OK, so this is my first attempt at something like this, so it's highly likely not going to be great. I had the idea for this for a few months so I'm glad I got to finally make it. This thing is somewhat inspired by the Distrust thing, although I've chosen to put my own spin on it. I hope you enjoy the first day. Also I suck with titles, if you can suggest better, please do.

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Hope's Peak Academy. This high school was one of the most, if not the most well-known high school in the world. It's said if you can go there, you'd be set for life. However only the best of the best can go there, you must be scouted to go, and a lot of the people that go there are pretty much celebrities anyway. The academy was 5 stories high and towered over everything in the area. The building was a brick colour, with stunning blue glass and at the top of the building, the logo for the school stood proud, as if it knew it was as important as it was. The outside section was amazing as well, having a running track the same size that people run on in the Olympics and the ability to pretty much do any sport you can think off thanks to the huge grass field and the 30-meter sand pit. So that begs the question, why am I standing outside the school, preparing myself to head inside for once and for all?

My name is Makoto Naegi and I am entirely average. I'm slightly short for my age, I barely managed to pass my exams and my hair is always a mess. I guess I am a little bit more optimistic than most, but as for positive qualities that is about it. I was simply lucky as I won the lottery to be accepted into Hope Peak's main school. At first, I wasn't sure if I should go but everyone I knew wanted me to go so I can't let them down. Honestly, I got here over an hour earlier than I was supposed to, and the 5-meter gates still haven't been opened yet. If I wasn't going to this school people would mistake me for a crazed fanboy or something. Finally, the gates opened and I'm going inside. Every step gives me a lot of things to think about. What are the classes going to be like? What will my final exam be about? Will I be liked by everyone, or will they hold me in contempt? But all these questions, didn't seem to matter at the end of the day, because I had hope. It seems silly, but whenever I hope something turns out okay, it usually does. Maybe I truly am the Ultimate Lucky Student and I just don't realize it.

After what felt like an entirety, I finally made it to the school. The room has a white floor, ceiling and walls, if it was green, it would be an effective greenroom. The time is 7:00am, as shown by the clock in the middle of the room. The main hall won't be open yet, will it?

Suddenly my vision goes all funky. Colours appearing everywhere and swirling in all different types of patterns, indescribable to the human eye... It's hard to think, was... I drugged...?

"W-Where...?" My voice was quiet and slurred, which doesn't bring to mind the best outcomes. Looking around the room I am currently in is the biggest change in moods I think I've ever seen. While the other room stunned me with its bright white colours, this room stunned me because of how dark it ended up being. All the windows were boarded up, the blackboard has random scribbles on it, and all the chairs, while sorted out in a nice way, where surprisingly dirty. All I could really focus on was my pounding headache. "I'm in Hope's Peak right? I should look around before answering that question." I'm talking to myself now, which is always a good sign.

Shrugging it off, I got up and went outside. The hallways had a lot of purple in theme, when I turned to my right, the first thing that caught my eye was the hallway heading towards the red room, however despite my best attempt it wouldn't open at all, I turned around and saw a room blocked off with bars, that had a sign saying, "Despair Hotel". Walking down the hall, I saw an AV Room which also didn't want to open, and then there was a room with huge doors, that was open, so I headed inside.

As I walked in, a boy wearing a white uniform, fully buttoned up to the collar and with spiky yet neat black, almost blue hair and his most noticeable eyebrows started yelling at me... what luck, "Lateness is not welcome in Hope's Peak! We are the top students in the country, we cannot stoop so low as to be late on the first day!"

However, I was quickly defended by a tan girl, her hair was brown and in a huge ponytail somehow hovering above her head, she wore some shorts, a red training jacket and a white shirt, although I was unable to tell if it was a T-shirt or not thanks to her jacket. "It's not like he wanted to be late you know! We were all knocked out when we came into this stupid building anyway, he might have been exposed to more of the drug or something!" The tan girl's remark made the other boy look down at his own feet in shame as he spoke once again.

"It seems I made a misjudgment in my words; I must ask for your forgiveness fellow student!" He was still impossibly loud, but the way he said it made me feel really bad.

