(Ed)

Don't mind me. I'm just going through the vents...oh geez.

(Previously)

I walked out of Tommy's dorm and investigated Mami's room.

I couldn't necessarily find anything too investigative worthy.

I picked up a record of I suppose, is Mami's...or Yu's songs.

I sighed sadly at this. If only I could prevent hers and Lloyd's death.

I walked out and bumped into Tommy.

"Oh hey Ed," he waved.

"Hey?" I said, confused.

"Did you find anything?" Tommy asked and Nega sat upon his head.

"In a sense yes, I'll tell you later," I explained and he nodded.

"I think we should go and investigate other places. We won't find a whole lot in the dorms...well a whole lot now," Tommy stated.

"You're right. I already kind of explored some of the dorms that I wanted to. But where should we start?" I asked.

"Well I found something a while back. I was putting it off because...I needed someone small enough to fit through it," Tommy explained, his voice becoming quieter at the end.

I sighed angrily at this.

"Alright, where's this thing?" I asked, already accepting reality.

He led me to the fortune teller room and pulled aside some ripped up curtains to reveal a vent.

He kneeled down and opened it up.

"I have been meaning to investigate in here but last time I was in one, Monokuma had to get me out and I don't necessarily want him...you know," Tommy explained.

"Do you want me to investigate in here?" I asked and he nodded.

"If you want to, I can watch over Pikachu until you come back," Tommy explained.

"Alright then. For the sake of the investigation," I sighed.

(Present)

"He's kind of right. This vent is very tight that almost no one of normal size would be able to fit in here. I'm lucky I'm so sm...,"

IT'S ONE THING FOR PEOPLE TO CALL ME SHORT BUT IT'S ANOTHER FOR ME TO CALL MYSELF THAT! I thought.

I continued on my way though.

It was one long vent that I thought I wouldn't be able to find an exit.

But then...

"A-ha," I muttered and pushed open a vent door.

I crawled out and then got up, dusting off my coat.

Where am I? I thought and looked around.

It appeared to be an office of sorts. Which means I get to snoop around.

I looked through some cabinet files and pulled some out.

"Hmm, files on us. Ok," I muttered.

I looked at mine.

Full Name: Edward Elric

Ultimate talent: Alchemist

Age: 15

Family: Trisha Elric (deceased), Hohenheim (location unknown. Potentially traveling), Alphonse Elric (TRACKED)

Current status: Alive

KEEP WATCHED <0> <0>

I didn't like the look of that.

Both the 'TRACKED' and 'KEEP WATCHED' were in red print rather than black. Meaning that it was important.

But that also means...

That they have tabs on Al...whoever they are, I thought.

I decided to check on Tommy's file to see if his was similar to mine.

Full Name: Tommy 'Innit'

Ultimate talent: Streamer

Age: 17

Family: [REDACTED] -bur [REDACTED]

Current status: Alive

SEAL??? KEEP WATCHED <0> <0>

I sighed and placed some files back. I kept mine and Tommy's however.

I have a feeling that we're going to need these.

[Files has been added to your Truth Bullets]

(Mukuro)

I went to investigate the library after I was done investigating what I could in the dorms.

I went in and looked through the shelves.

A whole lot of them didn't necessarily seem all that interesting to me. It's just what you would expect from a library.

But then...

I noticed a book title that seemed out of place.

I was in a cooking aisle but there's this book with a blank back.

Weird, I thought and took it out.

The title read, 'Seals.'

I doubt it's about the animal.

I opened it up and began to read.

'Dear Reader,

I don't know how you were able to find this but I am glad that you did. Quickly, after reading this, share with whoever you trust deeply and then throw this into the fire. Do NOT let anyone else know about this. Let these secrets die with you and whoever you trust deeply!

That damned organization can NOT know about this or else they'll go after her chosen ones. And go against his wishes. And then that will give power to HER. SHE simply cannot raise to power. She may have skewed morals but it's way better than HERS.

If you do not wish to continue then hide this book far away and pray that someone that is not in the leagues of HER finds this.

If you wish to continue then I pray that you will be alright with whoever you choose to share this with.

Good luck -PJ

I closed the book briefly to take all of that in.

Whoever wrote this is either dead or in hiding. They must have been taking a huge gamble that someone who isn't an enemy to them would be reading this.

Also, I believe that they may be talking about two different people. The lowercase and uppercase pronouns lead into that.

But something else bothers me.

Those initials...

I'll have to figure that out soon, I thought.

