Hello readers and welcome to my new chapter. So, regretfully, I had to split the trial into three parts. Part 2 of this trial will be showing the class how the killer got in, and what exactly happened in Makoto's room. They are not going to enjoy what they find out. So, I hope you enjoy their torment and despair.

Disclaimer: I do not own Danganronpa.

Editor's Notes: Dear readers, if you received a second update within the same day, it's because I failed to notice several mistakes that still littered around the this chapter. I apologize for the sloppiness and will do my best to make sure future chapters won't have anymore errors!

Chapter 20: Watching Ch 1: To Survive Part 13

"Okay, then who did do it?!" Mondo questioned in frustration.

"I'm sorry, but I give up!" Hifumi declared. "Quit without saving!"

"But….what happens if we can't decide on who we think did it?" Chihiro asked fearfully.

"Well then, why don't we just vote right now?" Taka suggested. "Majority rules!"

"Majority rules? Yeah, that's a great idea." Leon said dryly. "If we all want gamble with our lives, maybe."

"Gamble?" Celestia perked at the word.

"Don't even think about it, Celeste." Byakuya warned. "We're not in that position, anyway, so it's a mute point."

"Majority rules? Do you really think that's a good idea?" Leon questioned.

"Yeah! Our necks is on the line here!" Hiro agreed with Leon. "Someone needs to do something. Seriously!"

"Does no one else have any other thoughts or questions?" Celeste asked everyone. "It does not matter how trivial it may seem."

"Oh! As a matter of fact, I do have one question!" Hina said, recalling something.

"Oh….you…."

"You don't have to sound so disappointed!"

"Yeah! Like seriously, weren't you the one who said that it doesn't matter how trivial the questions were?" Hina complained.

"I did." Celeste confirmed. "But this is you. It's most likely the question would be completely useless." That got an angry pout from Hina.

"It's fine, it's fine, just ask your question!" Taka told her.

"Oh yeah!" Hina then began her question. "Okay, so, umm….well, I was just wondering, how'd the culprit get into Makoto's room in the first place?"

Several eyes blinked in response to the unanswered question. "Oh yeah." Taka realized. "We completely forgot about that."

"Definitely the million dollar question." Leon stated.

"See! The question is useful!" Hina said, sticking out a tongue out towards Celeste.

Makoto chuckled at his friend's childish antics. "Well, good job for addressing that Hina." That got a beam from the swimmer, along with a blush.

"Hmm….yes, how did the killer get inside?" Sakura agreed with Hina's question.

"Maybe Sayaka just dropped the key somewhere and the culprit picked it up." Leon suggested. "That's possible, right?"

"I don't think so. That seems way too convenient." Taka disagreed.

"Then….maybe someone picked the lock?" Chihiro suggested.

"Negative!" Taka refuted. "If you remember, Monokuma made it quite clear that all the locks are all secure! Unable to be picked!"

"Man," Junko let out a huffed. "It seems like the only way for someone to come into the room is if the person inside lets them in." She said 'sarcastically'.

"But Sayaka wouldn't do that." Makoto disagreed. "She already got scared from the attempt someone made to enter in her own room. I doubt she would let anybody in."

Kyoko sighed. The evidence and circumstances spoke for themselves: during nighttime, the only way anyone could've accessed another person's room was if the original owner opened the door in the first place. She has an inkling that Sayaka was lying about her feelings, but decided to stay silent for now. Her future self can address it.

Meanwhile, Sayaka bit her lip in concern. Her mind is back to the fact as to how the killer got in, and the bad feeling is back in her gut. Did her future self really let them in? Fear and confusion returned to gnaw at her mind as the trial continued on.

"Fine, how about this? The killer got in the easy way." Hifumi stated. "They could've knocked and said they wanted to talk or something, and Miss Maizono just….let 'em in!"

"No, that can't be it, either." Makoto disagreed.

"O-ho! Trying to argue against me?" Hifumi inquired dramatically. "Sounds like somebody doesn't know his place! Hello?! Why, exactly, can't that be it?!"

"Because Sayaka was already scared, remember?" Makoto reminded him. "That's why she asked me to switch rooms in the first place. Knowing what she'd been through, I just can't believe she would have opened the door for anyone."

"...What if her being scared was a lie?" Kyoko suddenly suggested.

"What?" Makoto was taken aback by the suggestion. "L-Lying?! Why would she lie about that?"

"Yeah! She did seem pretty scared back at the time!" Hina added.

"Maybe, but there's no other way to get into someone's room other than them opening the door for in the first place." Kyoko said. "Since it's nighttime, and considering the promise we have all made, the chances of seeing someone else not in their room is slim, so stealing the key from them is out of question. Also, if someone was truly scared, they'll be on even higher alert, and opportunities like these wouldn't rise."

