It All Started By One Single Tear (Rantaro x reader x YandereMastermind Kokichi)

Chapter 3 Part 22: Investigation Start

Your POV:

"So you're the one who's been trying to ensure that everyone survives this..." Shuichi muttered.
"Yes... that's my goal..." I replied with determination in my eyes.

    That was my answer to him. Rantaro and Shuichi were both silent at this. I was slightly nervous about this as well. I had entrusted this secret to Shuichi, despite him lunging at Rantaro like that.
Shuichi must've been going insane at the thought of what could be going on. He was probably constantly thinking on why people were coming back to life, seemingly surviving fatal encounters.
He was probably trying to formulate a hypothesis on what was going on. Shuichi really was the Ultimate Detective in that trademark. He was observant and smart. It was no wonder he was suspecting that something wasn't right about this.
"(y/n), why are you hiding this from everyone?" Shuichi asked.
    "Shuichi you very well know the answer to this," I replied, "the mastermind is most likely one of us. If I were to display that I can bring people back to life, the mastermind wouldn't like the sound of that. The mastermind would most likely kill me and try to frame someone else for it just like what happened with Rantaro."
    "I see the point now," Shuichi replied nervously, "well I will not share this with anyone. I promise."
    I smiled at Shuichi in response to that. I hope I could trust him. So far, Rantaro and Kirumi are keeping it under wraps, so now Shuichi would have to as well.
    "(y/n), how do you bring people back with your tears?" Shuichi asked nervously.
    I was slightly nervous at this question, despite the answer being pretty simple. I wanted to show Shuichi what I meant, but there was one thing I noticed about the resurrections I've been doing in par to all of the victims that I have revived thus far.
The duration of time that it'd take for the person to be conscious and aware would be at least a couple of hours after I cried on them.
During the first trial, Rantaro appeared as the voting time was about to be announced. It obviously took time for the damage done to him to go down. His skull was cracked and he was bleeding from the shot put ball. It would take time for the damages to be reversed.
For Kirumi's case, she had deep cuts all over her body as well as many broke bones. She endured a lot from the thorny vine she climbed and the circular saws that were used to maul her body and create many lacerations.
When she got to the top, the vine rope broke, causing her to fall from what looked like hundreds of feet to the ground with nothing to save her from the fall. Her broken bones were caused from the fall, and it took over a couple of hours for her to be awake and moving. This caused a hypothesis for how this gene worked to enter my mind.
The time based factor could be caused by the severity of the injury. That was my hypothesis. Kirumi and Rantaro's conditions were serious because it was an injury to either a complex organ like the brain, or the injuries were many and would take time to be reversed.
This brought what happened when Rantaro and I first discovered that I had this gene. Rantaro gave himself a paper cut to prove me wrong. When I cried on his paper cut, it only took a few seconds to heal up.
Angie had a couple of injuries from what I saw. She looked like her head was injured and her neck was the killing blow. The neck is only a small portion, so it might take quicker than Kirumi and Rantaro. I was hoping that I was right about this. If I wasn't, then I wouldn't be any closer to finding out more about this gene.
"Shuichi, I'm going to show you what I had to do to bring Kirumi and Rantaro back," I explained, "but after I do it, I'm going to explain some things about it too."
"O-Okay," Shuichi replied nervously.
With Shuichi's confirmation, I made my way go Angie's corpse. It was not something I wanted to see. I never wanted to see anyone of these people die, even if they did something to me. She didn't look like she was in pain either way, and that confused me. There should've been some sort of pain if her neck was attacked by something.
I was letting my train of thought get the best of me at that point. I looked at Angie once more and I felt the tears enter my eyes. With a blink, I released them, the tears soaking into Angie's skin. Almost right away, I noticed a little more color enter her face.
"How long will it take for her to wake up?" Shuichi asked as I got up from my position in front of Angie's body.
I let out a sigh. He was asking questions before I could explain anything. Luckily, his question was on board with what I was about to explain.
"Shuichi, I think the time varies based off of what injuries the person receives before death," I explained.
"I think I can understand where you are coming from," Rantaro replied, "when you healed my paper cut, it only took a few seconds."
"That's right," I replied, "I think that more severe injuries will take longer to heal. It took awhile for you and Kirumi to recover because of the injuries you both received."
"So it's time based..." Shuichi muttered, "that makes sense. It takes time for severe injuries to just go away."
