I left the nurse office and headed to the dinning hall. I had to face them. I knew the truth and I knew what I done, but I had to face them nonetheless.

As I walked in all eyes were on me. I decided not to where my mask anymore. I didn't want to remember anymore.

Aoi: Asu! I'm happy you're here!

She ran to me hugging me.

Asu: I'm happy to see you too.

Yasuhiro: Damn, you almost sound like a dude with your voice.

A small smile appeared on my face.

Celeste: I'm happy you're okay Dear.

Yasuhiro: Yeah, you gave us a fright!

Aoi: So now there's only seven of us here...

Kyoko: Loneliness has become commonplace.

Sakura: That's true... Makoto, are you okay?

Makoto: Ah-! N-No, I'm fine...!

Aoi: Okay! In that case, let's eat till we pass out!

Yasuhiro: Whaddya mean, "In that case"?

Aoi: Well, cuz look how scary everyone looks! It's gotta be cuz you're all fighting on empty stomach, right? If you fill your belly, I'm sure you'll all cheer up! So, let's eat!

Asu: Well I have in fact not eaten in a while. With everything that happened.

Aoi: Let's fry up some fish and donuts and eat till we can't stand up!

Yasuhiro: That's like a Deep Impact style, meteor impact, extinction level event combination of foods...

Aoi: Wat!? Those are both breakfast time top sellers!

Kyoko: Still, the "till we can't stand up" part is a problem. After we're done, we need to go explore.

Sakura: That's right. Since the class trial is over, new areas should have opened up...

Kyoko: Plus, we still have him. We don't have to give in to despair just yet.

Despair... I looked at the floor... Celeste placed her hand on my shoulder.

Makoto: She's right... We have to plan ahead and think about the future!

Aoi: Yeah, yeah! Think happy thoughts! Not deathy thoughts!

Yasuhiro: Like when we're gonna get outta here, right? When this is all over... I think I wanna get reborn for serious. Er- I mean, reborn AS someone serious...

Aoi: Hey, are you okay? That sounds like something someone who's about to die would say...

Yasuhiro: I'm totally okay! I'm not gonna die! Why? Cuz there aren'T gonna be any more murders!

Celeste: What makes you think there won't be any anymore?

Yasuhiro: I predicted it last night! Since it revealed itself, there's no doubt about it!

I looked at the floor... Everyone went quiet.

Yasuhiro: Don't worry! My predictions are 30% accurate!

Aoi: That seems... really low.

Yasuhiro: Well, yeah! It's not like it's ESP or whatever. Of course I'm only gonna get it right sometimes! I told you, my fortune-telling isn't like some occult thing!

Aoi: Fortune-telling... isn't occult?

Yasuhiro: Of course not! Clairvoyance is clairvoyance! Don't put it in the same category as cattle mutilation!

Aoi: Cattle... What?

Kyoko: He's referring to an urban legend where alies abduct cows and dissect them as part of their research.

Yasuhiro: No...! You're calling it an urban legend!? As a matter of fact, it's true... As a matter of fact, it's happened to me!

Asu: What? So you mean to say your a cow and got abducted by aliens? So are you some kind of aliens that want to eat our brains.

Celeste: Asu, I think the ones that eat brains are Zombies.

Asu: I know, I was being sarcastic.

Yasuhiro: Stop laughing at me. I'll tell you the story. It all happened one day when I went to go get a hamburger... It was a place I'd never been before. They claimed their patties were 100% all beef... So I got a burger to go and headed home. And before long... the sky was fillied with a mysterious blinding light! Some crazy beam came out of nowhere and locked on to my hamburger. And as soon as the beam touched it, the burger started floating in mid-air...!

Asu: Fly high Yasuhiro's burger.

Yasuhiro: And then... Still floating there, the entire burger started coming apart! One part of it just vanished, while the rest fell back into my hand...! Do you realize what that means? It means, the burger wasn't 100% beef! It must've had some pork or something mixed in... Something like seventy percent pork and thirty percent beef, would be my guess. So I stormed back into the burger place and got up in the manager's grill. And they totally admitted it... It WASN'T 100% beef! They totally mixed in ground pork with it! Now do you see! THAT is cattle mutilation!

Makoto: I... kinda got lost halfay through...

Aoi: I can't tell if you're for the occult or against it. You stink of stupidity...

Yasuhiro: I stink of-!? How dare you!?

Aoi: Well, you do stink, though.

Yasuhiro: That's fine!

Aoi: That's fine!?

Makoto: U-Umm... anyway... I hope your prediction turns out to be true...

Yasuhiro: Well, at the very least, *I* won't murder anyone!

Aoi: Me either! I mean, I would never.

Sakura: Me either..

Asu: I won't be killing anyone either.

Celeste: Neither do I.

Kyoko: Nor I.

Makoto: That goes for me too, of course. I could never kill any of my friends!

