Chapter 5: Weekend

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Depending on the route(s) taken, this scripted chapter will contain disturbing content including bloodshed and gore. Viewer discretion is adviced.

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It's recommended you play Team Salvato's *Doki Doki Literature Club (Plus)!* first before you read the article.

## Chapter Info

### Series

*Re:Literature Club! The Doki Doki Virus*

### Release date(s)

January 10, 2019 (DeviantArt, Blogger)
December 16, 2020 (AO3)
August 9, 2023 (ReLC!TDDV Wiki)

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## Other Chapters

### List of chapters

* Chapter 1: Tuesday (Act IV special ending continuation)
* Chapter 2: Wednesday
* Chapter 3: Thursday
* Chapter 4: Friday
* **Chapter 5: Weekend**
* Chapter 6: Monday, Day of the Festival
* Chapter 7: Final Tuesday
* Chapter 8: Final Tuesday RPG
* Chapter 9: Final Tuesday Epilogue

"**Weekend**" is the fifth chapter of the *Re:Literature Club! The Doki Doki Virus* scripted fanfiction series, which covers Saturday (during Yuri's routes) and Sunday (during Natsuki's routes).

## Synopsis

It is the weekend and you are spending the weekend with either Yuri at her house doing decorations for the festival or with Natsuki making cupcakes to attract guests to the Literature Club! *What could POSSIBLY go WRONG?!* You decide...

## Story

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It's the weekend. Depending on who Main Character 1 is aiding during the weekend, Main Character 1 will be going over to Yuri's house on Saturday to finish decorations for the festival while Sayori will help Natsuki bake cupcakes on Sunday at Sayori's house or vice-versa with Main Character 1 helping Natsuki bake cupcakes at his house on Sunday.

* Natsuki Routes
* Yuri Routes

### Natsuki Route

While Sayori went over to Yuri's house on Saturday to finish decorations for the festival with Yuri, on Sunday, Natsuki comes over to Main Character 1's house to bake cupcakes and read manga. When Main Character 1 tries bringing up Natsuki's family life, Natsuki hesitates for a while before explaining things that happened in her houselife. Apparently, her neighborhood was attacked by raiders a long time ago and her mother was killed in the raid. She believes that her father hates her daughter for not saving his wife. As for Natsuki's physique, it was caused by her mother's drug addictions during Natsuki's premature birth and her father's strict food policies, especially during roach infestation. Main Character 1 feels really bad for Natsuki.

If you haven't gone for a specific girl, you can choose if Main Character 1 should engage in a romantic relationship with Natsuki. If you purely chose Natsuki throughout the story, Main Character 1 will comfort Natsuki and they will engage in a romantic relationship. If you purely chose Yuri throughout the story, Main Character 1 will not engage in a romantic relationship with Natsuki, but he still feels terrible about hearing Natsuki's life.

After the cupcakes after finished baking, Natsuki gives Main Character 1 a kiss and went home to eat dinner with her father.

#### Natsuki Normal Route - Relationship

After Natsuki left, just when Main Character 1 closes his front door, Sayori teleports inside his house, which scared him for a second, then embarrasses him, knowing Main Character 1 and Natsuki are in a relationship now. Main Character 1 realized that he wanted to do something for Natsuki but Natsuki is long gone. He asks Sayori if he could go back in time and tell Natsuki something but Sayori can't do that. Knowing that their world is a video game world, Main Character 1 has a crazy idea that even Sayori thought to be stupid but Sayori nor Monika can change the mod's story directly. However, Sayori was able to add player options in the script before Natsuki left. To access these new options, you must have a save file before those new options appeared and reload that save file. *(See: #New routes gimmick)* Continuing with the normal route, Main Character 1 continues his day as normal until the festival.

#### Natsuki Normal Route - No relationship

After Natsuki left, just when Main Character 1 closes his front door, Sayori teleports inside his house, which scared him for a second, and asks him why he did not engage with Natsuki. Main Character 1 is still anxious about this game mod and he doesn't want to go in a relationship with anyone at the moment in case if something terrible were to happen to his lover. He doesn't want to experience that kind of loss. Sayori leaves him be and Main Character 1 continues his day as normal until the festival...

