Classroom of the Elite: Liars Edition

Chapter 15: It's a Small World After All

"I'm bored..." I intentionally let out a moan, which helped vocalize my current mood.

It's been around half an hour since I returned to Yōsuke-chan's room all by myself, and I was feeling pretty bored lying on his queen-sized bed while watching the news on the TV. It was mostly dull political information about Prime Minister Kijima's plan to visit the United States for foreign policy negotiations regarding some trade deals going south for us.

Even though the news was on, I've never been fond of watching it since I got these memories. It made me realize how little I know about the world outside of this school, which feels like a closed-off micro-society. 

Yet, I know very little of the outside world except for the limited news and occasional talks I have with a friend going over their lives in middle school. Unsurprisingly, Danganronpa was a popular topic, much to my dismay. However, they've been on a hiatus for some unknown reason, so the hype surrounding the series was fortunately limited, at least within the school facilities. 

The internet, and perhaps what goes on beyond the school, was another story...

I also knew nothing about my origins, family, or the person I was except for the information on the sheet Nagumo showed me on May 1st, the public knowledge of my idol persona, Shizuku, and the few things inside my bag on the day my memories were replaced with Kokichi's. If it weren't for those things, I wouldn't have the slightest clue about the type of person I once was.

The only thing I could cling to was the memories of a fictional boy who existed within a fictional world.

Yet maybe there was some truth to those memories, as much as I didn't want it. It was at the moment when Harukawa-chan introduced herself to Horikita and me in the bathroom stall I had to investigate the matter to determine who they were and, more importantly, if one of them knew me, and the fact that I had one of their former classmate's memories in my head.

Now, I could run many theories in my head, using the limited information I could find about Danganronpa to understand better how I ended up the way I am. Still, there was a way, a painful one, that could get me closer to the answer.

Saihara Saishuu of Class A.

Even though I told myself I wasn't going to investigate him before today, I did join forums of each of the top ten ikeman through an anonymous account to see if I could see pictures of him, along with the others at the top 10, but Saihara was my priority.

However, none of the pictures on his forums were of him, which shocked me. Even Ayanokōji's fan forums had pictures of him, which was less shocking as I knew that Rino from my class posted those photos.

Not only that, but the forum about him was unique, as it was empty, primarily due to whoever was running this forum heavily moderating it. I tested the moderation by using a different account to spam many photos of Ayanokōji that I had stored on my phone, along with links to his pictures that I borrowed from his forums and posted there. Still, in an instant, they were automatically removed. It was most likely a bot, but whoever was running the forum didn't want photos here.

I found that pretty odd, as it was easy to assume that some girl with a massive crush on their favorite boy was in charge of running these forums, but it seems as if Saihara or someone he's associated with was running the forums.

It's as if he doesn't want to be known to the other classes, yet he remains third on the ikeman list, perhaps due to his popularity amongst the Class A girls.

Not only that, but he somehow managed to avoid me for the entire month when I had the numbers of all the other top ten of the ikeman list, including Satonaka, Sanada, and Hashimoto from Class A.