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Why can't I remember you?

When searching for the Ultimate Prodigy, we found his body under the table. His body odor reached my nose, I gagged a little while wheeling away from the investigation period. Leaving this stuff to the professionals, I opted to look around for any clues.

However in the end all i could help contribute to the trial was my testimony and wheel my sorry ass to the trial rooms. Never once i spoke up, why did i? I didn't have anything interesting to add. I could've gone quiet this entire trial.

Keywords could've.

"It could only have been you!" Hajime screamed. "Nagito..., it was you, wasn't it?"

"M...Me...?"

"When we check everyone's positions just before the blackout... you were the only one who stood next to that cord."

"In other words... you're saying no one but nagito could have used that cord as a guide! Nekumaru questioned.

"T...That's just a coincidence!" Nagito looked around and eyed me. "Y/N! Please tell them that I'm innocent!"

I raised my elbows up from the stand I was leaning on, "Me..?"

"Nagito... you'd been cleaning the big hall the entire day since this morning alone, right? You had all the time in the world to place that knife there!"

"T...That's...!"

"You were standing near the cord. You were chosen for cleaning duty. It's strange how you're the only one who can be connected to that knife!"

"I...I'm telling you, it's a coincidence!" He sputtered.

"Hmmm, I wonder... Is it really possible for such a coincidence to exist? It's even possible... that you set yourself up for cleaning duty so you could set up the knife there, right...?"

"Now that you mention it... It was Nagito who prepared the chopsticks when we drew lots to decide on cleaning duty..." Nekumaru hummed, he put one hand on his chin.

Hajimes face darkened, "So it wasn't a regular lottery... you set it up somehow, didn't you? You lost that drawing on purpose to get cleaning duty, didn't you?"

"......." 'huh? He's not saying anything? ' "U -..uu...! "

"And... that strange act just now... Was that also part of your plan...?" Nekumaru growled.

Fuyuhiko clenched his fist. "You tried to dampen our spirits and cover up your crime, didn't you?!"

"Is that right? Say something, right now!"

"Nn...n...!" He placed his hands on his head.

"N-Nagito? Are you..." I asked quietly.

"Komaeda, if you have a counterargument, let's hear it...! To tell you the truth, I don't want to believe it.. We investigated together... and you've been so kind... To think that you're the culprit who killed Togami..."

"N...ngu...!"

"Komaeda, say something!!" Nagito held his stomach and started to bend over. Sweat started to pour out of his body rapidly.

"N-nagito!" His purples started to swirl.

"Nnnnnnnnnnnnnn Uuuu...!!"

"Ha...! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! The Super High-school Levels stand together and rise against the despair of their friend's death! Aa, this is such a magnificent, beautiful sight...!"

"What...the...fuck" I muttered under my breath.

"Nagito! Cut it out!" Akane screamed.

"I'm sorry for scaring you like this. If I may start from the conclusion, you are completely correct! That's right, everything was my doing! It was me who set up the knife under the table before the party started. It was also me who used the power cord to find the table in the dark. And it was also me who set up that power outage in the first place, of course. I mean, I couldn't just go and grab that knife while everyone was watching, could I?"

"H...His character's completely broken down, hasn't it?" Ibuki shuddered.

"But... I never imagined Byakuya would go as far as bringing in night-vision goggles. Thanks to that, we encountered each other under the table... and you know how that ended. But, I guess you could say that thanks to that unexpected occurrence, you had this interesting mystery to solve!"

"G-Give me a break! S...Seriously, what the hell...?!" Souda cried or uh, fake cried.

"Is... this what you're really like? Have you been deceiving us all this time?" Mahiru firmly put her arms on both sides of her hips.

"I haven't been deceiving anyone! There's no way I could deceive you guys! I know better than anyone that I'm a lowly, good-for-nothing human being. Harboring my own hopes and dreams would be presumptuous... Striving to exert myself would be... impertinent... Yes, that's the kind of decidedly inferior, foolish human being I am. The lowliest, worst kind of incompetent human being....."

They've continued on with the trial, my body suddenly felt tired. Slowly, I've pointed my attention to the wooden stand we were all standing behind. I trailed my finger all along the top of the wood, careful not to chip my finger.

However I could not ignore Nagito pleading begging. As he argued with the other students, he often would look over in my direction. Throughout the entire trial his attention was focused on me as if I were in danger.... 'Why me? Maybe I was cursed in my past life....'

No matter how far back i tried to recall, i couldn't imagine any connections to anyone named Nagito Komadea... Why can't i remember you?

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