Makoto still couldn't believe that Sayaka would lie to him. It just doesn't seem possible. "Sayaka," He said to her hesitantly. "What do you think? Do you….think your future self is lying?"

Sayaka bit her lip and avoided the eye contact in an attempt to hide the conflict written all over her face. "We'll….let just see if there's any proof of that." She finally said, not wanting to think about it.

"...Huh?" Makoto was taken aback at the suggestion before his shock turned to anger. "Wh-What the hell was that supposed to mean?! Why would she lie about something like that?!"

"I know you don't want to consider it, but look at this and tell me….can you still deny the possibility?" Kyoko then held up a note shaded in pencil, revealing imprints of words. "I found a notepad during my search, and I shaded in the top sheet with a pencil. These were the words that appeared as a result."

"There's something I want to talk to you about, just us two." Makoto read to himself. "In five minutes, come see me in my room. Check the nameplates to make sure you don't get the wrong room, okay?"

Celeste cocked an eyebrow. "You detectives still do these kinds of tricks?"

"While it is one of the oldest tricks in the book, it still has its uses." Kyoko answered. "As you can see."

"Still, even if it's old, it's still pretty cool! Made me careful when I write in notebooks!" Hina stated.

Meanwhile, Sayaka looked at the note with trepidation. Did….she write that? Where did Kyoko find it?

Just as he finished reading, Hina spoke up. "Oh man, I've totally seen people do that on detective shows! When you write on a notepad, it can still leave an imprint on the next page. Sketch over that next sheet of paper, and you can see the original words! When I saw that, I was like 'Holy crap! I better make sure I rip the paper out before I use it from now on!'"

"I know, right future me?" Hina agreed with her future self, causing some smiles of amusements to come her way.

"It's a pretty old fashioned technique, but even the classics can be surprisingly useful sometimes." Kyoko stated. "Oh, and I should also mention….I found that notepad on the desk in Makoto's room."

Makoto's and Sayaka's eyes widened. "M-my room?" Makoto repeated. "But we haven't seen myself write a note of any sort!"

"So Sayaka must have wrote it after the switch." Byakuya deduced. "Which supports Kyoko's proposition that Sayaka was lying."

"But, why would she lie about that?" Makoto questioned, a bit distressed. He turned to the blue-haired girl. "Sayaka, do you have a clue why?"

"I….don't really know." Was all Sayaka could say, still refusing to look at him. The possibility of her luring someone out to kill them, and then to frame Makoto….she couldn't believe that. She doesn't want to believe that. But she wasn't stupid. The evidence spoke for itself, and seeing more and more of the puzzle pieces come together just made the feeling in her stomach that much worse.

"Huh?" Makoto said in surprise.

"Which means, only someone who had been in Makoto's room before the incident could have written it." Kyoko stated.

"Then it was either Makoto, who lived there, or Sayaka, who switched rooms for a single night…." Byakuya deduced.

"So, Makoto," Kyoko turned the luckster. "Did you write this?"

"N-No, I didn't. But-"

"Of course you didn't." Kyoko interrupted. "Because the note also bears a perfectly legible signature - Sayaka's signature."

Sayaka shifted a little in her seat, her arms slowly loosening their grip on Makoto's arm. Though he didn't notice it, the hard evidence and the turn of events are definitely hammering away at her mind.

"But why write that letter?" Makoto asked, frowning. "Who was it for?"

"Most likely it was her killer that she was trying to contact." Byakuya mused. "For what, we have yet to know for certain."

"The note was most likely her way of getting in touch with a certain someone." Kyoko theorized. "She must have slid it under the door to let them know she wanted to meet them in secret."

"If you got an invitation like that from the Ultimate Pop Sensation, what young man could resist?" Hifumi stated. "Of course, I'm only into 2D so it wouldn't have any effect on me!"

"Yeah, right." Leon rolled his eyes, clearly not believing Hifumi. "You would jump at the invitation."

"I would not! I am not a 3D lover like yourself!"

"Guys, now's not the time to argue about this." Makoto pleaded to them as he noticed how uncomfortable Sayaka looked. He can tell that, while she's somewhat used to it, she doesn't particularly like it when guys are fantasizing or talking about her like that.

"...But can we be sure that someone has actually received this note?" Celeste questioned everyone. "And honestly, even if they did, I do not think they are at all involved in what happened."

"What makes the future Celeste confident in that?" Mukuro turned to the gothic dressed gambler. "Do you know?"

"I have a guess, but I will allow my future self to explain." Was all Celeste said.

"Huh? What makes you say that?" Chihiro inquired.

