A Lover and a Mastermind - A Mastermind Komahina Story

Chapter 4 - I'm Sorry, But I Need To Tell You Something.

 Hajime and I saw Koizumi dead, hit on the head with a baseball bat. Hajime's eyes expanded, and he just started shaking. He wasn't responding all that well, so I put my hand on his shoulder. He snapped out of it, and he investigated the scene. I wasn't allowed to do anything to the crime scene, not even investigate, in fear that I would do something. After a while, Hajime came up to me, and told me all the clues that they had found. We had a mini debate before the class trial started, and a couple minutes later, "ding dong, bing bong." " The time is now. Stop being content, and feel despair. Feel the grief and sadness of finding out the killer. It's time for the class trial!" At our own pace, we got and walked over to the weird monokuma rock statues, while holding hands. Once we got close I separated our hands and over to everyone else, making sure no one saw our hands. Hinata was confused, almost mad, that I let go, but soon let us part ways. We were near each other, but there was no indication of something going on between us. The familiar motion of a escalator falling down from a rock version of Monokuma's head happened, and we warily went into the class trial room. Forced to solve the mystery to our motive, the others realized that Kuzuryu had killed a girl named Sato, in the time period that they couldn't remember anything. So everyone was suspicious of his innocence, and they kept accusing that he was the killer. I was watching the trial with amusement, and watched as they slowly found out that the blackened was Pekoyama all along. Everything went according to plan, until the execution happened. Kuzuryu had ran his way into the execution, hoping to stop Pekoyama's murder, when all it did was get him sliced in the eye. Most people were sobbing, at least a bit, but I was able to hide it by acting like my old hope self. I secretly activated the ambulance to take Kuzuryu away, so that he could survive. Deaths like that were pointless. We all watched as Kuzuryu was taken away on the ambulance. After that, we all went back up to the islands and separated ways. I stayed with Hajime and we entered his cottage to hang out. As soon as we entered, he asked me, "Why did you let go of my hand, do you want to keep this a secret?" "Actually, yes.", I told him. "People here hate me, I mean hate me, and the ones that don't, dislike me at the very least. If we make it public, they wont trust you, and they won't like you as much." He responded with, "I don't care,  you matter more to me than the opinions of people who judge me for who I like." Before I noticed it, these words came out of my mouth, " I care about you! I don't you to suffer! You're the first person that I've cared about in a while! They might even kill you to get back at me! I can't let that happen to you too!" Tears were slowly falling out of my eyes without me noticing. Out of my tear soaked eyes, I saw Hajime look at me worriedly. "What. What do you mean by 'too' Nagito." Hajime's voice was quiet but filled with worry, sadness, and passion. I quickly wiped away my tears, and in a panicked tone, "What do you mean Hajime. that means nothing." He just stared at me with a suspicious, but still caring look, and I fell apart. My body fell to the ground ,and I sobbed for what seemed to be ages, but Hajime came to my rescue and comforted me. He embraced me and told him, at my own pace, what happened to my family and the small amount of friends I had. Unsurprisingly, he hugged even harder after this. Soon after, however, I walked up to and locked it, "I'm sorry, but I need to tell you something." "What is it!?", he asked. I told, "I'm the mastermind, Hajime." "What! You're joking, right? You can't be the mastermind. Anyone but you." he yelled. With tears starting to form, I told him, "I'm sorry, Hajime, but I am." He loudly said, "You can't be! That means you killed our friends." "Hey, they're not actually dead.", Hajime's eyes expanded, but he didn't interrupt me, so I continued. "This is just a virtual space. The people inside are real people but dying here doesn't kill them in the real world. This just an experiment. After this, no one will remember,  except for me and you, if you want to, that is. Please, say yes. I don't want to lose you."