As I looked at this iconic pink-haired girl, I couldn't help but wonder if it was game over for me.
What's more, with the way time seemed to be stopped and the black cloak she was wearing, I was pretty sure she was in her god mode.
She was without a doubt the most popular yandere.
She was Yuno Gasai.
[Who are you?]
Even though she was in front of me, her voice seemed to come from far away. It was the second time I was facing a godly being and it still didn't feel particularly good.
"Hum.. *Ahem* Hello I guess. If you ask me who I am, well. My name is Akira Karino. Heir of the Karino family. You can also call me… The warlock of Melancholy."
She tilted her head as she looked at me before smiling,
[You aren–"You aren't scared."
This wasn't a question but a truth. What more, it seemed that she stopped the God-talk.
"Oh no, I am positively scared. Feel like I would piss myself. But no way in hell am I going to humiliate myself in front of a cute girl. Goddess or not."
Her smiling expression froze a little before she finally let out a sigh,
"Things would have been so much easier if he was like you."
You mean that pussy you begin to love simply because of a silly promise?
"Who are you talking about?"
Thankfully, I didn't need to fear having my mind read. Having a super-entity in my head was helpful for situations like that.
"No one you should know. Anyway, I am very curious about you. Akira Karino. You shouldn't exist. I have fought against Shuka Karino as well as Mamako Oosuki before becoming a goddess, but from what I knew, Shuka's brother died when she was young."
My back was suddenly covered in cold sweat. Still, I didn't flinch nor falter.
"Well, learning that I died in one timeline was pretty disturbing, but, I thought that time was infinite and full of millions of possibilities. So why is it impossible for me to be alive?"
A grin split her face, "Indeed. But the situation changes when time itself seems to converge around you. Did you know? I cannot travel to a past farther than the day you supposedly woke up. What more, I cannot see your future, not even one possibility. You are like a singularity. So, who are you?"
Heh! So my existence changed times and space?
Pretty cool.
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Less cool when it brought a psychopathic goddess of time to my doorsteps.
"Hum, before continuing could you take a seat please," I gestured to one of the chairs around the table. "Having to look at you on the side is rather painful on my neck."
I still had Anna and Saeko in front and behind me.
Yuno took a long look at me before swiping the room with her gaze as her lips twitched.
"To think I would be able to see the mage and the sword goddesses in such embarrassing situations. I must say, you are really interesting."
Heh, so those two would become goddesses? So I had future goddesses currently massaging me? Holy shit. This went from pretty cool to absolutely badass.
Yuno took a chair before sneering, "Don’t rejoice. This fate of theirs is pretty twisted now. Initially, they should have obtained the blessings of the current gods after entering the Little garden. From then on, relying on their talent and blessing it would take them 986 years to attain Godhood themselves."
Hum...This was like in JSDF. In that setting, the path to Godhood was to first become an Apostle then a demi-god after 1000 years you could become a god. Rory Mercury was 961 years old at the start of the series.
Well, since the event of the gate appearing happened so long ago she should already be a goddess herself.
"I see. So you are saying that now that they can't enter Little Garden their path to Godhood is broken?"
"Not exactly." She shook her head. "Time always tries to correct itself. It isn't that easy for a strong destiny such as that of becoming a god to be erased. Sooner or later they should have another opportunity. Well, they should have. Though your existence is a problem."
"..." I stayed silent.
"Anyway let me present myself. I am Yuno Gasai. The goddess of the time."
"...One of the goddesses of Time you mean?"
Because I was pretty sure that there should be gods of time in every myth.
"No. I am the sole and only. Let's just say that the others weren't happy about me messing with the time-line and we had a short altercation," She flashed me a grin as she said this, "They lost."
"Oh!! *Clap* *Clap* incredible. I would have paid to see this epic fight."
Well. Isn't it great? A new and stronger Yuno, even more, monstrous than she already was.
Well, it isn't my problem.
She didn't seem hostile. Just curious. So shoo shoo. Go away, yandere goddess. Go bother that poor boy and leave me with my maids.