"Hmhm….would you like to hear what I have to say?" Celeste rhetorically asked. "Very well, then. Pay attention!" With that, the non stop debate started up once again.

Celeste began explaining her reasoning. "Sayaka and Makoto switched rooms, correct?" Celeste rhetorically asked, the words popping up on the screen as she vocalized each one. "But in the note, the place they were asked to come to specifically said, 'my' room."

"I see," Chihiro said in realization. "So if someone read that note, then they would have gone to Sayaka's room!"

"I see," Taka said with a frown. "That does make some sense."

"Exactly." Celeste stated with a nod. "The room that Makoto was staying in."

'No, that's wrong!' A bullet shattered the words on the screen as Makoto spoke up once more. "The nameplates on our rooms were switched as well."

Again, Makoto's objection has surprised multiple people. "They were switched?" Leon asked.

"But how come none of us noticed it?" Hina asked in confusion.

"Probably because we were too busy trying to process everything else." Kyoko deduced. "And the camera wasn't angled to where it was glaringly obvious."

"They got….switched?" Celeste said in surprise.

"That's right." Kyoko confirmed. A flashback of Makoto looking at the nameplates was shown. "The nameplates were switched, just like the rooms themselves. As a result, the nameplate on Sayaka's room actually had Makoto's name, and the nameplate on Makoto's room has Sayaka's."

"So what you're saying is, the room Sayaka was staying in, was actually marked as her room." Byakuya deduced.

"Then," Chihiro spoke up. "If someone did do what the note said, they would end up at Makoto's room and therefore, where Sayaka was."

"Plus, the rooms were right next to each other." Kyoko added in. "So switching the nameplates would be no problem."

"And the only one who could've switched was Sayaka." Mukuro finished as she pieced everything together. "Makoto and Sayaka were the only ones who knew about the switch, and it's obvious to us that Makoto didn't do it."

"But….why would we she do that?" Hina questioned, frowning. "What was she doing?"

"We would have to watch more of it to get a better understanding." Kyoko said. She of course knew what Sayaka was planning now, but most of the others, especially Makoto, wouldn't accept it unless they figure it out themselves.

Sayaka tightened her loosened grip on Makoto's arm, anxiety filled in her eyes. There's more and more evidence that….that she was deceiving Makoto. That she was planning to kill someone. Did she really have the capacity to do such things? Would….would she really sacrifice Makoto, of all people, for her dreams?

"Sayaka?" Makoto turned to the her as he felt her grip tighten on his arm. "I'm guessing you're just as confused about this as we are?"

"Y-Yeah…." She said, eyes facing forward. While it isn't a lie, it wasn't the complete truth.

"Don't worry. I'm….I'm sure everything will be explained." Makoto tried to reassure her, though he still looked lost himself. Sayaka bit her lip, praying to anyone listening that it wasn't what she's thinking.

"And the one who switched the names was," She turned to Makoto once again. "Well of course it wasn't you, right Makoto?"

"R-Right…."

"Okay….then who did it?" Leon inquired.

Reluctantly, Makoto spoke up. "Sayaka and I were the only ones who ever knew about us switching rooms." He explained to everyone. "So the only other person besides me who would even know to switch the nameplates….was Sayaka."

"You can also infer as much from her notes," Kyoko brought up the note once again. "She specifically told the recipient to check the nameplates. She would only have written that if she knew the name plates would have been switched."

"But….why would she switch them in the first place?" Chihiro asked.

"She wanted someone to come into the room she was in, and also hide the fact that it was Makoto's room." Kyoko stated.

"What?" Said a shocked Makoto.

"Inviting someone to your room, but not telling them you'd switched rooms," Hina summarized. "Why would anyone do that?"

'...To lure them into a trap.' Byakuya deduced. 'And depending on who attacked first will reveal Sayaka's true intentions.' Unfortunately, he forgot a few details of the investigation. In future investigations and trials, if any, he'll need to pay more attention to certain details.

"To understand that, we first need to understand what happened after she invited the person into the room." Kyoko said. "That's where the truth lies…."

Several of them tensed a little. Here they go. They're about to find out what exactly transpired in the room. Kyoko glanced over at Makoto worriedly once more. She had no doubts that Makoto wouldn't take it well. She couldn't even guess what his reaction to it would be. Her eyes then fell onto Sayaka who sat opposite of Makoto. She seemed to have figured out most of what has happened but judging from her own facial reactions, she too, was having trouble accepting it. Kyoko gripped her seat handle as she braced herself for the aftermath; it was going to get ugly.

"Man, this trial is getting more and more confusing by the minute." Hiro complained. "Why can't the killer just come out and explain everything?"

"Cause they would be killed, simpleton." Byakuya said with an eye roll. "Would you reveal every detail of what happened if you were the killer?"

