Danganronpa: String Theory (DrV3)

4.13 - Triggering

I snort in disbelief.

"Sure. Right after you pull the moon out of the sky and hand it to me," I snap viciously, not moving an inch to keep walking. Snow is collecting over us, dampening the soft wool around my hood and sleeves. "Go on ahead without me. I'm too angry to deal with you right now."

"...And miss this curious reaction? I think not. Furthermore, wouldn't you say it will be rather strange for us to arrive separately at such a later time in comparison to the others? They will suspect a disagreement between us...and if I recall, you're trying to avoid alarming the others. Kokichi will surely notice," Korekiyo states, also not moving to continue walking.

How infuriating.

"We are having a disagreement. And I don't care about what they think, when have I ever? In case you've lost a couple of brain cells over there, which I imagine must be the case, people can have disagreements without wanting to murder one another. So...go on ahead without me," I reiterate with more force, watching as Korekiyo quietly considers his options. After a second, he relaxes his posture with a hum of agreement and starts walking ahead of me.

"You're such an interesting one that I almost regret the fact you will eventually be in my dear sister's care rather than my own," he casually states as he continues on, leaving me to my fuming state in the cold, snowy weather.

Once he's far enough, I take my newfound moment of silence to growl under my breath now that I'm alone again, closing my eyes and revising the thought in my head.

Is Korekiyo telling the truth about his crimes?

...

At the very least, he believes it to be true.

I frown, lifting a hand up to my chin in thought as I open my eyes and give the answer some thought. So vague...he believes it to be true. So he's not intentionally lying...but I guess the result is vague because I don't have any seeds of proof for my intuition to jump off of when it comes to analyzing him for his crimes.

I'm not crazy, am I? It's just so hard to believe! It's been disproven that it's a lie, but it sounds like one of those outrageous lies Kokichi says to shock everyone. Like the lie about him having ten-thousand members in Dice rather than only a measly ten!

...Which reminds me, I haven't asked him about my possible familiarity to Dice thanks to finding his motive video after his dumb trick on me. Even if I could ask him though, I doubt he'd give me a proper answe-

Why am I so against using my intuition on him?

I frown down at the snow, still where Korekiyo left me. Mind made up to slap one thing on of my mental list of things I need to do, I start to continue walking towards the main academy building, jogging carefully so I don't slip in my hurry. I can probably save asking Kokichi later- and if he really wants to earn my forgiveness to utilize me in the killing game, he wouldn't dare...
Er, actually, maybe he still would lie. But I give, I'm going to use my intuition to get my answers out of him from this point forward.

Before that goes down though, I have a few questions to run by Shuichi on the suspicious illogicalities of Korekiyo's murder confessions. I doubt I'll be able to completely keep the "why" of my queries under wraps like I would prefer, but Shuichi is likely to know more about it than I would. And I sincerely doubt I've had exposure on "how to catch a killer" or "how criminal minds work" for my intuition to be of any solid help in figuring out Korekiyo.