Academy Of Murder

Chapter 3

Students alive: 14

Chiya's P.O.V

"Upupupu~! Oh look at that! A body has already been discovered! Everyone come to the gym immediately. I'll be waiting!"

I stared at the corpse of Toshiro as my legs started to shake. Toshiro was dead and someone did this to him. I couldn't stand anymore. I dropped on my knees as tears started to fall from my eyes. There was silence except for my own sobs.

But soon enough, I heard many footsteps. They were loud and it sounded like they were running. They were getting closer and closer, until they stopped at some point.

"Chiya! Where are you?"

"Chiya-chan!"

"Look! Over there! Chiya's suitcase! She must be there!"

Soon the footsteps started to come closer towards me. I covered my face with my hands, unable to see this anymore. But the image was still in my mind. I heard the footsteps stop and after that I heard people gasp, scream or curse in anger or shock. They were here and they have seen the corpse.

"T-Toshiro-san..." I heard Demiyah say, her voice cracking. She sounded like she was about to cry.

"Alright! Which one of you fuckers have killed him?!" I heard Tetsu yelling, definitely angry at the point. After some seconds, a pair of footsteps started to come towards me. I wanted to look who it was, but of course I'll see the horrific scene again. The footsteps stopped and I felt someone suddenly hugging me close. Wait..hugging me close?

I uncovered my face slightly as I looked at the chest of the person. I immediately the person who was wearing his dark red vest and white shirt. Nao was the one who hugged me and rubbed my back. I thought that I would never calm down after what I saw, but the rubbing and his heartbeat against my chest did a little bit.

"Speak now! Or else I'll make sure that you guys will talk!" I heard Tetsu say, even more angry. I looked at the crowd of students. Most of them are cowarding in fear by her anger, exept Masayasu, Miwa, Yukito and Mieko.

Yukito stood in front of Tetsu, looking serious. "Tetsu, punching wouldn't solve this. You might end up killing someone if you did." He said. "Look, it might be better to go to Monokuma and see what it has to tell. Maybe he will release the culprit when we go there."

"Yukito does have a point." Hitomi said. "Everyone minus the...well you know..is still there in the building, so no one has actually left the building." She then looked at Demiyah sadly and muttered a soft 'sorry', but Demiyah shook her head while wiping her tears away. I didn't know what she meant with that. Was she saying that it was okay or not?

Tetsu sighed in frustration. "Fine, but I do will kill the culprit if he will be released." She said in a cold tone as she walked passed them with Yukito following her. As the two left, I feel Nao slowly pulling away. I looked at him as he tried to get something from his pocket.

"Here." He said as he took out a white hankerchief from his pocket. I slowly took it and wiped my tears with it. I then fell Nao's gloved hand patting me on the head. We looked at eachother for a minute and it was really awkward. "Umm..we better should get going." I said, my voice a little cracked from the crying and my cheeks heating up a little bit as I stood up.

"Yeah." Noa said sadly. "We should." He stood up and we both walked away from the backstage. I wanted to grab my suitcase just in case, but two people were already having it. Miyu and Mieko.

"Oh come on!" Mieko whined. "I'm not going to steal it after what I saw, I just wanted to give it back to her." Miyu sighed in frustration as I walked closer towards them. "Yeah, as a SHSL Thief like you would give something back." She said a little frustrated as she walked towards and gave me the suitcase.