#### Natsuki New Route

After unlocking new menu options Sayori added to the script, we can decide to take the normal route again or branch off into the Natsuki New Route. In the Natsuki New Route, as Natsuki was leaving Main Character 1's house, we give Main Character 1 his ideas earlier and have him stop Natsuki. Knowing that their world is a video game world, Main Character 1 wants to take a risk of fixing Natsuki's relationship with her father. Natsuki denied this dumb idea and just now mentions that her father was also once a military soldier but she was eventually persuaded by him.

Once they arrive at Natsuki's house, Natsuki ordered her new boyfriend to stay outside and hidden away from the windows until she's done eating dinner with her father. Some time has passed and after many minutes of silence, Main Character 1 hears an argument in Natsuki's house. Natsuki packs up her stuff and leaves the house. Her father comes out yelling and upon being caught, Main Character 1 is intimidated by his presence. Natsuki's father figured out that this boy is Natsuki's boyfriend and harshly tells to get off his property. As Main Character 1 was trying to persuade him, Natsuki's father starts getting a heart attack, which surprised him. Natsuki also forgot to mention that her father has heart problems and Main Character 1 rushes into their house to find nitroglycerin. In addition, Main Character 1 seen a family photo of Natsuki's family including her pink-haired mother Anzu and the veteran father Manjiro. They were probably once a happy family. Main Character 1 and Natsuki carried Natsuki's unconscious father to their couch and gave him his medication.

When Manjiro awakened, his harshness became lighter when he noticed Main Character 1's sincere concerns. Manjiro makes a depressing speech about his life; how he was abused by his father, how he had no mother to care for him, how he had no childhood and the fact that he lost the wife that gave him light. Manjiro wanted to do her daughter right; make her the daughter he wanted in his image, one that he would have been proud of. Natsuki actually feels bad for her father, learning why he was the way he was, but there was no helping her father to feel better. After Main Character 1 failed to help Manjiro, Manjiro instead finally gives up on Natsuki and asks Main Character 1 to leave and take care of Natsuki, to his surprise. Main Character 1 still insists on helping Manjiro and Manjiro is getting more annoyed. Natsuki wants Main Character 1 to leave and Main Character 1 decide not to make things any worse by leaving with Natsuki.

Main Character 1 calls his parents to inform them that his new girlfriend Natsuki will be staying over their house. They allowed it and let Natsuki sleep in their bedroom. Upon returning to Main Character 1's home by night, Sayori teleports in front of Main Character 1 and Natsuki, jumpscaring them. Main Character 1 tells Sayori that it came out a bit better than expected but he wished he could have done more for Natsuki's father. Both Sayori and Monika were worried about that whole situation. Main Character 1 asks Sayori about Sayori's time with Yuri and Sayori responded that it went well. She went to Yuri on Saturday and Main Character 1 was surprised that Sayori worked with Yuri at Yuri's house instead of Sayori's house. However, Sayori mentions that while Yuri has nice parents, she also has an obnoxious younger brother that honestly wanted to delete, but this character has no data in the Literature Club's database to do so. Main Character 1 asks how much worse Yuri's brother is compared to Natsuki's father and Sayori gave an unsettling response before disappearing.

After settling in Main Character 1's house, Natsuki takes a shower, then Main Character 1. Main Character 1 tells Natsuki that she could sleep in his parents' bedroom but Natsuki wants to stay in Main Character 1's room. They peacefully went to sleep together until tomorrow, the day of the festival...

### Yuri Route

Main Character 1 was surprised that he was going to help Yuri finish the decorations at her house. After receiving her address, Main Character 1 went to Yuri's house. Yuri's mother Serena greets Yuri while Yuri's brother Yuto teases her older sister that her "boyfriend" was here. Yuri and Serena welcomes Main Character 1 into their household and Main Character 1 greets with Yuri's father Yoshio and their pet dog Rina, a female Japanese Spitz, was running around Main Character 1 excitingly. Yuri and Main Character 1 went to Yuri's bedroom while Serena prepares dinner.

Yuri talks about her family like how her father Yoshio was a cool dad who loves building cars and hunting wild animals and that her brother Yuto is a troublesome, annoying punk. Yuri shows Main Character 1 her box of knives as she was taking a pocket knife to use it to cut ribbons later. The origins of Yuri's knife collection came from her father when he gifted her knives, originally as a joke, but Yuri took interest in the designs. Main Character 1 picks up a cool-looking dragon knife. Main Character 1 wonders if Yuri told her family about her scars but Yuri wanted to keep them private.

