Memoirs of a Fashionista - Chronicles of a Soldier (MakotoxJunkuro)

A Tear from the Past, a Revelation for the Future

A certain blonde supermodel was laying on her bed while hugging the giant white stuffed rabbit her boyfriend gave her back as a gift just after she won it in the air rifle shooting game at the city fair after invinting him in order to make him forget about Sayaka's rejection.

The young woman who was wearing a black tank top and pink stripped panties, warmly smiled as she recalled the events from last night where she shared her first kiss with the lucky boy causing her cheeks to blush.

"Mako-chan~" Junko muttered with a sweet voice while playfully rolling on her bed while tightly embracing the stuffed animal in an adorable manner.

A few minutes later the freckled girl stood up from bed and prepared to go to a photo session for the cover and an interview about her fashion style by a prestigious european fashion magazine taking place at noon.

As she was taking a refreshing bath, Junko felt a bit sad of not having to be with Makoto for a couple of days, however she had the idea of inviting him to her photo shoot.

After drying up her long and wild strawberry blondish hair with a towel, Junko extended her right hand as the applied foundation on it was gone, making her previous happy expression to change to a one filled with sorrow as she observed at a tattoo with a wolf face, a mark of her dark past as the Ultimate Soldier and member of a fearsome mercenary group named after a mythological creature from norse legends, a period of her life she abandoned years ago that wasn't known by the public, nor the media, not even her close friends, or even her beloved one whom she didn't felt prepared to tell him, at least for the time being.

Junko decided to not remove her tattoo as a constant reminder of a tragic event that changed her entire life.

"I wish I could completely erase this painful memory..." The young woman muttered as a sole tear of regret ran down her cheek in a scene of a sheer contrast between the happy life she was living right now, but the memory of the past, still tormenting her whole being.

Makoto Naegi woke up early in the morning with the image on his mind of Junko's glossy pink lips and expressive icy blue eyes filled with love came to him causing the young man to react with embarrasment.

"Yesterday felt like it was a dream..." Makoto expressed still a bit sleepy while remembering the magical kiss she shared with his sweet girlfriend.

While checking at his cellphone, Makoto read a text message from Junko inviting him to attend to a photo session she was going to be for the cover of a famous fashion magazine, meaning he'd skip classes for the day.

"I believe I don't have any another option but to accompany her..." The luckster sighed with resignation but happy at the same time to get to spent more time with Junko and eager to know more about the world where she displayed her talent.

At Hope's Peak Academy...

Kyoko Kirigiri, the Ultimate Detective and daughter of Jin Kirigiri, Hope's Peak Academy headmaster, was granted special permission to skip classes and access to almost all areas of the school in order to uncover the mysteries surrounding the death of the man murdered inside the campus.

"So that's the room where you found the body yesterday, right?" The purple haired inquired to a member of the cleaning department as both were standing up before a door with the plate "Storage room" and surrounded with yellow tape lines to avoid unauthorized people to enter in.

"Yes, miss Kirigiri". The man respectfully replied before leaving.

After crossing the established perimeter, Kyoko opened the door and turned the lights on, immediately noticing on the crime scene dry blood splattered in all directions on the walls of the room and on the stored cleaning equipment used to wax and polish the hallways, stairs and classrooms, but what caught her attention was the lack of evidence of a possible violent struggle inside it.

The woman from a lineage of famous detectives inspected the whole room for more clues while analyzing the profile of the killed man on her smartphone.

Name: Tadayoshi Rokudo

Age:32

Occupation: Cleaning worker

Height: 175 cm

Weight: 65 kg

Cause of death: Severe blood loss caused by a deep wound on his neck with a sharp object.

Time of death: Approximately at midnight.

Autopsy revealed no marks, tattoos or piercings on his body.

Kyoko then read the former school employee had minor charges for a misdemeanor incident some years back caused by abuse of alcohol consumption, but nothing that could be conclusive of criminal activity in the past. However a few days ago while on cleaning duty he stole classified information from the school servers with a strange device and disappeared along with it, only to be found death without the gadget in his possessions.

As she took a detailed look at the photos of the man's corpse just after being discovered out, she read the note wrote with his blood next to his body with a message dedicated to those who mess with the Kuzuryu mafia would pay the price with their lives. The lilliac eyed girl first thoughts about the bloodied note were the plausible link between the stolen classified info and the Kuzuryu clan, one of the most fearsome criminal organizations not only in Japan, but in the whole world. However, her theory lost weight since the heir of the aformentioned organization and his personal bodyguard were students at said educational institution, making such a decision of their clan clearly detrimental to them, not too mention of why went to great lenghts to murder a mere cleaning worker at a school with a security system working 24/7 that included constant vigilance, movement detectors and dozens of survelliance cameras.

Kyoko then went to interrogate Juzo Sakakura, Hope's Peak security chief and who got visibly irritated by her presence, although he fully cooperated with her investigation by telling her that he and his men under his charge didn't saw or heard anything suspectful the night Tadayoshi's was killed off and his corpse left at the storage room next to Hope's Peak main building. The fomer student from the 74th class and boxing champion adviced the young woman to check the recording of the security cameras inside and outside the campus.

At the security control room, and after reviewing the footage of all the survelliance camera. Kyoko found there was no sign of the presence of Tadayoshi and the suspected assassin, causing her to become intrigued by this. Nonetheless, after observing closely at them a few more times, an almost unperceptible detail caught her attention: a frame of the survelliance recording of all cameras appeared to have a bit interference of around 15 minutes during a frame of time between the 00:00 and 00:15 midnight mark and then completely disappear, detail that made the purple haired to connect all the events.

"The killer must have hacked the security system with an advanced device to shut it off for a second and then replace it with footage from a different time making it seem there was noting suspecting going on said period." The Ultimate Detective theorized in her thoughts.

"He or she then met with the victim outside the campus with the security system shut it off, then both went to the storage room and killed him inside it with a quick slash in the throat using a sharp weapon probably a combat knife or a dagger since the wound was a bit smaller, nonetheless it perfectly mimicked the style of the yakuza usually done with a katana." She continued on while placing her right hand on her chin as she infered the assassin did this on purpose in order to put the blame on the infamous mafia group because of their reputation as dangerous criminals, clearly making the murder to look as if they commited it.

After her complete analysis, the stoic detective came to an early conclusion; the murder was performed by a profesional killer with access to advanced technology, dangerous weapons and stealth skills.

However, a piece of the puzzle was still unclarified, the device used to hijack the school servers was still missing somewhere. Kyoko determined to seek out the truth, decided to further investigate, knowing that this case was more than met the eye.

What's the relationship between the murder of the man and the classified information he stole?

What made Junko to decide to abandon her life as a soldier and become a fashion model?

Thanks for reading!