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Supposedly it was night according to Monokuma's notice, the corridors were strangely silent, strange, every day in the morning you hear screams, discussions, despair, the night also passed but on another level.
all but two people were supposedly asleep.
They all knew that a person couldn't sleep peacefully, well, actually no one could before, but they got used to being stuck here without knowing if their relatives are alive or not.
The execution of the previous trial affected everyone but the one that affected the most was Kiyotaka Ishimaru, who destroyed him from the inside and now he looks like a walking lifeless body.
"What did I do wrong? Why did Owada kill Fujisaki? I had to be there to stop that from happening! My only job was to keep my soldiers from freaking out and doing something crazy!"
They were the only words that were in his brain and he couldn't stop imagining what he would have done if he were there, he would stop Mondo and calm him down.
"Brother, don't let your anger control you! No one is better than you!"
But that's only going to happen in his imagination, not in real life.
– Ishimaru, are you awake?
Naegi opened the door. he didn't bother to knock on his partner's door, he wasn't going to answer for his state, so there was no point in doing so.
Ishimaru didn't answer the question nor did he care if he forgot to lock his door. Anyone would be scared and desperate with the fear of dying and letting his instincts take over, but Ishimaru, that would just be an act of mercy.
But…it's naegi…no one would suspect a good boy who cares about everyone and tries to keep everyone hopeful. He would never be able to take advantage of Ishimaru because of his horrible state.
Naegi entered the room and approached Ishimaru's bed, he was awake. His lifeless, teary eyes were staring at the ceiling. Anyone would break their hearts just by seeing him, before the poor unfortunate tried so hard to be a good leader and contain the calm of his soldiers.
But it only lasted a week and he's already emotionally destroyed from something he couldn't control.
Poor baby.
Naegi sat on the edge of the bed, one of her hands caressing Ishimaru's hair and the other hand is on top of Ishimaru's hand to comfort him.
Naegi's look was pitying but she had a hint of affection or happiness and she is gently smiling. That touch was warm, she likes to feel Naegi's fingers playing with her hair, before her mother disappeared, she liked to caress her hair when Ishimaru fell asleep on her thighs when he was a kid.
–You feel horrible for what oowada did, right?
Naegi jumped when Ishimaru looked at him.
–I understand you perfectly, to think that one of our friends was capable of murdering someone… it's terrible and we want that not to be real.
Naegi's face had lost the tender smile, she was naively affected by what maizono tried to do to get out of here. He felt like an idiot that someone like her could so easily fool him into thinking she was his friend.
–But in the case of your friend... it wasn't like that, oowada is innocent...
- That?
Ishimaru's dry throat finally let out a measly word, his eyes showed a single emotion, surprise.
- Please tell me!
Ishimaru sat up to get closer to Naegi and gripped her shoulders firmly… poor desperate fellow, he could feel liquid inside her nose, on her cheeks, mouth and forehead. Suddenly Naegi felt his cheeks warm.
– W-well… I found a report about the previous trials and murders… in the second murder, instead of what Owada said about what happened in the boys' locker room, in the report it said that ogami, togami, Celestia and hifumi were the ones. true culprits, they murdered Fujisaki in cold blood and then blamed owada. I don't know the reason why this...
An obvious lie and without logic...
Although this is incredible, Ishimaru believed it without suspecting... Naegi is incapable of lying to make fun of him, why add more salt to the wound? Besides, owanda wouldn't do something like that as he said in court, she knows him so well… he knew that owanda would be incapable of doing such a horrible act.
– I found him this morning, if I had found him before the trial, they would be dead instead of Owanda and I wouldn't feel that great guilt right now.
The shimmering detail of the tears came to make Ishimaru's desperate and fruity face even more beautiful and he looked down to avoid Naegi seeing it, but Naegi grabbed his cheeks with both hands to keep looking at her artwork. .
– But we can take revenge for our friend Owada… If we cause one of the murderers to kill the other murderer, with lies and manipulation, they are all capable of killing the other person with the intention of leaving here and right now their mind is full of fear and frustration. Besides, no one would suspect us because we are too good to manipulate a weaker mind. If by doing all this, we can both get out of here, that's what Owada wanted, don't you think, captain?
Captain…?
Ishimaru grabbed both of his partner's hands, Naegi swore to see Ishimaru's eyes pitch black.
Ishimaru got up from the bed, soon there was white plasma all around him and heating up the whole room. Suddenly his black hair changed color to white and his eyes grew flames. When he turned his head to see Naegi, the latter was surprised at what he was looking at right now.
You plan one thing and the result comes out something else but much better than you expected, maybe one day the others will understand why their title is the definitive lucky one.