Miyoko and Broki-chan quietly walk around the school for a few minutes to avoid the attention of anyone still roaming around before they head up the staircase and Broki-chan loudly whispers to Miyoko "So are we almost there?". They keep walking however Miyoko gives Broki-chan a confused look as she whispers back "I mean yeah we are, but I thought you would already know that because you're the school mascot, so I just assumed that y'know". Almost immediately Broki-chan replies "Oh well despite being the school mascot, I'm not actually allowed in the school, after that incident that happened with the summer mascot when some kids sprayed the suit with acid".

"Oh, right I almost forgot about that, that was crazy, especially when he tried to bite those kids, anyways sucks that you're getting punished for it when you weren't even involved."

"Yeah, I guess but at least we don't have to wear full-body suits now but the suit's still there because the school wanted to keep the summer mascot for sentimental reasons I guess- hey is that the lab?" Broki-chan points to a sign above a door as they both stop walking and Miyoko turns to her left to see what he's pointing at. Miyoko nods and slowly opens the door just far enough for Broki-chan to walk in before she walks in herself and quietly shuts the door. She gets her phone out and turns on the flashlight and places it on one of the practice tables in the middle to give both some light as Broki-chan begins looking around the room. They both silently examine the room for a few minutes before Miyoko looks inside a cabinet where some chemicals are stored and says "Hey Broki, I just noticed something interesting, looking at the chart on the wall some of the chemicals and acids from this cabinet are gone."

"huh? What chemicals specifically?" said Broki-chan, confused. Miyoko quickly skims through the list and replies in a way that makes it seem like she's talking to herself "Well by the looks of it a bottle of Ethylene glycol is gone. It's used in anti-freezes but as a murder weapon it's a good pick, killing off the victim in 24 hours anyways it says that there's also missing some missing thallium sulphate and strychnine, I have no clue why they would take they would take the sulphate, it would take too long to kill but the strychnine on the other hand would be too quick. I think the killer must have been either deciding what poison they were picking or using all three but either way, I don't know why but I have a feeling that the empty bottles have to be in this room somewhere, what do you think Broki?" Broki-chan looks at her confused and puzzled before snapping back to reality and saying, "Okay first off, how do you even know this stuff?". Miyoko just shrugs as she nonchalantly says, "I just like listening to true crime podcasts that's how I know, but anyways you might want to start looking around after all, the bottles could be anywhere, they could be in one of the cabinets, under one of the tables, in the trash can, I mean they could be anywhere really."

"yeah, you're right," said Broki-chan as he looks around before quickly trying to see if he could find anything under the table before he hears a bottle rolling towards the trash can. Broki-chan stands up as Miyoko says, "Whoops my bad, do you think you could pick up the bottle so I can put it back, it should be near the trash can". Broki-chan nods and walks over to the trashcan before he kneels to pick up the bottle. As he picks up the bottle, Miyoko walks over to him and he notices something in the trash can, so he goes to inspect it.

It's the missing bottles, completely intact as if they were gently placed in.

"Oh, wow Broki, you found the missing bottles, says you must be a genius, see this is the reason I'm friends with you because you're so smart, you're perfect," said Miyoko slightly excited as she gives Broki-chan a pat on the head whilst she looks at the bottles. Broki-chan doesn't say anything as he inspects the bottle for a couple of seconds before looking at Miyoko who's smiling at him as he says, "Do you think there would be the killer's fingerprints on these bottles?" Miyoko's smile immediately turns into a frown as she says "No, there wouldn't be". Broki-chan gives her a puzzled look as he says, "Why's that?". Miyoko begins to slowly walk around the lab as she says, "Well I just think there wouldn't be after all every smart killer uses gloves and this killer clearly knew their stuff so I just think it would make sense that they used gloves". She pauses as she turns back to Broki-chan and says, "Don't you think so too?".

Broki-chan doesn't say anything and nods to which Miyoko responds by walking back over to Broki-chan with her hand outstretched as she says, "Well we should probably make sure the killer doesn't think that we're onto him by putting everything back, hand me the bottle Broki". Broki-chan silently hands her the bottle and Miyoko puts it back in the cabinet before she grabs her phone and walks towards the door and opens it slightly. Broki-chan stands up, pushing the trashcan very slightly towards the left before heading to the door and walking through it. Miyoko walks through the door after him, shutting it, turning her phone's flashlight off to not draw attention to themselves and walking over to the nearest bin and dumping the poisoned food in it. After the food was discarded, they quickly walked out of the school, however, whilst they were walking, Broki-chan couldn't help but notice the slightest grin on Miyoko's face which Miyoko seemed to be hiding from him. Broki-chan thought it was a bit weird but decided to just ignore it as they got to the gate.

