"IAMSOSORRYPLEASEDON'THATEME!" Hijime squeaked, blushing and embarrassed.

Elliot had brought up the fact in her room (reminder, Hijime is staying there) that Hijime was apparently the Ultimate Tarot Card Reader.

Elliot looked at him. "So you're not the Ultimate Fanboy?"

"Y-yeah..." Hijime sighed, "I want to be though, but I'm better at reading French Playing cards for some reason."

"Hmm..." Elliot hummed, "and your parents don't like this talent?"

Hijime froze. "...Of course. They th-think it-it's useless..." The boy mumbled.

"Tarot cards?" Elliot stated. "Don't those see the future or whatever?"

Hijime looked at his hands. "K-kinda." Hijime mumbled, "I thin-think I can show you..." He says, pulling a deck of cards from his pocket.

"You carry those around?"

Hijime looked at her dead in the eyes. "Yes. Now," He mumbles, splitting the the deck into two groups. He then shuffled them, and then placed 21 cards down. "Now, these are the 21 major arcana. It's easier than using the plethora that is the minor arcana."

"Question: how many are there in total?" Elliot asked.

"78 or 76, I think." He states and then pulled up a card with a wheel like design on it. "Wheel of Fortune, in the upright position."

"Oh cool," Elliot responds, "wait, are you doing my fortune or something?"

Hijime nodded. "Wheel of Fortune represents... good luck, destiny, karma, and a turning point." He looked at Elliot, with a soft smile.

He then picked up a card with a small picture of a judge, or something along those lines. "The card after that is... the Justice arcana, in the upright position... meaning justice, fairness and truth."

"Huh," Elliot states, "that's an interesting compliment."

"Then the Moon, in the downright position." Hijime mumbled, "Release of fear, anxiety, mystery, unhappiness and confusion." Showing a card with an (upside down) image of two dogs under the moon.

Elliot gave an awkward look.

"And finally..." He looked at the final card he picked up, which had a design of a burning and destroyed tower. "The Tower arcana, upright position."

Elliot noticed the uneasy in his voice, "Is that bad?"

"It means disaster, upheaval, sudden change and then a revelation."

Elliot looked at him. "Huh, so like a mixed bag of despair and hope?"

"I guess." Hijime responds. "By the way... you mostly are the Wheel of Fortune. Which is... cool, given your talent is being a lucky student."

"Then what are you?"

Hijime blushed. "Y-you me-mean my ar-ar-arcana? Er, The Magician."

Elliot smiled. "The Magician?"

Hijime smiled back awkwardly, "It represents 'Power, skill, concentration, diplomacy, and loss'. My aunt said that's my tarot..."

Diplomacy? Well, he definitely is the most peaceful. Plus, with concentration or skill - he did figure out Zinnia due to her outbursts... "Huh, have you ever done the overs tarot readings or whatever?"

"No, they'd think it was dumb. But... I did mentally do Zinnia's."

"What was she?"

"The Devil. Violence, revenge... from how she was talking about Kohaku, that su-surely was not just 'I want to kill'." Hijime mumbles. "Anyways, I'll sleep on th-the chair. You sleep on your bed." He mumbled, getting off the pink sheeted bed.

Elliot looked at him. I want to keep learning more and more about him.

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When Elliot woke up, Hijime was asleep.

His expression was not the typical 'peaceful, honeybun with an adorable sleepy face' and more 'terrified and neurotic mess, with still a cute face'.

She sighed. She hoped this was for a single night, because she while she liked Hijime's company, she liked sleeping alone.

"Hijime," Elliot states, softly, looking at the white haired boy, "wake up."

Being that Hijime sleep chair mobile was next to her bed, she also tapped him on his shoulder.

It felt... bony? Like, if she somehow had to punch him in the gut (which she hated to do, being he's a genuinely nice person), he'd go down before in truly connects.

Hijime's eyes fluttered open, revealing his soft eyes. "Y-yes...?" He then looked around the room, and nearly had a aneurysm.

"OHGOODNESSI'MSORRY!" He blurts, looking very awake.

"I allowed you into my room...?"

"O-oh... r-right."

Elliot hummed, and stood up. "We should get to the dinning hall." She states. "Didn't Leader-sama want a meeting because of last night?"

"That's right..." He mumbles, standing up as well, "I assume sh-she wants us all to reveal are secrets..."

"Yeah, that's probably true."

Hijime blushed. "Then, also... who got those secrets..."

Elliot froze for a second. Someone knows... she almost skipped a beat, while someone like Nichibotsu or Yoshiki might've been okay with that... what somebody wasn't?

'You're parents are homosexual deviants!!' Someone would yell at her, and then kill her in some horrific or demeaning way.

Never mind that- it doesn't matter. Hijime indirectly said he believed in you, right?

"I wonder what the secrets were."

Hijime hoarsely hummed in agreement. "I thought mine would be something else..."

"Anyway, let's get going."

Hijime nodded, sighing.

