Falling Apart

Got me looking so crazy right now, your love's...

Me: Celeste! A-Are you okay? Let me take you to the infirmary!
Naegi: What happened?!
Me: Don't ask her now, she's in a shock state!
Celeste: It's okay...I was...Stupid...I got...Attacked...
Naegi: Attacked?! By whom?!
Celeste: I am not sure. Some sort of...Strange man.
Me: Tsk. Who do I have to kill?
Celeste: It was a suspicious person whose existence is so unusual, I can't help but call him strange. Without a doubt, it was some sort of strange suspicious individual.
Me: *raises eyebrow* I understood that the first time. What did he do?
Celeste: He attacked me, with the hammer on the ground there...

The hammer was blue, made of wood, and Justice Hammer 1 was written on it. Yes, definitely not suspicious.
Celeste, what did you get yourself into?

Celeste: I barely managed to avoid the blow, but I stumbled and fell. I now curse my lack of daily exercise...I can understand a bit more of your struggles, Raven.
Hina: Naegi! Raven! Celeste! I found Sakura!
Sakura: C-Celeste...What on Earth happened here?
Me: She was attacked by a freak. A strange man.
Sakura: Tell us everything you can remember, Celeste. Be as detailed as you can.
Celeste: Well, it all happened early this morning. I woke up a little before 7 am. Nighttime was not over yet. But I knew it was about to end, so I decided it would be okay if I decided to take a little stroll around the 1st floor. I understand now that that was a mistake. Anyway, that is where I first saw the strange man. I was immediately wary of him. He was obviously suspicious, so I decided to follow after him in secret, and I saw him go into the Rec room. I tried to perk through the gap in the door which is when he noticed me...
Sakura: And that's when you were attacked.
Celeste: It happened after 7am , just after nighttime had ended.
Sakura: Then that was just about an hour ago. Right when we were all meeting in the dining hall.
Celeste: The attack caused me to lose consciousness.
Me: That means you were unconscious for an hour. As the doctor of this group, I have to take a look at you in the Infirmary and make sure you don't have a concussion or any other wound.
Hina: I'm glad you weren't hurt too badly..
Me: Being unconscious for 1 whole hour is bad.
Celeste: That is because I begged and groveled for my life.
Sakura: You did?
Celeste: I told him I would do anything if he spared me. I offered to lick his boots, whatever it took...
Sakura: So you were willing to throw away all your pride.
Celeste: It is a necessary skill for survival. Anyway, the important thing now is that we go search for the suspicious individual. If we do not hurry, it could be a serious problem.
Naegi: What do you mean?
Celeste: The suspicious man was not alone. He had with him...Yamada.
Me: Piggy?
Celeste: After he attacked me, he dragged Yamada away...
Sakura: Yamada was kidnapped?
Hina: Shouldn't we start looking for him? Did anything in particular stand out about this guy?

Instead of trying to explain, she took out the pink camera that belonged to Piggy, and showed us a most peculiar picture of Yamada being in a choke-hold by a...Robot.
Justice Robot.
Ahhh...This is disappointing...
She chose her allies so wrong...

So, the robot went to the 2nd Floor, where Kyouko was investigating, but as soon as we left the Rec room, we found Byakuya and Genocider. Thankfully, Naegi explained the situation fast and Hina shouted after the 2 lost ones.
With their super hearing, Sakura and Hina said they found something from the Library, so there we headed.

And indeed, Yamada was there, looking half-unconscious and in pain, with blood dripping from his head.
On the ground, Justice Hammer 2, bigger than the other one, was there.
And Togami, after seeing the picture, was just as confused as me by it.
So, we finally went to the Infirmary, so I could do a check up on Celeste...And Yamada...
Celeste had no wound. No trace of any pain or external wound.
Nothing.
But I looked her in the eyes emotionlessly, and got some the tools I'd use for a real wound.
It had to look real.
At least these idiots were discussing about the potential 3rd hammer.

Piggy: Well, I woke up early this morning and started looking Alter Ego ahead of everyone else. I went to the 3rd floor, and that's where the strange man attacked me.
Celeste: That must be what I witnessed at around 7 this morning.
Piggy: Then, he dragged me to the library and WHACK! Down came the hammer. That must've been...30 or 40 minutes ago.

She was supposed to have been unconscious by then...

Hina: At around 7:30 in other words...We would've still been in the dining hall.
Naegi: Then Hina, Sakura, Raven, Kyouko and I have alibis.
Togami: I was in the laundry room, doing my laundry.
Toko: His black underwear is as black as the pitch-black darkness of the blackest night...
Togami: Why do you know that?
Toko: Isn't it obvious? 'Cuz I was peeking!
Me: How ironic.The White Knight has Pitch Black underwear.
Toko: Don't talk about MY Knight's underwear!
Me: Right...

