"Don't go around doing whatever
you feel like. It causes problems.
And not just for me. For everyone."
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"Well, we don't have any way to refute it, so we have no choice but to accept it as reality." Byakuya argued. We had been going back and forth about the memory being lost or if it was utter bullshit or not. I was tired, he was tired, everyone was tired. "To be honest, I have something else on my mind right now."
"S-Something else...?" Chihiro asked.
"You said the DVD contains recordings of us being interviewed by the headmaster, right?What were the interviews about?" Byakuya asked.
Makoto argued, "The headmaster sat each of us down, one at a time, and asked us that same question... He asked us if we could accept the idea of spending the rest of our lives in this school."
"What kind of qu-question is that...?"
"And? How did we answer?"
"We'd say no, obviously!"
"Actually... We all...said we could." Makoto sighed. "Even me... I heard myself say yes, I could spend the rest of my life at this school."
"Wh-Why!? Why would you say yes to s-something like that!?" Chihiro cried, he hesitantly held onto my hand. He was worried, I know but he never hesitated to hold onto me.
"I don't know! I don't remember a thing!" Makoto shouted.
Kyoko sighed, "The same goes for everyone else? Nobody remembers...? You don't remember choosing to live here forever. Or even talking to the headmaster about it at all..."
"It doesn't matter if I remember or not. Even if I bought the whole amnesia thing, the idea that I would want to live here forever..." Yashihiro cursed. "That's just insane! How can I believe that!?"
"Insane or not, we can't move forward until you accept it. Am I right?" Kyoko hummed. Monokuma agreed to our conclusion and the room exploded. Everyone was arguing and fighting but Chihiro? Quiet.
He wasn't as cheerful as he normally was. He wouldn't look me in the eyes. He would look anywhere but at me.
Byakuya almost losing his shit made everyone turn their attention back to him. ""The interview with the headmaster, taking that group photo... Those can't be the only memories we lost. There must have been a purpose to it all. A reason for taking away our memories..."
"Of course there was a purpose! It all has to do with the original motive!" Monokuma grinned.
"You mean the 'motive' you came up with to try and get us to all kill each other?" Mondo scoffed.
"That have something to do with the memories you stole from us?" Kyoko agreed.
"Puhuhu! It sure does! But that part's still a secret...! Anyway, I'm sure it's not easy, but let's all focus on the class trial for the murder of Mukuro Ikusaba!"
"Okay, so you want us to figure out who killed her before we do anything else, hmm?" Celestia asked.
Kyoko sighed, it looked like we weren't going to get anywhere unless we all discovered who killed Mukuro Ikosaba. "Whoever did it is the same one who's behind everything. That much I'm sure of."
"But when you think about it... Is the mastermind really here in the school?" Yashihiro picked his ears with his pinky.
"O-Of course! They.... h-have to be here somewhere!" Chihiro exclaimed.
"What makes you so sure?" Byakuya asked him.
It took chihiro a while to answer. His eyes scanned the room, sweat dropped down the sides of his face. He took a deep breath as he clung onto my hands, never letting. "I.... Alter Ego... He told me everything a-about the school.... I know everything about everyone. The mastermind is here.."
'He knows everything about everyone?' I was so confused, I looked down at Chihiro nervously. His face was stone cold but his eyes shined brightly. My shoulders felt as if they had a boulder lifted off of them...
"W-What if your little robot j-just bugged out....piece of junk is p-probably old! There's no way the m-mastermind is here. The mastermind is probably a million miles away..." Toko snarled, "C-Cuz masterminds always lurk off in the b-background, right?"
Makoto argued, "There's no question that the mastermind is somewhere within the school."
"How do you kn-know? Did you find s-some evidence or something?" Toko asked.
"In the back of the data center, I found a panel that controls Monokuma." He explained, "The mastermind must have been using that to control him all this time. So there can't be any doubt, the mastermind has been inside the school all along!"
"There can't be any doubt... In which case, there also can be no doubt that the mastermind is one of us." Byakuya sighed.
"W-Wait, why?" Mondo stuttered.
"Recall what Makoto told us Monokuma said to him earlier... the thing about there being seventeen students? So if the mastermind is in the school, we have to assume it can only be that 17th student." Byakuya was smart.
"Why don't we just have Chihiro tell us who the mastermind is? Hmm, I'm sure he already knows who..." Celestia suggested.
Byakuya immediately shut down his idea, "We can take everything he says as facts and go with it. There has to be concrete evidence--and since Alter Ego is....er, not here, there's no evidence to support his claims."
"Well, I believe that Chihiro has more information than all of us combined."
