Detective Kanji

Chapter 6: Rooftop Confrontation

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~Normal POV

Naoto arrived at school today thinking it would be another normal day. But this was proven wrong the moment she got there.

"Naoto-kun, there you are!" Chie ran up to her looking upset. "We got a huge problem!"

"What is it? Did something happen with the case?!"

Chie shook her head and grabbed her by the arm before dragging her towards the nearby bulletin board. Yukiko and Rise were there already staring at the board for some reason.

"What's wrong?" Naoto asked.

"It's this! Look at it!" Chie pointed at the notice on the board.

There was a paper hanging there with openings for signatures. The top said it was a sign up sheet for the Miss Yasogami Beauty Pageant that was going to happen at the festival. Well, she didn't see what was wrong with that on its own. It wasn't her thing, but she didn't care if other girls wanted to participate. Some girls liked that stuff, and that was ok. What was not ok was when she saw what the others were really upset about.

All their names were on the sign-up sheet.

"How-" Naoto wondered aloud. "Who would have-" She was too shocked and angry to finish.

"I'm gonna kill Yosuke..." Chie said, furiously.

"Do you think if I set him on fire, he'd learn his lesson," Yukiko asked bluntly.

"Probably not..." Naoto replied.

"What if he didn't do it?" Rise asked.

"Oh, he did it alright!" Chie answered, "It sure as hell wasn't Yu-kun or Kanji! And I don't even know if Teddie knows how to write! But I'm sure he's involved too!"

~...

The girls asked the boys to come meet them on the roof for their discussion during lunch. Or rather, an argument. Yosuke did end up admitting his guilt though. And his lame attempt to save face wasn't going to work for him.

"I- I mean if you don't wanna do it, you just say no, right? Like it was just a joke!"

"Entering your friends in a beauty pageant as a joke? Yeah, that makes it sound so much better..." Yu commented dryly. The girls seemed to agree with this, Yosuke was only digging himself a deeper hole.

"We wouldn't be so pissed if we could just say no!" Chie shouted, "With Kashiwagi planning this year's event, even those who got entered by other people can't back out!"

"Seriously?" Yosuke said, "Must have been something in the fine print I overlooked-"

"SO IT WAS YOU!" Chie repeated.

This led to more arguing from Chie and Yukiko. Naoto was upset at the situation too, but she figured that yelling at Yosuke wouldn't make much of a difference. The damage had been done. She just wasn't sure why her name was up there too. She rather felt her appearance wasn't anything special. And if he was only doing it out of fair play- well, she still didn't want to participate against her will.

"Hey, do you want us to take part in the beauty pageant?" Rise asked, rather calmly.

This got the trio to stop shouting. "Well- yeah." Yosuke said, smiling. "I mean, you guys know how popular Yukiko is here. And on top of that, we have an idol and a Detective Prince! What's the point of having a beauty pageant if all these incredible heroines aren't going to take part?!"