History Fanfic / RainCodeNewGamePlus

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Kurumi, Waruna, and Yoshiko have this dynamic respectively while they're watching Desuhiko during his investigation of Miss Hana's stalker. Kurumi is the most patient with him and willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, Waruna is most skeptical of his innocence and tends to jab him whenever he does or says something stupid, and Yoshiko is also skeptical of Desuhiko but willing to give him the chance to investigate, though she does take advantage of the brief moment she's separated from the group to call Halara and Melami over to deal with him during the investigation.

* ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: As part of his back-up plan to frame the Master Detectives for murder, the Fake Zilch leaves the real Zilch Alexander's corpse in Car 2 and sets it on fire to burn the body beyond recognition, both to fake his death and to hide the victim's real cause of death. The Peacekeepers report to Swaink that Zilch was burned to death, but Yuma becomes suspicious of the whole thing due to remembering that the body had a knife stabbed in the chest, which allows him to discover in the Mystery Labyrinth that the victim was actually stabbed to death and that the body on the train isn't actually the Zilch they know.

** When Yoshiko confronts Yuma about Vivia carrying a syringe on his person and demands to know why WDO have someone like him in their ranks, Yuma tries to look for Yakou to get answers, only for Yakou to run away because he doesn't want to be confronted with a question he doesn't have an answer to.

* WhatTheHellHero: During Yakou's DayInTheLimelight chapter, Yoshiko confronts Yuma about Vivia having a syringe on his person and demands to know why the WDO would have someone like him in their ranks. Yuma and Yakou, not knowing about this, are left at a loss for words. When Yuma tries to find the chief, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Yakou immediately hightails it out of there due to not wanting be asked a question he doesn't have an answer to]].

*** To a lesser extent, the real Zilch Alexander ends up getting a bigger role in the mystery of Chapter 0 despite being a PosthumusCharacter, as his corpse is used by the hitman posing as him to stage a fake murder. In canon, it's mentioned that the real Zilch's corpse is hidden in the spare first car at the Kanai Ward station, but neither Yuma nor the player ever gets to see the body.

* DeathByPragmatism: The hitman impersonating Zilch brings his corpse onto the train to use as a contingency plan in the event he failed to drug all the Master Detectives on-board, which comes to pass when Pucci finds out through her Forte that Yuma has been drugged. After drugging Aphex, the hitman leaves Zilch's body in the second car and sets it on fire in order to burn the corpse beyond recognition and hopefully destroy any evidence that could link him to the crime while he hides in the detached first car going on a separate track. While the hitman succeeds in faking his death, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he still ends up leaving tons of evidence]], which combined with the Peacekeepers' incompetence, allows Yuma and Pucci to uncover him as the culprit in the Mystery Labyrinth. {{Justified|Trope}}, as the hitman had no way of knowing about Shinigami and her power to kill him through the Mystery Labyrinth.

* ClassPrincess: Downplayed. Aiko was shown to well-liked by many at Aetheria Academy for her kindness and willingness to help people, which allowed her to befriend almost anyone at school. [[spoiler:Even Karen couldn't bring herself to dislike Aiko, despite finding her attempts to help her annoying, and this just made it all the more tragic when she killed her in the [[MomentOfWeakness heat of the moment]].]] It's downplayed because it's shown that not everyone liked Aiko and some were even jealous, which led to some girls talking ill about her behind her back. It's also shown that while Aiko is a good person, she also had her personal flaws and a hidden selfish streak, as she once feigned illness just to take a break from school.

* AdaptationExpansion: Yuma's time investigating Aetheria Academy is changed to a week instead of the single day in canon. Because of this, Yuma gets to spend more time learning about the students during his investigation, including Kurane and her friends.

* LogicalWeakness: Aphex and Pucci can detect living people with their Fortes within a 50- and 500-meter radius respectively. The hitman posing as Zilch is able to fake his death by leaving the real Zilch’s corpse in Car 2, set the room ablaze so the body will be burned beyond recognition, and go onto Car 1 and detach it from rest of the train before going on a separate track. Since the train everyone else is on went into a tunnel far enough away from the still moving Car 1, Pucci is unable to hear the hitman’s heartbeat with her Forte. It’s only when Car 1 attaches to the back of the train that Pucci and Aphex are able to detect his presence, but since they believe "Zilch" is dead, they are unable to identify the sixth individual that just appeared on the train.

* LogicalWeakness: Aphex and Pucci can detect living people with their Fortes within a 50- and 500-meter radius respectively. The hitman posing as Zilch is able to fake his death by leaving the real Zilch’s corpse in Car 2, set the room ablaze so the body will be burned beyond recognition, and go onto Car 1 and detach it from rest of the train before going on a separate track. Since the train everyone else is on went into a tunnel far enough away from the still moving Car 1, Pucci is unable to hear the hitman’s heartbeat with her Forte. It’s only when Car 1 attaches to the back of the train that Pucci and Aphex are able to detect his presence, but since they believe Zilch they know is dead, they are unable to identify the sixth individual that just appeared on the train.

* ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: As part of his back-up plan to frame the Master Detectives for murder, the Fake Zilch leaves the real Zilch Alexander's corpse in Car 2 and sets it on fire to burn the body beyond recognition, both to fake his death and to hide the real cause of death of the victim. The Peacekeepers report to Swaink that Zilch was burned to death, but Yuma becomes suspicious of the whole thing due to remembering that the body had a knife stabbed in the chest, which allows him to discover in the Mystery Labyrinth that the victim was actually stabbed to death and that the body on the train isn't actually the Zilch they know.

** PlayedForLaughs when Desuhiko, knowing that Melami doesn't like wearing boring and unfashionable clothes, nervously tells her about the request from the Nun to channel the Priest's soul. Melami [[TranquilFury acts eerily calm about the request]], but Desuhiko can tell she's fuming about the whole thing with a [[GrinOfRage forced smile]] as she reluctantly changes into Father Elijah' robes, knowing that she'll be asking for payment from him or Yakou.
** Played much more seriously when Martina acts nervous about Yomi's eerily calm behavior following [[spoiler:Karen's confession]], knowing that he's planning something vicious.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In canon, nothing is said about the Servant and the Worshiper’s relationship beyond the fact that they go to the same church. Here, they were good friends, which made it all the more heartbreaking to the Servant when the Worshiper dies, and the Servant finds out that he’s a copycat killer.

-->'''Waruna:''' '''No''' boy should look that pretty. '''You''' sure that Yuma’s actually a guy?\\

* LogicalWeakness: Aphex and Pucci can detect living people with their Fortes within a 50- and 500-meter radius respectively. The hitman posing as Zilch is able to fake his death by leaving the real Zilch’s corpse in Car 2, set the room ablaze so the body will be burned beyond recognition, and go onto Car 1 and detach it from rest of the train before going on a separate track. Since the train everyone else is on went into a tunnel far enough away from the still moving Car 1, Pucci is unable to hear the hitman’s heartbeat with her Forte. It’s only when Car 1 attaches to the back of the train that Pucci and Aphex are able to detect his presence, but since they believe Zilch is dead, they are unable to identify the sixth individual that just appeared on the train.

** Kurane, Yoshiko, Waruna, and Karen are given the surnames Ravencroft, Nocturne, Stormbreaker, and Stromwell respectively.