────𝙁𝙊𝙍𝙏𝙔-𝙎𝙄𝙓
"As long as you have hope, you can keep moving
forward no matter what trouble you may fall into."
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When walking out from the elevator, Celestia was still holding onto my hand. I could tell that Chihiro desperately wanted to grab the other...
"Why are you still holding onto, Y/N?" Byakuya asked.
"Wasn't I their babysitter?"
"Hmph, It was merely a joke..."
"I just happen to take all my jobs seriously." Celestia grinned, however she had let go of my hands.
I took my usual place next to Chihiro and Byakuya. Honestly, this really was hitting me hard. It was the last time I was ever going to go down here and have a trial. What's going to happen after I leave here? Would I even leave? There's no way I could tell for sure that if I finish the trial I would leave...
I should just focus on what's going on in front of me...
I'll worry about going home later.
The trial room was decorated brightly. A black and white pattern on the wall with pink and yellow tiles. Pink drapes were behind Byakuya. The blue pillars flew up the wall and the floor was decorated pink and white....
'Someone please fire the interior designer...'
"Let's begin with a basic explanation of the class trial! So, your votes will determine the results. If you can figure out 'whodunnit' then only they will receive punishment. But if you pick the wrong one... Then I'll punish everyone besides the blackened, and the one that deceived everyone else will graduate!" I sighed at Monokuma's introduction. It got old very fast. "...Okay, well! I'll leave the rest up to you!"
"Can we really start without Junko?" Celestia asked. 'That's right, they still think she's alive...'
"Just continue!" Monokuma waved us to continue.
"Well then, let's discuss the specifics of the victim. First, we need to clarify who exactly the unidentified victim is." Byakuya cleared his throat.
"It's Kyoko! There's no other explanation!"
"It's Junko..." Celestia argued with Yashihiro.
"Hell no its not, its Kyoko! How do you guys not understand?" He's been hanging out with Mondo WAAAAAY too much...
Toko pointed to the purplette, "But Kyoko's standing right there...!"
"No! That's a ghost!"
"I worry if your shirt is cutting off too much circulation to your brain--"
I cut off Celest, "His shirt is loose--"
"S-Shut up!" He scowled. "It's totally a ghost!"
Aoi pointed to the girl, she absolutely had it with the Ultimate Clairvoyant "But...she has legs and stuff."
"Well that's just because he's like the latest evolution in ghost technology!"
"There's a limit to how much ridiculousness I can tolerate..." Byakuya sighed.
"Um, okay...so I just have to prove that the corpse isn't Kyoko, right?" Makoto dug his hands into his hair, are we really doing this? She's right there... "Then let's compare Kyoko's traits to the traits of the dead body."
"She's not dead, I can put my hand through her and it wont phase..." I walked over to Kyoko, but Yashihiro started screeching like a banjeet. "...Dude, nevermind. Let's talk about her traits."
"I'm talking about her gloves. They'll give us some insight into the mystery, I'm sure of it." He pointed to his own hands.
"In that case, I think it would be helpful if someone explained why she actually wears those gloves." Byakuya offered.
Kyoko, herself, looked amused. "And would you happen to know the answer?"
"In fact, Monokuma told me. Apparently you have scars on your hands you don't want anyone to see." 'snitch...'
"Oh! You know, now that I think about it...the corpse wasn't wearing any gloves, right!?" Aoi brought a fist to her palm.
"They probably just got burnt up in the explosion! I'm not convinced! The ghost is just trying to fool us all!"
"I suggest we put him on time out." Celestia grinned as she raised her hand. "All say I if you wish to silence the fool? I."
She's got jokes--
"I" we all chanted.
He sulked, "You guys are bullies...I'm sure of it... she must've been wearing gloves."
"No, there's no way the corpse was wearing gloves. Whoever it was, they were wearing fake nails, remember? I imagine trying to wear gloves over nails like that would have been a pretty big pain." Makoto explained. "Besides, Kyoko wears gloves to hide her hands, right? It'd be pretty weird for someone who's self-conscious about their hands to wear fake nails, don't you think?"