That shut Hiro up with a gulp.

"I thought so."

"What happened then was…..probably," Taka began musing. "Whoever she invited over….came in, and….attacked her! We figured it out! We know who did it! Whoever she invited over is the culprit!"

Cue facepalms. "But we don't know who that is yet." Byakuya said, slightly irritated. "We figured out the situation, not the person who was in that situation!"

Taka ducked his head in embarrassment. Okay, his future self is getting a bit too excited about this.

"But we still don't know who it is, ya goddamn idiot." Mondo said, slightly aggravated.

"Sayaka fought with her killer in the room, yes?" Celeste inquired rhetorically. "Perhaps the answer question lies in that initial struggle."

"Yes, I think you're right." Kyoko agreed.

"Then….we just have to figure out what happened during the fight, right?!" Hina asked.

"Which reminds me….there was a replica sword at the murder scene." Sakura remembered. "Was that perhaps used in the fight?"

"Oh yeah, what's the deal with that sword?" Mondo asked.

"Sayaka suggested I hold onto it." Makoto told them. "I thought it might come in handy if I had to defend myself….it seems pretty likely that the killer used it to break Sayaka's right wrist."

"How does he know that?" Hiro asked in confusion.

Makoto narrowed his eyes in thought. "If I remember correctly, there was a bit of gold coating on her wrist." Makoto answered. "That's a good indication that it was the sword that broke her wrist."

"Good memory there, Makoto." Kyoko praised, getting a small blush from the luckster.

"How the hell could you possibly know that's what broke her wrist?!" Leon questioned.

"All you have to do is take a good look at her broken wrist and it should become pretty clear." Makoto answered, getting on his E-Handbook. He showed them a picture of the broken wrist. "Right there where her wrist is all swollen, there's something glittery there, see?"

"Is...is that gold?" Chihiro asked.

"It sure is." Makoto confirmed. "Specifically, the gold coating from the replica sword. You barely have to touch that stuff and it'll stick right to you. And there's some on her wrist because…."

"I've got it! Because she got hit with the sword, right there on her wrist!" Taka answered.

"I see, I see," Hifumi said mysteriously. "And so the truth draws ever closer…."

"Alright! Then it's about time to solve this mystery!" Hiro declared.

Celeste giggled disdainfully. "As if you could actually figure out what happened, let alone who the killer is."

"I so could do it!"

"Then explain to us why you're still in school with us?" Byakuya shot back. That got Hiro to shut up once more.

The non-stop debate started up again, this time with Hiro. "When the fighting broke out," The fortune teller murmured. "The culprit grabbed the sword and that's when the first blow was dealt! A sword based sneak attack!"

'No, that's wrong!' The bullet was shot and Makoto spoke up once more. "Actually, no." The luckster disagreed. "I don't think the fight started with the sword."

"Huh? Why not?" Hiro asked in confusion.

"Because the sword sheath has been scratched." Makoto answered. He turned on his E-Handbook and showed them the sword. "See? There's a gash on it, like someone cut into it with something sharp."

"Something sharp….you mean, like the kitchen knife?" Chihiro inquired. "That was the only sharp thing found at the scene."

"Stop jumpin' ahead!" Mondo demanded. "Slow down and explain it so I get what the hell's goin' on?!"

"Yeah!" Mondo agreed with his future self. "What the hell happened?"

Makoto was the one to answered. "The knife must've been used first, with the sword being used to block." He told the biker. "Otherwise, there's no explanation as to how the sheathe has been scratched."

"I doubt someone would attack with the sheathe still on." Mukuro said. "But using it to defend, especially on instinct, is much more likely."

"If the sword was used first, there wouldn't be any explanation for the scratch on the sheath." Makoto explained. "If you were to attack someone with the sword, you'd take it out of the sheathe first, right?"

"That's true." Mondo agreed. "With the sheathe on, it'd be heavy and bulky and useless as shit."

"Okay, so how did the sheath get damaged?" Hifumi inquired.

"If they got attacked with the kitchen knife, maybe they grabbed the sword as a defensive impulse." Kyoko answered. "In that case, there wouldn't be any time to actually unsheathe the sword since you're under attack."

"So you're saying the sword was initially used to defend against an attack from the knife," Sakura deduced.

"Which means whoever had the kitchen knife….was the one who attacked first!" Hifumi stated.

'So who was the one who attacked first?' Sayaka thought in turmoil. 'Was it my killer? Did... did….I attack first?' She shook her head. 'I-I'll find out soon! Maybe I'm wrong! Maybe something different happened?' Despite her last thoughts, a part of her still disagreed with them, all the more making her uncomfortable.

