Chapter 2: Part 4

Monokuma stood proudly with his arms spread out while standing in front of the tacky sign. In contrast of the bear's prideful attitude, the students were dead silent as they stared at the room. The silence was so long and cold that the ever confident and irritating Monokuma would force out a cough just to break the silence.

Eventually, though, Mukuro of all people did break the silence. "Are you serious?"

"Yeah, a love hotel?" Leon asked with a raised eyebrow. "Why's that even here?"

"Why to help you, of course!" Monokuma said cheerfully. "I know all of you are just so sad seeing your two friends die."

"Friends is a bit strong of a word," Ryoma muttered.

"And all of that sadness, stress, frustration, it can build up so much that one of you may just snap and murder someone," Monokuma giggled. "Not that I'd mind that, but I know how much you brats just love delaying the inevitable. That's why this whole floor even exists! So many extracurricular activities. Pools, games, books, art, theater, and humanity's favorite past time, lovin!"

Taka balled up his fists and his entire body shook violently. "This…this is…UNACCEPTABLE!"

Taka's sudden shouting caught all of his compatriots off guard. He stormed through the startled crowd to stand face to face with Monokuma. "To even present such a thing to us is a whole new spore of madness! It's disgusting that you'd even place such a room in a school! I demand you destroy that room this instant!"

"Geez," Monokuma rolled his head in an exaggerated show of annoyance. "You know, I do love how you seem more upset about the love shack than all the murders, Ishimaru."

"Bro's got a point though," Mondo spoke up. "You keep acting like a teacher, calling us students and shit, then you make a place for us to fuck in?"

"That's some creepy shit," Miu pointed at Monokuma. "What are you, a fucking pedophile?!"

"Hey!" Monokuma stomped his cotton foot against the ground. "That's a low accusation to throw at me! The nerve of you brats! First of all, I didn't put any cameras in there, secondly, most of you are 18, thirdly…actually, I'll save that surprise."

"Hmph, even more secrets," Sakura said with a growl. "Why should we even believe you?"

"I guess the only way you'll know is if you step inside and take a look around. After all, you don't want to miss any potential clues, would you?"

With the ever-present grin across his face. Monokuma hopped to the side and slowly opened the door. The group looked towards each other with uneasy expressions. Ultimately, Monokuma was right. They did have to check and search for any clues in the room, yet they knew Monokuma far too well. It may not have been a trap, but going into a love shack designed by Monokuma himself was certainly an act none of them wanted to partake in. Well, Teruteru took a step forward, but was held back by Shinji.

"Why are you holding me back?" Teruteru asked.

"I have my doubts that you'd actually be investigating if you entered that room," Shinji said with a stern look.

"Oh please," Teruteru smiled a bit. "Listen, you can't be squeamish going into a room just because it may be naughty. I mean, we've already investigated a murder. But if you're all too uncomfortable with it, you might as well send in someone who doesn't mind."

"Hmmm, that's actually a good point," Kaito scratched his goatee before turning around to the group. "Hey, Gundham, you think you can handle this?"

Gundham chuckled. "Please. Such imagery will no affect on a dark lord like myself."

Teruteru stepped towards the astronaut. "H-hey, I can still-"

Kaito turned his attention over to Ryoma. "You think you can handle this one, Ryoma?"

Ryoma shrugged. "Why not. I'm not really into this stuff anyway."

Teruteru cleared his throat. "Then, I can go too-"

"I'll go too," Kaede spoke over Teruteru.

"You sure, Kaede?" Kaito asked. "I don't want you to be uncomfortable."

"It's ok," Kaede smiled. "I can handle myself."

"Allow me to join as well," Celestia stepped forward.

Teruteru dropped to his knees, clapped his hands together, and bowed his head to Kaito. "Please, let me go too!"

"Kirumi, please make sure the chef stays put," Celeste ordered her maid.

With a polite bow of her head, Kirumi answered. "Yes, Mistress Ludenberg."

"Awesome!" Kaito smiled at Celestia. "You four can go ahead and check it out."

Teruteru hung his head down and sobbed quietly as the four other students walked past him. First, Gundham stepped inside, followed by Kaede and Celeste. However, just before Ryoma could step through the doorway, Monokuma stepped right in his path and shoved something in the tennis player's hands. Ryoma looked down at the object to see it was a classic styled key made of gold with a ruby gemstone in the shape of a heart at the end.