Sakura: To behonest, I wish Byakuya and Toko were here for this, too.

Aoi: But... they're so hard to deal with. They only think about themselves.

Yasuhiro: Yeah, we're better off without' em, I say...

Makoto was looking at me weird.

Makoto: Um Asu...

Asu: Mmmh?

Makoto: Your blazer is inside out.

I looked at my sleeves. I let a small laugh out.

Asu: I guess that's what a concussion does to you.

I decided to go on my own, I found a music room and sat in one of the seats, I heard the door open again. I heard a pair of heels coming in. Celeste came walking towards me and sat beside me.

Celeste: Are you feeling alright Dear?

I slowly noded.

Celeste: There's something I must admit...

I looked at her. Her eyes were shinning like rubies from the reflection of the lights on the stage.

Celeste: When we discover you, I felt something... I realised that I care about you...

Asu: I also care about you.

Celeste: I know you do, but I care about more than that.

Asu: Celeste what do you mean?

Celeste: Asu, I love you.

I was taken a bit by shock. She noticed my expression. She was about to leave when I grabbed her wrist.

Asu: I'm unsure of my feelings for you, it's not you it's me I just-

She pressed a finger against my lips.

Celeste: It's fine Dear.

I heard the door open and saw Kyoko walk in.

Kyoko: Am I interrupting something?

Celeste: No, it's fine. I leave you two to be.

Celestia left the music room leaving the two of us alone.

Kyoko: I'm glad you're alright, I have to admit...

Asu: It's fine Kyoko, I'm here now.

Kyoko: You're right.

She talk to me about a room she had discovered, it was full of documents. While she was talking, Makoto came in the room. They kept talking about it. Kyoko seemed to have notice my lack of focus.

Kyoko: Asu, is there something you need to say?

Asu: No, I'm simply having a small headache from you know the concussion.

Makoto: Do you need to go back to the nurse office-

Asu: Don't worry about me, I simply didn't slept a lot last night.

I noticed he was looking at me with a weird look.

Kyoko: Well, we shouldn't talk about it too much here.

She gave a quick glance at the camera.

Asu: Right and we should investigate some more.

Kyoko: But before that. Let's hear your secret.

She directed her words towards Makoto looking at him.

Kyoko: You're hiding something.

Makoto: Th-That's-!

Kyoko: What's the matter? If you're worried about the camera, why not just write it down?

Makoto: U-Um... well...

Kyoko: We're friends, so you should be able to trust me. Isn't that what you said before?

Asu: If you don't trust me I'll just go I don't min-

Makoto: It's not that... I can't say it. Not yet...

Kyoko: So... that's your answer. But do you think that's fair? You were happy to hear what I had to say, but now you're unwilling to share?

Makoto: I'm sorry. I really am...

Kyoko: It's fine. Goodbye.

And just like that she left.

Asu: I hope you have a good reason to keep it.

I left the music room not long after Kyoko.

I saw Kyoko heading to the chem lab and headed there myself.

When I entered the room. I could immediately smell all the chemicals at once.

I looked around at the bottles noticing the poisons and stuff. You could make all sort of things from these. I decided to head to the dinning hall.

When I arrived Makoto was already there. Everyone arrived not long after.

Yasuhiro: So, is this everyone?

Sakura: Okay, let's discuss what we all discovered.

Aoi: Yeah, good idea...

When the topic of the chemical lab arrived we were all a bit worried because of the poison.

Makoto: P-Poison!?

Sakura: They were all labeled clearly, though. So it would be hard to grab one by mistake...

Kyoko: Still, we'd better make sure we're careful around there.

Aoi: And... we probably shouldn't tell Byakuya or Toko about the poison, right?

Yasuhiro: What do you mean...?

Asu: Well they might use it not so good use...

Celeste: I think we should keep it between us. If they want to know they'll just have to check for themselves.

Yasuhiro: J-Just in case.. Yeah, I think you're right.

Kyoko: It's Byakuya. It won't be long before he's discovered it for himself.

Yasuhiro: I found a couple rooms on the 4th floor, but they were locked! The data center and the headmaster's room!

Aoi: The headmaster's room!? That sounds like exactly the kinda place we'd find some clues!

Makoto: If we can somehow unlock the door and get inside...

Yasuhiro: Who cares about a stupid lock! It should be no problem for the world's strongest missing link to knock down one measly door!

Monokuma: What was that?

Yasuhiro: Uwah!

Monokuma: No, please. Continue. Did tou say I've got the nicest butt on the block? The curviest hips in town? Is that what you said!?

Yasuhiro: Hell no I didn't!

Monokuma: Then what DID you say? Cuz I KNOW you weren't talking about tearing down the door to the headmaster's room.

Yasuhiro: Ng-!

