Some time later, Steven closed the binder with files about Hope's Peak. ...It just didnt make sense. Acoording to these files, some people going by the name of The Original Despairs had caused all sorts of havoc in Hope's Peak. But as far as he knew, no such thing had ever happened before he arrived at the school a few days ago, and though he would by no means deny that a lot of horrible stuff happened afterwards, the writer of these files would have to be psychic to be able to describe them. Besides, the details of the contents didn't match his experiences here. In short, it couldn't be true... and yet, it was all way too detailed to be made up for no apparent reason. So what did all of this mean? The simplest explanation was that Monokuma just made the entire thing up, but then why would he fabricate something so intricate? ...No, that was a pointless question; the psycho was fully capable of capturing a bunch of teenagers and pitting them against each other. There was no way to know how his brain worked. Either way, he needed more information, something that he could actually fact-check.
Turning back to the shelf, Steven picked a few files at random, placing pointless files to the right and more useful ones to the left of him. "Stuff... stuff... stuff", he muttered as he discarded one file after another. Not that there wasn't anything interesting in there; it was just that he didn't know enough about the topics at hand -- poilitics, police records and whatnot. Not something most people know a whole lot about beyond what the headlines say. And then there was the occasional piece of junk, like, say... "...Monokuma's grocery list?! What is that doing here? And why does it include several dozen spears? ...Stuff, stuff, more stuff."
This pattern kept going for a while, the two stacks of files growing ever larger in the process. Eventually, the left pile was getting too big to ignore for Steven. Sure, he didn't know if every single thing the files claimed to be true was accurate, but what he did know about the topics at hand matched perfectly with what the files said. And if so much was correct, was it not at least plausible that the rest of the files were true too? But if that was the case, then Isaac... really was the Ultimate Assasin? Does it really matter at this point though? The Ultimate Gamer and Ultimate Artist were capable of murder too, so an Ultimate Kickboxer, already not the most pacifistic of sportsmen, might very well be driven to murder too. That said though, if all the files were accurate, then that meant that they had been together for years already before this event started, and it was that very bond that he needed to stop people from killing one another. But in order to prove that... He'd have to first prove that Isaac was indeed the Ultimate Assassin, or failing that getting him to admit to this. Steven sighed. That mission might be even harder than the goal he had in mind before...