"When I cried on Angie, color returned to her face, so I don't think it'll be very long for her to wake up," I explained, "that's what I hope of course."
"I hope so, too," Rantaro replied with a smile.
"All of this is just a hypothesis, so it hasn't been proven yet. If Angie wakes up soon, then my theory will be proven. We just have to wait," I explained.
I heard a knock on the door. I sighed lightly and went to open it. I saw Himiko there.
"Are you done paying your respects?" Himiko asked, "I really want to say goodbye to her."
"Himiko, I understand what you're going through. Come in, and hopefully something good will happen," I told her.
"I want the same thing that happened to Kirumi and Rantaro to happen to her. I want her to be okay..." Himiko said with a sad look in her eyes.
    "Maybe if you just hope and smile, something good will happen Himiko," I said with a soft smile.
    Losing friends... losing people you care about. Those are feelings I've been feeling all my life. The time that my friend got hit by a bus... people in general who ignore me and think of me as a criminal.
    I never wanted that. I wanted to be able to do something special, and now I was able to. I just had to help make Himiko feel better until Angie wakes up.
    "(y/n), why would someone kill Angie? She was trying to stop the killing game," Himiko stated with a sad look in her eyes. 
    "Himiko, people do things without thinking about what's right or what's wrong. The person probably thought of Angie's way as wrong, so they killed her..." I muttered.
    I could've brought up that I was almost killed by Angie to become a sacrifice for the student council, but I held my tongue. It may seem too righteous for me, and I do deserve some type of good luck to happen, but I didn't want to make anyone unhappy.
When Himiko came in, Kaito came in as well, seeming more determined than usual. I knew we had to investigate before Angie woke up. That was what needed to happen. We needed to make it look natural until Angie can smile with us once more. That was my determination.
"We should probably start investigating now. It's important that we don't waste any time," I stated.
"I agree with you, (y/n)," Rantaro replied with a small smile.
I smiled at Rantaro in response to that. He knew just what to do to give me hope. Hopefully Angie would wake up before the trial started.
    I walked up to Kaito, Shuichi, and Rantaro. I smiled at them lightly, knowing what was going to happen next.
    "Alright you two. I'm counting on you both as my sidekicks. Let's end this nightmare all together," Kaito explained.
    "Yeah...but, are you feeling okay, Kaito?" Shuichi asked in response.
    "Yeah, are you doing alright? You still look slightly ill," I replied, knowing what was causing him not to feel so good.
    "We seriously don't have time to be talking about this..." Kaito explained, "I mean I let you have all the time in the world to say goodbye to Angie. Isn't that enough? There's no way I'm gonna die here. I'm defiantly going to find the culprit."
    "What Tsumugi said really concerned me though... I wonder what she meant?" I pondered, "well it shouldn't matter right now. We need to start investigating."
    Tsumugi then came into the room. She repeated the same line I was concerned about. She was saying that it could've been the work of the transfer student. I don't know how that would've been possible.
    At the mentions of the transfer student, Kaito almost instantly had a terrified and sick look on his face. This really started to concern me because Tsumugi was talking openly about something that scared him.
    One thing struck me as odd though. I didn't think that the wax effigies had to be hung upside down to do the ritual properly. It was a ritual for only one person, not many. And the few other people Angie made the effigies of were still alive, including me.
    Tsumugi was thinking that the ritual was done, but I couldn't confirm that just yet. When Tsumugi said that the ritual was most likely successful, Kaito let out a huge scream. This wasn't anything I've heard from Kaito before. It shook me to the core, actually scaring me half to death.
    Maki told Kaito to shut up already. The screaming was probably annoying her, but it gave at least Shuichi and I concerned and scared looks. Kaito was saying that it was Tsumugi's fault for saying suck scary stories. Soon enough, Kaito did something shocking.
    Kaito left the room, saying that he needed to get fresh air. I was really concerned about this, but I had a job to do. I had to investigate so no suspicion would fall onto me. I needed to act sad and depressed about Angie gone. I needed to sell out for at least a little while until Angie wakes up. I needed to do this for her at least.
    A small conversation with Maki went by, telling us that we settled right into our sidekick roles. In a way though, I was the superhero to my own story... with a gene that can save everyone if I try hard enough. That's what I was hoping anyway. I wanted to save everyone.
    With that, the investigation started. The obvious choice would be to start with reading the Monokuma File. If we get the information from that first, Shuichi, Maki, Rantaro, and I will at least know the basic information about this case. The basic information is like a small head start to help us figure out what happened. I read the file silently.