Before Broki-chan could wave goodbye and walk away, Miyoko grabs his hand as she sweetly stares at him and asks, "You know Broki-chan, if you want, you could stay at my house tonight". Broki-chan pulls his hand away as he says, "Oh uh thanks for the offer, Miyoko but I already have a home". Miyoko gives him an offended look as she somewhat loudly says "No you don't-". Miyoko quickly cuts herself off and goes back to her friendly expression as she says, "Oh okay, Broki-chan well I better go, I've got homework and stuff to do, see you tomorrow". They both wave at each other and Broki-chan waits for her to leave from his view before walking back to the school. He walks past the actual school and follows a path that leads to a shed near the school's auditorium. Broki-chan opens the door to the shed, revealing an extra outfit, a makeshift bed, the summer's and winter's mascot's old suits and several untouched and unused masks. Broki-chan walks over to a makeshift bed and proceeds to go to sleep.

The next day, Broki-chan hears Sakura loudly yelling out his name which makes him get up and open the door. He walks out of the shed and locks eyes with Sakura, who's at a tree nearby. Sakura rushes over to him, visibly upset and angry as she yells "Where were you? I've been waiting for 15 minutes". Broki-chan tilts his head as he says, confused, "Late for what?". Sakura gives him a frustrated look as she yells "You weren't at the spot we always meet at before the morning bell Broki-chan, I swear-". Before Sakura could finish what, she was saying the morning bell goes off making her loudly yell "Oh for goodness sake" before she angrily storms off.

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Broki-chan looks towards the school and sees Sakura walk around the corner. After Sakura walks around the corner, Broki-chan notices a girl with long ginger hair staring at him. They make eye contact and stare at each other for a few seconds, her green eyes piercing into Broki-chan's soul. After a few seconds of awkward eye contact, the girl blushes and proceeds to quickly leave, confusing Broki-chan.

Fast forward to lunch, Broki-chan, at their usual meeting spot, watches Sakura walk over to him, smiling. She hugs him as she happily says "Broki, are you ready to go to lunch?". Broki-chan gives her a confused look as he says, "Yeah I guess but you're not mad about this morning, right?". Sakura holds his hand and begins walking as she loudly says, "What are you talking about Broki, why would I be mad, don't be silly, all we did was talk". Before Broki-chan could say anything else they were at their usual spot for lunch, Sakura places Broki's lunchbox and a new lunchbox on the table before pushing one of the chairs away from the table so Broki-chan can sit. Sakura then walks towards her chair and sits down before they begin eating, albeit with Broki-chan carefully checking his food and glancing over to Sakura's food to confirm it isn't poisoned again.

Whilst they're eating Sakura glances over at Broki-chan eating before she mumbles "I should really stop making lunch for you". Broki-chan looks up at her and shrugs as he says, "I mean you can if you want, I don't mind". Sakura quickly and somewhat loudly says "No I didn't mean to say that out loud, I just meant that sometimes it's a pain to make but I like making them and I-". Sakura is cut off by the sound of Miyoko clearing her throat which was coming from behind Broki-chan. They both turn around to see Miyoko smiling but before she can say anything, Sakura says "Look Miyoko, can't you see that Broki-chan is having fun with his best friend so he can't talk with y-". Miyoko loudly cuts her off by saying "I'm not here to talk with him". She pauses before continuing "I'm here to talk with you."

Sakura glares at her before silently getting up and walking to the back of the school with her. Once Sakura and Miyoko had left, two girls approached Broki-chan, one of them being someone he instantly recognised as the girl who was staring at him this morning. The other girl with black hair doesn't say anything and just blushes whilst staring at him, her brown eyes piercing into him. Meanwhile, the other girl that Broki-chan saw before looks at him before saying "Hi I'm Nahoko and this is Yutsuko'' She pauses as she points to Yutsuko who gives him a small wave before Nahoko continues "anyways I just want to say I'm sorry for running away earlier, I didn't mean to, it's just that school was starting". Broki-chan gives her a slightly confused look as to why she would be apologising for that instead of staring before deciding to accept the apology as he says, "oh okay... it's fine... thank you for apologising though?"

