Shuichi was sitting almost the remaining students eating the evening meal that Kirumi had prepared for them all. Well honestly, he wasn't eating the food.. he was playing with it. Simply stirring it round and round his plate thinking about what Kokichi had said earlier.

"Now I know you really do care about little old me! I've truly stolen your heart! Now I'm satisfied.."

He subconsciously started to stab at his food. "What did he mean by 'stolen my heart?!" The stabs at his food were becoming heavier and heavier. "WHAT DID HE MEAN?!"

Kirumi gently placed her hand on his shoulder, "Shuichi? Are you feeling quite alright?"

He looked up at Kirumi which triggered flashbacks of the first game.. Ryoma's and.. Kirumi's deaths.. Ryoma's skeleton floating in the fish tank and Kirumi's cut covered body, smashing brutally into the floor, blood covering every inch of her body. Shuichi could still vividly remember the sound of Kirumi's spine cracking. "CRAACKKK"

This handdrawn masterpiece is by heartbreaker85 annddd... It's amazing! Jeez! The colours! Oh my god.. the section with Kirumi.. oh my god! It looks amazing. Whoo!

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Shuichi was snapped out of his thoughts by Kaito gently shaking him, "You alright bro? You were.. umm.. stabbing your food.."

Shuichi looked back at Kirumi who looked like the normal self. The truth was that he had been getting vivid flashbacks of the first games.. the murders.. the executions.. He took a deep breath then looked back at Kaito then blushed, embarrassed at the sudden realisation of what he had been doing whilst trapped inside his own thoughts. He looked at the down at his plate and the beautiful meal that Kirumi had prepared had been reduced to mush. He looked around at everyone and they were all looking at him. "No.. I'm fine, a bit distracted maybe.."

"Is it about the m-motive videos?.."

Shuichi lifted his head up to see who had said that. His eyes met with the blue-haired plain girl, Tsumugi Shirogane. The mastermind.. the reason Kaede was dead. The reason Kaito died. The reason Kokichi died. Shuichi shifted uncomfortably, his mind had never thought of the liar's death before.. why now?

Shuichi figured he should probably reply. "..yes."

"Gonta worries about video to." Gonta shouted across the table, getting everyone's attention, "But Gonta will protect everyone. Gonta no let anyone get hurt."

Shuichi smiled. He knew that Gonta meant well but.. realistically, it was impossible to do that. Maybe for everyone except for him.. he knew the murders, the motives, the everything.

He couldn't be wasting his time messing with his food, he had to save the rest of his friends.. he had to go. Shuichi stood up from the table, "Excuse me." then left the room. Maki lifted her head up, confused about his actions.. then she remembered the reason why. Shuichi had already gone through the games and then decided to come back and do it all again.

Maki sighed. She couldn't even start to believe what Shuichi must of gone through.. A thought crossed her mind, "Was it what Gonta just said.. that would make sense."

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Shuichi was sat on his bed with a notepad and pen, writing out the orders of who got murdered and who by. He must of been in his room for about 40 minutes before he heard a knock at his door. Shuichi jumped up in the air and shoved the notepad into a draw next to his bed.

He opened the door to see Kaito. "Hey bro, you seemed off earlier.. you feelin okay?"

Shuichi nodded but Kaito sensed something was wrong, "I can tell you aren't, you nervous about training?"

"A bit."

"It'll be fine, come on. It's just me, you and Maki." Kaito explained, confidence and support in his voice. Shuichi took a few seconds to think before nodding in reply. Kaito smiled excitedly.  Shuichi locked his door and followed Kaito down the corridor.

When they arrived, Maki was already there. Kaito waved to her and Maki scowled back at him.. when she saw Shuichi however, she knew she needed to talk to him.

"Now Maki Roll, what do you want to do? Push-ups? Sit-ups? Squats?"

Shuichi and Maki replied in unison. "Sit-ups."

Shuichi felt a smile creep up onto his face as he saw Maki stare at him.

Kaito nodded then instructed them all to do 100 push-ups. He did around 3 before just lying on the ground, looking up at the sky. The last time, Maki had done way more sit-ups than Shuichi but this time, Shuichi was almost catching up with Maki's speed.

"Shuichi." Maki whispered, still continuing with the push-ups. Shuichi stopped. "Yes?" Maki also stopped doing her sit-ups. "When you ran away earlier, was it because of what Gonta said? Did it make you remember something about the past games?"

Shuichi sighed, "Something like that."

"Are you okay?" Maki asked, a hint of sincerity in her tone.

Shuichi thought about lying but then remembered how much pain lying had caused in the past.. "Honestly no, but I'm coping.. let's just finish the sit-ups.."

Maki regrettably agreed. It was clear that Shuichi didn't want to talk about it.

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The time - 12:30am.

Shuichi was anxiously waiting for Kokichi to knock on his door. He had agreed to hang out with him and he was looking forward to it.. for some unknown reason.

*knock knock*

Shuichi practically jumped from his chair to answer the door. 

He opened the door to see the purple-haired boy slouched against the doorframe suggestively grinning at him, "Shuichi! I thought you would have forgotten about me!"

Shuichi shook his head, "Well.. I did promise."

Kokichi's smile practically beamed, "Nishishi! Let's go Shuichi!"

He then reached out and grabbed Shuichi hand, dragging him up to the beautiful view that they had shared before. As Shuichi looked over the balcony, he realised that they could get a better view on the spot of grass below it. "Kokichi.. should we go down there?"

Kokichi peered over the railings then nodded, "Sure! I don't really care where we go."

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The two of them sat next to eachother on the stretch of grass looking up at the start filled sky.

It was beautiful.

Shuichi looked at the innocent looking boy next to him and he knew he had to ask him a question to test whether he could trust him, "Hey Kokichi?"

Kokichi instantly snapped his head round to answer his question, "What is it Mr Detective?"

"Earlier.. when you told me about your organisation.. does it really have 10 thousand members?"

Kokichi took a moment to think before answering. "Why'd you want to know now? You trying to catch me out? Nehehe!" Kokichi smirked, "Ohhh! You need to be less obvious Detective! You've got my motive video, haven't you?"

Kokichi grinned, "You already know the truth so, why ask?!"

Shuichi felt himself blushing. He didn't expect Kokichi to figure that out.

"Buuut! If you really want to hear it from me.. my organisation doesn't have 10,000 members! It only has 10 Nishishi!"

Shuichi's eyes widened and his heart thumped in his chest at the boy's sudden admission. "Thank you for telling me.. Kokichi.."

Kokichi smirked, "Anything for my beloved Shuichi!"

"B-Beloved?!"

"Nishishi! Is there anything else you want to ask me?"