Torture

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Torture or Murder-Suicide is a difficult method to eliminate a rival in Yandere Simulator.

Using mind-slaves[]

Torturing in the basement[]

Tortur (1) — Musume about to be tortured.

After kidnapping a female student and bringing her into the protagonist home, the victim will be tied to a chair in her basement, wearing rags. Regardless if the player wants to torture them or not, she needs to occasionally feed the victims to keep them alive; their health will drop by 10% each day, and once it reaches 0%, the victim will die. After that, the protagonist can either dispose of the corpse or leave it there. The protagonist can keep up to 10 victims in her basement at once.

When walking up to the student, the player can access torture options screen. Here, they're able to choose how long the protagonist will torture the victim; each option takes different amount of time and reduces different amount of sanity. The victim's sanity is displayed at the top of the screen. By raising the protagonist's Psychology stat, she will be able to lower the victim's sanity even more. Once the player selects the duration, the camera will loom over the victim as they scream in terror.

Option	Availability	Sanity Reduction	Consequences	Additional Notes
1 Hour	Morning	2.5%	The protagonist arrives at school one hour late.	-
4 Hours	Night	10%	The protagonist sleeps until the next day.	Skips to the next day.
12 Hours	Morning	30%	Skips entire school day; Reputation decreases by 20 points.	Cannot be chosen on Friday unless the rival is already eliminated. Can still engage in nighttime activities.
18 Hours	Morning	45%	Skips entire school day and nighttime activities; Reputation decreases by 20 points.	Cannot be chosen on Friday, even if the rival is eliminated.
Bring to School	Brings the student to School.			Available only when the student's sanity is 0%.

Suicide and murder-suicide[]

If you choose "Bring to School" in a prisoner's menu, a mind-slave spawns next to the school gate, behind a bush when they are brought to school, to explain why nobody notices the mind-slave when they enter the school gates. They will remain motionless sitting behind a bush to the side of the school gate, muttering mindlessly until the protagonist gives them a weapon.

HorudaKillsMaka — Mind-slave Horuda stabbing Maka Tansei.

When giving the mind-slave a weapon, a menu will appear allowing the player to choose which student they want killed. Ayano must have a picture of the target to command the mindslave to kill said chosen target. You can also choose the mind-slave herself, so she will simply commit suicide. If the chosen student dies before the slave can reach them, or if the day ends without the slave being used for anything, she will just commit suicide as well.

The mind-slave will then slowly stand up and clumsily walk to the chosen student. Other students will stare at the mind-slave and wonder but will not take any action. After reaching the target, the mind-slave will push them onto the ground and stab them multiple times, killing them. Afterwards, the mind-slave will stab herself in the neck, causing a geyser of blood to spurt out. When the sequence ends, the mind-slave will collapse to the ground deceased.

At this point, the protagonist's chosen student and mind-slave have been eliminated, without the need to dispose of any evidence. When the police come, they will be unable to arrest the mind-slave due to killing themselves before they arrive. They will believe that they know the identity of the killer (but they cannot come to any further conclusions) and leave the school. If the police arrive during the brief period between the mind-slave killing her target and committing suicide, they will arrest them. The atmosphere will not decrease since the killer is dead.

Framing[]

Main article: Framing

You can frame a mind-slave for one or multiple murders by these actions:

Kill your victim(s) with one knife-like weapon, then give this weapon to the mind-slave without washing it;
Give a weapon to the mind-slave, then pick that weapon up after the mind-slave kills herself and kill your victim(s) with that weapon.

In both cases, you need to wear gloves or a rain coat, otherwise you will leave your fingerprints.

In the latter case, you need to be more careful. If someone watches the murder-suicide or finds a corpse, and then sees you picking up a bloody weapon, they will consider you the true perpetrator.

Bullying a fragile student[]

Please note that although the aftermaths look the same, this counts as Drive to Murder elimination and not torture.

The only fragile student in the game is Horuda Puresu. After lowering her reputation, Ayano will need to take a picture of the future victim, talking to a bully. She can do it by befriend either the victim or the bully, and asking them for a favor. After taking the picture and saving it, she will need to leave a note for Horuda, asking her to meet to talk about bullying. When Ayano meets her, she will show them the photo, telling them who is responsible for the bullying.

