Theres is no such as a hope
that hurts others...

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"Hahaha... This is just awful! On top of my secret being revealed, I had to look at those positively grotesque scars of yours! Ah, sorry! Did I say that out loud? I do hope I didn't hurt your feelings...!" Monokuma started to rant.

"Not at all. You can say whatever you want." Kyoko argued.

"Sure, as long as it means pushing me farther into the corner, right? But I'm not cornered just yet! Because if you hadn't noticed, the circumstances surrounding Mukuro's death are totally unknown!"

Celesia hummed, "That's true... All we know right now is she was killed a good while before this morning."

"On the contrary, we don't know anything other than that!" Makoto argued.

"You're not going to tell us she was already dead before we arrived here or something, are you?" Kyoko hummed.

"Puhuhu. In that regard, you have nothing to worry about!" Monokuma sighed, "I promise you, without a doubt, she died after our little killing game began here!"

"Then somehow, she was killed in secret, without any of us knowing. And after she died, who knows how much time went by before we found her, right? Did the culprit stash her somewhere? She couldn't have been in the garden the whole time, could she?" Yashihiro argued.

"If she was, she w-would've been totally decomposed... Just like your b-brain!" toko insulted.

Celestia asked. "Then...she was being stored somewhere?"

"But...to hide a body here...to just store it somewhere...?" Aoi asked. There's only one place where the body could have been stored... and that's the bio lab

"Mukuro's body was probably kept hidden in the bio lab." Makoto explained.

"The b-bio lab...? You mean, on the 5th f-floor?" Chihiro asked.

Kyoko agreed, "That's right. It's actually set up for use as a morgue. So it's the perfect place to hide a body, and it'd keep the body preserved at the same time."

"Then you're also saying the body was moved from the bio lab to the garden..." Byakuya sighed, not believing any of us.

"And I have no doubt that that's exactly what happened. In fact, I have proof..." Makoto dug around in his mind. The proof that shows the body was carried from the bio lab to the garden was the tarp."What makes me so sure the body was carried from the bio lab to the garden is the tarp that we found in the garden. When I was checking it over again, I noticed something... I noticed that some text had been stamped on one corner of the tarp."

"Oh! It says bio lab!" Aoi exclaimed as she read the text.

"Holy cow... How'd you notice that tiny little thing?" Yashihiro complained.

Celestia giggled, "it seems Makoto's nit-picky nature seems to have surfaced with perfect timing..."

"A-Anyways, this proves that the tarp originally came from the bio lab. In fact, there's a whole stack of tarps just like it in there." Makoto turned a bit red at Celestia's comment. It was so funny how easily Makoto became flustered.

"So when the killer moved the body to the garden, they must have grabbed a tarp to wrap it in. Then they simply left it as it was to protect against the sprinklers, and put the coat on it afterwards." Kyoko hummed.

"Wow...you made everything so amazingly c-consistent!"

Monokuma cut off Toko's praise, "B-But that's just a wild guess! Where's your evidence!? Prove that the body was wrapped in a tarp and moved!"

"There is no evidence. I was simply explaining what I think happened. But you seem to be getting pretty worked up about it, wouldn't you say?" Kyoko contradicted him.

"...Worked up!?"

" Now that the conversation has turned to the topic of the bio lab, you must be getting pretty nervous. Because the key to uncovering your secret identity is hidden within that room, isn't it?"

"Are you talking about unmasking the mastermind!?" Mondo asked.

"Yes, You see, the bio lab contained an inconsistency--one so major it can't be overlooked." Kyoko agreed.

"La-la-la! I can't hear you! La-la-la! Such a child... Oh well, just ignore him." Mokuma cried, kicking his little feet. "Hey, by the way, Makoto! What about that one thing!?"

"What...one thing?" Makoto asked.

The room was quiet when Monokuma dropped the next line, "Puhuhu...What do you think? I'm talking about...your family. Huhuhuhu! Don't tell me you forgot about that video message! So what do you think? Are you sure your family's still okay?"

"Wh--!? Why are you bringing that up now!?" Makoto looked as if he were going to lose it.

"Your mom, your dad, your little sister... What do you think has happened to your family? Are they really as safe as you might have assumed?"

"S-Stop talking about that!"

"Calm down, Makoto. He wants you to get upset." Kyoko warned.

Makoto and Monokuma went back and forth in a debate, I sighed as they weren't really getting anywhere but he eventually called out, "The inconsistency Kyoko's talking about is...the lights!"

"Ga-haaah!Wh-What are you talking about? What about the lights...?"

"Like I said before, the bio lab also acts as a morgue." he argued against monokuma. "And as part of that, a giant refrigerator was installed in there. That's where everyone who's died is stored."

Kyoko included, "And it was set up so that when a slot had a body in it, a blue light would turn on."

