"K-Kyoko... th-this is..."
"There's only one bed?"
"W-What do we do..."
Thanks to Kyoko Kirigiri winning at rock-paper-scissors, we ended up in the deluxe guest room, but there was only a single bed. I looked at her with an awkward expression, and she just tilted her head at me.
"Why are you acting like this all of a sudden?"
"...Huh?"
"It's not like this is the first time we've shared a bed..."
The second she said that, my face started burning on its own. Honestly, I'd been deliberately trying to erase those memories from when I had Despair Disease, but thanks to Kirigiri, they all came flooding back.
"Th-That time, I wasn't in my right mind... so this time, I'll sleep on the floor and you can take the bed—"
"Lie down."
"...Yes, ma'am."
I obediently climbed onto the bed without another word. Kirigiri let out a small sigh, then suddenly started taking off her clothes.
"K-Kyoko!? What are you doing right now!?"
".....?"
I yelped in total panic, and Kirigiri stopped halfway through undressing and stared at me blankly. I gawked at her for a moment, then snatched up the pillow beside me and covered my eyes.
"What's wrong...? Why are you acting weird now...?"
"No, I mean!! Why are you suddenly taking your clothes off!?"
"There are pajamas here, so I was going to change into them."
"Then why are you doing it here...? Ughhh..."
Unable to overcome the sheer embarrassment, I buried my face in the pillow and groaned. Kirigiri gave a quiet little laugh, then spoke in a soft voice.
"Then... just keep your eyes covered with the pillow until I'm done changing... that solves it, doesn't it...?"
"U-Uh-huh..."
So that was the plan. I kept my eyes covered with the pillow while Kirigiri changed into her pajamas.
rustle rustle
'.....'
rustle rustle rustle rustle
'...How long does it take to change clothes?'
I stayed there for quite a while with my face buried in the pillow, waiting for Kirigiri to finish changing, but for some reason, all I could hear was endless rustling. I never heard her say she was done.
"Um, Kyoko? Are you finished changing...?"
"....."
"...Kyoko?"
Something was off. Now I couldn't even hear the rustling anymore. The room had gone dead silent, and sitting there with my eyes covered was driving me insane with curiosity.
'S-Should I just take a tiny peek...? But if Kirigiri's still changing...'
I hesitated for a moment, torn over whether I should check or not. But then I thought about it—what if Kirigiri was in danger? In that case... taking just the slightest look would be perfectly justified. This wasn't for selfish reasons. It was for Kirigiri's safety.
So I swallowed dryly and lowered the pillow just a little to look ahead...
"...Hi."
".....!"
Kirigiri was crawling onto the bed, holding her pajamas in one hand, looking down at me.
"W-What is this supposed to—!!"
"...Hehe."
Still smiling down at me, Kirigiri suddenly planted both hands on either side of my body and leaned in. Our bodies overlapped, and our faces drew so close they were almost touching.
"Hh... hhhhhh..."
"You said you wouldn't look... so why did you sneak a peek?"
"Th-That... I mean... so..."
"And adding that to how cheeky you've been lately... I think you deserve a punishment."
"Th-That thing before... I already paid for that plenty—!"
"Back then, we ran out of time before I could finish the job... didn't we...?"
That wasn't the full punishment...? Then the rest of it couldn't possibly be...?
"W-Wait... mmph!"
Before I could even finish, Kirigiri's tongue slipped into my mouth. And just like that, I had no choice but to stop talking and tangle tongues with her for a long while.
"Pwah...! K-Kirigiri!! The camera!! The camera's... huh?"
When Kirigiri pulled her face back slightly, I hurriedly looked toward the camera—but for some reason, both the camera and the microphone had been covered with a blanket.
"...While your eyes were closed, I took care of the preparations."
"Ah... ahhh..."
"I was a little worried Monokuma might say something... but since he hasn't popped out... I guess this doesn't count as breaking the rules after all?"
"K-Kyoko... I'm still not mentally prepared for this..."
