DING DONG BING BONG
"Good morning everyone, enjoy another day of enrichment and killing here in the Ultimate Academy," Nagisa said, businesslike as usual.
"Monaca wants to see you all having fun!" The girl giggled.
Nagisa cleared his throat. "We also hope to see you use the Necronomicon soon, Monokuma spent a lot of time and money finding it,"
"Yeah!" Monaca pouted. "You're hurting his poor bear feelings!"
Kaede let out a yawn. "Ugh, that Monokuma's feelings deserve to be hurt…"
"Probably…" Tsumugi mumbled as she nuzzled further into Kaede.
"Oh, hey Mugi!" The two women blushed. "Forgot that we slept together, ehehe,"
"D-Don't put it like that!" Tsumugi pouted.
"Fine, fine," Kaede rolled her eyes as she and Tsumugi got out of the former's bed. "We should head to breakfast,"
"Y-Yeah, I am pretty hungry," Tsumugi said. "Being all lovey dovey emotional yesterday kinda wore me out, ehehe,"
"Awww, poor, poor Mugi," Kaede chuckled, then kissed her new girlfriend on the cheek.
Mugi's blush got harder and her smile got wider. "P-Poor me, please do that more, ehehe,"
"I would, but we should probably head off now," Kaede said.
"R-Right,"
The two women walked out of Kaede's room and to the Dining Hall on the first floor of the Academy, as usual. A strange, but expected scene played out before her considering the events of yesterday.
"What the hell, Angie!?" Kaito yelled at the short woman who merely looked at him with a smile.
"What are you so upset about? We weren't going to use it anyway," The islander shrugged.
"Use what?" Kaede asked curiously as Tsumugi walked behind Angie which is also where the rest of the Student Council was standing.
"You haven't heard? Angie got Gonta to block off the manhole," Korekiyo spoke. "She's truly managed to get her followers to do anything, kehehe…"
"That's the power of stupid people," Kokichi shrugged.
"Gonta's not stupid, Kokichi, and he did it cause Atua said that blocking it off would remove our desire to escape…" Himiko mumbled. "You're the stupid for not getting that!"
"Y-Yeah, totally…" Tenko mumbled too, this Student Council thing seemed to be draining her confidence and her energy. A pretty depressing sight considering how the Aikido Master usually was.
"Yeah, Gonta do it to keep everyone safe!" Gonta smiled. "Because Atua say so,"
"What? Why the hell would you do that, Angie?" Kaede grimaced at the Artist.
"Because Atua said so, did you not hear Gonta?" Angie smiled that now far creepier passive aggressive smile of hers.
"Again with all this god shit," Kotoko sighed. "Is your religion even real? Did you just make it up so that stupid people would listen to you?"
"Kotoko please! Angie is able to communicate with him," Keebo nodded confidently. "She wouldn't lie to us,"
"She's fucken' lying to you right now!" Miu shouted. "She's just doing this because she wants to tell people what to do,"
"No, no, not at all!" Angie waved her hands gently, before putting them together in a prayer. "I am merely trying to guide you all to a utopia within this Academy… that is why I am very proud to announce that I will be holding the ritual of the necronomicon tomorrow!"
"T-Tomorrow?" Kaito stuttered. "Th-That's a little early, and you haven't even asked who we want to revive,"
"It's not like it'll work anyway," Korekiyo sighed. "The only way to talk to the dead would be a séance, luckily for us I have one within this very book," The man excitedly pulled out the Caged Dog Village book.
"We won't be needing that, Kiyo," Angie smiled.
"Don't come to me if your little ritual fails…"
"Ehm… if it's not too much to ask, who are we reviving Angie?" Tsumugi asked.
"Rantaro, of course. Schuichi, Ryoma and Kirumi are horrible murderers, and Rantaro always seemed to know a bit more than the rest of us,"
But, I wanna see Shuichi one last…
No, actually, I don't think he'd want to come back. This motive probably won't work anyway.
"Hey!" Kaito shouted. "None of their lives are more valuable than the other, you know? It's cruel to choose one over the other,"
"No, no, three of them are horrible murderers," Angie's grin grew wide and dark as she stared down the astronaut. "Kirumi would use it as a second chance to escape, Ryoma would just be depressed, and Shuichi would-"
"We get what you're trying to say, it's just wrong!" Kaede shouted. "You can't decide-"
"I'm not deciding anything, Atua is!"
"You always say that… I think you're afraid of taking responsibility for your own thoughts," Kotoko said, staring at Angie with a look of malice. "That's pretty pathetic, Angie,"
"So misguided…" Angie sighed. "You'll see Atua's light-"
"Rise and shine Ursine!" Angie was interrupted by Monokuma bursting into the cafeteria alongside Monaca and Nagisa, with the green haired girl holding another one of those flashlights from yesterday.
