Class 78th Watches the Future - Chapter 78 - Spirit_Soldier - Dangan Ronpa (2024)

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Makoto then pulled up the Monokuma File.'I'd better check the Monokuma File before anything else…'He thought to himself.'The victim was Sakura Oogami. The time of death is estimated to be around 12 noon. The body was discovered in the rec room, on the 3rd floor of the school. There is evidence of a strong blow to the victim's head. No other injuries were noted. However, it seems that at some point, the victim suffered from violent vomiting of blood.'

"There's much more details this time," Mukuro noted, "However, there's no exact specifications on what exactly caused her death."

"Of course not," Junko huffed in fake annoyance, "That would be too easy."

"So, one of the things we need to figure out is the cause of death," Kyoko said musingly, "That'll be key in figuring out the mystery."

"I think the case this time might be… a challenge," Kyoko admitted.

Makoto looked at the girl curiously. "Why's that…?"

"The only way into the rec room is the door we just came through," she pointed out, "And that door had been jammed shut with the chair from inside the rec room. Which means the killer would have had to escape somehow, after barring the door."

That caught the students' attention. "That is a challenge," Taka mused, his eyebrows furrowing in thought, "To be able to bar the door, yet be able to escape at the same time? That seems impossible."

"Maybe they didn't escape, and just hid until the door was open?" Hiro suggested.

"Or they could've used some sort of trick to bar the door from the outside," Leon also offered as his two cents.

Kyoko decided to answer. "Hiding is a possibility, though not a strong one," she began, "The other suggestion is even more doubtful, as there's nothing to indicate that any sort of contraption has been used."

"Then how the hell else did the door get jammed?" Mondo questioned, scowling in confusion, "Cause I don't see any other way of doing that."

"It's something we'll have to figure out as we watch," the Detective answered.

"So, if the door was blocked from the inside, and there was no way in or out till we broke this window…" Makoto said, furrowing his eyebrows, "There's like… zero escape, right?"

"In other words, this is a classic locked room murder," Kyoko stated.

"L-Locked room murder…?" Makoto repeated nervously, "But then, how were they able to pull something like that off…?"

"That's a good question. Answering that should be our primary focus during the trial," she stated.

"This really feels like a mystery book sometimes, doesn't it?" Hifumi murmured, "Or a mystery game, considering some of the game-like mechanics on the screen. A locked door murder is a classic in the mystery genre."

"Really shows you that just because it's fiction, does not mean it isn't possible," Junko, in her teacher persona, stated factually, "So long as it's held in the laws of physics, there's plenty of things in pieces of entertainment that can be done."

"But right now… I can't really say."

"I see…" Makoto frowned in thought.'The way the killer set up the locked room… until I figure that out, the truth behind Sakura's death will stay hidden.'

"I can already tell that this'll be a bitch to figure out," Mondo grumbled, crossing his arms.

"I'm with you there, Mondo," Leon snorted.

'It's definitely a tough mystery… I need to concentrate and investigate as much as I can. For Sakura, if nothing else…'

"The first thing I did was look at the body," Narrator spoke, as Makoto moved towards Sakura, "There, I saw obvious evidence of the blow to the head, as well as blood that dripped from her mouth…"

"A blow to the head and vomited blood …" Taka mused loudly, "Does this mean that Sakura threw up the blood after getting hit from behind?"

"No," Kyoko answered bluntly, "Head trauma can lead to vomiting, yes, but not of blood."

"Then… something else caused Sakura to vomit blood?" Chihiro inquired.

"Likely poison," Mukuro answered, "That's the best possible answer at the moment."

"So, she got hit in the head and poisoned too?" Leon questioned, looking confused, "How does that work?"

'...Most likely those incidents are separate,'Byakuya concluded. It could be that the killer poisoned Sakura, and then attacked her when the poison didn't take immediate effect, but that series of events doesn't flow very well. Not with the caliber of Sakura's skills.

