Chapter Text
“Attention all students, please gather to the Cafeteria for a class meeting. An alarm will be played repeatedly until everybody is present.” Monomoko sat idly in the cafeteria before blaring a shrill alarm throughout the school.
A pause. There was slow but ushered footsteps, and in walked a tired looking Nakamigawa dragging a checked out Ojima Takeshi.
“FIRSTTT!!”
Monomoko did not acknowledge him.
“Attention all students, please gather to the Cafeteria for a class meeting. An alarm will be played repeatedly until everybody is present.” The alarm shrieked again.
This time, a few more than two arrived. Chiba Airi, Harada Keizou, Hama Ran, And Tsuno Manami entered the room.
“Wahh! It’s too early for this! Or, late? Just- turn it offff!” Chiba Whined as Harada rubbed his eyes. Monomoko did not flinch at the sound.
“Gosh, I’m getting really tired of these alarms.” Manami murmured between her yawn, outstretching her arms.
“Attention all students, please gather to the Cafeteria for a class meeting. An alarm will be played repeatedly until everybody is present.” The alarm shook through the school on que.
Wada Masanari, watari nishino, Isono Miki, Okazaki Hanano, Yanagi shigeki, and Hayashi walked in next. None spoke a word.
“Attention all students, please gather to the Cafeteria for a class meeting. An alarm will be played repeatedly until everybody is present.” Again, it deafened the hallways.
Sasaki Hitomi, and tamba ruiko trudged in, a small groan erupting from Sasaki.
“Who are we still waiting on!? God!” Hiroaki pinched his nose while shaking Ojima awake.
“Just..hasegawa and Kamimura, I think..” Isono replied softly, too tired to speak up.
Attention all students, please gather to the Cafeteria for a class meeting. An alarm will be played repeatedly until everyb-“
“W-We’re here! Sorry!” Hasegawa and Kamimura walked in side by side, hasegawa looking nervously at Kamimura while fidgeting with his hands. Kamimura walked faintly, looking almost as if he’d collapse if a gust of wind passed through.
“Took you guys long enough. Rabbit, speak.” Hama crossed his arms, his eyes sunken with exhaustion.
“Of course. Because we have reached 8 days with no killings, even after motivation, I will be initiating a change. Tomorrow morning, there will be 16 new students joining your class. We will now refer to you guys as students 1-16A, and the new students 1-16B. There will also be a motive reprieve upon their arrival.”
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“W-well, this could be seen as good news, guys. Think about it, 16 more people, 16 more hands. This might make it easier to escape! And, we’ll be able to sleep!” Sasaki tried to reason, but everybody could spot the reluctance and nervousness in her voice.
“16 more students to murder us!” Hiroaki protested.
“Maybe you just see the negative sides of things, Hiroaki.” Shigeki rebounded.
“But..what if the motive is just worse? No one said it’d be easier..” wada said sluggishly.
“Fucking great. More freaks I have to deal with.” Kamimura muttered, not meant to be heard by anyone.
“I could..see this going either way.” Harada blinked, sawa shuffling around in his bag.
Slowly, the small complaints escalated into full blown arguments. The chatter was almost deafening to listen to, it just grew louder and Louder until the noise become unbearable.
“Guys..” Sasaki spoke, not nearly loud enough.
“EVERYBODY! PLEASE!” Sasaki shouted this time, the chatter dying out almost immediately. Everybody had set their eyes on her, some sighing and others scoffing.
“Thank you. Let’s just wait until tomorrow morning. After then, we can sleep and properly discuss this. And we can meet our new peers and determine if they’re threats.”
Sasaki spoke calmly despite the tiredness gnawing at her.
It was silent for a moment, the group looked around. But ultimately, it was agreed that it’d be for the best. It wasn’t like there was much they could do to prevent it anyway.
“I don’t want anyone snapping before we can sleep. We shouldn’t disband until we can. Let’s all sta-“
“Wait! Where are they going to sleep!? There’s only 16 dorms! Monomoko!” Tamba cried out, searching for the rabbit.
It’d had made its leave earlier, but had came back once it was called.
“My apologies, But you will be informed of this matter tomorrow when they arrive. For now, don’t worry about it.” It explained mechanically, before disappearing again.
“Wh- th- that’s not fair! Why can’t it just-“
“Tamba. Please. It’ll be explained tomorrow. Now, as I was saying, we should all stay in the kitchen until the morning announcement.” Sasaki finished.
“HA- PFFT- hell no! I’m doing quite fine! I don’t go around murdering people when I get tired!” Hiroaki hadn’t even let a second pass before disagreeing. Sasaki raised her hand to nose and pinched it, clenching her eyes shut.
“It’s one night, Hiroaki. After that I don’t care where you go.”