I don't have the heart to be mad at him. "It's fine. You didn't know. However, should we introduce ourselves now that I'm here. I didn't see anyone else in the classrooms and there seems to be a lot of us here, so there's a high chance that I'm the last student." I decided to throw an idea out there, maybe it'd cheer him up.

Luckily, thanks to the smile that came back to his face, I think it worked! "That would be a great idea! I am the Ultimate Moral Compass Kiyotaka Ishimaru. It is my dream to create a world where hard work will prevail over anything else! I hope we can be good friends!" The girl next to him also radiated a similar smile to him.

"My name's Aoi Asahina the Ultimate Swimming Pro! Just call me Hina for short, just don't eat all the dounts and I'm certain we'll get along really well!"

The happy moods created by Hina and Kiyotaka were short lived though, as a tall boy wearing a dark green top and trousers, with a light green bow with a white shirt underneath, his hair was short, blond, and he wore glasses decided to speak up with an annoyed tone. "Hmph, took us long enough to finally get onto this. All of you had better listen up, since I'm only going to say this once for you commoners. I am Byakuya Togami, the Ultimate Affluent Progeny. You will do well to remember that name."

Then a boy with spiky orange hair spoke up, he had a goatee strangely enough, and he had a piercing just below his mouth, and his right ear was full of piercings. He has a necklace with a cube like thing on it. His shirt has a skull design on it but was mostly white, as his jacket was. He was wearing a belt around his waist; however, it wasn't used to keep his trousers up as another belt, one with a buckle was on his black trousers. His design was odd to say the least, however in stark contrast to his crazy design, he was pretty calm. "Come on man, why you are being such a downer. Whatever, I'm Leon Kuwata, I'm technically the Ultimate Baseball Star, but I hate Baseball, so I was thinking about becoming the Ultimate Musician instead, that's way better than being a stupid Baseball player."

Can say he doesn't have inspirations, however Byakuya seemed to disagree. "Hmph, so the one thing you have that makes you even a fraction as impressive as me you want to throw away, some people are clearly deluded."

However, all this did was spark an argument between the two of them. "What's that supposed to mean! If I can get though Baseball without trying, then if I try at music then I should ace it easily." Leon looks really upset right now and that's an understatement.

Before it got worse, a huge person that had long white hair and a scar running down her face and, on her shoulder, and she had huge muscles. the only reason why I knew she was a girl was because she wore a traditional sailor outfit sans the arms which were not there likely due to her muscles but otherwise it would be easy to mistake her for a man. "Enough, there is no reason for us to fight right now. I am Sakura Ogami, the Ultimate Martial Artist. It is nice to meet you all." Despite her hulking appearance though, she was really nice and polite.

Almost immediately after this another girl introduced themselves. She had hair that was insanely long and seemed to spin around endlessly. She had skin that was almost pure white which was a stark contrast to everything else about herself, her dress was a black Lolita, although she had a red tie and a white ribbon. "It appears I am not the only one with common sense around here. My name is Celestia Ludenberg, the Ultimate Gambler, although you may just call me Celeste, if that is easier for you all to pronounce." She was equally as calm as Sakura, although she did have a noticeable accent of some kind of European origin.

A tall boy with darkish skin with hair that is almost indescribable, who was wearing a black jacket hanging loosely from his shoulders, a white jacket underneath that and an orange-brown shirt under that and some baggy black trousers. "Heh, I'm Yasuhiro Hagakure, the Ultimate Clairvoyant, nice to meet ya." But he was interrupted by a frightened purple haired girl, with a purple Japanese school uniform with the addition of a red tie and hair that was in two long braids, who pointed timidly at the Clairvoyant.

"I b-bet you're just saying it's nice to meet ya because you want to attack us or something!"

Yasuhiro was definitely confused at her response, as his pose went into a frenzy "WOAH! I may be slightly older than everyone here, but that doesn't mean I'll sink so low as to attack anyone!" Wait, is he a dropout?

Toko then got into an even worse condition, "I-I knew it, you'r-"

"Shut up and give out your name and Ultimate title." She was interrupted by Byakuya, who had a look of pure annoyance on his face.

