When I knocked on the door, Sumana opened it.

Sumana: Oh, hey Ash.

Ashlyn: Hey, did you have a weird dream last night too?

Sumana: Wait what? I had a dream about this wristband on me. There was this girl called Juno or something.

Ashlyn: Junko?

Sumana: Yea. She was talking about the motive or something and the dream world, right?

Ashlyn: Yea... Are you okay?

Sumana: I'm great, I can move my arm perfectly.

Ashlyn: No like, are you alright? Because Hannan and Annan... And then Miyoshi...

Sumana: Oh, yea I'm fine. I got over it.

Ashlyn: So quick?

Sumana: Mhm.

Ashlyn: Anyway, how is it like? Like with that arm...

Sumana: It's pretty fun. It's like it has a mind of its own.

Ashlyn: A mind of its own???

Sumana: I mean, I can still control it, but sometimes it knows what's best for me.

Ashlyn: Is it supposed to do that?

Sumana: I don't know, but I couldn't care less. What are you guys doing now?

Ashlyn: Well we decided to go check out the second floor, it should be open by now.

Sumana: Good idea.

Ashlyn: Are you gonna join?

Sumana: No, I think I'll go have some breakfast first.

Ashlyn: Oh crap, I was gonna bring you something to eat, but I forgot. I'm so sorry.

Sumana: No no, it's okay! I'll go to the food court and grab something myself, and then I'll go to the second floor as well.

Ashlyn: Okay then, I guess I'll go now. Be careful.

Sumana: I'll be fine, this arm can handle anything.

With that, I left Sumana's dorm and headed down to the second floor. I saw Chloe at the escalator and we began to walk around.

Chloe: So, where should we start first?

(Guys I decided to change things up a little bit and put the floor plan at beginning instead of telling y'all to go look at it in the floor plans chapter, just for better access. I'm going to change it for every chapter too but I'm not going to remove the floor plans chapter, I'll just move it to the back. Did what I write make any sense? Nevermind it's just that the floor plan will be here)

Ashlyn: how about that Cinema over there?

Chloe: Sure.

We headed over to the cinema's entrance lobby.

Rachel: Hello!

Rachel and Hanako were there together.

Chloe: Hi, have you guys finished looking around?

Hanako: We've looked around the lobby, there's nothing.

Ashlyn: How about the cinema?

Rachel: The doors are locked. But I think they'll unlock soon...

Chloe: Why?

Hanako: It says over there there's going to be a movie at 3pm. Maybe the doors will open then?

Ashlyn: I guess we can check back later.

We left the cinema with Rachel and Hanako, I guess we'd stick with them for a while.

Chloe: How about we head to the jewelry shop next?

Ashlyn: Sure.

We went to the jewelry shop. Sophie and Ashton were there too.

Ashlyn: Did you guys find anything here?

Sophie: We just got here, so no.

Chloe: Then let's look around.

- - - SEARCH - - -

There's a counter in the corner of the room, and shelves stacked with what could be thousands of dollars worth of jewelry.

Chloe: Hey! I found something!

Hanako: It's... A note?

Chloe: It says "Ms Shirogane, Head of character design and personality department, Team Danganronpa, call" And then there's a phone number.

Sophie: Ms... Shirogane?

Rachel: What's wrong?

Chloe: Haven't we heard the name before? In the daycare, there was a note written by a child called Tsumugi Shirogane. Is this the same person?

Ashton: It could also be her family member or even a coincidence. We can't be sure. But it says here she's the "Head of character design and personality department, Team Danganronpa"

Ashlyn: Does it mean she's the one behind all this? She's from Team Danganronpa.

Hanako: Then if we called that number, we can talk to her!

Rachel: But how do we call it if none of us have our phones?

Sophie: I believe we do have one.

Sophie pulled a phone from her pocket. The same one used to prove that Tan Liang was the killer.

Sophie: Apart from fixing the phone, I also enabled calls.

Chloe: Why didn't you tell us that earlier?

Sophie: When have I ever told you all anything?

Ashton: Call the number.

Sophie keyed Ms Shirogane's number into the phone and it began to ring. After a while of waiting, someone finally picked up.

Sophie: Hello? Is this Ms Shirogane?

???: Who is this?

It was the voice of a middle aged man.

Sophie: Okay this is probably not Ms Shirogane... Can we have Ms Shirogane on the phone please?

???: I'm sorry but she's not... I don't know who that is. Who are you and what are you calling for?

