《Danganronpa ocem》Chapter 3 Part 11
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Chloe: Should we follow it?
Ashlyn: Yea.
Chloe and I followed the water stain to the ice rink and slowly pushed open the gate.
Chloe: I feel like I'm being watched...
Ashlyn: Me to- AH!
I tripped over a big hole in the ice.
Chloe: Ash! Are you okay?
Ashlyn: Yea I'm fine...
Chloe: Why is there a hole in the ice???
Ashlyn: I don't know but I-
I saw something in the corner of my eye.
Ashlyn: I-
I turned my body fully to see what it was, then I realised...
Ashlyn: AAAAAAAAHHHHHH-
Chloe: What??? What's wrong are you okay???
I lifted up a shaking finger to point at what I was looking at and Chloe turned her head.
Chloe: What the- HOLY-
Fear gripped me tight as I took in what this was.
(It's chapter 3 guys did y'all should expect the drug dealer to die. Yes and I mean that this is Alyssa, I don't think I captured the essence of her messy ass hair well enough but whatever)
Chloe: GUYS! GET OVER HERE I- WE FOUND-
Everyone rushed over.
Speakers: A body has been discovered in the ice rink! I told you all this trial would be interesting puhuhuhuhu!
Randi: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! ANOTHER BODY???
Yu Xuan: Alyssa... I thought she was safe in her room!
Sophie: We should've been alarmed the moment she didn't come when the announcement played...
Tan Liang: A- Alyssa...?
Hanako: This is so bad... Who did this???
Rachel: They're not going to own up...
Chloe: So what do we do? Do we investigate her death too???
Monokuma: Of course you do you idiotic child!
Chloe: Monokuma! I've been scared for the third time today. Fuck you and your surprise turn ups.
Monokuma: Well, I've come to give you the second Monokuma file today! As well as provide guidance! Alyssa's case might help you solve Miyoshi's!
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Yu Xuan: Guidance? What guidance? We don't need your guidance.
Monokuma: I was going to give you a clue to finding a culprit, since there's two victims it might be a bit harder to solve, but suit yourself!
Ashton: Wait!
Yu Xuan: Ashton what're you doing???
Ashton: Even if it means getting help from Monokuma, we need all the help we can get if e want to solve this case! Monokuma, give us the evidence.
Monokuma: What? Did you really think I'm going to give it to you now??? No you shit heads! I'll give it to you during the trial, right now, it's your job to investigate independently! Puhuhuhuhu!
Rachel: And you're not lying? You're really going to give us the clues?
Monokuma: Well yes, I don't lie. See you at the trial, puhuhuhuhu!
Monokuma disappeared, leaving us with the Monokuma file for Alyssa's murder.
Chloe: I'll read it now. That's my job after all...
Chloe sighed and flipped open the file.
Chloe: The victim is Alyssa, the ultimate pharmacist. The body was found in the ice rink, where the victim was also killed. The cause of death was a stab wound to the abdomen, which can be seen from the back. There are no other external injuries. The time of death is around 2am.
Ashlyn: Alyssa was also killed around 2am...
Ashton: Hey, this is a lot to investigate, so the rest of us are going to investigate the shops and other places to look for more evidence. Can we leave it to you two too investigate Alyssa's scene? Once you're done you can come join us.
Ashlyn: Sure, you can leave it to us.
Ashton: Thanks guys.
Ashton and the others left to investigate other places.
Chloe: Let's start investigating her murder scene.
Ashlyn: Alright where should we start?
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Chloe: Well, there seems to be a piece of paper on the floor with writing on it. It's a bit bloody, but we should read it.
Ashlyn: It says... "Alyssa, meet me at the ice rink locker, let's have a little chat. I'll see you Signed..." And then the name is blanked out.
Chloe: There's some blood on it, but I think it was just spattered there when she was killed.
Ashlyn: And this... Is a cleaver.
Chloe: There's blood on the edge of it. Was this the murder weapon?
Ashlyn: Maybe, but I feel like something's off...
Chloe: Hey, what's this on the floor? It's like she wrote something in her blood...
Ashlyn: It looks like... An upside down "A"? It's smudged really bad, the warmth of the blood probably made some of the ice melt and it made the blood runny.
Chloe: This could be the clue for who the killer is! It's direct!
Chloe: That means their name starts with that letter... Ash...
Ashlyn: Crap. It wasn't me.
Chloe: I'm not going to blame it on you, but you're a suspect. In fact...
Ashlyn: What?
Chloe: It's nothing.
Ashlyn: What do we do now?
Chloe: I suppose we should look closer at the body.
Ashlyn: The file says she was stabbed in the abdomen, and by the stab wound in her abdomen, that's true.
Chloe: But there's something different about her stab wound... Remember Crysty?
Ashlyn: I'd rather not.
Chloe: She was stabbed too... But her wound didn't look like that...
Ashlyn: I guess you're right. This wound is... Circular???
Chloe: Something tells me this is important.
Ashlyn: Her shirt is wet.
Chloe: It is, but only below the wound. That's weird.
Ashlyn: I think that's it for Alyssa's scene, should we go find the others?
Chloe: Not yet. There's something I want to check.
Ashlyn: What is it?
Chloe: That hole you tripped over, it wasn't there the last time we were here.
We went over to the hole in the ice.
Ashlyn: It looks really deep, I don't think it's something that could happen naturally. It looks carved out...
Chloe: The hole is a sharp cornered square shape, which is really weird if it was a natural forming hole.
Ashlyn: Wait, look over there.
Chloe: Is that a pile of ice shavings?
Ashlyn: Yea... It's like someone spilled a slush here.
Chloe: Damn it JD.
Ashlyn: I don't see anything else, should we go meet the others?
Chloe: Alright, where should we go first?
Ashlyn: I think they're in the shops along the hallway here, let's check the daycare first.
Chloe: Okay, let's go.
We went over to the daycare.
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