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Ellie: ……. (It was silent as we opened the door… Seeing Miriam slouched over underneath the “Welcome to Hell” message, blood spilled everywhere… It was gruesome, savage… Cruel…)
Tom: N-No…
Jake: M-M-M-
Ellie: (Jake could barely speak as he ran up to Miriam’s side, clutching onto her left hand…)
Jake: M-MIRIAM… N-NO… Not you… MIRIAM!!!
Ellie: J-Jake!
Jake: S-She's cold… She's… She's dead…
Ellie: Jake…
Tom: A-Aiden!
Ellie: (I looked over to see Aiden on the ground, also slumped over against the wall. He was breathing, but he was definitely knocked unconscious…)
Tom: He's alive… We need to tell everyo-
Ellie: (Before Tom could continue…)
*Ding dong ding dong!*
Monokuma: A body has been discovered! Everyone, please gather at Classroom #1!
Ellie: (An announcement, this time announcing a body has been discovered… It really was true…)
Jake: Miriam… I- Huh?
Ellie: (I looked at Jake as he slumped over Miriam's cold corpse…)
Ellie: Jake? What's up?
Jake: …. N-Nothing…
Ellie: … (It wasn’t long before everyone from the Dining hall began to flood into the room…)
Ashley: HEY! What's goin’ on in- GYAHHHHH-!
James: A-Aiden!
Tess: What happened?! Is- is that-
Karol: Miriam?!?
Gabby: So… They are both dead?
James: N-No!
Ellie: (James sprinted to Aiden’s side as Tom stood up from his kneeling position…)
Tom: No, he's breathing… Miriam on the other hand…
Jake: She’s... She's dead…
Ellie: We went to her room but she wasn’t inside.. So we found her in here…
Alec: … Well, it was only a matter of time until someone caved…
Rosa: M-Miriam! Aiden?! What- What happened here?
Ashley: B-But… we just had the meeting!
Jake: … It was him… It had to have been him!
Ellie: (Without hesitation, Jake pointed to Aiden who was still unconscious….)
Jake: HE KILLED HER…
Karol: How do you know that?
Jake: Oh- I don't know, maybe because he was missing during the meeting and… Look!
Ellie: (Jake simply gestured towards him…)
Jake: He- HE KILLED HER-!
Tom: Jake! Calm down!
Ellie: (Tom walked over to Jake, Jake pressing his face into Tom's chest as he began to cry…)
Jake: Why Miriam? She- She didn't deserve this…
Yul: Hello?!?! What the fuck did you do?!
Ellie: (the door opened again, Yul, Riya… and Fiore entering the room…)
Rosa: F-Fiore! Don't look!
Fiore: …
Riya: A B-B-BODY?!
Yul: Okay who the hell killed her?
Alec: Why on earth would they admit to it? They are trying to get away with murder, not just commit it…
Yul: Maybe it was YOU Mr. “Twenty ways”!
Alec: That was- I didn’t do this!
Fiore: Guys… Stop fighting…!
Rosa: Fiore you shouldn’t be here… A child shouldn’t see… this!
Lake: I wish I wasn't seeing this…
Fiore: I’m okay…!
Ellie: l-
Tess: Ellie… Tell me what happened here-
Ellie: I don't know?!?! I just discovered the body, okay?
Tess: Oh geez! Sorry, I was just curious…
Monokuma: Well! Curiosity killed the Granny, that's for sure!
Jake: YOU…
Ellie: You have some nerve showing up…
Monokuma: Oh, come now, come now! How on earth are you going to solve this mystery without a bit of some information!
Yul: We AREN'T on Earth, you abomination!
Monokuma: Words hurt y'know!
Ellie: (Monokuma, dejected, raised his hand. As he did, I felt my watch buzz as a chorus of ringing surrounded me.)
Alec: Hmm? What’s this now?
Monokuma: The Monokuma file!
Ellie: M-Monokuma file?
Monokuma: It will tell you all you need to know about dear old, dead old Miriam!!!
Jake: Stop talking!
Monokuma: SHEESH- Someone's touchy! Anyways… After some time has passed, we will hold a Class Trial! And together, you will all hold a discussion to try and figure out who killed her!
Jake: I think it's quite obvious who did it…
Gabby: But- how do we know that for sure?
Jake: … I-
Alec: Ahem…
Ellie: (Alec cleared his throat with gusto as he held his watch up to his face, adjusting his glasses as he read out loud…)
Alec: “The victim was Miriam, the Ultimate Baker. She was killed after being stabbed in the chest, however, the cause of death was ultimately blood loss. Her body was found slouched underneath the… ‘Holoboard’-”
Ellie: (Good to know THAT'S what they are calling it…)
Alec: “-with a knife sticking out of her chest. Miriam also suffered a large bruise on the side of her hip…”... And the file also discloses her height and her weight but I doubt that will matter here…
Ellie: Man… This is… Unreal…
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Monokuma File #1
Ellie: (After Alec read the file, everyone sorta stood around waiting for something to happen… Until suddenly…)
Tess: Alright… I guess let's begin.
Tom: Where do we start?
Tess: … I don't know. But, for starters, we need to understand one crucial thing…
Ellie: (As Tess spoke, the cold tone she usually wore felt even cooler…)
Tess: One of us killed Miriam. One of us took a knife and stabbed her… But that doesn't mean we need to be aggressive. Going in groups of two will ensure a killer cannot dispose of evidence or alter the crime scene…
Alec: Good point. Here, I'll stick with Fiore.
Fiore: What?! O-Okay…
Gabby: Ooo! Ellie, can we stick together?
Ellie: S-Sure!
Gabby: YAY!
Tess: Alright.
Tom: I can stick with you Jake…
Jake: A-Are you sure?
Tom: Why wouldn’t I be?
Jake: Well… I don't want to leave Miriam's side… you won't get much investigation done…
Tom: Well… Okay then. We can guard the body then!
Jake: … Thanks Tom…
Lake: Ashley? wanna investigate together?
Ashley: I-I-
Ellie: (Ashley was still in absolute shock at the sight…)
Ashley: This… Why? Why did someone kill her? To escape?
Yul: Well what other reason does anyone here have to kill? Fuck your buddy system bullshit, I’m going on my own!
Tess: Yul- That will only put suspicion on you…
Yul: So fucking what?! I didn't do this!
Tess: Well, going on your own-
Yul: FINE BITCH- I’ll tail around you all day…
Tess: Huh?
Yul: What?
Tess: I mean, fine. But you better keep it to yourself.
Yul: HUH? Keep WHAT to myself?
Tess: Your- well- everything…
Ellie: (After a while, everyone split off into groups. Me and Gabs, Tess and Yul, Alec and Fiore, Jake and Tom, Ashley and Lake, Riya and Karol…)
Ellie: … Who’s going to partner up with Aiden?
James: … I'll bring him to his room.
Ellie: (James lifted up Aiden, bridal style…)
Lake: Wait! shouldn't we wait for him to wake up? He doesn't know Miriam is dead-
Jake: Of course he does! He-
Ellie: (Tom placed his hand on Jake's shoulder, Jake shutting up instantly… His eyes staring off into the distance…)
Tom: Save it for the trial Jake…
Jake: O-Okay…
Ellie: Gabs, where do you think we should start?
Gabby: Let's start at the body… Seems like a smart Idea.
Ellie: Makes sense to me…
Ellie: (And so, me and Gabs joined Tom and Jake at Miriam's body. The shocked look on Miriam's face was soul shattering and nauseating… She clearly wasn't expecting to be killed…)
Tom: Hey guys…
Ellie: Hey…
Tom: ….
Ellie: …
Tom: I guess, don't touch the body.
Ellie: Yep…
Ellie: (Fuck, this atmosphere sucks… But I can't blame everyone, there is a dead body in front of us, someone who we considered a friend…)
Gabby: Look Ellie… that knife…
Ellie: Yeah… It's all bloody, the handle covered in her blood…
Gabby: It looks like… A kitchen knife…
Tom: I mean… where else would you get a knife?
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Kitchen Knife
Ellie: Hmm…
Gabby: Oh! Ellie! Watch your shoes! You’re stepping in blood!
Ellie: Huh? Oh! Ew!
Ellie: (I took a step back, looking at the bottom of my shoe… However)
Ellie: Huh? My shoe… It’s dry?
Gabby: Huh? But, I swear you were standing in the blood!
Tom: Hmm… no, the blood on the ground is completely dried…
Ellie: Dried… Huh?
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Dried blood
Ellie: (I took a look at Miriam's hands, Jake holding onto her left hand, but in her right…)
Ellie: Ah!
Gabby: What?
Ellie: Look!
Ellie: (In her right hand was a long metal pipe, with a sizable dent in it!)
Tom: A-A pipe?
Gabby: What is Miriam doing with it?
Jake: It's- It's probably a weapon! Maybe she picked it up to defend herself against him?
Gabby: Defend against… Him?
Jake: Never mind…
Ellie: (It's obvious what he's getting at… But can that really be the whole story?)
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Metal pipe
Ellie: Wait… Hang on…
Ellie: (I walked over and knelt down to the pipe and saw… Thick medium black hair around the same length as mine…)
Gabby: B-Black hair?!
Tom: …. Wasn't mine! That's too long!
Ellie: Well, Tess's hair is too long…
Monokuma: I can help with that!
Tom: DAMNIT-
Gabby: GRAH-
Ellie: Wh- how?
Monokuma: Gimme ‘dat!
Ellie: (Monokuma swiped the hair and, after giving it a good whiff…)
Monokuma: Absolutely… Undeniably… INDISPUTABLY!
Gabby: J-Just tell us! Whose hair is it?
Monokuma: Average hair length… Average hair color… Average hair thickness… Average in every way!
Jake: I KNEW IT…
Ellie: (Jake shot up, letting go of Miriam's hand…)
Jake: I'M GOING TO- I- I- WHERE IS HE?
Tom: Jake that's enough! You need to calm down!
Jake: BUT THAT GUY KILLED HER…
Gabby: W-Why?
Jake: AIDEN…
Ellie: Woah woah woah! Hang on! We can't just assume he's the killer because of one strand of hair!
Jake: I have all the evidence I need!
Tom: Jake, fucking listen to me damnit!
Ellie: (Tom rested his hand on Jake's shoulder, Jake shrugging it off.)
Jake: How do you expect me to calm down?
Tom: I don't! But the last thing we need is a catfight between you and someone who is unconscious!
Jake: What?!?
Gabby: I think he means SIT YOUR ASS DOWN!
Jake: … And who are YOU to tell me what to do?!?!
Ellie: No, it's the rules that will tell you what to do… It's night time, remember?
Jake: Huh?
Ellie: It's rule Number 3… “Physical violence to any student is strictly prohibited during nighttime. This rule does not apply to students attempting graduation.”...
Jake: ngh… But- I want- Miriam needs justice!
Tom: Then wait for the trial! I'm sure if Aiden did it, we will come to that conclusion!
Jake: …
Ellie: (Jake sat back down, grabbing onto Miriam's hand once more)
Jake: Just… Make it quick…
Ellie: (Damn, for someone who doesn't like being ordered around, he sure is demanding…)
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Loose hair
Tom: Hmm…
Ellie: (I noticed Tom staring off into the distance…)
Ellie: What’re you thinking?
Tom: Huh? Oh. I was just… Doesn't the curtain strike you as odd?
Ellie: Now that you mention it…
Ellie: (I looked to the red curtain…)
Ellie: Yeah! It’s-
Gabby: C-Covered in blood!
Tom: It is?
Gabby: Look!
Ellie: (Wasn't what I was going to say, but taking a closer look at the red curtains…)
Ellie: Oh shit!
Ellie: (Was a hardly visible, yet undeniable handprint in blood. And looking further was another, and another, and another! Handprints all over!)
Tom: What? How on earth did this happen?
Ellie: (It DIDN'T happen on earth…)
Gabby: There are even hand prints at the very top!
Tom: These hands seem pretty small and dainty… Unlike mine.
Gabby: We get it Tom… You didn't do it…
Tom: What?! I was just saying!
Ellie: (Regardless… I still think something else is off with this red curtain… But these handprints are really strange…)
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Red curtains
Gabby: Uhh… HEY! MONOKUMA!
Monokuma: You called?
Gabby: Can you tell us whose handprints these are!
Monokuma: Absolutely! They belong to the killer!
Tom: Yeah, but whose handprints are they?
Monokuma: ….
Tom: …. what?
Monokuma: ….
Tom: ….?
