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(POLL) The poll will end after this day is finished! It'll either be after this chapter or the next one depending on the length of the chapter. After this poll and the interactions between Stella and (blank) and Ayano and (blank), it'll be Makoto and Tomoe!
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DratiniX: "Really? Yes! *fist bump* I'm glad I got Tomoe's character right so far! And yes, I look forward to my creativity..."
Nagisa4863: "Oh my gosh you like Chie too she's such an adorable, strong-willed, and awesome lady, isn't she?! I also like Yukiko, she's such an adorable "ojou-san"... Well thank you for reading it!"
LadyGlitchy: "Great! I got their impressions of Tiki right so far! I feel so glad that you guys review my story and see what's wrong and what's right about it!"
TigerMasters: "I'm doing this for you fans. Oh, and cool, I love haikus even though I can't make one! And your haiku is so true and wonderfully made."
Shadowplayer360: "Hmm... Does he? We shall never know. We will never know. Nah I'm kidding but I like your detective skills! Hmm, well, they do seem to act naive and innocent so far... And you do have a point. In murder stories the innocent mostly always dies first. Do you think I'm going to follow that rule? ;)... I'm not sure~"
HeroNoMore: "Buy beautiful stuff, my lady! Yes, the exploration has begun/began! Haha, the world shall never know... Oh this is the next chapter! Yes, use the power of shipping I dare say. Aika is the master of it, and you shall learn from her!"
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Starnightking: "Makoto is lazy, but I like him! Yeah, he should get some free time with someone..."
Awesome D.T: "No! Juugo will never give in! We don't even know him that well yet X.X! Aika's the matchmaker, so of course she has to ship some people! Ooh, thank you for helping her! Hmm, Ayano and Shizu? That sounds rather interesting... Ayano is already adorable! Yes, but don't worry, she'll get away from him soon. Constantine will not die! It's only the beginning, and besides, she doesn't look like she'll go down without a fight! Monokuma laughs in the background going, "Upupupupu!" Eeeehhh, Monokuma's a bastard if he tries that- Oh wait he's already a bastard. Don't worry, Ayano is bound to be a hero someday, sometime! Tiki will gladly be your friend~ Oh thank you! You're too kind!"
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Let's start with this booring chapter (to me)!
(Shizu Yui)
After everyone decided on where to go and where to meet my group and I began our examination through the A shift area. I went with CJ to the dormitories, while Toby was investigating the library, Nathan was at the courtroom. I was suprised to see that on each door had an nameplate that included an icon of the student's name printed on the plate. I used my ID card to go inside my room, with CJ following me diligently.
There was a bunch of books neatly stacked near the shelf on top of the desk to my right. On the desk were a radio player and rock and metal music. I tried my best to hid a smile. How did Monokuma know that I liked these kinds of things? I refrained myself from gaining a bit of hope in this academy. I shouldn't fall into Monokuma's traps. I continued examining the room.
My bed had two large, soft feather pillows with a light violet blanket draped over it. There was a small television near the corners of my right, and as I looked more, I noticed how it only played tapes about my speeches when I was younger. I frowned. How did Monokuma get these? He was certainly a strange bear, that's for sure.
I began to check what's in each drawer. There was nothing except a few materials of lined paper and a few sharpened pencils. Monokuma probably put this here for our entertainment, but I cannot see why he'd do that when there was supposingly a leisure area around here.
There was nothing else unusual in my room, maybe the camera tipped me off, but I supposed it was Monokuma's creepy way of watching over us. Other than that, everything was normal. There was a bathroom with only a sink, toilet, and a showers. The door to the showers can easily lock and unlock in the inside. On the outside it was impossible to lock the door.
In other words, there were no clues that could lead us to find Monokuma's purpose after a duration of twenty years ago.
(CJ Park)
After Shizu Yui told me that I can check the other rooms, I sighed and did as she told. I noticed how you can't open the rooms to the other students when you use your ID card. It figured that you have to use the student's card matching the name on the nameplate. I began to open the door to my room.