Ryoma looked back up at Monokuma. "What is this supposed to-"

"Shut up, this will be great," Monokuma said in a hushed yet mischievous tone.

When the four students stepped inside, they were met with pure darkness. Nothing but the color black from every possible direction. Even though they couldn't see anything, they sure could hear and smell something. The sounds of shifting gears and metal scraping together faded in and out, but the intimidating sounds were offset by the sweet smell of strawberries.

"Um, can anyone find the light switch?" Kaede asked.

"You honestly expect me to do that?" Celeste asked. "I'm not going anywhere near whatever that machine is."

Gundham growled. "Enough of this," He held his hand up towards his scarf and waited patiently for the soft paws of Khan to crawl onto his palms. "Khan, use your vision of the night to seek out a light switch."

"Do you really need to talk like that?" Ryoma asked.

"Silence!" Gundham shouted. He held his arm out straight and waited. He could feel the weight of Khan shift around on his hand as his paws circled around on his hand. Eventually, Khan stopped, spread his feet out as much as he could on Gundham's hand, and finally all the weight vanished. The sound of something smacking against the wall could be heard for the briefest moment in a millisecond before the lights in the room emerged and blinded everyone momentarily. Once everyone's eyes adjusted to the light, they were greeted with quite the sight.

What was revealed in the light was possibility the tackiest room décor they've run into yet. Bright neon pink for the walls, red velvet carpeting across the entire floor, a massive king-sized bed in the shape of a heart with black and red sheets right in the middle of the room. Surrounding the bed, oddly enough, was a small set of train tracks with a ridable golden horse circling around on the tracks. Off at the back-right corner was a make-up station with a mirror at a desk, with stacks of different lips, perfumes, eye shadows, and with a rack of different costumes. All slutty variations of Halloween costumes of course. Then there was the back-left corner of the room. This corner had, for a lack of a more appropriate term, all of the props. Fuzzy handcuffs, steel handcuffs, paddles, whips, ball-gags, and…well…no need to say any further.

The four students stiffened as they took in all the details of the room. It was exactly what the rest of the group were afraid of. The skeevy nature of the room made their skin crawl. Yet, they had to investigate. Taking a few more steps into the room, the group noticed the strawberry scent became more pungent. Gundham let out a heavy cough into his sleeve as his pets hid under his scarf.

Kaede walked over to Gundham's side and placed her hand on his shoulder. "Are you ok, Gundham?"

Gundham cleared his throat. "I'm fine. It's just…this stench…it's too strong for me."

"Y-yeah," Kaede sniffed and covered her nose. "It's too thick."

"But don't worry about me. My dark disciples and myself cannot be harmed by the bear's tricks, Sonia."

Kaede raised her eyebrow and uncovered her nose. "Sonia? Gundham, I'm Kaede. Remember?"

Gundham grabbed his forehead and shook his head before looking at Kaede again. "Yes," he spoke in an uneasy tone. "Of course. I apologize, bard. I know not what came over me."

"It's ok," Kaede smiled. "It's got to be this room."

"I don't smell anything," Ryoma said with his same dry tone. "You sure you two are ok?"

"I'm fine," Gundham said with growl. "Do not cast my claims into doubt! I know this room's scent is foul."

"How can't you smell it, Ryoma?" Kaede asked. "It's so strong."

Ryoma shrugged and looked towards Celeste. "You smell anything?"

Celeste sighed and twirled her hair, putting on a strong front, but her nose scrunched up in disgust. "It's awful."

"Hmmm. Maybe my nose is just stuffed," Ryoma said.

"Let's just get this done," Kaede said with a huff. "I feel like I might faint soon."

With that, the four of them spread out across the room searching for whatever could even be considered interesting. Gundham covered his face with his scarf while Kaede used her hand to cover her nose. Even outside of the strong smell, the group was uneasy touching anything. Kaede could barely even force herself to touch any of the props for longer than a second, simply smacking them out of the way or nudging them to the side with her elbow.

'God, if Miu saw me now, I'd never hear the end of it,' Kaede thought to herself.

Ryoma couldn't help but look down at the heart shaped key in his hand. He noticed that none of the drawers had a lock for the key to fit in. He kept wandering around, avoiding the mechanical horse, and eventually stepping near the bed. It was only then as he approached the bed that he noticed something laying upon the bed. It was a small black wooden box, around the size of a shoe box. And it just so happened to have a keyhole.

"I found something," Ryoma said out loud. He hopped onto the bed and grabbed a hold of the box.

