The Third Trial

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Your P.O.V
During the time we had for investigating the crime scene, I tried to get as many clues as I could. I tried my best to concentrate my thoughts on this trial now because dying now after this wouldn't really help. The time we got for investigating felt like forever but it apparently was enough and even I got some shit that could be useful. 
But now it was time to head towards the red door to enter the court yard. I moved my ass towards my seat and watched the others join it as well. One thing was clear, who ever did it, I wouldn't forgive them. I didn't really know how I should feel, I was somehow still refusing to believe what I saw. I somehow felt a mixture of anger, sadness, shock, confusion and despair. Seeing the death portrait in front of me wasn't making things better as well. 

Eventually, Makoto gave us all a summary about who, where and when the two boys died. At this point, I just wanted this trial to get over with. Talking about it so much wasn't going to make me feel better as well, though it saved us all from dying- 
"Personally, I think it must have been Yasuhiro. The robo justice suit was only fitting him after all and remember Hifumi's last words. 'Yasuhiro'", Celeste let out with her usual, calm voice. I don't know, something about this sounded fishy. Judging by the last trials where everything was so complicated, I didn't think the answer was that easy. I mean after all, the killer(s) could have settled the whole thing up in order to escape and to execute the rest of us. Especially in a situation like this, this wasn't a dumb move. But in the end, we would see how it turned out. This was just a thought of mine which sounded pretty logical. I mean, after all, in such class trials it sometimes helped when you thought about what you yourself would do when you were the killer and try to think out of their point of view. 

"No for real, I swear I don't remember how I ended up in this weird suit- I was told to meet someone and from this point on I can't remember anything, neither what happened next, nor why I was in this suit!", Yasuhiro assured us. "Then would you mind using your brain for once and explaining us why we found this in your room?", Byakuya let out, holding out a sheet of paper. On it was a sketch of the robot suit that he was found in with some notes on it how it should be built. "But wait a minute- That's not Hiro's handwriting. Hiro's handwriting is more ordinary and I even got a proof for that", Makoto let out, holding a kind of invitation out towards us all. "So let's just say, Yasuhiro didn't do those plans, why was it in his room then? And he WAS in that robo Justice suit so it is pretty clear who did it", Celeste let out. 

We continued to discuss along and focus on the question of when and in which order the students were killed. since every justice hammer had a number, we all were discussing the order. Once we got this done, Kyoko mentioned that she had found something in Taka's hand and on Hifumi's corpse, It looked like Hifumi ripped the sheet Taka got which was an order to head to the art storage room at some point in the middle of the night. 
"What if Hifumi was the one who killed Taka? It would make sense why he had the rest of the sheet of paper with him, to hide the evidence", Kyoko offered. The more they argumented that that was the case, the more convincing it had been. 

At some point, we made clear that it was Hifumi that killed Taka now we just needed to reveal the killer of Hifumi and the motives. "I still think that it was Yasuhiro if you ask me. After all, when we asked Hifumi who it was, he said, and I quote 'Yasuhiro'. in other words, Yasuhiro Hagakure", Celeste let out. "actually I don't think it was Yasuhiro. He wouldn't have been clever enough to murder so complicated and we would have revealed him after a rather short amount of time", Byakuya let out, pushing his glasses onto his nose. "Yeah right! Wait a minute- HEY", Yasuhiro let out. 
"If it was Yasuhiro, then something doesn't quite add up- there was this habit of him that he called us by our last names. So if it really had been Hiro, Hifumi would have said 'Mr. Hagakure' instead of his first name", Kyoko explained to us. "So what? No one here has the last name Yasuhiro", Celeste replied to us. "And? there still can someone be here who lies about their name and that from the first moment they met us. So of course we would assume that it was Yasuhiro who killed Hifumi and not the real killer", Kyoko let out. 
"Celeste, you seem to get quite nervous since I said there could be someone who lied about their name. Do you have to tell us something?", Kyoko let out to her. "What makes you so sure that it's me? it could be anyone and you got no proof", Celeste let out, slowly getting more and more unsure. "I mean practically, we do- Don't the names of all of us appear on the handbooks? If it wasn't you, then why don't you just show us your handbook?", I let out to her. "WHO SAYS THERE EVEN IS SOMEONE WITH A FALSE NAME HUH? THIS IDEA IS STUPID IT WAS OBVIOUSLY YASUHIRO", Celeste let out. "Stop the fuck screaming at us and show us your handbook if you've got nothing to hide", Mondo let out, raising his voice. 

At this point, I was pretty sure it was Celeste and I was so fucking pissed at her, I couldn't explain it. I saw her taking a deep breath. "My name is.... CELESTIA LUDENBERG GOD DAMN IT", she replied to us, still avoiding showing us her handbook. "It's pretty useless to refuse showing it to us. The fact that you do, is something that shows us who the killer is. If everyone else shows theirs, it's pretty clear who it is then don't you think? besides that, you are the only one being able to make Hifumi kill since you kick him around since day 1", Byakuya let out. 

"Alright. I guess that's it then. Yes, my name is actually not Celestia Ludenberg. It's Taeko Yasuhiro", Celestia admitted.  "And yes, it indeed is true that the photo I showed you is fake", celestia replied. 

After we all voted, it was pretty clear that it was Celeste who killed. "FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU HOW COULD YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND TAKE AWAY SUCH AN INNOCENT SOUL", Mondo yelled out in anger to her. "Oh you want me to explain why I killed, yes? okay then, listen", Celeste let out.
 "I have a dream (Kono Giorno Giovanna niwa yume ga aru- okay okay okay I'll stop for real). I've always wanted to live in a large castle, admired by men and live in wealth. Though I was taken any chance to gamble in here. The motive monokuma gave us, so the millions of dollars, would have made this dream come true. But I didn't want to be so obvious- so I called Hifumi to my room. I was the one that stole 'it' and I told him that it was Taka who had it. That only worked because he loved it so much, he wouldn't stop having it with him. I talked badly about Taka, making him angry and making him agree to the plan. He killed Taka, played dead and such stuff. I told him my real name, which was great for me because of the coincidence with Hiro. And after the body was discovered, I killed HIfumi in order to get out and that he wouldn't get outside for my work and my plan. And it almost worked", Celestia let out. 
I kept my anger and sadness in while Mondo continued to yell at her. "To be honest i already thought that it was you. Your acting changed completely this morning when you called for help. You acted completely different than normal and when Hifumi's body was found, in combination with his case, it could have only been you because he followed you around so much", Kyoko let out. 
But this was true- she really did act weird which I didn't really notice because of the worries about the missing students. 

It felt good to see her die. That meant some revenge for the sacrifice of the soul from my childhood friend. But it didn't bring Taka back either- I entered the elevator again.  

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