Nothing special, I suppose. The only thing different about this room was the layout and what things were inside. I had a small table, which had an Nintendo DS, 3DS, Xbox, PS4, and even a Sega Genesis on it. I gasped, feeling my heart jump a bit from excitement. Monokuma... Are you trying to trick me? There might not be anything in there. I checked around the drawers in my cabinets.
There were a few games on there. Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Smash Bros, Catherine (Wow he had that on store for me?!) etc. I noticed my very own first game was inside there hidden from all the Mario games. Michin, or insane in Korean, this game involved the player playing as a young boy who wakes up in an asylum, trying to find out how he got there, only to discover he was part of a plot to kill the Korean Dictator, which drove him to killing an entire crowd of people waiting for the dictator make a speech. Somehow, this game got high ratings and reviews from critics, and now it was one of the best selling games ever in the century.
I smiled nostalgically, remembering how I only intended this as something that could make me win a challenge in my school's activity. It was a rather fun time, acting like I know I could do everything in the world. But now, I have to act as though this were all a game and that Monokuma's the big bad boss here.
I won't let Monokuma get his way, ever.
(Toby Shaw)
Here I am, back in the library. There were many romance, sci-fi, comedy, adventure, fantasy, and even crime novels everywhere! I noticed how some of my writings were on the top shelves, and I blushed out of embarrassment. Other than novels, there were comic books, manga, scripts, research, dictionaries, and files concerning many strange cases of health and crime. These look so interesting yet so tempting to read. However, I had the strange hunch that something might happen if I dared to look at those files.
Those files D, that can stand for despair, and M, which can stand for Monokuma.
I had this hunch that nothing really valuable would be inside.
"Whatever." I quickly nabbed the file that is lettered D and scanned through it.
Just as I expected, nothing special, unless the events of despair from twenty years ago counts.
(Nathan Blek)
I chose to go to the courtroom. At least I didn't have to check the dormitories nor did I have to check the library where I'd usually yawn from boredom compared to Toby, Shizu, and the rest of the people who looked like bookworms. Well, I guess I'm glad because I get to stay here in the meeting room alone!
The courtroom was unusually large for an normal courtroom, but it is to be expected since this is Phoenix's Justice Court School we're talking about. There was a bunch of jury benches who seemed to only fill up around fifty to seventy people. I blinked. Isn't there usually twenty- er... Thirty people who becomes the jury? That's pretty radical in my opinion.
I shrugged and began to examine the clock. "9:00 AM." I groaned. Well, this is gonna take a while! I laughed somewhat optimistically to myself, a smile crept up on my face. I wished I could've gone to a gymnasium! Hmm... I wonder if they have table tennis there. It is a sports place-well, mainly the gymnasium was usually exercising and basketball area, but still. It is a place to roam around with high stamina and energy for all kinds of sports.
I began to watch the time tick by.
"Should I stay here?" I asked myself, expecting an answer.
Silence was the only answer, and I smiled delightfully.
I'm bored to death.
(Makoto Takamori)
"Oh lookie here!" I cried, watching my group members walk silently further down into the C area. It was nice to know how awkward my group was, but can we at least have a conversation to spare the time? I'm so sleepy right now, guys! "Aren't we all as dead as a broken alarm clock?"
"I don't know if that's supposed to be funny," Constantine grumbled, trying her best to divert her eyes away from Takane. Takane, however, nodded in reply.
Takane frowned. "I don't want anything to do with you creepy bastards."
"Can't we all just get along?" I whined. Constantine and Takane merely grumbled as they both mumbled, "No" and began walking further from each other. Sheesh, I can't take these two anymore! I quickly stumbled over to Rose, who was glancing at the two worriedly, and waved. "Guess I can chat with you, Rose?"
Rose blinked and looked at me who was wearing a jumbo huge smile awkwardly with a small smile. "Oh, you're calling me that? Not Stellar?"
