緑 色 な 言 の 葉 Emerald-green Poem (A Doki-doki Literature Club Story)

Chapter XVII: All Good Things

I came to the club room, I greeted, "Good afternoon!". "Hey Haruki, let's start reading already!", Yuri said while coming to me very enthusiastically that it seems creepy. "A-- Alright.", I replied. "Oh no, wait, reading could be a lot of fun if we have tea.", Yuri said, "Get that tea maker at the closet and put it here on the desk.", she added. I just complied to avoid any unnecessary commotion. "Alright, I'll get some water from the water fountain, you wait here.", Yuri said. "Let me get it for you, Yuri.", I said. "No, I will, you just sit there!", Yuri said while smiling, she seems very happy today, why is that? A few moments passed, I decided to talk to Natsuki.for a bit, Yuri seems realy strange than last year. "Hey, is Yuri always like that?", I asked. "No, she just started acting up like that after Sayori's death.", Natsuki answered. I suddenly remembered Sayori, those times we spent together. I almost cried. I suddenly remembered Yuri, she took too long just to fetch a pitcher of water. "Natsuki, I'll go on and check Yuri for a bit.", I said, Natsuki just nodded.

I left the room, I checked the nearest water fountain. I heard a voice on a nearby room. "Ahh.. ohhh.. hsshh.", the voice sounds like in pain. I checked every room to identify which room was it. "Arghh.. ahhh... Huhhh..", the voice still continues. I now identified the room which the voice came from, I opened the door. I found Yuri there. I found Yuri, cutting the skin of her arms. She seems to be in pain but at the same time in pleasure. "Ah-- Huhh-- Haruki, why are you here?!", Yuri seems really shocked to see me. "I-- I do this often.. Ahmm.. Argh..", she ran away, covering her arms with so many cuts using her long sleeved blazer. She ran with the pitcher, she ran with the knife. I was shocked. I turned back and decided to go back to the club room, but I found Monika in the hallway. "Oh, you've just seen something you shouldn't have.", Monika said, "Yuri cuts herself when she is very happy. It's more like, a sexual thing. She takes pleasure cutting her skin open until it bleeds. It may be like a euphoric feeling for her.", Monika added. We were walking the hallways up to the club room. "You should not bring this up to Yuri, okay?", she asked, I nodded, yes. "If you try to bring this up to Yuri, she might hurt you.", Monika added. "Let's just pretend that what you saw didn't happen. Hehehe.", Monika concluded while we were sitting on a desk in the club room.

Moments later, Yuri came with a pitcher full of water. "Hey Haruki, let's have some tea while reading, okay!?", Yuri said with a creepy smile. "Okay. Hehe.", I just smiled back. We started reading. "You know Haruki, the protagonist in this book travelled in time. She killed lots of people! She burned villages! She hailed over anything and everything where nothingness is everything and everything is nothingness, light is darkness and never brought light! All in the power. All there is to it is emptiness. The third eye! The third eye is watching. It's following me, following us!", she said, very enthusiastic at first then became really scared on the last part of her sentence.

"Let us now share our poem, guys.", Monika said unenthusiastically. Thanks to that, Yuri came back to her senses.

Natsuki hastily grabs me. I didn't knew why, but she eventually handed me a folded piece of paper. It looks like here poem. I read:

I don't know how else to bring this up. But there's been something I've been worried about. Yuri has been acting kind of strange lately. You've only been here a few days, so you may not know what I mean. But she's not normally like this. She's always been quiet and polite and attentive...things like that.

Okay... This is really embarrassing, but I'm forcing myself to suck it up. The truth is, I'm REALLY worried about her. But if I try talking to her, she'll just get mad at me again. I don't know what to do. I think you're the only person that she'll listen to. I don't know why. But please try to do something. Maybe you can convince her to talk to a therapist.

I've always wanted to try being better friends with Yuri, and it really hurts me to see this happening. I know I'm going to hate myself later for admitting that, but right now I don't care. I just feel so helpless. So please see if you can do something to help. I don't want anything bad to happen to her. I'll make you cupcakes if I have to. Just please try to do something.