Souls In Hiding

How Could You?

Grabbing Kiibo from his futuristic charging station, Shuichi threw the robot to the floor, waking everyone with the loud cracking of the timber floorboards. They all shouted at the vampire, attempting to pry him away from the robot to no avail. Shuichi ripped Kiibo from the floor and shoved him against the wall, knocking down a cabinet in the process. "Why should I stop?!" He shouted. "Kiibo is the traitor!"

"Shuichi you can't accuse him out of nowhere!" Kaito shouted back at his friend.

"Where is this coming from may I ask?" Kirumi attempted to calm the room with her presence.

Korekiyo stepped forward, towering over Shuichi. "You can't disappear for ages and then come back, not tell us where you were, and accuse Kiibo of being a traitor."

"Of course I can!" Shuichi rebutted, "especially when I'm accusing the king's son of being a traitor."

"What? I'm... Shuichi's lying!" Kiibo countered, his voice an octave higher than usual.

"Lie," Kokichi mumbled from his bed, still unable to move. "Tell the truth Robot Boy."

"What truth? I don't know the truth." Shuichi glared into Kiibo's circuits through his eyes, sending a tsunami of fear coursing through his copper. "Okay fine, I am Monokuma's son but let me explain!" 

"We're listening." Shuichi spat, getting off Kiibo so he could stand. After all, Kiibo could've easily killed them by now if he really wanted.

"I'm sure you guys know about the rumours that Monokuma had a son, well the truth is he wanted to hide me from everyone until I proved myself. Which meant I'd need to kill someone for their soul. I don't agree with what Monokuma's doing so I ran away and found Gonta and Miu in the forest." Kiibo finished explaining, fiddling with the joints in his fingers.

"How could Kiibo trick Miu and Gonta like that?" Gonta seemed on the verge of crying as he stared at his companion through watery eyes.

"I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry." Kiibo cried, minus the tears.

"No Kiibo, I'm the one who should be sorry." Shuichi relieved the others, the others now knew he wasn't going feral. "I had no reason to attack you like that, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, no alarms are going off, but I'll do a scan later." Kiibo smiled at the vampire. "I don't blame you for how you reacted."

Kokichi's laugh caused attention to swap over to him. "Your blood lust has been showing lately." 

Ignoring the phantom, Shuichi attempted to figure out the mystery of a possible traitor. "Kiibo, is there any way you could be relaying information to Monokuma without knowing?" Kaito couldn't hold back his laugh at Shuichi's insane comment.

"That's impossible." Himiko drawled, "I've never seen him write down what we're saying, and he hasn't been painting anything to show Monokuma."

"Yeah! Imagine being able to capture what something looks like in a second, that'll never be possible!" Tenko agreed with her lover.

"It should be impossible for any of you to exist. Who knows what else Kiibo can do?" Ryoma pointed out, everyone in the group silently agreeing with him.

"I'll figure it out!" Miu screamed, grabbing Kiibo's wrist and running out of the cabin to God knows where.

"Shuichi, I think you should get some rest. After what happened to Kaede and when you disappeared, you must be tired." Rantaro approached the vampire with immense caution, wrapping a gentle arm around his friend.

"First, Shuichi. How did you know Kiibo's Monokuma's son? I apologise but I'm sure you're aware how suspicious that is." Kirumi interrogated the vampire.