Chapter 03 - Strike 3! You're knocked out! - INsanity Arc

"I wanna go home..." ? whispered to Serena.

The group was in more fear for their lives than ever. A murder had taken place without any of them knowing, and two executions at once. How much longer was this going to go on? Were they really going to have to end at one person alone? Midorikuma was, unknown to everyone, the successor of one evil mastermind, and he was no better than his predecessor. He was a menace who made it his only purpose to bring despair to the students, and in all honesty, it was working. It was sixteen days since Miura and Jacksons' executions, and in the time, Shenjo and Ari had all attempted to kill themselves.

"Man, you guys are getting boring." Midorikuma said at the assembly in the gym, "I think you all need some motivation."

"What are you talking about?" Reon asked the toy.

"Go to the AV Room to find out."

"The AV Room?" Thompson asked.

"Yep."

While it was probably stupid, they all went to the AV Room, with Eno carrying Soo on his back. There were DVDs on top of the screens, even for the deceased students. Kujo thought Midorikuma was ready to use these before everything had happened. He grabbed his own and looked at the drowsy Soo sitting next to him and then put on his headphones and popped it into the DVD player.

It started up with static and settled onto a slightly poor quality image of Kujo's father.

"D-Dad...?" He said in shock.

"Heh, Well I guess the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. I always thought I'd be the one in Hope's Peak. I always Bragged to your mother about it when her and I were kids, but I suppose my own son is better than me. I'm not upset in the slightest either. I'm proud of you Kujo. If there was one thing I always wanted, it was for you to do great thing in life. Your mother would've said the same."

"Onii-Chan!" Kujo's baby sister wailed as she ran in front of the camera lens.

"Reka back away from the camera if you want to say something. I taught you better."

She did as he said and sat on her father's lap in his chair, "Good luck at Hope's Peak!"

"She took the words out of my mouth."

His father laughed and the image became fuzzy, soon settling on the scene again, but his father and sister were gone, the lights out, the chair beaten and torn. Kujo immediately threw off the headphones and smashed the screen. He was mortified. What was going on? Where did they go? What happened? Kujo looked at Soo again and nearly vomited. How hadn't he noticed the scene next to him? Soo was lying back in his chair, throat slit, stabbed in the back, beaten in the head, and the most gruesome part being his torn open chest with his heart pulled out lying on the screen he was viewing. Kujo emitted the most ear piercing scream, and everyone stood to look at the horror in the room.

...

When Kujo awoke, He was sitting in the Infirmary. He was horrified and shaking like he was suffering from hypothermia. He looked at everyone.

"How long was I out?" he wondered.

"A few minutes," Shenjo claimed, "Just slight shock."

"We were just going to wait for you." Eno said, "We weren't just gonna go searching around for clues without you."

"Good, I wouldn't let you."

In the end, the 'teams' were:

1. Kujo, Eno, and Thompson.

2. Reon, Shenjo, and Ari.

3. Serena and ?.

And the rooms to search being:

1. Trash Room.

2. Kitchen.

3. AV Room.

"Man this place smells awful!" Ari complained at the smell of the Trash Room.

"That's too bad." Shenjo said, "We have to make sure they didn't dispose of the evidence."

In the Kitchen, though, some rather bigger breakthroughs were being made.

"Hey Serena..." ? whispered, pointing to a knife, "Look."

Serena inspected it to find it had a slight red tint at the tip. This was Soo's murderous knife, poorly washed. She pulled it off the rack, and looked a little more closely. On the handle, there were light fingerprints. They were a size good to fit most of the students, so that was no real help, at the moment anyway. She put it back, and the two went to the elevator to wait for everyone.

In the AV Room, things were just as good, if not better. Thompson was pale as a ghost, watching the other students', including the dead students', DVDs. Eno was looking for cameras, and found exactly sixty-two: four monitoring each student, and two watching the entirety of the room. Unfortunately, the thirty that were connected to the screens and desks were disabled, the tape holders for the other thirty nowhere to be found, and the two security cameras out of reach. Kujo was looking under the desks, and hit his head getting up when he found a blood-soaked baseball bat lying under the desk Thompson sat at.

"What's that Thompson?" Eno asked.

"Woah, wait a fucking second. You think that's mine!?" He asked back in shock.

"There's no evidence against it. It can easily be your's."

"No way! NO FUCKING WAY IS THAT MINE!"

Eno got to him so fast that Thompson probably would've only been able to get away if he teleported. Eno hit him in the shoulder region, knocking him out.

After another hour or so, the students gathered at the elevator, where Thompson woke up. The doors opened and they went to the Courtroom.