Before Hiroaki could complain again, Ojima spoke up.
“Nakamigawa, it’s just for tonight. Let’s just get it over with okay?” Hiroaki scoffed and bit his lip before reluctantly accepting it.
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For 16 people in one room, the few hours they had to wait were awfully quiet. Tamba, watari, and Okazaki were in the corner doing something no one else could really describe. Kamimura and hasegawa were shuffled in another corner, hasegawa going on small rants while Kamimura nodded along. Wada, Isono, and tsuno were more off to the middle of the room chatting quietly. Sasaki sat alone, fighting her sleep. Hama, Chiba, And Harada played with Sawa around the room. Yanagi and Mai stood near each other, not speaking. Hiroaki was constantly complaining to Ojima.
And finally, that monotonous familiar voice had spoken up.
“Attention students. Please report to the auditorium to greet your new peers and hear the motive reprieve.” Monomoko spoke, gracefully not setting off an alarm. Everybody rushed over as quickly as they could.
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As they flung the auditorium doors open, they were met with the new students faces. All of them displaying an angry or confused expression.
“Thank you. Before you all start arguing, please allow me to explain.”
But of course, who would listen to a stupid rabbit?
“WHERE THE HELL ARE WE!?” A purple haired girl with robotic limbs screamed towards the group, as if they had brung them here.
“We pretty much just got here too. And we didn’t take you guys, It did.” Kamimura spoke up, pointing towards the rabbit.
“A-are we in a psychiatric hospital!?” A tall blonde haired woman with blue eyes shrieked.
“I..don’t think so.” A shorter red-haired person replied.
“I-It’s not a-“ before hasegawa could finish his sentance, an alarm screeched through out the room, rewarding either gasps or groans from everyone.
“I asked you to wait to argue. I am unsure why the new students are confused, as I have explained to them before allowing you guys in. You are in a killing game. Now, please allow me to finish. I’ve explained the murdering game rules to both parties so I will not repeat them. I’ll start with why you are here now rather than later. Our original plan was to bring students 1-16B in after the first game was completed. However, we thought this would be an interesting twist. This has adjusted the rules slightly. Rather than their being 5 trials, now 9 will be necessary to graduate. You are still only allowed to kill up to two students per trial. Is this section clear?”
The class was silent, they knew if anyone had spoken it would be back to arguing.
“Good. The next discussion is the motive reprieve. We’ve decided to exterminate the sleeping motive since it’d be unfair to students 1-16A. The new motive will be cuffs.”
A few dirty looks and dissatisfied students shine throughout the room.
“This means two people will be cuffed together until the next killing takes place. Originally, this motive was going to have randomized student selections. However to make things easier, Your A and B counterparts will be cuffed together. In regards to Student 13A’s previous question, Your counterparts dorms will be shared between the two of you. I will now call up the pairs.” Monomoko finishes its long and irritating rant, and the students finally begin talking.
“Well. Atleast this motives not directly fucking with me.” Kamimura crossed his arms and turned to hasegawa.
“I-I guess.. but I feel like you’d go insane with a lot of these people..” hasegawa mumbled back, earning a light laugh from kazutoshi.
“Probably, yea.”
“Isono Miki and Ouno Nanae please step forward.” Monomoko interrupted.
“Oh boy..you got this Isono.” Isono silently prayed as she walked up to the table full of cuffs.
“Right..” Ouno spoke as she walked from the other direction to the middle of the room.
“Hi..uhm, l-left or right?” Isono avoided eye contact.
“Left please.” Ouno responded monotonously Before retreating with Isono to one side of the room.
“Harada Keizou and Ninomiya Youhei, please step forward.”
Neither of them hesitated as they stepped up.
“Right or- er, is that a fucking tiger?” Ninomiya let shock leak into his voice, before dissolving into excitement.
“Right please, and y-yea! This is sawa, she’s nice I promise!” Ninomiya grinned as he dragged the two of them away, begging to see her.
“Kumada Erina and Chiba Airi, please step forward.”
When Chiba had seen who stepped up, she fidgeted, hesitating. But Hama nudged her forward, telling her it’d be ok.
“Oh. Atleast you’re not freakishly tall I guess. You good with left cuff?”
“That’s alright with me..” Chiba spoke softly.
“Kamimura Kazutoshi and Ikeda Daiki please step forward.” Kamimura waited for his counterpart to step forward, then silently begged to be struck by lighting. He knew that grin was going to drive him insane.
“Ha..that’s, not gonna end well.” Hasegawa retorted from besides him.
“God..fuck..” Kazutoshi buried his face in his palms.
“Cmonnn! It’s not like I’m exactly thrilled to be cuffed to you, edge lord.” Ikeda spoke from the table, and Kamimura questioned why motives continued to target him specifically.
