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[action] arrival of super high school level good luck (bad luck?)

[ Good morning, Smash Academy! Today you might see a half shoeless young boy frantically running down the hallways after...a small and quick blur that looks suspiciously like a black cat. ~~Yup, that's right. He will never get a cool entrance. Ever.~~ He'll be doing his best to not run into anyone, but he can't say the same for the pursued, who's running every which way in order to avoid getting caught. Apparently he or she has really taken a liking to that shoe! Or just wants the boy to play tag. Who knows? He sure doesn't.

Maybe, just maybe though, he'll catch up to the cat and get his missing shoe back mostly intact. Or he can just give up on—hahaha, no, he won't. After all, he doesn't exactly have a spare available to use instead!

So what will you do? Help a dude in distress out? Laugh at him? Set traps for fun? ...Help the cat instead? Your choice! Either way, he can be found running about anywhere around the school while the looooooong chase is still on. Occasionally, you might hear him pleading for the cat to "Please give it back already!"

...Sorry beforehand for the ruckus? ]

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[You're not done running into walking corpses yet! But it's a good thing he's not actually a reanimated corpse, because then he would have had... margarinal difficulties walking, much less getting out of his plastic tub without the help of a knife.

Wherever that cat was going with that shoe, it made a detour from a bench in the courtyard to Mondo's head on the way to one of the tree branches- just when he was turning around to figure out where those scratchy claw sounds were coming from, the toe of the shoe whacked him across the face, and he never got to see the cat breeze by. BUT HE SURE DID FEEL SOMEONE THROW A SHOE AT HIM...]

YOU FUCKING BASTARD!! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, KICKING SHOES AT ME?! YOU READY TO DIE FOR THAT!?! AA?!?!

Ah-! Naegi? Is that you?

[He stopped strutting blindly toward the offender and balling his fists in a snap when he discovered that person to be Naegi. It was one of the last people he expected to see there. Ishimaru didn't say anything about Naegi being here, did he...?]

[ So Naegi was just minding his own business after yet another strange reunion of sorts when That Cat suddenly popped out of nowhere for a staring contest. He or she stared at him, he stared confusedly back and blinked. Which, sadly, meant he lost. The cat then retaliated by knocking him down and stealing his shoe. Again. Cat 2, Naegi 0. Cue yet another chase scene.

Eventually the chase lead him to the courtyard and he almost caught the cat there, but it jumped away at the last moment...onto the mention and onto someone's head nonononono—

He shut his eyes right when the cat. would have made impact Hoo boy, this wassn't going to be pretty. And considering the sudden yelling right after, yup, he was sadly very correct. Quickly, he opened his eyes again and started to apologize... ]

I'm so sorry! I really am! But I didn't throoooooooooooooooooooooowada-kun!?

[ ~~WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO HIM!?~~ Nope, he so did not see this coming, a feeling that's distressingly commonplace today. Dead people keep popping out of the woodworks and he seriously has no idea how to feel about all this. Sure, he's happy they're not actually deader than dead, but at the same time, there's gotta be a huge catch to all of this... That's always how it worked in stories, right? ...Still, he hoped he'd be proven very wrong about that last part.

...Right, Oowada! Naegi hasn't actually said something after his incredibly ungraceful apology and scream, whoops. ]

Umm... I might be wrong, but...

[ Yeah, uh, nope, it had to be him. Why else would a person who walked around with a corncob for hair know his name? ]

You really are Oowada-kun...right?

[ He knew he was being Mr. Obvious to the extreme, but he had to be sure about this. ]

[Could there be any mistake about someone with as striking a look as Mondo? Deflating out of his aggression, he raised a hand to the back of his head and looked at an unmemorable part of the ground avoidantly.]

Yeah... Who else would I be?

[There were many ways he wanted to greet Naegi right now. One of them was with a big smile and an arm around the shoulders fueled from pure joy and relief at seeing such a familiar face again after the confusing turmoil he'd spun through over the past week or so. He liked Naegi and they grew pretty close during that nightmarish stay at Hope's Peak. But then there was another feeling that won this little rope-pulling contest. It was shame. Shame for killing. Shame for having his weaknesses exposed. Shame for all the promises he couldn't keep being tacked up for everyone to see. Shame for failing to be the man he so advertised himself to be. That was the last thing Naegi had seen of him, after all...]