Sophie: Are you a member of Team Danganronpa?

???: ...

???: You're Sophie, aren't you? You're in the killing game right now.

Sophie: What? How did you- Nevermind let us speak to Ms Shirogane.

???: She's not around.

Sophie: Then who are you?

???: I'm not supposed to be talking to you. But I'm with you, and if you really want something, send one person to the Mastermind room at 10pm.

They hung up.

Sophie: What the-

Ashton: So I guess that was pretty useless.

Ashlyn: But they told us to go to the Mastermind room at 10 right?

Ashton: They said one person specifically, so that's probably the case.

Chloe: Yea but we can't send someone alone... That's way too dangerous. What if something happens or they keep information from us?

Rachel: Then we can just send someone who hasn't done anything untrustworthy so far.

Sophie: How about m-

Chloe: No. Rachel?

Rachel: I'm kind of scared to go alone.

Hanako: How about me?

Chloe: You've been framed for way too many murders.

Hanako: Two? That's not a lot.

Chloe: Judging by the fact that there's only been three, yes it's a lot. Ash?

Ashlyn: I'm scared to go alone too.

Chloe: Ashton?

Ashton: Can't you go?

Chloe: Hey I'm scared too okay? You're literally the only dude who's still alive, just, go be a gentleman.

Ashton: But I don't want to go. Can't we look for someone else? Other than us?

Ashlyn: We could look for Yu Xuan, Randi or Sumana. They've got a clear conscience, and maybe they'll be fine with going alone.

Rachel: Well, where are they?

Ashton: Let's check out the arcade next door. They could be there.

We headed over to the arcade. Sumana was there alone, playing a shooting game.

Sumana: Oh hey guys, what're you all doing here?

Ashlyn: We needed to ask you for a favor, but firstly, did you find anything here?

Sumana pulled something out from behind the arcade machine.

Sumana: I found another flashback light.

Chloe: Great, we can test it out tomorrow morning like always.

Sumana: Okay then. What was the favor you needed?

Sophie: Earlier we found a phone number addressed to Ms Shirogane, who was apparently working for Team Danganronpa.

Hanako: We tried to call the number, but someone who wasn't Ms Shirogane picked up. He said that Ms Shirogane wasn't available and he couldn't tell us anything then.

Chloe: But he said that if we wanted some information, we had to send one person to the Mastermind room at 10pm.

Sumana: So who are you sending?

Chloe: That's the problem... We're all either too scared or unqualified to go, and we were wondering if you could...

Sumana: Go at 10?

Ashlyn: Yea. It could be dangerous so I wouldn't blame you if you didn't want to-

Sumana: I'll go.

Ashlyn: Oh.

Sumana: It's something for me to do and keep me busy. Plus, if something does attack me, I got my arm.

Sumana clenched and unclenched her robotic arm.

Ashton: That's good, then how about we all gather at 9.30pm tonight to discuss the plan? We'll have to inform Randi and Yu Xuan later.

Sumana: Okay.

Rachel: We should go see other shops now, do you wanna come with us, Sumana?

Sumana: I'm good, I'll catch up with you once I'm done with this game.

Ashlyn: Kendric would've liked this. They all would have... But they're not here...

Chloe: Now's not the time to think about dead people, Ash.

Hanako: Yea, what's done is done.

Ashlyn: But we'll never see them again. Don't you all feel sad?

Rachel: I mean we only knew them for what, two weeks...

Ashlyn: Still... They were our friends. And there were 16 of us, but now there's only 9. Doesn't it feel like they're just leaving one by one? Without saying a word?

Sumana: As Hanako said, what's done is done. We can't do anything about the people who've died, but we can focus on those still alive. If there's anything those dead want us to do right now, it's move on and survive.

Chloe: And the only way we can do that is if we put it all in the past and go figure out who the damn Mastermind is. Besides, if we continue being all sad, Tan Liang might see us and think that we actually cared about him dying, and we don't want that, do we?

Pov: Tan Liang

Alyssa: HAHA-

Tan Liang: I sure do feel appreciated .-.

Pov: Ashlyn

Ashlyn: No, no we don't...

Rachel: So let's go see the other shops, bet there's something important to find there.

Ashlyn: You're right, thanks guys.

Sophie: So where do we go next?

Ashton: There's a cafe over there.

Hanako: Then we'll go to the cafe. I'm pretty sure Randi and Yu Xuan are there too, we can tell them about the plan.

And we headed to the cafe.