Kaede moved from one the corners of the room to the side of the bed. "What is it?" she asked.

Ryoma crawled off of the bed and held the box in his hand. "A box," he said plainly. He inserted the key into the lock (luckily, it was compatible) and turned it until he heard the lock click. Ryoma opened up the top of the box to see a small video tape. Puzzled, Ryoma took the tape out of the box and examined both sides to see it had been labeled "Junko's Final Moments."

Kaede leaned over Ryoma's shoulder to see what he was holding. "A VHS?"

"Yeah," Ryoma responded. "It says it's about Junko."

"Really?" Kaede's eyes lit up. "Then that must have some major clue on it! Awesome! Great job investigating like always, Shuichi!"

Before Ryoma could respond, Kaede wrapped her arms around the small boy's waist and lifted him into the air in a tight hug. "See? I told you there's no need to doubt your abilities!"

"I-I'm not Shuichi," Ryoma protested.

"HEY!" Gundham shouted as he approached the two of them. "Princess Sonia, what are you doing with that commoner?"

Kaede turned to Gundham and her eyes went wide. She dropped Ryoma and looked back and forth at the two boys. "T-two Shuichis?!"

Ryoma groaned as he rose back up to his feet. "What's gotten into you two? You know that's not either of your names."

"Silence, tiny Sonia!" Gundham commanded Ryoma. "I am speaking with regular Sonia."

"Ok, ok," Kaede held her hands up. "This is too much. One of you has to be a fake." She looked back and forth at both Gundham and Ryoma once again, eyeing them up carefully, before looking at Ryoma. "You're not the real Shuichi."

"Of course not," Ryoma sighed. "Celeste, can you help out-"

Before Ryoma could finish his sentence, he felt something wrap around his open mouth and tighten, preventing him from speaking clearly. Grabbing a hold of it, he felt that it was a ball gag shoved into his mouth. He turned around to see Celeste standing behind with a sinister smile across her face and a rose whip in her hands.

"Hush now, my dear, faithful knight," Celeste said. "We must begin with your initiation."

'I've had enough of this crap,' Ryoma thought to himself. He grabbed a hold Celestia's wrist and began to drag her out of the room.

Ryoma then noticed that Gundham and Kaede had gotten close to each other. Each holding the other lovingly in their arms and staring passionately at one another.

"Oh, Shuichi," Kaede said with a blush across her face and a giggle. "I didn't know you'd be so forward."

"I will do anything for you, Sonia," Gundham said back as he leaned closer to her.

"Nope," Ryoma said as he reached for Gundham's scarf. He yanked on it, causing his fellow student to fall back and choke as Ryoma dragged him out as well.

"Hey!" Kaede stomped her foot. "Bring Shuichi back here right now!"

The piano player to dash after Ryoma, but as soon as all four of them exited the room, Kaede stopped in her tracks. She looked around at all of her friends with a puzzled expression on her face. She then winced and grabbed her forehead.

"Argh, what happened?" Kaede asked.

Ryoma dropped his hold on Celeste and Gundham before removing the ball gag from his mouth. "I should be asking you that," he said to the piano player. "You started calling me and Gundham Shuichi."

"HA!" Miu laughed. "So desperate for that detective dick you'll start calling anyone that?"

"I did?" Kaede asked. "I…I don't remember that."

Ryoma then turned to Gundham. He watching the pale man gather his breath, check on his pets, and return to his feet before speaking to him. "And you started calling her Sonia and tried to kiss her."

"HE TRIED WHAT?!" Tenko shouted. "You degenerate-"

Sayaka grabbed a hold of Tenko's arm. "Not now, Tenko. Something weird is going on."

Gundham growled as he clutched his hand. "Damn. The bear's sorcery got the better of me."

Celestia was also left with a puzzled expression across her face. She looked down at her hands to see she had a rose whip and ball gag in her grasp. Her naturally pale face turned red with embarrassment and she tossed the items as far away from her as possible.

Mondo watched the gambler with an amused smirked and stepped over to her. "Whatcha got there?" he teased.

Celestia turned to him and let her blood red eyes stare daggers into his very soul.

Mondo's smirk dropped and he backed off. "S-sorry."

Sayaka leaned over to the biker to whisper. "We probably should never mention that to her ever."

"Y-yeah," Mondo whispered back.

"Enough of this!" Taka shouted. He pointed aggressively at Monokuma. "I demand that you explain what all of this confusion was about!"

