(AN: BTW, I wanted to mention this, I'm sorry if in a chapter your character has only a few lines. The hardest thing about an SYOC is keeping track of who says what and when, and while I try to evenly divide screen time, there are moments when I will give a character not as much lines as another one.)

king okami: Sorry about that! Thanks for the review though, glad you liked it!

reven228: Future Diary does have a good soundtrack! Thanks for the recommendation!

MizunashiFuyuko: Yup, as you can see, it is now officially Chapter 1! Kaito really is good with his words, for whatever reason…;)

FateOblivion: Thanks for the review!

G4Crash: Thanks for the review! Mirai is innocent, isn't he? I like innocence.

Kougari: Lol! Thanks for the review!

AnimesWorld: Yay! Glad I got your character better! You want some Usami though? YOU WANT SOME USAMI? Lmao sorry caps. …Lol I'm not sure if Usami will be in this story. It'll be hard to come up with an actual role with her. She's still in DR+ so you might be able to get your Usami fix there. And I know you want a cute scene with Mirai and the main character. But you won't get it until later :c

AssAssinAtEd: Woo! As long as I made one person laugh, my joke was successful, lol. Thanks for the review and Free-Time nominations!)

Soundtrack: Persona – Aria of the Soul

"…Hello again."

A familiar and disturbing voice pierced through my ears. I opened my eyes from the blackness and saw the man with the mask and Nanako standing in front of me. Nanako was smiling and holding a syringe, and the man was sitting down, his hands folded together. A sinister aura formed around them, and I was forced to take all of it in. I couldn't tell how the man was reacting to me; his face covered with the mask hid all of his emotion.

"You do know why you are here, correct?" Nanako asked. "If you remember, we told you that we'd have to check up on you regularly."

"…But, why?" I asked, noticing my personality shift again.

"You will certainly find out sooner or later," the man said. "It is only a matter of time before the massacre begins, and you will discover your purpose for coming here."

"…My purpose?"

"We cannot tell you too much," Nanako said. "It is not within our boundaries to reveal to you this information. What we can only do is provide the hints for you to make this trip safely."

"…What do you mean?" I asked, my voice frail.

"Do not get us in the wrong boat," the man started. "We are not on your side. However, the world you are in currently is in an unstable formation. We cannot allow you to progress without some help, or otherwise, your reality might combust."

"What the hell do you mean..?" I asked weakly. "I don't know what you're talking about!"

"As we also said, it is necessary we check on you," Nanako said. "If you are acting strange, it is our duty to set that right."

I looked at the pair with contempt. I didn't know what the hell they were talking about, and they were speaking to me in riddles as if I could figure it out. But of course I couldn't. I lowered my head, and didn't speak. I decided not to entertain the two of them anymore. As I did, the man chuckled, and I could hear footsteps advancing towards me. A sharp pain emanated throughout my body, spreading out evenly as I felt something slide down me.

"…What are you doing?" I asked, grunting with pain.

"I'm putting some medicine in your body," Nanako said. "Not a big deal, you shouldn't worry about it."

"Why do I need medicine?" I asked. "What's happening?"

I shook my arms around. The IVs attached to me were about to come loose, and I could feel a large force hit my head. I weakly stopped, only barely conscious, and I could feel the man forcing the attachments back onto me.

"We will meet again," the man said. "Next time though, Nanako and I would appreciate it if you acted more suppressed."

The world around me at that instant turned bright white. I could feel memories flowing out of my head. First, I forgot where I was at that moment. I forgot why I was there at that moment. The chair disappeared, and I fell down into the whiteness that enveloped me.

Music halts

Soundtrack: Beautiful Ruin [Summer Salt]

Waking up in my bed, I was enveloped in a pool of sweat. I placed my hand on my forehead to wipe some of the excess off, and I sighed.

"I had another nightmare," I said to myself. "But why can't I remember them..?"