The purple haired girl was shocked and annoyed at this, but complied anyway, "... F-fine, my name Toko Fukawa, the U-Ultimate Writing Prodigy, not that anyone cares."

The next person to speak was a girl with long blue hair, also wearing a traditional sailor outfit, this time blue with a pink tie, she also had a blush permanently stuck to her face and eyeliner to go with it. "Of course, we care Toko! Anyway, my name is Sayaka Maizono, the Ultimate Pop Sensation! Nice to meet you all for the first time, although I don't think I can say that about everyone." Does she mean me? I mean we did go to the same middle school and all, but she can't have recognized me, right?

Another girl decided to back Sayaka up, "Yeah, totes! My name's Junko Enoshima, Ultimate Fashionista." While Junko may of been oblivious to it, Toko wasn't convinced that she was cared about but Junko was a person definitely deserving of her title, as her frame was very hourglass like, and her hair was in two pigtails and she had cute little bunnies as hair clips, her dress style was mainly black, but she also had a very short red skirt, a red bow and a black and red tie.

The next person to speak had a very odd design to say the least. He was clearly overweight, and his face looked like an animal, his hair was short and black, and he had an orange backpack. His shirt was white, and he had a grey cardigan, however his most noticeable aspect was his tiny legs, that somehow managed to keep his body up. "Ahh, so I'm going to be going to classes with all these wonderful ladies and gentlemen, we I suppose this is just like-"

Byakuya gave the overweight man a death glare while interrupting him, again, and started talking sternly, "I can already see where this is going, I would suggest you keep quiet and do what everyone else has done... Or else you will feel the wrath of the Togami family."

The man spoke up once more, "EEK! OK OK, I'm Hifumi Yamada and I'm the Ultimate Fanfic Creator!"

"Hey, I'm Mondo Owada, the Ultimate Gang Leader, nice to fucking, meetcha" The person that spoke right after Hifumi was almost the complete opposite in his appearance. He had a dark-brown pompadour, was very buff and wore an overcoat with a symbol of the Crazy Diamonds, the biggest biker gang in the country. He also had a white shirt and baggy black pants.

After that, there was almost a minute of silence, I was too embarrassed about my Ultimate talent to go anything but last, and another two girls seemingly didn't want to talk much either. One of them was a girl with lavender hair, who had it down, although it was accompanied by a black bow, she wore a purple jacket, a black skirt, big purple boots and a brown tie. She also had some black gloves.

Meanwhile the other girl was very short, even shorter than me in fact. She had short light brown hair and wore a dark green jacket and underneath was a white shirt. In addition, she had a big dark green bow and she wore a big poofy brown skirt.

The purple girl read the situation extremely quickly and began to speak, "Since none of us are going to talk, my name is Kyoko Kirigiri."

Byakuya however seemingly wasn't pleased with Kyoko's introduction, as he said with annoyed tone, "And what about your talent?" Kyoko didn't seem to bothered by him though.

"What about it?"

All this did was made Byakuya even more upset than he previously was, as he glared at Kyoko and told her sternly "Everyone so far has given their name and talent to prove that they belong here, so if you can't be bothered to do something as simple as that, then you should not be here, so out with it, or else I will show you why no one should mess with a Togami."

"It doesn't matter." She remained cool under pressure, which didn't help the situation.

"What do you mean it doesn't matter, our talents are what keep us above the commoners so out with it or-" Byakuya was seething at this point, honestly, I'm kind of afraid of him right now.

"STOP!" Everyone turned and looked at the only female that had not introduced herself yet, who had just interrupted Byakuya. She was clearly uncomfortable with the situation and almost looked like she was about to burst into tears. "Please, if she's not conformable with it, there's no need to pressure her into doing it, so please, I want us to just get along. But I should introduce myself to change the topic, my name is Chihiro Fujisaki and I'm the Ultimate Programmer. I just want to get along with everyone, we're all good people, right? So, there's no need for fighting."

After Chihiro's introduction, it was my turn. I was a boy wearing a green hoodie, a black jacket and some grey trousers, nothing unusual about my look and the only noticeable thing about me was my ahoge, that never seemed to come out, so I just left it in there. "I agree with that! My name is Makoto Naegi and my Ultimate Talent is..." I was sounding pretty happy until the revelation came that I had to share my talent. "Luck. I don't even know why I'm here to be honest, I just won the lottery and here I am." My happiness deflated like a popped balloon.