"To be honest, neither am I. But I felt like if I didn't do this now, I'd regret it. That's why I deliberately used even my detective skills during rock-paper-scissors so we could get the deluxe guest room."
".....!"
"And besides... this is all inside a program... so we don't have to worry about what comes after."
"...Gulp."
Kirigiri licked her lips as she looked down at me swallowing nervously, then all at once her face turned red and she spoke in a shy voice.
"Come to think of it, you asked me to be gentle earlier, didn't you? I should be the one saying it—please be gentle with me too."
"...Huh?"
"It's my first time."
Then Kirigiri slid the hands she'd braced on either side of me over mine, pinned them down, and pounced on me. And just like that... we spent a very, very long night together.
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"Y-Young master... you should sleep on the bed..."
"N-No, Peko... you take the bed..."
After entering the shabby guest room and seeing there was only one bed, Kuzuryu and Pekoyama had spent the last ten minutes blushing furiously while trying to force the other to take it.
"I cannot possibly allow the young master to sleep on the floor. I absolutely must sleep there myself."
"No way in hell am I making you sleep on the floor! If you sleep on the floor, then I'm sleeping there too!"
The two of them bickered back and forth for quite a while, until they suddenly froze at a sound drifting in from far away.
"Kyaaahhh... haaah... hhaaahhh...!!"
"Hah... hah... hah..."
"Wh-What the hell is that sound!?"
".....!"
The sudden moans echoing through the night made the already crimson faces of Kuzuryu and Pekoyama turn even redder.
"Wh-Whoever the hell that is... what the hell are they doing...?"
"N-Nidaiii... right there... right theeeere...!! Ahhn... it feels... so goooood...♡"
"Haha, just as I thought... my instincts were right. I suspected for some time that this was your weak point..."
"Hheuuugh...!! I-If I find out something like this... from now on... without this... I won't be able to live anymore...♡"
"We're still far from done...! Tonight, I'll settle this once and for all...!"
"Hhuaaaahhhhhh!!!"
As those voices kept pouring in one after another, Kuzuryu even forgot to stay angry and just stared blankly.
"Y-Young master... perhaps because this room is shabby... the soundproofing is rather poor..."
"Th-Those insane bastards... the room they're in is a normal guest room... those are supposed to be at least somewhat soundproof..."
Of course, Nidai and Owari were merely in the middle of an all-out full-body massage, but there was no way Kuzuryu and Pekoyama could possibly know that.
After listening to the distant moans for a long while with their faces burning, the two glanced at each other for a moment, then finally lay down on the bed.
"I-If we sleep on the floor in a situation like this... it could be bad for our health..."
"I-I will do my utmost not to inconvenience you, young master..."
And so the two of them quietly lay down on the bed, keeping a careful distance and stiffening up so hard they looked petrified. But as time passed, maybe old habits from childhood resurfaced—because before long, they had unconsciously wrapped their arms around each other, smiling in their sleep.
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"Haaahhhng...!!! R-Right thereee!!"
"Hooh... a new weak point, I see... excellent!! Then I, Nidai Nekomaru, shall conquer this place as well!!"
"Hhuaaaahhh!!!"
"H-Hinata-kun... I guess... this place doesn't have very good soundproofing... haha..."
"S-Sorry... I lost at rock-paper-scissors, so..."
Meanwhile, Nanami had ended up in the shabby guest room because Hinata lost at rock-paper-scissors. Outwardly, she looked troubled and red-faced, but inwardly, she was thinking something else entirely.
'Perfect... pretending that rock-paper-scissors is the one game I'm bad at and leaving it to Hinata was the right call... thanks to that, we ended up in the shabby guest room... and now...!'
"Th-Then... I'll sleep on the floor..."
"U-Uh... what!?"
As Hinata scratched his head and said that, Nanami blushed faintly and began trying to persuade him.
"You can't...! The floor here is really old and unsanitary...! Things are already dangerous enough as it is, so if you sleep somewhere like that... you'll get sick..."