Then, we discussed about Kyouko's disappearance, and Taka's and Hiro's...Nonexistence.
But hey, Togami thinks Kyouko is the Spy.
Stupid Lemon.

Yamada stayed behind while we went out looking for the others.
But just as we left, Celeste let out a squeak and looked frightened, while showing us the way of a shadow, to which everyone shot after.
Then, Celeste and I remained behind to scream if we see anything suspicious.

Me: *sighs*
Celeste: What is it, my dear? Are you not happy to be with me?
Me: Was this whole show really necessary?
Celeste: I thank thee for the cover up with the wound. It was really convincing.
Me: Should have searched for your allies better...
Celeste: I couldn't think of involving you in my plan.
Me: Yet, you indirectly did, and you are very aware of that.
Celeste: *smiles* Is this the power of love?
Me: . . . Perhaps it is. Perhaps it's my desperation. However...You know I wouldn't betray you.
Celeste: I am aware.
Me: I volunteered to help you. To save you. To get you out of here. So why did you go with...Him? Of all people?!
Celeste: He was too naïve and easy to fool.
Me: Justice Robo, Celeste? Really?
Celeste: *giggles* It is quite puerile, what can I say.
Me: Just-...
Yamada: *running past us*
Celeste: This is my signal~. DOOYAAAHHHH!
me: *facepalms* Oh, Celeste...This has crossed the line between rational and ridiculous.
Celeste: *winks* Anything for survival.
Me: I wonder...

As everyone came by, we explained how the strange man came around and ran down the hall. As if on cue, Yamada screamed from downstairs.
We split into 2 groups, that Celeste made.
And she put me in the Capture Party, with Togami, Sakura and Fukawa.
Great way to put us apart, to share vital information for her survival.
And what we found, was Taka's body in the Physics lab's annex door.
He was laying on the ground, on a pool of his own blood, with a strike to the head dripping with blood.

I immediately go next to the body and start doing my corpse-examining, just as before. By the time Sakura and Togami arrived, Toko fainted at the sight of blood.
And that bloody Justice Hammer 4 is there too, defying me.
After telling them the minimum they needed to know, we went back to meet with the others, but half-way, Celeste greeted us...With news of Yamada's demise. And body disappearance.

The clues left behind by Mr. Piggy are too obvious though. They are going to find out sooner or later. Especially after Taka's body disappeared too. Making everyone feel confused and frustrated.
And the prime suspect is that brain-dead Hiro.

This. Is. Frustrating.

And the 2 bodies were soon found in the repository. The Art Room's Annex.
How wonderful.
Hina was crying as she put Yanada's head on her lap, when he magically sprung back to life, whispering his last words.

"Y-Yasu...hi...ro..."

Yasuhiro?
. . .
Don't tell me...
Gah. Pathetic.
Hiro was being suspected, Kyouko was being suspected, we got the Monokuma File. Problem is, I can't really dispose of the clues...

*After the Investigation*

The Class Trial is about to start, and Celeste has no worries in the world.

Got me looking so crazy right now (in love).

I swear, the way I am right now, is like a homeless puppy trailing after her rescuer...
Unbelievable.

And she managed to make everyone believe Hiro is the killer. With evidence.

Celeste: The blueprints, the suit parts, they are all proof enough that you are the culprit.
Hiro: I-I-I don't know anything about that stuff! It's not true! It's a conspiracy!
Me: You hid all this time behind your brain-dead innocent façade...You managed to fool us all.
Hina: Why did you kill them?
Hiro: No! Just hold on a second!
Me: You don't have that much anymore.
Naegi: Are we really sure Hiro really made those blueprints?
Celeste: What do you mean..?
Naegi: Well, look at this. It's the note that Hiro wrote asking everyone to meet up after Alter Ego disappeared. The handwriting is obviously different't, wouldn't you say? When you compare it to the blueprints...
Kyouko: There's no way you could think the same person did them both.
Me: As if it's difficult to change the writing style.
Sakura: No, the differences are bigger than that, I think.
Hiro: Come on, I'm not smart enough to think of trying to change my handwriting anyway!
Me: Or maybe you had us all fooled.
Hina: So Naegi...Are you saying you don't think Hiro is the culprit?
Togami: And he's not the only one. I think Hagakure is innocent as well.
Naegi: What...?
Hina: Then who was in that Robo Justice suit? Is it like Hiro said? Was there really someone running around in that suit?
Togami: The suspicious individual hidden within the suit...Go ahead, Naegi, tell them who it was.
Naegi: Other than Hiro...I can't think of anyone else. Obviously he was the one in that particular suit, and there's no second suit...
Togami: Then there can be no doubt. Hagakure is the prime suspect.
Hina: That doesn't make sense!
Togami: It makes perfect sense. Hakagure was the suspicious individual in the suit, but he's not the culprit.
Sakura: You're saying...?
Togami: Yes. The culprit has nothing to do with being in the Robo suit.
Syo: That's a bold assumption!
Celeste: And what reason do you have to make such a statement? You do have a reason, yes?
Togami: Of course. But before we get to that...We need to clarify something first.
Me: Which is?
Togami: Taka's lifeless body's method of transportation. It would seem it was moved using certain peculiar items.
Me: Yeah yeah. The dolly and the tarp. What about them? It was used so it wouldn't leave bloodstains and easy transportation. But clues were left behind. That means the culprit is clumsy.
Naegi: Yes, the dolly was in the equipment room when we found Taka's body.
Celeste: Are you sure you're not mistaken? Are you absolutely positive it was there when we found his body? That dolly was specifically made for moving large objects between repository and the art room. It would be very strange indeed to discover it had made its way to the equipment room.
Me: Hmm...That's a good argument.
Celeste: Maybe it was in the repository all along, and you simply didin't realise it.
Me: I personally can't say I paid attention to its existence. Don't tell me you did, Naegi?
Celeste: There is no shame in being wrong. Nobody expects much from you, anyway. We have all accepted the fact that you rarely understood what is going on around you. You fool. Away with you! So pathetic...You have it wrong.

