Danganronpa: Return of Despair

Chapter 4, Part 3

"Monokuma may have the ability to do that just the same, though," Koki pondered.
"He's a fucking BEAR," Kaz shouted.
Shichiro nodded, "She makes a point,"
"He's a robot bear, or something," Koki added, "He probably has the ability to program himself to understand emotions and such,"
"If he did that he wouldn't make us kill each other," Shichiro shook his head.
"EXACTLY!" Kaz threw her arms out to her sides, "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKIN' SAYING!"
Koki rolled his eyes, "Well, I'm leaving, I don't want to catch your idiocy, Kaz, it's clearly contagious," He gestured towards Shichiro and stood up.
"I'm NOT an idiot, fuckhead," Kaz stood up as well.
I cleared my throat, "Kaz, we still need to go get cleaned up, so we should go,"
"Whatever," She made her way to the door.

Koki and I followed her out, Kaz and I went in a separate direction from him. We silently walked to the bathrooms. I went into the male bathroom, of course. I walked over to the sink. There was quite a lot of blood. I sighed and turned on the water. I started to wash my face off. It took me about 5 minutes, the blood was quite dry at the time. I walked out of the bathroom and Kaz was standing there.

"You waited for me?" I laughed a little.
She looked down the hall, "I didn't feel like walking alone, don't feel like being the next goddamn victim, or some shit,"
"Then what was the pool all about?" I asked.
"I'd rather take myself out than someone else, if someone else killed me the last thing I'd do is feel weak, and I'm not fuckin' weak," She shook her head.
"That actually makes sense, for you specifically," I nodded.
"The fuck does that mean?" She looked at me.
"Nothing bad," I shook my head, "Wait, we left Shichiro,"
"Huh? So?" She looked at me confused.
"We're getting low on numbers, if he's alone he's an easier target, and I'm assuming if the game is won by either killing or low on numbers, someone would go after him," I explained.
"...Not pickin' up what you're putting down," Kaz was still confused.
I sighed, "Let's just go check on him, better safe than sorry,"

We walked down the hall quickly back to the pool, Koki was coming down the hall from the opposite side.

"You had the same idea?" He asked.
"Some nerd shit or whatever he said or something, I dunno wasn't completely listening," Kaz shrugged.
"I'm assuming that's a yes," Koki let out an aggravated sigh.
"Yes, we're here to check for Shichiro," I nodded.

I opened the door. Shichiro was gone. I ran over to the pool. His body was at the bottom. There was blood filling the surface of the pool. The speaker system had turned on, but the voice that came through wasn't Monokuma's. It was a deeper, distorted voice. It might been something wrong with the speakers.

"A body has been discovered. Now then, after a certain amount of time, which you can use however you would like, the class trial will begin."

There was absolutely nothing. No clues that we could see. I turned to Koki.

"Are you any good at swimming? I have a bit of a headache from earlier," I asked him.
"Ask Kaz,"
"I'm not a good swimmer, and my bones are dense as fuck," She shrugged.
Koki rolled his eyes, "Fine, but you're paying for my dry cleaning if we get out alive."

He jumped in and pulled Shichiro's body up. There was no visible marks of struggle against anyone, no harm done to him at all. Come to think of it, I don't think anyone else was up here at all. The pool doors bursted open and the other remaining participants rushed in.

"Aww, I liked him! That's too bad," Kunihiko shrugged, "It was bound to happen,"
"Huh?" I turned to her, slightly confused.
"He wasn't gonna make it anyway," She shrugged again, "But that's not important right now, we have to investigate!"
"She's been weird all day," Ayu rolled her eyes and walked over to his body, "So what happened?"
"We assumed he drowned, but there might be more causes than that," Koki stated.
"Most of us probably have alibis," Ayu stated, "Man, this is hard, I've never actively participated in this before,"
"We know, dumbass," Kaz grumbled.
"Hey, you don't help much either," Ayu stated.
"I help more than you," Kaz rolled her eyes.
"Can we take this to after the trial, PLEASE," I slightly shouted.
"Anyway," Koki cleared his throat, "What can we do to investigate? We can't check the cameras, they're in Monokuma's office,"
I sighed, "Well, we could ask around f-"
I was interrupted by an announcement, "Time's up. Please gather by the red doors again for the class trial." The strange voice rang out again.

I sighed and we all made our way down. We reached the doors rather quickly. We walked in and stood at our podiums. This case was relatively easy, although there was still more possibilities. Every path seemed decently clear towards the answer. We had to find the right one. That wouldn't come so easily. I noticed Monokuma wasn't at his podium. What was going on? Did something happen with him? A loud buzzer sound went off, it alarmed a few of us. We assumed that was the start of the trial.