SHSL-Whore👑

Everyday seemed to blur together. The despair was sometimes too much to handle. You tried to think positively but knowing that the outside world that you all had been desperately trying to get to, that people you’d considered friends had both killed and died for….

Was a wasteland. 

You could see it in everyone's eyes, the deep despair of knowing the thing so many people had suffered and shed tears over had been fictional the whole time. even Kaito who seemed to be a beacon for positive thinking and determination seemed to be down. 

The atmosphere in the dining room thick and tense, like there was a never clearing fog hindering everys judgement and eyesight. Every sound which would usually be overlooked was now amplified and felt a hundred times louder than it was. 

Korekiyo somehow sips tea though his goddamn mask acting like the teacher in a goddamn neverending ninja comic. 

Tenko tapping her fingers on the table waiting for Himiko.

Maki’s cutlery clanged on her plate.

Hell, even Miu had nothing to say for once. 

Everyone ate in an uncomfortable silence, when the doors flew open and in flounced Angie without a care in the world with the rest of the student council behind her.

“Nyahaha, Apologise for being late everyone, Atua had so much for me to say in the meeting”

No one bothered to respond, some not even to look up. This didn’t upset Angie however, and she started talking about the new rules the student council had decided upon when she was (thankfully) interrupted by (unthankfully) Monokuma. 

Popping his ugly head into the room as he seemingly popped out of nowhere not many people really gave him any thought even when he started laughing his annoying laugh. 

“Good morning everyone!”

He didn’t seem to be insulted when no one responded. But who could really know, I mean he didn’t really have a face that could emote.

“Awww well don’t you all look sad, upupupupu~ well don’t you worry your pretty heads you debbie downers! For I have a new motive for you!”

This news seemed to get people to talk

“Nyeh? Another one?” Himiko exclaimed, 

“Didn’t we just have the last one?” You protested, with how down everyone was now a class trial would break everyone...and Monokuma knew that. 

“Upupupu~ you know what they say, earlier murderer gets the poison” Monokuma laughed,

“No one says that,” Tenko deadpanned. 

“Whatever! The point is I’ve got you’re little shits new motive open your stupid ears and listen up alright? Good, now, the new motive I have for you guys is a good one” He rubbed his hands...paws? Together and you wondered how the mastermind managed to make such a small bear hold such a large amount of malice. 

“Whoever kills next and manages to make it past the class trial can choose one person to stay alive with them, they can leave and try and survive in the outside world or stay here forever with food and a warm bed”

“Who would do that? There’s really no benefit” Kiibo said, you shook your head at that

“As long as we're in here Kiibo people will always find a reason to kill”

“(y/n)!” he exclaimed in response, you sighed. A deep sadness settled in your gut as you already lost hope, you’d been proven wrong so many times that you knew as long as you were trapped in this school, people would lose their lives.

Monokuma left swiftly after revealing all he needed to. And left in his wake a room full of shock. 

“Nyahahaha~” Angie's zany laugh broke and silence filled the room, clapping her hands together she smiled and you mentally prepared yourself for whatever was gonna leave her mouth this time. 

“This is perfect!”

“What!?” Kaito yelled in confusion at Angies seeming joy at the chance of another murder. 

“Atua told me last night that the student council should ban going out in nighttime!”

“How would that work? You have no way to know if someones outside” Maki frowned, looking like she wanted to curbstomp Angie. 

“Well Gonta of course”

Gonta smiled “Gonta doesn’t need sleep! Gonta can go months without sleep! Gonta promises to protect everyone!”

“You can’t do this Angie!” Tenko yelled, obviously irritated at how the girl seemed to think all her words were law.

“Himiko you can’t really listen to her anymore can you? I Promised you I’d get us both out of here alive and I will keep it!”

There seemed to be more of an argument between the two of them but everyone's voices became white noise as you started to zone out. 

Suddenly you stood up, not being able to take the noise anymore you quickly walked out ignoring the voices calling out to you you walked outside until you were under one of the trees in the yard. Sunlight peeking through the leaves, closing your eyes, you tried to imagine you were in a dream, that you’d wake up in your bed at home.

The worried look on your face was replaced by a soft smile when you heard some footsteps in the grass coming up to where you were. There was only one person you knew who would follow you out here, because he was the only other person who knew that you liked to chill here. 

Feeling the little sunlight on your face leave you slowly opened your eyes to see the face of the ultimate detective staring at you. 

Now you really could help but smile.

“Hey Shuichi, are Angie and Tenko still arguing?”

“Yeah, quite loudly actually….Are you okay? You left quite suddenly there”

Hearing him lie down inverted to you so your heads were next to each other you felt calm in his presence. 

“No, Not at all, I know Kaito says to have faith, but so far that hasn’t gotten us anywhere, someone else is going to die next and we’re going to have to suffer again, it could be me, it could-” you swallowed before you finished your sentence. Not wanting to have the words leave your mouth. 

The warmth of his hand encased your own as you found yourself wanting to hold on forever. Throughout everything that had changed, your world turning upside down, all the people leaving Shuichi had stayed the same, and you were going to cling to that normality. For you’d suspected for some time now it had been the only thing keeping you sane. 

As if reading your mind he squeezed your hand 

“I would die before letting anything happen to you (n/n)”

You flinched at the word, die

He seemed to notice his mistake and winced slightly, “ah, yeah, not a good word to be throwing around, huh?”

You didn’t respond, just nodding as your response. 

