A/N: Well, this took a lot less time to finalize the FT pair.

This is the last one before DEATH. So hope you guys picked right~

FT focuses will be Li and Dell this time - I feel like Dell was overdue, maybe, since he got a lot of votes last time? Elliot and Yoshida had a fair few votes too, so... yeah.

-DA BOSS

Act 1-2: You're Gonna Go Far, Kid

"Show me how to lie, you're getting better all the time..."

Sawako was awoken by the shrill voice of Monobear once more, who was apparently simply pointing out that it was morning now. This for some reason did not sit well with Sawako, who found that this bear was trying to piss her off - maybe it wanted her to die first by blowing herself from kicking its ass? She had no clue, and to be quite honest, she didn't likely care. Letting out a great big yawn, Sawako rolled herself out of bed, wiggling her bare toes as she did so. She hadn't gotten the chance to work out much since they got to Hope's Peak a couple of days ago, and she could use a bit of exertion...

As she headed out the door, she spotted Li heading out of her room and presumably to the cafeteria for some breakfast. Sawako thought for a moment... While she figured one of the athletes might be a better pick for a workout buddy, musicians had to have strong lung strength to play, right? At least, Sawako figured that was the case, so...

"Hey, Li-chan!" Sawako called to the petite musician, running up to her before managing to stop almost on a dime. Li simply played with her hair and smiled - it was cute when she did that, Sawako thought. Of course, there was no time for cute. She was getting antsy, so... "Hey, you need to work on cardio and stuff, right? You wanna work out with me a bit in the gym before we eat?"

Li simply blinked a few times. "You... want to hang out with me?" She asked, with a confused yet happy look on her face. Sawako could tell that there was just the slightest bit of a blush coming to her cheeks, but... why? Was she really so surprised?

"Of course! I've been getting restless already, and I figured you'd be a good workout buddy, since you're a girl like me!" Sawako replied, holding her arm to the side and making a typical 'bicep polishing' gesture. Li simply turned her head a bit, stifling a joyful giggle.

"Yes... I think that sounds like fun." She replied after a while, bringing a grin to Sawako's face as well. She wanted to learn a bit more about how the musician built up her lung strength to play - assuming she played something that needed it. The two ducked back into their rooms, grabbed some comfortable clothes, and headed to the gymnasium.

After the two reached the gymnasium, Sawako began doing several stretches to loosen up her body for their workout. She wasn't paying much attention to Li during this time, but she noticed that the girl wasn't doing much in the way of anything during constant glances over to her. This confused Sawako a bit, so she approached her workout buddy.

"Hey, Li-chan? You alright?" Sawako asked, carefully approaching Li in case there was something wrong. The girl simply smiled, however, and shook her head, which confused Sawako even more.

"Yes, I'm fine, Sawako-chan. I'm just..." Li trailed off, unsure of how to finish her sentence. "I... I'm sorry. I'm just unfamiliar with all these stretches and whatnot... I imagine that the workout would be largely the same..."

Sawako seemed a bit confused - how would someone her age not know how to do even basic stretches? "I don't get it... Did they not teach you that kind of thing in P.E.? That seems like basic stuff to me..." She asked, not quite sure of the answer she'd get. Li merely shook her head.

"I... I've never been to a real school like this before. So, things like 'P.E.' are new to me." She said after a little while, which had Sawako more intrigued than confused. Never going to school...? How did that work?

"But... You're so refined and stuff! Did your family home-school you?" Sawako asked, really getting curious about Li's past and how she was brought up. Not knowing how to do P.E. stuff... That just boggled her. Nonetheless, Li nodded in affirmation.

"Yes. Most of my teaching time was spent on my learning the flute, as well as proper etiquette and other things that a 'proper lady' should know how to do." She said with a sad smile on her face. "In fact, I was never even allowed to leave my home to play with other children... I suppose I've lived what you may call a 'sheltered life', hm?"

Sawako seemed shocked. Not having done P.E. before was one thing, but not even knowing how to play with others? That was just unacceptable to her. She took the girl's hand and sat down on the gym floor with her.

"Hm? What are you doing, Sawako-chan?" Li asked, while Sawako just grinned. "Are you going to teach me some stretches, then?" Sawako shook her head, though she still kept her wide grin on.

"Nope, even better. I'm gonna teach you how to play!" Sawako replied cheerfully, which had Li shocked, yet blushing at the same time. Sawako really did feel sorry for the girl... Having never been able to play, and make a real friend? She didn't know what Li's schooling had taught her, but she knew that it wasn't enough to really live. "Okay, so anything you want to try first?"

Li simply giggled and held her hand to her mouth. "Anything you wish to teach me, Sawako-chan." She replied politely, to which Sawako responded by tapping her on the shoulder and scrambling away.