Didn't know you were here...

...Sorry, I just wanted to be sure.

[ ...Someone dressed up as you? Not that he can really say that, especially with no evidence bullets. Thinking about what to say instead, Naegi awkwardly shifted his weight from one leg to another before he realized that leg's still shoeless. Again, he completely forgot that the cat still had his shoe. But more importantly...

Oowada's alive ~~or undead~~ here too, standing, talking, breathing ~~unless the undead part's true~~. By now, he's starting to get used to this (third time's the charm?), so the feeling of relief's far stronger than the shock. Even so, involuntarily, that trial, from beginning to end, comes to mind. Sure, Oowada had to be held responsible for what he did to Fujisaki (and not the part that happened thanks to Togami's body moving fetish), but in the end, he blamed Monobear for pushing all the victims (in the end, all of them are) into that situation. ...Still, he can't help but feel partially responsible for what happened. After the trial, he couldn't help but remember that he did suggest training with Oowada to Fujisaki. Rationally, he knew there's no way he could have predicted that would happen, although hindsight had a way of making him feel guilty about not being able to do more.

Vaguely, he noted to himself that something about this place makes him think so much about "what-ifs". ]

I just came here today actually. It's...been a while.

[ Did the mutual killing lifestyle at Hope's Peak last only around a month? He felt like it lasted for so much longer... ]

Maybe a week for me. Can't say I know about you.

[Why did time have to be so confusing here? He already had enough trouble getting up on time every morning. Last thing he needed was not knowing how many months older or younger everyone's experiences were in comparison to each other. Or... whatever was messed up. He sure didn't know.]

So how'd you get here?

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[ That question again... If he just outright said why, Kirigiri and Togami would never let him hear the end of it, so he might as well give the same answer he did to Ishimaru. ]

Me? Well... I can't remember exactly how, but I somehow came here by foot.

[ Which was true. He still knew the reason he came here, but as for how? Nope, no idea. ]

By foot? You mean you found an escape?

[ He looked around once, twice, before answering. ]

...Yeah. We got the escape switch.

[...]

There was an escape switch?! This whole fucking time?! Shit!

[All that searching for a way out and it was as easy as PRESSING A BUTTON?]

Fuck!

[He's jerking around in frustration every time he exclaims something. Hearing something like that really trivialized their experience there in his mind, and it didn't strike a nice chord with him to know that all their problems could have been solved so easily. Not that he knew any of the details, but Mondo was too focused on that one general idea.]

[ Oh crap. Naegi's eyes widened a bit before he quickly started to explain further in an attempt to calm him down. Pleeeease don't be attracting attention over here, Oowada-kun! ]

It's not something we could easily get! The mastermind had it on them the whole time, and we couldn't reach them until the very end!

[That's enough to get Mondo to shut up and listen. And stop stomping around and flicking his head all over the place like he's gonna start a fight with thin air.]

Aah. That makes sense. No wonder it wasn't so easy to find...

[Mondo has way too much on his mind. Not just restricted to this moment, but he's had a lot to cope with this past week. A lot of sorting out to do. The more he hears of Hope's Peak, the more confusing it gets. So weather down for the onslaught of questions, Naegi.]

So that means you know who the mastermind is! Tell me that bastard's name! He has hell to pay...

I... Yes, I know.

[ Aaaand backfired. Whoops. He can feel the disapproving stares already. But still, he thought he should answer as many of everyone's questions as possible. They all owed them that much. ]

Can we talk somewhere else a little more private? I'll be able to answer that question and any others you have then.

Somewhere more private? [He wondered with a vengeance why that person's identity had to be such a secret when he felt like it would be even better if their name were spoken all over, loudly as possible, so that everyone could know how much inhuman pain and suffering they'd caused, but if Naegi says so, he must have a good reason.] ...Sure. You lead the way.

[ He'd be happy to! ...Except he just arrived today, so the school layout's still unfamiliar to him. ]

Do you have any suggestions? I'm not entirely sure where to go, since I just arrived today.

[ Better to be safe than sorry. He can't know how safe this place is from the mastermind's supporters until he pokes around a bit more. Plus, he'd never hear the end of it from everyone (hi, Kirigiri and Togami) if he blabbed something in public he shouldn't have. ]

I dunno. What kind of a place would be secret enough? You wanna stop by my dorm or something?

