Hopeful Blacksmith (Danganronpa 1 x OC)

Chapter 14: AI friendship...!?

Hina led us to the bathhouse, which looked pretty normal to me.

"I-It was right here... I saw it right here in the dressing room!", Hina exclaimed.

"Urg... I'm getting goosebumps...", Hiro grumbled.

"La! La! Cthulhu Fhtagn!", Hifumi started chanting.

"Shut up! What if he actually shows up!?", Hiro yelled.

"Would you two just act serious for a second!?", I scolded.

"Hina... where was it you saw Chihiro's ghost?", Sakura asked.

"Well, I heard a sound... and when I opened the locker... I saw a kind of... pale outline of Chihiro...", Hina explained. Makoto hummed and went up to one of the lockers that seemed to be left open. He peered inside and his eyes widened a bit.

"... a laptop? What's something like that doing here?", Makoto muttered. We all gathered around him to look at the piece of machinery.

"I remember seeing this...", Kyoko nodded.

"Yeah, this is the laptop in the library!", I remembered.

I looked around a bit and saw Kyoko trying to turn on a laptop. I walked over to her but it seemed that she wasn't very lucky. The laptop looked old and was covered in dust.

"It's broken. I tried pressing the power button earlier, but nothing happened.", Kyoko sighed.

"Too bad...", I mumbled sadly.

"But how did the laptop get from the library... to here?", Makoto asked.

"And... I guess it's in sleep mode, but... the power is definitely on.", Kyoko deduced.

"Huh? But I thought it was broken...", Makoto retorted silently.

"I would bet that Chihiro fixed it. After all, he was known as the Ultimate Programmer...", Sakura theorized.

"More importantly... Hina, you said you saw a green light, yes? Surely you did not mistake the light of the monitor for a ghost?", Celeste asked, slightly irritated.

"...", Hina just went quiet, proving Celeste's suspicions.

"I am surprised you are able to dress yourself in the morning.", Celeste sighed.

"Oh man. If I had the "loves clueless girls" attribute, I would've fallen in love big-time just now! I'm so glad I don't have it...", Hifumi sighed.

"Hey, leave Hina alone, you two! It was in the middle of the night, she was mentally exhausted, don't go making fun of her!", I defended Hina.

"Yeah, I didn't really expect to find a freaking laptop inside a freaking locker, okay!?", Hina grumbled.

"It's okay. I mean, anyone can make a mistake like that. As a matter of fact, one time I thought I'd spotted a Grey alien, but it turned out to be a tadpole!", Hiro laughed.

"Don't compare what happened to me to one of your stupid delusions!", Hina retorted.

"Don't be mean! I was just trying to make you feel better! What if I get all depressed forever now!?", Hiro huffed.

"Would you two just quit it!?", I yelled, the two of them shutting up immediately.

"But listen, isn't this really strange? What's this laptop doing in here?", Makoto questioned.

"Maybe someone hid it here.", Kyoko suggested.

"If that's the case, we found it pretty easy...", Hiro shrugged.