"I think I get it! So here's how it all played out," Taka began summarizing the possible event. "The culprit came in, found the kitchen knife hidden there somewhere, then they took it and attacked Sayaka before she knew what was happening! So she grabbed the sword to defend herself, but then the culprit took that from her too! Then, after they broke her wrist with the sword….they took the knife and….finished it…."

Junko rolled her eyes. "That was an extremely poor display of logic. It doesn't even flow well!" The fashionista said.

"I agree. I don't think that's what happened." Kyoko agreed with the fashionista. "And I'm sure my future self feels the same way."

"Why not?" Sayaka demanded, a part of her wanting to latch onto that story. "I mean, the knife was the weapon used to kill me right?"

"True," Kyoko agreed. "Let our future selves explain why."

"Sorry, but I don't think Sayaka used the sword to defend herself." Kyoko interjected.

"Wh-?! How the hell can you not think that?!" Leon demanded.

"Because she never held the sword at all." Kyoko answered. "There's a certain part of her body that makes this clear."

"You're talking about her palms, right?" Makoto clarified. "The palms of her hands were perfectly clean, so I don't think she ever picked up the sword…."

"How can you know that just by looking at her palms?" Hina asked.

"Like I said before, the gold coating on that sword comes right off." Makoto answered. "All you have to do is touch it. In fact, if you look at it, you'll notice that a lot of the gold has already came off the handle. It's safe to assume that that's because whoever used the sword got some of it on their hands. There's really no way she could have picked it up and come away completely clean."

Sayaka sagged and dipped her head at that. Well, there's go that theory. Makoto looked over at her again.

"Sayaka, what's wrong?" He asked her. "Well, what else is wrong, I mean?" She smiled weakly.

"N-Nothing. Just….a bit disappointed that we haven't figure out the whole story yet." She said, still looking at the floor and trying to hide how she's really feeling. Makoto frowned in concern, but let it go for right now.

"Maybe she w-washed her hands after she escaped into the bathroom…." Toko suggested.

Cue facepalms. "Really?" Leon asked in disbelief. "You're about to get murdered, and the first thing you think about is washing your hands? Yeah, I'll take that advice the next time a murderer is after me."

"N-No one asked you!" Toko hissed at him.

"Sorry, but I don't think so." Makoto disagreed.

"Why d-do you say that? Is it b-because you think I'm u-ugly….?" Toko accused.

Makoto was taken aback at the accusation. "N-No, that's not it at all!" He protested. "According to the Monokuma File, Sayaka's time of death was around 1:30 a.m. In other words, at 'nighttime'. And the water in the bathrooms shuts off at night time, right?"

"Oh….I didn't know that." Toko admitted. "Actually….I haven't taken a shower here yet…."

That got plenty of disgusted and queasy looks. "Toko," Makoto turned to the writing prodigy. "Please tell me you've taken a shower recently."

"Um….well…." Toko looked away at the question, causing everyone to slightly push their seats away from the writer, even the ones in couches managed to do so. "W-What? I-Is it wrong not to b-bathe for a while?"

"Yes! Yes, it's most certainly wrong!" Taka stated, turning a bit green.

"Sakura, Hina," Byakuya looked at the most active girls in the classroom. "At the next break, you will force Toko into a shower, until every bit of dirt is off of her. Am I clear?" That got Toko frightened a bit.

Hina huffed at the commanding tone. "Fine!"

"We will make sure she gets a proper shower." Sakura agreed.

"Oh my," Hifumi groaned, backing away from her a little.

"Y-You're no different!" Toko hissed. "You s-smell like a big f-fat ugly donkey!"

"Hmm?" Was Hifumi's response. "I'm not sure whether to take that as an insult or a compliment!"

"An insult, obviously…." Leon said incredulously.

"In what fucking universe is that a compliment?" Mondo asked incredulously.

"In the world of Demon Angel Pretty Pudgy Princess, my friend!" Hifumi declared.

"...Let's not try to make sense of this blasphemy." Byakuya sighed. "I have a big enough headache as it is."

"...So anyway," Taka went back to to the conversation at hand. "If Sayaka never touched the sword, then that means the killer was the only one who used the sword."

"But hold on." Taka said, processing the new information. "If that's right, then the one who damaged the sheath with the kitchen knife was…."

Makoto's eyes widened in shock and realization. "Sayaka?" He breathed out. "She had the kitchen knife?"

"But," Chihiro said in confusion. "We already said that the attack started with…."

"The person with the knife attacked first, and the sword was used as an impromptu defense." Byakuya summarized.

"Then the one who attacked first was….!" Hifumi realized in shock.

"...S-Sayaka?!" Makoto exclaimed in pure shock.