“I-it’s alright kazutoshi. I’m sure..you guys..will uhm, get along. Maybe.” Hasegawa said that last part in a hushed tone, and Kazutoshi started dragging his feet forward to the table.
Ikeda clicked his cuffs on immediately, not bothering to ask what side he wanted. Kamimura could feel the despair rising in him already. He could hear hasegawa’s muffled giggle.
“Hayashi Mai and Misao Denden please step forward.”
Hayashi stepped forward with no complaints. She’d be fine with anyone. Denden stepped a little slower, but made her way up nervously.
“Y-you can take whichever cuff you’d like!” She shrieked while offering both her wrists
“..right.” Hayashi snapped their handcuffs together and dragged them off to the side.
“Tsukigata hideyuki and Wada Masanari please step forward.”
Tsukigata has a stupid smile as he walks up. Optimistic for someone in a killing game. But, wada stands there.
Tsuno poked wada softly,
“Masa, go on. They called you”
“..huh- oh! Oh, sorry.” Wada snaps out his trance and walks up to tsukigata, rubbing his eyes.
They link and walk off.
“Ruka yokoi and Sasaki hitomi please step forward.”
Sasaki’s face softens as she see’s who walks up. Not too bad, she thought.
“Pleasure to meet you. You can choose what cuff you want.” Sasaki spoke firmly, and ruka nodded before connecting them and leading them off.
“Sou yaitabashi and Ojima Takeshi, please step forward.”
Nakamigawa dosent have to shake him surprisingly, as he walks as soon as he’s called. Probably desperate to get this over with.
Yaitabashi freezes for a second before squinting slightly. He starts walking nervously and tries to follow where the sound of the rabbit had came from.
“H-hey. You can, uhm, you can choose the cuff you’d like.” Ojima furrows his eyebrows before nodding and connecting them, when yaitabashi dosent start walking, Ojima leads them away.
“Azusa Maekawa and Hanano Okazaki please step forward.”
They both walk up immediately.
“Yeesh! Creepy mask.”
“Hrm, I could say the same about your limbs.”
“Yea, whatever” maekawa hisses before yanking Okazaki along with her.
“Hama Ran and Shingo Hirose please step forward.”
Hirose readjusts his hair before stepping up and grabbing a pair of cuffs. He slightly tenses at Hamas arrival.
“I wouldn’t recommend cuffing my demon arm. It’s too badass for restraints.”
“E-excuse me?”
“Just give me, I’ll connect em.” Hirose hands them the cuffs and they walk off once they’ve connected.
“Ogura noriko and Tsuno Manami, please step forward.”
Tsuno puts a smile on her face despite being drained. Ogura seems to take note of her outfit.
“A-ah! At last! Another powerful being to be at my side, TSUNO MANAMI!” Tsuno slightly cringes at the screaming but warms at the compliment(?).
They quickly link together and talk quietly as they leave the table.
“Hiroaki Nakamigawa and Osamu Shishikura please step forward.”
Hiroaki lets out a frustrated sound before hesitatingly walking up.
“Eugh..seriously? It’s like Ice fairy part two..” Hiroaki grimaces when he meets shishikura, who just awkwardly laughs in return. Hiroaki gets it over with and chains them together.
“Isoda mion and Tamba Ruiko please step forward.”
Tamba hypes herself up before stepping up to isoda, who seems un phased. They don’t actually talk. They just cuff up and walk off. Awkward.
“Hasegawa Ken and Tei Atsushi, please step forward.”
Kamimura looks up, trying to ignore Ikeda’s endless jabs and talking.
“R-right.” Hasegawa mutters as he walks up, picking at the skin on his fingers. Tei has a tired look, but seems to be glad he wasn’t paired with a total freak.
“Just, take whatever cuff you want. I really don’t care.” Tei huffs out and offers his wrist to Hasegawa, who does it quickly and walks off towards Kamimura and unfortunately Ikeda.
“Watari Nishino and Nishiguchi Mutsuko please step forward.”
Watari skips up, a grin on her face. The same could not be said for Nishiguchi.
“H-h-hello!~” watari chirps in a sing-songy voice, clearly please with her counter part. Nishiguchi ignores her and links them.
“Yanagi Shigeki and Akiba taku please step forward.”
Yanagi has that same princely smile on he usually has.
“Greetings! You may choose what side of the cuff you’d like, of course.” Yanagi smiles warmly.
“Sure,” akiba responds plainly before binding them together.
“Thank you for your participation in this motive reprieve. You may continue with your daily activities. Ah, also, you may disconnect the cuffs for three hours each day. A punishment will be inflicted if the timer goes over three hours.”
Before anyone could argue or complain, the rabbit disappears and everyone walks off.