75 Chapter 74: Bloodstained Screw

'System, explain!'

[Remember when you got teleported out of this world? Well, before you were teleported, in a split second, you were covered in a veil of cosmic energy to protect your body and mind from the deadly multiversal forces that would've tear you apart.]

[Miraculously, the individual known as Naze Youka, or Kujira Kurokami, had also been caught in the cosmic energy wave. The wave had somehow protected and preserved her body mind of the previous timeline.]

'Wait, what?' Zenkichi's mind raced as he tried to comprehend the situation.

Naze stepped forward, her eyes burning with anger. "Answer me, Zenkichi! What the hell is going on here? Why are we back in the underground facility? Where's Ryota? And why is Koga-chan alive?!"

"Eh? Eh?! Um, Naze-chan...?" Koga was understandably confused and a bit hurt to what Naze was saying.

Naze snapped out of her angered state when she saw the saddened look on her friend's face, causing her to remember Itami's horrible death, and without thinking, she rushed towards her and hugged her tightly. "Koga-chan... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you. I'm just... I'm just so confused and scared right now."

Koga, still processing the sudden turn of events, slowly wrapped her arms around Naze in return. "It's okay, Naze-chan. I understand..." She paused. "Actually I don't really understand, could someone tell me why you're acting this way and who in the actual hell this handsome guy is?!"

Zenkichi scratched the back of his head and said, "It's a...not exactly long story but a pretty complex one."

"Then surmise it for me then!" Koga impatiently said, before cooing at a unexpected vulnerable Naze hugging her even more tightly.

He let out a sigh, "An evil organization hypnotized the entire world into becoming violent psychopaths to tear each other apart, spreading chaos and despair, almost everyone died, evil bear robots appeared to wreak even more havoc, and a literal Demon God had somehow manifested their way into our world and it had almost ended the world."

Koga stared at him.

Naze raised her head and stared at him.

"You..." Koga hesitantly took a few steps back, hugging back Naze protectively. "Did you escape from some mental asylum or something? Huh?! Tell me, are you a satan worshipper or something!?"

Zenkichi's face twitched.

[She's technically not wrong though...]

He was part demon after all.

'Shut up.' Zenkichi inwardly groaned.

Naze let out a sigh and lightly pushed herself off Itami, and said. "He's not lying, it's true, Koga-chan."

"Naze-chan?!" Koga turned towards her, stunned. Did her best friend finally went complete cra-cra?!

"No." Naze rolled her single visible eye.

"Gasp! You can read my mind?"

"No, I can't read your mind. You just said it out loud." Naze flatly replied.

"Oh...Hehe."

Naze sighed and said, "Koga-chan, do you trust me?"

Koga hesitated for a moment, but then nodded. "Of course, Naze-chan. I trust you with my life."

Naze gave a small smile. "Good. Because what Zenkichi said is true." She then begun telling her the full story in her own perspective.

"Naze-chan..." Koga softly bit on her lower lip, listening intently to Naze's explanation. "So, all this time... I was dead?" She whispered, her voice filled with disbelief.

Naze nodded solemnly. "Yes, well, at least I thought you were...but..." She turned towards Zenkichi with a questioning look.

"We went back in time," Not wanting waste any more time and delve deeper into his secrets, Zenkichi simplified it all in just a few words.

Both girls were stunned. Time travel?!

They have seen and experienced a lot of things in their adolescent lives but they never delved into the most ridiculous and fantastical concept like time travel!

"Bullshit."

"Yeee–! Do you have a DeLorean?!"

The girls' reaction were...varied.

Zenkichi shook his head and said, "Naze, I've got something important to do and you know what I want."

Naze's expression turned serious, nodding in agreement. "The thirteenth floow, the computer floor."

Zenkichi nodded, "Not just to end the Flask Plan project, but to also stop Junko or anyone else that had initiated The Tragedy."

"...Hey, are we seriously just going to call it that?"

The two ignored Itami's comment and Naze helplessly sighed and took out a small object.

"That is...?"

"A remote control that destroys the servers and CPU of the supercomputers in the thirteenth floor," Naze simply explained, Zenkichi's eye twitched. "I really didn't want to destroy the project that I've painstakingly worked on for the last year but oh well, for the greater good I suppose."

"...Did you have this in the previous timeline or–?"

"I did." Naze flatly said. "I never told you because I wanted to see you struggle and slowly try to destroy the project; one floor at a time. And yes, I also have all the evidence the people involved in this as well."

"...You are such a bitch..." Zenkichi muttered under his breath, kneading his forehead.

"I heard that," Naze replied with a smirk.

Zenkichi shook his head and said, "Alright, never thought it'd end this way so...yeah, press the button Naze–wait!" He raised his voice, stunning both girls by the suddenness. "What about Ryota? Or anyone else that might be in the blast vicinity?"

"...Their sacrifice will be remembered–"

"Naze!"

"Naze-chan?!"

