Loner Liar - Kokichi Ouma Post-game

26- Not me

Kokichi's Pov:

The only possible reason for the disease to just disapear like this...
That would be...
That the motive is over.
Someone was murdered.

Someone saved us.
Someone made the pain go away.
...but someone was killed.
...and someone is going to be executed.

Becuase of us. The infecteds.

Who is it though? Who died?

Me, Akamatsu and Hoshi followed Kibo in the hallways. The robot's face was somewhat... Sad? I didn't know robots could be sad... Nah, he's a robot, and robot's doesn't have feelings. Right?
Anyways... Kibo guided us to... The second floor.
In the hall between Kirumi's and Gonta's labs, were all my classmates, gathered around something I could deduce was the dead body of someone.

"May I ask you what the fuck happened in here?" I yelled.
And when they all turned their heads to me... The only thing I saw was pitty on their stares.

"Look Ouma, I-i"
"How do we put this-"
"You probably should leave the investigation to us..."

"What? Who died? And if you're all so concerned about me seeing the body, then why did Kibo bring me here? Lets be honest, you need me in the trial. Come on, let me-"

See.

One of my friends.
The one who had been taking care of me sice the beggining.
I can't believe I'm reviewing his death once more.
Not again.
Please tell me this is a dream. Or a nightmare.
Please.

Who am I kidding? This isn't like me! C'mon Kokichi. Investigate. Be usefull. Think! This is real. Don't lie to yourself.

I was snapped out of my thoughts by Kaito shaking my shoulders.

"Ouma? Are you ok?" Tsumugui asked.

I only nodded in reponse, not taking my eyes from the body in front of me.
I've made up my mind. I need to investigate. I need to clear what happened to him.

I lowered my head and stared at the monopad I brought with me. I then realised that the monokuma file had already appeared on the screen.

The victim is Rantaro Amami, the ultimate survivor.
The time of death occured around 6 am.
The dead body was found with a knife on his stomach and no other external injuries.

So that's it. That's a pretty short file though... Not really usefull.

Some people left to search for more clues elsewhere, while I analysed the crime cene.

It was hard.
Rantaro was like an older brother to me.
I couldn't hide the tears I was holding for much longer.

Amami's peacefull expression made my heart break. He had one of the kitchen knives craved in his stomach, just like the monokuma file said. The body was displayed siting against the hallway's wall.

I should come closer, shouldn't I? It's hard to know about details if I keep this far from him.
But it hurts.
I don't want to investigate Rantaro's body.

Come on Kokichi. Just do it. You already did it before. Don't tell me you're getting weaker!

The voices in my head gave me enought strenght to take a step foward.
But when I placed my foot on the floor, it imediatly slipped what made me land with my back on the floor.
Kirumi, who was also still analysing the cene helped me getting up.

Huh? The ground is... Wet?
Now that I think of it...
A somewhat big water puddle was close to Rantaro.

"Did you got hurt, Ouma?" Kirumi asked me.

"I'm ok...my hand hurts a bit though"

She took my left hand what made me realise it was slightly bleeding from a cut on my palm.
How did i even get that cut?

"It's nothing."
I licked the blood and soon it stopped leaking.

"Hey hum... What is that?"
Tsumugui was pointing to something  under the corpse. I could barely see what it was, so me and Tenko moved it a bit to the side so we could get whatever it was.

"Is that... One of my scarves?"

There's no doubt. It really was one of my checkered scarves, soaked in blood. That's odd, I don't remember having another scarf excluding the one I've been wearing for the last one week and the ones in my dorm's closet. Did someone got into my room? But I had the keys on me all along!

I searched a bit more, but found nothing relevant.

"I'm going back to my dorm. See you all in the trial."

I hate to admit it but I can't stand seeing my... friend dead.
It hurts.

He died because you three were infected.
You are the reason why Rantaro died.
You Murderer
You should have died instead of him.

...
No. Dice always said not to blame only myself. They said that the guilt is always shared by more than one person. And I'm stronger than this. Rantaro died because of Monokuma mainly. Not me. Not me. Not me. Not me. It's not just my fault, is it?