"I see. You are truly a curious boy. Is your lack of fear coming from that monstrosity in your head."
It was funny when a monster calls another being a monster. Though Chiyo stayed silent.
Yeah, I called a monster born out of nightmare, Chiyo. What? It's not my fault if she was called like that in her series.
"Sorry but no." I shook my head. "The Old ones will not help me simply because I have nothing to give them aside from my soul and I really like to not have my soul being taken by the literal stuff of nightmares."
{Hey! I would take care of your soul if you sold it to me.}
{...Seriously? You stay silent during all the discussions with someone who could vaporize me with a snap of their fingers and it's the mention of my soul that makes you react?}
"*Pfft* Hahaha. Sorry. You are really a weird young boy. I guess that you aren't a singularity for nothing. It should be alright to entrust her with you."
Entrust? I didn't like the sound of that.
"In the initial timeline. After you died, my father managed to absorb all the wealth of the Karino family. Karino and Oosuki left this world and went to the kingdom of Lugnica. Before coming back a few years later in vengeance. Meanwhile, I was simply abused by my mother before I finally snapped and killed them. Then I participated in a death game with Godhood as a prize."
"..."
"It was during those times that I met the love of my life. Yuki."
As she said that, her face already began to blush heavily, and her breath became rough.
"Yuki was simply wonderful. We fought together and finally, we became a couple. We even became Gods of Time together after some twists and turns. Sadly," her smile dropped as she held her head low, "He was killed during my fight against those gods."
"..."
"I don't know how long it has been since then. Thousands of years? Ten thousand? Or perhaps a day? I didn't care. I just wanted to die. I wasn't interested in going to the past and reliving everything. It was one thing when our relationship wasn't that developed, but after all the time we passed together as Gods, I would have simply been unable to fall in love with someone else other than him."
"..."
"But suddenly, I felt it, my existence was being erased?"
"Erased?"
I had stayed silent all this time but this surprised me.
"I already told you that time always tries to correct itself. But since it cannot correct you…"
"Then it decided to correct all the other timelines."
"Exactly. Now every timeline where you didn't awaken and simply died became the wrong one and your timeline became the correct one. So, our existence is simply being erased."
This was simply incredible. "So, are you here to kill me?"
"Initially, I was."
I wasn't surprised. Who would accept simply being erased?
"But?"
She smiled at this, "But, I see in you a new possibility. A path toward a new future that I could have never dreamed about. Already the death game that should have happened was canceled. My abuse that should have increased is still tolerable. The me who should have broke is still barely sane. Yuki wasn't chosen as number one by Deus. He is still normal and can have a normal happiness."
Her eyes shone with vigor.
"Did you know? My love for Yuki was without a doubt the most beautiful and most sorrowful thing in my eyes. We loved each other. I do not doubt it. But the circumstances of our love was simply sad." She calmly repeated the same words that made me respect her during the show, "I would have loved anyone if I became dependent on him, and he would have anyone as long as she protected him."
Yes, this was it. I wasn't a fan of Yuno because of her craziness. I really hated her during nearly all of the show.
But, simply this sentence. This sole sentence made my opinion of her completely turn around.
"So the one you want to entrust to me is…"
"Yes. Please," and then, she deeply bowed. "Save the past me. Both from her pain and from herself."
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I had many choices. But, only one answer presented itself to me,
"Alright."
"Mom I'll be back I need to go save a psycho time goddess from being beat by her parents so she falls in love with me and doesn't kill everyone"
Thanks for the chapter
"warlock of Melancholy" seem like title of a very sad and lonely person ?
Yep. Soon you will see his past. He is pretty twisted in the head
@HikaruGenji yup the melancholy of his future....
sh*t is about to go down guys!!!!!
I really enjoyed the fact our MC is a stabilizing time anchor...it opens up a lot of time travel anime's and breaks there backs!
Thx
Nufufufufufu~ Chūsei~
I am pretty sure that if this is the real Yuno, MC would be dead by now. Well, you had to tone her down for the plot. But still, I don't like it when people do that.
