When going into the menu during Act 2 there’s a 2% chance that this picture of Monika will flash for a second. Another theory is that Monika wrote this and the blanked out name that may be saying Yuri but it is just a theory since Monika is irrelevant to cutting herself. Now as you probably noticed through-out the files and some of the secret poems that there’s been mentioned a Third eye.And I am 100% sure that the third eye theory is connected with the portrait of Markov theory.Because both have to do with the new game. This poem was clearly written by Yuri thinking about going to therapy but then declining by saying that she’s the happiest she’s ever been and she’ll wait until her cover is blown. (She is probably talking about cutting herself). Key art of Monika and Sayori, drawn by kagefumi, that was originally planned to be the official DDLC artwork.

Then she cuts off.But that’s a lot of information for just a little book,but the reason for that is,that book isn’t just a little story.It is the story of Team Salvato’s upcoming game!But in-fact,it might be possible that the characters from DDLC are also characters in this new game,since we know that Monika said in her png. file text that there’s something you as the player can’t stop.Something that has killed everyone.Maybe that’s the reason why Monika turns self-aware,because she realizes that she has been put into the wrong game.Yuri also mentions a trait in her book that has turned everyone into killing machines.It is also worth noting that the name 'Libitina' is likely a reference to the Roman goddess of the same name. The goddess Libitina is the ancient Roman goddess of funerals and burial, a symbol of death and the planet Venus. The phrase "Nothing is real?" could refer to the revelation that Monika tells the player about, perhaps her first thought when she realized everything is a game. No matter how many times you play. It’s all the same. It would be really, really easy to kill myself right now. But that would mean I don’t get to talk to you anymore. The first concept sketch of Monika's CG in Act 3. The angle was soon adjusted to be straight-on to give the impression that the player is sitting directly across from Monika. During your first interaction with Yuri in Act 2 when talking about reading a book together with her,her right eye slowly starts flying away from her face towards the left corner of the screen until it completely dissapears off screen.

After the poem minigame on Day 2 or Day 3 of Act 2, there is a chance for you to see this scene for a brief moment:Secrets, presented to you in-game as " Special Poems", are chosen at random when a new game of DDLC is started. All of that should point out that Team Salvato’s new game is about human experimentation,researching a phenomenon that includes uncontrollable bloodlust.

The person who wrote this poem is probably Monika again(since we know she’s been messing with the game’s script and files)by the quote:

Yuri tells you about a book she bought you as a gift. It’s called the portrait of Markov and has a ominous-looking eye symbol on it’s cover. Shortly before Yuri confesses her love for the protagonist at the end of Act 2, a file called "have a nice weekend!" will appear in the game's files. It is a vigenère cipher that, when decoded with the key "libitina", will give a Base64 text that, when decoded, results in the following text: "What is a man without knowing the rich aroma of the future; the hot, complex balance of the present; and the bittersweet aftertaste of the past?" If you thought the game is over, you are wrong. In fact, the horror has just begun. Sayori is deleted from the game (by yours truly, Monika) and her character file is gone too. When this square is translated into binary, the result is a Base64 string that can be translated again:

Note: Deleting those characters before opening up the game will skip straight to the white Sayori picture part. Retrieving “monika.chr” in Act #4 She seems to be the only one with the right age reange to be Libitina.Throughout the 2nd Act,Yuri’s personality also takes immense changes. After a while she realizes that she’s in a game and becomes self aware, even messing around with the game files. Which you can already see in the text. What is a man without knowing the rich aroma of the future; the hot, complex balance of the present; and the bittersweet aftertaste of the past? Can You Hear Me? (Secret Poem)

We can clearly tell that this is written by Monika due to the quotes:”You obviously already know my name” and “You’ve been watching me for a while now”. This women has never been seen before in DDLC,so it might be a character from Project:Libitina.Maybe it’s Elyssa,the one we heard from in the last secret poem.But there’s no proof yet. Sayori’s File Beneath their manufactured perception – their artificial reality – is a writhing, twisted mess of dread. Loathing. Judgment. Elitism. Self-doubt. All thrashing to escape the feeble hold of their host, seeping through every little crevice they can find. Into their willpower, starving them of all motivation and desire. Into their stomach, forcing them to drown their guilt in comfort food. Or into a newly-opened gash in their skin, hidden only by the sleeves of a cute new shirt. But you can easily translate such language with a Base64 decoder,what people did and the result was this creepy text that seems to be written by DDLC’s game designer,Dan Salvato,probably in the perspective of a character from the game Team Salvato’s working on: It is possible that this poem is a hint of a new game being released in the future and may be related to the description of the book Yuri mentioned, as the characters in the poem are not mentioned in the game. Not much is known about the reasoning for this poem.