[Book has been added to your Truth Bullets]

(Tommy)

After getting assured that Nega and Pikachu were going to wait for Ed to come back while I investigated, I left the fortune telling room to investigate.

I went back to my dorm because I forgot to grab something important.

That flyer I found.

I looked through it again and confused.

How did I not realize it before? I thought.

15 slots opened with two others.

That would have been 17 Ultimates in total but...

There's 18 of us. And everyone keeps saying that they remember applying here except I don't remember applying. Hmmm, that's suspicious, I thought.

Why would there only be 17 spots opened but would end up having 18 Ultimates? What happened? Why am I even here?

"I hope to figure this out soon," I muttered and placed the flyer back in the drawers and hid it between my folded trousers.

[Flyer has been added to your Truth Bullets]

(Ed)

I continued to snoop around the office and found a binder with the words, HISTORY, on it.

I opened it up and read it.

"Eclipse Academy was founded by a mysterious group named CHB. It was to help cultivate new Ultimate students when Hope's Peak Academy was taken down and destroyed.

It's grand opening is scheduled to open with a new freshman class of 15 students with two transfer students for later.

This class would be different. It would have students from unexpected places to show that anyone can be an Ultimate.

I closed it. 17?

Last I checked, if we don't count Link and Sky dying and assumed that Isabelle and Papyrus were with us in the beginning, there would have been 18 of us and not 17.

... "nngh, what's up with my head," I muttered and rubbed on my temples.

My memories...?

Weird isn't it?

I was so sure that I apply for this school but...why?

I have no reason to...right?

"Hopefully this binder has some answers," I muttered and began to read it.

[Binder has been added to your Truth Bullets]

(Mukuro)

I walked out of the library and went to explore some of the newer rooms. If I go beyond the room with the hydraulic press, I could be able to enter in one of the new rooms.

It was a room with posters of four different people.

One was a girl with long blue hair, a plain schoolgirl's uniform and wore glasses.

Another was of a boy with short, wavy, cyan hair with pink tints at the end, cat socks and overall straps and was grinning sadistically.

The third one was of another boy but with really long and brown or was it black hair and red, glowing eyes.

The last one was of someone too familiar to me.

Junko...

I then looked back at the door where this came from and saw a plaque on it.

Hall of Masterminds.

Were there other killing games before ours? I thought.

I then gave a long look at the room and saw that there were two unfinished posters.

One looked barely done while the other had a silhouette of a person. I couldn't tell whether that person was male or female.

I'm going to suspect that may be our mastermind but they don't seem familiar to me...

Well whatever the case is, we need to get out of here as soon as possible.

[Hall of Mastermind has been added to your Truth Bullets]

(Tommy)

"Ed is taking a long time," Nega told me as soon as I got back to her and Pikachu.

"He may be investigating a lot...hopefully," I said.

"Well best if we also get to investigating," Nega suggested with Pikachu nodding to show that he agreed with her.

"Well there is one place that I want to go back to before investigating the new places," I said.

"Really? Where?" Nega asked.

I picked both of them up, placed Nega on my head and had Pikachu in my arms and walked all the way to this specific room.

Room that was left unfinished.

I opened the door and what I saw shocked me.

What?

"Were these here before?" Nega asked.

"No and the walls are different too! It was grey and not orange," I noted.

Is this what Monokuma meant? When he said that the room was unfinished? Pictures of our dead classmates, our friends? I thought and picked Leafpool's picture.

"..."

Don't cry now. Cry when all of this is over. I can shed as many tears as I'd like then but now, I have an investigation to do, I thought and wiped my eyes before placing the picture back.

Nega, Pikachu and I went on to investigate the room but not much that we could find.

"Looks like we could investigate the pictures then," I said.

"Pika pika," Pikachu agreed and picked up Ash's picture. His face had a solemn expression as he stared at it.

We had a short moment of silence as he did so before he placed it back.

After he did so, I spoke up, "I have this weird feeling about the pictures."

"What's that?" Nega asked.

I looked at all of them closely but I only said, "I'll tell you later in the trial," before glancing at a specific person so Nega and Pikachu would understand who I'm talking about.

"I see...," Nega said.

[Pictures has been added to your Truth Bullets]

A/N: I feel like I need to physically write down all the truth bullets because there's going to be a lot.

Almost there folks. Not sure when but since I'm on summer break, I may have time to work on this (if applying for a job and doing summer work for two of my classes don't take up that time first)

I dropped in loads amount of lore in here, both for the book and for the broader picture (Wattpad360lore. The tag is there for a reason).

Cya in the next one -Flare