Kaede Akamatsu has a case to solve! Someone's stolen some homework and she has got to find out what happened.

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"Glad I could help you two out with your relationship issues. Anyway, I've got to go get back to class. I don't know how they'll function without the Class Rep. See you at the meeting!" Kaede Akamatsu waved to Makoto Naegi and went off to her class. On the way there, she saw two students panicking. A small female in a red witch get up, and a tall male student with tall pointy hair, somehow wearing a jacket in an impossible way. Innocently, she asked, "Hey guys, what's up?" The two turned to her at the speed of sound.

The tall purple one was frantically searching around, while the smaller one was slower. The male then commented, "Someone's stole my homework!" Kaede simply groaned at his answer.

The witch however, quickly defended him, "It's true! My homework is gone too! I knew I should have had used more powerful magic, because whoever stole it is likely a dark mage of power!" Kaede could only roll her eyes at the two's panicking.

"Kaito, Himiko, just stop. First of all, Gundam is out with Sonia on a trip to Angie's Island, so you can't use the excuse that a dog ate your homework, secondly this is the third time you've both forgotten to do it. You're all lucky there's no punishment outside of losing Class Points, because it's me who suffers the most when you don't do this stuff, because I have to explain it all to the rest of the school council. Just admit that you didn't do it and it'll make life easier for the rest of us." She was stern but polite at their comments, but she was pouting and crossing her arms.

Kaito Momota was the tall purple male and Himiko Yumeno was the small witch girl, with the talents of Ultimate Astronaut and Magician, although Himiko called herself the Ultimate Mage. "It's true! I swear not to tell a lie, for Kaito Momota, Luminary of the Star, never lies. Besides it's happened to more than just us two!"

This response caught Kaede off guard, "W-What, more people are affected?" Both of them nodded. "Right! Let's head over to the class, and we'll figure out how to get them back." Kaede rushed off to the class, letting the other two follow.

In the class, most of the students were calm, although there were 4 empty spots not counting the three that just entered the classroom. Kaede immediately went to the front of that class and stood at the teacher's desk. "Everyone, I need to ask you all something. Himiko and Kaito told me that their homework was stolen and said that it wasn't just them, so then, raise your hand if your homework was stolen as well." Immediately after this, two hands shot up. These two were both females. One of them was a female with blue hair and a dark blue skirt and the other one was a female with blond hair going everywhere with a revealing pink top and skirt. "Right, so that means four people had their homework stolen. Either that or they all didn't do it, but Tsumugi hasn't failed once and Miu could easily do most of the homework anyway, so I see no reason as to why it would be a problem for her to not do it. I'll try to help you guys find the culprit." Kaede was confident in her words and had the determination to boot.

Until Monokuma popped up from inside the table that is, that would be enough to shock anyone. "Well, normally I would argue against you guys losing lesson time, especially since there's four less students than normal, but I like mysteries quite a lot, too bad I don't have my planned class trial, but here's the deal, find out who stole the homework, otherwise everyone but the thief gets punished! Plus, you've got to prove the thief after one hour of investigation!" This caused the class to panic, but Kaede stood her ground.

"Then we'll need a plan. Kirumi, Ryoma and Gonta, keep those 4 in this room and interview them all. Find out basic information and where they were at the time." Kirumi Tojo was the Ultimate Maid who had silver hair and wore a stereotypical maid outfit, meanwhile Ryoma Hoshi was a very small man wearing a hat with tennis rackets and an outfit that wouldn't be out of place in a jail cell, something that the Ultimate Tennis Pro knows about all too well. Lastly Gonta Gokuhara was an incredibly buff male, wearing glasses and holding a bug box, showcasing his abilities as the Ultimate Entomologist.

Kirumi responded to Kaede's request immediately. "Very well, I will keep an eye on everyone, besides I do not think that anyone else would wish to get punished, especially not after the stories told from the A class." Ryoma simply nodded in response.

"Gonta promises to help everyone out!" Gonta called out after the other two, leading Kaede to smile.

She turned to the other four who didn't have a job. "Kiibo, Korekiyo and Tenko, you three go in a group to search for clues. Maki, you can come with me, I want to get some advice." So, a girl with very long black hair and wearing red clothes followed Kaede out of the room, meaning she was like Maki and she was. Maki Harukawa was the Ultimate Child Caregiver, although there's some rumors that she's secretly the Ultimate Assassin, but all that's just crazy talk, to them anyway.

