Simply, Virtual

Found.

•^ Shuichi's POV ^•

Rantaro, Kiibo and I walked up the stairs leading to where Kokichi's dorm was. All of the other groups had started walking in different directions. We hadn't really told each other where we were all going, so in all honesty we were just hoping another group wasn't going in the same direction we were.

Rantaro and Kiibo continued taking as I just walked behind them awkwardly. Obviously, I would've tried actually contributing to the conversation, but I didn't really have anything to say. And, in all honesty I was just lost in my thoughts.

"-eas where Kokichi is?"

I was suddenly asked a question, and I wasn't expecting it at all, so I was pretty flustered.

I looked up and both Rantaro and Kiibo were looking at me, which was honestly quite embarrassing.

I quickly shook my head and tilted my hat downwards, looking at my feet.

"N-No, I don't.."

I responded  after a few seconds of silence.

Rantaro simply nodded in response, and so did Kiibo. We were all already friends at this point so I wasn't even sure why I was acting awkwardly. But then again, I usually am always awkward, so oh well I guess.

We got to Kokichi's dorm room after a few minutes and knocked. Multiple times.

But each time we knocked, we didn't get an answer. And we didn't know if Kokichi was inside and he was just ignoring us, so it was quite confusing.

Kokichi might've been inside and he was just ignoring us, or maybe he wasn't inside at all. We all thought for a moment when Kiibo said something.

"Ah, do you think Kokichi left a key behind somewhere?"

We all thought about that for a moment and we started looking around for a spare key Kokichi might have left behind.

We didn't find anything, so we came to the conclusion he hadn't left behind a spare key anywhere. That, or we weren't looking heard enough. But I highly doubt that because we checked everywhere outside of his dorm room, and we hadn't found anything.

We all decided that if he was in his room he would come outside whenever he was ready to, and we wouldn't force him outside.

Rantaro decided we could walk around and see where everyone else was and then we could just go look somewhere else. Did that make sense? Probably not...sorry.

We all went down the stairs, looking around to see where everyone else was.

Although, that didn't really work out all that well because there weren't very many people in the area we were in, so it was kinda hard to look around.

But, a few minutes later we had walked around and found everyone in around the same area looking around.

Which was good for them, but bad for us because we didn't have anywhere else to look. Everywhere we thought to look..was already occupied and our friends were already there searching.

I suggested we could go look around at the small park near the dorm rooms, and they thought it was a good idea so we started walking over there.

Luckily, we didn't see anyone going in the same direction as us, so that was a huge relief.

We all continued walking to the park and we all started having a small conversation. It wasn't really about anything in particular, it was honestly just random things that came to mind.

We all continued this conversation until we suddenly stopped.

We had found him.

Kokichi, he was sitting on a bench looking down at a small pond underneath him

He hadn't noticed us, so Kiibo called out to him.

He was obviously shocked, and quickly looked our direction, looked at Rantaro, Kiibo and then finally me.

I smiled as he continued to look at me. I wasn't really willing to admit it, but I was very relived we had found him.

At least now we knew...Kokichi was safe.