As Makoto was examining the body, his eyes landed on something on the ground. "As I was looking at Sakura's body, I noticed a wrapper on the ground, beside her," the narrator continued.

As Makoto picked it up, Hina quickly took notice of it, her eyes flashing in recognition. "Ah, that's-!"

"Do you recognize it, Hina?" The lucky student inquired.

"Well yeah," The swimmer nodded in confirmation, "I mean, I gave it to her. That's a candy wrapper."

"Sakura got super upset when she found out Genocide Jack had attacked me, right?" Hina continued, "So after we left the nurse's office, I gave it to her. I thought it might help her calm down a bit…"

"That was nice of you, Hina," Sayaka said, giving a small smile.

The swimmer felt herself calm down some more at hearing the story. "That would be something I would do, yeah," Hina nodded in agreement, also smiling.

Sakura herself gave a small smile at her friend's thoughtfulness, as well as the fact that she's calming down some.

"So, you gave that candy to Sakura…"

"I found a big box of it in the warehouse. I… really like 'em…" Hina said, looking down in sadness, "Actually, as soon as we could get into the warehouse, I took the entire box back into my room. I made sure nobody else could get their hands on 'em."

Leon snorted. "That also sounds like something you do," he remarked teasingly, "That one time Sonia brought those sweets from her home, you were so quick to snag them, most of us didn't get a chance to taste any."

Hina couldn't help but give a small pout at this. "Are you ever gonna let that go?"

"After you try to bite me when I tried to reach for one? Nope."

Some chuckled at the interaction between the smirking baseball star and pouting swimmer, glad for some form of levity.

"You really like them that much?" Makoto inquired.

"But I wanted Sakura to get a chance to try one for herself. That's why I gave it to her…" Slowly, tears once again slid onto Hina's face. "But now… they've lost all their flavor."

And just like that, that moment of levity was wiped away, being replaced with the somber mood once more. Hina felt her eyes sting with tears once again, cursing Monokuma and the killer for ruining the sweets with her friend's death.

The sorrowful look slowly turned into one of anger. "Byakuya, Toko, Hiro - one of them has to be the killer! You agree with me, don't you Makoto?!"

"U-Um, well…" Makoto looked away from the girl uncomfortably. "I don't want to say anything for sure without finding out more."

The present lucky student looked away when Hina gave him a betrayed look. "Who else could it be, Makoto?!" she protested, a bit of venom in her tone, "Those three are the only ones who would've wanted to kill Sakura!"

"I'm not disagreeing, but Hina…" Makoto said softly, his head still turned from her, "We still need to find out more about this case before we can accuse someone. Otherwise, we risk picking the wrong person."

"We've seen time and time again how dangerous it is to make assumptions and conclusions, how different the results are compared to what's previously suspected," Kyoko backed up Makoto with her argument, "A full investigation is needed, to make the proper conclusion."

Hina looked frustrated at that, adamant that it was one of the three that hated Sakura, but she found it hard to argue with those two.

"They're right, Hina," Sakura told her softly, "They cannot afford to get the culprit wrong. Otherwise, all lives but the killer's will be lost." While she does not seek vengeance for her own death, they all know the cost of not finding the blackened. And she doesn't want Hina to pay that price.

Hina took a deep breath, understanding their points and trying to calm down. She's still adamant that one of those three was the killer, but she understands that they need to do their investigation to find the true culprit.

"..." At first, Hina was silent. After a moment of that silence, she spoke. "Then let me help you find more," she declared, "You see, Sakura asked all three of them to meet with her. You know where? Right here in the rec room."

Eyes popped open at that.

"What?!"

"Is she serious?!"

"All three of them?"

"In the exact room she died in?"

Hina could only stare at the screen in shock, processing the fact that her friend invited those three in the rec room.

Makoto's eyes widened. "What?!"