Ellie: …. Why would he tell us?
Tom: … because we asked?
Ellie: (is this guy for real?!?!)
Monokuma: Puhuhuhuhu~
Tom: You- aren't going to tell us are you?
Ellie: (Good god… He is..!)
Monokuma: Nope! Buh-bye!
Gabby: Great…
Tom: Okay then…
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Hand prints
Jake: … Gee… Without those red lights and candles it's super dim in here… Can we turn on the lights?
Gabby: Oo! I can do it! H-Huh?
Ellie: What's up Gabs?
Gabby: There is no light switch…
Monokuma: Sorry! Lights are automatic! At night time they all turn off!
Tom: Can you turn them on for us?
Monokuma: What's the magic word~?
Tom: Please..?
Monokuma: Thank you~ But nope! I can't! It's tied to the ship's clock! Turning them on would mess up the schedule!
Ellie: Damn… Then let's just turn on the red lights…
Tom: ….
Ellie: Tom?
Tom: Well- Look…
Ellie: (I walked over to the string light's battery box… and the switch was…)
Ellie: Huh? They are still on?!
Tom: Yeah… I suppose they are just dead…
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Dead lights
Tom: Not to mention all the candles are all melted…
Ellie: Yeah… I guess they were left on after the meeting.
Gabby: Did nobody blow them out? That's a fire hazard!
Ellie: There were a lot of them and we were getting pretty hungry… I wouldn’t blame anyone for forgetting to blow them out…
Gabby: I'm sad… I liked the smell…
Tom: It was VERY strong though…
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Scented Candles
Ellie: Well hang on…
Ellie: (Went over and took the batteries out of the lights…)
Ellie: The batteries are probably just dead…
Tom: Oh. Is there any way you can test that out?
Ellie: Maybe there are other batteries around here I can pop in.
Gabby: We can go to the cargo hold!
Ellie: Hang on…
Ellie: (as I glanced over to Gabby who was standing by the door, I noticed something on the ground near where Aiden was laying before James carried him out…)
Ellie: What's that?
Gabby: Huh?
Ellie: (I picked up the paper, it being a note of some sorts…)
Ellie: Huh?
Ellie: (I opened the note and began to read its contents…)
Ellie: … “Hello Aiden… I regret to inform you I caught someone preparing to murder you. Please, don't go to the meeting, instead wait for everyone to leave… I'll protect you.”
Tom: Woah…
Jake: Huh?!
Gabby: Who sent that?
Ellie: …. “From, James”..!
Ellie: (James has something to do with this?!)
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Aiden's note
Ellie: (After reading the note, I handed it to Tom and Gabby, who read it through together… As I turned back to see Jake, in his hands was something… Blue …)
Jake: …..
Ellie: Jake?
Jake: Y-Yeah?!
Ellie: (he hid it..!)
Ellie: What'cha got there?
Jake: Nothing…
Ellie: I saw-
Tom: Ellie…
Ellie: What?!? He has something I saw it!
Jake: I-I don't know what you are talking about…
Gabby: Ellie… I think it's time to leave the crime scene…
Ellie: B-But-! Augh… FIne…
Ellie: (But that was hella suspicious…)
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Suspicious scrap
Ellie: (I nodded to Gabby as the two of us left Tom and Jake with the body. In the hallway was Tess and Yul…
Tess: Hmmm… Oh! Ellie! Gabby!
Yul: great…
Gabby: Hi Tess…
Ellie: Did you find anything notable yet?
Tess: Well… I do have a few suspicions… But it's best I leave it for the trial. After all, anyone here could be the killer…
Yul: ……
Tess: ……
Yul: The hell you looking at ME for?
Tess: What have you found, Ellie?
Ellie: Well… We just investigated the body… found a few things…
Ellie: (After a few minutes of explaining to Tess what we found…)
Tess: Hmm… I see… Thank you, that's valuable info…
Yul: Is it? All you got is a bunch of unidentifiable hand prints and a strand of Aiden’s hair!
Ellie: Do YOU have anything to share with the class then?
Yul: I can say we are all screwed because everyone here is an IDIOT…
Gabby: Well that includes you! You have been useless!
Yul: OH YEAH? You wanna say that to my face tree girl?
Gabby: I JUST DID, IDIOT!
Yul: I HOPE A SLAUGHTERHOUSE IS BUILT OVER YOUR FUCKING GRAVE WHEN YOUR ASS IS DEAD.
Ellie: Oh my god?! Calm down, you two!
Tess: We have a case to investigate!
Yul: I've done my investigating and I've determined this place SUCKS and I’d rather fucking DIE then spend another minute with this CRAZY GIRL…
Gabby: I’M. NOT. CRAZY!
Ellie: (Gabby's face turned red as a tomato as she balled her fists…!)
Ellie: Gabby! no!
Ellie: (I placed myself in front of her, standing between her and Yul.)
Ellie: Gabs, let's go to the Cargo hold now.
Gabby: Fine…
Tess: See you in the Trial Ellie…
Ellie: Good luck Tess…
Yul: Fuck you too!
Ellie: (After THAT sorry excuse of an interaction, Gabs and I walked to the stairs and went to the second floor towards the Cargo hold. And yet before I could even scan my Monowatch… The door was already wide open…)
Ellie: What?
Monokuma: ALLOW ME!
Ellie: Shit! (That one got me…)
Monokuma: During an investigation, EVERY room is open! No watch scanning required!
Gabby: Does that include our rooms?
Monokuma: Yup!
Gabby: T-Then what is stopping someone from sneaking in and taking stuff?
Monokuma: Do you have anything to steal?
Gabby: No, but what if I did?
Monokuma: Tough stuff! But, as long as you are investigating a murder, I doubt anyone will be going through your stuff!
Ellie: Cool, thanks…
Monokuma: A- T-T-Thank you!?
Ellie: SHIT- No- I didn't mean- Augh. Go away!
Monokuma: Magic woooooooooord~!?
Ellie: Shut the fuck up and leave!
Monokuma: Sigh…. Progress is a slow train…
Ellie: (Monokuma left as the two of us entered the cargo hold. But the sight that we saw was insane… For it was an absolute MESS… Boxes were thrown everywhere, some open and empty, others half full and spilling out… and in the middle of it all was Fiore and Alec…)
Alec: Fiore-
Fiore: What?!?!
Alec: We haven't found anything of use searching here…
Fiore: Yes we have!
Ellie: Hello?
Fiore: -!
Gabby: Hello you two! How are you doing, Fiore?
Fiore: Uhm… Hi! I’m fine!
Ellie: (I swear, this little girl has some secrets…)
Alec: We haven’t found much. Did you two have any luck?
Ellie: The crime scene was a good start. You might want to go back there.
Fiore: I-I don't wanna…
Gabby: That's okay! Uhm… Do you have any information at all then?
Fiore: Well… I was in my room when it happened… Rosa came to my room to give me some food, but she came inside my room to see me when she did. She is really caring…
Ellie: Yeah, I saw her walking back after you finished eating.
Fiore: … When was that?
Ellie: When Me, Tom, and Jake went looking for Miriam…
Fiore: … Hm…
Alec: Something on your mind, Fiore?
Fiore: Nope. Just thinking!
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Fiore's account
Gabby: Hey Ellie! Look! Batteries!
Ellie: hmm?
Ellie: (I turned towards Gabby who was holding a pack of Rechargeable AAA Batteries..)
Ellie: Gabs, those are rechargeables. They probably won't have any juice in them until we charge them…
Gabby: AH nuts… I just wanted to help…
Ellie: You are still helping! Let's just find some other pre-charged batteries.
Ellie: (However after looking for a while…)
Gabby: I think these rechargeable batteries are the only ones here!
Ellie: Ah geez… That's unlucky…
Alec: Truly. These batteries are also weak as hell…
Gabby: Oh? How can you tell?
Alec: Take a look at the packaging…
Ellie: (I looked at the unopened pack in Alec's hands, the large “3 hours of charge!” logo displaying as if it were proud of its incompetence…)
Gabby: THREE HOURS? At full charge? That's terrible!
Alec: I can't imagine how long they would last if not charged all the way…
Alec: I wouldn't use these for an electric toothbrush let alone a light…
Ellie: (Hmm… They are the same batteries that were in the red string lights…)
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Rechargeable AAA
Fiore: So, now what?
Gabby: We should probably-
*DING DING DING DING*
Ellie: Huh?
Ellie: (At the same time that ridiculous bell noise rang out, my monowatch started freaking out!)
Gabby: Oh god! Is it time for the trial?
Alec: No way!
Fiore: WAAAAAAH I'M NOT READY!
Ellie: Chill guys!
Ellie: (I looked at my watch, Monokuma’s face appearing on the screen…)
Monokuma: BZZT. If you are receiving this automated message that means the 3D printer is now finished with your item! Please pick it up before anyone else can! Puhuhuhuhu~ BZZT.
Ellie: Oh! My cup is ready.
Gabby: Huh?
Ellie: (I turned to the corner and looked at the small, handled cup sitting in the 3D printer. It was a cyan shade of blue, the material being smooth to touch as I grabbed it)
Gabby: So… The printer just finished your item? How long did that take?
Ellie: Roughly two whole days…
Gabby: It's a cute cup Ellie!
Ellie: Heh… It's just a cup. I made it to test out the printer. Good to know you get a notification on your watch when it's done.
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
3D cup
Ellie: …. I think- I think that's all that's in here Gabs…
Gabby: Yeah… Alec and Fiore already left…
Ellie: What? They left so quietly! Not even a goodbye…
Gabby: I guess they had other places to investigate…
Ellie: (Come to think of it, so do we…)
Ellie: Hey Gabs, let's go back to classroom 1.
Gabby: Lead the way!!!
Ellie: (The two of us left the cargo hold, making our way back down the stairs and through the first floor. But as we did, I saw Ashley and Lake go into Classroom 2…)
Gabby: Should we go talk to them?
Ellie: I don't see why not…
Ellie: (And so we went inside classroom 2…)
Lake: Oh? You guys too?
Ashley: Hey y’all… learned anything important?
Ellie: Not a lot, unfortunately… Only a few clues and maybe some loose connections…
Lake: That's… not good… If we can't find any connections in time, we might be doomed!
Ashley: Don't think that way Lake! We… We will figure out the truth…
Gabby: Did you guys find anything?
Lake: Not yet… We came in here to cover more ground…
Ashley: Leave no stone unturned…
Ellie: (Damn, Ashley is absolutely devastated…)
Ellie: You okay Ashley?
Ashley: Not really, Ellie…
Gabby: We could really use your attitude right about now…
Ashley: Well, y'all… I feel like… A failure.
Ellie: A failure?
Ashley: The meetings were supposed to stop anyone from killin’! So why’d it go ahead and happen?
Ellie: … Because of those videos probably…
Ashley: Well, only a few of us watched them… That would limit the suspect list, right?
Ellie: … Well the people who watched the videos were me, you, Tom, Jake, Rosa, Riya, and Alec… But I remember seeing Alec with two thumb drives….
Lake: He had two?
Ellie: Yeah… I’m unsure if he watched both of them but he definitely had two.
Ashley: Well, he finished his video at the same time we did, so I doubt he watched two of them. Maybe someone gave him theirs?
Ellie: (I’m sure this is important… But I doubt it has any bearing on this case at hand…)
Ellie: Hey, Ashley, you were in the dining hall the whole time right?
Ashley: Darn tootin’...
Ellie: Did anyone leave the dining hall after Jake, Tom, and I left?
Ashley: Not that I remember. It was Lake, James, Karol, Gabby, Tess, Alec, and I. Rosa was there, but she came back just after you left…
Lake: That leaves Yul, Riya, Fiore, Aiden, and Miriam as not present… And of course we know why Aiden and Miriam didn't show face…
Gabby: So, everyone in the dining hall has an Alibi for the time of the murder…
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Ashleys Account
Ellie: Hmm… (Looking around the room, one thing was obvious… The blue curtain in the room was torn at the bottom on the right side…)
Gabby: Huh? What’s up?
Ellie: Look… This curtain is torn up at the corner here…
Gabby: Let me see!
Ellie: (But when Gabby moved the curtain slightly…)
Gabby: ELLIE…! Look!
Ellie: …! Blood!
Ellie: (On the inside of the curtain was a small bloodstain! But the outside of the curtain was completely spotless…)
Gabby: Is this… Miriam’s blood?
Ellie: Nobody else is bleeding out… But how did this blood get in here?
