Academy Of Murder

Chapter 10

Alive students: 10

Chiya's P.O.V

We were already out of the cafeteria for a second and I could feel a huge amount of guilt. We have no choice but to get Mieko dead or alive or else we all would die. I know that I don't want to die in this horrible place, but to betray Mieko? I never want to betray anyone, especially if they did this to save us from the next previous unknown motive.

"Chiya-chan?"

I looked up as everyone else suddenly stopped and looked at me. Suma was the one who looked at me in concern and stood in front of me. "Are you okay? You have been silent and sad the whole time." She asked in concern.

I shook my head and looked down. "No. I'm not okay. I really don't want to do this to be honest." I said. "Guys, are we really going to betray our classmate like that?"

As I asked that question, everyone looked away from me and stayed silent. By seeing the sad look on Suma's, Nao's, Yogi's and Demiyah's faces, I could tell that they were feeling guilty for that as well.

"Are you nuts? Are you really going to throw your life away for that sneaky thief?" Yukito asked as she glared at me. "You do know that she is the one of the two who are responsible for giving us this motive! We are the victims here and she is the culprit!"

"That is not true!" I said as I glared back. "Sure she did steal the old motive, but she might have done that for a reason! She maybe wants to end the murder game and save our lives from this place by stealing it, so that Monokuma wouldn't give use a reason! And why are you calling her a culprit if we are the ones who are hunting her down?! She is the real victim here in this motive!"

Yukito was about to speak again, but was stopped by Tetsu's firm hand on his shoulder. He looked at her for a second and then stayed silent. Tetsu walked towards me and placed her hand on my shoulder.

"Chiya, I understand the guilt that you are feeling. We all don't want to betray her, heck I don't want to betray her either even though she is annoying. But we have no other choice. It is our lives or hers. However, I do promise you and everyone else that I will catch her alive and well if I see her." She said as she put her hands away from my shoulders and then looked at the others. "And you guys should promise that as well. We will not kill her. We will only catch her alive! And when one of you caught her, then you have to convince her to give the old motive back so that she would be spared as well."

"But..um..Isn't that impossible? I mean..she is the SHSL Thief after all. A thief never gives back the possessions they stole, right?" Nao asked as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Then there is no choice but to get the old motive by force." Tetsu added. "But I do know that this motive has to be stopped now. And this murder game has to be stopped as well before anyone else would be killed. We and Mieko will make out alive if we end this right here right now."

Everyone, including me, were staring at her for a few seconds until Suma started to clap. "Wow Tetsu! Your speech was amazing! This would have been great for an article." She said with a smile as she keeps on clapping.

"But still..how are we going to catch her? She could be anywhere." Demiyah asked.

"I think that Tetsu already knows a plan. And also very impressive since she thought about it faster than I did." Miwa said as she held her hand under her chin. She then looked at Tetsu with a serious glance. "So tell me, what is your plan?"

"Mieko could be in every room of the school building, but we do know that there are only three floors open in this building. So since we are with nine people, it is the best to split up in three group of three people to let each group check on one of the three floors. The groups have to make sure that they check every single room on the floor. " Tetsu explained.