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  I woke up to straight clapping. However instead of opening my eyes to the infirmary, I opened my eyes to darkness. I sighed as Monokuma let out a fit of giggles.

  "I'm getting sick of your shit bear." I crossed my arms. "Lets retry this shit and go back to my last save checkpoint."

  "Ah ah ah! Not so fast, Y/N!" I groaned as Monokuma did a little dance, "I have a deal for you!"

  "A deal... I don't really trust it..." I squinted at the bear, honestly knowing him... i rather take my chances back at the start then whatever he's got in store.

  "It's going to benefit you! I'll send you right where you were last before you died!" He gave me a grin.

  "And...?"

  "I'll just take another one of your lifes.... Sounds like a good deal doesn't it?"

  "That sounds horrible!? When even was my last checkpoint?" I asked.

  "Three days ago."

  "What?! But I went to sleep all those nights?!"

  "Sleep, yes you did." He crackled, "Just not in your own bed.", 'This is bullshit. I didn't know I had to sleep in my own bed...' I just thought I had to sleep and that would load everything... He held out a paw for me to grab, "It's what you get for sleeping in a lab instead of your bed. What do you say to this deal?"

  "...i have a bad feeling about this, but i accept your offer.."

  We shook hands and the bear let out a laugh, something rumbled in my stomach.. This was not a good feeling, it was not... I knew i just landed myself in hot shit when i woke up in the infirmary room.

  Monokuma was sitting on the bed watching me, "Get to it, kiddo. You have a class trial to attend to. You should take a few glances around before making it to the trial room. Don't worry, it's almost done and the outcome isn't very pretty..."

  "Trial?! Wait! Nobody died, did they?!"

  "I dont know--"

  "You promised to take me back to my last checkpoint?! This was not my last checkpoint!"

  "Technically this is, you did fall asleep here last. Besides, that wasn't in our deal!"

  "You have to be shitting my dick! Being knocked out isn't being asleep!"

  "You know how this game works--"

  I threw the stuffed animal off the bed and he landed on his feet with an evil smirk... I pushed myself up and looked all around the room. It was in complete fucking shambles. 'What did these crackheads do?!'

  The paper was stepped on and scattered all over the floor. My chair was tilted over and I spotted dried blood next to it... was that mine? The cabin also had blood on it. The cabinet door was opened and when I checked the area I hid the poison in, it was already gone.

  This is not good...

  I rushed out of the room and to where Sakura's body was slumped over, lifeless. This is real... I.. messed up. I couldn't save her...I wanted to tear that bear up when I saw him again.

  My feet were moving by themselves. In the direction of the elevator.

Was I going to do that? Possibly..

I pushed past my limit, I didn't have time to stand here. The trial was almost over and I opted to slide down the elevator stings myself--maybe that was faster than this. I tapped my foot to the elevator music.

  It felt like forever when the doors finally opened. I rushed out and down the small hallway. I originally was going to go to my stance but there was my face 'x'ed out. I rushed to the center and pointed my finger at the bear, "You mother fucker! I'm not dead!"

  I kicked the stand over as the entire trial room was in shock. I guess I would be too if I was in their position. Chihiro latched onto my side, his eyes were red and puffy..

  "Y/N?! Y-You're alive?!" Aoi gasped, her hands clasped over her mouth. Her eyes were also puffy and red. No way everyone was just crying.

  "What?" Mondo looked as if he almost fainted.

  "I... need to breathe, can we call it a recess?!"

  Kyoko agreed with Makoto, their eyes bugged out. "I second that thought."

  "It's good that you finally returned to us, Y/N." Byakuya hummed, "Chihiro needs you."

  "It's almost as if you've adopted him." Celestia giggled.

(A/N: I love whoever commented that Y/N
and Chihiro were basically a married
couple. You have no idea T-T)

  "We're just really close-- wait-- did you say him?"

  "A lot has happened..." She hid behind her hands.

  "Chihiro decided to come out with the secret himself, I'm so proud of him." Mondo whipped his tears from his cheek. Huh, would you look at that. Looks like some things just come out on their own. "We also figured out that Toko was Genocide Jack and one hard hit on the head from Toko we figured out that Celestia' accient is a fake! Her actual name was--"

  "D-Dont tell my b-business like that?!"

  "Shut up you swine!" The gambler actually stuck up the middle finger at him.

  "Your gig is basically up! Why do you insist on acting like that?!"

  "Why must you ruin my fun?!"

  "I know we're all glad that Y/N came back and all, but we still have a trial to get through. We're not that far along, but so far we basically have Aoi to blame for the Murder of Sakura." Kyoko looked at me.

     "Hold on... Aoi? That's so...that's a weird turn of events, are you guys sure it's Aoi?" I looked over at the ultimate swimmer. She looked as if she were going to have a breakdown in the next five minutes.