“

Horuda: ...I...found your note...wh-what do you wanna say?
Ayano: I'm...sorry to call you here like this, but...I can't stay silent any longer. I know who's responsible for what you have been going through. Please, take a look at this photograph.
Ayano: This is the person who spread rumors about you and destroyed your reputation. I'm afraid that...they aren't going to stop...until they've...destroyed your life.
Horuda: ...s-so...everything that's happened to me...is because of this person...?...thank you for telling me...I...need some time to...think about this...g-goodbye...

”

— Last conversation.

The next day, Horuda will come to school with a knife and will kill the student shown on the picture and herself. If the bodies are not disposed of, the school atmosphere will drop by 40 %.

Trivia[]

Torture was implemented on the October 17th, 2015 Build.
It may be possible that later on in torturing a student, their hair will turn white. This is a condition known as Marie Antoinette Syndrome; when one is under extreme stress or torture, their hair will turn white.^[1]
Mentally broken students have superhuman strength since they have no concern for their own safety, nor about consequences. The protagonist can use this to her advantage to kill a teacher in the full game.^[2]
- Despite that, Raibaru Fumetsu cannot be killed by mindslaves, but the protagonist can attack from behind to help the mind-slave kill Raibaru. If Raibaru sees Osana Najimi as a mind-slave trying to kill her, she will not try to fend her off.
It may be possible that in the future, torturing one student might lower another kidnapped person's sanity.^[3]
In the future builds, people will think that the protagonist is a delinquent if she starts to skip school too often due to her torturing, and her reputation will decrease. Senpai cannot love a delinquent, and therefore, skipping school too often will cause a game over.^[4] This will help to avoid abuse of this feature.
The type of torture happens to a student is what the player imagines,^[5] unless animations are created.^[6] At one point, YandereDev jokingly stated that the torture scenes would be interactive in a similar way to the "interrogation" scenes in Bullet Girl 2.^[7]
- However he has a reason as to how the protagonist tortures her victims.
  - in the 1800s, the Aishi Family discovered a torture technique that can turn a person into an obedient slave. This knowledge has been passed down throughout their family for generations on end.
  - This technique is not physically damaging to the victim; it is entirely and wholly psychological. Similar to a form of hypnosis.
  - The Aishi would hypotize the victim into thinking that the latter is expericining various types of extreme physical torture. Which includes but not limited to:
    - Having their fingernails torn out, every bone in their body broken one by one, having their organs removed from their torso, being lit on fire, drowning.
  - However, in reality, nothing is happening to the victim itself. Nonetheless, the victim's mind believes that they are undergoing all of these physically painful experiences.
  - The Aishi also gives their victims a false sense of hope that they can escape, then yanking that hope. This process being repeated to the victim can gradually condition the victim to believe there is no other reason to think about resisting the torture or even have a future. When the victim is fully convinced that there is no hope, their mind is in a "malleable" state where they can be swayed into the only thing left for them. To obey one command then kill themself.^[8]
  - This method does not work on Sakyu Basu or Inkyu Basu.^[9]^[10]
It takes exactly 40 hours to break one's mind, so no option is more effective than the other. Each hour equals to 2,5 %.
If the player presses K while in the debug menu, Sakyu Basu will spawn as a mind-slave. Yui Rio will spawn in 1980s mode.
The voice actress here is different from the one at the rooftop event between Kokona Haruka and Saki.^[11]
In the future, teachers will have different dialogue if they see a murder-suicide.^[12]

Gallery & Quotes[]

Gallery

Quotes

“

Why are you doing this? What did I ever do to you? / How long are you going to keep me here? Forever? / What are you going to do? Are you going to kill me? / How could you do this to someone? / Could you at least put a TV in here? It's so boring...

”

— A student with full Sanity

“

What are you doing? Don't come any closer! Stay away! STOP! NOO!!

”

— Torturing a student with full Sanity

“

No... Not you again...! / Stay away! Get away from me! / Just kill me already... Get it over with.. / I hate you! I'll never forgive you for this! / If you let me go right now, I won't tell the police... I swear...

”

— A student with 90-50% Sanity