Oh cool you guys are the best sending me reviews and stuff! I think that this is our last chapter of day one!

That also means the poll is now closed! Now we shall have Makoto and Tomoe~

REPLIES TO COMMENTS:

Starnightking: " Don't worry, Makoto will fight with everything he got! Yup, the suspense is rising!"

JayTboxer: "Hmm... I know some people who post chapters each day. Thank you! I'm glad it doesn't seem to be a waste for you!"

Shyjoker: "Maybe Constantine is trying to be a nice girl and pretend to ignore that thought? Well, it isn't exactly a waste! Oh poor Kai, but he's like the logical and smart guy out the majority of the class."

Charming Crescendo: "Great! I'm so glad I characterized Rina perfectly! Hmm, you can if you want to, I might say! Yes, yes, and yes!"

Awesome D.T: "Poor Constantine, having to stand up to Ryuu. Don't worry, that's why we have Monokuma to ruin/save the hope! Hmm, I guess the ones who are quite prepared for battle is the logical and smart ones, Ayano and Makoto may count as well, as they are the bad luck and detective. Hmm, I like your choice and thought! Interesting to see what people will think of who'll survive. No, no, don't break your computer! That's the problem, it looks NORMAL. Exactly! Monokuma will now beg you to tell him. CJ will gladly give you Michin. Thank you for the review! Oh, gosh, I'm embarrassed!"

A. Zarko: "Yes, poor Toby doesn't understand... But his books are at the top shelf, it's not like he'll be found out in any time flat! Ooh, okay, I like your format of reviewing anyways!"

TigerMasters: "I know right? CJ has so many consoles I couldn't afford! Yeah, each room reflects the SHSL. Exactly, the questions and suspense will kill me!"

Trixielulamoon323: "Yes, she is a fan favorite! I want to have a room like their's- WAIT it must be part of Monokuma's plan or something... *shrugs* Oh gosh it's Aika the matchmaker Pokemon! Hmm... Well everyone has something to hide from others, right?"

Nagisa4863: "Michin is in the sorry cause it is!! Oh yes, how can I forget her the cutest one of all!"

Shadowplayer360: "Ooh I love people's expectations and theories of who's dead and who'll be the murderer! I love hypothesis~! Hmm... Well even if I was sick I would still work on the story~"

Now on to the story~!

The rest of the groups stumbled back into the courtroom, where Nathan was. Nathan waved at them perkily as the students began rummaging in one by one! except for Makoto and Takane. Nevertheless, some didn't seem to notice while others held quiet concern. Maybe they just forgot the time? They couldn't have died or something. Awkwardly, some held a lenient attitude towards each other, which was quite weird despite making contact with the despair inducing bear–Monokuma.

"Did anyone find something interesting?" Shizu began to ask.

CJ shrugged, recalling the format of her room and Shizu's. "My room had the stuff I always liked. Games like Catherine, Call of Duty, even my own game was there."

"Oh?" Aika looked at her with starry eyes. "You mean Michin?"

CJ nodded. "Yes."

"That's cool!" Toby exclaimed in Aika's place. Shizu glanced at them bitterly, making them all silent. Toby scratched his head. "Well... There was nothing worth talking about in the library. The files about Monokuma and despair had nothing you didn't know about."

"Is that so. What a waste," Juugo muttered to himself, his mask now back on his face with some strands of his raven hair sticking out.

Tiki smiled bitterly. "I guess we all figured out that there's no windows here and the school gates are shut closed entirely?"

"Oh? Yeah, I've noticed that," Kazuho sighed. "This sucks."

"Big time." Toby finished.

Constantine folded her arms in a sarcastic manner. "Sheesh, didn't anyone find anything useful? The only thing we found were a garbage slot and an incinerator. What the hell do you use those for? Decomposing and burning bodies?"

"D-don't talk about that so easily..." Nathan demanded, placing his hand over his mouth. "You're gonna make me sick."

"Well, sorry about that!" Constantine grumbled furiously. She didn't like the feeling of doubt. She didn't like feeling worried for anyone. Why was she worried about Makoto and Takane? She hated the muckraker to death and Makoto wasn't the type of guy she would've made friends with. Well, she wouldn't ever made friends with anybody!

