4. Startling Revelation

'You have got to be kidding me. How could I forget about that panel? There was a reason why they let go of Rena for a while. They were training Yuki!' Yoji shouted in his mind during lunch break.

After his brief talk with the two girls he had went to class and attended it. The next professor also didn't say anything about the broken desk. After that he went for a walk where he managed to eavesdrop on the three douchebags who were talking with each other.

But he was shocked when they talked about how they couldn't use Yuki now because of him two days ago. He kept on hiding in his place as they talked as he learned about when and how they had managed to get her.

He learned that they had taken Yuki just before they let go of Rena after saying that they had to go somewhere. They lured the girl using Rena's pictures and made her go through the training in exchange for them not touching Rena.

Yuki of course agreed and they did the training for a while, but they stopped calling her and waited for Rena to come to them, which she did as well. But then Yuki had abruptly started to defy them after two days, the same time when Rena started to defy them.

After that they talked about what they should do before they decided to stop talking about it and go and eat, all the while Yoji had heard every single word of what they said.

And he was royally pissed when he fully realised that not only was the creator of the doujin making preparations for Rena to betray him, but they had already started Yuki's corruption behind the scenes as well.

'This is why I hate NTR! Why can't the authors just create vanilla or non NTR doujins? There are a lot of us who like that? Like me!' Yoji thought to himself in anger.

(A/N: Now I don't know if that is what is happening, but I focused on that panel when I saw a comment regarding it and I couldn't believe that I missed that. In any case, I think it makes the plot more interesting for this book so that is how I'm going to take it. Besides, considering how those guys are, I wouldn't be surprised if they actually did that.)

He immediately sent a message to Yuki, telling her to meet with him at a place alone. After that he went to the meeting place and saw her standing nervously before she spotted him. But her eyes widened in fear when she saw the anger in his eyes.

"Y-Yoji?" Yuki called him in fear as she took a step back.

"You were being used by those guys during the time they left Rena alone?" Yoji asked her in a tone of anger.

"H-How did you?" Yuki said in surprise and fear as she saw his face.

"I eavesdropped them talking about it. Why Yuki? Why didn't you tell me? First Rena. And now you as well, are all of you just going to play with my feelings?" Yoji asked her as he looked hurt.

"N-No. I was thinking of telling you. But it isn't something I can guess say, I needed some time to get myself together. I really was planning to tell you." Yuki said to him frantically.

"Even so. Why didn't you just come tell me when you first learned about it?" Yoji said as he stood right in front of her.

Yuki felt even more afraid when he did that as she looked at him.

"I-I just wanted to get them off Rena. So I decided to take her place for it. They also said that they would release her videos so I agreed. I didn't want Rena to suffer under them even more." Yuki said to him as she gulped.

"So instead of telling me about it. You just let them do whatever they wanted to you. That's fucking stupid." Yoji said as he glared at her.

Yuki shook when she heard him as she whimpered and lowered her shoulders as if making herself smaller as she looked at him in fear.

Yoji recognised that as he took a deep breath to calm himself down and then leveled her with a stare and sighed.

"Just why didn't you tell me Yuki? Did you not trust me as well?" Yoji asked her in a sad tone.

"No. I just didn't want Rena to suffer. And I didn't know how knowing that will affect you. I'm not as important as her. I'm just your friend, she's your girlfriend. Even if they do that to me, you wouldn't be as affected if it were Rena." Yuki said to him with tears.

"Don't you ever say that you aren't important to me." Yoji said to her with a glare.

"Eh?" Yuki let out a small voice when she heard that.

"You are my childhood friend Yuki. The person closest to me after Rena, before I learned about all this. You were very important to me, and I would've never wanted you to go through any of that. Don't you understand. You were precious to me Yuki." Yoji said to her as her eyes widened.

'I'm precious to him. Like Rena?' Yuki thought to herself in shock at his words.

"But what hurts me most is that you didn't tell me. If you did, then I could've at least dealt with that and not have you two suffer like that." Yoji said to her as she saw his face of anger and sadness.

Yuki looked at him as the memories of their training replayed in her mind. Tears welled in her eyes as she sniffed and then looked down as Yoji looked at her.

