Danganronpa Zero

Volume Two, Chapter Five

In one of the East District's cafeteria's.

It's de facto name is "The Third School Cafeteria". Although there are several cafeterias scattered throughout the campus, this is the most popular by far... apparently.

During noon, it's filled not only students but also teaching staff lined up in a queue. It seems the secret behind the popularity of this cafeteria is the student they call ̳Super High School Level Cook' who boasts of his own unique recipe. His food isn't governed by genre or common sense, and I hear it's so addictive you can't help but feel like it must contain drugs but-Come to think of it, it doesn't really matter since I've forgotten how addictive it is.

Well, in any case! Even now the student cafeteria is filled with students so there wasn't a single seat available. For someone like me standing by myself, this atmosphere was anything but comfortable-

"I'm here too, you know!"

"Eh, did you hear me? Um..."

"I told you, I'm the ̳Super High School Level Secret Agent" from the 77th batch, Kamishiro Yuuto! Come on!! How many times do I have to introduce myself?!" Kamishiro-kun said as he made a cross shape with his arms in front of me, "Damn it, it seems like we have bad chemistry, I was praying to god a lot that we'd be a good combination... too bad."

"What kind of god were you praying to... ?"

In any case, it seems Kamishiro-kun and I certainly do have bad chemistry.

Forgettable Kamishiro-kun and forgetful me.

He was holding what looked to be a mixture of pale calpis and water.

"Well, whatever! What's more important is starting our conversation!"

"Right, we can do that but..." I looked around at the student's bustling through the cafeteria, "Why come here of all places?"

Kamishiro-kun waved his short finger in front of me with a tsk tsk tsk.

"It's bad taste to answer such a question to an outsider, if anything this is the perfect place for it. If we talked about this in a place with only a few people, someone would be able to overhear us easily. It's a theory I have that we should hide like we're extras in an adult video."

"So what you're saying is if we need to talk about something important, we should pretend we're having a normal chat."

"What I'm saying is, it'd be lonely if I was here by myself!"

Our casual conversation was buried in the sound of the hustle and bustle around us.

"See! No one cares about our conversation, do they?" Kamishiro-kun had a huge grin on his face like he had just committed some fantastic prank. He then moved onto the main topic, "There's a reason why I wanted to talk to you as soon as possible... Did anyone go to your room this morning, big sis?"

"Eh? Did they?"

"It's fine if you've forgotten. Just check in your notebook."

Surprised, I did as I was told and took out ̳Otonashi Ryouko's Memory Notebook' and looked through it.

"... Ah!" I remembered in no time at all. I couldn't help but yell out as I remembered. "I-I remember! I know, it was Enoshima Junko! That girl suddenly came into my room!"

"Huuh." Kamishiro suddenly leaned forward. "So then, that person really was Enoshima Junko. I knew it... yup, it seems like that wiretap I put in your room worked perfectly."

Huh?

"Say, Kamishiro-kun?"

"Hm, what?"

"What did you say just now? Did you say... a wiretap?"