

To his credit, Yuki does try to break through his fears again and again, though mostly when he’s pushed into near death situations. The stakes are high and the clock is ticking with enemies all around and unsure of who to trust, Yuki enters the survival game of the diary holders where the only person he can actually call an ally seems to be crazy herself. She shows a disregard for her own safety and an addictive, protective love for Yuki verging on being psychotic. While Yuki fights with his paranoia about Yuno, his fear of the other dairy holders and of dying in the fatal game, Yuno puts her life on the line to protect him again and again. Later on Yuki also encounters the ninth and the fourth as well. The third diary holder has a Murder Diary which can see the methods he uses to catch and kill his targets. They all just refer to each other by their numerical orders – Yuki being the first, Yuno the second. The three assailants Yuki comes across in the first volume all have their own unique diaries too. Quite simply, if the other holder’s diary is destroyed they die at the same time, and Deus will proclaim the last survivor to be the new god. Yuki discovers there are nine in total, and that each of them is trying to kill off the other diary holders. The man is also a diary holder, the first of many Yuno and Yuki will encounter throughout the series.
