Love and justice will win the day!

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   We walked to the cafeteria, nobody was here other than Monokuma and he was glitching out. He left as soon as he came, we were stuck with just the three of us for a few seconds.

   "I... wonder what that was all about," Kyoko asked. I couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

   "Ah--!" We jumped as soon as we heard other voices. I was tackled to the ground with a pair of arms around me. Aoi ran up to hug Makoto, "Is that...Makoto?! Y/N?!"

   "My spine!" I shouted and looked down to chihiros tearful face. He was clinging onto me so tightly I felt my insides ready to burst.

   "I-I...I.." Chihiro couldn't make out a sentence as Mondo helped the two of us up, He engulfed the both of us in a hug.

   "We... missed you." He roughed up our hairs. "Chihiro here could barely function without you."

   "N-Neither could Mondo. H-Him and the s-small one were i-insepriable." Toko snickered, clearly finding this all funny as fuck. I apologize softly to both of them for leaving them for a while.

   "N-No i was not!"

   "Yes you w-were!" She grinned.

   "Shut your mouth!"

   "Y-You guys! It's so good to see you all again!" Makoto grinned.

   Aoi let go, "It is! There's no two ways about it, that's them!"

   "You guys s-survived?"

   "Jeez... You're like a stubborn little cockroach, you know that?" Byakuya and Toko scoffed.

   "I'm just asking to make sure, but...you're not a ghost, right?" Yashihiro moved slowly and poked me on the forehead, he was a little spooked but it wouldn't be the first time he mistaken someone alive for being dead.

   "You should've stayed down there, e-especially Y/N. '' Toko huffed.

   "You missed me, didn't you babe?"

   Her facial expression was mixed with horror and confusion, but yet her cheeks were turning red rapidly. "H-How?! Don't... i wouldn't be-ever!?...M-M-Master help!"

   "Please don't break, Toko. I cannot be bothered with her now." Byakuya sighed and came to her defense. "Wait hold on...what's that smell?"

   "Yeah man, that seriously stinks!" YAshihiro plugged his nose and stepped away from the group.

   "It's Makoto and Y/N! They smell like a wet dog!" Aoi ratted us out.

   "No shit, if we were stuck down there in a trash shoot wouldn't you stink?" I sighed.

   "G-Get away! Shoo! Shoo! Chihiro and Mondo s-still cling onto Y/N!" Toko shrieked, I quickly removed myself from Chihiros arms and to Mondo and chased after Toko. I jumped to give her a hug and she looked like a cat. Her face was all red, I couldn't control myself.

   Kyoko signed and pulled me and Makoto to the washroom, "Go get cleaned up. We'll start investigating as soon as you two are cleaned up."

   We looked at eachother and back at Kyoko, "....Together?"

   "If you want?" She looked so done with the both of us. "Figure something out and hurry up."

   "I---call dibs first." Makoto ran into the room and I kicked him. 'Fastass...'

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   Being the cool classmate I was, I waited for Makoto to finish up first before following him in. I was surprised to see an exact replica of my outfit on a bench... I guess Monokuma has everything set for us then...

   Unlike how I did for him, Makoto and Kyoko were gone. They probably went back to the cafeteria to gather more information. I made sure my bag was secure before running there. They were most likely talking about the last class trial and what happened when we were gone.

   "Thanks for finally joining us, Y/N" Kyoko girinned.

   "Thanks for waiting for me guys--" I hurried into the cafeteria. I sat down at the table before Yashihiro slid a plate over to me. Chihiro and Mondo had saved a place for me. "Eggs?"

   "I felt bad..." He looked away and sat down across from me.

   "Are you sure you're not going to eat them right in front of me?"

   "Well... i snagged one already--"

   "Makoto and Y/N aren't the killers. And of course it's not me or any of you." Kyoko interrupted the both of us. I sighed and ate my plate of food. She started to explain everything she knew.

   "Th-Then...who is it?" Chihiro gasped.

   Celestia grinned, "What she's saying is, it was all the work of the mastermind."

   "What!? You're saying the mastermind killed Mukuro!?" Mondo screamed.