Nahoko grins at him as she says, "Great that's glad to hear, say you're the Broki-chan right, you know I've always had a few questions I want to ask; would you say that you're single currently?". Broki-chan gives her a slightly weirded-out look as he says, "Yeah I am but I'm not looking for a relationship?". Nahoko very quietly mumbles "You won't be for long". Broki-chan looks at her and asks, "What did you say?". Nahoko gives him a slightly surprised look before saying, "Oh uh I was just moving onto my second question, at what age would you want to get married?". Broki-chan looks even more weirded out as he asks "Isn't that a bit too personal? I mean we have never met before besides today".

Before Nahoko could respond Yutsuko taps her shoulder and says, albeit a bit quiet "Uh Nahoko, 6 o'clock". Yutsuko points at someone causing Nahoko to turn around and Broki-chan to look to see what they were pointing at. Broki-chan sees Sakura marching back to the table, pissed. Almost immediately Nahoko says somewhat worried "Uh me and Yutsuko have gotta go, talk to you sometime soon". The girls quickly leave just as Sakura arrives and glares at them. After the girls were out of her sight, she turned to look at Broki-chan with a smile, however he noticed a cut on her cheek. Broki-chan almost immediately stares at her cheek and asks, "So what happened, how come you have a cut on your cheek?"

Sakura doesn't say anything as she quickly covers the wound before bursting into tears. Broki-chan stands up and hugs her as he says "Hey hey it's okay just tell me what happened? Who did it?". Sakura looks up at him and says "I-it was Miyoko, she threatened me to stop talking to you and I said no I couldn't do that to my best friend before she sliced my face, but you probably don't even believe me because of how good she is at lying". While Sakura was talking, Broki-chan couldn't help but keep thinking to himself 'Miyoko would never do that, I can't see her wounding something', however, he never said this out loud. After Sakura is finished explaining Broki-chan says "Hey it's okay, I believe you, how about we try to forget about it, how was your day, before that?". Sakura wipes her tears and smiles at him as she says, "My day wasn't that good, to be honest, I had a test I forgot about, how was your day?"

"It was okay, so what class do you have next?"

"hmm if I remember correctly-". Before Sakura couldn't finish her sentence, she was cut off by the sound of the school bell ringing. Both Broki-chan and Sakura stop hugging each other and before Sakura leaves to head off to class she says, "Oh that reminds me Broki, can you wait for me at the gate, I want to ask you something". Broki-chan smiles at her and says "Sure". Sakura smiles at him before leaving and heading off to class.

Flash forward to the end of school, Broki-chan is waiting at the gate, watching as everyone leaves before Sakura, who was one of the last people to leave, walks over to him. She waits for the last couple of people to leave before saying "Hey Broki, glad to see that you showed up". Broki-chan looks at her and says, "Yeah of course so what was it you wanted to ask me?". Sakura grins at him as she says, "Well I was wondering if you wanted to join me for dinner, my parents are out of town, and I came up with a new recipe". Broki-chan smiles at her and says "Yeah, of course, I can't refuse free dinner". Sakura's grin grew bigger as she said "Perfect" before they began walking to her house.

Once they're at her house, she unlocks the door with a spare key hidden in a fake rock and lets Broki-chan inside before putting the key back and shutting the door, locking it. She turns on the lights as it was getting slightly dark before telling Broki-chan "Take a seat, it'll take a bit to make dinner". Broki-chan nods and sits down before Sakura walks into the kitchen and turns on the light with Broki-chan being able to just barely see her face. As Sakura is making dinner, Broki-chan looked around the room and asked Sakura questions, however she didn't respond but Broki-chan did notice that while she was making dinner, her grin was growing bigger and more sinister by the second.

Once the dinner was cooked, Sakura looked at Broki-chan and said, "I'm just going to add some spices and then it's done alright?". Broki-chan smiles at her and says, "Oh alright". Once dinner was done, she placed the dinners down on opposite ends and they began eating. "So, what was the best part of your day?" says Sakura as she continues to grin, making Broki-chan's intuition tell him to leave. He ignores his intuition as he says, "Oh well I guess having lunch with you what about you?". Sakura moves her food around before she looks up at Broki-chan, still grinning as she says, "This dinner", she pauses to eat before saying "So who were those girls you were talking to when Miyoko was harassing me?".

"wait didn't you say that she attacked- hold on, I feel really weird, weirdly tired". Sakura doesn't say anything as she finishes her dinner and sinisterly grins at him. Broki-chan chuckles to himself as he says, "It's almost like you- like you drugged my-". Before Broki-chan could finish his sentence, he passes out as he looks at Sakura who was still sinisterly grinning at him.