You weren’t naive. You knew it was very likely you or Shuichi could die at any moment, murdered. Murdered by someone you called friends. 

“It hurts to think about sometimes,” You spoke up, shocking Shuichi with the suddenness and yourself slightly as you hadn’t actually planned to speak. But more often with Shuichi you’d find yourself speaking your mind far more often.

“It hurts to know that this is our reality, and there's nothing we can do but it accept it”

He didn’t say anything, his eyes were closed and to anyone else it would’ve looked like he was asleep, basking in the sun's golden rays but you knew him better than that, so you took it as a sign to keep talking. 

“Part of me’s not sure I even want to leave anymore”

His eyes snapped open at that and he looked at you, his face filled with obvious confusion.

“There's no way I could survive in a world like that, the funny thing is despite all that’s happened in here and how high the chance is of us getting killed, of me getting killed…..this school is probably a safer place to be than the outside world”

Shuichi gripped your hand tighter, he seemed to get more...scared? At the thought idea of you dying  “I wouldn’t let anything happen to you, I’d, I’d do anything for you”

Rolling over so his hands were on each side of your head he hovered above you.

“Promise me (y/n) no matter what happens you won’t leave me side”

Looking up at him you brushed a loose piece of his hair back behind his hair futilely as as soon as you moved your hand to cup his cheek it fell back down. The sun behind him illuminated him, making him seemingly glow. 

you felt a sadness in your heart as you realised this was a promise you weren’t sure you could keep. 

“I promise”

Walking around the school only preoccupied your mine temporarily, in fact, sometimes you could argue it made you more aware. Every little sound made you hyper aware any moment you could die.

“Hey (y/n)!” you could hear Kiibo call out from behind you. Turning around you saw the robot speed walking towards you.

“Yeah?”

“Do you think you could do me a favour? I seemed to have lost my monopad, and without it I can’t properly find my way around”

He ran his fingers through his hair nervous, Kiibo was probably one of the few members (besides Gonta) of the student council that you could actually stand to talk to, He was so sweet and ernest you couldn’t help but feel bad for him that he was being taken advantage of like this, But every time you tried to bring it up he respectfully disagree with you. 

Looking at the boy you really couldn’t help but smile at him.

“Of course, where are we looking first?”

You never realised how big this school was, the empty classrooms seemed to double as you searched every one for Kiibos monopod, you both had tried to ask Monokuma where it was but he told you he was busy and to find it yourselves.

It wasn’t until the both of you found each other in the kitchen that you realised how hungry you were, and while Kiibo could not feel hunger or pain but he could recognize that you could.

Sitting down on the counter with the closest thing you could find you enjoyed to eat you sat down. 

“I’m sorry to have pulled you into this (y/n)” Kiibo spoke, Looking at the ground “I didn’t realise it would be this hard to find”

You grinned at him, Kiibo was always hard to stay mad at, and you’d never been mad at him in the first place. He was great company afterall and searching kept you preoccupied. 

“It’s all good Kiibo, really, I had nothing better to do”

“I hope when can find it soon, I’d hate to have to keep you any longer than I need to”

Getting up you flashed the boy another smile 

“Nonsense”

Turns out, Kiibo did you to keep you for a while, as you only found the monopad a minute before lights out, turns out Kokichi had it. 

It wasn’t until you reached into your pocket and found nothing did you realise you’d left your keys in the kitchen. Turning around to leave the dorms to go back, you heard Kiibo call out to you.

“(y/n)? Where are you going?”

You turned around quickly to look at him 

“I gotta go back to the kitchen quickly, I left my keys behind!”

“No (y/n)! You’re not allowed to go outside during nighttime anymore!”

You turned to look at him, tilting your head and frowning slightly 

“How am I going to get back into my room then?”

He thought for a moment, before smiling brightly 

“I’ll go! I’m student council! We’re allowed out at night”

You sighed in relief, 

“Shall I wait out here?”

Kiibo waved his hand 

“Nonsense just wait in my room, it’s safer in there”

You smiled at him, giving him a hug before he could leave.  

“Uah! (y/n), w-what's this for?” He asked, obviously frustrated at the sudden burst of affection, pulling back you saw his cheeks tinted pink (another feature Miu installed) causing you to giggle at the cute expression he was making. 

“Thank you Kiibo”

It may have looked like a weird gesture to some, especially after you were entering his room at night but Kiibo knew what you were really thanking him for, unfortunately for you, someone else didn’t.

As he hurriedly rushed past you, a small blush tinted your cheeks at the action of kindness, before he moved past you to make his way towards the kitchen you suddenly felt…..cold…like you were being watched. But when you turned around there was no one there, and the door right behind you, to the ultimate detectives room, stood undisturbed.

You had waited in Kiibo’s room for a while, you didn’t know if it would be impolite to lie on his bed so you simply lay on the chair by the door. You weren’t a stranger to letting your thoughts wander down darker paths, you’d done it many times just counting today, But after your time with Kiibo today and what you told you you tried to keep your hopes up, though what you thought could be mistaken as cynical, you weren’t trying to be. 

It had been longer than you anticipated Kiibo being gone, and just when you started to worry the door was open and in walked Kiibo. 

“Sorry for being so late!” He held out your keys “I got held up talking to Himiko about...well, that doesn’t matter”

You smiled at him, before leaving his room. 

The night was tough, not only on you , you were sure about that. Staring at the ceiling you could help but be extra aware of every little twist your gut did in worry that any moment a murder could be happening. Someone could be slowly bleeding to death right now calling for help and you were lying in bed.