Too much, Celeste...Don't draw unnecessary attention to yourself...

Naegi: The proof is simple. When I found the dolly in the repository, one of the wheels had a bloodstain on it. There was a pool of blood in the equipment room with a tire mark that matched the wheel's tread.
Me: That's the epitome of clumsiness a culprit can do. Are you sure it's not that dumbass?
Celeste: *bored*
Me: This was a waste of time.
Togami: I'd be happy to explain why the occupant of the suit couldn't possibly be the killer.
Me: Great thing you volunteered, Togami. Enlighten us.
Togami: Tsk. As we know, Taka was killed in the Equipment room. And from there, the body was moved to the repository, correct?
Me: What if that was a trap or a mislead? Maybe Taka was carried somehow, like with the tarp, and the dolly was used to confuse us.
Togami: Regardless, the dolly doesn't have a handle.
Hina: Then you'd just have to bend over?
Me: Or kick it. Push it with your leg.
Naegi: That's true, but you couldn't do that while wearing the suit. You can't see your feet, nor bend at the waist. Am I right?
Me: The work of an idiot. How many idiots we know around?
Syo: What if the killer just took of his suit?
Naegi: You can't take it off by yourself. It had a sturdy clasp.on the back. You couldn't take it off by yourself. Showing up in that suit was basically an invitation for everyone to suspect him.
Me: And it worked. The whole ordeal is a fool's crime scene. One would think an idiot designed it.
Hiro: Y-Yeah! That's right!
Sakura: Then, whoever moved the body, couldn't have been Hiro?
Me: What about the proof Celeste caught on camera?
Celeste: You all got a good look at it, did you not? The image of Yamada being dragged away by Robo Justice?
Me: That'd make sense. You can't explain it otherwise. And remember what Yamada's last words were?
Celeste: As long as those words exist, the culprit and the one in the suit are the same. Hiro, without a doubt.
Kyouko: It's far too early to reach a conclusion. There's no need to hurry and decide. Shouldn't we first explore every single possibility first? The truth is uncovered by analyzing things from every angle.

We took the story over for discussion, trying to find any clues or hints.