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Blue curtain
Ellie: Y’know… Come to think of it… I think I remember the metal pipe Miriam has!
Lake: You do?
Ellie: Yeah… It came from this room!
Ashley: How?
Ellie: When I first met Alec and Fiore… Fiore was holding it… Probably for self defense if I had to guess.
Lake: Smart girl…
Ashley: So how did the pipe end up in classroom 1?
Ellie: …. (That’s my question as well…)
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Missing pipe
Gabby: … Well, other than that, there isn't much going on in here…
Ellie: … Yeah, you are probably right, Gabs…
Lake: If you want to go look elsewhere, Ashley and I can look around more in here.
Gabby: Can do!
Ashley: Good luck, you two…
Ellie: Same to you.
Gabby: Bye!!!
Ellie: (The two of us left the room and into the hallway…)
Gabby: Well… Since all the doors are unlocked… Should we maybe go check on Aiden and James?
Ellie: That's a great idea, Gabs! Let's do it.
Gabby: I must be smarter when around you Ellie!
Ellie: Huh? Why do you say that?
Gabby: No reason!
Ellie: (Strange that she would say that, but regardless the two of us walked down to the dorms, I looked to the right and noticed Miriam's door was already half way opened…)
Gabby: Oh? Miriam's room?
Ellie: … Let's go in there before Aiden's room.. I have a feeling we might find something important…
Gabby: S-Sure..!
Ellie: (Going to Miriam's room, I pushed the door slightly only before seeing a piece of paper sitting on the floor…)
Gabby: Gah! A note!
Ellie: … Interesting…
Ellie: (I picked up the note, and… reading it aloud…)
Ellie: “Hello Miriam… I regret to inform you I caught someone preparing to murder you. Please, don't go to the meeting, instead, come early before everyone arrives. I'll protect you… From Aiden”..!
Gabby: Isn't that eerily similar to the note Aiden got? Like, almost word for word?
Ellie: Y-Yeah! Except… This note tells Miriam to meet at the classroom before the meeting, not after! And it says its from Aiden…?
Gabby: … Then… What does that mean?
Ellie: … I-I don't know…
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Miriam's note
Ellie: But… I can say for sure she wasn't in her room when the meeting ended…
Gabby: Because of your map, right?
Ellie: Yep…
Gabby: Was there anyone who WAS in their room?
Ellie: … Well, Yul, Fiore, and Riya were in their rooms…
Gabby: I see…
Ellie: (I wonder what Riya was doing in her room… But, regardless, she was in her room…)
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Ellies account
Ellie: Hmm… Other than that, the room seems normal…
Gabby: Then, I guess let's check in on Aiden!
Ellie: (As much as I don't want to humor Jake, Aiden is the biggest suspect… It could be valuable to get his side of the story… The two of us made our way to Aiden's room… Opening the door, Aiden was sitting up in bed, James sitting on the side of the bed.)
James: Gah!
Aiden: Hey! Maybe knock?
Gabby: Oh! S-Sorry!
Ellie: We have a murder on our hands! My first priority isn't privacy.
Aiden: A-A MURDER?
James: Shit…
Aiden: You didn't tell me- That- Who?!?
Ellie: … Huh?
Gabby: Aiden… Did you not know?
Aiden: N-No! The last thing I remember is being HIT ON THE HEAD and getting knocked out… I don't even remember what happened before that! James, why didn't you tell me?
James: I-I didn’t want to stress you out.
Aiden: Thanks, but respectfully, I was going to find out eventually. Who- Who was killed?
Ellie: Miriam… She was found dead with a knife in her chest…
Aiden: Oh… And- Who killed her?
Ellie: W-Well… (Evidence sorta points to YOU…)
Gabby: Well… we wanted to get your side of the story before we decide that…
Aiden: Well sorry, I remember like- nothing… Augh… My head is still spinning…
Gabby: … Spinning? Like… a Concussion?
Aiden: I don't know, okay? Sorry.
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
Aiden concussed
Ellie: Geez… Memory loss after being hit… Just what we needed from our number 1 suspect…
Aiden: … WHAT?!?!
James: Okay. So there was a lot I didn’t tell you…
Aiden: Why am I the prime suspect?!?!
Ellie: Well… When we found you unconscious, you were at the murder scene…
Aiden: What?! Where was the murder?
James: The meeting classroom. Classroom 1.
Aiden: … Oh- OH- I did go there… I remember that much… But not why… I'm sorry, anything before breakfast is a total blur…
Gabby: Do you know anything, James?
James: Well… Aiden, don't you remember what we did today?
Aiden: … Uhm… No?
James: We went to the second floor… and-
Aiden: ….!
Ellie: (Aiden let out a hearty gasp!)
Aiden: OH-! I do remember that!
Ellie: So.. you two were together for a while?
Aiden: I-It was… Augh I don't remember but we were together!
James: It was until Monokuma's announcement. After that, you went to your room.
Gabby: I see… So you two were together all day…
Ellie: I'm sure that could be useful to us…
OBTAINED TRUTH BULLET!
James's Account
Ellie: (And, as I thought about the information…)
*Ding dong bing bong!*
Ellie: (My monowatch buzzed… Monokuma's face appeared once again…)
Monokuma: Allllright! I hope you are all ready! The class trial is about to begin! Meet at the large red doors on the second floor!
*Bzzt!*
Ellie: … Already?
Gabby: What?! But- I have no idea who the killer could be yet!
Aiden: Well… I guess we just, have to do this… I don't think I’m going to be much help…
James: Don't say that, Aiden! We can prove your innocence!
Aiden: … I hope so… I didn't kill Miriam!
Ellie: … (But then… Who did?)
Ellie: (Making our way out of the room, we headed up the stairs to see everyone standing already stationed outside the doors that previously wouldn't open…)
Karol: Nope! Won't even budge…
Tom: Here, let me try!
Tess: No… It won't open guys… Just wait.
Rosa: Is this the right room?
Lake: I think so…
Ashley: Alright… We don’t gotta have this trial if the killer just steps forward now and tells us…
Yul: Maybe the cornfields infected your brain, but why would they do that? They will DIE.
Ashley: Well- I-
Jake: Look, I don't think the killer even NEEDS to step forward… We ALL know who did it!
Aiden: H-Hey! What do you mean by that?
Jake: Nghh….! How- how dare you!
Tom: J-Jake… Please, the trial is about to start. You are so close.
Jake: Ugh…
Alec: This is definitely the right room. We just need to wait for everyone.
Fiore: Who’s missing?
Alec: … It seems like Riya isn't here yet. Which is strange due to Karol being here.
James: Didn't you two investigate together?
Karol: Riya just went to the bathroom. I watched her go inside just before the announcement, and it's against the rules to ignore it. So I'm sure-
Riya: Karol! You ditched me!
Ellie: (Running around the corner was Riya.)
Karol: Ditched you? I was just following the rules!
Riya: Sure… So? What? Where is the trial being held?
Gabby: I guess in this room…
Monokuma: WRONG!
Ellie: (Everyone turned around to see Monokuma in front of the red door…)
Monokuma: Now everyone! The Trial room is just behind these doors, but it is not even on this ship!
Tom: W-What?
Jake: Excuse me?
Ashley: What in tarnation?!?
Lake: What do you mean?
Monokuma: Beyond this door is the patent-pending, ULTIMATE TELEPORTER!
Ellie: A-A teleporter?
Aiden: Like… A real teleporter?!?!
James: How? How is that possible?
Monokuma: What? You thought the UUEC was a single ship? Don't make me laugh! The UUEC is a whole starlink of ships! The ship you are on is simply the front of FIVE!
Ellie: (F-Five ships?!?)
Riya: Th-
Jake: That's insane!? How is this technology even possible?! We don't HAVE teleportation!
Monokuma: Jake Jake Jake…
Jake: W-What?
Monokuma: There is a LOT about this ship that you don't know~! Pu-Pupu-PUHUHUHUHUHU~!
Ellie: (As Monokuma laughed, the doors shot open, revealing the teleporter behind him… It looked like something out of Star Trek! Pipes and tubes of electricity stretching around the walls, wires stringing towards the base and the circle up top… The teleporter was conveniently just large enough to fit sixteen people…)
Alec: You expect me to step into that thing? How do we even know it works?!?
Monokuma: Well, we tested it already!
Alec: W-We did?
Monokuma: Puhuhu~ how do you think you all got here in the first place~!
Gabby: H-huh?
Monokuma: Oops! Did I say that? Don't worry! The teleporter is completely SAFE!
Ellie: Well… Who's going in?
Tom: N-No way in hell I'm doing that!
Fiore: Fine then…
Rosa: F-FIORE?
Ellie: (We were all caught off guard when Fiore took her first steps inside the teleporter, her little tennis shoes slapping against the metal floor…!)
Alec: F-Fiore!? What are you doing?
Fiore: Let's just get this over with so I can go back to hiding!
Aiden: G-Get down from there! You don’t know what you are doing!
Fiore: Neither do you!
Alec: … She's got a point…
Ellie: What?!
Alec: Monokuma can't hurt us. If the teleporter hurts us, the game would likely end, and the viewers watching us would be very disappointed…
Yul: Nobody is watching us!
Alec: And you are so sure, how? It’s all too possible that at least SOMEONE wants to watch us kill each other. Otherwise there wouldn't be rules, or cameras…
Ellie: (So Alec stepped on up, Fiore smiling with a toothy grin…)
Alec: So the show must go on.
Yul: You are a fucking lunatic!
Gabby: … I wanna teleport!
Yul: YOU TOO?!
Gabby: Let's do it Ellie!
Ellie: Wh- Woah!
Ellie: (Gabby grabbed me and pulled me inside!)
Ellie: Gabby! Wait-! I'm scared!
Gabby: There is nothing to be afraid of! Besides, we already have gone so far!
Ellie: … How can you be so fearless right now?
Gabby: Because you told me everything will be okay…
Ellie: I-
Ellie: … (I took a deep breath….)
Ellie: Okay… Let's do this…
Jake: … If it means putting Miriam's killer to justice…
Tom: Jake?!?!
Jake: Then I'll do it too!
Ellie: (Jake hopped onto the raised platform like the rest of us did…)
Tom: Wh- Jake!
Jake: … Oooo- Tingly…
Riya: That's not a good sign!
Monokuma: If you don't get in the teleporter and begin the trial, then I'm afraid I'll have to consider that a violation of regulations~
Rosa: ..! I'll get in!
Tom: What? So either we die by you or we die by TELEPORTATION?
Tess: I doubt it will kill us. Either way, it doesn't bother me…
Ellie: (Rosa and Tess leapt up onto the teleporter, James, Aiden, Karol, Lake, Ashley, and Riya following them…)
Yul: NUH UH… YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!
Tom: I'm not doing it!
Jake: … Tom! He will kill you if you don't!
Riya: Yul, you can stay down there~ It would be nice to never hear your voice again~!
Yul: BITCH I’D EAT YOU FOR BREAKFAST. Or would it be too spicy?!?
Riya: EXCUSE ME?!
Tom: … Ugh.
Jake: Please Tom!
Tom: … FIne…
Ellie: (Tom stepped up into the Teleporter…)
Karol: Yul, if you stay you die!
Yul: Or I die when you idiots fail to find the killer! Either way I’m fucked because you are all STUPID.
Rosa: You don't know that!
Tess: Please Yul.
Yul: Why do YOU want me to come?!
Tess: Without your input, we might not be able to find the killer…
Yul: BULLSHIT…
Monokuma: THREE…
Ellie: Get up here Yul! You idiot!
Yul: NO…
Monokuma: TWO…
Karol: YUL!
Yul: WHAT?
Karol: Look behind you! Monokuma is going to stab you!
Yul: WHAT?
Ellie: (When Yul turned around to look, Karol reached out and grabbed Yul's shirt collar and yanked him into the teleporter!)
Yul: GRAH- WATCH IT!
Monokuma: Thank god! He's too fun to die!
Yul: WHAT THE HELL?
Karol: DO YOU WANT TO DIE?
Yul: I'd rather die on my own terms!
Ellie: (Before Yul could kill himself, The doors to the teleportal closed… and we stood around waiting… Suddenly, a zap shocked us all… I could feel my body lose all control as electricity surged through my veins! It- It didn't hurt though… And suddenly… We stood in a completely different spot… In front of us was a door that looked like an Elevator…)
Yul: AUGH- WHAT HAPPENED- AM I DEAD?
Lake: I think… I think we are fine…!
Ashley: I felt lightnin’ in my body! What was that?