At some point while they were feeling nostalgic in Act I's "house date" with Yuri, Yuri accidentally confesses to Main Character 1 about her feelings. If you haven't gone for a specific girl, you can choose if Main Character 1 should engage in a romantic relationship with Yuri. If you purely chose Yuri throughout the story, Main Character 1 will confess back and engage in a romantic relationship with Yuri.

#### Yuri Normal Route - Relationship

Main Character 1 states he never properly gave his response to Yuri back in Act II so he gives his response now and he doesn't care about what happened in those previous timelines. He knows Yuri wasn't herself in Act II and he accepts her for who she truly is. Yuri was happy and let Main Character 1 to keep her dragon knife but she'll talk to her father about it later.

Main Character 1 and Yuri continue to work on their decorations and Yuri's mother Serena brings them back tea and snacks. When Serena finished making dinner, Main Character 1 and Yuri joined Yuri's family for dinner. Since Main Character 1 and Yuri are now dating, Yuri's father allowed Main Character 1 to keep the dragon knife as long as he takes care of it. Also, to Main Character 1's surprise, Yuri decided to step up and confess to her parents about her cutting issues. Serena was very concerned about her daughter and while Yoshio was somewhat concerned, he found scars to be cool, which bothered his wife. Yuto made fun of Yuri and made her feel uncomfortable. The main character likes most of Yuri's family except her younger brother Yuto.

Sometime after dinner when Yuri and the main character almost finished working on their decorations, Yuto started to cause some unknown trouble within the house and barges in Yuri's room, accidentally ruins some of their work running, and hid under Yuri's bed. Yoshio pursued after his troublemaking some and apologizes to Main Character 1 and Yuri about the trouble Yuto is making. Main Character 1 just noticed that the dragon knife he had was missing and when Yoshio pulled his troublemaking son from the bed, without any hesitation, Yuto stabs his father in the forehead with the dragon knife. Main Character 1 was stunned and Yuri screamed. Yuto escaped like a maniac and killed his mother in the way before running out the house, accidentally slamming the front door on Rina's head as Rina was chasing after him, but she's okay and cried to Yuri.

Main Character 1 felt guilty not doing anything. He and Yuri just witnessed two murders in one house. Yuri is instantly traumatized to the point where she grabs scissors and starts stabbing herself in her left shoulder. Main Character 1 knows that she'll kill herself if he doesn't do anything so he takes a stab to the back while he hugs Yuri, crying, and apologizing to her. Yuri calms down a bit but she is still depressed on what she witnessed. Main Character 1 calls the police about the situation and heads into the bathroom for a first aid kit and comes back into Yuri's room. Yuri is crying over her father's corpse and Main Character 1 feels terrible. He gives Yuri another hug and cleans Yuri's wound and Yuri cleaned his wound. Main Character 1 suggests that Yuto should go to a mental hospital or juvenile detention. Yuri stutteringly agrees but her parents didn't think so.

Yuri calls her grandparents about the situation and Main Character 1 also talked to them about it. The police finally arrived and reported to Main Character 1 and Yuri that they found Yuto running in the street but Yuto ended himself rather than facing juvenile detention. The police also talked to Yuri's grandparents on her phone and told them what happened. Yuri's paternal grandmother suggested that Yuri should live with them but they live quite a far distance meaning that Yuri would have to transfer schools. After talking to the main character on the phone, they reconsidered and let Yuri live with her boyfriend. Since Yuri's house is going to be under custody by the police along with the murder weapon, Yuri packed some of her belongings and Yuri and Main Character 1 left the house along with Yuri's pet Rina and Yuri drove them to Main Character 1's house. Yoshio was going to give her daughter his old car once he built his new one but that will never happen since he's gone. Main Character 1 called his parents and let them know about the traumatic event and they'll let Yuri sleep in their bedroom while they're away.

