I'm tired.

That's all.

I'm just tired.

Even though I had slept a decent amount of hours, I'm still tired.

And cold.

I'm so cold.

Ding Dong

"Gooooooood morning students! It's time to wake up and have a yummy dummy breakfast!" Monkomi cheered from the speakers.

I got up from my bed but didn't get off.

What would have been the point if I got up and went to face everyone else...well the ones who are left?

What would have been the point if everything just repeated itself? One killed, one killer, one trial, one execution, two deaths in total.

Damn, I'm so cold.

Urgh, might as well get going or I'll worry the others, I thought.

I changed into my clothes and walked out of my room.

I went to the dining room.

Yuki, Kana and Toshiaki were already there.

"Hey...are you ok Kuro?" Kana asked, worriedly.

"I'm just tired," I sighed.

"Hey I get it man. Seeing all of these deaths and trials a-and the blood. Ohh the blood is one of the worst parts. A-anyway dude, we're all in the same boat. But if we work together, we could-," Toshiaki said but got cut off by Yuki.

"Stop! ...stop, it's not making him feel better," Yuki explained.

"O-oh really? Sorry then," Toshiaki said.

"I appreciate the thought though," I muttered.

I sat down and rested my head on the table.

"What should we do now?" Toshiaki asked.

"I think we should wait for the others before we decide on a decision," Kana said.

"Yeah she's right. I think I see Ichigo now," Yuki said.

And Ichigo came in as soon as he said that.

"How's everyone feeling?" She asked.

"Not so great," I replied.

"It's that bad huh?" She said and we all nodded.

"Yes unfortunately. Let's hope that we get better days," Kana sighed.

"Hmm," Ichigo agreed.

Hirohito came in.

"H-hello everyone. Umm h-how is everyone d-doing?" He asked timidly.

"Not good, little dude. Not good," Toshiaki replied.

"Oh th-that's not good t-to hear as a th-therapist," Hirohito muttered.

"Well no sh*t," Yuki murmured.

Hirohito pretended not to hear him though.

"How many of us are left?" Kana asked.

Toshiaki looked at the corner of the ceiling, looking like he was counting down something.

"Seven I believe. Seven of us are left," he said.

"Hard to believe that there was 16 of us when this first started and now...," Ichigo trailed off.

She's right.

16 Ultimates entered and now 7 are left. Who knows how many will be left?!

"I wonder how many of us will be left?" I asked.

"You're saying as if you have already given up to this game. Look let's not mope around much. We can at least try again with trying to find a way out. At least one more time," Kana pointed out.

"One more time...let's hope you're right," Ichigo agreed.

Toshino came in but he didn't speak to anyone. Hell he didn't even look at any of us.

Not even me.

My heart did ache at this.

Maybe he's just tired of this like the rest of us, I thought.

Bing Bong~

"Everyone head to the gym for a special announcement!" Monkomi's voice could be heard from the speakers.

Everyone groaned at this.

We all headed to the gym though.

Monkomi stood upon the stage, proudly.

"Hello remaining students. It's time for your motive!" He chirped.

Everyone glared at him.

"Ouch so I got stuck with the harden ones huh? Well this game isn't going to be as entertaining as I thought. I guess I'll just be the one comic relief character that every reader would want to see," Monkomi sighed dramatically.

"You're the most annoying thing in this whole gym right now!" Ichigo snapped.

"True. You don't shut up about despair and killing and motives! All you do is talk, talk, talk and it's getting tiring," Yuki added on.

"Owwwwww! That hurts! You two are meanies!" Monkomi shook his fist at them.

"They have a point though. That's all you do honestly," Kana explained.

"Well no wonder you're the most hated!" Monkomi shouted which shut Kana up immediately.

"Aaaaaanyways! Your motive is that... ... ... there's a traitor among you," he said.

!

"A traitor?" I asked.

"Yep! Someone who is helping the mastermind. Someone who has been watching you," Monkomi said.

Everyone looked at each other.

A traitor! So someone is working for the mastermind and they are one of us. Damn! It's bad enough that one of us is the mastermind but now there's a traitor, I thought.

"What would have been the point of this motive?" Toshino suddenly spoke up.

"Huh?" Monkomi was confused.

"Are you trying to scare the traitor to revealing themselves?" He asked.

"Wha wha? Nooooo! I have another idea in mind," Monkomi explained.

"Another idea. What do you mean?" Yuki asked.

"That's for you to find out! Anyway if the traitor manages to kill somebody, they get away scot-free but with the unfortunate fact that they get revealed," Monkomi explained.

That's a new one, I thought.

Monkomi disappeared, leaving us to discuss what we just heard.

"So...what do you think was that?" Kana asked.

"M-maybe he just w-wanted to scare u-us," Hirohito suggested.

"I think you're on to something," Yuki noted.

"H-huh?" Hirohito looked confused.

"I think he's just trying to bring out some distrust among us. I mean we have seen so many of our 'classmates' kill one another and whenever they get caught, they also die. With a traitor and a mastermind on the loose, he wants us to lose trust with one another," Yuki explained.

"You do have a point. Maybe the traitor has another goal in mind that is different from the mastermind," Ichigo added on.

Maybe...suddenly...there was something growing in me faintly. That... that feeling was hope.

Hope? In this place? I wondered.

A/N: took a while Huh? Anyway new chapter, you know the drill.

Predict who dies and who lives and even who the traitor is.

I'll maybe cause people to cry in this chapter so uh watch out.

Cya in the next one -Flare