However, what happened next was a very pleasant surprise. "Come on man, don't be like that! Listen, fate has you here for a reason, so even if you don't feel like you belong here, you certainly do!" Yasuhiro's giving me emotional support, that's already cheering me up.

"Yeah! It doesn't matter if you aren't 100% amazing at something, that just means you can do anything you want in the future!" Hina was adding onto the pile of happiness I was feeling.

"Yes, I am in total agreement with that. Ordinary people should not be underestimated, we can truly do anything that we put our minds to!" Kiyotaka's loud voice is very appealing to listen to when he's happy or giving advice, I'll give him that.

Leon meanwhile was quieter, but still really encouraging. "It doesn't matter if you don't have a talent, or one you're not proud of anyway, leaving this school with a pass will allow you to purse any dream you've ever wanted!" I suppose he's right; I'm guessing that's what he wants to do at least.

"Besides, if nothing else, at least we'll become friends, right?" The last person to talk was Chihiro, who's already wanting to become friends with everyone, including me!

To say I was taken aback would be an understatement. I had just told them that I wasn't all that special compared to them and yet most of them just accepted me as if I was nothing different. I guess in a way, I'm not that much different. We're all still human and we're trapped inside of this building. I know it's a little early to be thinking this, but when we get out, I'd love to keep in touch with everyone, or at least everyone that would accept that. Of course, as if the world knew I was happy, a voice ran out of the speakers. "Glad to see you are all getting along so well! Can everyone head to the gym posthaste!"

The response to this was mixed. Some people, such as Byakuya, Kyoko, Celeste, Yasuhiro and Sakura all went out without a fuss. Others were a little more panicked but still went along anyway. I was about to be the last one to head out when I was stopped by a familiar voice. "Makoto! It's so good to see you again. It's been so long and it's so nice to see a familiar face!"

"You remember me!?" To my surprised expression, Sayaka simply giggled.

"Of course! Why wouldn't I?" I'm amazed she had to ask that, after all, I am the most average guy you could get, there's nothing special about me "Average? I don't think you're average at all Makoto. You are one of the nicest people around and to be honest, I've always wanted to say hello to you, after you took that crane out of the class, I knew you must have been nice, after all, it's said that animals can sense those things, right?"

She just read my mind, that's impossible right? "How did you know what I was thinking?" Those words were stammered out in panic which caused her to giggle a bit.

"I'm psychic... Just kidding!" That's a weird thing to claim, but I won't question it. Maybe those abilities helped her get to where she is, not discrediting her own skills of course.

I should at least calm down before saying something else, she's a very popular person so I don't want to upset her. "Well, okay. Let's head to the gym before we get expelled before we've had our first lesson."

She smiled at me once again, with more joy in her voice "Yeah! I'll walk with you!" I walked down the hallway with Sayaka passing by the nurse's office and the toilet rooms. The store also caught my eye but since it's locked, I can't go in there, nor any other rooms.

The gym had an entrance to it with lots of trophies that had Hope's Peak name on them, which deals me to wonder. Where on Earth are, we? Is this what Hope's Peak truly is?

The gym itself was huge, but had nothing out of the ordinary, apart from the stage that was there. Everyone was gathered inside the game, and as soon as me and Sayaka went inside, the voice appeared again. "Welcome to Hope's Peak Academy! I'm your new headmaster and my name is Monokuma!" This got everyone confused as the headmaster was... wait who was it again? I checked the Hope's Peak Academy website and everything, but I don't know who it is...

However, I couldn't focus on that, as from out of nowhere, a teddy bear popped out of the speaker stand and was doing poses like it was a human or something! But saying this was a normal teddy would be a lie. It was half white and normal looking, but the other part was just plain creepy. It was black with a red cyborg eye and had a grin that made it look like a slasher villain or something. "My name is Monokuma and I'm you're new Headmaster! Now I bet you're wondering why I've called you all here today! But first, anyway questions?"

