"Shuichi..! Stop walking so fast, you're like a goddamn man on a mission marching like that!~" Kokichi chased the detective out of the trial grounds lift as soon as the door opened, managing to grab onto his arm, "Stop using your big long legs against me~ it's not fair!"

Shuichi hung his head as he instantly came to a halt at the feeling of the contact. "...." It was if there was a dark shadow over his eyes preventing him from seeing past anything despair inducing. Kokichi tilted his head to the side, spinning around Shuichi's body to eventually stare him directly in his beautiful golden eyes.

"You feeling alright..?~"

"H-How could I be f-feeling alright?! You were there, weren't you? You were right there next to me when she got executed so brutally.. weren't you upset?" He spluttered out his words, running a stressed hand through his hair, entangling it within his fingers.

The liar's expression softened to a more sincere one upon hearing his boyfriend's reasoning and true distress, "Come on my beloved, we need to spend some time together~" he reached up and gently took Shuichi's hand out of his hair and into his own hand.

The detective instantly recognised the new heat and shook his head in order to wake himself up with his own depressed trance, with a few glances down towards his hand, he managed to find a way to calm himself down and slow down his racing pulse rate. No words in agreement or disagreement were said however so he just let himself be led by the smaller individual across the courtyard.

The area around the academy didn't look dirty or trashed, if anything it looked completely pristine, which was a weird thing to view their prison as. He was completely zoned out as he was led up and down and through corridors, finally stopping at a certain area.

The wind felt so nice on his face, it was calming and tranquil, the gentle winds dusted his cheeks, allowing his hair to be messed and brushed around freely; there was something so alluring about this place, yet when he opened his eyes to see where it was, an electric current could have been flowed through his spine, electrocuting him from head to toe.

The rooftop.

Even without thinking, he gripped onto Kokichi's hand even tighter, searching desperately for some sort of comfort, despite not knowing exactly why his body was moving on its own. Words were unable to fumble out of his mouth as he lost all capability to speak.

"K-Kokichi.. what happened here..?" He was frozen but the smaller individual insisted on pulling him forward closer and closer to the railings. "I don't like this.. I don't.. stop dragging me! I don't want to go anywhere near that place!"

The supreme leader froze. He equally hated this and what he was doing to him, all the trauma was going to relived for the both of them yet that wasn't the detail that was making his heart heavy right now; no, that award had to go to his beloved Shuichi, he had promised to himself that he wouldn't let the detective get hurt anymore by anyone else and especially not by his own actions.. but here he was, dragging the person he loved more than anything kicking and screaming back to remember the most harrowing part of his life.

There was no other choice anymore.. so what else could he do? This was selfish.. as much as he had forced himself to believe that he was fine with Shuichi not remembering everything, that he was alright with him not loving him anymore, to the same extent at least.. he wanted to be the cause of Shuichi's happiness, his smile and glistening golden eyes.

He bit down on his lip as he strengthened the grip on Shuichi's hand and continued to drag the detective forward. Finally his eyes set on that ledge and those railings; the same ones that had caused his heartache and fear that his boyfriend may never were wake up.

"Kokichi! I don't like this place, let me go.. let me go..! Y-You-" Shuichi attempted to stand his ground and forced his feet onto the ground, making it near to impossible for the other Male to take him any further.

The liar shot him a glance over his shoulder, "Go on then, what am I?!"

With one final haul, he grabbed the top of Shuichi's arm and yanked him forward with off his his might, making him stumble forwards and smash against the metal railings; the detective grabbed his head to protect himself from any impact as he was thrown, beginning to shake and whimper like an injured animal as he did so.

It was an accidental expulsion of fear that caused Kokichi to hurt Shuichi like that.. he was beginning to break physically and emotionally once and for all, his heart feeling like it had been doused in petrol and set alight.

As he ran over to help and apologise to Shuichi, a thought burrowed itself deep into his mind.

Where did Tsumugi stand as she watched? Was she in the corner, maybe she was right behind him..? Was she smirking, smiling or painfully emotionless..? Maybe she was laughing.

"Shuichi, my beloved.. I'm sorry, my hand slipped.. please forgive me~" His tone was low and pleading, yet his face showed two contradicting emotions. It was the childish smirk he always wore but there was something else, there was always something else with him. Something that you didn't see unless you looked at an almost intermolecular level. Deep vulnerability.

Shuichi gazed up at him, his mouth wavering as he struggled to figure out which words would be the most appropriate to say. "I don't know why you're so persistent, maybe I'll never be able to remember, that's what you were doing, right?!" He was most understandably frustrated with himself, "Stop fighting so hard."

"Never! Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever!~ When will you get it through your thick skull? You're mine and I love you and it's killing me!" He marched over to offer his hand to the detective but tripped over his own feet and accidentally found himself rocking forward at the edge of the railings, gravity taking control.

Upon seeing this, Shuichi leapt up to his feet and grabbed the other's hand, rapidly and desperately pulling him forward to avoid a near fatality. Kokichi landed on his knees on the ground with a loud thump, his head and heart both pounding.

Shuichi on the other hand was transfixed on looking over the view. "I.." he spun around immediately, covering his hand with a gasp as memories flooded his mind.

Tsumugi.

The gun.

The balcony.

Monomi.

The motive videos.

The kiss.

Saving Ryoma..

The knife game.

Himiko..

Miu..

The press..

Kokichi.

LullieFictition man, I didn't know it was possible to draw eyes as nice and pretty as these. Seriously goddamn.. please everyone go follow this amazing person!

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His hands continued to shake as he slowly raised one up to point into the distance, tears were trickling out like murky sun drops out of his eyes, leaving darkened stains all down his uniform, his face being the image of agony.

LullieFictition Oof. This whole scene is such a big oof yet they've completely nailed it! Thanks so much for including every single detail that I asked for~

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"S-She was standing there. She had a gun to my head.."

The liar slowly scrambled to his feet and wrapped his arms around Shuichi's torso. "Oh.. my precious Shumai~ Thank you for coming back to me~"

LullieFictition Agh, big feels. Thanks seriously for capturing the emotions in this chapter with every single art that you've done. Every single piece is amazing and I don't say that if I don't mean it. So thank you, so much you beautiful human.

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Shuichi looked down as a warm smile graced his lips. Without even stalling for another second, he lent down and began to at least one thousand small kisses on every single inch of the liar's face, mumbling sweet nothings and apologies in between each of them.

I never thought this day would come where this has over 10 reads.. let alone 200K. That's like 200 thousand people or something stupid like that.. It truly is ridiculous but I appreciate it so much.. thank you for putting up with my angst and slow pacing.. just thank you so much. Thank you really doesn't show how much I appreciate it.. so oh! I have an idea, okay, okay, put in the comments what you'd like me to do and if you don't, I'll just post a chapter of just oumasai images!