I cant stand on my own if she keeps treating me like a child!

The next couple of days started with Rantaro and myself discussing plan ideas in order to bring the mastermind to justice, none of what we had was smart or easy to achieve. I still say we walk up to Tsumugi and just slash the back of her head with a bat. However my bag with all my items, and the jornal with all our plans went missing.

Having an internal anxiety attack, I flipped Kaedes entire room inside out, upside down. No nook was left untouched, someone opened the door and I yelled at them, "Can you come back later!?"

"Oh.." Gonta got startled. "Gonta wanted to make sure Y/N was okay... He hears a lot of noises and yelling from outside"

"Im sorry, Gonta. I'm just frustrated..." I apologized. He slowly opened the door and let himself in.

"What is Y/N looking for?"

     "My bag, you know... the one i never take off?"

     Gonta paused, fixing his glasses looking around before a lightbulb went off in his head, "Gonta see Kokichi with a bag, but Gonta cant find him..."

    "Kokichi has my bag?" I asked, Gonta shook his head aggressively. "Excuse me, Gonta.. I'm on my way to make Grape juice."

     Leaving both the room and Gonta, I rushed out and headed to his dorm. With no luck, I started to kick the door. I gave up on the door and rushed down the steps, running through the hallways as fresh air blew my hair. 'Where the hell could he be?!'

      Running into Tsumugi, she stopped me by gripping onto my arm. "W-Wait! Y/N stop for a moment!"

     "Whats up?" Halting to a stop, I turned to the blue-haired female.

     "This may be silly... but i was hoping we could maybe, i don't know hangout?" The blue hair female pushed a strand of hair behind her ear. 'Was the mastermind willingly asking me to hang out with her...?'

Hang out with Tsumugi or Look for Kokichi?

    "...Sure, why not? Let's make it quick, I have to find something I lost." The bluenette excitedly dragged me off to the fifth floor, opening one of the doors. I was blinded with bright stage lights. On the sidelines of the wall were rows and rows of clothing.

     "This is my Ultimate Lab! We found it yesterday!" She moved her grasp from my elbow to my hand. As much as I wanted to rip away my grasp, I had to act as natural as possible. "I wish you were with us, you don't hang out with anyone else other than Kirumi, Rantaro and Kokichi..."

     "Well, i'm always available.. Just knock on my door and I'll hang out with you."

   "Would you really? I don't know if you like cosplaying, but we could dress up together this once!" Tsumugi begged. Giving her permission, she softly led me to her Vanity. Sitting down on the chair, she whipped out some makeup.

     Feeling awkward, I asked her some questions, "Hey, why did you first start making cosplays?"

    She jumped at my question. "What!? That's where you jump to!?"

    "You don't have to tell me if you don't feel comfortable..." She started to wipe my face with a baby wipe humming a little.

   "It's not that I don't want to say... It's just...a little embarrassing.." Throwing the baby wipe away she pulled out some foundation. "Hmm...where to start...? From a young age, I loved clothes that were cool or cute. Anime was full of clothes like that, so every weekend, I'd be glued to the TV..." She spread the foundation all over my face before bringing some powder up to my cheek. "One day, I eventually learned of a thing called cosplay... As soon as I did, I went and secretly made my favorite character's outfit." She put the foundation and power back in the bag before pulling out some eyeshadow.

    "Wait, by yourself? That's amazing! You made it from scratch?"

      She laughed brushing the powder onto my upper eyelid. "No, it was too hard to make from scratch, so I modified an existing outfit, but even though I made it, I didn't have the courage to wear it to a con...But even so, I wanted someone to see it!"

    "Nah, i understand completely... You worked really hard."

     She moved onto my other eyelid excited, "Right, right! Humans are just lumps of desire that need acknowledgement. And so, I dared to put it up on the internet! Th-Thinking back on it now, showing an outfit like that is so embarrassing."

      "The internet is scary..."