"Hello students," Nagisa said. "We're here to give you back more of your memories,"
"Mhm, mhm!" Monaca nodded rapidly. "We decided that you guys have been really good, being all conflicted, so we've decided to let you remember a little more!"
"Bad feeling about this…" Maki sighed.
"Maybe it'll help us find a way to get out of here?" Kaede asked.
"We shouldn't be thinking about escape, Kaede," Keebo said.
"Plus, Monaca's an annoying piggy bitch, she doesn't want us to escape," Kotoko added.
Angie walked up to the wheelchair bound girl. "Mind if I see that?"
Monaca stopped glaring at Kotoko for a moment to look up the artist. "Uh… yea-"
Angie didn't acknowledge Monaca's protests, she merely grabbed the flashlight out of her hands with complete and utter ease, staring down at the thing in her hands.
"H-Hey, give that back!" Monaca pouted.
"What are you doing, you can't take that!" Nagisa shouted.
"What? How? How? How!?" Monokuma yelped.
"Angie, what the hell are you doing?" Kaito shouted.
"What needs to be done for our safety, of course!"
BANG STOMP STOMP CRACK
The Dining Hall went silent as Angie threw the flashlight and proceeded to stomp on it until the glass shattered with an ungodly loud crack.
"Wh-wh-wh-wh-whhaaaaaaaaa?" Monokuma mumbled.
"Angie, what the fuck are you doing!?" Kaito yelled at the woman. "We coulda used those to see our families again!"
"It would've given us more desire to leave, we need to put as much of a pin in that has possible…" Angie said. "You all need to give up your desire to go home,"
"Ohmigod, Angie's gone full cray-cray!" Kokichi yelped.
"Total cray-cray!" Kotoko agreed. "Total cray-cray bananas!"
"She's not crazy, she's right!" Himiko defended.
The rest of the student council loudly agreed, Tenko and Tsumugi elected to agree more quietly and reservedly.
"Thank you, all of you!" Angie smiled at the people crowding behind her. "Now, let us go to my Lab to finish preparing the ritual for tomorrow!"
The Student Council left the Dining Hall, everyone glaring at them as they left.
"God dammit, Angie just thinks she can do whatever she wants, huh?" Kaito grumbled.
"Yeah, and she took Kaede's precious Mugi from her!" Kokichi said. "Oh and Ro-boy too I guess…"
"I-It… oh wait it actually is like that now," Kaede said.
"Gyuhh, I gotta get Keebo out of that crazy bitch's cult!" Miu yelped.
"It's seven against six, there's one more of us than of her!" Kotoko smiled brightly, though with a hint of mischief in her eyes. "We could totally overpower her and just lock her in her lab 24/7!"
"Okay, that feels a little cruel," Kaede said.
Maki pinched her nose. "She'd do the same to us if she had the chance,"
Korekiyo looked lost in thought for a moment. "Tell you what, why don't Kaede and I confront her in her lab?"
"That's… actually a pretty good idea, Kiyo!" Kaede smiled at the taller man.
"Why the hell are you going along?" Miu asked. "You gonna take her back to your lab and-"
"She's taken, Miu," Korekiyo sighed. "It gets harder and harder to resist the urge to rip out your larynx every day, you know?"
Miu moaned screamily at the comment.
"Finally, someone gets it!" Kotoko motioned towards Korekiyo with both of her hands.
"Yeah, Miu is so annoying! I hope Angie kills her!" Kokichi called out.
"I'm sure Angie isn't gonna kill anyone, she made the student council to keep us safe according to her," Kaede said. "And also that's really shitty to-"
"Who says this Student Council bullcrap isn't just one big ploy?" Kokichi turned his head. "I mean, Angie has power over a pretty good chunk of the class, she wouldn't need to convince many people to let her escape,"
"I get she's being weird, but I don't think that's enough to accuse her of murder, Kokichi!" Kaito shouted.
Kokichi sighed. "You'll see, I bet she's gonna kill two people: Kiyo and Kaede for even daring to go against her like the cult leader she is!" Kokichi laughed loudly and brashly.
"Alright that's it Kokichi, get over here!"
"AAAAHHH, KAITO'S GONNA BEAT ME UP!" Kokichi yelped as he bolted out of the Dining Hall, nearly breaking the door off of its hinges as Kaito chased him down.
"You bet your ass he is!" Kotoko beamed.
Maki sighed. "I'll go get the idiots, make sure they don't hurt themselves," She left the Dining Hall.
Korekiyo tapped Kaede on the shoulder, which knocked her out of the verbal stunlock whatever the hell was happening in the cafeteria had caused her. "Everyone's leaving, I suppose that's our cue, Kaede,"
"Right, let's go, Kiyo!"
