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After about an hour or so, he had a good idea on what to do.
Since the magic show would be in about a day, which is far too long if you asked him, he would have to make other plans. Gonta was quite passionate about his love for bugs, giving him his title, so Kokichi could use that to his advantage.
Around 10 minutes from then was usually the time that Gonta was around the fountain looking for any sign of bugs, so he would go in about five to talk to him about "getting the others to appreciate bugs more" and suggest hosting something that would involve them in one space where Kokichi could keep track of them.
While most of them are in that room, he would take the motive videos from their rooms and present them to everyone with the projector from the AV room, therefore letting them know who to keep an eye on.
If Gonta isn't convinced enough for some reason or another, he could say that he overheard the others saying they hated bugs so that he would comply.
If something goes wrong, he'll deal with it, as always.
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"Hey, Gonta!" He called, loud enough to sound slightly like a shout but not loud enough to hurt.
"Hello! What does friend Kokichi want to talk about?" Gonta replied.
"I just wanted to ask if you wanted to do something with the others, if you don't mind."
"Sure! What is it?"
"It's just that... I heard the others talking about how much they hate bugs! And they even said that they're glad that there aren't any here except for in your lab!"
"Really!? They hate bugs that much!? That is unbelievable!"
"Yes, so I was thinking that we should make a little event so that they can appreciate them more, like an insect Meet-and-Greet!"
"Wow! Friend Kokichi always comes up with such great plans! Gonta will help in any way he can! When will this 'Insect Meet-and-Greet' take place?"
"As soon as possible! That way, they'll be so amazed by how we did everything in such a short time!"
"Alright! Friend Kokichi can ask Gonta for any help he needs! Gonta will gather everyone up right now! Thank you for talking to Gonta about this!''
"Of course, any time.''
That interaction fucking sucked, he forgot how much he had to talk when planning with people who weren't him. At least he got to tell Gonta about it, and he can just do whatever until then. That reminded him, he didn't feel much need to cough in that whole conversation, which was wei- okay! Nevermind, he just coughed three whole petals into his arm, oh shit!
He ran to the bathroom and cleaned his sleeve while coughing into the sink. God, couldn't he just not think about it? Since the blood was pretty fresh, it was pretty easy to clean. He was used to it anyway.
He left the bathroom and started walking to the AV room to get the projector. On the way, he saw a torn page from a book that was supposed to be in the library with various flower names on it. Weird, but maybe someone was just curious about the disease or something.
Then he went over to the Ultimate Entomologist's Lab to drop off the projector. Oh, Shuichi's on the ground. Gonta must've bumped into him or something. He looked like he'd wake up soon.
"Morning sleepyhead~! You're finally up, Shuichi." He greeted.
"Huh.. What?" Shuichi muttered.
"Nishishi... are you gonna ask...' Who am I? ' and' Where am I?' Well, you're definitely Shuichi Saihara. And this place is... Hmm.... I guess hell."
Kokichi got off him, and let the others talk while listening in on the conversations. They were talking about how they got there, and now he's just reduced to 'that guy' for some reason.
" There's no use trying to escape. Gonta will just catch you again." Kokichi said.
After that whole thing, Shuichi came up to him asking why he did this. He said some stuff, then Gonta arrived with Angie and.. Himiko. Okay, he should focus on getting out of here as soon as he could without looking suspicious. He asked Gonta a few things, then left to get the kubz pads.
He left and went over to the dorm rooms, picking the locks and grabbing the kubz pads. He ran into Miu on the way, making him never want to see again because what the hell was she doing outside barely covered. She made him shocked enough to cough out some blood, so he had to run to the bathroom, praying to whoever would listen that she didn't see it.
Goddammit this was such an inconvenience. He couldn't just run in here everytime something happened, but if he carried something around it'd be suspicious.
Whatever, that was something for another time, he should look for the others. He found Kirumi, messed around for a bit leading to him nearly throwing up there, and Maki didn't want to give him the one she had, Ryoma didn't either. Both of them could easily beat him up, so he ended those conversations fast.
When he was walking back, he realized that it was past nighttime. Welp, hopefully the others aren't too mad?
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Oh shit, yeah they really didn't like that. Now he'll be here all night with these stupid things- oh fuck those are spiders why'd he bring those out.
"Gonta I'm sure we can talk this out like maybe you can bring them out one at a time or-"
Shitshitshit he coughed in front of him this is bad.
"Huh!? Gonta so sorry! Is friend Kokichi okay!?" Gonta asked in alarm.
"Y-ea, I'm.. fine, don't... worry about me I just... ate a flower earlier and I... guess that's... not healthy!"
Kokichi tried to breathe through the sharp pain in his lungs, it worsened. He could barely stop himself from crying. He probably- no, definitely looked pathetic.
"Gonta will let friend Kokichi go now, but Kokichi has to promise that he is okay!"
"Yeah yeah, I promise."
And with that, he left and quickly went to Maki's research lab. It was closer than the dorms, so there was less of a chance of others spotting him.
"Hey, what happened?" Maki asked, looking slightly alarmed.
"The h...ell do you think?"Kokichi replied, annoyed at many things.
"I'll let you stay here for a while, but you need to be out before tomorrow nighttime."
"Alright, deal."
So he stayed there, occasionally annoying Maki. He didn't really want to admit it, but he'd started trusting Maki a little more.