When Duanmu Huai and the others returned to the Principal's Office, Yukizome Chisa had also brought the students back. According to Yukizome Chisa, the broadcast room had been locked, but after they opened the door, they found it completely empty. The only thing playing inside was a recording...
The students all said they couldn't believe it, but Duanmu Huai knew that if it was the Deceitful Trickster, then it really could pull off something like this.
Thus, after determining that they couldn't leave the school, the next thing everyone had to do was find the person who had killed the principal.
Whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, because of Hope's Peak's hands-off management, there were basically only a few students attending school. When they counted everyone, only Duanmu Huai's entire class was present, while the teachers had mostly gone to a meeting and weren't in the school building.
As for who the culprit was, everyone had their own ideas.
"It's definitely whoever made the announcement!"
"But that person said it wasn't him."
"If he says it wasn't him, does that make it true? Have you ever seen a criminal admit to being the murderer?"
"There's no way the culprit is one of us, right?"
"How could that be? We've been playing games in the classroom the whole time. None of us have really left, right, Class Rep?"
"Ah, yes."
Asked that question, Nanami Chiaki nodded blankly.
"Besides, we don't have any motive to kill the principal. We're not Reserve Course students."
"That... actually sounds reasonable."
"Then who killed the principal?"
"What was said earlier makes sense. Maybe a Reserve Course student secretly entered the school building and killed the principal. Perhaps he originally planned to escape, but now that the school building has been sealed off, he's trapped here with