Chapter Text
Pitter.
Patter.
The brooding rain thundered heavily on the warehouse’s roof. Lightning flashed, causing a huge outburst of noise. On such an ominous day, a person’s destiny was forever going to be changed.
“S-Spare me!” The man with blood partially obscuring his face got on all fours and pleaded to his captor. His tears streamed down his face, mucus flying everywhere. “PLEASE DON’T KILL ME!” His hands covered his head as he quivered in dread. “P-Please! I-I HAVE A FAMILY-”
Bang.
The man didn’t have the chance to finish his sentence when a single gunshot reverberated through the room. He collapsed on the cold hard floor, a hole in the middle of his head. Crimson blood gushed out from the wound as he lay there, unmoving, in a puddle of liquid.
Clang.
A young girl tossed the gun onto the floor. “Pathetic,” she hissed as she slowly made her way to the corpse. “People like you always plead for their lives.” She spat at him.
A slender, asian girl with extensively long, dark-brown hair reaching her ankles tied into two low twintails with large, red, puffy scrunchies. She had a small, two-piece silver hairpin looped into an infinity symbol pinned in her bangs. Her ears had two, small, silver stud earrings. Her dark crimson eyes, with a small mole under the corner of her left eye, bore into her latest victim.
Good. At least the blood didn’t get on my clothes. It would a chore to clean them if they were filthy.
She wore a red and black uniform with a white scarf tied in a simple bow at her collar printed with a transparent star pattern in a slightly darker color. She also wore a short black plaid skirt, long red socks, and dark brown heeled ankle boots. A small silver lotus brooch with a red center pinned to her collar at her right shoulder and a dark grey wristband on her left wrist.
“There’s someone here.” She thought to herself, her uncanny instincts notifying her. “Who’s there?” She suddenly raised her voice in the air.
“If you murder a murderer, there will still be the same amount of murderers in the world. Of course, that’s a very foolish way of thinking.” A man dressed in a white robe with a deformed goat’s mask appeared out of nowhere.
She immediately vanished from her spot, holding a knife to the strange man’s throat. “And what does that have to do with me?” She responded in a disinterested voice.
“My, my. Violence, what a barbaric solution..” He drawled out.
“Do you want to die?” She spat out, her cold gaze penetrating him.
“I came here… to make a transaction.” He eerily chuckled, his laughter echoing around the room. His voice reminded her of him. Of Monokuma. “What if I told you…” He began. “That I could save your friends?”
“W-What?” Her knife pressed against the man’s throat. The room immediately dropped a couple degrees: her bloodthirst instantly unleashed. “Don’t mention them. Do you want to die?”
“And how about your best friend, Shu-”
The asian girl shallowly sliced the man’s neck, leaving a fresh trickle of blood on her knife and on the man’s neck.
“Y-You…” Her face immediately darkened. She quivered, her fists shaking, as a fresh stream of tears created from her eyes. Her dark brown twin tails floated in the air as immense pressure emanated around her, suffocating the man with the goat mask.
“Ow-ow-ow! STOP! STOOOP! I’m sorry!”
“Unforgivable. Unforgivable! UNFORGIVABLE!” She finally snapped. “TELL ME WHY I SHOULDN’T KILL YOU RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!”
“What an unnecessary display of violence.” He angrily muttered under his breath. “Anger blinds one's thinking.”
She tried to compose herself to resist the instinct to murder him and slowly lowered her knife. “Speak.” She commanded the man.
“Let me introduce myself,” the man coughed on his fist, “My name is Tozu, the headmaster of Eden’s Garden Academy. In exchange, I need you to chaperone… let’s say… some disobedient children.”
“And why me?” Her eyes narrowed at him as she ruthlessly questioned.
“You’re the survivor of that. Isn’t that enough of a qualification?”
Her rage, like an exploding volcano, threatened to gush out. “Eek!” Tozu whimpered in front of her killing intent.
How easy would it be, if she just killed him?
But something nagged at her. Something inside her told her to listen to his prospect. It took her a split second to return to her poker face as realisation dawned upon her. “Tch. You’re one of them. I refuse to participate in your sadistic entertainment.” She glowered at him.
“Don’t compare me to those peasants. I’m not at their level.” Tozu arrogantly smirked. “What if I told you, that you’re not playing the role of a lamb?”
“You want me to be a mastermind!?” She glared at him, her face darkening. “I refuse.”
This was bad. The most important rule for a killer like her was to never harbour emotions, especially towards the target. She had specifically trained to keep her poker face, yet right now, her emotions were in complete disarray.
Emotions. Emotions would make her job harder. Emotions had ruined her life.
“Mastermind? No, no, no,” He wagged his index finger. “It would be foolish of me to offer you such a lowly position… I’m offering you an opportunity that you can’t refuse.”
“Explain.”
Tozu whispered into her ear. Her eyes immediately enlarged and her heartbeat thundered inside her. “T-That’s insane!” She screamed with turmoil. “Y-You can’t do that!”
“Do you… agree to our trade?” His words were like the temptations of the devil. But to her, she would do anything to get her friends back. Anything. Even go to hell a second time and drag others into said hell.
She was conflicted. She reluctantly spat her response, released him from her hold.
“I’ll be waiting at Eden’s Academy.” He fled the warehouse as quickly as he entered, his footsteps disturbing the tranquil puddles of rain.
Eden’s Academy. Where is that?
She did a quick search on the Internet, using her phone. It appeared that Eden’s Academy is some kind of prestigious school. And why would such a school need someone like her? Oh, and it was located in America.
“You came all the way to Japan to find me?” She raised an eyebrow.