    Kyoko hummed, "I'm not convinced it's actually her."

  Byakuya tilted his glasses, "You're still not convinced? You're not about to claim she wouldn't kill a close friend, are you?....Ha, you still don't get it, do you? The game we're playing here isn't so kind. Honeyed words like friendship don't matter here. What matters is outwitting the opponent, defeating them... Not a person alive would sacrifice themselves for another. In the end, we're all in it for ourselves. Just like how this girl sacrificed Sakura...to save herself"

  "That's... just out of character for Aoi." I sighed. "Hold on, don't get the wrong idea. I'm not saying it because of some misguided sentimentalism. But there's still that one unsolved mystery, and I'm not convinced."

  It looked as if everyone was lost, Makoto asked "Are you talking about the locked room problem?"

  "Hina...if you really are the killer, explain it. How did you create that locked room?"

  Aoi looked confused, it took her a while to actually respond. "H-How do you know about the locked room? W-Well...Th-That doesn't matter! Just cuz I'm guilty, that means I have to tell you everything!?

  "No, it doesn't. But the fact that you won't tell us is kinda weird—."

  "Surely you're not--do you honestly think Hina didn't actually kill her?" Byakuya's eyes twitched.

  Kyoko finally snapped, "And if I do?"

  "Impossible. She switched out the mixtures. She's the culprit. There's no way you can doubt this."

  "Are you sure about that? Even ignoring the fact that I don't want to believe it...it just doesn't fit." Makoto butted in.

  "What doesn't fit?" Byakuya raged.

  "I mean...why would someone leave such a clear clue like a footprint? It's too...obvious. Too easy."

  "He's right. It makes it look like you wanted people to suspect you" Aoi explained to the group that she didn't know she left a footprint. Kyoko paused, " Listen, Hina... Could you go into a bit more detail? Tell us more about when you switched the poison and the protein."

  "H-How come! That doesn't matter!"

  "Please...for sakura?" I begged the ultimate swimmer. She crumbled under our pressure.

  "F-Fine... W-Well... Right away I went to section C, and got the poison. That's when I spilled the power on the front part of the shelf...when I opened the bottle, I dropped it like an idiot. So then I moved to section A and got the protein powder, and that's where I switched them. Once I was done with that I took the protein can that had the poison in it and left the room. But I accidentally put the bottle filled with protein powder back on the wrong shelf. And because of that, everything I did got found out. And...that's it."

  I watched the group unfold, things were falling into place. I hadn't noticed Chihiro was still clasped onto my hand. He played with my fingers. I explained how Sakura and I first hung out together. How I hit my head on both the cabinet and the glass bottle. I answered every question that they all threw at me. I sighed, it looked like nobody really needed my help during the trial. I just needed to let the actual main characters do their job--for the first time..

  "We have to end this properly...! This case began when Sakura asked Y/N to hang out after we all left Alter Ego. Sakura needed the potion that was in the Infirmary room--however, Y/N was in there all the time. She needed an excuse to search the room." Makoto tapped his finger on the wooden stands, getting all the information straight. "Luring Y/N into a false sense of security, she hit them on top of the head and we all assumed they bled out to death. Sakura left Y/N on the bed and searched their bag for the keys to unlock the cabinet that contained the poison. After Y/N was asleep, Sakura asked a number of people to meet her in the rec room."

  "He made sure we were all still listening, "Specifically, those people were Hiro, Toko, and Byakuya.--But one of them headed out a bit earlier than the others--Toko. She got there one step ahead of everyone else and looked around for a good hiding spot and she found it. She crawled into the locker to get out of sight. Then, from inside the locker, she saw Sakura enter the room."

  "Next to arrive was Hiro. When he got there, he mistakenly thought Sakura was going to try to kill him, so he panicked. Without thinking, he grabbed a nearby Monokuma Bottle and attacked Sakura with it. Thinking he'd killed her, he hastily began covering up his crime. He took a magazine from the table, and forged a dying message from Sakura. To that end, he wrote down a name..."

  He pointed to Tokyo, "Toko... By writing her name, he was hoping to pin the murder on her--But of course Toko had witnessed the whole thing. So as soon as the coast was clear......she jumped out of the locker and hid the magazine on the shelf with all the others. But in her rush she made one little mistake... She put the magazine back upside down. Soon after, she watched as Sakura slowly opened her eyes...She also saw the blood dripping off Sakura's head, and fainted."

  He took a deep breath, "This caused her personality to switch back over to Genocide Jack. When she woke back up, her second personality also saw the blood-soaked Sakura and she freaked out. And just like Hiro, she grabbed another Monokuma Bottle and attacked her. This explains why there were two wounds on Sakura's head. Assuming Sakura really was dead this time, she set about disposing of the evidence. She gathered up the broken Monokuma Bottle shards, and the queen chess piece. And that explains how Sakura was attacked twice with the same type of weapon."

