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"S-Shun…!" Sayaka couldn't decide whether to stand still or kneel down next to her only remaining friend. It was already obvious that he was dead; no point in checking his pulse. But the bespectacled girl was still trembling. She had lost all of her friends in one night.

"Oh…oh god!" Yuya gasped "Guys, this means…that Yuto really is alive! And he's killed Yuzu and Gongenzaka and Sora! Everyone!"

"B-But where did he go? Did his body roll down the stairs or was he killed down here?" Rin asked, glancing down at Shun's body and then around the dim foyer "Are we in danger?"

"We should stick close together!" Sawatari decided, turning around and stepping back, backing into Sayaka "He can't catch us off guard if we're looking from all angles!"

"H-He's right!" Sayaka agreed, standing next to him. "Let's form a circle!"

The four of them stood in a circle facing outward so that they could see all around them.

"Well, what do we do now?" Sayaka asked, feeling completely uneasy "There may be four of us, but none of us have anything to fight him off with!"

"But is he really going to try to attack all four of us at once?" Sawatari continued glancing around.

"W-We have to stop him!" Yuya whimpered, trying to stay confident but he was shivering uncontrollably "I-I don't want to die!"

"The rest of our friends are gone…" Rin gritted her teeth, something that was becoming an unconscious habit "What the hell are we even going to do once we get out of here?!"

"We need to find a way to get there first!" Sawatari pointed out. Maybe the blizzard had calmed down enough to try the front door yards away? But even if it had, they could still be snowed in. Then maybe a window?

"I-I…" Yuya stuttered "I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

He suddenly broke from the group and ran off down the hallway.

"No, Yuya, stop!" Rin yelled and began sprinting after him "Where are you going?!"

"I HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!" he screamed as loud as possible.

Rin was running as fast as she could, but Yuya was more athletic than she was and was beyond determined to escape.

"Stop yelling! Yuto will hear you!" Rin called after him.

Sayaka and Sawatari could hear them, but they didn't know what to do. Do they run after them or find somewhere to hide? They hated to just leave Rin and Yuya to themselves, but the numbers were dwindling. Maybe it was time to begin fending for themselves.

"Sawatari" Sayaka looked at the older boy "W-What do we—?"

"AAAAHHHHHH!"

Sayaka was cut off by an ear-piercing scream from who was clearly Yuya. Sawatari hesitated, but Sayaka quickly made the decision for him.

"We have to see if he's okay!" Sayaka grabbed Sawatari's hand and began running toward the scream. "If Yuto is there, we need to stop him!"

"Like how?" Sawatari asked. He was shamefully beginning to panic. How could they fight Yuto without a weapon? Sure he could use his fists maybe – he'd been enrolled in self-defence classes prior to joining the Lancers. But if Yuto had a knife, they wouldn't do him any good.

"I don't know, but we'll think of—" Sayaka suddenly paused, slowing to a stop.

Sawatari followed her lead and noticed Rin standing there. Yuya was on the floor sitting up against the wall with bruises on his neck and his throat slashed. He was oddly wearing no shirt or jacket, but no one was really paying attention to details like that anymore.

"Rin!" Sayaka ran up to her "What happened?"

"I was chasing him, and…" Rin was shaking, running her hands through her sweat-soaked hair "He ran right into Yuto…I couldn't stop him!"

"Where did he go?" Sawatari asked, trying to remain calm.

"Back upstairs!" Rin pointed "We have to go after him!"

She started off down the hallway again, back towards the staircase.

"C'mon!" Sayaka began running after Rin, but paused when she noticed Sawatari didn't move "Sawatari, what're you doing?! Let's go!"

"O-Okay…" he shook his head and him and Sayaka began following Rin.

Sawatari began to sweat. Not because he was exhausted from running, but because of something else. He started to piece together all that had been happening, all throughout the house. So many things didn't make sense, but as he was running…he began having doubts. Doubts as to who they were really chasing.

And to who the murderer really was.

He glanced up and noticed that they were at the third floor hallway, next to Dennis' room where they must've left the door open. Rin slowed to a stop, and Sayaka and Sawatari followed suit.

"W-Where…" Rin struggled to catch her breath "Where the hell did he go?"

"What do we do now?!" Sayaka huffed, exhausted.

"I don't know" Rin looked around "I would say let's keep going, but maybe we should find a weapon or something first."

"Yeah, that would be a good idea" Sayaka nodded and glanced at Sawatari, who looked completely pale. He wasn't even looking towards her or Rin. "Sawatari, are you alright?"

Sawatari stared into the room, as the door was wide open. "Sayaka…"

"What?" she asked, completely confused.

"Do you noticed something odd?" Sawatari's voice was completely deadpan.

Sayaka blinked up at him. "What is it?"

"…What's missing?"

Sayaka stared into Dennis' room, where Sawatari's gaze was focused, for a long time before she realised what Sawatari was referring to. "Didn't we find Yugo here? Where's his bod—?"

She was suddenly cut off and Sawatari spun around.

"Saya—?" he paused, his breath literally escaping him.

Sayaka was wide-eyed and blood was dripping from her mouth.

"S-Sawatari!" she coughed up a little more blood and fell forward, hitting the ground hard.

Sawatari watched her body fall as he noticed the bloody stab wound in her back. He slowly glanced up, his eyes growing wider as he spotted who had just stabbed the young girl.

"Hello, Sawatari. So you were the last survivor, huh? Gotta say, I didn't think it would be you, no offence. I hope you're proud of yourself. Your prize is living just a little bit longer for us to tell you why we decided to murder everyone!"

They were wrong. They were all so wrong. Someone had faked their death. But it wasn't Yuto. It was a person everyone had considered to be the murderer at one point or another, but had been forgiven when he appeared to have the ultimate alibi.

Yugo twirled the bloody knife in one hand while he brushed some stray spikes of hair out of his eyes with the other. Rin stood just behind him with a proud little smile on her face.