"I'm sorry, Yoji. I should've been honest with you from the start instead of hiding this. But I was afraid that you will hate me if you learned about what they had done to me." Yuki said to him as she sniffed.

"And what makes you think that I would've hated you if you were forced?" Yoji asked her as he looked at her.

"It was just a feeling. It wasn't logical, I know. But I was afraid. I was also afraid that they would do something to Rena if I didn't." Yuki said to him in a soft voice.

"Even if that were the case. You shouldn't have listened to them Yuki. If you had just told me, then I could've done something instead of being ignorant about it." Yoji said to her as he clenched his fist.

"I know. I know just how stupid I was when you talked with me. I wanted to save Rena all on my own, and let you two continue your relationship without any problems. I'm sorry for hurting you due to my stupidity." Yuki said to him as she cried.

"Yuki." Yoji said as he looked at her with sad eyes.

"I said that I would be honest with you, so here it is. I'm sorry Yoji. I'm sorry for being such a stupid friend. I'm sorry that I let them use me. I'm sorry that I didn't tell you about what was happening. I'm sorry that I made you angry. I'm sorry that I made you sad. I'm... I'm sorry that you had such an incompetent friend." Yuki said to him as she sobbed as tears fell down her face like a stream.

Yoji looked at the girl in front of him as he processed the words she had said. Then he sighed to himself and looked at her before he raised his arms and hugged her. Yuki stiffened at the contact as she stopped crying as she processed the situation.

"Yoji?" Yuki called out in fear and surprise as she raised her head.

"I'm not going to say that I forgive you so soon Yuki. But I'm not heartless either. What I said before was true, you are someone I care about. And I'm not going to let you suffer like this for something that you didn't deserve to be punished with." Yoji said to her as her eyes widened.

"Huh?" Yuki looked at him in surprise like a child as she didn't know what to say.

"I will make sure that those guys will not lay their hands on either you or Rena ever again. I will save you Yuki. Because I care about you. And I'm not gonna let you or Rena suffer anymore at the hands of those bastards." Yoji said to her as he tightened the hug a bit.

Yuki looked at him with stupefied eyes before tears started to flow again before she buried her face on his right shoulder and cried in his arms as she hugged him.

"I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry..." Yuki cried out as she hugged him and cried out, finally letting the feelings she had held close to her heart out.

Yoji just held her as he let her cry, but a part of him was also seething at the unfairness of their world. This is why he hated NTR so much, and this time, he is going to make sure that those douchebags get their just desserts.

'I don't know about forgiving them. But they do care about me. And anyways, this time, I'm here, and I'm going to make sure that their fate is better than the doujin.' Yoji thought to himself as he hugged her as she cried in his arms.

While this was happening, Rena, who was watching the thing from the side of the building a few moments ago, was on the ground and crying after she heard what Yuki had said.

'Stupid stupid stupid. Why did I make that choice? Why? Even Yuki suffered because of me and I even went back to them that day!? Why... Why did this happen to me? I just wanted to have a good university life.' Rena thought to herself in anger and despair as she cried and muffled her sound.

Timeskip

After his talk with Yuki, they both sat in class together as she tried to stay as close to him as she could. He let her as he didn't find anything wrong with that. He was never called for breaking the desk, perhaps because of his stunt that morning. After classes were done, he told Yuki to tell Rena about what she had done as he thinks that she should know about it.

After that he went back home and did some things before he went to bed. And now it's the next day as he is eating his breakfast while watching the TV.

"About time someone found it." Yoji said as he looked at the TV with a smile.

"... The corpse belongs to one of the professors in the ******* university. We do not have any idea about the reason for his murder. But the police has said that there were signs of torture. Disturbingly, the killer has also left a message in the house, and has literally written the message on the wall with blood. We are going to show it now." The reporter said before she gave the signal to the cameraman.

Yoji's smile widened a bit as heard the reporter as he waited for the rest to be shown.

And show it did, as the camera panned to the aforementioned wall and the message written in blood was shown for all to see.

[I am coming for all of you.]

"Time to start the hunt." Yoji said with a fierce smile on his face as he looked at the TV.