Are you serious? Or didn't you read the AN at the end? She isn't the "real Yuno". Real Yuno (Yuno 1) died in the end of Mirai Niki, killed by Yuki.
She is Yuno from the 3rd time-line. That Yuno wasn't traumatized and didn't kill her parents. She obtained the memory of Yuno 1 but that doesn't mean she was erased. Yuno 3 after getting back memories from Yuno 1 also won the game and became a couple with Yuki from 2nd time-line, because Yuki from 3rd time-line was going out with someone else.
Sigh. Anyway try watching the film or watch the last episode of Mirai Nikki again to refresh your memory.
That's exactly why I wrote such a long AN so having to explain it again is a little depressing.
@HikaruGenji Yuno is Yuno. Her personality doesn't change. She's calm in that timeline because Yuki isn't dead and for your info,
She has her memories from the previous world too. And what the hell did you say? Yuno was killed by Yuki? She killed herself for hell's sake!
If her Yuki is dead, no matter which Yuno it is, She won't accept it! I really find it funny that Yuno here accepted it. And Yuno telling someone else to save her past self and make her past self love some other person? Don't even joke about that. And what are those dialogues? "My love is most beautiful and sorrowful". Like hell, Yuno would ever say that! No matter what you say, I won't accept it. You better stop debating with me. Because I definitely won't back down as a hardcore fan of Yuno.
@unknown537 sigh. As if it's a debate. Why would I need to debate about what I write? It's my understanding and there's no, way I would change it so it isn't a debate. If you can't accept it then sorry. By the way Yuno said it herself. She would have loved anyone if she became dependent on him and Yuki would have loved anyone if that person protected her. She said it herself. Yuno 3 is different from yuno 1. Yuno 1 became a yandere mainly because she suffered and killed her own parents then lived close to their bodies. Yuno 3 didn't live through that. She had a happy life and gentle parents. Getting memories of Yuno 1 doesn't mean yuno 3 was erased. She became a mix between the Yuno who suffered and the one who didn't. Try understanding à character rather than just blindly loving him/her.
Once again this isn't a debate and will never be. Just an explanation about my logic. Now, if you aren't happy about that, sorry but there's nothing I can do about that. The way you and I see Yuno is simply different. Just that in this situation I am the one holding the pen
@HikaruGenji Alright, the same line back to you. Try understanding a character rather than blindly writing her in whatever way you want and telling that she's the same as the original.
@unknown537 lol this show you didn't even try to read what I wrote.
The same as the original? When did I ever say she was the original? She is f*cking Yuno 3. Not the yandere Yuno 1 people followed but the one who only appeared in the film or at the very end of the Manga. Yuno 3 never appeared in the anime. She only appeared as the child Yuno 1 wanted to kill to relive the event of the death game for the third time.
Sigh. Or do you mean that simply transferring memories would erase Yuno 3 and let Yuno 1 revive of sorts? Like seriously?
Lol forget it. I see that you didn't even pay attention to what I wrote and was blindly complaining.
Personality is shaped by experience. Yuno 3 never had a shitty childhood. Never killed her parents. Never was dependent on Yuki. Never had the promise about marriage with Yuki. Yuno 3 was normal. She just received Yuno 1 memories. It isn't like simply receiving memories can completely change personality. Even more when said memory is totally opposite to what you lived.
Anyway forget it. As I said this isn't a debate. I know what I am writing and I specifically took my time to re-watch The film and re read the Manga just for that. So yeah.
@HikaruGenji Haa... I think I already wrote that for me, Yuno is Yuno. And all this time, we were talking about the so-called Yuno '3'. When did the so-called Yuno '1' ever come into the picture? You are the one who misunderstood, dude. Just lol at yourself. You should have at least rechecked what I wrote before writing that big reply.