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It didn't take long for Elliot or Hijime to get to the dinning hall, of course the walk over was awkwardly silent.

When they entered, the gang was all there.

Kosabachi placed her hands on her hips. "FINALLY, we almost started without you!"

Elliot smiled awkwardly. "Ahah, well we're here now, Leader-sama." Elliot responded going to a free chair next to Leon and Yui.

"Good morning, Ellie." Leon said, bags under his eyes.

Yui gave a nervous smile, looking stiff.

Kosabachi placed a hand on her chest, "Alright, yesterday Monokuma had given us envelopes containing secrets and randomly passed them out." She began, "To stop any more deaths, we'll just reveal them. Sound good?"

There was an awkward silent agreement, but still...

Kosabachi looked at them, "Anyone want to start?"

No one said anything, or raised there hand.

"Ahah... I guess I'll go first." Kosabachi states, lifting a letter in front of her. "Yoshiki Furamenko," She states, which made Yoshiki jump, "I have scar on my left eye."

Huh? Wait- well, that just explains the giant bang...

Yoshiki sighed, and lifting the raspberry colored bang, revealing a horrific scar. It was red with streaks of black, and completely covered his left eye.

Elliot gasped, Hijime placed a hand under his chin, Nichibotsu gave a empathetic look.

"Technically," Yoshiki stated, letting the red bang recover his eye, "I'm blind and deaf on the left side."

Ayameko gave him a strange look. "Technically?"

Yoshiki slouched back. "I mean, I can still see and hear stuff on the left side. It's just harder."

Albert stood up, "Shall I go next?" Albert said picking the secret giverer. "Elliot 'Keith'" Albert began, and Elliot's blood turned cold.

"My parents are gay." Albert states, and the group didn't even make an awkward noise or anything of the like.

"Really?" Leon states, making a smile. "My parents are divorced, and right now I have two moms and one dad. Polyamory, y'know?"

Yui smiled, which was a sight, "Huh.... you never told me that..."

Elliot gave a sigh of relief. "Yeah, I don't talk about it much, mainly because... anyways," Elliot blushed, "Ayameko, your next in the order - I guess."

Ayameko picked up the card, and looked at it. "Leon Luden," She blankly states, and Leon visibly jumped and glanced at Yui. "I am..." Ayameko began, and blushed, "Is this the right card...?"

Yosuke raised her body, like a cat in defense mode. "What does it say about Lord Leon?"

"I was formerly a playboy." Ayameko states awkwardly, "Er, Leon, what does that mean...?"

Oh god. Oh boy golly. This was awkward, extremely.

Leon hanged his, face redder than a cherry. "Eheh, well..."

Yui gave Ayameko an unimpressed look. "It means he... does that with.... a lot of woman," And then looked at Leon.

Leon raised his head, a mix of embarrassment and anguish, "Key word on the envelope: formerly! After I became a public speaker, I stopped - can we please chan-"

Yosuke stood up, and picked up what looked like a butter knife. "Try pluck a single flower of any these ladies - or even Lord Yui's or thy's- thou are a dead man."

Leon raised his hands in front of his chest, and leaned back into Elliot - which she noted that his hair was plush and soft. "Did Ayameko not just say 'formerly a playboy'!?"

Yoshiki looked at Yosuke questioning. "Try pluck a single flower?" Yoshiki then paused and placed a hand on his chin, "Um, what do you mean by that?"

Kosabachi laughed through her nose, which sounded kinda cute. "Okay," Kosabachi states, "you can stop teasing Leon, Yosuke?"

Yosuke looked at Kosabachi, "Oh, thou's secret?" Yosuke picked the note up, and not placing the knife down, "Nichibotsu Ikari," She states, "Nichibotsu is a girl!" She reads.

Wait what? First Leon is... er, has that, and Nichibotsu is a girl!

"Huh? You guys didn't already know that?" Nichibotsu asked.

Leon, still redfaced, looks at her. "Well, you are... um, very masculine - too say the least." Which earned him a smirk from Kosabachi.

"Nichibotsu has seen Yosuke's chest. Yosuke is very muscular!" Nichibotsu states. "Also, very fl-"

"Lady Nichibotsu...!" Yosuke cuts the other female off, surprised. "Anyways," She states, and looks at Kaoru (who off course was next to her, "Go on, Lord Kaoru."

Kaoru nods, and doesn't sit up. "Albert Tatabana," He begins, and opens it up, "I hate math. Huh, for the Ultimate Mathematician that's interesting."

Albert smiles, "Eheh, my mother forced it onto me. I don't really hate it, I just find it extremely boring."

"Uhuh," Elliot mumbles, she felt a twinge of empathy (she equally hated math - she was more or less a literature minded person). She opened her envelope again - Hijime Namaeda, My True Talent is Tarot Card Reader. Elliot knew that this by far the tamest - of not the tamest of the secrets.

(Compared to Leon's, by far.)