Yeah, your brain wasn’t helping things. 

So perhaps it was liberating when there was a small knock at your door. 

“Can’t sleep either?” you ask

He shakes his head, “Can I spend the night here?”

This was a usual thing for the two of you. Whenever one of you couldn’t sleep or had a nightmare you’d go to the other's room and spend the night there, finding comfort in the other's presence. 

“Sure”

You're not sure how long the both you lay on your bed in silence, not even under the covers. Minutes maybe? Probably longer when Shuichi got up. 

“Do you want me to go get us a drink?”

You looked at him, tilting your head in obvious confusion. He laughed quietly at your response. 

“Whenever I can’t sleep I have a warm glass of milk, it might help you too”

“But we can’t go out at night, what if Gonta catches you”

He laughed again, you really loved his laugh. 

“I’m the ultimate detective (y/n), and Gonta’s steps aren’t what you’d call quiet”

He gets up to leave but you grab his hand. holding it close to your heart Looking into his pretty pale green eyes you pushed back the gut feeling of worry you have, 

“Keep your promise”

A gentle smile graced his beautiful face and you once again wondered why he ever covered as much of it as he could with his hat. 

He left the room quietly and as he did so did the feeling of peace in your heart, instead being replaced by the well familiar feeling of anxiety and worry.

It felt like forever Shuichi was gone, when your door was knocked on again you bolted up and opened the door, glad to see Shuichi again well you grabbed the glass he held out to you you took a big sip. And once again you two sat on your bed but this time talking, like usual it was about your memories before you came here, and what you’d do if you woke up one day and it was all a dream. 

And just like Shuichi said you felt yourself becoming tired, He smiled and yawned as well, 

“Are you comfortable sharing a bed with me tonight?”

No matter how many times you told him it was okay Shuichi always checked by joining you that you were comfortable, something you always loved about it. 

Patting the space beside you sleepily you felt his warmth engulf you as his arms wrapped tightly around you, like he was afraid you’d disappear from his arms and leave him alone any second. You closed your eyes. 

When you opened then again it took you a moment to realize you’d fallen asleep as you were still really groggy, it took you a moment to remember where the hell you were, but by the time you noticed Shuichi was gone from behind you you were already more than halfway asleep, and once again you didn’t notice you’d fallen asleep until you’d woken up the next morning. 

You’d only woken up by the Monokuma announcement, you were sure if you’d had been given more time you could’ve slept till three in the afternoon. Feeling a source of warm heat behind you your brain only just seemed to have developed what had happened last night, but when you remembered waking up alone in the middle of the night you could only remember it with such a half assed haze part of you just thought it was a very lucid dream you had, I mean it wouldn’t be the first time.

You stretched slightly not feeling Shuichi's constricting arms still around you, turning to look at the boy who was still out cold. A soft smile made its way onto your face as you took in all the beauty that is Shuichi Saihara. It was a rare day you woke up before Shuichi, as he was such an early bird you’d usually awake to his eyes staring at you with a facial expression that could only be described as adoration. 

Sometimes you weren’t sure how the detective actually felt about you, but you and your friends seem to be mostly in an agreement that you two were stuck in a limbo where you both like each other but neither of you had the guts to actually say what you felt.

You pondered this as you stroked your fingers through his soft hair, what was actually holding you back? Fear of rejection? 

You laughed at yourself, No you knew what you were really afraid of. 

He stirred snapping out of your thoughts as he seemed to slowly awake, his long eyelashes fluttered open and once again 

“mmm…..(y/n)?”

You smiled, tilting your head to match the angle of his “Morning sleepy head”

A low hum left his throat in response. It was in the softer moments like this you could forget all the dark and bad things in your life, where for a few seconds, you could live in blissful ignorance in a charade of peace. 

Though, this cynical world view was something you'd been trying to keep out of your head it had it's ways of sneaking back in every now and then, an understandable habit when at the end of the day, you were never really safe. 

Your mornings usually start like this anyway, clinging to the soft moments of denial before getting out of bed to face the cold truth of reality. You looked down at the boy below you again, He seemed to be chasing away his body's urge to wake up. Something you never really saw him do

"He must've had a rough night" You thought to yourself, as unless his nightmares are really bad Shuichi usually wakes up before you do. He never woke you up when his nightmares got too bad to sleep, it was a habit you'd been encouraging him to break but it seems no matter how many times you told him you were fine with being woken up if he needed you he never did, seemingly content with suffering in silent as he played with your hair while you slept unknowingly. 

He seemed to wake up a little later, looking up at you with a half asleep expression, his face twisted into a euphoric smile, one that made you truly feel grateful for befriending the ultimate detective, something you'd always held a little guilt over. sometimes you worried that you'd only stuck by him because of his title, that maybe you hadn't truly cared for him at the start, just the safety that being near him provided. 

But as you looked down at the sleepy boy rubbing his eyes you realised it didn't really matter what caused you to befriend him in the first place, because now you wouldn't trade him for anything, and as you got out of bed that morning you seemed to realise that you'd never told him so before. 

breakfast was the same as it always was, the tired atmosphere was matched only by the sullen sad faces of the few students that had cared enough to pull themselves out of bed in the morning and come. The sadness was enough to make you feel guilty once more for feeling alright this morning, holding back a laugh at how inappropriate it would be to laugh in the situation when you remembered all the times Kaito had lectured you for feeling guilty too much. Kaito always looked for the best in people, that you knew, but despite what people thought he could see the bad as well, he just chose to focus more on the good. 