"The most likely solution is that all four of them are collaborating in order to just get out of homework. I don't see why you're making such a big deal out of this." Maki has a cold but levelheaded tone to her, which she never lost, unless someone really upset her, but the main cause of those issues wasn't in the class today.

Kaede didn't slow down, in fact she sped up, not really caring that Maki didn't care. "Maybe, but if we don't show them proof, they'll never admit it, and we'd all get punished. Besides I don't think that they'd want to trick us like this, and it's my duty as the Student Council member to believe in my friends and to keep them happy. Besides I can't be outdone by Makoto and Chiaki again!" The smile of determination never left Kaede's face as she kept on moving to her destination, Class 1-A. She knocked on the door and the person who answered it was a tall lilac haired girl with a purple jacket and boots.

"Hello Kaede. So, can I assume that something in your class has happened and that you'd need my help in order to solve the problem?" She said all of this stoically but quickly. The girl was clearly smart is nothing else.

This caused Kaede to chuckle a bit. "Yep, you really are the Ultimate Detective, you know that. Anyway yep, some homework was stolen, can you help us out Kyoko?" The Ultimate Detective of class 77-A is a female called Kyoko Kirigiri, someone who's quiet and hardworking.

She looked at Kaede with a questioning look. "Alright, but don't you have Shuichi? Couldn't he be of assistance as well?"

"Err, he's searching for one of Rantaro's sisters. So, he's not in class." Kaede looked a bit embarrassed at this comment, causing Kyoko to sigh, before heading back into the classroom which wasn't the greatest thing for Kaede to see. "Did I say something wrong?"

Maki simply sighed. Kyoko walked out followed by the timid footsteps of Chihiro Fujisaki. "Let's head to the rooms." Maki followed immediately, while Kaede was slightly slower, walking at Chihiro's speed.

Since Chihiro wasn't the fastest walker, there was time to talk. "So, how's everything going with you and Makoto?" Chihiro looked noticeably confused at the sudden question and tilted his head while facing the Pianist. "I mean, I saw Makoto deep in thought and he was worrying about you. He said you wanted help with something, so I gave him advice. Just make sure you have tonight freed, OK!" Chihiro was once again confused but nodded his head.

The four arrived outsides of the first room, who had the occupants of Shuichi Saihara and Kaito Momota. Kyoko turned to Chihiro and issued her orders. "Right, Chihiro, I need you to check if the lock was hacked, and once you're done with that one, can you go to Miu's, Tsumugi's and Himiko's room and do the same." Chihiro nodded and got to work, although there was a slight reaction to the last name. "Meanwhile us three will search for clues within the rooms." Maki and Kaede nodded and went into the room.

The room didn't have signs of being attacked or stolen. Which didn't seem like much to Kaede, but it caught the other two girl's attention. However, Kaede was shocked at something else. "Hey, Shuichi's homework is still here, and it's completed." The other two came to her sides and looked at the sheet of paper.

"I suppose that answers our question. Why would the thief leave Shuichi's but take Kaito's, there's no more discussion." Maki spoke up also immediately. "Hmph, honestly that idiot needs someone to whip him into shape." Maki response was once of annoyance.

Kaede looked over to her red dressed friend and smiled, "Isn't that what you're doing though?" It was impossible to tell if this question was innocent or not, but it caused Maki to turn away and shut up.

Kyoko meanwhile was skimming Shuichi's homework, before placing it down and then scanning though his bag. "W-Wait, what are you doing Kyoko!?" A panicked Kaede spoke up, seeing everything fly around the room from that small bag. She then rushed over and made sure nothing fell on the floor. Kyoko then got the papers from Kaede and placed them neatly in Shuichi's bag.

"I was checking to see if Shuichi had stolen the papers, however I've searched pretty much the entirety of his room and I couldn't see anything. So, unless he has them on hand, it couldn't have been him." Kaede let out a sigh of relief after Kyoko's words. "Anyway, let's go search the other rooms." The three searched the other rooms and didn't find too much, although Miu's room was nightmare fuel although there were cleaning tools. Tsumugi was full of anime and video game refences and plus prayer books. Lastly Himiko's was full of magician tools and magic tricks, but still having tools for martial arts training. There were no more clues relating to the case, so they decided to check up on the Ultimate Programmer.