Kyouko: I wonder if Taka died before Yamada. Or maybe after?
Me: Don't we already know the order? The Monokuma announcement order?
Hina: And the numbering of the Justice Hammers!
Naegi: But there's no reason to assume the hammers were used in the same order as their numbers. It may just be another way for the killer to disguise their actions.
Togami: Then, Taka was killed before Yamada?
Naegi: Taka's wristwatch! See? It broke with the hands pointing just past 6am.
Kyouko: Must have gotten broken when he was attacked by the killer.
Me: Was his watch even working yesterday?
Kyouko: Yes. Last night, past 10pm, it was working.
Naegi: So that's the official time of death.
Me: So we've been deceived from the very beginning. But we all have alibis for Yamada's death.
Sakura: Since all of us were together, clearly none of us could have killed him.
Me: Talk about the perfect crime.
Celeste: And it does not stop there. There was also the moment when we discovered his body had disappeared. When his body vanished from the nurse's office, Hina and I were in the bathroom together, while everyone was in the equipment room, correct?
Me: Then it'd be impossible for any of us to do it.
Celeste: And then, there's the disappearance of Taka's body from the equipment room. At that time, we were all gathered together in the nurse's office because of Yamada going missing.
Syo: And I was passed out the whole time!
Hiro: What if Genocider did it?
Togami: Even if she could pull that off, there's no way she could have done the same with Yamada's body.
Me: I really doubt anyone could move that Piggy anyways.
Celeste: Hiro and Kyouko had disappeared, however, so they most certainly could have done those things.
Kyouko: For now, we can't get fixated on who did it, or we'll just keep going in circles. Instead of who, I propose we start talking about how. In particular, we need to figure out how Yamada's body got moved.
Me: We found no evidence regarding this one, did we? And again, he'd be too heavy to carry around.
Naegi: His body apparently disappeared in the one minute her and Hina took their eyes off of it. But to carry that much weight from 1st floor up to the 3rd in that short amount of time...
Kyouko: What if I told you there was a way?
Hina: Huh? How?
Kyouko: Raven, you should be the one to know best.
Me: . . . The body moved by itself...
Hina: Say what?!
Hiro: N-N-No! Not another gh-gh-gh-ghoooooossssttt!!
Togami: You're implying that we thought Yamada was dead, but perhaps in reality he was still alive.
Hina: Alive?! But didn't Raven check his pulse?
Togami: Did she, now?
Me: Tsk. Don't blame me for a false diagnostic! It's really difficult to take the pulse of a person with that worrying amount of fat. Especially around his veins. It's almost impossible to check it accurately!
Togami: Good thing you sticked to corpses.
Me: Next time you become a medicine expert and get a Ph.D in first aid and forensics, contact me, otherwise you are in no position to belittle me, you uncultured swine!
Togami: *shocked* Uncultured...Swine?

Got me looking so crazy right now,your touch...

Celeste: That is, however, impossible. Haven't we all heard the body discovery announcement? Hifumi's dead body had been found. It's so mean of you to doubt your friend, Togami-kun. Raven's diagnostics are always accurate. She's an Ultimate, after all.
Kyouko: But what if the announcement was for someone else's body discovery?
me: Then, you say it was actually Taka's announcement played at a perfect time, to confuse us?
Togami: If there were 2 dead bodied, there would have been 2 announcements.
me: But what if Monokuma thought it wouldn't be necessary to announce twice?
Togami: Monokuma,what do you say?
Monokuma: It's a very sensitive issue, so I can't go into too much detail, but what I can say about the body discovery announcement is that it's only broadcast when 3 or more people find a dead body for the first time!
Togami: Then, even if we found the same body later, he won't announce it again. Then, why was the announcement made again later on?
Syo: Later on?
Naegi: Exactly, we heard the announcement twice.
Naegi: The 2nd announcement was heard in the repository when we rediscovered the 2 bodies. It contradicts what Monokuma just told us, doesn't it?
Togami: If we were actually rediscovering both bodies, the announcement shouldn't have been played
Naegi: Then, one of the bodies was being discovered for the first time!
Sakura: Then, when we found Hifumi in the nurse's office, he wasn't dead.
Celeste: That's preposterous! If you compare his boy before and after being moved, there is no chance in how it was positioned. No notable difference.
Naegi: No, that's wrong!

Busted...

Naegi: Actually, the clue is his glasses. That proves the theory.
Celeste: Perhaps you'd like to fill the rest of us in?
Naegi: Hifumi's glasses were covered in blood when we found him in the nurse's office, but later, they are clean. And the cleaning cloth used to clean his glasses was in the trash, in the nurse's office. It featured a certain mascot and had blood on it. It's the same mascot as on his digital camera.

me: Okay fine, then this makes it obvious that he was alive and he faked his death there, then moved his body and whatever. Obviously neither Togami or Fukawa would use that garbage. But what if the killer cleaned his glasses to throw us off the rails?
Sakura: Doubt it would benefit them much.
Hina: Then what was with all the blood?
Kyouko: Raven answered this question on our first day here, right?
me: Yeah...There are blood packs in the fridge in the nurse's office. He must have opened them and...Urgh,what a waste.
Syo: He just dumped it everywhere! God, what an idiot!
Kyouko: Then, the disappearance of Taka's body is easily explained.
Naegi: That also explains how the door to the repository got locked. And it can only be locked from inside.
me: Okay that means Piggy killed Taka. But how?
Naegi: Yamada had this stuffed in his pants.

Kyouko found the note that had to lure Hagakure out of his room. And a similar note was given to Taka.
So Celeste persuaded Piggy to kill Taka, and blame Hagakure. Heh, what a plan...
So Kyouko and Naegi got all the evidence and proved the connection. That's a bother.

