Danganronpa: Fictional Nexus

Chapter 3: The Manipulator's Malice Part 5 (Deadly Life)

Chapter 3: The Manipulator's Malice Part 5 (Deadly Life)

Remaining Citizens: 12

< Emma's POV >

"..... Huh?" Is all I could say to what I saw before me, Sucy's blood still spreading across the gym floor.

I staggered back, still in shock. Even though I saw four of our original group of seventeen killed before us, I couldn't stomach this. Death in general is something I struggle to handle after all this time.

Someone had to break the silence though, "Hmph... Ishigami, how did you end up here?" Aoba asked him to break the guy out of blankly staring at the body.

"Wh-what? I... don't remember... I just got knocked out and—agh, my head..." Ishigami rubbed the back of his head as Aoba turned away, "A likely story, come now, let's gather the outsiders and hope they're useful to the investigation..."

He probably thinks Ishigami killed Sucy, but... him? He's mainly been terrified or antisocial the entire time I've known him, sure we can't rule him out yet... he's not the only one.

The only ones who could have killed her were the six of us inside the school building. I can rule myself out of the possibility, and even Killua, though I have no idea what he was up to before he was in the school store. Same with the four besides him, Aoba especially. I knew I should have kept an eye on him! Even if I found that weird button in the MonoMono Machine...

I then heard the doors to the gym slam open, as Killua led those on the outside to us.

"Everyone! You made it! Uh... what's with Ai?" I asked them as I saw Miles carrying her over his shoulder.

"Oh, uh, Super-Serious Flower Gal couldn't handle the show for very long, singing was so bad it must have broken her... she passed out when the second act was at the halfway point." Gold explained.

"Um... show?" Ryuji glanced at Ai's blank expression.

"An awful musical performance by Monokuma... the lyrics and choreography was well done, but his voice..." Espio held his head while remembering it, it must have been really bad.

"Hey! Your scathing reviews mean nothing to true genius! My performance blows Lin-Manuel Miranda's outta the water! It took months to rehearse it all!" Monokuma then popped up from behind, startling me.

"You should have gotten a voice modifier when you got built, so we wouldn't have to listen to your voice for 3 HOURS." Miles complained to him, okay it must have been really, REALLY bad.

"Jeez. I'm just gonna give you all the Monokuma File and go brainstorm what my next musical will be. With all this tension in the air, you all need to Be More Chill!" The bear just went away as multiple Monokuma Files were handed to us, Ai's just falling on the ground. We really need to snap her out of it soon.

"Oh right! Someone died! What the heck happened?!" Gold exclaimed as we explained everything.

"....."

"Trunks? What's wrong?" I saw his expression darken.

"I had believed that you all would have found another way out, instead of resorting to killing again. "What's wrong?", you ask? Apparently, I was." He responded, disappointed, I can tell from his tone of voice.

"You should have less faith in people, especially with a group like this one. They'll just end up failing repeatedly." Aoba snarked, which caused Trunks to grab him by the collar and lift him up.

"H-hey! Calm down!" Bernadetta tried to put him at ease, but Trunks was ticked off.

"I don't want to hear anything from scum who manipulated someone into killing another." Trunks dropped him onto the gym floor and began walking out of the door.