"Information or not, unless Chihiro can somehow make Alter ego in a few minutes--" Byakuya argued.
"--Keep his name out of your mouth!" Chihiro looked as if he were going to break out into tears. Byakuya was a bit shocked, never he expected Chihiro to yell at him--or anyone for that matter.
"Everyone, calm down. There's no reason to argue, we've come so far. The mastermind's true identity will become clear soon enough. Just as soon as we find out who killed Mukuro." Kyoko brought the conversation back to life.
"Ahem, excuse me then, Chihiro.... That's a good point. Rather than wasting time bickering, we should put our minds to work solving this mystery." Byakuya apologized...or I think he apologized.
"Yeah, well, how much time have we already spent talking about the murder?" Mondo sighed, he played with his hair. It sprung back into place. I found it a little funny, my mind replayed the Roblox coil sound.
"He's r-right. What more is there to t-talk about?" Toko gripped her braids.
"If you want something to talk about, I think there might be one thing..." Kyoko coughs, "We haven't fully established what Mukuro's fatal injury was."
"Huh? But...I thought we figured that out. She died when she got hit in the back of the head." Aoi sighed.
"No, that isn't actually what killed her. It was something entirely different. Wouldn't you agree, Y/N? Makoto?" Kyoko turned to us.
'I think that somethings off with the body...it doesn't feel right but I can't prove it, Kyoko won't believe me and these two things I've lost my shit...' It feels so rubbery, as if the body isn't real. Man, I've never felt a dead body before but I know it should be cold.
"All of the wounds covering her body... That's what really killed her." Makoto hummed.
"Hey, now hold on a second! You did read the Monokuma File, right?" Yashihiro argued. "The body was covered with other wounds, but these were at least several days old. It made it pretty clear. Those wounds were made at least a few days ago. So they can't possibly be what killed her!"
I sighed, "Well, Consider this--what if the murder itself took place at least a few days ago?"
"Exactly, what if, when we discovered her body, she'd already been dead for several days?" Makoto explained, using his hands as a gesture.
"What these two are saying is that if that's true, then naturally the wounds that killed her would appear to be many days old." Kyoko explained.
"Th-That doesn't make any sense! Because...because she had all the-those wounds before she ever c-came here!" Toko sighed.
"Huh? How do you know that?" Mondo asked.
"Isn't it o-obvious? She was the Ultimate Soldier, right? So that means...y-you know..."
I argued with Toko, immediately shutting down her assumption. "You're wrong."
"Ahaha... She d-denied me... Hahahaha... Before I could even s-say anything ...Haha... ha... ahe... hehehe...! Come on-- I mean--you think I'm--? I'm not weird, okay!? At least i-listen to what I have to say b-before you deny me!"
'God please no more'
"Mukuro was the Ultimate Soldier. She must've been in a h-hundred different battles. So when you th-think about it... Obviously she g-got all those wounds in battle!"
"Are you finished?" Kyoko asked.
"You didn't d-deny me this time, wimsey!" Toko cried. "Agh! You made me go all cutesy!"
"Don't worry. There wasn't anything cute about it." Yashihiro gagged.
Mondo cried out across the room, "God, I hate I had a full view of...whatever that is."
"I agree... a-anyways. To answer your question, Toko-- no, Mukuro didn't suffer those wounds in battle. The file we found in the headmaster's room said as much. Despite the time she spent in battle after battle as a member of Fenrir...when she entered this school, she hadn't sustained a single injury." Makoto hummed.
"T-To be denied so completely... Actually, it's k-kind of refreshing!" Toko gasped, "M-Maybe it's cuz of all of Master's t-training!"
"Um, Anyways... So we can be sure that Mukuro suffered all those wounds after coming to this school. In which case, they could be the very thing that killed her!"
"As a matter of fact, it's hard to imagine any other possibility. When examining her body, I found that her stomach and head wounds came after she was already dead." Kyoko exclaimed.
"Unless anyone has any better suggestions, I think we can say this with confidence... The wounds Mukuro sustained all over her body are what ultimately killed her!" Makoto argued, I could actually testify that they're right... more than Chihiro and Alter Ego, i was actually there.
Yashihiro argued, "But if that's what killed her... then does that mean she's really been dead for who knows how long!?"
" That's exactly what it means. When we found her body in the garden, she'd already been dead for several days."
"So then, what about the little matter of what happened last night?" Byakuya added after Makoto, "Makoto, you said you were attacked in your room by a masked assailant. If Mukuro had already been dead for several days, certainly it couldn't have been her. So who was it that attacked you?"
