『 ♧ Escape Artist ♧ 』『 RANMARU KAGEYAMA × DANGANRONPA V3 』

CHAPTER 2-5: Sleeping with the fish

RANMARU(?) POV:

I was excited.

I was VERY excited.

I sauntered joyfully towards the gym like it was requested in order to witness what had been on my mind for the past 12 hours. Unfortunately, I hadn't been able to convince Kirumi to tell me her plan, but thankfully, she told me the parts involving the role I got to play, and I planned to play it perfectly.

Just before I entered the gym, I realised the stride in my step was nothing like the Ranmaru they knew. I stopped, slouched slightly, and entered the gym. When I looked around, I was the last to arrive, and surrounded by both panicking and speechless people, the others looked to me in surprise at my sudden entrance but quickly eased up.

"Where the hell have you been." Maki asked as she looked to me.

"Sorry.. I was in my dorms." Was all I said before looking around me.

"Wh... what the fuck happened...?"

The state the gym was in when I entered was pure chaos, a massive elaborate stage had been formed, with a now empty pool of water, its contents soaking my shoes when I entered. There was a bucket full of flopping piranhas inside it, and the glass wall facing the students had been shattered to hundreds of pieces on the floor. Lastly, there was also a pile of bones in front of the stage, human bones to be precise.

"Ryoma is dead..." Shuichi spoke out after finding his words.

"Yeah, I can see that, I mean why is the floor soaking wet, and shattered glass everywhere?" I retorted.

"Oh! Well, we decided to use Robot Boy as a battering ram so we could get ryoma's little bones out from the tank!" Kokichi chuckled from the side. I looked over to Keebo, who was looking down, seemingly traumatised by the previously mentioned event.

'I don't know why I didn't expect this from a group of idiots like these guys, but whatever. Let's get this investigation over with as soon as I can.. I still have stuff to do.'

I walked over to the stage as everyone around him began investigating on their own. Before I could start, I heard a chime in my pocket and pulled out my monopad. Right, I get to know all the info on Ryoma's body.

"Victim is Ryoma Hoshi, ultimate tennis player, yada yada... body discovered in the gym cause of death is drowning. The body was consumed by piranhas until only bones remained, no other confirmed injuries..."

Wow, talk about useless. Everything in here could've been obtained just by looking at the scene. The only thing worth noting on this piece of junk is that there's no time of death. Figures.

MONOKUMA FILE 2 ADDED TO TRUTH BULLETS

I put the tablet away and walked closer to where everyone else was. The place that caught my eye was the top of the fish tank, but I didn't want to go up to check out any abnormalities. When I went up, a certain someone was there. I cleared by throat behind them, causing them to jump and look back to me.

"Ah.. Ranmaru. What is it you need?" Kirumi said nervously.

"Hello Kirumi, what I want... all details you can give me. And don't try to hide it, you want to blend in, don't you? I would hate to have to reveal you hid evidence..." I spoke in a low whisper, approaching her. She backed away slightly but fixed herself once again.

"I know very little. My only job assigned by angie was to sew the curtains and set up the stage, I have no information on how the trick works." She replied quickly. I nodded and let her be. God, she sure knows how to be useless.