Chapter 10
“Blood?!” Hajime yelped.
“Show us where the source of this liquid lies!” Gundham asked loudly, standing up from his place on the floor where he previously had been searching for the hellhound earring.
“O-over there! Yeah! Under the table in the back!” Akane pointed to the table with a lamp on it in the back.
“I-It can’t be…!” Hajime said, rushing over to the table, “There’s no way….!”
Hajime threw back the tablecloth to reveal….
Blood
Blood on the ground...On the cloth...near his shoes...And all over Twogami’s body, laying facedown with a knife covered in paint and night vision goggles. What….?
“N-no..” Hajime said weakly, backing up.
“The hell?!” Byakuya yelled.
“T-twogami baby...Twogami baby is..Is…” Ibuki broke into sobs, and Chiaki took to comforting both Ibuki and a scared Mikan.
Suddenly, the monitor clicked on to reveal the rabbit Hajime currently despised beyond all things, “Oh what a tragedy...The first death occurred among friends…! How despair-filled…” Monomi sniffled, “W-well, you all need to investigate for the class trial! M-Monokuma can give you the Monomi files...I just gave them to him…” the monitor clicked off.
As if on cue, the bear walked in, mumbling angrily as he passed out the monomi files, “Terrible… Making yall do this...Kill em if i get my paws on em…Makin ye pin down the killer...Makin ya feel like ye need ta kill in the first place…”
“Y-you mean...The killer...Is one of us…?” Hajime said quietly.
A voice called out in the stunned silence after Monokuma nodded, “I don’t believe it!!!”
Everyone wheeled around to see an angry-looking Nagito with clenched fists, “I dont believe that- that- someone here is capable of killing Twogami…”
“Nagito…” Hajime said quietly, looking sympathetic as he took a step closer.
“...” Nagito seemed to force himself to calm down, “But...That is precisely why I’ll investigate. To prove that nobody is the killer! After all...Fighting amungst ourselves shouldn’t be permitted… As we should be fighting against this despair…!”
“Um…” Ibuki started, “Okidoki...But...Uh...How do we start??? What do we do??”
“Errrm…” Nagito winced, “Well, we’re all amateurs at this, obviously, so um… Just go with out intuition…?” Nagito shrugged, “Anything, big or small that could help,” his eyes drifted across the place, his eyes resting on the door for a split second longer, “That no one here killed Twogami”