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solidservantry · 5 years ago

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DESPOT DESPAIR: CHAPTER 3 RECAP

This journal will act as a recap for everything that has happened during Chapter 3. This means there will be information that Tsuyu/Yahari would not realistically know. This is only for the sake of the recap. If you’re confused on who’s who, here’s a link to the roster page.

NOTE TO SELF: These are MANUSCRIPT NOTES!!! They’re meant to be a rough rough rough ROUGH draft of my FIRST NOVEL!!!! Tentatively titled Tsuyu Tsuyuki and the Primrose Palace Peril.

Sakura is dead, and I don’t know how to feel. She… she was my friend, but she killed Muqiu, but he wanted to die, and they both wanted to save all of us.

Trying to choose who to save and who to let die was stressful. I don’t think any of us really thought about the fact that our choices would cause other people to die, we just all wanted to survive. But it didn’t matter in the end. Sakura was executed anyway.

I’ve never lost somebody like that before. I definitely didn’t take it well right when it happened. Yuu was going on and on about his typical villain stuff and talking about how Sakura was an idiot and we were all idiots, too, and I just kind of snapped, and I whacked him with my cane and knocked him out.

Mari took it really hard, too. They both finally got to know each other’s feelings about the other during the investigation, and now Sakura is just gone.

The murder and its aftermath made everyone worried, especially Ricardo. So he led a search into everybody’s rooms, looking for anything suspicious, but he didn’t find anything. He also went around checking on people, especially everyone who lost somebody they were close to, like Mari.

And then he and Airi got into a fight at the ponds. It was petty and dumb, and they should be trying to get along instead of stirring up drama.

But that’s not all Airi did! He was bullying everyone and trying to get them down, so I tried to put him in his place! I challenged him to a battle of wits, and we met near one of the ponds. Except he had a knife and he tried to stab me. We started fighting, and he decided to "give himself a handicap" by stabbing himself in the leg. After that, everyone started freaking out, and I don't really get why because it wasn't that severe and I planned to help bandage him anyway, and Ivy kept trying to keep everyone from fighting. I tried to pick Airi up so I could take him to the infirmary and patch him up, but he just kept insulting me and trying to get away from me, so eventually I just knocked him out, then took him there. He’s fine now.

On the bright side, Liya and I have been getting close! Is that the best way to phrase it? I’m not sure. But, either way, I’m glad to have them around.

Not everybody likes me, though. Ricardo is still really mad at me. I kept trying to convince him that what I was doing to him was right, but he wouldn’t listen. He’ll see eventually.

And then the motive came. Every few days, someone’s loved one would be shot and killed.

Hitomi’s mom was first, and he didn’t take it well, and after that, it was Cai’s dad. He was really upset, and Gam tried to talk some sense into him, but they ended up getting into a huge fight and Gam punched him! Cai forgave him later, but still… ouch. After that, the other people who died were Tsuguyo’s dad and Kliment’s brother.

During the motive, there was a game of truth or dare, and the prize was the ability to save a loved one from dying once. Liya won it, but they never ended up using it.

At some point, Yuu stopped acting like a villain, and now he just seems kinda sad.

Yunime and Raiouji also called us all together during the motive period, and then Yunime executed Mukuro for being a traitor.

After that, it wasn’t long before things went even more downhill. We found Ren dead in the chapel. Her head had been bashed in, and she had a bunch of wounds.

But that wasn’t it. Me, Ricardo, Yuu, and Liya also found Gam floating in the pond, wounded but not dead, and bleeding from a stab wound in his stomach. We got him to the infirmary as quickly as we could. Azumaya was losing it because they and Gam were really close, so Cai had to hold them back while me, Liya, and Hanae cauterized his stab wounds.

The investigation went by quickly, and so did the trial. In the end, it turned out that Gam did it. Azumaya tried to plead with everyone for Gam’s innocence, but he confessed. He planned to commit murder, and wrote letters for his friends on case he didn't get away with it. After waiting in the common area, he delivered them. But Ren saw him and followed him and then challenged him to a duel in the armory.

Gam beat her with a mace, and she managed to stab him with a rapier, but Ren lost. Their fight went down in the armory, and that’s where Ren was killed, but Gam took her body to the chapel to give her a better resting place. After that, he disposed of evidence and then the body was discovered. While everyone was investigating Ren, he left and went to the pond, which only Azumaya saw. And we discovered him after that.