Upon returning to Main Character 1's house later that night, Sayori stopped by to say hello. She feels awful for Yuri about what happened. If Sayori could have deleted Yuto, she would, but since they aren't actually part of the Literature Club's database, there was nothing Sayori nor Monika could do. Yuri asks Sayori if she could bring her family back. Sayori could recreate Yuri's parents with A.I. but they wouldn't be the same, she said. Yuri changed her mind. Sayori leaves Main Character 1 and Yuri be as she went back home.

After Main Character 1 helped Yuri unpack in "their" home, Yuri reads a book while Main Character 1 fix their project, then he heads into the bathroom. Upon returning from the bathroom, he cringes as he witnessed Yuri trembling with a knife in her hands, traumatized. Main Character 1 was going to stop her from doing anything stupid but out of fear for knives now, Yuri threw her knife away and curled up, crying against Main Character 1's entertainment center. Main Character 1 is relieved but he grew worried and comforted her, apologizing to her again. Yuri believes she developed depression which made Main Character 1 even more worried.

Main Character 1 took Yuri to see Sayori at Sayori's house since Sayori is an expert of depression, being the club president who has experienced depression. While Sayori won't cheat by erasing Yuri's developed depression, she spawns antidepressant pills for Yuri which won't work immediately but Sayori told Yuri that Yuri also need love, which Main Character 1 and Sayori can give.

After returning home, Main Character 1 and Yuri get ready for bed and Yuri wants to sleep with her boyfriend. Main Character 1 comforts her over the night until the day of the festival...

#### Yuri Normal Route - No relationship

Main Character 1 decides to not respond to Yuri's accidental confession and puts Yuri's dragon knife back in her box of knives.

Main Character 1 and Yuri continue to work on their decorations and Yuri's mother Serena brings them back tea and snacks. When Serena finished making dinner, Main Character 1 and Yuri joined Yuri's family for dinner. The main character likes most of Yuri's family except her younger brother Yuto.

Sometime after dinner when Yuri and the main character almost finished working on their decorations, Yuto started to cause some unknown trouble within the house and barges in Yuri's room, accidentally ruins some of their work running, and hid under Yuri's bed. Yoshio pursued after his troublemaking some and apologizes to Main Character 1 and Yuri about the trouble Yuto is making and carries Yuto to Yuto's bedroom and suggested to her daughter that she should lock her door. Main Character 1 was upset when Yuto accidentally ruined their hard work but they ended up fixing it.

After they finished fixing their project, Main Character 1 begins to leave and Yuri drove him home in her father's old car. The main character is going to hold their project until the festival since Yuri doesn't want Yuto to ruin it, which was why she wanted to work on the decorations at Main Character 1's house. After dropping the main character off, they waved their goodbyes as Yuri drove back home. Suddenly, Sayori teleports in front of Main Character 1, which made him jumpscared a bit. Sayori wonders why Main Character 1 isn't going to ask Yuri on a date and Main Character 1 responded that he doesn't want to get his emotions in the way if anything were to happen. Sayori asks if Main Character 1 wants to help bake cupcakes with her and Natsuki tomorrow but Main Character 1 plants on staying home until the festival...

#### Yuri New Route

Right before Yuto barges into Yuri's route, Main Character 1 receives tragic memories of the future from us from what we have noticed during the Yuri Normal Route and he immediately locks Yuri's door, preventing Yuto from entering Yuri's bedroom as he smacking on Yuri's door. Yoshio apologizes for Yuto's actions and carries Yuto away from Yuri'd bedroom door. Yuri wondered what made Main Character 1 to instinctively lock Yuri's door and Main Character 1 explained what happened in an alternate future. Yuri knew his brother was psychologically crazy but she didn't think her brother is mentally ill enough to murder his family. Main Character 1 suggests that Yuto should go to a mental hospital or juvenile detention. Yuri agrees but says that her parents didn't think so.

After they finished fixing their project, Main Character 1 begins to leave but he didn't think he could trust himself carrying their project to his house if the weather gets too windy so Yuri drove him home in her father's old car. Yuri said that her father is going to give her his old car once he finishes building his new car. Upon returning back home, Main Character 1 gives Yuri his spare house keys for any time Yuri wants to come over. Yuri gives him a kiss and drove back to her house.