The two made their way through the Academy, walking pretty slowly to Angie's lab as they made light conversation.
"So, what got you into playing the piano?"
"This is… kind of a weird time to ask, no offence," Kaede chuckled uncomfortably. "I just kinda played it once when I was a baby, and never stopped," She explained. "How about you? What got you into Anthropology, and culture and being kinda weird about your interests?"
"Kehehe… it's quite the long story, but I'll simplify if as much as I can…" Korekiyo said. "I always had a small interest in it, but as my older sister lay sick and dying she asked that I carry on her dreams of travelling the world… her wish, her desire for me to do something greater than myself is what made me so interesting in what I do,"
"Oh, your sister… I'm sorry for your loss,"
"It's fine, Kaede, I have to spoken to her spirit in recent times,"
"Right, you and your séances," Kaede said. "I guess if it makes you feel better about your sister I won't judge,"
"Ah, you'll judge even less once you witness the Caged Child Séance I have in mind for all of us," Korekiyo wrapped his arms around himself and rubbed his shoulders. "It'll be so… interesting once I get the people for it…"
"Sure… we're here now, by the way," Kaede said as the two reached the rainbow splattered white front door of Angie's lab.
"That we are," Korekiyo knocked on the door slowly. "Hello, Angie, we're here to talk to you,"
"Ah, coooooooming Kiyo!" Angie cheered as she ran over to the door, unlocked it with a satisfying click and opened it up. "Come in, come in,"
As Kaede and Kiyo walked into the lab, they saw a strange, creepy sight…
Lifelike wax effigies of Rantaro, Shuichi, Ryoma and Kirumi all standing around the centre of the Artist's Ultimate Lab… they were so lifelike-
"KYAH!" Kaede screeched.
"Interesting…" Korekiyo mused.
"I'm glad you both like them!" Angie bobbed her head. "They will be used for the necronomicon ritual tomorrow!"
"Right, we're here to talk about that-"
"We're doing it tomorrow, and that's final," Angie stared at the two people.
"Ah, but a séance would actually let us talk to them," Korekiyo brought up, he was really obsessed with this whole séance thing, huh?
"Perhaps we do it if it doesn't work. As far as we know, Monokuma isn't lying about the necronomicon. Why are you so against us using it? Do you not want our friends to come back? Do you want Rantaro to stay dead?"
"Obviously not!" Kaede shouted. "I just think you should ask the rest of us about this, maybe leave it to a vote, if you need to choose, or just… anything!"
"Then people's emotions would get in the way of our judgement, you'd vote for Shuichi because you want to see him again, for example," Even through what should've been a frustrating conversation, Angie kept smiling.
Kaede felt her blood boiling, she wanted to hurt Angie as much as she had hurt Maki back then, but on the other hand she didn't wanna waste her energy. "I- fuck you, Angie," Kaede stomped out of the Artist's lab and to… wherever her frustrated, upset mind would take her.
That ended up being the courtyard for whatever reason, Kaede plopped herself down on a bench near her normal training spot and let the cool, outside air wash over her. She was calmed down a touch, but not nearly enough to stop being upset at Angie.
"Yo, Kaeidiot, what're you doing moping around?" Miu asked vulgarly as she walked up to the Pianist, Kokichi was also standing behind her.
Usually, her vulgarity would've made Kaede upset, but… it was an honest sort of vulgarity, unlike Angie and her stupid fake smile and stupid fake positivity.
"Yeah, we want you to stop moping, so you can help us come up with a plan to take down Angie's super crazy murder cult!" Kokichi explained, wide eyed and childlike and like it wasn't the weirdest thing Kaede had heard all day.
"I-" Kaede sighed. "As long as the plan isn't 'kill Angie and every other Student Council Member' I guess I'll join,"
"Hell fucken' yes!" Miu belted out.
"It's great that you and Miu are joining, because you've both had your beloved's taken away from you by Angie's cult!" Kokichi added.
"I-It's not like that with m-me and Keeb!" Miu yelped.
"Uh… yeah, she took Mugi," Kaede said, barely hiding the fact that Angie hadn't brainwashed Tsumugi. I should probably ask her about what Angie's been doing tomorrow.
Kokichi led the two women to Miu's supervillainesque lab, and ordered the three to stand around near a bench with a bunch of dangerous looking power tools on it.
"So, do either of you have the basics of a plan down or…?"
"No shit we do!" Miu shouted at the Pianist. "What do you take us for, fucken amateurs?"
"Yeah Kaede, I'm the supreme leader of the most evil organisation ever!" Kokichi pouted. "I'm the best planmaker there is!"
"All that boasting, and you haven't even explained the basics of your plan," Kaede scoffed with a smile.