"B-But... if I don't, then..."
"Then I guess... we have no choice but to sleep on the bed together... right?"
".....!"
Hinata's face turned redder than it ever had before.
"H-Haha, but... if we do that..."
"...Hinata-kun, you're not having weird thoughts, are you? I only suggested it... for your sake..."
"N-No way!! Of course not!! Hahaha..."
"Then... it's getting late... should we go to sleep...?"
"...Yeah."
So the two of them ended up lying in the same bed, but Nanami still looked somehow dissatisfied. After thinking hard for a while, she finally turned to Hinata, who was curled up beside her and sweating cold bullets, and cautiously asked:
"U-Um... Hinata-kun..."
"Y-Yeah!? What is it!?"
"I... play games a lot, so my shoulders get stiff pretty often... and maybe because I was so tense today... they're starting to hurt... if it's okay with you... could you maybe give me a massage...?"
"Uh... I mean..."
"Ah, it hurts... it feels like my shoulder's going to fall off..."
"I-If that's the case... I don't know if it'll help, but..."
Hinata's face turned red all the way to its limit. He took a deep breath, then gently placed his hands on Nanami's shoulders.
"...Hinata-kun. Your hands are hot."
"S-Sorry...! I mean, that's..."
"It's okay... keep going..."
"...Okay."
As Hinata carefully began kneading her shoulders, Nanami wore a triumphant smile. But after some time passed, that smile vanished from her face, leaving behind only an expression that looked like she was melting apart.
"Haaahk...!"
"N-Nanami...? Am I pressing too hard...?"
"Ah, n-no!! K-Keep going!!"
"Okay... then..."
"...Hhk, ahhk... ahhhk!!"
"Um... Nanami, are you really sure you're oka—"
"I... I don't know anymore..."
So yes, Nanami had succeeded in getting the physical contact with Hinata she'd planned for—but what she failed to account for was just how sensitive her overworked muscles were after being pushed so hard for so long that she'd earned the title of [Ultimate Gamer].
In the end, far from taking the lead the way she'd intended, Nanami could only hang her head, blush furiously, and let out soft moans all night long. And Hinata, watching her like that, had no choice but to think every pure, wholesome thought he'd have for the rest of his life all in that single night.
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"Tanaka! Are you all prepared to go to sleep!?"
"...Indeed."
"Excellent! Then tonight shall be our memorable first night together!!"
"Princess, that choice of words may invite grave misunderstanding..."
Tanaka was currently experiencing the greatest crisis of his life as he stared at the pure-hearted princess before him, a girl who apparently harbored a strangely romantic fantasy about group lodging.
"Come to think of it, I stepped outside for a moment to use the restroom... and I could hear passionate voices coming from everyone's rooms...? Why is that, I wonder...?"
"...That is surely a curse leaking in from an extradimensional subspace, seeping into the children—"
"Could it be... everyone is doing that sort of thing I saw in dramas...?"
"N-Not necessarily..."
"As expected, events like that are bound to happen in a place like this! Very well! Then we shall participate as well!!"
"Wh-What did you say...?"
Tanaka shrank back against the wall in panic. Sonia looked at him with a bright, innocent expression, then cheerfully asked:
"But how exactly does one do that sort of thing? Do you happen to know? If you do, please share at once!! Otherwise we won't be able to join the battle quickly enough—"
"Th-That is... I mean..."
"...Squeak?"
As Tanaka began trembling from a primal terror he'd never felt in his life, the hamsters perched on his shoulders apparently decided Sonia was attacking him.
Having been thoroughly educated by Tanaka and firmly believing themselves to be the mighty familiars known as the Four Dark Devas of Destruction, the hamsters charged at the smiling Sonia to protect their endangered master.
"Ah! Everyone? Why are you...? Kyaa!! That tickles!! Please stop this naughty beha— kyahaaang...!!"
"S-Stop!! She is not the enemy!!"
Tanaka shouted at the hamsters in a panic, but by then they had already burrowed into Sonia's clothes and could no longer hear him, launching a ferocious assault on her.