A feature of his you'd always found yourself admiring, You truly didn't realise how quiet it was with how  deep you'd been in your own thoughts you only realised when Kiibo burst open the doors of the kitchen with a terrified look in his face. A in that second, you'd remembered, remembered why everyone else around you was so desperate and sad to get out. Of all the pain that'd been purposely ignored that morning. 

At first he didn't say anything, but he didn't have to, the terror in his face told everyone that what he was about to say was not good news at all. 

"Everyone!" He seemed to finally speak up when he snapped out of it and realised everyone was staring at him, which to be fair, you'd only just done as well. 

"I do not wish to cause panic but...I have found what looks like, a puddle of blood in the gym"

blood....a part of you held onto the hope that someone who wasn't having breakfast just injured themselves and forgot, But truly you knew what the most likely outcome was. 

You didn't know why but you found yourself standing up. the terror of losing another friend fueling you. 

"Lets go look"

It took a bit of organising and figuring out who was there and who wasn't, that being Himiko, Angie, Tsumugi, Maki and Gonta weren't there either but unlike the others they had been in the kitchen a few minutes before Kiibo came running in, and had just left a few moments before, Kaito volunteered to go after them while the rest of you decided you'd all check the gym first, everyone else seemed to be at different levels of panic. and as Kiibo pushed open the gym doors you braced yourself for…

nothing

Realising a breath you didn't realise you'd been holding you began to search the gym with a terrible twist of anxiety in your gut. 

Walking over to the ropes at the side of the gym you ran your fingers over them, looking up to see them search high into the ceiling hidden in the beams you started to tug lightly on one where you were then promptly given a heart attack by Monokuma popping up behind you.

“Careful there! Those ropes are super duper old and fray super easily! If you break one you could injure yourself or even worse, bring down the gym entirely! puhuhuhu~”

You stared at the bear, before turning around and walking away hearing him huff and yell out behind you 

“Rude! Kids these days..”

It was then Kaito came through the door with Maki and Gonta, It seemed everyone was here? No...someone was missing.

“Hey! Where's Himiko? She's not here!”

“Neither is Angie or Tsumugi” You heard Kiibo call out from the other side of the room 

“Maybe she’s in a one on one student council meeting with Angie?” You heard Shuichi  suggest to Tenko.

Turning to look at him you shook your head slightly, you wondered why he would offer a solution so would so obviously piss her off. Which was proven when she exclaimed her intention to go check Angie's lab and bring the both of them there you turned to the detective with a look of exasperation while he gave you a cheeky grin in response, Shuichi was a lot more cheeky than people here seemed to realise. 

You heard Maki sigh before she turned around to leave the gym again 

“I’ll go check her room”

You all were still checking the gym when a blood curdling scream rang out from the floor above making your blood run cold. Everyone exchanged a look for a split second before running out of the room towards the direction of sound, which happened to be Angie’s lab. 

All the way there you didn’t want to believe what could be waiting for you. A sight you’d grown accustomed to but still hoped you could never ever see again. You felt like your heart was crawling up your throat and trying to escape. Slowly chanting a plea to whatever deity you believed was listening that everything was alright….

But as you ran through the door you were greeted with the same despairing sight you hoped to never see.

Angie’s body was curled on the ground in the fetal position. Everything from her neck above was covered in dark red paint with no other signs of injury. 

For a split second, everything was quiet. Until the familiar sound rang out from the speakers. 

“A body has been discovered! After a certain amount of time, which you may use however you like, the class trial will begin!”

It was then Himiko came hurrying into the room with Maki close behind her, her eyes landing on the still Angie you could almost see the light leave her eyes. 

“W...what happened?”

“The fuck would we know?” Miu yelled 

“I think the better question is...where were you, Himiko?” Korekiyo’s silky voice spoke up after being quiet so long half the class forgot he was there 

“E-eh? I was...napping in my room” Himiko rubbed her eyes, from just waking up or holding back tears you weren’t sure. 

“Isn’t that fucking convenient?” Miu growled before getting interrupted by Kiibo who seemed to be comforting a shocked Tenko.

“I hate to be that person but Tsumugi's still missing, and there's the blood stain in the gym….” He trailed, seemingly realising how his words affected everyone. You and Shuichi shared a look before he grabbed your hand and ran out, soon followed by Kaito, Maki, Gonta, Korekiyo and Miu. 

You didn’t remember the distance between Angie’s lab and the gym being this long. Keeping your grip on Shuichi's hand you honestly couldn’t tell which one of you was holding on tighter. 

Coming up to the gym you weren’t quite sure what you expected to see on the other side but when the doors were opened what you did see was worse than you could’ve imagined. 

Tsumugi lay on the ground, in a puddle of blood. Her leg was bent the wrong way and there was a dent in her skull. 

It was like all the air had been sucked out of your lungs, and as a piercing scream rang through the air, of whom it belonged to you had no clue, everything in the room was dancing and the floor seemed to sway. 

You didn’t realise you had fallen until you felt someone grab your hips and gently set you on the ground as they held you, you didn’t need to turn around to know who it was. 

Resting your head on his chest the room around you felt distorted, like it was fading away.

You weren’t sure how much time had passed before you grew numb to the rancid smell that burnt your nostrils, but soon the room soon stopped spinning. 