"I was getting to that, no tits!" Miu shouted. "Our plan is to get one of the more normal of those Student Council weirdos to tell us where Angie keeps the key to her lab and lock her out!"
"That's… actually a decent plan, that'd delay the necronomicon ritual at least," Kaede shrugged.
"Course it's a good plan, cause I fucken' made i-"
"Actually I came up with it," Kokichi interrupted. "Don't take my credit, whorefaced pig-slut,"
"Uguuu~"
"Anyway, the second part of my plan was that I lockpick Angie's room and steal the necronomicon if it's in there!" Kokichi smiled widely. "And if it isn't then I dunno, I'll set off a grenade filled with nerve gas to go off in there when Angie walks in!"
"I said no murder!" Kaede scolded.
"Awwww… but that's so friggin boring!" The boy pouted. "Plus, we all hate Angie right now, right?"
"Of fucken' course, I should be allowed to stay in the computer room however the fuck long I want!"
"I-I don't hate her…"
"Really? Cause I think that's a big fat lie," Kokichi stared into the Pianist's soul. "I would know, you're really, really bad at lying,"
"I-I'm not lying!" Kaede yelped.
"Sure…" Kokichi rolled his eyes. "Well, it's pointless getting anything out of you… let's keep discussing our plan!"
And so the three spent the rest of the day throwing a bunch of increasingly ill conceived plans at each other, none of which would actually do anything against Angie…
Eventually, Kaede waved the group goodbye and left for her own room. It was getting pretty late.
She sighed as she plopped down on her bed, she probably wasn't gonna be doing training today, so she elected to lay down and-
DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG
"Kaito? Kaito I thought-"
"It's not Kaito," Kaede heard the now surprisingly small voice of Tenko, she walked over to the door and opened it right.
"Tenko, What's up? You look kinda distraught,"
"Cause I am!" Tenko whisper yelled. "It's about Angie, a-and Himiko and all that craziness, ugh!"
"I'd be worried for Himiko too… she does seem pretty gullible,"
"Sh-She's not!" Tenko defended her girlfriend, as usual. "It's just that Angie is really convincing!"
"Sure," Kaede rolled her eyes. "What do you want me to do about it?"
"Right! I want you to help me convince Angie to not go through with this damn ritual so soon!" Tenko said. "I-I mean what if something goes wrong? She hasn't even asked the student council or anyone about it!"
"That's… kinda what I've been trying to tell her," Kaede smiled at the Aikido Master.
"So you'll help me do it?"
"Of course, lead the way Tenko!"
Though she appeared to have more of her energy back, Tenko still led Kaede to Angie's lab with a clear sense of anxiety in her movements, the poor girl was visibly shaking. Was Angie really that hard to talk to?
…
Kaede already knew the answer to that.
The two made their way to Angie's lab, Tenko firmly knocked on the door and began to speak.
"Angie, I wanna talk to you, open up!"
Kaede and Tenko heard the sound of the Islander walking up to the door, she then opened it with a big smile on her face.
"Hello, Tenko… why have you brought Kaede here?"
"We're here to talk you down from this whole… stupid ritual!" Tenko shouted. "Please, a-at least wait a day or two, or consult anyone else or-"
"Ah, so you're betraying the student council now, are you?"
"I-I'm not!"
"Yeah, Angie, please just listen to her-"
"You agreed to follow Atua's word to the letter when you joined, did you not?" Angie turned her head. "Now you are going against it, you are betraying us,"
"I-I just think-"
"Well, think something else before I tell Himiko about this, okay?" Angie said, giving a close eyed smile.
"Y-You…" Tenko grunted out, she wanted to say more, but… she couldn't.
The threat had worked.
"C'mon Kaede, let's just… let's just go…"
"Tenko?"
The Aikido Master was already leaving, Kaede gave Angie one last glare before leaving with her.
"Hey, don't… feel too bad about Angie, okay?" Kaede said reassuringly as usual. "I'm sure she'll turn around at some point, y'know?"
"I don't think she will," Tenko sighed, a look of frustration and disappointment in her eyes. "I-I wanna confront her, but I-I also don't want her to make Himiko hate me…"
"She won't be able to do that, Himiko loves you," Kaede smiled, Tenko's face curled up into a small, nervous smile for a moment before returning to her depressed appearance. "You do whatever you think you need to do to get Angie to change her mind,"
"That's right!" Tenko said. "I'll do that then, thank you, Kaede!"
"No problem Tenko, we're friends,"
Kaede waved the Martial Artist goodbye as the two returned to their respective rooms.
I probably should've went to Tsumugi's or something, I probably still could, but I'm so tired so…
Kaede flopped down onto her bed and fell into a deep sleep.
Tomorrow was another day.
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