Ace Attorney Executions: Despair and Retribution

Turnabout Mistakes ~ Hopeful Days, Part 5

—Ultimate Drag Racer Flash Driftwood's POV—

How dare he?! How dare he threaten to kill my family and loved ones! ...Including her; Dakota Alexis. She was my girlfriend... She is the caregiver in the Sunshine Orphanage... A very sweet and caring girl... But something happened between us... But never mind about that! I still love and care for her! I won't let anything happen to her... I'll do anything for her safety...

I watched everyone as they freak over the threat/motive. Here I am, trying to keep my cool and trying not show weaknesses. I hate appearing weak to people. But I do have emotions...I just hate showing them. I'm not really good with controlling my emotions if I show them. You'll never know... I might not be able to stop once I cry.

I try to distance myself to the people here... I don't trust every single one of them. That doesn't mean that I'll kill them. But that, too, doesn't mean that I won't do anything just to make sure that Dakota is safe... Mark my words... I'll do anything...

—Ultimate Painter Antonio Ragasaki's POV—

Dammit... My mother is already gone... And now my whole family's being threatened! Ugh... Why did this have to happen?! Okay, calm down and think this through... So what's gonna happen is our loved ones will die if we don't kill anyone? But...I don't want to kill anyone! Not ever! But I can't let them die either... Ugh... Monokuma...

I tried to contain myself from bursting my anger and sorrow out. I don't want to make anyone worry for me or anything. I failed. Some tears escaped from my eyes and I slammed the desk table with my fist because of anger. Ugh... I can't take it...

With a hesitant mind and heart, I left the room to calm myself down. I tried to fill my mind with art and painting. Those kind of things always calms me down... I quickly left and went for my room. Monokuma was good enough to not take our things. I still have my art materials... I can start painting the walls since I don't have a paper or easel. Yeah... That should be good enough... Hope Monokuma doesn't mind having walls painted with many sorts of pictures...

—Ultimate Perceiver Mattea Li's POV—

We all left the audio-visual room... Probably to clear our minds out... What we heard, saw, or watched was very terrifying. I mean, who can tolerate having your loved ones be threatened? Well... I know one...and she's a rather popular topic in most of our minds...

Rhea Light.

She's still as emotionless as ever. I don't know if she doesn't care or she's really just that calm and collected... Rhea... I really wanna know what's in your mind and what you are feeling right now...for some reason. Does she have a really bad past that caused her to be like that? Did something happen to her and her family? Or anyone, perhaps? I wanna know...

Setting all of those aside, I went to check on Penny. I hope he's doing alright...

I checked every room in this floor that he could possibly be in...but I ended up with nothing... Thinking deeper in my thoughts, I had an idea where he could possibly be; the music room!
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I was right... He was there. He was playing a song on his piano. A rather...sad one... Poor Penny... I guess he was pouring his emotions through music. That's the Ultimate Musician for you, I guess.

I walked near him while he's playing and gently tapped his shoulder. He stopped playing and suddenly hugged me. My eyes widened in surprise, not knowing why he did that. But actually, yes. I did know why he hugged me. He was sad... I rubbed his back gently for him to calm down.