✔️More Than a Game (Oumasai/Saiouma)

6- Another Monokuma?!

Ouma's POV:
After we put the dust in the card slot, I started getting tired, which I'm not used to. I usually sleep really late. Despite that, I said bye to Saihara and Kaede, and they continued finishing up some other stuff in the library. I don't know if that's all they did though...

Ding dong bing bong!

I wake up to the morning announcement. Just like last night, the only Monokub there is Monodam. He doesn't say anything and the monitor shuts off. I didn't get much sleep last night. Saihara's words are still in my head: that there might be a mastermind.

Out of all these, people, who can I trust? No one, that is. Anyone can kill me, one of them is controlling Monokuma. Well, Saihara is kind of trustworthy, I guess. I still don't know too much about him... and maybe Rantaro, too...

I can't think about things like this. It's no use. Everything is fine. Monokuma's dead, so we have nothing to worry about?

Is he?

It can't be?

After I get dressed and wash up, I go outside for a bit where I find Kaede. I figured she didn't get enough sleep last night, like me and probably Saihara. "Heyyyy Kaede! Mannnnn, I slept great last night! The place is actually alright if there's nothing to worry about, isn't it?" I lie to make myself feel better.

"Um... I wouldn't think so..." she mutters. She doesn't seem in the mood to talk.

"Well, isn't it great! No Monokuma, no killing game! Just... a bunch of people to be friends with! Also... how far are you with Saihara?"

"Wh-What?!" Kaede shrieks, her eyes wide and eyebrows raised.

"Nishishi... what were you thinking of just now?"

"..." Kaede seems speechless. "I can't believe you do this so much, Kokichi. If you weren't as... as much of a liar, I would like you a lot more."

I was expecting something like that coming out of Kaede. "Wh-What? You're so mean! I thought we were friends?! But you were lying the whole time! Wahhhhhhhhhhhh!" I cry, tears pouring down my cheeks.

"Well, you were lying too," Kaede says back.

Now I wasn't expecting her to catch on. "Oh? Wow, Kaede. You know how to stand your ground, don'tcha? But you're right- I was lying. We're mostly just strangers to one another." I slip in another lie while I continue. "So that's why I don't really care what you and Shuichi do."

"That's a lie too, isn't it?" I hear another voice say. Saihara. He found me. "You do care, that's the only reason you brought it up, to see Kaede's reaction and because you were concerned about it as well."

"How- How do you do that, Shuichi?" Kaede looks at him in shock. "Not only did you know it was a lie, but you knew the reasons for it too! And today's only the second day!"

"Ah, um, I guess I have really good intuition or something like that. I'm not sure." Now it was Saihara's turn to lie. He knows me enough now, that's what. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not...

"Oh, um, okay. Well, I'm going to say hi to everyone else. You wanna come?" Kaede asks Saihara. Him, not me.

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