Got me looking so crazy right now (your touch)

me: Okay, Naegi, that proves everything. But who killed Piggy?
Togami: None of us have alibis for his death.
Hiro: Something bothers me though! The weapon they used to kill Yamada!
me: Justice hammer whatever?
Hiro: Yeah, wouldn't it be dangerous for the killer to use the Justice hammers in the nurse's office, all the way to the repository, and then put them back? In that Monokuma file it says they were killed using similar instruments.
me: Maybe there's a Justice Hammer 5000 that you haven't found. Stop being ridiculous!
Celeste: So the question is how could the culprit get the hammers? No idea.
Hina: Celeste
was attacked with which hammer?
Naegi: Doubt either was big enough to kill anyone.
Togami: A different weapon maybe?
Me: Couldn't be. The Monokuma file says something clear. Doubt it was either 3 or 4, so a 5 must have been hidden somewhere. Nobody saw the culprit running around, right?
Naegi: Actually, it
was something completely different.
me: Excuse me, what? Didn't you hear what I just said? The file says something you can't contradict!
Naegi: Yes, but the hammer from the repository could have been easily used by the killer. All the hammers there were dirty, except one that was scrubbed clean.
me: Yes, and? Could have been scrubbed clean of anything.
Naegi: But what if the killer cleaned the blood off of it, after killing Yamada?
me: So, you say that all the Justice Hammers were from there. That sounds so stupid...
Celeste: I still think it's strange to assume someone was working together with him.
me: True. There would be no benefit in Piggy being an accomplice. He'd just die. Or put the killer in danger. So it makes no sense. There's no benefit for the accomplice either.
Kyouko: If there'd only been one murder, then yes, an accomplice wouldn't work.
me: Then Piggy killed Taka, and the killer killed him back, huh? 2 killers, 2 people being able to escape. That doesn't sound right.
Togami: The killer simply killed their accomplice, to avoid that rule. Then, betraying Yamada was the plan all along.
me: I think it's a brilliantly well-thought plan. But their choice of accomplice...Could be better.
Togami: I can't help but admire their cunning.
Sakura: Then who is the mastermind?
me: I can't think of anyone that would work with someone as repulsing as Piggy. Can we really afford to think of a potential mastermind now, with no evidence? Haven't we just scratched the surface of the 1st murder?
Togami: You're being awfully wrong and shaky, don't you think, Raven?
me: Me? Mind your own business, Togami! Oh wait, you can't, because you're trapped here and can't stop being a nuisance!
Togami: Did you really mistake Yamada being dead? Avoid all the important pieces of evidence? You, who was always first in finding out the truth about each murder?
me: I make mistakes too, I am human! I-I haven't slept well last night, and I'm just tired! It happens!
Togami: But is that all there is to it?
me: And what are you insinuating, Togami? That I wasn't active in this Trial because I am the culprit?
Togami: I do remember you being quite keen on manipulating others. Making Ishimaru bring you hot beverages, or having Oowada carry you around?
me: Th-They were just being nice and helping me out! I d-didn't do it on purpose!
Togami: Didn't you?
me: I'm not the suspicious individual! It's a stupid joke! Only the idea of staying around that greasy, brainless pervert makes me want to go off myself! Don't you use that brain of yours at all? YOU REPULSE ME!
Hina: Raven...?
me: *shocked* O-Oh...I-I'm sorry for my...Umm..Outburst...
Celeste: I'm not doubting your judgement, but is there any supporting evidence?
Togami: The way she has been acting all that, not only during the investigation. Less talkative, more defensive of the killer, no investigating whatsoever and so on.
Kyouko: Actually, Togami-kun, Raven is not the killer.
me: Kyouko...?
Togami: Explain yourself.
Kyouko: I see why you would think Raven did it, especially because all killers so far have gotten defensive and shaky, when cornered. Stuttering, sweating, shaking, trying to find excuses. But there is someone else that is more likely to be the culprit, and that is...
Naegi: Celeste. The behaviour both she and Yamada had in common has to do with the suspicious individual in the suit, right? Only the 2 of them saw Robo Justice.
Togami: Shush. Adults are talking.
Naegi: S-Sorry...
Kyouko: As he said, only Celeste and Yamada ever laid eyes on the costumed individual.

Togami: Then, if Yamada is the first culprit, Celeste is the other one.
me: I don't think that's okay!
Togami: Do you remember what Celeste said? Then, we moved according to what she claimed to be true.

Togami then explained how we've all been deceived by Celeste, step by step, in perfect detail. Even Naegi jumped in with remarks.

Celeste: *smiles* I have no idea what you're trying to say.
Togami: Don't bother trying to deny it. You made one fatal mistake. You didn't even realize it when you said it.

