Ultimate Life Or Death Despair Game (Danganronpa THH X Fem! OC)

Chapter 14: Too Good For This Sinful Earth

(3rd Person's POV)

"What...?" Makoto uttered as he looked on at Chihiro's body in shock and horror. He didn't know how long it took for him to fully comprehend the reality of what he was looking at. But as soon as he did...

UwaaaaaaAAAAAHHH!!!" A wild, almost primal scream escaped from Makoto's mouth.

"Ow, my ears!" Sora winced as she covered her ears.

Makoto tried to suppress his screaming, but it was useless. It surged out of him, like water from a spring gushing out of the ground. Byakuya, on the other hand...

"Most unusual, don't you think...?" Byakuya said, totally calm, as if he was watching all this unfold in front of a TV screen. Look. Fujisaki's corpse has been suspended somehow. And something's been written on the wall, in blood... "Bloodlust"? Such a brutal way to kill someone... No, this is beyond brutal. Wouldn't you agree?" He asked, looking at Makoto.

"They killed her. How could it not be brutal?" Makoto said, eventually finding the will to stop screaming.

"No, that's not my point. This murder is far too bizarre for any everyday amateur to have committed it." Byakuya shook his head. "Unlike with Maizono, this murder was not a crime of passion or necessity. It's almost as if whoever did this...did it for fun. You see what I mean, don't you?"

"...What?" The luckster's head was swimming. He was still reeling, too confused to understand what he was trying to say.

Meanwhile, Sora didn't even bother paying attention to the conversation, as she was silently staring at Chihiro's body with her usual blank and indifferent expression. 

But before Makoto could even begin to clear his head...

BING, BONG! BONG, BING!

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

Makoto looked at the monitor in confusion. " ...What the hell was that?"

"Ah, that's right. You were unconscious during Maizono's, so you don't know about it." Byakuya said to himself. "What you just heard was the body discovery announcement. Apparently, when three or more people discover a body, an announcement plays to let everyone know. I imagine it's so that the search for the culprit can proceed fairly for everyone involved."

"Proceed...fairly?" Makoto repeated, appalled at Byakuya's tone.

"Shirayuki, I heard you scream!" A voice yelled as Taka came into the locker room. "Are you o-" His body froze stone cold as he laid his eyes on Chihiro's body. " ...AAAAAAAAHH! Fujisaki!? A-And the body discovery announcement went off a few minutes ago, too! Does that mean Fujisaki's really...?"

"Dead, yes." Byakuya bluntly confirmed.

"D-D-D-D--!" Taka looked like he was about to pass out. That didn't seem to help his nerves.

"Before you start screaming your head off, go round everyone up." Byakuya told him. "It seems another game has begun. Another life-or-death game to uncover a killer..."

Taka bolted out of the locker room. As everyone made their way to the scene, it felt as if no time at all passed. Like any sense of time just...ran out.

When Sora started paying attention again and knocked herself out of her absent-minded state, she saw everyone there. The same looks were on everyone's faces. Confusion, fear, and anger. Everyone just...stood there, gathered around Chihiro's body.