Entertaining a Small Thought

4th Arc Part 6: Dynamic Duo

4th Arc: Truths Are Cruel, So Lies Must Be Kind

Deadly Life

And just like that, it began for the fourth time. Kaito, found dead at the base of the spiral staircase. Gonta, found dead in the Ultimate Astronaut's Research Lab. I found myself staring at the large corpse of Gonta for what felt like hours, not moving until I finally found words to say. "...What happened?"

"Rin..." Kaede turned to me with a face covered in tears. "I don't... I don't know what happened. We just... We just found them like this! Why... Why did these two have to die?"

"So... They're really...?" I asked, my eyes not moving off of Gonta.

"...Yes. Gonta and Kaito are dead." Shuichi confirmed with a dull stare.

He was staring at the ground with an empty look. His voice sounded like it had lost all of its energy. It's understandable. Kaito, Shuichi's best friend, is dead. It would be more shocking if Shuichi wasn't like this right now. I was much the same. All I could manage to do was stare at the body in front of me silently. That is, until Kokichi entered the room.

"Geez, Rinny. Why'd you run off without me? You know I get lonely easily." He joked as he entered the room, but he stopped when he saw Gonta's body. "Gonta..." His voice was quiet, so much so that I might mistake it as sorrowful. But, of course, like all things pertaining to Kokichi, that turned out to just be nothing but a delusion on my part. "Wow! I can't believe that big dumb idiot really did get himself killed like I said he would! Man, thank god the victims this time around weren't anyone who were actually useful."

The three of us who were in the room with Kokichi just turned to him, absolutely appalled when he said that. How? How could he say something like that? I didn't know, but I knew that for once, I was not going to put up with his crap right now.

"Kokichi, if you don't shut up, I'll rip your tongue out and shut you up for you."

It was quick, precise, and to the point. That one sentence was all I needed to silence him. When he heard me, he gave me a surprised look, like he wasn't expecting me to say that. I didn't care enough to wait for a response as I turned back to look at Gonta. I could tell Kaede and Shuichi were shocked as well, but I didn't care. I was just tired of it all. I was done with everything. Right now, I just want to not think right now.

And so we waited, and soon, the others had come, and they were just as surprised as we were.

"So Gonta and Kaito are dead now. This is...awful. That is the only word I can use to describe this situation." Keebo said as his face scrunched up in pain.

"Those two... Why those two?" Tenko asked.

"..." Maki didn't even say anything. All she did was look away from Gonta's body. I can't imagine how she reacted when she saw Kaito's body downstairs. She looked sick.

"...So we have to do it again, don't we? One of us killed again, and we have to investigate." Rantaro sighed with a pained look.

"Must we? The last trial was so horrible. Must we suffer through another so soon after?" Kirumi asked with a disgusted look. That's right. She's only done this twice. It must be so awful, beginning to understand just what we have to go through. Over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. But still...

"We don't have much of a choice," Shuichi muttered in a defeated tone.

"That's right! You don't have a choice!" Monokuma said as he entered the room. "You schmucks have to investigate for the class trial, just like you always do! Hasn't this become routine for you all at this point?"