Chihiro had just gotten his laptop unplugged from the key lock pads and put it in a bag. "I don't see any changes within the computer file, sorry I wasn't very useful." Kaede kneeled down and put her hands on his shoulders.

Then she simply gave him a smile. "Chihiro, you did great. Now we know that no one who wasn't allowed in the room got in, that's a huge help, so thank you!" The comment brought some joy to the Programmer's eyes.

"Thank you, I'm glad I helped you all out!" His face got a new addition of a blush, but then the four walked back to the Classroom the other students were in. On the way, they passed Kyoko's and Chihiro's classrooms. The programmer stood outside of the room and waved to the three girls. "Well, I don't think I'll be too much more help, and I want to get some help with something in class, so thanks for letting me join you!" He then swiftly rushed back into the classroom.

"Honestly, sometimes I can't tell if she's really a child or a teenager." Maki spoke up while they continued on their walk.

Kaede naturally chuckled at this. "Well, if she's really a child, I can see why you look after her so much, Miss. Child Caregiver!" Maki simply looked away with a slight grunt.

The three made it to the class, but they saw Ryoma Hoshi outside of the classroom. "Hey. What you need to know is that only one of the people remembered about their homework, which was Himiko who was doing it in the lunch hall, although she doesn't remember when. Tenko, Kiibo and Korekiyo went off to go investigate there. Kirumi's trying to get more information out of the four for now though." The trio nodded and headed off to the lunch hall.

There they saw the other three looking around the area. Kiibo noticed them and went over to them. "Hello, it's nice to see you all today." As could be told from his basic response, he's the Ultimate Robot, technically he's called K1-B0, but everyone calls him Kiibo, so that's what I'll be calling him. Even if he isn't technically a he. "Us three have searched the entirety of the lunch hall and we have sadly not found any clues. I regret not being more helpful." Kaede gave a sympathetic smile, while Maki didn't respond.

Kyoko wasn't having any of it though. "We should check anyway." Kiibo understood and stood aside while Kyoko searched through the area. She then fixated on the table. "Hey, come over here for a second." Kaede and Maki followed her orders and went to Kyoko's sides, and she was pointing at the table. "Himiko clearly wasn't lying." She pointed at a red pen mark left on the table.

"Wow, she's pretty messy sometimes. I'm starting to worry that those rumors about her not being able to take care of herself are true." It was clear to see that Kaede had a drop of sweat come of her forehead. She turned to see Kyoko on her phone. "Wait what are you doing?" Kaede simply stood still while Maki looked over her shoulder, before nodding.

Then they stood in complete silence until Kyoko put her phone back in her pocket. "Chihiro managed to confirm with Kiyotaka that he saw the four who had their homework 'stolen' together." Kaede had a look of surprise on her face, meanwhile Maki was already sorting out ideas in her head. "Anyway, it’s been almost an hour so you should try to avoid punishment from Monokuma. I don't know what your punishments are with your teachers, but I strongly advise that you get the answer correct." Then Kyoko walked off, as confident as always. Kaede and Maki wasted no time rushing to the classroom.

Soon the 12 students that were in the school and class were in the classroom, were Monokuma was waiting for them. "Well now, I say you all have until I get bored in order to find the thieves! Good luck!" Kaede went over to Kirumi as fast as she possibly could.

"Hey, did you get anymore information from the four?" The Ultimate Maid turned towards Kaede and simply shook her head and apologized. "Alright. Then I guess I have all the information I can get to find the thief." Kaede turned her head and walked to the teacher's desk. "Everyone, I think I have a theory of what happened." Everyone turned to Kaede, finishing their own conversations. "Alright so I'm going to ask the four some questions, and then I see if they're telling the truth, ready?" Everyone nodded after her confidant opener. "So, the first question is, when was the last time you saw your homework?" Tsumugi put her hand up causing Kaede to point to her.

"The last time I saw my homework was last night. It disappeared the next morning." The other 3 nodded in agreement, causing Kaede to nod.

"Alright! Next question, were you four together at any point of the day, outside of the classes?"