The first one to speak up was in fact Chihiro, which caught everyone off guard, although she was still extremely quiet. "Where is everyone else, I thought my friend was here, they started in Class 77, right? So, where is she?"

Monokuma then started to grin sadistically, as he yelled out at the top of his voice, "Well kid, here's your first lesson in life, don't ask questions you don't want the answers to, but if you must know, she's most likely dead." The bluntness of the answer caught everyone off guard even more so than before. Please don't tell me, does this mean that he year above us and likely further are all dead! Chihiro in reaction to the news, started to sob uncontrollably. "Does anyone else have any questions? Or can I just get on with the show?"

Byakuya was the next one to ask a question "I would like to know where we are, this cannot be Hope's Peak Academy."

Monokuma sounds pretty happy like a creepy child. "Kids these days wouldn't be able to see the truth even if it smacked them in the face, yes this is the school that you wanted to go to. Appearances aren't everything you know!" This comment shocked us all, this couldn't be it right? And yet all the pieces in the puzzle fit. But Monokuma didn't seem to want to stop talking just yet. "Now then let's get on to the reason you all are here. You all are going to spend two weeks here and then... well you'll all die."

"NO THAT'S WRONG!" I suddenly yelled from the top of my voice, I have no idea where this burst of courage came from, but to be honest, I'm not complaining.

Monokuma was extremely confused by my answer, doing a thinking like pose. "How so? I don't think I'm pulling your leg, although if you want, I'll let you give your reasoning."

"Well for starters, I'm standing in the same room as some of the most well-known and successful people in the world and that means three things! One, they won't be fooled by your lies. Secondly, all of them have lot of people that would want them to be safe and sound and lastly, they are all good people and I know they won't harm each other. Plus, something else to disprove your lies, you've got no proof that you could attack or harm us anyway, so we've got no reason to panic! So, I know they won't spend two weeks here just to die, because they can work together to escape from this trap using their abilities!"

Nearly everyone appeared dumbfounded by my new-found courage and optimism, however one creature wasn't that impressed by my ability to seemingly make inspiring speeches come out of nowhere. "Hmm, not a bad speech at all. But there's something that I noticed while you were yapping on. You never used the words "I" or "We" went talking about everyone. You always used they. Why is that? Simple, you don't belong here, and you know this, you are just an average kid and you know this. You know what, I do have a way any of you could escape from this place..." Monokuma's face became sinister once again "Commit a successful murder." Everyone's faces turned into true panic and fear, commit murder, can we do that, we can't right. Murder changes people. How would anyone be able to live with themselves. He's just trying to trick us... right? "Of course, I know you'd all be smart enough to be able to use your Ultimate talents to commit a murder, that is, if you have any. BWAHAHAHAHA!"

He's right... I just am normal person, if someone were to commit murder, I'd be a sitting duck...

"Why are you trying to break him in particular?" Kyoko quickly and calmly defended me.

Monokuma did the exact same pose as the first time he did the confused voice "Wah? What on earth could you possibly mean?"

Kyoko stayed calm and cool despite what was happening right now. "What I mean is, why are you giving him a breaking speech and trying to get him to break. He's not the type that would want to commit murder and even if he would be able to, wouldn't it make more sense to go after someone else?"

Kyoko's question ran though the hall as no one wanted to interrupt her. Still she believes I wouldn't kill someone even if I had to... that's surprising, but also nice. But I am interested in Monokuma's answer. "Well if you must know, it ties into why I want you all to do this? Any guesses?"

Toko started to shout in a panic "B-Because you have a f-fetish for murder!? Or maybe you get turned on by dead bodies?"

Monokuma looked shocked, but began to laugh and talk. "... In a way, you aren't wrong, but I guess you're not right either. Anyone else?"

No one else seemed to want to answer that question, everyone just stood in silence and then Mondo ran up onto the stage at seemingly random and grabbed the bear! "I'VE HAD ENOUGH! I'M GONNA DESTROY YOU AND THEN WE'LL GET OUT OF HERE!"

Monokuma was somehow sweating at this action "Wait! Violence against the headmaster is against the rules, and that would mean would get punished!"

