Friends

Friends are a type of student in Yandere Simulator. You are able to ask them for certain favors.

Once you first start the game, you have no friends. The only way to gain a friend is to complete a task for a student. Once the task is finished, they will thank you and become your friend. If you check their student info, a smiley face will appear on the top right corner. Saki Miyu is the only student at the moment to become friends with.

When a student is your friend, you can ask them to complete certain favors. The available favors are asking a student to vacate an area, asking the student to distract another persona, and asking a student to follow you.

If you ask a student to follow you, you can take them somewhere else to murder them or take them to the gym to kidnap them. Another bonus of a student becoming your friend is that your gossip damage will be greater than normal by damaging a rival's reputation by 2 points instead of one. If a friend catches you in a Yandere Act, your reputation will be affected less. (Ex. Saki seeing you with a knife will affect your reputation by -8 rather than -10.)

Trivia

 * The only other way to get a student to follow you is by having a Seduction level of 4 or 5.
 * The act of a friend catching you in a Yandere Act and decreasing your reputation less harshly was implemented in the November 2nd, 2015 Update.