𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘱𝘢: 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳

/ 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 1 / 𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤e

"Fuck, that stings.."

Nathaniel touched his cheek , another scar added to his cheek. Except it was longer than his other stitched-up scars.

"Funny, I thought you'd be crying."

"Haha, very funny," Nathaniel remarked back at Liam as he rolled his eyes from his comment.

Liam walked over to him, the same expressionless look on his face as he took the bandaid he found from the room they woke up in.

Carefully, he took a piece of cotton and added alcohol to it, damping it on Nathaniel's cheek.

"Ngh, fuck."

"Careful, mesophyll alcohol stings."

"Well, thanks for the heads-up," Nathaniel told him as Liam placed the bandaid over the scar.

"Why did you do that for those people?"

"Hm?"

"You were willing to destroy Monokuma just so everyone would get out of here."

"You know, you don't have to keep bringing it up now .,"Nathaniel told him, humiliated at his failed attempt from the damn bear.

"You weren't wrong. It wasn't your fight. It's theirs."

"Theirs-

"Each one of them needs to learn to stand on their own feet. That's how they'll survive," Liam told him, a deadpan tone from his voice, his gaze holding Nathaniel's purple omniscient eyes.

"Did you not see how closely they stick for one another?"

"So, you agree with Blanche."

"Your words not mine."

"You really got to stop saying that..," Nathaniel told him, remembering him saying those words earlier before.

"So, why not work together with Blanche?"

"He's too much of a pain. You're a pain but you're a useful kind of pain.."

"I wonder how you write poems and sonnets..," Nathaniel thought, trying to accept Liam's rather harsh compliment.

"And besides, I like to take my chances with a guy who can fight.."

"I'll take it then.."

He jumped off from the chair, stretching out his arms and taking a look around the room.

"So the classroom, is it?"

"About that, I lied.."

"What?! Why would you lie about something stupid like that," Nathaniel questioned with him.

"I don't want anybody searching where we're gonna search..," Liam flatly replied.

"And where may that be?"

"The library..."

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"NOT THE LIBRARYYYYYYY-

"Seriously, we're gonna research in a library?"

It was an odd place to search, Easton could admit it himself but he thought it would definitely give more information about the school's history.

"Before we proceed any further, do any of you two recognize this device?," Easton asked them, holding out a black tablet. He had noticed it with him after exiting the gymnasium, assuming Monokuma had slipped it in intentionally.

"You mean this thing?," Justin asked, holding up the same device identical to Easton's.

"I think we should investigate this," Easton suggested.