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A clattering came from the cafe, followed shortly by a sharp curse.

Yoshimitsu stood at the back counter, her wooden sword in her hands and a broken coffee pot tumbling onto the floor.

“Infernal Western contraption...!”

With a harrumph, she sheathed her sword and slid her small container of matcha farther down the counter. Precisely how she was expected to work with these blasted things she couldn’t say. Perhaps it was a nice gesture for the school to reserve the resort for their class alone, but the greatly reduced waitstaff was helping nothing. She hadn’t seen so much as a custodian thus far.

As she sorted through the cabinets for something more useful, she heard footsteps. Whirling immediately, she drew her sword and flashed it under the approacher’s chin. Once she recognized them, she only lowered the sword an inch.

Team Vitality berhasil memenangkan gelaran DreamHack Open Atlanta 2018 setelah berhasil mendominasi pertandingan grand final melawan Luminosity dengan skor 16-4 (Mirage), dan 16-6 (Overpass). Mereka juga sekaligus membawa pulang uang sebesar US$50,000 atau sekitar 729 juta rupiah! DreamHack Open Atlanta sendiri merupakan turnamen tahunan yang digelar oleh DreamHack. Tingkat dari turnamen ini adalah open, yang berarti mayoritas tim yang bermain adalah tim tier 2.

Turnamen ini digelar di Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta pada 16-18 November 2018. Mereka mempertemukan 8 tim sekelas untuk bertanding memperebutkan total prizepool senilai US$100,000 atau sekitar 1,4 miliar rupiah.

Selain pertandingan CS:GO, DreamHack Atlanta menghadirkan titel game lain, seperti Halo 5, Hearthstone, Paladins, Smite, dan 7 fighting games lainnya. Ada juga konser musik, booth komunitas, dan pertandingan game casual lainnya. Namun kali ini CS:GO masih menjadi pusat perhatian. Dalam ajang DreamHack Open Atlanta tahun ini berikut ke-8 tim yang bertanding sebagai berikut:

Sistem dari turnamen ini adalah mereka mengundang 6 tim, dan 2 tim lainnya berasal dari kualifikasi Eropa dan Amerika Utara. Team Vitality berhasil memenangkan kualifikasi Eropa, sedangkan eUnited dari Amerika Utara. Kita langsung beralih ke babak playoff, di mana compLexity bertemu dengan Vitality, sedangkan Ghost Gaming berhadapan dengan Luminosity. Ghost Gaming dan compLexity pada map pertama berhasil menang, namun dipukul habis pada map kedua dan ketiga hingga akhirnya kedua pertandingan ini menuaikan hasil yang sama, yaitu 2-1.

2 pertandingan tersebut sekaligus menjawab siapa yang akan bermain di grand final, yaitu Team Vitality dan Luminosity.

Map Pertama – Mirage

Di map pertama, tim Perancis tersebut memulai di CT side,sedangkan Luminosity kebalikannya. Dimulai dengan dominasi Vitality, mereka mendapatkan 6 ronde berturut-turut sebelum Luminosity mencoba membalas. Namun dari skor 8-4, kubu Perancis ini tidak memberikan 1 ronde pun kepada tim Brazil tersebut hingga akirnya map pertama ditutup dengan skor 16-4.

Map Kedua – Overpass

Di map pilihan Vitality ini, mereka akan memulai di T side, sedangkan Luminosity kebalikannya. HEN1 dkk berhasil mengamankan ronde pistol pertama, namun tidak lama, Vitality membalikkan keadaan setelah full-buy. Luminosity hanya disisakan 4 ronde di babak first half. Di second-half, Luminosity kembali memenangkan pistol ronde tersebut. Kemenangan tersebut membuka kemungkinan tim Brazil tersebut untuk comeback. Namun berkat permainan apik ZywOo, ia berhasil membawa kemenangan di ronde ke-18 setelah ia mendapatkan ace.  Kemenangan di ronde tersebut semakin menutup kemungkinan Luminosity dalam memutarbalikkan keadaan, hingga akhirnya apEX dkk menutup map kedua dengan skor 16-6 sekaligus memenangkan gelaran DreamHack Open Atlanta 2018.

Ini merupakan turnamen LAN pertama yang diikuti oleh Vitality. Dengan hadirnya talenta muda Perancis, Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut, tim ini berhasil membuktikan bahwa mereka pantas masuk ke daftar tim kelas dunia. Di gelaran ini, kami secara pribadi memberi garis bawah kepada ZywOo sebagai Most Valuable Player (MVP) dari turnamen ini. Dia mencatatkan rating sebesar 1.49 di 10 map yang dimainkannya. Bahkan dalam pertandingannya melawan compLexity di map Nuke, ia mencatatkan rating sebesar 2.07 dengan ADR 116.

So, what to do? The thought repeatedly found its way to Nao’s head as he explored the resort. He wasn’t one for talking to others so he wanted to find somewhere isolated, which, considering the fact that almost everyone was inside somewhere, wasn’t easy to do, when he himself wanted to avoid the dangerously cold outside mountain. Whenever Nao came across someone, he simply ignored them and walked onward. Floor A, floor B, floor C, floor D, floor E... Nothing. There was always someone somewhere, at least in the rooms that attracted the snowtop. Sure, he could’ve taken refuge in the room that was reserved for him, but he wanted to avoid doing so in favour of taking in the sights. Being isolated in his room wouldn’t satiate his desire for insightful thought, and it wouldn’t give him ideas for some new poetry, either. Besides, he didn’t want to be seen as THAT much of an outcast.