Looking around you felt people's eyes on you, that’s when you began to feel embarrassed as you realised Shuichi was still comforting you, and you were keeping him from doing his job.

Slowly you pulled away from him. Pushing down your feelings, you forced yourself to look at Tsumugi. You needed to help him solve this… 

Slowly you tried to stand as he kept his face buried deep in the crook of your neck

“Shuichi..” You whispered, “Their waiting for you”

“I don’t care” His whisper came out more as a hiss, while the follow up response came out more as a mumble “You’re more important than them”

“Shuichi...please….we- you, need to solve this”

A sigh left his throat tickling your neck, 

“I promise I’ll get us out of this (y/n)”

You decided to investigate the gym first. Inspecting Tsumugi’s body you noticed that underneath her was a small piece of rope, frayed on both ends and soaked in blood. 

“Shuichi...The monokuma report says she died of blunt force trauma, right?”

“Yeah, pretty obvious by the dent in her head, but with the way her body landed...The placing doesn’t make sense”

You nodded, “That’s not all, if she died of a head injury...Where did the rope and bandage come from? And why is her leg bent like that?”

“I have a theory...but I need more evidence before I say anything more” Shuichi responded

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Choosing to look away from the body you made your way over to the bloodstain that had started all this.

“This blood is slightly darker than the rest” You said 

“It’s dried” 

“I know that, I mean....If it’s dried over here why is Tsumugi all the way over there?”

“Perhaps her body was moved?” Shuichi suggested

“Yeah but where was it before? We all searched the gym when Kiibo discovered the stain and there was no sign of Tsumugi's body anywhere, was she killed at a different time and moved?”

“But then where did this bloodstain come from? It doesn’t make sense”

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You searched the gym for what felt like the fifth time that day, before finally agreeing that's all the evidence you’d find. You both made your way back to Angie’s lab. You didn’t even notice Shuichi was still holding your hand until Miu pointed it out. 

“You can let go now if you want Shuichi” what meant to come out as chill and calm came out more as an unconfident mumble 

“Ah, thanks, but, if it’s alright with you I’d like to stay like this...I’m worried if I let go something bad will happen to you too” He laughed awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck with his free hand. 

Pushing open Angie’s door you took note of how heavy it was, when you heard a slight click come from the door just before it hit the wall you held it open to inspect it. 

“Shuichi, there’s a weird mechanism thing here”

He looked at it

“Oh I recognize this, It’s an automatic lock, it stops the door from being shut all the way and hitting the door….but, it seems to be broken”

“How?”

“Probably from a force that kept pushing the door”

“Does that mean Angie didn’t let the killer in?”

“That would make sense, with mark on the wall would make sense as well”

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Letting go of the door and letting it shut behind you you walked into the room, the smell of paint, some sort of vaseline and of course, the body filled the air and made your eyes water slightly. 

Standing over Angie’s body you cringed at the terrified expression on her face. Her eyes were wide open but were glazed over with the same colour of paint that was on the unfinished canvas she was working on, and by peering down her throat you could see the paint even went down there. 

“The body report says she drowned right?”

“yeah….Judging by the body the killer” He paused, seemingly not wanting to finish his sentence, looking away and covering his mouth he continued “drowned her in that can of paint.

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Lifting up the paint can up you realise how tight the lid was on, before looking at the can. It’s edges were slightly covered in the same paint, but on the bottom there was a slight discoloration, the red was darker and it’s texture was different

“Hey Shuichi….Is this blood?”

He looked at where your finger was pointing, 

“I think so….but why is it on the can? Angie isn’t bleeding anywhere..”

“I don’t know”

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Turning to Shuichi you looked over at Tenko and Himiko who seemed to be still sitting with Kiibo and talking with Gonta, 

‘I guess it makes sense’ you thought ‘two of the student council members are dead, they’ll probably disband after this’

“Shall we go through peoples alibis?” You turned to ask Shuichi, he opened his mouth to respond but before he could he was interrupted by a loud dinging noise.

“What say we just get started, hm? It's time for the long-awaited Class Trial! Now then, everyone head to the elevator!”

Was investigation time already over? Had you been out of it longer than you’d thought?

Feeling a deep sadness crawl up into you you  felt terrible as you realized the class trial was probably going to be harder for Shuichi since he didn’t have all the details he needed, but with a reassuring squeeze of your hand he put his hand on your cheek and pushed your hair behind your ear a mirror of what you did underneath the tree. 

“Remember what you promised me, okay….survive with me….and only me..”

The whole elevator ride down was eerily quiet. No one had anything to say, but if they did they kept it to themselves. 

“Welcome to the class trial!” Monokumas annoying voice rang out as he explained the rules of the class trial again like you hadn’t been though this two fucking times already.

“Alright so...where do we start?” Kiibo spoke up, 

“Who should we go over first? Angie or Tsumugi?” Maki asked

“Tsumugi of course! She died first!” Kaito exclaimed 

“No, I do believe Angie died first” Korekiyo said

“That's bullshit!” Miu yelled “I agree with the creep over there”

“But then how did the bloodstain in the gym get there? We found that before we found Angie?” Korekiyo asked 

“H-how should I know?! That’s Sherlock homos job!”

Ignoring Miu’s comment you went over what everyone said in your head, 

“Alright so...where do we start?” Kiibo spoke up, 

“Who should we go over first? Angie or Tsumugi?” Maki asked

“Tsumugi of course! She died first!” Kaito exclaimed 

“No, I do believe Angie died first” Korekiyo said

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S H O O T

“I agree with Korekiyo!”