  'Talk about bad luck...'

  "But even after those two blows, she was still alive... So then, what was Sakura's actual cause of death? It was the poison that Sakura herself got from the chem lab. She turned the rec room into a true 'locked room' scenario and then drank the deadly mixture she stole off of Y/N. There, she took her final breath... Later on, the rest of us discovered that her body was in there... We had to smash the door's window to get inside. But someone already knew what had happened, knew that she had committed suicide... And that same someone quietly snatched the bottle of poison from off the ground... ...and while nobody was looking, replaced it with an empty protein can. They did all this specifically to place all the suspicion on themselves in an attempt to guide the trial to a false conclusion. And the one who went to all that effort...was you, Hina."

  The teenage girl broke down, she started to cry. She cried so hard that her shoulders shook, but not a sound came out of her mouth.

  "That's the full truth of the case..." Celestia sighed, "Sakura...took her own life. And you claimed to be the killer to hide that fact..."

  "That's...what happened?--But...Makoto, how did you--? How did you manage to--? How were you able to uncover the truth...that even I couldn't discern!?" Byakuya looked as if he was going to have another mental breakdown.

  "You still haven't realized? We don't all act according to calculations and cost-benefit diagrams. That's what makes us so complicated. That's what you don't understand, and that's why you couldn't solve this case." Kyoko used Byakuya's own line against him.

  "Gh--!"

  "See? Didn't I tell you? When you dismiss other people's feelings, it'll always come back to bite you in the end."

  It looked as if nobody had anything else to say, monokuma allowed us to vote and my heart broke into a million pieces when I voted on Sakura's profile. It looked as if we were right in the end and everything was falling into place.

  The room erupted into chaos and--somehow a little bit of hopeful speeches. Monokuma let out a long groan, the room quilted down as Monokuma didn't stop groaning. What a drama queen, "Hmph. How boring. But nothing good can come of this. I'm still gonna be the one having a fun time!"

  "Wait-- what do you mean have fun?" I completely forgot about the punishment... But, who would get punished? There was nobody to punish?!

  "Anyway, let's forget about that good-for-nothing backstabber and get back on track! It's the moment you've all been waiting for! Punishment time!"

  "Wait, but...Sakura was technically the killer, right? And she's dead!" Toko shouted.

  "I-Is it me...?" Aoi looked as if she was going to faint.

  "Oh heavens, no! Just cuz the blackened is dead doesn't mean I can sub in whatever ol' student I want! Didn't I tell you!? I'm very particular about the "Bear-Times-One" rule! But I spent so much time preparing my special punishment, it'd be a shame to let it go to waste! So, for my special punishment...I've prepared a special guest!"

  I asked, "A special guest...?"

  "Let's give it everything we've got! It's...PUNISHMENT TIME!"

  The room dimmed and suddenly the words, 'Excavator Destroyer' was displayed on a sign before being ripped away. If I didn't read the title fast enough, I'm sure I would've missed it. The room suddenly brightened and my alter ego's face showed up on the opened laptop screen.

  "Master!"

  "Alter Ego! NO!" Chihiro tried to run onto the crime scene but I just pulled him back. "L-Let go! I need to get to Alter Ego! Please, Y/N! Please!"

  "I-It's too dangerous! Please, we can't go through this again! We can't stop any executions!" I begged the smaller boy. He sobbed and sobbed, but I couldn't let his arm go. His sobs broke my heart... He pushed me backwards and I expected him to run to Alter Ego. However he paused. Giving the computer one last glance, he rushed towards the elevator instead. I raced after him and he ducked his head into his knees.

  All I could do was comfort the smaller boy...

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Dangan-Trust Stats

Makoto Naegi — (Trust)

Kyoko Kirigiri — (???)
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Kyoko Kirigiri — (Trust)

Byakuya Togami — (Slightly Less Tense)

'Junko Enoshima' — (Neutral)

Kiyotaka Ishimaru — (Fucking Dead)

Leon Kuwata — (Deceased)

Mondo Owada— (Friendly)
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Mondo Owada — (Trust)

Chihiro Fujisaki — (Trust)
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Chihiro Fujisaki — (Newlyweds)

Aoi Asahina — (Neutral)

Sakura Ogami - (Backstabber...)

Hifumi Yamada - (Deceased)

Toko Fukawa - (????)

Yasuhiro Hagakure - (Neutral)

Sayaka Maizono - (Deceased)

Celestia Ludenberg - (Neutral)
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Celestia Ludenberg - (Friendly)

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