Identity V x Danganronpa

Chapter 77 -Truth Be Told-

     Lucky Guy's P.O.V: "?"


     As time passes, I'm starting to feel a lot bored as to what the mastermind and the traitors had been planning... It had already been more than a week! What's up with that?!

     Still, at least, some things had been settled between everyone else, I guess I could say that... It's making me feel more uncomfortable... and insecure by each second when time passes...

     "Oh hey, you're still worried, aren't you?" Freddy dropped by my table in the dining hall as he took a seat next to me. "You've never been up early in the morning before, have you?"

     "Multiple times," was all I could reply to when I took a deep breath. "The thing is, thinking so much about the upcoming traitor is giving me awful vibes, don't you agree?" 

     "Mm, I see," the lawyer patted my back. "Cheer up, we'll both get out of here... somehow."

     "Thanks," I smiled, and this time, it wasn't a fake smile. "I'm glad I have you by my side. Without you, it would be totally different."

     He chuckled, "Oh, yes it would. Because nobody would have their face smacked by a journal, but me."

     "That's a difference," I agreed, but then my mind suddenly remembered about the journal. "Speaking of the journal, I... I guess you could say that I..."

     Giving a best guess, Freddy pulled out the journal right in front of my eyes, "You're talking about this one?"

     "How did you..."

     "Man, you hid it so well that the traitors, not even the cameras could find it," he gave me a funny smile. "Before the rooms were going to upgrade by itself, I found it hiding... somewhere where it wasn't supposed to be..." 

     I sighed in relief, "Thank god."

     "Yeah," Freddy stared at me oddly before scolding me, "THaNk GoD THaT YoU DiDn'T WEt ThE PApErS OR ELsE I WOuLd BE So MaD At 'Chu!" 

     Ooookayyyyyy, I think I got him a bit mad at me... And I deserve it! :(

     "Relax, I was mad at you before, but then I realized you only did it because you didn't trust me, right?" He curiously guessed. "It's fine, I get that a lot."

     "Can I see it?" 

     "No."

     "Please?"

     "Only if you promise not to do 'THAT' again!"

     "OKie~!"

     Handing the journal over to me, I quickly examined the journal on the table. "Freddy... you're right."

     "I know I am right," the lawyer agreed with me, not knowing what I meant by that, but I gave him a worried look. 

     "No, I mean it," I tried again. "The journal still has dots on them... do you know what that means?"
  
     "Someone who didn't know where the journal was couldn't switch it?"

     "That's right!" I exclaimed. "Of course, that's what happened!"

     Freddy shrugged, "Well, so what? We still don't know anything about these... dots and so on. Wouldn't do us any good when they don't make any sense."

     As I kept looking back at the pages once more, I hadn't heard someone coming up from behind me, "What are you guys doing?"

     We turned around to find Helena who was the 3rd person to be in the dining hall at 6:50 a.m. Not sure if I could trust her, I didn't waste enough time to cover the dots on the pages with my hands. "N-nothing! We're just... uh... doing some little research."

     "Research?" She repeated, looking interested all of a sudden. "Oh, please tell, what kind of research are you guys doing?"

     Before I could think of a fake excuse--

     "Lucky Guy," Freddy glanced at me, "Enough, just relax."

     But Helena could be the traitor...

     And I wasn't sure if I could trust her, but I slowly gave in. "F-fine... We were stuck on dots..." I explained, showing her the pages with many dots on them. "You can feel them if you want, they're quite bumpy."

    Of course, she couldn't exactly see well since she was blind, but what surprised me the most was when she touched the dots on the pages, she gasped. "Oh!"

     Now that caught me by surprise when I jumped up from my seat, "What is it?" I asked her, a little too quickly. "Did you know what it says?"