Mondo meanwhile was so caught up in his own rage that I don't think he could hear anything else in the world. "CAN'T PUNISH ME IF YOU ARE DEAD!"

Everyone in the room was frozen with fear, we couldn't say or do anything to stop Mondo. Did he also think the Monokuma was a bluff or was he just that angry? Either way, the person that was the most panicked was a surprising one, "THROW IT!" Kyoko practically screamed this out in the most fear I've heard in someone since we got here.

The Gang Leader was confused and looked at us with a face that screamed that he had no idea what was happening. "Huh?" It took a second for a ticking sound to ring into the room, but when it did.

"Simpleton, I advise you throw it now!"

"IT'S A BOMB!"

"THROW IT, THROW IT!"

Byakuya, Leon and Junko all caught onto the fact that Monokuma was dangerous and started shouting in fear. Listening to the commands of the others, Mondo hurled it as far as he could throw it, and everyone was right on the money, the bear exploded firing bits everywhere. Everyone either ducked as if they were behind cover or put their arms over their faces to protect themselves

Everyone was silent, but after few seconds though, Hina spoke up. "Hey, I don't want to jinx it or anything, but is it over?"

Mondo was burning with rage at this point, yelling "Better be, that stupid plush almost killed me!"

Monokuma reappeared and somehow looked even more upset than Mondo does, "HEY, HEY! FIRST OF ALL, I'M A BEAR, AND YOU BROKE THE RULES!" Even more terrifying is that he went from angry to calm within seconds. "But I suppose that you all finally get the message, right? Don't break the rules. I'll give you all a gift as well! Come and pick up yours!" Suddenly a bunch of tablets popped up out of the ground, one by one, we walked up to collect our own. "Since I don't want to be attacked again, here's all you need to know, the rules are on there so losing it is not a good idea. OK? See ya! Good luck in the Killing Game!" He calmed down quickly enough before disappearing to an unknown location.

Some of us, myself included, decided to look at the rules right away. The Rules went as follows;

Rule #1: Students may reside only within the school. Leaving campus is an unacceptable use of time.

Rule #2: "Nighttime" is from 10 pm to 7 am. Some areas are off-limits at night, so please exercise caution.

Rule #3: Sleeping anywhere other than the dormitory will be sleeping in class and punished accordingly.

Rule #4: With minimal restrictions, you are free to explore Hope's Peak Academy at your discretion.

Rule #5: Violence against headmaster Monokuma is strictly prohibited, as is destruction of surveillance cameras.

Rule #6: Anyone who kills a fellow student and becomes "blackened" will graduate, unless they are discovered.

Rule #7: Additional school regulations may be added if necessary.

These rules seem basic enough. I was sleeping at the classroom, but since I didn't know about the rules, I think it's a pass. Although what counts as sleeping? How long would I have to close my eyes to be count it as sleeping. Why this is my focus! All the other things seem normal at least. Apart from the murdering.

"Hmph, so this is a game is it?" Oh no. Everyone is looking at the Affluent Progeny with a look of pure disgust. This is going to end badly isn't it.

Mondo was the first one to object to Byakuya's claims. "The fuck you mean, this isn't a game, it's murder!"

"But if you look it as a game, then there is one objective, to win, and our prize is survival. Although I doubt it will be that easy, I still expect to win." He's getting kind of creepy right now with how much he's seemingly enjoying this.

"Don't fuck with me! Murder is murder! How about I show you why it's a bad idea to be a dick!"

"Seeing how you almost died, I'd say it's a worse idea to be an idiot." Byakuya did not flinch at all to what was happening unlike Mondo who was getting upset.

I've gotta stop this, and fast. Mondo's looks like he's about to kill Byakuya. I can't let that happen! "You want to run that by me again, jackass?" Mondo's voice was something that made most of the class shiver in fear, although I somehow managed to gain enough courage to rush in between the two, in a desperate attempt to stop the fighting.

"Hold on! We can't start fighting, there might be another wa-"

"SHUT UP!"

Before I could finish my sentence, Mondo threw a punch of pure rage at me, and it threw all my air out of my lungs and I fell unconsciousness before I landed on the ground.

