Danganronpa: Despair to Prodiges V2

Murder/Investigation #1

(Kazuma POV)

'What?'

It took me a second to process the horrific sight I was seeing. When everyone else noticed, all hell broke loose.

Some screamed one passed out, and others looked away in disgust. Only a select few were looking at the body.

"Hey hey! So, one of you guys murdered huh? Well, here's the Monokuma file!" Monokuma said as he appeared from seemingly nowhere.

Dead: Yue

Cause of death Beaten to death

Time of death: 8:20 PM

We all got a file that was handed out to us, my eyes were still wide open trying to process what happened.

"Let's look around," Dazai said as he stood up, "The damage to the neck is likely why we didn't hear her scream so that's one issue out of the way in case you needed to know."

"Although judging on the attacks on this person, one would imagine they are relatively strong." Yuuki observed, "The amount of time we had was not short but it wasn't super long either. To do this much damage you would have to pack a pretty powerful punch."

"You say that, but don't you pack quite the punch yourself?" Akeno said with a newfound hostility in her eyes

"Sorry, but Kazuma and I are hard-cleared. We had physical contact the whole time."

"..." She didn't say anything else, just went back to thinking.

In the back of my mind, a thought appeared. We were just talking about how strong Tohru was, so wouldn't she be an obvious choice for a suspect? 

I looked over at her who looked just like Akeno, pissed off but reserved.

Dazai then left the room, and everyone else split up to look around. Some didn't bother moving though, and in particular, Hanako had a pretty bad reaction to this. He was just frozen staring at the body.

I turned around though and the first place I went to was the generator. The power had gone out so I figured it would be an important place to check.

Upon arriving, Dazai was also looking at it.

"..."

He didn't say anything as he looked, I didn't make conversation either as I looked. The generator was in a more hidden room in the building. You couldn't really find it just by walking around, yet Dazai had found it right away.

Not thinking about Dazai though, I looked around and noticed that the switches had timers on them, and on the timer was what appeared to be sweat or grease. Meaning that the killer was likely one of the people who brought food in here. After all, having the switch look like that would certainly explain it.

As Dazai nodded I spoke up, "What do you think?"

"People often think of things with too little thought, don't you agree? You only noticed the switch, but what about other things?"

"Uhh..."

"The floor," He pointed down, "See the bit of dirt?"

I looked there and noticed a little bit.

"Yea...But doesn't this only confirm that it was still someone who brought in the food?"

"Who knows? Yuuki or Echidna certainly have other things if you want to ask them."

Shifting the question to someone else, he left the room.

By the sound of it, he was heavily implying that one of us cleaning had done the murder. I know it obviously wasn't me, and Aqua... Yeah, no way. And Tohru still made sense.