"After I went to the nurse's office this morning, Sakura and I both left together, right?" Hina began recounting, "Well, eventually she went off on her own. But when I saw her again after that, she told me… she said she'd left a note for each of them. She asked them to meet her in the rec room by noon."

Suffice to say, the new info took several in for a loop. "Damn. It's looking more and more like it could be one of those three," Leon stated.

"That's way too much of a coincidence to be disregarded," Mukuro said.

Hiro, meanwhile, felt himself sweating. "I-It could still be a coincidence. Who knows, maybe none of us went to see her!"

"Not a single one of you went to see her, when she had died at the rec room, around the very same time of the assigned meeting?" Celeste summarized with a delicate brow raised, "Very doubtful."

Byakuya merely narrowed his eyes at this. While he would admit that this paints a damning picture, he doubts that his future self had accepted the invitation. He would obviously expect a trap of some kind and wouldn't allow himself to be caught in it, not even for the chance to direct that trap towards the martial artist.

Sakura herself was not too surprised by this reveal. She could see what her future self was trying to do, and it's something that she could see herself doing. Make peace with those who distrust and fear her.

'By noon… the Monokuma File said she'd died right around then…'Makoto thought in shock.

"I'm telling you the truth. I heard it right from the mouth," Hina insisted, "And… I tried to stop her. But she wouldn't listen. She said not to worry, that she just wanted to talk with them. And this is what happened…"

'I… could've stopped her,'Hina thought numbly, the idea being very painful for her heart,'I tried to stop her. But I failed, and…'The tears that were stinging her eyes felt themselves trailing down once more.

More tears slipped from her eyes, a look of guilt entering her face. "If I'd stopped her, by force even, this never would have happened…"

"Hina…!" Seeing the guilt-ridden look of both the future Hina and present Hina, Sakura brought it upon herself to refute that notion. "You cannot blame yourself for this. The decision to invite them was my decision, and mine alone."

"B-But, Sakura…" The swimmer slowly turned towards her friend, the tears still pouring from her eyes. "I could've stopped you… I could've saved you! If I just stood my ground-"

Sakura clasped her hands on Hina's shoulder in a firm grip. "Hina, you couldn't have stopped me," She said firmly, "Not even by force. Conflict was growing, and it was my responsibility to try and stop it, to try and talk with Byakuya, Toko, and Hiro. After seeing that you were harmed… I couldn't just stand by and do nothing."

The two friends stared at one another, one gaze resolute, the other tear-stained.

'It's hard not to have any regrets…'Makoto thought sadly,'To think of what you could've possibly done to stop this…'

Already, several of his friends are filled with regrets and questions of 'what-ifs,' so Hina could hardly be blamed for gaining some herself…

"H-Hina…" A sorrowful look entered Makoto's own face.'It's impossible not to have regrets, I know…'

'But the fact that she had asked those three to meet with her…'The look on his face then turned thoughtful.'And she asked them to come to the rec room at noon - the same time and place she ended up dying… it might be good to confirm what I just heard with the three of them directly.'

Junko snorted. "Doubt any of them would tell the truth," she stated, "And that's assuming that none of them didn't just throw those notes in the trash."

"At least one of them went to the meeting," Celeste agreed, "The time of death, and the time of the meeting, correlates too much for the possibility to be written off."

The screen then switched several instances of Makoto finding other pieces of evidence. "The next thing I found was a puddle of blood near the magazine shelf," Narrator Makoto stated, as the lucky student looked over said puddle.

"An opened locker with hand-prints inside…" Makoto was seen gazing at the prints.

"A broken red bottle, along with some sort of Monokuma figure nearby…" The scene then showed the broken bottle, as well as the toy, behind Sakura's chair.

"And finally, a protein can in the middle of the broken glass of the door…" Cue the can, surrounded by the clear glass of the door window.

Several of the students did all they could to soak up the information given to them. "I'm assuming that the bottle was used to attack Sakura from behind?" Celeste deduced, "The placement of that broken bottle seems to indicate so."