"As if! I'd never hang around these virgins even if they got on all fours and begged me to do so!" Miu quickly interjected causing everyone to get quite annoyed, although the other three did confirm it.

"Disregarding Miu's comment. Did you notice something off about your room doors?" She crossed her arms and was once again quickly interjected.

"Oh! I check those things, and guess what? The gorgeous girl genius Miu Iruma was able to prove they were tinkered with!" Kaede took a mental note of this comment.

A small smirk appeared on her face. "Alright, then. Last question. Do you know what happened to your roommate's homework?" All of their heads shook. She then got her phone out and started typing on it. "Just give me a second then..."

Soon she put it in her pocket and turned to the class. "Well then, it's time to show off the truth!" Kaede had a look of proudness on her face, which was complemented by her tone voice. "So, a lot of the things you said, I can disprove! Tsumugi said her homework was last seen last night to which all three of you agreed on right? Well obviously, that can't be true for at least one of you, right Himiko?"

"N-Nyeh? W-What do you mean?" She was shaking, clear proof that she's suspicious.

"Hold on! Why would Himiko lie! Kaede please explain yourself!" Tenko came to the quick defense of Himiko.

Kaede continued her attack. "Sorry Tenko, but I can't actually explain it myself. The next person to speak can explain it better. Anyway, Miu's lying as well, beca-"

Kaede couldn't finish her sentence, as the Ultimate Inventor interrupted her. "What! How am I lying, sure the loli might be secretly evil, but I'm sure as hell not!" Maki simply glared at her to shut up, which she did while cowering.

Then the Ultimate Pianist continued with her argument. "Thank you! Anyway, as I was saying, you said that you checked if the room doors were messed with, but we had Chihiro check them out and she said there was nothing wrong with them."

This caused Miu to slam her hands on the table, "It's obvious then! The culprit is Chihiro!" Before anyone else could answer, someone spoke up.

"Nyeh, I don't think so. She's always too focused on her work to bother stealing other things." She said it pretty lazily, but everyone was pretty surprised at Himiko's sudden defense of the Ultimate Programmer.

"Oh please, you're only defending her since you want to have some hot loli lesbian sex!" Everyone was either slightly disturbed at her comment, or just fed up with her. Sometimes even a combination of both.

"Miu, please shut up." Ryoma simply glared at her with his very big eyes, causing her to back down very quickly and allowing Kaede to continue.

"Chihiro has no motive and it'd be incredibly out of character for her to do so. Anyway, there's one last piece of evidence to wrap up this case, which should be arriving sometime now!" The class waited until the door opened, revealing one Kiyotaka Ishimaru, aka the Ultimate Moral Compass coming into the classroom.

"I must say, it is highly irresponsible to hold a class trial during class! Do you realize how much learning you're all missing out on!" Soon the entirety of the class had looks of pure panic on their faces, including Kaede.

Kaede took a deep breath before talking, then with a sharp exhale she quickly began to talk. "Yeah, I know, that's why we need your help to try and finish it as soon as possible. So, can you tell me about the thing Kyoko asked you about? You know, relating to my classmates?"

Kiyotaka then took a hearty laugh. "Of course, I can explain it to you! If it gets you all back to learning, then I shall gladly explain what happened! I was in the eating area, and saw Kaito, Himiko, Miu and Tsumugi all there, and Himiko was writing down something with a pen, then they put of the paper in a recycling bin!"

Then the class heard giggling from one of the desks. This man was wearing a mouth mask, with a nice hat green-brown hat with a uniform with of the same colour. "Kukukuku, so then, that explains this paper we found then?" Korekiyo Shinguji also known as the Ultimate Anthropologist was holding 4 clipped piles of paper. "This was in the recycling bin, and one of them has red pen on them." Himiko started to shiver at the last line, showing off the truth. Korekiyo placed the paper down, showing off the fact that it was indeed the homework.

Kaede then pointed her finger at the culprits and yelled, "So pretty much, there was no thief! You all just tried to trick us!"

There was silence before Kaito spoke up. "Yeah, you're right. We got stuck on one of the questions and we just decided to give up and pretend it was stolen to avoid punishment. We all tried to throw answers at the wall, but we couldn't get a good answer." He was sweating and turning blue. The other three agreed to that. Meanwhile Kiyotaka was absolutely shocked at this. Putting homework in the bin and then wasting not just their class's time but another as well. What an act of betrayal!