Sayori teleports in front of Main Character 1, which made him jumpscared a bit. Sayori realized that their player went back in time and Main Character 1 told Sayori Sayori asks if Main Character 1 wants to help bake cupcakes with her and Natsuki tomorrow but Main Character 1 plants on staying home until the festival...
## New routes gimmick

This chapter starts a new gimmick where there is a second Natsuki route and a second Yuri route. In a game mod version, to access the new routes, you must be in a relationship with a girl and save the game before unlockable menu options would appear. Once you are told by Sayori that she added new options for the player in the past as she can't directly change the story, reload your save game to that point (or restart the whole game if you don't have a back-up save file far enough) and you'll be given the option to access the new route by taking the new action, or to continue the normal route ("...").

If Main Character 1's poems appease both Natsuki and Yuri, the player can decide if they want to engage in a romantic relationship with the girl he's assisting during the weekend. If Main Character 1's poems appease only one specific girl, if he's assisting that girl during the weekend, he will automatically engage in a romantic relationship with that girl on his own away from our control. The [character] Normal Route will continue as normal unless if the player restarts the game or reload their save file and enter the [character] New Route. If Main Character 1's poems appease only one specific girl but if he's not assisting that girl during the weekend, he will automatically not engage in a romantic relationship with the other girl he's assisting away from our control and the game will take the "No Relationship Route" starting on Chapter 6 and onward.

Storywise, Natsuki Normal Route is equivalent to Yuri New Route and vice-versa. Drama and tragedy occur during the Natsuki New Route and Yuri Normal Route respectively, which allows Main Character 1 to grow more attached to his new girlfriend if he decides to make Natsuki or Yuri his girlfriend.

There are five game routes in total from here on out:

* **Natsuki Normal Route**: Playing/reading through Natsuki's route normally with Natsuki being Main Character 1's new girlfriend. However, there will be small penalties in Chapter 8.
* **Natsuki New Route**: After reverting time, you can extend Natsuki's story and get even closer to Natsuki. Main Character 1 tries to appease and help Natsuki's depressing mad father Manjiro but his attempt at helping him fails and Natsuki now lives with Main Character 1. However, penalties will be heavy in Chapter 8.
* **Yuri Normal Route**: Similar to Natsuki New Route, this is a dramatic route if Main Character 1's newest girlfriend is Yuri but unlike Natsuki New Route, this route is more tragic and it must be taken first in order to unlock the New Route to counter the tragic event upon restarting or reloading. Main Character 1 and Yuri grows closer towards each other in this route as Yuri now lives with Main Character 1 in this route. The level of penalty for this route in Chapter 8 will be the same as the level of penalty of Natsuki New Route.
* **Yuri New Route**: After reverting time, you can stop the tragedy that would occur in Yuri Normal Route. While Main Character 1 and Yuri are dating in this route, they are not as close as they are in the Yuri Normal Route. The level of penalty for this route in Chapter 8 will be the same as the level of penalty of Natsuki Normal Route.
* **No Relationship Route**: Technically two routes combined as one as this can be taken during pre-Natsuki Normal Route or pre-Yuri Normal Route as long as Main Character 1's three poems don't specifically target that one girl only. During the Yuri Normal Route, if Main Character 1 does not engage in a romantic relationship with Yuri, tragedy does not occur as Yuri doesn't give Main Character 1 a dangerous knife in this route. On the positive side, this route provides no penalties during Chapter 8.

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## List of characters

Literature club members
* Player
* Main Character 1
* Natsuki
* *Monika (mentioned only)*
* Sayori
* Yuri

Natsuki's family
* Manjiro
* *Anzu (mentioned only)*

Yuri's family
* Rina
* Serena
* Yuto
* Yoshio
* Yoshio's parents

Other characters
* Local police officers

## Trivia

* During Yuri Normal Route after the start of the death of Yuri's parents, Main Character 1 mentions that the law system of Japan in their world is similar to the law system of our Japan in that "suspects are guilty until proven innocent" and mentions that he played a law-themed adventure visual novel called *Master Attorney*, which is a parody and their version of the *Ace Attorney* franchise created by Shu Takumi.
* Yuri's mother and brother are named after *Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V* characters Serena/Celina and Yuto.
* The Yuri Normal Route is the longest character route in this chapter and is arguably filled with more drama than the Natsuku New Route in comparison.