🎶Chapter 35: When The Bell Rings, The Cradle Will Drop🎶

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Jiro watched in awe as the fog suddenly disappeared all at once. Leaving him along in the empty music room.

There was no one else there. No corpse. No killer. Just a vacant piano. And....a floating stone monument?

Jiro locked his eyes on the monument.

Jiro locked his eyes on the monument

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It was definitely out of place. Not to mention how incredibly odd it looked.

He approached the strange monument and soon discovered words that were etched into the stone.

"To combat the biggest, most awful, most tragic event in human history, the graduates of Hope's Peak Academy and Soaring Heights High School were among the many who established Future Foundation."

Jiro stood there blinking.

"W-what?"

That couldn't be right. Monokuma told them that Future Foundation was the evil organization that was bent on ending the world, not saving it. So...

"Damnit...he lied to us again...." he cursed.

He slowly backed away from the monument, holding the sides of his head.

This was all just so confusing and it was making his head ache so badly that he felt like his brain would cease to function.

"Hey, Jiro. You don't look so good."

Immediately, Jiro turned around to face the speaker. He was relieved to see Mizuki standing there with a smile on her face.

"Glad I found someone. I was starting to think that everyone disappear- Whoa!"

While she was talking, Jiro slowly stumbled towards her, but she paid it no mind. That is, until Jiro collapsed in her arms, hugging her tightly.

Instead of making a joke about the situation, Mizuki decided to let Jiro simply relax for a moment. There must have been a reason that he did this.

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After Jiro calmed down, the two swapped knowledge that they obtained. And soon, they left the music room together.

"Neo World Program? Any idea what it means?" Jiro asked.

Mizuki shook her head.

"It's just something that I saw continuously pop up in those weird floating emails that Monokuma said he got from hacking into Future Foundation something." She explained, taking the lead.

"It's...still really confusing how...Future Foundation is actually protecting us. A-and all that stuff about Remnants of Despair..." he trailed off, his head pounding again.

"Well, guess we'll find out when we add up all the information that Monokuma's laying out for us. I don't know why but...I just get the feeling that....this is all the truth...y'know?" She said, looking over her shoulder towards Jiro.

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