“(y/n)? What do you mean?” Kaito asked you, seemingly confused and looking a little hurt one of his sidekicks didn’t agree with him. 

“The bloodstain in the gym, It was dry when we found it”

“So?”

“So, If Tsumugi was killed first then where did the bloodstain come from?”

“It still could’ve been hers!” Tenko said, “She just could’ve been killed by someone else as we all went to go look for Angie”

“But that would mean Angie was already dead!” Shuichi said 

“No! It just means there's two killers!”

“That’s wrong!”

S C R U M    D E B A T E 

There’s two killers: Tenko, Kaito, Himiko, Kiibo, Gonta, 

There is one killer: (y/n), Shuichi, Maki, Miu, Korekiyo, 

Kaito: Shuichi, there are obviously two killers!

Shuchi: We don’t know enough of what happened to determine that 

Tenko: The timing makes it impossible to be one!

Maki: We don’t know the timeline of the crime yet

Korekiyo: Why were the bodys killed in two different places?

Himiko: Just because they were found there doesn’t mean they were killed there

Gonta: What about the blood in the gym? 

Miu: That blood was dry meaning it had been there longer

Kiibo: But if there's only one killer, how did they kill Tsumugi right after killing Angie?

(y/n): Angie obviously died before Tsumugi, The culprit just hid Tsumugi's body in the open to mess up our perception of the time 

C R U N C H  >>>>>>

“Alright” Kaito raised his hands in a mock surrender, “I know when to admit when I’m wrong”

“But now that leads us with nothing!” Tenko groaned frustrated

“No” You said “The last time Angie was seen alive was yesterday, meaning that she was most likely killed anywhere between right after ten pm to eight thirty where most of us where at breakfast at the time, and It’d be harder to move Tsumugi’s body”

“So where was everyone around that time?” Shuichi asked

“I was helping Kiibo find his monopad, and then around ten I’d realised I’d left my keys in the kitchen, Kiibo’s allowed out at night so he offered to go get them for me, I waited till about ten thirty when he finally came back, then I couldn’t sleep so I spent the night with Shuichi”

No one there was a stranger to you guys spending nights together, though it did earn some teasing from Miu you’d been each other's alibis before. 

“Ah yes, sorry for taking so long (y/n), I got caught up in the kitchen talking with Himiko about our ideas for the student council, she was supposed to meet Angie later but it got so late she decided she’d do it later, Tenko was there as well but she...had different opinions on the student council then we did”

Himiko nodded “Yeah…”

“So before now you didn’t see it fit to tell us that you planned to meet one of the murder victims before she turned up dead?” Korekiyo said 

Himiko seemed to start sweating as she realised what he was saying 

“Kiibo, did you see Himiko go back to her room like she said she would?” Shuichi questioned 

“Uh, No...I left before she did”

“Then it’s you” Korekiyo spoke with the same dignity and elegance as always, but it came off way more sinister 

“N-no, It’s not me, I couldn’t kill Angie”

“Why not? State your reasoning why or accept your fate”

“It’s not me! I swear!”

“How dare you Korekiyo! Himiko could never kill someone!” Tenko yelled

You paused, you were sure there was something in there that could help you with the case

“Kiibo, did you see Himiko go back to her room like she said she would?” Shuichi questioned 

“Uh, No...I left before she did”

“Then it’s you” Korekiyo spoke with the same dignity and elegance as always, but it came off way more sinister 

“N-no, It’s not me, I couldn’t kill Angie”

“Why not? State your reasoning why or accept your fate”

“It’s not me! I swear!”

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S H O O T 

“I agree with that!”

“N-nyeh?”

“What is it (y/n)?” Shuichi turned to you 

“It couldn’t have been Himiko, when Shuichi and I inspected Angie's lab we looked closely at the door, and found signs that Angie didn’t let her killer in willingly”

“Like what?” Korekiyo asked 

“The thing at the back made to stop it from slamming into the wall when opened was broken, and the paint where the corner would have met the wall was cracked, So it couldn't have been Himiko, She’s far to small and weak to push open such a heavy door with such force like that” 

“So that leaves us with no leads in the end” Kiibo sighed, 

“Not quite” Shuichi spoke, 

“Huh?” You looked at him, what had he figured out and what had you missed?

“Tenko you were there, did you see Himiko leave?”

“Yes I did, she left before me”

“Did you see her go to her room though”

“N-not into her room but I saw her go to the direction of the dorms, the opposite way to Angie’s lab”

“And what exactly were your different opinions on the student council Tenko?” Shuichi questioned, 

“I, well, I tried to tell Himiko what Angie was telling her was wrong...but I may have gone a bit overboard”

“How much is a bit?”

“She got angry and started yelling at me about how Angie was wrong and couldn't protect me like she could” Himiko piped in 

“Did she know about you meeting Angie afterward?”

“Yes, that's what started the whole argument”

“Why is this important!?” Tenko raised her voice, getting agitated, 

“Because your the only person here who has an actual motive and chance to kill Angie”

“But how can we be sure when we don’t even know where Tsumugi was killed?” Maki spoke “With Tsumugi's head injury she would've bleed a lot more than just a few drops, like what we found in the gym, so why wasn’t there as much blood?”

You stopped, racking your brain for an answer you knew was only a foot away, trying to search your way through jumbled letters in your brain you were finally able to spell out what you were trying to figure out. 