"S-She attacked first?!" Makoto questioned, just as shocked as his future self.

Several of the others are shocked at this as well, and soon, all eyes fell onto the Ultimate Pop Sensation herself.

Sayaka's eyes are also just as wide with both shock and horror, but for a completely different reason. She….she was the one who attacked first. She tried to murder someone.

"B-But why?" Chihiro asked, near tears. "Why did she attack someone?"

"I think you have a guess as to why." Byakuya sighed.

"Now do you understand? She wasn't a blameless victim in all of this." Kyoko stated.

"No, far from it." Byakuya agreed. "It's almost as if….she had been planning to commit a murder of her own."

"Murder?!" Hina had her mouth covered at this. "She was planning to murder?!"

"No, no that can't be right!" Taka denied. "Sayaka, of all people, committing murder?"

"Taka's right!" Makoto agreed, not wanting to believe his friend was planning to kill. "Sayaka….she wouldn't do that!"

"And yet, the evidence points to that." Byakuya sighed. "Taking the knife from the kitchen, making that note, switching the nameplates….it all points to her making plans to kill someone." Makoto looked sick at this.

Celeste, Kyoko, and Byakuya didn't bother to point out the other definite possibility. None of them want to break that news to Makoto, despite their personalities.

'What?' Makoto thought in shock.

"She took the knife from the kitchen, then invited the culprit to the room she was staying in." Byakuya began summarizing. "And if it's true that she already had the kitchen knife and attacked without provocation…."

"Indeed….these are all actions of an assailant." Sakura deduced.

"Which brings up another point," Celeste spoke up. "Makoto, Sayaka was the one who suggested you two to switch rooms, correct? Maybe the reason she wanted to switch rooms was so that she could pin the crime on you. That is a possibility, is it not?"

"W-W-What?!" Makoto exclaimed, his eyes getting even wider. "P-Pin the crime on me?!"

Kyoko sighed. "That's the only possibility as to why she would have wanted to switch rooms." Kyoko stated.

"As well as the lie she told." Celeste added in, not letting any emotion show. Though really, she's very angry at the future Sayaka for what she attempted to do. "I know when someone is lying, and Sayaka was definitely lying when she told that story."

"So she was using him?" Mukuro hissed, a hand near one of her knives subconsciously.

Sayaka covered her mouth in horror, tears swelling up in her eyes. She was just as shocked as everyone else when she found out she had the capacity to do what she had done. She wanted to deny it, deny the possibility that she tried to frame him for murder….but with all the evidence pointing to it, there was little she could do.

"Sayaka wanted to- on me?!" That shock the luckster's feeling increased even higher.

Kyoko stayed silent at this, looking away. Celeste spoke up once more. "That would also explain why she would switch the nameplates. She wanted to get whoever she had targeted to come to Makoto's room, where she was staying, and by committing the murder there, instead of her room, that would incriminate Makoto.

"But for that to work, the target had to be lured out while still keeping the room swap a secret." Celeste continued. "If the target knew she had switched rooms, they would have became suspicious right away."

"So that's why she switched the names?" Mondo inquired.

"But doesn't that plan seems a little risky?" Hifumi questioned. "For one thing, even if her plan worked, Mr. Naegi would just tell everyone they'd switched rooms."

"Yeeaaa-no." Junko stated. "Makoto wouldn't easily rat out a friend like that."

"And the future Sayaka knew that all too well." Sakura said, clenching her fist as she was dealing with conflicted feelings.

"I don't know," Byakuya said doubtfully. "I'm not sure our softhearted Makoto is capable of that kind of cutthroat behavior. I'm sure Sayaka realized the same thing, which is why out of all of us, she asked him to switch rooms."

Makoto stayed silent, confliction clear on his face. Toko spoke up. "P-Plus….she was the Ultimate Pop Sensation," She reminded them. "A t-totally forgettable kid kid, o-or a national superstar….who are you m-more likely to believe?"

"Wait then….you're saying she had this all planned?" Hifumi inquired in shock.

"Holy shit!" Mondo cursed, also shocked.

"W-Wait! This can't be true! It just can't!" Makoto protested. "Maybe….maybe we could look at the investigation again! See what we missed! I….can't believe that Sayaka would be willing to betray me like that!" He turned to Sayaka. "Don't you agree Sayaka? Don't you think there's something missing?"

Sayaka finally slowly turned to Makoto, her eyes conveying so many different messages to him. She really wanted to say that there's a mistake, that this all wasn't possible….but she knew that she would just be lying to herself.

Byakuya sighed. "Even if it was possible to check, it would be a pointless endeavor." Byakuya said firmly. "There's no evidence to be found, and everything we did find pointed to Sayaka being the first to attack. There's nothing that would prove otherwise."

