Danganronpa: Despair to Prodiges V2

Motive #2

(Kazuma POV)

Dazai and I made our way to the center island along with everyone else. Monokuma then jumped off the statue with the timer on it. Naturally, it had decreased as time passed, but I still didn't know what it meant. 

"Okay! This next motive is going to be more like a game! I will hand out a piece of information about yourself to someone else. Naturally, that means that someone will know something about you, or something super duper important to you. Kill to get it, or kill after you get it, it's all the same!"

"..."

"You kids are no fun! Scream and panic a bit more! I expected more from you Aqua!"

"M-Me?!"

"Yes! You're good at that! Anyway, everyone go back to your rooms and I will distribute tablets with a video feed of your motive!"

We all then started heading back when someone unexpected spoke to me, "Kazuma, are you doing alright?" It was Kirito

"Oh, yea. How about you? I'm surprised you managed to get along with Albedo..."

"Haha...Yea. Anyway, I think there's something you should know." He closed in on my ear, "Be careful around Yuuki. I can't say for certain, but I have a very strong feeling he was connected to the first murder."

"Alright, I'll keep an eye out. Thanks."

Man, this sucks. Dazai and Kirito both think Yuuki is bad. I looked up to look at Yuuki who was walking ahead of us, but he must have felt my gaze and turned around with a smile and wave.

"..."

There was no way. I refuse to believe it. 

Even if Dazai and Kirito both said something, I would choose to believe in Yuuki until he physically did something. Speculation isn't going to help anyone. Nonetheless, though, it would be stupid to dismiss what they are saying entirely. They could be working together to frame him and then somehow both get away...Or maybe Dazai would just let himself die while only Kirito escaped.

I got back to my room, where after a while I received a motive When I opened the tablet the name read SATORU GOJO

'So this is Gojo's huh...'

I clicked the name once and a video played, It showed a bunch of people, likely high school students all tied up. 

They were blindfolded and gagged, but the screen went dark, multiple gunshots rang out, and when the light turned back on, they were all dead.

"..."

I just set the tablet down slowly. This was insane. If this situation wasn't bad enough to drive a person insane, the constant pressure would inevitably be. 

What was on my mind though, was what was my motive? Who had it?

Would people I know die before my eyes?... I don't really remember having any friends, and my family and I never got along, so who would they even kill? Or would they do something else?

I then heard a knock on my door and a chill went through my body. I got up and checked the eye hole, there was Akeno.

I slowly opened the door so only my eye could be seen. 

"What do you need?"

"Not opening the door all the way when a lady is at the door is quite rude you know."

I slammed the door. Not taking that chance. She and Gojo were really close, what if she somehow found out I had his motive?

I heard more knocking from the door behind me but I didn't bother checking it anymore.

"Kazuma, I wanted to talk to you about your motive. I was the one who got it."

I slid down on the ground so my back was against the door. 

'Stop. Go away. I don't wanna see.'

I covered my ears and closed my eyes, but it seemed like the knocking never ended, even when the voice did. Eventually, the morning sun came through the window. It was then that I finally noticed no one was at the door anymore.

The Monokuma announcement came on soon after, and I got up on unsteady feet. After contemplating for a moment whether to leave or not, I decided to leave and go to the lobby of the hotel room.

There everyone was, except two.

"...You've...Got to be kidding..." I muttered as everyone else seemed to have the same expression.

Soma and Akeno were both missing.

"Shall we get going to look for them?" Dazai asked

"Not like we really have a choice." Echidna said, "We're gonna find them one way or another."

We all stood up and walked again. We didn't find them on the first Island, so we were on our way to the second. From there, Aqua slid up next to me while we walked.

"You took a while to get up this morning. You had a lot of people worried."

"...Yea. It was a rough night."

"...I wonder if Dazai really is the most selfish one here, or if it's you."

"What?" 

Her voice suddenly went hostile, and mine did as well.

"Let me guess, you got your head wrapped around all this because you feel like you have to save everyone or something. I'm not the smartest, but even I know that that's impossible. Keep close to you what you know you can."

This was surprisingly mature for her. I guess being in a situation like this would force one to mature though.

"What the hell do you know? Is it wrong for me to want to keep everyone safe?"

"No, it's the perfect textbook example of a hero, and those don't exist."

"..." Although it hurt to not be able to respond to someone I had once called an idiot, she did have a point. I would only drive myself more and more into a corner if I wanted to keep everyone safe. I did have one question for her though, "Did you see your motive video?"

She shook her head, "I fell asleep, and right when I woke up I got ready and came here. I only went back to get it after I heard everyone talking about it. I didn't have the time to watch it though, much less open it."

"...I see. That's probably for the better."

Back to her points though I should mainly focus on protecting myself and those I really care about. If I had to put it into a list, it would be Me, Aqua, Dazai, and maybe Yuuki. I still didn't know about him after what Dazai had said, but even so, he was still a friend to me.

'...Wait.'

Didn't Tohru say at the end of her trial that Echidna is the mastermind behind her murder? Shouldn't she be the traitor then?

My questions for Dazai only continued to keep piling up.

"Oh my." I heard Echidna's voice, "This is quite a shocker."

I looked up, and on the beach where we had arrived both Soma and Akeno were killed.

'...I don't know how much longer I can take this.'