After he was executed, Azumaya broke down in grief. I don’t know exactly how close they were, but I really feel for them right now... I just hope that we escape before any more people die.

- Yahari Yasui

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solidservantry · 5 years ago

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DESPOT DESPAIR: CHAPTER 2 RECAP

This journal will act as a recap for everything that has happened during Chapter 2. This means there will be information that Tsuyu/Yahari would not realistically know. This is only for the sake of the recap. If you’re confused on who’s who, here’s a link to the roster page.

NOTE TO SELF: These are MANUSCRIPT NOTES!!! They’re meant to be a rough rough rough ROUGH draft of my FIRST NOVEL!!!! Tentatively titled Tsuyu Tsuyuki and the Primrose Palace Peril.

That trial sucked. It really, really, really sucked. I’ve never seen anybody die, not in real life, and I never wanna see it again, ever. Ami was one thing, but Kokoro... we had to watch her die and get executed, and it was just horrible.

I guess I don’t have it as bad as Airi, though, since he and Kokoro were dating, apparently? I had no idea until he just started losing it when she died.

But even if I didn’t have things as bad as he did, I still kinda lost it a little bit.

So, by now, anyone reading this book would know that I’m pretending to be somebody else. Everybody still thinks that I’m just Tsuyu Tsuyuki, SHSL Servant. And I am the SHSL Servant, but my real name isn’t Tsuyu, it’s Yahari Yasui, the master detective and, since you’re reading this, successfully published mystery novelist! Currently, I’m Ricardo Caballero’s butler, but I’m really just doing it because... well, that’s spoilers. You guys have to keep reading to find out!

Anyway! After the trial, I went to talk to Ricardo, and he started going on about how miserable he is here, and Tsuyu got mad, and I sorta did, too. Tsuyu is just a character and all, and it fits with what would make them mad, but it made me a little mad, too. So I kind of ended up going off on him and telling him about how he needs to think about other people for a change, and he was really, really upset.

So I went outside to get a breath of fresh air and take a swim, and then Yuu showed up. He started going on about how I’m a loser and everything and I was still mad, so I... well, we fought? And I kind of ended up killing him? But it’s fine because I revived him!!! I think he’s gonna hold that against me forever, though.

I ended up storming off after that, and I went to the kitchen and saw Sakura! I was trying to stresscook, and she kept trying to ask what was wrong, and I ended up so absorbed in my anger that I accidentally cut myself. But when I tried to wash the wound, I burned my hand with the water, then I fell backwards and hit my head on the floor!

Things are kinda fuzzy after that since I think I got a little concussion or something, but I left the kitchen and then went to the infirmary and Liya was there! We talked some and they patched me up and... we kinda ended up napping together on a cot? But. That’s not the important part! The important part is we talked about how self-sacrificial they are, and I made them pinky swear not to give up or do something stupid and end up getting themself killed!

After that... Tsuguyo and Azumaya had an argument that ended in Tsuguyo storming off, and she talked with Cai for a while and he gave her his sunglasses and she looked really cool! And there were some weird eggy cinnamon rolls in the fridge and they were REALLY BAD and I think Tsuguyo made them with Momo... It’d make sense since neither of them know how to cook.

Speaking of people who don’t know how to cook, Ricardo tried to make rice! And he failed! So Sakura tried to give him a hand. I think he also tried to make spaghetti, too, but he just put it in a pot with two drops of water and left it there instead of actually doing anything. He thought it would cook itself! I guess that makes sense, since he normally has other people do everything for him.

Ricardo and Yuu also looked around and completed some kind of puzzle! The toys ended up giving them a chest, and they opened it and found a weird symbol! I’m kinda sad that I didn’t find it first, but sometimes it’s just like that, I guess. There was also a list of names and stuff in it!

.....ologist

Midori Uehara - SHSL Detective

Mika Hanyuu - SHSL Ballroom Dancer

Roseanne Aurora Li - SHSL Broadway Actress

Roshan Shinten - SHSL Biomedical Engineer

Saruhiko Kizuguchi - SHSL Sharpshooter

Takeshi Taro - SHSL Tic Tac Toe Champion

Towa Sonogami - SHSL Roboticist

Yuko Kuwashima - SHSL Home Tutor

Ricardo and Mari hosted self defense classes for judo! Tsuguyo really wanted to learn, so Hanae helped her out, and they ended up totally owning Ricardo! Airi also got his shoulder dislocated, which he deserved bigtime. After that, he was taken to the infirmary and Kliment and Liya tried to help him out! Liya has generally been serving as the doctor for everybody, so that’s pretty nice.

