Paradise Rhapsody

──Since Monokuma took over the island, No. [-] Island has not changed much, but Central Island can be said to have changed a lot.

When we reached the central island, because we planned to walk around the island first before going to the park, Naapi walked on the road and inevitably noticed the mechanical monster guarding the wooden bridge in the middle of the road, as well as a certain building that he came to introduce himself yesterday. When he arrived on the island, he had never seen a carved rock mountain. When he passed by the latter, he couldn't help but look at the rock mountain with four black and white bear heads carved on it, which seemed to be imitating some famous foreign scenic spot. He felt a subtle twitch of his mouth , and then silently looked away.

However, whether it's the strange countdown clock in the park, or the Black and White Bear Rock Mountain, it doesn't seem like something that can be built overnight. How did Monokuma do it?

Thinking of this question, Sapling couldn't help thinking.He didn't know if it was an illusion, but since he came to this island, there seemed to be more and more unexplainable mysteries—and he didn't know if he could get an explanation.

Although there are too many questions to such an extent that people feel a little paralyzed because there is no way to choose one to care about, but as expected, this situation of too many unsolved mysteries still makes people feel a little uneasy.

Anyway, let's find Monomi first, shall we?Or Monokuma is also fine──I always feel that it seems to know something like Monomi.

Seedling thought this way, although because of Monokuma's performance yesterday, he didn't want to communicate with the other party if it wasn't necessary, and although Monomi was also suspected of hiding a lot of things and felt a bit suspicious and untrustworthy, Seedling always felt that it would not hurt Although people are just intuitions, he believes that it is better to trust people who he thinks can be trusted than to live suspiciously suspicious of everyone. If you decide to trust the other person, you can only admit that you misunderstood the person.

After walking around the central island, he did not see Monomi as expected, but passed by other people—he also asked other people, but they didn't see Monomi either.

Jabba Walker Park is left... Go back if you don't find anyone.

After running all over the two islands to find someone, Naegi also started to feel a little tired, and he didn't sleep well last night. He did sleep well at first because of mental fatigue, but he woke up in the middle of the night. He started to have some miscellaneous dreams and woke up suddenly two or three times. Although he no longer remembered what he dreamed about, it was an indisputable fact that his sleep quality was affected by it.

When I went into the park, I saw that there was no one there—just when Naegi thought so, a person suddenly came out from behind the black clock hand that was so exaggerated that people could not ignore it. When the two met, both of them were stunned for a moment.

"What a coincidence, Naegi-san."

Komaeda, who was originally blocked behind the chrono hand, came back to his senses first, put away the slight surprise on his face, smiled faintly, and said hello——of course, his attitude was not as good as other super high school students with outstanding talents. Not very enthusiastic, but basically for the sapling who has gotten used to Komaeda's slightly indifferent attitude towards him, such an attitude is already quite kind, and for a moment he was almost flattered, so much so that he stuttered a bit. Respond.

"Uh, yes, what a coincidence... What are you doing here, Komaeda-san?"

I noticed that Komaeda seems to be holding a metal product that I can't see at a glance. The messy and irregular metal pieces make Naapa a little confused for a while, I don't know what it is, and I don't know what Komaeda is holding. What are you doing, he asked curiously.

"Investigate this clock that was suddenly called up. Although it is better to leave it to Mr. Zuo Tian, ​​who has mechanical talents, than me, an amateur, but if you don't find anything suspicious, you will rush to ask Mr. Zuo Tian to come. It doesn’t seem good to investigate and let the other party do free work.”

Seemingly noticing Naegi's gaze, Komaeda put the string of metals into his coat pocket as if nothing had happened, and explained casually, but he didn't seem to intend to explain the purpose of the string of metal objects suspected of being tools.

"So that's it, did you find anything?"

Although he was still a little concerned about what that thing was, but when he understood why Komaeda turned out from behind the clock just now, the seedling suddenly realized. Although he was a little uncertain whether Komaeda would be willing to answer, but because he still hoped that the two of them could communicate, he Try to ask.

"It's a pity that I didn't find anything. Now that I answered it, let me ask you—you shouldn't have spared time earlier, right? Did you find anything else?"

And Komaeda didn't deliberately not answer, but after answering, he asked back. Although there was still a smile on his face, no matter how dull Naegi was, he could still feel the spikes hidden under the smiling face.

Ha... Sure enough, Komaeda-san still feels a little disgusted with me?