"Jeez man, you don't know women, huh? They're complicated like that!"
We all groaned at that comment. Aoi jabbed a finger in his general direction, "If anyone doesn't know women, it's you!"
"Well, Kyoko? Any thoughts?"
"These gloves were custom-made to the size of my hands to make sure they don't interfere with my daily life. If I wore fake nails, the gloves wouldn't fit properly." She hesitated at first answering Makoto's question.
"Then that's that. The dead body doesn't belong to Kyoko."
"Which should have been obvious, since she's standing right here..." I sighed.
"Okay, so then...who's the real victim? First we need to figure that out!" Hiro slammed a fist on his palm. Everyone in the room let out a groan, we really should have taken up Celestia's suggestion...
"That's the first thing I said." Byakuya shouted. "You're the one who's been dragging us around in circles..."
"If Kyoko really is still alive...then who died!?" He was so shocked.
"There's gotta be some way to figure it out. I agree with Celestia, it must be Junko..."
"I don't th-think so... The face was scorched beyond recognition... And there wasn't any description in the Monokuma File. if it was Mukuro...it would say so wouldn't it?"
"Well if we can't identify the body...then there's nothing else we can do, right!?" Chihiro quivered, he gripped onto my hand. His eyes met my own... I couldn't mess up, I vow to protect Chihiro.
"Hold on Chihiro, There was one clue left behind that we can use to identify the body." Makoto held up a hand.
"W-What? Really!?"
"The key to figuring out who it was is the tattoo on the back of her hand." Makoto explained.
"Is...is it bad I don't remember how the hand looked?" Mondo confessed.
"I don't either--" Yashihiro agreed. 'Oh my god, you've gotta be kidding me..'
"Ignoring those two--The design's pretty strange, huh? Is this...a dog?"
Toko jumped onto Aoi's original thought, "Her master m-must have made her get it...to be like, 'You're my b-bitch'."
"...you guys give me a headache. That's not it--like, at all. The identity of the victim is hidden within that tattoo."
"Whoa, really!? I would have said that it was Junko-- you know, they have the same hands." Aoi pointed out, everyone gasped.
"No no. It's the tattoo--the meaning behind the tattoo. It's why the victim couldn't have been Junko." Makoto completely shut down the idea before it got too haywire. "The Fenrir Mercenary Corps. That's the name of the military group Mukuro Ikusaba belonged to..."
"Okay, so...?--"
Byakuya explained to Hiro, "To show that they're a member of the team, each soldier that joins the squad would get a tattoo representing Fenrir somewhere on their body."
"Fenrir...?" Aoi asked.
Makoto shouted. "The representation of Fenrir is...a wolf."
"No need to yell... " Toko explained, "Fenrir, the Wolf of Ragnarok. It's from Norse mythology. A huge, world-ending wolf beast... He's the ch-child of the trickster god, Loki, and a female giant."
"Man! After all this time, we finally got a glimpse of the literary all-star!" Yashihiro gasped, he and Kaito would get along so well...
"The body we found had a tattoo of a wolf. Which means that person must have once belonged to Fenrir. So it must have been Mukuro and not Junko!" Makoto was so sure of himself, and rightfully so. He was right.
"H-Hold on... Isn't she the one that was behind this whole thing?" Aoi asked, 'I had to be careful about what I decide to tell them and what I decided not to tell them.'
"Ah-ha-ha-ha! You sound surprised! But you're absolutely right! Yes, indeed! The trial this time is to solve the murder of Mukuro Ikusaba!" Monokuma clapped his hands.
Toko asked, "Wh-What? Are you saying the m-mastermind is dead...and now we have to have a c-class trial?"
"No. It means we were wrong in thinking that Mukuro was the mastermind at all." Byakuya grumbled.
"But, I mean...being the Ultimate Despair seems like a pretty mastermind-y title to me..."
"Maybe we shouldn't have been thinking of her as the Ultimate Despair in the first place." 'but that was her title in all honesty...'