Monokuma: Teleportation~!
Tess: Oh geez… That felt… Strange…
Monokuma: Step into this elevator to descend into the trial room~!
Karol: Why not just teleport us into the trial room?!
Monokuma: The teleporter can only teleport to OTHER teleporters! This is a LINK after all! It would be terrible if a blackened were to run away!
Ellie: What the hell? So we are just trapped down there until the trial is over?
Monokuma: EXACTLY! Now get into the Elevator and we can be on our way to the class trial!!!
Ellie: (Everyone was silent as Monokuma disappeared, the elevator doors opening with a ding… We soon piled into the room, all fifteen of us…. I stood at the front, staring intently at the elevator doors as they slowly shut… God, the descent was bumpy, but with every single bump I felt my heart skip a beat… I mean, shit… One of us killed Miriam! In cold blood! I-I couldn't even imagine the feeling of blood on my hands… God… And one of us plunged the knife… I could feel the pit in my stomach growing and growing… That was until I felt a hand embrace my shoulder…)
Gabby: You… Okay, Ellie?
Ellie: I-I’m fine… We're going to find who killed Miriam and… I guess live on…
Gabby: Whatever happens, no matter what we will find out the truth…
Ellie: (She's right… Let's just hope we can be on the right side of the truth…)
Ellie: (Eventually, the elevator stopped, and the doors opened wide to show a room with red flowing curtains and a high roof with the earth above our heads…)
Monokuma: Welcome, welcome!!!
Jake: … This is the trial room?
Ellie: (In front of us was… A ring of stands all floating a few inches off the ground, each paired with a screen and a Monowatch scanner…)
Monokuma: Welcome everyone!
Ellie: (Monokuma sat atop a golden throne looming over the stand ring, his stupid half-smile practically taunting us…)
Monokuma: Please find your stand and scan your Monowatch!
Tess: Our monowatch? Why?
Monokuma: To link your watch to the stand! Don't worry about it and do it!
Ellie: Alright, sheesh… You don't have to yell…
Jake: What the hell is that?
Ellie: (Everyone looked to where Jake pointed, that being a sign standing up at one of the stands, a giant red X composed of two rolling pin symbols painted crudely over a portrait of Miriam's face…)
Jake: So- what? You are just going to mock her now?!?
Monokuma: Mock her?!? No no no! The sign simply defines where Miriam would have stood if she were alive!
Aiden: Seems pretty disrespectful with the giant red X…
Jake: Says YOU…
Karol: Let's just get this over with so we can NEVER do this again!
Yul: Ugh… We are all going to die…!
Ashley: Alright y'all… Let's do this…
Ellie: (Everyone slowly made their way to their stands. To my right was Tom, and to my left was Ashley… It was a cruel twist of fate that Jake ended up right next to where Miriam would be, Karol standing on Jake's left side… Gabby and Tess were only a few stands apart, Alec and Lake in between them. To Gabby's right was Riya and Rosa, Rosa on Ashley’s other side to me… To Tess's left was Fiore, who wasn't nearly tall enough to see over the stand as she stood on the other side of Miriam’s portrait… To Tom's right was Yul with James on his other side, Aiden standing to the right of him with his arms crossed, his face clearly stressed… And I don't blame him… Everyone scanned their Monowatch's, the screen on the screen in front of me displaying my name… and suddenly the room transformed all around us!)
Alec: What the?!
Lake: Woah! Look at the ground!
Ellie: (The ground disappeared as hexagonal tiles changed to look like the surface of the moon…)
Tom: Woah! This is- Really cool!
James: Someone here is a killer Tom…
Tom: I know, but look! It's like we are really on the moon!
Ellie: (From behind us, the stands’ gates closed, locking us in as the stands slowly started to levitate higher…)
Monokuma: BWAHAHA! Welcome to the Multi-Transformational trial ground! Using the special space technology, this room can recreate any place you dream of!
Rosa: Really?!
Tess: I can only assume that you have control of this technology…
Monokuma: DING DING DING!
Lake: Ah… I-I don't know how I feel about this…
Ellie: Alright…
Ellie: (I took a deep breath and looked at everyone around me… Our collective feeling was clear as day… Despair. The picture of Miriam looming over us as one of us is the reason she is not standing here as well… it was a deadly deception… A deadly betrayal… A deadly riddle and a deadly scheme… And here we stood in a circle amidst a deadly class trial…)
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Monokuma: Let's begin with a basic explanation of the class trial! So, your votes will determine the results! If you can figure out “Whodunnit” then only they will receive punishment! But if you pick the wrong one… I'll punish everyone besides the blackened, and the one that deceived everyone will graduate from the UUEC and return to earth! Now, to begin with-
Fiore: H-Hang on! No fair!
Monokuma: E-Eh? What?!?
Fiore: I can't see anything!
Ellie: (Fiore began jumping up and down, trying her best to see…)
Monokuma: Oh good grief, kid!
Ellie: (With a snap, the stand adjusted its height to Fiore's level, floating upwards so Fiore was at eye-level with everyone else…)
Monokuma: There! Ya happy?!?
Fiore: Yes.
Alec: Alright. Now, where to begin…
Jake: I don't think it takes a genius to realize the killer is obvious…
Aiden: Wh- Hey! Stop looking at me! I was attacked, remember?
Jake: Oh sure! That's exactly WHY I think you did it!
Ashley: Enough, you two! Arguin’ like two buck wild bulls in a rodeo won't solve nothin’!
Tess: Alright. I guess if we can start this debate… Has anyone considered the murder weapon at all?
Alec: Well, it only takes one good look at the body to see that…
Ellie: (W-Woah… Hang on, this debate is going so fast… It's practically non-stop! If I don't listen closely, I could be left behind… But- We need to find the truth together so we don't all DIE…)
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE.~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Monokuma file #1☰D
Alec: It should be clear what killed Miriam.
Lake: You must mean…
Alec: Yes. The knife sticking out of her damn chest.
Yul: She was fucking stabbed to death! Old hag probably died as soon as she was stabbed!
Jake: D-Don’t call her that-!
Ellie: Wait-!
[]☰Monokuma file #1☰D
.-~NO, THAT'S WRONG!~-.
Ellie: Yul, I don't think Miriam died immediately!
Yul: Okay gingerbread, how the hell do you know that?
Ellie: One look at the Monokuma file should tell you that, while she was stabbed, she ultimately died due to the blood loss, meaning she did not die immediately.
Yul: HUH?!
Tess: We read the file together Yul…
Yul: Ugh. What. Ever. Fine, so the decaying corpse walking didn't die immediately. Now what?
Ashley: So, if we can all agree the weapon was the knife… Are we ready to discover the killer?
Tom: Ashley, I don't think we are quite done with the weapon!
Ashley: Oh? Why not?
Tom: Well, we don't even know where the knife came from…
Ellie: (What?! But, there is only one place the knife COULD have come from..
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Kitchen knife☰D
Tom: We don't know where the knife came from!
Karol: What?
Tom: I mean… Is there any way to tell where the knife came from?
Jake: Uhm… Tom?
Tom: What?
Ellie: Hang on-!
[]☰Kitchen knife☰D
.-~NO, THAT'S WRONG!~-.
Ellie: No- Tom, the knife came from the kitchen…
Tom: The… Kitchen?
Ellie: Yeah. Just look at the handle. It's obviously a kitchen knife.
Tom: Oh…. Oops, sorry. I guess that was kinda stupid of me…
Alec: Now, hold on Tom. You might not be a complete idiot.
Tom: O-Oh? Is that… a compliment?
Alec: Well, it could be possible the knife came from somewhere else.
Lake: Somewhere else?
Gabby: How could it come from somewhere else? Where else would you get a knife that looks like that?!
Ellie: (Alec is on the wrong path, but I bet I have the evidence to prove him otherwise! But… Which one could it be?)
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰3D Cup☰D
[]☰Dried blood☰D
[]☰Metal pipe☰D
Alec: The murder weapon could have come from somewhere else…
Gabby: That's insane! It looks like a kitchen knife!
Aiden: Besides, where else could the knife have come from?
Alec: The cargo hold.
Jake: Huh? I don't remember seeing a box full of knives in there!
Tom: Me either…
Alec: Let's not forget about the 3D printer. Using that, the killer could have Made a knife .
Riya: I suppose that would let them avoid going to the kitchen!
Ellie: W-Wait a second!
[]☰3D Cup☰D
.-~NO, THAT'S WRONG!~-.
Ellie: No, The printer couldn’t have been used at the time of the murder!
Alec: Okay, how so?
Ellie: Because at the time it was making something for me!
Karol: Oh? What were you making?
Ellie: Uhm… A-A cup…
Tom: Just a cup?!
Ellie: Yeah… Got a problem?
Tom: N-No! Just, why a Cup?
Ellie: It wasn't a knife!
Alec: Can anyone back Ellie up?
Tess: I was there when she requested it to be made.
Gabby: Oh! And I was there when it was completed!
Lake: When was it completed?
Gabby: During the investigation!
Aiden: Oh! So, after she was killed!
Alec: Then I suppose that was another dead end. Sorry.
Ashley: It's okay, Alec! We need to explore every possibility!
Rosa: Yeah! Our lives are on the line here! It's okay to get something wrong as long as it isn't the final vote!
Karol: Okay then, where the hell did that get us?! We have yet to come up with any evidence that actually pins down the killer!
Ellie: (Karol's right… If we don't start thinking about the actual crime soon we might not come to a conclusion!)
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Missing pipe☰D
[]☰Ashley's account☰D
[]☰Aiden concussed☰D
Lake: Well… W-What about that Metal pipe?
James: What about the metal pipe..?
Lake: Well… Miriam also suffered from some bruises… Maybe she was attacked with the pipe as well ?
Riya: Oh! Maybe the killer had hit her with the pipe before stabbing her!
Tom: Are you sure that's what it was used for?
Riya: Well, I can't think of anyone else it could have been used against!
Ellie: Wait, Riya-!
[]☰Aiden concussed☰D
.-~NO, THAT'S WRONG!~-.
Ellie: Riya, don't you remember?
Riya: Huh? Remember what?
Ellie: Aiden was at the scene of the crime too, knocked out. The pipe was probably used to hit Aiden!
Aiden: Y-Yeah! My head has been POUNDING this whole time…
Jake: Tch- yeah, sure.
Aiden: Wh- I'm not lying!
Jake: I don't believe you for a second!
Aiden: The hell is wrong with you?
Tom: Alright Jake. Let it out…
Jake: Aiden, explain what the hell you were doing in the crime scene if you weren't the one who did it!
Aiden: I-I- I don't know!
Rosa: You… Don't know?!
Yul: What, you just FORGOT?
Aiden: I don't know, okay? All I know is I didn't kill Miriam!
Ellie: (As much as it looks bad for Aiden… Can we really say Aiden did this?)
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Scented Candles☰D
[]☰Hand Prints☰D
[]☰Missing pipe☰D
Jake: It's clear to see that you killed Miriam!
Aiden: What the hell? How can you say that?
Jake: After you stabbed her, she fought back!
James: Oh, please! You saying an old woman punched Aiden after she was stabbed?
Jake: No. I'm saying she hit him over the head!
Riya: With what?
Jake: The metal pipe she found in the classroom !
Ellie: That's not right!
[]☰Missing pipe☰D
.-~NO, THAT'S WRONG!~-.
Ellie: Jake, that couldn't possibly be what happened considering the pipe would have had to be in Classroom 1 at the time of the murder!
Jake: Okay? How does that prove me wrong exactly?
Ellie: Because the metal pipe used to hurt Aiden didn't originate in classroom 1. It came from classroom 2!
Jake: What?! So…
Tess: That means the pipe had to have been moved to classroom 1 at some point…
Aiden: Meaning, I didn't do it!
Jake: No, that doesn't clear you of suspicion!
Lake: Could anything else have been used in the room to hit Aiden?
Ashley: Wuddaya mean Lake?
Lake: Well… It's awfully convenient that the pipe is even in the room at all considering it wasn't always there…
Alec: What are you getting at?
Lake: I'm saying… Maybe the Pipe is just a red herring set by the killer to distract us during the trial!
Ellie: Huh? Wh-What?! No!
Lake: Huh?
Ellie: No, the pipe was absolutely what was used to hit Aiden!
Jake: Y-Yeah..! Uhm… Why, exactly?
Ellie: (If you take a look at this evidence…)
[]☰Loose hair☰D
.-~This will prove it!~-.
Ellie: Look! There was a loose hair left on the metal pipe!