Sapling couldn't help but want to sigh a bit, although he didn't know how to get rid of Komaeda's sudden and almost hostile aversion, after all, his only strength was optimism, and he was already a little used to it and could probably ignore it, he After being a little depressed for a few seconds, he cheered up again, and then replied as normal as possible:

"I did a little research in the supermarket this morning, but I didn't see anything that looked like a clue—ah, but the magazines and books section haven't been thoroughly searched, I'll probably check again later when I have time A clue. By the way, Komaeda-san, have you seen Monomi? Or Monokuma is also fine."

Feeling that continuing to discuss the topic of the investigation results would only lead to silence when neither of them gained anything and someone seemed unwilling to chat, Naegi quickly changed the subject and asked.

"Huh? What are you looking for with those two people?"

Komaeda didn't answer right away, but asked first.

"I want to ask Monomi again why the two of us are lucky to be on the island, although I don't know if I can ask."

And the reason is not something to hide, Naegi told the truth, Komaeda raised his eyebrows slightly, seemed a little surprised.

"Oh? I thought you were not interested in this matter. After all, you didn't seem to be actively asking about this before."

As he said that, Komaeda looked at Naegi's face inquiringly, his tone was somewhat indifferent mixed with some sarcasm, but Naegi did not feel offended by this, on the contrary, he was a little relieved.

That's great, it seems that it was right to decide to face the problem seriously, Komaeda-san finally looks at me seriously.

Although it is not that Komaeda deliberately ignores him, ever since he said that he is also lucky, Sapling always feels that Komaeda is ignoring him intentionally or unintentionally, as if he was classified as someone who does not need to be ignored for a moment At this time, he finally felt that Komaeda was really watching him speak, and Sapling couldn't help but feel relieved.

In any case, if you want to have a good relationship, if one party's unilateralism is not taken seriously, you will definitely not be able to communicate smoothly. Even if you don't have a good impression, you have to look at the other party to understand each other.

"Well... After all, it's something closely related to myself. It's really unreasonable to ignore it all the time, and I was scolded for it. If you want to talk about it, you should just be more active and find out the reason."

Scratching his chin, thinking of Koizumi's reprimanding Naegi, he couldn't help but smile awkwardly, and spoke truthfully.

"It's true that if you don't ask clearly about this matter, although it is no longer the top priority in terms of the current situation, it does make you feel very uncomfortable. Although I haven't encountered any problems since the disbandment Monomi and them, but why not try to call them directly."

Not knowing how to score his answer in his heart, Komaeda squinted his eyes and didn't delve into it further. Instead, after speaking thoughtfully, he made a suggestion that sapling had never thought about.

"Huh!? Calling directly? Is this useful?"

Probably because this suggestion was too unexpected, Naegi couldn't help but screamed out.

Seeing Naegi's surprised reaction, Komaeda raised his eyebrows, with a look of "you didn't expect this kind of thing", but he didn't throw out something like "If it's really a super high school level, at least You should figure it out" and other sarcasm, but shrugged and explained it with a somewhat careless attitude mixed with a little impatience.

"Monomey said it before, right? Although I don't know if what she said is true or not, but she did say 'she has very good ears'. Rather than wandering around the island like a headless chicken, try to speak loudly. Yell and see, maybe it just jumped out with a 'bang' like some summoned beasts in some games—or do you have a better way?"

Speaking of which, Monomi had said something similar earlier... But, is it really useful?

Hearing Komaeda's somewhat casual explanation, Naegi couldn't help but wonder if there was intentional trickery in this suggestion, but Komaeda was right about one thing, that is, he really had no other way to find out. Mono is beautiful, and I have searched for all the places I can go on the island so far, and the only thing left is this is not a solution.

Well, anyway, let's try it out, even if it doesn't work, there is no loss except that it is a bit embarrassing to be seen shouting into the air like this.

"Uh...then I'll yell. Teacher Monomi──can you hear me? Teacher Monomi──"

Trying to remember how to say hello to Er Dai, who is a 'super high school-level manager', because he was disgusted by the lack of breath in his voice, Naegi put his hands next to his mouth and shouted vigorously.

"Hehe, I heard it, is it a cute classmate who needs to find the teacher for something?"

──Then, unexpectedly and effectively called out the summoned beast. With a joyful voice, Monomi appeared with a 'bang' in the pink smoke like the special effects often seen in animations of young magical girls.