The next thing I knew, I woke up in my bed, and I was in indescribable pain, makes sense I suppose. I was punched by the second strongest person in the school. The room was pretty basic, I had a table and some chairs in front of my bed and on my left was Sayaka, who was incredibly happy to see me alive, and my bathroom, which I don’t think cared if I was alive or not. "Makoto! You're awake! For a while I thought you were gonna sleep the whole day away!"

It still hurts to breathe... and exist. "Well, my stomach still hurts and... nah I'm fine." That was all I could whimper out...

"Makoto, I don't need to be psychic to know that what Monokuma said hurt you badly. Listen, we aren't going to murder anyone OK. Besides if anything, you're the Ultimate Inspirer, since you pretty much inspired most of us with just that!" She definitely called my bluff, but she grew happier with every word, which was music to my ears. Makes sense I suppose.

"R-Really?" I can't hide my blush, nor my happiness and my words represented that perfectly. The pain is subsiding at least.

"Of course! But are you able to walk?" Her sudden shift in tone, from cheerful to serious, was jarring to say the least.

"I guess so, but why?" I'm not sure if I can, but I don't want to worry her.

The response I gave was enough for her to calm down, which did put a smile on my face to be honest. "Oh good! Anyway, we should head to the cafeteria, everyone's gonna be there soon. Let's go!" It was a challenge to walk to the cafeteria, but I made it anyway. Everyone else was already there, although judging by the fact that Sakura and Hina were sitting down, it seems me and Sayaka weren't too far behind.

Hina saw us coming in and had a face of pure shock. "Oh, Makoto! Didn't expect to see you up so soon!" The girl then began to start giggling. "Guess you're stronger than you expected to be, right!"

Once again, I began to blush and turned my head away slightly. "Well glad to see I'm liked by everyone." Wait, that's not important right now! I have to know what's going on in the school! "But what did you all find?"

Sakura then spoke up with a calm voice. "Me, Hina and Mondo all went to the iron bars, but it was impossible to pull them off. It seems whomever captured us seemed to be aware of our strength."

Then a quiet voice spoke up "I also explored the kitchen and then Monokuma showed up..." To say that everyone was shocked at Chihiro's statement would be an understatement. The mood had turned from positive to a negative from just the sound of his name. She didn't mean for it to happen of course, but I suppose the bear is the reason why we're all stuck here.

Hifumi was the first to react with a noise that sounded something like "WAH WAH!?"

Next Toko began to panic. "Did the bear attack you? I b-bet that he wanted to a-attack you sexually, right?" She was sweating pretty hard, causing the table to get wet.

Chihiro quietly spoke back up. "Oh, no. He didn't say anything like that. I just checked the fridge and he said that it would be refilled every day that we're here is all." I let out a huge sigh of relief, and I think I heard other members do the same as I did.

"Well I'm glad you're OK, and it's nice to know that food won't be a problem here. But is that all?" I might have been seeing things, but I think Chihiro is slightly happier now after I said that. I guess saying that you care can sometimes go a long way.

Another voice rose up, this one was calm yet focused. "Apart from the fact that we've each got our own rooms, there's not much else of note that I don't think you don't know about. We've got a furnace room, for trash I believe, and we've got a washroom, which has lots of washing machines." Kyoko was the one to give me the rundown, which was apparated very much.

"OK, thank you." It's only polite to thank people after they've done something nice!

Another calm voice rose up. "Honestly, I don't see why we're all wasting time with panicking and stuff. Listen, it won't be long now until the real headmaster appears, and we've been pranked!"

Yasuhiro's words were supposed to cheer us all up, but just felt even more sad... "I wish we could all be as optimistic as you Yasuhiro..."

Toko then screeched out "D-Don't be stupid! T-this isn't optimism, this is just d-denial! An optimistic point of view that still has some basis on reality is that not all of us die in here." Which did nothing for anyone's mood, especially not Yasuhiro.

"Hey, don't call me stupid! You know what, I'll prove to you all that we're all going to survive! I'll see into the future and I'll tell you who survives and who dies!" Yasuhiro was pointing at Toko, who snarled at the man.