   "That's right. It was all an elaborate trap contrived by the mastermind. Makoto and Y/N spotted the trap in time, and did what they had to to stop it." She pointed to the two of us, "But his decision meant that they would be the one to die."

   "You spotted the trap, did you Makoto? I doubt Y/N figured it out, but I believe in Makoto" Byakuya gasped. 'Of course you think your boyfriend and not me--'

   "Y/N recognized first, I could see it in their eyes. But executing them, who weren't the blackened, is a clear violation of the school regulations. The rules state that only the blackened is to be executed. The mastermind broke their own rules. Which is why I went and negotiated with them to have the trial one more time."

   Aoi gasped, "A-And the mastermind a-agreed!? Does that mean they really did break the rules...?"

   "They had no choice but to agree. You used the TV broadcast to gain the leverage you needed, didn't you?" Byakuya pointed to the camera up above us.

   "Very observant of you."

   He grinned at Kyoko's affirmation, "I recall what you said at the end of the last trial... When you said 'now it's the mastermind that's ensnared,' that's what you were referring to."

   "Hey! I'm totally in the dark here!" Yashihiro argued with all of us.

   "For anyone who doesn't understand, you can ask Kyoko to explain it again." Byakuya glared down at Yoshihiro as soon as he opened his mouth, "Later."

   "So, knowing all this...what do we do now?"

   Aoi rolled her eyes at Toko, "It's about who killed Mukuro, right? So our job is to expose the mastermind...?"

   "But there's more to it than that....it's never as easy as you say that." I sighed, pushing my plate to the center of the table. Finally finished and stuffed.

   "Um, yeah... For us to win this time, we have to solve every last mystery surrounding the school." Celestia was cleaning under her fingers.

   "Every last mystery...?" Aoi looked so done, "But we've been looking around all this time, and we still don't know anything, right?"

   "There's a lot isn't there, hon?" She flashed her a grin.

   "You've probably guessed already, but if we lose this time...everyone dies." Kyoko explained it so calmly I almost forgot to freak out a bit, almost.

   "E-Everyone!?" Yashihiro shouted.

   "H-Hey! Who said you could agree to those t-terms without talking to the rest of u-us!?" Toko started to sob. "I'm fine with things the w-way they are! I'm fine living here forever with M-Master!"

   "I'm not sure if the master wants to stay here, though." I cracked a little.

   "I don't mind staying here with the master, not you!"

   "Not me? Are you sure? We would have a blast here together Toko."

   "Ngh...! S-S-Shut up!"

   "Flirt on your own time you weirdos. I, meanwhile, want to get out of here as soon as humanly possible." Byakuya argued. 'Are we flirting?'

   "Anyway, at this point the only way for us to survive is to unravel the truth." I explained.

   "In other words, one decisive final battle. A rather interesting development, I'd say."

   "But figuring out who the mastermind is, AND how they killed Mukuro, AND all the school's mysteries..." Celestia pointed out.

   "It's a pretty tall friggin' order..." Yashihiro wiped off sweat from his forehead and took the plate off the table. He made his way to the kitchen, most likely to put it away.

   "Maybe, but this time the trial is different. We know who our enemy is now. So if we work together and search as hard as we can, I'm sure we'll solve all those mysteries!" Makoto explained.

   Kyoko disagreed, "I'm not so sure about that."

   "...Huh?"

   "I can't agree with the idea of working together with everyone."

   "Why the fuck cant you work with us?" Mondo argued before Makoto put an arm out to hush him.

   "H-Hold on Mondo. You...can't agree? Why not? I mean, working together with everyone seems like the most obvious way to solve all the mysteries..."

   Kyoko finally explained herself, "That's what I thought, too...at first. Until Monokuma gave us that little hint of his..."

   "Hint? W-What hint?" Chihiro asked. Kyoko explained and we all immediately understood.

   "Monokuma said that, did he? Then Kyoko's opinion is perfectly reasonable." Byakuya sighed. "If the mastermind really is the one who killed Mukuro, as Kyoko says...then the mastermind would have had to set foot in this school, right? Monokuma could probably murder Mukuro, but there's no way he could have disguised the scene like that. But according to Monokuma, the only people who have set foot in Hope's Peak...are the seventeen students who have been taking part in the killing game."