Naze rolled her eye and huffed. "I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I got a camera set up there so come to my lab and let's check if there are any signs of life before we press the button."

Relieved, Zenkichi nodded. "Good idea. Let's go."

The three of them made their way to Naze's lab, with Koga still processing everything she had just heard. She couldn't believe that she had been dead and that they had traveled back in time. It all felt like a surreal dream.

As they entered the lab, Naze pulled up the camera feed of the thirteenth floor on a large screen. They scanned through the footage, looking for any signs of life.

"...Nope, looks like no one's there." Naze said with pursed lips, as she then switched the feed to another scene. "...Ryota went home, Miyakonojou-senpai is currently playing with Yukuhashi-senpai in the twelve floor, and... Junko Enoshima and Mukuro Ikusaba are arrested?! What?!"

"What?!" Zenkichi and Koga reacted the same to the surprising revelation. They turned their attention to the screen, disbelief evident on their faces.

"Junko Enoshima and Mukuro Ikusaba are arrested? When? And how?" Zenkichi exclaimed.

'Was this the system's doing? Dude, this is far from just being a encounter.'

Naze narrowed her eye at the screen, the image of two girls appeared outside of the clocktower with numerous police cars surrounding the building. "It happened this morning it seems. The reason behind their arrest was alleged planning of terrorism, mass murder, and manipulation of the masses. They were reported by... Huh? That second luckster? Seriously?!"

'Second luckster? Why does that sound familiar?' Zenkichi furrowed his brows, trying to remember who Naze is referencing but shrugged it as unimportant right now.

Koga's eyes widened in shock. "D-Did this happen in the previous timeline?"

"Clearly not, since she was supposedly the mastermind of it all alongside with others that we don't know of. Is this that so-called butterfly effect of time travel?" Naze muttered under her breath as she went through numerous other cameras, checking up on other stuff in school.

What? As the handler of the entire Flask Plan project, she had to have eyes everywhere in order to control certain troublemakers or prevent certain incidents.

She turned towards Zenkichi, "So, what now?"

Zenkichi blinked, surprised by the question.

"Kinda obvious in all things considered..."

"Hmph. Just wanna ask you first before you start bitching about any other problems that might arise." Naze huffed as she pulled out the remote and unhesitatingly presseothe big red button on it.

There was a beat of silence.

"...I don't feel anything?" Koga tilted her head.

"Of course you don't, we're on the fourth floor, the explosion is happening on the thirteenth floor," Naze explained. She then switched the screen back to the thirteenth floor, showing only destruction for a moment before the feed was cut off.

"Ooohhh."

Zenkichi looked at Naze and said, "Thank you, Naze. I really appreciate everything you've done to help me." He paused. "And I'm sorry for everything I put you through."

Naze waved him off, saying, "Eh, don't sweat it. It was my choice for following after you and I don't regret it, seeing as you and Koga-chan are alive in the end."

Zenkichi smiled, feeling a sense of relief. "Yeah, I'm glad we're all still here. And now, we can finally put an end to this nightmare." He paused for a moment and asked, "What are you going to do now?"

Naze shrugged and said, "Now I'm going to lay low for a while, the school, the board and the chairman specifically, retribution will come for me soon. So I'm going to crash at Koga-chan's place for a while."

"Aah! We're going to have a sleep over?!" Koga gasped excitedly.

Naze smirked. "Looks like it."

The trio then headed out of the underground facility, entering the elevator that would send them straight to the first floor.

Koga was talking to Zenkichi as to how he had managed to knocked them out as they exited out of the elevator and headed towards the door of rejection.

But the moment they reached the door, they were shocked.

Blood was splattered across the door, dripping down onto the floor. Numerous large screws scattered throughout the hall and embedded on the lifeless bodies that were hanged on the wall.

The sight of it sent a chill down their spines, filling the air with an eerie silence. Zenkichi's eyes widened in horror, his mind racing with the possibilities of what could have happened.

But the most chilling part of it all, was the strange familiarity of it all.

'Why does this look so familiar...' He scowled as he stared at the grim sight; Gun, Takachiho, the twins and Munakata were all there, their eyes closed and blood slipping out of their body.

"Who on earth could've done this...?" Koga muttered.

"Hmm. This is the work of a third party. I have no idea what their goal was in producing this half-assed scene here, but..." A calm voice interrupted, causing the trio to turn around.

"Who's there?!" Zenkichi exclaimed, shocked. How did he not notice him?

Standing before them was a boy with short black hair, blue eyes, and wore a dark school uniform that wasn't the Hakoniwa Academy's. He had a unhinged wide smile on his face.

Zenkichi's face froze, an expression of unexpected fear appeared on his face.

The two girls with him however, were confused.

"Hey now! Don't jump to conclusions, please. They all looked like this when I got here. So..." The boy raised both his hands, stained with blood, and he held a large screw on his left hand.

"This isn't my fault."

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