"In other words, if the blue light is on, that means there's a body in that slot." Byakuya agreed.

"But I counted up the number of blue lights that were on, including the one Mukuro was in...and there were only seven!" He counted with his fingers.

"Why does that matter? You gotta give me the bite-size version here, man!" Mondo asked.

"Eight of the lights should have been on. Any other number is incredibly suspicious!" I argued.

"S-Suspicious...? Why?"

I answered Toko, "That's simple. Just recall who's died here so far, and it should become clear."

"Hm... So eight people in all?" aoi lifted her fingers, "ones for Leon and Sayaka..three for um, taka... four is hifumi and... Sakura. I'm guessing you're counting Junko as another dead person since we have no idea where she is....."

"That's right. Any other number should make you immediately suspicious. But according to the lights in the bio lab, only nine people were being stored there..."

Yashihiro let out a scream of terror cutting off Makoto, "Y-You're saying a dead body just...up and disappeared!?"

"Oh, it seems the mastermind destroyed one of the bodies to get rid of evidence? How peculiar." Celestia never seemed to amaze me with her humor.

"But if they wanted to do that, they would've destroyed Mukuro's body, since they actually killed her. And yet...her body was left alone."

"Then...whose body disappeared?" She asked Makoto.

"It may very well be...that none of them disappeared." Kyoko sighed, "Including Monokuma's executions, there have apparently been ten deaths. But there were only nine bodies. That's the point I'm trying to make."

"I-I'm completely lost... Mmm, how can the number of v-victims be less than the number of murders!?" Chihiro asked.

"The only logical sense is-- if...the same person was killed twice? But that's not possible?" Makoto was pulling the hair out of his head, none of them knew that junko wasn't actually junko.. We started to debate before Monokuma shouted.

"Who is this someone else that Mukuro was killed as? Was it... Sayaka Maizono? Junko Enoshima? Leon Kuwata? Kiyotaka Ishimaru? Hifumi Yamada? Or maybe Sakura Ogami? No no no... There's no way anyone was murdered twice!"

"Maybe... Well, remember what happened to junko? She was impaled by a bunch of spears, all over her body." Makoto asked...

"And she died from a number of wounds across her body... When you compare that to the stab wounds Junko suffered..."

Toko cut off Byakuya "Then the s-similarities...match...?"

"Yes, and those are the only fatal injuries that match up. That explains why those 'two' bodies are actually one and the same." Kyoko rubbed her head.

"So let me see if I have this straight... Junko, or someone going by that name, was stabbed to death with multiple spears." Byakuya looked so done with everyone, "Then her body was kept in the bio lab for however long, before being dragged out again. Only this time, it was presented as the corpse of one Mukuro Ikusaba."

"It all matches up, right? Those wounds Mukuro suffered could easily be these same injuries."

Yashihiro started to play with his fingers, "Then... is junko really junko? Or... was she mukuro?-- maybe Mukuro and Junko are the same person...? Wait, so then... Nng! What does it all mean!?"

"It means that there haven't been eight victims, but seven. Which also means that among the people we thought were dead...one is still alive." Byakuya explained.

"...And that's the true identity of the mastermind?" Celestia asked.

Mondo screamed, "Who is it!? Who's behind all this!?"

"We already kn-know the answer to that, you i-idiot! ... It's Mukuro! Sh-She's still alive! She took J-Junko's body...and made it look like she was th-the one who died! S-So Mukuro is still alive. She's g-gotta be! Total silence...? Then I m-must be right...! I'm right, aren't I?"

"T-Then she's still alive!?" Chihiro asked.

"Th-That's right. She made it look like Junko's b-body was her! S-So the mastermind's true identity is...Mukuro!"

"Whaddya say, Monokuma!? Do you give up!?" Mondo asked.

"Hmmmmmmm..."

"No, the body we found in the garden was Mukuro. That's one thing we can be sure of." Makoto turned to us, "The body's appearance and measurements are consistent with her records. Right, Kyoko? Y/N?"

"She was 5 foot 6 inches tall and weighed 97 pounds. Her vitals were 31-22-32. Everything in her profile is consistent with that corpse." Kyoko hummed. 'How she still remembers all of the body's heights and weights is so weird... does she know my height and weight by heart???'

"And then there's the matter of the Fenrir tattoo. So there's no question it's her."

"B-But...if Mukuro's not the mastermind, then...who's actually still alive...?"

"Junko is still alive. It's the only possibility!" Makoto shouted, I twitched in my stand. I need to tell them the truth... the fact that something is off.. But how? But how could i? They wouldn't listen to me... besides i have don't have any proof...

They continued to debate when I felt something tug on my arm.... I looked down to see Chihiro looking up at me with big beady eyes. "Y-You should... tell them the truth..."

"...what truth?"

"How... were not real."

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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 — (Got mommy playtime'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