   Toko racked around in her brain. "Them... them-mastermind is...! There were sixteen of us in the m-main hall at the very beginning... Add in M-Mukuro, and you get seventeen... So the mastermind would have to be...one of them?"

   "And of those seventeen people we started out with, the only ones still alive...are the people standing right here. Need I continue, or do you get it now?" Byakuya explained.

   "You're saying the mastermind is one of us!?" Yashihiro finally escaped the kitchen.

   "Y-You can't be serious!" Aoi gasped.

   "W-Wait! We can't say for sure that's true yet! Monokuma might have just said all that to confuse us...!" Chihiro squeezed my hand under the table. He squeezed it twice again when I didn't squeeze back.

   "It's certainly a possibility. But only one among many..." Kyoko explained, "The mastermind being one of us is also a possibility."

   "And that is one possibility we can't ignore."

   Toko jumped in after Byakuya, "Yeah! I mean, they're an u-ultimate, right? The Ultimate Despair. So they m-must be high schoolers! You can't say it's not p-possible...!"

   "But if one of us was the mastermind, they'd have to be controlling Monokuma somehow, right? But did you ever see anyone acting suspicious any time Monokuma was active?" Makoto argued with her.

   "Maybe they snuck off and controlled him i-in secret..."

   "I don't care how sneaky you are, we would've noticed someone sneaking off that many times."

   "W-What if they were really good?"

   "Then maybe Monokuma was on autopilot! Maybe they loaded up all the dialogue and actions beforehand!" Yashihiro jumped into the conversation.

   "In that case, there's no way he could have had all those back-and-forth conversations with us." I shook my head no.

   "Well...it wouldn't be entirely impossible," Byakuya turned to me, "if they directed the flow of the conversation."

   I scoffed, "W-Well, maybe...but still! That's a lot of work..."

   Before we could continue our argument, there was a bell chime.

   I know it all too well. We turned around to see monokuma on screen. He was criss-cross-applesauce and looked pissed off. "Ahh, this is a school announcement. You've all probably figured this out by now, but at this point, the killing game has now entered 'True Ending' mode. So in the name of fairness, I will unlock every room in the school! Look wherever you want! Solve the mystery in whatever way you see fit! Puhuhu... Then we can all meet up at the class trial, okay? Gaahahaha! Ahahaha...!" He laughed at all of us.

   "How very magnanimous of him to unlock all the rooms." Kyoko scowled.

   "Only took us all this time." Celestia giggled.

   "The time for talk is done. Now we need to begin our investigation."

   "B-But...!" Makoto tried to argue with Byakuya, but it looked like he made up his mind.

   "I was planning on working alone from the beginning anyway. At this point, I can rely only on myself, on the Togami blood flowing through my veins. I have no time to worry about the rest of you. Each of you must uphold your responsibility. Well then..."

   After making his final statement, Byakuya left the dining hall.... Nobody really stayed after that.
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LMAO JUST FINISHED JOJO'S PART 5, IM DISTRAUGHT. ALL THE DEATH, HOW DARE RHEY KILL OFF ALL MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS?????

anyways Stan Trish, Narancia and Giorno—
(Actually Stan all of them, by far my favorite cast frfr)

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Dangan-Trust Stats

Makoto Naegi — (Science lab partners)

Kyoko Kirigiri — (Partners in crime)

Byakuya Togami — (Mortified)
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Byakuya Togami — (Acquaintances)

'Junko Enoshima' — (Deceased)

Kiyotaka Ishimaru — (No lifes?)

Leon Kuwata — (Deceased)

Mondo Owada — (Can no longer function)
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Mondo Owada — (Happily married)

Chihiro Fujisaki — (Can no longer function)
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Mondo Owada — (Happily married)

Aoi Asahina — (Scared Shitless)
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Aoi Asahina — (Friendly)

Sakura Ogami - (Backstabber...)

Hifumi Yamada - (Deceased)

Toko Fukawa - (???)

Yasuhiro Hagakure - (distressed)
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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
Batman Kyoko