//------------------------------// // Day 9: Chapter 2 // Story: Dangan RomPonya // by Serenade-Stereo //------------------------------// After a short few seconds, some of the others had gathered with Serenade and Grimdark next to the mechanical corpse that was lying in the corner of the room. "Aw! My project! Ruined!" Hammer says "C'mon man...you can always repair it, right?" Samurai tries to comfort him. "No...those were extremely rare parts that I used, I don't think there's anymore of them in the entire building...my 'DigiBot MK1' is ruined!" "Oh, quite your whining" Beau says, irritated. "We need to figure out the killer in this case or we're all getting executed so you might as well treat this like any other murder that's happened so far" Her tone gets more forceful the more she speaks. "Y-yes, ma'am!" Hammer salutes. "Alright...let's get to it then...but first...three...two...one...no-" "Hiyeeeeeee!" Monokuma says much to cheerfully. "Whelp, like I promised, I'll send you bastards the Monokuma Files!" As soon as Monokuma said that, the ElectroIDs went off with the new Monokuma File loaded into them. New Ammo: Monokuma File 4 was loaded into Serenade's ElectroID Let's see....'the victim is the DigiBot MK1, cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and death was instant... "Wait...that's it? No time of death?" "Sorry! Can't tell you that!" Monokuma rubbed the back of his head. "But, I'd better get preparations ready for the class trial! See you guys later and happy investigating!" Monokuma vanished. Serenade turned to the 'corpse' of the DigiBot. This is gonna be one hell of a trial later... He bent down beside it, Beau crouched on the other side, examining the wound. "Looks like the weapon was medium sized and hit him on the left side of his head..." She says "Huh?" Serenade looks at her "Yeah...the circumference of the wound would suggest it wasn't to small or too large" "How are able to tell these things so easily?" Serenade tilts his head as she bites her lip. "I...can't say..." She gets up. "I have to go..." "But-" Serenade tries to call her back but she had already left. Medium wound on his left side... New Ammo: Head wound was loaded into Serenade's ElectroID There are two different hammers here. One really small one and a really large one...so which did the culprit use? New Ammo: Two hammers were loaded into Serenade's ElectroID Serenade turned his attention to where all the tools were kept. There was a rack of hammers but three of the six spaces were empty. Well, there are two on the floor but as for this last slot...it's right in the middle...I wonder who took it? New Ammo: Hammer rack was loaded into Serenade's ElectroID "Aw...I can't believe this happened to my DigiBot..." Hammer complained "Well...it is a shame, after all of your hard work..." Serenade said "He was going to be able to get us out of here without breaking a sweat..." "Why don't you tell me a bit more about the robot?" "Sure...this robot has twice the strength of Punch and a supercomputer mind. The reason it looks like Digital is because when I was building it, I thought about its programming and then Digital came to mind so that's how the design came along." "Why is it bleeding?" "I wanted to make it as realistic to a normal student as possible so instead of it running on electricity, I made it run of red fuel!" "How did you get red fuel?" "There was food colouring in the kitchen and some special fuel in here already so it was pretty easy" New Ammo: DigiBot MK1 data was loaded into Serenade's ElectroID "You know what I'm still trying to figure out?" Hammer folds his arms "What?" "How the culprit got DigiBot up here so easily" "Why is that?" "Well it weighs a lot so it wouldn't be easy to get up here without taking a break, it's size would make it easy to spot but nobody has said anything about it and nobody but me could turn it on since the switch it hidden in a special place" "Special place?" "I put it on the waistband of his underwear! Who's gonna look down there?" Beau... "Anyway, thanks for the information, Hammer, it could come in use" "Glad to help!" New Ammo: Hammer's Testimony was loaded into Serenade's ElectroID Serenade turned his attention to Samurai who was looking at each little section of the room with more focus than he probably should have had. "Find anything yet?" Serenade asks "Yeah something kind of weird: this..." He picks up a small button. "I'm not sure what it does...do you think I should press it?" "Sure, anything could help us at this point" Samurai nodded and pressed the button. There was a beep before one of the sections on one of the walls slid away, leaving a huge hole. "W-woah!" Hammer exclaimed "Who would have guessed this was here?" "So that's what this does..." Samurai says "...it would be best if we kept this all between us..." Orion, who nobody had noticed was even present within the room, says. "It could be like a secret weapon in the class trial of sorts" she smiles. "Do we have an agreement?" The three boys nod. "Good" New Ammo: Secret compartment was loaded into Serenade's ElectroID Samurai pressed the button again and the wall closed over. "I wonder why that's there" "Storage? It can't be a way out since it just goes to a dead end" Hammer says "True...but it's empty, what happened to whatever was stored inside?" Samurai asked "Hmm...dunno" Serenade admits. "Hmmm...what time did the culprit kill him...?" Samurai muttered "Huh?" "S-sorry, it's just...I was here on the fourth floor for a while this morning and...the robot wasn't in here..." "Really? What time was that?" "I think it was around...6:30am, I actually saw Punch this morning as well doing her jog around the school!" New Ammo: Samurai's Testimony was loaded into Serenade's ElectroID "I would be ecstatic if that information was able to help you, Serenade!" There was a twinkle in Samurai's eyes as he said that. One that would creep anyone out. "I just might..." "Really?! Awesome!" It doesn't seem like there's anything else in here...I wonder if anyone else has found anything... Serenade exited the room and searched around the rest of the floor. He went into the gallery to find Grimdark crouched in the corner. "What the hell...?" He muttered "Did you find something?" Serenade asked, catching Grimdark off guard. "O-oh, Serenade. Yeah...some weird residue that's been left here in the corner, and not just here...I think there was some in the mechanics