"And it looks as if the culprit was hiding in the locker, before ambushing Sakura," Mukuro gave her own guess, "That would explain the fingerprints."

"But then… why is there blood near the magazine shelf?" Sayaka pointed out with a frown, "If that's what happened, then there shouldn't be a puddle there."

"There shouldn't be a puddle, period," Byakuya corrected with his own frown, "It's clear Sakura died on that chair, so there shouldn't be any blood other than where the body is at."

"This is already getting confusing…" Hiro moaned, holding his head.

'...There's also the protein can that has glass directly under it,'Kyoko mused to herself,'Which doesn't make any sense; all the glass should be around it, not under it.'Unless someone moved it around before-hand, this shows that someone placed the can there, to throw off the case in some way.

"After finding whatever clues there are in the room, I decided to talk to Byakuya."

The scene switched to Makoto approaching the Togami heir. "What do you want? You're bothering me," the heir bluntly stated.

"Um, there's something I'd like to talk to you about," Makoto began, slightly nervous.

"Make it quick."

So the luckster went straight to the question. "Is it true that Sakura asked you to meet her in the rec room?"

"So, you found out," Byakuya smirked to himself, "Interesting."

"Then it's true?"

"I did receive a note to that effect, yes," the Togami heir nodded, "But what fool would do what it said, and risk being killed by that monster?"

The insult, of course, earned a near animalistic growl from Hina. However, she kept control of herself this time, retaining a calm enough not to try a futile attack.

"How do we know you're not lying?" Sayaka questioned, clearly not convinced, "For all we know, you could've used the opportunity to kill her yourself."

"And risk falling into the net of someone of Sakura's strength?" the heir retorted, "I'm no fool; that's not a risk worth taking, not even to win this so-called game."

"So you didn't go see her?" Makoto asked for clarification.

"Of course not," was the blunt reply given, "I ripped the note to shreds and threw it away. I haven't seen Sakura today at all."

"Honestly, I can see Byakuya doing something like that," Leon sighed, scratching the back of his head, "He's not the type to do what anyone says, and smart enough not to try anything against Sakura."

No one could really disagree with this. While there are several that are very pissed with the affluent progeny, they're not blind to the fact that Byakuya is intelligent, and not the type to take gambles like that.

A few were still skeptical, of course, but they couldn't really press this without causing another argument.

'Byakuya says he didn't go see her. Is that the truth…?'Makoto asked himself,'Well, until I can prove otherwise, I have no choice but to accept it as fact.'

"If you're all finished, please remove yourself from my sight," Byakuya demanded.

"O-Okay, thanks…"

Gripping Makoto's hand tightly, Sayaka resisted the incredibly strong urge to flip the bird at the screen, or at Byakuya himself. Oh, how she wished the bowl of miso had been able to hit Byakuya…

Once Makoto walked away from the affluent progeny, Kyoko approached him. "Well, Makoto? Have you finished with your general investigation?" she inquired.

"Yeah, I think so… for the most part," Makoto confirmed.

"Then you should probably go talk with people now. I'm on guard duty, so I can't leave," Kyoko advised, "Which is why I've decided you'll go in my place."

And now Sayaka's anger transferred to Kyoko. "You've 'decided'?!" the idol repeated incredulously.

"Is she fucking serious right now?" Mondo asked blankly.

"How come you're being so forceful?" Chihiro questioned, confused and sympathetic for Makoto, "He wouldn't say no in helping."

Kyoko stubbornly kept her eyes on the screen, not facing anyone. "She may still have lingering… feelings about their previous conflict."

"The one where you admitted that you overreacted?" Junko pointed out. The detective made no visible change to her posture, but the fashionista easily saw through the facade, grinning.

'She's decided…?'was Makoto's blank thought,'She's gotten a lot more pushy since we had our… issue.'

"No kidding," Mondo snorted, "Almost as bad as Togami."