Of course, it was only ferocious from a hamster's point of view. From a human perspective, it was just merciless tickling.
"Pfft!! Puhahaah...!! T-Tanaka!! Pffh, h-help... haaahhh!!"
'What kind of being... would trap me in such a horrifying snare...'
Vowing that someday he would punish whatever existence had subjected him to this humiliation, Tanaka broke into a cold sweat and began retrieving the hamsters that had infiltrated Sonia's clothes.
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Thud! Thud! Thud!
"Souda... why have you been doing that for a while now...?"
Komaeda asked with a worried expression as he watched Souda repeatedly slam his head into the wall.
"Earlieeer... I got worried about Miss Soniaaa... so I went over to the other building for a bit... and there were moans coming from all over the place... those bastards... every last one of 'em deserves to die..."
"...Really?"
"And then... I wanted to believe Miss Sonia would never do something like that... so I pressed my ear to the door of her room for a second... and even though it was faint... definitely... definitely there were moans..."
"Hmm..."
"And it's a deluxe room... so it should be super soundproof... if sound's leaking out anyway... then inside... something insanely intense must be happening..."
Souda said all this with dead eyes, continuing to bash his head against the wall.
"The other building... turned into a love hotel... Miss Sonia too... fooling around with that Tanaka guy... and me... I've got no hope left..."
"No hope left? Ahaha... now that's something I can't just let slide..."
The instant the keyword "hope" appeared, Komaeda's eyes lit up and he launched into a full-blown lecture about hope. Souda, in perfect rhythm with Komaeda's words, resumed smashing his head against the wall.
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"Kyaaaaaah!! Let go of me!! Right now!!!"
"I-Ikusaba!! No!! Stop!!"
"If I go in here, I can connect to the [Neo World Program], right!!! Then I'm going in right now!!! Don't stop me!!!"
"If you go in now...!!! It'll be a pointless death!!!"
Meanwhile, in the underground laboratory of Future Foundation, Fujisaki was clinging to the legs of a rampaging Mukuro Ikusaba for dear life.
"O-Oogami!! Owada!! Asahina!! Help me!!!"
Before long, three people came running in with Future Foundation agents in tow. Once they grabbed hold of Ikusaba, she twisted against them and started screaming at the top of her lungs with a face full of bitter grievance.
"Kirigiri!!! You said we'd call a truce!!! You damn detective bitch!!!!"
"Shut that thing down already!! We can't let her get in there!!"
"Kaaaaay!! You said you'd be back soon!!! You bastard!!!"
"What the hell did she eat to have this much strength!?"
"I didn't save K by covering my whole body in wounds I've never had in my life just so I could watch this happen!! Kyaaaaaaah!!!"
"...I'll knock her out for a moment."
Even while being restrained by Oogami, Owada, Asahina, and several Future Foundation agents, Ikusaba kept thrashing wildly for quite some time. She only quieted down after Oogami struck the back of her neck.
Meanwhile, Matsuda and Gekkogahara, who had been deep in discussion with Fujisaki in the lab, could only stare blankly as Ikusaba—who had suddenly stormed in, caused a scene, and then been subdued—was carried out limp and unconscious.
"Hahaha... my friend has a bit of a temper... s-so then... shall we resume the meeting...?"
Fujisaki returned to his seat, sweating nervously. He forced a smile at the two of them, who were still staring in stunned silence, and then did his best to restart the discussion.
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"Should I just kill them all right now...? No, wait, the whole reason this is happening is because I can't kill them whenever I want... upupupu..."
Meanwhile, Enoshima's Alter Ego was grinding its teeth as it watched one monitor showing nothing but a black screen hidden under a blanket and several others showing the students flirting and cuddling. Bound tightly nearby, Monomi looked at Enoshima's Alter Ego and the monitors, then quietly muttered:
"Everyone... it's good that you aren't losing hope... but as your supervising teacher, I'm begging you... please show a little more restraint with the indecency already..."