"Well," I started, feeling my face grow warmer. I suppose I'm not that good of a friend if I can't start conversations without feeling the need to joke around so constantly. I wonder if I should just pretend to sleep to avoid talking like a fool. Instead, I said, "Er... If you want me to?"
"I don't mind either way," she smiled happily.
I sighed, relieved. Guess I avoided the obstacle of looking like an idiot! "Um..." What should I say next? "How's the weather outside?"
Rose began to giggle playfully. "How should I know? I don't remember a thing."
"Of course I knew that!" I cried with a laugh. "I was joking."
"Of course you were," she sighed as we continued walking down the halls. I frowned, feeling my legs growing tired from the endless amounts of walking during the whole two to three minutes. How long was the way from the B area to the C area anyways?
"Ooh! Ooh! You and I can be a mystery solving team together!" I cried out, even though the conversation was not relevant to the other stuff we began to talk about. I decided that instead of playing detective, playing as a club was better. Well, it was just a random thought because I couldn't think up of anything else to say, so I thought: Why not?
I can see Rose gleam a bright red hue around her cheeks. "Er... Only us?"
"Huh?" I began to think of all the other students who had the title that seemed like the type who can take part in a Sherlock Holmes book. "Oh? Maybe we can invite Juugo, though I guess his cynical attitude is out of the question. Shizu seems smart enough," I flushed a bright red. "Hmm, Constantine can join, well, if she wants to."
Rose chuckled, looking at me as if I had something on my hair. "Toby and Takane seem pretty smart."
"Are they?" I laughed, not meaning to insult Toby and Ryuu (yes, I decided to give him a nickname to make myself amused). "I guess so. Too many club members!"
"It was your idea!"
After a few minutes or so, me, Rose, Takane, and Constantine made it to the C area...which has only boring rooms like the halls of fame (I'm sorry Phoenix, it actually sounds interesting... I guess), the incinerator room, the garbage slot, and nothing more than broken and locked rooms.
"Um..." Rose started, glancing at us. I smiled. "Where should we go first?"
"How about we split up in pairs?"
(Takane Ryutaro)
Constantine and Stellar began to leave to the incinerator room.
"Sooo..." Makoto glanced at me. Oh shit, don't you dare... "I guess you're stuck with me then!"
Oh great, I had to end up stuck with the lazy detective. I rolled my eyes as Makoto whistled a strange tune. We were heading towards the few rooms that looked to be broken and not locked, and I admit the walls were a little...ghastly.
"This feels like a horror setting," Makoto muttered to himself, quite tired from all the walking that took place today.
I did my best to ignore him. I turned the knob on the broken white door that creaked as it opened. I cautiously looked into the room, and I almost let out a suprised gasp. Makoto frowned at me, then glanced inside the room. He jumped slightly, hesitating as he eyed me. I shrugged, heading inside.
The room was undeniably clean on the ceilings. White, spotless, with a small lightbulb hanging on top, everything seemed fine–that is, until you examine the room closer. There was blood everywhere on the dusty desks, saying stuff like, "The school is all ours!" and "Go die, headmaster!"
"Oh my god," Makoto gasped, glaring at the sentences word by word. "Who... Who could've done this?"
"You're the detective here, Makoto," I mocked with bitterness, reading the blood word on the walls that said, "DESPAIR".
"Y-yeah..." Makoto averted his eyes towards the bloody ground, feeling stupid for asking such a question. "But, a detective needs a break, y'know?"
"Whatever, hero," I rolled my eyes yet again.
The room smelled unusually...clean. It was as though the blood has been tainted with some kind of perfume. It was weird. I could imagine why nobody would've noticed this, but it seemed a little too...overt. Either way, smell or not, you could easily end up in this room, tainted with blood and words of pure disgust. So, there was something...there was something that tipped me off.
"Uugh..." Makoto held his head, feeling a bit woozy. "Is it just me or is everything getting...blurry?"
