Chloe: Hey Ash! Good morning!

Everyone seemed as if they were waiting for me.

Ashlyn: Crysty still isn't here?

Chloe: Nope...

Sophie: Now that most of us are here, I guess we can start on the reports. The five of you, how did scanning the card go?

Hanako: Well I went to scan it with Ashlyn and Yu Xuan, but none of our cards went through.

Sophie: That's anticlimactic. Randi? Kendric?

Kendric: Mine didn't go through either.

Randi: Well I don't know how to explain this... But I didn't scan it.

Sophie: What? Why not?

Randi: I forgot.

Sophie: Well obviously some idiots don't know how to do anything, so Ashlyn, Chloe and Miyoshi, follow her to go scan it now. This is so annoying ughhhh you idiots.

I followed Randi, Chloe and Miyoshi to the electronics store.

Randi: Maybe Crysty's here, she did say she's trying to find the Mastermind, and the secret door's right here!

Chloe: Sophie told us to avoid Crysty. There's a high chance she's the Mastermind, remember?

Randi: Oh I don't trust Sophie. She's probably the Mastermind herself.

Miyoshi: That would be too obvious though...

We reached the shop and pushed open the large glass door.

Randi: Crysty! You there? We're here to see you!

Miyoshi: Shhhh!

We walked behind the shelf, where the secret door was.

Ashlyn: Crysty?

And then we saw...

(I had to use gacha life because I can't draw and this is Crysty so uh)

Speakers: A body has been discovered in the electronics store! After a certain amount of time, which you may use however you like, the class trial will begin!

Chloe: CRYSTY!

I heard more people running in, and more screams.

And then I blacked out.

Chapter 1, Deadly life

Hollow words, bountiful despair

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Hanako: Hey, are you okay?

I sat up and looked around. I was in my dorm room.

I started panicking.

Ashlyn: WHERE'S CRYSTY?

Hanako: She's... Dead.

Ashlyn: WHAT? WHAT HAPPENED HOW DID SHE DIE???

Hanako: She was murdered, by one of us. We're currently investigating the crime, Monokuma says there'll be a class trial later, so we'll have to figure out the murderer. We can't mess up or we'll all die.

Ashlyn: I don't understand... How did this happen?

Hanako: I don't know, so we'll have to solve this case. Come and investigate with us?

Hanako stuck out her hand and I grabbed it. She pulled me out of bed and into a hug, which I really appreciated.

We left the room and went to the electronics shop, where I was eager to begin my investigation.

Chloe: ASH! Are you okay? Are you hurt?

Miyoshi: You hit the ground pretty hard there.

Ashlyn: Yes, I'm okay. Should we begin investigating?

Chloe: Oh, Hanako already told you. That's good. Let's go look around.

Although my head was spinning, I had to investigate and solve this case. For my friends.

So it begins.

- - - INVESTIGATION BEGIN - - -

Chloe: Let's begin by checking the Monokuma file.

Ashlyn: The what?

Chloe: Monokuma file. Monokuma showed up and gave it to us earlier, it contains the details about the murder.

Ashlyns: Oh okay, read it then.

Chloe: The victim is Crysty, the ultimate zoo keeper. The body was found in the electronics shop, where the victim was also killed. The cause of death is a wound made to the stomach with a sharp object. Other than that, there is a wound on her head, caused by blunt force trauma. There are no other external injuries.

Ashlyn: I guess now we can investigate the body.

As said in the Monokuma file, her stomach is stabbed by something sharp. It's a mirror shard, I wonder where it came from.

Her head is covered in blood because of what was used to hit it. Although it was hit, the head injury wasn't the cause of death.

There's something in her hand, remote with a red light bulb attached to it. What's it for?

The floor is covered in her blood, but there's no blood anywhere else, so she must've been killed right here.

Ashlyn: I've finished investigating the body, what should I do now?

Chloe: We should search around the shop, then we can look around the whole level itself.

Ashlyn: Yea...

Near Crysty's head is a small plastic button. There's nothing attached to it. It's just a button.

Near her feet is a laptop. It's partially covered in her blood.

There's also a broken mirror near the body. I think it used to hang on the wall and was what covered up the secret door at first. There's something attached to it, a round metal thingy.

Chloe: That's what I like to call a magnet sensor. I saw it the other day in this shop. It's where you attach the magnet sensors to two different things and attach the two things together using the magnet. If the magnets are pulled apart, the remote control will light up.

Ashlyn: That's really useful information.

Near the back of the store is the hidden room door. There seems to be one of these magnet sensors attached to it as well.

Ashlyn: I think that's it for this shop. Let's try looking around other places.

We walked around for a while and we reached the bathrooms.

Chloe: There was nothing in the girls bathroom so...

Ashlyn: How are we going to check the boys bathroom?

Chloe: Hey Tan Liang! Get over here!

Tan Liang: Wha?

Chloe: Help check if there's anything suspicious in the boys bathroom.

Tan Liang entered and came out with a plastic bag.

Tan Liang: Welp this is all I could find.

A plastic bag?

Chloe: Well that didn't help, but thanks?

Ashlyn: Maybe this plastic bag could be important...

Chloe: I doubt it-

Speakers: Puhuhuhuhu, times up! Please assemble in the auditorium to proceed to the trial venue! See you soon!

Already??