"Why, that was just the special nature of the Love Hotel," Monokuma said with a chipper whistle. "You see, the room is filled with a special aroma that manipulates one's senses. If two people step into the room, the aroma will cause them to see their ideal partner in one another and enact their deepest desired scenario! No need for niche porn anymore! You can live it out for real! Well, as real as you think it is."

"What kind of creeps would be into something like that?" Sayaka asked.

Almost as if was intentionally on que, Miu coughed awkwardly before speaking. "F-for real?"

"Deepest desires and ideal partners, eh?" Teruteru stroked his chin with a mischievous grin.

"But I didn't smell anything, and didn't see anything either," Ryoma pointed out.

"Ah, that's the special surprise I included," Monokuma said as he waddled over to the tennis player. The bear snatched the heart shaped key out of Ryoma's hand and held it up as high as he could for everyone to see. "This key not only allows you to enter the Love Hotel, but it also prevents the wielder from being affected by the aroma's effects."

"Th-that's disgusting!" Mahiru shouted. "There's so many violations of consent with that!"

"It's foul," Taka shouted as well. "The lowest of deviant behavior!"

"Hey, hey, hey!" Monokuma protested. "There's no violations here! You got to agree with the key holder to enter the Love Hotel with them! If you have problems with that, just say no."

Chihiro gulped and fidgeted with her fingers. "Ok, so…the key opens the room, but it also prevents someone from…smelling an aroma that causing hallucinations? I…that doesn't make sense."

"Yes it does," Monokuma said.

"How?" Rantaro asked. "In all honesty, there's a lot of variables to consider with the effects of this room. Like, what if only one person without a key enters? Or if neither person had a key. Or if that aroma can leak out. Or if-"

"Look, it just works," Monokuma growled. "I don't have time to waste bickering with a bunch of whiny brats about details! Just take you stupid stuff, and get to whatever it is you morons do! Oh, but before I forget," Monokuma held the key up one final time. "You can receive these keys from the capsule machine in the game room. So, if you get lucky, you can get lucky, if you catch my drift."

With that, Monokuma opened the door to the Love Hotel, entered, and shut the door behind him. The group was left bewildered by the whole experience. Celestia, Gundham, and Kaede were especially left so embarrassed they refused to make eye contact with anyone. Eventually, Chiaki stepped forward to speak.

"Why don't we go ahead and regroup at the cafeteria?" Chiaki asked.

"Y-yeah," the whole group said in unison.

Chiaki stood back to allow the rest of her friends to file out of the lobby and head back downstairs, but when she saw Nagito at the back of the line, she placed her hand on his shoulder to stop him. "Nagito, can we talk for a moment?"

Nagito looked back at the gamer with a solemn expression. "Of course, Chiaki."

Chiaki sighed. "I should've talked to you sooner about everything. About the Future Foundation, about the Ultimate Despair, about Junko…"

Nagito nodded as he listened to Chiaki.

"Nagito, I do care about you," Chiaki continued. "I care about all of you. I just wish it was easier to talk to you about it. Even when we got the reformation program working with Usami, with everyone's memories wiped, you still tried to kill someone. You always think in such extremes, it's hard for anyone to connect with you…And I know what Junko did was wrong, to you, to everyone…but…would you have really been willing to risk your and everyone else's lives just for revenge?"

Nagito took a deep breath as he processed Chiaki's question. "Chiaki, what if she picked you? What if she twisted you to be a shell of yourself, to slaughter thousands in the name of the very thing you swore to be against? Again, and again. She got the better of me…You are right. Something is wrong with me. I don't exactly, but I know that I can't stand what she had done to us. Or maybe, maybe it's just that I wanted to feel like I actually mattered. If I was the one to stand up to despair, to kill Junko, all of my mistakes, all my sins, it would all be for something…rather than the nothing I am."

"You're not nothing, Nagito."

Nagito held his hand up to stop Chiaki before lowering it again. "But you want me to stop being unpredictable, right? You want to make sure I stay in line?"

Chiaki frowned. "I want you to stop putting yourself against the rest of us."

Nagito sighed. "Fair enough. I'll stop."

Chiaki looked at Nagito for a moment before pulling him into a soft hug. She patted him lightly on the back before letting him go. "Come on. The group meeting can't start without us…I think."

Chiaki stepped around Nagito and made her way to the stairs.

"Wait, Chiaki," Nagito called out.

Chiaki paused, and looked back at her frienemy.

