of his head. "How can I say this..? I hope you all get along with her." He looked back at me. "You three really should get out of here. Head straight home, alright?"

He was about to walk away until we saw a glimpse of a man running over to a bush to puke into it. Ew. Poor dude...

"Adachi!" He shouted at the man. "How long are you going to act like a rookie? You wanna be sent back to the office?!"

"Sorry...sir..." He winced, coughing a little more before I turned my face away in disgust.

"Ugh, go wash your face. We're going to go around and look for information." Dojima commanded, before walking away. The same man ran back to follow him, I guess.

"Was this what that announcement was about..?" Chie sighed. "Hey, Yukiko? Remilia? Let's go to Junes some other time..."

"Right...but," She sighed. "What do they mean? It was hanging from an antenna..."

It was then that I said farewell and walked off as if I just watched a horror movie.

"Hey, Remilia!" Chie called back to me, "Let's do our best tomorrow, okay?"

"Sure! But, wait!" I cried back to them.

"What?"

"Call me Remi." I had to give a smile so they could tell I'm still in the mood.

It's really confusing sometimes to do Remilia in First-person PoV because of the fact that Links to Fantasy & Blackbullet are both Third-person. It's also somewhat challenging and tedious to look through the dictionary and make Remi sound smart in her telling of Persona 4.

So, I completely forgot to credit Persona 4 in one of the other chapters. Whoops. I might as well credit what I've used so far in this one.

Thanks for reading~!

JOINT (C) Shakugan no Shana II (Or, the singer: Mami Kawada)

Persona 4 (C) ATLUS

Remilia Konagi (C) Me~