"B-But-!"

"Makoto," Kyoko said softly. She hated to do this, to break this to Makoto, but she can't let him be in denial. "Can you remember the moments where Sayaka acted strange? Where she showed that she wasn't her usual self?"

Makoto furrowed his brows as he recalled those moments. Now that Kyoko mentioned it….he remembered Sayaka was acting odd. Right after seeing the motives, she went into a breakdown. The most unusual part of it….was how much emotion she was showing.

Was she….was she using him the entire time? Ever since the motives? "I need you by my side…." Was what Sayaka said. That was all an act?

Sayaka choked back a sob at the betrayed look in his eyes and face. She closed her eyes and turned away, along with loosening her arms around his.

"But in the end, her plan backfired." Celeste stated, the video continuing. "She launched her attack with the knife, then found herself under attack in return. That must be when her wrist got broken, and she was forced to drop the knife."

"The tables were suddenly turned on her, and she died at the hands of the one she'd planned to murder," Sakura concluded softly.

"J-Just hold on! That can't be true!" Makoto protested. "Because….! Because….."

"Hey, hey! You guys have totally derailed the argument!" Monokuma interrupted. "You're being super boring right now! Come on, hurry up and decide who did it! Wouldn't it be awful if I had to punish you all just because you ran out of time?!"

"Oh, right. We still need to find out which one of us killed Sayaka." Leon said, getting out of his shocked state for a moment.

"They'll need to focus on the trial, especially Makoto." Kyoko sighed. She turned to the shell-shocked boy sympathetically, trying not to wince at the amount of emotions in his eyes. "You should too, Makoto. Keep your mind off of what we found for now."

Makoto looked at Kyoko for a moment before silently nodding. The luckster softly got his arm out of Sayaka's arms, slightly shocking the girl and also making her feel more vulnerable. She silently clutched the bow on her uniform as her tears continued to stream down her cheeks.

'What did you expect?' A voice whispered in her head. 'Him continuing to being close with you? To keep trusting you for what your future self did? He can't even look at you right now.'

"Oh yea….we gotta decide on who we think did it…." Hiro remembered.

Makoto stayed silent, confliction clearly on his face. Kyoko spoke up. "Makoto, right now you just need to concentrate on figuring out the answer to this mystery. If we can't uncover who murdered Sayaka, it's over for all of us…."

'Is….is it really all over?' Makoto thought. 'Obviously I'm committed to finding out who killed her, but what can I do? I mean, as far as clues go….there's nothing left.'

"Seriously?" Hiro asked, feeling a bit scared for his future self. "There's nothing at all?"

"No, there is something." Kyoko stated, crossing her arms as she focused her attention to the screen. "Something I bet my future self or Makoto will figure out."

'Wait a minute….' Makoto thought, remembering something. 'There is one more clue….' As he thought that, the non-stop debate started up, this time, stopping on Leon.

"It's easy just to say, 'Hey, decide who did it!'" The baseball player stated. "But there just aren't any more clues, right?"

"No, that's wrong!" The bullet was shot as Makoto said up. "There might still be one clue left - Sayaka's dying message."

"Dining-wait, what did you say?" Leon questioned.

"The dying message." Kyoko repeated. "She wrote something on the wall behind her, remember? 11037, written in her own blood. There must be a clue about the killer hidden in there…."

"Oh yeah, those numbers Sayaka wrote." Hifumi remembered. "But what message could that convey?"

"It has to be something. Otherwise, she wouldn't have wrote it." Taka said. "Some kind of hidden message."

"Well, before we get too far into that, I need to ask," Celeste spoke up. "Can we really be sure that Sayaka is the one who wrote it?"

"Her left index finger had blood on it." Makoto said. "That could only be because she used that finger to write the message."

"I see….she broke her right wrist during the fight, so she'd have to use her left hand to write…." Taka recalled.

"Sure, I think we can all agree Sayaka wrote it, but still," Hina spoke in. "What the heck do those numbers mean? 11037?"

"Hey Chihiro, you're a computer nerd or whatever, right?" Mondo asked the programmer. "You should know all about numbers and shit!"

"N-No, that's not," Chihiro stammered, but quickly got her words. "Yes, I'm a programmer, but I don't see any kind of meaning in these numbers."

"...Of course." Kyoko said. "It's because they're not numbers."

"Not numbers? Then what the hell are they?" Mondo questioned.

"Well, maybe I'm wrong, but those two 1s seems more like an N to me." Junko 'suggested', pretending to narrow her eyes at the screen. "Oh yeah, definitely an N." 'Aha! So that's what transpired! Ooooh boy this is going to be so despairingly wonderful!' She thought in glee as she pieced everything together.