After all that, Ricardo and I (still as Tsuyu) talked a bunch and ended up making up! That was cool, while it lasted.

But then we got the new motive. It was basically that if you get away with murder, you can choose half of the participants to escape with, while the other half gets executed immediately.

But that wasn’t it. Not that long after, we got a second part of the motive: a lot of people’s secrets were exposed. I guess it was to help with the decision of who to save and who to kill.

In terms of other stuff that happened… it turned out that the guy who raised Tsuguyo is on death row, and she told Airi that his charges include fraud, arson, and over 100 counts of murder and attempted murder. Yikes!

Oh, and during the secrets thingy, Yuu tried to hide his own secret and Liya tried to hide someone else’s (more on that in a second…), so they got SHOCK COLLARS!!! I hope nothing bad happens.

But, okay, so the secret Liya tried to hide was actually mine. It was that Tsuyu’s not real and that they’re really me and all that, and when the secret got outed anyway, Ricardo really didn’t take it well! On one hand, I get it, but, come on, Ricky. It’s nothing personal! After that, though, he just kept moping and ate a bunch of ice cream because he was so depressed. To say the least, us making up was pretty short-lived.

But after all that, I went and gave myself a peptalk! It’s kinda weird, showing everyone who I really am after pretending to be Tsuyu, but I’m AMAZING, so it’ll all work out! For example, my two closest buddies right now, Sakura and Liya, both were kinda weirded out, warmed up to me pretty quickly!

And on the topic of Sakura, she was so determined to live for other people all the time and not do anything for herself, and as we kept talking and stuff, I tried to convince her to live for herself, too!

But I’m not the only one Sakura got close to! She and Mari had a heart-to-heart in the infirmary! Mari told Sakura about how she got into scuffles with cops, but didn’t go into detail, and Sakura thought Mari might have anger issues! She told Mari it was okay, but Mari said that she acts the way she does because she doesn’t wanna deal with turbulent emotions because acting on them ends badly!

Sakura told Mari that it’s okay to be erratic and temperamental, and it’s just human nature! And she told Mari she’d accept her no matter what. Mari thought Sakura was amazing and virtuous and all that, and she’d protect her, too! And then they vented and shared more secrets.

And then we all had a picnic! Me and Hanae helped prepare some food for it, and Cai saved Hanae from drowning, and I helped Sakura confess her crush to Mari! She was really embarrassed, though, even though I did a GREAT job!

Tsuguyo also got pushed off the roof of the gazebo, but Ricardo caught her! So she promised to teach him how to make origami horses to pay him back.

Everything was really nice! …Until it wasn’t. Yuu kept throwing apples at people, and when he threw one at Muqiu, he didn’t move. We all got closer to see what was up, and we realized that Muqiu was dead.

After that, we investigated for a while, and then it was time to have the trial. It turned out that Muqiu didn’t wanna keep going through the killing game, so he made a deal with Sakura for her to kill him in an assisted suicide.

What happened was they organized the picnic to mask the time of death, and then Sakura made poisoned mochi and gave it to Muqiu in his room. She got the poison from the apples in the forest, since apple seeds have cyanide in them. He ate the cyanide mochi, then died, and none of us even realized it until midway through the party.

Sakura planned to sacrifice herself, too, and gave people the offer that if they purposefully mistrialed for her, she’d save the people who voted to help her rig it. When Muqiu was alive, they made a kill/save list together, and here’s what was on it:

Kill: Airi, Gam, Ivy, Keiyuu, Momo, Sakura, Ren, Tsuguyo

Save: Azumaya, Cai, Hanae, Hitomi, Kliment, Liya, Mari, Ricardo, Yahari

We all got into a huge debate about what to do, and I tried to get Tsuguyo added to the save list because she’s practically a LITTLE BABY and doesn’t deserve to die. Liya also tried to sacrifice themselves, too, and that made me mad.

A lot of us tried to vote for ourselves instead of Sakura to save more people, but in the end, there were still a lot of votes for her, and Sakura got executed. Hakumei ended up getting pulled into it, too, and she also died.

After all of that, I’m… really tired. I hope we find a way out soon.

- YAHARI YASUI

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