"Having to deal with Byakuya AND a pushy Kyoko?" Leon patted the lucky student's shoulder in sympathy, "I pity you man, I really do." Makoto could only chuckle awkwardly in response, while Kyoko gave the baseball star a completely unamused look.

'But she's right. I do have to go talk to the others. Sakura wanted to meet with two other people. I need to hear what they have to say…'

The scene switched to Makoto at Toko's door. A few seconds after he pressed the doorbell, the door opened a crack. "Huh? Wh-Who's there?"

Almost everyone started gagging and choking once Toko's door was opened. "Looks like Miss Fukawa is b-back to normal," Hifumi managed to choke out.

"Seriously, what's with this aura?" Leon gagged, "Is it the room, or Toko that's leaking that?"

"I assume her naturally depressed aura is stored up within her room, thus gaining a visible effect," Celeste deduced.

Toko would've taken offense to those comments, if she hadn't been so busy keeping her eyes covered.

Makoto had to take a moment not to gag at the aura coming from the room.'Agh, the most negative aura I've ever felt…'the luckster thought to himself,'An aura of total decay…'

"Well? What do y-you want?" Toko questioned impatiently.

"So, you're back to normal," Makoto noted, "Genocide Jack isn't around anymore…"

The writer flinched. "D-Don't even say her name… it makes me s-sick to my stomach…"

"And now the s-sight of her will h-haunt my dreams…" Toko whimpered through her covered eyes.

Something that the students noted. "Um, Toko, I think it's safe to open your eyes now," Makoto told the girl softly, "Pretty sure there won't be a second victim this time."

The writing prodigy wasn't having it, however. "I'm not taking any c-c-chances!"

"I was in such a g-good mood, too…!"

Eyebrows were shot up at this. "You can be in a good mood?" Leon asked with obvious disbelief.

"Why would she make such an obvious lie?" Celeste asked, no one being able to tell whether she's sincere or not with her question, "No one would believe it."

"Toko and good moods do not combine," Hifumi shook his head, "It's closer to an oxymoron."

This time, Toko heard the negative comments about her. "Y-You all can just g-go and get t-trampled by a-an elephant!"

'She didn't look like she was in a good mood…'Makoto thought blankly.

"You c-can get trampled over t-too, Makoto!"

That earned another bout of sheepish laughs from the lucky student.

Shaking his head, he continued with his objective. "Hey, I was… hoping to talk to you about something. Is now a bad time?"

At first, Toko was silent. After a moment of that silence, the writer slowly slithered out of her room and into the hall. "W-What do you want?"

"I wanted to talk about the fact that Sakura had asked to meet with you," Makoto explained bluntly.

"Wh-?!" Toko flinched in shock at that. "I-I-I don't know what you're t-talk about!"

"Yeeeeaaahhh, who smells bullshit?" Leon deadpanned. Several hands were raised. "Yeah, thought so."

"Byakuya already told me she had asked to meet with him," the lucky student continued on.

"What…? She w-wanted to meet with Master, too?" Toko looked even more surprised at this. Then realization flashed in her face. "Ah! I just s-said 'too', didn't I…?"

"Yes. Yes, you did," Celeste confirmed, shaking her head in disappointment, "Sometimes, it pains me to see several of you lie so pitifully."

"The fact that she did try to lie makes her look all the more suspicious," Sayaka added, eyes narrowed.

Hina also narrowed her eyes at the screen, an array of negative emotions swimming in her eyes.

She growled in annoyance. "I guess now it's t-totally obvious, huh?"

"Y-Yeah, pretty much…" Makoto couldn't help but agree, "So, can you tell me about it?"

"I a-admit, I did get the note…" Toko confessed, "B-But I didn't go see her! I was s-scared, so… I couldn't bring m-myself to go!"

'Hmm… Toko claims she didn't go see her, but… can I really believe her?'Makoto mused,'Well, until I can prove otherwise, I have no choice but to accept it as fact.'