@unknown537 I understand that you are a big fan of Mirai Nikki, but this is a fanfic, so changing some things about the characters is to be expected(as long as the changes are properly explained and in this story they were). Also: the only one who can talk about the “real Yuno” is the original Author, each fan has a different perspective on a story, I for example also agree that Yuno 3 looked a lot less psychotic than Yuno 1, her acceptance of Yuki’s death was also explained in this chapter:
"I don't know how long it has been since then. Thousands of years? Ten thousand? Or perhaps a day? I didn't care. I just wanted to die. I wasn't interested in going to the past and reliving everything. It was one thing when our relationship wasn't that developed, but after all the time we passed together as Gods, I would have simply been unable to fall in love with someone else other than him."
People change with time and this version of Yuno has been alive for a REALLY long time, she doesn’t care about the current versions(4th) of Yuki and herself, so who they fall in love with also doesn’t matter much, asking Akira to take care of Yuno 4 is just a last act of sympathy for her alternate self.
@unknown537 I guess because I am not an absolute fan of Yuno so I calmly and logically distinguish them between the time line they existed in? Three Yuno. Yuno 1 killed Yuno 2 and tried to kill Yuno 3. Failed to do so. Died in some rather epic way and her memory found herself in Yuno 3.
Simple.
You accused me of changing Yuno personality when in fact you didn't even try to understand which Yuno I was using(even though it was made pretty clear in the chapter and the Author note).
If for you Yuno is Yuno. Then great. Sadly the original author didn't think so and created three distinct Yuno.
So no. Yuno isn't just Yuno.
@Hantaros Thanks man. At least you tried to understand the story and arguments I used rather than simply going all "Yuno is yuno" . As an author I must admit that it's extremely upsetting when I all the work and research I made to to write this chapter are simply denied by such a sentence. Even more so since I used the Yuno from the 3rs time line as shown by the original author
@HikaruGenji Hey, I just wanted to say I like the way you included Yuno in the story, since not only it’s an interesting development, Yuno 4 can be a more “stable” yandere who won’t immediately attack the competition.
@Hantaros Yeah. I thought hard about it. I initially wanted to use Yuno 1 to cause problems and all but I accepted that such Yuno would simply never accept a harem situation. She is simply too broken. In anime Yuno 1 would have killed Yuki mother if she had interfered in their situation. As such I decided to use a 4th Yuno through the introduction of the 3rd Yuno presented in Film.
Lol I may pat my back a little but frankly it was really a flash of inspiration.
@HikaruGenji And there you go. You are the one who accepted that both of us have different versions of Yuno. And trying to convince me that Yuno isn't Yuno. And how can you tell what the original author thought? You can't speak for him. So, don't bring him into this argument. And how many times do I have to tell you? I am talking about the exact Yuno you used. Both of us have different versions of Yuno. I can never accept that the Yuno you used in this fic is the real Yuno. Keep your Yuno to yourself. And I also said that I will argue with you no matter how many times it takes. So, you will get the same answers no matter how many times you reply. Better end it here.
@HikaruGenji You’re welcome, I can’t really hate the guy since I understand how upsetting it can be to see a different version of a beloved character(reason why I rarely can bring myself to see all the endings in a game with multiple routes), but this doesn’t give him the right to impose his version of the character as the only acceptable one. For example: I once complained about a fanfic where the MC was reincarnated as a son of Endeavor from MHA because that version of Endeavor wasn’t an abusive parent(for no apparent reason at that), I didn’t do it simply because of the change itself but because it eliminates the main arcs of 3 important characters and 3 minor(but well developed) characters for no reason aside the author’s dislike for Endeavor’s original personality, it was a complete waste of potential, since it’s not even a problem avoided by the efforts of the fanfic’s MC, your story on the other hand has a very good explanation for the changes, be it in the story itself or plot-wise
@Hantaros You are misunderstanding. I never thought of imposing my version of Yuno on the author in the first place. I just said I didn't like it. I never asked him to change it.
@HikaruGenji , Sigh . Die hard fans are so troublesome . This is a fanfic .
Plus she's not the one to fall in love with mc , it's the fourth one . In this case it's like a successor .