Monokuma: Knocking down your headmaster's door? What kind of war on education are you trying to start here!? That's MY room, ya know? It is *now*, anyway... And you're thinking of busting it down? You seriously don't wanna piss me off. You have any idea how much bacteria lives on a single bear claw?

Yasuhiro: N-No, I was kiddin'! Please don't get mad!

Monokuma: I'm not mad! >_<

Yasuhiro: You're totally mad! ;_;

Monokuma: I was hoping I wouldn't have to add a rule for this, but if you're gonna go around having those thoughts... I have no choice but to add to the school regulations!

Makoto: Seriously...?

Monokuma: Breaking down a locked door is prohibited! There, that's a rule now, ya jerks!

He then disappeared.

Asu: Damnit.

Celeste was suprised by my reaction.

Yasuhiro: Whew... Man, I was scared for my life! I was sure he was gonna kill me, for serious!

Sakura: But if he would go out of his way to make up a rule like that... there's no doubt that something important must be hidden in the headmaster's room.

Makoto: But... now that it's a rule, there's nothing we can do.

Asu mumbling to herself: I have to get this door open somehow.

Sakura: Metal sheets had been attached to all the windows on the 4th floor. None of them budged an inch...

Kyoko: Just like everywhere else...

Sakura: Escape from the 4th floor seems unlikely. That was to be expected, though.

Makoto: Um... Kyoko?

Aoi: Hey, Makoto... Does Kyoko seem upset to you? She is, isn't she!? She's totally mad!

Makoto: Y-Yeah, it looks like it...

Aoi: I bet it's your fault, isn't it? You must've done something to her.

Yasuhiro: So... has everyone said what they need to say?

Asu: Well there is a music room. Nothing was there really though.

Yasuhiro: Well it looks like nobody found any clues at all, let alone a way out of here. I haven't been this depressed since my house burned to the ground! Someone, do something to cheer me up!

Makoto: Um... can I say something?

Yasuhiro: It's cuz my dad was smoking in bed!

Celeste: I don't think he meant about that.

Makoto: That's... no... I have something I'd like to report. So... you guys all remember, right? You remember when I found that picture up on the 3rd floor the other day?

Sakura: You mean the one that showed Mondo, Chihiro, and Leon all together, right?

Aoi: Yeah, I remember. What about it?

Makoto: Well, I found another one. Another picture, almost just like that one.

Aoi: Another one...?

Makoto: But this time, the picture was of Hifumi, Taka and Sayaka.

Makoto: Yet again, the classrooms didn't have any metal plate covering the windows.

Sakura: So the picture of Mondo, Chihiro, and Leon wasn't the only one... Now you found that one...

Aoi: But... how can that...?

Yasuhiro: Monokuma must have faked it!

Celeste: But... if the picture *is* real...

Makoto: Then everyone who was in it... There would have to be some kind of hidden connection there, don't you think?

Yasuhiro: Can't be! It's a fake!

Makoto: But Monokuma said it was real. I know we could just write that off as a lie, but...

Kyoko: Then you trust Monokuma's word over the people who have died?

Makoto: Huh...?

Kyoko: That's what you're saying, isn't it?

Makoto: No, that's not it...

Kyoko: I'm shocked. You told everyone how we should believe in our friends, but you refuse to do the same.

Celeste: What is going on? Why is the atomosphere suddenly heavier.

Makoto: Th-That's not-!

Yasuhiro: C'mon guys, stop fighting, or all your good luck is gonna float away! Anyway, Makoto... you're thinking about it too much. There's no way Monokuma didn't fake that picture.

Sakura: He's just trying to confuse us. You shouldn't listen to anything Monokuma has to say.

Makoto: Y-You might be right, but still...

Togami: Are you still so conflicted? It looks like you guys have stopped playing nice.

Makoto: Byakuya!

Togami: You all have the same sunken look on your faces. You were all so ugly before. You shouldn't let them sink any lower. When I look at you, it makes me think of a frog sinking into a pile of manure.

I rolled my eyes.

Yasuhiro: Sorry...

Aoi: Why are you apologizing!? Leave us alone! You're not a part of this!

Togami: That's true enough. Your problems aren't mine. We are, and always will be, completely separate. So whatever's causing your faces to turn so ugly has absolutely nothing to do with me. And if I happened to discover a vital clue, it wouldn't concern you in the slightest.

Makoto: Huh...?

Yasuhiro: Did he finally just say something useful?

Kyoko: Byakuya. What have you been up to?

Byakuya: I don't mind telling you. Perhaps forcing your lazy brains to get ot work might do you some good. I was in the bath. What else would you like to know? Today's lottery numbers?

Immediately I knew. He was talking about Alter Ego.

Kyoko: Maybe we should *all* go take a bath.

Celeste: Perhaps.

Sakura: Ah... good idea.

Yasuhiro: A mixed bath...?

Aoi: A mixed bath...!

We all headed to the bathhouse wondering what was going on.