Aiden: T-Thats… My hair!
Alec: Ah. So it's true then. You were hit by the metal pipe…
Lake: That is pretty solid proof… but couldn't the killer plant that too?
Ashley: I don't think the killer would have had the time to do that, Lake…
Tess: What do you mean, Ashley?
Ashley: Well… Look at the order of events… Miriam must have been killed sometime between the meeting and the body discovery. leaving about an hour of time to kill Miriam, hurt Aiden, plant the metal pipe, plant the hair, and then flee the scene before Jake, Tom, and Ellie leave to look for her.
Lake: A-Ah… that would have been tight…
Alec: I agree. The timing of it all suggests that everyone who didn't go to the meeting is suspect…
Tom: Oh! And… Those people were…
Alec: Riya, Yul, Fiore… And Aiden.
Fiore: Wait! I didn't do anything!
Rosa: D-Don’t worry Fiore! I believe you!
Fiore: ……
Ellie: Huh?
Ellie: (After Rosa gave Fiore a soft and assuring smile, Fiore just shot a nasty glare at her!? Didn't anyone else see that?!)
Yul: Well, Alec, clearly you are a fucking moron, because I was in my room the whole time!
Riya: Same!
Ellie: (I believe them… But can I prove it?)
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Dead lights☰D
[]☰Ellie's account☰D
[]☰Dead AAA Batteries☰D
Alec: The four living people who didn't go to the meeting… Riya, Yul, Fiore, And Aiden.
Fiore: I-I didn't do anything!
Rosa: Don't worry Fiore! I'm sure you are innocent.
Fiore: …
Alec: Yul? Riya? Got any alibis for after the meeting?
Yul: I think you're an idiot ! That's my alibi!
Riya: I was in my room taking a nap after that video! It…. Upset me…
Alec: Well, if nobody can confirm your location then you are all suspects.
Ellie: Hang on Alec-!
[]☰Ellie's account☰D
.-~NO, THAT'S WRONG!~-.
Ellie: Wait! I can prove they were in their room!
Fiore: You can?
Yul: YOU CAN?!?
Alec: … how?
Ellie: I saw them on my Monowatch's map!
Alec: … Your monowatch's… Map? Sorry, is there a feature on my Monowatch I missed?
Ellie: No, it's weird but… My monowatch is special… While all of your watchs’ ring and make sound, mine only vibrates… It also tells me where people are on the whole ship, kinda like a GPS tracker…
Ashley: A-A tracker!?
James: What?!?
Alec: How come only Ellie has access to this, Monokuma?
Monokuma: WH- I- AH- Well- I- She shouldn't!
Ellie: I gathered that… But why are they on here then?
Monokuma: I-I-I DUNNO! Those features were supposed to be removed!
Ellie: So, I just have an old watch?
Karol: Does that mean these things served some kind of purpose before this?!
Monokuma: I plead the fifth!
Karol: This isn't a real court, bear!
Monokuma: W-Well… now that the watch is connected to you, I can't undo it!
Lake: Wow Ellie! You're pretty lucky to get a Monowatch like that…
Ellie: L-Let's get back on track. I can back up Yul, Riya, and Fiore for that time…
Alec: I suppose you're right.
Jake: Well, then that leaves one person!
Aiden: OH COME ON!
Alec: You are the last person who doesn't have an Alibi…
Aiden: Jake-! Please stop! I didn't kill Miriam!
Jake: I-I don't believe you!
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Dead lights☰D
[]☰Ashley’s account☰D
[]☰James’s account☰D
Aiden: I didn’t do it! Why don't you believe me!
Alec: Well…
Jake: Alec?
Alec: I guess there is a way he didn’t do it.
Ashley: There is? How?
Alec: If Ellie is lying …
Gabby: HOW DARE YOU! Ellie would never lie!
Alec: Unless Ellie is the killer…
Gabby: She can't be!
Alec: Well, maybe she's working with the killer.
Tess: Why would she do that? That would only result in her death.
Alec: It's just a possibility…
Gabby: B-But- ELLIE IS THE BEST!!! She wouldn’t kill someone!
Jake: Hey-! Don’t ignore me!
Alec: Look, Unless there is evidence supporting Ellie, We have no confirmation if those three were in their rooms …
Ellie: Hold on!
[]☰Ashley’s account☰D
.-~NO, THAT'S WRONG!~-.
Ellie: Now wait a second, of course there is more proof saying those three were in their rooms!
Alec: What?!
Ellie: Ashley, didn’t you say you didn’t see Riya, Yul, Fiore, Aiden, OR Miriam enter the dining hall?
Ashley: Uhm… Well- yeah? But I don't see how that helps you…
Ellie: Well, unless Tom and Jake are also lying, If you didn’t see Riya, Yul OR Fiore in the dining hall, there is nowhere else they would even be! Plus, why would I lie for a killer?!
Fiore: Uhm… Ellie?
Ellie: Huh? What's up Fiore?
Fiore: … How does your Monowatch Map work, exactly?
Ellie: Oh… Uh- Well… When I go to the map I see the- well- the map… And I see yellow dots in rooms. When I press those dots, it shows me the name of whoever is inside…
Fiore: … Oh- Okay! Thank you!
Ellie: (What a weird question… I wonder why she was so curious?)
Alec: Alright then. I give up.
Ellie: Huh?
Alec: Not because your evidence was sound. Far from it, it was flimsy and a very large leap in logic… But, I can't help but laugh at the idea of an accomplice in a game like this…
Gabby: Plus, I had my eyes on Ellie the whole day! Ellie couldn’t POSSIBLY have done it!
Alec: I-I get it… Gabby… Please- This is stressful for me as well…
Jake:
PLEASE, LISTEN TO ME!
Ellie: J-Jake?
Jake: Please! Stop ignoring me!
Ellie: We aren’t ignoring you, you just keep saying the same thing over and over again!
Jake: Because nobody is listening! AIDEN IS THE-
Ellie: Won't you shut up and discuss this like an adult without crying like a baby?!
Jake: Please think about the crime scene for more than five seconds!!
.-~REBUTTAL SHOWDOWN~-.
o==|☰Aiden’s note☰>
Jake: Not only was Aiden not at the meeting at all-
Jake: But he was also found at the scene of the crime!
Ellie: Remember? Aiden was knocked unconscious!
Jake: Because Miriam hit him over the head after he stabbed her!
Ellie: That would mean the metal pipe was in the classroom at the time of the murder!
Jake: Then so be it! If the pipe was in the room, who cares when it got there?
Jake: Regardless! Aiden didn’t have a single reason to even BE in Classroom 1 !
SLASH!!!
o==|☰Aiden’s note☰>
.-~I’LL CUT THROUGH YOUR WORDS!~-.
Ellie: No, Aiden absolutely had a reason to go to the classroom!
Jake: He d-did?
Aiden: I-I did?
Ellie: Y-Yes! You did! Because you received this note!
Alec: Hmmm… “Hello Aiden… I regret to inform you I caught someone preparing to murder you. Please, don't go to the meeting, instead wait for everyone to leave… I'll protect you.”
Ellie: Jake, you were THERE when we found this!
Jake: I-I forgot, okay?
Aiden: Our lives are on the line here! Why are you so aggressive if you don't even remember the evidence YOU found?
Jake: Oh shut up, it's not like YOU remembered the note either!
Aiden: I-I guess you got me there… But I remember it now! How did you get it, Ellie?
Ellie: After you got taken to your room, it was laying on the floor folded up neat…
Karol: Okay-! Who sent the damn note!
Ashley: Well.. Probably the killer!
Aiden: B-But- No!
Alec: Hmmm… Because that would mean-
Aiden: James isn’t the killer! He can't be!
James: H-Huh?
Aiden: When I saw that note in my room was from James, I just trusted it… I didn’t know I was walking into a trap…
James: What is this bullshit? I didn’t write that shit?
Alec: Well... The plot thickens…
Lake: B-But… James was in the dining hall, right? Meaning he couldn’t possibly have-
Tess: Hang on Lake… And everyone…
Ellie: (Tess..? She has been awfully quiet during the trial…)
Tess: Ellie, I want you to think about every detail you know about this case.
Ellie: H-Huh? Where is this coming from?
Tess: Please- Ellie. Listen to me. What is the one thing we have all collectively assumed?
Ellie: I-
Ellie: (God… What could it be? My mind… It’s turning a blank! Think Ellie, your life is on the line here!)
Tom: E-Ellie?
Ellie: … (We found Miriam just after dinner which lasted about an hour, leaving plenty of room for the killer to kill Miriam, but that hardly leaves room to frame Aiden… And if Aiden was indeed attacked and framed, then the killer must have had to do several things at once. It can't be too complex unless the killer had been planning this before the motive…)
Tess: Please Ellie… Think about the Monokuma file!
Ellie: Why can’t you say it Tess? You obviously know!
Tess: I- I can't.
Ellie: H-Huh? Why not?
Tess: Just- trust me…
Ellie: (God, why is Tess being so weird right now?)
Ellie: The Monokuma file… it tells us Miriam’s cause of death… her weight… her height… Her other injuries…
Ellie: (H-hang on… There's something totally missing here!)
Riya: Ellie? What did you figure out?
Lake: A lightbulb totally went off in your head!
Ellie: T-The time of death! The Monokuma file never discloses when Miriam was killed!
Tess: Y-Yes!
Ashley: huh?
Jake: What?!?
Tom: B-But- Didn’t she die after the meeting?!
Ashley: Y-yeah! She had to have!
Tess: But, that might not be the whole story!
Tom: I saw Miriam going to her room before nighttime… Are you suggesting she was killed BEFORE dinner?
Ellie: I'm saying… It's a possibility! And we need to cover every inch.
Ellie: (Arguing like this won't get us anywhere… Maybe if I start agreeing with others, we can get closer to the truth?)
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Dried blood☰D
[]☰Rechargeable AAA☰D
[]☰Metal Pipe☰D
Tess: Let's just think about the crime scene again…
Tom: Well, Miriam's body was slouched over… Stabbed… And dead-
Tess: N-No, think more of the scene itself. There is probably something we're missing …
Ashley: Well… There was a red curtain, the dead string lights…
Karol: Don't forget about the blood everywhere !!!
Ellie: Wait Karol- You're onto something!
[]☰Dried blood☰D
.-~I AGREE WITH THAT!~-.
Ellie: Karol!
Karol: Huh? What? What did I say?
Ellie: No, about the blood…
Lake: What about the blood?
Ellie: It was dry… Completely dry…
Tom: Oh! Right!
Tess: The only way that blood could be so dry is if Miriam was dead for a good while, but if she was killed after the meeting, that doesn't match up with our timeline…
Riya: If the killer wrote a note to Aiden BEFORE killing Miriam, they could have done it!
Tess: No, unless they killed Miriam during the meeting and moved her there after…
Jake: What if Aiden is lying?
Tess: H-Huh?
Aiden: Oh my god, seriously?
Jake: Listen to me! You want to talk possibilities? Then here's one.
Tom: Jake…
Jake: What if Aiden wrote the damn note himself?
Ellie: (Why is Jake so bent on it being Aiden?)
Tess: No, Jake, that can't be possible.
Jake: W-Why not?
Tess: Well, who was in the dining hall at the “Time of the murder” if they can remember.
Tom: Well… We all went to the dining hall except for Fiore, Riya, Yul, Aiden, and Miriam… Oh! But Rosa did leave to go give Fiore some food.
Rosa: Yes, I did… I dressed a plate for Fiore before getting my own, but on my way back from seeing her, I saw Ellie, Jake, and Tom in distress…
Tess: Ellie, are you gathering what I'm getting at?
Ellie: …
Ellie: (Tess… I-)
Ellie: I have no clue…
Tess: ... Sigh …
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Metal Pipe☰D
[]☰Suspicious scrap☰D
[]☰James's account☰D
Tess: Aiden's window of opportunity to write the note himself is quite small to have written it himself.
Jake: But is it small enough to clear him of suspicion?
Aiden: I. DID. NOT. DO IT!
James: I agree! Aiden absolutely didn't do this!
Jake: Well? Can you prove it?
James: I never even touched a pen and paper!
Ellie: Hang on-!
[]☰James's account☰D
.-~I AGREE WITH THAT!~-.
Ellie: James! You can prove Aiden’s innocence, right?
James: Of course I can!
Jake: How?
Ellie: Because he and Aiden were together all day until the nighttime announcement! They never had time to write a note, let alone hatch this insane plan!
Jake: I-I see..
