Chapter 2: His Grief, Their Longing (Deadly Life)

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The Conductor: "A... A MYYYURDER?!"

The Conductor's scream rang through Luigi's ears as he stared at the unmoving body. He trembled as his inner thoughts swarmed around his mind like an infection. A despair ridden infection.

Parappa: "H-huh!? B-but... but how?!"

*Ding dong, bing bong*

Monokuma: "Puhuhu! Guess what, folks? A body has been discovered! Come to the performance hall to get an eyeful of this!"

Luigi felt the dread creep in as the announcement confirmed what he was looking at was true.

Dedede was dead. And someone had killed him. Someone had betrayed everybody and killed him.

It took a while for Luigi to hoist himself up from the floor, and once he had, he noticed everyone else had arrived, looking particularly confused and terrified as well.

Miku: "Penguino...? H-he's...!"

Brian: "Dead."

Fluttershy: "N-no... Not again!"

Monokuma: "Again! Again!"

Teto: "Hey! This is all your fault! You keep wanting people to die!"

Peter: "Livin' is pretty sweet too, y'know?!"

Monokuma: "Sure, sure, you can say that all you'd like. But ya do realise one of you did this, AGAIN, right? It's not me!"

2D: "I thought we'd all agreed not to..."

Nagito: "Looks like someone used our trust to betray us behind our backs... I only wish it was for the sake of hope."

Sans: "Well, one thing's for sure is that Dedede is Dededead. Heheh."

The Conductor: "You shut the peck up."

Sans: "...Sorry, I had to."

Ashley: "Must we investigate again?"

Monokuma: "Yeeup! It's da rules, after all!"

Monokuma fumbled around in his back pocket (which seemingly appeared from out of nowhere) and pulled out a familiar-looking tablet.

Monokuma: "Here's the Monokuma File 2.0! Happy investigating!"

Monokuma elegantly slid the file onto the stage and scurried off. Luigi looked around at everyone, taking in their initial thoughts and expressions.

Miku: "I don't wanna do this again..."

Teto: "Me neither! It's not fair!"

Yandere-Chan: "Would you rather die...?"

Teto: "W-well, no, but it's just too much to handle!"

Luigi: "Maybe... Maybe it is. But, we can't ignore Dedede's death... It's in our right to solve-a this mystery for his sake..."

The words escaped Luigi before he even realised it. With all his pent up fear and frustration, he must've let out what he truly felt to make everyone listen.

Parappa: "Luigi's right! We gotta do this for Dedede!"

Sans: "In that case, it's already obvious who the killer is."

The Conductor: "Ye know already?! Who is it?!"

Sans: "Well, you, duh."

The Conductor: "...What?! Me?!"

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