Sighing and brushing it off, I got up out of my bed. Confused, I realized at that moment that I was in my room. I recalled fainting in the middle of the cafeteria, so it was strange that I was in my own room. Did someone carry me here..? Looking around, I looked out of the porthole. Sure enough, I was underwater. The fishes were swimming around me. I reached my hand and touched the glass separating me from the water. I wondered what would happen if I opened the window… the water would rush in, but maybe I could swim out of it.

"That's crazy," I sighed to myself. I wasn't a very good swimmer anyways, but it's not like I'd be able to fit in that small center.

I remembered how futile my life was now. There's no escape, even though a possibility hangs right in front of me. I laughed to myself – one of those laughs where you realize that you were thinking stupid thoughts. Mix this in with the fact that our lives were basically trapped – it was one hell of a thing to think about.

Looking around again, I decided that someone must have carried me to my room. Realizing that I was somehow in my pajamas as well, I tried to ignore the fact that someone would've had to dress me. Heading to the closet, I crossed my fingers and hoped that my clothes would be there. I reached my hand out for the doorknob, and I pulled the door open.

Music halts

Something truly disturbing was there in wake.

Soundtrack: Re Distrust

"W-what the heck?!" I screamed.

Mirai's body fell out of the closet. His body tumbled onto the hard floor, yet he remained asleep. His eyes were closed, and a snot bubble formed on the outside of his nose. The bubble grew bigger and smaller, like it would in a cartoon, and his breathing was heavy.

"Are you joking..?!" I said to myself. Furious, I shook Mirai awake. He groaned, and slowly opened his eyes, yawning right after.

"Mhm…I didn't finish sleeping," he said. Yawning again, he got up, and outstretched his arms.

"What are you doing in here?!" I demanded.

Mirai tilted his head, and raised a finger to his mouth. "What do you mean?"

"Why are you in my room?!"

"…Your room? …Oh! I carried you here after you fainted for the second time. Monokuma and Meowykins can be pretty cruel, so I decided not to let them touch you."

I shoved my face into my palms, and began to speak.

"That's not what I mean! Why were you in my closet?!"

"…I didn't have a place to sleep," Mirai said affirmatively. "I wanted to make sure you got a good rest! What if Monokuma snuck here in the middle of the night? Or Kaito?"

"What about Kaito?" I sighed, still angry.

"Didn't you say he was a… par-vet..?"

"It's per-vert," I said. "But I would have been fine..! You should have gone to your own room, or at least slept on the floor! Why go into my closet?! Were you spying on me?!"

"…It's a big closet," Mirai said, tilting his head again. "…I didn't want to disturb you by sleeping on the floor, and the closet is nice and isolated in the corner."

"But were you spying on me..?"

"…Spying?" Mirai asked. "…Oh, spying! I definitely was not doing that."

I looked at Mirai with confusion. He looked around the room, arms behind his back, and he looked around my room.

"This room is nice," Mirai said. "My room definitely isn't as nice as this one."

"Don't change the subject," I snapped. "I'm still mad."

Mirai looked at me. He tilted his head again, in the opposite direction this time, and he ruffled out his shirt as he spoke. "But I was only trying to protect you… I would've done the same for the others…"

I sighed, still unsatisfied. "I know, but you can't just… this is a girls room, anyways!"

Mirai nodded his head. "I understand, Master Keiko. I'm sorry!"

"Why are you calling me master?!" I said astonished.

"…Well, I'm calling everyone master," Mirai said. "…Is that bad?" Mirai's face and confusion looked genuine, and it was rather… strange.

Soundtrack: Re Beautiful Morning

Still upset, but slightly less, I realized that Mirai probably didn't have any harmful intentions. Yet, I had the tugging feeling that he was mocking me. There's no way a normal person wouldn't know all of these things – he acted as if he was foreign to the principles of humanity. Responding to Mirai's last comment, I shook my head.

"It's not bad," I said finally. "It's weird though."

"…I understand," Mirai said. "Mistress Keiko, then?

I shook my head. "Just Keiko is fine."

"…Keiko?" Mirai said. "But I feel like calling you Master Keiko, or Mistress Keiko. Just like I'd call Noah, Master Noah, or Sir Noah. I'd do it with Ryoko, Kirei, and everyone else too!"