B A N D A G E 

“I got it!”

“The bandage under Tsumugi”

“What about it?”

“What if the killer used it to cover her head? That way if she was killed somewhere else it wouldn’t bleed everywhere”

“That makes sense! The badanage was quite bloody”

“But why?”

“Obviously to confuse us and make us think there were two killers, we went over this at the start!”

“But then where the hell did her body come from?”

“Maybe she was hidden under the floorboards?” Gonta suggests

“Maybe she was hidden up in the rafters in the gym! The killer moved her body there to hide it for a while, but then the ropes snapped!”

“That’s stupid!” Kaito said 

Wait, no, there was something in there that made sense

“That makes sense! The badanage was quite bloody”

“But why?”

“Obviously to confuse us and make us think there were two killers, we went over this at the start!”

“But then where the hell did her body come from?”

“Maybe she was hidden under the floorboards?” Gonta suggests

“Maybe she was hidden up in the rafters in the gym! The killer moved her body there to hide it for a while, but then the ropes snapped!”

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S H O O T 

“I agree with that!”

“What? Really?” Kaito exclaimed, 

“There was a frayed rope under Tsumugi's body in the gym, Monokuma told me that those ropes were really old and frayed easily, the killer could’ve wrapped her up in the rope and stored her up in the rafters where we couldn’t see”

“But then how would they control when their body was found?” Gonta asked 

“They couldn't but it didn’t matter, as long as we weren’t sure where Tsumugi actually died and how long she’d been dead, also, if they hung her up there at night the dried blood would make sense, it was hers it was just put there earlier than we thought!”

“But none of this tells us where Tsumugi was actually killed!” Miu yelled 

When everyone started arguing again you channel your thoughts, you just had to collect what you knew already and link it to the new questions, you needed to solve this.

Who died first?

Angie, Tsumugi,

Yes, that was right 

How did she die?

Drowned with a paint can, stabbed, Strangled,

Obviously, a very cruel way to go killing her with something related to her passion

Where did the blood on the paint can come from?

Angie, The killer, Tsumugi

“Wait! I know where Tsumugi died now!”

“Really?” Himiko looked at you 

“Tsumugi had a dent on her head that wasn’t consistent with the angle she fell on, right?”

“Rigght?” Maki answered unsurely 

“There was blood on the bottom of the paint can used to kill Angie”

“So?” Gonta asked 

“So, Angie drowned, she didn’t receive any injuries that made her bleed, so where did the blood come from?”

Shuichi seemed to catch on to what you were saying

“Are you saying that the dent in Tsumugi's head was from the killer hitting her on the head with it?”

“It would make sense” Kiibo answered 

“Does that mean you’re saying Tsumugi and Angie died in the same place, mere moments after the murder?” Korekiyo asked 

“Yes, it’s what makes sense”

“I guess that means you are guilty” He said “Tenko Chabashira”

“B-But.. What about the paint? If that happened then the murderer must have been covered in paint!” Tenko stuttered out her defense

“Tsumugi walked in when Angie was already dead, meaning the killer could already have been cleaning up and put the lid back on the can” Shuichi said 

“How can you prove that though!?” She yelled 

“Besides a few drops from Angie there's no plant on the floor, if they swing it to hit Tsumugi without the lid not only they but the ground would get soaked as well, and the besides what was on Angie the scene was clean” He continued 

“Tenko…..did you really do it?” Himiko asked in a hushed voice 

“Uh, uh, UH, D-DEGENERATE, DEGENERATE, DEGENERATE DEGENERATE DEGENERATE DEGENERATE!” Tenko seemed to break down for a second before shouting 

“Angie wouldn't open the door for me though, how could I have gotten in when I’m not a student council member?”

“We’ve already been through this” It was your turn to speak, “The door was forced open”

“Even so that door is so thick and can be locked! HOW COULD I BREAK SOMETHING THAT BIG DOWN WITHOUT A LOUD NOISE?”

“Himiko was late, You could've knocked on the door convincing her something happened to Himiko, all she needed to do was open the door just a crack and you could kick it as hard as you could” Shuichi said, His tone which was usually so cold when accusing people seemed to instead hold a light giddiness to it, or maybe you were just confused..

“WHERE'S YOUR PROOF OF THAT YOU DEGENERATE MALE WHERE YOUR ACTUAL PROOF THAT I DID THAT?”

Shuichi looks at you, 

“if she won’t listen to me, I believe you can do it mc, close this case”

 You sighed, closing your eyes as you realised what you were truly about to do, pausing as if to give yourself a second chance.. A deep feeling of hurt and guilt settled in your gut and felt like it was going to overflow out of you and you realised truely how far you’d gone since you’d first got here. 

“Tenko your the only one who could've done this” 

“NO NO PLEASE BELIEVE ME (y/n) I'M BEING FRAMED!” she started to scream

“By who? Tenko no one else could have done this”

“(y/n) PLEASE, PLEASE I DON’T WANT TO DIE (y/n) PLEAAAASSSSEEEE”

“Tenko I’m sorry, I wish this could've been different”

Sweat and tears poured down her face as she began screaming her last defence 

“HOW WAS I ABLE TO GET PAST THE THICK DOOR AND LOCK?”

Neo-Aikido-stren-gth

“I’ve ended your lies!”

Tenko’s eyes widened as she felt like her world shattered around her

“No,,,,no,,,nononononnnononnono NO!”

