Truth, Perjury, and Sacrifice

Class is in Session

Kyoko returned home within the hour, only to find an unpleasant surprise on their front step. She stared at the two skeletons, who were still wearing the clothing she assumed they had died in. Taking a closer look, she could identify them as one male and one female. Most of the skin had already decayed away, but Kyoko noticed the vertebrae in the necks of both had been snapped. Checking the pockets of the male's pants, a thin wallet slipped out with her hand. Flipping the wallet open, a license was the first thing Kyoko's eyes caught. The surname Naegi printed, clear as day. A knot balled up in her throat. She glanced at the window that let her see into the kitchen. Makoto seemed to be in the middle of preparing dinner and Kyoko had to step around what she determined to be his parents' bodies and inform him of her discovery. Until her cell phone rang.

Before she could even properly answer the call, Aoi was on the other line, screaming and crying. Kyoko could hear Sakura trying to calm her down nearby. "Kyoko! There's a body...I think it's....oh god." She continued to cry.

"Hello, Kyoko?" Sakura had taken the phone. "We believe Aoi's brother is...unfortunately laying on our front step."

Kyoko took a moment to breathe, steadying herself, "Yes. I seem to have encountered a similar situation. I believe Makoto and Komaru's parents are laying on ours."

"Do you think the others will encounter the same issue?"

"Possibly." A scream tore through around the block. Kyoko stared in the direction of the apartments and the Togami residence. "I have to go. I hate to ask this, but could you please inform Komaru for me?"

"Of course," Sakura said, holding onto Hina as the call ended.

The first thing on Kyoko's list was to inform Makoto. While the scream was important business to attend to, Kyoko couldn't leave Makoto to discover this news by himself. Carefully stepping around the bodies, Kyoko entered their home, immediately walking into the kitchen. "Makoto."

"What was that? I heard a scream just now."

"I'm not sure, but I can probably guess. But that's not important right now," She said, presenting the leather wallet. "Makoto, I think you should sit down."

Makoto took the wallet and took a peek inside, nearly fainting at the sight of his father's face. "Where did you get this?"

"Outside of our front door. Makoto, your parents' bodies have been recovered," Kyoko said, steady her boyfriend's stance. He was trembling under her touch. "They're...outside of our front door. I suspect that someone brought them here for malicious reasons."

"Did...you call Komaru? I have to tell her." Makoto stumbled in trying to reach his phone but almost dropped it in his attempt to find his sister's contact information.

"It's okay. Sakura is going to call her."

"Sakura called you?" Makoto was confused, even by his own reaction. He had known Komau said she didn't find their parents and that there had been no sighting of them since they escaped the Academy, but to know with certainty that they were dead made the world crumble around him.

"Yes. They found Hina's younger brother at their front door."

"Who would...do this? Why?"

"I don't know." Kyoko leaned in and hugged Makoto tightly. "I'm going to find out, though." Both of their cell phones began to ring. They both pulled away from each other to answer. Makoto answered his sister's phone call, while Kyoko turned to answer her call. "Detective Kirigiri".

On top of bodies of loved ones being left at every apartment in the complex, and at Togami's house, Kyoko had received a call from both Byakuya and Karen about bodies being hung outside of the Future Foundation headquarters and Togami Inc. office building. Just as Kyoko arrived at their house, Karen was preparing to leave. "Where are you going?"

"I need to take care of Future Foundation. If Munakata catches wind that Chisa and Juzo are hanging from the park trees outside of headquarters, it's not going to a pretty scene." She shook her head. "It already isn't a pretty scene, what the hell am I saying?"

"But you're on bed rest," Kyoko said.

"Which I will return to once the burial arrangements are in place. And to save you time and effort, we're pretty sure that those are the bodies of my mother and father, along with Byakuya's mother, father, and sister, Shinobu."

Kyoko looked at the bodies. Two of which had been decapitated. "How can you be certain?'

"There's identification on all of them. Of course, my parents would be the ones decapitated, right?" Karen cleared her throat, wiping her tears away. "So, you do your job detective, and I'll do mine."

Once Karen had pulled away in her car, Byakuya approached Kyoko. "Whatever you and Makoto told her must have finally sunk in. She left in the middle of dinner, came home, and acted as if nothing was wrong."

"When did you notice they were here?" Kyoko asked, ignoring Byakuya's comment.

"When Tojo was leaving. She gasped and rushed back inside to inform us."

"Where is she now?" Kyoko asked.

Byakuya shrugged. "I told her to go home for the night and that I would take care of everything. She apologized that she couldn't be of more help, but regardless, what could a maid do about five bodies?"

"Try around thirty-five or so. I haven't visited the other scenes yet, but I've received numerous calls from everyone else." Kyoko's cell phone rang once again, her hand catching it before the second ring.

"You won't believe what Komaru and I found," Makoto said. "A fully prepared folder of the 79th  class scouting records. Jin had already started scouting the next class before the Tragedy."

"And you just found this folder lying around?" Kyoko asked.

"It was hidden under...them. But the strange part is that the students listed? Some of them are in the photos Nagito and the others took."