Kiyotaka's jaw was wide open with shock and he wanted to tell everyone off, but Kaede pushed him out, "Thanks for everything Taka! We'll sort everything else out here!" After a sigh of relief, she started to speak again. "So, you guys tried to fake a robbery of your homework and failed and then tried to get everyone else punished for the crime! I don't know any more with you guys..." She put her hand on her head while sighing.

"I'm done now."

Kaito immediately panicked over Monokuma's monotone voice speaking up. "Wh-What!?" An expression which combined shock and disbelief covered his face, as sweat began to rush down like a waterfall.

"I'm done with this trial. I'm bored. You're boring me. It's time to vote! Place your votes in the box on the desk please!" Soon everyone got up and placed their votes in the box. Monokuma then ate the box and then made robot noises, which Kiibo started sobbing to, I think. "7/12 people voted for the four, which means that you all get to live! That's right, those four were the ones to steal their own homework, doesn't take an Ultimate Detective to figure that one out! BWAHAHAHA! Anyway, punishment time for you kids will be emailed to you and you'll learn the pecking order. And if you don't come, you’re banned for life, by that I mean you're expelled. Hahahah, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA" Doing two different laughs in a row, Monokuma left the scene with the four waiting for punishment looking pale and sweating.

"Disregarding Monokuma's hurtful sounds, who exactly didn't vote for the four that stole it, apart from themselves? If even one more person didn't vote for the correct people, who knows what would had happen to us?" Kiibo was still sobbing, but he tried to hide it and asked the question anyway, causing others to notice his suffering.

However, his suffering didn't matter to everyone else and they focused on his question, but everyone just pointed at Tenko, who huffed, and everyone knew why she did so, so there was no need to continue the conversation.

After all of this another group of voice popped up, "Rise and Shine Ursine! Because it's finally time for you jerks to learn about everything!" So, the class went on, with less conversations than usual.

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful for Kaede at least and at late of night, the student council meeting for Year 77 was going on, although there were only two students there, one being Makoto Naegi and the other one being Kaede, who was currently speaking. "So yeah, that's why I had to take Kyoko, Kiyotaka and Chihiro out of your class for a while. Sorry about that, my class is hard work, you're lucky that your class doesn't try to do stuff like that. Anyway, onto lighter areas, you came to me about Chihiro yesterday, right? Did you help her out?" Kaede for the most part had a pout on, although she discarded it when she changed the subject.

A smile came upon the boy's face once Kaede change the subject, matching the other student's face. "They're doing great! Thanks for the advice! Although I was surprised it worked, but it did! Still it's hard to believe that all that happened. But it happens and that's that, right? I just hope everyone's happy you know, that's pretty much our jobs." The two of them exchanged smiles at this, but then Kaede got curious.

"So, wait, what is Monokuma's punishment like anyway." Makoto went blank and his face turned to one of horror

"Don't talk about Monokuma's punishment, don't talk about Monokuma's punishment, don't talk about Monokuma's punishment." Kaede looked increasingly concerned. Then her phone rang.

Picking it up, she saw the name and put it on speaker. "Hey, thanks for calling Chiaki, what's up?"

"Hello. We have Kokichi and he is currently being beaten up by Hajime, so do you want us to do with him?" Chiaki's voice was incredibly tried.

Kaede stood with her mouth open in pure shock. This did manage to break Makoto out of his chanting though. "Err, can you just not kill him and bring him home with you?" There was a noticeable silence.

"I promise not to kill him." Chiaki's voice suddenly went serious and the other two looked very worried.

Kaede looked at the phone and began to speak. "Listen, I've had a long day and I don't want to have to deal with more drama in my class. Can you please just not kill him, I'll deal with him myself, OK?"

"OK. I have to help Hajime now, so good night." That was the last thing she said before yawning and hanging up, and soon the other two were yawning. The two got up and walked to the point where the direction to their rooms turned into different ones.

"Alright, I'm going to bed. Night Makoto, hope everything works out between you two." Kaede waved to her other student console member, who simply sighed. Kaede went to her room and slept, not caring that Maki was still wake.

Meanwhile Makoto went to his room, to find it empty and just laid down on his bed, falling straight to sleep, ending the day.