"I'm just worried about Mako and Taka," Aika replied as if she could read Constantine's mind.

"Well, "Mako" and "Taka" are gonna be fine," Malcolm exclaimed, exaggerating on the nicknames Aika gave the two boys. "They must be late. Did your area have any clocks around?"

Stellar tapped her cheek. "Now that you think about it, I didn't see anything that looked like a clock. The broken rooms next to the incinerator didn't seem to have any fixed clocks around."

Constantine began to continue. "We just came back when we heard Tomoe and Toby yelling from a distance."

"Oh? Didn't know my voice would reach that far," Toby victoriously replied in a triumphant manner.

Tomoe shrugged. "I thought some people would've come here late so I just decided to do what Toby was doing."

Toby frowned. "Weird. Shouldn't Makoto and Takane hear it then?"

"Maybe they got caught up with Monokuma along the way," Kazuho suggested, not in a joking manner, making some of the SHSL talent students shudder.

Tiki nodded slowly. "I hope those two are alright..."

"Of course they're alright!" Elena cried. "It's the detective and muckraker we're talking about!"

Kazuho shrugged. "It would be better if they had more meaningful names..."

Constantine rolled her eyes, glaring at the archer boy. "Like your SHSL talent is useful in this situation?"

Kazuho growled. "Oh shut up!"

Stellar gasped by the sudden argument between the genius and the archer. She began to run quickly up to them, barging into their way from each other. "Don't fight!"

"Oh no..." Ayano felt a bit of his hope drop once he've seen more and more of his classmates arguing and disputing against topic, topic, and topic. "Can't we all just get along?" He mumbled quietly, but not enough for Aika to hear him out.

"Of course we can!" She cried, petting his shoulder. Ayano smiled softly. "If we hang out more and more, we'll be best friends in no time flat!" She smiled slyly. Well, and fall in love with other people, not that I'm telling Ayano here.

"Why can't everyone else act more serious about this?" CJ exclaimed, practically holding her forehead in disarray.

"I have to admit I'm a bit impressed by everyone's optimism," Paul quietly replied, making CJ glance at him in curiosity.

Shizu and Tiki nodded, knowing how it felt to be the only sane ones out of the horde of disputing and obnoxious students. "I can't believe they're not taking this seriously," Shizu whispered to herself. "It's as if Monokuma has done something to make them more...at home."

The ongoing fights seemed to continue for about five minutes.

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"Upupupupu! So you've decided to check that room first?"

Takane rolled his eyes, thinking of the best ways to get away from the black and white evil eyed bear. "Ugh, it's you, Monokuma."

Monokuma grimly chuckled, bowing his head as if he was applauded with a scholarship overseas by the president. Takane rolled his eyes, then glanced at Makoto who was trying his best to maintain a small smile, yet his eyes were glimmering with doubt. "Upupupupu, are you okay, lazy dandy Makoto?"

Makoto flinched, suprised by Monokuma's sudden question. "O-oh? What? ... Oh, it's you...Monokuma?"

"Were you dazing off into space are were you just pretending to sleep, dumbass?" Monokuma cried, practically pissed by Makoto's confused face. "Can't you listen to the headmaster for once?!"

"Sorry...?" Makoto glanced at Takane, hoping to find an answer, but Takane shrugged, having nothing to say at all. He began to take a few steps away from Monokuma. "Um... We have to go to the courtroom, so, if you don't mind-"

"I do mind!"

Makoto jumped, barely dodging Monokuma who almost began to pounce at his face. "Eeeeeeh?!"

Monokuma began flying his little paws about like a little child who was on a huge breakdown. "Why the hell was that room opened? I thought I locked that damn room!" Monokuma then stared at Makoto and Takane for a short smile, then he laughed hysterically. "Ahahaha! Well, it doesn't really matter anyways! You won't know the reason!"