     "That fandom was full of nice people, so they didn't make fun of me... Actually, a certain cosplayer said it was good for my first time. That compliment was enough for me, but...Then they said they wanted to wear it and that we should go to a con together. To my surprise, they were a really famous cosplayer in that fandom!"

      "Woah, did you go?"

     "Of course! It was more fun than I even imagined! I couldn't believe it!" She finished up the attachments to my makeup before handing me a wig cap. "I'm hoping you know how to put one on?"

      "Uh, i'll manage.." I pulled it on but not hard enough that I broke the fabric. Tsumugi started to do her own makeup, she finished up and guided me over to a rack of clothing.

       "I know i should've asked you what you would like to cosplay, but I couldn't resist putting you in a Maka cosplay." She handed me the uniform of the blond female character, she shoved me into one of the dressing rooms. I changed, pulling the black coat over me, I walked out to see her fully dressed up as Soul.

      "How..."

      "I change fast!"

      "But the wig too...?"

      "Im super fast!" She handed me a blond wig, bubbling with excitement. She helped me adjust the wig cap before sliding the wig onto my head. She squealed dragging me over to a full wall mirror. "I haven't cosplayed in so long!"

       "This is... actually really cool..." I spun around slowly in order to catch every aspect of the cosplay.

     She was so happy, throwing up some poses. "I know! I know! If we had some music or something maybe this would be cooler.... But this is cool! Hey... Y/N i'm really happy that i got to do this with you today..."

       "We should do this again..."

      After returning Tsumugi's items, and giving her a makeup pallet from my bag, I closed the door to her ultimate lab. Continuing my search for Kokichi. 'Where is he even... he disappeared completely in this chapter...' My head hurts, how much longer will I have to watch out for everyone? The timestamps for this game are all over the place, I can't tell if Maki taught Kaito how to assemble the crossbow yet... giving up i headed back downstairs to the Cafeteria.

      "Y/N! I thought you went missing as well!" Tenko shouted as I opened the door wide enough for me to slip in.

       "As well?"

     "We haven't seen Angie in a while..." Kirumi sighed. "She refuses to come out of her room."

    "It's quiet here..." Kiibo sighed, I see the atmosphere hasn't let up from the last class trial.

     "What is he planning?" Maki crushed her hair in her hands. Shuichi asked her what was wrong and she snapped at him, "You're worried about them, right? Everyone is."

    "We've been looking everywhere, but there's been no sign!"

     Himiko sighed, scratching the side of her face. "...Just as the rumors say, he's the hide-and-seek master."

     "When i find him i'm going to twist him into a human pretzel!"

     "That's probably why he won't ever leave his hiding spot..."

     Tsumugi asked, "Could he have escaped by himself, somehow?"

    "As long as Monokuma's here?" Kiibo scoffed, "I doubt it."

     "That's why we have to leave him alone. And more importantly, listen to what I have to say. There's something I've been thinking about that I need to share."

      "I don't like leaving him by himself... what if he's injured?" I combatted Kaito. He glared down at me.

     "Why would you be worried about that troll?"

     "He's still human, isn't he?"

    "I don't care, if you want to run after him then by all means." He jabbed a finger into my chest. "I doubt he cares about you, stop putting so much effort into those who dont deserve it." He stepped back and slowly explained to everyone his plans of escaping. Rantaro listened in closely to him, probably looking at me to take notes... "We have to fight!"

    "Isn't this your plan from the first motive?" Rantaro asked.

     "T-This time is different! Just follow what i say!" He argued, " Do you want to continue the killing game?! Are you fine with this?! We have to fight as long as this continues. We have to go until this idiotic killing game is over. WE HAVE TO FIGHT!"

      The entire room cheered, exploding with glee. Everyone imputed their help and things they could do, even Himiko offered to 'lend' some of her magic ability. Worrying about Kokichi, we all went to bed and repeated the day all over again.. Waking up, going to bed, waking up, going to bed. The time of the final battle... it's nearing...

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