Aiden: Now do you get it Jake? I didn't kill her.
Jake: I-I’m sorry…
Lake: Wait, Aiden! Does this mean you remember what happened before you were knocked out?
Aiden: N-Not entirely… but I do remember being with James and- AH!
Tess: W-What? What is it, Aiden?
Aiden: W-Well, I had gone to wash my hands…
Karol: Why did you need to wash your hands?
Aiden: That is none of your business!
Karol: Wh- This is a trial! You bet your ass it's my business!
Aiden: I- I suppose you are right… Fine.
James: A-Aiden!
Aiden: Me and James went to the cargo hold together to find a flashlight, or some kind of light source…
Rosa: Why did you need one of those?
Aiden: We- well… No- I went through that dark crawlspace…
Alec: You- You went through those?
Fiore: ..! A-And… What did you f-find?
James: A-Aiden! You said you didn't want me telling anyone?!
Aiden: Look, if it clears me of suspicion then I'd rather not hide it anymore!
Lake: Why hide it in the first place?
Aiden: I- Well… I found something down there…
Ellie: (You… Found something?!)
Rosa: Was- Was it an exit?
Aiden: Oh- GOD no! I wouldn't have hid that!
Rosa: Then… What did you find?
Aiden: Well… Turns out the crawl space was just an air duct that allows air to flow in between the floors… But most importantly… There was an air duct leading straight into every single one to our rooms on the ceiling…
Alec: WHAT?
Riya: Our rooms?!
Fiore: NGh-!
Ellie: Huh? (Why… Why does Fiore look so… upset?)
Tess: And… Did you see anything out of the ordinary while you were up there?
Aiden: I-I did… Every room had a vent cover blocking it, so I couldn't get into anyone's room… Except for one…
Tom: Who?
Ellie: (In that moment, Aiden lifted his skinny pale hand and pointed directly at…)
Aiden: Fiore's air vent was completely torn off…
Ellie: (After what Aiden said had echoed in the silent trial room for what felt like ages… Fiore's face of distraught transformed into shock and fear…)
Fiore: W-What?! S-Someone took off my v-v-vent cover?
Alec: That’s- That's insanity!
Jake: Can you prove this, James?
James: While I never went inside the vents, I did stand outside by the stairs to make sure nobody snuck in…
Aiden: But it was clear the vent wasn't taken off from the inside, rather… From her room…
Gabby: She took it off herself? Are you insane?!
Aiden: Coming from you?
Gabby: Fiore never left her room! How could she have gotten the tools to even take off the cover?
Aiden: I-I don't know! I'm just saying what I remember!
Fiore: W-Well it's clear you are lying!
Jake: W-What?
Fiore: God, it just so happens that you “Suddenly remember” all of these crucial details! That's oddly convenient, don't you think?
Ellie: (What is Fiore saying? Maybe… Maybe there is more to her than what I had previously thought…)
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Aiden concussed☰D
[]☰Scented candles☰D
[]☰Monokuma file #1☰D
Fiore: I never took off my vent cover! He's lying!
Alec: It does seem pretty far-fetched …
Fiore: I was in my room at the time of the murder, remember? I didn't even know it was taken off!
Aiden: One look was all it would take to see it was taken off from the inside!
Fiore: God, can anyone believe this liar liar pants on fire?!
Rosa: James… Did anyone else show up?
James: Tess came up the stairs, but she went into the creative hall.
Tess: That is true … But how did you know that?
James: The duct goes across the hallways. I was able to watch you walk by the other opening!
Fiore: Ngh-! S-Stop it! Please! Aiden's selective memory is just a lie !
Aiden: What? Why would I lie about that?
Fiore: Because you killed her! Why wouldn't you remember this anyways ?!
Ellie: Fiore, that's-!
[]☰Aiden concussed☰D
.-~NO, THAT'S WRONG!~-.
Ellie: Fiore! Aiden suffered a concussion! Remember?
Fiore: H-Huh?
Ellie: Of course he is going to have some short term memory loss. Bro was hit over the head with a heavy ass pipe!
Fiore: Shut up, you bitch!
Jake: Huh?
Tom: F-Fiore?
Riya: Did- She just say that?
Tess: E-Excuse me?
Ellie: Wh-WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?
Fiore: Shut your mouth, you fucking moron! Everyone in this room is an idiot!
Rosa: F-Fiore! Where did you learn that kind of language?
Fiore: Can you stop playing mom, bitch? GOD I'm tired of pretending to be an innocent little girl~! You morons are INSUFFERABLE!
Tess: Are- are you admitting you took off the vent cover?
Fiore: FUCK NO? I didn't take it off! It was Alec!
Alec: WH- F-FIORE?
Ellie: A-ALEC?
Jake: W-What is going on?!?!
Yul: I'm sorry- is the cocomelon baby going crazy?!?!
Alec: WHAT ARE- What are you doing?!
Fiore: Relax!
Aiden: Wh- Why did you take off the cover for Fiore, Alec?
Alec: I-I- Fiore?!
Fiore: I had him take it off so I can leave my room without anyone noticing! I have been going around at night and none of you assholes even NOTICED! Hehehaha!
Ellie: (Her childish laughter was… outright evil…)
Jake: This- This is- Insane!
Rosa: Alec… is this true?
Alec: … Y-Yes. Fiore came to me asking for help the first night we were here…
Riya: So she fooled you too with her acting~ You might have a future in film kid!
Fiore: Shut up, you overrated Bollywood extra!
Riya: E-EXTRA?
Yul: BWAHAHA! I like her!
Fiore: You too, you ugly pimply bitch!
Yul: P-PIMPLY?
Alec: No. She told me that she was an obviously easy target… Saying if she could lock herself in her room…
Fiore: I could protect myself from any danger! We devised a plan to remove that vent cover so I could use the facilities in the ship without ever being seen leaving my room!
Tom: …. Uhm… R-Respectfully… How is any of this relevant to Miriam's murder?
Jake: H-How couldn't it be?
Tom: Well… it's already confirmed that Fiore isn't involved after Ellie saw her in her room…
Tess: Well, let's not forget the time of the murder could have been BEFORE the meeting. Fiore, Yul, and Riya's alibi's aren't as strong as they were before.
Ashley: W-Well hang on now! I refuse to believe Miriam could have been killed before the meeting!
Ellie: (This case just got way more complicated… But… Could fiore really have killed Miriam?)
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Fiore's account☰D
[]☰Red curtain☰D
[]☰Metal pipe☰D
Tess: Why couldn't Miriam have been killed before the meeting?
Ashley: Because that would mean the body was moved to the classroom in between the meeting and the body discovery …
Tess: Hmm…
Ashley: And that doesn't make any darn sense!
Gabby: Y-Yeah! there wasn't any noticeable blood trail on the ground… besides, the dried blood shows she was killed IN the classroom!
Yul: So, what, we just IGNORED a dead body in the room ?
Rosa: No… She had to have been killed after the meeting!
Tom: That's what seems logical…
Ellie: Yul..!
[]☰Red curtain☰D
.-~I AGREE WITH THAT!~-.
Ellie: Yul!
Yul: What do you want, freckle face?
Ellie: You might be onto something..!
Yul: WHAT?
Riya: Of course you're surprised~ Dumb luck…
Tess: What do you mean, Ellie?
Ellie: The red curtain! It was closed during the meeting! Couldn't it be possible that Miriam's body was just behind the curtain and nobody noticed?
Lake:
You need to study more!
Ellie: L-Lake?
Lake: While I can see how that would be possible, it still doesn't make any sense!
Ellie: How? What about that doesn't click?
Lake: Well, for starters…
.-~REBUTTAL SHOWDOWN~-.
o==|☰Scented candles☰>
o==|☰Fiore's account☰>
Lake: It doesn't make sense! How could a whole group of people ignore a dead body?
Ellie: If it was hidden by the curtain… We could have easily missed it!
Lake: Sure the possibility is there, but there are so many ways it can be disproved!
Ellie: How can you say that? What evidence is there that we wouldn't have missed her body?
Lake: First of all, she was a fresh body! She was bound to smell like blood !
Ellie: Not so fast!
SLASH
o==|☰Scented candles☰>
.-~I’LL CUT THROUGH YOUR WORDS!~-.
Ellie: No! We could have easily missed the smell of blood because of the scented candles in the room!
Lake: W-What?!
Aiden: Those candles were super strong… And there were a ton of them!
Ellie: The killer could have used them to mask the scent of a dead body!
Rosa: I-I just liked the way they smelled, so I used the whole box! It soothed me instantly when I smelled it… I had no idea it would have been used to hide a body…
Fiore: …..
Ellie: (there Fiore goes again… Glaring at Rosa… is there something we aren't aware of?)
Ellie: Hey, Fiore…
Fiore: WHAT?
Ellie: Why… Why do you keep staring at Rosa like that?
Fiore: Huh? Mind your own business bitch! Focus on the Life or death trial!
Ellie: Okay geez! sorry!
Tess: As much as it… Repulses me… The idea of Miriam behind in the room with us… bleeding out… it's horrifying but it's possible…
Jake: Then what about Aiden?
Aiden: ARE YOU KIDDING ME JAKE?
Jake: Wait! Please!
Aiden: Whats next, are you going to say I killed Miriam with my fucking mind?!
Jake: Listen to me! I don't think you did it!
Aiden: THEN HOW ABOUT- Uh.. .Wait- What?
Jake: But there is just more to talk about, okay?
Aiden: I- Sorry. I shouldn't have snapped like that…
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Fiore's account☰D
[]☰Hand prints☰D
[]☰Suspicious scrap☰D
Jake: Now hang on… If the body was hidden during the meeting… How did it get “unhidden”?
Aiden: … Huh?
Karol: Kid makes a good point ! It's weird the curtains were opened…
Aiden: When I went to go meet James, I definitely don't remember seeing a body!
Tom: So… Did the killer undo the cover up after knocking Aiden out ?
Ashley: So, that would leave us with Yul, Riya, and Fiore with alibis for that time…
Riya: Unless Fiore can crawl through vents fast enough~!
Gabby: If only there was anyone else who could have gone to the classroom …
Ellie: Gabs, you're right!
[]☰Fiore's account☰D
.-~I AGREE WITH THAT!~-.
Ellie: Gabby, you might be onto something!
Gabby: Yay!!!
Alec: What do you mean, Ellie?
Fiore: Say it already!
Ellie: Actually, Fiore, YOU should probably say it! You are the one who can confirm Rosa had gone to your room with your dinner!
Rosa: H-Huh? What do I have to do with the murder?! I give Fiore food every breakfast and dinner! She can back up my Alibi, no?
Ellie: Well… Maybe not completely…
Rosa: What?!
Ellie: Fiore, how long was Rosa at your room for?
Fiore: Uhm… well she let herself into my room and stayed for around ten minutes…
Tess: Wait… only ten minutes? Rosa didn't return until the end of breakfast, which was about an hour …
Rosa: Am- Am I being accused?! I was stalled when I ran into Ellie, Tom, and Jake!
Ellie: No, that still doesn't make sense! The timeline just doesn't match up!
Alec: Well Rosa? What did you do with the thirty to forty minute time gap?
Rosa: There wasn't a thirty minute time gap!? Fiore is just misremembering! I was there for much longer than ten minutes!
Fiore: Oh really? That's not an excuse!
Rosa: The only way I can be the killer is if the theory of hiding the body was true..!
Ellie: (Fiore… She definitely knows something we don't! What is she hiding, and what does it have to do with Rosa?)
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Rechargeable AAA☰D
[]☰Missing pipe☰D
[]☰Dead lights☰D
Rosa: There is no way your theory is correct, Ellie!
Tess: Then how do you explain the gap of time ?
Rosa: Fiore is misremembering! I didn't do it!
Aiden: I feel hypocritical but… Saying you didn't do it isn't an alibi …
Rosa: Besides! Even if the body was hidden by the curtain, and the smell was hidden by the candles…
Tom: yeah?
Rosa: That wouldn't explain how we didn't see any blood!
Alec: That is true…
Rosa: Everyone has eyes! We would have easily seen blood on the ground !
Ellie: Not so fast, Rosa!
[]☰Dead lights☰D
.-~NO, THAT'S WRONG!~-.
Rosa: What?!?!
Ellie: The red lights in the room could have easily hidden any stray blood left on the floor. The whole room was red!
Alec: Well well well! A crime scene perfectly made to hide a body. Red lights. Scented candles, and a curtain.