"So there is something wrong behind that door in your case," Takane muttered, now suspecting something big will take place. Makoto glanced at the laughing Monokuma, then to Takane's suspicious face, then back to Monokuma. Takane rubbed his chin. "It might prove useful in beating that bear..."

"Did I hear something?" Monokuma asked, mocking the thinking muckraker. "You can't defeat me! I am the headmaster of this freaking damn school! Not you, nor the detecive, nor the genius can defeat the likes of me!"

"Twenty years ago you did the same thing to Hope's Peak Academy's students," Makoto began. "And they defeated you."

"Oho?" Monokuma claws began to appear. Makoto slightly jumped back, shocked at the sudden sight of Monokuma's claws. "But not all of them survived! They all began to kill and murder each other!"

"You..." Takane clenched his fists. "You must've forced them to."

"Huh? Oh, of course hell no I didn't, Ryutaro!" Monokuma ranted. "Besides, even if I did, I can't force them exactly! It's all their fault! Not me!" Monokuma then gleamed at Makoto, who tilted his head in confusion. "You smelled the blood in that classroom, didn't you?"

Makoto blinked, slowly nodding his head. "Y-yes... Why are you asking, bear?"

Monokuma laughed even harder, clutching onto his stomach filled with fluff from the pain of inducing so much joy. Makoto felt his lips bleed, but he didn't notice that he was the one causing the bleeding with his teeth biting tightly on his lips. "Upupupupu, I'm shocked someone can actually still smell the blood! I sprayed the room with perfume and since then no one's every smelled anything except flowers and honey! I'm suprised, are you a dog, Makoto?!"

"Ah...wait, what? I don't..." Makoto was lost at this point. How can he be the only one who smelled that much blood? Surely, someone would've at least gone into the room, right?

As if Monokuma could read Makoto's thoughts, he beamed a little in pure excitement, which wasn't a good thing for the students. "Upu~ Don't worry, Makoto! I have a feeling no one would notice this room except you and your friend over there!"

"What the hell does that mean?" Takane growled, his eyebrows burrowing into a frown. "I know that won't happen. It will never happen, Monokuma."

"Ooh! So scary, so so terribly scary!" Monokuma jumped a bit, mocking the poor muckraker greatly. "Oh, and Makoto, I'll be a little nice for today!"

"Nice..?" Makoto gulped. Er... What does nice mean to a sadistic, twisted, insane, crazy bear like Monokuma?

"If my suspicions are wrong and you actually do have something wrong with you, you can go to the infirmary and get some antidotes for whatever sickness getting a headache is!" Monokuma was purely suggesting an idea for Makoto, but it felt more like an insult than it as a suggestion. "I doubt you'll be cured, however!"

Makoto muttered softly, "It's only a headache though..."

"Hm? Upupupupu! No! No! It's more than that!" And with that, Monokuma suddenly disappeared into view, nowhere to be seen. Makoto and Takane stared at each other for second, until finally saying:

"Um... Haha. Aren't we slow today?"

"... Shut up and let's go to the courtroom."

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"Oho! There are they!" Aika cried, practically jumping from her spot and interrupting the confused and arguing students. She ran up to Makoto and Takane with a big, poofy smile. "You're late guys!"

Makoto chuckled leniently. "Sorry, sorry. Just got into a bus crash with Monokuma, that's all."

"Ouch that must've hurt!" Rina interjected, greeting Makoto with a warm handshake. "Hello! You must've remembered me! The one who bumped onto you earlier?"

"How could I forget, you literally made me fall over heels!" Makoto laughed, Takane rolling his eyes as he and Rina began conversating more and more, Aika gleefully looking at them, nodding and shaking her head to their replies and comments.

"No! No! I think milk tea taste better!" Rina exclaimed. Aika's eyes widened with shock. "Eeeeeeh?! Really? Never tried them. You?" Makoto shrugged. "Sometimes. Not all the time." And so on and so fourth...

"Sheesh, so we were worried for nothing?" CJ began, quite annoyed while glaring at the trio of talkative students. Takane shrugged, making CJ sigh even more. "Where were you guys?"

"Somewhere in my group's area," Takane simply muttered.

