That Wasn't Supposed To Happen

Your Reality- Part 1

With a few hesitant steps, Chihiro walked over to his podium. Next to him stood Byakuya, as always. Slightly across from his stood Kyoko who was alive.

A part of Chihiro still couldn't believe it, but it was the truth. The happy truth.

Kyoko was alive!

That thought was the only thing keeping him from crying- he was nervous. Something about this murder- about this trial felt wrong.

Chihiro knew he didn't murder someone! And he doubted Kyoko did.

Yet, someone was still murdered...

The programmer tried not to think about that and to just focus on Monokuma's familiar explanation.

"Let's begin with a basic explanation of the class trial! So, your votes will determine the results. If you can figure out "whodunnit" then only they will receive punishment. But if you pick the wrong one... Then I'll punish everyone besides the blackened, and the one that deceived everyone else will graduate!" The bear explained, though everybody knew the rules at this point.

Was it just explaining it for... new viewers?

To Chihiro's left, Byakuya pushed up his glasses. "Well then, let's discuss the specifics of the victim. First, we need to clarify who exactly the unidentified victim is."

Right...

"But wasn't the body all scorched up? And there wasn't any description in the Monokuma File!" Hina said, a slight pout on her face.

"Hm, yes. It would be hard to identify the body..." Sakura agreed, nodding slightly.

"A-actually, we can!" Chihiro began, shocking himself with his loud voice. He immediately quieted down a bit, "T-the key to figuring out who it was...is the tattoo on the back of her hand..."

"Oh, yeah. The design's pretty strange, huh? Is this...a dog?" Hina asked, looking at her E-handbook with a confused expression.

"Maybe she was a dog owner?" Taka asked in return, slight disgust in his eyes.

Byakuya sighed. "No, that's not it. The identity of the victim is hidden within that tattoo."

"Whoa! Really?" Hina asked, her eyes widening.

Byakuya was right, wasn't he? Though, the others don't know that yet... since they haven't seen that!

"T-the Fenrir Mercenary Corps. That's the name of the military group Mukuro Ikusaba belonged to..." Chihiro spoke up, trying to sound as confident as possible.

He couldn't sound nervous now. This was important.

Taka raised his eyebrows, confused by Chihiro's words. "What does that have to do with this?"

"To show that they're a member of the team, each soldier that joins the squad would get a tattoo representing Fenrir somewhere on their body," Byakuya explained as if it was common knowledge.

"Fenrir?" Sakura asked, making it clear that she neither had heard of Fenrir before.

"T-the representation of Fenrir is...a wolf." Chihiro explained to the others.

Hina's eyes widened in realisation, "A wolf tattoo... Then that means-!"

"E-exactly. The body we found had a tattoo of a wolf," Chihiro nodded, his nervousness fading slightly. "Which means t-that person must have once belonged to Fenrir.... So, it must have been Mukuro."

"W-what?!" Taka explained, his eyes widened in surprise.

"H-Hold on... Isn't she the one that was behind this whole thing?" Hina asked, her shock and confusion made clear by her expression.