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It wasn't as simple as Kaede would have liked, but it would work. Even if it missed, she should still have time to make it down to the library before the mastermind could leave. But she couldn't risk letting the mastermind get away, not after everything they'd done to the others.

When Shuichi left the room, she ran over to the grate, and let the ball roll down. She thought she could hear the clanging, but it was just her imagination. She couldn't hear anything over the incessant music playing over the speakers, it was almost enough to drive someone to kill... Kaede realized what she had just done. She had killed someone. Even if it missed, she had gone through with it, fully intending to kill someone. There was no getting around it, she had killed now. She felt like she could cry, but she held it in. She had to be sure. She regretted that it had come to this, but she wouldn't regret killing the mastermind. She left the room and joined Schuichi to go to the library. They met a couple other people on the way down, where we saw it. Rantaro's body, lying dead on the floor.

Kaede didn't want to believe it. Of everyone here, was Rantaro really the mastermind? Something didn't sit right with me about it. She was trying to figure it out when the body discovery announcement went off. She had killed him, for no reason. He wasn't the mastermind, so why had she done it? She knew she could leave if she took the first blood perk, but she didn't want to. She didn't want to abandon everyone else to the Monokuma. So she stayed silent and awaited her fate.