"The one who attacked me...was the true mastermind. When we discovered Mukuro in the garden wearing the same mask...I naturally assumed she must have been the one who attacked me. But I was wrong. It wasn't her at all. It was the mastermind!" Makoto sighed.
"Ahaha! Hahahaha!"
"Wh-What are you laughing at...?" Toko asked the laughing bear.
"Oh, don't mind me. I'm just getting a little impatient sitting her listening. I think I'm gonna jump in! Let's start off with a nice, easy question. Your assumption that I attacked Makoto is just that, right? An assumption." Monokuma laughed. He was explaining for a long time. "You can't really know who was under that mask, can you? I mean, that's the whole point of a mask! The true identity of the masked attacker is Mukuro Ikusaba! At least, that's what I think! Puhuhu... Do you have any evidence that might convince me otherwise?"
I groaned, light music was coming on in the background--from where i don't know. "God, where is that coming from?"
"So you hear it too--?" Yashihiro asked.
Monokuma yelled, "Hey! I'm talking here?! You never saw their face, right? So you can't have any idea who was under that mask! I'm telling you now, it was Mukuro Ikusaba!"
"You're wrong. Even without seeing their face... there's another part of the attacker we can use to prove it wasn't her." I sighed.
"Oh? And what is this other part? Is it the right hand? Or the left hand? Maybe the right foot? Or perhaps the left foot? Or could it be... the hips!?"
"So many questions, jesus. Anyways, Mukuro had a tattoo on her right hand, if I remember correctly. A 'representation of Fenrir'... In other words, a wolf tattoo. But I saw the right hand of the person who attacked me ...and there was no such tattoo. So there's no way the person behind the mask was Mukuro!"
"Y-Yeah, well, okay... Ya got me, I guess it wasn't her...But that still doesn't prove that it was me! It could have been, ya know...someone else, right?"
"Chihiro, Mondo, Hiro, Toko, Celestia, Hina and I all have solid alibis for that entire night." Byakuya argued.
Yashihiro argued, "Yeah! We were in the gym tearing you apart! So it couldn't have been any of us!"
"Pause, that sounds so wrong--"
"--Shut up, Y/N" He snapped back.
"O-Okay, sure, it couldn't have been any of you..." Monokuma stuttered, "But...what about Kyoko!? It totally could've been her! Uh-oh! No snappy comeback? Did I score a bull's-eye?"
"If you insist, I don't mind showing you." Kyoko sighed.
"Huh? Show me what...?"
"What do you think? I'll show you the one thing that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt it wasn't me." ...Kyoko was removing her gloves.
"Your hands...!" Aoi gasped.
"W-What happened?!" Chihiro cried. Everyone in the room let out a gasp, even I did. It looked much more.. Painful in real life.
"Awful, isn't it? It happened when I was first learning to be a detective. I was inexperienced..." She explained.
"I thought you didn't want anyone to see those scars..."
"If it means we get another step closer to unmasking the mastermind, it doesn't really bother me." Kyoko seemed to savor the words Makoto stuttered as she said them. Then she put her gloves back on. "My scars should suffice as proof. Makoto, did the person who attacked you have scars like mine?"
"No...not at all, I'm positive."
"Then this much has been made clear...There can be no doubt that the one who attacked Makoto is the true mastermind."
"What about Y/N?!" Monokuma screamed and pointed at me.
"Are... are you an idiot." I slapped a hand on my forehead, "I was literally almost killed a couple of chapters ago."
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Dangan-Trust Stats
Makoto Naegi — (Science lab partners)
Kyoko Kirigiri — (Partners in crime)
Byakuya Togami — (Acquaintances)
'Junko Enoshima' — (Deceased)
Kiyotaka Ishimaru — (Gwen'ed)
Leon Kuwata — (Deceased)
Chihiro Fujisaki — (Happily married)
Mondo Owada — (Happily married)
Aoi Asahina — (Friendly)
Sakura Ogami - (Backstabber...)
Hifumi Yamada - (Deceased)
Toko Fukawa - (Gay)
Yasuhiro Hagakure - (friendly)
Sayaka Maizono - (Deceased)
Celestia Ludenberg - (Babysitter)
Achievements:
Petting Zoo
Friendship is magic
Boom Baby
Cooking mama
Are Ya Making Friends Son?
THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING
Parent Trap
Ace Attorney
Minecraft sparkling noises
Bounded together?
Fortune Teller
Cyberchase
Angsty teen
Eggless...
Bakugou was here
Dirt Eater
Batman Kyoko
SpyXFamily
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