Nao sighed. Eventually, he found himself in front of floor E’s lift. From there, he looked down at the endless expanse of white below him. This was going to be a gruelling trip. He didn’t want to go with everyone, but as a member of their class, he was expected to. Already, he wanted to go home. Thus, the thought returned to him: what to do? Well, there was one thing to do, definitely. Nao crossed his arms. It sure was cold. He wouldn’t be out for long.   What to do? ... He’d already gone through, briefly, all the resort had to offer. Nao closed his eyes. What place could he revisit? Someplace quiet. Someplace like... the library! Of course! With a destination set, Nao boarded the lift and made his move. ------------------------------------ Nao stepped into the library, peering into it before doing so. Nothing seemed to be too distracting. Even if someone was there, it should’ve been quiet enough. It was a library, after all. The boy moved further into the room, scanning the contents it had to offer. Literary classics, murder mysteries... Interesting stuff. It would’ve been nice to have something more engaging to do like solving puzzles or playing games but reading would be enough to kill some time. At least a good murder mystery would be mentally stimulating enough. Besides, he always was a fan of solving mysteries. 

Timaeus had been doggedly pursuing any trail of evidence he could find from the unpleasant gift left for the students on the lobby floor, and his investigation had led to something huge, but that he couldn’t take on himself...

So he ran through the buildings looking for help, and grabbed the shoulder of the first person he could find.

“i-- I-I think I found the body but it’s dark I need light do you have a flashlight or... Wait there’s the-- Sahirah--”

The mood had grown heavier on the mountain. With classmates dying one after the next, Sekai had not expected anything different. Perhaps some here had managed to hold onto hope—perhaps there were still survivors who thought they might all escape one day, envisioning a life outside of Monokuma’s game—but Sekai walked with his head down, dragging his feet as he passed the rooms that had become so familiar to them all. 

“Gloomier and gloomier! Cheer up, Sekai-tan  ♪ I’m not getting any younger, y’know! Why don’t we have some fun? You’ll feel better ~ ♪” 

“Mm . . .” Sekai gave a half-hearted murmur, glancing around at all the bedroom doors until his eyes found the ski lift. “Okay,” he said, monotonous and defeated. “Let’s go play outside.”  The cold was biting out on the mountain; Sekai had not bothered to make any adjustments to his attire, kneeling down in bare legs as he gathered a ball of snow with both hands. Felix sputtered and complained every so often, but he kept the puppeteer company all the same.  After two hours outside, Sekai had crafted a snowman. It was large and featureless, missing arms and a face for the time being, but it was halfway decent for his first attempt. Sekai slumped against it, his legs red and raw from the cold, his eyes teary. It seemed that even playing in the snow had failed to make him happy.  When the exit door opened, Sekai snapped his head up, wide-eyed. Alone in a bed of snow, he had made himself as vulnerable as one could be in a killing game—the thought was not lost on him. Slowly, Sekai shuffled back behind his snowman and peered around its hefty body to stare at the approaching student.

Eisuke quietly emerged from Hanami’s room after what felt like an eternity, fingers tight at his side as he walked with his gaze straight... Or as straight as one could get with half your face bandaged. Due to the burns, Eisuke’s hair that normally covered the left side of his face was now pinned out of the way, held in place by two hair clips to provide him with the now only form of seeing possible.

Eisuke slowly made his way from Floor D to Floor E and went straight for the computers in the data room, armed now only with the Raspberry Pi he’d received in the monomachine in place of his headphones and iPod. Plugging the mini computer into one of the computers, Eisuke began to type away, fingers flying across keys as he began a personal mission.

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Timaeus Woodworth was an absolute goddamn failure.

How many people had died by now? Eleven, right? He dug a finger into his arms for every death he counted. Bianca Yoshi Eri Nao Kukuru Masaaki Adrian Ren Tomo Sahirah and now... He bowed his head. ...Caren. Yup, eleven.

And every case-- every single one-- he’d been so far off track he’d either made the trials drag on for hours or nearly convicted the wrong killer. This last one, though, that was the real kicker.

She’d been lying through her teeth ever since they woke up in this living hell, she had to have been, and he’d fallen for every damn word of it. She’d grown up in an abusive household, he’d told himself, of course she had mental issues! And maybe with some emotional support he could help her overcome them, and grow into the cheerful, kind Caren he thought she was... or at the very least, get her out of here alive and to a psychiatrist. As of yesterday, however, he’d learned that both the Caren she was and the Caren he hoped she could be were mere acts, and the real Caren hid a maliciousness behind her mask that he could never have imagined.

Some of it was still true, of course. She didn’t seem to be entirely in control of her actions-- the furious apologies he’d found written on scraps of paper all over his room told him that. And she did seem to care about him to some extent, or at least care about his attention and approval. But after all of this? None of that evoked any emotions for her except pity and anger.

...To anyone entering the library, however, none of the above thoughts were particularly legible on Timaeus’s face. He sat hunched over in his usual chair, arms crossed, staring at the floor. For some reason it seemed he’d taken his har out of the usual half-ponytail, and it now fell long and ragged down his back and the sides of his face.

...Was that duct tape in his hair?

“...”

...Oh, someone was here. After a few seconds of squinting, he put his round, smudged glasses back on so he could see more than five feet in front of him.