Yukiteru watched the content of the memory footage, his face showing utter shock.
"This... is this really Yuno? Why would she be like this? The people in the cage, are they her..."
"Mom, Dad, I'm sure you'd like Yukiteru too. He's a really cute boy. If I get the chance, I'll definitely bring him back to meet you."
In the footage, Yuno wore a sickly smile on her lips as she murmured softly.
Yukiteru's pupils contracted sharply.
'Parents.'
'Yuno actually locked her parents in a cage and tortured them to such an extent?!'
"Impossible! This isn't real! Yuno isn't that kind of girl! She couldn't do something like this!"
Yukiteru shouted as if on the verge of a breakdown.
Yuno was his only pillar of support in the game.
For her, he killed for the first time, his hands stained with blood.
Even towards a girl like Tsubaki, who carried so much, with an incredibly tragic background, Yukiteru showed no mercy.
Everything…
Was just to live to see a better tomorrow with the Yuno he held dear in his heart.
But now, the dream shattered.
Yuno was not the innocent, kind girl Yukiteru had imagined.
She had experienced unimaginable trauma, and her heart was already riddled with scars.
The memories continued to flow.
Yuno's abuse of her parents intensified day by day.
In the end, the two were literally turned into living skeletons by her.
And throughout all this, Yukiteru was kept completely in the dark.
In the Future Diary game, relying on their mutual affection and the complementary abilities of their diaries, they killed gods if gods stood in their way.
They eliminated everyone from #3 to #12.
Watching himself clearing the game step by step in the footage, Yukiteru couldn't help but form a bitter smile.
"So, even without the walkthrough from the Group Owner, we could have managed on our own."
By now, his state of mind had slowly recovered from the shock about Yuno.
After fully understanding Yuno's background and history, Yukiteru chose to comprehend.
After all, in the current timeline, her parents weren't dead yet, so there was still a chance to save the situation.
Yukiteru secretly clenched his fist.
He would use all his strength to save Yuno from the quagmire of hatred.
He had this confidence, just like the countless times he had saved Yuno before.
But, at this moment, he could never have imagined the plot that would unfold next.
"Let's take sleeping pills together, a lovers' suicide."
At the very end, after a night of tenderness with Yukiteru, the pink-haired girl, her beautiful eyes soft as water, gazed deeply at Yukiteru.
She took out two bottles of poison.
'Perhaps this was the best outcome.'
Yukiteru contentedly took the poison, closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.
His right hand tightly held Yuno's small hand, his heart was peaceful and serene.
Watching the memory footage, a slight smile also appeared on Yukiteru's lips.
His demands weren't high, truly not high.
In the cruel Future Diary game, being able to unite with his beloved and finally die happily together was a kind of romance in itself.
If this was the 'true reality' Hattori mentioned, then Yukiteru felt it might not be so bad.
However, in the next few minutes, something happened that completely shattered Yukiteru.
Not long after they lay down, Yuno silently sat up and spat out the poison in her mouth.
Yukiteru: "!!!"
Yukiteru stared in shock at Yuno's actions in the footage, his shoulders trembling uncontrollably.
'Why?'
'Why did she break her promise to me?'
'She clearly knew.'
'If she wanted to become God, I would have yielded it to her.'
'But she had to give me hope of love, only to silently betray me after everything was over.'
'What was the purpose of all this?!'
Yukiteru's eyes were wide with fury, and even someone as saintly as him felt genuine anger at this moment.
Not anger at Yuno using such means to kill him for the sake of godhood, but anger at being deceived.
The feeling that his sincere feelings were being played with and trampled wantonly by Yuno.
This feeling was what Yukiteru detested the most.
"I'm sorry, Yukiteru. I can't keep our promise to die together."
Looking at Yukiteru's corpse, with his eyes closed, no longer breathing, a trace of sorrow flashed in Yuno's eyes as she spoke softly.
"I don't want you to die. I don't want to go to a place without you. I love you, more than anything in this world. I can't bear a world without you in it, not even for a minute, not a second. No matter what, I must be by your side, even if the cost is betraying you."
Large tears fell from Yuno's eyes, her emotion profound.
"Muru-Muru said, even a deity doesn't have the power to revive the dead. That means, even if one of us ultimately becomes God, we still can't see our loved one's face again. It's a dead end."
As Yuno said this, her voice had become slightly distorted.
Watching this scene, Yukiteru's pupils couldn't help but contract slightly, a chill rising from the depths of his soul.
He had a premonition.
Yuno was about to do something incredible, something enough to shatter him.
"But, I asked Muru-Muru. In the causality and endless timelines, there is still one way to keep seeing you, to always be by your side."
Yuno's smile became completely distorted.
A demon's cloak seemed to envelop her, and Muru-Muru slowly materialized beside her.
This dark-skinned imp finally revealed the claws of her ambition.
Scheming against Deus, supporting her chosen #2, Yuno, to ascend and become the confidante of the new God.
This new God, her mind filled only with Yukiteru, thinking only of Yukiteru.
As long as she was immersed in the infinitely looping timelines, the throne of the God of Causality, the God of Time, would be firmly in Muru-Muru's grasp.
So thought Muru-Muru in her heart, a sly smile curling her lips.
"Yuno, hurry and perform the time leap. Don't you want to see Yukiteru sooner?"
"Mm."
Yuno nodded, took a deep look at Yukiteru lying on the ground, her eyes full of deep affection.
Finally, she crossed countless timelines, returning to before the Future Diary game began.
Then…
Watching the memory footage, Yukiteru's pupils contracted violently, his eyes filled with deep horror and disbelief.
She killed herself.
The Gasai Yuno of the First World mercilessly killed the pitiful Yuno of the Second World.
And her goal...
"I'm here, Yukiteru."
Yuno's smile gradually twisted, became pathological, until finally, her hands caressed her face, an unhealthy flush appearing on her cheeks.
The footage stopped abruptly here.
Hattori, having calculated the timing precisely, sent a message.
[Dark Group Owner: Now, what are your thoughts?]
In the First World of Future Diary, Yukiteru was completely frozen.
His eyes turned gloomy, a bone-chilling cold spreading through his heart.
'So…'
'The truth the Group Owner spoke of referred to Yuno.'
She wasn't a gentle, kind lamb. She wasn't a weak girl needing Yukiteru's protection.
She was a demon. A demon that only a Devil King could make bow its head!