"Is it because of those two diagonal lines?" Hifumi inquired.

"Correct my chubby little peasant!" Junko stated, getting into her royal persona. "I shall reward you five acres of land for that correct answer!"

"Now's not the time to play around Junko." Taka chastised the fashionista, oblivious to her grin that's wider than humanly possible.

"Oh!" Hifumi then saw something, looking on his E-Handbook. "Yeah, it looks like…."

"Huh? What? What?!" Mondo demanded.

"No, it's just….look at the numbers again, but don't think that they're numbers." Hifumi advised them. "Doesn't the first two numbers, 11, look less like two numbers and more like one letter?"

"Ah, you're right!" Chihiro realized. "The connecting line is barely there, so I assumed it was 11, but looking at it now, you could also read it as an N!"

"Woah! You might've finally just said something worth a shit!" Mondo complimented the progammer.

Hifumi let out an evil laughter. "Our little grey cells are really getting excited now!"

"Yes! We are close to solving this mystery!" Hifumi let out an evil laughter.

Chihiro leaned towards Mondo. "Um, shouldn't we remind him that if we find the killer, then they'll get killed?"

"Nah." The biker shook his head. "The fatso will remember soon."

"But even if that really is an N, 'N037' doesn't make any more sense than before…." Sakura sighed.

"Unfortunately, that's true." Hina sighed. "I couldn't even begin as to how to figure who killed Sayaka with that."

"Noel? Maybe?" Hiro tried.

Meanwhile, Makoto, Byakuya, and Celeste went to figuring out the clue. 'Wait a minute….' Makoto began thinking. 'If I rotate it, then….'

'...It will reveal the killer's name.' Byakuya thought.

'And the name written on that wall,' Celeste unknowingly continued on the thinking processes. 'Is none other than….'

'...Leon?' Makoto thought, his eyes wide with horror. 'He's the one who killed Sayaka?….or rather, who Sayaka tried to kill?'

Makoto thought about the numbers. 'Let's see….the 0 more look like an O….maybe if I rotate it….' His eyes widen in realization. "Oh my god….now I see! She wrote down the killer's name…."

"Woah! You shot past the clue and right to who did it!" Hina exclaimed in shock.

"W-Wow. T-The killer's name? C-Clever." Toko admitted.

"But whose name is it?" Taka asked, both eager and nervous at the same time, mostly the latter. "Makoto, did you figure it out?"

"You'll….you'll see." Makoto said, not willing to say it.

"Huh?!" Hina exclaimed. "You just shot past the clue part and right on to who did it!"

"So wh-who's name did sh-she write….?" Toko questioned.

"The key to solving this mystery was simply to rotate the writing 180 degrees." Makoto stated, turning the E-Handbook in his hands that direction. "If you consider the circumstances in which she wrote that message, then by turning the message upside down, it becomes the letters L-E-O-N. L-E-O-N….or more accurately, Leon!"

"H-Huh?!" Leon was startled when he heard his name. "U-Um, did I just heard wrong? Did they say, 'Leon'?"

The others who had yet to figure it out was also shocked. "No, you didn't heard wrong, dude." Mondo regretfully informed him. "That was your name."

Leon turned pale in shock, his blood running cold. "W-Woah woah woah! Wait! What? I-It must be a coincidence! Maybe they got it wrong, or something!" There's no way he would kill Sayaka….there's no way she would've chose, him, of all people, to kill.

Sayaka, meanwhile, is shivering in fear, her tears silently cascading down her eyes. Not only did her future self try to frame Makoto for murder….but the one she was planning to murder was none other than her inspiring rockstar friend, Leon.

And that's the end. I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, and that I continued doing well on their reactions. It was pretty hard to do the reactions for this part, so I hope it's dramatic enough, but still keeping them in character. Review, favorite, and follow and I will see you later.

Questions and inQuiries section again!
Q: Will it be too long if you're doing all the cases?
L: Well, we've hit chapter 21 and this is only trial 2/3. I'm probably expecting somewhere around 23 chapters per Danganronpa chapter so, this will likely grow into a 100+ chapter fic in total.

Q: Will Ryoko and Matsuda be a part of this fic? And will Junko be fixing the tragedy?
S & L: There are no plans to add Ryoko and Matsuda into this fic. As for the second part of this question, stay tuned! :)

Q:Where in the Danganronpa timeline does this fiction lie in?
S: This fic takes place before Junko starts the tragedy.

L: If you want a more specific mark, I'd say a safe place to put this is after Junko and Mukuro reconcile at the airport in DR:3 Despair Arc, but before they start any of their despair stuff.t in DR:3 Despair Arc, but before they start any of their despair stuff.