I was becoming more and more stressed. I can't let Celeste be caught, but they got all the evidence to prove she is guilty.
"...we are going to die, just like those guys died..."
My face paled and my breathe hitched in my throat. Togami must have seen that, for he smirked at me patronizing.
That mistake...She wasn't supposed to know Taka died or that it was a male, nonetheless, and not Kyouko...So no male plural forms...
And the camera evidence is the last thing that accused her.

me: NO!!! That's preposterous! It's impossible! Ridiculous! It just CAN'T be! It be Hagakure!
Celeste: It is, indeed, ridiculous. As you can see in the picture, the suspect is standing perfectly upright. If the person inside the suit
was unconscious, there's no way the could stay straight.
Naegi: That's wrong. Robo Justice suit couldn't bend at waist. They specially designed and stuffed Hiro into it. That's how they were able to fake the whole thing. The point of it was to make us believe that whoever was in the suit was to blame.

That was the last thing, before Celeste snapped.

Celeste: Don't make me laugh, you idiot! Checkmate?
Hina: Celeste...?
Celeste: Clearly, you
want to cram me into your little "guilty" box. There's one little problem!
me: Exactly! Have you forgotten what Hifumi told us as he was dying? His last words? YASUHIRO! That is Hagakure's name!
Celeste: It's clear, isn't it?
Hiro: But my name isn't really Yasuhiro, it's Taro!
me: BULLSHIT!
Kyouko: But is it really Hiro?
Celeste: I'll burn you alive! The hell are you talking about?!
Kyouko: Think back to how Yamada used to talk. How did he refer to each of us?
Naegi: That's right! Our last names!
me: Yes, and?
Kyouko: If he'd want to say Hiro's name, he'd have said Hagakure.
me: Nobody's name is Yasuhiro. Must have been an accident! Just a dying glitch.
Naegi: So Yamada
was trying to tell us his killer's name?
Sakura: But that name doesn't apply to anyone here, does it?
Naegi: There are 2 people who could apply to...
Kyouko: Only one, actually. Raven, clear your case. Tell us why it can't be you?
me: *bites lip*
Kyouko: You told me this before.
me: Because I have officially changed my Japanese name into an English one...Because I studied in Europe...A-And I was embarrassed w-with my name...And Th-They couldn't pronounce it..Th-That's why...
Kyouko: And obviously, Yamada wouldn't have known your secret.
me: Only Monokuma did, apparently...And you.
Naegi: Then, Celeste's real name...?
Celeste: Enough with your idiotic blather! Yasuhiro is a loser's name! Do I look like a loser to you?! DO I?! I THINK I'VE EARNED THE RIGHT TO BE A LITTLE ON EDGE!

Naegi: Then what's your real name?
Celeste: Fine! Make sure your ear holes are wiiiiiiiiiide open and listen up! MY real name is CELESTIA LUDENBERG! Could you PLEASE stop making me repeat myself over and over again?!
Naegi: Your e-Handbook. Any time you turn it on, it shows the owner's name.
Celeste: That's an invasion of privacy! I-I refuse to cooperate!

Naegi started telling everyone how the murders took place.

Celeste: Yasuhiro Taeko. I'm the kind of person, once I've lost, I don't like things to drag on.
me: NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! This can't be true! I
can't accept this! I won't accept this!
Celeste: *smiles* Raven, please calm down. It's the end.

Even when I had to vote, I was shaking and had to hold the bar, so I wouldn't fall.
My world was crumbling down.
I was so pathetic, that Celeste had to put her hand over mine and help me vote for her.
I just...Can't...

Celeste: I lost...That sucks...I guess Raven was right, after all. I chose my ally rather odd. Yamada's ineptitude was beyond all my calculations.
Kyouko: It did seem rather suspicious, but having spent so much time together, I suppose Raven suspected you from the beginning, didn't she?
Celeste: Smart cookie, this one. Sniffed me out since the very beginning. That's how empaths work, they just feel a disorder in one's aura.
Kyouko: How did you get him to agree?
Celeste: I knew you'd find out, Kyouko. I used her. It was the one thing both Yamada and Taka were super into.
Monokuma: Huuuh?
Kyouko: Don't interrupt. Then, you're the one who stole it?
Celeste: That's right.

Celeste started telling her mastermind manipulating technique for both both Taka and Yamada, while she was hugging me from behind, as if I was a broken doll.


Celeste: I wanted to get out of here more than anyone else here! You know why? 'Cause I had a dream. And staying here would have killed that dream. In the underground world of gambling, I risked my life to make a metaphorical killing.
Naegi: Your dream...What was it?
Celeste: To live in a European castle. I told Raven just yesterday that I'd want to live with her in a nice, European castle, surrounded by handsome men from all over the world to serve as my butlers/bodyguards. I was going to make them dress up like vampires and satisfy my every need. I would have created a perfectly aesthetic world of decadence. That's what life is all ABOUT! Combined with my own winnings, this would have made the dream a reality. Unfortunately, my dream has been scattered to the wind. But I don't have any regrets. I pursued my dream till the very end, so why should I?