room as well" He points to some brown powder on the ground. "I think it might be dirt..." "Well, that's not so weird since there's a garden just on the floor below" Serenade says "I suppose so...still" New Ammo: Dirt was loaded into Serenade's ElectroID "Not much in here though..." Grimdark tells him. "Hey boys, find anything worthwhile?" Punch's voice cuts into their conversation. "Just dirt on the floor..." Serenade tells her "Dirt? So the culprit went to the garden?" "That's what we're guessing" Grimdark folds his arms. "Well it doesn't narrow it down since we were all in the garden for the last investigation..." Punch points out "Yes but that was a few days ago so it's unlikely that they could have dirt from then still on their shoes...so they must have went more recently..." Grimdark suggests. "Well, to bad I didn't see them" "What do you mean?" Serenade asked intrigued. "Well, remember when I mentioned my morning routine? The thing is, I never saw anyone during my morning routine, not since the last class trial..." "What time frame would this be around?" Grimdark asked "Well...first around 5:00am to 5:45am, they'd have around five minutes after that since that's when I go to the changing rooms to work out and them I go around the school until the morning wake up call" New Ammo: Punch's Testimony was loaded into Serenade's ElectroID "I'm gonna look around here a bit more..." Grimdark says "Same, you never know what you might find" Punch folds her arms. "I'll check the rest of the floor. See you guys later..." Serenade walks away from the room to find, Beau standing against the wall. "Beau? Is something wrong?" She looked up with her usual poker face. "No...just waiting for the class trial to start..." She replies "Well, shouldn't you be investigating?" "I don't need to...the culprit in this case is so obvious" "You know who it is?" She gave a nod. "Who?" Beau smirked and had an expression that said 'you should be able to figure that out'. Serenade sighed. "Fine. Don't tell me" "I wasn't planning to...and before I forget, Nimbus wanted to talk to you, he's in the physics lab on the second floor..." "Alright, thanks" "Don't thank me, idiot, all I did was deliver a message. It's not like I gave you some valuable information" Bitch... "Well? Are you gonna waste your time here or are you gonna investigate like the rest of the clueless cast?" "Cast? What do you think this is? Some sort of story?" "...just go..." Serenade sighed, accepting that he would get nowhere fast, trying to talk to her and he ventured down to the physics lab on the second floor. He entered the room to see, in the centre, a huge contraption that stretched up to the high ceiling. "Ah, Serenade...good to see you're here" That was Nimbus's voice but he wasn't visible. He must have been in the shadows somewhere. "I have some information to share with you..." "Which is...?" "It seems that the culprit has disposed of the weapon in this room..." "How are you able to tell?" "There is a small chute on the far end of the room, at the bottom...is an incinerator, and it's turned on, meaning that there must have been something inside it because it activates to pressure...." "Wow, that's...actually really useful, thanks, Nimbus!" New Ammo: Incinerator was loaded into Serenade's ElectroID "You're welcome...also...Beau asked me to do one little thing before you left..." "What's that?" As Serenade said that, a rose flew at him, piercing the wall next to him. There was a small note attached to it. "She wanted you to read that..." And then, Nimbus's presence disappeared. Serenade took the note of the stem of the rose and read what had been written. Serenade, I need you to know this but I couldn't tell you upfront because of the mastermind...but I think my suspicions are correct. The mastermind in among us, I still have no clues as to who it is but I know for sure that it isn't you or Nimbus. Whatever you do, don't fall into the mastermind's trap and fear her name...Junko Enoshima. Super High School Level Despair. -Beau Love <3 Serenade tilted his head 'Junko Enoshima'? There wasn't anyone with that name. Was one of the students lying about their identity just like Beau had said? These questions kept flying through Serenade's mind as he shoved the note into his pocket. W-what the hell is Beau talking about?! Super High School Level Despair? Junko Enoshima? Someone. Please just tell what's happening?! Serenade looked at the note again. He seemed more relaxed when he saw the signature. She signed it with a heart...that's kind of cute... He shoved it back in his pocket once more. *Ding dong, bing bong!* "Alright you bastard! You've had enough time for your investigation. It's time to get this underway! Meet at the usual spot for the class trial to begin!" Serenade pushed his thoughts about the note away. He focused his mind on one objective. Finding the DigiBot's killer and surviving a fourth class trial. He made his way down to the red door on the first floor. He was second there, the only other being Samurai. "Oh, hi Serenade! You think you got evidence for a fourth one in a row?" He asked almost to excited. "I hope so...it's kind of hard to tell at this point..." "Oh, right...sorry. I should have known that even you would have trouble at time!" "It's fine, Samurai. Really" "Well...if you say so..." It didn't take long for the rest of the students to gather. Only ten were going in. It just showed how much had happened since they had arrived. "Alright! You guys ready for round four?!" Monokuma asked, doing his usual tricks. "Actually don't answer that, cause I know you aren't!" He cackled. "Let's just get this over with" Beau says. "With a culprit this obvious, this trial is going to be a cakewalk" "Oh? A little confident, are we? This'll be interesting to say the least! I'll see you guys down there!" And he was gone. "W-w-well...here we go a-again..." B says stepping onto the elevator, with the other filing in with her. "To think...this has happened four times now..." Nimbus says. "It's because of our desire to leave...at least, the last three were" Beau replies. "This one was clearly not indented to go to a class trial" Orion speaks with a sorrowful tone. "Well...we can't do anything about it" Grimdark tells them. "No matter what, it doesn't change the fact that there are never any winners in these..." That's when Serenade heard Beau say it under her breath. "Fucking, Junko..."