Hijime shivered. "A-am... A-am I next...?" The silver haired boy asked looking at the group. "We-well... Yosuke Kishi," He begins, and breaths in deeply, "Thou is the knight and elder sister to Yui."

Okay, so maybe Yosuke and Albert have pretty tame secrets. (She of course new that Yosuke was Yui's sister).

Yosuke glanced at Hijime. "Oh, erm, Thou thought that was known...?"

Kaoru looked at the blue haired knight. "While you two do look similar... there's some obvious differences. Like... you're tall and he's..." Kaoru looked at Yui, "...very... erm... not."

Yui gave an annoyed look two the gamer. "You... you can say I'm small or that I'm a midget. I'm not going to care."

Now that Elliot thought about it, Yosuke was quite tall.

"Plus," Kosabachi starts, "your last names are different. Kishi and... whatever Yui's is are completely different!"

Elliot looked at Kosabachi, and then Yui. "Isn't your last name Enoshima?"

Silence covered the room.

"Yes." Yui states. "But I have no relation to that woman - we just share last names."

Kosabachi gave an awkward look. "Well, still, different last names. Kishi and... Enoshima. Anyways!"

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After a few minuets of awkward that was revealing of other people's secrets - Yui's was essentially a carbon copy of Yosuke's, Ayameko's was 'I like videogames', Eda's was... lost by Nichibotsu.

The others reacted nicely to Hijime's talent. Mostly just 'I knew it! Fanboy sounded like a fake talent!' or 'Oh...'.

Of course, now she was in her... group...? Ugh, this is embarrassing...

Unlike last time, there was an actually conversation! Well, between Yoshiki, Hijime, Nichibotsu, and Elliot - Yosuke was too busy watching Yui and Leon like a hawk.

"So you do fortunes?" Yoshiki asks Hijime. "Can you do mine?"

Hijime blushed for second - and fumbled with the deck of cards. "I-I could." He states, as he places the 21 cards down.

Hijime breathed in. "The first card is... The Hanged Man, upright. Er, suspension, restriction, letting go, sacrifice."

"Then the card after that is... The Devil - reversed. Detachment, breaking free and... power reclaimed."

Elliot remembered that Zinnia was also The Devil, which was upright at least. Huh, that was quite interesting...

"Then... The Fool, upright. Eheh... you're a protagonist... I mean, beginnings, innocence, spontaneity, and a free spirit." Hijime mumbled, "Then the final card is..."

"The Hierophant, reversed. Society, concord, and over kindness."

Yoshiki sat a back - a bit intrigued. "Oh, that's very interesting."

Hijime smiled weakly, and put his cards away. "A-a-anyway... er, Nichibotsu... h-h-how'd you lose you note?"

Nichibotsu perked her head up, looking uncomfortable. "Nichibotsu just lost it, Hijime! In Nichibotsu's room of course."

Huh, Elliot thought, that's strange...

"So... Ikari," Elliot states, looking at the pink haired girl. "Do you intentionally dress boyishly? Or are you a tomboy?" Elliot asks.

Nichibotsu shrugged. "Nichibotsu never meant to fool anyone - Nichibotsu swears on it!" The basketball star bellows happily.

Well, no one did say "Nichibotsu-san" or "Lady Nichibotsu"... it was just Nichibotsu. Huh.

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Elliot was in Yosuke's room. After Nichibotsu was revealed to be a female, Yoshiki demanded the group was split up (boys sleep in one room, girls sleep in another).

Sadly, Yosuke and Nichibotsu weren't there - night gym workouts and such.

Elliot sat awkwardly on Yosuke's bed, which was near identical to her own.

Yosuke's walls were covered in medieval looking posters, swords, pieces of armor. She even noticed a knight keychain hanging from her desk.

"Ugh, I wish my room was like this..." Elliot mumbles, remembering that her own room was boring and run of the mill (which was probably a comment on her talent).

Elliot laid her head down. Her bed seems softer than mine. She thought, It's probably because of some psychological thing, or whatever.

Her eyes fluttered, she awkwardly felt so... so sleepy.

If I sleep, Yosuke and Nichibotsu must come back surely. Elliot ponders, letting her eyes shut.

Of course, her sleep was quickly stopped was Yosuke quickly opened the door, looking spooked.

"Elliot-" She panted, near tears, "Elliot!"

Elliot bolted her body straight up, surprised as all heck. "Kishi... what's wrong? Where is Ikari?"

Yosuke breathed in, "Nichibotsu... she's dead."

Elliot froze. Nichibotsu is dead? She's dead? Like Zinnia, Kohaku, Yige...

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S U R V I V O R S -- 12 (Elliot K., Hijime N., Eda S., Ayameko Y., Albert T., Yui E., Kosabachi K., Kaoru T., Yoshiki F., Yosuke K., Leon L.))
V I C T I M S -- 02 ((Yige P., Kohaku H., Nichibotsu I.))
B L A C K E N E D -- 01 ((Zinnia N.,?))
OVERALL -- 03 ((Yige P., Kohaku H., Zinnia N., Nichibotsu I.))