I started crying. Hearing her lose her hope and her voice being disappointed... Her dreams crushed...

me: You won't die...You can't die...W-We will fulfill that dream of yours...Together...
Celeste: Still, I have to say, I'd almost feel bad about killing you. You could have turned me in, but you didn't. You truly cared for me, which is admirable. *smiles* I can only say that you are the first person to rank A in my friend ranking.
me: I-I..Wh-Wha..I...J-Ju..St...C-Celeste...D-Don't...Leave me...
Celeste: *giggles* Don't cry, silly, your pretty face will be ruined. Togami-kun won't look at a weak girl, you know?
me: I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT! Celeste, I can't lose you! I love you! CELESTE!
Celeste: *smirks* Even if you knew that I was playing you, you can still say so beautifully that you love me? From that little precious heart of yours?
me: You know I don't lie, Celeste. An empath cannot lie about her feelings. And I know that, despite caring naught about human life...You weren't fully playing me. Otherwise, you wouldn't have told me I was so high up your rank! Just admit it, you'd have liked to live your dream together, am I right?
Celeste: Perhaps you are not as wrong as I want to make myself believe. But now, that reality is over, and there is only one road ahead of you.
me: You can't leave me! Let me die with you! I don't care, I shouldn't have been alive anyways! Monokuma, you can kill me too-

She silenced me with a deep kiss, then wiped my tears, and chuckled, pushing me gently into Togami's hands.

Got me hoping you'll page me right now, your kiss

Celeste: To have been so cruel to you, as to be not only your first crush, and reason to live, but also steal your first kiss, I should really apologize for crushing you, dear. And to Togami-kun as well, for I stole that opportunity for him. *giggles* Take care of her for me, will you~?
me: DON'T DO IT!
Celeste: If I were to be reincarnated, I think I'd like to come back as Marie Antoinette. Dear, you'd have been a splendid Sissi. Exceptional Empress.

me: NOOO!!!
Monokuma: Then, I've prepared a very special punishment for the Ultimate Gambler!


As he said that, I ran to Celeste and fell on my knees in front of her, hugging her tightly.

me: DON'T LEAVE ME! LET ME COME WITH YOU!
Celeste: Don't be silly~!
me: PLEASE!
Celeste: Togami-kun, please, take care of her. Don't let her auto-destruct.
Togami: That's your fault, entirely. Taking care of a ticking bomb that you set, why should I?
Celeste: *smirks* You know very well why.
Monokuma: Let's give it everything we've got! It's...PUNISHMENT TIIIIME!

Having heard that, Celeste handed Kyouko the keys to where the laptop was hidden, before she was taken away.

GAME OVER
CELESTE HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY

Got me hoping you'll save me right now

Celeste tried to push me away, as the hook came and took her, making me fall on the ground, staring hopelessly. Then, I started running and stumbling over my feet, trying to reach her, only, as she was put at the stake, about to get burnt alive, I was blocked, because of the high fences.
All I could do was watch, as she was accepting her fate, like a witch during the Salem trials...
Only to be ruined by a firetruck.
Yes.
MY Celeste got killed in the most ordinary way.
A FIRETRUCK.

Barely able to contain my anger, I make my way back to where the trial took place, and everyone was still shocked. Not sure if it was because of me or the execution, but it didn't matter anymore.

me: Mark my words, you stupid bear. I will NOT die. No matter what you do, I will NOT die and I will DEFEAT you. Hope will prevail and you will fail. I'm DONE playing games. This is outright RIDICULOUS!
Monokuma: But why are you threatening a poor fluffy bear like me~?
me: The one controlling you...The mastermind...Oho...They will have a LOT to pay. And I will make sure of it.
Monokuma: By weeping like a little kid?
me: *smirks* Oh no. Far from that. I'm so over this...You couldn't even let her have a unique death. You disgust me. You REPEL me. My brother will save us...He will bring hope here for sure! You CANNOT win!
Monokuma: Upupupupuuu~! I wonder about that~!
me: Not only for Celeste, but for everyone else...I will stop this. By any means necessary!

Looking so crazy in love's,

I made my way to my room, but just as I opened the door, I was pushed inside. Turning around, I was met with the annoyed face of the blond heir.

me: Annoyed doesn't suit you. You'll get wrinkles.
Togami: Can you stop faking for once?
me: I...Wasn't faking that.
Togami: Did you seriously try to kill everyone, INCLUDING yourself, for one who manipulated you?
me: You saw everything happen, didn't you?
Togami: How utterly stupid can you be?
me: As you just saw...Beyond limits of imagination.
Togami: And even beyond that.
me: *chuckles* I...Even if I apologize, it wouldn't make much difference. I knew you'd find out anyways. The idea was good, but the plan was the worst thing in the world. I did tell her, but she wouldn't listen.
Togami: Keh. Disgusting.
me: I know. You have all the right to say that.
Togami: Of course I do!
me: I don't get why you're so worked up, though. You also knew that it wasn't Hagakure, and you did suspect Celeste. Nobody, except her, would have died. And you are not the one who's been emotionally hurt.
Togami: Emotions are for the weak.
me: Are you sure you want to tell that to an Empath? I can feel your aura, Byakuya. I know you hide it behind this thick wall of hate, arrogance, superiority and so on. But deep down, I know...I FEEL that you're not exactly okay. You're worrying.
Togami: SHUT UP! You're just saying things you assume. You've been reading too much psychological crap, and you think you know everyone around you!