Nagito smirked a bit as he stepped forward. "Those pictures Monokuma handed out of our loved ones, one of yours was Hajime, wasn't it?"

Chiaki tilted her head to the side. "Yeah. Why?"

Nagito kept his smirk up as he reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out one of his photos. It was a picture of Hajime, sitting on the beach with a slight smile across his face. "I suppose, one way or another, we will always be rivals."

Nagito folded the photo back up, placed it back in his pocket, and made his way downstairs.

Chiaki sighed as she followed him down. 'One way or another, he'll find a way to be trouble.'

All of the students eventually regrouped in the dining hall and sat themselves down at the main table. Taka slammed his hands against the table.

"Now, let us discuss what we have found," Taka said loudly.

"Wow, jumping right into it, huh?" Mondo said.

"Look, if we get to our findings now, the sooner that we can all forget about what we have all witnessed," Taka explained.

Kaito looked to the group. "Does that sound good to everyone?" he asked.

Everyone nodded in unison.

"Very well, I shall begin with what my group discovered," Taka announced. "My group found a pool area. I'd say it is an excellent place for relaxation and physical activities."

"I'd say," Nekomaru said with a bright smile. "It has pool noodles, beach balls, floaties, and a Hot Springs room to rest your muscles."

"A hot springs room, huh?" Teruteru repeated as he drooled over himself.

That was when Sakura glared right at the chef. "If I so much as see you try to spy on us, I will make sure you regret it."

"Yeah, we'll break your arms and legs right off!" Tenko shouted.

"Ok, ok, I'll shut up now," Teruteru said meekly. 'It's not my fault that whole floor is a pervert's dream come true.'

"That's all nice, but were there any clues that could help us in there?" Shinji asked.

Taka frowned and shook his head. "Unfortunately not, no. Hopefully some of the others did. Kaito, did your group find anything?"

"Well," Kaito scratched the back of his head, "no. Not really. It was just an art room. So, another place to relax." Kaito then glanced at both Ryoma and Hifumi. "Could be a good place to cheer yourselves up too."

"So, nothing again," Shinji.

"Yeah, sorry," Kaito responded.

"Let's not be so negative," Korekiyo spoke up. "While most of these rooms may offer no value to our escape strategy, they will be important for us to maintain morale during our stay here."

"And they will be perfect places for all of you to show off your incredible talents," Nagito said with a smile.

"Fair enough," Shinji said. "I can't say our group had much better results either with finding clues."

"Yeah, we found an auditorium," Kaede explained. "It-"

"IT'S PERFECT FOR ROCKING OUT!" Ibuki shouted over Kaede. "Ibuki's going to perform a show with Kaede and Sayaka there!"

"Really?!" Tenko asked. "That sounds great! I can't wait to see you three play!"

"Yeah, I'd be up for a rock show," Leon said with a smile.

"Um, ok," Taka said. "But is there anything else about that room worth noting?"

"Of course," Kaede said. "It has all sorts of sound and video equipment. We could play videos on a projection screen if you'd want."

"Hmmm, we may have to do that soon," Ryoma said. "When we went into that Love Hotel room, I found this." Ryoma held up the video tape.

"Junko's Final Moments?" Mukuro read the tape's label out loud. "So, Junko left a final message after all."

"Awesome, we did get a clue after all!" Kaito said as he pumped his fist into the air.

"That is if it has anything of value on it," Peko said. "It could easily be a cruel joke."

"Knowing her, it could be anything," Mukuro said. "Yet, she's also quite vain. She wouldn't pass up the chance to give us one final message."

"Well, we'll just have to see when we play the tape," Rantaro said.

"Now, what about the other two rooms?" Taka asked before turning his attention to Chiaki. "Nanami, what did-"

Taka stopped once he noticed that Chiaki had been asleep the whole time that had been discussing in the dining room. "Nanami!" he shouted, but to no effect.

That was when Mikan placed her hand gently onto Chiaki's back and lightly shook her. "U-um, Miss Chiaki? Taka w-wants to talk to you."

Chiaki's snoring stopped and she cracked her eyes open. "Hmmm? Oh, sorry," she said as she sat up in her seat. "I must've fallen asleep."

"That's ok," Kaito said.

"No, it's not!" Taka shouted. "We need to discuss what we have found!"

"Oh," Chiaki rubbed her eyes. "Well, my group found a game room. It looks a lot like a casino. It has a table for card games, slot machines, arcade cabinets, and darts."

"Is that it?" Shinji asked.

