Every step he took didn't add any more guilt or sorrow to the liar. If anything, he didn't want to admit it, yet walking to the bathroom where Korekiyo's body was stringed up, seemed like a chore and just something that was boring and tedious.  

What should he do when he saw the body? Should he act surprised, flail his arms around and freak out..? Should he just pretend to be completely emotionless and simply completely unaffected by the whole ordeal?

If anything, he should just try and react as similar to the previous announcements as possible.. to avoid any suspicion. Look at the body, act confident, blurt out a few easy to see through lies and move on out of the room to go mess with, otherwise known as interrogate the other students. He really needed to this get out of the way, to get it all done and dusted, so he could get back to the more important things..

Wait no, oh god no. Why did his mind go there? More important things? Sure Korekiyo and him hadn't spoken much at all.. but he was as much a part of the students as everyone else.. so solving his murder was an important thing. He could and had to take the role of keeping everyone alive, just like his beloved Shuichi had tried to do before the mastermind attempted to get rid of him because he was too close to succeeding. That mastermind was going to pay, and they were going to pay with their life.. but he had to plan that out and not act out of stupidity or pure loathing. This mastermind was undoubtedly clever, but they also seemed to be invisible, absorbing into the shadows like an illness.

That was the most dangerous thing of all.

The cleverness that the mastermind held. It was like they had everyone in the palm of their hand, manipulating them with skill and ease. That fact on its own was absolutely spine chillingly terrifying.

KitKat12OFFICIAL is the person who drew this for me! I'm really appreciative that they did this! It's gorgeous and truly does work. Thank you for saving everyone's eyes from my terrible Tenko T-pose! Go follow them! 

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As they approached the bathroom, Tenko could be seen guarding the door strongly, her arms open wide like a bolocade to stop anyone from entering. Maki stormed up to her, and reached forwards to open the door, only to be apprehended by the Ultimate Akido Master herself. "I'm not going to let any one of the females enter the bathroom of the degenerate males! It isn't safe in there for them.. the m-males could be plotting something to take advantage!"

"Move out of my way Tenko." Maki growled lowly, gritting her teeth as she was fed up with all the childish behaviour from the girl, she positioned herself reached to grasp her knife again, but Kokichi quickly scooted up to her before she could do anything and smoothly slip past Tenko, holding open the door for Maki who slyly and athletically followed him in.

When she noticed the body, Kokichi noticed that her face only animated for a few seconds, before it returned to one of a deadpan expression.

Tenko chased in afterwards, standing at the centre of the room, "If any degenerate male attempts something, I will not hesitate to apprehend them!" Her glances were obviously aimed at the males in the room; Kaito, Kokichi and Ryoma.

Kokichi simply waved off her warning, and strode towards the body with an unnatural level of confidence. He didn't even look closely at the body, he already knew what he was going to see. "Looky here, he's all tied up, that's super weird~"

"What the hell are you talking about? There ain't any ropes on him or near him, I think you're seeing things again, or lying, just to mess with us!" Kaito spoke up, his arms firmly placed onto his hips, grimacing as he spoke, "Yeah, stop messing around!"

Kokichi took a second glance.. and sure enough, there were no ropes or wires to be found. In fact, Korekiyo's body wasn't even stringed up, it was loosely slumped up against a wall, the limbs on the body being twisted back and forward, side to side, in the most horrifying, terrific fashion.. as if someone had returned after he had escaped from the bathroom and broken the bones of the corpse.

He couldn't help to feel like the all the beady eyes in the room were focused on him, noting down every single one of his actions. Using his small stature to his advantage, he weaved inbetween the other students, escaping the room by slipping out through the door.

He only had a few seconds before the other students followed him, what he did just now wasn't exactly subtle, and it probably arose much suspicion towards him. Kokichi glanced from side to side, before darting down the corridor towards the next possible open door. He needed to escape for now, until he could figure out a clever and believable lie.

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He swung open the door to the dining room, slamming the door grandly behind him, not caring about the loud noise that it emanated. He took a moment to catch his breath, but didn't let his mask slip just yet.

Kokichi slowly turned around and instantly set his eyes on the cosplayer, who was sitting down at a single chair, sipping a cup of tea whilst gripping it delicately with both hands. She lifted her head up at the sound of the noise of the door slamming shut, and stared at the purple haired liar. "I.. don't mean to overstep, but are you running from something?"

Just her being here alone should of set off alarm bells, but yet, none sounded inside his head, he just turned to her and almost demanded, speaking in the same childish tone that he always used, "Someone asks, you haven't seen me, kay?~"

She took a sip of her tea, "People normally leave me to myself.. crowds aren't particularly my thing. Would you want to disappear? I could help you."