He was getting worked up and fuming, as if I insulted the whole Togami clan, so I did the only thing I knew.
I hugged him.
I hugged him tightly, slightly rubbing his back, and trying to soothe him.

Togami: The hell are you-
me: It's okay. Calm down. No need to get worked up over nothing. It's just me, after all. I'm nothing important.
Togami: *red* You're talking rubbish.
me: *smiles* Do you want to spend the night here?
Togami: Huh?!
me: This way we could get to know each other. You will know that I'm not lying,
Togami: You tried to kill me.
me: I didn't. I told you, in my heart, I wanted to stay with Celeste, but I knew that couldn't happen. That's why, I decided let it all...Just...Happen. She wanted an escape, we wanted more areas unlocked...It fits, doesn't it? In the end, she unwillingly sacrificed herself, and 2 others, for us. Ironic, isn't it?
Togami: That's just your way of seeing murder.
me: Everything has more than one
perspective. Everything is a pigment of our imagination, and each brain works differently.
Togami: Psychoanalysis won't make me not hate you.

me: I was so bad to you, that I made you hate me? Not even on decent terms? Ah...That's disappointing. Then fine, if you don't want to stay over and have a pleasant chat, then by all means, you can leave...Even if you were the one who came into MY room.*winks* Oh, I wonder what Toko would say about this...
Togami: D-Don't bring that filth into the conversation!
me: Struck a nerve~?
Togami: I'll stay, but you better not bore me, peasant.
me: *smirks* Not all of us have the privilege to be born patricians, dear Byakuya~.
Togami: Don't use my first name so casually!
me: Oh, slip of the tongue~. Do excuse me, your majesty.
Togami: You're even more annoying than that trash.
me: Am I, really? At least I don't smell like one.
Togami: Vanilla and Lavender again.
me: Sweet of you to notice.

I stand on my tippy toes, took his glasses off, hanging them from my shirt neck, and put my hands on his cheeks, making him look straight into my eyes. Blue eyes into blue eyes. This way, you can see deep into a person's soul and see their every secret, every lie...And his pupils dilated.

me: I care about you, Byakuya. And I know you do too. And so did Celeste, otherwise she wouldn't have said what she did .No need to deny it, and no need to approve it. Just know, that if anything happens, I will make sure you live through this.
Togami: There was no doubt about it, from the beginning. Of course I will live, stop trying to sound like a hero.
me: I'm anything but a hero. If I were, we'd have been out of here along time ago. All of us.

I let go of him, put his glasses on the nightstand, then went to the bathroom, to change in my nightgown, and went to stay on the bed. He raised an eyebrow, looking at me skeptically.

Togami: And you want us to share a bed?
me: Don't tell me you are...Embarrassed? You never had a sleepover, am I right?
Togami: I don't have time for such mundane things. I have my own business to take care of.
me: Here you have no business,
so why not try to relax? Lay down with me.
Togami: Your proposition sounds awfully-
me: Really ,Byakuya? Do you take me for Fukawa? Don't be a disappointment.
Togami: *mutters* I bet she'd kill to be in your place right now.
me: She'd die from excitement before she got to change. Really now, what will it take you to just relax? Do you want a back massage? I'm quite good at them. I used to massage my brother on the rare occasions when he'd come home. He is an Ultimate too, and before graduation, he was busy at office. So, when he'd come home, we'd want to stay together and spend quality time. So we'd stay on the bed, and we'd chat, as he relaxed.
Togami: Fine. Tell me more about your brother, and I'll see if I'm able to relax.

He took off his blazer and tie ,pants, slightly unbuttoned his shirt and sat on his belly on the bed.
I started massaging his tensed back muscles, telling him about my brother, Kyousuke, and how he is my hope and that I'm sure he will save me, somehow. I even told him about my childhood, our time in Europe, England, and my love for travelling and so on.
In return, he'd tell me some things about his work and his trading business that he did himself.


me: Byakuya~?
Togami: Hm..?
me: Fukawa is going to die tomorrow, if she sees us.
Togami: How immature can you be?
me: *laughs* Enough to tease her like that.
Togami: Such a kid...
me: *winks* Good night, Byakuya~.
Togami: Sure, whatever.

Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love.

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