Her mumbles turned into screams 

“I DIDN’T DO IT! I DIDN’T DO IT! I SWEAR I DIDN’T KILL HER!”

Everyone was either crying or looking away, the deep hurt in everyone's heart must’ve felt heavy, as yours felt like a weight with what you’d just done.

“I DIDN’T I SWEAR- I WOULD NEVER KILL ANYONE”

Himiko sighs, her eyes red and puffy

“Tenko just stop”

“W-what”

“When you told me you’d do whatever it takes to get us out, but i didntrealise- youd-”

“No-i-id-never-” Tenko’s horse voice trailed off into a whisper

Himiko wipes her eyes 

“Don’t bother going over the case (y/n), I’d rather not hear it again, Monokuma, start the votes”

“Are you sure? remember, even if the person who the killer wants to bring with them votes, wrong they can still leave with the killer if the killer choses them”

“Stop trying to mess with our heads” Maki says 

“Well that's that, but what an amazing class trial! But as they say all good things must come to an end, now pllllacccceee your votes!!”

As the voting thing appeared in front of you, you looked up at Shuichi one last time. And selected Tenko for who you were voting for. 

Even so, it didn’t come as a surprise to you when you heard a short alarm sound off and an X on Tenkos name.

Stunned silence filled the room, which was then promptly replaced by shouting and variously noised of confusion 

“W-what?”

“What's going on?”

Monokuma laughs again

“I tried to warn you! But you all blindly trusted and put your faith into Shuichi, trusting he’d solve it, ah the ultimate detective being the killer….what a plot twist!”

Everyone turned to look at Shuichi, and for a second his face was blank, before it turned into a sickening grin, his cheeks tinted with a small red and his eyes now wild and scary. 

 He looked feral, nothing like the shuichi you knew before.

It seemed to shock Kaito the most 

“S-shuichi?”

“Thhhhhhats right! The killer of this case is the one you all expected to solve it! Shuichi Saihara!”

Even Maki seemed knocked off her rhythm, 

“S-shuichi, why?” Gonta yelled

Kiibo was trying to speak but then just crashed on the spot as Maki’s eyes grew cold. 

“Shuichi, tells us why “

He rolls his eyes slightly as his silence was replaced by a sickening laugh 

“Why do you think? The motive of course”

It seemed to grow on everyone that Shuichi could choose one person to go or stay with him

“HOW COULD YOU YOU DEGENERATE MALE?” Tenko screamed,

“Easily, I do it again” He titled his head looking at her 

Tears streamed down Himiko's face as she seemed to realize she was going to die. 

Monokuma’s shirll laughed filled the air and drowned up the cries of sorrow and anger 

“I wonder, who's Mr Holmes over there going to choose to survive with him?

Is it his best friend Kaito?

Or maybe his training partner Maki?

Or maybe-”

“WHO THEN?” Tenko yells “WHO DID YOU DEEM HIGHER ABOVE ALL OUR LIVES?”

His facial expression changed from one of cruel indifference to sweet excitement 

“I deem her life higher than even my own, My dear, beloved (y/n)”

Everyone seems to be shocked to silence at that, you stare at Shuichi, as you cant bring yourself to look into the eyes of the people you had condemned to death you knew Shuichi had been framing Tenko, You were suspicious from the start as when you woke up in the middle he was actually gone, but you'd fallen back to sleep being really groggy and when you woke back up he was back, you were partly ready to accept it as a weird lucid dream, you'd had them before, but the case went on you began to realise how some details didn’t make sense, and how despite the biggest flaw in the case, how Tenko got in he never found and answer, but he never proved it.

“Please…..I don’t want to die..”

 at that point you have no idea who said it, as sounds blur together you look at the man you love. And the people of whom you’d deemed less worthy of your feelings. In the end. You were just as bad as him. 

And as everyone around you dies, you find everywhere you look that isn’t him is death and pain, something you found usually happened. 

As you look around, you’re surrounded by death, and the only living thing besides monokuma, which you technically didn’t have to count, was Shuichi. 

You’d never know who the mastermind was now, they most likely died with everyone else for the sake of despair, 

Did it even matter anymore ?

As you left the trial grounds your hand was held, by the same hands that killed your two friends, that had caused so much pain...but if that was so….why were so so warm?

You went back to your room with him the walk was quiet, maybe he was talking, you seemed to zone out as you lookee around, cursed to live in the place that would forever remind you of people you cared about and how they suffered before death, 

his hand gripped yours tighter as he seemed to realise you weren’t listening, you looked up at him as you got to your room, and as he shed his coat coming through the door you knew what was going to happen, feeling your body hit the soft mattress you looked at the flustered boy above you, the red bloomed on his chests trailed to his ears and down his neck, something you’d always found endearing. His chest heaved up and down as you took in all the features of the man above you and drowned in them, you drowned in him. 

Feeling his cool lips touch the curve of your neck and his long eyelashes brush gently against it giving you butterfly kisses every time he blinked, running your fingers through his soft hair you heard him let out a breathy sigh. He pressed his chest against yours, feeling him breath your lungs filled with him, the feeling of being alive ran through your bloodstream. 

Pressing his lips against yours you realised how far gone you were when he was buried deep inside you, hard and wanting as hot breathy pants left his mouth while all he could do was murmur gibberish about how good you felt around him, how tight and warm you were, how perfect...and how he wanted to stay inside forever. or perhaps you realised long ago. But it didn’t matter now. All that mattered was that he had you forever and he was never letting go.