CJ groaned, ignoring Takane's bitter reply. "Whatever. At least we know you guys are safe."

"They should be," Toby replied, suddenly chewing on some gum Elena sneaked from the cafeteria. "I mean, it's not like anything bad's gonna happen for our sake. We're not gonna end up killing each other."

Everyone began nodding in agreement. They might have opposing likes, dislikes, personalities and whatnot, but do they hate each other so much that they can kill each other? Absolutely not.

"Let's discuss on the more important manner," Shizu began loudly, interrupting all the side comments and arguments. "Is there really nothing that can be called useful information?"

Makoto raised his hand. "I think I might have something to say." Shizu simply nodded at him. He gulped. "Well... Believe it or not, Ryuu and I-"

"Ryuu?" Takane frowned at Makoto, who simply smiled and ignored him.

"Well, there is this room that was covered with blood." Everyone but Takane stared at Makoto wide eyed. There were a few sudden responses of gasps and cries, and they all looked at each other in shock.

"What?" Juugo looked at Takane for a clear answer, but Takane nodded in reply to Makoto. Juugo frowned in pure disgust. "... Why?"

Makoto blinked and then wildly shake his arms around. "I don't know it could be ketchup or something!"

Constantine scoffed. "I disagree. How could there be ketchup in a room?"

Makoto averted his eyes towards the ground. "Um... I-It's a joke..."

"I doubt that was ketchup." Takane walked over to Makoto, who jumped slightly. "Weren't you dizzy when we were in the room?" Makoto hesitated, but then slowly, and sadly, nodded his head a yes. "After I ordered Makoto to go outside, and after I investigated some more, Monokuma appeared out of nowhere, talking to us."

Shizu suspiciously glanced at the worried Makoto. "What did he say?"

"Well, he said that we shouldn't expect anything out of it," Takane bluntly stated, leaving out the part about Makoto and the smell of the room. It seemed highly out of place for Takane to simply say that out loud when Makoto wasn't in such a high spirited mood to point this fact out. He suggested that he should keep quiet for now.

"But it's a room full of blood!" Ayano cried, almost hitting Tiki's arm. Noticing this, Ayano jumped and bowed his head down to Tiki. "O-oh! Sorry about that."

Tiki smiled shyly. "It's okay."

"Ayano's got a point," Tomoe stated, glaring at Takane and Makoto. "We should check it out once more."

"Monokuma said that he'll lock it," Takane said with a sharp tone of voice, making the students jump with shock.

"Now, that's suspicious," Constantine muttered to herself, tapping her chin, deep in thought. "Shutting a door locked, the room full of blood, how can that not be suspicious?"

Shizu replied, overtly saying, "Monokuma's hiding something."

Everyone began to keep quiet, knowing how unsatisfying it is to have some kind of clue locked away from them.

Takane and Makoto glanced at each other, thinking:

Why am I so worried about talking about 'that'?

Why aren't you saying the part about 'that'?

The students weren't as close as they'd expect.

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After a few hours has gone by, with the students finally tired from investigating the rooms for themselves, the monitor hiding in every corner in every room buzzed.

Monokuma appeared on the screen, holding a cup of iced tea and wearing sunglasses (he has an awkward style of taste). "Isn't my taste of fashion awesome? Oh never mind... So! Hey, hey, hey! Look what time it is!"

The students glanced at the clocks. It was 8 at night.

"It's nighttime! Everyone go to your rooms and gave a gooooooooooood sleep!"

The students of Phoenix weren't as close as they're supposed to be on their rooms (except Ayano and CJ). Some were hanging around at the library, some stayed in the cafeteria, and others were taking a long rest in the leisure area. Other than that, it seemed they never read the rules throughly as they were much too focused to investigate the school rather than the contents of their IDs.

"Now, good night students!"

And then the screen went blank.

Ayano groaned, plopping onto the bed with a soft thud. "Ugh. Monokuma's cheerful voice doesn't make me sleepy at all..."

He wondered if everything will go well tomorrow.

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Remaining Students: 18

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AWWW man that was more boring than I thought! I guess next chapter is free time and stuff!