Everyone else was more neutral to the idea, as Byakuya calmly stated, "If it shuts you up, go ahead." His voice was firm and had a bit of edge to it. Honestly, I'm doubtful he'll ever like us.

This is bad, I feel like we're not gonna get a long, if Yasuhiro is wrong... then I don't think we're gonna last very long. No, I can't think like that they're Ultimates, even if they don't like each other, murder is something I know they wouldn't do. They're all good people trapped in a bad place, but we'll get out! But first, I've got to ask something! "Hey, what time is it?" Everyone appeared shocked at my sudden question, and admittedly that was a dumb question, but I wanted to take everyone's mind of the current topic.

"Well, if you look at the clock, you'd be surprised." Sayaka pointed towards a clock while remaining fully calm in doing so.

I turned towards the clock and spoke my response aloud as I did so. "Huh, why... It's 9.55PM!" My jaw dropped. I was out for that long?

Sayaka then patted my shoulder and sighed. "Yeah, you were out for a while, I wonder why." Her voice grew angry at the end of that.

Now she's glaring at Mondo now and Mondo looks sheepish and from his voice, you could tell that his face didn't lie. "Hey man, sorry about that. Guess I got a little mad and wanted to punch something. You didn't die though, so that's impressive!"

I don't know what to take from this, so I just think it's best to play along with him. "Err, OK. I forgive you."

Suddenly, a bell rang, and then Monokuma appeared on screen. "It is now 10pm and that means it's officially nighttime. Some area's will be closing soon so please leave them as soon as possible!" The bear sounded so full of joy, it was unsettling, but that messaged was the point where we got up and all decided to walk to our rooms.

I waved to the rest of the others as I walked off. "Guess that means we're going to bed now. Night everyone!"

Before I left though, Sayaka called out to me, "Oh, you need your key, here, I kept it just in case. Also, don’t forget to come here as soon as you get up ok! We want to have team meetings every day!" Sayaka handed my key and the information to me and we went to our rooms.

My room is the exact same as before, so that's nice to know. But then, right as I was about to fall asleep. I got an unwanted and unexpected visitor. "Hey, hey! It's your favorite bear! Monokuma!"

Oh, good it's him. I have many questions about this, but I'm so tried at this point that I just want to go to sleep. "What do you want?"

He's pretty cheerful still, but at the same time he's menacing. "Well, it doesn't have everything to do with you, but you might want to learn this information as well. Hey, you, the person watching this!"

Now he's just not making sense "What the heck are you...?"

He waved his paw at me to stop me from talking, as if to say I should drop the subject. "Eh, you don't have to understand. No more questions until we're done!" He then became very excited. "Listen, I'm gonna give you 10 Monocoins free of charge. So, you want to go and get some presents for your classmates! You've got two days until the first motive, well one and a half, but that isn't important. But anyway, what you want to do is build trust with someone and you can only build trust twice a day! Why, I don't know, but if you do this, they'll become your investigation partner and they won't die! Most likely, I mean I can't see the future, but they'll trust you and won't do anything reckless. I can confirm that! Anyway, hope luck is on your side kid!"

It's too late for this, my brain's hurting and I just want sleep. "Why are you doing this exactly? Like the murder game and trying to make me choose? And what is this about a motive?" I had a tone of voice that implied that I was completely done with him, which I was.

Monokuma kept on talking. "Well the first and third questions are classified information, but I can answer the second one free of charge! Because kid, I gotta be honest, I was impressed by your little speech, and you know what, I want to see if you can make it, and make use of a rule that will come a little later. So, like the upstanding citizen I am I decided to help you a little bit." He has a tone of voice that implies that this is completely normal, which it isn't... "God knows you'll need it to survive. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Also, by the way, your bathroom door is broken, and you need to push it down as well as twisting it to open it." He went from sinister to informing so fast that I got whiplash from that.

But Monokuma left after that. I couldn’t really focus on the bathroom problem as he said that we've got a motive coming up, but still, can I trust him about this? Even if he's wrong, trying to give someone some gifts would be nice, and I would like to let someone else know that I believe in them... But if that were the case, who would I choose? I suppose I should sleep on it then.

Day 1/14 Finished!