"That's about all you really can do with the three," Mukuro stated, frowning, "Even if one of them went to see Sakura, they're not going to admit it. That would just give us reasons to suspect them."

"That's true…" Makoto sighed in agreement.

"Is that g-good enough? Then I'm going back to m-my room…" With that, Toko quickly retreated back into her room.

The next scene switched to Makoto ringing the doorbell of Hiro's room. After a few seconds, the fortune teller opened up the door and came out. "What's up, Makoto? Did you need something?"

"Yeah, actually… I just wanted to check something," Makoto started on, "It's about how Sakura wanted to meet with you…"

Hiro reeled back in shock at that. "H-H-How'd you know about that?!" he exclaimed. He then made a noise of realization. "Did you maybe… gaze into my soul? Have your special abilities awakened in you?!"

"...Hiro, dude, just how do you form these conclusions?" Leon couldn't help but ask, looking baffled.

"You would think the first thought would be that Makoto overheard it somewhere," Mondo stated, nodding in agreement to Leon's question, "Not that he fucking gazed into your soul."

"Hiro, you are… something." Sayaka said, staring blankly at the screen.

Hiro hung his head down. "My guess isn't that bad…" he muttered petulantly.

"Now, now…" Hifumi said in a placating manner, "The question isn't that far-fetched. There's always a possibility of a special power lurking beneath Mr. Naegi's soul, just waiting to burst out!"

"See?" Hiro pointed at Hifumi happily, "He gets it!"

"Imbeciles. All of you," Byakuya groaned.

"B-But! I'm not the only one she wanted to meet with!" Hiro then quickly offered up, "Ogre told me herself that she asked Byakuya and Toko to come, too!"

"What?" That caught Makoto's attention. "When did Sakura tell you that?"

"Yeah, when did Sakura tell him that?" Sayaka asked in realization, narrowing her eyes, "Because Byakuya and Toko didn't know that. Did they?"

"No, no they didn't," Mukuro confirmed the idol's words, "Earlier conversations proved that Toko was unaware of this, while Byakuya gave no indication that he knew about the others."

Now Hina's narrowed eyes were aimed at a now nervous Hiro.

"Oh-! W-Well…!" Hiro stammered, realizing his slip up, "When she asked me to meet with her, of course!"

"But… didn't she write you a note?" Makoto pointed out.

"Yeah, uh… a note… she uh…" Hiro stammered even further, "She gave it to me in person! And she happened to mention the others, like, in passing!"

"Yeeeaahhh, I don't buy it," was Leon's blunt statement, "Not with that whole nervous act."

"Yeah, that statement doesn't sound right…" Chihiro murmured in agreement.

"It's clear the fool is lying," Celeste deadpanned, "Quite pitifully too, if I might add."

Hina's narrowed gaze turned even fiercer.

'I gotta be honest, this is super suspicious…'Makoto thought plainly. He then asked aloud, "So then you went and met with Sakura?"

"N-No way, I totally didn't!" Hiro denied vehemently, "Why would I ever do that?!"

'Yeah… definitely suspicious.'

"And this is Makoto thinking this…" Junko pointed out, already looking done with Hiro's stupidity, "If Mr. Believe-the-best-in-everyone is this suspicious, there's no way he didn't go there."

"B-B-But, why would I ever want to go to a meeting with Ogre?!" Hiro argued nervously, "I would be too frightened about what she would do!"

"But you would be foolish enough to not think about that until after you're in the meeting," Byakuya countered, "So I'm willing to believe that you went there, regardless of your fear and suspicions."

"The last time I saw Ogre was when Hina got hurt and I took her to the nurse's office!" the fortune teller stated, "I haven't seen her since then!"

"But, wait… didn't he say that Sakura gave him the note personally?" Chihiro asked, frowning in confusion.

"Yes. Yes he did," Celeste confirmed, her face completely wooden, "The fool already contradicted himself and proved that he met with Sakura."

"Dude is digging his own fucking grave…" Mondo deadpanned.