He seemed to be a little too innocent for his own good. As I nodded to affirm him, I got out the clothes from my closet. I could feel Mirai's gaze as I traveled across the room to prepare for the day. As I expected Mirai to walk out himself, I could still feel his stare as I attempted to change.

"Do you mind stepping outside for a moment?" I asked finally. "I'd like to change."

"…Okay, I understand," Mirai said. "I'll see you at the cafeteria then, Master."

"The cafeteria?" I asked. "Are we having another meeting there?"

"Monokuma said he wanted to speak to us," Mirai said. "Do you remember when he said that he'd have more business to tell us about? Like the rules?" Now that I thought about it, I did remember. Monokuma stated he had some rules to explain to us. That must be why he's summoning us to the cafeteria again?

Mirai walked out of the door, and I made sure to lock it. I sank down from the door to the floor. For first impressions, Mirai was awfully strange. But he did feel genuinely nice. I just hope that Mirai wasn't mocking me, since he does seem like… that kind of person.

==MIRAI'S REPORT CARD HAS BEEN UPDATED==

ID: Mirai Minoshiro / Super Highschool Level ?

|||Mirai spent some time in Keiko's room. He was glad to have protected her, but was confused by her reaction. |||

Closeness Level: 1 == Level Up! == 2

(AN: I'm trying a new thing with this story. I'm going to be keeping track of how close Keiko is with the other students. This can increase automatically through events or Free-Times, and can affect how I write future events in the story. The defaults are ALL 1.)

Walking out of my room, fully changed, I looked to my right and say Noah standing outside of my door.

"Hello, Sleeping Beauty," Noah said, smiling. "You were out again? Jeez."

"Good morning, Noah," I said. "I could go without the title, haha…"

"I guess so," Noah said, adjusting his fedora. He tapped his fingers on the wall in a rhythmic pattern as I walked past him. Walking to the cafeteria, Noah followed pursuit.

"So how did you sleep?" Noah said.

"I fainted," I said responding back.

"…Right," Noah said. "For some reason, I feel like you've been fainting a lot lately."

I raised my eye at his comment. "Lately? What do you mean lately? I just met you yesterday, didn't I?"

"That's true I guess," Noah said. "You know, Monokuma tried to carry you out, but Mirai insisted that he'd take you to your room. Though it's weird that a stuffed bear would try and carry you to your room, right..?"

"I guess so," I said. "I didn't really like the idea of Monokuma carrying me either, though could you believe it? I found Mirai in my closet. He was out cold."

"So he was with you, huh?" Noah asked. "That's awfully strange. Did he say anything?"

I shook my head. "Nothing that would be threatening. He seemed a little too innocent at the time though, but I really don't want to suspect anything bad… I hope he's not going to mock me or something."

"…No, he probably wouldn't do that," Noah said. His tone suddenly got a bit more serious. "Did Monokuma come by? I figured he might've wanted to apologize, or something."

"A bear? Him apologize?" Laughing, I finished off with, "I don't think so!"

Noah nodded. His smile was still on his face, but for some reason, it seemed a little more fake, and it sounded like he was trying to pry some stuff out of me.

"Well, if you're ever in trouble, just come to me!" Noah said.

"Sure," I said. "Thanks."

Noah nodded, still smiling, and he detoured off of the course of to the cafeteria. I called out to him as he walked in a different direction, but he didn't look back, and he went to who knows where. Confused, I approached the cafeteria, and thought about Noah for a while. It was awfully strange for him to run off like that, and the questions he asked didn't seem like idle conversation either.

==NOAH'S REPORT CARD HAS BEEN UPDATED===

ID: Noah Sloan / Super Highschool Level Police Officer

|||Noah spent some of his morning time in what seemed like a light interrogation.|||

Closeness Level: 1 == Level Up! == 2

I looked in front of me. The cafeteria doors were painted black, and an emblem of Monokuma were painted on both sides. The picture of Monokuma was made as if it were trying to wink at us, though it was awfully displeasing. I walked closer to the doors, and took a deep breath. I reached my hands out, and tugged at the heavy doors. They opened inwards, and I stepped into a familiar, but depressing environment.