Rosa: N-No-! That is not what happened! You have to believe me- I- I’m being framed!
Aiden: I doubt the killer thought ahead to plan a second frame job.
Rosa: B-But, why would I reveal the body! Huh? Why would I go through all the effort to frame Aiden if nobody even knew the body was there?
Riya: She makes a point, y'know… It's awfully stupid to prematurely reveal your plan out of nowhere…
Lake: I agree… If Rosa were the killer, she could have just waited a day later to reveal the body. That way nobody would be able to accurately remember details of the time of the murder.
Ellie: No, that wouldn't be possible considering the resources Rosa had at the time!
Tom: Do you have any proof of this, Ellie?
Ellie: (I know I can prove Rosa had to reveal the body then and there… and that proof is…)
[]☰Dead AAA batteries☰D
.-~This will prove it!~-.
Ellie: Well, the batteries Rosa had in the lights were horrible, for starters. They could only last up to 3 hours!
Rosa: S-So? It had only been one hour! The batteries would surely last a lot longer than that!
Gabby: I don't know… Ellie… Are you sure it's Rosa?
Ellie: Of course I'm not! But we need to exhaust every possibility-
Rosa: Please, Ellie, this is insane!
Ellie: (Insane? Yeah, you are right. Everything about this is insane… But- My life is on the line here! And… as things stand… Rosa…)
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Blue curtain☰D
[]☰hand prints☰D
[]☰Rechargeable AAA☰D
Rosa: Batteries don't just die!
Gabby: Y-Yeah! I have those kind of lights in my room at home ! They never die that quickly!
Tom: But AAA batteries aren’t known for lasting a long time…
Jake: The only way they could be dead is if the batteries were half used or something !?
Karol: So, what, she just used ‘em?
Ellie: Jake, you're right!
[]☰Rechargeable AAA☰D
.-~I AGREE WITH THAT!~-.
Ellie: Hang on Jake, I think you're onto something!
Jake: What? I-I am? I mean- I am! I knew that- Heh-
Tom: What is Jake onto?
Ellie: The batteries… They weren't fully charged!
Rosa: Wh-?
Alec: What the hell do you mean, Ellie? The batteries just, didn't come charged?
Ellie: Yes. I mean exactly that. They were rechargeable batteries! They weren't half-dead, they were half-charged!
Rosa: How can you be so sure?
Ellie: Well, if you did hatch this plan after you saw the motive videos, that leaves you with roughly a couple hours to write the notes, deliver the notes, set up the meeting room, kill Miriam, and hide Miriam. However, you probably only had about an hour to charge the batteries in the first place!
Tom: That makes sense! Nice job, Jake!
Jake: Ah- T-Thanks… Tom…
Fiore: HAH! What now Rosa? Running out of twists and cover ups?
Rosa: Ngh…! I- That’s- How-
Ellie: (Rosa's face is red with frustration…!)
Rosa: How do you know James isn't lying? hmm?
James: Whaat?
Aiden: L-Lying?
Fiore: Damn… I guess she isn't running out of lame excuses!
Rosa: James could have easily left Aiden alone in these vents to set up this trap! He's framing me and Aiden!
Ellie: (Rosa… the more you point fingers the more and more guilty you look… And- I just don't want to believe that!)
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Miriam's note☰D
[]☰Metal pipe☰D
[]☰Suspicious scrap☰D
Rosa: So? Do you have any proof James was actually where he said he was?
Tess: I would confirm if James was there… But I wasn't paying attention at the time…
Rosa: I just wanted to make the room look nice , and I'm being accused of murder!
Aiden: J-James didn't do it!
Rosa: He had to have used my decorations against me!
James: I was in the dining hall when Aiden was knocked unconscious !
Rosa: That doesn't matter! You could have still killed Miriam !
Jake: How can you say that, Rosa?
Rosa: I mean- What if Aiden's attack was just- unrelated?
Karol: As in, Aiden’s attack was just a coincidence ?
Ellie: I'm sorry Karol, but-!
[]☰Miriam's note☰D
.-~NO, THAT'S WRONG!~-.
Ellie: There is absolutely no way they aren't related!
Rosa: What?!? Why are you doing this?!
Ellie: Rosa, please! The two incidents HAVE to be related!
Rosa: Oh don't tell me… “What about the metal pipe!” That could easily be a coincidence!
Ellie: While the metal pipe is definitely proof as well, I’m not talking about that! I'm talking about the letter Miriam was given!
Jake: W-What letter?!
Lake: Miriam had a letter too!?
Ellie: Yes! And it is next to identical to Aiden's, spare a few minor changes!
Karol: And look! The handwriting is the same as well!
Rosa: I-I have never seen that note before!
Ashley: Ellie, how did you find that?
Ellie: I found it in her room..
Rosa: The note itself says it's from Aiden!!!
Aiden: That's not my handwriting!
Alec: And we ruled out Aiden writing his own note as well… Leaving that impossible regardless…
Ellie: Rosa, you probably just utilized the fact we don't know each other’s handwriting to your advantage to write handwritten letters pretending to be Aiden and James!
Rosa: GH- I- UH- I- WH- Y- Ellie, you are making the wrong choice here!
Tom: Rosa, if you just told us what you were doing in between seeing Fiore and Ellie… we could rule you out with an alibi!
Rosa: I wasn't doing anything at that time and Fiore is LYING THROUGH HER TEETH!!
Ellie: (Rosa's red face was filled with desperate frustration, a soft tear slowly making its way down the side of her cheek as she scrambled…)
Fiore: Oh, yeah! I am lying! Totally..! Juuuuust not about how long you were in my room~!
Alec: I've seen enough… I'm ready to vote, Monokuma.
Tess: You are?
Yul: It's clear to me! Burrito bitch totally did it!
Aiden: What the hell is wrong with you?!
Jake: G-Guys please wait! Let's slow down!
James: Jake, Rosa is clearly suspicious!
Rosa: Y-You are trying to kill us all James! A-And- Fiore is way more suspicious then I am!
Ellie: Jake, what's wrong?
Jake: I-I just don't think we have the full truth! There are loose ends that- I- I just don't want to make the wrong choice!
Ellie: … I- (As much as I hate to say it… he's right. there is still so much we dont understand… And I think I know what Jake is talking about… he's probably thinking about-)
[]☰Suspicious scrap☰D
.-~I get it!~-.
Ellie: Do you mean… that suspicious blue scrap I saw you put in your pocket?
Jake: Wh- you knew about that?
Ellie: Yeah. I did…
Tom: Jake? You took something from the crime scene?
Jake: B-Before you get mad, at least let me show you! You won't be angry when you see it…
Ellie: (Jake took the scrap out of his pocket… And it was actually a lot bigger and thicker than I thought… And scrawled on the fabric in red blood… was a message…)
Jake: “Goodbye Jake” … it was her final goodbye to me…
Tom: O-Oh…
Riya: You still never said anything about it! Why?
Jake: I- I'm sorry…
Gabby: What does that mean for the case?
Rosa: Ngh….! It means nothing!
Jake: No! It has to mean something!
Rosa: ………
Ellie: (Rosa is sweating bullets… Why is she so scared of this blue scrap of cloth?)
Fiore: …. Hehehehehehe~!
Ellie: F-Fiore?
.-~NONSTOP DEBATE~-.
Truth bullets:
[]☰Hand prints☰D
[]☰Torn curtain☰D
Jake: I-’Im sorry for hiding this…
Tom: I-Its okay Jake. You showed everyone in the end .
Lake: But, what does it mean?
Rosa: Nothing! It's just some random blue cloth !
Jake: But where did she get it from? Nothing in the classroom was blue…
Tess: Could it be it has to do with her bruises ?
Ellie: Tess, I think you got it-!
[]☰Torn curtain☰D
.-~I AGREE WITH THAT!~-.
Ellie: Wait, Tess! I get it now! I knew that curtain wasn't always red!
Tess: Huh?
Rosa: What do you mean Ellie? That- That curtain was always red!
Ellie: No, it wasn't! It HAD to have been blue at one point in time!
Ashley: Oh! Are you talkin’ about that torn curtain in the other classroom?
Ellie: Yes! The blue curtain! It must have been in Classroom 1 before being swapped! Miriam must have snagged the curtain on her tumble down when she hurt her hip after being stabbed!
Rosa: Oh come on! Seriously? That's not proof, that's just a story! that blue scrap could have come from anywhere!
Ellie: I woke up in that room! I of all people should know that-
Rosa: S-Shut up, Ellie! Please!
Ellie: (Huh?)
Rosa: Just stop! I’m not the killer, and a scrap of blue cloth doesn't prove a single thing! Just stop talking!
Ellie: I-
Rosa: No! I've heard enough of this! Just stop! STOP!
Ellie: (I-I cant even say a word! She wont stop speaking over me!)
.-~{][]ARGUMENT ARMAMENT[][}~-.
ROSA MARIA
(Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
(You are leading us away from the truth!)
(You are a bad influence!)
(Shut up! Please! Just stop!)
(Why are you doing this? Why?)
(I didn't do anything! Just shut up!)
(You are a bad influence!)
(Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
Ellie: THAT'S ENOUGH!
Rosa: How can you say the curtains were switched after the murder?
[]☰Hand prints☰D
.-~YOU CAN'T SPEAK OVER THE TRUTH!~-.
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Ellie: The bloody handprints all over the red curtain is proof it was moved after Miriam's death! And it's proof you were the one who moved it!
Rosa: H-Hand prints? What hand prints?
Tom: There were bloody handprints all over the curtain, especially at the top…
Ellie: The blue curtain was torn at the bottom… Which was exactly where most of the blood had been splattered on… After moving it, Rosa likely didn't even realize her hands were covered in blood.
Rosa: … I-
Ellie: (The room went silent as we watched Rosa dig her fingers into her scalp, her hair ruffling as her shrunken pupils shook in thought…)
Rosa: No…!
Alec: … Yep…
Ellie: (Alec simply nodded his head, looking at Monokuma… But that silence was broken…)
Fiore: PFT-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Tess: Fiore… What's so funny?
Fiore: This is hilarious!
Karol: What about this is hilarious?!?
Fiore: It's just so funny how stupid you all are! Someone here has known Rosa did it this WHOLE DAMN TIME!
Tom: What?!? Who?
Fiore: Well? Ellie? Do you know who knew?!
Ellie: … I think I've known for a while who…
(Fiore)
.-~You're the only one!~-.
Ellie: You did… You knew all this time… That's why you have been glaring at her…
Aiden: What?! Y-You knew and you let me get accused?! Why didn't you say anything?
Fiore: HAhahahahaha~! It was fun watching you assholes run in circles! And I couldn't just give away my true intentions, moron!
Lake: But- How did you even know to begin with?
Rosa: …………. N-No….
Fiore: Why, the metal pipe! Duhh!
Ellie: The metal pipe?
Fiore: The reason it disappeared from classroom 2 wasn't because ROSA took it, but because I did!
Yul: YOU took it? Why?!
Fiore: To use as a weapon, you fucking knockoff Kpop Idol!
Yul: KNOCK OFF?!
Fiore: I had it next to my door to grab if someone tried to get in! But, I didn't expect Rosa to be standing there after she delivered my food this time! She came in and “had a chat” with me, only before leaving with the pipe in her hands! And she thought I didn't even NOTICE! HAHAHAHA-!
Gabby: Q-QUIET!
Fiore: HAhahahe- huh?
Gabby: What is wrong with you? How can you be laughing right now?!
Rosa: ..?
Ellie: G-Gabs? Why are you defending Rosa?
Gabby: Because… Rosa is our friend!
Rosa: G-Gabby?
Jake: Gabby, Friends dont kill each other! She killed MIRIAM-!
Rosa: A-A MOTHER WILL DO ANYTHING FOR HER CHILD!!
Ellie: (Rosa bursted into tears, only before slapping her hands to her mouth…)
Ashley: … R-Rosa… That- That was a confession…
Rosa: ……..
Ellie: (Rosa dropped her hands, Rosa's silent sobbing echoing in the silence…)
Rosa: …. S-Sofia… Oh S-Sofia…! S-She n-needs m-me…!
Ellie: (Her tears flowed onto the stand in front of her as her head hung low, her sporadic speech hard to hear over her choking up…)
Alec: So? Are we ready to vote yet?
Ellie: Not yet… I want to go over the case one more time… Just to make sure everyone is on the same page.
Tess: Alright…
Rosa: … S-Sofia…!