"After all, looking at her profile, I didn't see anything that would fit such a description... All it said was that she was the Ultimate Soldier." Byakuya held the paper up to his eyes, straightened it out, "If I remember correctly, that other information came from...Kyoko, that's what you told Makoto, right?"
"So that means...Kyoko got it wrong?" Mondo scratched his head, his hair bounced... It was so strong.
"Then...who was she? Who was Mukuro Ikusaba? She's been gone this whole time, and when she finally turns up, she gets killed!" Aoi slammed a fist down on her palm.
Well, technically she's been here all the time...
"Usually, when there's a s-scene where an important character dies, it has a lot m-more detail..." Toko pointed out.
Byakuya smirked, "So you're saying she wasn't an important character? Which would mean she was the same as us--just another participant."
"W-Wait...Then w-who's the real mastermind?" Chihiro asked.
"It must have been to-the Hope's Peak Academy headmaster, a-after all...!"
"No, the headmaster has nothing to do with it." Kyoko shook her head.
"You better not keep our information to us again!" Mondo crushed his own hands.
"But how can we trust that? We already know your information about Mukuro was wrong." Byakuya sighed.
"My information was not wrong..."
Just then, Monokuma jumped up from his chair. Doing a little spin he yelled for our attention. He would be such a cute bear if he wasn't trying to kill us..
"Okay, okay! We're in the middle of a trial right now! Figuring out who killed Mukuro is first and foremost! Please limit all future prattle, chatter, and chit-chat as much as possible!"
"...Fine. Uncovering the identity of the mastermind will have to wait. But remember this..."Byakuya let his smile falter, "No matter what happens, we will find out who you really are. I put my family name on it!"
"I have officially decided to completely ignore all such attempts at provocation! Now then, just so nobody's confused, let me state this one more time for the record... The reason we're having a class trial is because a murder among the stuents has taken place! Hammer that point straight into your big ol' brains!"
Celestia put a hand on her chin. "So...What you're saying is that both the victim and the culprit are part of the student body?"
"Then...one of us killed Mukuro?" Aoi gasped.
"Wait, no! There's a chance that there's some mystery 18th person who's been hiding all along!" Mondo slammed his hand on the wooden stand.
"Any stronger and you would've broken the stand, Mondo. Be careful.." I sighed.
"Yeah, whatever..." He met my eyes, "S-sorry"
"Nope! There are only 16 students in total that have been taking part in these events!"
Yashihiro jumped at what Monokuma told us. "Seriously!? Then...one of us killed Mukuro!?"
"Who d-did it!? Who's the killer th-this time!?"
"Get a hold of yourself. We've already narrowed down the list of possible suspects." Byakuya sighed at Toko. "I'm sure you realize who I'm talking about, right Makoto? Who does the evidence point to?"
"You've narrowed it down to...Kyoko, and me. Right?" Makoto asked.
"Not only you two, you're forgetting someone..."
"Who?" Makoto rubbed his head, he was thinking for a while. There was...another person?...Was it celestia?
"Do you need a clue?"
"No...i'm sure i've got it...Is it Y/N."
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Dangan-Trust Stats
Makoto Naegi — (Trust)
Kyoko Kirigiri — (Trust)
Byakuya Togami — (Slightly Less Tense)
'Junko Enoshima' — (Deceased)
Kiyotaka Ishimaru — (Minecraft Sparkling Noises)
Leon Kuwata — (Deceased)
Mondo Owada — (Scandalous Affairs)
Chihiro Fujisaki — (Newlyweds)
Aoi Asahina — (Neutral)
Sakura Ogami - (Backstabber...)
Hifumi Yamada - (Deceased)
Toko Fukawa - (????)
Yasuhiro Hagakure - (Neutral)
Sayaka Maizono - (Deceased)
Celestia Ludenberg - (Friendly)
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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 sparkle
Bounded together?
Fortune Teller
Cyberchase
Angsty teen
Eggless...
Bakugou was here
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