"Tag! You're it!" Sawako shouted out as she ran around the gym, which had Li confused. Sawako stopped briefly and realized that she didn't even explain tag to her. Shit. "Um, you're supposed to chase after me and try to tag me back." She replied, sheepishly running a hand through her hair. Li nodded and wore a smile unlike any Sawako had seen on her, as she chased after the fighter for a while.

Sawako felt like she'd gotten to know the musician a bit better...

Intimacy Level Up!

Li Meimei: Level 0 - Level 1!

After a long period of playing tag, Sawako accompanied Li to the cafeteria, where they found Izumi was the only one in there. The pair of girls looked up at the clock, and noticed that it was almost 10:30 AM, which had Sawako in stitches.

"Haha! I guess we had so much fun, that we lost track of time, Li-chan!" She said loudly, clapping Li on the back - gently, mind you - and headed into the kitchen to grab some late breakfast.

It took Sawako a bit to figure out what she wanted - there was so much, after all - but she settled on an apparent Western favourite: bacon and eggs. Fortunately, she knew how to cook both to some degree, so there wasn't a huge amount of trouble that could come from that. Realizing that she should probably make some for Li as well, she made sure to grab the lower-sodium bacon that she found in the meat freezer, so that she wouldn't lose more of her hydration from all the salt.

As the bacon sizzled, Sawako took a bit of time to think about what was going on around her. Her group of friends was already getting pretty large... Hanae-chan, Dell, Elliot, Daisuke, and now Li... She wondered if they would have been friends if they'd met under different circumstances. After all, there wasn't much chance for variety among the sixteen people locked within the school, especially since one of the sixteen was apparently out to get every last one of them. And, from what Daisuke told her yesterday evening, Hikaru & Yukari were already quite... 'close', so they spent most of their time with each other.

Eventually, Sawako decided to just leave her worries alone for now. Nothing had happened since that stupid bear had told them about the apparent killing that they had to do - not even Yoshida was willing to kill to get out of here yet, apparently. Instead, Sawako let herself slip into a mental silence as the bacon kept sizzling in the pan before her.

After breakfast and a short nap that ended up spanning a lot more time than a short nap should have - Sawako decided she'd work off the calories from the breakfast bacon later - the fighter awoke and decided that, since apparently there was still nothing that had happened yet, that she would go and find someone to hang out with.

The question was, who?

Hanae was a nice girl, but Sawako felt it best to find someone else to hang out with for today. Same with Daisuke, only he wasn't a girl. And besides, he seemed to be avoiding her as she saw him in the hall, so maybe she'd pissed him off? Nobody knew but him.

After a bit of thinking, Sawako suddenly felt a familiar presence leaning beside her on the wall across from her dorm, so she turned to the side and saw Dell up against the wall himself. "Gah!" She yelped out, jumping back a bit and planting her foot straight into his gut. She didn't hate Dell by any means, but he really shouldn't have snuck up on her.

"Kuh... G-Geez, Sawa-chan! What'd I do?" Dell managed to sputter out as he crumpled over. Sawako rushed over to his side and helped her friend up, as she ran her hand through her hair, feeling embarrassed.

"Sorry, Dell... You snuck up on me, though, so I couldn't help it!" Sawako raised her hands defensively, causing Dell to wince and back off a bit. "I thought you might have been someone trying to kill me." Dell's eyes widened.

"Wh-wha?! I couldn't kill one of my best friends in here!" He shot back defensively, his backpack rattling as he made a number of sudden jerky movements. Sawako remembered that he had that on yesterday and the day before, and while she heard the rattling, she didn't have a clue what it was.

"Hey, uh... Dell?" Sawako decided that, since she had him here, now would be a good time to ask about the rattling. "What's making all that noise in your backpack?"

"Hm? Oh, that's all my canned food." Dell replied matter-of-factly, to which Sawako could only blink in stunned silence.

"What."

"Yep!" Dell's usual grin returned in a flash, as he opened his bag to reveal... all sorts of canned food. Sawako didn't really know what she was expecting, but then... Why would he have all this food?

"Dell, did you know this was gonna happen to us?" Sawako said in a stern, 'I'm gonna kick your ass if you answer wrong' tone. Dell responded with raising his hands defensively and taking a step back. Not a good sign.

"Wha? Nah... I always bring this stuff with me wherever I go!" Dell replied, looking almost proud. Sawako did relax, to his credit; his answer seemed legitimate enough once she realized that it was Dell that she was asking this to. "You never know when you're gonna need it."

"That's true, but..."

"Oh, hey, I promised Elliot I'd help him with something right now, so I'll talk to you later, okay?" Dell cut off Sawako and dashed off to Elliot's dorm room, leaving behind a confused Sawako who, nonetheless, had a tiny bit more respect for Dell's resourcefulness.

Intimacy Level Up!

Dell Finedante: Level 0 - Level 1!

A/N: ayup.

Next time, DEATH.

R/R as always, bambinos. And ciao until next time~

-DA BOSS