Academy Of Murder

Chapter 5

Students alive: 13

Chiya's P.O.V

It was 6 am on my device. It felt like minutes, because I didn't sleep at all. I just lay on my bed, wearing a white sleeveless night gown and hugging my pillow. I wasn't even tired. And everytime that I try to close my eyes, I see the images of Toshiro's corpse and Taro's teary smile as he got dragged away into his execution.

But there were also the emotions of my other classmates after he trial. I saw that when we were in the elevator. Hitomo was hugging Demiyah while Miyu rubbed her back with a sad look showing on her face. Demiyah was sobbing and crying while she was comforted by them. Everytime when I see someone cry, it made me want to cry.

Yukito was shaking in anger as Tetsu was looking down with gritted teeth, her red eyes covered by her bangs. Miwa did had a frown on her face, but she didn't pay attention to the others. Mieko was leaning against the wall with her hands behind her head as she sighed. Suma was trying not to cry when Yogi put a hand on her shoulder.

Masayasu was the only one who didn't look sad or angry. He just had his normal and emotionless look on his face. I'm wondering if he actually doesn't care about them at all.

Seeing everyone so sad, made me sad. Especially when I saw Demiyah and Nao. When I looked at him with a frown on his face and holding his colourful hat in his hands, I kinda had the same big sad feeling inside me as when I looked at Demiyah. Looking at Suma made me sad too, but not that much.

The murder, the trial and the execution really made a hard impact to all of us. But maybe it is also a lesson to me and everyone else. Maybe people wouldn't murder someone anymore after we have seen. Sure we are still stuck forever if we don't kill someone, but I would rather stay here for good then killing a person.

However, Monokuma could do anything to convince people to kill eachother. He already had convinced Taro with the video of his father who was dying from a illness which he got after he went to Hope's Peak. Thinking of that reason already started to increase the despair feelings.

If only there was a way to stop this for good. Killing it won't be a good idea since it had weapons hiding behind the walls. And there is no way out either. There was nothing that I could do.

But..maybe..I could make the despair go away for myself and everyone. I could comfort them somehow, but with what? If I need comfort then it would be hugging someone or holding onto a small cat plush that my parents gave me. But listening to music might work too when I'm alone.

Of course! My violin! I'll play a happy tune to everyone at the stage! It might not work, but I have to give it a try!

And with that, I stood up and threw a pillow to the bed as I did. I didn't knew the time now, but I got dressed, brushed my teeth, combed my long blond hair and put my pink hairpin in my hair.

After I was done in the bathroom, I grabbed my violin suitcase from under my bed. I looked at the time on my device. 7 am, it was almost time for everyone to wake up. I still have time to practice before they are coming out of their dorms.

I walked out of my dorms and walked fast planning to go to stage, but I suddenly heard footsteps from someone else instead of mine. And when I turned around, no one was there. It started to creep me out as I walked faster and hid behind the wall. When I stood at the corner, I heard the footsteps again and they were getting closer and closer.

I didn't know what I should do. I shouldn't hit them with my suitcase. I could hurt or even kill someone with that. When I saw one foot, I put my foot in front of it to made them trip. Somehow it worked as the person tripped and fell on the floor. As they sat up and rubbed their head, I could already recognize the person by seeing the green sleeveless shirt which was ripped at the bottom, the blue summer jeans, the brown skin and the pink long sideways ponytail on their left side.