Chiaki nodded. "Can I go back to sleep now?" she asked.

"Not until we are finished with the meeting," Taka said before finally turning his attention to Mahiru. "Koizumi, did your group find anything."

Mahiru snapped her attention over to Taka. "Oh, well, actually we did," she responded. "You see, the room we investigated was a library. It was kind of crazy just how much was able to fit inside that room, but both Tenko and Gonta found clues we should take a closer look at."

"Oh, right," Sayaka said before turning to face Tenko. "You were about to tell us before Monokuma interrupted us, right?"

Tenko smiled proudly and nodded. "Yep! Me and Gonta found two books that might explain everything!"

Simultaneously, both Tenko and Gonta picked up the boxes and slammed them down onto the table, presenting the front covers to everyone.

Tenko pointed to the book she was holding. "This one is about Hope's Peak Academy." Then she pointed to the book Gonta was holding. "And that book is about the Ultimate Academy."

Leon shot up from his chair and leaned closer to the books. "Wait, seriously?!"

"Tenko, Gonta, that's incredible!" Kaede smiled at her friends. "Have you gotten the chance to read though them yet?"

"No, but we bring them," Gonta said with a cheery smile. "Books should tell all, right?"

"Hopefully," Peko said as she examined the books. "They seem to have a lot of pages. It could take a few days just to read one of them."

"Can't we just skip to the parts that involve us?" Mondo asked.

"I find that an unwise decision," Celeste countered. "We'd be skipping potential answers to our questions."

"I believe I have an idea," Kaito raised his hand. "Why don't we just read them during our meetings? I mean, we've been grasping at straws for topics for our meetings."

"An excellent suggestion, Momota!" Taka said with a smile. "Very well, from now on, during each of our meetings, Nanami, Momota, and myself shall read through the books to all of you!"

Miu rolled her eyes. "Seriously? Are we in fucking kindergarten now? Just let me read them and I'll have in done in the morning!"

"Absolutely not," Taka said. "And we do read it, we shall require your full attention and respect, Iruma."

"Now that I think about it, we got a lot on our hands," Kaede said. "There's the video Sayaka found, Keebo's memory, Tsumugi's notebook, Junko's tape, and now those books. If we get through all of that, we may have everything we need to get out of here."

"I-I'll make sure to finish Keebo as soon as I can," Chihiro said.

"And I got a lot more to go through," Rantaro said. "Tsumugi wrote a lot and her handwriting could get messy at times."

"Did you learn anything yet?" Kaito asked.

Rantaro paused. He clicked his tongue against his teeth as he thought it over. "No."

Kaito raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure?"

Rantaro paused again before nodding. "I'm sure. Just give me some time. I'll get it done."

"Ok then," Kaito said with a shrug. "Are we done here then?"

"I believe so," Taka said before rising from his seat. "Very well, everyone. You are-"

"WAIT!"

Everyone stopped and turned to see Mahiru had shot up to her feet. "I-I'm sorry, but I can't let this get any more out of hand!" Mahiru took a deep breath and narrowed her leer at Angie. "We need to talk about Angie."

I'm sorry that all took so long. I know I need to live my own life and enjoy myself, but I also know I need to keep this story going, to finish it. I'm glad you all care about how I feel though.

Anyways, this chapter was goofy. I mean, I'm glad I got to write more comedy again after all the murders and stuff. I don't know who would go into the Love Hotel (outside of Miu, Teruteru, maybe Leon) but I'll think of something. At least to figure out what everyone's ideal scenario would be. Speaking of getting everyone, the next chapter will go over what was in everyone's photos in a similar manner to how I did the Ultimate Labs. Also, to the people worrying about Teruteru and Leon being one note perverts, I SWEAR I will give them some development. They just haven't gotten the chance yet. In fact, this whole Chapter will be going more into everyone's arcs. So, heads up.

I am once again worried about my prose (if I'm even spelling it right). I really went out of my way to describe the Love Hotel as detailed as possible, but whenever people got to talking, the descriptions got very simple and to the point. I know getting to the point is important (I'm worrying about the pacing of the story too), but still I can't help but worry.

Now, I got a question. I did start a Mortal Kombat fanfic a few months back, but it hasn't gotten the same traction as this story. Would you like me to just stick with this story, or would you be interested in other stories I'd write? I do want to prove I can write all kinds of stuff, but I do need to prove I can finish something too. So, what do you think?

Anyways, thank you all for reading and reviewing. Love the fact you all love this story.