"Huh?" I immediately looked at Makoto, and I could tell something was horribly wrong with him. Whether I liked him or not, I quickly ran over to his side, using my hand to feel his forehead. What? His forehead felt...hot? But he was fine a while ago, wasn't he? "Makoto? God damn it, what's wrong with you?"
"I don't know," he muttered softly, his voice strained. "Maybe the smell is getting to me... I think I must've solved too many bloody cases throughout the years... Haha..."
"Really?" I couldn't help but say that out loud. But the smell of this room wasn't something that even smelled horrible. It didn't smell like blood, trash, sour milk, etc. It smelled more like Windex and a room that was just waxed. Nevertheless, that doesn't matter. "God damn you Makoto, just get out of this room."
"O-okay... Sorry..." Makoto stumbled out the room, making me feel horrible for acting so cruel to him.
Maybe I lost my sense of smell, I thought recklessly as I glared up at the door that Makoto just left through. But, that doesn't make sense. Not at all.
For the first time, I actually felt my heart skip a beat.
"What happened to him..." I held my head in pain from thinking to much. Huh. That's funny. I thought I had the dirt on everyone.
So, what the heck happened to the detective?
(Constantine Lucapsi)
Finally! Away from that freaking Takane Ryuutaro muckraker! I wanted to laugh out loud like a maniac, but I remembered the girl besides me, awkwardly and shyly smiling at me. I think her name was Stellar... Stellar "Rose" Law. She was a weird person, acting so innocent, kind, and soft. I wonder if that truly is her personality. If it was, then I can't help but cry in shock. Such an normal girl like her gained the title of SHSL Legal Assistant?
"Um..." Stellar looked at me with a shy, crooked smile. "Are you okay, Constantine?"
I admit she is a bit cute. "So, you have some perverted guy you like?" I mentally smacked myself upside the head. Oops. Didn't mean to say it like that.
Stellar frowned, not knowing what to say. "If you mean if I like anyone, then I don't. Sorry. Um... Do you like someone?"
I glared at her, instantly making her shut up and glance the other way. How did we end up in this conversation again? Ah, that's right. Because of me. How stupid of me.
We examined the incinerator room carefully. Unlike most people who would've stared at the room for half a second, I was sure we would stumble into something that was...worth saying. There was the incinerator backed to the wall. It wasn't on, but with a push on the green button, you could definately hear the incinerator rumbling, burning with fire. Other than the incinerator, there was the garbage slot next the it, and also a small shelf on the corners of the left. As I opened the slots, there was tool kits and drills inside. I examined one with curiousity, and then I figured it looked brand new. Did Monokuma bought this recently? Did he buy it for us to use?
So many questions, so little answers.
Monokuma certainly had a way to make my brain hurt.
He's such a sadist.
(Stellar "Rose" Law)
I felt a bit intimidated by Constantine's cold, prideful exterior around her. Makoto helped me ignore her, but now that he was gone, I was as cautious as a rabbit. It wasn't that I didn't trust her or anything, it was just she felt pretty...hateful in my honest opinion.
"Never knew the school lets kids go into the incinerator," I suddenly heard Constantine burst out loud.
I shrugged. "Maybe they need it for something?" I gently smiled, trying to act as friendly and laid back as possible.
Constantine grunted. "Maybe. Who would know?"
I chuckled awkwardly. I didn't see anything suspicious or out of ordinary (then again, I don't really know how an incinerator room is supposed to look like).
I guess Constantine can explain the details for me later.
(Malcolm Doyle)
I didn't know the school allows such leisure areas around here. Basically, there's an arcade place, a cafe-like shop, and a game room. I wondered if this school was even Phoenix in the first place. In all honesty, I'm starting to lose that justice feeling inside here as each second pass.