Sitting in a large round table was Ryoko, Kirei, Mirai, Yayoi, and Furo. They were all silent. Ryoko was staring at the others with contempt, Kirei was twiddling her fingers in nervousness, Yayoi was resting her head on the table unaware of her surroundings, Mirai was tilting his head at the silence, and Furo was sketching rapidly in his sketchpad. I took a seat next to Kirei who noticed my presence immediately.

"Morning," I said as I sat down. Kirei briefly looked at me, smiling a nervous smile, and nodded. Looking right back at her thumbs, I noticed Furo shooting a glare at me. As I looked, he immediately shifted his eyes back at his sketchpad.

"What are you drawing, Master Furo?" Mirai asked.

"Why are you calling me master?" Furo asked, clearly annoyed.

"…I. Don't know," Mirai said. "Because everyone here seems like a master to me."

"Yeah well, can you not?" Furo asked. "It's weird."

Ryoko didn't say anything, and instead took out a colored pencil and began to draw on the top of her hand. She was drawing some sort of animal, which looked to be some sort of wolf. Ryoko looked at me as I watched her draw with awe.

"Wow…" I said. "That's cool..!"

"I am a tattoo artist," she said back to me. "N-now, can you not lean against me? It's harder to draw that way."

"O-oh, sorry!" I said. "I didn't mean too—"

"Yeah, it's fine," Ryoko said, cutting me off. She continued to work on her hand and I sat back in my seat. Sighing, I looked up at the class ceiling. A school of fishes swam by, and it was actually a cool sight. Maybe being underwater like this wouldn't have been so bad, if it weren't for the sadistic stuffed dolls and an apparent fight to the death with the others…

"W-w-we're not actually going to kill each other, right?" Kirei asked.

"Hell no," Furo sighed. "Definitely not."

"Don't worry, we'll definitely get out of here together," I reassured. "No one's going to die."

"T-that's good," Kirei said, releasing a sigh. "You guys really are nice people..!"

I sensed Kirei's gratitude towards all of us, and I smiled back. I wondered what her life must have been like for her to act with such doubt to the rest of us, but I decided not to think about it. If we could make her feel like she was our friend, we probably did a good thing.

==KIREI'S REPORT CARD HAS BEEN UPDATED==

Kirei Nagai / Super Highschool Level Maid

|||Kirei is relieved at everyone's kindness.|||

Closeness Level: 1 == LEVEL UP! == 2

As the six of us waited for Monokuma to arrive, the others slowly began to pile in. Noah was last to come, and it took a while for him to arrive after the rest of us had already sat down.

"Took you a while," Yoshinori noticed. "What were you doing, hmm?"

"Oh, nothing," Noah said. "Just a little housekeeping."

"That sounds just a little suspicious," Takayashi said nervously. "…Were you in my room? Did you check that drawer?!"

"N-no, of course I didn't invade any privacy!" Noah said. "You can calm down. This was just personal business for me, nothing involving any of you."

"That still sounds suspicious, sweetie," Micky said. "I could eat you up but then I'm afraid something would get stuck down my throat, hmm?"

I looked at Noah. He was allowing these words to enter inside his system – and I wondered what he really was doing.

Either way, with all fifteen of us here, all that was left to do was to wait for Monokuma's announcement. After a few minutes of waiting, the cafeteria doors opened again, and smoke entered through the room, spreading evenly across everywhere.

Soundtrack: SDR2 – 2-02- Momomomonokuma!

Looking as the fog entered through the room, Monokuma jumped out of it, and landed on the table in front of him.

"Good morning, you bastards!"

Continued in Chapter 1 Sec. II.

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(AN: I tried something new with the endcard, lol. To be fair, I know it looks bad, but it was created off of MS Paint, and I did spend like half an hour on this since I am even artistically challenged on the computer, lol. There's going to be a different endcard every chapter though, so if you accept it as it is, it could be a cool idea. Though of course if you guys don't like it I'll stop making them. Sorry it was such a short update! We should be getting to the first murder fairly soon now…)