[If only the walls were soundproof... Not like he knew either way. HE was the loud neighbor.]

[ As long as Oowada didn't yell, the dorms should be fine! ...Probably. Maybe. ]

Sure, I think that's fine. I need to learn where BE-14 is, so that'd be two birds with one stone.

[ He's pretty sure that's supposed to be his dorm room here... ]

Oh! BE-14? That makes us neighbors! I'll show you where it is.

[His face, which had just erupted into a good-natured grin, fell again when he glanced down at the state of Naegi's footwear.]

Uh... You gonna be okay walking like that? Hang on. [Where shoe go?? He's ducking to check under the bench and everything. It wasn't anywhere as far as he could tell.] Shit, Naegi! Why'd you throw a fucking shoe at me in the first place? You could've just called me over y'know.

Thanks, Oowada-kun.

[ Honestly, he felt worried about not finding the dorms yet, so this turned out to be a lucky opportunity!

As for the shoe... Naegi's expression turns sheepish as he tries to explain the mystery of the flying shoe. But hey, at least he didn't send him flying into unconsciousness again! That's always a good thing. ]

I wasn't throwing it! A cat stole my shoe and then jumped towards you, sending the shoe flying...

[ Alas, his balance of luck's always precarious. ]

Really? A cat did that?

[He twisted back around to check for any feline signs. Or shoes, for that matter. Nope. Not even in the trees. HOW STRANGE...]

Must've run off by now. What the hell would a cat want with a shoe? Anyway... We'll get it back later! We have important things to discuss.

[He starts moving for the dormitories. You with him, Naegi?]

[ Naegi nodded a bit glumly in response. For some reason, the cat loved to pick on him at first sight. ]

Probably did... But I can just leave finding them for later.

[ Like Oowada said, this discussion's far more important. So he'll just follow as fast as he can without accidentally tripping. Powerwalking and running's so much harder with only only shoe.

...In hindsight, maybe he should've just taken the other one off too. ]

[Mondo noticed Naegi's struggle after they moved across the lawn a ways and decided that maybe he should help a bro out.]

Hey. Need a lift or somethin'?

I-I'm fine!

[ Read: Thanks for the offer, but nooooooo, that's just too embarrassing! ]

It's just throwing off my balance, so...

[ He then reached down and quickly pullled off his other shoe. ]

If I walk like this, I shouldn't accidentally fall over. So let's keep going?

If you say so.

[Oh, good! He didn't force him into an awkward piggyback situation. Thank your lucky stars, SHSL Good Luck. Anyway, it's not too long before they reach the dorms and make the ascent up the stairs and into BE-15. Mondo made sure to point out the dorm next to it - that's Naegi's. He guides him to his own room and closes the door behind them.

One side of the room looks miserably unfurnished. The other... resembles something very much like this. Pie charts and all.]

Okay. We're here. Now... Tell me who the mastermind is!!

[Except you should probably be keeping it down if it's supposed to be secret!]

[ Yes, he's quite grateful that turn of events was averted without a fuss, and that he now knew the location of his dorm room. Always a good thing to learn.

While Naegi can't help but take in the surroundings when they enter, he quickly stopped himself when Oowada asked that question again. Instead, while putting a finger in front of his mouth in a silent reminder to keep the volume down, Naegi started yet another exposition talk.

In truth, he felt reluctant to start off this conversation answering that question, but he knew Oowada would just keep asking if he tried to start elsewhere, so best to get that out of the way first. ]

The mastermind...The one who controlled Monobear this entire time is the actual Junko Enoshima. She stayed in the topmost floors of the school the entire time.

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I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE NOT BUTTER

Wow, joking about a friend's death are we now

We're all doing it!

I'd say it's tasteless, but butter is pretty flavorful...

I, for one, can't tell whether being butter or battered up is worse.

Maybe both. Buttered up.

Sounds good. Melted butter with a side of truck anyone?

Hope they serve that in detention

Nah, we just got smashed in there instead. (Whoops, lots of tag mistakes there, sorry!)

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WOW SO MUCH HTML FAIL I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE... SORRY ABOUT THAT...

AAHAHA I SHOULD BE SORRY... I didn't come get you to fix it...

It's fine! (I totally need to recheck my replies more...)

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