I shot a curious look at Rina, who was frantically squealing over every single stuffed animal and plane figures in the game room. I admit it was rather funny to watch people acting so childish, but it had to say, the game is pretty darn awesome. There was a root beer float aisle, board games, a big flat screen television, a couple of magazines, figurines of various famous things, etc. I guess I enjoyed seeing all those sudoku papers and all those CDs that seemed to have my favorite band, The Pillows.
Nonetheless, I would say that the school looks pretty cool so far.
But I had the hunch that this was also part of Monokuma's plan.
"Oooooh there's the figurine of this plane too!"
Then again, I had the feeling I would be in for a ride, I looked at Rina with a confused look.
(Rina Kimura)
"Oh my gosh!" I cried, practically pulling Malcolm to the figurines of planes. Malcolm groaned in pure annoyance, but I couldn't help but ignore all of that. Sheesh! They have everything in here! From the airplane figurines, to the magazines about cooking, and even my favorite games, this room was the best out of everything! There was no doubt about it!
Before I checked the game room, I was the one who checked the theaters once more. Of course, there was nothing out of the ordinary, as we were in there a couple of minutes ago, but hey, it can't hurt to try, right?
"Ow. Ow. Ow!" Malcolm finally cried, trying to get away from my unusually strong grip. "Let go of me, woman!"
"O-oh sorry about that!"
I dropped his arm with an apologetic bow. He sighed.
Guess I need to worry more about my classmates...
(Tomoe Yusala)
With Elena and Kazuho, we started to head over to the cafeteria.
"I don't get why all of us three has to go the cafeteria," Elena said, smiling at us. "Um... What's your name, bud?"
Bud? I looked at Elena in confusion. "I'm Tomoe Yusala."
"Oh that's right! Sorry about that!" Elena began to laugh innocently.
Kazuho examined the hallways as we were about to enter into the cafeteria. I glanced at him. "Why are you examining the halls?"
"Hm?" Kazuho shrugged. "Just want to remember the area."
"We have a map," I said, suspiciously glancing at him. Elena, noticing this, smiled as she hovered her arms around the both of us.
"Hey! There's the cafeteria! Let's go in!"
I sighed. Guess I can look for something to eat.
(Elena Luz Gray)
Everything should get along, that is what I always thought. And seeing some...unique relationships between my fellow classmates, I decided it would be best to make sure they won't hate each other in the slightest. And so, I lounged my arms around Kazuho and Tomoe, and now we are entering into the cafeteria!
The cafeteria was like your usual school cafeteria, only, like always, larger. There was a large and long metal table in the middle of room, covered with velvet carpet from left to right, with at least twenty velvet cushioned seats around the table. Other than that, there were small tables and alike chairs around the place. A big tray of food was stored all the way through the corners of the cafeteria.
"Woah, didn't know Monokuma can cook," I said with a strange smile curved on my lips.
"What if this is poisoned?" Tomoe immediately answered, glaring straight at the food, mainly at the pizza and soup.
Kazuho shrugged. "Only one way to find out."
(Kazuho "Kai" Daichi)
"No! Don't!"
Before Tomoe can stop me, I placed a large french fry inside my mouth. I chewed on it, and immediately I gulped it all down piece by piece. My eyes glimmered with excitement. Woah. It was actually better than I anticipated.
Not that I'm going to say it out loud, however.
"It's not poisonous. I'm still alive, see?"
"So brave, Kai!" Elena cried out, clapping her hands in applaud. Tomoe only rolled his eyes, and gave me a small but stern smile. I shrugged, beginning to examine the area again, but much more thoroughly.
There was a storage room inside the back of the kitchen. There was fruits, vegetables, and canned food all inside plenty of boxes. Various boxes were everywhere as if it were never touched in two years.
Two years... Now that I think about it, when was the last time someone mentioned this school in public? In television? In the interet at least?
Suspicious, I began to frown.
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Soon enough, time has passed and the students began to meet in the courtroom.
Ooooh my hands are tired from typing this whole thing out! Sheesh, I really wasted my nighttime typing this! Oh whatever...