Hiro was starting to sweat, both at the piling evidence and the fierce stare from a certain swimmer.

Makoto decided to ignore the contradiction for the time being. "While I'm here, could you show me the note she gave you?"

"Oh, um… do I still have it…? Let's see…" Hiro murmured to himself, digging through his pockets, "Ah, sorry! Looks like I don't have it anymore!"

With a goofy smile, he pulled out both his pockets. As he did, however, a candy wrapper fell out from those pockets and fluttered to the ground. A very familiar candy wrapper. "Huh…?"

Immediately, several of the students recognized the candy wrapper. "Isn't that…?" Sayaka asked with clear recognition.

"The red polka-dotted wrapper we saw in the rec room," Taka finished, "Or at least another wrapper of the same candy-type."

"But… didn't Miss Asahina say that she grabbed the entire box of candy…?" Hifumi pointed out, slightly nervous.

"Yes. Yes she did," The girl herself growled, now full on glaring at the now pale Hiro.

"Ah… Aahhh-!" With clear panic, Hiro snatched the wrapper and stuffed it back into his pocket. "Ehehe. Sorry, just a bit of trash I forgot to throw out…"

"Trash…?"

"A-Anyway! I can't deny that Ogre asked to meet with me, but I never went…" Hiro stated, quickly changing the subject, "So, well, if you excuse me…!"

With that, the fortune teller slipped back into his room.'Hiro said that was just trash, but…'Makoto mused to himself.'...there's no way that's all there was to it.'

"Well, I think it's safe to say that Hiro has met up with Sakura in the rec room," Sayaka stated, looking done with Hiro.

"Indeed," Taka nodded in agreement, "But now it's the question of whether or not he's actually the killer."

"It couldn't be me!" Hiro shouted, waving his hands around in panic, "There's no way I could kill Ogre! No way!"

"Regardless of your possible capabilities, it's clear that you met up with Sakura in the rec room," Mukuro pointed out, "And how you went to hide that fact makes you a viable suspect, Hiro."

"But… but…!"

"Hiro…" The fortune teller stiffened at the growl of his name. Slowly, he turned towards the source, to see a positively enraged Hina. "I swear, if it was you who killed Sakura… if you were the one to do it…!"

The swimmer left that note hanging, seemingly unable to finish without blowing up in rage. Hiro could only whimper at the threat given to him.

'I am so glad that Hiro isn't the killer…'Junko thought in boredom,'The trial would be reeeaaal boring if he was.'

Having figured out some of the events that transpired, the analyst quickly concluded that Hiro isn't the killer. Oh, he likely attacked her, but he wasn't the one who dealt the killing blow. That honor is for the one who poisoned her.

And she already has a good guess on who actually did that, just from the locked door alone…

Makoto then walked away from Hiro's room, losing himself in thought. 'Okay, so I've heard from Toko and Hiro. Umm… what's next?' the luckster asked himself, 'I'll definitely have to look at the actual crime scene again, but on top of that… maybe I should find out more about the protein can we found on the floor of the rec room. I'm sure it must have come from the chem lab…'

'So, Makoto is heading to the chem lab now…'Kyoko mused to herself,'That's good. There's sure to be more evidence there.'

So far, there's the cuts on the head, the vomited blood, and the puddle of blood near the bookshelf; there's also the broken Monokuma bottle, the protein can that was placed at the entrance, the hand-prints in the locker, and, of course, the locked door set up.

Hina also revealed that Sakura asked Byakuya, Toko, and Hiro to meet up in the rec room, around the time that she had died, and it's clear that at least Hiro took up the offer. However, she held off from making any conclusions about his innocence or guilt. There are just too many variables unchecked to form any clear hypothesis, let alone make that conclusion.

So as always, she waited until more evidence was given, to form the proper conclusion.

Class 78th Watches the Future - Chapter 78 - Spirit_Soldier - Dangan Ronpa (2024)
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