(CLOSING ARGUMENT)
ACT ONE
Ellie: Let's start from the beginning, the Motive videos. Monokuma shows us a video from home, which ends up actually being a video of our loved ones being tortured unless we kill someone and save them. Of course, we were all disturbed by this, however, this video must have affected the killer more than anyone, devising a plan to kill someone then and there…
ACT TWO
Ellie: The killer likely didn't think too far ahead in their plan, but hatched one anyway to kill Miriam and delay the discovery of her body, giving them a fake alibi, meanwhile allowing wiggle room to plan a framing job… And so, after writing two notes pretending to be other people, those being Aiden and James, Rosa drops off the letters in front of Miriam and Aiden's rooms. Miriam's letter asking her to meet up at the designated meeting classroom ASAP, and Aiden's letter asking him to meet up after the meeting. Both claim there is someone trying to kill them. Of course, only one of these notes was telling the truth about that…
ACT THREE
Ellie: Miriam, unaware of the trap she was being led in, meets the killer in classroom #1, while also meeting the business end of a kitchen knife… After a painful tumble, Miriam accidentally tears off part of the blue curtain in the room. The killer, seeing this, takes down the curtain, swapping it for the red curtain from the next room over. The killer had to act quick, however, and they must have missed the blood on their hands covering handprints all over the red curtain as they swapped them. Closing the red curtain, the Killer hid Miriam's body to bleed out behind the curtain. In Miriam's last moments, however, she held tight to a scrap of the blue curtain, writing a goodbye message to Jake, and clutching it in her hand….
ACT FOUR
Ellie: The killer, just before the meeting, had charged batteries to put in the red lights to obscure any loose blood that could be dotted on the ground. Of course, the killer knew these batteries couldn't possibly have been fully charged, which is why they set up the perfect frame job on Aiden. After lighting every scented candle and spreading them all around the classroom and stringing up the red lights, The meeting room was perfect…
ACT FIVE
Ellie: The meeting went off without a hitch, Miriam likely dying while it was held… God, it's horrible to think that she was behind that curtain the whole time… But the killer wasn’t done with their plan. Aiden, waiting for the meeting to end before his supposed meeting with James inside the same room… However, Aiden was instead attacked by the killer who planted the metal pipe they had used, which was taken from Fiore's room moments before, in Miriam’s hand to frame it as if Miriam had fought back…
ACT SIX
Ellie: However, what the killer didn't suspect was seeing me, Jake, and Tom sprint out of the dining hall to look for her… But when we did eventually find her, the killer had successfully framed Aiden for the crime. And they probably thought they would get away too, however they were too clumsy… For as Jake held Miriam's cold hand, he found the one clue that would reveal the killer’s master plan…
Ellie: All of this… The set up… The murder… The framing… It was all done by you, Rosa Maria! The Ultimate Mother!
Rosa: !!!
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Gabby: Rosa…
Rosa: I-I…
Lake: You really did it…
Monokuma: Well well well! it seems it is time to vote!
Rosa: W-Wait..! I- I-
Monokuma: And remember, it's majority rules! In the event of a tie, the blackened will graduate anyways! So please, make sure ya’ pick the right side!
Ellie: (The screen in front of me showed a panel of everyone's face… And I slowly brought my shaky finger to Rosa's face… locking in my vote…)
Rosa: P-Please! I- I can't- PLEASE! STOP VOTING!
Alec: Sorry Rosa…
Rosa: You have- No idea what it's like to be a parent!
Alec: …! You- You don’t know me…
Rosa: P-Please! You would do the same for your child, wouldn't you?
Alec: Shut up..!
Ellie: (Wow… Rosa really struck a nerve…)
Monokuma: Now that everyone has voted, it's time to show the results!
Rosa: P-PLEASE! STOP!
Ellie: (Soon, a massive screen lowered itself in front of us all… Showing a unanimous vote against Rosa, one lone vote on Aiden… Likely Rosa's…)
Rosa: N-NO! NO NO NO NO! PLEASEEEEEEEE!
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Ellie: (It was over…)
Monokuma: DING DING DING! YOU ARE CORRECT!
Rosa: NOOOOOOO-! P-P-PLEASE DON'T- S-SOFIA-! LET HER GO YOU M-MONSTER!
Ellie: (Her voice was shattered as she panicked…)
Tom: Woah!
James: HEY-!
Ellie: (Rosa sprinted towards Monokuma, James and Tom holding her back!)
Rosa: LET HER GO YOU- My p-poor Sofia!!
Ellie: (Her cries were guttural and haunting as she didn't beg for her own life… but for her daughter’s…)
Tom: ROSA-! What do you mean?!?
Monokuma: Oh! You curious? Here~! Allow me to add some context! Puhuhuhuhu~!
Ellie: (The same screen that showed us the voting results suddenly blipped back on, but this time… it was Rosa's motive video… It wasn't like mine, or likely anyones… For instead of it being her parents or close relatives… It was a little girl with little purple pigtails, chained up in a chair, blindfolded… It was Rosa's daughter, sofia… She was so little that the hanging light above her hung lower, the source of the buzzing sound from the other videos being illuminated because of it… It was a giant circular saw, slowly lowering right above Sofia's forehead.)
Aiden: ..!
Lake: Oh- oh my god?!
Yul: WHAT THE FUCK?
Fiore: …..
Gabby: Oh god-! Is- that a child?!
Ellie: (And then, the audio cut on as we heard Sofia crying for her mother… It was heartbreaking, terrifying, but above all else… Mortifying…)
Ellie: How- HOW COULD YOU DO THIS?
Monokuma: Pu-PUHUHU-BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~!
Ellie: (The little girl cried about her fingers hurting, and that she couldn’t feel her legs… And while the dim flickering light made it hard to see, she was definitely covered in blood…)
Jake: You- you deserve to burn… YOU DESERVE TO BURN, YOU KNOW THAT?
Monokuma: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Rosa: P-Please… I- Let my baby go…
Ellie: (Suddenly, the light cut off, Sofia's crying being drowned out by the buzz of the saw, the video ending just the same as all of ours did…)
Monokuma: There we go!
Tom: TH-THAT ISN'T FAIR…
Jake: Yeah! How could you do that to her daughter?!
Monokuma: Huh?
Tom: That video… it was ten times worse than any of ours!
Fiore: Why are you defending her? She killed Miriam! You should hate her?!
Rosa: Stop… Please…
Ellie: (Rosa stopped struggling as James and Tom held onto her…)
Rosa: … I did what you asked… I killed someone… Now let her go!
Monokuma: What?!? No way Jose!
Rosa: …. What..?
Monokuma: You have to GRADUATE to save your daughter! And you, my dear, WERE CAUGHT RED HANDED! LITERALLY! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Rosa: DON'T YOU DARE- RELEASE HER!
James: WOAH!
Tom: GRAH-
Ellie: (Rosa exploded with rage as Tom and James struggled to keep her back…)
Monokuma: IN FACT! I bet you would love to see your daughter before you are punished, right?
Rosa: LET HER GO! S-SOFIA! PLEASE!
Monokuma: For I have a VERY special punishment for you, Rosa Maria, the ULTIMATE Mother~!
Rosa: PLEASE! SOFIAAAAAAAAA!
Monokuma: IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT’S PUNISHMENT TIIIIIME!
Rosa: DON’T HURT MY SOFIAAAAAAAAA!
(Rosa Maria has been found guilty!)
(TIME FOR PUNISHMENT!)
Struggling in Tom and James's arms… Monokuma laughs as he taunts Rosa, only before the lights all shut off one after the other, a singular spotlight on a child sitting on the ground facing away… It was Sofia… Rosa screams, ripping away from James’ and Tom's grasps as she runs towards her little girl… But she finds herself tripping as a large metal chain shoots out and grabs her by the ankles. The little girl turns around, revealing herself to just be Monokuma in disguise, Rosa crying and clawing at the ground as she is dragged away behind two metal doors…
C.P.S. (CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT SAW)
The Ultimate Mother's execution
Rosa finds herself dragged into a room upside down hanging by the chains… Below her was a chair, another Sofia sitting down, crying. But above Rosa, as tears trickled down her forehead, a circular saw lowered… and began to spin….. Rosa watched as the saw spun, her heart pounding and pounding! In desperation, Rosa began to swing and sway in the air, the sound of the buzz saw getting closer and closer, the chains holding her up rattling and clanging… Her face began to turn red, the blood rushing to her head… With one loud scream and adrenaline in her veins, Rosa swung herself into the saw, the saw cutting her ankles and her bindings, freeing her…!
Rosa fell, the little girl looking up with fear at her to reveal it was once again just Monokuma… Monokuma runs out of the way, a glass wall dropping in front of him as everyone else stood behind him… watching…. Rosa, bleeding from her ankles, slowly crawled over to Monokuma dressed as Sofia, her vision blurry from dangling upside down… Rosa slowly reached out to her daughter, the circular saw high above her head short circuiting and slowing down before ultimately breaking, the saw being let go by the mechanical arm holding it… As Rosa placed her hand on the glass separating her from everyone else, she began to slam her fist to the glass over and over again… Above her the saw kept falling, and as Rosa slapped her hands to the glass with a desperate shout, the saw found itself crashing right in between Rosa’s eyes, painting the glass with blood as her face was split in two … Rosa’s hand fell, everyone’s gaze mortified by what they had witnessed… Ellie watched in horror as Rosa's blood slowly flowed over to her feet, staining the bottom of her shoes blood red…. It was over…
Ellie: Oh god… Rosa…
Gabby: I-I-Im gonna puke-!
Jake: I-I-
Ellie: (Everyone was in pure shock and horror at the sight… But Monokuma…)
Monokuma: WOOOOOOOOOOOO! That was a close one!
Lake: I- I- I-
Karol: You… You are a terrible bear…
Alec: Barbaric… Absolutely barbaric…
Fiore: Ewwww…. Her blood got all over the place!
Ellie: (It was over. That was the dreaded rule X in motion… A horrifying execution… A horrifying PUBLIC execution…)
Monokuma: Now, you can all go back to living the rest of your days in SPAAAAA-
Tom: LIKE WE ARE GOING TO DO THAT?
Monokuma: Whuzza? HUh?
Tom: You- YOU ARE SICK, Y’KNOW THAT?
Monokuma: Huh? Wha?
Gabby: Y-Yeah!
Monokuma: I-I’m sorry? Are you not happy? You live to see another day!
Ellie: I'D RATHER BE DEAD THAN BE FORCED TO LIVE PLAYING YOUR TWISTED GAME OF LIFE AND DEATH!
Fiore: Then maybe you should have voted Aiden and killed yourself!
Aiden: …. You are a heartless demon child…
Fiore: It's kill or be killed! Don't wanna die? Then you better be prepared to fight back, assholes!
Ashley: Fiore, Shut up!
Fiore: Oh please, you were the MOST annoying in that trial! “Oh, the meeting COULDN'T be used that way!” GET OVER YOURSELF, TEXAS! Because of your stupid meetings, Miriam is dead!
Jake: That's not true!
Fiore: Sure it is! It's just REALITY.
Ellie: (Fiore shrugged, walking back towards the elevator…)
Lake: … Ashley, don't listen to her…
Ashley: She's right…
Jake: A-Ashley?
Ashley: If I hadn't gotten everyone together in one place… Maybe someone would have noticed something… Oh god…
Ellie: (Ashley fell to her knees… Jake comforting her…)
Jake: No… it wasn't your fault…
Ashley: Then whose is it?
Tom: IT’S- MONOKUMA'S FAULT…
Riya: … Yeah! That stupid bear… Making us kill each other!
Tess: Guys… Give it a rest…
Aiden: T-Tess?
Ellie: (Tess’s eyes were tired, a looming darkness pressing down on everyone who looked into them…)
Tess: There is no use… Miriam and Rosa are dead… I want to go to sleep…
Ellie: Tess?! Are you okay?
Tess: No, Ellie. No, I'm not.
Ellie: (Before I could get anything more… She left… Eventually, everyone left the trial room, their heads hanging low. As I walked to my room, I slipped off my bloodstained shoes as soon as I got in… It was quiet… Somber… But, as I flicked on the light switch I noticed sitting on the ground in my room… Was… Another creative hall locker key…)
Ellie: … Huh?
Ellie: (Attached to the key was… A note… A completely different handwriting than Rosa’s or mine…)
Ellie: … “Tell no one…”...
CHAPTER 1. SUPERNOVA OF HOPE, A STAR CRIES IN AGONY
DEADLY LIFE.
2 dead
14 REMAIN….
TO BE CONTINUED...