Kokichi waved off her weird comment and started dashing around the room, searching desperately for a hiding spot, "You think that I would fit inside a cupboard?~ I'm actually super flexible, and I know someone who can prove it! Nishishi~"

He placed the cup back on the saucer and simply and plainly crossed her arms across the table, re-adjusting her glasses as she did so. "Not without separating your limbs from your body, but I doubt even Himiko could have preformed that magic trick.."

The liar's ears pricked up at that comment. He had warned himself to be suspicious and aware.. and that comment struck a nerve. Maybe it was something in the neutral tone she used, it just, it just was unnatural! "Didn't you hear the discovery announcement? Looks like creepy mask guy has finally kicked the bucket~" He started to subtly move back towards the door, with the confidence of someone who hadn't realised what was really going on behind the scenes.

"Oh.. he has?" She clapped her hands together, staring down at her fingers, almost like she was mentally counting down. "How are we all going to cope without Shuichi..? He was the one that led us so elegantly through the class trials.. and especially after your little mishap on the roof, I find myself wondering why you pushed him.. I heard that crack when his spine cracked and it brought a tear to my eye." Her tone almost seemed to sadden and her voice seemed to soften as she continued until the end.

Kokichi froze. There was something unbelievably diabolical about this girl.. the one behind the scenes, the one who wasn't loudspoken.. the one who hadn't picked a side and just remained on the fence.. He visibly shuddered, his body beginning to become a complete distress, shaking and trembling. His throat began to tighten, overcome with the crushing pain of the suffocating realisation that she was the mastermind.

He clenched his fists as he felt his legs move on their own towards the kitchen, his eyes were twitching, but he had no control over his body anymore. Before, he promised himself that he would make a carefully thought out plan.. but his heart had been poisoned with revenge, laced with a darkness that he made no attempt to scrape away.

Stomp. The sounds of footsteps echoed through into the room, yet those sounds weren't important to Kokichi. There were only two words repeating over and over and over and over.. kill her, kill her, kill her, kill her..

He grabbed forward viscously and ripped a large carving knife off the wall where it had been mounted upon, enveloping it within his fist.

Kill her, kill her, kill her, kill her..

 He raged in long strides, shouldering aside anyone who stood in his path. back into the room, creating a such a loud uproar, so abrupt and reckless that it was like the god of thunder itself had entered the room, heading straight towards the cosplayer with malice and intent. She was facing away from him, looking completely innocent and faultless, and that only pissed him off more. He let out soft chuckles, a single tear beginning to form in the corner of his beautiful violet eyes, whilst his hand was gripping the onto knife as if it was his only lifeline. 

"Kokichi..?"

The artist - asako_chann (Instagram) did this amazing drawing. I mean, what can I say about this, other than it's completely amazing in every sense of the word. I have two favourites in this. Kokichi's deranged expression and Kaito's expression.. they are just magnificent. Their Instagram has a lot more art all of this amazing standard, but if you can't get Instagram, just comment and say what you like about it!

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Kaito's eyes focused on the smaller individual who seemed to be passionately striding towards the cosplayer.. with something behind his back.. what was that? He moved closer, trying to refocus on what he had hidden tightly behind his back. Kokichi marched closer and closer by the minute, he was so close now.. so close that he could nearly reach out and touch her. He readied the knife behind his back and steadied his hands so that he could smash the blade down into the cosplayer's back, killing her and smashing her spine.

Then he caught sight of it and his eyes widened and his face completely paled until it was a ghostly lookalike. It was a glimmering, metallic weapon.. and Kokichi's face, it was completely taken over with a darkness that had infested deeply in his soul; The astronaut leapt into action and hurled himself over to Kokichi, throwing himself down on top of him, viciously grabbing the knife and throwing it to the floor. He struck him in the face over and over again, needing to incapacitate the smaller male.

mythical_bean drew this just perfect in every single way artwork. Just absolutely everything about this is just like I imagined it.. I think that I initially described the pinning to the ground scene as 'The apprehended scene in yandere simulator', which they surprisingly understood.. what I'm saying is, go follow them! And please comment. (AND FOLLOW ON INSTAGRAM- their name is the same as their wattpad one.) 

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As Kaito saw that Kokichi was finally weakened, he pinned him down, screaming into his face with all the effort and muster that he could manage.

"KOKICHI WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!"

Instead of remaining silent, maintaining his mask, he screamed back, "ENDING THAT BITCH'S LIFE!"