Danganronpa: Misinterpreted Lies and Empty Promises (ON HIATUS)

Freetime - Ironashi, Kojin, Maigo, Saki, Wakusei and Nusumu

I wanted to finish all the freetime events before I moved on to the rest of the story. So sorry it took so long!

Ironashi Hoīru

After my recent encounter with Tetsudzuki, I tried to clear my head of everything that I've heard. Once again, that means that I'll spend some time with someone else. That someone being Ironashi Hoīru, the Ultimate Colour Psychologist.

Ironashi Hoīru:
"Why are you staring at me?"

Bukiyōya Hito:
"Oh, it's nothing. I just want to talk to someone for the time being!"

Ironashi Hoīru:
"If you want to talk to me, then I guess I have a few minutes before a certain student drags me away to play chess."

Bukiyōya Hito:
"And who might that be?"

Ironashi Hoīru:
"Kōzō Hato. We worked closely together, even before this killing game. Even now, he's trying to beat me at one of the things I do best."

Bukiyōya Hito:
"I'm assuming that you're the one who wins the majority of the time, then."

Ironashi Hoīru:
"I guess you could say that. Speaking of chess, I challenge you to a best-of-three competition. Try your best."

He immediately pulled a chessboard from his backpack and searched around for the pieces. Eventually, when he found them, he lay everything down on a small coffee table next to us.

Ironashi Hoīru:
"So sorry about the colour choice. You can see that Monokuma and Monokiku chose Danganronpa themed items for each of us, mine was chess pieces."

I swiftly remembered everything I could about such items. I had a black and white bear motif embroidered into each pocket of my jacket, Tetsudzuki had a Hope's Peak logo on her pocket and Maigo's hoodie was slightly darker on one side. This guy apparently had a chess piece rather than an item of clothing.

We ended up playing more than five rounds of chess, hoping that I could redeem myself, but it only resulted in five continuous failures.

Kojin Kisuri

I walked down the corridor to one of the classrooms, where I found Kojin starting rather intensely at a conical flask.

Bukiyōya Hito:
"Kojin?"

He jumped and looked ag me, clearly startled.

Kojin Kisuri:
"Don't scare me like that! I'm concentrating."

Bukiyōya Hito:
"On what? You're just starting at a... Uhm... A science mug?"

Kojin Kisuri:
"The term you're looking for is 'conical flask'. The one here contains a sample of titanium."

Bukiyōya Hito:
"But what is that thing?-"

I pointed to a disk that rested at the mouth of the flask.

Bukiyōya Hito:
"- And what are you even trying to do?"

Kojin Kisuri:
"Monokuma won't let me use bunsen burners to speed up the process or any ovens or microwaves in the kitchen, so I'm just waiting here, in the room with the hottest room temperature. I'm trying to make titanium dioxide."

Bukiyōya Hito:
"Honestly, I still haven't got a clue about what you're doing. I was never that good in Chemistry or even Science in general."

Kojin Kisuri:
"Then you can leave. I can show you it if it finishes if you want me to."

On that note, I left the room without a further comment. Why was he making titanium dioxide in the first place?